The auto workers’ strike enters its 4th week. The union president urges members to keep up the fight | AP News

The auto workers’ strike enters its 4th week. The union president urges members to keep up the fight | AP News

CHICAGO (AP) — The president of the United Auto Workers and other labor leaders headlined a rally Saturday in Chicago to maintain union members’ support for a strike against Detroit automakers that is now in its fourth week.UAW President Shawn Fain, using language that has become familiar over the past month, portrayed the strike a

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US demands condemnation of Hamas at UN meeting, but Security Council takes no immediate action | AP News

US demands condemnation of Hamas at UN meeting, but Security Council takes no immediate action | AP News

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting behind closed doors Sunday, with the United States demanding all 15 members strongly condemn “these heinous terrorist attacks committed by Hamas,” but they took no immediate action.U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood said afterward that “a good number of countries” did condemn the Hamas

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Israeli hostage crisis in Hamas-ruled Gaza becomes a political trap for Netanyahu | AP News

Israeli hostage crisis in Hamas-ruled Gaza becomes a political trap for Netanyahu | AP News

JERUSALEM (AP) — The capture of dozens of Israeli soldiers and civilians — elderly women, children, entire families — by Hamas militants has stirred Israeli emotions more viscerally than any crisis in the country’s recent memory and presented an impossible dilemma for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government.The Islamist militant group’s 2006 seizure of

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A surge in rail traffic on North Korea-Russia border suggests arms supply to Russia, think tank says | AP News

A surge in rail traffic on North Korea-Russia border suggests arms supply to Russia, think tank says | AP News

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Recent satellite photos show a sharp increase in rail traffic along the North Korea-Russia border, indicating the North is supplying munitions to Russia, according to a U.S. think tank.Speculation about a possible North Korean plan to refill Russia’s munition stores drained in its protracted war with Ukraine flared last month

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