South Korea’s Park proposes multiple-term presidency
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday proposed amending the constitution to allow presidents to serve multiple terms or to establish a parliamentary system, saying the single-term presidency has served its purpose after nearl…
Rights activists urge Thai junta to drop sedition charge against lawyer
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Human rights activists on Monday called on Thailand’s junta to drop sedition charges against a rights lawyer in the first such case against an attorney since the military took power in a 2014 coup.
Hong Kong judge warns of ‘torture’ images as British banker’s trial begins
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Jurors were warned by a Hong Kong judge that former British banker Rurik Jutting filmed the torture and killing of the two Indonesian women he is accused of murdering two years ago as the trial got underway on Monday.
Indian police kill 18 Maoist insurgents in eastern state
BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) – Indian police killed at least 18 Maoist rebels in the eastern state of Odisha on Monday after tracking them to a remote, forested area where a gunfight erupted shortly after midnight, police said.
Chile’s right wins big in local elections as political tides shift
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s right snatched dozens of mayoralties on Sunday from the governing center-left coalition, in a boost to former leader Sebastian Pinera, the front-runner to lead the conservative coalition in next year’s presidential election…
Modi sees election danger in India’s ‘Dalit Queen’
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – When Amit Shah, president of Narendra Modi’s ruling party, meets with the Indian prime minister, he is sometimes asked a question he struggles to answer: “What is behenji thinking?”
Center-right opposition claims victory in Lithuania vote, to start coalition talks
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania’s center-right opposition Peasants and Greens party declared victory after a second round of voting in a general election on Sunday and said it would start negotiations with the Homeland Union and Social Democrats over for…
Suicide car bomb rocks Somali capital: police
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least one person died and two others were injured in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday when a car exploded near a camp for displaced people, police said.
Venezuela congress presses for Maduro trial in rowdy session
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-led National Assembly in a rowdy session on Sunday pressed to put Nicolas Maduro on trial for violating democracy, days after authorities nixed a recall referendum against the unpopular leftist president.
Fate of child migrants uncertain before France demolishes Jungle camp
CALAIS, France (Reuters) – Aid workers accused France and Britain on Sunday of failing more than 1,300 unaccompanied child migrants whose future remained uncertain just a day before the French government begins dismantling the filthy camp where they ar…
