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Communities in the Highlands and Islands have bought and managed vast swathes of land over recent decades, and a community right-to-buy was made law in 2003.

But critics have warned that such a candidate is unelectable in broad swathes of America - and Republicans have gleefully held the self-avowed democratic socialist up as the far-left face of the Democratic Party.

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 26 people while flooding swathes of the central Philippines, the country's civil defence office said Tuesday.

With large swathes of the country still without electricity or phone service, it was difficult to gain an accurate assessment of the death toll or the scope of the search and rescue operations needed.

Now, swathes of the historic San Fernando Valley mall are being demolished, after years of complaints from neighbors that the collection of vacant buildings and parking lots had fallen into disrepair.