Thousands of demonstrators gathered in New York on 11 September to demonstrate against Islamaphobia and racism. Their counter-demonstration was called in response to a racist rally against the proposed building of an Islamic community centre, held in the city on the same day.
A strike by some 70,000 South African car component workers has brought car manufacturing plants in South Africa to a standstill. The firms hit include Nissan, Toyota, Ford, Volkswagen, BMW, General Motors and Mercedes Benz.
The Kabul district of Khoshal Khan Mina has a dark history. In 1992 the worst massacre of Afghanistan’s bloody civil war took place here.
Around 500 protesters took to the streets of Kabul last Monday to demand an end to the US occupation.
Millions of French workers joined strikes and marches on Tuesday against plans to savage their pensions.
A strike by over a million South African public sector workers that had lasted three weeks was suspended by union leaders on Monday.
"It’s a national disaster," screamed the Pakistani press. "The shame that this has brought on the country is almost too much to bear," echoed the country’s top politicians.
The Chilean government closed down the San José mine—where 33 miners are still trapped underground—in 2007 over health and safety failures.
Millions of French workers, campaigners and pensioners are set to take part in two crucial days of resistance.
Thousands of lecturers and other education workers at Sindh and Karachi universities in Pakistan are on strike after management refused to increase salaries and pay bonuses.
The flooding crisis in Pakistan continues to grow as thousands flee the historic city of Thatta in Sind after the Indus River broke a levee and flooded new areas.
Despair is turning to anger in Pakistan as the flooding spreads and the government response continues to fail.
