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Iran uranium talks "off to a good start"

October 19, 2009

Talks between Iranian, Russian, French, and United States officials are "off to a good start" according to Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog.

The four countries met at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today in, despite a statement on Iranian television shortly beforehand saying that the government would not deal directly with France, due to it previously failing to provide "nuclear materials".

The countries are working on a deal which would allow Iran to send enriched uranium to France and Russia and converted for use in a medical isotopes research reactor. This is the first time that a deal has been worked on regarding Iran's nuclear programme since the issue was brought up at a meeting in Geneva at the start of this month.

One concern is that Iran has not sent its atomic agency chief, an indication that a resolution of the matter may be be achieved; nevertheless ElBaradei remained positive. "We had this afternoon quite a constructive meeting. We're off to a good start. Most of the technical issues have been discussed," he said following the meeting. The head of the Iranian delegation, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, agreed with with the comments, but declined to comment on Iranian media reports that the government is reluctant to send its nuclear fuel. Talks are due to resume tomorrow morning.

Defiant stance
A senior Iranian official denied reports on state broadcaster Press TV that Iran only wanted to import higher-enriched uranium for its research reactor directly from France, Russia or the US, due to difficulties under current UN sanctions.

Iran's nuclear energy agency spokesman, Ali Shirzadian, said the deal would not end nuclear enrichment activities, as it was not "economically feasible" to purify further low enriched uranium itself to the 130-300kg yield required, adding this was an option if talks "do not bring about Iran's desired result".

Sanctions
Iran escaped further UN sanctions after talks in Geneva earlier this month. It agreed to IAEA inspections of a hidden nuclear site, believed to be near the holy city of and to send nuclear material to Russia and France for processing, part of the deal being negotiated at the Vienna talks. According to Western officials, Iran already agreed tentatively in Geneva to major points, but this is denied by Iran.

According to a Western diplomat, who wished to remain anonymous, the talks this week were supposed to seal the deal. "But, since we have had no negotiations thus far with the Iranians, the next couple of days could reopen a lot of what we hoped was already agreed in principle," he added.


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Talk:68% of Dutch consider their government "Lap Dog" of United States

Can you change the image of the Dutch flag to the SVG file? It is for Commons file maintenance. Zscout370 (talk) 19:03, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 19:08, 19 October 2009 (UTC)


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Can you change the image of the Dutch flag to the SVG file? It is for Commons file maintenance. Zscout370 (talk) 19:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ Hope you aren't superseding PNG's with SVG's. You know how much of a fight that can be. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 19:06, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

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Wikinews:Water cooler/technical/archives/2009/October

Miszabot - auto-archiver
Is this bot dead now? I last see it editing my talk page in July and it was really, really useful. I was also pretty sure we had it running on the water cooler to keep it under control and save the bother of archiving manually. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:00, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I see it editing Tris' page, and mine was misconfigured following my user name change. But, should we set it up on the various Water Cooler sections? --Brian McNeil / talk 18:03, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * That'd be nice. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. Please. For the love of god let's set it up on the WC, and anywhere else we have lots of discussions. It's silly to have this much... junk... on these pages. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 18:29, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I've got one vote though. Can we make it archive by month? Rather than just numbered archives?  That way we can find stuff easier if we know when about it was. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 18:34, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems very dodgy-it stopped archiving mine for a period so I went back & recopied the code over, which worked. Second the monthly archives.     Tris   18:39, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * You'd have to ask the bot maintainer to implement some form of archive number incrementing, unless they're disillusioned with wiki I'd expect them to be happy to do that. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:02, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * They already have archive number incrementing... and month support. So... I'm going with "lets do it" -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 20:05, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ Though I've requested magical keys so we can migrate the rest of the archives. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 20:13, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

improved RSS feed
The Latest News RSS feed now includes the first bit of the article in the feed. As of right now it includes the first three  tag enclosed areas of the page in action=render mode (basically the date, the first two paragraphs or an image (unfortunately excluding ones done with the thumb option) and a paragraph of text). Infoboxes create a bit of a mess for trying to determine what content it should include, hence the somewhat odd way of determining what to show. If any one is good with regexs, a PHP compatible solution for removing infoboxes would be wonderful. Let me know if you find any bugs with the new feed. --Cspurrier (talk) 19:40, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Cool. Infoxboxes can be extracted by looking for a div with a class of 'infobox'. Bawolff ☺☻ 13:21, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Automated lead generation
As some of you know, I'm experimenting with js tools to assist in changing the leads. You can play with it at User:Bawolff/sandbox/makeLead. (Also after a succesful review, you should see a button, make this article a lead article, that also gets you to it). Anyways, I'd appreciate ay comments/feedback/thoughts. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 17:22, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It is useful-only thing is when I tried it, came up with this at the top-A local JS function experianed an error on an API request. Please leave a note at the Wikinews:Water_cooler. Details: [object Error]  however it still worked.    Tris   07:14, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * There was a bug that caused Internet explorer to say the details of any error was [object Error]. I've now fixed that. Could you perhaps try using it again (but do a hard refresh of that page first). And see if the error message still pops up. IF it does hopefully it will give more useful details. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:23, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

It now doesn't seem to show articles published today, even after a hard refresh?   Tris   15:23, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * My date is very odd atm-the watchlist doesn't know the correct date for me? Just tried it again & it works, but gave this error-A local JS function experianed an error on an API request. Please leave a note at the Wikinews:Water_cooler. Details: [object Error]      Tris   19:38, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * For the watchlist problem - check your timezone in special:preferences - I've heard reports that some people had their timezone randomly change. As for the error on makeLead, I'm really not sure what is causing it. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:27, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Bug: Doesn't work with articles that have a single tick in their title. IE: Suspect arrested for murder of Iraq's entire taekwondo team. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 05:00, 29 September 2009 (UTC) Also, when I just clicked make lead after reviewing, it had input "make this a lead story" or something similar instead of the article title. Overall, though it's awesome & very useful!   Tris   11:54, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Shak's bug i can't reproduce, Tris's bug i need to spend some quality time with internet explorer (*shudder*). Bawolff ☺☻ 18:27, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, IE7 is a pile of shit with regard to alot of this stuff; but it's on the intranet & so can't change it. I like going home to nice little Chromey!     Tris   18:40, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * The big problem for businesses is that someone would actually have to do some work to integrate something like Firefox or Chrome into their managed update environment (Basically Active Directory and a bunch of scummy other crap). The true horror is when you're stuck with IE6 because some point-haired boss bought some buzzword-compliant portal piece of shit that only works with it, and the costing decisions are such that you're stuck with it for about 10 years.
 * Web-enabled applications are a great idea, until you forget the main idea is to decouple the application from desktop-dependence and code for a crap browser that only runs on one platform. But, never fear! The Microsoft and Sap salesdroids will be along any minute to arrange some hookers and blow for the same pointy-haired boss - just so he locks you into their crap... again. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:00, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Bug Oct. 13, 2009
"A local JS function experianed an error on an API request. Please leave a note at the Wikinews:Water_cooler. Details: Error: Could not retrieve page "Post-mortem examination reveals Stephen Gately" as it does not exist. <286:http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ABawolff%2Fmwapilib.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&scrver=1>" URL was: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Make_lead?use-page=Post-mortem+examination+reveals+Stephen+Gately+#leadForm

