World
Nicaraguan economic trends are positive
June 17, 2011Nationally, unemployment dropped from 8.2 percent in January 2010 to the present 6.8 percent, with 325,000 new jobs created.
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50,000 Canadian postal workers locked out
June 17, 2011The company cited $100 million in losses the strike has caused and the union's refusal to cooperate in dealing with declining mail volumes.
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Iran: Turmoil at the top
June 17, 2011There is a struggle between Ahmadinejad and the clerics around Khamenei, but, while it may play out in arguments over obscure religious issues, the fight is over political and economic power.
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Political prisoner dies in Iran jail
June 17, 2011Another victim of the Iranian regime's brutal repression, hunger striking political prisoner Hoda Saber, has died in jail.
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In South Korea, strike leaders land in court
June 16, 2011180 Vietnamese migrant workers building a wharf in Inchon, South Korea, launched one brief strike in July, 2010, and another last January.
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