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Kyiv mayor: Ukrainian “critical infrastructure” could fail “any second”

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January 20, 2023 0

CIA Director confirms use of waterboarding on terror suspects

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 The director of the Central Intelligence Agency has confirmed that his agency used the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding on three terrorism suspects nearly five years ago. In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Michael Hayden urged lawmakers not to place restrictions on the interrogation methods available to…
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January 20, 2023 0

Two British girls arrested for smuggling in Ghana

Thursday, July 12, 2007 Two 16-year-old British girls were arrested in Accra, Ghana earlier this month for apparently attempting to smuggle £300,000 worth of cocaine in laptop bags. Yasemin Vatansever, of Cypriot descent and Yatunde Diya of Nigerian descent were arrested as they attempted to board a British Airways flight from the Kotoka International Airport…
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January 19, 2023 0

Sub-prime lenders send jitters through global markets

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Just two weeks after China sent global markets into a tumble, growing worries about sub-prime mortgage lenders in the United States are sending jitters through stock exchanges around the globe. The three major US stock market indices each fell two percent from Monday’s closing price, marking the second-biggest loss of 2007.…
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January 17, 2023 0

Wikinews Shorts: November 7, 2009

A compilation of brief news reports for Saturday, November 7, 2009. Contents 1 Disaster declared after flooding in Australia 2 Nigerian officials block Niger imports 3 UNHCR seeks US$2.8 million to help Kenyan flood victims  Contribute to Wikinews by expanding these briefs or add a new one. Officials in in the Australian state of New South…
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January 16, 2023 0

Suspects deny London bomb plot, say lawyers

Sunday, June 4, 2006 The two brothers who were arrested on Friday regarding intelligence of a chemical bomb plot in East London have denied all the accusations, according to their lawyers. In relation to the accusations of manufacturing a chemical device, Kate Roxburgh, Mohammed Abdul Kahar’s lawyer, said “(Kahar) says there’s absolutely not a word…
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January 15, 2023 0

Category:April 26, 2006

? April 25, 2006 April 27, 2006 ? April 26 Pages in category “April 26, 2006” Media in category “April 26, 2006” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:April_26,_2006&oldid=1082667”


January 13, 2023 0

NATO oil tanker torched in Pakistan

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Militants in north-west Pakistan blew up a fuel tanker carrying supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan on Monday. More than ten armed men shot at the tanker and fired a rocket at the vehicle outside Peshawar city, and the driver and a passenger were injured in the attack, although no loss…
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January 12, 2023 0

Interview with US political activist and philosopher Noam Chomsky

Saturday, April 4, 2009 Noam Chomsky is a professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Linguistics and Philosophy. At the age of 40 he was credited with revolutionizing the field of modern linguistics. He was one of the first opponents of the Vietnam War, and is a self described Libertarian Socialist. At age 80…
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January 12, 2023 0

Oldbury nuclear power station suffers fire

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Oldbury nuclear power station in South Gloucestershire, England caught fire today after overheating. No-one was injured in the blaze which is believed to have been an accident and was extuinguished within minutes by an automatic sprinkler system. The fire took place on the non-nuclear side of the plant, in an electricity…
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January 8, 2023 0