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Greek parliament passes austerity bill

• Posted on September 15, 2020
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Thursday, May 6, 2010 The Greek parliament has approved an austerity bill proposed by the government to help rescue the country’s ailing economy. The proposal, which includes increases in taxes, as well as salary and pension cuts, passed with 172 members of parliament supporting, 121 opposing, and several abstaining; the proposal needed at least 151

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Category:October 15, 2005

• Posted on September 10, 2020
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? October 14, 2005 October 16, 2005 ? October 15 Pages in category “October 15, 2005” Media in category “October 15, 2005” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:October_15,_2005&oldid=1091037”

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Scott Brown wins special election for Massachusetts’s Senate seat in upset victory

• Posted on September 8, 2020
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 Republican State Senator Scott Brown has won the Massachusetts United States Senate seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy in a major upset victory, becoming the first Republican that state has elected in 38 years. The state senator from Wrentham beat Massachusetts’s Attorney General, Martha Coakley, in a closely watched

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Wikinews interviews Spain’s most decorated Paralympian, Teresa Perales

• Posted on September 7, 2020
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Saturday, January 19, 2013 Zaragoza, Spain — On Thursday, Wikinews traveled to Zaragoza, Spain to interview the nation’s most decorated Paralympian and IPC Athlete Council representative Teresa Perales. A wide range of topics about the Paralympics and sport in Spain were discussed including the evolution of Paralympic sport, disability sport classification, funding support across all

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Experts: obesity is a bigger threat than AIDS or bird flu

• Posted on September 3, 2020
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Friday, September 8, 2006 From September 3 to 8, experts gathered at the 10th International Congress on Obesity in Sydney, Australia, to discuss what they call the worldwide “obesity epidemic”. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1 billion people in the world today are overweight, and 300 million of those are obese. “Obesity and

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Bird Flu found in Africa

• Posted on August 31, 2020
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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 The H5N1 Avian Flu virus, also known as Bird Flu, has been found in Nigeria by Italian scientists. Tests done on samples in a laboratory confirm that the strain is the one that can kill people, although no human cases have been reported said the Paris-based United Nations body. This is

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Wikinews interviews U.S. Libertarian presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root

• Posted on August 30, 2020
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Wikinews held an exclusive interview with Wayne Allyn Root, one of the candidates for the Libertarian Party nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Root is the founder and chairman of Winning Edge International Inc., a sports handicapping company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition, he is an author and

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California meat packing firm recalls 143M pounds of beef

• Posted on August 26, 2020
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 I am dismayed at the in-humane handling of cattle that has resulted in the violation of food safety regulations at the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company. In a press release today, California-based Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. indicated that it has voluntarily recalled just over 143 million pounds (65 million kilograms) of raw