Calebrw (talk) 15:51, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅. This was an extremly serious error on my part (could be a slight security risk. Its slight since in order for someone to exploit, they'd have to trick someone into reviewing an article with a very obviously malformed title (aka something that'd be deleted on sight, actually something that mediawiki would give you a bad title error for, so really not exploitable at all, but still - big error on my part, I apologize). Anyways, fixed now. (p.s. Shaks issue reported above is also now fixed) Bawolff ☺☻ 23:43, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice. Thanks. Calebrw (talk) 00:53, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Develop template updated
I've made significant changes to develop. First, to add the ability for Millosh's bots to add a source parameter. The template will take "VOA" or "setimes" at the moment. It will, as before, take an additional free-form parameter to detail what needs done (basically, not being as harsh as using cleanup).

The other changes are to actively encourage people to fill in original reporting notes. Which links and text you get depend on whether or not the associated talk page exists. Have a play with it, comment on the text given when either "VOA" or "setimes" are used. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:10, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The develop template is now fully documented. Please look at what it offers to do for original reporting!
 * The edit introduction for an original reporting section is at Template:Develop/Original reporting/introduction.
 * The pre-loaded wikitext for the original reporting section is at Template:Develop/Original reporting.
 * The edit introduction could be nicer looking. There does not seem to be any way to avoid multiple OR sections. It does not appear possible to detect an existing OR section and edit that.
 * One thing to think about, is the ability to use this template instead of cleanup. It should be a more gentle way to take something out of review. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:25, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Well i agree that develop is nicer than tasks or cleanup, it suffers from the problem, if you don't read the fine print, you probably won't realize that there is something wrong with the article. I think we perhaps need some sort of happy medium between the two templates. Bawolff ☺☻ 13:23, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * How about I change the colour if there's an additional parameter passed in? --Brian McNeil / talk 15:22, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * One of these days I'll dig up which template would need changed to make develop red if there's any parameters given to it. --Brian McNeil / talk 01:55, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Searching doesn't work?
Is there a technical problem with searching on Wikinews? I search for Colorado balloon and Falcon Heene, either one of which I would expect to lead me to this article, but both turn up zero hits.

In contrast, the equivalent searches via Google find the article here. TJRC (talk) 00:53, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Takes a few days for the search to catch up. Try your links again now, they both resolve to the one result you were looking for.  -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 21:26, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

User notify gadget
Just a heads up, I've made some changes to the usernotify gadget. In paticular: var useFancyVectorDropdown = false;
 * Its now only enabled on user talk namespace. This is for security reasons (In paticular, before this change an admin could potentially be tricked to make arbitrary edits (read vandalize) a protected page such as the main page rather easily). This should not affect anybody
 * I've enabled improved vector drop down menu. (This could be changed to disable by default if people hate it). Basically in vector, instead of the links appearing below the toolbox, they appear by the add comment tab. On pages yet to be created the links still appear below the toolbox. This applies only to vector. To disable this change, add the following to special:mypage/vector.js:

Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:37, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


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Welcome
Cirt (talk) 20:56, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

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editprotected

Image needs to point to Flag of the Philippines.svg. The original image from the Commons does not have as source nor license, so it needs to be replaced before it can be deleted from the Commons. Thanks Zscout370 (talk) 21:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅ Tempodivalse [talk]  02:57, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Iran uranium talks "off to a good start"

Category and link
edit protected Please add this article to Category:Vienna and localize the link of the same name. Thank you. Green Giant (talk) 23:51, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * cat'd. Article already w-ized.  --Pi zero (talk) 03:05, 28 October 2015 (UTC)


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User talk:99.11.231.38

Welcome
Thanks for experimenting with Wikinews. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles may disrupt the site's working and will be reverted quickly. , welcome to Wikinews! Please refrain from using content pages for testing. Here are a few good links for newcomers on how to edit Wikinews:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 22:47, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
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Welcome
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Welcome
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US scientist from Maryland accused of spying for Israel

October 20, 2009

Stewart D. Nozette, 52, from Chevy Chase, Maryland in the United States, was arrested Monday on charges of espionage and is being held until a court hearing on Tuesday. He is accused of spying for Israel.

Nozette, who received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had several high profile jobs in the U.S. government and access to classified materials. He worked for the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 to 1999 and was the President of the Alliance for Competitive Technology, which was formed in 1990 by Nozette. Both of these organizations had contracts with the U.S. government, providing advanced technology. Nozette also worked for NASA and the Department of Defense. During the course of these jobs, authorities say Nozette had access to classified information. The last time he is alleged to have had regular access to any such information was as late as 2006.

According to court notes made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an undercover agent pretending to be an Israeli intelligence officer contacted Nozette on September 3, 2009 and asked for information, and later that day Nozette confirmed his willingness to give the officer classified material in exchange for money and an Israeli passport. During another meeting with the officer, Nozette allegedly pointed out that he no longer had access to classified documents but might recall information from them.

The notes detail that Nozette received two envelopes after a month containing US$11,000 and lists of questions they wanted Nozette to answer. Nozette allegedly returned envelopes containing information labelled as "top secret" about U.S. military satellites, the nation's early warning systems against missile attacks, and the ability of the U.S. to withstand and defend itself from a large-scale attack.

Nozette faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. "The conduct alleged in this complaint is serious and should serve as a warning to anyone who would consider compromising our nation's secrets for profit," said U.S. Assistant Attorney General David Kris.


