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German Holocaust memorial dedicated

May 10, 2005

A new $35m memorial in Germany officially called the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe was dedicated during a ceremony Tuesday. The commemorates the suffering the millions of European  who were held in concentration camps by the Nazi regime. The dedication comes just a day after the 60th anniversary of the in.

U.S. architect designed the new memorial, which is contained in one block square very close to the parliament and the new US embassy in the heart of, Germany. The memorial consists of over 2,700 gray concrete blocks representing the helplessness of the Holocaust victims. The blocks are covered with an anti-graffiti substance which was made by the same company that produced the Zyklon B poison used in the genocide. They are all of different shapes and sizes, and are set on a sloping hillside, designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere.

The memorial has met with criticism. Many have pointed out that the memorial is only for the Jews who died, and does not represent the millions of gypsies, homosexuals and mentally-handicapped people who were also murdered. It has also been said that while the memorial commerates those who died, it does not ask any questions about why the atrocity happened. However, there are plans for memorials commemorating other victims of the Nazi regime. Under the abstract memorial there is a place which informs visitors about Holocaust.

The ceremony, which Chancellor attended, included prayer led by a Jewish  and speeches reflecting on the Holocaust given by a survivor and leaders of the Jewish community in Germany.

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Talk:Two hundred digit number factored

"The number is the largest integer yet factored..."

 * The number is the largest integer yet factored with a general purpose algorithm.

I disagree. Since most numbers are not the product of two primes, lots of general purpose algorithms (like trial division) will work on lots of larger numbers (eg, powers of two). No doubt, someone has done this in the past, and if not, I would be happy to do so right now. Also, we often test the primality of much larger numbers through probabilistic means, which amounts to factoring, since by discovering a number's primality we trivially learn its prime factorization. I don't know what else to say here; perhaps "largest challenge number"? Brighterorange 21:01, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Good point, Orange. Maybe we could say "the largest semiprime integer"? (Semiprime means product of two primes.) "Largest challenge number" is safe, but maybe not the broadest claim we can make. I'll go with that for now. Feel free to improve it if you think of something better. Pingswept 21:09, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Yep, thanks for spotting that (my only excuse is that I just lazily lifted the "The number is the largest integer yet factored with a general purpose algorithm" statement from here without engaging my brain at all...) Matt Crypto 21:43, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Just say something like "the largest integer with no special form" in cases like this...

Frequently changed numbers

 * How many times have the numbers been changed on the article page? I think that number could be larger than the primes.

Factoring correct; Source Reference
The desired source-references are http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/rsa200 and http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/factor.html now linked from http://www.crypto-world.com/FactorRecords.html as http://www.crypto-world.com/announcements/rsa200.txt

A simple Perl script (using Math::BigInt) confirms that the product of the two factors exhibited is indeed RSA200 as shown. I can not at this time confirm the two factors are prime, but I would trust RSA to have verified that before the original challenge.

You can cite http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Semiprime.html for "SemiPrime", but that neologism does not please me, it should be reserved for http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SemiprimeIdeal.html.

The announcement claims "the largest integer factored with a general-purpose algorithm". The special cases where small factors are found quickly are excluded from this claim by the terminology "general-purpose algorithm".

If one does not like that, rather than say "semiprime", perhaps one could say "largest hard factorization" to avoid technical terminology that one does not understand or fears the reader will not understand.

IAAAM,

Bill / N1VUX I am an Apostate mathematician ... I work went over to the darkside of *Software*

 * Hi Bill,
 * Thanks for the double check. I think you're right about "general-purpose algorithm" excluding checking for small factors first, but perhaps "largest hard factorization" is better. Feel free to update the article with whatever you prefer. Pingswept 21:27, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Pingswept, I'll leave to you regular editors to update the article.
 * FYI, I've posted the Perl confirm and reference at
 * http://use.perl.org/~n1vux/journal/24616
 * -- Bill / N1VUX 2005-05-10-2136Z ISO Standard Time

 * I still disagree that "general-purpose algorithm" excludes trial division. Trial division is correct for all numbers, and it's even fast for most numbers—it just has bad worst-case performance. I think that qualifies as "general-purpose". "Hard" is good with me. Brighterorange 21:50, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

 * BO, we're talking General Purpose Algorithm as a technical term, not as English. Yes, Trial Division is the *classical* algorithm. That may make it "general-purpose" solution to you, but that does NOT make it a "General Purpose Algorithm" in the technical sense. General-Purpose Algorithm as a technical term means suitable for ALL cases, not just some subset of cases where it works better than luck, and not that it's suitable for the case generally found by school children. It works fine in schoolrooms. However, it is hopeless in the general case, where factor size is bounded by the square-root of the product and the size of the product is in the range of interest to people who do this sort of thing.  In the technical jargon of Factoring and Cryptography, an algorithm that only works with numbers that fit on your pocket caclulator is not considered General Purpose.  If you don't Grok the difference between "hard" and "NP-Hard", please do not re-express an opinion on what CompSci/Math majors mean by "General Purpose Algorithm". -- Bill N1VUX 2005-05-10-2215Z ISO Time

