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Year: 2022

48,000 University of California academic workers on strike

By JOCELYN GECKER and CHRISTOPHER WEBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 48,000 unionized academic workers at all 10 University of California campuses have walked off the job, demanding better pay and benefits. The strike launched Monday by researchers, postdoctoral scholars, teaching assistants and others threatens to disrupt classroom instruction across the statewide university system. It

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Zambian student imprisoned in Russia killed in Ukraine battle, foreign ministry says

By James Frater and Nimi Princewill, CNN A Zambian student, jailed in Russia was killed during a battle in Ukraine, Zambia’s foreign ministry said Monday. The student was a 23-year-old student the Zambian government had sponsored to study nuclear engineering at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. The man was identified as Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda by

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