Nationwide strike over pensions cripples Greece
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A 24-hour nationwide strike against the Greek government's pension reforms crippled transport on Wednesday and shut down public services as unions prepared for a large rally in Athens.
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Wildfires in Greece are beaten back by firefighters, as anger over the government's handling of the crisis grows.
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French commuters endured a second day of transport chaos Friday, as unions extended strikes against government plans to cut pension privileges for hundreds of thousands of rail and energy workers.
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A second union has warned Royal Mail its members could take strike action, in a row over pensions.
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French rail unions were to meet Monday to plan their next step after mounting a crippling two-day strike over President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to cut pension privileges for rail and energy workers.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - Greek firefighters backed by EU teams battled raging forest blazes that have killed 63 people and opposition parties accused the government of incompetence in handling the crisis.
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More than 700,000 public service workers across South Africa were on strike on Thursday in protest against the government&#39;s uncompromising stance in a marathon wage negotiation
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PRETORIA : Hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses, police and other public sector employees walked off the job across South Africa to demand better wages in one of the biggest strikes since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
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Thousands of workers at seven of Britain's busiest airports have voted to strike in a dispute over pensions, their union said on Friday.
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Hundreds of thousands of civil servants go on strike in protest at looming job cuts.
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Thousands of Palestinian civil servants strike over the failure of the Hamas-led government to pay wages.
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A second day of strike action over pension reforms disrupts French rail services, with the Paris metro badly hit.
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Many schools are shut as thousands of South African public sector workers go on strike for higher wages.
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The nationwide public sector strike which began yesterday morning has already affected some 24,000 would-be international travelers.
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Israel&#39;s main labour unions launched a nationwide general strike on Tuesday, grounding all international air traffic, paralysing most public services and even preventing burial of the dead.
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ZACHARO, Greece  - Greece declared a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday after the country's worst forest fires in decades killed at least 47 people and trapped many more in villages surrounded by flames.
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BRITAIN cannot wait any longer for the government to take radical action to resolve the countryâs growing pensions crisis, ministers were warned last night.