 * Bill, take it easy. We're a news site, not Cryptologia. Orange is trying to help out, not deal out injustice to mathematics. Pingswept 22:24, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Indeed, this is the Wiki News not the Wikipedia, where technical accuracy would be paramount. Unlike straight News or straight Science, Science News writing must walk a knife edge between technical accurarcy and readibility. For the record, "Trial Division" aka "Direct Search Factorization" is a "Special Purpose Algorithm", see for example http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/i/in/integer_factorization.htm .  -- Bill N1VUX 2005-05-11-1539Z ISO Time

Bill, thanks. I hope you'll excuse the cheesy "holy war" shot, but I felt compelled to give the equivalent Python code ;-) ...

a = 532461934402770121272604978198464368671197400197625023649303468776121253679423200058547956528088349 b = 7925869954478333033347085841480059687737975857364279258699544783330333470858414800596877379758573642 print a * b

Matt Crypto 21:48, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Matt - Duplicate Verifications are good. But Wiki will wreck Guido's indents ! -- Bill N1VUX 2005-05-10-2215Z ISO Time

Why RSA-200, not RSA-640?
Why did the team not attempt to factor RSA-640, rather than RSA-200? After navigating the confusing shift of naming conventions, one can see that RSA-200 is actually 23 bits longer than RSA-640: it should be easier to factor. Moreover, RSA-640 carries a US$20,000 bounty for its factorisation, whereas RSA-200 has no reward associated with it (other than prestige). Matt Crypto 01:37, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I found that strange too... At first I thought thay maybe they had started factoring this before the rsa challenge numbers were available (which would be kind of strange since they were the ones who factored RSA-576), but I have now confirmed that that's not the case. RSA-576 was factored in December 3 2003 (according to the RSA page), and I found this in their announcement of the factorization of RSA-200: "We started sieving shortly before Christmas 2003....". A possibility would be that this number was easier to factor than RSA-640 would be, despite being bigger? I don't know much about GNFS, I know that one of the first phases is finding a polynomial which depends on the number and which quality determines how fast the factorization will be. What I don't know is if it's easier to find a good polynomial for some numbers than others (excluding numbers of a special form such as a*k^b+c, for which SNFS is applied with an easily derived polynomial).

Google Calculator result
I think it's pretty retarded that I don't have the ability to add this to the article. link --Alterego 17:57, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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Interested in covering the Academy Awards?
Hi NGerda, I see you're an accredited Wikinews reporter. While it doesn't really fit your coverage area interests, would you like to go to the Academy Awards? I'm on their press list already, and they offer the press admission to the Nominations Announcement and the Nominees Luncheon. The deadline to be approved for next year's awards is November 21st, so if you're not interested, let me know so I can find someone else in the area. -- user:zanimum
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I left a message on your en.wikipedia talk page regarding the image, WikiPedia:Image:SAUSD Boundry.jpg, that you uploaded. Blank Verse 11:47, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

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Yep... I saw your edits and thought I'd update.. :D --Chiacomo (talk) 06:39, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
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Since you are the only accredited Southern California Wikinewsie, I thought you might be interested in knowing that someone, probably from Grace Hu's political campaign (former Cerritos councilmember and current Republican nominee for State Assembly), has regularly been deleting some negative info about her that is in the Cerritos, California article. One very interesting comment in the edit summaries from User:Publicdefender99 was "perhaps we can come to some kind of an agreement?". Publicdefender99 doesn't have email enabled for their account, but they do list a hotmail account on their user page.

It's not as big as the news stories about the congressional aides editing the Wikipedia articles on their bosses and boss's competition, but it still might be worth a small story. I figured I'd give WikiNews the exclusive tip. If it continues, or especially if it escalates, however, I'll probably think about contacting the Long Beach Press-Telegram or the LA Times. BlankVerse 10:45, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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Foot and mouth scare in New Zealand likely to be hoax

May 11, 2005

The New Zealand Government has been forced to act because of a letter sent to Prime Minister Helen Clark which claimed that the disease Foot and Mouth is being intentionally spread on Waiheke Island.

The letter, which is assumed to be a hoax, could have a major impact on New Zealand's meat industry. Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton went so far as to say that the suspension of meat exports by some countries was a real possibility.

The incubation period of foot and mouth disease is such that if animals have been infected, signs should be evident within ten days. In the meantime, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry experts and veterinarians, many with experience gained in the recent United Kingdom outbreak, are conducting intensive monitoring of the Island's susceptible animals. All sheep and cattle are being individually inspected every 48 hours. Meanwhile, restrictions on the movement of livestock are in place, so that in the very unlikely event that there has been a release of the disease, the effects will be contained.

Police efforts are underway to track the origin of the letter that initiated the scare.

