Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Around 2500 tonnes of oil were spilled into the Strait of Singapore today after two ships collided. The two ships involved in the collision were the oil tanker MT Bunga Kelana 3 and the bulk ship MV Wally, which collided around thirteen kilometers south of Singapore. The tanker received an estimated …

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Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Bucharest, Romania — The city centre of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is set to get a major facelift due to a real estate project called Esplanada (The Esplanade), which will be constructed by TriGranit Development Corporation. The total investment in the project will be greater than 800 million euro and …

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013 Illinois Governor Pat Quinn Image: Chris Eaves. This past Sunday, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a bill known as “Rocky’s Law” that requires Illinois high schools, through the local school district, to buy catastrophic injury insurance up to US$3 million or medical costs for up to five years, whichever …

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Monday, March 7, 2022 Interview with George Bagshaw on March 6, 2022. Image: Patrick Gillett. Cricket Grand Final match ups on Australia’s Sunshine Coast have been set, with many being made through washed out semi finals. Three games scheduled the be played at Burpengary, Morayfield, and Wamuran were unable to proceed when the local government, …

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Monday, January 14, 2019 An individual has been arrested after Pawe? Adamowicz, mayor of the Polish city of Gda?sk, was stabbed last night whilst on stage at a fundraising event. He died today. We couldn’t win Reports on the implement used vary between a knife and a “sharp tool”. The attacker is reported to have …

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Saturday, January 29, 2011 Public domain image of Jim Hedges from the Partisan Prohibition Historical Society website U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate Jim Hedges of Thompson Township, Pennsylvania took some time to answer a few questions about the Prohibition Party and his 2012 presidential campaign. The Prohibition Party is the third oldest existing political party …

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Buffalo, New York —A woman in Buffalo, New York in the United States is in critical condition tonight at Sisters Of Charity Hospital after she accidentally set herself on fire. The unnamed elderly woman was receiving oxygen for medical problems in her home and lit a cigarette, and the oxygen coming …

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Friday, November 30, 2007 Christine Comer resigned this month as the director of the science curriculum for the Texas Education Agency‘s (TEA) director after more than nine years. Comer said her resignation was due to pressure from officials who claimed she had given the appearance of criticizing the teaching of intelligent design. According to documents …

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Monday, April 23, 2012 Prince Harry in 2010. Image: Walking With The Wounded. The UK’s Prince Harry of Wales is to be presented with a humanitarian award for Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership by the Atlantic Council, according to an announcement made by St James’s Palace today. The recognition is for serving war veterans and the armed …

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