Members of the private Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have begun a new month-long campaign in US states bordering Mexico and Canada to raise public awareness of illegal immigration. Minuteman volunteers watch the borders with binoculars and are instructed to contact government Border Control officials to report illegal immigrants. The campaign comes in the midst of [...]

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A controversial French labor law that has prompted strikes and mass demonstrations by students and workers across France was officially published Sunday in France's Journal officiel gazette after being signed by President Jacques Chirac . The statute establishing the so-called First Employment Contract (CPE) allows employers to fire workers under the age of 26 without [...]

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in a news conference Saturday with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw at the end of a UK visit. In response to questions on when Guantanamo might be closed, she insisted that:the United States doesn't desire to keep Guantanamo in being any [...]

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