The time is 22:00 (UTC) on June 18th, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 Author claims Al Qaeda planned to gas New York’s subway system 1.2 Legality of NSW traffic and parking fines to be tested in court 1.3 Croatia and Japan share point in Group F 1.4 Brazil…
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See the discussion page for instructions on adding schools to this list and for an alphabetically arranged listing of schools. Due to the damage by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding, a number of colleges and universities in the New Orleans metropolitan area will not be able to hold classes for the fall 2005 semester. It…
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Recent heavy hailstorms occurring at approximately 4 o’clock in the afternoon today left parts of Sydney with the appearance of being snowed in, with thick blankets of hail covering streets and sidewalks with layers of hail. The hail was observed in the Central Business District of Sydney, where cars were observed…
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Saturday, January 14, 2017 At 1:30 a.m. on Thursday morning the United States Senate voted to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, as part of a budget blueprint. This procedural measure allows most of Obamacare to be repealed by a simple majority rather than the usual requirement of 60…
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013 A two-vehicle road traffic accident in County Donegal in Ireland has left one person dead and injured two others. The accident occurred when a camper van collided with an oncoming car on the N15 road between the towns of Ballybofey and Donegal at approximately 1540 BST (1440 UTC) on Monday. The…
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Hassle-Free Wedding Transportation in Virginia with Limousine Service by Nationwidecar Wedding events will generally include some form of transportation need. While you will clearly require a limousine for the ceremony itself, you might also find that you require travel arrangements for events like bachelor or bachelorette parties as well as honeymoon transport. Instead of using…
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Major media outlets have told an Australian senate committee on environment, communications and the arts that Australians are being denied full coverage of sporting events. They have told the inquiry that major sporting organisations are restricting how photos and text can be used on the internet and other digital media, which…
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. On its official blog Thursday evening, under the title, Encouraging People to Contribute Knowledge, Google announced the first phase of testing of a tool designed to facilitate the…
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Sunday, May 11, 2008 At least 23 people have been killed in late afternoon in broad daylight, with dark (very dark) clouds tornadoes that ripped through the central United States on Saturday May 10 with over 150 reported injured and at least three people are missing. Tornadoes hit towns on the Missouri and Oklahoma borders…
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 United States presidential candidate John McCain announced today that he is suspending his campaign and sought to postpone a scheduled debate with his opponent, Barack Obama, to focus on the country’s financial crisis and says that Obama should also suspend his campaign. McCain said he would be asking president George W.…
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