Turkish-Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir, formerly one of Britain's most notorious fugitives, was found guilty of three counts of theft on Monday. Pakistan police arrest Christian girl under pressure from neighbours in alleged blasphemy case
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani authorities arrested a Christian girl and are investigating whether she violated the country’s strict blasphemy laws after furious neighbours surrounded her house and demanded police take action, a police officer said Monday.
Hurricane Gordon passes Portugal's Azores Islands, causes little damage as it weakens
LISBON, Portugal – Authorities say Hurricane Gordon has passed Portugal’s mid-Atlantic Azores Islands without causing major damage and is losing strength.
Israel holds four Palestinians over 'kidnap plot'
Israel has been holding four Palestinian militants since May on suspicion of plotting to kidnap Israelis for use as bargaining chips for their jailed leader, the security service said on Monday. Chief of US military meets with officials in Afghanistan to discuss surge in insider attacks
KABUL – The U.S. military’s top general was meeting with senior officials in Afghanistan on Monday to attempt to stop the recent wave of attacks by Afghan soldiers and police against international forces in the country.
Germany: Greece must follow through with reforms
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle says Athens needs to follow through with reform measures but is offering assurance that Berlin wants Greece to stay within the eurozone.
Five killed in shooting spree at Kyrgyzstan border post
BISHKEK (Reuters) – A border guard in Kyrgyzstan killed five people on Monday before fleeing a remote frontier post with a stolen car and weapons, the border guard service of the former Soviet republic said. Security forces are hunting the lone gunman who they suspect of shooting dead the commander of the mountain post near the country’s border with Kazakhstan, said Gulmira Borubayeva, a spokeswoman for the border guard service. Three other soldiers and the wife of a serviceman were also killed in the attack, but three other border guards managed to escape after hearing the shooting, she said. …
Analysis: Fading growth miracle pressures Polish fiscal rigor
WARSAW (Reuters) – Stung by the end of an economic miracle which let him sell Poland as a green island of growth in a barren continent, Prime Minister Donald Tusk is under increasing pressure to give a little ground on his tough line on budgets. A stream of indicators show the only country in Europe to avoid recession throughout four years of financial turmoil is finally succumbing, helped by the end of the huge cash injections for the Euro 2012 football tournament. … Libya makes arrests over Tripoli double car bomb attack
Libyan security services on Monday announced the arrests of a number of people suspected to be behind a double car bomb attack in the capital the previous day which left two dead. Iraq denies helping Iran avoid sanctions
Iraq insisted on Monday that its trade with neighbouring Iran was above board, and denied reports that it was helping the Islamic republic skirt sanctions by smuggling oil and secretly moving cash. Intense fighting rages in Syrian's Aleppo
Syrian government forces heavily shelled the cities of Aleppo and Daraa and a suburb of Damascus on the second day of a major Muslim holiday Monday, killing up to 30 people, rights groups and activists said. Sri Lanka detains 83 Australia-bound boat people
Sri Lanka's navy on Monday stopped two Australia-bound trawlers carrying 83 would-be asylum seekers in the first detection since Canberra tightened restrictions on boat people, officials said. Lonmin reopens mine, gives strikers one more day
Embattled platinum miner Lonmin said Monday it had reopened its facility in South Africa after an 11-day wildcat strike that left 44 dead, most of them gunned down by police. Gambia to execute all death row prisoners by September
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has told the people of his tiny west African nation that by the middle of September all those already sentenced to death for crimes will be executed. 
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