Collective punishment

The violence targeting Myanmar’s Muslim minority “amounts to ethnic cleansing,” a U.K. parliament report has stated.

Thessaloniki notaries meeting on Tuesday decided to hold a new boycott on foreclosures running through October 1 due to ongoing protests that have targeted legal professionals at courthouses in the northern city and elsewhere.

The union representing Greek notaries on Tuesday called on its members to continue their boycott on foreclosures of first homes at courts on Wednesday.

Macedonia's opposition MPs returned to parliament on Tuesday after a 15-month boycott as part of the internationally brokered June 2 crisis deal.

A memorial centre commemorating a massacre in the small Istrian village of Lipa in 1944 was reopened at its former school, commemorating the 269 victims of the Nazi-led attack.

A growing number of high school pupils in Macedonia are boycotting regular classes and attending alternative lectures and events held inside schools for a third day - in a dispute that shows no sign of going away.

They say they will continue the boycott until the Education Minister, Abdilaqim Ademi, agrees to meet them for talks.

The boycott began on Monday in a bid to stop plans for the externally-controlled exams that are intended to check high school pupils' skills and evaluate whether teachers have done their jobs properly.

The movement organising the boycott, High School Plenum, said it would continue the boycott for as long as the Education Ministry turns a deaf ear to its demands.