Category:August 2, 2010

17 December, 2020

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? August 1, 2010 August 3, 2010 ? August 2 Pages in category “August 2, 2010” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:August_2,_2010&oldid=3818441”

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Manitoba volunteers go to war against Red River flooding

17 December, 2020

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Monday, April 6, 2009 Over 1,600 volunteers registered to help build approximately 65,000 of the 500,000 sandbags to create dikes 20.5 feet (6.2 meters) high to protect the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba in the war against the Red River of the North flood. 700 volunteers answered at the rural municipality of St. Andrews alone. Once sandbags are […]

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Thousands march in anti-Brexit protest, London

17 December, 2020

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Thursday, March 28, 2019 Estimates by event organizers indicate roughly one million people marched in London on Saturday during an anti-Brexit (“British exit”) march, protesting the pending exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU). Protesters, carrying placards asking the government to revoke Article 50 — the EU treaty clause invoked by Brexit […]

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Open source game developer Perttu Ahola talks about Minetest with Wikinews

17 December, 2020

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Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Recently, Finnish open-source video game developer Perttu Ahola discussed Minetest, his “longest ever project”, with Wikinews. Started in October 2010, Minetest was an attempt by Ahola to create a sandbox game similar to Minecraft. Minecraft is a multi-platform commercial game, which was in alpha version when Ahola challenged himself to create […]

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Home of Stonehenge builders found

17 December, 2020

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Scientists have uncovered the largest Neolithic settlement in the United Kingdom at the Durrington Walls and believe that the village was inhabited by the people who built the Stonehenge monument. Scientists say that the village was built around 2,600 B.C., roughly when Stonehenge was believed to have been constructed, and housed […]

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Death toll of Bahrain tourist boat capsizing rises to 57

17 December, 2020

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Saturday, April 1, 2006At least 57 people are now known to have died when a boat designed similar to a traditional dhow capsized one mile of the coast of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Seventeen were Indian and a further 13 of the dead are British; people of another six nationalities are also known to […]

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A380 collides with regional jet at JFK airport

17 December, 2020

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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 On Monday, an Air France Airbus A380, operating as Air France Flight 007, collided with a Comair Bombardier CRJ-700, operating as Comair flight 553/Delta Connection flight 6293 in Delta Connection livery, on a taxiway at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. The A380 had 520 people onboard, and […]

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Officials say co-pilot intentionally crashed Germanwings Airbus

17 December, 2020

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Sunday, March 29, 2015 Officials said on Thursday, after analyzing data from the Germanwings Flight 9525 cockpit voice recorder, that the airbus crashed into the French Alps because its co-pilot deliberately crashed it. On the cockpit voice recorder, the captain can be heard trying to get back into the cockpit. Transponder data indicates the autopilot […]

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Wikinews interviews spokesman for Greek far-left party Xekinima

17 December, 2020

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Monday, May 3, 2010 Wikinews reporter Iain Macdonald today interviewed Petros Tzomakas, a Greek far-left activist and member of Xekinima, which is the Greek division of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The party is a member of Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). Tzomakas also sits on his local 5th Athens Municipal District committee, […]

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Category:August 2, 2010

17 December, 2020

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? August 1, 2010 August 3, 2010 ? August 2 Pages in category “August 2, 2010” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:August_2,_2010&oldid=3818441”

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