(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: August 26, 2010) More than a million people are on strike in South Africa, in an effort to obtain an 8.6 percent pay raise. Mexican President Felipe Calderón has condemned the murders of 72 migrants on a remote ranch in northeast Mexico, supposedly committed by a drug gang. America is warning that the Pakistani Taliban is planning to target foreign aid workers. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has reportedly visited China for the second time in three months, possibly laying the diplomatic groundwork for his son. In Russia, the President Medvedev has suspended plans to build a new highway through a forest outside Moscow, under environmental concerns.

(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: August 26, 2010) More than a million people are on strike in South Africa, in an effort to obtain an 8.6 percent pay raise. Mexican President Felipe Calderón has condemned the murders of 72 migrants on a remote ranch in northeast Mexico, supposedly committed by a drug gang. America is warning that the Pakistani Taliban is planning to target foreign aid workers. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has reportedly visited China for the second time in three months, possibly laying the diplomatic groundwork for his son. In Russia, the President Medvedev has suspended plans to build a new highway through a forest outside Moscow, under environmental concerns.