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Two unconscious drug-overdosed men discovered outside University of Canberra residence hall

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Two unconscious drug-overdosed men discovered outside University of Canberra residence hall

Friday, April 12, 2013 Yesterday morning in the Australian Capital Territory, two unconscious men were discovered outside the University of Canberra’s New Ressies. Police said both men were in critical condition after being transported to nearby Calvary Hospital. According to the University of Canberra and Campus Living Services, who operate the university’s residence halls, neither […]

KKE: Interview with the Greek Communist Party

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KKE: Interview with the Greek Communist Party

Thursday, May 13, 2010 Wikinews reporter Iain Macdonald has performed an interview with Dr Isabella Margara, a London-based member of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). In the interview Margara sets out the communist response to current events in Greece as well as discussing the viability of a communist economy for the nation. She also […]

The Most Popular Sports In The World

Here’s An Opinion On: Golf Futures Sportis a culture that can bring people together, irrespective of differences in culture, religion, or values. It is a culture that is old as time.Sporthas encountered immense transition as time changes. Sport can involve two people, or a group of people comes together to make the team. A team […]

Bank of America declares 1.2 million account records “lost”

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Bank of America declares 1.2 million account records “lost”

Monday, February 28, 2005 Charlotte, North Carolina — One of the biggest domestic banks in the United States, Bank of America, has admitted to losing computer tapes containing 1.2 million federal employee accounts, including the accounts of several U.S. senators, in a statement by the bank. According to the Pentagon, most of the accounts belong […]

Rights groups: Forcing Wikileaks.org offline raises ‘serious First Amendment concerns’

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Rights groups: Forcing Wikileaks.org offline raises ‘serious First Amendment concerns’

Thursday, February 28, 2008 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have sided with Wikileaks.org and will defend them against a lawsuit which took the site off line in the United States. Wikileaks is a website dedicated to hosting leaked documents that are “anonymous, untraceable, uncensorable.” On February 18, 2008, […]

Australia: Wikinews interviews Reg Kidd, mayor of the City of Orange, about COVID-19 lockdown and local government

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Australia: Wikinews interviews Reg Kidd, mayor of the City of Orange, about COVID-19 lockdown and local government

Sunday, July 25, 2021 After a seven-day lockdown began in three rural councils in New South Wales, Australia, Wikinews reached out to Reg Kidd, the mayor of the City of Orange. Orange is one of the three areas that is now currently under lockdown after a case of COVID-19 was recorded at the Nestlé Purina […]

How To Find The Perfect Carpet Cleaning Service}

Here’s An Opinion On: Brisbane Tender Writer How to Find the Perfect Carpet Cleaning Service by John Braun The laying of carpets, either in the home or office is indeed a very lucrative means of investment. To get the best out of this therefore, lies in the fact of maintaining the beauty and giving the […]

Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

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Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not […]

US stocks log gains for fourth week in a row

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US stocks log gains for fourth week in a row
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Saturday, April 4, 2009 United States stock indexes posted gains on Friday, marking a four-week long positive streak. This comes despite a report released by the US Labor Department on the same day, which said that the US economy shed 663,000 jobs in March, with the unemployment rate reaching 8.5%, the highest since 1983. The […]

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