Croats set constitutional bar to same-sex marriage
ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croats voted overwhelmingly in favor of defining marriage in the constitution as a “union of man and woman” on Sunday, a move initiated by Roman Catholic groups but criticized by opponents as discrimination against homosexuals.
Lack of cash and monitors add to Afghan election troubles
KABUL (Reuters) – Organizers of Afghanistan’s make-or-break presidential election next year say poor security, a shortage of monitors and funding holes are undermining their ability to safeguard the process from the widespread fraud that marred the las…
Karzai accuses U.S. of cutting Afghan military supplies
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused his U.S. ally on Sunday of withholding military supplies to press him to sign a bilateral security deal that will shape the U.S. military presence after most foreign troops leave in 2014.
Canadian police arrest Toronto man on suspicion of spying for China
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian police have arrested a Toronto man suspected of seeking to give China classified information about Canadian shipbuilding procurement policies, security officials said on Sunday.
North Yemen fighting kills more than 120
SANAA (Reuters) – Fighting between Shi’ite Houthi rebels and Sunni Salafis in northern Yemen has killed more than 120 and a government official in charge of enforcing a ceasefire accused the Houthis of breaking the truce, a newspaper said on Sunday.
Tax hikes, security dent Mexican President’s approval rating: poll
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – For the first time, more Mexicans disapprove of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s performance than approve, partly because of his tax increases, according to a newspaper poll released on Sunday, the anniversary of his first year in…
Syrian helicopters drop ‘barrel bombs’ on rebel town, killing 20
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian army helicopters bombarded the northern rebel-held town of Al-Bab for a second day on Sunday, killing 20 people including four women when they dropped improvised barrel bombs on a market district, a monitoring group said.
Mandela grandson faces assault charges -South Africa prosecutors
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa will charge one of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons with assault and brandishing a gun at another man, a prosecutor’s official said on Sunday, in a further embarrassment for the anti-apartheid hero’s large and fractious …
Suicide bomber kills 10 at funeral in northern Iraq
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in northern Iraq blew himself up at a funeral procession on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 25, as the country suffers its worst spate of violence for at least five years.
Gunmen kill Yemeni colonel and son in eastern Yemen -official
ADEN (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a Yemeni army colonel and his son on Sunday when he stopped his car at a roundabout in his hometown, a local official said, extending a string of assassinations of top armed forces figures by suspected Islamist militan…
