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Eep Bolaño listens as IAM District 751 president Jon Holden announces that the union voted to accept a new contract offer from Boeing, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at their union hall in Seattle.

A Starbucks cup merging with a crowd around a dried-up well, or a yacht spliced with a boat full of refugees: powerful collages by a Turkish artist have taken the internet by storm.

About 100 Bulgarians work for the technology giant Microsoft at the headquarters of the company in the US.

An Indian coffee shop chain rhyming with Starbucks and with a similar logo has agreed to change its name after being sued by the U.S. giant, the Indian firm said on Sept. 28.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), August 15 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's AmRest Coffee, part of Polish restaurant operator AmRest Holdings, said on Wednesday it opened the first coffee shop under the Starbucks brand in the city of Plovdiv. The new store, located in Mall Plovdiv shopping centre, offers a commercial area of 240 square metres with seating for 121 people, AmRest Coffee said in a statement.

"The first Starbucks store will be opened in Belgrade later this year, the city with a long coffee-loving history," AmRest Holdings announced in a press release.

The company said it was the lead operator of Starbucks stores in the Central European region, while Serbia will be "another new market for the company to open the first Starbucks store."

Starbucks closed more than 8,000 stores on May 29 to train around 175,000 employees against racial bias, an unprecedented public operation that highlights America's ongoing struggle with discrimination.

Starbucks will close stores and corporate offices across the United States on May 29 to conduct "racial-bias education," the company announced on April 17, following outrage over the arrest of two black men in one of its cafes.

Chicaco Tribune - Starbucks has announced plans to close all U.S. stores and corporate offices on the afternoon of May 29 to train employees against racial bias after the arrest last week of two black men waiting at one of the company's Philadelphia stores.

The CEO of Starbucks has apologized for an incident at one of the mammoth chain's Philadelphia cafes where two black men were arrested while waiting for a friend.