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Talk:Poorly performing high schools in North Carolina threatened with closure

Yeah, right! What the administration needs is leadership training. That'll turn this ship around. That is the lamest excuse for an idea to revamp a failing school I've ever heard.

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Wikinews:Briefs/July 21, 2006

The time is 18:00 (UTC) on July 21st, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper assigned airforce aircraft to pick up Canadians in Lebanon
Lebanon

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper fulfilled his promise to use his own assigned airforce aircraft to pick up Canadians fleeing from the assault on Lebanon and who are currently stranded in Cyprus.

Ninety New Zealanders evacuated from Lebanon
Ninety New Zealanders have been evacuated from war-torn Lebanon and are on their way to the safety of Cyprus. Three ships are helping in the evacuations, two British Navy and one United Nations chartered ferry.

Khmer Rouge "Butcher" dies ahead of trial
Cambodia

Ta Mok, also known as the "Butcher", military commander of the Khmer Rouge regime which terrorised Cambodia in the 1970s, has died in a military hospital in Phnom Penh. He was facing trial for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the regime's rule.

Indonesia's president visits victims of tsunami
Indonesia

Indonesia's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has visited the area worst hit by a tsunami that struck the Indonesian island of Java on Monday afternoon. Mr Yudhoyono toured the small town of Pangandaran and met people staying in a temporary camp.

Microsoft to buy back US$40 B of its stock over 5 years
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Microsoft Corporation has announced plans to buy back US$40 billion of its stock between now and 2011.

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Israel masses troops, tanks along Lebanon border

July 21, 2006

Israel has warned civilians in Southern Lebanon to leave their homes and villages and move into the city of Beirut as Israel masses tanks, armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and at least 5 battalions of troops totaling at least 3,000 reserves along its border with Lebanon. Villagers were warned to leave the area before 2:00 p.m. in at least 12 villages in Lebanon that border Israel.

Chief of the Israeli army, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz says that operations conducted on the ground will be limited. "We shall carry out limited ground operations as necessary in order to strike at the terrorism which strikes at us.", Halutz said during a press conference. Senior Israeli army commanders have left open the possibility that a large-scale ground invasion would soon be launched. "It's possible that in the coming days our ground operations will increase," said Israeli Brigadier-General Alon Friedman

The Lebanese government has warned Israel that if an invasion occurs, the Lebanese army would engage in battle with Israel's army."The Lebanese Army will resist and defend the country and prove that it is an army worth of respect," said Elias Murr, Lebanon's Defense Minister. "Our constitutional duty is to defend Lebanon as a Lebanese army. This is our role. But for the resistance (Hezbollah) to enter the army and fight alongside the army, this is not an option".

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said that Lebanon are not going to "let anybody take our land. We are not going to let them come back and take it." However, according to Mail & Guardian Online which is quoting an anonymous Israeli military official, there will not be a "full-scale incursion into Lebanon."

On the other hand, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora was quoted in the Milan-based daily "Corriere della Sera" calling for the disarmament of Hezbollah. "It's not a mystery that Hezbollah answers to the political agendas of Tehran and Damascus," Siniora said to the Corriere. "The entire world must help us disarm Hezbollah. But first we need to reach a cease-fire." Siniora later denied the interview, but "Corriere della Sera" stands by its report. "The interview was recorded," a senior staff member said.

"The important thing now is to restore full Lebanese sovereignty in the south, dismantling any armed militia parallel to the national army," said Siniora. "The Syrians are inside our home and we are still too weak to defend ourselves. The terrible memories of the civil war are still too alive and no one is ready to take up arms."

So far, Lebanon's army has not engaged in battle with Israel's army except for firing anti-aircraft guns at Israeli warplanes.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah issued a strongly worded statement indicating, as he has before, that he will not release any Israeli prisoners except through a prisoner-exchange. Nasrallah stated that Israeli reports of having destroyed half of Hezbollah's missile stores were erroneous and that, "the leadership of Hezbollah has not been touched." He promised "more surprises".

While Nasrallah asks for an exchange of Israeli-held prisoners for two IDF soldiers captured by a Hezbollah incursion into Israel following the G8 summit, the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for an immediate cease-fire between the two bordering nations on Thursday. But the UN holds little sway in Lebanon.

The Lebanese government is the first elected by a popular vote following last year's resignation of the Syrian backed government of Omar Karami in February. Demonstrations and pressure from the international community led to a complete withdrawal by Syria and free and democratic elections in June. The current Israel-Lebanon crisis is the most serious challenge faced by the relatively inexperienced government.


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NPOV
Article is much too slanted towards what 1 side says about the event. Please use some other sources like or in the arabic articles for npov. Neutralizer 19:51, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I will try to make some edits after work but in the meantime the article is too pov to be published. Neutralizer 00:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

stuff to add: Doldrums 07:24, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 500000 people already displaced. . "An estimated 500,000 people have fled their homes during a week of bombardment, UN agencies said, with many now sheltered in public buildings such as schools and community centres." (UN press release)
 * when did israel issue the warning? (so how much time do people have to get out?)
 * how warned? (airdropped leaflets, press release), and do fleeing civilians have safe passage?

