First Factor: Amazon employees in 20 nations to protest or strike on Black Friday

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1000’s of Amazon employees are anticipated to protest or strike in additional than 20 nations throughout Black Friday and Cyber Monday to agitate for higher employees’ rights and local weather motion.

Motion is deliberate in huge cities throughout the US, Germany, the UK, Turkey, Canada, India, Japan, Brazil and different nations. It’s coordinated by the Make Amazon Pay marketing campaign, which calls on Amazon – based by the billionaire Jeff Bezos – to pay its employees pretty and respect their proper to hitch unions, pay its fair proportion of taxes, and decide to environmental sustainability.

Spearheaded by the Swiss-based UNI International Union for service industries and the activist umbrella group Progressive Worldwide, Make Amazon Pay is made up of greater than 80 commerce unions, anti-poverty and garment employee rights teams, and others.

• What are organizers saying? Christy Hoffman, the final secretary of UNI International Union, stated: “Amazon’s relentless pursuit of revenue comes at a value to employees, the setting and democracy.” Amanda Gearing, a senior organiser at GMB, stated: “Amazon represents all the pieces that’s damaged about [the UK’s] financial system. Insecure work, poverty wages and infrequently unsafe working circumstances.”

• How has Amazon responded? A spokesperson stated “we’re all the time listening and methods to enhance” however insisted “we stay happy with the aggressive pay, complete advantages, and interesting, protected work expertise we offer our groups”.

A whole lot flee north Gaza as IDF orders extra evacuations amid intense airstrikes and ‘apocalyptic’ circumstances

The Israeli army has ordered the evacuation of latest areas of northern Gaza, setting off a recent wave of civilian displacements on Sunday as intense airstrikes continued throughout a lot of the territory.

The Israel Protection Forces stated the evacuation orders for the Shujaiya neighbourhood have been issued after Palestinian militants fired rockets at Israel on Saturday from a location throughout the densely populated district. Hamas’s armed wing stated it had focused a military base over the border.

The humanitarian scenario in northern Gaza has been described as apocalyptic by humanitarian officers, with tens of hundreds struggling acute lack of water, sanitation, meals and medical provides.

• What’s the humanitarian toll of the struggle? After the Hamas assault on Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed 1,200 folks and through which 250 have been taken hostage, Israel has bombarded the territory with airstrikes and a floor invasion. Infrastructure has been decimated, the inhabitants displaced a number of instances and introduced near hunger, and greater than 44,000 folks have been killed, in response to Gaza well being officers, with the UN Human Rights Workplace verifying almost 70% have been girls and kids. The loss of life toll is known to be an underestimate, with the UN estimating in Could 2024 that greater than 10,000 folks’s our bodies have been below the rubble.

Republican senator: ‘We’ll have a lot of questions’ for Trump’s controversial picks

A distinguished Republican US senator pledged on Sunday that Congress wouldn’t give blanket approval to Donald Trump’s controversial cupboard picks forward of the congressional affirmation course of.

Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma predicted lawmakers within the higher chamber would have powerful questions specifically for the previous Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who was chosen by the president-elect as director of nationwide safety for his second administration.

“We’ll have a lot of questions,” Lankford, the newly-elected vice-chair of the Senate coverage committee, advised CNN.

• What can Gabbard count on throughout her Senate affirmation? She faces a doubtlessly tough journey, after being accused of spreading Russian propaganda over the struggle in Ukraine, prompting critics to ask if she is perhaps a “Russian asset”, in addition to her making a clandestine go to to Syria to satisfy the nation’s president, Bashar al-Assad, who’s accused of struggle crimes.

In different information …

• Authorized consultants say an Israeli strike that killed three journalists and wounded three extra might be a struggle crime, in a 25 October assault in south Lebanon. Remnants of munitions discovered on the web site revealed that no less than one of many weapons was US-made.

• The UK is dealing with continued flooding and disruption after being hit by the lethal Storm Bert.

• China is more and more unnerved about North Korea’s engagement with Russia, the US deputy secretary of state has stated.

Stat of the day: Cop29 local weather finance deal struck for $300bn-a-year – however criticized as ‘abysmally poor’

The local weather finance deal agreed at Cop29 early on Sunday morning has been labeled a “travesty of justice”. Creating nations urged wealthy nations to supply $1.3tn-a-year to assist with decarbonization and excessive climate. However the deal pledges $300bn yearly, with $1.3tn only a goal. Chandni Raina, a negotiator for India, stated it was “abysmally poor”.

Don’t miss this: The cut-throat world of theatre fight choreographers

When a scene requires violence, fight choreographers stop actors getting injured. “Each step, each look, each second is put collectively like a dance,” says Kate Waters, often called Kombat Kate.

Local weather test: World will likely be ‘unable to manage’ with quantity of plastic waste in 10 years, warns knowledgeable

This week sees the ultimate spherical of UN talks on the primary international treaty to finish plastic waste. However Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, co-chair of a coalition of 60 nations, warned the world will likely be “unable to manage” with the amount of plastic waste a decade from now – except nations act.

Final Factor: Greek man in his 80s begins evening faculty after lifetime of toil

In his darkish swimsuit and polished loafers, Vasillis Panayiotaropoulos cuts a dapper determine and is by far the oldest pupil attending the second evening faculty of central Athens. “All the pieces I be taught is attention-grabbing,” he says.

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