“The whole system has broken down and it’s going to take a lot of effort and a lot of money to fix it,” the leading author Tom Haines-Doran said.

A rail traffic stoppage could freeze almost 30 percent of US cargo shipments by weight, stoke inflation and cost the US economy as much as $2 billion per day.

Rail passengers in the British capital, London, are facing more travel chaos as rail workers are staging yet another strike in their long-running dispute over pay and working conditions.

A fresh round of rail strikes has gotten underway across the UK bringing travel chaos to millions of travelers for the next three days.

British lawyers involved in criminal trials stage a walkout to demand higher wages, amid a soaring cost of living crisis in the country.

British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab says the UK government cannot allow unions to win a battle for higher pay as it would allegedly fuel a “vicious cycle” of inflation hurting the poorest.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 1000 GMT, June 21, 2022.