October 3, 2023
AFTER 148 days, the writers’ strike in Hollywood has come to an end. The duration has made the strike a historic Hollywood labour battle and the second longest in the Writers Guild of America’s history. It concluded on Sept 27 due to a vote from guild leadership that officially authorised around 11,500 members to return
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A lightning strike caused a large gas explosion in England on Monday followed by a huge fireball visible in the night sky from miles away. The fire erupted after lighting hit a gas tank at a food waste recycling plant in Oxfordshire. The Severn Trent Green Power Plant at Cassington, north of Oxford, told Fox
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A sign is posted on the exterior of the Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center on September 08, 2023 in Vallejo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images More than 75,000 workers at the largest nonprofit private health-care provider in the United States are poised to strike Wednesday after negotiations failed to reach an agreement over the
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HBO’s John Oliver tried to cover a lot of ground on Sunday, his first night back on the air since the writers strike put his show on hiatus in May. But there was one story he had to keep going back to: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) getting kicked out of a performance of the “Beetlejuice”
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Another 7,000 members of the biggest US automobile workers’ union on Friday joined its already major strike against the country’s “Big Three” Detroit car manufacturers. The latest walkouts leave a total of some 25,000 workers on strike in 21 states — or around 17 percent of the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) membership. UAW
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Russian forces launched 40 exploding drones at Ukraine overnight, the authorities said on Saturday, sparking a big fire at a plant in central Ukraine, the latest attack on a region far from the front line. Ukraine’s air defenses shot down 30 of the slow-moving drones fired from the Russian-occupied region of Crimea, according to the
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Aslef’s general secretary Mick Whelan said his union was targeting the Conservative Party conference for “industrial reasons”. Mr Whelan joined rail workers on a picket line at London Euston station, alongside a cardboard model of Transport Secretary Mark Harper mocked up as the main character from the Where’s Wally? children’s books. Speaking to the PA
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DETROIT: The United Auto Workers union says it will announce on Friday how it plans to expand its strike against Detroit’s three automakers. The union says President Shawn Fain will make the announcement at 10 a.m. Eastern Time (10 p.m. in Manila) in a video appearance addressing union members. Additional walkouts will take place at
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As the bitter, months-long strike by the Writers Guild of America against the major media companies spilled into September, neither side could agree on whose turn it was to make the next proposal. Negotiations were tied in knots for weeks. Then, finally, the breakthrough came. Chris Keyser, the WGA Negotiating Committee’s co-chairman, called Walt Disney
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The killing of an enemy admiral in a missile strike would be a coup for any military, but the celebration in Ukraine over the death of Russia’s Black Sea fleet commander may turn out to be short-lived. A day after announcing that the admiral was among 34 officers killed in a strike deep behind enemy
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