Workers at 200 Starbucks stores walk off job on busy Red Cup Day to protest labour practices
Thursday’s strike was the fifth major labour action by Starbucks workers since a store in Buffalo, New York, became the first to unionise in late 2021. Workers at 110 stores walked out last year on Red Cup Day; most recently, a strike in June protested reports that Starbucks had removed Pride displays from its stores.
Terrorism experts say Somalia’s Al Shabaab is celebrating Israel-Hamas war for relevance
This is not the first time al-Shabaab has inserted itself into the Israel-Palestine conflict. It previously claimed that its deadly 2019 attack on a hotel and office complex in Nairobi, Kenya, was a response to international recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Biden’s reference to China’s present Xi as ‘dictator’ draws strong response from Beijing
Xi is considered the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, after a decade of consolidating power in policy-making and the military, and stifling media freedoms.
Poisoned beauty: How Johnson & Johnson failed to dodge $9 billion fines using bankruptcy law
J&J said in May 2020 that it would discontinue sales of talc-based baby powders in the US and Canada and replace them with cornstarch-based baby powders. The company said talc powders would “continue to be sold in other markets around the world where there is significantly higher demand for the product.”
50,000 lawsuits expose J&J’s 40 years of deception about asbestos in baby powder
In 2006, IARC classified cosmetic talc as “possibly carcinogenic” when used in the genital area. J&J then “looked for ways to sell more Baby Powder to two key groups of longtime users: African-American and overweight women,” Reuters reported in 2019.
Central Europe’s war industry scrambles for African weapons market as Russia battles Ukraine
The Czech Republic in 2022 exported ammunition, guns, aircraft and other military supplies valued at around 32 million euros to 10 sub-Saharan African countries, many which rely on Soviet-era weapons manufactured with different standards and calibres than those used in the West. This was up from just under 2 million euros in 2011.
Israeli troops scour Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital for Hamas fighters and weapons
International attention has focused on the fate of hundreds of patients trapped inside without electricity to operate basic medical equipment, and thousands of displaced civilians who had sought shelter there. Gaza officials say that many patients including three newborn babies died in recent days as a result of Israel’s encirclement of the hospital.
UK determined to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda despite Supreme Court ruling
Britain and Rwanda signed a deal in April 2022 to send migrants who arrive in the UK as stowaways or in boats to the East African country, where their asylum claims would be processed and, if successful, they would stay.
Israeli soldiers storm Al Shifa Hospital believed to be Hamas holdout, kill militants in raid
Israeli soldiers killed several Hamas militants at the outset of a raid on the Al Shifa hospital on Wednesday, where thousands of Palestinian civilians – patients, displaced people and medical staff – have been trapped during weeks of fighting. Israel said it launched the raid because Hamas has a command...
Britain’s Supreme Court set to rule on London’s plan to relocate asylum-seekers to Rwanda
In December the High Court in London ruled that the Rwanda plan is legal, but that the government must consider the individual circumstances of each case before putting anyone on a plane.
