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- Fiscal Cliff? Crackdown on Using Independent Contractors is Perfect Storm
- Bangladesh fire protests rage, supervisors arrested
- Kuwait could ban 100,000 from travel over dues: paper
- Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case starts hunger strike
- Kuwait could ban 100,000 from travel over dues: paper
- Join a Hero, change the world
- 3 accused of locking gate in fire
- VIDEO: Interview with 'Father of the iPod'
- U.N. set for implicit recognition of Palestinian state, despite U.S., Israel threats
- Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case starts hunger strike
- VIDEO: Interview with 'Father of the iPod'
- VIDEO: Photographic odyssey that documented Native Americans
- U.N. set for implicit recognition of Palestinian state, despite U.S., Israel threats
- Australia's Gillard survives tough year, but polls defeat looms
- India's parliament to vote on foreign supermarket investment
- Australia's Gillard survives tough year, but polls defeat looms
- India's parliament to vote on foreign supermarket investment
- Riot police break up Myanmar copper protest
- Palestinians certain to win recognition as a state
- 'Red Shirt' trial delayed in Thailand
| Fiscal Cliff? Crackdown on Using Independent Contractors is Perfect Storm Posted: 28 Nov 2012 02:42 PM PST Photo credit: 401(K) 2012 Independent contractors are paid without tax withholding. If a plumber fixes your toilet, a driver hauls trash from your back yard, or a handyman fixes a window in your office, you pay the flat fee or hourly rate and that's it, you're done. In contrast, paying an employee [...]
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| Bangladesh fire protests rage, supervisors arrested Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:24 PM PST DHAKA/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three supervisors of a Bangladeshi garment factory were arrested on Wednesday as protests over a suspected arson fire that killed more than 100 people raged on into a third day, with textile workers and police clashing in the streets of a Dhaka suburb.
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| Kuwait could ban 100,000 from travel over dues: paper Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:21 PM PST KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait could ban nearly 100,000 of its residents from leaving the country for failing to pay dues owed to the state, local newspaper reported, quoting a senior Justice Ministry official.
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| Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case starts hunger strike Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:09 PM PST
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| Kuwait could ban 100,000 from travel over dues: paper Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:21 PM PST KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait could ban nearly 100,000 of its residents from leaving the country for failing to pay dues owed to the state, local newspaper reported, quoting a senior Justice Ministry official. The policy is part of a government plan to collect nearly 12 million Kuwaiti dinars ($42.6 million) in fees for the use of state services, or as fines in felony and misdemeanor cases, Thursday's edition of the Kuwait Times quoted Mohammad al-Duaij as saying. ...
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| Posted: 28 Nov 2012 02:17 PM PST This year's top 10 CNN Heroes are working hard to make a difference in the world, and you can help by donating to their causes through Google.
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| 3 accused of locking gate in fire Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:08 PM PST Three managers at a Bangladeshi clothing factory were arrested and accused of locking a main gate of the facility hampering people trying to flee a weekend inferno that killed more than 100 workers, police said.
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| VIDEO: Interview with 'Father of the iPod' Posted: 28 Nov 2012 07:25 PM PST Tony Fadell, known as the 'Father of the iPod', gives a rare interview to the BBC, discussing his time with Apple, and his latest venture, Nest.
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| U.N. set for implicit recognition of Palestinian state, despite U.S., Israel threats Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:07 PM PST UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state of Palestine on Thursday despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding much-needed funds for the West Bank government.
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| Pakistan doctor in bin Laden case starts hunger strike Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:09 PM PST PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hunt down Osama bin Laden started a hunger strike in his jail cell this week to protest against his living conditions, prison officials said on Thursday.
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| VIDEO: Interview with 'Father of the iPod' Posted: 28 Nov 2012 07:25 PM PST Tony Fadell, known as the 'Father of the iPod', gives a rare interview to the BBC, discussing his time with Apple, and his latest venture, Nest.
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| VIDEO: Photographic odyssey that documented Native Americans Posted: 28 Nov 2012 05:16 PM PST At the dawn of the 20th century, photographer Edward Curtis captured the dwindling Native American population in stunning photographs.
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| U.N. set for implicit recognition of Palestinian state, despite U.S., Israel threats Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:07 PM PST
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| Australia's Gillard survives tough year, but polls defeat looms Posted: 28 Nov 2012 09:33 PM PST
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| India's parliament to vote on foreign supermarket investment Posted: 28 Nov 2012 09:48 PM PST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's parliament will hold a non-binding vote on one of the government's flagship economic reforms, allowing foreign direct investment in supermarkets, the Speaker said on Thursday. It was not immediately clear when parliament will hold the vote or whether it will be held only in the lower house, where the government could muster a majority. A vote in the upper house would be harder to win. Although the vote is non-binding, a loss would be a symbolic blow to the authority of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's fragile minority government. ...
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| Australia's Gillard survives tough year, but polls defeat looms Posted: 28 Nov 2012 09:33 PM PST CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard heads into an election year with her leadership bruised over a union scandal dating back 20 years and with her government struggling to gain voter support after a brutal political year that ended on Thursday.
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| India's parliament to vote on foreign supermarket investment Posted: 28 Nov 2012 09:48 PM PST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's parliament will hold a non-binding vote on one of the government's flagship economic reforms, allowing foreign direct investment in supermarkets, the Speaker said on Thursday.
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| Riot police break up Myanmar copper protest Posted: 28 Nov 2012 09:35 PM PST Security forces used a water cannon and other weapons to end the three-month protest, injuring 10 monks, two critically.
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| Palestinians certain to win recognition as a state Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:02 PM PST
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| 'Red Shirt' trial delayed in Thailand Posted: 28 Nov 2012 09:29 PM PST Lawyer of Arisman Pongreungrong, one of 24 defendants, says client suffered food poisoning; trial to resume in a month.
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