News Headlines - 15 December 2014

▽EUobserver / Belgium paralysed by general strike

The entire Belgian airspace is closed on Monday (15 December), as well as high-speed trains from Brussels to London, Paris and Amsterdam and local buses, trams and metro lines, as part of a general strike over public sector cuts.

▽Black Sunday: The day Turkey detained its prominent journalists - CİHAN

The government-orchestrated crackdown on independent critical media outlets in Turkey took a turn for the worse on Sunday with dawn raids on Turkey's largest newspaper Zaman and popular national TV network Samanyolu TV that led to the detention of top managers at the media outlets.

▽Hong Kong police clear last pro-democracy protest sites | Reuters

Hong Kong authorities arrested several pro-democracy activists on Monday as they cleared the last of three protest sites, marking the closure of demonstration camps in the city that have blocked streets for more than two months.

▽Under-18s to be given vote in Scotland | Politics | The Guardian

David Cameron is expected to hand new powers to the Scottish parliament to allow under-18s to vote, after an all-party deal last month.
The UK prime minister is due to confirm the new powers when he meets Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, after a meeting of devolved and UK ministers in London on Monday morning.

▽Amazon technical glitch drops price of thousands of items to 1p - News - London Evening Standard

A technical glitch on the Amazon website caused the prices of thousands of items to crash to 1p... Many of the orders were reportedly dispatched, but Amazon said it was able to cancel the “vast majority”.