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Massive strike in New Zealand as 100,000 demand better pay and conditions
By Lucy Craymer Reuters More than 100,000 New Zealand teachers, nurses, doctors, firefighters and support staff walked off the job on Thursday ...Russia launches deadly barrage on Ukraine after Putin–Trump summit shelved
By Pavel Polityuk Reuters Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine killed six people, including two children, and forced power outages nationwide, ...General strike, protests paralyse Tunisia’s Gabes over pollution crisis
By Tarek Amara Reuters A general strike and tens of thousands of protesters brought the southern Tunisian city of Gabes to a ...Russian attack cuts power to hundreds of thousands in northern Ukraine
A Russian bombardment of energy infrastructure cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in northern Ukraine’s Chernihiv region on Tuesday, with ...Ivory Coast town rocked by massacre uses marriages to make peace
By Loucoumane Coulibaly Reuters In a town in Ivory Coast torn apart by election violence and mass killings more than a decade ...Japan elects its own ‘Iron Lady’ as first female PM
BY MARI YAMAGUCHI AFP Sanae Takaichi, a star of ultraconservative Japanese politics and a rare woman to rise in its male-dominated hierarchy, ...Fortnite, Snapchat among major apps to go dark in global AWS outage
Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and ...Bolivia ends socialist rule and shuffles Right as Rodrigo Paz wins presidency
By Sandra FERRER AFP Bolivians on Sunday elected a pro-business center-right senator as their new president, ending two decades of socialist rule ...Millions join anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protests across US
By Steve Gorman and Brad Brooks Reuters Protesters spanning all age groups took to the streets en masse for “No Kings” rallies ...Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Qatar talks
By Shrouq TARIQ with Aysha SAFI in Kabul AFP Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to an “immediate ceasefire” at talks in Doha, after ...














