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Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans graduate students

14 February, 2021

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See the discussion page for instructions on adding schools to this list.Tuesday, September 13, 2005 NAICU has created a list of colleges and universities accepting and/or offering assistance to displace faculty members. [1]Wednesday, September 7, 2005 This list is taken from Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students, and is intended to make searching […]

Satanism: An interview with Church of Satan High Priest Peter Gilmore

14 February, 2021

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Monday, November 5, 2007 In the 1980’s and the 1990’s there were multiple allegations of sexual abuse of children or non-consenting adults in the context of Satanic rituals that has come to be known as The Satanic Panic. In the United States, the Kern County child abuse cases, McMartin preschool trial and the West Memphis […]

Open source game developer Perttu Ahola talks about Minetest with Wikinews

14 February, 2021

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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 […]

Sun donates Solaris operating system, 1,600 patents to community

14 February, 2021

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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA — Computer vendor Sun Microsystems released on Tuesday the first offerings of its OpenSolaris operating system code for free, under a license which allows anyone to use or work on the code and distribute the changes they make.. The full operating system is expected to be released for […]

At least 71 deaths in Mexico ‘likely linked’ to swine flu outbreak

13 February, 2021

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Sunday, April 26, 2009 Officials in Mexico are asking citizens to take actions in order to minimize the spread of the swine flu outbreak. Citizens are urged to stay away from large crowds, avoid kissing people and stay at least 6 feet (1.8 meters) away from one another. Additionally, all schools and universities in Mexico […]

Conservative groups hold rally in Washington D.C. claiming U.S. elections were stolen from President Trump

13 February, 2021

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Several conservative groups claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen from incumbent President Donald Trump gathered on Saturday in the U.S. capital, Washington D.C., for a rally organized by Women for America First. Reportedly several thousand supporters turned out, with Trump flags and hats, in D.C. to protest, some in […]

Treasury reveals cost of carbon tax on Australian families

13 February, 2021

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Friday, April 1, 2011 Treasury documents released today under the Freedom of Information (FOI) act reveal that Australians could face up to an A$863 rise in household costs per annum if the government proceeds with its plans to put a tax on carbon emissions. The documents reveal an a annual price rise of $218.40 for […]

Category:May 14, 2010

13 February, 2021

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? May 13, 2010 May 15, 2010 ? May 14 Pages in category “May 14, 2010” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:May_14,_2010&oldid=1924488”

Kenya government fires health worker strikers over failure to ‘report back to work’

13 February, 2021

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Saturday, March 10, 2012 The Kenyan government has dismissed 25,000 striking health workers, mostly nurses, citing failure to heed government orders to recommence work and concern for the welfare of hospital patients. Speaking on behalf of the government, Alfred Mutua stated the workers were dismissed “illegally striking” and “[defying] the directive … to report back […]

Funding gap forces library closures in Jackson County, Oregon

13 February, 2021

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Due to a US$23 million budget shortfall, all public libraries in Jackson County, Oregon are scheduled to close April 6. The U.S. Congress did not renew the Secure Rural Schools and Self-Determination Act, which replaces property tax revenues with revenue sharing from timber harvests. Jackson County used the revenue to pay […]