Update 16 May, 2005
The foot-and-mouth scare is effectively over after a second letter confirmed it was a hoax. But Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry officials would continue low level monitoring on the island until next Monday.

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Accuser admits he lied, former Canadian immigration minister cleared of wrongdoing

May 11, 2005 The Canadian parliament's Ethics Commission said former immigration minister, Judy Sgro, did nothing wrong and her staff had put her into a conflict of interest. Harjit Singh, the pizza shop owner who signed an affidavit accusing her of offering help for him to stay in Canada in exchange for pizza deliveries and help on her election campaign, admitted he lied. The controversies forced Ms. Sgro to resign from her post in January.

Ms. Sgro read a letter from Mr. Singh in the House of Commons Tuesday. "Reputations should not be tarnished by unsubstantiated allegations and innuendo solely for partisan politics,” she added.

After a 17-year fight to stay in Canada, Mr. Singh was deported to India in February. In his letter he said: "I now admit that I did not have a meeting with Judy Sgro. Further, at no time, did Judy Sgro request any campaign assistance from me nor did she help me with my immigration problems. I am providing this apology and retraction voluntarily and of my own free will."

In a press conference, Ms. Sgro also discussed the confidential letter she'd received from ethics commissioner Bernard Shapiro. In his letter informing her of the commission's decision Mr. Shapiro wrote "It appears that you have acted appropriately but that your staff did not.” The report on the incident from the commission is not actually finished, according to the commissioner, but he said Ms. Sgro was free to release the letter.


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 * California refuses gay marriage ban
 * Critics against USA and Israel in Summit of South American-Arab Countries in Brazil
 * White House, Capitol Building evacuated as small plane enters no-fly zone
 * Foot and mouth scare in New Zealand likely to be hoax
 * North Korea removes spent nuclear fuel rods
 * Italians interested in investing in Romanian tourism
 * Romanian opposition gets more TV time than governing coalition
 * Accuser admits he lied, former Canadian immigration minister cleared of wrongdoing
 * Soviet rockets on sale in Moldovan breakoff region
 * Chesapeake Bay Program issues first-ever water quality forecast
 * Canadian Liberal government loses House of Commons vote, won't call election

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Canadian Liberal government loses House of Commons vote, won't call election

May 11, 2005

The Canadian Liberal government lost a key vote on a censure motion in the House of Commons, but has ignored demands by the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois to resign and call an election.

Liberal House leader Tony Valeri told Parliament after the vote, "We will continue to govern on behalf of Canadians," through a chorus of dispute.

Opposition parties claim they have triggered a constitutional crisis by clearly indicating the government no longer has the right to rule, but they have refused to ask Parliament to be dissolved. The opposition have been working for weeks to bring about a technical maneuver such as this when the government is weakened by months of wrangling over the Sponsorship Scandal.

The vote involved amending a report from October 2004 recommending the government resign for failure to address "governance of the public service."

The Canadian constitution calls for a government to dissolve and hold elections when there is a Parliamentary vote of no confidence, or a vote defeating a budget or money bill. The government says the censure amendment vote does not constitute an official vote of no confidence. Constitutional experts have said that the vote does raise a question-mark over confidence, and that this will therefore have to be settled expeditiously with a true confidence motion.

The event is likely to paralyze Parliament. The Conservatives have promised to shut down the Parliament, by voting each morning to end the day before any work is done.

Background
The current status of the Parliament has the Liberals with 132 seats. The Conservatives hold 99 seats and are working in concert with the Bloc Québécois who hold 54 seats. Prime Minister Paul Martin recently worked a deal with the New Democrat Party, whose 19 seats have strengthened his position but still lack a majority. The remaining three independent seats and one vacancy quite literally may determine the outcome of a no-confidence vote if held later this month.

The government is only 10 months old, having been elected June 28, 2004, and is a rare minority government in Canadian history.


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Soviet rockets on sale in Moldovan breakoff region

May 11, 2005

Three  radioactive rockets from the  era are reportedly for sale in the Moldovan Republic of Transnistria.

A Sunday Times reporter went undercover through a Transnistrian secret police office. Posing as a middleman for an Algerian Islamic group, the reporter met with an arms dealer, who offered to sell three of the rockets for US$500,000 (£263,000).

The Alazan is an 82mm diameter rocket originally developed to distribute cloud-seeding chemicals such as potassium or silver iodide. With a range of eight miles, the rockets could be used to contaminate an entire city center. These rockets were part of fifty thousand tons of equipment that Soviet forces left in the republic after the Cold War.

Some were converted into improvised munitions and modified to carry explosive warheads. Others were retrofitted with a warhead reputed to contain up to 400g of radioactive caesium-137 and strontium-90, to help scientists track clouds and other meteorological events.

The arms dealer offered to allow the reporter to inspect the rockets with a to confirm that they contained caesium and strontium.