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EU to give 280 million euro in aid to dairy farmers

October 21, 2009

European Union (EU) Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel pledged million in aid to dairy farmers Monday, after weeks of protests. She said she would "empty her pockets", but that was as much as she could offer; "I don't have a special account in Switzerland or anywhere else," she commented at an EU farm conference in Luxembourg where farmers were holding their third protest in as many weeks.

A recent demonstration in Belgium saw farmers dump three million litres (660,000 gallons) of milk on fields — and requests from 21 EU member states for emergency aid. The funds will come out of the 2010 budget. This is in addition to the announcement in September that the EU would modify rules to allow temporary state aid payments; each farmer could receive a maximum of €15,000.

Last November, EU agriculture ministers planned to abolish milk quotas completely by 2015. The quotas are aimed at supporting prices, as the demand for dairy products has plummeted throughout the economic crisis; in some cases, prices have halved since 2007.

These measures seek to alleviate temporary problems, but the commission still intends to end the quota system for milk, and reduce market intervention which helps support prices.


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Indonesian president sworn in for a second term

October 21, 2009

President has been sworn in for a second five-year term as president of Indonesia. During his election campaign he promised economic growth and political reform. Under his previous term he worked to remove corruption with the.

During yesterday morning's ceremonial swearing-in at the national assembly in, broadcast throughout the country, he swore to uphold the constitution on the ; Indonesia is the largest country in the world, with 234 million people, of which around 85% are Muslim. "The essence of our programme for the next five years is to improve welfare, strengthen democracy and the legal system," he said. "In the middle of the economic crisis, Indonesia can still grow positively. But we cannot stay idle, as our tasks are far from over."

The president won just over 60% in July's elections, well ahead of main rival, former president and daughter of ex-president , who brought the archipelago to independence. Megawati and former vice-president challenged the results, claiming irregularities in votes, but in August the  ruled that the claims were unfounded.

Many challenges lie ahead for the president. He stated that his priority was economic growth of 4% in the face of the global financial recession. He has promised to create new jobs, reduce the number of people living under the poverty line and also encourage investment. His other tasks include handling recovery from the recent earthquakes, combating terrorism, instigating bureaucratic and labour law reforms, and improving infrastructure.


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BBC's Mock The Week 'breached guidelines' with Olympian humour, say corporation's Trust

October 21, 2009 Comments made about Olympics swimmer Rebecca Adlington on British television programme Mock the Week "breached guidelines", the BBC Trust has said.

Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle, at the time a panelist on the satirical gameshow, made the comments about the swimmer. The episode the comments featured on was originally broadcast in August 2008 on BBC Two. The episode caused a total of 75 complaints to be made to the BBC. The producer then apologised four months later, saying, "[t]he ribbing may have gone a tad too far on this occasion."

Now the BBC Trust has said that the comments "breached guidelines". They commented that the jokes "risked offending the audience" and were "humiliating". Speaking about the comments, BBC Trustee Richard Tait made a statement saying: "For Mock the Week, the [Trust's Editorial Standards] committee felt that the comments about Rebecca were humiliating, and this was exacerbated by the fact that she had not sought celebrity status or courted media attention. There was no clear editorial purpose for the joke's inclusion."

Boyle's specific comments were quoted in The Daily Telegraph and were as follows: "The thing that nobody really said about Rebecca Adlington is that she looks pretty weird. She looks like someone who's looking at themselves in the back of a spoon...When she arrived back on the flight [from Beijing] she met her boyfriend. Did you see her boyfriend? He was really attractive. He was like a male model. So from that I have deduced that Rebecca Adlington is very dirty."

This information came through seventeen days after the BBC announced that Frankie Boyle would be leaving the panel of the show after being a regular panellist since the show started in June 2005 due to "other television commitments". The show had been running for seven series, and will continue to run for another two seasons, despite his absence. A spokesperson for Mock the Week had said that he had been "a brilliant member of the team" and that "the door is always open for him to come back".


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Indian Human Resources minister to reform technology sector

October 21, 2009

Kapil Sibal, India's Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD) held a meeting Monday to present his reform plans for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) sector by increasing the entrance percentage to 80% and above in the class XII (final year) board exams. A three-member committee was set up to review the proposal.

Sibal said, "The present criteria is that students need to secure 60% in class XII for appearing in IIT-JEE. This is not acceptable", pointing out that the current criteria where students getting more than 60% in the board exam of the twelfth class are eligible for IIT-JEE is not good enough and that it has to be raised to 80-85%.

He also stated that students undervalue final year board exams, preparing instead for the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE); they enrol in coaching institutes and concentrate on their study material in order to enter IIT. He wants to abolish these "teaching shops."

The meeting decided that they would set up two committees, one headed by Anil Kakodkar, Atomic Energy Commission (Chairman) and other by T. Ramasamy, Department of Science and Technology (Secretary). The first committee is scheduled to decide final year board percentage and the second one is scheduled to set the curriculum.

The Kakodkar committee also plans to decide how to abolish coaching institutes and how to move IIT field forward with a greater emphasis on research. The committee is expected to submit its report in the next six months. The minister also clarified that some of these will be implemented from the 2010 academic year and some from 2011.

The meeting was also expected to reduce the fee for African and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries as their fees are higher than those of Indians. The review committee says that people of other countries are tempted to study in India but they refrain due to high fees. The Ramasamy committee is expected to submit its report in the next three months.

Lastly, the meeting said that it will appoint board members and directors on the basis of nominations and independent rank and power to ensure IIT's activity.


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Comments:US scientist from Maryland accused of spying for Israel

Isn't that entrapment? Bawolff ☺☻ 17:06, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

 * My knowledge of this area of US law is, eh, nonexistant. However, I'd say it looks that way. I suspect that if the police had courtworthy evidence he was offering to do these things, and then sent in the undercover cop, then that would be okay. People who know what they're talking about, feel free to shoot me down. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:26, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I know that this was how they arrested the Fort Dix 6, and they were arrested on much more flimsy charges than this. Soapy (talk) 20:20, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Life in prison as a sentence doesn't make all that much sense, since it was a US agent that contacted him. Testing him for the possibility of espionage and then giving him a full sentance of someone who actually did is irrational. I would think that the government might fine him, and then monitor his interactions from then on. Marx01  Tell me about it 19:38, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

I didn't realise that spying for Israel is considered espionage in America at all. —74.14.13.63 (talk) 21:25, 20 October 2009 (UTC)


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ECOWAS suspends Niger in dispute over constitution

October 20, 2009 The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Niger for refusing to postpone a legislative election. The regional alliance wanted Niger to delay the vote, which was held on Tuesday, to allow for political dialogue following a controversial referendum that has extended the president's time in office.

