Globe Trot: Slovenia votes against same-sex marriage

SLOVENIA: Two-thirds of voters rejected a referendum to legalize gay marriage.

SPAIN: The incumbent People’s Party took a beating in yesterday’s general election, but looks likely to form a government.

SAUDI ARABIA is using Patriot missile systems to intercept ballistic missiles from Yemen as talks and a ceasefire end without a conclusion to the fighting in sight.

INDIA: A court has ordered death by hanging for eight men convicted of the rape and murder of a Nepalese woman in northern Haryana state.

KENYA: Muslims shielded Christians who came under fire in another bus attack by Somali al-Shabaab militants. Two Christians died, bringing to several hundred the number of Christians killed this year by al-Shabaab, which pledged its allegiance to ISIS in October.

IRAQ: Here’s more on the evacuation of Christian refugees from Iraq to Slovakia, an effort spearheaded by Hudson Institute’s Nina Shea with support from television producer Mark Burnett, TV and radio host Glenn Beck, and activist Johnnie Moore: Myriam, the young Iraqi whose public forgiveness a year ago of ISIS fighters who destroyed her home went viral, is revisited in her school in Erbil. Nicholas Kristoff calls the oppression of Christians in Iraq and the Middle East not quite a genocide, “but it is absolutely the religious version of an ethnic cleansing.”