Main News of September 4

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

*The Armenian president asked the country’s citizens to stop burning Hungarian flags in protest against the extradition of an Armenian soldier’s Azerbaijani killer.

*Germany’s largest air carrier Lufthansa had to cancel about 300 flights as its flight attendants went on strike in the country’s major airports, the company said on its website.

RUSSIA

*Chechen authorities have evidence that two districts currently part of Ingushetia used to be a part of Chechnya, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said.

*A wooden Orthodox Christian cross has been chopped down in the Altai region of Siberia, police said.

 

BUSINESS

*The European Commission has started an investigation into Russia’s natural gas giant Gazprom over concerns that it might be hindering competition in Central and Eastern European gas markets, in breach of EU antitrust rules, the EC said.