LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – Trade unions across Europe could take coordinated action if governments persist with slashing public services, the leader of Britain’s biggest public sector union said on Monday.

Dave Prentis, general secretary of the 1.4-million-member Unison, told Reuters in an interview that more than four million workers may take part in strikes and rallies against public sector pension reforms on November 30 and further industrial action could follow.

LIVERPOOL (Reuters) – Labour leader Ed Miliband urged Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday to show leadership over the international economic crisis and work with other European countries to push for growth.

“Let’s get stuck in, let’s engage, let’s get Europe to grow, that’s the priority,” he told the BBC before the Labour Party began its annual conference in Liverpool.

LIVERPOOL, England, Sept 25 (Reuters) – British opposition
leader Ed Miliband on Sunday urged Prime Minister David Cameron
to show leadership over the international economic crisis and
work with other European countries to push for growth.

“Let’s get stuck in, let’s engage, let’s get Europe to grow,
that’s the priority,” he said in an interview with the BBC.

LONDON (Reuters) – Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party, must convince doubters of his leadership ability at his party’s annual conference next week and persuade voters he has a strategy to tackle the serious economic problems.

Miliband, 41, was elected leader of the centre-left Labour Party at last year’s party conference, a stunning defeat of his elder brother David, an intellectual former foreign minister who had long been favourite to win.

LONDON (Reuters) – Ivory Coast football star Didier Drogba said on Tuesday he was ready to help his country heal the wounds left by more than four months of post-election fighting.

Chelsea striker Drogba, a hero in his home country, has been named as one of the 11 members of Ivory Coast’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to probe violence that broke out after last November’s disputed presidential vote.

LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Ivory Coast soccer star Didier
Drogba said on Tuesday he was ready to help his country heal the
wounds left by more than four months of post-election fighting.

Chelsea striker Drogba, a hero in his home country, has been
named as one of the 11 members of Ivory Coast’s Truth and
Reconciliation Commission to probe violence that broke out after
last November’s disputed presidential vote.

LONDON (Reuters) – The euro zone debt crisis is emboldening some Conservatives to demand Prime Minister David Cameron scale back or cut ties with Europe, threatening to reopen a battle that nearly tore the party apart in the 1990s.

Conservative right-wingers are increasingly frustrated with the compromises they feel party leader Cameron is being forced to make on Europe and other leading issues to keep the support of the pro-European Liberal Democrats, the minority partner in the 16-month-old coalition government.

LONDON (Reuters) – A British law limiting citizens’ rights to seek the arrest of foreign politicians for alleged war crimes took effect on Thursday, removing a thorn in British-Israeli relations.

The law amends legislation which Israel had protested about, saying it exposed its high-profile officials to the threat of arrest for alleged offences if they visited Britain.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev joked on Monday that visiting Prime Minister David Cameron would have made a very good KGB agent, after Cameron suggested that the Soviet security service tried to recruit him when he was a student.

“I am convinced David would have been a very good KGB agent but in this case he would have never become prime minister of Britain,” Medvedev said at a joint news conference at the Kremlin as both leaders laughed.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron called for better business ties with Russia on Monday before talks with Russian leaders intended to improve relations soured by the murder of a Kremlin critic in London five years ago.

Cameron will meet Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev on a visit to Moscow lasting less than 24 hours.