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| Swedish parliament votes down govt budget, crisis looms | |  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's parliament voted down the minority centre-left coalition's budget proposal on Wednesday sparking a government crisis and raising the chance Prime Minister Stefan Lofven will call a snap election for early next year. Lofven has not said what he would do if he lost the vote. He could call a snap election or resign and hope the parliament speaker picks him to form a new government with enough support to pass a budget. If no party can form a stable government, there would automatically be a new election. Lofven will hold a press conference later today. ...
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| Hungary summons U.S. ambassador over McCain's "neofascist" comment | |  BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. envoy on Wednesday after U.S. Senator John McCain called Prime Minister Viktor Orban a "neo-fascist dictator". The United States has become increasingly critical of Orban's government, accusing him of getting too close to Russia since east-west tensions rose over Ukraine. Hungary's foreign minister called in Chargé d'Affaires André Goodfriend over McCain's comments, made in the U.S. Senate during a political spat over the appointment of Hollywood producer Colleen Bell as U.S. Ambassador in Budapest. ...
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| Victims call for justice 30 years after Bhopal disaster | |  By Nita Bhalla BHOPAL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Wednesday outside the abandoned factory which caused the world's deadliest industrial disaster in Bhopal, burning effigies and demanding justice for survivors suffering 30 years later. Elderly women and men, some of whom were injured by the toxic cyanide gas leak, together with activists, supporters and children - some born with physical and mental disabilities - held up banners and chanted "We want justice!" In the early hours of Dec. ...
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| Al Shabaab car bomb kills four Somalis in U.N. convoy | |  By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Four Somalis were killed when a car bomb hit a United Nations convoy near the capital's international airport on Wednesday, showing the threat still posed by insurgents despite their recent loss of territory. Al Qaeda-aligned Somali Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility. The group, which wants to topple the Western-backed Mogadishu government and impose its version of Islamic law, damaged a U.N. vehicle but did not kill any U.N. staff, a spokesman for the U.N.'s Somalia mission, Aleem Siddique, said. ...
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| Suicide car bomb hits Iran envoy's residence in Yemen, three dead | |  By Yara Bayoumy and Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - A suicide attacker drove a car laden with explosives at the Iranian ambassador's residence in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, security officials said, killing three people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which occurred while Iran's envoy was away. But it mirrored past bombings carried out by al Qaeda's Yemen branch, Sunni Muslim jihadists who often targets state institutions and regard Shi'ite Muslims as heretics. ...
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| Modi under pressure over minister's tirade against non-Hindus | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under growing pressure to sack a minister over a tirade she made against religious minorities, as his outraged opponents disrupted parliament for a second day on Wednesday. Niranjan Jyoti, the junior minister for food processing industries, asked whether the country should be governed by "the children of Ram or the children of bastards" at an election rally. The comment was widely believed to have been an attack on the legitimacy of the country's Muslim and Christian minorities. ...
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| Chinese bank worker shoots colleagues, kills two - Xinhua | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - An employee of China's central bank shot and killed two colleagues on Wednesday at the branch he was working at in the northeastern province of Liaoning, the Xinhua state news agency reported. Incidents of gun violence are rare in China as firearms are tightly controlled and private gun ownership is restricted. Xinhua said the gunman, armed with a hunting rifle, also wounded two people, who were in stable condition. The incident occurred on Wednesday at the branch of the People's Bank of China in Dashiqiao city, the news agency said. ... |
| In Egypt, Mubarak verdict signals return of old order | |  By Lin Noueihed CAIRO (Reuters) - Gaber Sayyed lost the use of his legs when an armoured police vehicle crushed them during the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule and ignited hopes for a new era of freedom and accountability. Almost four years on, he says a court's decision to drop charges against Mubarak over the killing of hundreds of demonstrators during the Tahrir Square revolt has extinguished any hope that his sacrifice would have a purpose. "Our hope is only in God. Justice here is lost, justice is broken," he said. ...
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