Russia opens case against potash boss, seeks extradition
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has opened a criminal investigation into the chief executive of potash producer Uralkali, Vladislav Baumgertner, and will request his extradition from Belarus, federal investigators said on Monday.
Kurdish militant leader demands meaningful Turkey negotiations
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on Monday for the Turkish government to launch meaningful negotiations with him to end a 29-year conflict or his hope in a fragile peace process would turn to disillusionment.
Austria’s biggest parties agree coalition talks
VIENNA (Reuters) – Leaders of Austria’s two biggest parties on Monday agreed to discuss forming a new government after the pro-Europe coalition partners stumbled last month to their worst election results since the Second World War.
Nigeria says Liechtenstein making excuses to keep Abacha loot
LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria accused Liechtenstein of using legal challenges as a pretext to cling on to 185 million euros ($250 million) stolen by former military dictator Sani Abacha who died 14 years ago.
Police arrest man with knife at Buckingham Palace
LONDON (Reuters) – Police arrested a man carrying a knife on Monday as he tried to gain entry to Buckingham Palace, the London residence of Queen Elizabeth, just a month after another security incident at the central London building.
In the eye of a storm: How Indian bureaucrats got it right
BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) – As the fiercest storm to hit India this century barreled across the Bay of Bengal last week, a local mandarin frantically worked the phones from his hot and humid office, leading the charge in an operation to move nearly…
Merkel and leftist rivals test ground for coalition
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) dug in their heels on Monday over the introduction of a minimum wage ahead of a second round of exploratory talks with Angela Merkel’s conservatives on forming a ‘grand coalition’ governme…
Russia denies bail for Greenpeace U.S. captain, foreign activist
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia denied bail on Monday to the American captain of a Greenpeace ship and another activist who are among 30 environmentalists arrested on charges of piracy over a protest at an Arctic drilling platform.
Some aid workers freed in Syria, risks to humanitarian effort grow
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Four of seven aid workers abducted in Syria have been freed, the Red Cross said on Monday, but there was no word on the fate of the rest of the group whose kidnapping highlights the risk to continuing humanitarian work in a co…
Al Qaeda: September attack targeted joint Yemeni-U.S. drone base
DUBAI (Reuters) – The Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda said on Monday its attack on a Yemeni army base last month targeted an operations room used by the United States to direct drone strikes against militants, and it threatened more such assaults.
