World News Update, what you need to know

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been comfortably re-elected in a snap poll billed as a referendum on his economic policies.

ELSEWHERE:

JEMBLUNG - Rescuers are using bulldozers and excavators to clear debris in their search for more than 70 people missing after a landslide in Indonesia.

QUITO - Thirteen people have been killed and a dozen more injured in a tunnel collapse at a Chinese construction site in Ecuador.

ISTANBUL - Turkish police have arrested the editor of Zaman, the country's biggest selling newspaper, and at least two dozen other media figures in a crackdown on supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's exiled rival Fethullah Gulen.

TRIPOLI - Libya's largest oil shipping terminal Sidra has been shut down due to clashes between rival militias.

FREETOWN - One of Sierra Leone's top doctors, Victor Willoughby, has contracted the Ebola virus.

POCATELLO - A cow being prepared for slaughter has jumped a fence and bolted through the streets of the US city of Pocatello, Idaho, before being shot dead by police.