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Brian McNeil's predicament
How is this newsworthy? Benny the mascot (talk) 17:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I added it to show an example. --Diego Grez let's talk 17:16, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

 * It should be removed from the title; Brian got hit is not the main story here. Brian's first-hand experience is the technology version of interviewing Diego about the Chilean earthquake. By the way, Diego: Ypu're no longer MW! And you're unblocked on enWP!!! Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:26, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey! I have moved it. Cheers. --Diego Grez let's talk 18:15, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

OR???
I would treat the last paragraph as OR. Please add the OR to the article and provide a statement below, along with sourcing for "E-mail accounts for accredited reporters have also been affected." Benny the mascot (talk) 18:24, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The Brian's statement was taken from the link on his userspace. The last sentence is based on http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Admin_action_alerts#Update_on_my_main_account --Diego Grez let's talk 18:29, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Perhaps it might also help to describe what Wikinewsie actually is? Benny the mascot (talk) 18:35, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure. --Diego Grez let's talk 18:41, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

 * I know considerably more about this evil P.O.S. than laid out in this article. All going well, I should be joining folks on IRC this evening for a full update. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk' 16:10, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Additional information

 * One of the key components of a Zeus botnet infection is Win32/Alureon. There was an update to various antivirus databases for the latest version of this on 2010-04-17.
 * Additional component of the Zeus bundle is TR/Dldr.DNSChanger/WIN32.DNSChanger.Gen.
 * The botnet is generally accepted to be managed and expanded out of Russia and the Ukraine.
 * Via the black market, a DIY kit for setting up your own command node is available for around US$700.
 * The basic operation of the package is to act as a transaction logger. It can, relatively simply, be configured to capture the entry of login, password, bank, and credit card details. By reading the pages returned when you click to log on it can build a log of successful and failed transactions.
 * From the command node a botnet controller can 'push' updates and additional malware to infected equipment.

The Zeus "kit" that costs US$700 can, with an IT-savvy enough person, be configured to monitor access to any website and the transactions therein. In my case, this appears to have included the default Netgear router IP address (192.168.0.1). As a consequence, the router itself was compromised! Any attempt to log in to the router resulted in pages containing a javascript exploit being served up to the user. This exploit is/was one of those dealt with in the very latest release of Firefox.

Now, for ADSL Broadband services in the UK, people are connected to a big box in the exchange called a DSLAM. The older boxes are plain ADSL (supports up to 8Mbps), such as those predominantly used by BT. Other ISPs use other equipment, including ADSL2+ kit which supports up to around 22Mb (but only if you live right next door to the exchange. Where a non-BT ISP has no kit in your local exchange, the legislation enacted when BT was split up mean that BT OpenReach (who manage the exchanges and engineering work) must offer access to the old ADSL equipment to any ISP - This is currently leading to the surprising situation where supermarkets can rent access to the equipment and "pretend" they are an Internet Service Provider (Frankly, Tesco Value Home Broadband sounds like the most obscene joke on the planet - 'Up to 512Kbps speeds! Download limit, 3Gb/month. Price? Under £15/month.

Oh, and someone infected with the Zeus botnet software? They're behind the firewalls in the exchange and can sit and hammer away at the up-to 765 other people connected to the same box. Depending on the subnet, and how the ISP manages their network, the number of other broadband customers that could be attacked from within the network could be much higher (eg 2+ DSLAMs all on the same subnet after the firewall). -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk' 17:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

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Talk about waving the white flag. Here is a nation who's civilian population has fought tooth and nail opposing this type of a bailout, one that will affect generations to come, and yet their government is still willing to bow down to international pressure. If the Greek government honestly believes that there is more threat from external forces in comparison to the ground swell of angry Greeks, they are surely not historians.

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Javascript analysis for forensics
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If I can get you some Zeus 'sploit code & logs, tonight or sometime tomorrow, how fast can you work out what its doing? -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk' 12:32, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Depends on what its doing, how complicated it is, how obfuscated the code is, etc. I can certainly try. The javascript part is probably only a minor part of the virus though. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:54, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * btw, If your around, it'd be great if you could come on irc. We're very curious as to what is going on/to what extent things have been compromised. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:49, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

 * I will try to get on irc tonight. Here, our router was, uh,... rooted. The web interface contained a js 'sploit capable of compromising the alpha-3 Ubuntu 10.04 release. Nasty FF one that. And, this Nokia is great. Working until 22:30, so be patient. If someone can recommend a good Sip/voip service for linux, we can conference call. - Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk' 07:35, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Hey Brian. Bawolff, I, and others are interested to know what you're up to; any chance of you popping into IRC when you get a chance? Cheers. Tempodivalse [talk]  22:09, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikinewsie
Terinjokes discovered some weird code inserted to the top of almost every php file on wikinewsie. I think i got rid of most of it. I re-installed mediawiki, and made the blogs 403 for now. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah; can someone tell Godaddy? I'll make time to actually phone them on Thursday. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk' 05:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Accredited reporters to lose email addys:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/w/index.php?title=Wikinews:Accreditation_requests&diff=cur&oldid=991786

Those in this diff will have Wikinewsie.org email addresses closed off.

-- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk' 13:58, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Serena Williams wins the Wimbledon Women's Singles title after defeating Vera Zvonareva
This article is greatly expanded, which means I need you to go review it, please. Thanks.Bluedogtn (talk) 17:11, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I am at work, and unlikely to have that sort of time until tomorrow. Sorry. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 19:49, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

"...get back in your cell.
Don't make me get the hose!" And apologise, nicely. (btw: edit user:username/comment_for_wc, then {subst:user:username/comment_for_wc} on the wc, which is much faster to type and you won't lose any of your edit if conflicted.) -  Amgine | t 20:53, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * That, as this is the first comment I've seen, will depend greatly on whether Herr Tempo has taken the hint about people trying to participate from less-than-bleeding edge platforms. I do not appreciate trying very hard to be reasonable only to get a full-page god-only-knows-how-large download with the title "Edit Conflict". -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 06:43, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Would you know, it's somewhat of a pain to fiddle as you suggest with an on-screen keyboard. My biggest problem was that sections, not the whole page, are too big on the WC to pull them all up in an edit window on a mobile browser. If I can confirm to my satisfaction that a fold-up bluetooth keyboard works with the phone, I'll invest in one to deal with getting at the {} being difficult. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:38, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * <laughing> Don't I know it! I've occasionally edited wikis from my very-old-style cellphone (yes, only the number keys.) I hadn't thought of the bluetooth keyboard... -  Amgine | t 14:22, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

News Article Workflow
As seems to be the fashion, there are moves afoot to revamp various parts of the appearance, or creative process, within Wikinews; some of the proposals are, perhaps, not well-enough based on a long contributory history. The project lacks technical resources (i.e. clones of Shaka and Bawolff) who can push out the needed code to implement ideas. Overly complex templates simply lead to new contributors creating a complete mess that more established contributors are reluctant to try and fix. Before these problems can be correctly addressed, there needs to be an understanding of various of the methods whereby a "finished product" article ends up published. Numerous ways of bringing in stories have been tried in the past; channels such as "request an article" may fail the project due to a lack of manpower, but they should not be ignored.

I am laying this out on my talk page as, in itself, this could dwarf many of the discussions usually held on the Water Cooler. Please keep section sizes manageable so I may annotate, and respond, via the 3G network. [Comments] sections have been specifically provided for input. The sections they relate to may be updated to reflect constructive feedback. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 21:46, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Previously tried, and under-utilised methods of newsgathering

 * 1) Requested articles
 * 2) Prepared obituaries
 * 3) Wikinews hotline
 * 4) Scoop

These are far overshadowed by people writing about what interests them. You cannot force people to write about things they have no interest in unless there is some reward. A real newsroom achieves this by paying a salary, commission, or buying stories from indie journalists. In that latter case, you're looking at what is closest to the work done on Wikinews.

Previous [Comments]

 * We really can't do much about this; users will just have to either take it upon themselves to write some "big news" no one else has if they think it's beneficial to the project. However, the fact that anyone can write what they want, even if it's obscure and considered unimportant by other agencies, is what makes Wikinews unique. I think that perhaps encouraging people to write briefs/blurbs instead of just posting requested articles (it takes about 5 or 10 minutes, really), and then making a collection of shorts a more regular occurrence would be a good idea to pursue. This also opens the way for other users to expand upon shorts and then make them a real article, whether before publishing or shortly after (no more than a day or two), will make it easier for users to find interesting stories they wish to write about.  — fetch · comms  03:32, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Life-stages for news articles
Most Wikinewsies have a reasonable understanding of the stages which a news item passes through on its way to a historical article. To reiterate:

 * 1) Idea/Tip/Notice/Press Release/Expected event
 * ''Expected events encompasses items such as deaths, marriages, births, election results, sports match outcomes
 * 1) In-development draft
 * 2) Submitted for review
 * 3) In-review
 * 4) Published, open to updates
 * 5) Published, no longer sufficiently current to permit substantive updates
 * 6) Closed, but not sufficiently into history to be archived
 * 7) Archived

Automation
On the English Wikinews, there is very little automation. That in stark contrast to Serbian which is "shamefully" listed as having more articles because it regurgitates from public domain sources set up by various groups for propaganda purposes.

This leaves enWN in a situation where, on the whole, there is no automation. Instead, there are various helper tools, such as the review gadget. On enWN, the key forms of automation are mostly "push-technology" following the actual publication of an article. There could be more in the way of helper tools, and more automation.

