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Egypt says perpetrators of attack against Christians killed

By HAMZA HENDAWI 19 killed. The ministry pub- and say authorities often
Associated Press lished photographs pur- go easy on Muslim assail-
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt said porting to show the bodies ants after outbreaks of sec-
Sunday that security forces of the slain militants, as well tarian violence.
have killed 19 militants in as rifles, shotguns and pis- They have found a mea-
a shootout, including the tols. Other images showed sure of protection under
gunmen suspected of kill- the inside of a tent with el-Sissi which, according to
ing seven Christians in an the black banner of the Is- Christian activists, did not
attack on pilgrims traveling lamic State group — which extend to members of the
to a remote desert monas- claimed responsibility for ancient community in rural
tery. Friday's attack — unfurled regions where radical Mus-
The Interior Ministry, which on the ground. lims whip up anti-Christian
oversees the police, said An IS affiliate centered in sentiments, often over the
the militants were tracked the Sinai Peninsula has re- construction or restoration
to a hideout in the desert peatedly targeted Chris- of churches or romantic re-
west of the central prov- tians, in part over their sup- lationships between Chris-
ince of Minya, the site of Fri- port for President Abdel- tians and Muslims.
day's attack, which also left Fattah el-Sissi. Pope Francis on Sunday
19 people wounded. El-Sissi led the 2013 over- In this Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018 file photo, relatives and friends decried the attack and in-
carry the coffin of, Maria Kamal, who was killed in an attack
It said the alleged militants throw of an elected but di- on a bus Saturday, after funeral services at the Church of Great vited the faithful in St. Pe-
opened fire when they re- visive Islamist president and Martyr Prince Tadros, in Minya, Egypt. ter's Square to pray with
alized they were being be- has since waged a sweep- Associated Press him for the seven people
sieged by security forces. It ing crackdown on dissent, killed on Friday. He said
did not say when the shoot- jailing thousands of Islamists the monastery of St. Samuel million people and have he was praying for the "pil-
out took place or explain and other activists. the Confessor, after a May long complained of dis- grims killed for the sole fact
how it had determined that Friday's attack was the sec- 2017 assault left 29 dead. crimination. They have ac- of being Christians," ask-
the perpetrators of Friday's ond in as many years to tar- Christians make up about cused police of negligence ing that those grieving be
attack were among the get pilgrims on their way to 10 percent of Egypt's 100 after this and other attacks, comforted.q
Poland: Exit poll gives centrists edge in key mayoral races

By VANESSA GERA sixth term. The Ipsos polling been liberal centers of op-
Associated Press agency projected support position to the Law and
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An for Adamowicz at nearly Justice-led government,
exit poll suggested Poland's 65 percent and support for and of the country's rural
populist ruling party lost run- the Law and Justice candi- heartland, which remains
off mayoral elections Sun- date, Kacper Plazynski, at largely supportive of the
day in Krakow and Gdansk, just over 35 percent. party despite its conflicts
though it wasn't immedi- In Krakow, another long- with the EU.
ately clear how hundreds serving mayor, Jacek Ma- Official returns were not ex-
of other local races across jchrowski, held off a chal- pected until Monday at the
the country were leaning. lenge from Law and Jus- earliest.
Runoff elections for the tice challenger Malgorzata The local elections kicked
mayor's office in 649 cities, Wassermann. Majchrowski off a string of votes setting
towns and municipalities was also projected to win Poland's course, including
took place between the People vote during the second round of the local elections at a nearly 65 percent of the the May election choosing
top two vote-getters from polling station in Lomianki, Poland, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. vote. European Parliament rep-
a first round of voting con- Associated Press Ipsos' projections had the resentatives, the national
ducted two weeks ago. mayor's job in the city of parliament vote in fall 2019
The elections were being The party's critics accuse it to a centrist pro-European Kielce going to another op- and a presidential election
watched as a test of na- of moving in an authoritar- Union coalition led by the position candidate: Bog- in the spring of 2020.
tional support for the rul- ian direction through ef- Civic Platform party. dan Wenta, one of the best Law and Justice won 34
ing Law and Justice party, forts to control the judicial With Sunday's runoff, the athletes in the history of percent of the total re-
which won power in 2015. system. opposition took at least Polish handball and a for- gional assembly votes two
The party, which has pro- During the Oct. 21 first round three more of Poland's mer coach of the national weeks ago, and the op-
moted Polish patriotism, voting, Law and Justice most prestigious cities. team. position coalition nearly 28
traditional Catholic values strengthened its position in In the Baltic port city of The results have highlighted percent. One of the prima-
and welfare programs, re- regional assemblies but lost Gdansk, incumbent Pawel deep political differences ry jobs of the assemblies is
mains broadly popular with mayoral races outright in Adamowicz with Civic Plat- between residents of Po- choosing how to spend EU
its conservative base. Warsaw, Poznan and Lodz form won re-election to a land's cities, which have subsidies.q