CARACAS, Venezuela - A group of college students ended a hunger strike after 17 days following a meeting Tuesday with Organization of American States representatives to air their concerns about human rights in Venezuela. Student leader Julio Rivas s
BRUSSELS - European Union staff said on Tuesday that they will strike next week for their right to pocket an inflation-busting 3.7 percent pay rise which member states say shows double standards. Employees of the European Council -- the body that r
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles into an al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary in a Pakistani region the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing at least three militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike in the No
MADRID - Spain appealed Friday to Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar to end her 19-day hunger strike, saying it was pressing her case with Moroccan authorities. Haidar, 42, has refused to eat since November 16, three days after Moroccan author
HELSINKI - Finnish airline Finnair cancelled around 20 flights on Thursday and said it would cancel seven more on Friday, the fifth day of a strike by ground staff. Paeivi Huuhtanen, a spokeswoman for the loss-making airline, said more than 8,000 p
MADRID, Dec 2 - The firm stance taken byWestern Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar, in her third weekof a hunger strike in an airport in Spain's Canary Islands, contrastswith the weak position of the Spanish government vis-a-vis the Moroc
HELSINKI - Finnair cancelled 23 flights on Wednesday and said it would cancel 14 more on Thursday, the fourth day of its ground handling staff's wildcat strike, a Finnair spokeswoman said. We will cancel 14 flights that were scheduled to leave fro
HELSINKI - Loss-making Finnish airline Finnair said it had cancelled some 35 flights on Tuesday due to a wildcat strike by ground handling staff. We have cancelled today 35 flights, which has impacted some 4,000 passengers and we have some 6,000 p
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