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World in brief: August 16, 2022

PAKISTAN: Two policemen were shot dead by gunmen as they accompanied a team of polio workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bordering Afghanistan. The assailants fled and no health workers were harmed, authorities said. The CIA has used fake polio vaccination drives to gather information on Islamist organisations in the past, leading many Islamist groups to target health workers as suspected Western agents. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the last countries where polio, a paralysing disease, remains endemic.

KENYA: Opposition leader Raila Odinga said today he will challenge the weekend election victory of Deputy President William Ruto.
The electoral commission declared Mr Ruto the winner on Monday with 50.5 per cent of the vote. But four commissioners resigned, saying today that the official figures added up to 100.1 per cent of the total number of ballots, the rogue 0.1 per cent being enough to cast the result into doubt.

MEXICO: Cuban doctor Ernesto Oliva Legra was shot dead at work on the outskirts of Mexico City today. Two gunmen asked at a hospital reception for a female patient and on not finding her, forced the receptionist to open a door to a room into which they fired, killing a nurse, a woman visiting a relative and the doctor. Mexican criminal gangs often visit hospitals to kill wounded rivals. It is not known if the doctor was an accidental victim or the killing was linked to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s recently announced plans to increase Cuban medical missions to the country.

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