Travel warnings issued for Sydney
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Travel warnings issued for Sydney
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 Wikinews Australia has in-depth coverage of this issue: 2005 Sydney race riots Following the racial violence which occurred in Sydney last week Britain, Canada and Indonesia have issued travel warnings for their nationals in or wishing to travel to Sydney. The British warning cites recent “sporadic outbreaks of racially motivated violence […]

US Senate committee investigates credit card practices
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US Senate committee investigates credit card practices
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007 On Tuesday, the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs‘s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing titled “Credit Card Practices: Unfair Interest Rate Increases.” The hearing examined the circumstances under which credit card issuers may increase the interest rates of cardholders who are in compliance with the […]

U.S. anti-war mom calls it quits
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U.S. anti-war mom calls it quits
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 War protestor Cindy Sheehan, the mother of fallen soldier Casey Sheehan who was killed in Iraq 3 years ago, wrote on what has been published by the Daily Kos as a personal web journal on Monday morning, a day in observance of Memorial Day in the United States, that “This is […]

Saturn moon Enceladus may have salty ocean
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Saturn moon Enceladus may have salty ocean
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Thursday, June 23, 2011 NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft’s direct analysis of salt-rich ice grains close to the jets ejected from the moon. The study has been published in this week’s edition of the journal […]

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