China busts protest organizers who tried to sway court cases
BEIJING (Reuters) – Police in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong have busted a group it said organized mass protests in an attempt to sway court cases and influence sentences, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Argentina’s Fernandez may wield big influence after presidency
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez will step down as president in December, but her influence may remain strong enough to impede investment-friendly reforms in Congress if her ruling party wins legislative elections in October.
Hackers ground 1,400 passengers at Warsaw Airport
WARSAW (Reuters) – Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT were grounded at Warsaw’s Chopin airport on Sunday after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said.
Italy’s Renzi says no tension with France over migrant crisis
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s prime minister and France’s president put on a show of unity on Sunday, dismissing suggestions of tensions between their countries over handling the waves of migrants landing on southern Europe’s shores.
Several thousand rally in Athens against austerity
ATHENS (Reuters) – Thousands of people rallied in front of parliament in Athens on Sunday, urging Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to resist pressure from international creditors to accept more austerity in exchange for unlocking billions of euros i…
Serbia seeks extradition of Bosnian wartime commander
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia has formally requested the extradition of a wartime Muslim Bosniak commander whose arrest this month in Switzerland threatens to overshadow the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
Al Jazeera says its journalist to remain in German custody
CAIRO (Reuters) – One of the pan-Arab television network Al Jazeera’s best known journalists, Ahmed Mansour, was remanded in custody by a German judge after being detained at Egypt’s request, the public prosecutor’s office said on Sunday.
U.S.-based Turkish journalist faces libel probe over book on Obama, Erdogan
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Washington correspondent of a major Turkish newspaper said on Sunday he was under investigation for libel and allegedly insulting President Tayyip Erdogan, in what may be Turkey’s latest crackdown on media coverage critical of …
Pope prays at Turin Shroud but skirts authenticity debate
TURIN, Italy (Reuters) – Pope Francis prayed on Sunday before the mysterious shroud some Christians believe is Jesus’s burial cloth but skirted the issue of its authenticity, saying it should remind people of all suffering and persecution.
France says Iran deal ‘still not clear’ as deadline nears
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday it was unclear whether an international deal could be reached on Iran’s nuclear program by a June 30 deadline.
