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| Thai crown prince revokes wife's royally-assigned family name |
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 BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's crown prince has revoked the royally-assigned family name of his wife, following the arrest of several of her relatives in a high-profile corruption case. News about the monarchy is heavily filtered by the palace, and under the lèse-majesté laws, the world's harshest, anything deemed an insult or a threat to the monarchy is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. ...
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| Arab-Jewish school, symbol of Jerusalem co-existence, torched |
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| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Suspected Jewish extremists set fire to a classroom in an Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem, police said on Sunday, targeting a symbol of co-existence in a city on edge over a recent surge in violence. The premises were empty late on Saturday when assailants torched a classroom used by first-graders at the Hand in Hand school, where Palestinian and Israeli children study together in Hebrew and Arabic. "Death to Arabs" had been scrawled on a schoolyard wall. ... |
| Sudan's Bashir slams U.N. peacekeepers, demands they leave |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - A peacekeeping force in Darfur had become a security burden and should leave, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday, escalating a row that has already led to the closure a joint United Nations-African Union office in Khartoum. The Darfur conflict erupted in 2003 when mainly African tribes took up arms against the Arab-led government in Khartoum. ...
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| Uruguay votes for new president, leftist Vazquez favorite to win |
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 By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguayans vote on Sunday for a new president with former leader Tabare Vazquez looking set to win comfortably, securing the ruling leftist coalition a third consecutive term and allowing it to roll out its pioneering marijuana law. Opinion polls give Vazquez, 74, who was president in 2005-2010, a 14 percentage point lead over Luis Lacalle Pou of the center-right National Party. ...
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