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Turkey s ruling Islamist-rooted party clinched a record landslide in Sunday s parliamentary polls but appeared short of the two-thirds majority it needs to rewrite the constitution, unofficial res stanley cup ults showed. HT Image With more than 95% of the vote counted, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan s Justice and Development Party AKP was leading with 50.3% of the vote for a third straight win, according to results on CNN Turk television. It was the party s highest electoral score since it came to power in 2002. The main opposition Republican People s Party CHP was second with 25.9%, followed by the Nationalist Action Party MHP with 13.1%. The AKP got enough parliamentary seats to once again form the government on its own, but appeared to fall just short of the 330-seat majority in the 550-member parliament it was seeking to unilaterally amend the constitution, the legacy of a 1980 military coup. It was set to win 325 seats, according to CNN Turk. Thousands of ecstatic supporters gathered outside AKP offices in Ankara, dancing and singing, as the the refrain of the party s election song Come on, once more! blared from loudspeakers. Turkey is proud of you, they chanted, referring to Erdogan. More than 50 million people were eligible to vote, out of a population of some 73 million. The AKP owes its enduring popularity mostly to econom stanley cup ic success and improved public services following years of financial instability th stanley cup at haunted Turkey under shaky coalition governme Kfxa Growing drug ties choking India, Nepal
Rescuers digging through several feet a metre of ash disc stanley cup overed nine more bodies on the slopes of Mount Merapi, whose explosive eruption a week ago buried whole villages. HT Image As confirmation of more deaths trickled in today, the toll from a series of blasts at the Indonesian volcano rose to at least 250. The mountain, which has let off blasts of hot gas clouds over the past two days, resumed spewing ash today as it has done continuously since it roared to life October 26. No new deaths have been reported from the latest flows, which were well within the zone that has been evacuated. That zone - which has been at 12 miles 20 kilometres for more than a week - was relaxed today in some areas. In districts on the north and west flanks of the mountain, the cordon is now six miles 10 kilometres from the crater, according to Muhammad Anshori, an official with the National Disaster Management Agency. He said the change reflected a yeezy feeling stanley cup that these areas were safer. Though there has been no major eruption since November 5 - the deadliest day at Merapi in decades - tallying the dead from that blast has been slow. Many villages where officials knew people had died have remained too hot - shrouded in drifts of ash several feet a metre deep - for rescuers to work. Conditions have improved in the past few days, pushing the death toll from the devastating eruption higher, said Waluyo Rahardjo, a search and rescue official. Four bodies were pulled from the mountain