Today: October 07, 2024
Today: October 07, 2024

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Why the United Auto Workers union is poised to strike major US car makers this week

About 146,000 U.S. auto workers are set to go on strike this week if General Motors, Ford and Stellantis fail to meet their demands for big pay raises and the restoration of concessions the workers made years ago when the companies were in financial trouble. Shawn Fain, the combative president of the United Auto Workers union, has threatened to strike any of the three companies that hasn’t reached an agreement by the time its contract with the union expires at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Thursday. Both sides began exchanging wage and benefit proposals last week. Though some

Why the United Auto Workers union is poised to strike major US car makers this week
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Escaped murderer in Pennsylvania has changed appearance, is being sought in stolen dairy van

Authorities say an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a half ago has apparently slipped out of the search area, changed his appearance and is now being sought in a stolen vehicle. Pennsylvania State Police said in a statement on Sunday that Danelo Souza Cavalcante was seen overnight near Phoenixville in northern Chester County, more than 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of the area that until now has been the focus of the search. Cavalcante is now clean-shaven and wearing a yellow or green hooded

Escaped murderer in Pennsylvania has changed appearance, is being sought in stolen dairy van
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11 people are hurt when a walkway collapses during Maine's annual lighthouse event

Eleven lighthouse enthusiasts were hurt when a walkway collapsed, sending people tumbling into mudflats below during an annual event that encourages tours of Maine’s beloved beacons. The wooden walkway collapsed at Doubling Point Lighthouse in Arrowsic on Saturday afternoon. The lighthouse was open to the public as part of Maine Open Lighthouse Day, which is a day when the state’s scenic lighthouses are open to the public. Five of the 11 injured people were taken to hospitals, said Bath Fire Department Deputy Chief Chris Cummings. The collapse of the bridge happened at low tide and caused

11 people are hurt when a walkway collapses during Maine's annual lighthouse event
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Delta Air Lines employees work up a sweat at boot camp, learning how to de-ice planes

Delta Air Lines has learned that summer is a good time to prepare for winter — and how to de-ice planes so they can keep flying safely in freezing temperatures. Every summer, Delta brings about 400 workers to Minneapolis to a three-day summer de-ice “boot camp.” They go through computer-based training, watch demonstrations by instructors, and then practice spraying down a plane — using water instead of the chemicals found in de-icing fluid. The boot campers, who rotate through in groups of 10 or so, return to their home bases and train 6,000 co-workers before October, says

Delta Air Lines employees work up a sweat at boot camp, learning how to de-ice planes
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Sri Lanka's president will appoint a committee to probe allegations of complicity in 2019 bombings

Sri Lanka’s president said Sunday he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. The attacks, which included simultaneous suicide bombings, targeted three churches and three tourist hotels. The dead included 42 foreigners from 14 countries. President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s decision to appoint a committee headed by a judge to investigate claims that Sri Lankan intelligence had a hand in the bombings that were carried out

Sri Lanka's president will appoint a committee to probe allegations of complicity in 2019 bombings
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UK leader Sunak chides China after report a UK Parliament staffer is a suspected Beijing spy

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chastised China’s premier on Sunday for “unacceptable” interference in British democracy, after a newspaper reported that a researcher in Parliament was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of spying for Beijing. Sunak said he raised the issue with Premier LI Qiang when the two met at a Group of 20 summit in India. He told British broadcasters in New Delhi that he’d expressed “my very strong concerns about any interference in our parliamentary democracy, which is obviously unacceptable.” The two men met after the Metropolitan Police force confirmed that a man in his

UK leader Sunak chides China after report a UK Parliament staffer is a suspected Beijing spy
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Niger junta accuses France of amassing forces for a military intervention after the coup in July

Niger’s new military leaders accused France of amassing forces for a possible military intervention in the country following the coup in July. French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that he would only take action at the demand of deposed Nigerien leader Mohamed Bazoum. Niger’s junta spokesman, Maj. Amadou Abdramane, said that France is also considering collaborating in such an intervention with the Economic Community of West African States, a regional bloc known as ECOWAS. “France continues to deploy its forces in several ECOWAS countries as part of preparations for an aggression against Niger,” Abdramane said late

Niger junta accuses France of amassing forces for a military intervention after the coup in July
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Australian and Indonesian forces deploy battle tanks in US-led combat drills amid Chinese concern

Thousands of soldiers from the United States, Indonesia, Australia and other allied forces demonstrated their armor capabilities on Sunday in combat drills on the Indonesian island of Java at a time of increased Chinese aggression in the region. President Joe Biden’s administration has been strengthening an arc of military alliances in the Indo-Pacific to reassure allies alarmed by Beijing’s increasingly provocative actions in the disputed South China Sea, which has become a battleground for U.S-Chinese rivalries. During the drills, Australian forces deployed five M1A1 Abrams battle tanks and the Indonesian military, deployed two Leopard-2 tanks for