With review being at the centre of the process, some of the alerting systems for it are rather intrusive. An option to see the site as a "mere mortal" does have to be a priority - in a more convenient manner than logging out and back in again.

In no particular order, I would assert the following are points where automation and helper-tools could be employed.

 * Article preparation
 * Plagiarism detection
 * Link verification and template format validation
 * Base review criteria checking
 * Migration from prepared to in-development
 * Archiving

Automation [Comments]

 * Actually, I think they get it from a site that did a deal via OTRS for a bot to copy all their stuff. Enwn cannot become like that. We are a wiki; our users should write the content. For tools: --fc
 * Wouldn't surprise me if that's one of the "tricks", I walked away from the scheming over there. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 05:08, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * How would we automate article preparation? --fc
 * I generally feel that prepped obits are an area where enWN fails, but could - at least source-wise - pull from enWP. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 05:08, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * We can easily port over a copyvio checker bot from enwp (both Coren's search bot or The Earwig's AfC cv search bot come to mind)
 * Great. I'm sure that sort of stuff has moved on enormously since I was asked to write "code plagiarism checkers" over 20 years ago. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 05:08, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll ask around, see if anybody is able to get this done.  — fetch · comms  16:21, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Verification, as in accuracy per the source, or whatnot? I think a human reviewer would really have to do the verification. Template format is interesting; if we adapt a single-template page format, it would be easy to add in code with blaring red letters if a required parameter is missing or something.
 * Reviewing, I think still needs to be human-driven, although a new design would force an update of the review system/script we have now, perhaps simplifying and advancing it?
 * Have some parserfunction detecting the time for certain prepared stories and add it to a category when it's due to be published/expanded. For things like "Person X dies aged #", I'm not sure if a bot searching gNews or whatever would help too much (large risk of false positives).
 * Whatever happened to the archive bot? Can't we restore its +sysop and ask Skenmy to run it again? Or did it have issues? --fc
 * It was one-off; labelled articles as unreviewed. A tool for, effectively pre-FlaggedRevs. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 05:08, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Just some thoughts.  — fetch · comms  03:42, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * And a little "return fire" as Diego would say. -- Brian McNeil (alt. account) /alt-talk • main talk 05:08, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Commenting on the archive bot, I can easily use to pseudo-auto archive. I would need to manually protect the articles in AWB, though, but AWB adds archive quickly. I would need +sysop for the bot. — Mike  moral  ♪♫  05:02, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

privs
I did hesitate over this one. :-) But, precautions are precautions.  --Pi zero (talk) 22:21, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Er, ... I assume removing some from this account. Not a problem, naturally.
 * I should've stripped the account of all privs after I got my main account re-secured (before your time PiZ, and related to the Zeus Botnet). But, right-now I could be completely blocked from enWN and not give a ; I'm having fun sharing photos of my adopted son on Facebook, in a tux, looking like a super-smooth Bond villain, with a woman on each arm.
 * He's in for a merciless teasing when I get him over to Scotland next year. --82.39.111.241 (talk) 22:33, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Somali al-Shabaab group seizes three towns

April 24, 2010 According to witness reports, three towns in the region of Somalia have been taken over by the counter-government group al-Shabaab, taking them from a rival group, the pro-government.

The three taken towns were El Der, Galad, and Masagaway; they were taken over without any resistance from Ahlu Sunna. All three are on the road to the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Senior al-Shabaab official Sheik Yusuf Kabokudukade commented that "[w]e have overrun the militants who tried to stop the efforts to spread Islam in Somalia. With the power of we have taken control of three districts in Galgadud region. We will not stop until we take control of the whole region from the enemy of Allah."

Al-Shabaab group controls large portions of southern central Somalia, and part of of Mogadishu.


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US indicts eleven alleged pirates from Somalia

April 24, 2010 Eleven suspected Somali pirates have been indicted in the US in connection with recent attacks on two ships off the coast of Africa.

The men were brought to a courthouse in Virginia on Friday, to face piracy charges after being detained on US ships as the cases against them were being prepared.

A first group of five suspected pirates was indicted in connection with what authorities say was a firefight on March 31st between the  and their vessel in the.

The six other defendants were charged with an alleged April 10th attack on the  in the Gulf of Aden near Djibouti. If convicted, they will face life in prison.

Until recently, pirates detained in international operations off the African coast were generally tried in Kenya. Kenyan authorities, however, recently indicated they needed more international financial help for this; reports that Kenyan courts are becoming overloaded with piracy cases.


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NATO tankers in Pakistan attacked, four killed

April 25, 2010 Several NATO oil tankers were set on fire in the Punjab province of Pakistan, and four policemen were killed in a gunfight with unknown gunmen yesterday, reports say. The (DPA) news service attributes the attack to the Taleban.

