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.
Left-wing parties take the lead in Spanish elections
MADRID (Reuters) – Left-wing parties are close to winning an absolute majority of parliamentary seats in Spain’s general election Sunday, preliminary results showed, likely scuppering Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s chances of winning a second term for …
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…
U.N. sees progress in Yemen talks but urgent need for full ceasefire
BERN (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring parties have agreed on a broad framework for ending their war at talks in Switzerland but they first have to agree a permanent ceasefire, after a week-long truce was widely violated, the United Nations said on Sunday.
Chile’s airports to resume normal operations as strike ends
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s government and workers tied to the civil aviation authority came to an agreement Sunday evening, putting an end to a four-day strike that forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights and left thousands of passengers strand…
Lebanese militant leader killed in Israeli raid in Syria: Hezbollah
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike killed Samir Qantar, a Hezbollah militant leader, in Damascus on Saturday evening, the Lebanese group and Syrian state media said on Sunday.
Slovenia rejects same-sex marriages in a referendum
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenia rejected on Sunday a law that would give same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children in its second vote on gay rights in four years.
