UAW Strike Latest, Migrants in Italy, Azerbeijan Ceasefire

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

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The UAW is set to expand its strike if automakers fail to meet a deadline, the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa is overwhelmed by more than 11,000 migrants in the past week and Azerbaijan ends an offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.

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0:00.0	In just a few hours, more workers could join a strike against the big three automakers
0:06.6	that already includes 13,000 workers across three plants.
0:10.6	The point is to get a fair deal out of them.
0:13.0	So what is a fair deal?
0:14.5	I mean, Martinez, that's Lil Faudel, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:18.2	In the past few days, more than 12,000 migrants made it to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
0:26.3	The journey is risky.
0:27.8	Many drown.
0:28.8	One of the worst tragedies here was a decade ago, when a boat sank just off the coastline,
0:33.0	what's Italy doing to avoid a repeat?
0:35.1	There's a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus.
0:39.0	We won't do it together.
0:40.0	We don't want them to leave.
0:41.5	What's the future of the breakaway ethnic Armenian region now under Azerbaijan's rule?
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