Guinea media set strike after government shuts opposition radio
CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinean media called a 24-hour strike for Thursday in protest at the government’s closure of an opposition-owned radio station for one month in the run-up to an election after a listener had called on air for an uprising.
Mali government accuses Tuareg rebels of ethnic violence
BAMAKO (Reuters) – The Malian government on Monday accused Tuareg separatist rebels of violence against non-Tuaregs in the northeastern town of Kidal and said the army would retake it before a presidential election in July.
French conservatives pick woman for Paris mayor race
PARIS (Reuters) – The spokeswoman for Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election campaign last year won a primary election on Monday to become the conservative UMP party’s candidate for the 2014 Paris mayoral race.
Five foreigners sentenced to death for drug smuggling in Egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced five foreigners to death by hanging on Monday for smuggling drugs, an official said.
ICC takes more time to build case against Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday gave prosecutors until November to rescue their case against former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, saying the evidence submitted so far was not strong enough to merit a t…
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth to mark six-decade reign
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will go back to the scene of her coronation on Tuesday to mark a reign that has weathered six decades of social transformation and the end of her country’s global empire.
European parliament eurosceptic group expels Italian for racism
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian member of the European Parliament was expelled from the eurosceptic Europe of Freedom and Democracy group on Monday for what its co-leader called “repugnant” racist remarks towards a black minister in Italy’s government.
Wife of runaway Kazakh oligarch under investigation: prosecutor
ALMATY (Reuters) – The wife of fugitive Kazakh oligarch and dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov is under investigation for involvement in a crime, prosecutors said on Monday, after she and her daughter were deported from Italy last week.
Portugal’s biggest unions band together for general strike
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s UGT labour union said on Monday it will take part in a general strike called for June 27, making it the second time the two biggest unions would walk out together since the country’s EU/IMF bailout in 2011.
Many German tax inspectors oblivious to Holocaust, book finds
BERLIN (Reuters) – Many low-level tax inspectors in Germany’s Nazi-era finance ministry were oblivious to the Holocaust and dutifully tried to contact murdered Jews whose wealth was being plundered by the ministry’s top officials, according to a new bo…
