Further UK strikes as 40,000 rail workers bring rail network to a halt over jobs, pay, conditions and safety, postal workers in latest 24-hour strike and Liverpool dockers in new week-long stoppage; Criminal Bar Association agrees sellout deal with UK government to end long-running strikes over pay and legal aid; two-week pay strike of Transnet port and rail workers in South Africa “throttling the economy”
Bystanders praised an armed man who held bank staff hostage for hours on Thursday in Beirut because he could not access funds frozen at the bank after the country’s economic collapse. The hostage situation in a bank in Lebanon’s capital ended after authorities agreed to grant the gunman partial access to his frozen funds in exchange for releasing all the hostages. The man
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