168 million children work as labourers
The U.S. Labor Department reported Tuesday that
about 168 million children, aged 5 to 7, worked last year as
laborers around the world, about half of them in hazardous jobs. The
report on child labor in 140 countries called this an improvement
from previous years. But while the decline is a move in the right
direction,
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Italians protest against EU job policies
Thousands of protesters in the Italian city of
Milan have demonstrated outside the venue of the European employment
summit against European Union's job policies. The demonstrators held
the rally on Wednesday after marching through the city,
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Thousands of Hong Kong protesters regroup
Thousands of protesters regrouped in central
Hong Kong on Friday to push their demand for democracy, a day after
the government called off talks with students amid a two-week
standoff that has shaken communist China's capitalist hub.
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