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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Airlines have to pay compensation to passengers for delays caused by wildcat strikes that result from management decisions, the European Union’s top court said on Tuesday.Several cases were brought to the EU’s Court of Justice after German airline TUIfly said a 2016 wildcat strike - one not formally initiated by a trade union - was an extraordinary event, and so it was not liable to compensate for delays. The strike followed the company’s announcement of a restructuring plan. EU regulation gives passengers on a delayed flight the right to compensation of up to 600 euros ($745), depending...

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Israel on Sunday night as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated an unwillingness to speak about any “compensation” the US could provide to make Israel feel more secure after last week’s signing of the Iranian nuclear deal. Netanyahu, in an interview Sunday on ABC, said there was much talk about compensating Israel. The question that needed to be asked, the premier said, was, “If this deal is supposed to make Israel and our Arab neighbors safer, why should we be compensated with anything?” Furthermore, he said, “how can you compensate a country, my country,...

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked members of Congress to work for a better nuclear deal with Iran Sunday and said there was no way to compensate Israel if the nuclear agreement is finalized. "I think the right thing to do is merely not to go ahead with this deal. There are many things to be done to stop Iran's aggression and this deal is not one of them," Netanyahu said on CBS's "Face the Nation" as part of a string of US media interviews denouncing the deal reached on Tuesday between Iran and the P5+1 powers. The deal will be...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Three desert cattle ranches and some former railroad property in San Bernardino County have been purchased by the U.S. Army as part of a deal that will allow it to expand its tank-training center onto land set aside as endangered-species habitat. As part of the plan, free-ranging cattle - which compete with desert tortoises for food - will be eliminated from 250,000 acres in the western Mojave Desert. It clears the way for the Army to train tank brigades in Superior Valley, an area considered crucial to survival of the reptile. "It's got the healthiest, most...

Turkey promises to compensate Kurds after years of terror Human rights reforms driven by EU ambitions Helena Smith in Athens Thursday January 22, 2004 The Guardian (UK) Turkey's Kurds could soon be compensated for the state terror they endured during 15 years of armed insurrection in the south-east under new legislation aimed at boosting the country's bid to join the EU. Ankara's moderate Islamic government has proposed plans to compensate those who suffered at the hands of the security services during the campaign to defeat the separatist Kurdish Workers Party, PKK. Human rights groups estimate that as many as 1...