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Chesapeake Bay Program issues first-ever water quality forecast

May 11, 2005 For the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States, a first-time-ever “water quality forecast” was issued Monday for the upcoming summer season by the Chesapeake Bay Program. The eastern mid-Atlantic region’s heavy spring rainfalls are predicted to increase nutrient levels in bay waters, leading to oxygen eating algae blooms and leaving deep water dead zones. Project leader William Dennison, of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies said, “The forecast indicates that recent weather conditions and heavy pollutant loads could lead to a bad summer for the Bay.” The prediction is for this to be the fourth-worst season for dissolved oxygen in two decades.

The Chesapeake Bay Program launched the new forecast to build on a base of environmental data gathered over the last two decades as water quality concerns have grown. The forecast is meant to be a proactive tool that provides resource managers with information that can be used to guide policies for the bay’s protection and restoration.

Cars, fertilizer, human and animal wastes, industrial and agricultural pollutants all play a part. "This means that we need to do a lot more to reduce phosphorus and nitrogen pollution from getting into the bay," said Beth McGee, of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. "The biggest source of pollution in the bay is agriculture, and we've got to find a way to provide farmers with more resources to manage the land better." Nutrient rich pollutants composed mainly of nitrogen and phosphorous come from far away places carried by rivers, and nearby the bay from farm and metropolitan runoff. They collect in the huge bay and meet tidal flows from the ocean.

Algae feed off the nutrients, and they are either consumed by aquatic life or sink at the end of their life cycle. With such an abundant food source, algae blooms can cover large surfaces of water and choke off sunlight to underwater plants. Later when the plants die, the process of their decomposition on the bottom consumes oxygen to a state where the water becomes anoxic, and unable to support life.

As notorious as weather forecasters are for often being wrong, it should come as no surprise if this first forecasting step by the federally funded program misses its mark. Forces such as heavy storms or hurricanes, which churn water, would have an effect. Excessive wind and unexpected precipitation, or nutrient level jumps, would also contribute.


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California refuses gay marriage ban

May 11, 2005

Two California legislative committees voted on Tuesday to reject a state constitution amendment banning gay marriage.

Republican Assemblyman Ray Haynes claimed that a proposal before the Assembly Judiciary Committee would strengthen the intent of a ballot measure that prevents the recognition of gay marriages performed out of State. The amendment was rejected.

The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected an identical measure just hours later.

However, Conservative groups say that they plan to put an initiative on the ballot in 2006 banning gay marriage in the constitution.

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Readyness for Release
Does anyone else think this article is ready to be taken off the "Developing Stories" list and put into the daily news? No other sites are reporting on this, and I for one think that it's a good idea to let people know about this.

 * You bet! -Edbrown05 03:45, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


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Romanian opposition gets more TV time than governing coalition

May 11, 2005

A recent survey carried out by the National Broadcasting Council of Romania has shown that the largest Romanian opposition party, the Social Democrats, made a greater number of TV appearances than members of the governing Justice and Truth Alliance. However, the politician with the most TV appearances remained the Prime Minister, Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu.

The opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) made 350 TV appearances in the past month, followed by the governing Justice and Truth Alliance, with 270 appearances, the Great Romania People's Party, with 59 appearances, the Conservative Party with 36 appearances and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania, with 24 appearances.

PSD representatives had the greatest amount of TV appearances on TVR, the state-owned broadcaster, Antena 1, ProTV and Realitatea TV. Prima TV was the only TV network which broadcast more appearances by the Justice and Truth Alliance than the PSD.

The most covered politician was the Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, with 73 appearances, trailed by the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Mircea Geoană (53 appearances) and the former Prime Minister, Adrian Năstase (37 appearances). In fourth place was the former President, and current Social Democrat senator, Ion Iliescu, followed by Vasile Ion, the father of Marie-Jeanne Ion, one of the three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq in March. Other featured politicians include Dumitru Dragomir, from the Great Romania People's Party, Nicolae Văcăroiu, from the Social Democrats, and Eugen Nicolaescu, spokesman of the Justice and Truth Alliance.

On the state-owned TVR network, representatives of the opposition had 42% more news coverage than the governing coalition. 33% of this coverage was positive, 9% was negative and the remainder was indifferent. The private station ProTV featured the greatest coverage of the Social Democrats, with 67%, 30% of which was positive.

One important political figure which was left out of the study is Romania's President, Traian Băsescu. The National Broadcasting Council did not monitor Băsescu's appearances because he is not a member of any political party.


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Italians interested in investing in Romanian tourism

May 11, 2005

A group of businessmen and politicians from the Italian region of Trento have expressed their interest in investing up to €700 million in Cluj county, Romania, for tourism development. Marius Nicoară, the president of Cluj County Council, stated that the council would be interested in collaborating with the Italian investors for the development of mountain roads and ski resorts in the area.

