AP – Anna Walentynowicz, a union activist whose 1980 dismissal from a Gdansk shipyard touched off strikes that led to the founding of the Solidarity movement and the eventual toppling of Polish communism, died in the plane crash that devastated the country’s elite. She was 80.
AFP – A strike by French ferry workers disrupted traffic on both sides of the Channel over the Easter holiday after entering its second day on Saturday.
AFP – A strike by French ferry workers caused severe disruption on both sides of the Channel on Friday and union bosses warned the action could stretch into the busy Easter holiday weekend.
AFP – Leading shares opened higher on Thursday, the last trading day of a holiday-shortened week.
AFP – A strike by workers at Spain’s national rail company disrupted train services Wednesday as millions prepared to leave on a four-day Easter holiday weekend.
AFP – Shares in London rose in late morning trade on Wednesday, the last day of the first quarter, as traders eyed the Easter holiday weekend and upcoming US jobs data.
AFP – European equities mostly advanced Tuesday, as investors eyed the upcoming holiday break and US economic data, and digested gains made overnight on Wall Street and earlier in Tokyo.
AFP – Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged railway and union bosses to keep negotiating to avoid a threatened four-day strike that could cause travel chaos over the Easter holidays.
AFP – Five people identified as ETA suspects in a surveillance video released in France and Spain are in fact firemen from Spain’s Catalonia region who were on holiday, Spanish media said Saturday.
AFP – British Airways and the country’s biggest trade union resumed last-ditch talks on Friday in a bid to avoid strikes set to cause chaos for thousands of people over the Easter holidays.
AFP – A ransom for a five-year-old British boy kidnapped during a family holiday in Pakistan and freed this week was paid in Paris, Spanish police said Wednesday, as five people were detained.
AFP – A five-year-old British boy kidnapped while on holiday in Pakistan with his family this month has been released, the British high commission in Islamabad said Tuesday.
AP – Ukrainian lawmakers formed a new coalition around new President Viktor Yanukovych, and allowed him to consolidate power by quickly approving his choice for prime minister.
