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Moldova's pro-EU President Maia Sandu has won a second term in office after defeating her pro-Russian rival.With nearly 98% of votes counted in the second round of the presidential race held on Sunday, Ms Sandu had obtained 54% of the total votes, according to the website of the country's Central Electoral Commission. This compared with 46% for Alexandr Stoianoglo, a former prosecutor general who was backed by the pro-Russia Party of Socialists.Ms Sandu said in a victory speech that the government needed to prepare the country for parliamentary elections next summer and preserve democracy.She told reporters that she had heard the voices both of those who voted for her and those who voted for her rival. The president added that her main objective for the coming years would be to be a leader...

Lying in her hospital bed, wearing a yellow t-shirt covered in lions, leopards and toucans, little Ivana Skayki is the very definition of innocence.Her soft, imploring eyes stare back at you, as if to question what she's doing there. She's not quite two years old, so all she understands is the pain. Warning: This story contains images of a child with serious burns.Nearly half her tiny body is covered in burns - from her head right down to her toes.Her horrific injuries are the result of an Israeli air strike on her hometown of al Aliyah in southern Lebanon on September 23. Ivana's family had just packed their bags and were about to flee north when the missile hit. Image: Fatimah Skayki with her daughter, Ivana, in hospital ...

The story of these floods has been full of grim, unsettling images. Now there is another one - the Bonaire shopping centre in Aldaia. Today, it was an awful place. Not because of the immense damage wrought by the floods, but because of the horror that may lie ahead.The emergency services are pumping out the underground car park that lies beneath this retail complex, one of the biggest in the country, and they don't know what they will find.There will be bodies - that seems sure. The question is how many. And the fear is that it could be dozens. You can see the ramps that run down to the car park, and you can also see the water level glistening, not far down the ramp.Pumping out this entire car park will be a marathon job. Searching it will take patience, specialist equipment and stoicism. ...