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SF Gate
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Rescue workers are digging through flattened homes and schools in a desperate search for victims of China's worst earthquake in three decades. Authorities say nearly 12,000 people were killed and more than 18,000 are missing.
The official Xinhua News A..
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SF Gate
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U.N. peacekeepers and rescue workers searched for bodies Wednesday in the smoldering rubble after a Congolese jetliner careened off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 100 on the ground.
Airline officials s..
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BBC News
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A nationwide one-day strike by public transport workers in France has left the country with drastically reduced train, bus and metro services.
Trade unions held protests in dozens of towns and cities in their campaign to protect a pension system enjoye..
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CNN
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A section of a bridge under construction in southern Vietnam collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 52 workers and injuring 97 others, officials said. The bridge was being built across the Hau River, a branch of the Mekong River, in the southern city of Ca..
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SF Gate
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Most of London's sprawling transport network shut down Tuesday after maintenance workers walked off the job, arousing commuter anger and drawing warnings the strike will inconvenience millions of Britons.
Around 2,300 members of the National Union of R..
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Al Jazeera
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The liquid metal engulfed the room, bursting through the door and windows and burying the workers," the China Daily said on Thursday of the tragedy at a plant belonging to the Qinghe Special Steel Company Limited.
"It is the most serious accident to h..
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CNN
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The British government will launch an investigation on Wednesday into claims that former nuclear plant workers at a state-owned facility who died in the 1960s and 1970s may have had body parts removed without consent.
Unions representing workers in the..
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BBC News
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Israel's main trade union has launched an open-ended general strike which threatens to bring transport and public services across the country to a halt.
Flights at Israel's only international airport, Tel Aviv, were cancelled as the strike came into fo..
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CNN
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A court convicted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor Tuesday of deliberately infecting 400 children with HIV and sentenced them to death, despite scientific evidence the youngsters had the virus before the medical workers came to Libya...
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BBC News
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Workers from France's five largest unions have begun strike action against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to reform public-sector pensions.
Bus, train and air transport were disrupted across the country, though workers stuck to a commitment to offer..
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BBC News
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Burma's military government has said it is still opposed to letting foreign aid workers in to help the many victims of Cyclone Nargis.
Vice-Admiral Soe Thein, of the military leadership, said Burma was grateful for the aid shipment from the United Stat..
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CNN
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More than 20,000 Vietnamese workers have walked off the job at a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes shoes for Nike, demanding higher pay to keep pace with skyrocketing prices, officials said Tuesday. The workers at Ching Luh plant, in southern Long An provi..
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BBC News
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China's foreign minister has strongly criticised "anti-China forces" he says are determined to politicise this year's Beijing Olympics.
Yang Jiechi said individuals and groups were trying to tarnish China's image.
In recent weeks human rights groups..
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CNN
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Meteorologists at Germany's national weather service and pollsters from the central statistics office joined teachers, bankers and sanitation workers in a wave of warning strikes across the public service sector on Thursday. The walkouts started hours ahe..
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CNN
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Scores of flights were canceled Wednesday after thousands of airport workers walked off their jobs at several German airports. At Frankfurt International Airport -- Germany's largest and Europe's third-busiest -- more than 2,000 baggage handlers, check-in..
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BBC News
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Chadian President Idriss Deby has said he is ready to pardon six French aid workers convicted of trying to fly 103 children out of the country.
The six were sentenced to eight years' hard labour in Chad last year, but were flown home in December to ser..
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CNN
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Six charity workers convicted in Chad of the attempted kidnapping of 103 children will learn their fates in two weeks when a French court announces what sentence they should serve in France, a court spokeswoman said Tuesday. The members of the charity, Zo..
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BBC News
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French aid workers convicted in Chad for child trafficking have gone before a French court, where judges are seeking to adapt their sentences.
The six were sentenced to eight years' hard labour, a type of punishment which does not exist in French justi..
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BBC News
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Malaysia has suspended the recruitment of workers from India amid rising domestic tensions.
A government official said the decision might be linked to the actions of a group that led protests complaining of discrimination against ethnic Indians.
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BBC News
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Six French aid workers who were jailed in Chad on child trafficking charges have flown out of the capital N'Djamena, bound for France.
The six were sentenced to eight years' hard labour in Chad on Wednesday for attempting to kidnap 103 children.
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