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Bermuda: Dismissed

HAMILTON — Bermuda's highest court has struck down the conviction of a Florida woman who accidentally brought the ammunition magazine from her gun to the British island territory. The Supreme Court ruled there was no evidence that Lori DuBell intended to bring the gun magazine into Bermuda. The court issued an absolute discharge Friday meaning she will have no criminal record in the territory.

The real estate broker from Naples, Florida, spent nine days in jail after pleading guilty in September to illegally importing the magazine.

Australia: Asylum fight

CANBERRA — Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers were separated at an island immigration detention center after a riot left 37 injured, an official said Monday. Police were investigating the violence at the center Saturday night and criminal charges could be filed, Immigration Minister Chris Evans said. He blamed tensions among Sri Lankans after several failed to be accepted as refugees and were recently sent home.

Romania: Runoff

BUCHAREST — A presidential election aimed at helping Romania emerge from a political and economic crisis failed to produce a winner on Sunday, and the top two candidates will compete in a runoff next month, according to two exit polls. If the exit polls are confirmed by official results, centrist President Traian Basescu, 58, will face socialist former Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, 51, in the runoff on Dec. 6.

Israel: Beatification

NAZARETH — A Palestinian nun who co-founded a charity dedicated to educating Arab girls has taken an important step toward sainthood. Thousands of worshippers gathered in the biblical town of Nazareth on Sunday to attend the beatification of the late Sister Maria Alfonsina Danil Ghattas.

Ghattas helped found the Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem in the 1880s. The order, highly regarded in Palestinian communities, continues to run schools for Palestinian girls in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Ghattas died in Jerusalem in 1927 at the age of 83.

Marianas: Rampage