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Saturday, March 26, 2022 Wang Yi (left) and S. Jaishankar (right) on March 25, 2022. Image: Ministry of External Affairs (India). Yesterday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended bilateral talks with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. Wang arrived in New Delhi Thursday night after visiting Pakistan and Afghanistan.…

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Interior (stairwell) of Edinburgh’s Usher Hall Image: Brian McNeil. 1 2 Musicians gather outside the Usher Hall prior to the meeting Image: Brian McNeil. Attendees inside the Usher Hall Image: Brian McNeil. Yesterday evening saw the Usher Hall in Edinburgh host a meeting between representatives of the City of Edinburgh Council…

Thursday, September 25, 2008 A Louisiana representative has proposed a controversial solution to “generational welfare,” which would pay women on welfare to get sterilization. Republican John LaBruzzo said he thought of the idea because of his constituents’ outrage over paying for welfare. “You have these people who are just fed up with working their buns…

Thursday, April 7, 2011 Logo of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Logo of the American Civil Liberties Union. Late last month, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed objections to the United States Government’s ‘secret’ attempts to obtain Twitter account information relating to WikiLeaks. The ACLU and EFF cite First and…

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Seals Pagophilus groenlandicus are hunted for their pelts for coats and the fashion industry, blubber for oil, meat for pet food, and genitals as reported aphrodisiacs.Image: Matthieu Godbout. The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, opened the Canadian seal hunt amid protests by animal rights groups, at a time…

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 U2 perform at the King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels. Mark Mulligan, a music and digital media analyst at Forrester Research, said in an interview that “at a time where we’re asking if digital is a replacement for the CD, as the CD was for vinyl, we should be starting to see a…

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 In the United Kingdom, PRS for Music has announced that the total royalties that artists in the music industry receive has decreased by 1%. This is the first time that such a decline has ever occurred. The company has reported that the total was £611.2 million (US$977.8 million, €693.9 million) in…

Thursday, January 14, 2010 Countries and organizations from around the world are sending aid and help to victims of the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, damaging many buildings. The death toll is currently unknown, but estimated to run into the tens of thousands of people. Remarks by President Barack Obama on…

This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Satire site Uncyclopedia, a parody of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has been labeled by the Malaysian government as dangerous. The Internal Security Department of Malaysia issued the warning today,…

Friday, April 23, 2010 Minas, one of the largest states of Brazil, has stopped the sale of the Toyota Corolla over safety concerns. The move was made after nine Corolla customers reported that their cars automatically accelerated. The state public prosecutor’s office said in an online statement on Tuesday that the problem is blamed on…