Friday, May 10, 2013 George M. Leader, former Governor of the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, died in Hershey, Pennsylvania yesterday at the age of 95. Leader’s death, at a retirement community he and his wife founded in 1985, comes after the former governor suffered a short illness. The community’s spokeswoman, Kelly S. Kuntz, announced Leader’s […]
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The time is 20:00 (UTC) on June 30th, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 Interior Ministry, Fatah offices in Gaza hit by Israeli airstrikes 1.2 Palestinian PM: Israel aims to topple gov’t 1.3 Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Freitas do Amaral resigns 1.4 French Parliament adopts controversial copyright bill
News briefs:June 30, 2006
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014 A freighter hit a fishing boat around midnight on Sunday morning in the Gulf of Suez in the Red Sea. Of the 40 Egyptian fisherman on board, thirteen are dead and thirteen more missing. Survivor Al Sayyed Mohamed Arafat told local media he jumped from the fishing boat, named Badr al-Islam,
Freighter hits fishing boat in Gulf of Suez; thirteen dead
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See More About: Remote Control Helicopter For Sale The marketplace business model has proved successful and has gained a lot of traction. The idea of a peer to peer marketplace platform has been applied to a considerable number of workable use cases. For example, onAngelListalone there are 1,239 marketplace platforms. Entrepreneurs see value in peer
Friday, November 10, 2006 In an internet-based study published today on the website of the British Medical Journal, Australian investigators tested how well Googling could help to establish a difficult diagnosis. The search results met against their criteria in 15 out of 26 cases. Previous anecdotes of the use of Google in reaching a difficult
Study tests the use of Google as an aid for medical diagnoses
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March 26, 2005 The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and Canada National Railway (CN) have worked out a tentative agreement, avoiding a walkout scheduled for midnight on the 26th by 604 workers. The previous contract expired 31 December 2003, and the union notified CN of their intent to strike 23 March. The IBEW members
Canadian union, railway reach last minute accord
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See More About: Desa Australia Uninterruptible Power Supply: Keep Electrical Power Running by Article PublisherPower cuts for long hours are the common phenomenon in every country. It is not wrong to say that without power, no work can be performed effectively, especially when it comes to computer-oriented job. Like viruses and worms, electrical power disturbances
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This is the online suicide letter authored by Andrew Stack, the man believed to be responsible for flying a light aircraft into a building in Austin, Texas. It was originally posted at Stack’s site, http://embeddedart.com/. The hosting company, T35, took the site offline per an FBI request. The note is reproduced here in its entirety.
Plane crashes into office block in Austin, Texas/suicide note
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Friday, May 26, 2017 On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of China — Taiwan — ruled laws restricting same-sex marriage unconstitutional, declaring them “in violation of both the people’s freedom and the people’s right to equality” in the official statement. The Court gave legislators two years to amend the state’s marriage laws. In
Taiwan’s Constitutional Court legalizes gay marriage, gives legislators two years to amend marriage laws
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Friday, October 7, 2016 Following an accidental death at the closed Underwater World Singapore (UWS) aquarium in Sentosa on Tuesday, operations to relocate the facility’s animals have been suspended. Phillip Chan, 62, the head diver of the defunct facility, was moving stingrays in preparation for transfer to another aquarium when one of them stung him
Stingray kills head diver of Underwater World Singapore
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