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World (1933) Ford's UK staff hold 24-hr strike over pay, pensions 2 ( 23 ) By Jane Goh on June 22nd, 2012 British employees of US car giant Ford were staging a 24-hour strike on Monday in a row over pay and pensions.The Unite trade union said the walkout from 0500 GMT would affect plants at Dagenham in Regime forces besiege Homs, 69 killed across Syria 0 ( 0 ) By Jane Goh on June 22nd, 2012 Troops pounded besieged districts of the flashpoint city of Homs as 10 people were killed across Syria on Sunday, taking the weekend death toll to nearly 80, a watchdog said.A civilian was killed in Nearly 100 still missing in boat capsize near Australia 0 ( 0 ) By Jane Goh on June 22nd, 2012 Nearly 100 suspected asylum seekers are still missing a day after a boat capsized about 200 km north of Australia's Christmas Island, Australia's minister for home affairs said on Friday.Jason Clare Mexico troops detain son of most-wanted drug lord 5 ( 25 ) By Jane Goh on June 22nd, 2012 Mexican marines on Thursday detained a young man they believe is one of the sons of Mexico's most-wanted drug kingpin, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel.The presumed 90 still missing after boat capsizes off Indonesia 0 ( 0 ) By Jane Goh on June 22nd, 2012 A search continued Friday for scores of men missing after a steel-hull fishing boat carrying about 200 suspected asylum seekers bound for Australia capsized in heavy seas south of Indonesia.Four Bolivian police mutiny over pay 2 ( 49 ) By Jane Goh on June 22nd, 2012 About 30 members of an elite Bolivian police commando unit mutinied in La Paz on Thursday, expelling their commanders and seizing their barracks along with their wives to demand higher wages.The Suicide attackers hit Afghan hotel; hostages taken 0 ( 0 ) By Jane Goh on June 22nd, 2012 Three suicide bombers attacked a lakeside hotel north of Kabul, taking hostages and staging an hours-long gunbattle with Afghan security forces, police said Friday.The bombers, armed with machines Palestinian judoka Abu Rmeileh makes Games history 4 ( 4 ) By Jane Goh on June 22nd, 2012 In the tiny locker room of a small sports club in east Jerusalem, Maher Abu Rmeileh carefully ties the black belt around his blue judo gi before beginning an intense training session ahead of the Search resumes for 100 missing in Indian Ocean 0 ( 0 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 Merchant and navy ships and five aircraft resumed the search for almost 100 people missing in the Indian Ocean a day after a crowded refugee boat capsized between Indonesia and Australia's Christmas At US hotels, Chinese treated to comforts of home 0 ( 0 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 Major hotel brands are bending over backward to cater to the needs of the world's most sought-after traveler: the Chinese tourist.Now arriving on American shores in unprecedented numbers thanks to a Suicide attacks at Afghan hotel; hostages taken 4 ( 109 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 Afghan police say Taliban suicide bombers attacked a lakeside hotel north of Kabul, and that militants armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have taken hostages and are continuing to Homes searched in Indonesian crash that killed 11 1 ( 159 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 Rescuers Friday resumed searching burned-out houses struck by an Indonesian air force plane that crashed into the military housing complex and ignited a huge fireball in the capital, killing 11 Syrian pilot flies his MiG to Jordan, gets asylum 2 ( 87 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 A Syrian fighter pilot on a training mission flew his MiG-21 warplane to neighboring Jordan, where he was given asylum Thursday in a defection from the fiercely loyal air force that signals some of 13 inmates killed in Turkish prison fire 0 ( 0 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 Inmates in a prison in southeast Turkey set mattresses and blankets alight, starting a fire that killed 13 prisoners, authorities said Sunday.Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the inmates set 6.1 quake rocks Philippines 3 ( 39 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of the main Philippine island of Luzon on Sunday, US seismologists said, but there were no reports of casualties and no tsunami alert was India to boost economic ties with Cuba 2 ( 126 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 India wants to strengthen economic ties with Cuba, the top Indian diplomat said Saturday on a trip to the Communist-run Caribbean island."The purpose of my visit to Cuba is to promote economic Mexican president expects big IMF firewall boost 0 ( 0 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 G20 summit host President Felipe Calderon of Mexico said Saturday that he expects the world's largest economies to deliver more than the $430 billion pledged to stop the spread of the European IOC probes London Games ticket scandal 4 ( 92 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 The International Olympic Committee on Saturday launched an investigation into allegations that some national Olympic officials were breaking strict rules on selling tickets for the London Games.The Egypt votes for president to succeed Mubarak 0 ( 0 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 Egyptians on Saturday voted to choose between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in a presidential runoff once billed as the country's long-awaited shift to democracy but Saudi heir's death opens door to younger voices 4 ( 34 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 For the second time in less than a year, Saudi Arabia was thrown into the process of naming a new heir to the country's 88-year-old king following the death Saturday of Crown Prince Nayef bin Syrian pilot defects to Jordan with plane 3 ( 62 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 A Syrian fighter pilot on a training mission flew his MiG-21 warplane to Jordan on Thursday and asked for political asylum, the first defection of an air force pilot with his plane during the Carlotta kills 2, weakens to tropical depression 4 ( 78 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 Carlotta was downgraded to a tropical depression on Saturday as the system rapidly weakened after killing two young sisters in its march across southern Mexico.The National Weather Service's National Egyptians choose new president amid political chaos 5 ( 123 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 Egyptians voted on Saturday in a run-off presidential election pitting an Islamist against Hosni Mubarak's last premier as the military rulers entered a showdown with the Islamists by disbanding UN observers in Syria suspend patrols 1 ( 187 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria on Saturday due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan was unraveling despite months of diplomatic 11 reported injured in major fire in India 3 ( 63 ) By Jane Goh on June 21st, 2012 Hundreds of employees were evacuated Thursday from a seven-story government building as more than two dozen fire engines battled a major fire that raged for several hours in India's financial and