The incidents occurred in the town of. Aslam Tareen, the regional police chief, said that "around a dozen" tankers were set on fire after being attacked with rocket-propelled grenades. "Later on, they exchanged intensive fire with the police and killed four of our officers while two more were injured," Tareen said, adding that a petrol station nearby the oil tankers also caught fire.

DPA says the attack was the deadliest on NATO supply convoys in the province. Close to three quarters of all oil, food, and military supplies to landlocked Afghanistan first pass through Pakistan.


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Condemned US killer to face execution by firing squad

April 25, 2010

A convicted killer in the western US state of Utah has chosen to die by in Utah's first execution in more than 10 years. Ronnie Lee Gardner indicated his preference at a state court in on Friday, after being informed that an appeal against his death sentence had been rejected.

Gardner was convicted in 1985 of fatally shooting an attorney during a failed escape attempt at a courthouse in the same city. Under state law, the 49-year-old had a choice between death by lethal injection or a by five-person team of shooters. "I would like the firing squad please," he told the judge.

Utah is one of two states that permit execution by firing squad. The state outlawed the method in 2004, but prisoners convicted before then still have it as an option. The central U.S. state of Oklahoma also permits death by firing squad, but only if other methods are rejected in particular cases.

The execution method has been criticised by some. "The firing squad is archaic, it's violent, and it simply expands on the violence that we already experience from guns as a society," said John Charles Wester, Roman Catholic Bishop of Salt Lake City.

Lethal injection is generally the preferred means of executing prisoners in the U.S., whose Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Since then, only two prisoners in the U.S. have been executed by firing squad, both of them in Utah.


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I wonder who are the poor saps that drive this tankers.--KDP3 (talk) 00:45, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


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Paul Schäfer, founder of Colonia Dignidad, dies at 88

April 25, 2010 died at 88 from cardiac-respiratory arrest on early Saturday morning in a Chilean prison hospital. Schäfer was the founder and former leader of, an enclave used for torturing and exterminating political prisoners during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. Hr was convicted for sexually abusing 26 children for years, and retained thousands of people under his own tyrannical regime, that worked as an aside territory in the country, where people spoke the.

Jorge Zepeda, magistrate who investigated the crimes made in Colonia Dignidad, reported that Schäfer was unconscious when he died. He was to stay in prison for 33 years. Hernán Fernández, one of the lawyers against Colonia Dignidad, said that Schäfer's death should help to accelerate the judiciary processes. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said, "Paul Schäfer will be judged by the divine justice."

Schäfer was born in 1921, in, Germany. He was a non-commissioned officer, who moved to Chile after the, evading accusations of sexual abuse of minors. He established an organization in a rural area of Chile, in favour of the poor people, located 400 kilometers south of Santiago, to the border of Argentina. He named this place Villa Babiera.

He began his rule of this area in 1961; he established a private tyrannical regime, where almost 300 Germans worked for decades without pay. Men and women were segregated, and people who tried to escape were killed. Adults and children considered it an "honour" for Schäfer to chose to have sex with them.

When Pinochet's regime ended, Schäfer escaped from Chile in 1996 to avoid being imprisoned, after he came under investigation for human rights violations and abuse to minors. He was detained in Argentina, and then extradited back to Chile in 2005. Since then he was imprisoned. Colonia Dignidad still exists, though without the power they had before, less secluded and with new leaders.


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The Government is supposed to protect life, not take it. This ideal is what is supposed to be what separates Western Countries from other places where the government is used as a political tool to end opposition. Every execution - let's say legalised murder - because that's what it is - takes the system one step closer to being able to be used to on ordinary citizens.

What I find disturbing is the fact that they can take away the right of a person to vote in a country. Because by killing a person, they are taking away the right of that person to ever vote again. Clearly inmates - at least while alive - are totally dependant on the government for whatever little life they have left. Someone who is 100% dependant on the government should have a tool other than violence (prison riots for example) in order to change things.

I have no illusions about what these prisoners have done, or the type people that they are. I know that they want to kill.

I would argue, however, that by proctecting the rights of one person, we are essentially protecting our own rights as well.

Perhaps the exception being the guards who have to look after these people. Although even rabid dogs can be taken care of, with the proper equipment.

When the families of the victim sit there and watch the execution, they are taking part in the evil that is a murder. It is blood smeared on their hands, and it shouldn't be there. You cannot on one hand punish someone for taking a life, and on the other hand, take a life. One evil act should not precipitate another.

