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Threat to ships in Malacca Strait, says Singapore Navy

March 4, 2010

The Singapore Navy on Thursday warned of a possible pirate threat to ships passing through the Strait of Malacca after receiving a correspondence from an unnamed terrorist organization.

According to the Navy, the intent of the terrorists was to "achieve widespread publicity and showcase that they remain a viable group." While the threat received covered only oil tankers, other large cargo ships were also at risk of attack, naval officials went on to say.

To reduce possible risks, the Navy urged ships to strengthen onboard security, including adding additional lights and lookouts. They also recommended that ships maintain a higher speed and report any unusual incidents to the proper authorities. The advisory said that past attacks in the Strait had been carried out by small vessels such as motorboats or fishing boats with armed crews. Commercial vessels were also warned to avoid known fishing areas accordingly.

The Singapore Navy said that it had contacted other countries in the area to warn them of the threat. Both Indonesia and Malaysia have also announced plans to increase patrols in order to provide additional security.

The Strait of Malacca is a major conduit for oil shipments. With around a third of global oil shipments passing through, it is the main route for travelling from the Middle East to Asia. Any attack on vessels within the Strait would likely have a major ripple effect on global trade.


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I agree with 90% of President Obama's goals. this is one of those goals, as for spending Republicans steal peoples money and give it to fat cats on wall street.


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BBC Ethiopian famine aid 'siphoned off' to buy weapons according to rebels, report

March 5, 2010

An investigation by the BBC has revealed that millions of dollars in famine relief aid money, including the money raised from the charity supergroup Band Aid and the Live Aid concert held by Bob Geldof, was "siphoned off" by Ethiopian rebels to buy weapons. One rebel said that at least US$ 95 million (£63 million) from — Western governments and private charities — was diverted into rebel coffers.

This was also noted in a declassified Central Intelligence Agency assessment of the famine situation titled Ethiopia: Political and Security Impact of the Drought, in which the report states, "Some funds that insurgent organizations are raising for relief operations, as a result of increased world publicity, are almost certainly being diverted for military purposes."

During the 1984–1985 famine, Ethiopia was fighting Eritrean and Tigray rebels in those two northern provinces, although Eritrea has since gained its independence. Since the countryside was out of the government's control, aid was brought in from neighboring Sudan. Some aid came in the form of food, while other aid came as cash which would be used by the aid agencies to buy grain from Ethiopian farmers.

Rebels would disguise themselves as traders and merchants to get their hands on the currency. "I was given clothes to make me look like a Muslim merchant. This was a trick for the NGOs," said Gebremedhin Araya, a senior member of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

One such aid worker that brought the grain was Max Peberdy, who worked for the charity Christian Aid. Peberdy is seen in a photo with Araya buying grain.

Araya said that only some of the sacks were filled with grain; the rest were filled with sand. The transaction was overseen by a member of the Relief Society of Tigray (REST), the humanitarian wing of the TPLF. The money was then given to TPLF leaders, including chairman Meles Zenawi, who has been Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 1991. Zenawi has not commented on the allegations.

Peberdy disputes the claims that he was duped, saying, "As far as we were concerned and as far as we were told by REST, the people we were dealing with were merchants." He added, "It's 25 years since this happened, and in the 25 years it's the first time anybody has claimed such a thing."

However, an exiled TPLF commander who lives in the Netherlands, Aregawi Berhe, is backing Araya's story. He said the group got their hands on over US$100 million (£66 million) of which 95% went to buy weapons and build up a hardliner Marxist party inside the rebel movement. The remaining five percent would go to famine victims. Berhe told the BBC that the group would put on a "drama" to get the money. Berhe said, "The aid workers were fooled."

In response to the allegations, the charity Christian Aid issued a statement saying, "There are allegations in the story which are against all of Christian Aid's principles and our initial investigations do not correspond to the BBC's version of events."

Nick Guttmann, who is director of emergency relief operations for the group, says the "story has to be put into context". "We were working in a major conflict, there was a massive famine and people on all sides were suffering," Guttmann said, adding, "Both the rebels and the government were using innocent civilians to further their own political ends."

Bob Geldof, the Irish rock star who help organized Live Aid, said, "We are talking about a disgruntled, exiled general. The essence of the report also is not just about Live Aid.  It's that all monies going into Tigray — that would be Oxfam, Save the Children, UNICEF and Christian Aid — somehow, we were all duped and gulled.  And that's simply not the case.  It just didn't happen."


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Earthquake, tsunami combo caused devastation in Pichilemu, Chile

Last Saturday, Chile was hit by a 8.8 earthquake. Many coastal towns were also hit by a tsunami, and Pichilemu was one of them. Its inhabitants were surprised by the giant waves that destroyed the most of the costanera and that reached the city square.

Pichilemu, that means in Mapudungun language small forest, is one of the most famous Chilean resort towns in the central zone of Chile. It is recurrently visited by surfers from all the world, because the Punta de Lobos beach is considered one of the best for surf practice worldwide.

