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[1/5] Apple France workers on strike holding CGT labour union flags gather in front of the Apple Store near Place de l'Opera during a protest to demand higher pay and better benefits on the day Apple launches its iPhone 15, in Paris, France, September 22, 2023. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor Acquire Licensing RightsPARIS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Workers at Apple (AAPL.O) stores in France began a nationwide strike over pay and working conditions on Friday in a protest designed to coincide with the launch of the iPhone 15. Staff at an Apple store in Barcelona, where about 250 people were queuing to enter the store on Friday morning, were set to join colleagues in France in protesting. "We have been talking since August to our colleagues on strike in France. In Spain, unlike them, not all the unions have agreed to strike," Paredes said.

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But the move left hundreds more military promotions in limbo, still stymied by Mr. Tuberville’s objections. Mr. Schumer had been reluctant to force votes on individual nominees for fear of being seen as capitulating to Mr. Tuberville. “The Senate will overwhelmingly vote to confirm them, and these three honorable men will finally be able to assume their positions,” Mr. Schumer said on the Senate floor. “And the abortion policy that Senator Tuberville abhors will remain in place. Senator Tuberville will have accomplished nothing.”

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Here are the meanings of the 10 hardest words that have also been used in Times articles. The labiodental flap is much more widely used but took longer to be recognized. (Some people still believe in a religious afterlife, but those with the cash would rather not risk it. Maybe he could have a high opinion of himself despite his evident flaws. — How Garfield Helped Me Make Peace With a Culture in Decline (Feb. 16, 2021)The list of the week’s easiest words:

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CNN —The Taliban has welcomed Zhao Sheng as China’s new ambassador to Afghanistan during a lavish ceremony held at the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday. China is among a handful of countries, including Pakistan, Iran and Russia that have maintained a diplomatic presence in Afghanistan since the Taliban retook control of the country in 2021. In the palace ceremony, Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund shook hands with Zhao and “accepted the credentials of the new Chinese Ambassador,” the prime minister’s office said on X, formerly known as Twitter. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement the appointment was the “normal rotation of China’s ambassador to Afghanistan” and was “intended to continue advancing dialogue and cooperation” between the two countries, according to Reuters. The ministry said, “China’s policy toward Afghanistan is clear and consistent.”CNN has reached out to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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☆ Where to stay in India? Here are 8 former palaces that are now hotels
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Poonam Binayak | Lisa Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Source: Heritage DharampuraIt's now a 14-room boutique hotel, which received an honorable mention in 2017's UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. It was transformed into a heritage hotel in the 1960s and is now impeccably managed by the Taj Group. Taj Lake Palace Source: Taj Lake PalaceStraight out of a fairy tale, the Taj Lake Palace boasts domed pavilions, ornamental turrets, crystal chandeliers, and 83 antique-filled rooms and suites, some which overlook a gleaming courtyard that hosts nightly folk dances. Source: Taj Usha Kiran PalaceToday, it's a lavish Taj hotel that balances old-world vibes with contemporary style. It is now a heritage hotel managed by the Taj Group.

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☆ Forget the Deep State. Trump is at war with the whole state
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Trump's new object of hatred is the surface state — the state itself. The attack on the surface state began, of course, on January 6, when a violent mob, assembled and encouraged by Trump, descended on the Capitol to overturn a presidential election. AdvertisementAdvertisementToday, Trump's attacks on the surface state are accelerating. Maybe Trump has forgotten that less than three years ago, he was head of the surface state. Even defendants who, like Trump, attempt to sabotage the integrity of the justice system are entitled to the same due process and protections under US law.

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☆ Benjamin Katz — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Benjamin Katz | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Benjamin KatzBen Katz is a reporter writing about the global aviation and aerospace industry in The Wall Street Journal’s corporate bureau in London. His stories often focus on how the industry navigates the ups and downs of major geopolitical, economic and global health events. Ben joined the Journal from Bloomberg News, where he first started writing about the aviation industry along with British business and politics. With Journal colleagues, he received an Honorable Mention at the 2020 Sabew awards for coverage of the pandemic’s impact on airlines. He previously won a Peter Lisagor Chicago Headline Club award and was a finalist for the Harold Wincott Award for Young Financial Journalist of the Year in 2017.

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☆ Opinion: The Golda Meir movie starring Helen Mirren fails the test of history
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Hilary Krieger | Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —In Guy Nattiv’s new feature film “Golda,” which arrived in theaters Friday, Helen Mirren plays Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the crisis of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Accordingly, the movie is inevitably fodder for an ongoing discussion about whether non-Jewish performers should play Jewish roles. They made significant advances, threatening all of Israel, until Israel ultimately turned the tide to retain the land it had acquired in 1967. Join us on Twitter and FacebookInstead, the point is that the Yom Kippur War was a complicated conflict for territory and geopolitical advantage, abetted by prejudice and intransigence on every side. White non-Jewish actors can be cast as White Jewish characters because White Jewish people (like White Irish people or White Italian people) are, at the moment, generally perceived and accepted as White.

