SAN FRANCISCO -- More than 100 airline kitchen workers staged a funeral-like protest Tuesday night at the Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) International Airport in Washington state to demand higher pay and better health care, a workers' union said.

Unite Here Local 8, a hospitality workers union of the U.S. Northwest that represents workers of hotels, food and airport services, expressed strong support for the protesting catering workers.

"Airline catering workers who provide food & beverage aboard commercial flights departing from Sea-Tac are out to send a message to airlines such as @AmericanAir that they can't wait any longer for better wages & health care!," it tweeted.

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UNITED NATIONS -- For John W. Allen, former vice chairman of the United Nations Business Council, multilateralism is not an alternative, but a matter of "hang together or hang separately."

"Multilateralism is not an alternative. It is an imperative. Unless we work together as members of the human race -- the only race that counts -- time will run out," said Allen, who is also chairman and chief executive of the New York-based Greater China Corporation.

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KIEV -- Chinese telecom company Huawei is ready to provide the Ukrainian government with a draft plan for the development of broadband communications, a Huawei official said here Tuesday.

"We are ready to share our technologies and expertise in building broadband on a country scale," Li Jian, president of the company's European Area, said at the Huawei-initiated one-day Ukraine Digital Transformation Forum 2019.

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HAVANA -- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Tuesday accused the United States of meddling in the island's domestic affairs.

Rodriguez tweeted that the United States "urges its embassy in Cuba to interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign country that will not allow it."

Such "illegal actions ... violate the Vienna Convention, the agreement for the re-establishment of relations and Cuban and U.S. laws," he added.

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HONG KONG -- The U.S. Congress' passage of the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act is typical "long-arm jurisdiction" that violates the basic norms governing international relations, Lawrence Tang Fei, a member of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macao Studies, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview recently.

"The United States attempted to use the act to threaten the administration of the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), weaken the central government's governance over the HKSAR and further contain China's development by messing up Hong Kong," said Tang, who is also the principal of Hong Kong's Heung To Secondary School (Tseung Kwan O). Enditem

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