JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel’s hard-line former foreign minister is standing trial on charges of fraud and breach of trust.
Ecuador leader heavily favored to win re-election
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Rafael Correa, a dynamic, polemical economist whose leftist government has won broad backing from the lower classes as it leads Latin America in social spending, is expected to sail to a second re-election Sunday as the Andean nation's president. Global investors watch how chips fall in China's cashless casino bar
SANYA, China (Reuters) – Placing bets on green-felt baccarat tables in a new casino bar on China's southern Hainan island, punters seem oblivious to a huge wager quietly being placed around them, one that could potentially siphon business from the world's largest gaming hub in Macau an hour's flight away. For now, players at Jesters casino bar, part of the newly opened Mangrove Tree Resort World on Sanya Bay, cannot win cash – only points that they can use to pay for accommodation, luxury goods, jewelry and artwork for sale at the resort. … Bahrain: Alleged terror cell tied to Iran, allies
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Bahrain’s interior minister says police have arrested eight members of an alleged terrorist cell linked to Iran and other countries following widespread clashes in the Gulf nation during protests marking the second anniversary of an Arab Spring-inspired uprising.
Bomb kills 64 in Pakistan's Quetta
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Sixty-four people including school children died on Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority, police said. A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni group, claimed responsibility for the bomb in Quetta, which caused casualties in the town's main bazaar, a school and a computer center. Police said most of the victims were Shi'ites. Burned school bags and books were strewn around. … Cyprus goes to polls to elect president to seal bailout deal
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cypriots went to the polls on Sunday to elect a president who will have to take responsibility for negotiating a financial rescue to save the small island nation from a bankruptcy that would reignite the euro zone debt crisis. Cyprus’ worst economic crisis in four decades has blown away the island’s divided status as the main issue in this year’s elections, which conservative leader Nicos Anastasiades is tipped to win. …
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