In feisty Israeli campaign, even Netanyahu’s wife’s recycling is a target
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Forget the deadlocked Palestinian peace process or the Iranian nuclear program. The latest political fracas in Israel is over whether the prime minister’s wife kept the deposit when she recycled bottles from state functions.
Investigators say no evidence AirAsia captain left his seat
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian air crash investigators said on Monday they had not so far found evidence that the pilot of an AirAsia jet had left his seat, or that power to an automated control system was shut off, shortly before the aircraft plunged …
Nigerian leaders must not stir up electoral violence: war crimes court
LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s leaders must not whip up violence around a presidential poll on Feb. 14 that has already triggered deadly skirmishes, the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Monday.
Dutch search team recovers remains, MH17 wreckage in Ukraine
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Dutch search team recovered human remains and wreckage from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on Monday, the Dutch government said.
Litvinenko believed Putin linked to organized crime: ex-KGB spy’s widow
LONDON (Reuters) – Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent killed with polonium in London, believed Vladimir Putin lacked the mettle to stamp out corruption inside Russia’s security agency and that he had links to organized crime, his widow said o…
Nut rage: Korean Air boss’s daughter treated crew ‘like slaves’
SEOUL (Reuters) – The daughter of the boss of Korean Air Lines , on trial in what has popularly become known as the “nut rage” case, treated flight crew like “feudal slaves,” a chief steward said in court on Monday.
Deadly car bomb explodes in Nigeria’s Gombe after Jonathan rally
GOMBE, Nigeria (Reuters) – A car bomb went off near a stadium in the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe on Monday, a few minutes after President Goodluck Jonathan left a party rally there.
Belgian police detain man near EU Parliament, find gun and chainsaw
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Brussels police on Monday detained a Slovakian man dressed in camouflage gear near the European Parliament and found a gun and a chainsaw in his car, triggering a security scare which caused several offices to be evacuated.
Malaysia puts real-time plane tracking at center of ICAO safety meeting
MONTREAL (Reuters) – Malaysia, which had two air disasters last year after one jet disappeared and another was shot down over Ukraine, said on Monday that real-time aircraft tracking must become a priority for the industry.
Italy’s Berlusconi allowed to end community service sentence early
MILAN (Reuters) – Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was granted a request on Monday to end his community service sentence for tax fraud 45 days early for good behavior, making him a free agent from early next month.
