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BP report into Gulf of Mexico disaster lays blame on other contractors

• Posted on January 16, 2018
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Friday, September 10, 2010 BP released their report into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster earlier this year on Wednesday, and shifted much of the blame for the explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, onto Transocean, the

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Police remove valuables from unlocked cars

• Posted on January 15, 2018
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 Police officers in Richmond in south-west London, England are removing valuable items like handbags and laptops from unlocked vehicles and leaving notes telling owners to collect their items in Twickenham police station in a bid to try and encourage car drivers to lock the doors of their vehicles. There is a

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Thousands strike in UK over pensions

• Posted on January 15, 2018
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 As many as 1.5 million government workers, members of 11 unions, went on strike on Tuesday in protest of a government decision to reduce their retirement benefits, a change which would take effect in October. The strike closed thousands of schools, libraries and leisure centres, disrupted commuters, and reduced some facilities

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Australia: Victorian government to trial driverless vehicles on public roads

• Posted on January 15, 2018
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Saturday, August 12, 2017 Yesterday, the state government of Victoria, Australia announced their decision to trial self-driving vehicles on two of the state’s major connecting motorways, the CityLink and Tullamarine Freeway. The trial is to use autonomous vehicles from automobile companies including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and Tesla. The two-year trial is to have three phases.

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Report urges Kenya to ban plastic bags

• Posted on January 14, 2018
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005 File:Plastic bag stock sized.jpg They are cheap, useful, and very plentiful, and that is exactly the problem, according to researchers. A report issued on Feb. 23 by a cadre of environment and economics researchers suggested that Kenya should ban the common plastic bag that one gets at the checkout counter of

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New Zealand’s Prime Minister supports daylight savings extension

• Posted on January 14, 2018
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Monday, March 12, 2007 The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark has expressed an interest of extending daylight saving time in New Zealand after a petition to extend daylight saving was closed, gathering 35,000 signatures. The petition was launched by Peter Dunne, leader of the United Future party, and Nelson city councillor, Mark Holmes

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Wikinews attends a ‘Dialogue with Decision Makers’

• Posted on January 13, 2018
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Two weeks ago, on February 1st, it was the second day of the national environmental Focus the Nation teach-in. One of these events, which took place at the same time at other educational institutions across the country, took place in the city of Lynn at the campus of North Shore Community

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More political, soccer-related unrest in Iran follows Bahrain victory

• Posted on January 13, 2018
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Sunday, June 12, 2005 More unrest occurred overnight across Iran following the national soccer team’s June 9 victory over the team from neighboring Bahrain in a World Cup qualification match.

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Congressman Cunningham admits taking bribes

• Posted on January 13, 2018
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Monday, November 28, 2005 U.S. Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R–CA) pled guilty today to conspiring to take bribes in exchange for using his influence as a member of the House Appropriations Committee to help a defense contractor get business. In total he pled guilty to one count of income tax evasion and four counts of