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Images show a picket line in front of UCL hospital in London as junior doctors begin a 3-day strike over pay at the start of a week that will also see teachers, train staff and civil servants walk out in the lastest of a wave of UK industrial action. The strike by junior doctors -- who are not senior specialists but can still have decades of experience -- is the longest they have ever staged. The British Medical Association, the body representing them, says junior doctors have suffered a 26% real-terms paycut since 2008/09 and are demanding a 35% wage hike to combat this. IMAGES
Ahead of the imposition of a new contract Junior doctors in the UK have begun two days of full strikes controversially including both A&E and maternity care.
Junior Doctors and student nurses have walked out after negotiations failed with the government.
Hundreds of flights are cancelled at French airports despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators hold placards and wave banners as they take part in a protest organised by the Korean Medical Association in Seoul. IMAGES
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