News of the Day From Around the World, Nov. 15
Pakistan’s military said Indian troops fired on its soldiers in Kashmir on Monday, killing seven and prompting return fire, as officials warned that the tense standoff between the nuclear-armed rivals could escalate.
2 Moldova vote: A pro-Russian politician won Moldova’s presidential race, final results showed Monday, an election that many Moldovans hope will rekindle ties with Moscow.
Dodon wants to restore ties with Russia, which placed a trade embargo on Moldovan wine, fruit and vegetables in 2014 after Moldova signed an association agreement with the European Union.
3 Malaysia politics: A prominent Malaysian opposition lawmaker with a reputation as a whistle-blower was sentenced to 18 months in jail on Monday for releasing one page of a classified document on a controversial state investment fund.
Rafizi Ramli, vice president of the People’s Justice Party, was found guilty of violating the Official Secrets Act by disclosing content of a government audit report on the indebted 1MDB fund, founded by Prime Minister Najib Razak.
The bodies of former Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife were removed from their tomb in Krakow late Monday, the first of more than 80 exhumations planned on prominent Poles killed in a plane crash in Russia in 2010.
Kaczynski has cast doubt on earlier investigations — carried out by both Poland and Russia — which concluded that the crash was an accident caused primarily by bad weather and pilot error.