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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon undergoes emergency surgery

February 11, 2006 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon underwent emergency surgery at Hadassah Medical Center in Israel to treat intestinal damage revealed by a recent computed tomography, better known as a CT scan. The Chief Surgeon said, "Sharon is out of danger, for the moment. His condition is stable and the surgery was a success." Sharon is currently in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital.

Yesterday doctors treating Sharon had noticed a swollen abdomen and ordered a CT scan on his torso and found the damage to his intestine. Later tests had shown that part of the large intestine had developed necrosis and needed to be immediately removed.

Hospital director Shlomo Mor-Yosef stated a press conference that there were "no complications" during surgery. "His (Sharon's) key problem is lack of consciousness. There is no significant change in his condition. Doctors did not find any occluded artery and there were no blood vessels blocked. He is stable but in critical condition at this time and he is in no immediate danger at this moment."

Yosef also said that Sharon's sons and family had met earlier and decided to go forward with the surgery and treatment.

Doctors removed at least 50cm of Sharon's large intestine.

Yosef also said that possible reasons as to why Sharon's intestine was damaged were, "maybe infection or decline of blood supply to the intestine." Yosef also said that the surgery was both a "routine procedure" and "not a dramatic" one. "Hospitals perform these operations sometimes two or three times a day," he added.

Yael Bossem-Levy, a spokesman for Hadassah Medical Center said earlier that, "the prime minister's life is in danger. His condition is now very serious, or critical. Sharon's digestive tract has undergone severe deterioration while he's been unconscious, and there appears to be a blockage in his blood circulation. The restricted blood flow raised the possibility of necrosis, or death of tissue, in the intestines."

Levy also stated that Sharon's condition has "deteriorated to its most critical point since his admission."

The 77 year-old leader has been hospitalized since January 4th, after suffering a massive stroke which left him comatose. This is his seventh surgery since his hospitalization.

Sharon has been hospitalized for thirty-nine days, and has been on a feeding tube for two weeks.


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Hospital morale vital during any outbreak: expert warns

February 11, 2006 Hospitals must prepare their staff for the trauma from an outbreak of bird flu, a medical expert advised today. If not, they risk the collapse not only of services but also of morale at a time when they most need both.

Charles Gomersall, the director of intensive care at Hong Kong's Princess Margaret Hospital, told a symposium on bird flu that he "predicts will have few staff two weeks into an epidemic if do not have mechanisms in place to minimize the stress and effect on morale."

He said hospitals need to offer staff counseling and daily briefings in order to manage the stress.

H5N1 avian flu virus has mostly affected birds, but at least 88 people in seven countries have died since the re-emergence of the virus late 2003.

There is no evidence yet that the virus has mutated to point where humans can pass it on, but experts predict millions could die if it does.

Gomersall insists hospitals need properly equipped facilities and trained staff now. Once an epidemic starts there is only a very short time between when symptoms present and admission to intensive care.


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Are we ready ?
I was looking for no particular topic to write about, but when I came across this story I thought our health care system in North America like everywhere else will fail to handle a major outbreak. Doesn't matter whether is bird flu or SARS or whatever else.--Tjkphilosofe 09:47, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


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Talk:Israeli PM Ariel Sharon undergoes emergency surgery

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Got info from live TV..."Sharon is out of danger, for the moment. His condition is stable, and the surgery was a success." -Hospital spokesman. Jason Safoutin 12:51, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Press conference scheduled for 10:00AM Eastern time. Jason Safoutin 13:26, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * From press conference (Mor-Yosef) said: Removed 50cm of large intestine...Central/key problem is coma/lack of conciousness...No significant change in condition. Stable but in critical condition. In no immediate danger at this moment...Yesterday noticed swollen abdomine. Ordered CT and tests showed that the intestine had gang-green....Sons & family decided to go with surgery and treatment...Reasons maybe be infection and or decline in blood supply to the intestine...No artary accluded and no blood vessels blocked..2 weeks on feeding tube and in hospital for 39 days. Jason Safoutin 15:35, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

 * This article was rife with misspellings. Corrected quite a few, but there may be more gang-green anyone? Wjbean 21:35, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Liars!
I don´t understand why to lie public. I don't think Sharon can survive. Within 6 months surely he'll die! An intestinal necrosis can be lethal, if a vessel is involved. Also his status performance is surely compromised, caused by an extensive stroke. It's more probable to die soon. I don't hate him, but odds are against him!


