Havana suspends new licenses for private restaurants, owners fret
HAVANA (Reuters) – Havana’s city government has temporarily suspended issuing licenses for new private restaurants in the city and warned existing ones to obey tough regulations, according to several owners of the businesses popular with foreign touris…
Congo’s top court approves postponement of presidential election
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The Constitutional Court in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Monday it had approved a petition by the electoral commission to delay a presidential election set for November, allowing President Joseph Kabila to remain in office …
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.