Political commentary
"Lebanese citizens, assisted by pressure from the international community, cast off influence by Syria by popular vote only to experience interests as powerful, or more powerful, than the new form of government. The linkage of Hezbollah to Syria, and by way of Syria to Iran, where the intersts are anti-Israel, is not a new relationship to a neighboring nation. Rather an old and persevering clash."

This bit needs rewritten and sourced, I'd suggest digging up wikinews articles on the story and lifting sections from them for the background, that way you're already using NPOV material. Otherwise, as has been suggested elsewhere, limit to what, and what that is recent. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * As suggested elsewhere... so what! You lift them, prove me wrong. -Edbrown05 08:50, 22 July 2006 (UTC)


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After Bush leaves Russia, Voice of Russia commentary questions President's intellect

July 22, 2006

An unusual commentary on the Voice of Russia English-language web site, which has since been removed, claims that President Bush's presumed "narrow intellectual horizons" and "disastrous judgment" have had "cataclysmic" policy consequences. FreeMediaOnline.org reported that the commentary was published a few days after President Bush left Russia, where he had attended the G-8 summit.

FreeMediaOnline.org reported that the publication of such a strong personal attack on a foreign head of state by a government broadcaster in Russia is highly unusual and may indicate a worsening in relations between Moscow and Washington as a result of the war in Iraq and what FreeMediaOnline.org described as the decline of Russian democracy under President Putin. It may also be an indication of Moscow's increased assertiveness in foreign policy thanks to revenues from high energy prices.

The analyst, David Brian, who is a regular Voice of Russia contributor, quoted at length from the July 16 Jonathan Chait's column in The Los Angeles Times: "Is Bush Still Too Dumb to Be President?." in his comment "George W. Bush Has Intuition (Maybe)". Voice of Russia did not identify Chait by name as the author of the original commentary. Their analyst indicated, however, that he was citing a Los Angeles Times article. The Voice of Russia comment could under normal circumstances been viewed as an example of unusual journalistic freedom.

The title of the Voice of Russia commentary, "George W. Bush Has Intuition (Maybe)," and its tone indicated that the analyst shared the same views about President Bush's intellect as The Los Angeles Times columnist Jonathan Chait. According to FreeMediaOnline.org the 450 word commentary consisted of not much more than a word-for-word repeat of Jonathan Chait's column.

President Bush received a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University in 1968, and also received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1975.

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This report is released to Wikinews under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License by Ted Lipien, President of FreeMediaOnline.org. Original reporting for this story was done by FreeMediaOnline.org Tedlipien 01:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Original?
It doesn't look to me like original reporting. It has sources etc. Neebs 01:50, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

The Voice of Russia commentary was discovered by me and I was was first to report on it for FreeMediaOnline.org. Tedlipien 01:58, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Reverting to develop
I've reverted this status to "developing" after MrMiscellanious noted the state of the article. I investigated it a bit further, and I agree that something seems to be one-sided towards the yup-Bush-is-an-idiot point of view. The article doesn't seem to fairly represent each side of the issue. However, this is just what I believe the article's state is, so if I'm wrong, feel free to put it back as "publish". —     05:43, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, I focused the article on diplomasy and journalism. Think its publishable now. international 18:58, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I've added information on reaction from LAT readers to the original column to show the controversial and partisan nature of the original comments. I also see the focus of this story as Russian foreign policy, international public diplomacy and journalism rather than President Bush's intellect per se. Tedlipien 19:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I added some stuff in brackets right into the article. Somebody might want to polish it.

Anti-Putin, Anti-Russia
I tried to remove some of the Anti-Putin anti Russian nationalism bias that tagged along from freemediaonline. I'm not arguing he's a great guy, but I'd prefer facts about what he's done to negative generalizations about his behavior. SethDelisle 04:45, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Bush may be the smartest
I am taking out the qualifier to his educational acomplishments as it is not sourced and even if it was there is other evidence that he has a high intellect; his grades were higher than Kerry's at Yale plus George was quarterback of the Yale football team (which takes a lot of time) while still passing all his courses. History (George's major)is also one of the toughest subject matters and a Harvard MBA is not easy to get. If Bush has feigned low intellect to the masses and foreigners it would be very useful for writing off war criminal behavior and massive intelligence manipulation for foreign policy purposes as simply stupid mistakes made by a stupid person. Occam's razor methodology tells me that Bush is extremely intelligent; having excelled in academics at Ivy League graduate and post graduate studies as well as in business;made lots of money on the Texas Rangers' franchise; and politics; went from alcoholic party boy to fundamentalist President in about 9 years. I can assure you that the people he hangs around with personally see a much different intellect than the blue collar voters do when George hits the microphone. You and I might care whether average people think we are stupid; but I doubt whether Henry VIII, Hitler or Genghis Khan did..oh yeah, some people say Hitler was stupid too. To me it makes more sense to believe that George (and Karl Rove) know that the national US illiteracy rate has gone from 3% to 18% (since 1942) and that the american population as a whole has become dumber by the year (less than 50% graduate high school in Florida these days) so since he already has the Republican blue-bloods in his pocket,he only needs to appeal to the dumbies with his "axis of evil","wanted dead or alive" and "Saddam has weapons of mass destruction" schticks to get and keep control.....and control is all he cares about; he knows enough about history to know that it,like news, is also controllable. That's my opinion and that's why I don't really like this story at all; however, it is a good news item,admittedly. Neutralizer 13:35, 23 July 2006 (UTC)