Cluj county, which is located in the centre of Transylvania, is one of the most mountainous areas of the country. The county receives tourists, mainly for winter sports like skiing, and also has agritourism. The county's capital, Cluj-Napoca, is one of the largest cities in Romania.

Corrado Fedrizzi, the president of the Trento Development Agency, said that the Italian delegation needs an estimate of the number of tourists which could be attracted to the area if the development takes place, the amortisation time for the investment and the European Union (EU) funds which could be awarded to support the project. Romania plans to become a member of the European Union in 2007, but currently receives a significant amount of pre-accession funds from the EU.


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hi, The article about Prescott Bush financing Hitler is up for deletion at

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Critics against USA and Israel in Summit of South American-Arab Countries in Brazil

May 11, 2005

Brazil's capital city of Brasilia is hosting the Summit of South American and Arab Countries from May 10 to 11, according to the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva proposed the summit during his visit to several Arab countries in December, 2004.

According to, President da Silva said in his speech during the opening ceremony of the summit, that it is necessary to define a new economic and commercial international geography. "We are searching for trade that is fair and balanced, rid of the subsidies imposed by the rich countries, and which assures the poor countries the benefits of globalization. We want to establish a new relationship of solidary collaboration with international financial agencies, and we are striving for the and the Gulf Cooperation Council to be able to conclude an economic cooperation agreement", da Silva said.

Mahmoud Abbas said that Israeli troops should unconditionally withdraw from the occupied Arab territories. Abbas also proposed the creation of an Arab-South American bank.

The President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, said during his speech that Israel should leave the Palestinian territories. Bouteflika defended the criterion of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Bouteflika said that the Palestinian situation is "a denial of justice" that can no longer be tolerated. A long round of applause from Summit participants followed his declarations. "We must find a definitive solution for everyone to do his best, to get Israel to submit to international law and accept the negotiated peace," Bouteflika added.

The President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez said that the Arab and South American countries are related because they both were subjected to exploitation by the richest countries. Chávez said that after World War II, South America has been victim of domination mechanisms by an international financial architecture and by an old international organizations structure. According to Chávez, there is no international democracy.

Chávez said that South American and Arab countries are the biggest oil sources and that this fact stimulates the "American imperialist voracity".

According to the Minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, the final document of the Summit of South American-Arab Countries will condemn terrorism. In addition, the document will include a paragraph about the "right of resistance to foreign occupation, according to international humanitarian law," said the minister.

The minister said that the document will also mention the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, under dispute by Argentina and the United Kingdom.


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North Korea removes spent nuclear fuel rods

May 11, 2005

North Korea's official news agency is reporting that the country has finished removing all its spent nuclear fuel rods, over 8,000 of them, from the main reactor in the nuclear plant.

The rods could be reprocessed for several months to extract weapons-grade. Officials say the rods could be able to provide enough plutonium to make two nuclear bombs.

This could possibly signal that North Korea is preparing for a nuclear arms test. North Korea may already have enough materials to make six nuclear bombs.

North Korea has also announced plans to continue operating the Yongbyon facility, as well as to begin construction on a larger reactor.

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White House, Capitol Building evacuated as small plane enters no-fly zone

May 11, 2005

Two men were taken into custody for violating the surrounding the U.S. national capital in Washington D.C.

The Capitol Building, the, the and the  were evacuated around noon Wednesday. People in the vicinity were told to head to a rail station approximately a half mile south of the White House. Reporters in the White House itself were told to move into the basement.

was not in the White House at the time. CNN and Bloomberg have reported that the President was on a bicycle ride; CTV has reported that he was at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in,.

Wire sources report the cause of the evacuation as being a small plane that wandered into the no-fly zone. The craft was reportedly a, which flew into restricted space, left the area, and then returned. It was then escorted out of the zone by two that fired warning flares at it.

MSNBC reported that a 'lure motorcade' drove away from the White House.

Authorities gave the "all-clear" signal a few minutes after the evacuation. Other government agencies outside of the immediate area were largely unaffected.

At the time of the police-ordered evacuation,, -, was on the Senate floor. "They said get out of here, so I ran. There's no joking about this kind of stuff," Shelby said.

The two men who were flying the aircraft were on their way to an air show when they slipped into Washington D.C.'s Restricted Airspace (image at right). Their plane was escorted to a Maryland airport where they were taken into custody and interviewed by authorities. Once it became clear the incident had been a mistake, the two men were released.

In Washington, D.C., a 25 radius from the  is restricted air space.

