GERMANY: An airport union called on Lufthansa’s ground staff to walk off the job for a day on Wednesday in a pay dispute, the latest of several transport strikes in the country.

The Ver.di union is calling on 25,000 ground staff for the German airline at Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Duesseldorf airports to strike from Wednesday morning in pursuit of their 12.5 per cent pay claim.

NORTHERN IRELAND: The leaders of the British and Irish governments went to Belfast today to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar visited the new administration led by Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill at Belfast’s Stormont Castle after a two-year hiatus sparked when the Democratic Unionist Party walked out in February 2022.

ITALY: Authorities in Rome have arrested 14 migrants for alleged involvement in unrest in a repatriation centre following the death of a migrant from Guinea, police said today.

After the body was discovered on Sunday morning, migrants in the centre began setting mattresses on fire and throwing objects at law enforcement personnel. 

Authorities fired tear gas at them. Three officers were injured.

RUSSIA: Authorities said on Sunday that at least 28 people were killed after Ukrainian forces shelled a bakery in the city of Lysychansk in the occupied eastern region of Lugansk on Saturday.

The Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief said at least one child was among the dead.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said “dozens of civilians” had been inside the building.