The strike by Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) baristas that are members of the Workers United union ended on December 24. However, the labor issues for the coffee chain are far from over. The union organized the strike to protest a lack of progress in contract negotiations with Starbucks (SBUX).

Just in time for the holidays, thousands of Starbucks baristas are expected to be back at work Wednesday after a five-day strike.

Workers at the Malta Starbucks just off the Adirondack Northway staged a one-day strike on Christmas Eve as part of a nationwide strike effort by Starbucks Workers United, which represents 11,000 workers at more than 500 Starbucks locations nationwide,

Gaza's Health Ministry says an Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital overnight.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that more than 3,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed and wounded in Russia's Kursk region and warned that Pyongyang could send more personnel and equipment for Moscow's army.

A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip. They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where the wife of one of the journalists was about to give birth,