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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
US interest rates will likely peak at a higher level than was previously anticipated due to January data that came in stronger than recent trends expected, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell tells a US Senate hearing, saying, "if the totality of the data were to indicate that faster tightening is warranted, we would be prepared to increase the pace of rate hikes." SOUNDBITE
Images of British nurses staging a second unprecedented strike to demand pay rises and better working conditions in front of St Thomas' Hospital in London. The strike, which began last week, comes against a backdrop of multiple walkouts in the UK, where inflation is running at over 10%. IMAGES
Images show nurses in front of London's St Thomas' Hospital amidst unprecedented walkouts. Up to 100,000 nurses around the UK are staging a one-day strike as a "last resort" in their fight for better wages and working conditions. IMAGES
Demonstrators aligned with the group 'Don't Pay UK' gather outside London's King's Cross Station to burn mock bills in protest at the rising cost of energy. Chants of 'Can't pay, won't pay, we say don't pay' ring out, reflecting the group's advocacy of withholding payment of energy bills while prices remain at their current level. IMAGES
Workers at Felixstowe port in southeastern England are on the second day of an eight-day strike over pay, with logistics the latest industry to see industrial action as inflation in the UK hits 10 percent. Nearly 2,000 unionised employees at the port, including crane drivers, machine operators and stevedores, are involved in the first strike at Felixstowe since 1989. IMAGES