Australian and Indonesian forces deploy battle tanks in US-led combat drills amid Chinese concern
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India forges compromise among divided world powers at the G20 summit in a diplomatic win for Modi

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted his country as well-placed to bridge gaps in the Group of 20 top economies and solve global problems, but many were skeptical ahead of the weekend’s summit given grave divisions within the bloc over the Russia’s war in Ukraine. He was able to dispel those doubts, announcing a unanimous final agreement a day before the G20 summit ended Sunday that included language on the European war which both Russia and China signed off on. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the group agreed to a “very strong” message. German Chancellor

India forges compromise among divided world powers at the G20 summit in a diplomatic win for Modi
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In ancient cities and mountain towns, rescuers seek survivors from Morocco's quake of the century

Morocco worked Sunday to rescue survivors and prayed for victims of the country’s strongest earthquake in more than a century, while soldiers and aid workers brought water and supplies to mountain villages in ruins. More than 2,000 people are dead — a number that is expected to rise. Those left homeless by the destruction of Friday night’s earthquake slept outside Saturday, in the streets of the ancient city of Marrakech or under makeshift canopies in Atlas Mountain towns like Moulay Brahim, among the hardest-hit. The worst destruction is in small, rural communities that are hard for

In ancient cities and mountain towns, rescuers seek survivors from Morocco's quake of the century
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A drone attack kills at least 23 in Sudan’s capital as rival troops battle, activists say

A drone attack Sunday on an open market south of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, killed at least 23 people, activists and medical workers said, as the military and a powerful paramilitary group battle for control of the country. At least three dozen others were injured in the attack in Khartoum’s May neighborhood, according to an activist group known as the Resistance Committees and two health care workers at the Bashair University Hospital, where the casualties were treated. The activist group posted footage on social media showing bodies wrapped in white sheets in an open yard at the

A drone attack kills at least 23 in Sudan’s capital as rival troops battle, activists say
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Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, UN drug agency says

Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the United Nations drug agency said Sunday. The country is also a major opium producer and heroin source, even though the Taliban declared a war on narcotics after they returned to power in August 2021. The United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crimes, which published the report, said meth in Afghanistan is mostly made from legally available substances or extracted from the ephedra plant, which grows in the wild. The report called Afghanistan’s meth manufacturing a growing threat to national and regional health and security because

Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, UN drug agency says
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Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools

As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice and devoting less time to tablets, independent online research and keyboarding skills. The return to more traditional ways of learning is a response to politicians and experts questioning whether the country’s hyper-digitalized approach to education, including the introduction of tablets in nursery schools, had led to a decline in basic skills. Swedish Minister for Schools Lotta Edholm, who took office 11 months ago as part of a new

Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools
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Vatican holds unprecedented beatification of Polish family of 9 killed for hiding Jews

In an unprecedented move, the Vatican on Sunday is beatifying a Polish family of nine — a married couple and their small children — who were executed by the Nazis during World War II for sheltering Jews. Last year, Pope Francis pronounced the deeply Catholic Ulma family, including the child that Wiktoria Ulma was pregnant with, martyrs for the faith, paving the way for the beatification Mass that is taking place in their home village of Markowa, in southeastern Poland. The Ulmas were killed at home by German Nazi troops and by Nazi-controlled local police in

Vatican holds unprecedented beatification of Polish family of 9 killed for hiding Jews
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Moroccan villagers mourn after earthquake brings destruction to their rural mountain home

The ground shook with a force few had ever felt, thundering through the remote Moroccan village in the dark of night. When the earthquake was over late Friday, the town carved into the Atlas Mountains lay in devastation — possibly dozens dead, scores of homes crumpled and walls reduced to rubble. Soon crews were listening for desperate sounds of life within the ruins of Moulay Brahim. A village of fewer than 3,000 people, Moulay Brahim attracts tourists and outdoor enthusiasts with its stunning vistas and proximity to Marrakech. Streets brimmed with small hotels and cafes

Moroccan villagers mourn after earthquake brings destruction to their rural mountain home
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Hudson Clement has 177 receiving yards, 3 TDs in college debut, West Virginia beats Duquesne 56-17

Redshirt freshman Hudson Clement caught three of Garrett Greene’s career-high four touchdown passes in his first college game and West Virginia withstood a nearly two-hour weather delay and its own early mistakes to beat Duquesne 56-17 Saturday night. West Virginia (1-1) bounced back from a blowout loss at Penn State with multiple long offensive plays that were lacking in the opener. In 2021, Clement set a West Virginia high school record at Martinsburg High when he scored eight touchdowns in the state title game. He never saw the field at West Virginia in 2022. On Saturday,

Hudson Clement has 177 receiving yards, 3 TDs in college debut, West Virginia beats Duquesne 56-17
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Legal fight expected after New Mexico governor suspends the right to carry guns in public

