A plane crash kills more than a dozen people – Violence bubbles back up in the Balkans – And Toronto’s (alleged) crack-smoking mayor speaks.

18 people are dead in a plane crash in Bolivia’s northern Amazon region.  The Aerocon airlines Fairchild Metroliner from the town of Trinidad was landing in heavy rain at Riberalta, when airline officials say something went long during the landing. The pilot and the co-pilot have survived but are in a serious condition.

Acting on a tip from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Colombia’s navy intercepted a speedboat carrying 1,450 kilograms of cocaine.  The boat was intercepted in international waters, and the suspects were transferred to a jail in Tampa, Florida and will be charged in America.  They say the boat’s destination was the Dominican Republic.

A boar carrying some 70 Rohingya Muslims capsized and sank of Myanmar’s coast.  One a handful of survivors have been pulled from the water.  Rohingya have been targeted for mob violence, and during November, after the monsoons end and the seas calm, many try to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh by boat.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen slaughtered more than 30 people in an attack on a wedding party in Nigeria’s northeast.  The Islamist separatists have been trying to carve out a nation based on its violent reading of Sharia Law.  The bridegroom was reportedly one of the victims. 

Violence marred key elections in the former Yugoslavian republic of Kosovo.  Masked men lobbed tear gas grenades and smashed ballot boxes, forcing a main polling place to close.  Although the governments of both Serbia and Kosovo had promoted a strong turnout, Ethnic Serbs had boycotted the election, refusing to recognize Kosovo’s independence.

Toronto, Canada’s (alleged) crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford is still refusing to resign.  The mayor of North America’s fourth-largest city apologized for “a lot of stupid things, all self-inflicted,” that he didn't detail in a radio appearance on Sunday.  Police claim they don’t have enough evidence to arrest him.

South Korea’s President says there is “no purpose” in having talks with Japan, unless the country apologizes for World War II wrongdoings, particularly the use of comfort women.  That’s unlikely, as Japan’s Prime Minister has charted a more aggressive course and is widely expected to visit a shrine that venerates war criminals before the end of the year.  The two nations are at loggerheads over a rocky islet that lies in the waters between the two nations.