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☆ Stu Woo — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Stu Woo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Stu WooStu Woo is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in London. He also occasionally covers sports, having covered the London 2012 and Beijing 2022 Olympics. Stu was part of a Journal team that won the 2021 National Press Foundation award for international-trade reporting. A Brown University graduate, Stu joined the Journal in 2008 as an intern in his hometown of San Francisco. He has been a foreign correspondent since 2016, with postings in London and Beijing.

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☆ Patricia Kowsmann — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Patricia Kowsmann | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Patricia KowsmannPatricia Kowsmann is a Europe finance reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She covers all things touching money, including banks, financial scandals, economic sanctions and crypto. She was a finalist in the 2014 Sabew Awards and the British Press Awards for uncovering a financial scandal at Portuguese lender Banco Espírito Santo, which ended up collapsing. She previously covered the eurozone crisis from Portugal, banks in London and the financial and real-estate sectors in Singapore. She started her career at the Journal covering corporate filings in Washington.

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☆ Sarah E. Needleman — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Sarah E. Needleman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Sarah E. NeedlemanSarah E. Needleman is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who writes about interactive entertainment and social media. Her coverage centers on Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts and other big videogame publishers, as well as social-media companies such as Twitter, Reddit and Pinterest. In 2022, Sarah received an honorable mention with WSJ colleagues for their coverage of workplace misconduct at Activision from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, or Sabew. In her earlier years at the Journal, she covered small business and careers. Sarah graduated from Rutgers University in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

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☆ An indicted Sidney Powell hit rock bottom and kept digging, posting election conspiracy theories and hawking $25 signed photos of herself
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sidney Powell is fresh off an indictment in Georgia. Nor has it stopped her hawking merchandise with the discount code pegged to the indictment. Powell was one of 18 people charged alongside former President Donald Trump in Georgia on Monday night. In the sprawling indictment, Powell — a lawyer and known conspiracy theorist — was charged with conspiracy to commit election fraud and accused of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. Powell did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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The Perseid meteor shower lights up the sky this weekend. Dark sky parks and IDA-certified locations are the best places to view this show and many others. From Alaska to Wyoming, here's a list of some of the darkest skies in each of the 50 US states. These are often officially zoned "dark sky parks", which have clear views of the night sky when the weather permits. Only the clearest of night skies, unimpeded by light pollution, are allowed the honorable IDA-certified title.

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☆ Bill Barr, on a mission to stop Trump, still might vote for him
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Bill Barr was the attorney general under Trump and says the former president should not be anywhere near the Oval Office. BARR: “No, I really don’t think that’s a valid argument, because, as the indictment says, they’re not attacking his First Amendment right. So, free speech doesn’t give you the right to engage in a fraudulent conspiracy.”Did Trump know he lost the election? And in terms of his personal ethics, I think there’s some red flags there that I think people should be paying attention to. I don’t think he’s morally superior, necessarily, to Trump.”Are you doing interviews like this to make sure Trump is not the nominee?

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☆ Sheila Oliver, New Jersey's acting governor while Phil Murphy's out of the country, dies suddenly of an undisclosed medical issue at 71
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

When New Jersey Gov. Sheila Oliver took over his job. Sheila Oliver took over his role as acting governor. As acting governor, Scutari, a Democrat, has all the same powers of a traditional governor. Prior to becoming lieutenant governor, Oliver was the first Black female speaker of the state's general assembly.

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According to the indictment, Mr. Nauta was central to the first part of the scheme, moving boxes from the room at least five times at Mr. Trump’s direction. Mr. Nauta’s path to Mr. Trump and Mar-a-Lago was also characterized by a degree of turbulence. A member of the Navy, Mr. Nauta had worked as a valet for Mr. Trump in the White House. Mr. Nauta leaped at the opportunity, the person said, taking the job in July 2021 after receiving an honorable discharge from the Navy. It remains unclear whether Mr. Trump knew of Mr. Nauta’s troubles in the Navy at the end of his career.

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☆ Opinion | A Trump-Biden Rematch That Many Are Dreading
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “The Presidential Rematch Nobody Wants,” by Pamela Paul (column, July 21):Ms. Paul asks, “Have you met anyone truly excited about Joe Biden running for re-election?”I am wildly enthusiastic about President Biden, who is the best president in my lifetime. Mr. Biden has done more to combat climate change, the existential issue of the day, than all the presidents who have gone before him. He has marshaled the free peoples of the world to stop the Russian takeover of Ukraine, giving dictators around the world pause. Most important, Joe Biden is an honorable man at a time when his biggest rivals do not know the meaning of the word. Being honorable is the essential virtue, without which youth or glibness do not matter.

