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Nobel prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is insisting that she will "run the government" if her National League for Democracy (NLD) party wins Sunday's elections in Myanmar.  The post-junta constitution was written by Suu Kyi's opponents to specifically bar people with family members who have foreign citizenship from becoming president - Suu Kyi's sons are UK citizens. "I will run the government and we will have a president who will work in accordance with the policies of the NLD," she told reporters gathered on the lawn of her Yangon home.  It's the same mansion she was confined to during years of house arrest by the former junta. 

Amnesty International and US are separately criticizing the government of the Maldives, expressing concern that its new state of emergency might lead to a new crackdown on dissent.  This comes after an explosion on the president’s boat and the discoveries of a bomb and weapons.  The military and police have emergency powers to enter and search homes without warrants and make arrests at will.  The Maldives' opposition is demanding an end to the 30 day emergency and the release of its jailed leader, former President Mohamed Nasheed.

Rescuers are digging through the rubble of a collapsed factory in Pakistan for 100 missing workers.  Around 20 people are already confirmed dead.  Officials are determining if the building in Lahore was weakened by a powerful earthquake on 26 October which killed almost 400 people across Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Egypt's Foreign Minister is blasting the UK's decision to suspend all flights to and from Sharm El-Sheikh, after US and British sources suggested that a Russian passenger jet was brought down by a bomb placed inside at the Red Sea resort.  "I think it is somewhat premature to make declarations related to what might or might not have happened to the aircraft before the investigation is completed and before there is a definitive cause for this crash," said Mr. Sameh Shoukry in Cairo, addingthat Egyptian and Russian investigators should be allowed to finish their work.  MetroJet Flight 7K9268 came down 23 minutes after leaving Sharm El-Sheikh on Saturday killing all 224 people on board.

London's decision to halt the flights strands about 20,000 Brits in Sharm El-Sheikh.  Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says the UK government is working with the airlines and Egyptian authorities to put in place "emergency procedures" for additional screening and security measures at Sharm el-Sheikh airport.  It could be that these won't be in place until Friday at the earliest.  Until then, London is advising against all but essential travel to that airport.

Colombia is lifting its restrictions on same-sex couples adopting children.  Until now, such couple could only adopt if one was the biological parent of the child.  But in an historic ruling on Wednesday, the country's Constitutional Court ordered adoption agencies not to discriminate against gay men and lesbians.  "A person's sexual orientation or gender are not in and of themselves indicative of a lack of moral, physical or mental suitability to adopt," said the chief justice of the Constitutional Court, Maria Victoria Calle Correa.