CNN — Ukraine claimed Saturday to have struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries in a drone attack, starting a fire at the facility more than 700 miles into Russian territory. The attack on the Taneco refinery in the city of Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan – one of the largest and most modern refineries in Russia – … Read more
Strike over wages and staffing issues comes at one of the coffee chain’s busiest times of the year. A strike at Starbucks has expanded to more than 300 of the coffee chain’s stores in the United States, with more than 5,000 workers expected to walk off the job, the workers’ union said. The five-day strike … Read more
After a few days without food, the hunger stops. The body, while weak, “learns how to just function.” That is how Laila Soueif, an Egyptian mathematician and professor, describes her hunger strike, which reached 55 days on Saturday. She stopped eating on Sept. 29, when it became clear that her son, Alaa Abd El Fattah, … Read more
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Athens and other Greek cities as a 24-hour general strike to protest against the rising cost of living shut down public services and part of Greece’s transport network. About 15,000 people marched in the capital on Wednesday while another 4,000 demonstrated in Greece’s second largest city, … Read more
An Israeli attack on a compound housing media workers in southern Lebanon has killed at least three journalists and wounded several others as they slept in guesthouses in Hasbaiyya. Local media aired footage from the scene on Friday showing collapsed buildings and cars marked “press” covered in dust and rubble. The victims were identified as … Read more
A drone was launched towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday, his spokesman said, adding that the premier was not in the vicinity and there were no casualties. Earlier, the Israeli military said that a drone was launched from Lebanon and that it had hit a … Read more
An Israeli air strike on a hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip has killed at least four people and sent flames sweeping through a packed tent camp for people displaced by the war, leaving dozens with severe burns, according to Palestinian medics. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir el-Balah was already struggling … Read more
US President Joe Biden welcomes agreement to end three-day strike, saying dockworkers ‘deserve a strong contract’. US dockworkers and port operators have reached a tentative agreement that will end a three-day strike that shut down shipping on the east and Gulf coasts of the United States – and had threatened to incur billions of dollars … Read more
State-run Syrian Arab News Agency says TV anchor killed in Israeli attack on Syrian capital. Three civilians have been killed and nine others wounded in Israeli strikes on Syria’s capital Damascus, state-run media has reported. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) earlier reported that its television anchor Safaa Ahmad was killed on Tuesday in “treacherous … Read more
Ukraine’s strike on a Russian missile storage facility in Russia’s western Tver region destroyed enough ammunition to impact Russian attacks for months, military analysts said. The Institute for the Study of War made the assessment in an update on Sunday, based on Estonian estimates. Last Thursday, Colonel Ants Kiviselg, the head of the Estonian Defense … Read more