Hello, sunshine. Welcome to the show. I'm Coy Wire with your 10 Minutes of News, right here on CNN 10.

 

Quick challenge for you this tongue twister Tuesday, toy boat five times really fast. Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat, toy boat. Like that.

 

Yeah, that was fine. All right, press pause if you'd like to give it a shot before we get going. If not, your 10 Minutes of News starts now.

 

A huge labor strike is causing travel chaos at one of North America's largest airlines. More than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job over the weekend to demand better pay.

 

A labor strike is when a group of workers all stop working at the same time to protest something they think is unfair at their job.

 

In theory, if a lot of workers stop working, the company will then feel pressured to listen because the business can't run properly without its employees, right?

 

As of Monday, this strike was still going on, despite a back to work order from the Canadian government. So far, it's caused hundreds of flight cancellations, leaving more than 100,000 travelers stranded.

 

I'm from Vancouver.

 

I came with my family here for a family vacation, and now we can't get home.

 

This is Canada's air carrier, and you know, Canadians want to come home. That's a good news story.

 

So bring us home. The workers say they are seeking better pay, and they want to be paid for the work they do when planes are on the ground, not just in the air. Air Canada, for their part, says it has offered a 38% increase over four years, as well as hourly raises.

 

We are here because Air Canada pays our junior flight attendants so little we had to open food banks in our union offices, because our flight attendants are living six or eight or ten to a two-bedroom apartment in Toronto or in RVs in the parking lot in the Vancouver airport.

 

Air Canada says it will resume operations as soon as possible, but warned that customers should not head to the airport unless they have confirmed their flight is with Air Canada or if it has been reassigned to another airline.

 

Now an update to a story we brought to you back in May.

 

The social media influencer and pilot Ethan Guo, the 19-year-old, was attempting to fly to all seven continents solo in a bid to raise $1 million for cancer research. The adrenaline I get from this is definitely adrenaline from crossing oceans in a tiny plane. It's super nerve-wracking.

 

nerve-wracking [ˋnɝv͵rækɪŋ] adj. 极使人不安的

 

I wouldn't say exciting. Nerve-wracking. But his quest hit a major rough patch after touching down in Antarctica.

 

patch [pætʃ] n. 小块土地

 

He was detained by authorities in Chile, which manages part of the Arctic Territory, where he was quickly accused of making an unauthorized landing on the continent. Guo insists he had permission to land, and he's been stuck on a remote island for months while his court case played out. Now a deal has been reached to let him leave.

 

It requires him to donate $30,000 to a Children's Cancer Foundation in the next 30 days, and he must stay out of Chilean territory for three years. But it appears there's one more big catch. Guo says he hasn't been allowed to fly off of the island.

 

His legal team tells CNN that he's been trying to secure passage off the island via boat. At this point, it's unclear what will happen to his plane, but prosecutors say if he doesn't meet the terms of the deal, court proceedings could continue.

 

proceeding [prəˋsidɪŋ] n. 诉讼；诉讼程序

 

A new initiative in Malaysiais helping both the indigenous villagers and endangered species.

 

A wildlife sanctuary now has a team of local women looking after some of the country's small apes called gibbons. CNN's Linda Kincaid has more.

 

gibbon [ˋgɪbən] n.【动】长臂猿

 

Malaysia's first all-female ranger unit cares for these tree-dwelling apes, which are known for their singing.

 

The job empowers the indigenous women and protects this endangered species.

 

The first time I entered the gibbon area, I felt happy and excited to see them with my own eyes. Their voices were so powerful, especially when they sang.

 

It was as if they overpowered the sound of the river.

 

overpower [͵ovɚˋpaʊɚ] v.（以力气或权力）制服，压倒，征服

 

Malaysia is home to five of the 25 species of gibbons in Southeast Asia, according to the Gibbon Conservation Society, which cares for dozens of the apes.

 

The illegal wildlife pet trade is a major factor causing a decline in numbers.

 

The GCS estimates that traders will kill an entire family just to get one gibbon baby to sell as a pet, and many of those infants later die while being transported.

 

We are working with traumatized gibbons here. They will not easily trust humans.

