IRELAND: Pilots at Inational airline Aer Lingus have voted to accept a pay increase, ending a dispute that has led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights, the two sides said today.

Members of the Irish Air Line Pilots Association backed the 17.75 per cent rise recommended by Ireland’s Labour Court. 

Around 85 per cent of the union members who returned ballots voted in favour of the deal.

MALAYSIA: Some 123 of the country’s citizens were evacuated from Bangladesh today, amid violent unrest that has killed dozens of people.

More than 50 Malaysians opted to stay on for work or study reasons, officials said.

A controversial system for allocating government jobs has triggered violent protests in Bangladesh, with clashes between police and mainly student protesters killing more than 100 people, according to local media.

GERMANY: The governing coalition and the conservative opposition presented a plan today to protect the highest court against possible future manipulation or obstruction by extremist or authoritarian politicians.

The plan, put forward by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition and the mainstream conservative Union bloc, calls for the court’s ground rules to be anchored in the constitution, which they largely weren’t when the post-World War II Basic Law was drawn up 75 years ago.

SIERRA LEONE: A court found 11 people guilty of treason and other offences today, following an attempted coup last November which left 18 security force personnel dead.

The man accused of leading the attack, Amadu Koita Makalo, was sentenced on Monday to 182 years in prison on charges of treason, murder and shooting with intent to murder.