13TH DAY OF PROTESTS IN ROMANIA

DAM SPILLWAY FAIL PROMPTS CALIFORNIA EVACUATION

Residents of the northern California town of Oroville were being ordered to evacuate on Sunday after authorities there said they expected a spillway at a local dam to fail within the hour.

In a post on its Facebook page, the Butte County, Calif., Sheriff ’s Department ordered an “immediate evacuation from the low levels of Oroville and areas downstream.”

Police said a “hazardous situation is developing ” with the Oroville Dam auxiliary spillway, in which severe erosion could lead to a failure of the structure, resulting in an “uncontrolled release of flood waters from Lake Oroville.”

Residents of Oroville, located about 65 miles north of Sacramento, were ordered to evacuate northward, toward Chico, Calif.

— Greg Toppo SWISS EASE CITIZENSHIP RULES, REJECT TAX REFORM

Swiss voters decided Sunday that they want to make it easier for “third-generation foreigners” to get citizenship. They also rejected a complex tax reform initiative designed to put Switzerland in line with international standards.

The “simplified naturalization of third-generation immigrants” measure passed in a national referendum with 60% of the votes, Swiss broadcaster SRF reported. It simplifies applications for anyone younger than 25 whose parents and grandparents have lived in Switzerland for years.

The measure gives young people who qualify the same fasttrack, simplified access to Swiss citizenship that foreign spouses of Swiss nationals often enjoy.

SRF reported that 59% of voters rejected the tax reform referendum, which would have scrapped a two-track tax system that offers lower rates to foreign firms to lure investment.

— The Associated Press GERMANY PICKS STEINMEIER TO BE NEW PRESIDENT

A special assembly elected former German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier by an overwhelming majority Sunday to be the country’s new president.

Steinmeier was elected in Berlin by the assembly made up of the 630 members of parliament’s lower house and an equal number of representatives from Germany’s 16 states.

He received 931 of the 1,260 votes. Steinmeier succeeds Joachim Gauck, 77, a former pastor and East German pro-democracy activist. — The Associated Press

VADIM GHIRDA, AP People light mobile phones in the colors of Romania’s flag during a protest in Bucharest Sunday. Protesters want the government to resign after it passed a decree that would have diluted the anti-corruption fight that has targeted top...