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Iran to abandon Nuclear Non Proliferation (NPT) if threatened to cut down on nuclear activities

February 11, 2006 Coming on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that if forced to limit its nuclear activities, Iran will altogether abandon the.

Ahmad said that the nuclear program is a peaceful pursuit to better "industry, medicine and economy". Addressing large crowds in, he attacked the notion of a referral to the United Nations Security Council, and the perceived bullying by the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He further warned, in reference to Article IV of the NPT which allows for civilian development of nuclear energy, in exchange for nuclear weapons states disarming (Article VI), that "On the other hand, if we are seeing that in total disregard for our following these rules and regulations that you still push to impose on Iranian rights- understand that it will not be tolerated and that the nation of Iran will reconsider its policies".

Although the vast majority of sovereign states (187) are party to the NPT, Iran would join the small minority of states that are not party to the NPT. withdrew from the NPT on January 10, 2003. ,, and are not parties to the NPT.

Having previously reiterated in 2004 that it would not leave the NPT, Iran performed a u-turn on its position towards treaty signatories, first showing signs during September 2005 when Iran's top nuclear negotiator that it would quit the NPT when warned that Tehran could quit the NPT if brought before the UNSC.


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Hi, just saw this article is missing and decided to create it... didn't know I couldn't use my WP account here so I wasn't logged in Genjix 13:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You need some for it, in a == Sources == section at the bottom.  There's a bit of javascript under the edit window to insert the template. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:45, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but i couldn't see any easy way to rescue the following sentence, so here it is for anyone who wants to try to work on it:
 * Coming at a time when relations between the West and Iran have diplomatically stopped, it will reinforce notions in western nations that Iran is pursuing a program of nuclear weapon development.

Boud 14:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The first half of the sentence is totally wrong. There is diplomatic tension, but claiming that relations have totally stopped is wrong: AFAIK ambassadors have not been respectively withdrawn from the countries involved.
 * Next problem: the West is a bit vague, better to be more precise.
 * Speculating about future public opinion (or government opinion) is not factual information (unless it's stated by some external expert and quoted as a prediction/speculation/whatever).

 * Not quite what I meant... I've found a source on the BBC. I'll reformat the ones that should use the  template and add it. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Hmmm, it might be speculative opinion, but iirc UK foreign secretary Jack Straw was quoted as saying a few months back in The Independent that military action was "inconcievable and incomprehensible". Just a few days ago Tony Blair said he was not ruling out military action against Iran. Also, although newspapers may be sensationalist, one of the headlines in The Guardian a few days back was that diplomatic relations have hit a dead end, and are no longer progressing (at least between UK and Iran), which was their reason for reporting Iran to the UNSC.
 * Although this may be opinion, that was my reason behind that statement. Genjix 19:13, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Adding More Opinion
ok, added some more text on the subject. Just wanted to know, what do you think about saying something like

 * "military action is not at this time viable since Iran is considerably larger than Iraq with a much larger population, and with US and COTW forces already stretched thin in Iraq and Afghanistahn..."

That doesn't sound like opinion does it? How about adding as well

 * "... stretched thin in Iraq and Afghanistahn, reporting Iran to the UNSC is unlikely to succeed in the short term."

Is there any other way to rephrase this part without making it sound like a subjective guess? Genjix 19:33, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

ahmedinejad quote, headline
i suggest the full quote below, (source: bbc article) be used to start the second paragraph.

"Until now the Islamic Republic has pursued its nuclear effort within the context of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Non-Proliferation Treaty," he said.

"However, if we see that despite our respect for these regulations you want to violate the rights of the Iranian people, you should understand the Iranian nation will revise its policies," he warned.

i think this article's headline says a lot more than what actually happened, which was, the president talking of a "revision" in its policies. to extrapolate that to mean "abandoning the npt" is way too speculative and pov for wikinews to use. the aljazeera article, which does talk about "quiting npt" is about Larijani's statements, not ahmedinejad's. 59.92.159.171 (Doldrums) 04:56, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

 * reuters appears to translate this differently in . Doldrums 05:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)


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Craigslist sued for hosting discriminatory housing ads

February 11, 2006

Craigslist.com, a popular free online classifieds site, has been sued for hosting discriminatory housing ads by the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc., a fair housing group.

