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Images from outside King's Cross station in London as British railway workers begin a strike over jobs and pay, billed as the biggest walkout in thirty years. Last-ditch talks to avert the strike broke down, meaning more than 50,000 members of rail union RMT will walk out for three days this week. IMAGES
At Nuremberg main station, about 50 railway workers from the union EVG are demonstrating, wearing yellow vests. All main railway lines in Germany are disrupted due to a strike by rail workers to press their claim in wage negotiations, operator Deutsche Bahn says. IMAGES
Workers at South Korean tech giant Samsung begin a three day general strike after talks with management broke down. IMAGES
Metro, bus and tramway services are at a standstill in Berlin, as in many other German cities, due to a strike by public transport employees. IMAGES
With German train drivers on strike, services across the capital Berlin remain disrupted and intermittent, with cancellations and reduced services seen across both local and regional train journeys. Disruption is expected across the country as a result of the train drivers' union's latest salvo in an escalating dispute over working conditions. It is their second walkout in weeks -- in mid-November, train drivers staged a 20-hour strike that led to the cancellation of some 80 percent of long-distance trains nationwide. IMAGES
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike hits Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. The temporary truce between Israel and Hamas expired early Friday, with the Israeli army saying combat operations had resumed. IMAGES