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SF Gate
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Fifty-four illegal migrant workers from Myanmar suffocated in the back of an unventilated truck Thursday, while the rest of the passengers being smuggled to Thailand pounded on the container and screamed in vain for the driver's help.
More than 100 mig..
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CNN
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South Korean negotiators in Afghanistan have reached a deal with Taliban militants holding 19 South Korean Christian aid workers for over a month, a presidential spokesman in Seoul said Tuesday. Seoul welcomes the deal, but the spokesman cautioned that ma..
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BBC News
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Twelve workers, 11 of them foreign, have been kidnapped from a construction site in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, a South Korean firm has said.
At least five other foreign workers have also been abducted in the south from an Italian-run oil vessel an..
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FOX News
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Gunmen raided a Chinese-run oil field near the Somali border on Tuesday, killing 65 Ethiopians and nine Chinese workers, an official of the Chinese company said. An Ethiopian rebel group claimed responsibility.
Seven Chinese workers were kidnapped in t..
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Al Jazeera
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The French government has confirmed the video shows two French aid workers who have gone missing in Afghanistan.
'No prisoner swaps'
James Bays, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Jalalabad, said: "The Taliban demands are that they want more prisoners..
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Yahoo News
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Demonstrators stormed a Wal-Mart on the outskirts of Mexico City on Tuesday, accusing the U.S.-based retailer of selling low-cost goods at the expense of workers, farmers and public markets...
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BBC News
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Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a leading UK charity.
Children in post-conflict areas are being abused by the very people drafted into such zones to help look after them, says Save the Children...
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BBC News
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Burma's top leader has agreed to let all foreign aid workers into the country for relief work in cyclone-hit areas, UN head Ban Ki-moon has said.
After talks in Burma's remote capital, Naypyidaw, with Gen Than Shwe, Mr Ban said the decision was a break..
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BBC News
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Two foreign contractors, a Briton and a Kenyan, working for the UN in Somalia have been seized by unknown gunmen in southern Somalia, reports say.
They were doing work for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
The incident happened on a road bet..
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BBC News
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Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party says thousands of its workers are facing rioting and arson charges after violence following her assassination.
Senior party leaders said police had been arresting party members all over Sindh province in recent..
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Al Jazeera
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Salam Fayyad, the prime minister in the emergency administration, will be able to pay full salaries after the United States and other nations ended their crippling economic embargo of the Palestinian Authority when the new cabinet was swon in earlier this..
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Al Jazeera
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A cloud of smoke hung over the camp as the Lebanese army continued to shell Fatah al-Islam positions.
The fighters returned fire with mortar bombs and rocket-propelled grenades.
Minimal assistance
The Red Cross employees are the first aid work..
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FOX News
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Two local Red Cross workers were killed and a third wounded Monday when they came under fire from inside a Palestinian refugee camp where the Lebanese army has been fighting Al Qaeda-inspired militants holed up inside. A Muslim sheik trying to mediate the..
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BBC News
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Two Lebanese Red Cross workers have been killed outside a Palestinian refugee camp where troops are battling Islamist fighters, officials have said.
The pair were evacuating civilians when they were hit by either machine gun or shell fire from the Nahr..
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BBC News
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Two Sri Lankan Red Cross volunteers who had been abducted in the capital, Colombo, have been shot dead, the aid group has said.
The bodies of the two men were found in Ratnapura district, about 100km (60 miles) south-east of Colombo.
The aid workers..
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USA Today
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Gunmen kidnapped six Russian workers of an aluminum-smelting plant in Nigeria's lawless southern oil-producing region Sunday, blowing up their homes before taking them away, a company official said.
Felix Nxong, the general manager of the plant in sout..
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CNN
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The U.S. State Department confirmed that seven people were kidnapped in Nigeria, three of them U.S. citizens, but offered few details.
"Our consulate general in Lagos reports that three American citizens were kidnapped in Bayelsa state," State Departme..
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CNN
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Two aid workers, one British and one Kenyan, are missing feared kidnapped in northern Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, their organization said on Thursday.
CARE International said the Briton, who is from Northern Ireland, and his colleague ha..
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Reuters
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Gunmen kidnapped four American oil workers from a barge off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday in the 10th attack on Western oil facilities in nine days in Africa's top producer.
Rebels from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said..
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CNN
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Seven Chinese oil workers and two African civilians were released Sunday by an Ethiopian rebel group that attacked a Chinese oil exploration facility last week, a Red Cross spokesman said.
Patrick Megevand, spokesman for the International Committee of..
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