GERMANY:  The Ver.di union in Germany today called on ground staff for Lufthansa to walk off the job at seven airports on Tuesday following a similar strike earlier this month.

The union is seeking pay raises of 2.5 per cent, or at least €500 (£427) more per month, in negotiations for about 25,000 employees, including check-in, aircraft handling, maintenance and freight staff. 

NETHERLANDS: Rioting broke out between two rival groups of Eritreans in the Netherlands on Saturday night, police said. Officers used tear gas in an attempt to quell the unrest in The Hague as rioters torched police cars and a bus.

A group loyal to Eritrea’s government was holding a meeting when the venue was reportedly attacked by Eritreans who oppose the African nation’s government.

Police spokeswoman Kristianne van Blanken said she could not immediately say if anybody was injured or if any rioters were arrested.

GHANA: The X social media site has finally paid off the staff it sacked in its African headquarters in Ghana’s capital, Accra, more than a year after they were laid off, the agency which represents them said today.

The workers had threatened to take X to court for failing to pay the redundancy money they said they were promised.

TURKEY: Authorities in Turkey today detained the director of the company managing a gold mine where a massive landslide in the country’s east left nine workers missing, local media said.

A huge landslide engulfed the Anagold Madencilik company’s Copler mine in the town of Ilic in Turkey’s mountainous Erzincan province, trapping the workers under tons of rubble and becoming a potential environmental disaster.