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House fire triggers explosion in Salisbury, North Carolina
In the evening of Monday, December 15, a house in Salisbury, North Carolina, exploded during a fire, injuring twelve firefighters and two civilians. A
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Football: Nottingham Forest defeat FC Utrecht 2-1
Nottingham Forest played an away Europa League league-phase match at Stadion Galgenwaard in Utrecht on Thursday. Forest took the lead in the 52nd minu
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10-man Preston North End draw with Coventry City in Championship fixture
A 10-man Preston North End club and Coventry City drew 1-1 in a football match on Tuesday, in Deepdale, Lancashire with an attendance of 18,477 people
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Shooting at Benihana restaurant in Maple Grove, Minnesota leaves one injured
Around 4:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (2230 UTC) on Friday, a shooting happened inside a Benihana restaurant in Maple Grove, Minnesota. One person wa
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Raccoon found passed out in liquor store after drunken rampage
On November 29, a liquor store employee in Ashland, Virginia was surprised to find many smashed bottles on the floor and their contents spilled throug
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Wikinews interviews the President of WSA: today's World Passports and World Citizen Government
World Service Authority (WSA), founded in 1954, describes itself as a "world-governmental organisation" and serves as the administrative branch of the
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250 Young Quakers to light up lake
Hundreds of floating candles will be launched by young Quakers to mark Hiroshima Day at 9:00 p.m. GMT on Friday August 5.
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Gunman enters Pennsylvania hospital ICU, kills officer before police fatally shoot him
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Three-car crash in New Hampshire on Frederick E. Everett Turnpike kills one
New Hampshire troopers reported today that they attended yesterday to a northbound three-vehicle crash in Nashua, New Hampshire, US, close to Exit 7E
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Several people hospitalized after thousands of hotdogs spill following collision on interstate in Pennsylvania
Shortly after 9:00 a.m. EDT (1300 UTC) on Friday morning, thousands of hot dogs spilled onto Interstate 83 in York County, Pennsylvania following a cr
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Jury convicts Minnesota lawmaker Nicole Mitchell of burglary
On Friday, Democratic Minnesota state senator Nicole Mitchell was convicted on two charges, felony first-degree burglary and possession of burglary or
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Car goes airborne twice in Indiana roundabout crash, man hospitalized
Early on July 11, a man was hospitalized in Fort Wayne, Indiana after striking a curb in a roundabout and losing control of his vehicle. His vehicle w
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Third person charged in relation to Pheobe Bishop's alleged murder
Kieren Daniel Mittelheuser, a 30-year-old man, has become the third person charged in connection with the alleged murder of teenager Phoebe Bishop. Ye
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Authorities arrest Belarusian Wikipedia sysop and only bureaucrat Maksim Lepushenka
On May 17, 2025, Nasha Niva announced that Belarusian security forces had apprehended Maksim Lepushenka, the Belarusian-language Wikipedia sysop on Ma
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World AIDS Day 2024 is marked around the world
World AIDS Day 2024 is its 37th commemoration since its first recognition by the United Nations in 1988. The observance, aimed at raising public aware
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Trainmen and engineers go on statewide strike in New Jersey, first time in 42 years
On Friday, May 16, at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 UTC), members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) union went on strike. The memb
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People's Action Party wins Singaporean election in landslide victory
On Saturday, in a landslide victory, the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) won the 2025 Singaporean general election, claiming 65.57% of the national
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Former guitarist of pioneering death metal band Possessed dies in shootout with San Francisco police
On Monday, April 28, Brian Montana, a former guitarist of pioneering death metal band Possessed, was shot and killed in San Francisco by the city's po
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Grand Theft Auto VI release date pushed back until May 2026
On Friday, video game manufacturer Rockstar Games announced that the release date of Grand Theft Auto VI ― the sixth mainline installment in the Grand
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CSIRO releases 15 captive bred endemic spotted handfish into wild in Tasmania
On Tuesday, April 29, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) researchers have released fifteen juvenile captive bred spo
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Local South Carolinian police places male suspect of three injuries into custody after manhunt
A large-scale manhunt search took place in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina after a driver struck two children and an adult outside Sunrise Presbyter
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Streaming platform Twitch bans rapper Kanye West seven minutes into first stream for performing "Nazi salute"
On Friday, streaming platform Twitch banned the channel of hip hop artist Kanye West seven minutes into his first stream. The reason for his ban was b
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Stunt pilot Rob Holland dies after crashing experimental aircraft
On Thursday, aerobatic pilot Rob Holland, 50, died when he crashed his experimental Aircraft MXS plane at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia,
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Kashish Chaudhary becomes first Hindu Woman Assistant Commissioner in Balochistan
In a historic breakthrough for Balochistan and the broader Pakistani society, Kashish…