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Air Transat Faces Flight Suspensions Amid Pilot Strike Notice

  Air Transat has announced it will gradually suspend flights starting Monday following a 72-hour strike notice issued by its pilots’ union. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), representing roughly 700 pilots, delivered the notice after nearly a year of unsuccessful negotiations with the airline’s parent company, Transat A.T. Inc. Background The union filed the strike notice on Sunday, giving pilots the legal right to walk off the job as early as Wednesday. Last week, pilots voted 99% in favor of strike action , underscoring their frustration over stalled contract talks. ALPA leaders emphasized that pilots do not want to strike but feel compelled to act after management failed to meet demands for a modernized agreement. Airline Response Air Transat confirmed it will begin suspending flights gradually between December 8 and 9 to prepare for a possible full shutdown. The company stated it is working “around the clock” to reach a deal and minimize disruption for trave...
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Bread of Desperation

 

In the north of the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians have been hit hardest by hunger, residents face acute shortages of vegetables, fruit, and meat. Their desperate survival hinges on bread alone. Food available in the market is sold at exorbitant prices: a kilo of green peppers, which once cost about a dollar, now fetches nearly $90. Traders demand $70 for just a kilo of onions. Families like Um Mohammed’s, who have endured more than eight months of Israeli bombardments, subsist solely on flour and bread. Despite the recent lifting of a ban on fresh food sales from Israel and the West Bank, unscrupulous merchants exploit the crisis, selling goods at astronomical mark-ups. The flow of U.N. aid into this devastated territory remains severely restricted, and mounting global pressure calls for urgent action to prevent famine. In Gaza, where children suffer from acute malnutrition, the bread of desperation is their only sustenance.

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