Central Pichilemu was not severely damaged by the earthquake, but the tsunami caused significant destruction. The Fishermen Creek, located in front of the beach, was completely destroyed, and its machines are now unusable. Most of the Agustín Ross architecture that characterized the city, three of them being National Monuments of Chile, were damaged. The Agustín Ross Mirador, a famous location in front of the beach, located less than 200 meters from the Fisherman Creek, was completely destroyed. Its famous balustrades were washed away or thrown asunder. Many restaurants, kiosks and a circus were affected by the tsunami.

The rural parts of Pichilemu, like Ciruelos, Rodeillo and Espinillo feature houses constructed from adobe. Many were more than 100-years old, and were destroyed or are now uninhabitable.

The most powerful aftershock was produced almost 40 kilometers in front of the coast of Pichilemu, at the 03:10 local time (07:10 UTC) in March 2, with an intensity of 5.5 in the Richter scale, according to the USGS.

The Intendant of the O'Higgins Region, Juan Núñez, had a meeting with the Governor of the Cardenal Caro Province, Loreto Puebla, the Mayor of Pichilemu, Roberto Córdova, and naval and military authorities, juntas de vecinos representatives. They decided to leave the Carabineros police force to maintain the security of the city.


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I would give the kid and his dad a break. Nothing bad happened anyhow, and it would be fun.


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They're going to do something that is going to increase security, but they're not going to tell us what they plan to do, other then they plan to do something. Why not just keep the entire thing classified then, they didn't actually release anything of "value" (other then PR value)?


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As someone who dislikes the idea that the government has to license any marriage (that is, I believe even heterosexuals should get civil unions), how should I take this?


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China's military spending increases by 7.5%

March 5, 2010

China's military spending will increase by 7.5% for 2010, the first single-digit increase since 1989, a spokesman for the Chinese parliament, Li Zhaoxing, said.

Mr. Li said that China would spend 532.1 billion yuan ($77.9 billion) on the country's military over the course of 2010, an increase of about 36.9 billion yuan ($5.4 billion) over 2009's spending. Regardless of the increase, China still spends significantly less on its military as a proportion of its gross domestic product (GDP) than other countries around the world. China spends about 1.4% of its GDP on the military, while the United States spends about 4% of its GDP on the military. The US, which accounts for 48% of the world's military spending, has frequently encouraged China to be more transparent about its military spending, a challenge which China said it was meeting.

At a press conference, Mr. Li said that the increase was in response to various security threats to China, although the nature of the threats were not specified. He did, however, say that, "The only purpose of China's limited military strength is to safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity." He also said that the government has limited military spending to the best of its ability, and had tried to ensure a balance between the military and other needs.

According to US military analysis and official Chinese reports, China has been steadily increasing military spending since the late 1980s, when the country began a program of improving its entire armed forces, including developing and producing weapons and equipment. The US Pentagon issued a report in 2009, saying that military spending had increased by an average of 12.9% annually since 1996. Based on this, analysts say that the earlier large spending increases could explain the slower increase for 2010. China in the past few years has seen dramatic spending increases in other sectors, especially costs related to the global financial crisis, and these sectors have complained about the amount of military spending. As one analyst, David Shambaugh from George Washington University, put it, "There have been complaints from some other sectors that it has been distorting expenditures. Maybe some of those arguments have come home to roost."


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Because... everyone knows that being obscure about what they are doing isn't going to help keep it any more secure. This way people might get some input on how to help, and ya know... actually help.


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British tourists missing in Pichilemu, Chile

March 4, 2010 Yesterday the Surfer's Cottage, in Pichilemu, Chile, published a list on its website of people missing in the area, including several British tourists.

Some of the named include Kirsty Duff, from Aberdeenshire, Dave Sandercock, from Edinburgh, both 25, Andre Lanyon, from Guernsey, and Laura Hapgood, both 29. Tina Cadwallader Lopes, her husband from Portugal, and their two children are also missing.

Google's Person Finder was created after the Haiti earthquake to help people find family or friends in Chile. Initially reported deceased through this service, Kirsty Duff and Dave Sandercock were later reported alive and safe in Santiago.

The Guardian reports that at least two couples from the UK were staying in the resort of Pichilemu, and are among those who are yet to contact their families.

The couple was reported alive by Ellie Sandercock, who also said they were in Santiago, as of 9 PM GMT in March 1, 2010.


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I have taken this info from what I've heard on the radio and the sources provided on the article. --MisterWiki (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It was published on the Spanish Wikinews. --MisterWiki (talk) 21:16, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Can you tell me what radio station and the time of the broadcast? Also, I'm adding broadcast report into the sources. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 21:24, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Radio Entre Olas, broadcasted at the 13:00 local time (17:00 UTC) today. --MisterWiki (talk) 21:27, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Why is this article so Brit-centric? I'd expect to find the news shaped in this manner in the British media, but not on an international website. --92.26.55.165 (talk) 15:55, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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editprotected Please add Category:O'Higgins Region. --Diego Grez return fire 19:55, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
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This is beyond fucked up.--KDP3 (talk) 20:39, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

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Rancic, Miloš (Wikinews user Millosh)
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Hare, James (Wikinews user Harej)
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Early Iraq elections marred by violence

March 5, 2010 During the first day of voting in Iraq elections, two suicide bombers have attacked polling stations in Baghdad, killing at least 14.

