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| Nationalist leader says Scots tricked out of independence |
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 By Andrew Osborn and Kylie MacLellan MANCHESTER England (Reuters) - Defeated Scottish nationalist chief Alex Salmond accused Britain's political leaders on Sunday of tricking Scots out of independence after a dispute about how and when to give them more powers. Salmond, who is stepping down as leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) after failing to persuade Scots to leave the United Kingdom, accused Britain's three main political parties of winning last Thursday's referendum by 55-45 percent by making a false promise of new powers. ...
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| Afghan election body names ex-finance minister Ghani president-elect |
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 KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's election commission declared former finance minister Ashraf Ghani as the war-ravaged country's president-elect on Sunday after an acrimonious dispute over fraud, but did not give the final vote tally after a U.N.-monitory audit. The announcement came hours after Ghani and rival, Abdullah Abdullah, signed a power-sharing agreement to end two months of bitter wrangling over accusations of fraud that undermined confidence in the election and emboldened the Taliban insurgency at a crucial time as most foreign troops prepare to leave. ...
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| Turkey says no ransom paid for release of hostages held by Islamic State |
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 By Seda Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday no ransom had been paid for the release of Turkish hostages held by Islamic State but he declined to be drawn on whether their release freed Turkey's hand to take a more active stance against the insurgents. Turkish intelligence agents brought 46 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkey on Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what Erdogan described as a covert rescue operation. "A material negotiation is totally out of the question ... ...
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| Catalonia president to call for independence vote "in the next days" |
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 MADRID (Reuters) - The president of Spain's Catalonia region on Sunday said he would formally call "in the next days" for a vote on independence from Spain which has been scheduled for Nov. 9. The Catalan parliament passed a law on Friday enabling regional head Artur Mas to call such a vote, though the Spanish government has said it would violate the Spanish constitution and has pledged to block it in the courts. "The law ... will be used this week, in the next days, to call for the Nov. 9 vote," Mas said at an event in the Catalan city of Cardona. ...
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