Friday, July 17, 2009Following similar threats by workers at New Fabris and Nortel, workers at JLG in Tonneins, France, threatened to blow up several platform […]
Read MoreU.S. force-feeding Guantanamo hunger strikers
Friday, October 7, 2005 Reports from Amnesty International and an attorney representing some detainees indicate that hunger strikes continue among those held at the United […]
Read MoreU.S. classifies record number of documents in 2004
Monday, September 5, 2005 OpenTheGovernment.Org, a coalition of conservative and liberal nonprofit groups, released a 2005 report (PDF, 12 pages) saying that all branches of […]
Read MoreBusiness Brief for December 7, 2005
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 These are short blurbs about current events in the business world. Contents 1 Verizon overhauling employee pension plans 1.1 Sources 2 […]
Read MoreFrench fishermen blockade Channel ports
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 French fishing vessels have blockaded the English Channel ports of Calais, Bolougne, and Dunkirk. Not a boat will go in nor […]
Read MoreNo oil spillage after platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico
Thursday, September 2, 2010 An oil platform owned by Mariner Energy has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico throwing thirteen people into the water, reports […]
Read MoreUS Court of Appeals reduces sentence for former Philippines officer in spy case
Monday, February 9, 2009 Michael Ray Aquino, a former Philippines National Police officer serving six years imprisonment in McRae, Georgia for espionage could now be […]
Read MoreBlown for Good author discusses life inside international headquarters of Scientology
Friday, November 13, 2009 Wikinews interviewed author Marc Headley about his new book Blown for Good, and asked him about life inside the international headquarters […]
Read MoreBush’s Katrina statement contradicted by emerging evidence
Thursday, March 2, 2006 Recently emerging evidence seems to contradict a statement by United States President George W. Bush during Hurricane Katrina. He stated in […]
Read MoreBucharest to be ‘rebranded’ for 800 million euro
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Bucharest, Romania — The city centre of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is set to get a major facelift due to […]
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