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Lufthansa cabin crew strike
GERMANY: National airline Lufthansa cancelled 290 flights yesterday as cabin crew went on strike at Frankfurt and Duesseldorf airports.
It said the cancellations included 23 long-haul flights, and that overall some 37,500 passengers were affected by the start of the week-long walkout.
The UFO union demands include transition payments for its 19,000 members if they choose early retirement.
Pregnant refugee must be treated
AUSTRALIA: The Royal Australasian College of Physicians called for a pregnant refugee with health complications to be brought from the refugee detention camp on Nauru.
The Kurdish-Iraqi woman in question has diabetes, is in severe discomfort and is 40-weeks pregnant with her second child.
Neonatal specialist Michael Edwards said he had refused to fly to treat the woman because Nauru lacked appropriate medical facilities.
Factory closed as workers faint
CAMBODIA: One worker died and 18 others fainted at a garment factory in the east of the country that has been closed pending an investigation, authorities said yesterday.
Five female workers at the Or Sambath Trading factory reported dizziness, vomiting and difficulty breathing on Thursday before passing out.
They were sent to a hospital where one worker later died. Yesterday 14 more workers fell ill with similar symptoms before passing out and being taken to a hospital.
Houthis claim to have shot down Saudi jet
YEMEN: Houthi guerillas and allied military forces claim to have shot down a Saudi F-15 jet fighter and captured its pilot, the Iranian Fars news agency reported yesterday.
Yemeni air defence forces said the jet was targeting a surface-to-air missile system in Bilad al-Rous district in Sanaa province when it was shot down on Thursday.
News reports from the capital Sanaa yesterday said the Saudi pilot was arrested a few hours later.
China calls for more co-operation
VIETNAM: Chinese President Xi Jinping called for more mutual trust and cooperation between the two countries in a speech to young people yesterday.
“China rejects that a country should seek hegemony once it grows strong,” he said adding, “China will always be a close comrade with socialist countries.”
On Thursday Mr Xi and Communist Party of Vietnam general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong agreed to resolve the ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
Moustache will go if homes not built
VENEZUELA: President Nicolas Maduro promised on Thursday to shave off his trademark moustache if the housing ministry does not build its millionth home by the end of this year.
Mr Maduro was speaking at a handover ceremony for a 2,520-home estate named after late president Hugo Chavez.
He told Minister of Public Works and Housing Ricardo Molina: “My moustache depends on you and, more than my moustache, the housing projects depend on us. We can’t fail.”
Early results point to run-off
HAITI: Preliminary results in presidential elections released on Thursday showed government-backed candidate Jovenel Moise and League for Progress and Haitian Emancipation candidate Jude Celestin are set for a run-off on December 27.
Petit Dessalines candidate Moises Jean-Charles came third with 14 per cent of the vote.
At least six of the 54 candidates have alleged fraud and observers warned of the role of hundreds of thousands of political party monitors among the just 1.6 million votes cast.
Gyrocopter pilot to plead guilty
UNITED STATES: A man who flew a gyrocopter through some of the US’s most restricted airspace before landing outside the US Capitol earlier this year will plead guilty to a criminal charge.
Lawyer Mark Goldstone said on Thursday that his client Douglas Hughes is expected to plead guilty to operating a gyrocopter without a license in a federal court in Washington later this month.