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  • 11 April 2019: New studies may bring slug-made glues closer to use in medicine
  • 8 April 2019: 540 million private Facebook records found on public Internet
  • 31 March 2019: Turkey’s President Erdogan proposes converting Hagia Sophia Museum to mosque
  • 29 March 2019: Toronto Comicon 2019 welcomes fans with celebrities, creativity, cosplay
  • 28 March 2019: Thousands march in anti-Brexit protest, London
  • 25 March 2019: Fur fans flock to Toronto’s Furnal Equinox 2019
  • 17 March 2019: New Zealand mosque murder suspect appears in court at Christchurch
  • 15 March 2019: Former Trump advisor, Paul Manafort, receives second sentence in U.S. Federal Court
  • 5 March 2019: SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docks with International Space Station
  • 2 March 2019: Nine jailed over sexual abuse in Bradford, England children’s home

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  • 540 million private Facebook records found on public Internet
  • New Zealand mosque murder suspect appears in court at Christchurch
  • Former Trump advisor, Paul Manafort, receives second sentence in U.S. Federal Court
  • Turkey’s President Erdogan proposes converting Hagia Sophia Museum to mosque
  • Toronto Comicon 2019 welcomes fans with celebrities, creativity, cosplay
  • Fur fans flock to Toronto’s Furnal Equinox 2019
  • Fire kills nine, injures dozens in Chittagong, Bangladesh slum
  • Hotel fire kills at least seventeen in Karol Bagh, New Delhi
  • German migrant rescue charity renames ship after drowned Syrian toddler
  • President Trump says he ‘can’ and ‘may’ put US into state of emergency to build border wall
  • Investigation of Deutsche Bank headquarters spills into second day
  • Airbnb announces intent to remove Israeli West Bank settlement property listings
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  • Algeria blocks internet across nation to prevent cheating in diploma exams
  • Principal, teacher arrested for allegedly whipping two students late for school in Ayetoro, Nigeria
  • India: Jammu and Kashmir government orders private tuitions to shut down for 90 days
  • Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in
  • Report indicates Mexican monarch butterfly population at ten-year high, reasons unclear
  • Male Magellanic penguins pine for pairings: Wikinews interviews biologist Natasha Gownaris
  • New studies may bring slug-made glues closer to use in medicine
  • Francis D’Souza, former Deputy Chief Minister of Goa, dies aged 64
  • US study finds correlation between youth suicide, household gun ownership
  • Pioneering oceanographer Walter Munk dies of pneumonia in California
  • Former U.S. intelligence agent Tony Mendez, architect of ‘Argo’ rescue, dies at 78
  • US political pundit Bre Payton, 26, dies suddenly
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  • Thousands march in anti-Brexit protest, London
  • Former Trump advisor, Paul Manafort, receives second sentence in U.S. Federal Court
  • Texas federal judge says drafting only men violates United States Constitution
  • New studies may bring slug-made glues closer to use in medicine
  • Scientists coin Stormtropis genus for smooth-legged spiders
  • SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docks with International Space Station
  • Ross Edgley swims around Great Britain for first time in history
  • Real Madrid agrees with Chelsea FC to sign goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois
  • Football: Manchester City beats Chelsea 2-0 to win English Community Shield
  • Airborne sedan smashes into dental office in Santa Ana, California, US
  • Wikinews interviews producer of horror film ‘6:66PM’
  • India Supreme Court overrules High Court: rivers Yamuna, Ganga no longer living entities
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  • Zebra stripes may ‘dazzle’ pathogen-packing horse flies, say scientists
  • Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in
  • US warns Spain of Christmas bus ramming plot in Barcelona
  • Students compete in world’s second Neurosurgery Olympiad in Tyumen, Russia
  • Turkey’s President Erdogan proposes converting Hagia Sophia Museum to mosque
  • Nepal Parliament passes resolution to curb King’s power
  • New Zealand mosque murder suspect appears in court at Christchurch
  • Australia now recognises West Jerusalem as Israeli capital, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces
  • Airplane crashes into ocean in Micronesia
  • Investigation of Deutsche Bank headquarters spills into second day
  • Fifteen states sue United States President Donald Trump for cancelling program for undocumented immigrant minors
  • Gunmen murder Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres
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  • Turkey’s President Erdogan proposes converting Hagia Sophia Museum to mosque
  • Thousands march in anti-Brexit protest, London
  • Zebra stripes may ‘dazzle’ pathogen-packing horse flies, say scientists
  • Turkey’s President Erdogan proposes converting Hagia Sophia Museum to mosque
  • German migrant rescue charity renames ship after drowned Syrian toddler
  • Block of flats collapses in Aleppo, killing eleven
  • New studies may bring slug-made glues closer to use in medicine
  • 540 million private Facebook records found on public Internet
  • Toronto Comicon 2019 welcomes fans with celebrities, creativity, cosplay
  • Male Magellanic penguins pine for pairings: Wikinews interviews biologist Natasha Gownaris
  • State-run bus crashes in Cuba en route to Havana, killing seven
  • Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources


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