Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students/LA-ND

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Due to the damage by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding, a number of colleges and universities in the New Orleans metropolitan area will not be able to hold classes for the fall 2005 semester. It is estimated that 75,000 to 100,000 students have been displaced. [1Read More…

‘Each makes the other more difficult to recover from’: University of Sussex professor L. Alan Winters speaks to Wikinews on trade, COVID-19, Brexit

Wednesday, June 30, 2021
L. Alan Winters, CB. Image: University of Sussex.Earlier this month, Wikinews spoke with University of Sussex professor of economics L. Alan Winters regarding the decision of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union (EU) in the 2016 Brexit referendum and the subsequent negotiations leading up to and following the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement of December,Read More…

FBI arrests four in alleged plot to bomb Bronx synagogues, shoot down plane

Friday, May 22, 2009
United States law enforcement officials announced the arrest Thursday of four men in connection with a plot to blow up two synagogues in The Bronx, a borough of New York City, and shoot down military airplanes flying out of the Stewart Air National Guard Base.
Satellite photo of Stewart Air National Guard BaseThe men allegedly placed car bombs wired to cell phones outside thRead More…

Biometric Face Recognition Time Attendance: Company Expenses Reduced

More Detail Here: Unlawful Dismissal In Australia Biometric Face Recognition Time Attendance: Company Expenses Reduced by John WaughManagement is the backbone of any company. No company can survive for long with a weak management. If the employees of the company are the gems on a crown, management is the diamond studded at the center. Cost management is an important part of it. Profit canRead More…

New Zealand prisoners do nothing says National party

Sunday, November 5, 2006
Figures released by Simon Power, law and order spokesman for the National party, show that the New Zealand Labour led government lets 81% of all prisoners not do any work while in prison. Newspaper, Sunday News says that some Christchurch prisoners have been given a barbecue for good behavior.
Simon Power’s figures show that of the 7,612 prisoners only 19% (1,470) of theRead More…

Asbestos controversy aboard Scientology ship Freewinds

Friday, May 16, 2008
Controversy has arisen over the reported presence of blue asbestos on the MV Freewinds, a cruise ship owned by the Church of Scientology. According to the Saint Martin newspaper The Daily Herald and the shipping news journal Lloyd’s List, the Freewinds was sealed in April and local public health officials on the Caribbean island of Curaçao where the ship is docked began an Read More…

Commerce Commission fines BNZ $5 million

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
The New Zealand Commerce Commission has fined the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ). It has been forced to pay NZ$5 million in compensation to its customers, $500,000 in fines and $80,000 in costs to the Commerce Commission. The money will be placed into a bank account to be monitored by an auditor, and if there is any money left over it will be donated to a consumer organization.Read More…

Sell Static Caravan, Static Caravans For Sale, Used Static Caravans

More Detail Here: New Age Caravans Warrnambool sell static caravan, static caravans for sale, used static caravans by Abe CamachoThe difficult way may be to trawl through adverts internet or in newspapers and make an attempt to save yourself a several quid. With the former so you see what your getting for you\’re money, with the latter you probably rely on photos. As there are ever moreRead More…

Inaugural African Protected Areas Congress closes

Thursday, July 28, 2022
The inaugural African Protected Areas Congress hosted in Kigali, Rwanda, closed on Saturday with delegates adopting the Kigali Call to Action, committing countries to greater investments in the conservation of nature.
The conference ran from July 18-23, and was organised by Rwanda, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the African Wildlife Foundation, witRead More…

Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng

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Thursday, October 22, 2020
2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor candidate Wayne Tseng answered some questions about his campaign for the upcoming election from Wikinews. The Lord Mayor election in the Australian city is scheduled to take place this week.
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