Gazprom head Alexei Miller is holding talks in Athens on March 12 with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras over a potential bid for DEPA, Greece's national natural gas company, the Capital.gr website reported.
Tens of thousands of people marched across dozens of Spanish cities to protest high unemployment March 10, blaming the government's corruption and inefficient handling of the economy, AP reported.
The British warplanes recently spotted in the Nigerian capital of Abuja were helping to move soldiers participating in the French intervention in Mali, rather than trying to rescue hostages as Nigerian-based Islamist group Ansaru claimed, the British military said March 10, AP reported.
Islamists in northern Mali killed four residents of the city of Tonka, which is southwest of Timbuktu, during an apparent carjacking, Tonka Mayor Mamady Konipo, IOL News reported March 8.