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Talk:White House and Captiol Building evacuated as small plane enters no-fly zone

Not too long ago, there was "another drill?" where jets were scrambled. Can't find that story to put under 'Related news' header. -68.232.150.205 16:30, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Here it is: Air alarm at White House, Bush moved to safety. I used the power of search to find it :) Dan100 (Talk) 16:34, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
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Critics against USA and Israel in Summit of South American-Arab Countries in Brazil

White House and Capitol Building evacuated as small plane enters no-fly zone

Foot and mouth scare in New Zealand likely to be a hoax

North Korea removes spent nuclear fuel rods

Italians interested in investing in Romanian tourism

Romanian opposition gets more TV time than governing coalition

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Talk:White House, Capitol Building evacuated as small plane enters no-fly zone

May 2005
I work at the USPTO, which is either close to or slightly within the no-fly zone. If I wouldn't have read about this story on the web, and gotten a call from my mother, I wouldn't have known it happened until I got home. --Morbid-o 19:47, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I added the OR tag to respond to one sentence by Morbid-o, who did a bit of OR regarding other government agencies in the area. Lyellin 04:56, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Exactly..the whole thing is just 1 more hysterical non-event. Paulrevere2005 22:29, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

As a recent tourist...
...I can just imagine my thinking being told to leave the Capital Hill area for the nearest train station... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Edbrown05 (talk • contribs) 05:40, 12 May 2005

Category and link
edit protected Please add this article to Category:White House and localize the link of the same name as well as the link for Washington D.C. Thank you. Green Giant (talk) 23:33, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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Millions worldwide still in slavery

May 12, 2005

The International Labour Organization (ILO) released a major report Wednesday, finding that currently more than 12.3 million people are enslaved worldwide. An estimated 2.4 million of them are victims of slave trafficking, and their combined labor generates profits of over 32 billion dollars annually.

Forced labor is "a social evil which has no place in the modern world," said ILO Director-General. "Forced labor represents the underside of globalization and denies people their basic rights and dignity... to achieve a fair globalization and decent work for all, it is imperative to eradicate forced labour," added Somavia.

The new study confirms that slavery remains a major global problem to this day. The report breaks down slaves by continent:
 * 9.5 million forced laborers are in Asia, which is the region with the highest number
 * 1.3 million in Latin America and the Caribbean
 * 660,000 in sub-Saharan Africa
 * 260,000 in the Middle East and North Africa
 * 360,000 in industrialized countries
 * 210,000 in transition countries.

The study also reveals that slavery is present in all regions and in all types of economies.

Forced economic exploitation is more or less evenly divided between men and women, however forced commercial sexual exploitation involves almost entirely women and girls. In addition, children bear a heavy burden, comprising between 40 to 50 percent of all slaves.

There are at least two victims of forced labor for every 1,000 people worldwide.

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 * U.S. Senate: U.K. and French politicians were allocated Iraqi oil
 * Former U.S. Homeland Security chief defends Canada border security
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 * Security flaws in Mozilla Firefox internet browser fixed
 * European MEPs abolish right to opt-out of Working Time Directive
 * Serbia and Montenegro: Red Star advances to cup finals
 * Millions worldwide still in slavery
 * Dog laws strengthened in Virginia county

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European MEPs abolish right to opt-out of Working Time Directive

May 12, 2005

By a majority of 378 to 262, Members of the European Parliament have voted to abolish the right of European Union countries to opt out of Working Time Directive. If the Council of Ministers agrees, the right to opt out of the directive will be phased out over a period of three years.

Under the "derogation" provision of the directive, individual workers can waive the right to work no more than 48 hours per week. Among the member states, only the United Kingdom uses this provision.


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Talk:USA baseball proposes "three strikes" rule for steroid abuse

Agree with the commissioner, "Three Stricks, Your Out. This time for good."


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Dog laws strengthened in Virginia county

May 12, 2005

Amid publicity that arose from deaths and injuries due to dog attacks in the region, the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to impose tougher penalties on dog owners who let their dogs run free. After a public hearing Tuesday evening, the board voted for a new animal control ordinance. Now dog owners who are repeat offenders face a misdemeanor crime of $2,500 or up to a year in jail.

Dogs that repeatedly chase cars and run free, or otherwise trespass on property, could be euthanized if so ordered by a judge. A dog that is "roaming, running or self-hunting off the property or premises of its owner or custodian and not under the immediate control of the owner or custodian or his agent," meets the county's legal definition of a dog running at large.

The mauling death of an elderly woman by 3 Pit Bulls in her front yard sparked a public debate on animal control. At the hearing, State Senator Edward Houke said he would raise dog law issues in the January meeting of the Virginia General Assembly. According to The Free Lance Star, Houke said, "It's pretty obvious to me that the state law needs to be changed, but saying that and it happening, is two completely different phenomena. If there's one thing you learn quickly it's that you don't bring dog bills to the Virginia General Assembly."

The Sullivan daughters, who lost their mother in the mauling attack, circulated petitions in the county and also attended the hearing. Board chairman Robert Hagan noted the Sullivan family presence and thanked them for their efforts to prevent more tragedies.


