Italy police arrest 24 for plotting violent Veneto secession
ROME (Reuters) – Italian police arrested two dozen separatists including a former parliamentarian on Wednesday on suspicion of gathering arms to violently split the wealthy northern region of Veneto from the rest of Italy.
Suicide bomber kills six police at Afghan ministry ahead of vote
KABUL (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself outside Afghanistan’s interior ministry in central Kabul on Wednesday, killing himself and at least six policemen, the latest in a string of attacks ahead of Afghanistan’s April 5 presidential ele…
Bombs kill two at Cairo University
CAIRO (Reuters) – A series of explosions outside Cairo University killed two people on Wednesday, including a police brigadier-general, in what appeared to be a militant attack targeting security forces.
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has put the worst of a debt crisis behind it and is considering issuing new debt within three months, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told Reuters on Wednesday.
Serbian court convicts two for editor’s murder in Croatia
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Two Serbian men were jailed on Wednesday for the killing of a newspaper editor in neighbouring Croatia in 2008 whose political weekly had worked on exposing crime and corruption in the Balkans.
Kenyan Muslim groups threaten protest over Islamist shooting
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – Two prominent Kenyan Muslim rights groups threatened on Wednesday to stage street protests in the port city of Mombasa unless the government met a Saturday deadline to say who had killed a prominent Islamist.
Greece lifts legal immunity of more Golden Dawn MPs
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s parliament stripped legal immunities from five lawmakers from the far-right Golden Dawn party on Wednesday, clearing the way for another round of criminal charges against its members.
France to propose ex finance minister Moscovici for EU Commission: source
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande is set to put forward his former finance minister Pierre Moscovici as a candidate to become a European Commissioner, a government source said on Wednesday.
Kashagan oil field: Stuck between ‘a widow maker’ and ‘a rotating bomb’
MILAN (Reuters) – Western oil majors struggling to restart production at one of the world’s biggest offshore oilfields in Kazakhstan have found that whole kilometers of pipeline are defective, two people recently returned from the $50 billion project s…
Masimov returns as Kazakh PM to face economic crisis
ASTANA (Reuters) – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed Karim Masimov as his new prime minister on Wednesday, describing him as well-equipped to work with global finance and attract foreign investment in difficult times.
