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A bomb attack on a cathedral in the southern Philippines has killed more than twenty people and injured dozens of others. The first device went off inside the cathedral on Jolo island where worshippers had gathered for Sunday Mass. A second bomb exploded in the car park as the security forces responded. Howard Johnson reports from Manila. The Defense Secretary of the Philippines Delfin Lorenzana issued a statement in which he strongly condemned the attack and urged the public to remain calm to deny terrorism a victory as he put it. Decades of fighting in the region between numerous armed groups and the Philippine Army has claimed the lives of more than 120,000 people and displaced around two million. The island of Jolo lies in the proposed Bangsamoro autonomous region, a political solution to the conflict brokered by the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Last week, voters in the area overwhelmingly backed the new region in a referendum.

Venezuela' s top military envoy to the United States has recognized the opposition leader Juan Guaido as his country's interim president. Announcing his defection from the government of Nicolas Maduro, the defense attache Colonel Jose Luis Silva called for fresh elections. He urged what he called his brothers in the armed forces to help restore democracy. Today, I speak to the people of Venezuela, and especially to my brothers in the armed forces of the nation to recognize President Juan Guaido as the only legitimate president. This is all based on the constitution of our Republic that states that no person or institution can be above it.

Rescue teams in Brazil are restarting their search for survivors after a dam collapsed on Friday, unleashing a torrent of mud and industrial waste. Thirty four people are confirmed to have died. Fifty people were pulled alive from the sludge on Saturday before the rescue operation was paused overnight. The authorities say hopes of finding more survivors among the 250 still missing a slim. The dam is owned by Brazil's largest mining company Vale.

The American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has welcomed what he called encouraging news from talks between the US envoy and the Afghan Taliban. He made the comments as the US diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad headed to Afghanistan to brief the government in Kabul on six days of talks in Qatar with the Taliban.

Ceremonies are taking place in the Russian city of St. Petersburg to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad as the city was then known. More than 800,000 people died during the siege.

That's the latest BBC news.