Hundreds of thousands rally in Australia against IR legislation

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 People rallied in 300 locations across Australia today to protest the Federal Government’s proposed changes to industrial relations laws, WorkChoices. According to police, around 150,000 people congregated in Melbourne, from where speeches were broadcast throughout the country. In Sydney, thirty thousand gathered in Belmore Park and Martin Place to watch the…
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October 18, 2017 0

Buffalo, New York snow storm closes schools, leaves nearly 400,000 without power

Friday, October 13, 2006 Buffalo, New York — Lake effect snow has come early to parts of Western New York prompting a State of Emergency and a flood watch to be issued, especially in Buffalo, New York and its suburbs where nearly 2 feet of snow fell during the afternoon and last night. Snow started…
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October 18, 2017 0

Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO apologies for financial planning scandal

Thursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial planning services arm. Last week, a Senate enquiry found financial advisers from the Commonwealth Bank had made high-risk investments of clients’ money without the clients’…
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October 18, 2017 0

US government reopens following bi-partisan debt deal

Thursday, October 17, 2013 Both the United States House of Representatives and Senate agreed to a bill yesterday to end the government shutdown and to raise the debt limit of the federal government. President Barack Obama has signed the bill into law. Workers employed by agencies of the US federal government who had previously been…
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October 17, 2017 0

County Donegal, Ireland crash kills one, injures two

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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October 17, 2017 0

Used Office Furniture Bay Area Get The Stylish Ones For The Best Price

Used Office Furniture Bay Area Get The Stylish Ones For The Best Price by James Braddon When you are seeking for ways to cut down expenses of your Bay Area based company, there is nothing like used office furniture in Bay Area to start with. With the much hyped global economic slowdown situation, both small…
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October 16, 2017 0

Cyberattack, not HBO comedian, caused website wipeout, says FCC

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Late Sunday night and Monday morning, the website of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) became unresponsive, which interfered with attempts by the public to express their views on the proposals currently up for comment, including one about Net Neutrality. Although comedian John Oliver on his show Last Week Tonight…
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October 16, 2017 0

Australia/2005

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October 16, 2017 0

Sadr City suicide bomber uses fruit truck to kill 66 on market day

Sunday, July 2, 2006 A suicide bomber exploded a truck bomb in the crowded Al-Ula market in Sadr City in Baghdad on Saturday, killing 66 people and injuring over a 100. ‘At the beginning of this market, the criminal blew up his dynamite-packed truck after trying to go over the pavement,’ said Iraq’s Deputy Health…
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October 15, 2017 0

Western Australia apologises to abused wards-of-state

April 7, 2005 The state Premier of Western Australia (WA), Dr Geoff Gallop, gave an apology to children physically and sexually abused in institutional care within the state between the 1920s and 1970s. The statement was given in reaction to an Australian Senate inquiry into institutional child abuse published last year. “We acknowledge our state’s…
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