The housing ads cited as objectionable included such statements as "NO MINORITIES," "Requirements: Clean Godly Christian Male," and "Only Muslims apply."

Stephen Libowsky, a lawyer for the housing group, said "Our goal is to have the Internet places like Craigslist treated no differently than newspapers and other media who have traditionally been posting real estate advertisements. All of the gains are going to get lost if the same rules don't apply."

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster conceded "We admit that one or two postings per 100,000 are discriminatory" but explained that Craiglist's 19 employees could not physically screen the 8 million new ads posted each month. He continued, "Instead, we've done something much more powerful and effective, in providing our users with a flagging system whereby problematic ads are promptly removed by users themselves." Buckmaster claimed the "NO MINORITIES" ad was removed within two hours.

Buckmaster wrote on the site that, "Though well-intentioned, this lawsuit misguidedly demands that we regress to primitive, mistake-prone, and wholly inadequate methods, methods which would actually be less effective in catching discriminatory ads than what we have in place currently, and which would vastly reduce the number of legitimate non-discriminatory ads that the site could process."

He continued, "Ironically, if this lawsuit were to succeed the net effect would be to deal a double blow to civil rights - by significantly reducing access to equal opportunity housing, and by undercutting our fundamental free speech rights - thereby doing a great disservice to the very persons these lawyers purport to represent."

Buckmaster also said "It is our understanding that the law is very clear to the effect that sites like Craigslist cannot be held legally liable for the content of postings submitted by end users." This claim appears based upon Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which states that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

Under section 7b of the web site's Terms of Service agreement, users are not allowed to post an ad "that violates the Fair Housing Act by stating, in any notice or ad for the sale or rental of any dwelling, a discriminatory preference based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status or handicap (or violates any state or local law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of these or other characteristics)".


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I descided to experement with a new style of linking to blogs for discussions, as we chatted about discussions here recently. Can someone add a 2nd blog thought? I don't like listing just slashdot. Nyarlathotep 14:05, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't see anything. This is similiar to the class action lawsuit against 'pedia in many ways. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]]

This article declined to mention some of the more benign ads labled as descriminatory in the lawsuit: "All in a vibrant southwest Hispanic neighborhood offering great classical Mexican culture, restaurants and businesses", and "Apartment is situated on 8th floor of building teeming with young people. It is unfurnished but ideal for a student or young single professional" are among the ones that were missed. 152.121.19.61 02:16, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't exactly consider those discriminatory more than it is attractive to a specific clientele. Anyways, the article has been long published, and those ads may have come after the fact. —     02:18, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

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editprotected The dates in the sources all say 'Febuary'. This should obviously be 'February'. Van der Hoorn (talk) 13:10, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅--Brian McNeil / talk 13:33, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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editprotected In the final sentence of the third paragraph, "Buckmaster" is misspelled "Buckaster". Heavy Water (talk) 17:44, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
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Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified that leak was authorized

February 11, 2006

According to federal prosecutors, Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, told a grand jury that his superiors authorized him to disclose to reporters information from the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate. Portions of the report included still-classified information on Iraqi weapons capability leaked in June and July 2003.

Libby's claim of authorization was revealed in a letter by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, written January 23 and included in papers filed in court by Libby's defense team on Monday. Although this letter did not say which "superiors" Libby referred to, the National Journal reported on Thursday that their sources said this included his immediate boss, V.P. Cheney. If this is confirmed, it could broaden the scandal.

Mr. Libby was obliged to step down after he was indicted on charges that he lied about his role in exposing the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, a C.I.A. operative, to the journalist Robert Novak in July 2003.

Federal prosecutors plan to use the confession to establish that Mr. Libby was part of the Bush administration's public relations campaign to rebut Mr. Wilson's op-ed column in The New York Times. The column stated that there was little evidence to support the administration's claims that Saddam Hussein was pursuing weapons of mass destruction.


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Steve Fossett breaks record for longest nonstop flight, lands safely

February 11, 2006

Steve Fossett, 61, has broken the record for flying the longest nonstop flight in aviation history and has landed safely in England although, Steve Ridgeway chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, the company sponsoring Fossett's record bid said, "he burst two tires on landing and the poor GlobalFlyer had to be dragged off the runway."

