DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish police have released three of the seven people arrested on Tuesday in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist over a drawing depicting the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog. The police said a man and two women were released from custody in the southern county of Waterford late on Friday where ...

BOSSASO, Somalia (Reuters) - French navy officers handed over 22 suspected Somali pirates to semi-autonomous Puntland's authorities and they will be arraigned in local courts, officials said on Saturday. Foreign navies have been deployed off the Gulf of Aden since the start of 2009, operating convoys, establishing safer corridors through the most dangerous waters and arresting pirates and seizing their ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's Investment Dar <TIDK.KW>, which owns half of British carmaker Aston Martin, is applying for support under a government facility set up for troubled companies as part of a debt restructuring. Problems at Kuwaiti investment firms, including Dar, led the government of the world's fourth-largest oil exporter to approve a "Financial Stability Law ...

ALMATY (Reuters) - The death toll from a flood that destroyed a village in southern Kazakhstan has risen to 35, the country's president said on Saturday. Thousands of people were evacuated a day earlier after severe floods, caused by an abrupt rise in spring temperatures, ruined two dams and the village of Kyzyl-Agash north of the financial capital Almaty. Addressing ...