Air France Workers on Trial Over Ripping Off Bosses' Shirts
BOBIGNY, France — Fifteen current and former Air France workers went on trial Tuesday for alleged violence during a union protest last year at the airline's headquarters that saw two company executives flee over a fence with their shirts ripped off.The incident, caught on camera, was a high-profile example of the often strained relations between French workers and their employers. Dozens of union activists rallied in support of the defendants outside the courthouse in Bobigny north of Paris as..>> view originalDresden Blasts: Mosque, Conference Center Attacked in German City
MAINZ, Germany — Two home-made bombs hit a mosque and a conference center in eastern Germany late Monday in what officials called a "xenophobic" attack. No one was injured by the blasts in Dresden, birthplace of a German grassroots anti-Islam movement known as PEGIDA. The city's police chief said officials were "now in crisis mode." The entrance to the Fatih Camii Mosque in Dresden, seen after the attack. SEBASTIAN KAHNERT / AFP - Getty Images Police said the first bomb explo..>> view originalDecline in Oil Prices Lands on Government Workers as Saudi Arabia Cuts Paychecks
Photo King Salman of Saudi Arabia in April. The cuts were unveiled in a series of royal decrees and cabinet statements read aloud on state television. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia on Monday announced sudden, drastic cuts to salaries and perks for government employees as part of the kingdom’s struggle to slash spending at a time of low oil prices.The cuts, unveiled in a series of royal decrees and cabinet statements read a..>> view originalHouston shooting: Nine injured, suspect dead
Capt. D.W. Ready said the shooter was dressed in some kind of military uniform and had Nazi emblems with him and at his house. However, Ready would not speculate on whether the Nazi insignia would help establish a motive. He said the emblems may have been collector's items. At the shooter's home, police found vintage military equipment and paraphernalia dating back to the Civil War."At this point we are very open-minded as to the motive," said acting Chief Martha Montalvo. She described the shoo..>> view originalTyphoon Megi pounds Taiwan; third severe storm in 2 weeks
Story highlightsTyphoon Megi has made landfall, forecasters saySchools, workplaces closed as torrential rain, landslides expectedThe typhoon made landfall at 1.30 p.m. (1.30 a.m. ET) packing winds of 115 mph (185 kph) with gusts of 144 kph (230 kph) and bringing extreme rainfall and the risk of landslides to the islands less heavily populated east coast, according to CNN meteorologists."The storm is a dangerous typhoon and is expected to dump heavy rain over much of the island," said Michael Guy..>> view originalIslamic State 'Dead Set' on Using Chemical Weapons
PENTAGON — Part of the Islamic State terror group’s plan to turn the northern Iraqi city of Mosul into “hell on earth” could well include a barrage of homemade chemical weapons. U.S. military officials fully expect IS militants to unleash their chemical weapons arsenal as Iraqi and Kurdish forces advance on the self-declared caliphate’s Iraqi capital. “This is real. They’re dead set on it,” Pentagon spokesman, Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters Monday, saying the military has documented at least ..>> view originalColombia Embarks on Path to Peace With Historic Accord
CARTAGENA, Colombia — After a half-century of combat that spilled blood across this South American nation, Colombians have embarked on a new, but difficult path to settle their political differences with the signing of a historic peace accord between the government and leftist rebels.The first test after Monday's signing is a weekend referendum in which voters are being asked to ratify or reject the deal. If it passes, as expected, Colombia will move on to the thornier and still uncertain task..>> view originalMonitoring group: At least 12 more die in Aleppo airstrikes
Nine other people were wounded, some in critical condition, SOHR said. CNN has not been able to independently verify such claims.It wasn't clear who conducted the airstrikes, but the opposition and the US have blamed the Syrian regime and Russian warplanes for such attacks since a ceasefire broke down. SOHR claimed rebel-held areas in the eastern part of the city had been struck by barrel bombs Tuesday, as fighting between regime and rebel forces continues throughout the city. Throughout the con..>> view originalA 10000-person migrant camp in France known as 'the Jungle' is about to be razed
Migrants warm their hands near a wood fire in a dismantled area of the camp known as the "Jungle", a squalid sprawling camp in Calais, northern France, January 17, 2016. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol President François Hollande confirmed Monday a migrant camp in Calais known as the Jungle will be razed and the thousands of migrants living there will be moved to reception centers across the country because "the situation is unacceptable and everyone here knows it." In a vi..>> view originalIran's top leader tells Ahmadinejad not to run for president again
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, meets with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after his 2005 presidential election victory. (Raheb Homavandi/Reuters) Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been effectively blocked from seeking a return to office after Iran’s supreme leader decided that the firebrand populist would prove too divisive in next year’s election, state media reported Monday. The comments by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei signaled a preemptive strike against possible attempts by..>> view original
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