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Stories for December 28th 2019

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Outbreak of chicken pox among migrants returned to Mexico from US

  

  An outbreak of chicken pox has forced the temporary closure of a shelter housing Central American migrants sent to Mexico from the United States, Mexican authorities said on Friday, as officials sought to contain the highly contagious virus.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  French transport strike enters fourth week with unions pledging to press on

  

  The head of a hard-line French trade union on Friday vowed to press on with a crippling strike that has cast a shadow over Christmas celebrations, with the stoppages entering a fourth week and becoming the longest-lasting such action since the 1980s.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Peru fines McDonald's local franchise US$ 250.000 for safety violations that electrocuted two employees

  

  Peruvian authorities on Thursday fined the local owner of a McDonald's franchise US$250,000 for serious safety violations after two employees were electrocuted to death. Two workers, an 18-year-old man and a woman, died on Dec 15 while cleaning the kitchen of a McDonald's in Pueblo Libre, in the Lima province.