A roundup of today's other world news in brief
Hungarian PM warns of far right ‘monster’
BUDAPEST – Outgoing prime minister Gordon Bajnai said yesterday that Hungarys main parties must join forces to prevent the far right entering parliament in April elections, calling it a “monster” that threatened democracy.
Hungary will hold elections on April 11th and 25th.
Opinion polls give the far-right party Jobbik 6-7 per cent support, which could lead to it winning dozens of seats in the Hungarian parliament. Jobbik campaigns on tax cuts, corruption and what it calls “Roma crime”. – (Reuters)
NY police cleared in sodomy case
NEW YORK – Three New York City police officers were acquitted yesterday on charges one of them sodomised a man with a police baton on a subway platform and two others helped cover up the offence.
After just one day of deliberations, a jury cleared the three police officers on all counts. Prosecutors had alleged Richard Kern sodomised Michael Mineo with a retractable baton after chasing him for smoking marijuana. – (Reuters)
Strike grounds Lufthansa flights
BERLIN – Hundreds of Lufthansa flights were cancelled yesterday as the majority of pilots at Europe’s largest airline started a four-day strike over job security.
Tens of thousands of passengers were stranded at airports across Germany after the severest industrial action in German aviation history started at midnight on Sunday. In a ballot, 94 per cent of members of the pilot union voted for a strike. – Guardian service)