Word: foreigners
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...very fact that developing countries like Brazil and Indonesia and China have now begun to take [climate] initiatives makes it a very different situation," an optimistic Gore told the Senate foreign relations committee. "This is a very different outlook than was the case in Kyoto...
...which denounces Israel as a matter of course but never considers Palestinian violations of Israeli rights—or Palestinian rights, for that matter. He even slips in an obscure reference to “pass laws,” which existed in apartheid South Africa but are entirely foreign to Israel...
...Monday, U.K. unions held a repeat of last week's wildcat strikes protesting a decision by a French-owned oil plant to bring in 300 Italian and Portuguese contract laborers. British workers at the refinery in northeast England say they want jobs to go to locals, not to cheaper foreign workers. The move sparked rare oil-worker walkouts across the U.K. Workers want Prime Minister Gordon Brown to make good on his 2007 pledge that his government would impress upon businesses the need to create "British jobs for British workers." (See pictures of London's financial crisis...
...January, a high-profile raid in the Burmese commercial capital, Rangoon, netted a large amount of heroin loaded onto a ship bound for Singapore, according to the Irrawaddy, a media organization run primarily by Burmese in exile in Thailand. But the raid appears to have been galvanized by foreign anti-drug agents, and, as the Irrawaddy points out, it's not clear whether the Burmese junta would have raided the ship without international pressure. In the mean time, Southeast Asia's largest narco-state continues to thrive. And some Burmese farmers are able to fill their bellies for now, even...
Officials have come under similar pressure in Ireland. Irish workers want construction companies to give precedence to Irish laborers over foreigners. Some 300,000 Polish workers flocked to Ireland's once booming building sector after Poland joined the E.U. in 2004. But the real estate market in Ireland has collapsed over the past year. Thousands of Poles have returned home, but many remain - leading to rising tensions as local and foreign workers compete for fewer jobs...