A roundup of today's other stories from around the world:
Kidnapped editor found beheaded
KHARTOUM - A Sudanese newspaper editor who was kidnapped by unknown armed men was found beheaded yesterday, a day after he was reported snatched from outside his home in the capital Khartoum, an interior ministry source said.
A photograph showed Mohamed Taha's body bound at the feet and hands with his severed head next to it, a Reuters witness said.
He was found on a dirt street in a middle-class residential district of southern Khartoum. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing.
- (Reuters)
EU personnel may patrol in Libya
BRUSSELS - The European Union may offer to send personnel to help Libya patrol its internal borders to stop illegal migrants crossing the country to get to Europe, the EU commissioner in charge of immigration policy said yesterday.
Responding to Libyan accusations that the EU was too concerned with patrolling its own borders in the Mediterranean and failed to understand Libya's problems, Franco Frattini said he wanted to open talks with Tripoli.
- (Reuters)
'Natwest Three' face trial next year
HOUSTON - The US judge in the case of the former British bankers known as the "Natwest Three" yesterday set their trial for next year and rejected a defence motion that he quit the case because of possible bias.
David Bermingham (43), Giles Darby (44) and Gary Mulgrew (43) have been accused of conspiring with rogue Enron executives in 2000 to defraud National Westminster Bank of $19 million.
Poland, Ukraine near pipeline deal
KRYNICA - Poland and Ukraine signalled progress yesterday on a key project to reverse the flow of an oil pipeline which is designed to reduce their dependence on Russian energy supplies.
At an economic forum in southern Poland, new Ukrainian prime minister Viktor Yanukovich told Warsaw he would step up efforts to push on with the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline extension project.
- (Reuters)