The teachers were protesting sweeping education reform passed by the federal government in 2013 Six people are dead and more than 100 are injured following a weekend of violence between members of a teachers’ union and police in In a violent confrontation with law enforcement on Sunday, teachers belonging to the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) staged blockades across ...

 Imagine the entire population of Britain uprooted: The UN refugee agency says just over that number — 65 million people — were displaced worldwide by the end of last year, easily setting a new postwar record, as it warned that European and other rich nations can expect the tide to continue if root causes aren’t addressed. In a year when ...

Rome has elected its first female mayor in a landslide victory for Virginia Raggi, an anti-establishment newcomer from the populist protest party the Five Star Movement. The 37-year-old lawyer won support for speaking out against corruption and deteriorating public services in the Italian capital. Her victory comes after dozens of local officials and businessmen were arrested on corruption charges and accused of using “Mafia-like” intimidation methods ...

More than 20 people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan on Monday, including at least 14 when a suicide bomber struck a minibus carrying Nepalese security contractors in the Afghan capital, officials said. In Kabul, a Reuters witness saw several apparently dead victims and at least two wounded being carried out of the twisted remains of a yellow bus ...

“Civil servants told David Cameron in 2012 that it was “impossible” for the government to meet its flagship immigration pledge, the PM’s former director of strategy has claimed. Steve Hilton said Mr Cameron was told “explicitly and directly” that EU free movement rules meant net migration could not be reduced below 100,000. The target featured in the Tories’ election manifesto ...

Welsh universities have nailed their colours firmly to the mast in the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union. They have received millions from the EU for research and new buildings. The representative body Universities Wales says this funding ultimately has huge benefits for the Welsh economy. But the Leave campaign say that universities and science would continue ...

David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn have united to condemn the killing of MP Jo Cox as an “attack on democracy”. Speaking alongside the prime minister in Mrs Cox’s West Yorkshire constituency, Labour leader Mr Corbyn said Parliament would be recalled on Monday, and labelled the attack “an act of hatred”. Mrs Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed in the street ...

Family and friends of a student who was stabbed to death in south London held up powerful placards against knife crime during his funeral procession today. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan joined the mourners who had walked along Penwortham Road, where 20-year-old Lewis Elwin was killed. The trainee electrician was knifed in the back by a gang in front of ...

17 June 2016 “I am deeply shocked and saddened at the tragic killing of Mrs. Jo Cox, the young and promising Labour Party MP from Batley and Spen,” she said in a message sent to British Prime Minister David Cameron . “In her death, Britain has lost a champion political campaigner who stood firm for the disadvantaged and marginalised communities ...

An MP has died after she was shot and stabbed in an attack in her constituency, police have said. Jo Cox, 41, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was left bleeding on the ground after the attack in West Yorkshire. A 52-year-old man was arrested nearby.   Her husband Brendan Cox said she would want people “to unite to fight ...