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Comment In the largest work stoppage of the year, thousands of academic workers in the University of California system went on strike Monday over the university system’s bargaining practices with their union, which is trying to secure higher wages. About 48,000 assistant professors, postdocs, researchers and evaluators on the front lines of teaching and research in California’s prestigious public university system are calling for a $54,000 annual minimum salary and increased child care benefits, saying they don’t earn enough to live in the state....

LINZ. „Wir wollen uns mindestens für das Halbfinale der Champions League qualifizieren“, sagte Günther Renner, Präsident der Linz AG Froschberg, vor dem ersten Gruppenspiel am Freitag in Moravsky Krumlov (Tschechische Republik). Nach dem 3:0 in Tschechien können sich Sofia Polcanova und Co. bereits ihr Ticket für das Viertelfinale im Rückspiel am Sonntag (15 Uhr) in Leeds sichern. Die frisch gekürte Sportlerin des Jahres in Oberösterreich, Sofia Polkanova, glänzte erneut....

South African police said on Thursday that the 46-year-old Israeli was a member of the Abergil gang, involved in drug trafficking and extortion, and was wanted in Israel for several attempted murders. The suspect had been on Interpol’s wanted list since 2015 and had been hiding in South Africa for several years, police said. Seven others were arrested in the raid, according to the statement. Authorities said walls 4 meters (13 feet) high surrounded the house....

La Cour suprême des Etats-Unis a rejeté mardi la requête du groupe allemand Bayer, propriétaire de Monsanto, dans une affaire liée à l’herbicide Roundup, ouvrant la porte à une indemnisation de plusieurs milliards de dollars. En ne saisissant pas l’affaire, la Cour suprême a tranché en faveur du groupe, le condamnant à verser 25 millions de dollars à un retraité, Edwin Hardeman, qui attribue son cancer à l’herbicide à base de glyphosate....

Photo: Diana Shardlow Glenmore Road near Scenic Road on Thursday afternoon Emergency crews were able to extinguish a truck that caught fire on Glenmore Road on Thursday afternoon. Diana Shardlow says she and her husband were driving south on Glenmore just before 12:30 a.m. Thursday when they saw the truck start to catch fire. “She was coming and my husband says, ‘oh, this truck is smoking, it doesn’t look good....

After over two years without leaving his country, Chinese President Xi Jinping isn’t missing the chance for in-person diplomacy as he joins other world leaders at the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, this week. Following a highly anticipated summit with U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday, Mr. Xi will meet with the leaders of Australia and Japan, as well as Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Not on the list however, is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau....

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Donald Trump wanted to launch into a third election campaign with a wave of Republican midterm gains behind him. Instead, he emerges from Tuesday’s overwhelming election night facing questions about his political future and with momentum behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis — his likely primary foe in a 2024 primary. With key races still too early to call in Arizona and Nevada, and Georgia headed for a Senate runoff, Trump entered Wednesday with few wins and the possibility that they would soon be overshadowed by further losses....

Comment SAN FRANCISCO — Several top privacy and security executives resigned from Twitter on Thursday, citing fears of risks from Elon Musk’s leadership, in a surprise exit that prompted federal regulators to warn they could step in. Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner tweeted that they had made the “tough decision” to resign, and the company’s chief privacy officer and chief compliance officer also resigned, according to screenshots of an employee’s internal Slack message shared with the Washington Post....

Prosecutors in Quintana Roo state, which also has resort towns such as Cancun and Tulum, said the man and woman were found dead Monday at a hotel or condominium in the troubled resort, and a third was reported injured. There was no immediate information on their names or cities of origin. “Global Affairs Canada is aware of the deaths of two Canadian citizens in Mexico,” the ministry said in a statement....

The Office for National Statistics reports that GDP fell in the July-September quarter, after rising 0.2% in April-June. This is less bad than feared, but still shows that the UK economy is weakening as the cost of living crisis and rising interest rates hit the economy. Updated at 07:35 GMT Important events BETA filters Key facts (8) United Kingdom (10) Office for National Statistics (7) Liz Truss said in August that a recession was not “inevitable”....

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced on Wednesday that nurses in many, but not all, hospitals and other NHS care settings will take action before Christmas and may continue to strike until next May. The upcoming strikes are likely to be the first in a potentially prolonged series of actions through the winter and into the spring by different groups of health workers. NHS bosses are preparing for action by junior doctors, ambulance staff and others....

Ukrainian troops pushed forward and part of the front fell silent on Thursday after Moscow ordered one of the biggest retreats of the war, although Kyiv warned that fleeing Russians could turn Kherson into a “city of death”. . A small group of Ukrainian soldiers appeared on Ukrainian state television being greeted by jubilant residents in the center of the village of Snihurivka about 55 km (35 miles) north of the city of Kherson, with a Ukrainian flag flying over the square behind them....

Selon le commandant des opérations de secours, Stéphane Beauventre, “il y a beaucoup de convergence pour qu’on soit sur la personne qu’on recherche depuis midi”, un médecin de 45 ans qui s’était vu attribuer un appartement dans l’immeuble. pour le week-end. “Son corps est allé à l’institut médico-légal. Ce sera clairement défini plus tard », a-t-il déclaré. Deux immeubles de trois étages, dont l’un était en construction, se sont effondrés samedi vers 9h15....

CANAL+ – MERCREDI 16 NOVEMBRE – 21H00 – CINÉMA Après deux films basés sur sa Corse natale, Les Apaches (2013) et Une vie violente (2017), Thierry de Peretti poursuit le chemin d’un imaginaire politique qui lui permet de toucher l’irreprésentabilité du pouvoir en caressant ses mythologies. le côté obscur que Balzac appelait « l’envers de l’histoire moderne ». L’enquête sur un scandale gouvernemental commence par une formule familière, selon laquelle la situation et les personnages sont fictifs et toute ressemblance avec la réalité est purement fortuite....

“Nos prédécesseurs en course au large étaient de grands guerriers”, sourit le navigateur Thibaut Vocell-Camus, qui décrochera la médaille dans son trimaran de 15 m à Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe), auprès de l’AFP. Le gouverneur français Thibaut Vauchel-Camus avec le collectionneur français Jacky Laurant, présentant la médaille Louis XIV avant de partir pour la Route du Rhum. (SEBASTIEN SALOM-GOMIS / AFP) Le marin veut « redonner un peu d’humilité » et « d’histoire » aux skippers souvent perçus « comme des super-héros » alors que leurs lointains ancêtres sont partis dans des conditions difficiles pour « des voyages lointains très compliqués »....

Nati verpasst Heim-WM-Medaille Die Schweizer Nationalmannschaft verlässt die Heim-WM trotz grossem Kampf mit leeren Händen. Nach einer 5:3-Niederlage gegen Finnland landete die Mannschaft von David Jansson auf dem tristen Lederplatz. 1/4 Keine Medaille bei heimischen Weltmeisterschaften. Sven Micosse Reporter Sport Weniger als 24 Stunden nach der tschechischen Ohrfeige kehrte die Nationalmannschaft auf das Feld zurück. Immerhin soll es vor heimischer Kulisse Edelmetall geben, mit dieser Einstellung geht die Mannschaft ins Spiel und hat nach 30 Sekunden eine Doppelchance....

Mr Huynh, an ex-US Marine also from Alabama, added: “The Western media said Russian troops often kill you after capture, but my captors ended up treating me better.” In what may be a sign that the Kremlin is now seeking an end to the conflict, he added: “I hope there will be some diplomatic solution to this. I realise that the Russian and Ukrainian people are fighting for very much the same thing and the answer is diplomacy not war....