BANGKOK (AP) – Thailand’s government said Monday it is not ignoring the slavery and forced labor in its lucrative shrimp industry that was highlighted in an Associated Press investigation published last week. Government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd, flanked by police, navy and other officials, held a news conference specifically to address …

BEIJING (AP) – China’s year of man-made disasters began on New Year’s Eve when 36 revelers were killed in a stampede in Shanghai. Nearly twelve months later, a mountain of excavated soil and construction waste collapsed into buildings at an industrial park in Shenzhen. Four of the disasters this year …

MADRID (AP) – Spain’s opposition Socialist party Monday said it would vote against having acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy form a new government, thus killing one of Rajoy’s options to stay in power after voters elected a fragmented Parliament. Rajoy’s ruling conservative Popular Party came first in Sunday’s general election, …