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Australian health workers to close intensive care units in Victoria next week

• Posted on August 21, 2018
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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

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Officials: Eight insurgents killed in Orakzai, Pakistan

• Posted on August 21, 2018
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Sunday, April 25, 2010 In a gun battle that took place between Pakistani soldiers and insurgents on Sunday, eight insurgents were killed and ten others were injured. The incident occurred when about 40 rebels attacked a checkpoint near the Goain village in the Orakzai district of the North-West Frontier Province of the country. Jahanzeb Khan,

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Viktor Schreckengost dies at 101

• Posted on August 21, 2018
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 Viktor Schreckengost, the father of industrial design and creator of the Jazz Bowl, an iconic piece of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery died yesterday. He was 101. Schreckengost was born on June 26, 1906 in Sebring, Ohio, United States. Schreckengost’s peers included the

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World leaders react to Obama win

• Posted on August 19, 2018
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Leaders from around the world have congratulated re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama on his success at the ballot box. Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu stated that he “will continue to work with President Obama to preserve the strategic interests of Israel’s citizens” and described relations between the U.S. and Israel as “rock

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in airstrike

• Posted on August 18, 2018
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Thursday, June 8, 2006 The head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been killed in an air strike on a building north of Baqubah city, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. “Today [sic] Zarqawi has been terminated,” he said Thursday, and suggested the man the United States had placed a $25

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Windows Vista faces possible trademark challenges

• Posted on August 18, 2018
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, announced the name of its forthcoming version of the Windows operating system from its headquarters in Redmond, Washington Friday. But in choosing the name “Vista,” Microsoft may find itself in a legal fight. Microsoft has made a name for itself in legal circles as a

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Report finds Canberra and Northern Territory have most expensive cocaine in Australia

• Posted on August 18, 2018
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 In a report released yesterday by the Australian Crime Commission titled “Illicit Drug Data Report 2011–12”, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and the Northern Territory have the highest price of cocaine found in Australia’s states and territories. 1 gram costs AU$500 in the Northern Territory and runs between AU$300 and 500

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Internet through electrical power network introduced in Bucharest

• Posted on August 17, 2018
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005Between 10 to 15 of Bucharest’s 61 Unirii Boulevard residents will be able to connect to the Internet through their power lines. Starting from May of this year, a trial was organised by Electrica Muntenia Sud, the electricity company of Bucharest and Southern Romania. The technology, known as Power Line Communications (PLC),

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Six killed in UK car crash

• Posted on August 16, 2018
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Saturday, February 14, 2009 A car crash on the A614 road, in Nottinghamshire, England has killed six people, all of whom are believed to have lived near the scene of the crash. All six victims died at the scene of the crash, which involved four young adults in a Peugeot 206 and two elderly people,