Workers at Amazon Spain plan 3-day strike over wages
Workers at Amazon (AMZN.O) in northern Spain are planning a three-day strike over their wages, Reuters reported on…
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Iran missiles target U.S. forces in Iraq; Trump says ‘All well’
Iran launched missiles at U.S.-led forces in Iraq early on Wednesday, retaliating for the U.S. drone strike on an…
Catalonia goes on strike as calls for ‘declaration of independence’ rise
A general strike in Catalonia on Tuesday will likely bring much of the wealthy Spanish region to a standstill, a…
Bank of England staff walk out in first strike action for 50 years over pay dispute
Workers at the Bank of England (BOE) walked out Tuesday on strike for the first time in five decades, over a pay…
Rights group accuses Syria of several likely nerve agent attacks
Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Syrian government forces of likely dropping bombs containing nerve agents at…
Clashes at protests to support Palestinian hunger strikers
Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers across the occupied West Bank on Friday in support of hundreds of…
Trump’s 100 days: a rattled establishment, some surprises
President Donald Trump has rattled Washington, startled world leaders with his unpredictability and won their…
Iran’s Rouhani calls Assad to stress backing for Syrian state
President Hassan Rouhani stressed Iran's support for the Syrian state in its war against terrorism during a call…
Turkey welcomes US strike in Syria, urges no-fly zone
Turkey on Friday welcomed a U.S. missile strike on a Syrian regime airbase in retaliation for a suspected chemical…
Russia defends Syria against ‘chemical attack’ outcry
Russia defended its ally Damascus on Wednesday against international outcry over a suspected chemical attack that…
Deadly air strike hits Yemen’s funeral party
Eight women and a child have reportedly been killed in an overnight air raid on a funeral reception near Yemen's…
Turkey denies mistakenly Syria air strike
Turkey's military has denied that it mistakenly told Russian warplanes to bomb a building in Syria on Thursday,…
Pharmacists Syndicate of Egypt postpones strike
Egypt's Pharmacists Syndicate postponed on Saturday for two weeks a partial strike at pharmacies initially…
Syria conflict: ‘Israel missiles’ hit Damascus military airport
Syrian state media say an Israeli missile strike has targeted a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus. The…
Yemen conflict: Air strike ‘kills 12 civilians’ in Hajja
Twelve civilians are reported to have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in north-western Yemen.…
Air raid hits third Syrian hospital in 24 hours
An air strike hit a hospital in the rebel-held Syrian village of Awaijel, west of Aleppo killing at least one…
Syria conflict: UN urges probe into deadly air strike on school
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has demanded an immediate investigation into an air strike in Syria on Wednesday that hit a…
U.S. says strike in Yemen last week killed al Qaeda militant, wounded another
One al Qaeda militant was killed and another wounded in a strike in Yemen's Bayda province by the U.S. military…
Hyundai’s workers strike; first time in 12 years
Hyundai Motor Co. plants in South Korea were crippled by the first complete strike on Monday by unionized workers…
US accuses Russia of hitting Syria convoy
The United States believes two Russian aircraft attacked an aid convoy near Aleppo in a strike that shattered a…
Hyundai Motor’s South Korean union approves strike action
Hyundai Motor's (005380.KS) unionized workers in South Korea voted to go on strike for a fifth year in a row after…
From tweets to streets, Zimbabwe social media anger breaks out into anti-Mugabe protests
Organizers of a general strike against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe pledged on Thursday to continue action…
Oil prices rise on Norway strike threat; Brexit shock fades
Oil rose on Wednesday as financial traders poured money back into commodities following the initial shock of…
Al-Qaeda’s Zawahri pledges allegiance to new Taliban leader
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in an online audio message, pledged allegiance to the new head of the Afghan…
Afghanistan’s intelligence agency confirms Taliban leader killed in airstrike
Afghanistan's spy agency has confirmed that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed, after the US…
Greece paralysed by strike over pension, tax reforms
Greece's public transport networks ground to a halt Friday after trade unions called for a 48-hour strike to…
Air strikes on Aleppo hospital kill 20, including children
Air strikes overnight on the al-Quds hospital in a rebel-held area of the Syrian city of Aleppo killed 20,…
Kuwait oil strike enters second day
A walkout by thousands of Kuwaiti oil workers entered its second day on Monday, slashing production by over 60…
Oil prices rise as Kuwait oil strike diminishes supply
Oil prices rose on Tuesday as a strike in Kuwait cut huge amounts of crude out of the supply chain, but analysts…
Powerful earthquake strikes Ecuador, kills 77
A powerful earthquake killed at least 77 people, injured hundreds more, ravaged coastal towns and sent residents…
IS group rocket expert killed in Iraq strike: Spokesman
An Islamic State group rocket expert believed to have been involved in an attack that killed a US Marine has died…
U.S. strikes al Qaeda training camp in Yemen, killing dozens
The U.S. military launched an air strike on Tuesday in the mountains of Yemen against a training camp run by al…
IS group commander Shishani ‘clinically dead:’ Monitor
Top Islamic State (IS) group commander Omar al-Shishani has been "clinically dead" for several days after a US air…
Barclays, Credit Suisse strike record deals with SEC, NY over dark pools
Barclays (BARC.L) and Credit Suisse (CSGN.VX) have settled federal and state charges that they misled investors in…
Air strike kills dozens in Syria as U.N. envoy visits Damascus
An air strike reportedly killed dozens of people in a rebel-held town in Syria on Saturday as a U.N. envoy visited…
Euro slips to six-and-a-half month lows after Paris attacks
The euro hit a 6 1/2-month low against the yen and edged near 6 1/2-month lows against the dollar in Asia on Monday…
France strikes ISIS in Syria
French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria on Sunday as police in Europe widened their…
Third Russian air strike on Syrian rebel group kills leader
Russian air strikes in Syria's Latakia province killed a rebel commander and four other fighters from a group…
MSF denies Taliban was firing from Afghan hospital hit by air strike
Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at Afghan and…
Three dead at Afghan hospital after U.S. air strike
The U.S. military on Saturday acknowledged it could have been responsible for an air strike that hit a hospital run…