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Angela Merkel clashed with her Social Democrat rival, Martin Schulz, in a lively television debate on Sunday evening widely seen as the last opportunity for the chancellor’s opponent to claw back support before a crucial election in three weeks’ time.
With latest polls showing Merkel’s CDU and her partners in Bavaria’s CSU ahead of Schulz’s SPD by 15 to 17 points, but with half of voters said to be undecided, the primetime face-off was seen as Schulz’s best chance to influence the outcome. Read more HERE
At least 16 people are dead and more than a dozen others trapped after monsoon downpours that have brought death and destruction to south Asia caused a building to collapse in Mumbai.
The four-storey residential building gave way on Thursday morning in the densely populated area of Bhendi Bazaar, after roads were turned into rivers in India’s financial capital, which has been struggling to cope with some of the heaviest rainfall in more than 15 years. Read more HERE