Schools, colleges closed as BCL called student strike
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Many schools and colleges in Bangladesh were closed on Monday and extra police out on the streets as the nation braced for more protests after a deadly grenade attack on an opposition rally two days ago.
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Operations of global software  companies, financial institutions and government offices in  India's main technology hub shut on Wednesday after activists  called a strike over a border dispute with a neighboring state.
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Shops, schools, offices and businesses across Bangladesh were shut on Monday for the fourth time in a week as a dawn-to-dusk strike called by the opposition in protest
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: A bomb blast in Kathmandu caused slight damage to a bank today during a strike called by Maoist rebels that shut down much of Nepal as soldiers killed 12 guerrillas in gunbattles across the kingdom.
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In a major test of the Hamas government, unpaid teachers shut down hundreds of schools across the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Saturday, the first day of the school year.
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Nationwide power outages shut down basic services across Zambia and Zimbabwe as anger mounted in South Africa over power cuts that have wreaked havoc in the continent's economic hub.
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Schools were closed, hospitals running a skeleton service and traffic was disrupted across South Africa on Friday as hundreds of thousands of public servants embarked on an indefinite strike.
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A two day general strike called by the political opposition has shut down much of Bangladesh. The strike is the latest protest against a grenade attack on a political rally that killed 20 people and injured more than a hundred.
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A crisis in adult education is looming as courses and  posts are axed,  unions and college leaders warn.
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Much of Italy has been shut down Tuesday by a general strike called by unions to protest Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's economic policy.
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A two-day strike called by communist rebels has shut down the capital and major towns in Nepal. The rebels have threatened to derail parliamentary elections that the government plans to hold next year.
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HEBRON, West Bank  - With the al-Hussein public   high school shut down because of a teachers' strike,   Palestinian student Razi al-Juneidi, 17, idles away his free   time with other frustrated teens on the pavement outside.
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NEW DELHI -- A daylong strike by local political groups shut down India's technology hub, Bangalore, forcing many outsourcing companies to shift work elsewhere in the country and abroad.
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Schools and colleges are shut in Bangalore, India's technology hub, as protests begin against the Cauvery tribunal verdict.
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JERUSALEM : Israel was paralysed by a general strike as trade unions imposed a shutdown in protest at local authorities&#39; failure to pay thousands of staff amid a budget clampdown by the right-wing government.
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Offices, schools, shops and businesses across Bangladesh shut down Saturday for the second strike in less than a week called by the main opposition party to protest against a grenade attack that nearly killed its leader.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 13 -- Tens of thousands of government workers on Wednesday intensified their biggest strike since the end of apartheid, closing schools, snarling transportation systems and virtually shutting down sections of South Africa's largest cities.