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Curious death befalls collaborator days before movie release

Saturday, February 11, 2006 Alan Shalleck, 76, associate in the children’s book series Curious George, was found dead in his driveway 8 February 2006. Covered in black garbage bags, his body had been disregarded by neighbors and passersby who presumably mistook it for a collection of refuse. Speculation has risen around the case due to…
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March 11, 2023 0

Category:Featured article

Shortcut:WN:FA Featured articles are selected by the community to represent the best of Wikinews. See the Featured Article Candidates page for nominations and discussions of candidate articles for this page. Or, subscribe to the RSS feed! [edit] Pages in category “Featured article” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Featured_article&oldid=2870736”

March 10, 2023 0

UN carries out first review of US human rights record

Saturday, March 19, 2011 The United Nations has completed its first ever assessment of the United States human rights record, which began last November. They made 228 recommendations for improvements. On Friday, the U.S. accepted about 174 of these, agreeing to such recommendations as the humane treatment of terror suspects and repudiation of torture, but…
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March 10, 2023 0

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…
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March 9, 2023 0

On the campaign trail, July 2012

Sunday, August 5, 2012 The following is the ninth in a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2012 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after a brief mention of some of the month’s biggest stories. In this month’s edition on the campaign trail: the rules of third party candidate polling are…
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March 7, 2023 0

Volunteers gather to help patrol Arizona’s border with Mexico

Volunteers for the Minuteman Project arrived in Tombstone, Arizona on Friday. Sunday, April 3, 2005 Volunteers from across the United States and some foreign countries gathered Friday to start an unofficial border patrol project. They converged on the town of Tombstone, Arizona to take part in what organizers call the Minuteman Project. Many came with…
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March 6, 2023 0

Four Russian stores hit with gas attacks

Monday, December 26, 2005 Saint Petersburg In Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, four gas attacks left more than 70 people ill. Devices with wires, timers, and glass vials of a gas determined on scene to be methyl mercaptan were found in outlets of Makisdom, a home improvement chain store. The chemical is both naturally…
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March 3, 2023 0

Brazil spots unknown tribe of indigenous people in Amazon jungle

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Map of Brazil. Javari river valley reservation is near the border of Peru. Image: Felipe Menegaz. Brazil has located an isolated group of indigenous, uncontacted people in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian National Foundation of Indians (FUNAI) announced today. FUNAI, a state agency, uses aerial expeditions to avoid impacting uncontacted…
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March 2, 2023 0

Out of space in outer space: Special report on NASA’s ‘space junk’ plans

Saturday, September 10, 2011 Computer-generated plot of tracked objects as seen from outside geosynchronous orbitImage: NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. A 182-page report issued September 1 by the United States National Research Council warns that the amount of debris in space is reaching “a tipping point”, and could cause damage to satellites or spacecraft. The…
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February 28, 2023 0

Euro reaches new lows

Friday, July 15, 2011 On Tuesday, the Euro fell to a new record low in relation to the Swiss Franc, and to multi-month lows against the U.S. Dollar and Japanese yen; all considered by investors to be safe currencies during times of economic turmoil. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that recent comments from the…
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February 25, 2023 0

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