Fossett had to land at Bournemouth Airport in Dorset instead of his planned destination of Manston Airport in Kent, because of generator problems.

After the flight, Fossett told the press, "I was really lucky to make it here today, there was a lot going on. The tension of the final part really took it out of me, but I will be fine in the morning."

Fossett broke the previous record of 25,361 miles (40,210 km) (set by Dick Rutan flying the lightweight Voyager aircraft in 1986) when he passed over Shannon Ireland, even though he lost 750 pounds of fuel just after take-off from Kennedy Space Center Wednesday. His record has been recorded to have been broken at; 11:59am on February 11, 2006, (EST). His trip has taken about 80 hours (3 1/2 days) and covered 26,389.3 miles (42,469 km).

The plane Fossett was flying is a lightweight experimental aircraft. The GlobalFlyer is the only plane to make a non-stop circumnavigation of the earth on one tank of fuel.

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SpaceX delays Falcon 1 launch again

February 21, 2006

SpaceX Corporation has postponed the launch of the maiden flight of their Falcon 1 rocket again at their Kwajalein launch facility. Although not as damaging as the previous delay on November 11, this is certainly a significant set back for Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX.

A full engine test was conducted on the rocket, and the launch pad equipment which holds the rocket on the launch pad after engine firing seemed to work as planned. This safety equipment is designed to keep the rocket from causing damage or being destroyed in the event that some equipment malfunction occurs immediately after the rocket engines start. Under similar circumstances with other rockets the entire rocket together with its payload would have been destroyed due to a computer report of malfunction.

The exact reasons for failure were not disclosed by SpaceX, but Elon Musk said on his web site, "I will post a longer update next week, after we have enough time to finish forensics of recent events and formulate next steps."

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Protest held against Muhammad caricatures in Paris

February 11, 2006 Several thousand Muslims protested today in Paris, France, as well as the eastern city of, against the publication of caricatures of the in a Danish newspaper and the re-publication of some of these caricatures in French newspapers: the daily France Soir and the weekly Charlie Hebdo. The protesters consider that these caricatures insulted their prophet, and thus, they contend, their religion and themselves. Charlie Hebdo is a weekly paper known for its extremely acerbic positions against organized religion; it often mocks, the largest religious denomination in France.

Some banners claimed that freedom of speech should not imply the possibility of insulting religious figures. Other banners claimed that French society was applying dual standards. Some protesters demanded a law against ""; France does not have and has a tradition of.

Many of the female protesters wore a scarf to hide their hair, and some wore a hijab or veil. The French government enacted a, a move widely considered to be targeting the veil and scarf, which many consider a sign of subordination of females. The protest was organized by Muslim associations from the, most notably the Union of Muslim Associations from. Seine-Saint-Denis, a with a high proportion of immigrants, is notorious for social tensions. This is where the started from. In a related move, the (CFCM), a private nonprofit considered by the French government to be its main contact with the Muslim community, is litigating against the newspapers, alleging the publication of the caricatures incited to religious hatred. Muslim associations attempted to prevent the publication of Charlie Hebdo, but their claim was rejected on procedural grounds.

The protest was followed at a distance by a large complement of and other police forces. No notable incidents were mentioned.

Additional fake Jyllands-Posten cartoons circulating in the Middle East
In related news, it has come to attention that a number of additional cartoons not included in the Jyllands-Posten set may have had a role in bringing the issue to international attention. For example, three images which are reported to be considerably more obscene were portrayed in Gaza as if they had been part of the Jyllands-Posten set. One of the pictures, a photocopied photograph of a man with a pig's ears and snout, has been identified as an old Associated Press picture from a French "pig-squealing" contest, and makes no reference to Islam. It was reportedly circulated by Danish Muslims as if it was an anti-Islamic image. These and other images circulating around the Middle-East are partly responsible for much of the violent protest. The problem is being escalated by restrictions on the media in the Middle-East — for example, attempts to accurately portray the Jyllands-Posten cartoons and paint an accurate picture of the situation in the Jordanian media led to the arrest of two Jordanian editors, and the pulping of many newspapers before they were distributed.


