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  • 28 June 2019: Driver in New Hampshire multi-motorcycle crash pleads not guilty
  • 24 June 2019: New Hampshire crash kills seven, including former US Marines
  • 23 June 2019: Hong Kong protesters surround downtown police complex
  • 20 June 2019: U.S. heiress, designer, and author Gloria Vanderbilt dies at 95
  • 1 June 2019: Man sets himself on fire outside US White House
  • 31 May 2019: Toronto’s Anime North 2019 brings thousands of fans together
  • 21 May 2019: Nickey Iyambo, former vice-president of Namibia, dies aged 82
  • 19 May 2019: Taiwan’s legislature first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage
  • 18 May 2019: Governor of US state of Alabama signs state anti-abortion measure
  • 16 May 2019: Actor Doris Day dies at 97

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  • Driver in New Hampshire multi-motorcycle crash pleads not guilty
  • Hong Kong protesters surround downtown police complex
  • Man sets himself on fire outside US White House
  • U.S. heiress, designer, and author Gloria Vanderbilt dies at 95
  • Toronto’s Anime North 2019 brings thousands of fans together
  • Holy Headdress of Christ carried in procession through streets of Cahors, France
  • Driver in New Hampshire multi-motorcycle crash pleads not guilty
  • New Hampshire crash kills seven, including former US Marines
  • Notre Dame in Paris catches fire
  • US Department of Justice investigating Ford over emissions testing problems
  • 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
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  • Students compete in second international Neurosurgery Olympiad in Tyumen, Russia
  • Wikinews attends Maker Faire in Tyler, Texas
  • Algeria blocks internet across nation to prevent cheating in diploma exams
  • US Department of Justice investigating Ford over emissions testing problems
  • Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in
  • Report indicates Mexican monarch butterfly population at ten-year high, reasons unclear
  • Governor of US state of Alabama signs state anti-abortion measure
  • Students compete in second international Neurosurgery Olympiad in Tyumen, Russia
  • New studies may bring slug-made glues closer to use in medicine
  • U.S. heiress, designer, and author Gloria Vanderbilt dies at 95
  • Nickey Iyambo, former vice-president of Namibia, dies aged 82
  • Actor Doris Day dies at 97
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  • Hong Kong protesters surround downtown police complex
  • Nickey Iyambo, former vice-president of Namibia, dies aged 82
  • Governor of US state of Alabama signs state anti-abortion measure
  • Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran
  • Wikinews attends Maker Faire in Tyler, Texas
  • New studies may bring slug-made glues closer to use in medicine
  • 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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  • Nickey Iyambo, former vice-president of Namibia, dies aged 82
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  • Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in
  • Hong Kong protesters surround downtown police complex
  • Mao-style suits fading away in China
  • Taiwan’s legislature first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage
  • 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
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  • Polish leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski promises stricter punishments for child abusers
  • Students compete in second international Neurosurgery Olympiad in Tyumen, Russia
  • Holy Headdress of Christ carried in procession through streets of Cahors, France
  • 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
  • Driver in New Hampshire multi-motorcycle crash pleads not guilty
  • New Hampshire crash kills seven, including former US Marines
  • U.S. heiress, designer, and author Gloria Vanderbilt dies at 95
  • 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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