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Australian ministers lose veto power over territory laws

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Ministers in Australia’s federal government have lost the power to veto laws in the nation’s two mainland territories after legislation passed the national parliament. The legislation requires for both chambers of the parliament to strike down laws made in the Northern Territory (NT) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) parliaments. We’ve…

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Canada’s Etobicoke—Lakeshore (Ward 5) city council candidates speak

Wikinews This exclusive interview features first-hand journalism by a Wikinews reporter. See the collaboration page for more details. Monday, October 30, 2006 On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is Etobicoke—Lakeshore (Ward 5). Two candidates responded to Wikinews’ requests for…

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Nearly 25% of Iceland’s voters petition for veto of Icesave bill

Sunday, January 3, 2010 Nearly a quarter of Iceland’s voters have signed a petition calling for President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to veto the bill passed last week to pay €3.8 billion to the United Kingdom and The Netherlands to compensate depositors impacted when the Icesave online bank collapsed in 2008. President Ólafur Ragnar GrímssonImage: Ragimiri.…

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Swaziland to receive financial bailout from South Africa

Thursday, August 4, 2011 King Mswati III praised South Africa for the bailoutImage: Amada44. The small African nation of Swaziland will receive a financial bailout from neighbouring South Africa. The South African government agreed to a loan of 2.4 billion rand ($350 million) after several organisations including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) rejected King Mswati…

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UN says more investment in agriculture needed to tackle world hunger

Thursday, October 22, 2009 The director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for more investment in agriculture in the developing world to tackle the problem of food insecurity. Jacques Diouf told Parliamentarians attending the 121st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union that more than one billion people are going hungry because of…

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Sub-prime lenders send jitters through global markets

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 The New York Stock Exchange. Image: WalkingGeek. Just two weeks after China sent global markets into a tumble, growing worries about sub-prime mortgage lenders in the United States are sending jitters through stock exchanges around the globe. The three major US stock market indices each fell two percent from Monday’s closing…