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Indian Premier Manmohan Singh undergoes heart bypass; Pranab Mukherjee takes charge

26 November, 2020

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Sunday, January 25, 2009 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh received a successful coronary artery bypass surgery and was recuperating well in the state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Sunday. Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17th and current Prime Minister of the Republic of India. He also serves as the Union Minister for Finance, succeeding […]

Google to discontinue social networking application Google Wave

26 November, 2020

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Thursday, August 5, 2010 File:Google Wave.jpg Google has decided to retire the Google Wave social-networking service after one year, citing lack of user adoption. Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for operations, said in a blog post that “Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing […]

Israel Journal: Is Yossi Vardi a good father to his entrepreneurial children?

26 November, 2020

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Thursday, December 20, 2007 Wikinews reporter David Shankbone is currently, courtesy of the Israeli government and friends, visiting Israel. This is a first-hand account of his experiences and may — as a result — not fully comply with Wikinews’ neutrality policy. Please note this is a journalism experiment for Wikinews and put constructive criticism on […]

Canada adds United States to list of countries that torture

26 November, 2020

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Saturday, January 19, 2008 An internal training manual developed by the Canadian foreign affairs department lists the United States as a country where foreigners risk torture and abuse, alongside countries such as Afghanistan, China, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Both Israel and the United States are officially allies of Canada. The manual is […]

Open source game developer Perttu Ahola talks about Minetest with Wikinews

26 November, 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 […]

Elderly couple found slain in scrapyard in Staffordshire, England

26 November, 2020

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Saturday, October 27, 2007 Bodies of an elderly couple have been found in Barlows scrapyard in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. BBC reports the bodies were found on Friday night. A 29-year-old man was the only person at the scrapyard when police and ambulance crews arrived and has now been arrested as a suspect. The scene […]

46 illegal Afghan immigrants suffocate in truck in Pakistan

26 November, 2020

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Correction — Nov 1, 2013 The article below claims each passenger paid 4000 to 8000 USD. Each paid 30,000 Rupees, equivilent at the time to about US$375. The bodies of 46 Afghan illegal immigrants who suffocated to death in a container truck Saturday near Quetta, Pakistan, returned home Tuesday. The Edhi Foundation […]

Democratic holdout agrees to support health care reform in US

26 November, 2020

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Sunday, December 20, 2009 A conservative Democratic United States senator has agreed to supply the key 60th vote needed for passage of a sweeping health care reform package. Senate Democrats have reached a breakthrough in their struggle to pass sweeping heath care reform legislation, lining up the 60 votes needed to overcome fierce Republican opposition. […]

Wikinews interviews Ruth Bryant White, independent candidate for US President

26 November, 2020

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 While nearly all coverage of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, the race for the White House also includes independents and third party candidates. These parties represent a variety of views that may not be acknowledged by the major party platforms. Wikinews has impartially reached […]

Elite Boston Marathon runner Emily Levan discusses life and running

26 November, 2020

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Saturday, April 23, 2005 The interview below was conducted by Pingswept over the phone with Emily Levan on April 21, 2005. Levan lives in Wiscasset, Maine, with her husband and daughter, and she ran in the Boston Marathon women’s race on April 18, 2005. To summarize for our readers, you recently came in 12th in […]