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EU The UN refugee agency advised European Union countries to stop sending asylum seekers to Greece, a development that amounts to a condemnation of the country’s treatment of such people. Greece called the agency’s criticism unfair, The New York Times reported April 21. The UN had been concerned for some time that asylum seekers faced “undue hardships” in Greece, often lacking legal aid and interpreters.

GERMANY Postal workers began holding warning strikes in cities such as Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg to increase pressure on Deutsche Post to raise wages, Reuters reported April 20. The work stoppages could mean that approximately 3 million letters would be undelivered. The trade union is calling on workers to support full-blown strike action in May.  
SPAIN Nine Finnish tourists were killed and at least 19 injured in a bus crash near the southern coastal resort of Benalmadena April 19. Torrential rain and strong winds had made driving conditions difficult, the BBC reported. The coach had collided with another vehicle, the driver of which was suspected of being drunk, and overturned on the highway.
UK Eight former detainees of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay filed lawsuits against the UK government and security services, accusing them of complicity in their illegal detention. The suits, which seek millions of pounds, accuse the MI5 security service, MI6 secret intelligence service and the attorney general of participating in the abduction, treatment and interrogation of the eight men, who had been detained in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Gambia, the Associated Press reported April 20.
FRANCE A Paris court charged six Somalis with taking the crew of a French yacht hostage off the coast of Africa earlier this month. After the 30 hostages were released, the suspects were detained in an April 18 raid and flown to Paris, the BBC reported. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed consented to the suspects being taken from the country.


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