World News from the BBC
Anti-government protesters have settled in for another night in the center of the Thai capital Bangkok despite a court ruling that the government has the right to
evict
them. The leaders of the red-shirts, as they are known, have also indicated they may be extending the protest. On Monday, the demonstrators briefly forced their way into the offices of the election commission.
The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked parliament to reconsider its rejection of his plans for heavy cuts in food and energy subsidies.
The legislature said it was concerned that implementing the proposed 40-billion-dollar cuts
in full
would lead to a surge in inflation. Instead, parliament approved savings worth just 20 billion dollars.
A South Korean warship is pursuing a supertanker which was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. The ship was on its way from Iraq to the US and is carrying up to 160 million dollars worth of crude oil. From Seoul, here is our correspondent John Sudworth.
The hijack took place hundreds of kilometers from the coast of Somalia in the middle of the Indian Ocean, an area of sea normally thought to be relatively safe from this kind of attack. The South Korean navy, which already has a warship based in the Gulf of Aden to assist with the international efforts to protect shipping, has ordered it to reach the oil tanker before it reaches the African coast. But any attempt to recapture the ship by force would be risky. The