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Lincoln's Cottage in DC tackles modern slavery
The house where President Abraham Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation some 150 years ago is confronting the reality that more people are held in modern-day slavery than at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.A 2005 United Nations report based on reported cases of forced labor found at least 12 million people worldwide, including people in the U.S., are held in modern slavery and

Panel visits Koodankulam nuclear plant
Tirunelveli: Tamil Nadu government- appointed four-member committee on Saturday visited the Koodankulam nuclear power plant and held talks with the plant and district authorities to break the

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Expert panel on Kudankulam to meet protestors
The four-member expert committee on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), which met here Friday for the first time, will visit Tirunelveli and meet anti-KNPP activists as well as district administration officials, said a panel member.

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Brazil wants firms to offer six months' maternity leave
/EFE) The Brazilian government wants to increase from four to six months the amount of paid maternity leave companies are obliged to give new mothers, the country's minister for women's policy said here Thursday.

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Citigroup whistleblower: I have no regrets

It wasn't Sherry Hunt's original intent to go public on the shoddy quality control at a mortgage unit at Citigroup Inc, her employer since 2004. But by March 2011, as it became apparent to her that

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Expert panel on Kudankulam to meet Friday
The four-member expert committee to look into safety aspects of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu and address fears of locals about the project will meet here Friday.

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