The attacks occurred during early voting in for the elections, which allow government employees, the sick and prisoners to vote ahead of the elections on Sunday. Two attacks occurred, about an hour apart, in different districts of Baghdad. According to the official count, at least 14 people died in the attacks, not counting attacks the day before that killed 31 people. Unofficially, reports from the scene of the attacks suggested that these counts were significantly less than the actual toll. According to officials, the attacks were carried out by insurgents trying to disrupt the elections, which are seen as a pivotal event in Iraq's attempts to unify the country.

In preparation for the elections, and in response to the threats posed by the insurgents, the Iraqi government has undertaken substantial security efforts, including extensive planning for the event, as well as working with American military forces. Despite the preparations, a senior official within the government acknowledged the threat of violence, saying that until a stable government is formed, the potential for further attacks still exists.

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Imam pleads guilty in New York subway bomb plot

March 6, 2010

A, New York pleaded guilty to lying to federal officials on Thursday. 38-year-old Ahmad Afzali, an Afghan national, made his plea in Brooklyn Federal court.

Afzali faces up to six-months in prison. Under the plea deal Afzali must leave the United States within 90 days of leaving prison. "I failed to live up to my obligation to this country, my community, my family, and my religion. I am truly sorry," Afzali said in court.

The plea is related to the subway bomb plot surrounding, who also pleaded guilty earlier last month to conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, and material support for al-Qaeda.

Federal officials allege Zazi spent more than a year plotting the attack with co-conspirators and that he received bomb-making instructions in Pakistan in 2008. The U.S. government also says he bought components to build improvised explosive devices and traveled to New York City on September 10, 2009, to move forward with his plans. Zazi's father was also arrested in September and charged with lying to federal officials. Zazi faces life in prison if convicted.


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I am a senior dermatology consultant based in Delhi and have been regularly visiting Maharajji's hospitals in Barsana and Mangarh to provide free skin services to the poor of the region since the past many years. Maharajji has been quietly doing exemplary work for the upliftment of the downtrodden since the past many years. He has constructed primary, undergraduate and postgraduate schools and colleges for girls in the villages. His hospitals have been providing free medicines and operation facilities for the poor since past many years. God bless him for such humanitarian activities. Blaming a person like him for this very unfortunate incidence is shameful and can be done only by people who have never associated with him. Media is quick to harp upon any unfortunate incidents but never brings forth the good work being done by that individual since the past decades. All this for gaining TRP mileage, at the cost of maligning the image of a Spiritual Master.

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"Miracle on the Hudson" pilot retires

March 5, 2010

On Wednesday, Captain Chesley Sullenberger retired. The US Airways pilot was best known for the "Miracle on the Hudson," when he landed Flight 1549 safely down on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. After a bird strike in which both engines were blown out, Sullenberger was forced to land the plane, which carried 150 passengers, safely down on the river. With help from the crew and first responders on scene, all those on the plane survived with minimal injuries.

Following the near disaster, many people hailed Sullenberger as a hero. Over the past year, he has been involved in writing a book, giving speeches, and appearing before Congress. During his testimony before Congress, he spoke about the importance of pilot safety. He also served as the grand marshal of the 2010 Tournament of Roses Parade. Sullenberger was additionally hailed at the Obama inauguration and Super Bowl XLIV.

On his final flight, Sullenberger flew from Fort Lauderdale to Charlotte. His co-pilot on the flight, Jeff Skiles, had been with him on Flight 1549. Sullenberger was joined on the flight by his wife, Lorrie, and five passengers from Flight 1549. Sullenberger said in a statement, that he will continue to work as an advocate for aviation safety.

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US Congressional panel claims Turkey committed genocide

March 5, 2010

A United States Congressional panel has passed a resolution describing Turkey's killing of Armenians in World War I as genocide, over objections from the White House.

The panel, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, passed the resolution, which calls on President Barack Obama to "characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide," by a vote of 23 to 22. The passage came even after the White House warned the panel that the vote would harm talks between Turkey and Armenia, and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked the panel not to proceed with the vote. Additionally, a Turkish parliamentary delegation aimed at convincing panel members to defeat the resolution also had gone to Washington to plead their case.

Just minutes after the US resolution passed, Turkey issued a statement condemning "this resolution which accuses the Turkish nation of a crime it has not committed." Additionally, Turkey said that their ambassador to the United States had been immediately recalled for consultation. Armenians, both in America and overseas, welcomed the vote, however, with the Armenian government calling the passage of the resolution "an important step towards the prevention of crimes against humanity."

The fallout from the vote threatened to disrupt talks between Turkey and Armenia intended to return the two countries to normal diplomatic status. These talks which were acknowledged by President Obama earlier this week in a telephone call to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan thanking him for his efforts in the negotiations. Additionally, the resolution significantly dampens relations between America and Turkey, which is America's staunchest Muslim ally. The US government is dependent on Turkey for its access to northern Iraq, as well as its efforts to regionally isolate Iran, and the government will undoubtedly be working to limit the diplomatic fallout from the resolution.

The events that prompted the resolution were the deportation of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire, the precursor to the current Turkish state, in 1915. Either disease, starvation or deliberate killings by Turkish troops killed around a million and a half Armenians during the deportations and other events during World War I. Since then, more than 20 countries worldwide have officially condemned the actions as genocide. Turkey, however, has rejected the term, and maintains that there was no deliberate attempt to annihilate the Armenian people.


