Новости за 28.11.2016

This Week in History provides brief synopses of important historical events whose anniversaries fall this week.

Speakers explained the dangerous political agenda of the incoming Trump administration in the US and the necessity for workers and youth to mobilise on a revolutionary program.

The recent shootings take place one year after the release of dashcam footage of the murder of 17-year-old black youth Laquan McDonald by a Chicago cop.

The Modi government is forging closer strategic ties with Japan and Israel to aggressively pursue the great power ambitions of India’s elite against China and Pakistan.

President Barack Obama is denouncing an entirely legitimate legal action to verify the outcome of the election in states where the result was exceptionally close.

A total of 116 children perished in the avalanche of coal waste, almost half from Pantglas Junior School, along with 28 adults, including five teachers.

A Chinese think tank director warned that “strategic rivalry between China and the US is likely to continue over the South China Sea.”

With a vote on President Park’s impeachment looming, last weekend’s protests are a sign of growing social and political discontent.

The total number of workers in self-employment, temporary work and zero-hours contracts has increased by nearly 2 million over the past decade.

The constitutional reform, a step toward authoritarian rule, is the key element of the program of Prime Minister Renzi.

Almost three years after President Gauck and the German government announced the end of military restraint, a massive build-up of the military is at the centre of the budget.

The offer made by the Lufthansa board on Friday evening is aimed at breaking the resistance of the pilots’ union and pushing through fundamental changes in working conditions.

Fillon’s victory as the candidate of The Republicans signifies a sharp shift to the right toward intensified austerity, nationalism and militarism.

The court ruling upset 70 years of prior precedent that gave the Labor Department the authority to set rules regulating overtime pay.

Castro’s legacy cannot be evaluated solely through the prism of Cuba, but must take into account the impact of his politics internationally and, above all, in Latin America.