Berlin - Germany faced a diplomatic row with Rwanda Monday after arresting a senior Rwandan official, Rose Kabuye, at Frankfurt international airport on an arrest warrant from France.
She has been wanted for questioning since last November in connection with the April 6, 1994 killing of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana. She is chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame and a leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
Rwanda broke off diplomatic relations with France after the warrant was issued by magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere.
Diplomatic sources in Berlin said Germany warned beforehand that it would arrest her if she travelled to Frankfurt.
Dhaka - A special court on Monday ordered the detention of three former ministers of the last elected Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance government on graft charges over a coalmine deal, court officials said.
Judge Amar Kumar Roy of the special court set up by the military-backed interim government for speedy trials into graft cases, ordered arrest of the country's longest-serving finance minister M Saifur Rahman, also a senior BNP leader, and the president
Manila- A bank teller and two security guards were killed Monday in a bank robbery inside a university campus in the Philippines, police said.
The victims had just dropped off money at a bank inside the University of the Philippines campus in the city of Quezon, a suburb of Manila, when the killers struck.
Senior Superintendent Magtanggol Gatdula, city police chief, said the bank has not determined the amount the robbers took.
Hamburg - Five wins in a row have taken champions Bayern Munich to within a whisker of going top of the Bundesliga table for the first time this season.
It seems to be a case of normal service resuming in German football after Bayern under Juergen Klinsmann took a long time to find their feet and little Hoffenheim were the unlikely team to beat.
On Sunday, however, the club which won promotion in successive years saw its five-game winning series come to an end in a 1-0 defeat at Hertha Berlin.
Meanwhile Bayern defeated Schalke 2-1 in a crucial game in Gelsenkirchen to move to 24 points from 12 games.
Pattani, Thailand - A roadside bomb killed one paramilitary ranger and wounded five others Monday as they were patrolling a trouble-torn district in Narathiwat - part of Thailand's deep South, police said.
The remotely controlled 20-kilogram bomb exploded at about 10 am (0300 GMT) in Ruesoh district of Narathiwat, 800 kilometres south of Bangkok, as a pickup truck carrying a patrol of paramilitary troops passed by, said Ruesoh Police Sergeant Paosri Jaetae.
"We think influential people hired Muslim militants to do this in order to create chaos," said Paosri.
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Dhaka - A special court on Monday ordered the detention of three former ministers of the last elected Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance government on graft charges over a coalmine deal, court officials said.
Manila- A bank teller and two security guards were killed Monday in a bank robbery inside a university campus in the Philippines, police said.
