Italy arrests official for corruption before legality conference
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian finance police arrested a high-ranking politician in the Lombardy regional government for corruption on Tuesday just before he was due to attend a conference promoting legality in the public administration.
EU migrant arrivals 170,000 in September: Frontex
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Some 170,000 irregular migrants entered the European Union in September, the bloc’s border agency Frontex said on Tuesday, taking the total for the year so far to 710,000.
Italy court probes PM Renzi’s expense claims when Florence mayor
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – A court in Florence has opened an investigation into the expenses claims filed by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi when he was mayor of the city between 2009 and 2014, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
To negotiate or not? That’s the new Nordic puzzle over populism
STOCKHOLM/OSLO (Reuters) – Years of political instability and policy impasse may be the price Sweden is about to pay for its traditional parties’ refusal to countenance deals with far-right politicians.
Nigeria’s Buhari asks head of biggest private equity firm to join cabinet
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the head of the country’s biggest private equity firm to join his cabinet, Senate President Bukola Saraki said on Tuesday, as lawmakers started screening candidates for a long-awaited gov…
In Egypt, elections look set to cement return to the past
MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) – Holding court behind a battered desk at his campaign office in the southern town of Minya, Bahaa Fikry embodies Egypt’s past.
Turkey warns U.S., Russia against backing Kurdish militia in Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has warned the United States and Russia it will not tolerate Kurdish territorial gains by Kurdish militia close to its frontiers in north-western Syria, two senior officials said.
Lake Chad’s swampy borderlands a ‘war zone,’ U.N. agency says
GENEVA (Reuters) – The Islamist guerrillas of Boko Haram have made the swamplands of Lake Chad, where the borders of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria meet, into a “war zone”, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.
Four killed in Bosnian mine collapse
KAKANJ, Bosnia (Reuters) – Four miners were killed and two injured early on Tuesday when a platform holding up the roof caved in on them in a mine in central Bosnia.
Former senior China energy executive jailed for 20 years for graft
BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in central China on Tuesday jailed a former senior Chinese energy executive for 20 years on corruption charges, the latest official to fall in a sweeping anti-graft campaign linked to allies of disgraced security chief Zhou …