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The most of this article was made with my own experiences here in Pichilemu. I have expanded it a bit with information extracted from the mentioned sources, though. --MisterWiki (talk) 00:53, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

May seem stupid, but can someone identify the bust in the photograph and place that in the caption? Would make for a much more complete explanation, since most of the readers of this article will not be Chilean. 71.237.69.75 (talk) 17:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

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Five construction workers shot dead in Afghanistan

March 5, 2010 According to reports from officials, four Pakistani and one Afghan road construction workers were killed in Afghanistan yesterday by armed men.

The interior ministry reported that the attack happened on Thursday morning, in the Panjwayi district in the Kandahar province, and noted that one other Pakistani and Afghan labourer were injured. The workers were reportedly en route to a building site operated by the SAITA construction firm.

"They were going to work when this incident took place. We are arranging transportation of their bodies back to Pakistan," commented Ajmal Farooqi, an executive with the company.

Police official Agha said that two gunmen motorcycle opened fire on the workers, conflicting with reports from the interior ministry, which says that there were three gunmen.

Agence France-Presse reports that this incident bears the hallmarks of the Taleban; however, Taleban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi remarked that "[o]ur friends did not say anything about it, we don't have information about the incident".


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Explosion, fire temporarily halts cereal production at General Mills plant

Production was temporarily halted at the General Mills cereal plant in Buffalo, New York after malfunctioning equipment exploded, causing a fire.

According to communications between fire crews, a fan in a hopper exploded on the 4th floor just before midnight (EST). Fire crews responded within minutes, but the fire had been extinguished prior to their arrival. Fire crews say that a "faulty motor in a hopper" exploded, igniting dust around the equipment which caused a fire.

The explosion forced the company to shut down all of their mills and power to most of their facility for a short time as a precaution. Production and normal operations began to resume around 12:15 a.m..

No one was injured. Fire officials estimate the damage to be around US$100,000.


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Currently listening to fire communications on the police scanner. Frequency 424.350. Call came in just before midnight and crew was on scene by 12:03. Single company response. Fire was out upon arrival. Power to facility was shut down at 12:10am March 5. Malfunctioning 'hopper' motor ignited dust which caused the fan to explode. Approx. US$100,000 damage. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 05:11, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
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Two police officers injured in Pentagon shooting incident

March 5, 2010🇺🇸 An armed man opened fire at an entrance to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on Thursday at 6.40 p.m (0140 UTC), injuring two police officers, before being shot and killed by them. According to the officers, the man calmly approached an entrance to the building near the Metro station, pulled a gun from his coat pocket and opened fire at them. No one else was injured in the incident. The attacker has been identified as 36 year old John Patrick Bedell of Hollister, California. He was armed with two nine millimeter semiautomatic weapons and several magazines of ammunition and acted alone.

Chief of the United States Pentagon Police Richard S. Keevill conducted a press conference two hours after the incident. He said that the wounds to the two officers were not life threatening as the bullets just grazed them. The suspect was critically injured as he was not wearing a bullet-proof vest. The two officers were taken to George Washington University Hospital for treatment and were released few hours later. He praised Officers Jeffrey Amos and Marvin Carraway for acting "quickly and decisively to neutralize him as a threat" without hurting anyone else. Bedell died hours after being admitted in critical condition.

Keevill added, "About 6:40 tonight, a person came [to] the Pentagon ... area ... [and] appeared to be pretty calm. As the officers started to ask him for his pass ... he drew a weapon from his pocket and started shooting. ... He did not say anything." Keevill confirmed that the shooter was a American citizen but denied knowledge of any motive behind the shooting. He said, "We have a theory, but it's still a theory. It's going to take time to develop that."

Bedell's car was driven from California and more ammunition was found there. Keevill said there is a surveillance video showing the suspect that "pretty much confirms what we've been saying, that he acted alone." He has dismissed the possibility of Bedell being a terrorist.

An Internet posting has come forward where a user named JPatrickBedell argued that the 9/11 attacks and death (ruled a suicide by court of law) of Marine Col. James Sabow in Orange County in 1991 had been "cover-ups" and that he was determined to uncover the truth. In the same posting he protests strict US marijuana laws and has included links to a 2006 court case in Orange County where he was prosecuted for cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer. Online Court records show the date of birth mentioned by the user JPatrickBedell matches that of the John Patrick Bedell. Bedell said in an online video, "The moral values of individuals and communities are increasingly attacked by a political system where deceit is routine and accepted and the only standard is power."

Pentagon entrances were locked shortly after the shooting, during the evening rush hour but all were reopened with the exception of the Pentagon Metro entrance which is adjacent to the main entrance of the Pentagon in Virginia, across the Potomac River. Transit officials decided to close the busy Pentagon subway station for Friday as a part of the investigations.The Pentagon police department, the Arlington County Police Department, U.S. Secret Service and the FBI are investigating the incident.

