News in Brief
Gas leak kills 11 in India
AP – At least 11 people were killed and almost as many were injured on Sunday after a gas leak in a city in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Officials sealed off a section of the city, Ludhiana, and evacuated hundreds of residents as they tried to identify the gas and the source of the leak.
According to Dr. Hatinder Kaur of the Civil Hospital of Ludhiana, preliminary investigations suggested that the victims’ nervous systems had been affected.
UK public asked to swear allegiance
to king
BBC – Millions of people in the UK and the Commonwealth have been invited to vocally swear their allegiance to King Charles III as they watch his coronation ceremony next Saturday.
Those watching the crowning have been asked to say: “I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.”
Paraguayans head to the polls
REUTERS – Paraguayans began voting on Sunday in what could be the biggest electoral challenge to the ruling conservative Colorado Party in over a decade and with the country’s long ties with Taiwan potentially at stake.
Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. in what is expected to be a close contest between Colorado Party presidential candidate Santiago Pena and the political veteran Efrain Alegre, who is leading a broad center-left coalition and pledging a foreign policy shake-up.