Interview with Anna Mikkola, Finnish Left Alliance candidate for European Parliament

Friday, May 29, 2009File:Anna Mikkola.jpg Anna Mikkola is running for European Parliament in Finland as a member of the eco-socialist Left Alliance party. At the age of 28 she’s the youngest member of the 14 candidates on the Left Alliance’s list for the multi-national body. She spoke to Wikinews during a break in campaigning. Finland votes in the European Parliament election on June 7. Thanks for joining us, Anna. ((Anna Mikkola)) Thanks for asking. I had a convenient break in the campaign this afternoon. ((WN)) You’re the youngest member of…

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By Russell Blanc With business booming because of e-commerce, the World Wide Web is being flooded with numerous websites. These days everybody seems to have a website that works with their business. Website designing in earlier days required knowledge of HTML code that had to be technically skilled and proficient. Today, with the help of Hostgator, things are a lot smoother and more streamlined compared to how they were before. Nowadays, you can easily get free templates, which you can use to build your website. HostGator offers this feature with…

Imperial College London geology students fined in China for “illegal map-making”

Monday, January 5, 2009 Three British geology students of Imperial College London have been fined in China for “illegal survey and map-making activities”, according to local media. In addition to making maps, the students were researching fault lines and earthquake activity in Xinjiang — a tense Muslim province to the west of the country where anger against Chinese rule sparked deadly attacks in 2008. The students were gathering additional data in several regions, including Kashgar, the ancient Silk Road trading post, and an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…

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UK Wikinews Shorts: December 23, 2009

A compilation of brief news reports for Wednesday, December 23, 2009. Contents 1 Two-year-old child in Northern Ireland dies of H1N1 swine flu virus 2 Woman killed in collision with ambulance in Staffordshire, England 3 90-year-old man dies after car crash in Northern Ireland 4 Man dies while carrying child in railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland  Contribute to Wikinews by expanding these briefs or add a new one. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=UK_Wikinews_Shorts:_December_23,_2009&oldid=4458310”

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Being An Entrepreneur Has Never Been So Easy

Click Here For More Specific Information On: Property Management Systems Submitted by: Ruby.s Wilson 9 out of 10 people, around the world wish to become a successful entrepreneur according to a recent survey. In other words, around 90% of the people wish to become an entrepreneur, but only 10% are able to make their wish come true. Yes, it is a matter of astonishing fact that only 10% or so of the people around the world are entrepreneurs. Clearly, there is a steep decline of percentage form those who wish…

Afghanistan holds first democratic general elections

Monday, September 19, 2005 On Sunday, Afghanistan held its first democratic general elections. They are the first elections held in the country since last year’s presidential elections. There was voter participation of about 50%, compared with 70% for the previous presidential election. According to Bimillah Bismal, head of the Afghan-UN Joint Electoral Management Body, “The election was held in a peaceful manner…there was also a high level of political awareness and participation amongst the Afghan people.” Voting proceeded calmly, with little violence at the polling stations, most of which were…

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Disposal of fracking wastewater poses potential environmental problems

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 A recent study by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows that the oil and gas industry are creating earthquakes. New information from the Midwest region of the United States points out that these man-made earthquakes are happening more frequently than expected. While more frequent earthquakes are less of a problem for regions like the Midwest, a geology professor from the University of Southern Indiana, Dr. Paul K. Doss, believes the disposal of wastewater from the hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) process used in extracting oil and…

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Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. Two weeks ago Dr. Siemionow, in a 23-hour marathon surgery, replaced 80 percent of her face, by transplanting or grafting bone, nerve, blood vessels, muscles and skin harvested from a female donor’s cadaver. The Clinic…

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