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World in brief: November 6, 2018

MEXICO: Parliament has tightened laws dictating that public servants can’t earn more than the president and eliminated golden parachutes for elected officials.

MPs decreed some exceptions for employees with high levels of specialisation and technical expertise, saying their salaries will be capped at 50 per cent above the president’s.

President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who takes office on December 1, has said he will accept 108,000 pesos (£4,144) a month.

 

KOSOVO: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, told Pristina today that progress towards joining the bloc must be based on dialogue with Serbia.

He said during his visit to Kosovo that, without a peace agreement between Pristina and Belgrade, there would be no peaceful co-existence or regional stability.

Mr Kurz arrived from Belgrade, where he had delivered a similar message to the Serbian government.

 

GERMANY: Former nazi SS member Johann Rehbogen went on trial in Muenster today, charged with being an accessory to murder while serving as a guard at Stutthof concentration camp.

There is no evidence linking the 94-year-old to a specific crime.

But more than 60,000 people were killed at Stutthof, near Gdansk in Poland, and prosecutors argue that, as a guard, he was an accessory to at least hundreds of those deaths.

 

IRAQ: United Nations investigators said today that they have verified the location of more than 200 mass grave sites from the time when the Isis death cult reigned in northern Iraq.

The graves are believed to contain the bodies of between 6,000 and 12,000 victims.

The UN says the 202 graves  are a “legacy of Isis terror” from the Isis occupation of the region’s cities and towns between 2014 and 2017.

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