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• 1 February 2023: “A commonsense proposal”: Wikinews interviews Michelle Tilley, Campaign Director for Yes on 820
• 31 January 2023: “Energized and excited”: Chris Hipkins becomes 41st Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 30 January 2023: Actor Alan Cumming returns OBE for British Empire’s ‘toxicity’
• 16 January 2023: UK Treasury considering plans for digital pound, economic secretary says
• 13 January 2023: Powerful earthquake rocks Vanuatu archipelago
• 10 January 2023: Troops freed by Mali return to Ivory Coast
• 9 January 2023: Supporters of ex-President Bolsonaro storm Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court
• 8 January 2023: “One-in-100-year flood event” devastates Western Australia
• 8 January 2023: Kevin McCarthy elected US House Speaker on 15th ballot
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International row after Spielberg quits 2008 Beijing Olympics

The U.S. film director stepped down as artistic adviser saying that China, which has close links to the Sudanese government, should do more to address the Darfur situation. » Full story

‘Top Model’ winner Jaslene Gonzalez on her career and being a Latina role model

Wikinews talks with America’s Next Top Model’s first Puerto Rican winner, Jaslene Gonzalez, about her childhood, what makes her a strong individual, and what television show her abuela would want her to go on. This is also the first time one of our interviews can also be read in Spanish at Wikinoticias. » Full story

Wikinews from February 1, 2008 (More…)

• 2008 Taipei Game Show review: Variations differ from past years
• Chad military clashes with rebels in N’djamena
• Microsoft bids $44 billion for Yahoo!
• Vermont town to vote on charging US President, Vice President of war crimes

Wikinews from February 1, 2007 (More…)

• Sony may cut PS3 prices
• US minimum wage moves to Congressional negotiations
• Microsoft to establish its R&D center in Shanghai
• January floods wreak havoc in Singapore

Wikinews from February 1, 2006 (More…)

• Australia to send 200 more troops to Afghanistan
• Rumsfeld explains renaming of war
• Scientists shocked at Great Barrier Reef bleaching
• Online retailers in Canada experience strong growth

Wikinews from February 1, 2005 (More…)

• US guards kill four in Iraqi prison riot
• Australian Prime Minister to visit Aceh
• Iraqis vote in massive numbers
• Nepal’s King Gyanendra dismisses the government, claims power for himself

• Indian government presents the Union Budget for the financial year 2023-24
• UK government nature plan: all English to live within 15 minutes’ walk of “green space or water”
• Earthquake strikes Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Region, China; no casualties reported
• Body of missing Chinese teen found in woodland near school
• 1.27 million French strike against President Macron’s pension reform plan
• More than 100 killed in mosque bombing in Pakistan

• Mass shooting at Monterey Park, California dance studio kills 10; suspect kills self
• Google’s AI tool MusicLM is creating music from text

Original reporting First-hand journalism by Wikinews reporters (More…)

• “A commonsense proposal”: Wikinews interviews Michelle Tilley, Campaign Director for Yes on 820
• Brothers Sunshine Coast to join A grade rugby union competition on Australia’s Sunshine Coast
• Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk presents textbook in Simferopol, Crimea

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