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Los Angeles, CA – US fashion retailer forced to sack 1,500 at its California HQ
The clothes retailer American Apparel has expressed “deep disappointment” with US immigration policy after an official crackdown on undocumented workers obliged the company to lay off 1,500 employees at its California headquarters, amounting to 15% of its global workforce.
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Jordan’s military court on Wednesday convicted two militants for plotting to kill an Israeli and sentenced them to 12 years in jail.
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Berlin – A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that people can be prosecuted for displaying Nazi slogans in Germany only if they are in the German language.
The Federal Court of Justice overturned a lower court’s ruling convicting a neo-Nazi of transporting a shipment of 100 T-shirts with the slogan, “Blood and Honour,” written in English.
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An Iranian passenger plane burst into flames and skidded off the runway as it was landing in a northeastern city, killing 17 people, said the state news agency.
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The United States plans to transfer $200 million to the Palestinian Authority to help cover its budget crisis, an Obama administration official said on Friday.
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The lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people in November and raised tensions between India and Pakistan pleaded guilty in court on Monday, police said.
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Israel extradited a suspect to the United States on firearms charges on Sunday, despite his denial he belonged to the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan.
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Pope Benedict XVI was taken to a hospital in northern Italy on Friday after slipping and falling during his vacation in the Alps, a Vatican spokesman said.
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“What’s a nice professor of Jewish studies doing teaching in a place like this?”
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Swindler Bernard Madoff was temporarily moved to a prison in Atlanta from New York and was in transit to yet another facility on Tuesday, a U.S. official said.
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Madoff jailed in Atlanta en route to permanent federal prison