Millions take part in strike in Italy
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Business and travel in Italy ground to a near-halt Tuesday as millions of workers participated in a one-day government strike, the BBC said.
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Angry forest service workers blocked highways, halted trains and forced an airport to shut down on Thursday, effectively cutting off the southern toe of Italy in a protest against spending cuts that could cost hundreds of jobs. The demonstrations across Calabria, the region that makes up the tip of the Italian boot, are the latest by state sector workers upset by the belt-tightening 2005 budget and follows a general strike last week.
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Hundreds of thousands of protestors marched Rome's streets against the economic policies of Roman Prodi's centre-left government, in a rally that was a litmus test of the popularity of the right-wing opposition and its recently hospitalized leader, Silvio Berlusconi.
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Thousands yesterday responded to a call from several unions to join a rally organised by the General Workers' Union to protest against the government's plan to cut the number of public holidays.
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Over 15,000 teachers and kindergarten employees went on rallies and strikes all over Russia's Far Eastern region of Primorye as part of nationwide demand for higher pay.
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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&#39;s economic policy.
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Italy&#39;s three biggest unions staged the fifth general strike since Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi came to power in 2001 to protest his economic policy, disrupting transportation, banking and health services.
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Thousands of Fiat workers walked off their jobs in plants across Italy Friday to protest turnaround plans at the unprofitable carmaker that unions said could harm labor.
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100,000 take part in biggest demonstrations for nearly 20 years but fears of crackdown grow.
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Unions at Telecom Italia call a strike over plans to split the firm's fixed line and mobile businesses.
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Thousands of Italians gathered  under heavy police guard on Saturday to protest against the  expansion of a U.S. military base that has aroused strong  opposition and divided the center-left government.
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Hundreds of women rallied in Rome and Naples on Thursday to protest police interrogation of a woman after she underwent an abortion and to oppose a campaign push by some conservatives to change Italy's abortion law.
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Italian workers are protesting against the economic policies of Silvio Berlusconi's government in the fourth general strike to hit Italy in as many years.
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TENS of thousands of people joined in a torchlit procession through the Italian capital overnight to call for the release of two women aid workers held hostage in Iraq.
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Thousands of Italians rallied on Saturday  for legal rights for unmarried gay and heterosexual couples  while Roman Catholics launched a movement against what many of  them consider an attack on the "traditional" family.
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Thousands of civil servants marched in  cities across South Africa Thursday in a one-day strike over  wages seen as a test of will between the ruling African  National Congress (ANC) and its labor allies.
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Railworkers across Italy will strike for 24 hours from Sunday night to protest poor safety levels on the network following a train crash which killed 17 people last week, transport unions said.