Cambodia police use water cannon to break up textiles strike
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Police in Cambodia made dozens of arrests and used water cannon to break up a strike on Monday by garment workers protesting over low pay, in the latest flare-up in a manufacturing sector vital to its fledgling economy.
Afghan Taliban close on new Helmand district
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan police were holding out against Taliban forces who have surrounded their compound in Sangin, in the southern province of Helmand, on Monday as the militants closed in on another district capital.
Philippines vows stronger military to back South China Sea claim
CLARK FIELD, Philippines (Reuters) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino vowed on Monday to leave behind a stronger and a more capable armed forces to face maritime challenges in the South China Sea when he leaves office next year.
Indian court says no power to extend sentence of Delhi gang rape convict
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s top court said on Monday it had no power to detain the youngest of the men convicted of the 2012 gang rape of a woman on a bus in New Delhi in a case that shocked the nation, a day after he was released after three years i…
Insight: Some of China’s most wanted live openly in U.S. and Canada
FORT LAUDERDALE/NEW YORK/SEATTLE/VANCOUVER(Reuters) – U.S. and Canadian officials have pledged to work with China to track down and repatriate Chinese fugitives living abroad. But that cooperation is proving to have clear limits.
Brazil president’s survival odds improve, but ally demands growth
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s key ally in Congress is certain it can head off an impeachment threat, but in return the party demands a radical change of policy course to pull the economy out of its deepest downturn in 25 yea…
Eleven activists summoned amid deepening Thai park scandal
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police on Monday said they will charge 11 activists who tried to stage a protest over suspected corruption in an army-built park with illegal assembly as allegations of irregularities in the park’s funding persist.
Splintered Spanish vote heralds arduous coalition talks
MADRID (Reuters) – A historically fragmented vote in Spanish elections on Sunday heralded weeks of talks to form a coalition government, with neither Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservatives nor left-wing parties winning a clear mandate to govern.
Israel’s vice premier resigns amid harassment allegations
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Vice Premier Silvan Shalom, a veteran politician in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, resigned on Sunday following allegations that he had sexually harassed several women during his career.
Canadian diplomats say pastor jailed in North Korea in good spirits: church
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian diplomats were allowed to meet a Canadian pastor soon after he was sentenced to life in prison in North Korea last week and found him in good spirits and health, a church spokeswoman said on Sunday.
