2000 houses still have no power in Canterbury, New Zealand

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Monday, June 19, 2006 2000 Cantabrians are still without power a week after a huge snowstorm struck and took out the electricity in mid and south Canterbury. Sunday June 18 came and brought more snow to mid and south Canterbury, but just a minuscule amount compared to last weeks. Civil Defence says “It is keeping […]

Fifteen players leave Bolton Wanderers F.C. after relegation

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Saturday, May 19, 2012 A total of fifteen players have left Bolton Wanderers F.C. after the club was relegated from England’s Premier League at the end of the season. Eleven of the players were released after their contracts expired while Nigel Reo-Coker activated a clause in his contract that allowed him to leave the club. […]

Automaker GM to cut 10,000 jobs at Opel

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Thursday, November 5, 2009 The US car manufacturer General Motors said that it would axe 10,000 jobs at its European division, Opel. According to the company’s vice president John Smith, the firm wanted to reduce costs at Opel by 30%. Smith announced the company’s move on Wednesday. He didn’t say where the cuts were going […]

Australia/2007

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St. Anthony Foundation provides hope

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Friday, September 23, 2005 On the corner of Golden Gate Ave. and Jones St. in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, right next to the Civic Center you can see a throng of low-income and homeless people lining up outside of St. Anthony’s Dining Room hall which opens up it’s doors everyday at 11:30 a.m. Volunteers dressed […]

Wikinews Shorts: March 7, 2007

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A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, March 7, 2007. The European Union has banned the 35 planes in the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) 45 aircraft fleet from flying in EU airspace. The reason provided by EU was that these plans do not fulfill the safety requirement for international planes and thus were banned. PIA […]

Power line to Japanese nuclear plant completed

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 Correction — March 21, 2011 As of 2:55 JST March 18, IAEA has issued a clarification indicating that the power line has not been completed and is on hold pending completion of water spraying at the plant.  Friday, March 18, 2011 A power line to the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in Japan was completed Thursday, […]

Over 30 killed in Mexico dynamite truck explosion

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Monday, September 10, 2007 More than 30 people have been killed and 140 people injured when a truck carrying dynamite exploded in Mexico shortly after being involved in a road traffic accident near Sacramento, Coahuila. The lorry collided with another vehicle on a busy Northern Mexico highway, and the wreckage quickly drew a large crowd […]

Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

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Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not […]