The union has called for significant wage increases and improvements to benefits.Photograph: David Zalubowski/AP” loading=”eager” height=”640″ width=”960″ class=”yf-g633g8 loader”/> The union has called for significant wage increases and improvements to benefits.Photograph: David Zalubowski/AP A strike that would have seen some 18,000 workers at Costco around the US walk off the job at midnight was averted […]
A drone attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region killed 30 people and injured dozens, reports said on Saturday. The bombing of the Saudi Hospital on Friday evening “led to the destruction” of its emergency building, the source told AFP, requesting anonymity for fear of retaliation. It […]
Russian state newspaper Izvestia says one of its freelance reporters has been killed in a drone strike near the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Moscow accused Ukraine’s military of deliberately targeting Alexander Martemyanov. Ukraine has not commented. Izvestia said a civilian vehicle carrying Martemyanov had been struck as it travelled on a highway […]
An Israeli air strike on a tent camp sheltering displaced families in southern Gaza has killed at least 11 Palestinians, including the chief of the territory’s Hamas-run police force, medics say. Three children and two women were also reportedly among the dead in al-Mawasi, west of the city of Khan Younis. The Hamas-run interior ministry […]
Several people were killed in an attack on the city of Jabaliya, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense. Israel’s military did not immediately comment.
Eric Mason after surgery Eric Mason Sr. is many things — pastor, bishop, educator, nonprofit director, mentor, husband, father and grandfather — but one of the activities he enjoys most is singing. Because of his work, Eric, 55, travels a lot — both near his home in Savannah, Georgia, and beyond — preaching to different […]
President-elect Donald Trump has made clear his intent to supercharge his “America First” approach to foreign policy in his second term — and Mexico looks set to be at the tip of the spear. While many of Trump’s predecessors have also followed a “realist” strategy — that is, one in which relative power is at […]
EPA More than 170 people have died after a plane crashed as it was landing in South Korea on Sunday morning. The Jeju Air plane came off the runway before colliding with a wall at Muan International Airport in the south west of the country. The plane, which was returning from Bangkok, in Thailand, was […]
By Bart Meijer (Reuters) – Uncertainties surround the deadliest crash on South Korean soil, experts said on Sunday, questioning initial suggestions that a bird strike might have brought down Jeju Air flight 7C2216. The apparent absence of landing gear, the timing of the twin-engine Boeing 737-800’s belly-landing at Muan International Airport and the reports of […]
Three-quarters of all ports in Peru have been closed because of huge waves lashing the coast. Beaches are closed and fishing boats have been prevented for heading out to sea as a safety precaution. The waves are being caused by persistent winds off the coast of the United States, according to The Chief of Hydrography […]
