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| Swiss reject Indian request for help in arms case |
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 Switzerland has rejected India's request for legal assistance in investigating two Swiss companies suspected of bribing Indian officials to win arms deals. "As the requesting authority did not deliver information requested by international assistance law, the OAG (Office of the Attorney General) was by law not in a position to provide information," an OAG spokesman said in an emailed comment on Sunday, confirming a report by the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. "The OAG would have assisted according to international assistance law if respective requirements would have been fulfilled by the Indian authorities," he said.
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| Britain attacks 'broken' EU migration system, demands tighter rules |
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| By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's migration system is broken, British Interior Minister Theresa May wrote on Sunday, blaming its borderless system for exacerbating a migrant crisis and demanding tighter European Union rules on free movement. A surge in migrants fleeing war and poverty has presented Europe with its worst refugee crisis since World War Two and claimed the lives of thousands of people making perilous sea and land journeys to the continent. Writing in The Sunday Times newspaper, May said the Schengen border code which eliminated systematic frontier controls across much of Europe, but which Britain is not part of, had fuelled the migrant crisis. |
| Modi accepts defeat on contentious land decree, will change law |
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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will let an executive order making it easier for businesses to buy land lapse on Monday after failing to win support from opposition parties in a major blow to his economic reform agenda. Modi said on Sunday the government was ready to amend the proposed law and criticised the spreading of false rumours that made farmers afraid of the changes. "I have always said that, in the dispute related to the land acquisition law, the government is open minded," Modi said in his monthly radio address.
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| Thai police hunt more suspects after Bangkok bomb arrest |
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 By Pairat Temphairojana and Khettiya Jittapong BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police probing Thailand's deadliest bombing widened their search for more suspects on Sunday after a foreigner was arrested and stacks of fake passports and bomb-making materials found during a raid on a Bangkok apartment block. Authorities said police were monitoring about 1,000 mobile phone numbers and checking photographs used in some 200 seized passports to track down members of an unspecified group they believe orchestrated the Aug. 17 attack on a Hindu shrine in Bangkok. The bombing killed 20 people and stunned Thailand.
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