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User:Cute 1 4 u~enwikinews

Hi, I'm Crystal.I have the same username on Wikipedia, Wikiquote, and Wiktionary.

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Please see
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Yeah well what I create is news to me.newflash!lol--Cute 1 4 u 19:04, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well go ahead and write what you want, but dont come crying to me when it gets tagged/deleated lol :) MyName 00:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes
Per my understanding, user boxes are generally frowned upon on Wikinews. Also, if you feel like putting personal opinions on your user page, make sure there is a disclaimer there, saying they are your opinions and not those of Wikinews. MyName 00:52, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

 * But a user named Divol sed userboxes and i did not see a disclaimer.-Cute 1 4 u 01:15, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Go here. F  e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)  01:18, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Userbox are limited to language for neutrality and calm down some problems. There's no need of disclaimer for language. The same for where you live. Wikinews is not a weblog. Jacques Divol 15:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Congratulations on you first published article, Box office breakouts for August 8, 2006! Would you be interested in writing one of these articles every week? —     19:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * There is perhaps a "project" here, we have a portal where all the "Culture and entertainment" articles are collected together (yes, it isn't being kept up to date). A once-a-week or once-a-month list of top box office takings could be included in that page.  Might remind people to go to the cinema a bit more often too.
 * I'd also suggest you reword your user page a bit, referencing what level of school you're at might be more appropriate than the term "pre-teen" - even if you are using it to inflate the age people believe you are. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

News articles
I noticed that you wrote Lamont Bentley Dies eight months after the event happened. This is discouraged on Wikinews, as news articles are supposed to be written about recent events, and not things in the past (I put the threshold at about 5 days). Please continue to contribute to Wikinews, but only write new articles if they're on recent events. —     03:16, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Copyright violations
I noticed that two of the articles you've submitted to Wikinews are copied from other websites. You shouldn't copy news articles from other websites, since it's their writing and only they are allowed to use it. You're allowed to write articles based on other articles (in fact, you should), but copying them word-for-word isn't allowed. If you have any questions about any of this, ask me on my talk page. —     04:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Bad Breath
Hi! I like what you've done on Bad Breath Could Indicate Medical Problems. I'm concerned though that the FOX news article you based it on was rather misleading. The actual recent study done (and thus the newsworthy part of it) was a study showing that flossing in addition to brushing could strengthen kid's gums. FOX sort of took this and made an article on something entirely different. I found a more relevant source for you to take a look at. . Hope this helps! Also, if you're really interested, you can probably email the researcher of the study (Walter Bretz) and have him send you a copy of the study to do your own original reporting article on. Much love, -- Ross Koepke Talk 05:24, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Personal attacks and improper comments
Note that comements such as these are not permitted on Wikinews. Don't personally attack users or groups. --Chiacomo (talk) 04:01, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Personal attacks are inexcusable -- no matter who started what. --Chiacomo (talk) 05:00, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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Man Walks Dog In Fort Worth --S-man 04:43, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

box office breakouts
I think u got something there, liked messes said, if you choose to pursue it. -Edbrown05 06:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Regarding US Box Office Breaks Out for August 23, 2006, I was hugely curious how Oliver Stones' World Trade Center would stack up to the competition, so thank you for answering that. I am a little concerned over the headline of the article so closely duplicating the sole source listed for the article's creation. I think a new snappy headline of your creation would be good to go along with this if it is to be reported with regularity, along with providing at least one more source. Best regards -Edbrown05 01:59, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Article Spam
Could you please refrain from putting articles that read like advertisments on Wikinews? Thanks, Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 22:35, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No personal attacks please. I have listed you on WN:AAA. Thunderhead - (talk) Congrajulations to Kat! 23:12, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Final warning: personal attacks
I've noticed you've been making personal attacks to some users. Everyone (including you) has to be polite no matter what happened. Please review Wikinews:ettiquite. Consider this your final warning as Chiacomo has already given you a warning previously. You will be blocked on your next offesnse. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:19, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Would like to see you around more
Hi there, you have contributed some good work to the site. I would like to see more of you around the site and notice you have been having issues with some other users. I wish to offer some assistance if you need it. Feel free to hit me back on my talk page or email me using the supplied address on my page. Cheers, Nathan - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 03:43, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

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Iconic gay couple split

July 22, 2006 Julie and Hillary Goodridge, the lesbian couple who were the lead plaintiffs in the breakthrough case, Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, have decided to separate.

