That the ruling party has reaches down to the very to the local level a lot of the communal authorities local authorities belong to the ruling party and they wield a lot of power over the people theyre the ones who sign your Marriage Certificates theyre the ones who decide who gets government money and if they tell you that you have to go vote and then you know that means something for the people and the people theyre not theyre afraid to speak out if you go around and you ask people no one wants to speak openly because theyre afraid of repercussions if they say they support the opposition so taking all that together i think its fair to say that with these elections cambodia has moved one major step further or closer to becoming autocratic country. Take capital phnom penh thank you for that. An earthquake has hit the Indonesian Island of lombok Officials Say it killed fourteen people and injured forty more the six point four magnitude quake struck
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the northern part of the island in the early morning it reportedly lasted for just seconds and send people fleeing into the streets several buildings were damaged in the area which is also popular with tourists officials have not issued any tsunami warnings. and some of the other stories making news around the world. a powerful typhoon has hit japan bringing heavy rains and winds of up to one hundred eighty kilometers per hour thousands of residents have been forced to leave their homes it s this season s twelve typhoon so far the storm has weakened and is moving west where it s. israel has released palestinian teenager i had to meany from prison a seventeen year old who was jailed for eight months alongside her mother for a slapping and kicking two israeli soldiers near her home in the west bank israel say s she s being used by her family for political reasons for palestinians she s become a symbol of resistance people in mali vote in