Tuesday, April 20, 2021 Ron Wright, whose death in February 2021 opened the vacancy. Image: United States Congress. Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas’ 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of…
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CanadaVOTES: NDP incumbent David Christopherson running in Hamilton Centre
Friday, September 26, 2008 On October 14, 2008, Canadians will be heading to the polls for the federal election. New Democratic Party incumbent David Christopherson is standing for re-election in the riding of Hamilton Centre. From 1985-1990, he served as a Hamilton City Councillor for Ward Four. He was elected to Ontario legislature in 1990,…
Baby attacked by dog in New York
Saturday, January 5, 2008 A Doberman. An eight-month old boy, Andrew, was attacked and killed by a Doberman Pinscher in Brooklyn, New York. The dog was a three-year old named Mackabee, who is also neutered. The grandmother was babysitting the boy. While she was in the kitchen she heard the boy scream and ran next…
National Health Service England waiting list at highest on record for second consecutive month
Saturday, July 10, 2021 Sign indicating an NHS vaccination centre in Attleborough, Norfolk, England on April 25, 2021. Image: User:Sebastiandoe5. The number of patients in England waiting for treatment by the National Health Service reached 5.3 million in May, data Thursday indicated, the highest since records began in April 2007 for the second consecutive month….
Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian released on bail
Saturday, December 13, 2008 Chen Shui-bian at the 2007 Taipei Int’l Flower Exhibition. Image: Rico Chen. Taiwan’s former President, Chen Shui-bian (???), has been conditionally released on bail, some ten hours after he was indicted for corruption. Speaking to media at the Taipei District Court, he said: “I want to thank my lawyers, members of…
Police report drug haul seizure worth up to £30 million in Brownhills, England
Monday, December 2, 2013 Location of West Midlands within England Police in the West Midlands in England today said nearly 200 kilograms worth of drugs with value possibly as great as £30 million (about US$49 million or €36 million) has been seized from a unit in the town of Brownhills. In what an officer described…
TARC to showcase R&D achievements in 2008 AutoTronics Taipei
Friday, April 11, 2008 Light Electric Vehicle (LEV) will become a trendy product with respect to environmentalists.Image: Rico Shen. In the Opening Day of 2008 AutoTronics Taipei (April 9), the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI) invited Jamie C. Hsu (Consultant of Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Republic of the China and Former…
Paris hotel fire kills 22
Saturday, April 16, 2005 A Paris fire in a hotel killed 22 people, 10 of whom were children, while injuring 53 — 11 seriously. The hotel was an overcrowded, budget accommodation type of housing. Most of the inhabitants were African, many housed by social services, according to an Associated Press report. The 32 room, six-story…
Volunteers gather to help patrol Arizona’s border with Mexico
Volunteers for the Minuteman Project arrived in Tombstone, Arizona on Friday. Sunday, April 3, 2005 Volunteers from across the United States and some foreign countries gathered Friday to start an unofficial border patrol project. They converged on the town of Tombstone, Arizona to take part in what organizers call the Minuteman Project. Many came with…
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…