Mary Breslauer, a local political consultant and spokeswoman for the Goodridges confirmed the separation on July 20. In a telephone interview in to The Boston Globe newspaper, Breslauer stated, "Julie and Hillary Goodridge are amicably living apart. As always their number one priority is raising their daughter, and like the other plaintiff couples in this case, they made an enormous contribution toward equal marriage. But they are no longer in the public eye, and request that their privacy be respected." She also added that they are not filing for divorce and did not comment anymore on their plans and gave no other details except that couple is focusing on what's best for their 10-year old daughter Annie.

"Unfortunately, lesbian and gay couples break up just as heterosexual couples," said Joyce Kauffman, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based gay and lesbian family law lawyer. "It's a fact of life. There are stresses and strains on all of us. And sometimes relationships can't beat that stress. It happens to gay people just as well straight people."

Kris Mineau, president of the conservative public policy group, the Massachusetts Family Institute who are trying to put an amendment on the 2008 ballot that would repeal same-sex marriage rights in Massachusetts said the group doesn't plan to make an issue out of the separation.

The Goodridges, who are considered by some supporters of gay marriage as the face of the gay marriage cause, met at Harvard University 21 years ago in a course about divesting from South Africa, in which a intense courtship followed. Years before the legalization of gay marriage in the state, they considered themselves to be committed partners.

They and several other gay couples, with the help of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, filed a lawsuit in which the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 on November 18th, 2003 to legalize gay marriage in Massachusetts.

They were married by a Unitarian Universalist minister on May 17, 2004, the first day that same-sex marriages were legal under the court ruling. Annie served as flower girl and ring-bearer.

The separation was first reported in Bay Windows, a Boston-based LGBT newspaper on July 20.

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Are IRIN images "Fair use" or, rather, are they images that are freely licensed? --Chiacomo (talk) 04:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, a discussion about this was raised in #wikipedia. They decided that it could be free use. —     04:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

So it's not really "Fair use", but something else? The reason I'm asking is that we shold always replace Fair Use images with free images when one is available -- IRIN photos, on the other hand, needn't be replaced. --Chiacomo (talk) 04:32, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * w:User:Zscout370 said on IRC of the matter:
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 * Additionally, there's been discussion of this on Commons: . I think we can safely say that this is fair use, and that we'll continue to use it as fair use. —     06:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
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They're not "free free", but the images also don't meet the definition of "fair use" as their use is specifically allowed by IRIN in news publications such as ours. It is important to tag them since we use them under a grant of license contained on IRIN's copyright page -- our readers and possible content re-users should be aware of the restrictions on the use of the images. In addition to listing the source and the license by which we reprint the photographs, we should credit IRIN in the caption of any photo we use (and I think we have done so in the past).

In summary, no, they're not "free images" (and can't be uploaded to commons, for example), but they're not "fair use" either. --Chiacomo (talk) 06:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

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GFDL images cannot reside on Wikinews at this time as GFDL is incompatible with the CC-BY license, unfortunately. --Chiacomo (talk) 06:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You mean GFDL images and CC-BY text can't cohabit? —     07:22, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

It's funny. CC-BY is compatible with GFDL, but GFDL isn't compatible with CC-BY. So, for example, CC-BY images can be directly uploaded to Wikipedia (though they should go to commons of course), but GFDL images cannot be directly uploaded to Wikinews (they too should go to commons). --Chiacomo (talk) 07:24, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * it's not funny, it's a choise made by people, a very bad choise driven by nothing related to "cooperation" or intelligence . This lack of symetry or equality beetween the so-called sister projet is a big mistake.sad Jacques Divol 22:18, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

We can of course, as a community, change our licensing (with the conset of the board). --Chiacomo (talk) 22:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

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All Blacks defeat South Africa in Tri Nations rugby

July 22, 2006

The All Blacks defeated South Africa in the third match of the 2006 Tri Nations rugby union series. The final score was 35 points to 17. The match was played at Wellington's Westpac Stadium.

The previous week South Africa had gone down nil to 49 at the hands of Australia in Brisbane. The loss to Australia saw South Africa drop in the IRB international rankings. Prior to South Africa's opening Tri Nations match, they had unconvincingly beaten Scotland in a two-test series at home in June, which was followed by a loss to France. As expected, coming into the match in Wellington, head coach Jake White and his players were under considerable pressure to perform.

