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STRIKE

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 10, 2016
Detainees launch hunger strike over conditions at Osaka immigration detention center
About 50 detainees being held at the Osaka Regional Immigration Bureau went on a hunger strike Wednesday to protest what they call "inhumane" treatment by Immigration Bureau officials, a group supporting them said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 10, 2015
Teachers strike for first time in 30 years in pricey Seattle as pay, contract talks stall
Seattle teachers and support staff marched in picket lines on Wednesday during what was supposed to be the first day of school, waging their first such strike in three decades after contract talks between the district and union failed.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2015
Students launch hunger strike to protest security bills
Sitting upright across from the Diet building, the protesters say they know their fight against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is going to take a heavy toll on them. But they say they have to do it nonetheless.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 6, 2015
Verizon shift to wireless puts union ranks, with benefits, at huge disadvantage
Verizon Communications Inc., deadlocked in labor talks over pension benefits and health care that caused a strike in 2011, has gained bargaining power this time around after shedding operations that employ older unionized workers.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2015
Hundreds of workers at supplier to Uniqlo strike over firings
Hundreds of factory workers at a Chinese supplier to Fast Retailing Co. are striking over the dismissal of some of the employees, forcing production to shut down, a labor rights group said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 24, 2015
January drone strike on Pakistan al-Qaida site killed U.S., Italian aid worker hostages; Obama apologizes
A U.S. drone strike in January targeting an al-Qaida compound in Pakistan near the Afghan border inadvertently killed an American and an Italian who had been held hostage for years by the group, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 20, 2015
Lufthansa pilot strike grounds over half long-haul flights
A pilots strike grounded more than half of Lufthansa's lucrative long-haul flights on Thursday, the latest action to pressure management in a protracted row over early retirement benefits and cost cuts.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 4, 2015
North Korea warns U.S. about pre-emptive strike 'if necessary'
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong said on Tuesday that his country had the power to deter an "ever-increasing nuclear threat" by the United States with a pre-emptive strike if necessary.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 27, 2015
U.K. authorities linked 'Jihadi John' to militant killed by U.S. drone in Somalia
British authorities have linked Mohammed Emwazi, a Londoner identified by U.S. national security sources as "Jihadi John," the knife-wielding militant who appeared in videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages, to another British militant killed in Somalia in a U.S. drone attack.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 26, 2014
Sierra Leone Ebola burial workers dump bodies in pay protest
Burial workers in Sierra Leone have dumped dead bodies in the street outside a hospital to protest authorities' failure to pay bonuses for handling Ebola victims, in the latest strike to hamper the fight against the worst known outbreak of the virus.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 13, 2014
Liberia health workers poised to start indefinite strike; Ebola efforts in jeopardy
Thousands of Liberian health care workers are set to begin an indefinite strike at midnight on Monday that could undermine the country's effort to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus and leave several hundred patients without care.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2014
Big budget F-35 fighter 'can't turn, can't climb, can't run'
The U.S. military recently grounded all of its new F-35 Joint Strike Fighters after one caught fire on a runway. There is reason to worry that basic design flaws vex what is on track to become the military's most numerous warplane.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 15, 2014
Strike halts Toyota's S. Africa production
Toyota Motor Corp. and Ford Motor Co. are stopping production at South African plants as a strike in the manufacturing industry stems the supply of components.
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2014
Toyota, like Ford, to halt some South African output due to strike
U.S. motor company Ford has suspended production at one of its South African plants and Japanese carmaker Toyota plans to follow suit as a manufacturing workers' strike hits suppliers of car components.
JAPAN
May 9, 2014
Women's group launches bid to deny sex to men who are pro-war
A women's group campaigns against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to reinterpret the Constitution by urging women not to have sex with any man deemed pro-war.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2013
Right way to send a message
It's harder for the U.S. to claim legitimacy for circumventing U.N. paralysis, it has used the veto more often than China and Russia combined since the end of the Cold War.

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