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| Finmeccanica looks to rebuild India ties after former head convicted |
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 By Emilio Parodi BUSTO ARSIZIO Italy (Reuters) - An Italian court sentenced former Finmeccanica Chairman and CEO Giuseppe Orsi to two years in jail for falsifying invoices in a corruption case linked to an Indian deal, but cleared him of more serious corruption charges. The trial revolved around a 560 million euro ($715 million) contract awarded to Finmeccanica's AgustaWestland business in 2010 to supply 12 helicopters to the Indian government. ...
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| Sausage, Greece's "protest dog", dies of heart attack |
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 By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Sausage, the ginger mongrel who became famous for appearing at anti-austerity protests and barking at riot police at the height of Greece's debt crisis, has died of a heart attack, local officials said on Thursday. The stray dog, called "Loukanikos" in Greek, became a media sensation and public darling in 2011 by regularly showing up on the side of demonstrators and yelping at police amid the chaos of teargas and flying petrol bombs. ...
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| Islamic State seizes large areas of Syrian town despite air strikes |
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 By Daren Butler and Oliver Holmes MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as U.S.-led air strikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces nearby looked on without intervening. With Washington ruling out a ground operation in Syria, Turkey described as unrealistic any expectation that it would conduct a cross-border operation unilaterally to relieve the mainly Kurdish town. The U.S. ...
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| Health officials, doctors arrested in Kosovo bribery investigation |
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| PRISTINA (Reuters) - Nine health officials and doctors in Kosovo were arrested on Thursday under an investigation into private clinics suspected of offering bribes to receive heart surgery patients. The prosecutor's office said "some of the suspects" had received money from two private clinics to refer patients who had otherwise sought treatment in state hospitals. The clinics last year received 1.8 million euros from the state to take on treatment deemed too complex for public hospitals to handle. ... |
| Suicide bombings in Yemen kill 67 after premier quits |
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 By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Suicide bombers targeting Yemen's powerful Shi'ite Houthi group and an army camp killed at least 67 people in two separate attacks on Thursday, hours after a political crisis forced the new prime minister to step down. At least 47 people were killed, including four children, when a suicide bomber detonated a belt packed with explosives at a Houthi checkpoint in the centre of the capital Sanaa where Houthi supporters were preparing to hold a rally. ...
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| Pakistan says capable of responding to Indian actions |
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 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Thursday it was capable of responding "befittingly" to Indian actions on their disputed border after several days of clashes in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. "We do not want the situation on the borders of two nuclear neighbours to escalate into confrontation," the Defence Ministry said in a statement. "India must demonstrate caution and behave with responsibility." (Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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