The crowd was shocked when South Africa scored the opening try of the match, when Fourie du Preez charged down a Dan Carter kick, to score just 17 seconds after kick-off. Percy Montgomery added the conversion for a surprising 7-0 lead to the South Africans. However, the All Blacks were able to get in front by halftime, with Carter kicking four penalty goals and Piri Weepu scoring on the stroke of half-time.

More New Zealand penalties followed within the second half, however, when Breyton Paulse scored an impressive try off a cross-field kick, South Africa were back in the game, with the All Blacks leading 25 to 17 with just under 10 minutes remaining. The match was sealed with another penalty kick by Carter, and a late try from All Black captain Richie McCaw.


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Somali Islamists halt peace talks with government

July 22, 2006 The Union of Islamic Courts has broken off peace talks with Somalia's interim government as the country slides closer towards major military conflict.

The Islamists blamed the influx of soldiers from neighbouring Ethiopia for the end of talks. In a press statement this morning, the UIC leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said "We do not negotiate with a government which is being helped by the enemy of Somalia."

The two sides were due to continue what have become increasingly hostile talks this weekend in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The weakened interim government led by President Abdullahi Yusuf is currently based in the town of Baidoa, north of the capital Mogadishu, which the Islamic militias captured earlier in July; the UIC now control most of southern Somalia.

The breakdown of talks comes as eyewitnesses report seeing more Ethiopian troops crossing the border. It's believed around 5,000 are now stationed in the country, attempting to protect President Yusuf's fragile government. The BBC is reporting 200 Ethiopian troops have captured an airfield outside Waajid early this morning, but the Ethiopian government has yet to confirm this — so far they have denied all military intervention and it is not clear if there was any fighting in the town.

Ethiopia's involvement has angered the Islamist militia who vowed a "holy war" against the mainly Christian state if soldiers were sent in. Ethiopia meanwhile has threatened to "crush" the Islamists should they attempt to take Baidoa.

The brewing crisis in the horn of Africa could get more complex, as Ethiopia’s other hostile neighbour Eritrea has been implicated in supplying the militia with arms. "The Eritrean support is the backbone of the Islamists' military structure," one unnamed local analyst told Reuters. John Prendergast from the International Crisis Group has grimly warned that "The risk of full-scale war increases by the day."


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British box office record set for UK films

July 22, 2006

The UK Film Council has said British films claimed a record one-third share of UK cinema takings last year.

The council has also revealed that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was Britain's top-grossing film in 2005 after taking £435m ($808m) at the Box Office worldwide. It was one of eight British films to be included in the top 20 list of the world's biggest grossing movies. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Kingdom of Heaven, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Nanny McPhee and  Pride and Prejudice took £1.8bn ($3.3) in total globally and were seen by 600 million people.

John Woodward, the chief executive officer of the UK Film Council, said: "The figures show that the public love British films and 2005 was a great year for British films at the cinema with the largest slice of Box Office takings since records began."

Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell|, who has exposed tax incentives aimed at luring filmmakers to the UK, said: "Harry Potter, Nanny McPhee and Willy Wonka have all been hits at home and abroad - helping us achieve great success at the Box Office. I hope that next year, buoyed by the new tax incentive, the UK film industry will be in even better health."

The amount of British people viewing foreign language films also increased. More than 200 foreign language films in 32 different languages were shown at cinemas across the UK. Downfall, a German-produced movie depicting the final days of Adolf Hitler, was the most popular, according to the council.

Movies are classed as being UK-made if they are filmed in the country, star UK personalities, and invest money in the UK or on British staff and services.


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Wikinews:Briefs/July 22, 2006

The time is 18:00 (UTC) on July 22nd, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs.

Somali Islamists halt peace talks with government
Somalia

The Union of Islamic Courts has broken off peace talks with Somalia's interim government as the country slides closer towards major military conflict.

Death toll in Indonesian tsunami continues to rise
Indonesia

More than 650 people have now died after a tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Java on Monday afternoon.

Box Office record for UK films
United Kingdom

The UK Film Council said British films claimed a record one-third share of UK cinema takings last year.

Iconic gay couple split
United States

Julie and Hillary Goodridge, the lesbian couple who were the lead plaintiffs in the breakthrough case, Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, have decided to separate.

All Blacks defeat South Africa in Tri Nations rugby
sports - rugby

The All Blacks defeated South Africa in the third match of the 2006 Tri Nations rugby union series. The final score was 35 points to 17. The match was played at Wellington's Westpac Stadium.

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Death toll in Indonesian tsunami continues to rise

July 22, 2006

More than 650 people have now died after a tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Java on Monday afternoon. In the past few days, around 100 dead bodies have been recovered, and it is estimated that over 300 people are still missing. An underwater earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 triggered the deadly wave which ravaged a 200km stretch of Java's southern coast. Thousands of people are continuing to camp in the hills. They are too apprehensive to return home due to fears of another tsunami, but according to Reuters, health officials are worried about the threat of disease among those who are still in refuge. "The risk of catching diseases is there because they live in an open area with limited tents and water," said Rustan Pakaya, from the health ministry's crisis centre. He added that people were being given injections to protect them from diseases like measles, and.

