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Three men arrested under suspicion of organising dog fights in southern Finland

17 January, 2021

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007File:240-dogFighting.jpg Three Finnish men have been arrested as part of an investigation by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) into apparent illegal dogfights in various locations in the south of the country. Dog fights, in which two dogs are pitted head-to-head for the entertainment of spectators and for gambling, is illegal […]

Wikinews Interviews Australian wheelchair basketball player Georgia Inglis

17 January, 2021

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Center, Bangkok —Wikinews interviewed Georgia Inglis, of the Australia women’s national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders. The Gliders are in Bangkok, Thailand, for the Asia-Oceania Zone Wheelchair Basketball Championships, which are being held at the Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Center. They are hoping to qualify for the […]

Wikinews interviews Duncan Campbell, co-founder of wheelchair rugby

17 January, 2021

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Friday, September 7, 2012 London, England — On Wednesday, Wikinews interviewed Duncan Campbell, one of the creators of wheelchair rugby. ((Laura Hale)) You’re Duncan Campbell, and you’re the founder of… Duncan Campbell: One of the founders of wheelchair rugby. ((Laura Hale)) And you’re from Canada, eh? Duncan Campbell: Yes, I’m from Canada, eh! (laughter) ((Laura […]

Australian Health minister makes inappropriate comments about Brogden suicide attempt

17 January, 2021

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Monday, September 5, 2005 Australia‘s Federal Minister for Health, Tony Abbott, has made a number of comments about the previous New South Wales Australian Liberal Party leader, John Brogden, who recently attempted suicide, which have been widely thought to be inappropriate. Abbott is reported to have made comments such as “If we did that, we […]

Top exorcist says schoolgirl was kidnapped for Vatican sex ring

17 January, 2021

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Thursday, May 24, 2012 Gabriel Amorth, the Roman Catholic Church’s leading exorcist, has suggested missing schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi was kidnapped for sexual abuse at orgies attended by foreign diplomats and arranged by Vatican police. Orlandi was fifteen when she vanished in 1983. Amorth, 85, who was appointed by the late Pope John Paul II, makes […]

Train derailed by collision with semi in Saskatchewan, Canada

17 January, 2021

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 Twenty-four cars of a west-bound Canada Pacific train were thrown from the tracks after the train collided with a semi tractor-trailer in poor weather and visibility near Regina, Saskatchewan around 11 a.m. Tuesday morning. The driver was rushed to hospital. The accident took place on a level section of Highway 46 […]

Car bombing in Chechnya kills boy

17 January, 2021

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Monday, August 15, 2005 In the city of Grozny in Chechnya, a car bomb may have killed a 10-12 year old boy and/or a 20 year old man and a woman (sources differ). The explosion wounded two other people. Grozny is the capital of Chechnya, where rebels have been waging a campaign for independence from […]

TARC to showcase R&D achievements in 2008 AutoTronics Taipei

17 January, 2021

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Friday, April 11, 2008 In the Opening Day of 2008 AutoTronics Taipei (April 9), the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI) invited Jamie C. Hsu (Consultant of Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of the China and Former Management Executive Director of General Motors Global Technology) for a speech in the “Pavilion of […]

FIA lays out cost cutting measures for Formula One

17 January, 2021

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Friday, December 12, 2008 The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has revealed the details of the cost-cutting measures for Formula One that were agreed on Wednesday in talks with the teams. The new measures are expected to save the manufacturer teams at least 30 percent of their budgets next season, with the savings increasing as […]

Wikinews Shorts: March 7, 2007

17 January, 2021

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A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, March 7, 2007. The European Union has banned the 35 planes in the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) 45 aircraft fleet from flying in EU airspace. The reason provided by EU was that these plans do not fulfill the safety requirement for international planes and thus were banned. PIA […]