On the campaign trail in the USA, October 2020

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Monday, November 2, 2020 The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the 2020 United States presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories. This month’s spotlight on the campaign trail: the Free and Equal Elections Foundation holds two […]

Several large explosions reported in Xinjiang, China

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Sunday, August 10, 2008 Authorities say that “violent terrorists” attempted to blow up sites in the Xinjiang province of the country. Police say at least 11 people were killed, all except one were reported to be the attackers responsible for the blasts. Police say three more were arrested and another three are “still at large.” […]

Suspect in eight murders arrested in Illinois, United States

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Nicholas T. SheleyImage: Illinois State Police. Following a manhunt in two states, police have arrested Nicholas Troy Sheley whom authorities suspect in eight murders in the United States. The FBI launched the manhunt on Tuesday after four victims were discovered on June 30, 2008. Sheley was arrested without incident after being […]

CNet News launches reader wiki

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Saturday, July 2, 2005 As an experiment in the use of wiki technology for news, CNET News has launched a web site where readers can collaborate with other readers to predict the future of India‘s technology industry, collectively supplementing a CNET report on India published on June 27, 2005. The wiki uses Wikipedia‘s software, MediaWiki, […]

Brazilian Vote Buying parliamentary commission present first joint preliminary report

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Wikipedia Wikipedia has more about this subject: Brazilian vote-for-cash scandal File:Cpis122514.jpegBrasília — The Post Office and Vote Buying parliamentary commissions of investigation. Photo: José Cruz/ABr. Monday, September 5, 2005 Brazil —The Post Office and Vote Buying parliamentary commissions of investigation unanimously approved on Thursday (1) their first joint preliminary report of activities. The text was […]

Arson charge for man who cleaned home with gasoline

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 Map highlighting location of Chilton. Image: Bumm13. Ernest Krajniak from Chilton, Wisconsin in the United States has been charged with arson after a lit cigarette ignited gasoline soaked clothes, setting his apartment ablaze. On Friday April 3, Krajniak, 47, cleaned his entire apartment with about five gallons of gasoline, wiping everything […]

Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng

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This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. 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 […]

Microsoft claims 235 patent breaches by open source software

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Screenshot of an OpenOffice.org program running on the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Software giant Microsoft’s chief lawyer Brad Smith claimed in an interview published in the magazine Fortune on Monday that open-source software products violate 235 of Microsoft’s patents. The main transgressors are claimed to be Linux (107 patents) and OpenOffice.org […]

Cisco sues Apple for iPhone trademark

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Friday, January 12, 2007 The iPhone from Apple. The iPhone only made its appearance as a prototype and there have been controversies aroused. The dispute has come up between the manufacturer of the iPhone (which was presented on Wednesday for the first time) — Apple Inc. — and a leader in network and communication systems, […]

‘Earned It’ earns The Weeknd his first Grammy

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 On Monday, at the 58th Grammy Awards ceremony, Canadian singer The Weeknd won his first Grammy Award, Best R&B Performance, for his song Earned It, which was also featured on the soundtrack of the 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey movie based on E.L. James’s erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. File […]