Security forces are patrolling Karachi, where angry mobs have rampaged in parts of the city, firing guns and setting fire to cars

Release of 250 prisoners before Eid al-Adha described as “trust-building measure”.

Somali pirates have reportedly agreed to release a Ukrainian ship and its military cargo in return for a $3-million ransom from vessel’s owner

Soldiers restore order after several people killed, hundreds injured in two days of clashes between Christians and Muslims in riot-hit Jos

UN envoy to Iraq Staffan de Mistura says officials are expecting ’spectacular attempts’ aimed at disrupting’ elections 

Suicide bomber targets a German embassy vehicle in Kabul, but kills three Afghan civilians and wounds six others instead

Unpopular Shivraj Patil is first political casualty in wake of unprecedented terror attack on country’s commercial capital

By John Helmer in Moscow
Did Nicolas Sarkozy, the small rightwing candidate for President of France, benefit from the brief imprisonment in Lyon of one Russian billionaire, and from the award of a medal, days later in Paris, to another Russian billionaire, who happened to be the business partner of the first?
And was Sarkozy helped by Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, ministre blanchisseur, official custodian of French culture, receiver of kickbacks, and arranger of unorthodox donations to presidential campaign chests?
In short, on January 30, when Donnedieu de Vabres awarded the medal of Officer of the Legion of Arts and Letters to Vladimir Potanin, was this the end to an ingenious quartet of hostage-taking and ransom on the French side, procuring and precious metals on the Russian?
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