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I dont think he was a terrorist but a man who has issues, but one of our countries most secured place gets abruptly a wake up call because a single man gets in.Brideezy (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 04:59, 11 March 2010 (UTC)


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Thread:Comments:Najibullah Zazi pleads guilty in plot to bomb New York subway/"I would sacrifice myself to bring attention to what the U.S. military was doing to civilians in Afghanistan"/reply

Mr Zazi was mad doing this kind of joke. There in Afghanistan can easily target american military, if someone think that american are fighting against muslim and islam. if they want to bring down this kind of authorities and even government.they must fight face to face or even sucide attack in afghanistan not in USA. Its fully Drama/joke Mr zazi joke is too serious threat to muslim and islam.


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Well, Google is responsible to a certain extent. Google's responsibility stems from its corporate values and the fact that even kids use it. But they also have control mechanisms and that is why they take down videos that are reported as offensive (after human screening). It is a self regulating system based on usage. If you see it and find it offensive, report it.

But this high profile case aims to pass a legislation that can so easily be misused. Who will screen? How many people will be needed to police the net? These same questions were raised for the radio and the TV and it resulted in government regulation. As far as this case goes, there is no absolute answer here - No right or wrong. It was an offensive video, but they removed it when they received the complaint. On the basis of this doubt alone, these guys should be left off the hook. The internet is the last bastion of free speech. It needs to stay that way.


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Talk:Britain thinks Africans are barbaric, claims South African President

Copyvio?
This whole article seems to be a very thin rewrite of the Telegraph story; compare, for example, these two passages:

 * The couple are today due to be welcomed by the Queen at Horse Guards Parade before being taken by carriage to Buckingham Palace. This evening they will enjoy a state banquet at the palace.
 * As a member of the Zulu tribe Mr Zuma is permitted to take multiple wives, but was last month forced to make a public apology after admitting he fathered a love child following an affair with the daughter of a friend.

 * The Queen will welcome them at the Horse Guards Parade and take them to Buckingham Palace thereafter. A state banquet will also be held in his honor at the palace.
 * Zuma, a member of the Zulu tribe, is allowed to have multiple spouses, however he was compelled to make a public apology following a love child with the daughter of a friend.

The text is very close, the structure of the way it's ordered is even closer - I haven't had a chance to do a full comparison, but this is really too close to the original for my liking. Shimgray (talk) 16:22, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

 * It is close, and it certainly is a rewrite. But every time I bring this up as a problem I get slapped, so I don't bother anymore:P. When a lawsuit gets filed against us forcing us to take down half our articles as "too close to the source material to constitute a real rewrite" then they'll listen, but not before. Gopher65talk 20:32, 5 March 2010 (UTC)


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we need Christian School in Africa...


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Six people die in bus crash near Phoenix, Arizona

March 7, 2010

Multiple people are reported dead after an early Friday bus crash near Phoenix, Arizona. The Arizona Department of Public Safety stated that there were "multiple fatalities and serious injuries" in the incident.

The collision occurred south of Phoenix, near milepost 173 on Interstate 10. Public Safety barred westbound traffic lanes and could not specify any time when these lanes would open. Six people have died while seven more are in critical condition. 10 others received less severe injures

Local ABC broadcaster, KNXV-TV, said the crash occurred 5:27 AM local time (UTC 12:27). Apart from the buses, it involved two trucks and multiple cars. The buses, which lie at one side of the road, are covered by debris, according to witnesses. The ladders of the rescue workers leaned against its side. The bus was badly damaged with most of its windows broken.

An emergency site was constructed to treat the casualties. The injured were gathered on a tarp in the road before being transported by ambulances and helicopters.


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User talk:208.108.153.10

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

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Pmlineditor discuss 15:32, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
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Suicide bomber kills twelve in northwest Pakistan

March 6, 2010At least twelve civilians have died and over 25 wounded in a suicide bombing in the of north-west Pakistan, Thursday night. A convoy of 140 vehicles running from, in Hangu District to the town of in , FATA was targeted.

The victims, some of them women, were at a petrol station in Hangu. The wounded were taken to adjoining hospitals.

According to police, the attacker detonated a bomb near a fully loaded bus. The convoy carried several people, vehicles filled with provisions and commodities for trading. A majority of the people in the group were Shia Muslims.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Several insurgents have attacked the country's North West Frontier Province in the last year. Earlier, three died in another suicide attack on a police station in Karak, located in the same area.

Many Shi'as dwell in the Parachinar and Orakzai area which has been home to violence in the past. The Tall-Parachinar road was closed to the public in 2008 and 2009 due to Taliban activity. The latter targeted Shia Muslims, sources say. The road was re-opened about two months ago, with convoys guarded by security forces forming the bulk of the traffic.

Hangu borders Pakistan's tribal regions, where several militant groups are believed to be operating. However, security forces say that arrangements have improved from the past.


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User talk:NathanRice~enwikinews

Your account will be renamed
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.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called NathanRice. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name NathanRice~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:19, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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User talk:Lispector~enwikinews

Your account will be renamed
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.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Lispector. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Lispector~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

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10 billionth update placed on social networking website Twitter

March 7, 2010

The ten billionth update, or "tweet", has been uploaded to Twitter, a social networking website. The statistic was reported by GigaTweet, a group that keeps archives in relation to Twitter messages. The update was placed onto Twitter at approximately 0100 GMT on Thursday.

The identity of the user who placed the ten billionth "tweet" on the website and the message itself cannot be discovered due to the fact that the update was uploaded from a protected profile. A protected profile is a profile which cannot be viewed by all internet users.

