Friday, May 6, 2005 The first ever feature-length film to be shot in Yemen will be screened, but will not compete for prizes, at this year’s international Cannes Film Festival. The 90-minute romantic drama by British-Yemeni film director, Bader Ben Hirsi, is titled A New Day in Old Sanaa’a. “For the most people viewing this…
Ex-KGB head Leonid Shebarshin dies at age 77
Sunday, April 1, 2012 Leonid Shebarshin, a retired senior spy who headed the former Soviet Union’s KGB for a day, has apparently killed himself. He celebrated his 77th birthday earlier this week. The KGB’s logo. Shebarshin headed the service for a day. Image: Jgaray. Born in 1935, Shebarshin had experience as an agent in India,…
Wikinews interviews Jim Hedges, U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate
Saturday, January 29, 2011 Public domain image of Jim Hedges from the Partisan Prohibition Historical Society website U.S. Prohibition Party presidential candidate Jim Hedges of Thompson Township, Pennsylvania took some time to answer a few questions about the Prohibition Party and his 2012 presidential campaign. The Prohibition Party is the third oldest existing political party…
UK hostage Peter Moore released in Iraq
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Satellite photograph of Baghdad from 1996.Image: NASA. Peter Moore, a British IT consultant and computer programmer who was taken hostage by Iraqi militants during a May 2007 militant raid on the finance ministry in Baghdad, has been released alive and in good health. He is the only known survivor of a…
Science academies urge teaching of evolution
Thursday, June 22, 2006 The Interacademy Panel on International Issues (IAP), a global network of the world’s science academies, has released a statement urging parents and teachers to provide children with ‘the facts about the origin and evolution of life on Earth’. The statement is signed by 67 of the 92 member academies of the…
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New Zealand Attorney-General resigns
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 David Parker resigned today from Cabinet, a day after he resigned his position as Attorney-General and after publicity around his filing of an incorrect declaration with the Companies Office on behalf of Queens Park Mews Limited. The declaration said that the three shareholders had unanimously agreed not to appoint an auditor…
Semapedia introduced to Africa: Powered by “Made in Ghana” technology
This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation or one of its projects. Please note that Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Semapedia is not associated with the Wikimedia Foundation. Friday, April 7, 2006 Accra —The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in ICT introduced the Semacode technology and the Semapedia application to a segment…
Wikinews interviews Corrado Giustozzi, security consultant and author
Monday, March 17, 2008 logo logo Wiki@Home This interview was carried out in Italian as part of Wiki@Home. It was originally added to the Italian Wikinews as Corrado Giustozzi, il Nightgaunt: sicurezza, privacy ed intelligiochi and the interview has now been translated into English. This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or…
Germany to drop ‘lese majeste’ law
Friday, January 27, 2017 On Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet announced Germany is to drop the ‘lese majeste’ law which protects foreign leaders from insult. This law is to come under effect in January 2018. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, from file Image: FNDE. German justice minister Heiko Maas called this law redundant and said,…