MEXICO CITY - More than 100 kidnapping victims freed from a rehab center said Friday they were snatched from the streets and held in slave-like conditions — beaten, robbed and forced to work 18 hours a day making clothespins and shopping bags
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen would take over as labor minister, replacing Franz Josef Jung who quit earlier on Friday after criticism of his role when he was defense minister. Von der Leyen, who
BRIGHTON, England - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will promise Tuesday to clean up British politics, get tough on crime and heal the economy, in a blizzard of policy moves aimed at avoiding a crushing election defeat next year. Polls point to a big w
BRIGHTON, England - Opinion polls cast gloom over Britain's ruling Labor Party Monday at its last annual conference before a general election which the opposition center-right Conservatives are forecast to win. Senior Labor figures were describing
TORONTO - Cost-savings talks between Ford Motor Co's Canadian subsidiary and the Canadian Auto Workers union continued on Wednesday, but the union said Ford had so far failed to address its key issue. Some media reports said the negotiations had br
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on Monday assured America's biggest labor federation that the Obama administration would fight for legislation in Congress to make it easier for unions to organize workers. Solis also called on unions to help Preside
SAN'A, Yemen - A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor to give birth, a local human rights organization said Saturday. Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth to a stillbor
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