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UK-based Ryanair pilots authorize two strikes over next month

Thursday, 8 August 2019, 09:53 Last update: about 8 years ago

Ryanair pilots based in the U.K. have authorized a series of summer strikes in a dispute with the budget carrier over pay and benefits. Members of the British Airline Pilots Association voted by...

El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain

Wednesday, 7 August 2019, 11:20 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The massacre that killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso struck a city that has long been the cradle of Mexican American culture and immigration and suffered through bloody episodes of racial...

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88

Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 16:02 Last update: about 8 years ago

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. She was the first black...

HSBC says its CEO to leave after just 18 months

Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 12:13 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Bank HSBC on Monday announced the surprise departure of CEO John Flint after just 18 months, saying new leadership was needed amid increasing economic uncertainty, and that it was cutting some 4,000...

Former cardinal letters show signs of grooming victims for abuse

Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 09:58 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

At first glance, the handwritten postcards and letters look innocuous, even warm, sometimes signed off by "Uncle T." or "Your uncle, Father Ted." But taken in context, the correspondence penned...

Trump says he wants stronger gun checks, gives few details

Monday, 5 August 2019, 17:18 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

President Donald Trump on Monday condemned weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio as barbaric crimes "against all humanity" and called for bipartisan cooperation to respond to an epidemic of gun...

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