Saturday, March 27, 2010 A meeting in Brussels has produced a plan, supported by all 16 countries in the eurozone, to make available up to 22 billion euros in financing to support Greece, which is laden with debt. The deal would come into force only if Greece was unable to borrow money from commercial lenders, Greek debt deal reached
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 In an article in the December 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), researchers from Oxford University report that two recent avian flu fatalities in Vietnam were patients who had been treated with the anti-viral medication Tamiflu. There has been one other reported case of Tamiflu-resistance in Vietnam. Bird flu resistant to anti-viral drug
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Saturday, November 7, 2009 File photo of Chinese Premier Wen Jibao China’s Premier Wen Jiabao is in Cairo, Egypt, where he held talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in preparation for the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation that begins on Sunday in Sharm el-Sheikh. The leaders of 49 African countries are gathering in the Egyptian Red China’s premier visits Cairo ahead of China-Africa summit
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Ikeda Kanako, a 21-year-old senior student of the Meiji Gakuin University and the first daughter of celebrity surgeon Yuko Ikeda, was kidnapped at about 1225 (UTC+9), June 26, 2006, in Shibuya, Tokyo. A bullet was fired and one officer slightly cut when police stormed a Kawasaki apartment to rescue the girl. Daughter of Yuko Ikeda kidnapped to ransom in Tokyo; freed 13 hours later
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Sunday, March 12, 2006 United States President George W. Bush has nominated Robert Davis McCallum, Jr. to be the new US Ambassador to Australia. The ambassadorship has been vacant for 12 months and 28 days. McCallum is an associate attorney-general for the Department of Justice and previously represented big tobacco companies at an Atlanta law Bush nominates a new ambassador to Australia
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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 City of Buffalo, N.Y. fighting lawsuit against hotel proposal
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Militants in north-west Pakistan blew up a fuel tanker carrying supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan on Monday. More than ten armed men shot at the tanker and fired a rocket at the vehicle outside Peshawar city, and the driver and a passenger were injured in the attack, although no loss NATO oil tanker torched in Pakistan
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Monday, March 17, 2008 There were 7 games played in the National Hockey League on March 16, 2008. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=National_Hockey_League_news:_March_17,_2008&oldid=4576354”
Sunday, January 13, 2013 The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a review Friday into the design and manufacture of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, following five incidents in five days involving the aircraft and two Japanese airlines. On Monday, an electrical fire broke out aboard a Japan Airlines 787 at Boston’s Logan International Airport, FAA orders review of Boeing 787 Dreamliners following week of incidents
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Friday, July 15, 2011 On Tuesday, the Euro fell to a new record low in relation to the Swiss Franc, and to multi-month lows against the U.S. Dollar and Japanese yen; all considered by investors to be safe currencies during times of economic turmoil. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that recent comments from the Euro reaches new lows
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