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24 Apr 2019

Mali government falls amid protests against Franco-German occupation

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Stéphane Hugues & Alex Lantier On April 18, the Malian government collapsed as Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga submitted the...

Severe police-state measures come into force in Sri Lanka

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Pani Wijesiriwardena & K. Ratnayake Following Sunday’s terrorist bombings in Sri Lanka, a nationwide state of emergency was imposed...

Major Indian airline grounded, threatening 23,000 jobs

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Deepal Jayasekera Jet Airways, until recently India’s largest private airline, has been forced to ground all its aircraft since last We...

OECD report: Growth of social inequality fuels global political and economic crisis

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Jessica Goldstein The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released an annual report,  Under Pressure: The Squ...

Bayer cuts 4,500 jobs in Germany

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Dietmar Gaisenkersting In a deep cost-cutting move, chemical giant Bayer AG is eliminating 4,500 jobs in Germany or almost one in seven...

Privatisation of UK’s National Health Service escalates

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Ben Trent Starting this month, general practitioners in the National Health Service (NHS) have been banned from advertising private ser...

Police arrest over 1,000 climate change protesters in London

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Robert Stevens More than 1,000 people have been arrested in London over the last seven days of climate change protests organised by the...

New police crackdown in France as Macron to announce further austerity cuts

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Will Morrow As French President Emmanuel Macron is set to announce new social attacks on the working class in a speech on Thursday, the...

Washington tightens sanctions to cut Iran oil exports to “zero”

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Bill Van Auken With the lifting of waivers that allowed five major countries to continue purchasing Iranian oil, Washington has launche...