" The BBC has warned staff who refuse to cross picket lines during two days of strike action next month that they will not be paid. The corporation's TV, radio and online news output is expected to be disrupted on...
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What is criminal and what is not? In Florida a 13 year old was arrested after he confessed to farting and turning his classmates' computers off."A student at Spectrum Junior-Senior High School was arrested earlier...
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Anybody who has ever had their cable connection chewed through by squirrels knows that Internet transmissions are far less tolerant of interference and disruption than something like terrestrial TV and cable...
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"England’s selectors have named a 15-man squad for the Stanford Super Series and the seven-match one-day tour of India that gets underway in November, with Ryan Sidebottom earning a recall after an injury disrupted season. He comes in to replace Tim Bresnan, although will...
" MANILA - The United States will provide an additional $100,000 in relief aid to 31,000 displaced families in strife-torn Mindanao provinces, the US embassy in Manila said Friday. The amount is in addition...
Local services in Scotland, such as rubbish collections and the ferries, have been suspended as thousands of council workers have staged a walk-out over their pay."Up to 150,000 members of the GMB, Unite and...
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" PATNA, India (Reuters) - Train services were disrupted in parts of eastern India for three hours after flocks of agitated crows snapped overhead power lines when railway workers tried to...
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The few getlemans with the power to control the prices of the fuel don't stop to raise the prices days after days. We all have seen here (Vancouver) how the prices has raised in only two month 20cent per litre....
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"Laredo, Texas – Border Patrol agents from the Laredo North station disrupted a human smuggling attempt and rescued 51 people today.At about 2:30 a.m, agents working at the Border Patrol checkpoint north of Laredo conducted an immigration inspection of the driver of a...
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China has announced three days of mourning for victims of the recent earthquake, including a delay of the Olympic torch relay."The torch relay suspension will begin on Monday, the organising committee said in a...
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Despite the protests all over the world against the Olympic torch, the flame was met with much enthusiasm upon its arrival in China. So much enthusiasm in fact that the police are having to protect it from the...
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Teachers in the UK have gone on their first national strike in 21 years. About a third of schools in England and Wales have been affected so far. "The walkout by thousands of teachers has closed or partially...
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There will be a one-day strike on April 24 at schools across England and Wales. Interestingly, Tony Blair's son Nicky will be one of the strikers on teh picket line. The strike is being organised in response to an unsatisfactotry pay offer. It will be the first national...
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"The Irish Olympic Council has said the Irish team and its athletes will be taking part in the Beijing Olympic games regardless of any political or diplomatic boycott that could be staged.Under the Olympic Charter sport and politics always remain separate. The Irish Olympic...