Death row is an easy out for a criminal. It is much tougher to say: "You have to live for the rest of your life with what you have done." It is also easy for the system, which is relieving itself of the responsibility of rehabilitation. 65.93.161.122 (talk) 04:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm against capital punishment but it's a sliding scale. A bullet is a lot more humane than an electric chair, a gas chamber or a lethal injection. Plus despite the barbarity of both the state and this criminal, you have to admit the guy has cojones to choose bullets. I don't understand the Roman Catholic Bishop complaining about this death contributing to "gun violence". Death is death. Would he protest the same if the death was lethal injection, or is he just a goofy hypocrite who thinks death by bullet is somehow worse than death by poison? I don't know 99.231.130.188 (talk) 20:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


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Wikinews:Briefs/April 24, 2010

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From Wikinews, the free news source, this is the audio Wikinews brief for Saturday, April 24th, 2010. I'm Dan Harlow and here are today's top stories:

Two children killed in fire in Derbyshire, England; man arrested (0:16)
In breaking news, police arrested a 17 year old in the early hours of Saturday morning following the deaths of two children that were killed in a suspicious house fire in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, on Friday evening.

During the fire, 23-year-old Fiona Adams and an eight-month-old baby successfully escaped through a first floor window, jumping down onto a child's trampoline. Both mother and child are currently in a hospital, having suffered from severe burns. The two children killed have been identified as five-year-old Niamh and two-year-old Cayden.

Please visit wikinews.org for more information as this story develops.

US state of Arizona signs into law controversial immigration bill (0:58)
In a move that has already ignited protests around the United States, Arizona governor Jan Brewer yesterday signed into law a bill that would severely crack down on immigration across the Mexican border.

Widely regarded as the harshest measure against illegal immigration in the US, the bill would allow police to legally question and detain anyone if they have "reasonable suspicion" to do so, as well as as making the failure to carry immigration papers a crime. Critics say that the bill would lead to discrimination and harassment against Hispanic people, whether or not they are legal citizens.

The bill has been widely criticized both within Arizona and across the country. The law is expected to face several court challenges as soon as it enters into effect, and US President Barack Obama, who has sharply criticized the bill, has ordered the US Justice Department to determine the legality of the bill.

Governor Brewer is defending the bill, however, saying that it would be an important asset in the fight against illegal immigration, particularly as Arizona is a major crossing point on the US-Mexico border.

Six policemen killed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (2:09)
A shootout in the northern Mexican city of Juárez has killed six police officers and a seventeen-year-old girl who had been walking by at the time of the shooting.

The incident started when gunmen ambushed two police vehicles at an intersection when the police had tried to stop three vehicles suspected of transporting drug gang hitmen.

This is the latest in ongoing conflicts among drug cartels and clashes with police in Juárez that since December 2006 has seen the deaths of about 22,700 people.

Iranian president Ahmadinejad in Zimbabwe for trade fair (2:45)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, is visiting Zimbabwe to sign trade agreements and to meet with Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.

Ahmadinejad claims that the amount of trade between the two nations should be increased and he remarked that Zimbabwe and Iran are creating a friendship based on a principled stand against Western interference. He went on to accuse the West of seeking control over Zimbabwe’s natural resources.

Ahmadinejad’s visit brought another source of friction between Mugabe and the Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said that Mugabe's invitation to Iran sent the wrong message to the rest of the world as Zimbabwe was re-engaging the West and trying to rebuild its economy.

These developments come just a day after US Vice Predsident Joe Biden said that he expects the United Nations to implement new sanctions against Iran by early next month due to that nations refusal to stop its uranium enrichment program.

Belgian prime minister offers resignation (3:54)
Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme has offered to resign amid a political dispute concerning a long-term power struggle between the country's French-speaking Walloons and Flemish-speaking majority. The Belgian king, King Albert II, has not yet accepted the prime minister's offer and said that the resulting political turbulence from the resignation "seriously threatens" the country's standing in the European Union.

The latest disagreement centers on special rights for Walloons living near Brussels; specifically, the location of electoral boundaries around the capital. Frustrated over the failure to resolve the dispute, the Flemish liberal Open VLD Party pulled out of the government because they no longer have confidence in the government to negotiate a solution.

This is the second time Yves Leterme has resigned as Prime Minister of Belgium. In 2008, he left office amid a banking scandal but he returned to office when the interim Prime Minister gave up the post to become the first, full-time head of the European Union.

Illinois Fair Map Amendment could die before appearing on ballot (5:01)
A citizen-led initiative known as the Fair Map Amendment in the US state of Illinois that seeks to reform the state constitution's procedures on legislative redistricting, which is the redrawing of district lines every ten years following the nationwide census, may not gather enough signatures to be presented before voters during the next election cycle on November 2nd. As of last Friday, organizers have collected only 120,000 of the 279,000 signatures needed to bypass the state legislature and have the issue decided on solely by the voters in the election.

The current process of redistricting lies with the state legislature. The maps are often drawn by party leaders, allowing incumbent legislators to minimize and discourage opposition in their districts and perpetuate the leading party's dominance statewide.

