India’s Congress closes ranks behind Gandhis after poll rout
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Congress party was preparing to rally around the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty on Monday to snuff out possible dissent after it suffered its most humiliating defeat in an election.
Indonesia’s Jokowi gets election boost from VP pick
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Joko “Jokowi” Widodo received a major boost in the race to become president of the world’s third-largest democracy on Monday when he picked popular former vice president Jusuf Kalla as his running mate in the July electi…
Sample quality counts, says Indian pollster who called Modi triumph
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – While most exit polls forecast that Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi would become India’s next prime minister, only one little-known outlier accurately predicted the scale of his overwhelming election victory.
Colombia church bus fire kills 31 children, one adult
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Thirty-one children and one adult were killed in Colombia on Sunday when fuel exploded on a broken-down bus returning from a church event, an emergency response coordinator said.
South Korea’s Park, sorry over ferry disaster, breaks up coast guard
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye formally apologized on Monday for a ferry disaster last month that killed about 300 passengers, mostly school children, and said she would break up the coast guard because it had failed in its resc…
Mexican opposition party re-elects leader in boost for reforms
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The leader of Mexico’s biggest opposition party comfortably won re-election on Sunday, boosting President Enrique Pena Nieto’s efforts to enact measures to open up the oil industry and increase competition in the telecoms sector…
Suicide car bomb kills five in bar district of north Nigeria’s Kano
KANO (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber killed five people on a street of popular bars and restaurants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday evening, in an area mostly inhabited by southern Christians, police said.
Mali sends troops to retake town from Tuareg separatists
KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) – Mali sent in troops on Sunday to retake Kidal from Tuareg separatists after six government workers and two civilians were killed, according to the United Nations, during an attack on the regional governor’s office.
Turkey keeps three suspects in custody in mine disaster probe
SOMA, Turkey (Reuters) – A Turkish court ordered three suspects to be kept in custody on Sunday on a provisional charge of “causing multiple deaths” in last week’s mine disaster, as the last of the 301 victims were buried.
Convicted rogue trader Kerviel arrested in southern France
MENTON, France (Reuters) – Convicted rogue trader Jerome Kerviel was arrested in southern France late on Sunday to serve a three-year jail sentence in a high-profile case he has depicted as one individual’s struggle against high finance.
