Hundreds Threaten Suicide At Foxconn Plant In China
Some 300 Chinese Foxconn employees who manufacture X-box 360 machines said they would throw themselves from their Wuhan, China, plant if demands for lost wages were not met.
 North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has diedKim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader, has died of heart failure. He was 69. |  Secret U.S., Taliban talks reach turning pointAfter 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible, leading to peace talks whose ultimate goal is to end t... |  Pakistan boycotts Bonn conference over NATO strikePakistan on Tuesday decided to boycott a key international conference on Afghanistan next month, widening its protest over lethal cross-border NATO strikes and exacerbating a deep crisis in US ties. |  Afghans say commando unit was attacked before airstrike was called on PakistanThe latest U.S.-Pakistan crisis threatened Monday to undo months of efforts to mend an increasingly frayed relationship and to undermine the Obama administration’s strategy for gradually ending the war in Afghanistan. |  Pakistan gives America two-week ultimatum to abandon 'secret' airbase and closes border: Hundreds of Afghan-bound supply trucks line up as tensions mountNearly 300 trucks carrying supplies to U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan clogged the Pakistani border crossings Sunday, leaving them vulnerable to militant attack a day after Islamabad closed the frontier in retaliation for coalition airstrikes that allegedly ... |  Six Children Are Killed by NATO Airstrike in AfghanistanSix children were among seven civilians killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Thursday. |  North Korea threatens South with "sea of fire"North Korea threatened Thursday to turn Seoul's presidential palace office into a "sea of fire," stepping up its rhetoric one day after South Korea conducted large-scale military drills near a front-line island attacked by North Korea last year. |  Hundreds Threaten Suicide At Foxconn Plant In ChinaSome 300 Chinese Foxconn employees who manufacture X-box 360 machines said they would throw themselves from their Wuhan, China, plant if demands for lost wages were not met. |
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Troops amputations up sharply in Afghan war
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Ex-Afghanistan president Burhanuddin Rabbani killed by 'turban bomb'
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