Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo has been under mounting pressure to step down after an allegation that he took illegal cash donations from a South Korean businessman in 2013. from NYT > World http://ift.tt/1HbyFCt
Tens of thousands of children in Senegal are being exploited by Quranic teachers who force them to beg in the streets, Human Rights Watch said Monday. from NYT > World http://ift.tt/1E4wy0O
Israel’s president and prime minister have declined requests for meetings with former President Jimmy Carter, who has long been a harsh critic of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians. from NYT > World http://ift.tt/1E4wwpw
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced 22 people to death on Monday after convicting them of storming a police station outside Cairo and killing an officer. from NYT > World http://ift.tt/1JoveFO
Unlike other major sports teams, Barça has its members — about 160,000 of them — vote for its president, with paper ballots. They will have to consider charges of corruption and other hard issues. from NYT > World http://ift.tt/1HNZqvT
Russia’s leading environmentalist, Yevgenia Chirikova, has moved to Estonia under increasing government pressure. from NYT > World http://ift.tt/1IzOy2F
Rabbi Toaff, the chief rabbi of Rome for half a century, helped forge more amicable relations between Jews and the Vatican after World War II. from NYT > World http://ift.tt/1HNZqfj
A 13-year-old Spanish boy armed with a crossbow and a machete killed a substitute teacher on Monday and wounded four other people at his high school in Barcelona, the police said. from NYT > World http://ift.tt/1IzOuQJ
The Obama administration cast the deployment on Monday as primarily a show of force to discourage Iran’s shipments of weapons to rebels. from NYT > World http://ift.tt/1aMezjJ