Areas worst hit, like the small town of, are beginning to return to normal, and many businesses there have begun to open up again. "The market and many shops are already open today and although they are not operating fully, things are slowly returning to normal," district spokesman Wasdi bin Umri told AFP.

Yesterday, Indonesia's President, toured   and met people who were staying in a temporary camp. The Indonesian government has been criticised for failing to inform residents living on the coast that a tsunami was looming. After the underwater earthquake was detected, US and Japanese agencies issued warning notices, but the government has admitted it was unable to transmit the bulletins to coastal areas. Speaking yesterday, Mr Yudhoyono vowed to hasten efforts to build an early warning system planned after the. "We want to expedite efforts to get infrastructure for the tsunami warning system in place," AP quoted him as saying. "I will work with parliament to get the budget".


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86 victims of Israel's attacks buried in mass grave

July 22, 2006

Because the morgue in south Lebanon's city Tyre is full of dead people killed by indirect fire, 86 victims, more than half children, were buried in a mass grave near the hospital. Since there are only few people left in Tyre and the dead often consist whole families, only twenty people were present at the funeral.

Three victims have still not been identified. DNA samples were extracted, in hopes of identifying them.


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''It is not yet clear how many New Zealanders will be evacuated, so I think the title is not correct. "A group of New Zealanders to be evacuated" would be more appropriate. MJBT 23:19, 22 July 2006 (UTC)''


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Human Rights Watch: US abuse of Iraqi prisoners continues

July 23, 2006

A report is published by Human Rights Watch on treatment of prisoners in Iraq by US soldiers after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. It claims torture and other abuses against detainees in US custody in Iraq continues and is authorised and routine. The report includes detailed accounts of abuse from detention centers throughout Iraq, and allegations from an Army interrogator stationed at Camp Nama at Baghdad International Airport. The 55-page report titled No Blood, No Foul: Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq claims that that harsh interrogation techniques were approved by commanders. Soldiers describe how detainees were routinely subjected to severe beatings, painful stress positions, severe sleep deprivation, and exposure to extreme cold and hot temperatures. The accounts come from interviews conducted by Human Rights Watch, supplemented by memoranda and sworn statements contained in declassified documents.

Marc Garlasco, Human Rights Watch military analyst, said "Up to now, a lot of allegations and evidence has been floating around about authorization up the chain of command of abusive techniques," "MPs on trial tried to raise this in their defense and got nowhere. For the first time, we have been provided clear information on the scope of authorization of abusive techniques, and it points directly to officers in charge and the Pentagon."

John Sifton, researcher at Human Rights Watch said "Soldiers were told that the Geneva Conventions did not apply, and that interrogators could use abusive techniques to get detainees to talk."

The Department of Defense denies any Pentagon approval for any abuse.

Lt. Col. Mark Ballesteros, a Pentagon spokesman says "DoD policy has and always will be the humane treatment of detainees in its custody." He said there is a task force in Iraq that oversees detainee operations and has made a dozen reviews of detainee policies. None of the reviews found that the Department of Defense ever ordered or condoned detainee abuse.

The Human Rights Watch report recommends appointing a bipartisan commission to investigate the range of detainee abuse in Iraq, overhauling the military justice system, and appointing an independent prosecutor to investigate and prosecute those responsible.

Marc Garlasco said "In the current situation of long occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan with troop rotation, there is no reason an independent prosecutor can't deal with abuse allegations," "It would make a difference if the E-3 (private first class) in the field saw some senior officers or flags that had authorized abuse being tried in courts-martial instead of promoted."


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suggest rename to HRW/Human Rights Watch: US abuse of Iraqi prisoners continues. Doldrums 05:46, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Good idea, done. international 06:19, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * i meant either HRW or Human Rights Watch. will change accordingly. note that use of '/' in titles is deprecated. Doldrums 06:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

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Latvian anti-gay protesters attack gay activists

July 23, 2006

Gay activists said they were pelted with eggs and bags of excrement yesterday in Riga, Latvia after a service at the Anglican church, and at a press conference and pride conference at Reval Hotel Latvia. In these and other incidents, 14 people in total were arrested.

Māris Sants, co-organizer of the gay pride festival, told Reuters that police didn't provide protection for participants at the church service. Police officials stated that they were not informed about the event, but did arrive after a few minutes, and later confirmed that five people were arrested in connection with this incident.

More than a hundred protesters gathered near Reval Hotel Latvia, where gay activists were organizing a conference. Protesters were from the organization "NoPride", the party "Nacionālā Spēka Savienība" (NSS), and other groups.

