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Republican lawmakers in Texas, unfazed by state governments across the country opting out of a controversial immigration enforcement program, are instead seeking to expand it here.
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Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari is the among the best known of many thousands of Syrians detained since mid-March…
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Despite the allegations that sports stars have been targeted in Bahrain the FIA, motorsport’s governing body, agreed last week to re-instate Bahrain’s Formula One Grand Prix, which had been postponed after anti-government protests broke out.
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At least 14 workers at Foxconn factories in China have killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous working conditions.
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Two years ago, Haiti unanimously passed a law sharply raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. That doesn’t sound like much (and it isn’t), but it was two and a half times the then-minimum of 24 cents an hour.
This infuriated American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes. They said they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, and they got the State Department involved. The U.S. ambassador put pressure on Haiti’s president, who duly carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for textile companies (the U.S. minimum wage, which itself is very low, works out to $58 a day).
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A female poet whose “death” became the focus of an Iranian state propaganda campaign against Bahrain has been brought before a military tribunal in the island kingdom.
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For starters, the US invasion of Iraq was justified, in part, on the basis of the false confession of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi who, under pain of torture, confessed to knowledge of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Torture not only aided in the justification of the Iraq war, which resulted in more than 4,000 US casualties, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties, and costs in excess of $1tn; the subsequent occupation served as the primary recruiting tool for al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Kofi Annan, George Shultz and Richard Branson among those urging public health approach…
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Over 4,000 families in the Indian state of Orissa face serious risk from threats of leaks from Vedanta’s red mud pond as the rainy season begins in June. Levels within the pond have already risen, amidst reports of two leaks in the last two months, threatening the communities’ safety, health and livelihoods.
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Journalist killed in Pakistan after reporting on connection between Pakistani navy and al-Qaeda…
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