The Democrat Party has dominated legislative elections since they were able to draw the redistricting map in 2001 through a process known as "spoking", which involves extending districts in Chicago — a Democratic stronghold — out into the more Republican-leaning suburbs. This has allowed more Chicago residents to become legislators and potentially weakens the strong Republican presence in the suburbs. Republicans, if given the chance to draw the maps, could overturn this trend by keeping key Republican-leaning suburban and downstate communities intact within their districts.

The Fair Map Amendment, supported by Republicans and good-government groups such as the League of Women Voters of Illinois, would take the redistricting process out of legislators' hands and instead give that task to an independent, nine-member commission.

Proponents of the amendment initially aimed to collect the required signatures by April 1 but now have until May 3 to send the necessary paperwork to the Illinois Secretary of State's office.

New York man pleads guilty in New York City subway bomb plot (7:02)
Zarein Ahmedzay, a man from New York, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to blow up subway trains in New York City. In a plea entered in federal court in the city, he admitted to having flown to Pakistan in the summer of 2008 with two friends, one of whom has also pleaded guilty, for training with al-Qaeda.

The three men met with al-Qaeda leaders and offered their assistance in fighting US troops in Afghanistan but were instead ordered to plan suicide-bombings in New York City similar to the 2005 London subway bombings. The men began planning their attack in time for Ramadan in September 2009, but their attack was foiled when their car was stopped entering New York City after testing bombs in Denver, Colorado.

Ahmedzay plead guilty to conspiracy to use a weapon of mass of destruction against people in the United States; conspiracy to commit murder; and providing material support to a foreign rebel organization. He is expected to be sentenced in late July, and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

US indicts eleven alleged pirates from Somalia (8:08)
Eleven suspected Somali pirates have been indicted in the US in connection with recent attacks on two US navy ships off the coast of Africa.

The men were brought to a courthouse in Virginia on Friday to face piracy charges after being detained on US ships as the cases against them were being prepared.

A first group of five suspected pirates were indicted in connection with what authorities say was a firefight on March 31st between the USS Nicholas and their vessel in the Indian Ocean. The six other defendants were charged with an alleged attack on the USS Ashland in the Gulf of Aden on April 10th. If convicted, they could face life in prison.

Until recently, pirates detained in international operations off the African coast were generally tried in Kenya. Kenyan authorities, however, recently indicated they needed more international financial help for this because Kenyan courts are becoming overloaded with piracy cases.

Somali al-Shabaab group seizes three towns (9:11)
According to witness reports, three towns in the Galgudud region of Somalia have been taken over by the counter-government group al-Shabaab, taking them from a rival group, the pro-government Ahlu Sunna.

The al-Shabaab group controls large portions of southern central Somalia, and part of Mogadishu which is near the three towns that have been over taken. A senior al-Shabaab official has stated that their Islamic group is attempting to take control of the entire region in an effort to promote the spread of the Islamic religion in the area.

Zeus botnet trojan horse is back (9:44)
The web security company Trusteer, reports that a trojan horse virus called Zeus and targets users of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, has infected one out of every 3,000 computers of the 5,500,000 million which the company monitors in the United States and the United Kingdom. The trojan works by stealing login information and recording the keystrokes when the machine connects to certain websites, usually banks or other financial institutions, then transmits the stolen data to a remote server and is sold to cyber-criminals.

Amit Klein, the chief technology officer at Trusteer told the BBC that "the infection is growing faster than we have ever seen before". The trojan has also affected some key users here at wikinews, including Brian McNeil, who is the founder of Wikinewsie, a restricted-access wiki used to collaborate on sensitive news reports. E-mail accounts for wikinews accredited reporters have also been reported as infected.

On this day in history (11:03)
In 1990 The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. While initially considered a failure by the public due to its incorrectly ground primary mirror; after a repair mission in 1993, the telescope has since become not only a key tool in the understanding of the early universe, but also one of the most famous scientific instruments ever built.

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Mississippi tornado kills at least ten

April 25, 2010

At least ten people are dead after a large, destructive tornado tore through, Mississippi yesterday. The tornado has been rated an EF4 on the, and is estimated to have had at most 170 mph winds.

Five of the deaths were in, four in , and one in. 21 people have been hospitalized as a result of the storm, and others have been trapped in cars and houses. Multiple injuries resulted from cars being blown off of during the storm.

The tornado moved along a path 97 miles long and 1.75 miles wide at its widest point. Among damaged or destroyed buildings included at least twenty houses, a church, and several businesses. According to Yazoo City mayor McArthur Straughter, the storm ripped the roofs off of every building in the area. Fallen trees and debris are hindering access to some parts of Yazoo City and Yazoo County. Before ravaging the city, the tornado damaged a chemical plant in Louisiana, causing a nitrogen leak and several injuries.

The is aiding relief efforts by providing hot meals, coffee, cold drinks, and spiritual counseling to tornado victims in Yazoo and  Counties.

