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Taliban attacks hotel in Kabul, seven killed

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 The militant Islamist group Taliban attacked a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan last night. Seven people, including a U.S. citizen and a journalist from the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet were killed. Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre is staying at the hotel, but was unharmed. The terrorists attacked the five-star Serena…

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Category:June 27, 2006

? June 26, 2006 June 28, 2006 ? June 27 Pages in category “June 27, 2006” Media in category “June 27, 2006” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:June_27,_2006&oldid=1333791”

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Banned film ‘The Profit’ appears on Web

Sunday, March 23, 2008 Copies of The Profit, a 2001 film blocked from distribution in the United States due to a court injunction won by the Church of Scientology, appeared on the Internet Friday on peer-to-peer file-sharing websites and on the video sharing site YouTube. Directed by former film executive Peter N. Alexander, the movie…

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Fears about Songhua settled

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 Following an explosion in November of 2005, China’s Songhua river was contaminated with nitrobenzene and similar chemicals. Its clean-up by The State Environmental Protection Administration and others was covered previously on Wikinews. The State Environmental Protection Administration Minister Zhou Shengxian has said that “The water quality of the Songhua River will…

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IMF Offers Special Loan for Tsunami-Hit Countries

Wednesday, January 5, 2005 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Rodrigo Rato offered special relief funds for the countries victim of the tsunami disaster. The money is, however, in the form of a loan. The IMF has been present in the area on various occasions. The IMF offered a one billion U.S. dollar loan.…

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STS-116 launch scrubbed

Friday, December 8, 2006 NASA has scrubbed the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-116 to the International Space Station during the final stages of the countdown, after the weather conditions were considered unfavourable for launch, due to a low cloud ceiling and strong winds caused by a low front. The launch, which was…

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New Zealand prisoners do nothing says National party

Sunday, November 5, 2006 Figures released by Simon Power, law and order spokesman for the National party, show that the New Zealand Labour led government lets 81% of all prisoners not do any work while in prison. Newspaper, Sunday News says that some Christchurch prisoners have been given a barbecue for good behavior. Simon Power’s…