Don Brash, ex-leader of New Zealand National Party, leaves politics
November 1, 2022
Thursday, November 30, 2006 The ex-leader of New Zealand's National Party, Dr Don Brash, has announced today that he has left his five year career in politics. Dr Brash had announced last week today that he was stepping down from leader of the National Party. Dr. Brash was to stay on in politics as long as the new leader, John Key, gave him a senior portfolio and front bench position, where it was thought there would...
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Wikinews Shorts: December 7, 2008
October 31, 2022
A compilation of brief news reports for Sunday, December 7, 2008. Contents 1 'Progress' seen in US auto bailout deal 2 Ghana to hold elections 3 Archbishop of York says Mugabe must be overthrown 4 Scandal-ridden Congressman loses delayed election Officials say that progress is being made in a deal to bail out three United States carmakers. The U.S. government will be holding weekend talks on the plan after two days of Congressional hearings. Dana Perino, the...
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Australian health workers to close intensive care units in Victoria next week
October 31, 2022
Thursday, March 13, 2008 Members of Australia's Health Services Union (HSU) will go on strike in Victoria next week in a dispute over stalled wage and career structure negotiations. Over 5000 physiotherapists, speech pathologists and radiation therapists will walk off the job next week, effectively closing the state's 68 largest health services. The strike will force the closure of intensive care units and emergency departments across the state. It is feared the strike could continue into...
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Wikinews interviews Australian wheelchair basketball coach Tom Kyle
October 28, 2022
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 Toronto , Canada —What experiences makes a coach of an international sports team? Wikinews interviewed Tom Kyle, the coach of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders, in Toronto for the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship. ((Wikinews)) Tell us about yourself. First of all, where were you born? Tom Kyle: I was born in Cooma, in the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. Way back in 1959....
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Neuroscientists tell Wikinews about empathy and harm aversion observed in lab rats
October 28, 2022
Thursday, April 30, 2020 In findings published last month in the journal Current Biology, neuroscientists from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience examined harm aversion in laboratory rats for conspecifics — rats not wanting to hurt other members of the same species — and reported which region of the brain was crucial for it. Wikinews caught up with Dr Christian Keysers and Dr Valeria Gazzola, two of the authors who contributed to the paper. For the experiment,...
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Moto GP rider Marco Simoncelli dies in 2011 Malaysia Grand Prix
October 28, 2022
Monday, October 24, 2011 Italy's Marco Simoncelli, 24, has died after a crash during the second lap of the 2011 Malaysia Moto GP Grand Prix held at the Sepang International Circuit. While veering across the track on the exit of turn 11, Simoncelli was hit by the bike of Colin Edwards and fell into the path of Edwards and Valentino Rossi. The other riders were powerless to avoid Simoncelli. Such was the force of the collision,...
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On the campaign trail in the USA, August 2016
October 23, 2022
Friday, September 23, 2016 The following is the fourth 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 vice presidential nominee of the Reform Party is revealed; those attacked in a high profile campaign speech respond; and Wikinews interviews an economist seeking the presidency a second time. Contents...
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Assassin of Turkish-Armenian journalist ‘treated as national hero’
October 23, 2022
Saturday, February 3, 2007 According to news reports from Turkey, a number of the members of the Turkish security forces, though unofficially, are treating Ogün Samast, the assassin of Hrant Dink as if he were a national hero. For instance, after being taken into custody, Samast was filmed shoulder to shoulder with the Turkish police, in front of a Turkish flag and a quote from Turkey's founder Atatürk: "The nation's land is sacred. It cannot be...
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G7 says “all available tools” will be used to solve crisis
October 22, 2022
Saturday, October 11, 2008 In the midst of the intensifying global financial crisis, finance ministers and central bankers of the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom – met in Washington, D.C. and released a joint statement. With failures of large financial institutions in the United States, the crisis rapidly evolved into a global crisis resulting in bank failures in Europe and the Americas, and sharp reductions in...
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Retired U.S. vets sue Donald Rumsfeld for excessive service cutbacks
October 21, 2022
Tuesday, May 31, 2005 One thousand residents of the Defense Department-managed Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C. filed a class-action lawsuit on May 24, asserting that the cut-backs in medical and dental services imposed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld are illegal. The operating budget for the home was reduced from $63 million in 2004 to $58 million for 2005. The residents cite cuts in on-site X-ray, electrocardiogram, physical and dental services, and the closing...
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