Twitter was first launched in March 2006. The first message to be sent onto Twitter read out: "just setting up my twttr". The website reached its billionth "tweet" in November 2008 and its five billionth in November 2009. GigaTweet have predicted that the twenty billionth update will be put onto the website by October 2010.


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MediaWiki:Gadget-CleanDeleteReasons

remove the automatic deletion reasons to keep Special:Log/delete uncluttered (reasons specified in the URL will be unaffected).

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User talk:146.217.200.214

Do not vandalise articles unless you want blocked. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 19:11, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:24.223.106.130

Please only create news articles. See WN:NOT for more details. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:29, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi. please keep all testing to WN:SANDBOX or you may be blocked. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:44, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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Wikinews:Water cooler/policy/archives/2010/February

How to peer-review
I'm not aware of substantive guidance on the site about on how to go about peer-reviewing articles. What I mean is that (unless I've missed something, but if I have then there's a decent chance I'm not alone in that) a newly promoted editor has nothing that tells them how much of what kind of work they ought to be putting into the task. Much of their prior experience of the peer review process is that it looks easy; they only see the tip of the iceberg — maybe some copyedits, and a little edit that replaces review with publish and puts a template on the talk page saying it's been certified acceptable on several criteria. One might expect to find the primary description of the process in Reviewing articles, but that page doesn't give a real sense of the part of the iceberg below the surface.

As a first step toward figuring what we should tell prospective peer-reviewers about the process — and authors, too, who might find the process easier to appreciate if they had a clearer picture of it — I'd like to ask how other editors go about peer-reviewing an article. I too have only seen the effects of other people's reviews; and I'm not really satisfied that I know how to do some aspects of reviewing properly.

As a starting point, I'll open myself up to ridicule by describing how I go about peer review.
 * After reading through the article to get a sense of what is there, I open up a second browser tab, and use it to set up a scratchpad copy of the entire body of the article in Special:ExpandTemplates, which lets me edit the scratchpad without any danger of accidentally saving it. Then I scan through each of the sources from beginning to end, and as I find things in the sources, I use ... to strike out those facts in my scratchpad copy of the article body; when I'm all done, everything in the scratchpad copy should have been struck out.  This also serves several other purposes:
 * Scrutinizing the relationship between article and sources should also detect copyright problems of the "block copy" sort (if such were to occur).
 * Scrutinizing the article piece-by-piece should detect a large percentage of style problems (assuming that the reviewer is likely to recognize style problems when their nose is rubbed in them, this will do the nose-rubbing).
 * Scrutinizing the sources is likely to detect if they're really from the same newsfeed rather than being independent sources.
 * When I've done all that, which concentrates on the details, I try to step back and look at the whole, a bit (I admit I'm still struggling with this). Like, are all the really important aspects of the story included in the article, is appropriate weight being given to the different aspects, what about categories, picture(s), infobox.

I'd also be very interested in comments on which aspects of an article are most important to get right before publication, versus which aspects aren't such a big deal to make minor fixes to later. --Pi zero (talk) 14:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

 * This is something I haven't really thought about, but now that it's been brought to my attention, yes, I do notice that we haven't much in the way of help in how to publish articles for new editors. Perhaps we could create Tips on reviewing articles or something like that? You're quite right in that most reviewers are left to their own devices when publishing. I don't think we should have a firm policy on *how* exactly to review, but rather just suggestions what to look for.

 * Anyway, I really like your strategy for verifying articles, i think it's quite efficient but, at the same time, covers all important steps. My method for reviewing is less methodical: I go through the sources, make sure they're not from the same agency, then try to judge their accuracy and reliability (i.e., I'd take info from the Daily Mail or tabloid with a grain of salt, and perhaps try to find a more reputable source to back up the information taken from them). Then I proceed to the article itself: I read the first paragraph, find where in the sources it's verified, make sure it conforms to policy (style, NPOV), then repeat the process with next paragraphs, making incremental copyedits as I see needed. When I'm all done with that, I do a quick read-through to make sure appropriate balance is given to all viewpoints, see if categories and formatting is correct, and then publish. Tempodivalse [talk]  14:59, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

 * I don't think we want to specify how to do a review. For instance, I read the article, then read each of the sources and can tell if it's been copyviod or some things aren't mentioned.  I just copyedit as I go.  So no methodical method, but I'm able to do it like that and everyone is different.  We could maybe add a bit more in tips, but we want to avoid specific methods.     Tris   15:48, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

My approach seems to differ significantly from those given above. And, I'm the one that spent a couple of years or more fighting to get the process in place.

First and foremost, I copyedit. Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How. Does the article tell a story? Does it do so in a way that flows? Is there actually any point to someone reading what, mostly, are our synthesis versions of main news events reported anywhere else?

Once that's done, and often as a part of that process, I'll correct Wikilinks to be local - eg, United States instead of United States. To a lesser extent I'll look for wikilinks that go to redirect pages on enwp; however, I would generally consider this sufficiently low-priority that the only ones to really worry about are where someone's linking to a disambig page on enwp.

You will note, I have zero mention of reading any of the sources yet!

