Continuing retirees’ protests over poverty joined by striking steelworkers, electrical workers and goldsmiths against Iran’s authoritarian government; doctors in general practices begin walkout in Germany to demand more funding for healthcare; further pay strike by transport workers in Northern Ireland causes major disruption
Workers and tourists in Greece took a midday break when temperatures reached 113 degrees recently essentially reviving an old tradition: the siesta. As temperatures rise, should siestas become common again?
Sixteen people have been declared dead following the flash floods which hit Greece early last week. With a fifth of all arable land on the Thessaly plain under water, the economic devastation wrought counts in the billions of euros.