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Ryanair staff on strike across Europe over pay and working conditions
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Lula returns to prison after grandson's funeral
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva temporarily left prison on Saturday to attend his 7-year-old grandson's funeral. He will return to his cell the same afternoon.
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Seattle takes to the streets on May Day march
Marchers took to the streets in Seattle for the annual May Day demonstration.
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Union-led protest in Athens against labour bill
Demonstrators from various unions marched on Wednesday against Greece's new conservative government's labour bill that they argue will undermine collective bargaining rights and the right to strike.
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Lula plays football with land movement leaders
Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was jailed until last month on a corruption conviction, participated in a football match with artists, social movement leaders and leftist politicians in Sao Paulo on Sunday.
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Pelosi announces agreement on USMCA trade pact
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Pelosi announces agreement on USMCA trade pact
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced agreement on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win on the very same day that Democrats announced their impeachment charges against him.
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ANTI-AUSTERITY PROTESTS CONTINUE AS ECONOMY FALTERS
Protesters in Spain on Thursday demonstrated against government's punishing austerity measures in the midst of high unemployment and a faltering economy.
Hundreds marched in front of the Spanish parliament demanding an end to Prime...
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First Apple store opens in Hong Kong, protest
1. Wide of Apple store entrance being opened and pan to crowd waiting outside
2. Mid of countdown UPSOUND to opening and pull out to wide as first people waiting walk into Apple store
3. Mid of people walking into store
4. Wide of staff...
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May Day clashes in Turkey, mass rallies in Greek capital
Clashes erupted in Istanbul on Thursday between May Day demonstrators and riot police as crowds marched towards Taksim Square, aiming to defy a government ban.
Security forces pushed back demonstrators with water cannon and tear gas to...
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Nearly two-thousand families in Sao Paulo have spent the last few days occupying a site near to the stadium that will host the opening match of the FIFA World Cup on June 12.
Nearly two-thousand families in Sao Paulo have spent the last few days occupying a site near to the stadium that will host the opening match of the FIFA World Cup on June 12.
They erected makeshift dwellings on Tuesday less than two...
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Protests as workers ask for a wage increases in Jakarta, Manilla
Manila, Philippines
1. Wide of thousands of protesters marching with banners and flags, one banner reads: (English) "Oust (Philippines President Gloria Macapagal) Arroyo Regime!!!"
2. Pan of protesters holding banner reading: (English)...
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CHINA: PEASANTS CONTINUE TO LIVE IN POVERTY
Mandarin/Nat
Fifty years after the communist revolution in China hundreds of millions of peasants continue to live in poverty.
Eroding incomes are fuelling a mass migration from the countryside to the cities.
Now, with China on the verge...
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People take to the streets to protest so-called vulture funds imposed by the US
1. Leftist groups marching against US hedge funds that are owed 1.65 billion US Dollars by Argentina's government, carrying cut-out of vulture with colours of American flag
2. Protester dousing vulture cut-out with fuel to burn it
3....
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CAMBODIA: LABOUR PROTESTERS ARE STRUCK BY POLICE IN VIOLENT CLASHES
Khmer/Natsound
Police in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh Penh struck demonstrators with rifle butts and fired water cannons Saturday to break up a labour protest, injuring several.
The violence was the first for Cambodia's new labour...
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Fiat plants close in Naples as transporter drivers go on strike
Pomigliano
1. Wide of Fiat plant in Pomigliano, near Naples
2. Fiat and Italian flags
3. Pan left of empty parking lots reserved for Fiat workers
4. Mid of sign reading (Italian) "Entrance 2"
5. Various of closed entrance to plant
6....
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Portuguese take to streets on May Day to protest against lost of labour rights
Thousand of Portuguese workers took part in May Day marches in Lisbon on Thursday to protest against unemployment, austerity measures and what they say are worsening working conditions in the country.
Portugal, like Greece and Ireland,...
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SOUTH KOREA: LABOUR DAY RALLY
Korean/Nat
More than 20-thousand workers and students in South Korea gathered for May Day celebrations vowing to fight the government's corporate reforms they fear will result in mass layoffs.
Dozens of students traded kicks and punches...
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EL SALVADOR: ASIAN FACTORIES MOVING TO NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
Spanish/Nat
Asian factories in El Salvador are decamping to neighbouring countries in the quest for cheap labour.
Some nine thousand jobs have been lost with the closure of 21 textile factories and more are expected to follow.
The...
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Students protest against labor law reform that would cut benefits for young workers
Clashes erupted between riot police and demonstrators on Thursday in Lima as young Peruvians protested a new law that strips workers between the ages 18 and 24 of some labour rights.
Demonstrators threw stones and sticks at police who...
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Leader of Argentina's biggest labour confederation forms his own political party
1. Mid of man holding Argentine flag featuring images of Juan Peron and Eva Duarte
2. Wide of Hugo Moyano's supporters playing drums outside Luna Park Stadium
3. Mid of Truck Union member playing drum
4. Wide of people entering...
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Thousands stage walkout to protest govt anti-union action
Seoul - 5 July 2001
1. Wide-shot of demonstration - audio of music and people singing
2. High-shot of people marching, singing and carrying flags
3. Protesters pushing riot police
4. Riot police standing in line
5. Mid-shot of policeman...
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Protests as Wisconsin approves anti-union measure
A contentious law that strips public workers of most collective bargaining rights was passed in the US state of Wisconsin on Thursday.
The Wisconsin Assembly voted 53-42 to pass the bill after about three hours of discussion.
The passage...
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How the general strike is affecting Florence
1. Wide shot of Independence Square, in centre of city
2. Mid shot of banner showing Berlusconi next to Mussolini
3. Close up banner
4. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Marco, Protester
"We are marching for Article 18 which is a symbol for the...