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    Interview with Tony Ciufo, City Council candidate for Ward 10 in Mississauga, Canada

    Friday, September 22, 2006 Candidate Tony Ciufo. The upcoming 2006 Mississauga municipal election, to be held November 13, features an array of candidates looking to represent their wards in city council. Wikinews contributor Nicholas Moreau has contacted as many candidates as possible, including Tony Ciufo, asking them to answer common questions sent in an email. There is no incumbent in the newly created ward; the sixteen resident competing for the position are Shah Rukh Alam, John Briers, Jamie Dookie, Dale D’Souza, Prag Euclid, Adnan Hashmi, Elias Hazineh, Jack Janiak, Fasal Javaid, Craig Lawrence, Sue M. McFadden, Patrick Mendes, Barbara Polis, Graziano Roti, Ali Tahmourpour, and Scott Wilson. Contents 1 Interview…

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    ‘Serious’ terror threat in Mumbai; police hunt four suspected militants

    Monday, December 27, 2010 A police official in Mumbai has warned four suspected militants of Pakistani origin have entered the city, the capital of Maharashtra, India, and claims they are plotting attacks in the city. Police are now searching for the four people, thought to be members of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Islamic fundamentalist militant group the Indian government holds responsible for the coordinated attacks which hit Mumbai in 2008. Joint police commissioner Himanshu Roy says intelligence suggests “the threat is serious.” Lashkar-e-Taiba are thought to be responsible for the coordinated attacks which hit Mumbai in 2008. Image: Vinukumar Ranganathan. A United States counter-terrorism official said the attacks are likely imminent,…

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    Australian PM faces inquiry into Iraqi kickbacks

    Friday, April 14, 2006 Wikinews Australia has in-depth coverage of this issue: Cole Inquiry Official photograph of Mr Howard Australian Prime Minister, John Howard appeared before the Cole inquiry on Thursday, the first time an Australian Prime Minister has appeared before an inquiry with royal commission powers since 1983. Unlike his foreign minister Alexander Downer who gave evidence before the inquiry on Tuesday, Mr Howard entered through the front door where he gave a brief address. He told the press that his government is being open about the Iraqi kickback affair. ” just want to make one point and that is that the appearance by me, earlier this week by…

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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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    43 dead in Iraqi bomb blast

    Monday, July 19, 2010 A suicide bomber killed 43 people in Iraq Sunday, injuring an estimated 40 more. The attack occurred southwest of Baghdad and targeted members of a government-backed militia, Sons of Iraq, also known as the Sahwa, who were waiting to collect their pay. Early reports say the attacks killed at least three soldiers and injured an additional thirteen, while three accountants died and four more were wounded. It’s not yet clear who the remaining casualties are. A survivor of the bombing said that “[t]here were more than 85 people lined up in three lines at the main gate of the military base to receive salaries when a…

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    Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi moves to drop Lockerbie bombing appeal

    Saturday, August 15, 2009 The Lockerbie memorial Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was revealed today to have requested his second appeal to be dropped. Al-Megrahi was convicted of planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, which detonated as the aircraft flew over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 killing all 259 people on board and eleven more on the ground. Megrahi had been offered transfer to his home of Libya if he dropped the appeal, but had previously stated he would not return unless his conviction was overturned. He has terminal prostate cancer and it is thought that he is due to be released shortly on compassionate grounds, having served eight years of…

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    Suspected hijackers of Arctic Sea detained by Russian Navy

    Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Reports are emerging that eight people suspected of hijacking the 4,000-tonne Maltese registered vessel MV Arctic Sea have been arrested by the Russian Navy, and are being detained on the frigate Ladny. Artist’s image of the MV Arctic Sea.Image: Rama. Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov confirmed that none of the detainees were members of the crew, and had boarded the vessel after approaching in a small dinghy, “using the threat of arms [and] demanded that the crew follow all of their orders without condition”. The vessel was found on Sunday off of the Cape Verde Islands, following over a week of searching. The vessel was previously…

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    Preliminary hearing for lawsuit against Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal rescheduled

    Buffalo, N.Y. Hotel Proposal Controversy Recent Developments “Old deeds threaten Buffalo, NY hotel development” — Wikinews, November 21, 2006 “Proposal for Buffalo, N.Y. hotel reportedly dead: parcels for sale “by owner”” — Wikinews, November 16, 2006 “Contract to buy properties on site of Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal extended” — Wikinews, October 2, 2006 “Court date “as needed” for lawsuit against Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal” — Wikinews, August 14, 2006 “Preliminary hearing for lawsuit against Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal rescheduled” — Wikinews, July 26, 2006 “Elmwood Village Hotel proposal in Buffalo, N.Y. withdrawn” — Wikinews, July 13, 2006 “Preliminary hearing against Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal delayed” — Wikinews, June 2, 2006…

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    Southern California auto maker announces fully-electric sedan

    Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Photo of the Tesla Model S, from the unveiling on March 26, 2009, at a press conference held at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, CA. Credit: User:Kylinne While hybrid vehicles have found considerable popularity in the United States since their introduction, one difficulty associated with the rollout of a fully electric car has been the comparably high price and poor performance, compared to an internal combustion engine-driven car of similar size. Tesla Motors claims that their Model S, a sedan which runs solely on electricity, will be more affordable. Tesla first entered the automobile market in 2006, with a prototype of an electric vehicle designed on…

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    The Onion: An interview with ‘America’s Finest News Source’

    Sunday, November 25, 2007 The Onion’s offices in Soho, New York City.Image: David Shankbone. Despite the hopes of many University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) students, The Onion was not named after their student center. “People always ask questions about where the name The Onion came from,” said President Sean Mills in an interview with David Shankbone, “and when I recently asked Tim Keck, who was one of the founders, he told me the name—I’ve never heard this story about ‘see you at the un-yun’—he said it was literally that his Uncle said he should call it The Onion when he saw him and Chris Johnson eating an onion sandwich. They had…