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Taliban bar Afghan women from higher education

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Male Magellanic penguins pine for pairings: Wikinews interviews biologist Natasha Gownaris

Sunday, January 27, 2019 In findings published earlier this month in Ecological Applications, scientists from the University of Washington and Center for Ecosystem Sentinels examine the reason for the plummeting numbers of female Magellanic penguins, Spheniscus magellanicus, that have been reported at the birds’ breeding sites in South America over the past twenty years and […]

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Canadian annual seal hunt begins amid controversy

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, opened the Canadian seal hunt amid protests by animal rights groups, at a time when bans on seal product imports are becoming more prevalent internationally. Seal hunters along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence are allowed […]

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Swedish House Mafia to separate

Sunday, June 24, 2012 We came, we raved, we loved. Swedish-based house music group Swedish House Mafia have announced their intention to disband after their next tour. A statement from the group said “the tour we are about to go on will be our last”. The group, which consists of DJs Axwell, Steve Angello and […]

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Police capture escaped monkey in Wisconsin, USA

Thursday, August 9, 2007Police apprehended a 18 inch tall monkey that is reported to have bitten a 20 year-old woman outside State Street Brats, a Madison, Wisconsin nightclub. The long-tailed, black and white monkey, which was wearing a diaper, was leashed in a beer garden outside the nightclub on State Street when people began to […]

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England: Multi-storey carpark in Liverpool gutted by fire, 1,300 vehicles destroyed

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England: Multi-storey carpark in Liverpool gutted by fire, 1,300 vehicles destroyed
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Thursday, January 4, 2018 A fire on Sunday night in the seven-storey carpark for the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England destroyed almost all the vehicles parked inside and led to cancellation of the final evening of the Liverpool International Horse Show and evacuation of nearby blocks of flats. The blaze reportedly started with a parked […]

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On the campaign trail in the USA, June 2016

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On the campaign trail in the USA, June 2016
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Sunday, July 17, 2016 The following is the second edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories. In this month’s edition on the campaign trail: the effect of the Brexit vote on the US presidential […]

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Parajet Skycar expedition takes off from London to Timbuktu

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Parajet Skycar expedition takes off from London to Timbuktu
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Two explorers have set off from Knightsbridge, London Wednesday morning (0900 GMT) in a propeller-powered dune buggy heading for the Sahara. Giles Cardozo, age 29, from Dorset, with chief pilot and expedition leader Neil Laughton, age 45, an ex-SAS officer, will fly and drive the amazing two-seater vehicle more than 6,000-km […]

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16

U.S. actor Charlie Sheen questions 9/11 theories

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U.S. actor Charlie Sheen questions 9/11 theories
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 Charlie Sheen, appearing on cable television news network station CNN on March 24, questioned the credibility of the theory that 19 hijackers caused all of the destruction to the World Trade Center. Sheen said; “It seems to me like, you know, 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners […]

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Firefighters rescue nearly a dozen animals in Buffalo, New York house fire

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Firefighters rescue nearly a dozen animals in Buffalo, New York house fire
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Friday, June 22, 2007 Buffalo, New York —A three alarm fire at a house owned by John and Evelyn Bencinich, two of the initiators of a lawsuit filed against the Elmwood Village Hotel proposal in Buffalo, required firefighters to rescue eight cats and two dogs in Buffalo, New York today. At about 8:30 (eastern time) […]

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