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Israel seizes ship claimed to be carrying weapons for Gaza
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Israeli military forces today seized a ship claimed to be carrying weapons bound for the Gaza Strip. The ship, a German-owned and Liberian-flagged freighter named Victoria, had departed from a port in Syria before travelling to Turkey, from where it departed for Alexandria, Egypt. A French company had chartered the vessel, which was intercepted and boarded […]
Syrian citizen journalists risk death, targeted; city of Homs facing starvation
Saturday, February 25, 2012 Syrian forces have been shelling the Baba Amr district of Homs, Syria for almost a month. Civilians and journalists are amongst the dead, and Wikinews spoke to a local citizen journalist, attracting attention both from the world’s media and from the Syrian Armed Forces. According to Wikinews’ source, much of Homs is without water, and a […]
French Influence In Antique Furniture Design
Click Here To Know More About: Bean Bag Beans Australia Bean Bag Beans French Influence In Antique Furniture Design by Victor Epand French design is one of the most popular elements in the world of antique furniture. By the mid-1960s, these characteristics had traveled to North America, influencing the French Canadian furniture scene. There, the earliest furniture makers were skilled […]
Wikinews Shorts: August 9, 2009
A compilation of brief news reports for Sunday, August 9, 2009. Contents 1 Indonesia’s most wanted man believed to be killed 2 Iran holds second mass trial 3 Ronnie Biggs released to die a free man 4 Laos transfers drug-charge Briton to serve life sentence in UK 5 News Corporation to charge for online content 6 Obama: “we’ve rescued our economy […]
2007 Brooklyn Book Festival showcases borough’s continued literary tradition
Thursday, September 20, 2007 Wikimedia Commons has media about 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival. Brooklyn Borough Hall featured a Who’s Who in New York’s literary community during the second annual Brooklyn Book Festival. According to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, the borough’s zip code 11215 boasts more authors than anywhere else in the country. It appeared to be the case on […]
Fire sensors removed from Polish hostel where fire broke out
Thursday, April 16, 2009 On Easter Monday, a hostel fire killed 22 people and injured 20 more. Nearly two dozen people are still in the hospital, including an eighteen-month-old baby in Kamie? Pomorski, Poland. The dead included six children. There is still one person missing. During the intense blaze, parents reportedly tossed children from windows of the upper floors to […]
Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant
Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. Two weeks ago Dr. Siemionow, […]
Parts of internet break as ‘512k day’ reached by routers
Thursday, August 14, 2014 On Tuesday many internet routers, used to find the pathways to different parts of the web, reached their memory limit of 512,000 entries in the tables they use to store the routes, causing problems for many users. A router is used to direct a user towards the area of the internet where they will find the […]
Olympic highlights: August 11, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008 August 11, 2008 is the third main day of the 2008 Olympic games, the below article lists some of the highlights. As a lot of the new records were in swimming events, this article has several sections on swimming races. Contents 1 Events 1.1 Women’s 100m Backstroke 1.2 Men’s 100 m breaststroke 1.3 Men’s 100m backstroke […]