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Saturday, April 14, 2012
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Today on Wikinews: We briefly recap some of the stories appearing on Wikinews this week from around the world.
Today is Saturday, April 14, 2012. I am [INSERT SPEAKER'S NAME] and this is Wikinews.
Briefs
Airlines modify flight routes amid North Korea rocket launch plans / Report: North Korea planning third nuclear bomb test (0:30)
Story: See North Korea plans to launch long-range rocket
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Indonesia was struck with an eight-point-six magnitude earthquake Wednesday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami watch for twenty-eight countries. Two hours after the initial earthquake, the tsunami watch was lifted and they were no longer at risk of further danger.
Former third grade teacher, Eric Justin Toth of Washington, DC, became one of the FBI’s top ten most wanted fugitives. Toth’s investigation began when he allegedly used a school video camera that contained child pornography. Toth is believed to be responsible for installing a camera in a student restroom near his classroom. There is a reward for up to one hundred thousand US dollars for his arrest.
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that Germany does have the power to ban incest after a German man convicted of incest claimed it was a breach of his right to a family and private life.
The infamous Charles Manson, leader of the Manson Family, was denied parole for the twelfth and final time on Wednesday. Manson is serving a life sentence at the Corcoran State Prison in California where he has been held since nineteen sixty-nine. Manson is seventy-seven years old.
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Facebook purchased the Instagram photo-sharing mobile app, which applies vintage filters to photographs, Monday for one billion U.S. dollars in cash and stock. The app allows users to share photos with each other and through posts to other social networking sites.
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And those are the headlines for this week.
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