Once I'm reasonably happy the article reads well, I will look at the visual appearance. Are pull-quotes really pull-quotes? Or, omitted from the article? Is there no infobox, and an appropriate one that could be used? Are image captions holding part of the story rather than admitting to use of a file photo? Are images credited appropriately? (On this point, many images on Commons need no attribution but I feel that the people who give these away with no expectation of recognition deserve such. I think it is setting a good example for others utilising Commons and there's less worry about if it is required to attribute reuse. Just do it anyway and be done with it.)

Then, and only then, will I move onto the sources, related news, and external links. Are related news items really related? (Eg, don't just slap the last 3 articles on a country on the article, are they really a continuation of the same story, or a source used in the article you're currently reviewing? If not, cut 'em; this can be a POV-by-association issue if you pick the wrong related news items.

Then, into the sources; sort newest->oldest, fix the perennial failure to cite the BBC as "BBC News Online" (my pet hate), check authors are credited, and agencies where appropriate, try (based on five years on-project) to have publisher names likely to wikilink to the correct enWP article, and curse people who do not use the standardised Monthname Dayno, Year dating standard.

Ensure that there's nothing wishy-washy, generic, undated in the sources; if needed move to external links and cite appropriately for there.

Then, it's time to move on to reading the sources. And, believe you me, I've had some entertaining experiences there. If it's a "publication" from Bumfuck Blogistan I'm not amused. I really dislike dealing with such sources unless I can quickly establish they have some credibility and aren't just cut-and-pasted from a more obscure or behind-paywall source. Other risks you have are stories that originate with one of the wire services and go global in the media echo-chamber. It is really, really easy for someone who isn't appropriately suspicious to pick three sources with vast geographical separation, and even poles-apart politically, to all be regurgitating the self-same Associated Press or Reuters report. I've seen it, and probably most who follow the news a lot have too, a global story, in the first 15 minutes of every bulletin on TV news in a dozen countries, and the thing is actually single-source to AP having a syndication deal with a tiny obscure newspaper in Nowheresville. What can be worse is where all the used sources are different tentacles of the same news conglomerate like News International. There's a right-of-centre to right-of-Attila-The-Hun bias to all their outlets; that can badly bias a story.

You'll note I've not yet mentioned copyvio. I do, sometimes, find this amusing. I've done my copyedit first, sources later, on articles only to find that I've changed the Wikinews story to a closer copyvio than the original author. This, to me, is a little ironic; the author's efforts to avoid accusations of copyright violation are superficial, and they're paraphrasing sentence-for-sentence from a source without realising a critical copyedit will turn it back into what the source they plagiarised wrote. While Wikinews remains a small community you quickly pick up on suspected copyvio authors; others, you learn, can be trusted to put in the effort to render checks for this unneeded.

Naturally, alongside the copyvio item above, you're fact-checking the article. You may find you need to go back and slightly revise the Wikinews article because some point has been over-simplified, or somewhat misrepresented.

Categories, to me, are less important than a lot of things. I believe you should never rely on a category being added via an infobox. An article could be expanded, additional images or pull-quotes added, within the 12-18 hours post-publish and render the infobox inappropriate. As far as I'm concerned the critical category items are at least one geographical category, and one major topic category such as Category:Politics and conflicts. When we do have the sitemap extension sorted, tested, and installed, then the category information will feed straight into Google News. If you don't fix the categorisation on an article before publication it may be unlocatable via GNews.

Virtually all that's needed is in the Wikinews policies - which seem assumed more aimed at authors than reviewers; the critical points I would emphasise are, active voice and near-memorisation of Strunk's. The latter will tell you to rip out every single nonessential word. Almost all copyedits I do need words like "that" dropped because they're just noise. Certain points get slashed back to brutally simple subject-object-verb sentences. Run-on sentences get condemned as "crimes against the English language"; and – both as a writer, or reviewer – the aim is to have a finished piece that someone with college-level English will, if interested by the lede, read from start to finish without feeling taxed, and, from which they walk away feeling more informed.