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Original reporting
I saw the protest and took photographs. Submarine 19:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Really good photo of the woman holding the Koran. Neutralizer 12:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * On France-Info public radio chanel, a journalist said that French flags was visible at the end of the protest, one photo comment tells the contrary ?!, what the truth Jacques Divol 10:42, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


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It would be nice, IMO, if we could have a little more content in the RSS feeds. Ideally the first paragraph from the article, or even the whole article if possible. How could we achieve this technically? Frankie Roberto 22:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I think that it would be plausible to expand the RSS feeds to include a short summary of the articles. I think that this could be done by expanding the parser or generator that's used to automatically update the feeds. It could be modified to place a section of the article (perhaps the first paragraph) in the tags for each item, making a more useful feed. Example: summary . Please let me know if this is possible. TheVault 14:01, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I also think, a RSS feed with complete content is necessary. Also for third-part developers who want to use Wikinews as a news source for mashups, some API should be provide for easy crawling and querying. 9th Jan 2008 128.100.5.115

Older topics
I put together an RSS feed of the "Original Reporting" section. The feed is available at http://www.inic.org/wikinews.xml I also added an external link to the feed on the top of this article. If you do not have an RSS reader, you can view a web based version of the feed at Wikinews Original Reporting RSS Feed Please let me know what you think. I will try to update it daily. Inic 23:12, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Before 1.5 we also used to be able to category RSS feeds, but that died in 1.5 (I think). Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:07, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

other possibilities: Bawolff ☺☻ 05:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Amgines feed thingy (looks very promising) http://journowiki.org/w/index.php/Special:Syndicationfeed and http://journowiki.org/wiki/Help:Syndicationfeed
 * The german thingy: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/wikinews-rss/

Anyone know the symbol for an atom feed?
preferably a free version which can go on commons. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:41, 13 February 2006 (UTC) Bawolff ☺☻ 23:13, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
 * The wikipedia article suggests:
 * Why not use [[Image:Feed-icon.svg|20px]] everywhere? I think this should be used at least in the most prominent places on the site, as it seems to be generally accepted and easily recognized. Andrewski 22:45, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * We could, but it links funny. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 19:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Local/portal feeds?
I don't know this RSS stuff that well, but it would be nice to be able to have a feed for my local Houston portal. Especially if it were combined with the main feed. Jordanmills 14:57, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * That would be cool. We could do it if we got Journowiki's feed thing, or we'd need another bot like for the main one. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

RSS Broken?
The RSS Feed seems broken for me. It's displaying topics from October 23rd. Why is this? --75.129.241.82 02:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems to work now, giving my yesterday and today's stories. I'm glad it works now. --75.129.241.82 16:07, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Attribution sample needed
"Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor."

With this license we are to attribute the work if we re-distribute it. Can someone please post an official sample attribution? This needs to be on the main RSS synidcation page and/or a link next to the license link in the footer.

Scott B. 05:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

RSS broken again
It was working quite nicely for the past few weeks... :( Towsonu2003 20:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Fixed after 2 days of breakage, thanks :) Towsonu2003 21:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

category rss
WikiFeeds could sort of provide a DPL-like feed of a single category (ex http://wiki.case.edu/Special:WikiFeeds/rss/newestcategoryarticles/category/Buildings ). looks interesting. Bawolff ☺☻ 07:16, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

RSS broken
The RSS feeds for Print Edition and News Briefs don't work. I get the following error message:

 * Warning: file_get_contents: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/www/mrmwikinews.awardspace.com/xml.php on line 2

 * Warning: file_get_contents(http://webpages.charter.net/mrmiscellanious/wikinews): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/www/mrmwikinews.awardspace.com/xml.php on line 2

 * I tried contacting mrm about this, he did not respond. I suggest we create a new one on the toolserver. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:35, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Feed for OR
Why is that feed broken, and can we fix that? (and by 'me' I don't mean myself, cause I don't know how...). --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:23, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

News Brief RSS
I noticed the News Brief RSS hasn't been updated for 6 months so I created a new one. I hope that is OK with everyone. --User:Anonymous101 Talk 19:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I have made an effort to contact the person who runs the old news brief RSS (even though it is 6 months abandoned). I also said that I don't mind if that feed is restored. I have not yet recieved a reply so if anyone else knows another way of contacting the person, please contact them and ask them whether they want to restore their Audio Wikinews RSS or if they want me to continue with the feed I created. I contacted them via Wordpress, where the feed was based. --User:Anonymous101 Talk 09:59, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I tried to contact them via Wikinews - although I can't be sure it was the right person  --User:Anonymous101 Talk 12:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I am 90% sure it was User:Munchkinguy who created the feed. This is because of 3 reasons

