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Young activists in Switzerland have plutocrats hyperventilating u2014 and spending a fortune to beat back a ballot initiative that would establish a legal limit on the pay gap between …

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Celebrated cricketer-turned-political leader Imran Khan has threatened to block NATO supplies to Afghanistan through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where his party leads a coalition government.

As congress continues its fight to demand transparency for foreign military aid a compromise has been drafted demanding stricter standards, but giving the US military the discretion to maintain …

Most people did not really know Peter u2013 he was just always there. And suddenly he wasnu2019t.

Vancouver-based investigative journalist Alan Clements recently returned to Burma (aka Myanmar) to document a country unravelling from decades of totalitarian tyranny.

A trend of mob rapes has risen rapidly in Egypt as political stability and social security have diminished post-revolution.

Abuses include nonpayment of wages, harsh and dangerous working and living conditions, and forced labor.

How did it happen that billionaire farmers are entitled to their