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| Al Qaeda gunmen drank in bar before unleashing Ivory Coast attack | |  By Joe Bavier GRAND BASSAM, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Gunmen from al Qaeda's North African branch drank beer at a beachside bar before launching a shooting rampage at an Ivory Coast resort town that left at least 18 people dead, the group's third major attack in West Africa in four months. Sunday's raid, details of which are beginning to emerge in witness and official accounts, was the furthest yet from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's (AQIM) traditional desert base, a worrying indication of the militants' growing reach. The attack raised questions about Ivory Coast's preparedness for such an attack, with some asking why such a sensitive target was left so vulnerable.
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| Iditarod repeat champ leads pack as Alaska race enters home stretch | | | By Steve Quinn JUNEAU, Alaska (Reuters) - One musher in Alaska's gruelling sled-dog race appears to stand between Dallas Seavey's third consecutive Iditarod title and a painful second place finish - his father, Mitch. As racers headed into the home stretch on Monday in the nearly 1,000-mile race through the U.S. state's frigid wilderness, father and son have been exchanging leads while being pushed by upstart Brent Sass and perennial contender Aliy Zirkle. Based on last year's times, a winner could cross the finish line in Nome as early as 4 a.m. local time (1200 GMT) on Tuesday. |
| In secret meetings, Taliban rejected Pakistan pressure on peace process | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Jibran Ahmed ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani officials threatened to expel Afghanistan's Taliban from bases in Pakistan if they did not join peace talks this month, but the militants rebuffed their traditional patron, two officials said, casting doubt on how much influence Islamabad retains over them. After the secret meetings with Pakistani officials about two weeks ago, the Taliban's Supreme Council met at an undisclosed location and voted to reject the talks scheduled for early March with the Afghan government, according to a council member. Instead, the insurgents are now pouring back into Afghanistan for what they say will be a fierce spring offensive to be launched soon. Pakistan's influence over the insurgents is the lynchpin to the peace plan developed over last few months by Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China to bring an end to the 15-year-old war in Afghanistan.
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| Vatican prelate admits leaks; says woman 'spy' intimidated him | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican prelate on Monday admitted in court he had leaked confidential documents to the media and said he had been manipulated into it by a woman co-defendant who claimed she was a spy. After an adjournment of more than three months, Spanish Monsignor Angel Lucio Vallejo Balda was questioned at the resumption of the so-called "Vatileaks II" trial. Vallejo and four other people are on trial in the case, which centres on the publication last year of two books based on leaked documents that depict a Vatican plagued by graft and where Pope Francis faces stiff resistance to his agenda.
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| Former employee accuses Volkswagen of evidence destruction in lawsuit | | | A fired Volkswagen Group of America employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the German automaker , accusing it of deleting documents and obstructing justice in the ongoing diesel emissions investigations. Daniel Donovan, who worked as an information technology employee in VW's general counsel office since 2008, claims in the suit filed in Oakland County Circuit Court in Michigan last week that he was fired in December "because of his refusal to participate in a course of action" that would destroy evidence and obstruct justice. Donovan alleges he was fired because he refused to participate in destroying evidence in ongoing probes of VW by the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency over software that allowed diesel vehicles to emit up to 40 times legally allowable pollution in real world driving. |
| Volkswagen institutional investors file multi-billion euro suit in Germany | |  Almost 300 institutional investors in Volkswagen have filed a multi-billion euro suit against the carmaker for what they see as breaches of its capital markets duty in the emissions scandal, the law firm representing them said. The lawsuit, for damages of 3.256 billion euro ($3.61 billion), was filed at a regional court in Braunschweig in VW's home state of Lower Saxony on Monday and is being brought by 278 investors from all over the world, including German insurers and U.S. pension fund Calpers. Law firm TISAB said the lawsuit was over whether VW neglected its duty to the capital markets regarding the timeframe between June 2008 and Sept. 18, 2015.
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| Italy, Hungary say no automatic renewal of Russia sanctions | |  By Robin Emmott and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Italy and Hungary, two of the Kremlin's closest allies in Europe, said on Monday there could be no automatic extension of the European Union's sanctions against Russia, the most public sign yet of fraying unity on how to deal with Moscow. Two years after the West imposed economic sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, the EU's resolve is at risk of ebbing because of the stalled Minsk peace process, diplomats say. While EU governments last week extended asset freezes and travel bans on Russians and Russian companies, there is less consensus on whether to prolong more far-reaching sanctions on Russia's banking, defence and energy sectors from July.
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