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American Airlines staff have called off strike action after reaching a pay deal.Heathrow Airport chaos looked set continue when American Airlines’ engineers voted to walk out over pay last week.More than 50 maintenance technicians and crew chiefs were set to strike after 98 per cent voted in favour of the action. This could have impacted American Airlines’ 23 daily departures from Heathrow.However, the strikes were called off after the engineers secured a three-year pay deal worth 19 per cent, with the support of UK union Unite.How much more will American Airlines engineers be paid?As a result of the deal, the engineers’ pay will…

Sky News host Ross Greenwood has asked Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin whether a “resignation has been offered” as a result of the hack or the company’s reaction to the incident.Ms Bayer Rosmarin brushed off the question of resignation, saying she was “entirely focused on doing right by our customers” after hack.“I have stood up with my team to take accountability for getting to the bottom of how this could happen and for doing everything we can do to prevent harm coming to customers,” she said.“I’m working hard on behalf of customers to be the customer champion and prevent harm…

CNN  —  A juvenile suspect has been taken into custody after five people were killed and at least two others were wounded in a mass shooting Thursday in Raleigh, North Carolina, where officials say the nightmare of gun violence has shaken the community. One of the victims killed was an off-duty Raleigh police officer, authorities said. A surviving victim is hospitalized in critical condition, Raleigh police spokesperson Lt. Jason Borneo said during a news conference Thursday night. A responding officer was released from the hospital after being treated for injuries, he added. Details on the victims who were killed were…

PENANG STILL WAITING Democratic Action Party (DAP) secretary-general Anthony Loke said on Tuesday that the Penang state chapter of his party has asked for a review of the decision by Pakatan Harapan (PH) against dissolving the state assembly.  “There are views from many people, especially in Penang, for the elections to be held at the same time,” he was quoted as saying by local media. At the same time, states under PH including Selangor and Negeri Sembilan have yet to make a firm decision on whether to dissolve the state assemblies.  On Friday, the chairman of DAP’s national legal bureau,…

TotalEnergies is the target of a criminal complaint accusing the French oil company of complicity in war crimes for allegedly helping the Russian military in its invasion of Ukraine.In a complaint filed on Thursday, the Bordeaux-based NGO Darwin Climax Coalitions and Ukraine’s Razom We Stand alleged that a Siberian gasfield part-owned by Total supplied feedstock for jet fuel suspected to have been used by the Russian military against Ukrainian civilians. The Paris prosecutor’s office must now decide whether to open an investigation.The complaint is an attempt to test the legal responsibility of western companies with investments in Russia regarding Moscow’s…

CNN  —  The trial for the man accused of raping and impregnating a child in Ohio who then had to travel to Indiana for an abortion has been set for early next year, according to a court document obtained by CNN. Gerson Fuentes, 27, is facing two counts of felony rape of a minor under age 13, according to court documents. In July, he admitted during a police interview through an interpreter that he raped the girl at least twice but later pleaded not guilty to the charges. CNN has reported that the girl was 10 years old when she…

For all he did this season, Aaron Judge has struggled the past few times the Yankees have been in the playoffs. Since homering for a third straight playoff game in Game 2 of the 2018 ALDS, when the Yankees knocked off the Red Sox at Fenway Park and Judge walked by the Red Sox’ clubhouse with a stereo blasting “New York, New York,” he hasn’t had much postseason success. And until Tuesday’s Game 1 ALDS win over Cleveland in The Bronx, neither had the Yankees. They went on to lose that Boston series in 2018 and have beaten only Minnesota…

A Royal Mail Group postal worker on his delivery round in Manchester, U.K.Paul Thomas | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesRoyal Mail revealed plans Friday to cut up to 6,000 jobs by next summer following a summer of strikes by postal workers in the U.K. “We will be starting the process of consulting on rightsizing the business in response to the impact of industrial action, delays in delivering agreed productivity improvements and lower parcel volumes,” Royal Mail’s parent group, recently renamed International Distributions Services, said in a release.”Based on current estimates, c.5,000-6,000 redundancies may be required by end of August 2023.”The group on…