The Bangladeshi government has agreed to an initiative proposed by the European Union to improve labour rights and factory safety in Bangladesh. The joint initiative follows the collapse of a garment factory building near Dhaka, which killed more than 1, 100 people in April.
The Bolivian government has summoned the ambassadors of France, Spain, Portugal and Italy to demand an explanation of their refusal to permit the Bolivian presidential plane to enter their air space last week. Eric Camara reports.
The Bolivian government wants to establish the source of the alleged information that the American whistle-blower Edward Snowden was on President Evo Morales’ jet. The authorities are calling the episode an act of state terrorism and said that relations with the European Union and the United States must be reconsidered. Bolivia said some diplomats have already presented their official versions for the incident, which has caused anger in Bolivia. Outside the US embassy in La Paz, hundreds of protesters demanded its closure.
Eurozone finance ministers have agreed to lend more money to Greece as part of its continuing bailout, but only in staggered payments. Officials in Brussels say 2.5bn euros will be released this month. Correspondents say the German government, which is open to be re-elected in September, had been under pressure not to appear too generous.
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A court in France has cleared the oil giant Total, its chief executive and a former French interior minister of corruption connected to the United Nations oil-for-food programme for Iraq. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.