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Intel launches 45nm “Penryn” processor aiming for energy-efficiency

25 October, 2020

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 This week in Taiwan Intel and other technology companies showcased server and computer hardware with processors built using “Penryn” technology, the second generation of quad core technology that is produced with the high-k metal Hafnium that has come to replace halogen and lead components, which are not environmentally safe. This new […]

Proton rocket fails during launch of JCSAT-11 satellite

25 October, 2020

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Wednesday, September 5, 2007 A Proton rocket which was intended to launch the JCSAT-11 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit lifted off and successfully completed its first stage burn, but the second stage failed leading to loss of the rocket and satellite. The launch vehicle was a Proton M booster with a Breeze M upper […]

Wikinews interviews 0 A.D. game development team

25 October, 2020

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011 0 A.D. is a historical, open source, strategy game, published by Wildfire Games. It focuses on the period between 500BC and 500AD. The game will be released in two parts: the first covering the pre-AD period, and the second running to 500AD. With development well underway, Wikinews interviewed the development team. […]

Death toll, vehicle count rise in California truck pileup

25 October, 2020

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Monday, October 15, 2007 So far, three people (including a baby) have been killed, and at least ten others were injured when two semi trucks collided in a tunnel on Interstate 5 (Newhall Pass) between Los Angeles and Santa Clarita California, United States in the late evening of October 12, setting off a chain reaction […]

Copiapó, Chile mining accident: in depth

25 October, 2020

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 The rescue of the Chilean miners trapped in the San José Mine in Copiapó, codenamed Operación San Lorenzo (San Lorenzo Operation), began on Tuesday night, at around 20:00 local time (23:00 UTC). Florencio Ávalos was the first miner to be rescued, at 00:12 local time (03:12 UTC) on Wednesday. He was […]

Death toll from Borneo bridge collapse reaches eleven

25 October, 2020

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Monday, November 28, 2011 The death toll from the weekend suspension bridge collapse on the Indonesian island of Borneo has risen from four to eleven. Search and rescue teams continue to look for bodies in the Mahakam River. The number of wounded is currently 39 injured; reports from locals suggest 33 people remain missing at […]

Copiapó, Chile mining accident: in depth

25 October, 2020

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Broken pipes cause flood in Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York

25 October, 2020

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Correction — February 13, 2008 The break was a broken sprinkler head in a crawl space above the shop, according to Jeffrey A. Salmon Facilities Manager of the Martin House Restoration Corporation. Not a pipe. Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Buffalo, New York —According to radio communications by the Buffalo, New York Fire Department, at approximately 10:15 […]

Category:Al-Aqsa Mosque

25 October, 2020

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This is the category for Al-Aqsa Mosque, a mosque in Jerusalem, Israel. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 27 February 2014: Arabs react to Israeli debate on Jerusalem’s Holy sites 13 March 2010: Fearing protests, Israel seals off West Bank 4 October 2009: Israeli police and Palestinians clash in Jerusalem 15 February 2007: […]

Che Guevara’s ”Motorcycle Diaries” companion dies

25 October, 2020

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Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Alberto Granado Jiménez, the Argentinian biochemist who was Che Guevara’s companion on his transformative motorcycle trip through South America, died in Havana on Saturday, reported Cuban state television. He was 88 and died of natural causes. The politically active Jiménez met Ernesto “Che” Guevara, then a medical student, in Hernando, Argentina […]