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”

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Google claims that lawsuit threatens Internet

13 February, 2021

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Google, the owners of YouTube, claimed in a court briefing today that the one billion dollar lawsuit against the company “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information.” Viacom Inc. is suing Google over 150,000 videos, for which Viacom owns the copyright, that were allegedly being shown on […]

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Marxists retain West Bengal, regain Kerala

13 February, 2021

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Thursday, May 11, 2006Marxists retained West Bengal and regained Kerala in assembly elections in 5 Indian states whose results were declared today. Tamil Nadu is likely to have its first coalition government headed by DMK’s leader M Karunanidhi. Assam faces a hung assembly, while the Congress-led Front won overwhelmingly in Pondicherry The Left Front, led […]

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News briefs:June 4, 2010

13 February, 2021

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Wikinews Audio Briefs Credits Produced By Turtlestack Recorded By Turtlestack Written By Turtlestack Listen To This Brief Problems? See our media guide. [edit] Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=News_briefs:June_4,_2010&oldid=1042714”

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Controversial development training cited in religious discrimination lawsuits

13 February, 2021

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Friday, May 23, 2008 A controversial development training course called “Landmark Forum” is cited in religious discrimination lawsuits in United States federal courts in New York and Washington, D.C. The seminars are run by a San Francisco, California-based for-profit training company called Landmark Education. The company evolved from Erhard Seminars Training “est”, and has faced […]

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New web search engine uses only user-generated results

13 February, 2021

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Saturday, June 24, 2006 Jatalla.com, a new search engine, provides search engine results pages that are derived strictly from user-generated submissions. The relevance ranking procedure relies upon “lexivotes”, which consist of two parts: (1) a word or phrase (similar to a folksonomic tag, but potentially much longer than a traditional tag) and (2) at least […]

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MetLife to acquire Travelers Life and Annuity from Citigroup

13 February, 2021

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Monday, January 31, 2005 Metlife announced on 01/31/05 that they were going to acquire Travelers Life and Annuity from Citigroup. Travelers Life and Annuity is an insurance underwriter. MetLife is a large life insurance and annuities underwriter. MetLife will have to borrow a lot of money to pay for the company, so rating agencies like […]

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