 * 1) He added the link to the feed on the Audio Page
 * 2) He became inactive at virtually exactly the same time as the feed stopped updating
 * 3) Corecspondence on his talk page gave the impression that he runs the feed. --User:Anonymous101 Talk 13:02, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I have now E-Mailed him and contacted him on Wikipedia as well. --User:Anonymous101 Talk 13:19, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll give it a try. Its six month abandoned, as no one has done any spoken wn for about 6 mos. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think thats the right person. The feed was previously maintained by Terinjokes and MrM to my knowlesge. I was just talking to Adambro on irc, and he said he was going to try to make a feed on the toolserver that reads the wikinews page and automatically updates. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

I hav just recieved a response from User:Munchkinguy. He did created the feed. If an autimatic feed is created that is brilliant as no work would be required. Also, if an automatic one is created please make it compatible with podcast apps which support ogg if at all possible --User:Anonymous101 Talk 16:18, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Heh. Sorry about that. --Munchkinguy - (talk) 02:58, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Improving "Latest News" Feed
Hi everyone, I'd like to make two suggestions:
 * Instead of repeating the feed title in the body, how about putting a date.
 * Make it accept a parameter that defines how many days old news still appear in the feed. --Gannalech (talk) 08:28, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Well the current feed is not very customizable. There has been talk of switching over to this feed (maintained by User:Cspurrier ) which is a lot more customizable. Personally i feel it'd be better if the body had the first paragraph of article. Thanks for comments. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:51, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you for answering. I agree about showing an article snippet. My idea about the date was because when I read the news in an RSS reader (I use Sage) I can't see when it happened. --Gannalech (talk) 16:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Original Reporting RSS feed broken?
Are the RSS feeds for original reporting broken? Currently, the feed shows the top story as "Singapore Slingers defeat Darwin All-Stars in eighth Singapore Challenge Series game", but on Portal:Original reporting the top result is DS4SEQ discusses daylight savings in Queensland with Wikinews. Copysan (talk) 22:39, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It will be broken for about a month (along with everything else on the toolsever wikinews related). See https://journal.toolserver.org/toolserver/entry/wherein_mysql_replication_binlogs_and (we're in s3). Bawolff ☺☻ 01:55, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Google news rss feed
Just thought i'd share the link - http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnews%3Fpz%3D1%26ned%3Dus%26hl%3Den%26q%3Dsource%253Awikinews%26scoring%3Dd%26output%3Drss%26onlyshow%3Dig%26ie%3DUTF-8 adds to google homepage using google news' wikinews feed. And here's a direct link to the google news rss for wikinews stuff: http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=source%3Awikinews&scoring=d&output=rss. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:39, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

mobile phone thing amgine found
Kind of cool, http://plusmo.com/previews/103921 putting link here, as to put it somewhere. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:11, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

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Portal talk:Australia/2005 Sydney race riots

A romantic midnight picnic turned into a violent attack early Sunday morning, February 12, 2006. A young couple were celebrating their first anniversary with a champagne picnic near Mrs. McQuarrie's chair when the young man was suddenly attacked from behind. Two men of middle Eastern appearance kicked the young man in the head, face, and body causing multiple cuts and bruising, and breaking a tooth. The man required stitches to close a gash on his lower lip. The attack was unprovoked and the motive appears to have been robbery.


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Michelle Kwan withdraws from Olympics

February 12, 2006

, a figure skater on the United States Olympic team, has pulled out of the Olympic Games because of a groin injury. According to a newsbreak bulletin on NBC, she injured her right hip in a fall during practice on Saturday. The muscle pain continued to worsen and at 2:45am she went to the team doctor. The team doctor determined this was a serious injury and Michelle made the decision to pull out of the Olympics and give the alternate Emily Hughes the chance to skate.

Emily Hughes was contacted at 8:45pm Eastern time that she would be needed at the Games. She is scheduled to fly to Italy on Sunday. Emily Hughes is the younger sister of Olympic medalist.

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wikinews audience numbers

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User talk:Neutralizer/WikinewsAudienceNumbers

wikinews audience numbers

Here's Wikipedia By way of comparison

Not really a conversation; just thought people might be interested in having a quick look occasionally. Neutralizer 13:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, are rankings are no longer going down! more similiar links at special:statistics. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

 * The Daddy of these pages is Awareness statistics :-) Dan100 (Talk) 21:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
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Pennsylvania man named in alleged terror plot

February 14, 2006

Michael Curtis Reynolds, 47, from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, is accused of trying to work with al-Qaeda, according to the FBI.

The Phildelphia Inquirer has reportedly obtained court transcripts from Reynold's Rule Five hearing, before a federal magistrate judge in Pocatello, Idaho that revealed a "convoluted plot" that also includes cyberspace intrigue, an FBI sting, and then an exchange of money in Idaho. Reynolds was represented by Federal Defender, Nick Veith, at the hearing.

According to the transcripts, FBI agents say that Reynolds was plotting to blow up the Alaska pipeline, another pipeline in Pennsylvania and a refinery in New Jersey, with a person who he thought was an al-Qaeda operative. It is also reported that he had planned an attack against Standard Oil Co. in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and Williams Refinery in Opal, Wyoming. However, the Standard Oil refinery, now Chevron, does not exist anymore. The refinery had closed more than a decade ago. All that remains in its place is an empty field. Armada Hess is the only active refinery in Perth Amboy.

So far, Reynolds has not been charged with terrorism.

However, a prosecutor in Reynolds' December hearing said that, "he tried to provide material aid to al Qaeda." The prosecutor also said the case "involves a federal offense of terrorism."

A municipal judge from Conrad, Montana, Shannen Rossmiller, 36, led the FBI to Reynolds by posing as an al-Qaeda operative. Reports say that Rossmiller was looking through terrorist websites when she came across a post by Reynolds who was seeking $40,000 that he would use to buy fuel trucks that would blow up refineries in New Jersey, Wyoming and part of the Alaska Pipeline. After six-weeks of e-mailing each other, Rossmiller agreed to pay the money, and set up a meeting with Reynolds in Pocatello, Idaho. It is reported that after the plans were made, Rossmiller then contacted the FBI who then set up a sting operation, two months ago, against Reynolds. "I feel compelled to do what I can and I know that I have an ability to do something. I'm out for the hunt," said Rossmiller.

Rossmiller started to look through terror websites just after the September 11 terrorist attacks in NYC. She has read the Koran, studied the radical Islamist lifestyle, and learned just enough Arabic to lurk around in terrorist related chat rooms and "ensnare" the extremists. She also said that he has "assumed several the identities of more than two dozen male personae on the Internet," and was also part of "a large number" of cases involving the hunting of terrorists. Court records also show that Rossmiller had posed on the Internet as an Algerian terrorist to "befriend" Ryan Anderson, a Muslim convert and a member of the National Guard from the state of Washington, who wanted to hand over information to al-Qaeda on how to destroy Army tanks and humvees.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John C. Gurganus Jr. said, according to transcripts, "he (Reynolds) was doing it as a plan to disrupt governmental function, to change the government's actions in foreign countries, and to impact on the national debate about the (Iraq) war."

Reynolds denies trying to work with al-Qaeda and stated that he was "a patriot seeking to expose an al-Qaeda cell inside the United States." Philip Gelso, Reynolds's attorney, has not commented on the case.

Authorities searched Reynolds' home and took his computer as evidence, and some documents allegedly spelling out his terror plots. According to Gurganus, in e-mails on his computer, Reynolds "described what explosives should be used (in the attacks) and where they should be placed." Gurganus also told the judge that Reynolds, "knew the plots could get him the death penalty as a traitor and that he would have to leave the country immediately once they were carried out."

According to the British The Inquirer, Microsoft was issued a subpoena last month to allow the Department of Justice access to Reynolds' hotmail account.

Reynolds has been in Lackawanna County jail, held without bail, since December 5, 2005, when he was arrested about 25 miles from the Thunderbird Motel in Pocatello, Idaho for an unrelated weapons charge. He was charged with possession of an unregistered explosive device when authorities found a grenade in a duffel bag that was inside a home in Pocatello that Reynolds was staying at before he came to Idaho. The grenade charge carries a minimum sentence of three to seven years, to be served in a federal prison. On December 20, a jury indicted and charged Reynolds with two counts of unlawfully possessing hand grenades.

