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…
Cameroon President vows probe after rail crash kills at least 75
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon’s President Paul Biya on Sunday pledged to investigate the causes of a rail crash that killed at least 75 people, as rescue workers scoured wreckage for more bodies.
Still here? EU reality dims British demand on full membership
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain will “continue to play a full role until we leave”, Prime Minister Theresa May told fellow leaders at her first EU summit; but for many Britons in Brussels that is a forlorn hope.
Thousands of Chilean mistakenly put on wrong voter rolls
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s electoral service has mistakenly listed hundreds of thousands of voters as living in towns far away from their actual place of residence, casting a minor pall over Sunday’s local elections.
