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Kurdish forces advance as international opposition to Islamic State grows
Monday, August 18, 2014 Yesterday the Peshmerga, military of the autonomous region of Kurdistan in Iraq, gained control of parts of the Mosul Dam, as part of their advance against insurgents of the Islamic State. International opposition to the Islamic militant group has grown this week. The Peshmerga were supported this weekend by US airstrikes…
News briefs:May 4, 2006
The time is 17:00 (UTC) on May 4th, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 Zacarias Moussaoui to serve life in prison 1.2 Prime Ministers of Greece and Turkey meet in Thessalonika 1.3 Voting day for local elections in England 1.4 Lava flows from Mount Merapi 1.5 Rescue attempts continue…
US declares public health emergency over spread of swine flu
Sunday, April 26, 2009 Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today at a news conference that the U.S. has declared a public health emergency in light of the swine flu outbreak. The total number of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States stands at 20. Secretary Napolitano said that the United States’ declaration follows…
News briefs:January 04, 2008
Contents 1 Wikinews News Brief January 04, 2008 23:35 UTC 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Israeli troops kill 9 in Gaza 1.3 Georgian President faces election challenge 1.4 US unemployment hits two-year high 1.5 Israel plans crackdown on West Bank settlement outposts 1.6 Transaven Airlines plane carrying 14 people crashes off Venezuelan coast 1.7 Sportswriter Milt Dunnell…
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Pennsylvania man named in alleged terror plot
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Michael Curtis Reynolds, 47, from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, is accused of trying to work with al-Qaeda, according to the FBI. The Phildelphia Inquirer has reportedly obtained court transcripts from Reynold’s Rule Five hearing, before a federal magistrate judge in Pocatello, Idaho that revealed a “convoluted plot” that also includes cyberspace intrigue, an…
Civilians killed in U.S. raid near Balad
Friday, March 17, 2006 A U.S. raid near Balad on Wednesday resulted in the deaths of between nine and 13 civilians. An Associated Press photographer recorded pictures of the bodies of two men, five children, and four covered corpses reported to be women. The victims had bits of rubble tangled in their hair and were…
‘Piano Man’ speaks and is identified, returns home to Germany
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 The man known as just the ‘Piano Man‘ has left the hospital where he was staying and has returned home to his native Germany. He has finally spoken after four months of silence. It turns out, according to British tabloid The Daily Mirror, that the man, aged 20, was from Germany…
Interview with US political activist and philosopher Noam Chomsky
Saturday, April 4, 2009 Noam Chomsky is a professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Linguistics and Philosophy. At the age of 40 he was credited with revolutionizing the field of modern linguistics. He was one of the first opponents of the Vietnam War, and is a self described Libertarian Socialist. At age 80…