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“We’re horrified that something like this could happen, not only to us, but to anyone,” Saffrine Duggan told her supporters. Former US fighter pilot Daniel Duggan is in custody in Australia pending extradition to the US on charges including that he trained Chinese military pilots. Courtesy Saffrine DugganTraining Chinese pilotsDuggan doesn’t deny training Chinese pilots, but he maintains they were civilians – plane enthusiasts seeking to improve their skills or prospective members of China’s then rapidly expanding aviation industry. And a spokesperson for New Zealand’s Defence Force confirmed to Reuters that four of its former military pilots had been recruited by the company. It’s the wrong type of approach and landing.”In its statement to CNN, TFASA denied teaching aircraft carrier approach and landing techniques to Chinese military pilots.

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☆ Russian soldiers sent their families a desperate video, saying they were being led by a 'drunk' commander and without the supplies to survive
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Matthew Loh | Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new video shows Russian troops raising the alarm about their treatment by commanders in Ukraine. The 50 or so mobilized soldiers said they weren't given food or ammo, and weren't being paid on time. They warned that they were being led by a "drunk commander" to reinforce positions in Bakhmut. A man in the video added that the commander from another unit "said that for us it would be a suicide mission." The Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, was stationed in Bakhmut in the spring, before being replaced by the Russian army.

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Suzanne KapnerSuzanne Kapner writes about the retail industry for The Wall Street Journal from New York. She won a 2017 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, or Sabew, award for her coverage of the retail industry in crisis, including a series of stories about the downfall of Sears. She was part of a team that won a 2021 Sabew honorable mention for stories detailing fashion’s new China problem. Suzanne joined the Journal in 2011 to cover Citigroup. She has written about finance and retailing at various publications, including the New York Times and Fortune magazine, during her more than three decades in journalism.

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☆ Royal destinations you need to visit in the UK
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

A version of this story appeared in the July 7 edition of CNN’s Royal News, a weekly dispatch bringing you the inside track on Britain’s royal family. Research in 2011 by Visit Britain found that around 60% of tourists to the UK are likely to visit places associated with the royal family, according to Ross Bennett-Cook, a visiting lecturer at the School of Architecture and Cities at London’s University of Westminster. While there is no more recent data on royal sites specifically, in 2022 Visit Britain found that history and heritage were the biggest pull factors for tourists. Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesCornwall: Dear to local and international tourists alike, Cornwall, on the southwestern tip of the UK pointing out into the Atlantic Ocean, is also a special destination for the royal family. The medieval parish church of St Mary Magdalene is regularly used as a place of worship by members of the royal family and dates back to the 16th-century.

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☆ Opinion: It’s time to bring these US military veterans home
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Opinion Saúl Ramírez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Bartolomé, a US military veteran, has spent the last 15 Fourth of July holidays in Mexico. “It’s a stab in the back.”Between 2013 and 2018, 250 US military veterans were placed in removal proceedings and 92 were deported. Unfortunately, an accurate count of deported veterans is nonexistent, because Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not keep a comprehensive record of removed US veterans. Veterans who did not receive a dishonorable discharge are entitled to a military burial in the United States. As a result, the urgency in addressing noncitizen military members’ precarious situation is particularly palpable now.

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☆ A Reuters journalist explores his ancestors’ ties to slavery
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +38 min

It took me a few minutes of research to figure out why I was losing track of the descendants of the people George Julian enslaved. If the racial cleansing of Forsyth County was mentioned, I didn’t notice. Still hopeful that I might be able to somehow identify and locate living descendants of the people my family enslaved, I flew to Georgia last November. Her father was also a butler for a wealthy white family, her mother a cook. In 1860, Osby’s ancestors were enslaved and working the fields of Forsyth County.

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☆ ‘Building Something Together’: Translators Discuss Their Art
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There are as many ways of translating a literary text as there are translators. Literary translators have, however, historically received little recognition. Efforts by translators and by organizations like PEN America, which recently issued a manifesto on literary translation, have brought the field greater visibility, helping to cement the rights of translators and to raise awareness of literary translation as a creative art in its own right. Mui Poopoksakul is a Thailand-born lawyer turned literary translator. Bruna Dantas Lobato, originally from Brazil, is a literary translator from Portuguese and a writer.

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☆ 'Lots of smoke. Lots of questions': Internal emails show JPMorgan Chase execs worried about the bank's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. So why did it take so long to cut him loose?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Kaja Whitehouse | Emmalyse Brownstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +29 min

That, of course, is the billion-dollar question: What did JPMorgan, America's largest bank, know about Epstein's alleged sex trafficking? Today, banks have entire departments dedicated to tracking client activity and flagging suspicious behavior. Lots of questions'The fuss JPMorgan compliance officers raised about Epstein in 2011 was extensive. Lots of questions," declared a senior JPMorgan compliance officer reviewing Epstein's accounts as part of that 2011 compliance review, according to court papers filed by the US Virgin Islands. Staley sent Epstein internal JPMorgan documents and relied on him for guidance on an array of business and personal dealings, the JPMorgan internal report shows.

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