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Talk:Millions worldwide still in slavery

this is horrible. I can't believe it. I wish I could do something 66.177.138.113 01:44, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

This is sick

Yes, and these numbers don't even includes all the people who are not technically slaves because they are paid and are "free" to leave, but in practice they are pretty much slaves. Oh wait, maybe it does. Anyway, very sad. MikeCapone 04:52, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't know whether this is newsworthy, but it's definitely not "Breaking News!". Breaking news would be some urgent event of great significance or something like that. This is just a statistic released regularly by ILO --131.252.209.244 00:24, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

When a governmental body or NGO or corporation releases its statistical compilations (unemployment rate, housing starts, AIDS victim estimates, earnings reports) at regular intervals, it still gets reported as news -- so why not this one?

As for Mike's comment: involuntary servitude (often on pain of immediate, violent death) is in no way comparable to "wage slavery." There's no such thing as a utopia where most people don't have to engage in unpleasant, minimally rewarding work. Even hunter-gatherers have to work a few hours a day, and they enjoy far less material comfort than even the most deeply impoverished modern urban dweller. Suppose you're stuck at Wal-Mart and you can't quit or you won't be able to pay the rent or buy groceries. Are you really in the same category as a guy digging Coltan in a mosquito-infested jungle with an AK-47 pressed to his temple, who would gladly trade places with you in your clean, well-lit store for $8.25/hr? No, you're not -- not at all.--69.245.192.52 03:44, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, it's great to see people talking about an article this way. I happened to stumble upon the source article while I was doing research on the BBC's web site. Hopefully, we'll have more article like this in the future. NGerda 04:48, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Sweatshop Poetry
[poem removed] Dan100 (Talk) 16:59, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay this is a good start, posting stuff like this is what the mainstream press definitely misses. Now what we need are links to discussions about how to slow/stop/prevent/rally against this curse. What governments are the worse about letting this happen on their soil? Next comes the companies that are profiting from this. What groups are already engaged in moving against this? Great start. 70.176.187.122 14:05, 13 May 2005
 * True, the mainstream press misses posting poetry. Is that really what you were commenting upon?  Uncle G 16:51, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This poem does not belong here on Wikinews. There's a perfectly good Modern Poetry section on Wikisource for taking GFDL poetry. Uncle G 16:51, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Protected edit request
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Serbia and Montenegro: Red Star advances to cup finals

May 11, 2005

Red Star (Crvena Zvezda) Belgrade advanced to the Serbia and Montenegro football cup finals, after defeating Partizan Belgrade with a score of 2:0 yesterday. The first goal was scored by Nikola Žigić in the tenth minute (10'). Krivokapić scored the other goal in the final moments of the match - 90'.

The game between city rivals was attended by only about 8,000 fans. Aside from heavy rain, many fans of both Red Star and Partizan decided to boycott the game.

Red Star's fans were forbidden from performing their traditional choreography at the beginning of the match, probably due to riots that took place the last time Red Star and Partizan played a regular league game. Partizan's fans displayed a large sign reading "Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro = mafia."

Red Star has a chance to win the cup against Železnik, while Partizan is on its way to win the league with a 7 point lead.

Line ups

 * Red Star:
 * Ranđelović, Milovanović, Luković, Đorđević, Dudić, Biševac, Kovačević, Janković, Perović, Žigić, Pantelić
 * Reserves:
 * Banović, Joksimović, Krivokapić, Mudrinić, Đokaj, Mrđa, Bogavac

 * Partizan:
 * Kralj, Rnić, Mirković, Đorđević, Emeghara, Nađ, Brnović, Ilić, Vukčević, Boya, Odita
 * Reserves:
 * Pantić, Ćirković, Radović, Petrović, Milović, Tomić, Grubješić.


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Talk:Security flaws in Mozilla Firefox internet browser fixed

Lots of people are waiting for this one.
 * Well, I've posted it :) Dan100 (Talk) 09:11, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

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Eejits. I submitted this to /. FIVE HOURS before the one they put up eventually went live. So yeah, I'm a bit bitter :). In fairness though, they probably got lots of submissions on this, and probably picked the best one/their mate's. Dan100 (Talk) 18:11, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Also interesting to note that they posted TWO stories on the same security hole (the one 1.0.4 plugs). Duh. :) Dan100 (Talk) 18:14, 12 May 2005 (UTC)


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Security flaws in Mozilla Firefox internet browser fixed

May 12, 2005

The Mozilla Foundation have released version 1.0.4 of their popular Firefox browser, which fixes the two major problems discovered earlier this week.

The new version fixes no less than six security flaws, including the two 'extremely critical' flaws. Other fixes include one which prevents another method of running code without permission on a user's computer.

Related news

Arreglados los problemas de seguridad de Firefox Corrigidas as falhas de segurança do navegador Firefox


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Argh! You've submitted a 'copy vio'! Basically, it's illegal for us to copy & paste stories from elsewhere - we have to re-write everything entirely in our own words. I'll have to mark the article as a copyvio in a bit but I'll leave for it a few hours if you want to re-write it first.

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Pilot gets six months for smuggling Chinese immigrants

May 12, 2005

Christian Delgado Gomez, a San Antonio pilot, was sentenced to six months and forced to pay a $500 fine for smuggling four undocumented Chinese immigrants.

