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  • Trade Unions take a breakfast early in the morning outside of a factory during a general strike against government austerity measures, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. A Spanish Interior Ministry official says 32 people have been arrested and 15 people treated for minor injuries in disturbances as a general strike in Spain against austerity measures and economic reforms began. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

    Strikes, protests hit much of European Union

    With rampant unemployment spreading misery in southern Europe and companies shutting factories across the continent, workers around the European Union sought to unite in a string of strikes and demonstrations on Wednesday.

  • Police officers try to push protesters back onto the pavement Nov. 14, 2012, after they blocked traffic on Oxford Street in London while demonstrating against the dismissal of 28 workers employed by contractors on the Crossrail transport project, whom they say were fired for being trade union members. (Associated Press)

    Austerity protests stall several European nations

    Hundreds of thousands of Europe's beleaguered citizens went on strike or snarled the streets of several capitals Wednesday, at times clashing with riot police, as they demanded that governments stop cutting benefits and create more jobs.

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