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World labor group hits U.S. on worker rights
June 20, 2008The International Trade Union Congress, which met June 9-11 in Geneva, assailed the lack of workers’ rights in the United States, and called on the World Trade Organization to take up the issue at its biannual...
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World notes: June 21, 2008
June 20, 2008South Korea: Conservative president confronts outrage Monitored by 30,000 riot police, a million people demonstrated throughout South Korea on June 10, following weeks of protests against the government’s bowing to Washington’s threats to retract a trade...
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Top court upholds detainee rights
June 20, 2008Defenders of human rights praised the Supreme Court’s June 12 ruling that hundreds of detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are entitled to a fair trial and other habeas corpus legal rights. Hundreds...
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Midwest disaster
June 20, 2008Emergency programs needed to rebuild, many say As the rising Mississippi continued to crash through levees June 17, sending walls of water into Midwest towns and threatening thousands of additional acres of farmland, many were already...
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Latino workers die on the job at higher rates than others
June 18, 2008Latino workers die from on-the-job injury at higher rates than all others, with 33 percent of the deaths happening at construction sites, a government report noted June 5. One of the main causes cited in the...
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