Category:Copenhagen

17 February, 2021

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This is the category for Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 3 January 2018: Scaffolding collapses in Copenhagen 15 February 2015: Netanyahu calls for European Jews to move to Israel 15 February 2015: Police shoot dead suspect in Copenhagen attacks 12 September 2010: Copenhagen hotel explosion may have […]

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Kentucky faith-based agency under fire for religious coercion

17 February, 2021

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Saturday, May 5, 2007 A lawsuit filed by a former employee of Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children (now Sunrise Children’s Services) and four other tax-payers, has shed light on the possibility of religious coercion by the organization. The lawsuit challenges the faith-based agency’s eligibility for state funds. Specifically, interviews of children conducted by the state […]

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Payment pending; Canadian recording industry set for six billion penalties?

17 February, 2021

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 A report published last week in the Toronto Star by Professor Michael Geist of Canada’s University of Ottawa claims a copyright case under the Class Proceedings Act of 1992 may see the country’s largest players in the music industry facing upwards of C$6 billion in penalties. The case is being led […]

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FEMA employees pose as fake reporters during press conference

17 February, 2021

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 Correction — September 10, 2013 The headline should not contain the word fake: the employees posed as reporters; they didn’t pose as fake reporters, on the contrary they were fake reporters posing as real reporters. We aopologize for the error.  Friday, October 26, 2007 The United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is under fire after […]

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Planes carrying parachutists collide, crash in Slovakia

17 February, 2021

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Thursday, August 20, 2015 Two planes carrying parachutists collided this morning in western Slovakia, near the Czech Republic. Of around 40 on board, seven are confirmed dead. The crash site near ?ervený Kame? is hard to access; rescuers are using helicopters. Investigators believe some passengers survived by jumping from one of the aircraft, which are […]

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St. Lucian footballer Philip Tisson shot dead in Brooklyn, New York

17 February, 2021

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Philip Tisson, a member of the Saint Lucia national football team, has been killed by a gunshot wound to the head in New York. Tisson was in New York participating in the Digicel Caribbean Cup tournament. Several members of the team were at Tropiks Bar and Grill in Brooklyn celebrating an […]

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Plane crashes into Toronto office building

17 February, 2021

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 A Cirrus SR-20 aircraft crashed into an office building in Markham, a town near Toronto, at 12:30 p.m. local time yesterday. Both people on board were killed. The aircraft, which crashed into the roof of the two-storey building at Woodbine and Hooper streets, was engulfed in flames. Witnesses say that it […]

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British Airways cabin crew begins strike

17 February, 2021

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Sunday, March 21, 2010 Cabin crew workers at British Airways have begun a three-day strike, affecting over 60,000 people, after last-minute talks between BA and the union, Unite, collapsed. The strike will extend for three days, after beginning at midnight in London. After the first strike, the union plans another four days of industrial action, […]

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Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

17 February, 2021

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Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. […]

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