LGBT activist Gastons Lakombe told Apollo internet portal that the most dangerous incident occurred on the Jurmala highway, when a few cars tried to "drive a taxi ferrying gay activists off the road. According to Lakombe, protesters attacked the taxi first at the Reval Hotel, Latvia, by throwing eggs and bottles of water. A few cars followed and on the Jurmala highway "made some dangerous maneuvers, that seriously frightened passengers", said Imants Kozlovskis, an LGBT activist who was inside the taxi.

Gay pride marches were banned this year by the Riga City council. The Administrative Court refused to remove the ban a few days later, citing security considerations.

During protests against "Riga pride 2005" last year, eight people were arrested for trying to block a gay parade and for throwing eggs on the parade participants.


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U.S. expedites bombs shipment to Israel, outcry in the Muslim world

July 23, 2006

While whole blocks of Beirut are leveled to rubble and civilians flee by the thousands, the U.S. administration is, according to the New York Times expediting a delivery of bombs to Israel. An op-ed piece in the Sydney Morning Herald concludes that the sale of more American arms to the Israeli arm will cause anger and might be used to justify Iran supplying missiles to Hezbollah. According to Arab political analysts the decision to rush more bombs to Israel will increase existing anti-American feelings in the Middle East and will help radicals.

The rushing of more bombs to Israel is consistent with US policy, according to a report issued three days ago by the World Policy Institute which indicates that Israel has always been the largest recipient of military aid from the United States. According to Frida Berrigan, co-author of the review entitled U.S. Military Assistance and Arms Transfers to Israel: U.S. Aid, Companies Fuel Israeli Military, U.S. military aid to Israel is about $3 billion a year. This equates to about 20% of the Israeli military budget annually. According to Berrigan, in an interview given to Democracy Now on Friday, just on the 14th of July while calling for restraint the U.S. also sold $120 million worth of jet fuel to the Israeli military assisting their bombing campaign of Lebanon. In fact, Berrigan said, since the Bush administration came into power, about a total of $6.3 billion worth of weapons sold to Israel. Berrigan also added that if in fact the United States wanted to cut military aid at this time they have precedent to do so, citing as an example the Reagan administration's cut of military aid and freezing of weapons sales to Israel during its last invasion of Lebanon in 1981, during the then conflict's first 10 weeks.

Israel claims they have been using precision-guided munitions in order to neutralize Hezbollah and to minimize harm to civilians. However, U.N. and Lebanese officials estimate at least 360 Lebanese civilians have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded, with about 700,000 people already displaced since Israel's bombings began. According to the United Nation's emergency relief co-coordinator, Jan Egeland, nearly one third of casualties resulting from the Israeli offensive in Lebanon have been children. Egeland, who visited Lebanon today denounced the Israeli strikes and appealed for safe passage for aid, saying civilians were paying a "disproportionate price" in the attacks targeting Hezbollah strongholds. He said civilians are paying a disproportionate price in Lebanon and northern Israel and stated that "A disproportionate response by Israel is a violation of international humanitarian law."

In many capital cities around the world including the Middle East, as well as Europe, Canada, Latin America and the United States thousands of people took part in demonstrations against the Israeli strikes. In London people marched to the US embassy and shouted slogans such as "George Bush, terrorist" and "Down, down, USA." In Tel Aviv 1,000 Israeli Jews and Arabs also turned out to denounce their country's actions, gathering in Rabin Square and brandishing placards reading "war is disaster" and "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies."


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Talk:U.S. expedites bombs shipment to Israel, outcry in the Muslim world

here are my comments for latest edit:
 * preaching for restraint was not my comment, it came from the interview cited in this article.
 * also enabled, which i corrected to be more close to, again, the comments of the person cited. Also i gotta say it's common sense that jets do not fly nor bomb without jet fuel. duh.
 * added that part about the Reagan administration as per your request
 * also i think Rice's visit to Israel (it was reported that she will not visit any Arab countries on this trip) doesn't make for the contrast i was trying to achieve in the lead.

npov-ing
here's my to-do list for npoving. Doldrums 12:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * official response by US and Israel to be reported
 * "preaching for restraint", note that US has not preached for all that much restraint, compared to others.
 * "enabling their bombing campaign", do any of the sources support the claim that the fuel supply has enabled the campaign?
 * "since the Bush administration came into power" needs to be balanced with what other administrations have done, viz, exactly the same thing.
 * while we're at it, wouldn't hurt to contrast the reported actions with US comments on alleged arms supplies by Iran or Syria to Hezbollah.
 * little less emphasis on historical background and more details on the current news event, the expedited shipment would be nice.

