GREECE: Air traffic controllers said today they will join a general strike on February 28 demanding justice for victims of the Tempe rail disaster.
The date marks the second anniversary of the head-on collision between a passenger and a freight train, which killed 57 people.
Public and private-sector unions will join the strike, calling for an inquiry to be sped up and for rail safety reforms.

MYANMAR: Airlifts began repatriating over 1,000 Chinese citizens who had been trapped working as virtual slaves in online scamming systems in the country’s east today.
Workers from multiple countries were recruited under false pretences before being forced to work in the scamming centres on wheezes like false dating ploys, bogus investment pitches and illegal gambling schemes.

HAITI: UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres will request the UN take charge of a multinational military force despatched to battle criminal gangs.
Armed gangs control an estimated 85 per cent of Port-au-Prince. Gang violence killed 5,600 Haitians last year. So far, a mainly Kenyan foreign deployment has failed to rein them in.

PAKISTAN: The Baloch Liberation Army said today it was responsible for killing seven bus passengers in Rakhni, Balochistan province, on Tuesday.
The group fights for an independent Balochistan and said the victims were “affiliated” with military and intelligence services. Pakistani authorities say they were civilians with no such ties.