Europe is facing the possibility of a winter of strikes too. In Britain, there are estimates that something like 1.7 million workers could strike. Even if strikes don't go ahead in these large numbers for whatever reason, perhaps will be better payoffs or some other kind of settlement. The sort of deep-rooted discontent that unions are tapping into is not going to go away anytime soon.
Russia says it will withdraw from the only captured Ukrainian provincial capital. We ask how the drawdown might go and what it means for the wider war. Britain is set for the largest wave of industrial action in decades; the strikes could throw the country into chaos. And the long life of Shyam Saran Negi, India’s first-ever voter.
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