13-year-old shot dead by Brazilian police in mock-up of hijacking situation

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
A 13-year-old boy was killed and ten people were injured in an accidental shooting incident in the Brazilian town of Rondonopolis.
The police were staging a mock hijack as a training exercise with real people in a bus as an audience on Saturday. They fired their guns at cardboard cutouts of criminals in the exercise. However, they used live ammunition in their guns, and theRead More…

Reverse Mortgage A Wise Money Making Option For Senior Citizens

Read An Opinion On: Reverse Mortgage For Seniors Brisbane Submitted by: Issac Gates
Whenever you face turbulence in the stock market and your daily living expenses get higher and higher, you seem to get tensed with the thought that your years of retirement might get unpleasant. All future expectations smash and you head on to take pensions for the rest of your life. Recent studies say thaRead More…

Australian refugee contractor accused of breaching its duty of care

Friday, December 30, 2005 Contents 1 Richard Niyonsaba
2 Denial of food
3 Background and Criticisms
4 Sources The Australian Centre for Languages, a company which has a multi-million dollar contract with the Australian government to provide refugee services, has been accused of breaching its duty of care following the death of a chronically ill child and allegations of failing to provide thrRead More…

US lawsuit challenges church as polling place

Thursday, November 30, 2006
At its official launch in Washington DC yesterday, the Appignani Humanist Legal Center (AHLC) announced its filing of a lawsuit in Florida challenging the use of a church as a polling place during the recent U.S. midterm elections. The AHLC is representing Jerry Rabinowitz and the action is against Arthur Anderson in his capacity as supervisor of elections for Palm BeRead More…

US Congresswoman Jackie Speier comments about Obamacare, Paralympics

Saturday, November 9, 2013
With the 2014 Winter Paralympics set for March, Wikinews sought comment from U.S. Representative Jackie Speier, who serves California’s 14th congressional district about the event and how current U.S. policies impact people with disabilities. Elected to the U.S. House in 2008, she serves on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Armed ServicesRead More…

Borrow Up To $2500 To Stay Afloat During The Economic Crisis

Read An Opinion On: Relationship Lending By Mary S Wise
The economic crisis is affecting everyone – even those who do not have investments to look after. The working poor may be the hardest hit during the economic crisis because lenders who ordinarily would consider loaning money to low income individuals have begun turning away all but the most qualified of borrowers. If you are among thRead More…

Former Indonesian President Suharto dies at 86

Sunday, January 27, 2008
Suharto, second president of Indonesia, has died today in a Jakarta hospital at the age of 86. The cause of death was announced as multiple-organ failure. He had been in the hospital since January 4, when he was admitted with failing kidneys, heart and lungs. A week of national mourning was declared by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. In a televised address, the currRead More…

Wikinews interviews Democratic candidate for the Texas 6th congressional district special election Daryl Eddings, Sr’s campaign manager

Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas’ 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of them, the office of Democrat Daryl Eddings, Sr. agreed to answer some questions by phone March 30 about their campaigns and policies. The follRead More…

At least 85 dead in shooting at Norwegian youth camp

 Correction — August 22, 2015 The official death toll was subsequently lowered. See Norwegian police lower death toll in massacre. 
Saturday, July 23, 2011
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A gunman, identified by Norwegian media as Anders Behring Breivik, has shot and killed at least 85 people at a youth camp on the island of Utøya in Norway. The 32-year-old man Read More…

Shade Tree And Consumer Advocacy Group Teaming Up For The Community

Read An Opinion On: Mortgage Broker Shepparton Submitted by: Kristyyr Sinsara
This is the time of year where we all like to think a little further outside of ourselves than we may do throughout the rest of the year. Whether just dropping our spare change into a Salvation Army bucket or donating to charities in the names of our loved ones, we all get a bit more generous around the holidaysRead More…