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| UK's Osborne vows crackdown on tax-avoiding tech firms |
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 By William Schomberg and William James LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister George Osborne said on Monday he was examining changes to clamp down on tax avoidance by multinationals which the government says are depriving Britain's public coffers of hundreds of millions of pounds each year. "Some technology companies go to extraordinary lengths to pay little or no tax here," Osborne told an annual conference of his Conservative Party. "If you abuse our tax system, you abuse the trust of the British people. And my message to those companies is clear: we will put a stop to it. ...
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| Spanish diplomat found stabbed to death at home in Khartoum - police |
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| KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Spanish diplomat was found stabbed to death in his home in Sudan's capital Khartoum on Monday, Sudanese police said. The 61-year-old official headed the Spanish embassy's visa section and had worked in the country for three years, a police statement said. A diplomatic source in Spain confirmed the death, telling Reuters: "Local authorities have opened a police investigation at the highest level." Attacks on foreigners are rare in the desert city sited at the meeting point of the Blue and White Niles. ... |
| U.S. envoy says North Korea rejects talks on prisoners |
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 BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea has rejected U.S. efforts to discuss the detention of three Americans, a U.S. diplomat said on Monday, adding the secretive state was missing a chance to build relations with Washington. North Korea, which periodically accuses the United States of military hostility and conspiracy to overthrow its leadership, has held a number of U.S. citizens in the past, using them as tools to extract visits by high-profile figures, including former President Bill Clinton. The most high profile case is that of U.S. ...
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| German captives plead to be set free in southern Philippines |
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| MANILA (Reuters) - Two Germans being held by an Islamist group in the southern Philippines appealed to the Philippine and German governments to secure their release through a message on local radio on Monday, days after the militants threatened to kill them. The Abu Sayyaf group has demanded that the German government stop supporting U.S. action against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and wants a ransom paid for the captives. It has said it would behead one of them if the demands are not met by Oct. 10. ... |
| Bangladesh arrests Briton for suspected Islamic State recruitment |
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| By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A 24-year-old British citizen has been arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of recruiting people to fight alongside Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, police said on Monday. Samiun Rahman, a resident of London, arrived in Bangladesh in February to recruit for both IS and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division (DCID) said. "He has plans to recruit and send a team from Bangladesh to fight in Syria," Monirul told a news conference in Dhaka, the South Asian country's capital. ... |
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