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    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…

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    French anthropologist Germaine Tillion dies at 100

    Saturday, April 19, 2008 Germaine Tillion, French World War II resistance fighter and anthropologist, died today at the age of 100. She was born on May 30, 1907 in Allègre, Haute-Loire, France. Before 1940 and the fall of France she…

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    Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer

    Thursday, November 8, 2007 Edmund WhiteAll photos: David Shankbone What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett…

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    Report urges Kenya to ban plastic bags

    Wednesday, March 9, 2005File:Plastic bag stock sized.jpg The ubiquitous plastic bag(Image missing from Commons: image; log) They are cheap, useful, and very plentiful, and that is exactly the problem, according to researchers. A report issued on Feb. 23 by a…

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    Wikinews Shorts: October 26, 2009

    A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, October 26, 2009. Contents 1 Walpole, Massachusetts car crash kills one, injures one 2 Ireland pledges €1.3 million in emergency aid relief to Ethiopia  Contribute to Wikinews by expanding these briefs or add…

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    Occupation in London enters fifth day

    Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Occupy London protest on Saturday. Image: Crispin Semmens. Tents outside St Paul’s cathedral. Image: Neil Cummings. Protestors holding up a sign reading ‘Capitalism IS Crisis’. Image: Neil Cummings. In solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street and…

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    UK clarifies foreign, domestic response to cost of living crisis

    Monday, March 14, 2022 Boris Johnson (left) meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) on February 1. Image: President of Ukraine. Kwarteng on January 13, 2021. Image: UK Government. Activists in London on February 12 contrast high energy bills with…