"ECOWAS will not recognize the outcome of today's elections in Niger," the alliance said in a statement.

ECOWAS followed through on its threat to suspend Niger after President went ahead with legislative vote. Tandja ignored last-minute appeals by ECOWAS leaders to delay the poll, saying that election preparations were too far advanced.

The regional alliance asked him to indefinitely suspend the election in favor of political dialogue to resolve a political crisis sparked by an August referendum that changed the constitution to extend the president's time in office.

"ECOWAS is already in touch with the African Union to put the Niger file also on the agenda of the African Union, which would also lead to the United Nations taking a similar decision," said Abdel Fatau Musah, the political director of the ECOWAS alliance. "And we know that our partners, like the European Union, are also considering very severed measures against President Tandja and the authorities in Niger for blatantly casting aside their constitution, which actually forbids their president from going beyond two terms."

Opposition parties have been boycotting this vote for 113 legislators to replace the parliament Tandja dismissed when it said his constitutional referendum was illegal. The president dismissed the country's constitutional court when it reached the same conclusion.

Alat Mogaskiya, one of the founders of Niger's, said that Tandja had the legal authority to dismiss parliament, but ignored the constitutional mandate to have new elections to replace those lawmakers within 90 days. He claimed that the new Tandja government is illegal and illegitimate, because the referendum extending the president's term was unconstitutional.

Ruling party communications secretary Issoufou Tamboura said the opposition boycott will have no impact on the vote, just as its boycott of the referendum had no effect on changing the constitution. Tamboura said the boycott will not stop the new government from continuing its work and electing a new assembly. Parties are free to join or boycott the vote as they choose.

He added that the boycott will not affect the credibility of this vote, because the ruling party is the country's largest and it is taking part. Some other smaller parties are also participating. He said his party believes this election will be credible.


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Zimbabwe cabinet meets without MDC ministers after boycott

October 20, 2009 Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe led a cabinet meeting on Tuesday without the presence of unity partner Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who was out of the country on a regional tour to appeal for help with mediation. This comes after Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party pulled out of the unity government several days ago, protesting what they called "dishonest and unreliable" behaviour by Mugabe.

Zimbabwe state media reported on Tuesday that President Mugabe will not recognise Tsvangirai's suspension of ties with the government until he is formally informed. The state-owned daily newspaper, The Herald, quoted Mugabe's spokesman, George Charamba, as saying Tsvangirai is still prime minister and is expected to attend cabinet meetings.

“Government is not run through media statements. In the same way that President Mugabe formally appointed him to the post of Prime Minister he must also communicate any decision to disengage or whatever it is they are calling it, in a formal manner," Charamba said.

"This can be done orally or in writing but in a formal manner. From that point of view nothing has happened. Until the communication is done formally the president has no reason or any grounds to think or know otherwise,” he said.

Tsvangirai, who "disengaged" from the country's unity government last week, was accused by the newspaper of traveling without cabinet approval. The leader of the MDC party is on a ten-day trip of Southern African Development Community countries, who helped to negotiate the troubled power sharing agreement in Zimbabwe. Tsvangirai is not due to return to Zimbabwe until sometime next week.

According to The Herald, government officials said that Tsvangirai had attempted to obtain cabinet authority for his trip while en route to the airport, but was told that it was too late to receive it.

However, University of Zimbabwe political science professor John Makumbe said he believed Tsvangirai's partial withdrawal from the national unity government was long overdue and ZANU-PF's reaction is mere posturing. "Morgan Tsvangirai has done the right thing, he must light fires and make ZANU-PF run around putting the fires out. What he has been doing to date is agreeing to be treated like a tea-boy, he has been told what to do and he has done it without asking questions," Makumbe said.

He said that Mugabe's ZANU-PF party couldn't risk going it alone, as Tsvangirai has a stronger claim to legitimacy as his party won the elections in March 2008.

Ministers from a splinter faction of the MDC led by Arthur Mutambara attended the cabinet meeting. Mutambara, who is one of two deputy prime ministers, said at a news conference on Monday that he was talking to both Mugabe and Tsvangirai. He said the national unity government is Zimbabwe's only hope of moving forward. "We are determined to give this government a fighting chance because in our mind there is no plan B," Mutambara said.

Tsvangirai announced last week that his party would not withdraw from the unity government altogether, but would boycott the executive branch whose ministries it shares with the ZANU-PF party. He cited the reluctance of Mugabe to implement matters that had been agreed to in the so-called Global Political Agreement, which brought the national unity government to power.

Among the outstanding issues is the appointment of governors and the alleged harassment of his party members and Members of Parliament. His announcement came two days after agriculture deputy minister designate Roy Bennett was arrested and re-detained on charges of insurgency and terror. Bennett has since been released on bail, but Tsvangirai has said his party will not participate in government until all the issues he raised have been resolved.


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Ousted Honduran president Zelaya says coup talks suspended

October 21, 2009 Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has said that talks on ending the stand-off stemming from his ouster have broken down.

Speaking from the Brazilian Embassy in the capital, Tegucigalpa, where he has taken refuge, Zelaya told reporters the talks are suspended until the other side presents what he called a "reasonable" stance. A member of Zelaya's negotiating team, Victor Meza, said the proposal offered by interim President Roberto Micheletti is "completely unacceptable."

That proposal calls for the Honduran Supreme Court to decide whether Zelaya should be allowed to return to power.

Despite Zelaya's statements, however, envoys from the two sides have said that negotiations will continue.

Micheletti has recently come under international pressure to restore Zelaya to his post. Zelaya was ousted late in June of this year, after he refused to comply with orders by the country's Supreme Court to cancel a referendum regarding a constitutional rewrite that had been deemed illegal.


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UNHCR: Thousands of Angolans expelled from DRC in "dire" need of aid

October 21, 2009 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) agency has said that thousands of Angolans that were recently expelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. The agency said that the Angolans are living in sites around the town of Mbanza Congo in northern Angola.

A UNHCR assessment team visited Mbanza Congo in northern Angola over the weekend. It reported that close to 30,000 people are living in and around three overcrowded reception centres near the Congolese border.

The UNHCR said that a "significant number" of Angolan refugees that had been "forcibly returned" to their country were among those in the reception centres.