Reynolds pleaded guilty to attempted arson in 1978, a misdemeanor and menacing. He was sentenced to a conditional discharge. He has also been previously convicted of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and breach of the peace. The Times-Tribune received a letter on the 13th that used Reynolds’ return address at the Lackawanna County Prison and bears a rubber stamp as used to mark outgoing mail from the jail that detailed Reynold's denial of ties to al-Qaeda. The letter is postmarked with a date of February 10th, before the Philadelphia Inquirer story was published.

Titled "Patriot Games," the letter's content addresses the charge regarding the grenade found at his residence in a comment stating that it was planted there "by someone known to myself and to the FBI." In denial of work for and also in denial of any desire to work for al-Qaeda, Reynolds wrote that “I know what losses terrorists inflict on people. I would never work to assist them or harbor any,” referring to his claim of a colleague being killed in the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers.

In the letter Reynolds explains the investigation that he claims to have been working on to track "a person that I had believed to be a terrorist" and to expose them "once I had solid proof of who or where they operated from."

Reynolds claims that his family founded Bedford Hills, New York in 1676. He further claims that he personally has given military service in the US Army, written a Military police handbook, trained SWAT and drug enforcement teams. He further claims to have been an engineer with military clearance and to have taught in Thailand as a first grade teacher and also an English teacher to Buddhist monks.

As an explanation for his prosecution, Reynolds has written that he believes it to have been due to his military service and that he believes the case would be dismissed provided a hearing in front of a judge.

When questioned as to the authenticity of the letter, prison warden Janine M. Donate said that the letter appeared to be from the prison.


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Sondhi may face legal action from Thai Rak Thai party

February 12, 2006

According to the Thai News Agency Sondhi Limthongkul, an outspoken critic of the government and Prime Minister, may face legal action.

This would not be the first time the de-facto leader of the campaign to oust the Prime minister has faced legal action over his words. In 2005, a number of lawsuits were filed by the Prime Minister against Sondhi, most notable being a 1 billion baht suit in November. Thailand's King, Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama the ninth) made use of his 78th birthday speech to comment on the issue and advise that the government must accept some criticism. This resulted in the dropping of the lawsuits.

Sondhi's recurring open-air rallies and protests have made calls for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to resign or to be impeached. It is remarks made at a rally held this weekend at the Royal Plaza in Bangkok that are under scrutiny by lawyers for the ruling Thai Rak Thai party. Dr Surapong, who announced the party's investigation of the remarks, described them as "offensive" and "verbal abuse". He called for a halt to the accusations whilst a petition detailing alleged offenses of the Prime Minister was reviewed.

That petition was submitted for the attention of the King as the climax to Sondhi's last rally in Royal Plaza on February 5. After addressing a crowd estimated to number more than 100,000. Sondhi then delivered the petition through an aid at the residence of the President of the Privy Council. Several accusations are leveled at the Prime Minister in the petition, including allegations that he has used his position for personal financial gain.

A new petition seeking the Prime Minister's impeachment, which was started on February 10, reached 7,500 signatures in just 3 days. Thammasat university's student union has started this effort which, according to the country's constitution, requires a total of 50,000 signatures gathered within 180 days for the impeachment process to begin.


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Oklahoma student paper publishes new controversial cartoon

February 12, 2006

The Vista, a student paper at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Oklahoma, has published a cartoon including one of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. The cartoon itself has been perceived as being very offensive, besides the fact that it includes one of the infamous caricatures. The cartoon was made by Cary Stringfield, the paper's cartoonist. It shows two men of middle eastern origin with the one on the right holding one of the Mohammad caricatures (Caricature: the one with the bomb in his turban). The man on the left is shown as saying: "I'm not sure this response is appropriate for that cartoon." (Pointing to the background of violent protest). The man on the right replies by saying: "I agree, if we only had a Nuclear Bomb, then we could show them." The Vista is published twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The cartoon was published on Tuesday February 7, 2006. Since then there has been some/many verbal/written protests to the paper. The paper published an explanation in their Thursday paper which is linked to below.

Since then, some have found it hard to decide if the cartoon or the follow-up article was more offensive. The Muslim Student Organization at UCO has issued a letter with numerous signatories to the paper to protest their distaste at the inappropriate content. But in the feedback posted on their website, some readers have supported the cartoon as representing freedom of speech.