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Samsung Electronics and its workers' union resumed talks Wednesday with South Korea's labour minister mediating, after earlier talks aimed at averting a strike collapsed.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

That changed when an international team returned to the site using modern technology unavailable to scientists forty years earlier.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

The city’s doormen and nurses notched similar gains earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Funded by 11 major banks, the unit has been operating in the shadows for close to a decade, but agreed to give BBC News exclusive access to its work earlier this year.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

When it came to sitting at a different table and the giant red line she’d crossed earlier, there was no comparison.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows