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South Korea’s unionized cargo truckers staged a indefinite strike starting Monday midnight, marking the first major labour-government conflict since President Yoon Suk-yeol took office last month amid a worsening market economy and sharp price hikes here.

Yesterday’s strike launched by over 1,000 trade unions demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Cabinet of Ministers brought the country to a standstill.

Yemen's Houthi group said on Saturday (March 26) it was suspending missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia for three days, in a peace initiative it said could be a lasting commitment if the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen stopped air strikes and lifted port restrictions.

The 1st Division King’s Guard has put military personnel and vehicles on standby after Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha asked the armed forces to prepare trucks to transport goods if truck operators decide to strike on December 1.

Workers at a Covid-hit factory in Nonthaburi on Monday demanded that the owner close the factory until it has been cleaned and all workers’ test results have come back.

After more than a month of fasting in prison, anti-establishment movement leader Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak has started excreting blood clots, the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration reported on its Facebook page on Wednesday.

Detained pro-democracy protester Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak, who has been on a fast for over a month, was tired and in need of help for walking, the Department of Corrections said on Saturday morning.

Twenty three staff members from Taungdwingyi Township General Administration Department in Magway Region joined the ongoing civil disobedience movement (CDM) on March 5 and 6 bringing the number of civil servants on strike to nearly 3,000 in the township. 

Tens of thousands of workers nationwide walked off the job Monday in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, hoping to draw closer scrutiny to the income inequality and systemic racism that organizers say have become more entrenched during the coronavirus pandemic.

Tens of thousands of workers nationwide are expected to walk off the job Monday in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, hoping to draw closer scrutiny to the income inequality and systemic racism that organizers say has grown more entrenched during the pandemic.

Company owners are prohibited from shutting down their business while the emergency decree is in force, while staff are banned from going on strike, a Labour Ministry announcement published in the Royal Gazette website said.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said on Friday that a senior Iranian general killed by a U.S. drone strike had been planning attacks on four U.S. embassies, a claim made to justify the decision but that was at odds with intelligence assessments from senior officials in Trump's administration.