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By Ezzedine Said Tunisia's main labour union holds a vast public sector strike Thursday to demand salary hikes and concessions on looming reforms, upping pressure on a president already facing a string of crises. Up to three million workers could observe the strike,...

By Paul Raymond Flights were cancelled, public transport ground to a halt and government offices were closed in a nationwide strike by Tunisia's main trade union Thursday, piling pressure on a president already facing multiple crises. The powerful UGTT confederation...

An Egyptian migrant has died after being shot at by French police who tried to stop a van that had rammed through immigration controls on the Italian border, prosecutors said Thursday. The issue of police violence has been thrust into the heart of a tight French...

Spain "will not tolerate" the use of immigration as a "means of pressure", Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday in an indirect warning to Morocco. It comes after the two nations normalised relations following a bitter diplomatic spat, which erupted...