Tens of thousands of workers of the U.S. communications giant, Verizon, have gone on strike again over low wages and job insecurity. Some 40,000 Verizon Communications Inc workers across the East Coast walked off their jobs and took to the streets amid a contract dispute. The striking workers chanted, whistled, and used noisemakers in order to make their demands heard. The work stoppage started six days ago due to concerns over wage security and Verizon's decision to move jobs out of the U.S. to the Philippines, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. ... More
More than 150,000 people took to the streets of the British capital over the weekend to voice their anger at the harsh austerity measures by the conservative government.... More
A group of specialists in rescue operations and an airplane with donations arrived in Ecuador from Venezuela, sent under express orders of President Nicolas Maduro, to assist the victims of the quake that left well over 300 people dead and thousands more injured.... More
The Nigerian Army has set free 455 hostages the terrorist organizations Boko Haram kidnapped a few weeks ago in Wulge and Walamari villages, in the country's Northeastern region. ... More
The NATO deputy secretary general says the military alliance is ready to help the new UN-sponsored Libyan government in building up security institutions if requested.... More
The lower house of the National Congress of Brazil has begun a three-day debate on whether to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, who is accused by opponents of breaking fiscal laws.... More
At least 40 people have been killed in a new U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan's troubled eastern province of Nangarhar. The aerial assaults took place on Thursday night in the Achin district of the province, which is located 120 kilometers east of the Afghan capital, Kabul.... More
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has condemned draft legislation being proposed by right-wing deputies of the National Assembly, which intends to take away the housing from people, built over the past 17 years of the Bolivarian Revolution.... More
Syrian army soldiers together with fighters from the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, have mounted a large-scale military operation to liberate areas in the strategic northwestern province of Aleppo from foreign-backed Takfiri militants.... More
Thousands of low-wage U.S. workers marched in New York, Los Angeles and other cities across the United States, calling for minimum pay to rise. ... More
The European Union has adopted a new security law purported to track terrorist suspects traveling to or from conflict zones who may pose a security threat to Europe.... More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition has agreed on the new integration draft bill, requiring refugees residing in the Western European state to learn German language and seek work or see their benefits cut. ... More
Clashes broke out yesterday in Paris as tens of thousands of young people joined demonstrations in the French capital to protest against labor reforms planned by the government.... More
With the scandal for his involvement in the offshores, and exposed in the international probe of the case Panama Papers, the government of Mauricio Macri has launched a new strategy to “clean up his image”.... More
Survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing and residents of Hiroshima say they want to see efforts toward abolition of nuclear weapons, not an apology, from U.S. President Barack Obama. ... More
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