PHOTO ESSAY: Life on Santa Rosa Island, a meeting point of three nations along the Amazon River

PHOTO ESSAY: Life on Santa Rosa Island, a meeting point of three nations along the Amazon River

SANTA ROSA, Peru (AP) — Santa Rosa is a small island in the middle of the Amazon River. It has just one paved road, no running water and a health post ill-equipped for emergencies. Despite its limitations, residents maintain a fluid and highly interconnected triple-border life, regularly crossing to Colombia and Brazil for shopping, healthcare…

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Air Canada to restart operations as flight attendants end strike

Air Canada to restart operations as flight attendants end strike

Air Canada will gradually resume operations after reaching a tentative settlement with unionized flight attendants on a new contract, ending a work stoppage that forced the airline to halt flights for three days, both sides announced on Tuesday. The agreement, overseen by a federal mediator, means the airline’s 10,000 flight attendants will immediately return to…

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Air Canada strike ends with a deal to make their flight attendants the highest paid. Here’s when service shall resume

Air Canada strike ends with a deal to make their flight attendants the highest paid. Here’s when service shall resume

Air Canada flight attendant strike ends amid slow recovery of operations After a tense four-day impasse, Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing approximately 10,000 flight attendants, have reached a tentative agreement, bringing an end to the strike that grounded much of the airline’s operations and unsettled hundreds of thousands of…

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Aircraft toilets could be key to tackling ‘silent pandemic’, scientists say

Aircraft toilets could be key to tackling ‘silent pandemic’, scientists say

Testing aircraft toilet waste could help track the global spread of drug-resistant superbugs, which is often referred to as the “silent pandemic” and are projected to kill more people than cancer by 2050. The study, published in the journal Microbiology Spectrum, analysed lavatory wastewater from 44 international flights arriving in Australia from nine countries. Scientists,…

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