Sunday, December 19, 2004 CRAIG, Alaska —Rachelle Waterman, (aka Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman and “smchyrocky”), a 16-year-old girl from Craig, Alaska, USA, has been charged…
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Record number of bicycles sold in Australia in 2006
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Bicycle sales in Australia have recorded record sales of 1,273,781 units for 2006, exceeding car sales by 32 percent. It is…
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South Australia enters week-long lockdown to contain COVID-19 Delta variant spread
Friday, July 23, 2021 With five active cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19, South Australia begun a one-week lockdown on Monday. Announcing the lockdown,…
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Wikinews interviews organiser of New Zealand’s Rock2Wgtn festival Phil Sprey
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Across Easter weekend Wellington, New Zealand was host to Rock2Wgtn, an international two-day hard rock festival. Large crowds showed up at…
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UK hostage Peter Moore released in Iraq
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Peter Moore, a British IT consultant and computer programmer who was taken hostage by Iraqi militants during a May 2007 militant…
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Treasury reveals cost of carbon tax on Australian families
Friday, April 1, 2011 Treasury documents released today under the Freedom of Information (FOI) act reveal that Australians could face up to an A$863 rise…
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CanadaVOTES: NDP candidate Michael McMahon running in Prince Edward—Hastings
Friday, September 26, 2008 On October 14, 2008, Canadians will be heading to the polls for the federal election. New Democratic Party candidate Michael McMahon…
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Continuity IRA gunmen kill policeman in Northern Ireland
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 A police officer has been killed in County Armagh, Northern Ireland by Continuity IRA gunmen a mere 48 hours after two…
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Small British island gets first democratic election
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Voters in the small Channel Island of Sark, a Crown dependency of the British Crown, have voted in their first democratic…
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ISS Expedition 10 returns to Earth
Monday, April 25, 2005 With two space walks, 78 million miles and six months on board the International Space Station under their belts, Commander-Science Officer…
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