News of the Day From Around the World, May 17
Turkish shelling and air strikes by the U.S.-led military coalition killed 27 Islamic State militants in Syria, the state-run Anadolu agency reported Monday.
Truck drivers are expected to put up roadblocks around France’s major cities, and unions are calling for a strike on the Paris subway Tuesday to reject a hotly contested labor reform.
Disruptions due to a rail workers’ strike are expected on train traffic Wednesday and Thursday, and air controllers are to join the protest movement on Thursday.
Kenyan police fired tear gas on Monday to break up demonstrations urging electoral reforms ahead of general elections next year.
Associated Press journalists saw police beating some protesters who had gathered outside Kenya’s electoral commission in the capital, Nairobi.
Culture ministry officials on Monday showed reporters where work on the city’s third subway line unearthed barracks for Roman Praetorian guards dating from the second century.
The barracks, discovered about 30 feet below street level, cover 9600 square feet and include 39 rooms decorated with black-and-white mosaics on the floors and frescoed walls.
The National Police agency said 50 commandos backed by helicopters seized about 8 tons of cocaine on a banana plantation in the northwestern region of Antioquia.