Inquiry ordered into video of US troops urinating on Taliban fighters

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Thursday, January 12, 2012 The United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has ordered an investigation into a video allegedly showing US Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters. Panetta has called the videos “utterly deplorable” and not appropriate conduct for United States armed forces personnel. Afghan president Hamid Karzai called for “the most severe punishment for […]

Surgeons reattach boy’s three severed limbs

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005A team of Australian surgeons yesterday reattached both hands and one foot to 10-year-old Perth boy, Terry Vo, after a brick wall which collapsed during a game of basketball fell on him, severing the limbs. The wall gave way while Terry performed a slam-dunk, during a game at a friend’s birthday party. […]

Volunteers endure bed-rest study

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005Volunteers began a 60 day bed-rest marathon on March 19 to study simulated weightlessness effects on women astronauts. The study, Women International Space Simulation for Exploration(WISE), is conducted at the MEDES Space Clinic in Toulouse, France. The 12 women, selected from 1600 applicants hailing from France,Great Britain, Germany, Finland, The Netherlands, Poland […]

How To Choose The Right Watch From Hundreds Of Watches

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Read An Opinion On: Dural Irrigation Website By Daniel Millions There are so many watches on the market today that you choose the right watch for you or anyone else and be sure that you have made the right choice. Choosing the right watch consists of considering some watch elements and the lifestyle of its […]

Guatemalan bus crash kills 57, wounds 40

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Saturday, March 1, 2008 An overcrowded double decker bus in Guatemala crashed into a gulley Friday, killing 57 people and injuring 40 more, authorities say. The bus crashed about 30 miles from Guatemala City while carrying roughly 100 people towards San Salvador. Journalist Martin Austurias says that a makeshift morgue was created along the highway […]

Australia/2005

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Contents 1 January 2 February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December [edit] Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Australia/2005&oldid=804653”

Which Kind Of Document Managment System Do You Prefer?

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Read An Opinion On: Csm Office Which Kind of Document Managment System do You Prefer? by Arden Kozielski Businesses cannot survive without documents. Technology has made it easy to do many things digitally and online. But, companies still need to utilize documents to be successful. Change is on their back burner. But, they cannot eliminate […]

Voluntary sterilization of poor women proposed by Louisiana state legislator

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Thursday, September 25, 2008 A Louisiana representative has proposed a controversial solution to “generational welfare,” which would pay women on welfare to get sterilization. Republican John LaBruzzo said he thought of the idea because of his constituents’ outrage over paying for welfare. “You have these people who are just fed up with working their buns […]

Poker’s all about luck, says Swiss Supreme Court

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Supreme Court in Lausanne, Switzerland has ruled that Texas hold ’em poker is a game of luck, rather than a game of skill. As a result, only casinos can host poker tournaments in Switzerland. Private games with friends, even where money is at stake, are still permitted under the ruling. […]