"You have the compounding factors of not having latrines and people drinking possibly contaminated water and with the rain coming, this is a recipe for disaster," said a UNHCR protection officer, Yolande Ditewig. She told the Agence France-Presse news agency that "there is a lack of everything you can imagine, especially food and many people say they've not eaten for days."

UN refugee agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic said that initial assessments found that people at those centres are in critical need of shelter, food, medicine and sanitation facilities.

The supply of clean water is insufficient, according to Mahecic, and some of the Angolans were drinking from nearby contaminated rivers. As a consequence, many of the expelled families are reporting cases of diarrhea and vomiting.

"There are significant numbers of Angolan refugees among the forcibly returned. And, this is for us the most worrying aspect of this situation. Some of them say they had been rounded up and taken to the border despite the fact they carried documents certifying their refugee status. Others said they were forced back without having had a chance to take their identification documents or any of their belongings. Most of them were deported from the Bas Congo Province in southern DRC," Mahecic said.

He added that these forced returns are in response to the expulsion of large numbers of Congolese from Angola since December 2008. He says an official agreement between the DRC and Angola may finally end these tit-for-tat expulsions.

This, however, does not mean that the exodus will end in the near term. According to Mahetic, Angolan authorities expect further large scale returns of their nationals who no longer feel welcome in the DRC. At the request of the Angolan government, he said the UNHCR will provide assistance to those who have been expelled and are waiting to go home.


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User talk:122.169.80.146

Welcome to Wikinews! Thanks for creating India is Red blind. Unfortunately, it had to be deleted due to the fact that it met one of the criteria for speedy deletion. All articles on Wikinews have to be about news events, and I do not believe that your article reports on a news event.

I really hope that you choose to continue contributing to Wikinews, although I strongly suggest you read Wikinews' content guide and our guide to writing an article first.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page, or ask other contributers to Wikinews on our assistance page.

Thanks, Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 03:14, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks for experimenting with Wikinews. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles may disrupt the site's working and will be reverted quickly. Tempodivalse [talk]  03:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

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British Climatic Research Unit's emails hacked
helpme The news is getting 5 days old. I hope there is a way to work a lot and to publish it today. But I'm a novice; the "to-do" list at the talk page of the article is now a "done" list. Help? Please? Q0k (page, talk, contributions) 00:09, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

 * The article has been published. Thank you for your collaboration! Gryllida (page, talk, contributions) 00:34, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome! Q0k (page, talk, contributions) 02:10, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Please don't spam talk pages

 * Please don't spam talk pages regarding article discussions especially when people you have spammed have not been involved in the editing of the article. --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 09:13, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Please tell me where is an article in Wikinews with exact definition of spam, as there should have been a policy about it, but I just can't remember one. I certainly understand, but it would be good to read something about it for better understanding. Q/0/k 11:28, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I needed help of experienced Wikinews editors. I had found them at Wikinews talk:Writing contest 2010/entrants and asked them to help. However, as Wikipedia Spam article says, "Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited [not looked for or requested; unsought] bulk messages indiscriminately." This sounds like my recent actions. I'll try to avoid this later. ✅ Q/0/k 04:08, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Just a note - i'm a little late into this conversation, but in the future if you have a similar concern, a better approach would be to find someone on WN:IRC (preferred way), or failing that make a post on either WN:ALERT or Water cooler/assistance depending on the nature of the concern. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 07:48, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I do not think it is very late, as nobody is helping with the article Climate contrarians in Copenhagen. Please join the discussion, if you can do it attentively, if you have some free 30 minutes? I'm just afraid that this novice user Wikiwide, the author of the article, being probably a scientist (you just look at the first version of this article), has a very little understanding of what Wikinews is. And probably has lots of other work to do, is not interested, etc. Even the topic of climate contrarians near UNCCC sounds scientific, doesn't it? I think that if you revive this article, it will be very good for Wikinews, for this user, and for the environment (as some of the "skeptics" or just common diesel car drivers can find this article realistic). Please be informed that only an experienced Wikinews user can manage with such significant and responsible task. Q/0/k 09:05, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * We don't have a policy per se on talk page spam but most users frown upon messaging a whole bunch of people. I would second Bawolff's suggestions on how to alert the community. --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 10:46, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

JavaScript

 * JS/banner/extended conversation i'm having on brianmc's talk page. Thought i'd respond over here, since the conversation on brianmc's talk really isn't about brianmc. For the fundraiser banner, you can get rid of it on all pages by adding:  to special:mypage/vector.css (this will disable all central messages which is any message from the foundation).(If you just don't like js, thats fine too) Bawolff ☺☻ 06:46, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Without JavaScript, I do not see advertisement in other places of World Wide Web, including my e-mail box, and many news sites. This is why I have turned it off. Q/0/k 08:49, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Thats perfectly acceptable reason to not use javascript Bawolff ☺☻ 09:05, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

JS on moz bug
I'm sorry, but to be honest, I don't feel that its appropriate for me to venture an opinion on this. Its their website, they can do what they want with it.(Especially considering the outward facing portions all work without js, so its really an internal policy matter). Its really none of my business to tell them how they should make their website. It might be different if i was a member of the mozilla development community, but i'm not. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:07, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

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US Supreme court to hear Guantanamo Bay cases

October 21, 2009

The United States Supreme Court accepted a request yesterday to hear a case from 13 ethnic Uighur (Chinese Muslim) inmates. Currently held at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay, they are requesting release to the United States, contrary to a measure voted last week by the House of Representatives permitting the transfer of prisoners to the US for trial, but explicitly forbidding their release to the US. Congress passed the legislation yesterday.

The legislation requires an assessment of potential security risks, including what dangers are involved, how the threat can be diminished, legal arguments and assurances about the detainee's level of risk to the relevant state governor, to be provided 45 days prior to prosecution in the US. Under these measures, the President must provide Congress with the detainee's name, destination, a risk assessment, and transfer terms in order to release them to another country.

The Uighurs are still being detained, despite the Pentagon clearing them of all charges in 2004. A federal judge ruled in February that they be released to the US. However an appeals court overturned the decision in February saying that only the executive branch, not federal judges, had jurisdiction on immigration matters.

The Supreme Court will hear the case in early 2010 and will have to decide whether or not federal judges may order their release to US soil. However, President Barack Obama promised to close the detention centre by January 22, and the implications for cases pending review are unclear. Of the 220 remaining detainees, 80 are awaiting release and 60 prosecution.

