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Pro-democracy groups deliver blow to Thailand’s military. Singapore posts highest temperature in 40 years. Turkey’s election is on a knife-edge. Here’s what you need to know today.

Thailand’s pro-democracy parties notched a resounding victory in Sunday’s election, setting up the biggest challenge to the royalist-backed establishment since the military seized power in a coup nearly a decade ago. With 97% of the vote counted, the liberal Move Forward party and the Pheu Thai party, linked to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, were neck-and-neck. Together they were projected to win more than 280 of the 500 seats in the lower house. But with neither securing an outright victory, the coming days will likely be filled with high-stakes jockeying over who should lead the next government. Check out our free-to-read live blog with all the latest news and analysis on the election here.