Lebanon’s air traffic controllers to stop work on June 10
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air traffic controllers at Beirut airport are to hold a two-hour strike on Tuesday in protest at the Lebanese parliament’s failure to approve long-delayed public sector pay increases.
Afghanistan tightens election security after Abdullah attack
KABUL (Reuters) – Security is being ramped up so the two candidates in Afghanistan’s presidential election run-off next week can continue campaigning after an attack on one of them killed 12 people, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Sunday.
Politics poses biggest risk to euro zone endurance
PARIS (Reuters) – With the euro zone bond market back to irrational exuberance and economic growth returning slowly if unevenly, politics rather than economics now poses the biggest threat to the long-term endurance of Europe’s single currency.
Baghdad car bombs kill 60; militants storm Ramadi university
BAGHDAD/RAMADI Iraq (Reuters) – A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical sources said.
Colombia’s FARC declare poll ceasefire, take a swipe at Zuluaga
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels declared a ceasefire on Saturday for a three-week period covering a tight presidential election race on June 15, campaigning for which has centered on how to end five decades of war with the guerrilla g…
Colombia’s FARC declares cease-fire for election period: local radio
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels have declared a cease-fire from June 9 to 30, covering the period of the presidential elections, local media network Caracol reported on Saturday.
Kosovo’s Thaci bids for third term, voters angry over poverty, graft
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Former guerrilla Hashim Thaci bids for a third term as prime minister of Kosovo on Sunday, under pressure from voters angry over poverty and corruption and a war crimes investigation that threatens to ensnare his former comrades-in…
Ukraine’s new leader stands up to Moscow over Crimea and Europe
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko said his country would never give up Crimea and would not compromise on its path towards closer ties with Europe, spelling out a defiant message to Russia in his inaugural speech on Saturday.
Dozens killed in massacre in eastern Congo
SOUTH KIVU Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Up to 37 people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of South Kivu on Saturday in an attack that government officials blamed on a dispute over ca…
Oil tanker missing off Ghana coast amid report of piracy
ACCRA (Reuters) – A Liberia-flagged oil tanker has gone missing off the coast of Ghana and a senior port official told Reuters on Saturday the captain sent a distress call to say the vessel was attacked by pirates.