The Uighurs have been detained at Guantanamo for over seven years. They are part of a group of 22 suspected terrorists who were captured in Afghanistan and Pakistan after the invasion in October 2001 to remove the ruling Taliban; after being held on charges of training in Al-Qaeda camps they were moved to the detention centre in Cuba.

The US government has made efforts to relocate the prisoners. Five went to Albania in 2006 and another four went to Bermuda in June. The island of Palau has said it will take twelve, leaving just one. However, some of the Uighurs are worried that Palau is too close to China, where the ethnic group suffers from religious and political discrimination and are treated as separatists in the Xinjiang region.


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Suicide bombers close Pakistani schools

October 21, 2009

Schools and universities throughout Pakistan have been closed a day after suicide attacks at the in Islamabad. The two bombings by suspected militants killed eight people and injured at last eighteen, creating fear amidst a major offensive against the. All but one of the deceased were students.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the bombings — the first since the current assault in — and said that the violence would continue until the army ends its operations in the region. Interior Minister called the nation to unify when the country was in a state of war.

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Rashid Mazari, said that all schools, colleges and universities would remain closed until the end of the week to prevent further suicide bombings and improve security measures; they may reopen next week provided the risk to security reduces. This follows the week-long closure of army and government-run schools, as well as some public schools, due to the current offensive in South Waziristan.

18,000 attend the International Islamic University, with almost 2,000 international students, many of which are from China. Whilst it is a major centre for, most choose subjects such as computing or management.

Not all accept that the Taliban were responsible for the bombings, suggesting instead anti-Islamic groups. "It shows clearly that anti-Islamic elements are involved in these attacks," said Abul Hassan, a student in economics.

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Five cholera deaths recorded in Zimbabwe amid fears of new epidemic

October 21, 2009 Five deaths from cholera have been reported in the past week in the Zimbabwean provinces of Mashonaland West and Midlands, raising fears that the onset of the rains could lead to a repeat of the cholera epidemic that claimed thousands of lives in the past year.

The five deaths resulted from 117 cases reported in the Mashonaland West, Manicaland and Midlands provinces since last month. The provinces of Masvingo province has also reported cases.

The Zimbabwean Health and Child Welfare Secretary, Gerald Gwinji, said on Tuesday that most of the deaths and cases occurred among religious sects that do not accept medical treatment. "Most of the cases were recorded [...] among religious objectors, who for a long time have been reluctant to seek medical attention," he said. Health experts have warned that with the rainy season just beginning around the country, cholera could get out of hand if safe water is not made widely available.

Aid agencies have been warning that another outbreak of the disease was very likely, as the heavy summer rains cause cholera, which is water-borne, to be transmitted more easily. “The fundamentals of the last epidemic are still there. Water is only sporadically available, and sewerage reticulation and refuse collection are only partially working,” a spokeswoman for the UNICEF said.

Officials from aid agencies predicted that the number of current cholera infections in Zimbabwe will decline to around 60,000. “It’s not the catastrophe that it was last year but it’s still a big epidemic of an easily preventable disease that should never  have been allowed to happen,” an unnamed agency doctor said. The decrease has been anticipated after large amounts of water purification tablets, communal water tanks, and boreholes were installed in water systems as part of an operation to make water safer to drink.

Spokeswoman Tsitsi Singizi of the United Nations Children's Fund told the Voice of America news agency that the government and international or non-governmental aid agencies have been doing all they can to prevent a repeat of last year's deadly epidemic.

A recent cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe claimed 4,288 lives from late 2008 to mid-2009, the worst outbreak seen on the African continent for fifteen years after the collapse of sanitation and water systems throughout the country.


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With arrival of rainy season, perennial scramble in Zimbabwe for seed, fertilizer

October 22, 2009

As Zimbabwe's rainy season approaches, farmers in the Wedza district, Mashonaland East province, are worried that again this year they won't be able to locate or afford the seed, fertilizer, and other inputs needed to get a maize crop in the ground.

Aiming to relieve such shortages of inputs, Christian Care is among the non-governmental organizations working with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the European Union to implement an agricultural inputs support scheme.

Christian Care said it is now providing farmers in the Midlands with fertilizer and seeds.

Experts said most farmers are struggling to obtain inputs because the government has cut back on programs to finance planting, instead urging farmers to borrow from banks. But banks insist on land as collateral, though all farmland has been nationalized.

Even farmers resettled under land reform since 2000 have only so-called offer letters granting them working rights, but banks will accept neither these nor livestock as collateral.

Christian Care Director Forbes Matonga reported that his is one of seven organizations reaching out to small farmers under the FAO program.

As the rainy season begins, cholera is also now a growing concern. Residents of Zimbabwe, fearing a repeat of the 2008 epidemic that killed thousands, are struggling to complete precautionary measures.


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UN says more investment in agriculture needed to tackle world hunger

October 22, 2009 The director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for more investment in agriculture in the developing world to tackle the problem of food insecurity. Jacques Diouf told Parliamentarians attending the 121st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union that more than one billion people are going hungry because of under-investment in agriculture during the past two decades. A recent study by the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program finds most of the more than one billion hungry people in the world live in developing countries. It says no region is immune and hunger is expected to increase everywhere, even in the developed world.

Jacques Diouf, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization, says 30 countries were in a situation of grave food crisis, requiring emergency assistance. He says 20 of them are in Africa and 10 in Asia and the Near East. "The events of the last three years, triggered by soaring food prices and followed by the financial and economic turmoil, have demonstrated how fragile our global food system is. This year's increase in hunger is not the result of poor harvests or a shortfall in supplies, but rather is caused by the economic crisis which has reduced the incomes and job opportunities for the poor," he said.

Diouf says under-investment in agriculture and rural development is one of the root causes of the recent global food crisis and the difficulties encountered by the majority of developing countries in dealing with it effectively.

"If people go hungry today it is not because the world is not producing enough food but because it is not produced in the countries where 70 percent of the world's poor live and whose livelihoods depend on farming activities. The challenge is not only to ensure food security for the one billion hungry people today, which is certainly an enormous task, but also to be able to feed a world population that is expected to reach 9.1 billion in 2050," he said. He has urged nations to increase food production by 70 percent by 2050, and remarked that "Where there's a will, there's a way."

The FAO chief says studies show GDP growth originating in agriculture is at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as GDP growth originating in other sectors of the economy. He says the solution to food insecurity lies in boosting agricultural production and productivity in poor countries where food shortages are chronic.

