Iraqi asylum seekers protest against Finland’s deportation move
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Iraqi asylum seekers rallied in central Helsinki and signed a petition on Monday against Finland’s plans to negotiate a deal with Baghdad that could lead to their deportation, arguing that their country should not be considered saf…
Five killed in British helicopter crash in Afghanistan
(Reuters) – Five members of NATO’s international support mission in Afghanistan were killed and five injured when a British military helicopter crashed in the capital, Kabul, officials said on Monday.
Kazakh tycoon to fight extradition decree: family
PARIS (Reuters) – France has signed a decree authorizing the extradition to Russia of jailed Kazakh tycoon Mukhtar Ablyazov, Ablyazov’s family said on Monday, adding that the businessman accused of embezzling up to $6 billion from his former bank BTA w…
Rescuers recover 21 bodies from landslide-hit Nepal village
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepali rescue workers have pulled out 21 bodies that were buried when a devastating earthquake triggered a landslide along a popular trekking route almost six months ago, officials said on Monday.
Taliban threaten second Afghan provincial capital as insurgency spreads
KABUL (Reuters) – Fighting intensified around the Afghan city of Ghazni on Monday, as Taliban militants threatened to seize a second provincial capital after briefly occupying Kunduz in the north last month.
Washington Post says Iran’s conviction of its reporter is ‘contemptible’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Washington Post on Monday denounced the espionage conviction of the newspaper’s American-born Tehran correspondent as an “outrageous injustice” and urged Iran’s leaders to overturn it.
Key allies of disgraced China security chief jailed for graft
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese courts sentenced two key allies of disgraced former security chief Zhou Yongkang to jail on Monday, one for 16 years and the other for 13, after finding them guilty of corruption, the latest officials felled in a sweeping an…
Egyptian court releases two Mubarak sons from prison
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Monday ruled that former president Hosni Mubarak’s two sons could be released from prison while awaiting an appeal for a case involving the theft of state funds, judicial sources said.
Islamic State leader probably not in targeted convoy: Iraqi security officials
CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was probably not in a convoy hit by air strikes near the Syrian border on Sunday, senior Iraqi security officials said on Monday.
French strikes in Syria may have hit French jihadists: prime minister
AMMAN (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday that French jihadists may have been killed during an air strike targeting an Islamic State (IS) camp last week and he deflected criticism, saying the primary objective was to hit the m…
