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| Germany says migrants arriving in Hungary must register there | | | The German government denied on Monday that there were "special trains" carrying migrants to Germany from Hungary and said that under European law asylum seekers arriving in Hungary must be registered there first. "No, there are no special trains," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a post on Twitter. "People who come to Hungary must register and seek asylum there." Earlier, a Reuters reporter in Budapest witnessed migrants there who have gathered by the thousands in railway stations, being allowed onto trains bound for Austria and Germany. |
| Thai police hunt two bombing suspects after weekend raids | |  By Pairat Temphairojana and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police probing Thailand's deadliest bombing issued arrest warrants on Monday for two suspects after a second weekend raid on a suburban apartment block uncovered possible bomb-making materials. Police were looking for a 26-year-old Thai woman and a foreign man in his 40s after expanding their search to a property in the city's Min Buri district.
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| Thai police chief rewards officers after mysterious bomb suspect nabbed | |  Thailand's police chief praised officers investigating the country's deadliest bombing and promised on Monday to hand out $83,000 among them as a reward for catching a suspect they have yet to tie directly to the attack. Standing behind a podium topped with three bundles of banknotes, Somyot Pumpanmuang commended the detective work after the arrest of a foreigner whose name, nationality and affiliation remain a mystery. "This was the work of the Thai authorities, there were no tip-offs." Police have been criticised for a patchy investigation which until the weekend had uncovered little more than a grainy surveillance video of a bearded man in a yellow shirt with shaggy hair leaving a bag at the site of the Aug. 17 blast.
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| Analysis - Why reforms don't work so well in Italy | |  By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) - When Italian Public Administration Minister Marianna Madia tried to take advantage of a reform that should have allowed her to change her residency online, the local council said it couldn't be done. Instead, Madia had to go three times in person to the council offices to overcome the habitual bureaucratic hurdles. Italy has been passing reforms virtually non-stop for two decades.
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| Austria toughens border controls in trafficking clampdown | |  By Karin Strohecker and Krisztina Than VIENNA/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Austrian authorities toughened controls along the country's eastern borders on Monday, stopping hundreds of refugees and arresting five traffickers in a clampdown that followed last week's gruesome discovery of 71 dead migrants in a truck. At a news conference in Vienna, Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner and one of her top deputies rejected suggestions that the border checks, which triggered a 25-km (15-mile) queue of vehicles stretching into Hungary, constituted a violation of Europe's passport-free Schengen zone. Konrad Kogler, director general for public security at the ministry, told reporters the checks had been agreed with Germany, Hungary and Slovakia, and had already uncovered more than 200 refugees and five people smugglers.
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| China state media announces confessions in probes into stocks plunge | |  Chinese state media announced a slew of confessions on Monday following investigations into recent stock market gyrations, including from a detained reporter who admitted to spreading false information that caused "panic and disorder". An official from China's securities regulator had confessed to insider trading while four senior executives from China's largest brokerage, CITIC Securities, had also confessed to insider dealing, the official Xinhua news agency reported. China is trying to boost its stock markets, which have plunged some 40 percent since mid-June on concerns over the country's slowing economy and an unexpected devaluation of the yuan currency in mid-August.
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| Five people per square metre: how the truck migrants met their end | |  By Karin Strohecker VIENNA (Reuters) - The 71 people found dead in an abandoned refrigeration lorry in Austria had been crammed in, five to a square metre (10 sq ft), police said on Sunday, as initial forensic tests indicated they had suffocated. A baby girl and three other children were among the dead in truck discovered on Thursday on a highway from the Hungarian border to Vienna, where it had been left 24 hours earlier. The victims are thought to be refugees from Syria or possibly Afghanistan, part of an huge wave of migrants pushing through Europe that is sorely testing the European Union's ability to cope.
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| English union with Scotland in "mortal danger", says ex-PM Brown | |  By William James LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron has put the future of the centuries-old union between England and Scotland in mortal danger by stoking English nationalism, former premier Gordon Brown said on Sunday. Brown, who led a Labour government between 2007 and 2010, told an audience in his native Scotland that Conservative leader Cameron must retreat from policies that draw dividing lines between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom.
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| Nigeria's security agency says arrested 20 suspected Boko Haram chiefs | | | By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's security agency said on Sunday it had made significant breakthroughs in the fight against Boko Haram and arrested 20 prominent members of the militant Islamist group accused of orchestrating deadly attacks. President Muhammadu Buhari has made halting Boko Haram's six-year-old insurgency a priority, but a Reuters tally shows the militants have killed more than 700 people in Nigeria in bomb attacks and shootings since he came to office on May 29. In the latest violence, around 56 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram gunmen at a village in northeastern Borno state on Friday night, Borno state governor Kashim Shettima said late on Saturday. |
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