Detained Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, an aspiring presidential candidate and head of state Macky Sall's fiercest critic, on Saturday ended a hunger strike he began on July 30.Sonko has faced a string of legal woes since 2021 he claims...

Actors took to picket lines outside studio headquarters from California to New York on Friday as movie and television production ground to a halt in the most serious Hollywood strike in decades.Hundreds of strikers marched with placards at the Netfli...

Some 64 flights were cancelled at Geneva's international airport on Friday, it said, after operations were halted for four hours because of a strike by workers at the start of the busy summer travel season."Because of the social action... the directi...

By AFPNurses and ambulances staff stepped up their demands for better pay Monday to combat the UK's cost of living crisis with their biggest round of health service strikes.The stoppages -- part of a wave of industrial action across the UK economy --...

By AFPHalf a million workers went on strike in Britain on Wednesday, calling for higher wages in the largest such walkout in over a decade, closing schools and severely disrupting transport.Europe is battling a cost-of-living crisis and the latest st...

By AFPFrom southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia, around 22 million people are at risk of hunger as the worst drought in four decades grips the Horn of Africa.In the afflicted areas, inhabitants -- who eke out a living mainly from herding a...

By AFPThousands of ambulance workers held another strike across England and Wales on Monday, in escalating industrial action as unions called the government to hold talks on improving pay and conditions.Ambulance workers began strike action on Decemb...

By AFPIndustrial action looked set to intensify Monday as Britain's largest teaching and nursing unions announced further walkouts over pay, while the government seeks to limit strikes with a controversial bill.The National Education Union (NEU) said...

By AFPUnions representing French oil workers on Thursday called for strikes against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms, threatening a repeat of the refinery and depot closures that caused chaos for motorists last year.The walkouts planned fo...

by AFPThe French government on Wednesday played down the prospect of mass strikes and protests over pension reform which are expected to start next week.All of France's main unions have called the first stoppages and rallies next Thursday to protest...

By AFPThe UK government will on Tuesday introduce proposals mandating "minimum safety levels" during strikes, angering unions which have branded it "undemocratic" and threatened legal challenges.The new law will require minimum levels of service duri...

By AFPThe toll from a Ukrainian New Year strike in Makiivka has risen to 89, Moscow said Wednesday, after Russians gathered to mourn the troops in a rare public display of anger and grief.Russia said in the early hours of Wednesday that more bodies h...