Diouf says production has to be increased in the most needy areas, by the most needy people. These are smallholder farmers in rural households.

He says investment in agriculture in developing countries would amount to $44 billion in official development assistance a year. He says the returns from that investment in tackling world hunger would be enormous.


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SADC calls for transparent Mozambique elections

October 22, 2009 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has said it is calling for a transparent vote in Mozambique's scheduled October 28 general elections. The SADC made the call shortly after dispatching the first group of electoral observers all across Mozambique's provinces.

The observer mission is expected to issue its preliminary report three to five days after the electoral commission releases results. The SADC is expected to send about 120 observers to monitor the election, but so far only 38 are currently working in Mozambique.

"We hope that a legitimate winner emerges from the elections, who has a mandate to govern. We appeal to all Mozambicans to respect the law, and to Mozambique, as a member of SADC, to obey the SADC governance principles," Joao Caholo, the SADC deputy executive secretary, said.

He also announced that the SADC is planning to dispatch teams to the provinces to observe the election in its final stages, all the way up to the day the polls will be held. Caholo stressed that "only the facts verified on the ground, and not just what is said to us, will determine the opinion of the observers."

Felizeberto Nice, director general of the technical secretariat of Mozambique's National Electoral Commission, said that the electoral body is working closely with the SADC observer mission to ensure a peaceful election. "Right now we are just finalizing the last step of our preparation regarding the election [on the] 28th of October. So what we can say is that we have managed to allocate all the voter materials to the capital of the province," Nice said.

He said the electoral body is determined to ensure a credible election. "Right now we are just doing everything according to the law in order to have a kind of [good election]," he said. Nice added electoral officials have been fully trained ahead of the vote, saying that "we have trained very well our staff, including the code of conduct, including all the procedures that they have to do during the election."

Nice expressed confidence the election would be credible. "We think that we are prepared to run this election," he said, denying opposing accusations that previous elections were skewed in favor of the ruling party. What the electoral commission always [does] is that it works according to all procedures, and working with all political parties, and after all the electoral process, we manage to get everything in terms of suggestions, in terms of recommendations, even coming from political parties (and) electoral observers."

According to Nice, electoral body has had success coordinating with local and international observers ahead of the vote. "The electoral commission [...] now is busy working with the different observer missions, Mozambique's election is on October 28 including SADC. And we are working closely with SADC, with the European Union, and I think there is a good relation between the electoral commission and the mission observers."

The SADC is to have 120 observers by the time the elections are held. 38 observers had arrived from Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zambia, with others from South Africa and Zimbabwe also anticipated to attend. The only country within the SADC that is barred from having observers in the polls is Madagascar, which was placed under SADC sanctions after the regional body condemned President Andry Rajoelina's ascension to power, which it claimed was a coup d'état.


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At least 21 dead after train accident in India

October 21, 2009 Two passenger trains collided in India early on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring more than twenty others, reports have said. The accident occurred at around 05.30 local time (00.00 UTC), when a passenger train collided with another train which was waiting at a red signal near the northern city of Agra.

Both the trains were in the final leg of their journey at the time of the collision. They were heading to the capital, New Delhi, which is about 200 kilometers north of the accident site.

Passengers said that they were sleeping when they felt a heavy jolt. One eyewitness told television crews that people on the upper berths of the train came tumbling down due to the impact: "We felt a massive jolt. People sleeping on upper berths fell to the floor."

"There was a loud bang and we were suddenly thrown out of our seats. There was panic everywhere," another passenger recounted.

A northern railway spokesman, R. D. Vajpayee, told the Voice of America news agency that the rear coach of the stationary train bore the brunt of the collision's impact. "We had to rescue, take out the passengers which were trapped in the last coach. And, gas cutters were used, and we had called the army also. They had assisted us and, within a few hours, we had completed with rescue operations."

An unnamed eyewitness told the CNN-IBN news agency that "there are many people who are injured and many people who are dead. A lot of people fell onto the tracks because of the impact of the collision."

Railway officials said they are not certain what caused the accident, but one of the trains may have overlooked a signal to stop. An inquiry into the incident has been ordered.

Trains are the most popular mode of long-distance travel in India. India operates one of the most extensive and busiest rail networks in the world; 9,000 passenger trains run every day, carrying more than eighty million people daily across the country. There are about 300 rail accidents in the country every year, prompting calls for improving safety standards on the rail network. Earlier this month, one person was killed when a train derailed. In February, another train accident in eastern India claimed sixteen lives.


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Afghan president accepts runoff vote; UN seeks to fire 200 officials

October 21, 2009

Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed yesterday to a runoff vote with former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah on November 7, after much international pressure, following a report on voting irregularities. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that the United Nations has requested that the Independent Election Commission (IEC) replace 200 of its officials in order to avoid a repeat incident. President Karzai said it was "time to move forward to stability and national unity".

International reaction and involvement
Western leaders commended President Karzai for agreeing to the runoff. "While this election could have remained unresolved, to the detriment of the country, President Karzai's constructive actions established an important precedent for Afghanistan's new democracy,' said United States President Barack Obama. "The Afghan Constitution and laws are strengthened by his decision, which is in the best interests of the Afghan people."

United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown also commended Mr Karzai's "statesmanlike behaviour", whilst the European Union Special Representative Ettore Sequi reserved his congratulations for the Afghan people.

US Senator John Kerry is reported to have played a key role. In an interview with The New York Times, he said he told the Afghan leader about his experiences during his 2004 presidential election loss to former US President George W. Bush, when there were questions about some ballots that helped decide the outcome.

High levels of fraud
UN officials say investigators found that 200 of the 380 district election chiefs in August's presidential vote were linked to polling irregularities or fraud. European Union observers believe that up to one in four of the votes were in doubt, and officials from the UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) discounted ballots from 210 polling stations.

Readiness for runoff vote
The UN mission in Kabul says that the removal and replacement of the officials had already started before yesterday's announcement of the runoff vote. Secretary General Ban said the UN had learned "quite a painful lesson" from the fraud. "We realised that it was quite difficult for a young democracy to stand on its own, even with strong international assistance, particularly by the UN," he said. "We will also try to visit all the polling stations to make sure that no such fraud can happen," he added.

