Dell Inc. and a Nashville, Tennessee human relations agency have resolved a dispute over unscheduled prayer breaks by 31 Muslim contract workers at the No. 1 personal computer maker, the agency said on Friday.
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The children of Micoahumado never had to dream up excuses to stay away from school. They didn't have that luxury.
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In southeastern Nigeria, Anambra State lawmakers have passed a bill to prohibit the mistreatment of widows.
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The Supreme Court yesterday abolished the death penalty for juveniles, ruling that it is excessive and cruel to execute a person who was younger than 18 when the crime was committed.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, under pressure at home and abroad to democratize, said Saturday that he would ask his country's parliament to change the constitution and permit multiparty popular elections.
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Human Rights Watch welcomes a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)?formerly the Government Accounting Office?on worker safety in the meat and poultry industry.
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Two Indonesian reporters who had been held captive in Iraq have been released and are leaving the conflict-ridden country, Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.
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Although the incidence of rape in refugee camps in Kenya has dropped drastically, the United Nations refugee agency and its partners in the East African country have launched a project to strengthen existing actions to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence.
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Since the international treaty to ban antipersonnel mines took effect in 1999, millions of landmines have been destroyed, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines said today in a new five-year survey.
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Phone lines have been restored in Nepal a week after being taken down as King Gyanendra took control of the country.
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Three Balkan countries agreed today to bring a genuine and successful close to the refugee chapter in southeastern Europe by the end of 2006, through either voluntary return or local integration in a process that the United Nations refugee agency will actively assist.
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The government will revamp the wording of future federal contracts with the aim of countering U.S. powers, granted under anti-terrorism laws, to tap into personal information about Canadians.
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Eight Chinese hostages freed in Iraq have been handed back to the Chinese authorities, a diplomat said Sunday, ending 24 hours of jitters and uncertainty about their whereabouts.
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Iraqi militants have freed eight Chinese construction workers, the Chinese Embassy said Saturday.
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