Brazil’s Minas state stops sales of Toyota Corolla
Friday, April 23, 2010 Minas, one of the largest states of Brazil, has stopped the sale of the Toyota Corolla over safety concerns. The move was made after nine Corolla customers reported that their cars automatically accelerated. The state public prosecutor’s office said in an online statement on Tuesday that the problem is blamed on accelerator pedals sticking underneath floor mats. Local government said the issue was “putting in danger the lives of occupants”. According to the prosecutor’s office, sales of Corollas may resume when Toyota alters the floormats in its current models. Toyota has recalled over eight million vehicles worldwide due to acceleration problems. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Brazil%27s_Minas_state_stops_sales_of_Toyota_Corolla&oldid=4607420”
Glazer caps Manchester United’s player transfer spending at £25m a year
Saturday, June 11, 2005 The intentions of Manchester United’s new owner, U.S. sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer, for the club have been revealed. Although spokespersons for Mr. Glazer (including his son) have stressed that nothing has been finalised, it appears that he intends to raise ticket prices, income, profits whilst capping spending on player transfers. Mr. Glazer – who owns over 76.2% of the club’s shares through his investment company, Red Football – enraged fans when he started to accumulate shares earlier this year in an attempt to gain control of the what amounts to the world’s most successful football club. Manchester United has more fans, a higher market value, a more valuable and more widely recognised brand and is more profitable than any other football club in the world. To gain control of the club, Glazer used borrowed money and he is set to transfer this money to the club’s…
Wikinews interviews Mark Everson, U.S. Republican Party presidential candidate
Thursday, August 20, 2015 Former U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mark Everson took some time to talk with Wikinews about his campaign for the U.S. Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nomination. Everson served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the administrative head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2003 to 2007, during the George W. Bush administration. After his departure, he briefly served as CEO of the American Red Cross, worked in the cabinet of Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, and worked for the tax consulting firm alliantgroup. He announced his candidacy this past March with a sixteen-page open letter in which he outlined the six pillars of his campaign: amnesty for illegal immigrants, reinstatement of the military draft, a promise to serve only a single presidential term, and calls for tax reform, deficit reduction, and corporate responsibility. He was excluded from the August 6 Fox News Republican presidential debate and has…
How Much Do You Want To Study Spanish Abroad?
Click Here To Know More About: Home Care Packages Provider How much do you want to study Spanish abroad? by Clint JhonsonIf you have always dreamed to study Spanish abroad, you should be happy to find out that there is a solution. With the help of the Internet, you can discover the advantages of a Spanish immersion school and literally immerse yourself in the studying of this foreign language. Plus, you get to travel to spectacular and almost breathtaking places, enjoying individually-designed Spanish classes.Many of the students decide to go with group lessons, the program offered by the Spanish immersion school being of 20 hours per week. The learning experience is unique, each student taking part in small classed with six other students. The students progress is appreciated through special designed exams, having the main purpose of advancing program participants to more advanced classes. For those who want to study…
Venezuela opens granite processing facility in Bolívar
Monday, February 18, 2013 Venezuela’s government has opened a granite processing plant in the state of Bolívar, with the intention of providing about 25% of the granite required nationwide. Ricardo Menéndez, vice president of the Productive Economic Area, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has yearned for the creation of this project to empower Venezuelan construction. Granito Bolívar is reportedly the most modern Venezuelan granite plant, not consuming community water or electricity, and is also the largest, with a daily capacity to supply enough material for use in construction of about 820 houses. Menéndez said, “These granite blocks are the natural resources of our country, are the wealth we have as a country and often [some] simply decided to remove this richness from our country and take them to other countries” ((es))Spanish language: ?Esos bloques de granito son la riquezas naturales de nuestro país, son las riquezas que tenemos como patria…
France: Villepin’s cabinet announced
Thursday, June 2, 2005 Newly named Prime Minister of France Dominique de Villepin has had his cabinet accepted by President of the Republic Jacques Chirac. Head of the majority Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, Nicolas Sarkozy, comes as a second-in-command as Minister of the Interior, with the honorific rank of Minister of State. The Ministry of the Interior is traditionally one of the most important positions in the cabinet, with that of Finances; the Minister of the Interior is in charge, notably, of law enforcement and relationships with local governments. There is some uneasiness in having the head of a party in a position that is partly in charge of electoral redistrictings. Also, this arrangement creates a peculiar situation: it is public knowledge that Villepin and Sarkozy consider each other a dangerous political rival with respect to the 2007 presidential election, and they are widely said to loathe…
Wikipedia founder embroiled in affair and financial allegations
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The implosion of a relationship between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and journalist Rachel Marsden has resulted in controversy and international headlines. Associated Press and ABC News have also reported on questionable activity by Wales involving Wikimedia Foundation expenses. The Wikimedia Foundation is a donor-supported non-profit organization which runs Wikipedia. Marsden had contacted Wales two years ago about concerns she had over the article about her on Wikipedia, and Wales determined the article was not compliant with Wikipedia’s standards. The tech blog Valleywag revealed Wales had a personal relationship with Marsden, and posted supposed transcripts of their instant message conversations on its site, www.valleywag.com. Wales and Marsden met in February, and The Times reported that “An apparent transcript of their conversations before that meeting…
Corporate Governance Expert Canada: Their Importance To Organizations
Click Here To Know More About: Issues Management Australia Corporate Governance Expert Canada: Their Importance to Organizations by Chairmanofboard The significance joined to the running and administration of corporate bodies have constantly unsettled the brains of all partners in the corporate gorvenance circle on account of the disappointment of huge associations that up to this point have been believed to be exceptionally strong companies. These failures or collapse have led to massive debts by such organisations as well as huge retrenchments of both professional and non-professional staffs. This occurs must of the time because of massive fraud on the part of the chief executive and board members. It is therefore important that both the board and management must have sets of guidelines within which to operate the organisation in a healthy manner. Since board members may not have full knowledge of all that is required to meet the various regulatory…
On the campaign trail in the USA, June 2020
Saturday, July 25, 2020 The following is the second edition of a monthly series chronicling the 2020 United States presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories. This month’s spotlight on the campaign trail includes interviews with the vice presidential nominees of the Prohibition Party, Reform Party, and the Life and Liberty Party. Contents 1 Summary 2 Spotlight 2.1 Billy Joe Parker (Prohibition Party) 2.2 Darcy Richardson (Reform Party) 2.3 Tiara Lusk (Life and Liberty Party) 3 Related articles 4 Sources Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=On_the_campaign_trail_in_the_USA,_June_2020&oldid=4641444”
Wikinews Shorts: November 13, 2008
A compilation of brief news reports for Thursday, November 13, 2008. Contents 1 Study shows that carrying excess fat around waist increases risk of early death 2 EU abolishes rules banning oddly-shaped fruit 3 Vase bought for £1 sells for £32,450 4 Blackwater may pay financial penalties for improper arms shipments Contribute to Wikinews by expanding these briefs or add a new one. A new study has found that people storing extra fat around their waist have a strongly increased chance of early death, even if their overall weight is average. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine today, found that for each addition 5 cm on the waist, the chance of early death is increased by between 13% and 17%. In the study, 360,000 people from across nine countries in Europe were surveyed. One of the study’s authors, Professor Elio Riboli of Imperial College London, commented on the…