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Hundreds of Amazon workers hold Black Friday strike
Hundreds of workers at Amazon’s Coventry warehouse have joined strike action by company employees across Europe and the United States. Unions are calling for higher minimum pay and improved working conditions – and say this is the biggest industrial action in Amazon’s history, designed to coincide with Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days…
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Pro-Palestinian protests: Thousand demonstrate across UK
Tens of thousands of pro Palestinian protesters have taken to the streets in London and other cities around the UK for the fourth week in a row.
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Hundreds of thousands of Afghans forced to leave Pakistan
Aid agencies are warning of a desperate situation for Afghans who have been forced to leave Pakistan. Security forces there are arresting and deporting undocumented refugees.
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Storm Ciaran: Damage across parts of southern England and the Channel Islands
Gusts of wind reaching more than a hundred miles an hour along with heavy rain have caused major damage across parts of southern England and the Channel Islands.
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First aid trucks cross into Gaza through Rafah crossing
Around 20 trucks carrying aid have managed to cross into Gaza through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt – which the UN said would be a mere drop in the ocean compared with the overwhelming need. Food, medical supplies and water are running perilously short in the enclave – as Israel continued to launch airstrikes…
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Saudi Arabian border guards accused of killing hundreds of migrants in new report
Saudi Arabian border guards have been accused of killing hundreds of migrants as they tried to cross the border from Yemen – with one person telling the Human Rights Watch group that they were “fired on like rain”.
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Thousands evacuated as wildfires wreak havoc across Tenerife
Some other news now and firefighters in the Canary Islands are battling to control the worst wildfire for decades – which is sweeping through the main resort island of Tenerife.
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Met Police: Mother of murdered sisters launches campaign to tackle institutional racism
Mina Smallman insisted: “We are not the enemy, we are the cure”.
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Italy’s major cities on red alert as heatwave continues to devastates Europe
Almost all Italy’s major cities are under red alert for extreme heat amid the heatwave that’s intensifying across southern Europe.
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Discrimination faced by Windrush generation must be remembered, says author Arthur Torrington
There will be celebrations this week across the UK to mark the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving at Tilbury docks.
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Hundreds of people still missing after boat capsized off Greece
The Greek government has announced three days of national mourning after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized.
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FactCheck: Is it illegal to cross the Channel on a small boat?
The answer is complicated.
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Hundreds of thousands protest against President Macron’s pension reforms
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across France in the twelfth day of protests against President Macron’s unpopular pension reforms – which would raise the minimum retirement age to 64. A ruling is expected tomorrow on whether the proposals are constitutional. Some of the protests turned violent as activists clashed with…
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France protests: hundreds of thousands on Paris streets as police deployed
In France, a 10th day of action by protestors – demonstrating against President Macron’s pension reforms – has again ended in clashes with the police.
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‘My city is gone,’ says Mayor after tornado tears across Mississippi
At least twenty-three people were killed and dozens more injured when a devastating tornado hit the US state of Mississippi overnight. Emergency services were left to appeal on Twitter for help with the search and rescue effort after the town of Rolling Fork was destroyed by a direct hit – the verdict of the mayor…
