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The International Conference ‘City as a Classroom’ united 40 experts from 11 countries of the world

17 September, 2020

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Interview with Tony Ciufo, City Council candidate for Ward 10 in Mississauga, Canada

17 September, 2020

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Friday, September 22, 2006 The upcoming 2006 Mississauga municipal election, to be held November 13, features an array of candidates looking to represent their wards in city council. Wikinews contributor Nicholas Moreau has contacted as many candidates as possible, including Tony Ciufo, asking them to answer common questions sent in an email. There is no […]

Invisibility shield gets blueprint

17 September, 2020

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Tuesday, March 8, 2005 Two engineers, Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have come up with a ‘plasmonic cover’ which they claim could render objects “nearly invisible to an observer”. The idea is still in its infancy, but it is said not to violate any obvious laws of physics. […]

50,000 people refuse evacuation after flooding in India caused by river changing course

17 September, 2020

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008 The Kosi River changed course one week ago to a path which it has not taken for over 100 years. While 900,000 people were evacuated by rescue workers, new data has revealed that 50,000 people, from the town of Saharsa, have refused to leave their homes. Advertisements in local newspapers have […]

TAITRONICS Autumn 2007: A 3-in-1 combination and great innovations

17 September, 2020

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Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2007 the 33rd Taipei International Electronics Autumn Show (TAITRONICS Autumn), organized by Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufactorers’ Association (TEEMA), started on October 9 -13 at Exhibition Hall 1 and 3 of Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC), and inconjunction with Taiwan International RFID Applications Show […]

Musharraf quits as chief of army staff in Pakistan

17 September, 2020

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Thursday, November 29, 2007 President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan gave up his uniform in a ceremony yesterday in Rawalpindi. He handed power over to General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the headquarters of the Pakistani Army, after being the leader of the army for nine years. In his final address as leader of the army, he […]

Australian activists break into Pine Gap spy facility

17 September, 2020

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Saturday, December 10, 2005 Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested six people following a breach of security at the secretive Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility in central Australia on Friday. The members of the group Christians Against All Terrorism (CAAT) breached base security at dawn and two of them infiltrated two perimeter fences and scaled […]

BDSM as business: An interview with the owners of a dungeon

17 September, 2020

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Sunday, October 21, 2007 Torture proliferates American headlines today: whether its use is defensible in certain contexts and the morality of the practice. Wikinews reporter David Shankbone was curious about torture in American popular culture. This is the first of a two part series examining the BDSM business. This interview focuses on the owners of […]

Former Russian spy Litvinenko dies, radioactive poisoning suspected

17 September, 2020

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Friday, November 24, 2006 Mr Alexander Litvinenko, reputed to have been an Ex-Russian spy who had defected to Britain, died last night in mysterious circumstances. He had alleged many associations between people in high places and organised international crime, implying that President Putin and Romano Prodi among others had been involved personally. He had sought […]

Google may shut down Chinese operations due to censorship and cyber attacks

17 September, 2020

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010 The U.S.-based multibillion dollar online search engine, Google Incorporated, has announced Tuesday in a public statement on its official blog that the company has been the victim of a “highly sophisticated” and “targeted attack” against their corporate infrastructure that they allege “originated from China.” The author of said statement, David Drummond, […]