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44 worshippers shot dead at Nigerian mosque

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 News emerged yesterday that Boko Haram Islamists are suspected to have killed 44 worshippers during dawn prayers early Sunday morning in the small town of Konduga in Nigeria. The attacks were believed to be a revenge on citizen vigilante groups forming to help the government battle Islamist extremists and occurred 35km

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Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not

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Sweden’s Crown Princess marries long-time boyfriend

Monday, June 21, 2010 Sweden’s first royal wedding since 1976 took place Saturday when Crown Princess Victoria, 32, married her long-time boyfriend and former personal trainer, Daniel Westling, 36. The ceremony took place at Stockholm Cathedral. Over 1,200 guests, including many rulers, politicians, royals and other dignitaries from across the world, attended the wedding, which

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Countries Of West Africa Mali Sees Gold Mining Boom}

Here’s An Opinion On: Bulkquip Submitted by: Mining Jxsc As world gold prices soar, gold mining is picking pace to meet demand. The West African nation of Mali is seeing a boom in the industry of artisanal mining of gold, as gold became the third highest earner of foreign exchange in the country, after cotton

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Find me all the red balloons; MIT wins DARPA challenge

Monday, December 7, 2009 A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) won the challenge to find ten 8-foot (2.4 metre) weather balloons spread across the continental United States, just nine hours after the event’s start. In a test of the nation’s social networking skills, the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

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Studebaker Top

Here’s An Opinion On: Hire Used Forklift Sydney Submitted by: Lourdes Ford It can be kind of difficult to imagine that Studebaker began to be a blacksmith shop in the year 1852. Following a few many years of pounding steel, particularly in 1868, Henry and Clement Studebaker make up one’s mind to turn their blacksmith

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Crosswords/2005/February/20

Sunday, February 20, 2005 Feel free to use the Wikimedia sites to solve our Wikinews crossword. Please do not fill it out online as it would spoil it for other people; print it out and fill it in at your own leisure! < Previous crossword. Contents 1 Quick crossword 2 Across 3 Down 4 Yesterday’s

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