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Out of its roughly 3,000 scheduled flights, 876 would be cancelled due to the strike, "affecting some 100,000 passengers".

• 23 ноября 2016, 11:22

Hundreds of Hungarian teachers held a nationwide walkout in a growing revolt against the government's tight grip on education

• 30 марта 2016, 16:55

Six children have been killed or maimed daily in Yemen since Saudi-led air strikes began a year ago, the UN said Tuesday, warning the conflict was taking a horrifying toll on the country's youth.

• 29 марта 2016, 15:37

Kazakhstan’s experts have commented on the air strikes made by Russian forces on Wednesday targeting the militants of the so-called Islamic State.

• 17 октября 2015, 16:44

London's Underground staff are to hold two further 24-hour strikes later this month, threatening more chaos for commuters already hit by strikers protesting plans for night services.

• 12 августа 2015, 15:06

Millions of Londoners were forced to walk, cycle or take packed buses to and from work as Underground staff staged their second strike in a month over plans to run trains all night.

• 07 августа 2015, 12:28

Belgium ground to a halt in its biggest strike in years Monday as trade unions grounded flights, cut international rail links and shut sea ports to protest the new government's austerity plans.

• 15 декабря 2014, 16:08

Worker of KazStroyService in West Kazakhstan Oblast have gone on strike demanding higher wages.

• 11 ноября 2014, 22:18

Eight people, including a teenager, were taken to hospital Sunday following a freak lightning strike at bustling Venice Beach, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

• 28 июля 2014, 11:56

Thirteen Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Saturday, bringing the toll on the fifth day of violence to 118, medics said.

• 12 июля 2014, 10:42

More than one million public sector workers went on strike in Britain Thursday over pay and spending cuts by the government imposed as part of its austerity programme, trade unions said.

• 10 июля 2014, 23:31

Greece faced nationwide power cuts on Thursday as a rolling strike began against government plans to break up the country's main electricity provider.

• 04 июля 2014, 10:03

Around 1,000 Chinese workers went on strike after their Japanese boss denied Tokyo had invaded China and said its 1930s actions were to "help" the country escape colonial rule, state-run media reported.

• 02 июля 2014, 14:35

Sixty-three Palestinian prisoners have suspended the hunger strike which they have observed in Israeli jails since late April, one of their lawyers said.

• 25 июня 2014, 16:55

France braced for travel chaos after the country's civil aviation body urged airlines on Monday to cut flights by up to 20 percent in Paris and some other cities due to an air controllers' strike.

• 24 июня 2014, 01:43

Dozens of workers launched the campaign to demand the salaries owed to them since December 2013.

• 18 июня 2014, 23:47

At least 10 people were killed in a new overnight attack near Kenya's coast, police said Tuesday, just 24 hours after Somalia's Shebab rebels massacred close to 50 people in the same area.

• 18 июня 2014, 08:18

France's longest rail strike in years was set to go into a seventh day Tuesday after unions said a first meeting with management failed to address their demands.

• 17 июня 2014, 14:06

Ground staff at Rio de Janeiro's airports have called a 24-hour partial strike Thursday, the day Brazil hosts the opening match of the World Cup.

• 12 июня 2014, 11:27

French commuters faced traffic chaos Wednesday amid a national train strike called by trade unions in protest against a proposed railway reform aimed at containing the sector's soaring debt.

• 11 июня 2014, 12:39