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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Across Egypt hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets for the day, marking exactly one year since the outbreak of protests leading to 83-year-old longstanding ruler Hosni Mubarak’s downfall. The country’s decades-long emergency rule was partially lifted this week; meanwhile, a possible economic meltdown looms and a newly-elected parliament held …

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The time is 23:30 (UTC) on July 12th, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs. Contents 1 Headlines 1.1 Israeli forces cross over into southern Lebanon 1.2 China and Russia counter resolution against North Korea 1.3 Iraqi group claim deaths of U.S. soldiers avenge rape, murder of Iraqi girl 1.4 Dozens preemptively arrested in …

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Friday, September 29, 2006 Diamond Brownridge, a 5-year old girl from Chicago, Illinois, has died after a visit to the dentist. Children’s Memorial Hospital officials say that the girl was rushed to the hospital when she never woke up after being sedated for a dental procedure. She had been in a coma, on life support, …

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 East Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and other 56 inmates escaped last night from Dili‘s mail jail. Australian and Portuguese forces initiated a massive manhunt for the escapees, which with their escape, created a new crisis for international security forces in East Timor. Australian SAS troopers using Black Hawk helicopters and …

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Monday, May 8, 2006 The aid agency Save the Children says an alarming number of girls in Liberia, as young as eight, were having sex with UN peacekeepers, policemen, teachers and humanitarian aid workers in exchange for money, food or favours. “People don’t really accept it but because of the financial constraints, people just have …

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Monday, December 2, 2013 Police in the West Midlands in England today said nearly 200 kilograms worth of drugs with value possibly as great as £30 million (about US$49 million or €36 million) has been seized from a unit in the town of Brownhills. In what an officer described as “one of the largest [seizures] …

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Sunday, March 13, 2011 The tsunami caused by Japan’s magnitude 8.9 quake on Friday destroyed the commercial fishing harbor of Crescent City, California, a coastal town still recovering from a devastating tsunami in 1964. Although most of the fishing boats were removed in advance, the 198 docking slips that the harbor had provided for boats, …

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 The President of the Swiss Confederation, Mrs. Micheline Calmy-Rey, has begun a 2-day visit to Ghana. The trip is part of an African tour which which includes Senegal, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Burundi. She has already been in Benin. She held talks with John Kufuor her host. …

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