The tornado occurred on the third, and most active, day of a severe weather outbreak that had previously affected areas of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, the latter two of which were also effected during Saturday's outbreak. The has received 104 reports of tornadoes so far during this outbreak.

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Before publishing, someone double check the image is ok. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:58, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

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All of us are immigrants or ancestors of immigrants. Some came legally, some did not. Times have changed. Our country is mature now and does not need the vast labor force that was required to build a nation. If you are here legally you have nothing to fear. If you appear to be hispanic, by all means carry enough documentation to prove citizenship. Police are there, paid by our taxes, to protect the citizens of the United States. Citizens. If you fear the police, what are you hiding? Arizona has finally taken a step the other border states have been unwilling to take. The Federal Government has its priorities wrong, prefering to mess with our Doctors and Hospitals rather than secure our borders. And in case you are nodding your head and saying "another white supremist", I am not. I am 4th generation Portuguese American legally immigrated, and proud of my heritage as much as I am proud to be an American.


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Look a little deeper. He was not specific about very much. The Administration was surprised by the push back, so he gave a very charismatic, pretty speech, saying what people wanted to hear, with few concrete promises. Even the "restoration of Orion" is only less than 20% of its original scope. Don't hold your breadth.


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Australian rules football: Bairnsdale join Gippsland League, will play first game in Warragul

December 23, 2010 will return to Gippsland's major Australian rules football league after members voted to join the Gippsland League (GL). The GL, and the, regional Victoria's governing Aussie rules body, have all approved the move.

 Round 1, 2011

April 9 Warragul vs. Bairnsdale Wonthaggi vs. Morwell Traralgon vs. Leongatha

April 10 Maffra vs. Sale Drouin vs. Moe

Bairnsdale will field teams in the seniors, under 18 and under 16 grades, but not a reserves side like the rest of the competition. Players not selected in the senior side will be able to play for a club in the East Gippsland minor league, under a unique transfer agreement.

They will play their first game back in the major league in Warragul on April 9 before playing their first home game against Moe a week later.

Their furthest away game will be to Wonthaggi – a one way trip of approximately 224 kilometres.


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British government apologises for suggesting the Pope could create a brand of "Benedict" condoms

April 25, 2010 The British foreign office has apologised, after a leaked memo about a visit by Pope Benedict XVI suggested that he might launch a "Benedict" brand of condoms, bless a gay marriage, and open an abortion clinic during a papal visit to the UK.

The memo followed a brainstorming session, where members of the Papal Visit Team came up with ideas for the first papal visit to Britain in 28 years, and was sent to senior civil servants via email on the 5th of March, with the title "Policy planning ahead of the Pope’s visit". Attached files included an "ideal visit list", and said "Please protect; these should not be shared externally." However, the memo was leaked, and published in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

The ministry apologised, saying that it was "ill-judged, naive and disrespectful," and that the responsible member of staff had been transferred to other duties.

Other suggestions were that the pope should change policy to allow female bishops, sponsor AIDS clinics, "spend night in council flat in Bradford" and "do forward rolls with children to promote healthy living." A further idea was to change the national anthem to a charity song "God Save the World", performed as a duet by Queen Elizabeth II and the pope.

It also said that the Pope should acknowledge clerical sex abuse scandals; British-papal relationships are strained, following the recent resignation of an Irish bishop and other allegations of. The pope has been criticised for not taking a firm stance. In March 2010, the Pope sent a letter to Irish Catholics, expressing sorrow for the sexual abuse by Catholic priests to minors, and promising reform.

The four-day papal visit to England and Scotland is scheduled to take place in September 2010, but a "highly-placed source in the Vatican" said, "It’s even possible the trip could be cancelled as this matter is hugely offensive."


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WHO starts simultaneous immunization campaigns in over 100 countries

April 25, 2010

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday began simultaneous immunization campaigns, in 112 countries and territories across its Americas, Eastern Mediterranean, and European regions. The unprecedented vaccination drive will last for a week.

This is the first time the World Health Organization has launched such an event across multiple regions at once. WHO officials say their goal is to expand immunization coverage and raise awareness of the importance of vaccines, and that such cross-border activities can prevent disease and save lives.

WHO spokesman Daniel Epstein says that many countries are working to eliminate, adding that says countries in the European region are very concerned that they have stalled in their goal of eliminating measles and this year.

"In European countries, in many of them, immunization coverage is below the 95 percent recommended level. And, there have been ongoing measles outbreaks in some of these countries. Measles cases have also been imported to the US and Canada and the Americas from European countries," said Epstein.

The agency says an important goal of the immunization campaigns is to reach those who have been excluded up to now. It notes that every year, in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 25 percent of deaths among children under age five are attributed to vaccine preventable diseases. 2.1 million children in the Middle East hadn't received a shot against tetanus, whooping cough, or in 2009, according to the WHO.

