More than 5,000 bank workers in southern Cyprus were set to strike on Thursday of this week, and lead a mass protest outside parliament while it decides the future of their pensions.
Political parties in Italy face mounting pressure to form a “unity” government and end the impasse that has gripped the country since February's inconclusive elections.
Thousands of people marched in Athens, Greece, on Saturday of last week, against a proposed new law to prevent the children of migrants from gaining Greek citizenship
French president Francois Hollande said last week he would call for a law banning women who wear the Muslim hijab headscarf from working with children.
Far from preventing anti-Muslim violence, Giles Ji Ungpakorn says Burma’s rulers stoked it—starting with the British
Egyptian activists were arrested, beaten then freed after they protested at the arrest of protesters last Saturday.
North Korea recently issued a “No.1 combat readiness alert” announcing that the “North and South are at war”. Leader Kim Jong-un also put his strategic missile units on standby for launch.
The bank deal imposed to keep Southern Cyprus in the eurozone will bring job losses, privatisation and financial ruin to ordinary people.
Hundreds of thousands of people protested in the port city of Aden in South Yemen on Monday of last week to demand independence for South Yemen.
Demonstrators gathered outside Cairo’s high court on Tuesday of this week to protest against the state prosecutor questioning five leading opposition activists.
People in southern Cyprus woke last Saturday to news that money would be lifted from their bank accounts to pay for a bailout of the country’s two biggest banks.
People in Zimbabwe, southern Africa, voted overwhelmingly to accept a new constitution last weekend.
