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Athletes prepare for 2012 Summer Paralympics at the Paralympic Fitness Centre

25 June, 2022

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Monday, August 27, 2012 London, England — As Paralympians ready for the Games which are set to open later this week, they have access to a world class fitness center inside the Paralympic Village which is designed to maximise their pre-Game preparations. According to volunteers staffing the center, instead of being a single large room, […]

G20 protests: Inside a labour march

25 June, 2022

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Wikinews accredited reporter Killing Vector traveled to the G-20 2009 summit protests in London with a group of protesters. This is his personal account. Friday, April 3, 2009 London — “Protest”, says Ross Saunders, “is basically theatre”. It’s seven a.m. and I’m on a mini-bus heading east on the M4 motorway from Cardiff toward London. […]

Online Muay Thai Training Learn Muay Thai Kickboxing At Home

22 June, 2022

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Click Here For More Specific Information On: Home Gym Equipment Online Muay Thai Training – Learn Muay Thai Kickboxing At Home by Brandon Willis Kickboxing consists of just what it says, kicking and boxing. It developed as a competitive sport in the late eighties and since then has been a popular form of training session. […]

Amended USA Freedom Act draws questions from civil liberties groups

19 June, 2022

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Sunday, May 11, 2014 The USA Freedom Act, introduced in to the US House of Representatives as HR 3361 and to the US Senate as S. 1599, on Thursday passed out of House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and on to the House floor. Foreign Policy reported the bill was “the most aggressive NSA reform […]

“Woofstock” dog festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

19 June, 2022

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 North America’s largest outdoor dog festival came back to Toronto last weekend for its fifth year. It ran from the 9th of June to the 10th of June at Toronto’s historical St. Lawrence Market. A Wikinews reporter was there on Sunday to report on some of the events that happened on […]

Helpful Hints For Exterior Home Improvement

19 June, 2022

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Click Here For More Specific Information On: Commercial Painters Soldiers Point Helpful Hints for Exterior Home Improvement by johysos8da While there are the standard home improvement projects, there are also others that aren\’t done as often. You can find information on the most complex projects, so you\’re only limited by your imagination. Any contractor will […]

Oakland renters displaced by Hope VI program

19 June, 2022

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Oakland, California —A developer’s recent glossy sales brochure hails the Coliseum Gardens housing development in East Oakland as the most comprehensive development to date for one of Oakland’s largest nonprofit housing developers, but close scrutiny of the project reveals that only 4 out of the 178 low-income public housing families displaced […]

Author Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive

19 June, 2022

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Monday, October 11, 2010 Wikinews interviewed author Amy Scobee about her book Scientology – Abuse at the Top, and asked her about her experiences working as an executive within the organization. Scobee joined the organization at age 14, and worked at Scientology’s international management headquarters for several years before leaving in 2005. She served as […]

Satanism: An interview with Church of Satan High Priest Peter Gilmore

16 June, 2022

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Monday, November 5, 2007 In the 1980’s and the 1990’s there were multiple allegations of sexual abuse of children or non-consenting adults in the context of Satanic rituals that has come to be known as The Satanic Panic. In the United States, the Kern County child abuse cases, McMartin preschool trial and the West Memphis […]

World AIDS Day events held around the globe

16 June, 2022

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Sunday, December 2, 2007 The 20th annual World AIDS Day was December 1, 2007. The theme selected by the World AIDS Campaign is “Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise” as it will be through 2010. The day was marked by thousands of events around the world. “It is now time for bold leadership at all levels […]