Anti-racists joined Senegalese migrants to demonstrate outside Athens town hall on Thursday of last week, over the killing of a Senegalese street vendor.
Workers at two major car plants in the Paris region have been on strike against massive job losses.
The government is trying to close more than 50 hospitals, out of a total of 133 in Greece.
French forces intensified their bombardment of northern Mali last weekend. Thirty aircraft took part in bombing raids on at least 20 targets in the mountainous regions near the Algerian border.
The military clampdown in Egypt claimed more lives last week.
Unions in Greece have called a general strike on 20 February against a government clampdown on strikers.
The Greek ruling class is keen to deflect people’s anger at the cuts and the crisis towards migrant workers. But it doesn’t always get its own way.
Pressure is growing on Spain’s Tory prime minister Mariano Rajoy to resign along with leading members of his cabinet.
Hundreds of police in Athens raided the central metro station early this morning, Friday, which was being occupied by striking workers. They handed every worker an order from the government to return to work or face a prison sentence.
The Egyptian people’s great revolution, which threw the dictator and his cronies into prison, is still aflame as it marks its second anniversary. It has already toppled several failed governments, and forced the Military Council to quit after elections which brought Mohamed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood to power.
Some 5,000 workers for Harmony Gold mines returned to the Kusasalethu shaft after the Christmas break to find it closed "for review".