In the Americas, WHO says special regional events are being held in border areas of Nicaragua, between Suriname and French Guiana, and between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It says many young children, pregnant women, elderly and indigenous peoples live in isolated areas where vaccine coverage is low.

In all three regions, Epstein said the vaccination campaigns will be accompanied by health information campaigns.

"The biggest obstacle to reaching our goals of vaccination are lack of awareness, lack of information and people being ignorant that they should be vaccinated, and thus not having enough vaccinators, money, trucks, bicycles, etc. to get to these remote regions," he said.

WHO also began a large immunization campaign across sixteen countries in central and West Africa on Saturday. It says 78 million children under five will be vaccinated to stop a major outbreak of the disease.


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Thai prime minister dismisses offer by anti-government protesters

April 25, 2010 Thailand's prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, has ruled out a compromise offer by anti-government protest leaders for parliament to be dissolved in thirty days, with elections to be held in 90 days. In a televised address on Sunday, with army chief General at his side, the prime minister dismissed the offer made by the  (UDD), saying such issues could not be resolved in such a short period of time, and "because they use violence and intimidation. I cannot accept this."

Abhisit said the government stood by an offer made during earlier talks with the UDD for the house to be dissolved within the next nine months.

In reaction, the UDD, also called the Red Shirts, maintained an earlier call for parliament to be dissolved immediately. The UDD also withdrew from any further negotiations with the government. UDD leaders have repeatedly warned supporters rallying in central Bangkok's retail and business areas of the threat of a new government crackdown.

There have been two large incidents of street violence in the past month or so, resulting in 26 deaths and injuries to hundreds of people. The Red Shirts primarily consist of supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a 2006 coup. He was later given a two-year prison term on charges of corruption, although Shinawatra left the country in self-exile to avoid being jailed.


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Five dead after continuing violence in Nigeria

April 25, 2010 Fresh violence has broken out in the central Nigerian city of earlier today, killing at least five people, according to witness reports.

The clashes began when the body of a seventeen year old Muslim teenager, supposedly strangled, was thrown onto a main street in the town in a sack, prompting riots. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news service reports the dead body was that of a seventeen-year-old student.

The area has seen repeated conflicts between Christians and Muslims in the past.

"When the Muslims discovered the body, they took to the streets and barricaded roads, stabbing passers-by indiscriminately," said a military spokesman, Donald Oji.

According to security officials, the riots have been calmed down, although a youth curfew is still in place. "We now have the traditional chief and the youth leader of the area are with us and they are helping us with our investigation," a Plateau region police spokesman, Mohamad Lerama, told AFP.

The rioters primarily consisted of "some Muslim youths calling for revenge over the killing of a Muslim teenager," he said. "From reports reaching us, one Christian was killed in the protest. Both bodies have been taken to the hospital."


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that something like this is allowed to happen.


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How utterly barbaric and disgusting that a government within a nation which so often claims for itself the responsibility of protecting democracy, liberty and the rule of law participates in a heinous act that violates the most basic level of human dignity. What is happening here is no less than state-sanctioned revenge, and while revenge is a natural emotional response in the face of acts of cruelty, It is merely an impulse, and ultimately a base and childish one which serves no purpose but to perpetuate cruelty. The role of the state in dealing with criminal behaviour is to approach criminality as a systemic illness which needs to be treated, both by rehabilitating the criminal and by examining and addressing the underlying cultural or social conditions which may be the root cause of such crime. Acting as a surrogate for society's most savage violent inclinations serves only to validate criminal behaviour rather than discourage it. It teaches "yes.. it's ok to be merciless and brutal so long as you have the machinery of government at your disposal". What results is a codified form of vigilantism that completely undermines the moral authority of the state to deter crime. It is deeply sickening that a people who fancy themselves civilised (and even "Christian" at that) can look the other way while their government commits an unmistakably homicidal act.


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Not only should the Pope hand out condoms he should have his photo on the packaging wearing one. It would do more for preventing abortions than all his sermons.


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Officials: Eight insurgents killed in Orakzai, Pakistan

April 25, 2010 In a gun battle that took place between Pakistani soldiers and insurgents on Sunday, eight insurgents were killed and ten others were injured. The incident occurred when about 40 rebels attacked a checkpoint near the Goain village in the Orakzai district of the North-West Frontier Province of the country.

Jahanzeb Khan, a local administrative official, said the attack at the checkpoint was resisted by the army. Two security officials confirmed that heavy artillery had been used for the battle, in which eight rebels died. Sajjad Ahmed, another local official, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that two underground hideouts of the rebels had also been captured by the army.

A senior military official confirmed that the death toll was eight. "Security forces killed at least eight militants during a search operation," the official said. "Up to 40 militants attacked our security forces," he said. Bodies of six of the dead insurgents have been discovered.


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