Grant Kippen, head of the ECC, said he believed the IEC is ready. "They've been planning for this for a number of months now," he said. "My understanding is that they're prepared. They have ballots printed, they have them here in Kabul along with the indelible ink and the polling station kits. So now the effort begins to get those materials distributed to the provinces and ready for the November 7 vote."

There are nevertheless difficulties ahead in implementing the runoff vote. Afghanistan has many large, mountainous regions, and some areas will become inaccessible due to snowfall. There are also security risks where militant factions still operate.

Widespread problem
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates welcomed the announcement of the runoff vote, but said Afghanistan's struggles with corruption are larger than one election. During a visit to Japan, he said that there is a "need to be realistic" that tackling issues of corruption and governance in Afghanistan are an ongoing "evolutionary process."

"Clearly, having the run-off, getting it behind us and then moving forward is very important," he said. "But I think we need to be realistic that the issues of corruption and governance that we are trying to work with the Afghan government on are not going to be solved simply by the outcome of the presidential election. This is going to be a work in progress, an evolutionary process, and we need to be realistic on that."


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Iran nuclear talks enter third day

October 21, 2009 Talks between Iran and three other countries continued on Wednesday in, Austria, as they try to work out a deal that will ease tensions over Iran's controversial nuclear program. Diplomats from Iran, Russia, France, and the United States began the third day of talks at the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Talks stalled on Tuesday, after Iran expressed resistance to aspects of the proposal, in which it would send most of its low-enriched — or below weapons- grade — uranium to Russia and France for further refinement, to be later used as reactor fuel.

The IAEA's ambassador to Iran, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, described the ongoing consultations as being "constructive".

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that Iran is opposed to France's involvement, accusing the country of failing to deliver nuclear supplies in the past. "There is Russia, America [...] I believe these countries are enough," Mottaki said. "France, based on its shortcomings to fulfil its obligations in the past, is not a trustworthy party to provide fuel for Iran."

Mottaki also added that an agreement would not mean that Iran would suspend its enrichment activity. "Iran will continue its uranium enrichment. It is not linked to buying fuel from abroad. The meetings with world powers, and their behaviour, shows that Iran's right to have peaceful nuclear technology has been accepted by them," he said.

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Tuesday that progress was being made and that technical issues still needed to be analysed. He said an agreement was still within reach. "I believe we are making progress. It is maybe slower than I expected. But we are moving forward," he said.

ElBaradei added that while "many technical issues" had to be considered, talks were still "moving forward".

US National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said that US and Iranian delegations held separate discussions on the proposed uranium enrichment deal, under the auspices of the IAEA.

A diplomat familiar with the Vienna talks said the parties now are considering a compromise deal that would allow Russia to sub-contract enrichment work to France, thereby meeting Iran's request to avoid direct dealings with the country. The enrichment deal would be intended to ease concerns that Iranian uranium enrichment activities are aimed at developing nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Security Council recently imposed three sets of sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt its enrichment activities.

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France confirms deportation of illegal Afghan immigrants

October 21, 2009The French government confirmed on Wednesday that it has expelled illegal Afghan immigrants in its first joint deportation flight with the UK, in a move criticised by the opposition and human rights groups.

The deportation was widely anticipated, but the French government had refused to confirm that it would be expelling Afghan illegal immigrants until Wednesday. Immigration Minister Eric Besson told Europe One radio that three Afghan men had been put on a plane that had been chartered by the British government. The plane was also carrying illegal Afghan immigrants living in Britain.

Besson said a fourth Afghan had been slated to be expelled as well, but was held back at the last minute. He said those expelled had lost their appeals against deportation, including one before the European Court of Human Rights. He said that he will not rule out future deportation flights with Britain.

The expulsions have sparked widespread outcry on the part of human rights groups and opposition politicians, including Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe. The French rights group France Terre d'Asile has gathered thousands of signatures in a petition against deportation.

Marie-Helene Senay, communications director for France Terre d'Asile, said she opposed the deporting of Afghans back to their country, which has been torn by conflict, even if they do not meet asylum requirements in France.

"We think the situation in Afghanistan does not [warrant] the return of Afghan people in good security. We know the situation over there is the worst we have ever known since 2001," she said. "We know there is still war everywhere, that the police and the security forces cannot maintain the country in a stable position. So we really wonder what kind of security we can [have] for the people we send back there."

The French government, however, has argued that it is only trying to crack down on human smuggling rings and that illegal immigrants are given every legal recourse to remain in France. Immigration Minister Besson defended the decision, saying that "if France never sends people back, it becomes the target for people traffickers." He added that the three men put on the flight were from the Afghan capital of Kabul, "where there is no risk for them", and would be given monetary assistance to help them settle back into Afghanistan.


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Massachusetts man charged with conspiring to attack US mall, kill Iraq troops

October 22, 2009

🇺🇸United States officials have said that a 27-year-old man in the northeastern state of Massachusetts has been arrested and charged with plotting acts of terrorism, including plans to kill people at a shopping mall and to kill US government employees.

Acting US Attorney Michael Loucks said on Wednesday that Tarek Mehanna has been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. According to Loucks, Mehanna and his co-conspirators had multiple discussions about obtaining automatic weapons for the mall attack, but that the plan was abandoned because they could not obtain anything more than handguns.

He added that Mehanna discussed other plots, including wanting to kill two members of the Executive Branch of the US government.

Prosecutors have alleged that Mehanna and his conspirators discussed their desire for a "violent jihad against American interests," including US and allied forces in Iraq, and that they talked about their desire to "die on the battlefield." If convicted, Mehanna faces up to fifteen years in prison on the charge of material support of terrorism.

A statement by the Justice Department read that "Mehanna and the co-conspirators had multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in a shopping mall, and that the conversations went so far as to discuss the logistics of a mall attack, including coordination, weapons needed and the possibility of attacking emergency responders."

Loucks did not name the two people targeted in the alleged plot against government officials, but said they are no longer members of the Executive Branch and were never in any danger.

The acting attorney said Mehanna began conspiring around 2001 with a man named Ahmad Abousamra and others to provide material support and resources for use in a conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure persons or damage property in a foreign country. He said Abousamra is now in Syria.

A preliminary trial hearing for his case was held on Wednesday, in which Mehanna did not enter a plea. Mehanna's lawyer, J. W. Carney, who spoke to reporters after the plea was held, didn't say which way Mehanna would plead.

Mehanna had been arrested earlier, in November 2008, accused of lying to investigators regarding one of his contacts, who was suspected to have been in training with al-Qaeda. He was later given bail.


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