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New Zealand Government announces record surplus
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Today the New Zealand Government announced that they had a record surplus of NZ$11.5 billion for the 2005 and 2006 financial year. This amount was $2.5 billion more than the government expected to get, however $1.8 billion of the surplus was because of a change to the recording of the tax […]
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Four more found guilty in 1993 Mumbai blasts case
Monday, October 16, 2006 The TADA court in Mumbai held four accused guilty of assisting Tiger Memon in smuggling arms and RDX that were used in the serial blasts. Four others were acquitted for want of evidence. Muzamil Umar Kadri, Khalil Ahmed Sayyed Nazir and Gulam Hafeez Shaikh were convicted of helping land RDX on […]
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ACLU, EFF challenging US ‘secret’ court orders seeking Twitter data
Thursday, April 7, 2011 Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government’s ‘secret’ attempts to obtain Twitter account information relating to WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF cite First and Fourth amendment issues as overriding reasons to overturn government attempts to keep their […]
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Wedding next year for Sweden’s crown princess
Friday, February 27, 2009 On February 24th the Swedish Royal Court announced that the Crown Princess Victoria is to be married in 2010 to her boyfriend and former fitness trainer Daniel Westling. KP Victoria, 31, and Daniel, 35, have been in a relationship for seven years. As the wedding is to be held in the […]
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Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs may work for Facebook
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Robert Gibbs, the former press secretary for the U.S. White House, has been said to be in talks with Facebook about possible future employment as a manager for the communications aspect of the company. According to an anonymous source close to the company, Gibbs is being pressed to quickly accept the […]
Find An Assault Lawyer In Reading To Represent You
Read An Opinion On: Rfid Warehouse Tracking Ramp Rfid byAlma Abell The Law Offices of Sodomsky and Nigrini are the ones that you need to contact if you have been arrested for assault charges. After all, you don’t want to have to walk into the courtroom by yourself. This is most likely going to be […]
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Avalanche buries cars in Colorado
Saturday, January 6, 2007 An avalanche on U.S. Route 40, which was 100 feet wide and 15 feet deep, has buried many cars, caused other cars to be pushed over the edge of an expressway, and injured eight people, just outside of Denver, Colorado. The avalanche started at 10:30 AM, starting about 12 miles off […]
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Brazil’s Minas state stops sales of Toyota Corolla
Friday, April 23, 2010 Minas, one of the largest states of Brazil, has stopped the sale of the Toyota Corolla over safety concerns. The move was made after nine Corolla customers reported that their cars automatically accelerated. The state public prosecutor’s office said in an online statement on Tuesday that the problem is blamed on […]
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2007/08 UEFA Cup: Zenit St. Petersburg vs. Bayern Munich
Thursday, May 1, 2008 May 1, 200818:30 (CET) Zenit Saint Petersburg 4–0 Bayern Munich Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia Attendance: 21,500 Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø Pogrebnyak 5′Zyrianov 39′Fayzulin 56’Pogrebnyak 73’Pogrebnyak 76′Domínguez 89′Lee Ho 89′Denisov 90+1′Ionov 90+1′ Match Report 46′ Jansen 46′ Lell 46′ Zé Roberto 46′ Podolski 62′ Klose 62′ Sosa 67′ Toni 81′ Lell […]
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John Reed on Orwell, God, self-destruction and the future of writing
Thursday, October 18, 2007 It can be difficult to be John Reed. Christopher Hitchens called him a “Bin Ladenist” and Cathy Young editorialized in The Boston Globe that he “blames the victims of terrorism” when he puts out a novel like Snowball’s Chance, a biting send-up of George Orwell‘s Animal Farm which he was inspired […]