 

This unit is a chance to both empower the women on the team to become more independent, while also creating a deep bond with these endangered creatures.

 

I wanted to show that women can work, too. We don't have to rely solely on men to provide for the family.

 

There's no difference between men and women. We can work, too.

 

10-second trivia.

 

In Japan, which of the following menu items are offered in a McDonald's Happy Meal?

 

Corn soup,  Rice ball,  Shrimp burger,  All of the above.

 

If you said all of the above, I'm loving it. McDonald's is known to tailor their happy meals to kids' picky palates around the planet.

 

picky [ˋpɪkɪ] adj. 挑剔的

 

A favorite in the Philippines? McSpaghetti with sweet tomato sauce.

 

In Egypt? A McFalafel, of course.

 

falafel [fəˋlɑfəl] n. 色拉三明治

 

Have you heard about all of the perfectly fine,uneaten happy meals being found in the streets of Japan? The culprit? Pokemon. A promotion at McDonald's in Japan caused a frenzy.

 

frenzy [ˋfrɛnzɪ] n. 狂热

 

Superfans buying the meals just to get their hands on the limited-edition Pokemon cards inside. Our Hanako Montgomery is here to tell us about the collector's quest to catch them all, and the outrage from those in the fight against food waste.

 

For a limited time, McDonald's Japan was collaborating with Pokemon and was selling Pokemon cards inside these happy meal sets.

 

This collaboration was so popular that hundreds of people were lining up outside McDonald's restaurants just to get their hands on a happy meal set.

 

Now, some of these people were buying multiple sets, taking the cards, but dumping the food, often uneaten. Videos of uneaten happy meal sets went viral on Japanese social media and caused a lot of discussion and debate around the issues of food waste and consumer ethics.

 

Also, some of the peoplebuying these happy meal sets would resell the Pokemon cards at a much, much higher price online, sometimes 10 times the cost of an original happy meal, which costs about three and a half U.S. dollars.

 

McDonald's Japan also responded with a statement saying that it does not, quote, tolerate the purchase of happy meals for resale or the abandonment or disposal of food.

 

Now, this collaboration was so popular that McDonald's actually ran out of cards to sell, and they had to end the promotion early.

 

Now, to two 10-year-old girls causing some pandemonium in the world of competitive chess. They became nightmares for a couple of grandmasters. 10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan made history becoming the youngest female ever to defeat a grandmaster.

 

pandemonium [͵pændəˋmonɪəm] n. 骚动;群情沸腾

 

That's the highest rank in chess. She beat 60-year-old Peter Wells in the final round of the 2025 British Chess Championships last week. Just 10 years, 5 months, and 3 days old, but she's no rookie.

 

She started playing at 5 years old and has now become the youngest ever woman international master.

 

And get this, mate, just hours later, another slightly older 10-year-old from Redwood, California, Keya Jha, set the American record for youngest girl to defeat a grandmaster in a classical game at the Joe Yun Memorial. For the win, she was given a $2,000 check, mate.

 

Yes, Queens, rook on.

 

rook [rʊk] n.（西洋棋的）車

 

Today's story, getting a 10 out of 10, a neighborhood hero in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, 11-year-old Juliana Fisher heard screams of call 911 coming from next door. Her 5-year-old neighbor Jack Truss had fallen about two stories down, about 20 feet into a water well.

 

He started with standing on the concrete that there was like a little step almost and holding onto the pole.

 

Who were you looking for in that moment?

 

Mama.

 

Jack's mom tried to stay where Jack could see her so she screamed for help.

 

I heard these screaming, like these screams and someone saying call 911. I'll just look around me and I see the ladder. I was like, should I just go grab that?

 

And she just went and grabbed the ladder herself and put it in the well and we held it with her father.

 

She put down the ladder.

 

And then what did you do?

 

Climbed up.

 

After some scratches and a trip to the hospital for a checkup, Lil Jack is doing just fine.

 

And Juliana said humbly, anyone would have done the same thing. Rise up.

 

Our shout out today goes to Mr. Tara Wood and all of our friends at Leestown Middle School in Kentucky, Lexington.

 

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