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LONDON AP 鈥?Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff walked off the job in the U.K. on Monday in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country public health system.The walkout is the latest in聽a wave of strikes聽that has disrupted Britons lives for months, as workers 鈥?especially in the public
stanley cup sector 鈥?demand pay raises to keep pace with double-digit inflation. Teachers, train drivers, airport baggage handlers, border staff, driving instructors, bus drivers and postal workers also have all walked off their jo
stanley cup bs in recent months to demand higher pay.Teachers, health workers and many others say their wages have fallen in real terms over the last decade, and a cost-of-living crisis fueled by sharply rising food and energy prices has left many struggling to pay their bills.Victoria Busk, a trainee nursing associate at a trauma center in Birmingham, central England, said hospitals were understaffed and nurses run off our feet 24/7. We need people to want to come into the profession, she said. The only way that were going to get that is by raising wages and make sure it is something that people want to do. Britain annual聽inflation rate was 10.5 percent in December, a 41-year high. The Conservative government argues that giving public sector staff pay increases of 10 percent or more would drive inflation even higher.READ MORE: Strikes and protests continue in Frances pension battleThe s
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TIRANA, Albania AP 鈥?Albania left-wing Socialist Party has secured its third consecutive mandate in a parliamentary election, winning nearly one in two votes and enough seats in parliament to govern alone, electoral authorities said on Tuesday.The Central Election Commission said that with 98 percent of the ballots from Sunday 821
af1 7 voting counted, Prime Minister Edi Rama Socialists had won 49 percent of the vote and 74 of parliament 140 seats. That as many seats as they won in the previous election.The main opposition center-right Democratic Party got 39 percent of the ballots and 59 seats.Thousands of Socialist supporters gathered in Tirana main Skanderbeg Squ
stanley cup are to celebrate the victory, defying pandemic restrictions.Rama addressed the flag-waving crowd.My dream 8230; is to make Albania in this decade 8230; the Balkan champion, in tourism and agro-tourism, in energy and agriculture and in fast, qualitative, incorruptible digital services, he said.Much of the speech was directed at the opposition Democrats, whom he urged to join the national mega project.The Central Election Commission has said the final results will be formally announced later Tuesday. Counting will then continue for the candidates 鈥?it was the first time Albanian voters selected indivi
stanley cup dual candidates in addition to political parties. It may take a week to conclude.Preliminary turnout Sunday was almost 48 percent, slightly higher t
