Violet Gonda is a Zimbabwean journalist working at SW Radio Africa. She is currently one of this year’s Knight Fellows studying at Stanford University. Gonda is the producer/presenter of the popular Hot Seat programme and this week she talks to Wilf Mhanda, one of the leading players in the Simba Makoni political formation. HOT...
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At least 17 people have been injured at a shooting in Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University. NIU is located in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, located 65 miles west of Chicago. The shooter opened fire from the front of a lecture hall, holding a shotgun and a pistol, and ultimately committed...
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A recently released report written by people from the Royal Veterinary college, the University of Warwick and the University of Bristol has found that 27.6% of chickens reared for human consumption struggle to walk, although a “considerable variation in walking ability between flocks,” was reported. The study reported that “27.6 per cent of birds...
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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s trip to San Antonio, Texas renewed an intense debate about the abortion issue. The Democratic Senator held a rally at the Roman Catholic St. Mary’s University after receiving an invitation from the school. San Antonio Archbishop Jose Gomez criticized the school for not consulting with him before offering the invitation....
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Inflation in Finland hit a 7-year-high in January, reaching 3.8%, it has emerged. Statistics Finland announced today that the high figure had been reached, compared to 2.6% in December or 2.3% in January 2007. This surpasses all figures since November 2000, when the number reached 4%. It is also a rare occasion where Finnish...
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Wikinews held an exclusive interview with Bob Jackson, one of the candidates for the Libertarian Party nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Jackson, an engineer, believes that he can win the Libertarian nomination and, though it is unlikely, the White House as well. He believes that the strength of America is based on...
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"Divorce attorneys track the every move of California motorists who use FasTrak electronic toll road transponders. Records of every trip a motorist takes on an electronic toll road over a five-year period is fair game for divorce attorneys...Divorce lawyer Alexandra Mussallem uses FasTrak to build a case.
"'We often have arguments about whether or not...
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Background: There's a lot at stake in divorce proceedings, and false spousal rape accusations can be as effective as false domestic violence or child sexual abuse charges in stripping fathers of custody of their children. In 2006, California state Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Los Angeles) sponsored SB 1402, which eliminates the distinction between spousal rape...
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If you like it when evil terrorist masterminds get what’s coming to them, yesterday was a stellar day. Imad Mughniyeh, one of the world’s most elusive and wanted terrorists, took one for the glorious Islamist cause when he and his car were blown to kingdom come. The only thing that could have made it...
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If there exists one visional depiction of the Cold War’s end, it is still a Eurocentric one, November 9, 1989, the day East Berliners joined with those of the city’s West in celebration of the Berlin Wall’s demise. Three weeks earlier, on October 19, 1989, Stalinist East German dictator Erich Honecker, facing mass internal...
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"Anti-male bigots have committed countless campus outragesâ€â€without resistance. In Catharine A. MacKinnon: The Rise of a Feminist Censor, 1983-1993, Christopher M. Final describes a scene which might properly be labeled modern collegiate America's darkest hour. According to Final, during MacKinnon's 1989 Yale commencement address she said:
"'Some of the proud mothers in the audience...
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Oh, what a difference a year makes. When Hillary Clinton made her “I’m in to win†announcement on January 20, 2007, her path to the Democratic nomination looked like a rose-petal strewn cakewalk. Since three-fifths of the Democratic electorate are female, it was reasoned that most of these women would line up obediently behind...
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