The incident occurred on January 24, 2005, when Delgado was arrested at Stinson Municipal Airport in San Antonio where he landed a small aircraft he used to transport the illegal immigrants from Eagle Pass, Texas. The officers who arrested him were acting on a tip that two planes, one from Laredo and another from Eagle Pass, would be carrying illicit cargo. This coincided with a false tip that the cargo would be in coordination with a terrorist act in Boston.

The Chinese immigrants were deported.


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Former U.S. Homeland Security chief defends Canada border security

May 12, 2005

In a speech to business leaders in Toronto, Canada Wednesday, Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge contradicted a view that the Canadian border security system is weak. Rather, he praised the role of Canada in protecting the U.S./Canadian border.

"I don't accept the thesis that Canada is lenient or hasn't done what it needs to do to advance their interest and doing their share to combat terrorism... The law enforcement and intelligence community collaboration is excellent."

The U.S. border with Canada is 4,000 miles long, twice as long as its border with Mexico.

Since September 11, 2001, $8 billion has been spent by Canada on border security improvements. Canada plans to spend an additional $1 billion in the coming year.


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U.S. Senator Voinovich allows Bolton nomination to pass to full Senate vote

May 12, 2005

Senator George Voinovich (R-Ohio) provided a critical vote today to send John R. Bolton to the Senate for a vote on his nomination. Bolton is President Bush's nominee for United States ambassador to the United Nations.

The highly controversial and contested nominee has come under scrutiny from members of both parties for his political stance concerning the United Nations. Senator Voinovich previously voted "no", stopping the nomination from leaving the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Now that Voinovich is voting "yes", the nomination can be put before the full Senate for a vote.

However, the Senator issued scathing remarks concerning Bolton, referring to him as a "bully" and claiming that he is a disgrace to the nation. Also, Voinovich stated that he would vote "no" in the Senate to Bolton's confirmation.


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U.S. Senate: U.K. and French politicians were allocated Iraqi oil

May 12, 2005

A U.S. Senate committee, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), released evidence in a probe that purportedly suggests that two U.K. and French politicians received vouchers for millions of barrels of Iraqi oil in exchange for their support of Saddam Hussein's regime under the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program (OFP).

Under the OFP program, Iraq was allowed to sell its oil rights to whomever it wanted, and at a below-market price. These oil rights could then be re-sold for a higher price, usually between 3 and 30 cents a barrel. U.K. MP George Galloway and French Senate member Charles Pasqua are accused of having these rights allocated to them as a reward for opposing the U.S lead economic sanctions on Iraq. However, no evidence was presented showing that those politicians had received any money benefit out of the scheme.

The PSI committee found Hussien-era documents that appear to show the two politicians received these oil rights. They also heard from officials from the old regime who confirmed the documents.

George Galloway, who won re-election to the British Parliament in a surprise victory, is accused of receiving allocations for 20 million barrels of oil. He is also accused of using the Mariam Appeal, a campaign he set up "to campaign against sanctions on Iraq which are having disastrous effects on the ordinary people of Iraq" which was best known for flying an Iraqi child to England for Leukemia treatment, to conceal the transfer of 3 million barrels of oil.

Galloway, a member of the new British left-wing anti-war Party, Respect, won a ferocious campaign for parliament last week in Bethnal Green and Bow, east London, where a sizable part of the population is of a Muslim southern Asian origin.

George Galloway won libel suits in the past against the Telegraph newpaper which claimed he had accepted bribes from the Iraqi regime. The Senate committee will be holding a further hearing on May 17, and have invited Galloway to attend, where he will be given a seat and a microphone.

Charles Pasqua, currently member of the Senate of France, was in the past Minister of the Interior, in charge of law enforcement, safety measures and relationships with local governments. His name has been cited in several corruption scandals inside France, though he has not been convicted. He currently heads a small Eurosceptic party with no representative in the National Assembly, and is generally considered to be somewhat close to Jacques Chirac's UMP party, though he has distanced himself from that party from 1998 onwards.


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Talk:European MEPs abolish right to opt-out of Working Time Directive

European MEPs
An interesting headline change, there. What other kinds of MEPs are there, then? ☺ Uncle G 17:41, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

The directive hasn't been abolished yet. There needs to be agreement between the MEPs (who want to abolish it) and the UK Government (who don't) - Kev.

broken link: europa.eu.int

 * http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=31993L0104 has gone offline. The content in now available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&numdoc=31993L0104.

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 * And of course, stories need writing!

Gaza
I think you started an article on Gaza on Submit a story, did you not? Well, I spotted, thought it was pretty good, so I put it onto a page of it's own and listed it on the Main Page. Feel free to keep editing it!

If you want to know all the steps involved in publishing a story (sadly there are many!), use the links above :) Dan100 (Talk) 19:02, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

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