Greeks protest labor reform as lenders due to start fresh review
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greeks demanded their government protect wages, pensions and restore collective bargaining on Monday, staging a noisy reminder of popular dissent to leaders poised to start fresh negotiations with lenders.
Kenya Airways pilots delay strike plan: union head
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Pilots at Kenya Airways have delayed plans to strike, the head of the pilots’ union said on Monday, after a court ruled the action illegal and the loss-making carrier said a stoppage would further hurt it.
Bollywood actress apologizes after twitter outrage over ‘refugee’ t-shirt cover
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Popular Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra on Monday apologised for a glossy travel magazine cover after it sparked outrage with social media users accusing her of insensitivity towards refugees and migrants.
Srebrenica gets Serb mayor, raising Muslim fears after wartime massacre
SREBRENICA, Bosnia (Reuters) – Hatidza Mehmedovic was among the first Bosnian Muslims to return to Srebrenica after Bosnia’s war, determined to live near the graves of her husband and two sons killed in a 1995 massacre by Serb forces that made the town…
Two Danish airports, shopping centers evacuated after bomb threats
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A spate of bomb threats in Denmark forced the evacuation of two provincial airports and two shopping malls on Monday and briefly closed a university campus in Copenhagen, police said.
Aleppo air strike kills 14 members of one family: rescue team
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Fourteen members of one family were killed in an air strike in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Syrian government pursued its drive to capture opposition-held areas of the city.
Eight men convicted of child sex offences in northern England
LONDON (Reuters) – Eight men were found guilty on Monday of waging what prosecutors called an “utterly abhorrent” campaign of sexual violence and intimidation against young girls in the Rotherham area of northern England 13 years ago.
Venezuela probes reports of prison cannibal deaths
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities are investigating gruesome accusations that two men were murdered, mutilated by a confessed cannibal then fed to fellow prisoners in a riot at a police detention center.
Iraq’s traumatized minorities: a test of unity after Mosul offensive
ALQOSH, Iraq (Reuters) – Behnam Abboush won’t feel any safer if Iraqi forces drive Islamic State out of their stronghold of Mosul. That’s why he and 300 other Assyrian Christians in the paramilitary force under his command are taking matters into their…
At least one dead in explosion at German BASF chemical plant
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – At least one person died and six people were injured on Monday by an explosion and subsequent fire at chemicals maker BASF’s biggest production site in Germany, the company said at a news conference.