As you might suspect, I set standards so high even I have trouble reaching them in my writing. To-date Mike Halterman is, seemingly, the only Wikinewsie who appears to have gone from contributor here to paid journalist. I subscribe to the view, "Take the job seriously, but never yourself". And, for aspiring writers, I would commend Stephen King's advice in his book "On Writing" – spend at least one hour each every day reading and writing. Even if you do not intend to pursue a career in journalism or writing books, this is a skill that will serve you incredibly well in any career. Use Wikinews as a place to hone your writing skills and critical analysis of the writings of others; along the way you can help make this a high-quality news source that builds its reputation and proves that writing is a craft, not a "taught" skill. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:56, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Btw, in regards to Pi Zero's method. There's a trick you can do with js. Go to the page your about to review, and go to the url javascript:document.getElementById('bodyContent').contentEditable=true;void%200 And then you can delete arbitrary text from the page. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:02, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Is this browser-specific? (I'm wondering what it does nothing when I try it.  Turning on javascript, I thought of. :-)  --Pi zero (talk) 16:58, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't be. Part of html5 (and it originally came from IE, so i think its supported more or less everywhere). Tested on firefox (You'll need firefox 3 or later. doesn't work with version 2), opera and IE. (won't work on konquor, as it doesn't support javascript urls). Should just go to some page (viewing some page, not editing), type that line into url bar, hit enter, highlight some text on the page contents, hit backspace and it should dissapear. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:29, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Eureka! Thanks.  --Pi zero (talk) 20:32, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I was playing with this idea a little more (aka i was looking for an excuse to do something with contentEditable that seems to be all the rage these days). I created a gadet called On Screen Edit, that adds a link to the toolbar at the bottom of the sidebar to switch the page into "on screen edit mode". Maybe it might be useful. At the very least its somewhat fun to play with. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:25, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yup, neat gadget. Compared for the purpose with Special:ExpandTemplates, it has the advantage of a much simpler user interface — no wiki/html markup and submission via an "OK" button to deal with, just directly modify what you see.  The balancing limitation, as best I can figure, is that along with the complexity of wiki/html markup, it's also lost the capabilities of wiki/html markup.  In my own review technique, I strike out passages using ..., so the struck passages are still visible, as is the whole structure of the article.  (I don't want the struck passages out-of-sight-out-of-mind, because I'm still thinking about the whole article throughout the process — doing multiple subtasks in parallel.)  It depends, evidently, on just what the individual reviewer is looking for.  Ah, trade-offs.  --Pi zero (talk) 14:11, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I tried adding a toolbar. You can now hilight stuff, and press a button and it will strike stuff (or do other things depending on which button you press). Bawolff ☺☻ 02:28, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 * That looks like it ought to have it all over Special:ExpandTemplates for the purpose. Cool.  --Pi zero (talk) 15:27, 19 February 2010 (UTC)


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Isn't Erdrogan the government, not the president? 76.117.247.55 (talk) 23:31, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ He's Prime Minister ... thanks for pointing this out.--SVTCobra 23:35, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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Any new development should be covered in a new article --SVTCobra 03:37, 6 March 2010 (UTC)


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Gardner pleads not guilty to Chelsea King murder

March 7, 2010 John Albert Gardner III pleaded not guilty in to the rape and murder of 17-year-old Poway, California resident Chelsea King during a short arraignment held in San Diego Superior Court on Wednesday. King disappeared February 25 while jogging in a park near Lake Hodges in Escondido. A body believed to be King's was found Tuesday near the lake shore. DNA matching of semen found on the victim's clothing identified Gardner as a suspect, according to a spokesperson for the California Department of Justice. Gardner was arrested Sunday near Lake Hodges.

A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for March 18.

The murder charge carries the special circumstance of being committed during a rape. Deputy District Attorney Kristen Spieler stated that the special circumstance makes Gardner eligible for the death penalty. The charges carry a penalty of 25 years to life if prosecutors choose not to pursue the death penalty.

Gardner is listed in California's registered sex offender database with a home address in Lake Elsinore, about 75 miles north of San Diego. He had been visiting his mother at her Rancho Bernardo townhouse at the time of King's murder.

King had planned on going on a run in Rancho Bernardo Community Park on the afternoon of February 25. Her family called police when she did not return home at dark. King's BMW was found in the park's parking lot, locked, with her cell phone and other belongings inside. Nothing indicated that anything violent had occurred in the vehicle.

About 125 professionally-trained search-and-rescue volunteers combed through an area between the park and Lake Hodges. 6,000 other volunteers searched areas around North County, coordinated by the Texas-based Laura Recovery Center. Searchers found a body about 1 p.m. (13:00) local time (2100 UTC) on Tuesday, in a shallow grave about ten feet from a tributary that leads to the lake. The search had already covered that area but had missed the body. A diver searching the tributary spotted it from the water. According to San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, there is a "strong likelihood" that the body is King's; however, the District Attorney's office does not plan to release positive identification until the preliminary hearing.

San Diego police say they have connected Gardner to a December 27 attack on a 22-year-old jogger in the same park where King disappeared. Gardner is also under investigation in the February 2009 disappearance of 14-year-old Amber Dubois in Escondido. In May 2000, Gardner was convicted of a forcible lewd act on a child and false imprisonment. A 13-year-old female neighbor accused him of molesting her and punching her repeatedly in the head.

In the 2000 case, prosecutors had originally charged Gardner with more-violent crimes that could have put him in prison for 30 years. They granted Gardner a plea agreement allowing him to be charged with lesser crimes — and receive a shorter sentence — in order to "spare the victim the trauma of testifying". With the reduced charges, Gardner faced 11 years in prison. The judge agreed to the prosecution's recommendation that the sentence be reduced to six years. Gardner served five years and was released in 2005. He wore a tracking device until his probation ended in 2008.

Dr. Matthew Carroll, the staff psychiatrist who interviewed Gardner in 2000 stated that "the defendant takes no responsibility whatsoever for his actions..." and that "it is my opinion that [the defendant] would be a continued danger to underage girls in the community." However, Dr. Divy Kikani, a psychiatrist who had treated Gardner for bipolar disorder, said that Gardner was "extremely remorseful" and "highly motivated" to get help. A then-girlfriend, ex-girlfriend, and Gardner's mother all expressed support for him in the 2000 case.

Chelsea King's parents, Brent and Kelly King, are arguing for changes in sex offender laws following their daughter's death. Kelly King stated that current law "lets every child in this country down."


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