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque will spur a legal fight but might also raise public awareness about gun violence, legal scholars and advocates said. “It’s going to be challenged. But she’s trying to move the debate,” Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Marymount’s Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said after Lujan Grisham announced Friday that she was temporarily suspending the right to carry firearms in her state’s largest city and surrounding Bernalillo County. The 30-day suspension, enacted as an emergency public health measure,

Legal fight expected after New Mexico governor suspends the right to carry guns in public
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Hundreds of Pride activists march in Serbia despite hate messages sent by far-right officials

Hundreds of Pride activists gathered in the Serbian capital Saturday amid a heavy police presence and anti-gay messages sent by the country’s conservative leadership and far-right groups. Last year, the LGBTQ+ event was marred by skirmishes between the police and anti-Pride groups who believe the event goes against traditional Serbian Christian Orthodox values and should be banned. The participants of the march on Saturday held banners reading “We Are Not Even Close” — referring to the current status of the gay population is Serbia — as well as “Marriage” and “Queer Liberation not Rainbow Capitalism.” A

Hundreds of Pride activists march in Serbia despite hate messages sent by far-right officials
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As Jacksonville shooting victims are eulogized, advocates call attention to anti-Black hate crimes

The racist motivations of the white shooter who targeted and fatally shot Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, two weeks ago have revived concerns about the threat of hate violence and domestic terrorism against African Americans. Most hate crime victims in the U.S. are Black, and that has been the case since the federal government began tracking such crimes decades ago. But national attention on the rate of Black victimization is heightened in the wake of mass casualty racist attacks, like those in recent years at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

As Jacksonville shooting victims are eulogized, advocates call attention to anti-Black hate crimes
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Greek authorities evacuate another village as they try to prevent flooding in a major city

Another village near a major Greek city was ordered evacuated Saturday afternoon as authorities frantically shored up flood defenses against a rising river following torrential rain earlier in the week. Rescue crews were evacuating stranded residents from already flooded areas in the central region of Thessaly. The death toll still stood at 10, with four people missing. The village of Omorfochori, about 8 kilometers (5 kilometers) by road from the city of Larissa, Thessaly’s capital and largest city, was ordered evacuated by SMS alert due to the rising water of the Pineios river. Residents were directed

Greek authorities evacuate another village as they try to prevent flooding in a major city
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Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa -- with a lot of water

The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool a powerful supercomputer as it helped teach its AI systems how to mimic human writing. As they race to capitalize on a craze for generative AI, leading tech developers including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have acknowledged that growing demand for their AI tools carries hefty costs, from expensive semiconductors to an

Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa -- with a lot of water
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Separatist parliament in Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region elects new president

Lawmakers in Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway Armenian-populated region of Azerbaijan, voted to elect a new separatist president on Saturday in a move that was strongly condemned by the Azerbaijani authorities. Samvel Shakhramanyan’s election as the new president of Nagorno-Karabakh follows the resignation of Arayik Harutyunyan, who stepped down on Sept. 1 as president of the region — which the Armenians call Artsakh. It comes amid soaring tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry denounced the vote as a “gross violation” of the country’s constitution and a “serious blow to the efforts of normalization in the region.”

Separatist parliament in Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region elects new president
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UN atomic watchdog warns of threat to nuclear safety as fighting spikes near plant in Ukraine

The United Nations atomic watchdog warned of a potential threat to nuclear safety due to a spike in fighting near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine, whose forces continued pressing their counteroffensive on Saturday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said its experts deployed at the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant reported hearing numerous explosions over the past week, in a possible indication of increased military activity in the region. There was no damage to the plant. “I remain deeply concerned about the possible dangers facing the plant at this time of heightened military tension in

UN atomic watchdog warns of threat to nuclear safety as fighting spikes near plant in Ukraine
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UK police catch terrorism suspect who escaped from a London prison

A former soldier who escaped from a London prison while awaiting trial on terrorism charges was captured Saturday, police said. Daniel Abed Khalife was on the run four days before a massive search managed to nab him in Chiswick in west London. Khalife escaped on the bottom of a food delivery truck from Wandsworth Prison on Wednesday. The breakout ignited a storm of criticism as political opponents blamed the ruling Conservative party for incompetence. Khalife, 21, is accused of planting fake bombs at a military base and of violating Britain’s Official Secrets Act by gathering information “that

UK police catch terrorism suspect who escaped from a London prison
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The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of 1 billion people

The group of the world’s 20 leading economies is welcoming the African Union as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of Africa as its more than 50 countries seek a more important role on the global stage. U.S. President Joe Biden called last year for the AU’s permanent membership in the G20, saying it’s been “a long time in coming.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the bloc was invited to join during the G20 summit his country is hosting this week. The African Union has advocated for full membership for seven years, spokesperson Ebba

The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of 1 billion people

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