An air traffic controller in Cambodia has been jailed for seven years for spying on Thai ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra during an official visit last month.
Siwarak Chothipong, who is Thai, was accused of passing Mr Thaksin’s private flight details to Thai diplomats.
Mr Thaksin caused a diplomatic uproar when he was named an economic adviser to Cambodia [...]

A US judge has reduced the jail terms of two Cuban men convicted of spying.
Ramon Labanino and Fernando Gonzalez were part of the Cuban Five group, jailed in the US in 2001 for spying for the then government of Fidel Castro.
Labanino’s life sentence has been reduced to 30 years and Gonzalez’s by one year to [...]

US President Barack Obama has appeared before Senate Democrats to persuade them to support his healthcare plans.
In a rare weekend session, the Senate has gathered to debate and vote in a bid to get the bill completed by the end of the month.
Mr Obama urged his Democratic Party senators to “get the job done”.
Democrats are [...]

President Evo Morales has claimed victory in Bolivia’s presidential election and appears set to serve a second five-year term.
Exit polls suggest Bolivia’s first indigenous leader polled at least 61%, defeating his conservative rivals.
Mr Morales, who had vowed to expand state control over the economy, said it was now his duty to “accelerate the pace of [...]

Four US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, military forces say.
Three of the Americans were said by Nato to have died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and the other in the east in a bomb explosion on Monday.
Three Afghan soldiers were also killed in a separate incident on Sunday by [...]

President Barack Obama says the US and its partners are discussing “a package of potential steps” they could take if Iran snubs a uranium enrichment deal.
Mr Obama said Iran needed to get a “clear message” that, if it failed to take advantage of such opportunities, it was “making itself less secure”.
Earlier, Tehran indicated it would [...]

Cuba is continuing to violate human rights and is using draconian laws to repress its citizens, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.
The communist country’s shift from Fidel Castro’s leadership to president Raul Castro has not changed conditions according to the report.
The group said that since taking office, Raul Castro had kept abusive laws [...]

A senior Canadian diplomat has testified that many Afghan detainees captured by Canadian forces in 2006 and 2007 were likely to have been tortured.
Richard Colvin told a parliamentary committee in Ottawa that government bureaucrats had ignored his warnings.
He said the detainees were tortured by Afghan security officers after being transferred from Canadian custody.
But Conservative Party [...]

The grandchildren of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong and his arch-rival for control of China, Chiang Kai-shek, have met for the first time.
Mao’s granddaughter, Kong Dongmei, met John Chiang as she visited Taiwan as part of a delegation to promote cultural and educational ties.
Taiwan split from China as Chiang’s Nationalist forces fled the victorious Communists [...]

War-torn nations remain the world’s most corrupt, Transparency International (TI) has said.
Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia are the lowest-ranked countries in TI’s annual global survey. They were all at the bottom of the list last year as well.
“When essential institutions are weak or non-existent, corruption spirals out of control,” TI said.
New Zealand was the least corrupt, [...]