Headline has little to do with the story
Sensational headline, but what has it to do with the story? Most of the emphasis is on fuel deliveries. The first sentence asserts that "the Bush administration is rushing a delivery of bombs to Israel," but provides no substantiation or details. This is the last we hear of the bombs. 68.13.208.180 13:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

we have a dupe
Im going to merge in some here. international 14:40, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Excessive amount of sources?
I'm having a hard time believing you need 14 sources to write that story. --Jambalaya 21:02, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Bombs?
I had thought they were missiles and not bombs...? -- Macaddct1984 02:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

protests in favor of Israel
Just saying that something happened doesn't make it true. Cite your sources. I very much doubt that you will find many sources to support this statement. Many places? Really? Even in Israel they are holding marches against the war. But if you wanna add something, back it up. This is the way this works. Even if in fact some people did rally somewhere in favor of the Israeli bombings, to put that next to the thousands of people who protest around the world against Israel's aggression is to give it the same inportance. Unless we're not going by democratic standards of what's important here. Wikinews is supposed to be, duh, news.

--Fru 18:22, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


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Saddam Hussein taken to hospital

July 23, 2006

Saddam Hussein has been rushed to hospital after being on hunger strike for more than two weeks, prosecutors at his trial in Baghdad have announced.

He and three co-defendants have refused to eat for sixteen days. They have been demanding more security  for their defence lawyers, three of whom have been murdered.

Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants are on trial charged with crimes against humanity after Hussein allegedly ordered his special security and military forces to kill 148 people from the village of Dujail following an attempted assassination of the former Iraqi leader in 1982.

Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Musawi has said the 68 year-old will not be well enough to appear before judges on Monday. "Saddam Hussein has just been admitted to hospital because of his hunger strike. A medical report has established that he cannot appear tomorrow, because his condition needs medical attention," he told AFP today.

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Talk:NYTimes: US rushes bombs to Israel

There is an article on the subject, I try to merg. international 14:43, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Damn; I missed it, sorry and thanks for merger. Neutralizer 17:02, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

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Earthquake strikes off Indonesia

July 23, 2006 Indonesian officials have said an underwater earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has erupted off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. At first, officials told residents to flee coastal areas as a safety measure, but they later said there had been no tsunami. According to reports, no damage has been caused.

Last week, an underwater quake with a magnitude of 7.7 produced a tsunami that ravaged a 200km stretch of Java's southern coast. Six hundred and fifty people perished after the deadly two-metre high tidal wave struck, and it is estimated that over three hundred people are still missing.

Navy boats and marine police have been searching for dead bodies off Java's coast, but according to the Associated Press, rough seas today have forced teams to abort their operations.

Regions hardest hit, like the small town of Pangandaran, are starting to return to normality. However, people who have taken refuge in camps are refusing to return home due to fears of another tsunami.

Indonesia's President has said efforts to build an early warning system planned after the 2004 Asian tsunami are to be accelerated. His government has been criticised as to why local people weren't informed that a tsunami was imminent last week.

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Lebanon faces humanitarian crisis

July 23, 2006

More than half a million people have been displaced in Lebanon as the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah continues into its second week. The UN relief coordinator Jan Egeland, who visited Beirut said that a humanitarian crisis was unfolding in the country and outlined planned relief efforts. Efforts are underway to open a safe corridor to allow aid shipments to be sent to Lebanon. The evacuation of foreign nationals from Lebanon continues. Israel launched more air strikes and also a ground incursion into Lebanon, and Hezbollah launched rocket attacks on northern Israel.

UN relief coordinator visits Beirut
UN relief coordinator Jan Egeland flew to Beirut for a 48 hour visit to Lebanon focused on assistance required by people displaced or trapped by the conflict.

He visited Haret Hreik, a crowded Beirut neighborhood where Hezbollah had its headquarters, hours after it was bombed by Israel. Calling the destruction there "horrific", he said, "I did not know it was block after block of houses,... It makes it a violation of humanitarian law". Mr. Egeland appealed for both sides to put a halt to attacks.

The Israeli government said the military was trying to be as precise as possible in its operations in Lebanon. "The Lebanese people are not our enemy. We cannot sit idly by while Hezbollah terrorists launch rockets at our towns and cities," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said.

Mr. Egeland said there was a humanitarian crisis unfolding in Lebanon, and more than half a million people were directly affected. He said that wounded people were unable to get treatment, no safe drinking water was available and that tens of thousands of civilians were caught in the crossfire between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hezbollah militants, particularly in south Lebanon. He expected the number of displaced to increase "dramatically" as Israel has warned the population of south Lebanon to leave the area ahead of possible new military action there.

Outlining plans for a "major" relief operation, he called for an end to violence to facilitate the aid effort, saying, "We can't get relief into the country in any quantity or distribute it beyond a few points".

Situation in Lebanon
The Lebanese newspaper Daily Star reports that the number of displaced people in Lebanon passed 900,000 on Friday, with close to 40,000 refugees in Beirut itself. Other estimates place the number of refugees between half a million and a million.

Israel has urged the remaining people living in south Lebanon to leave, and streams of people, some carrying white flags, are making their way from the south.

About 42,000 refugees had flooded into the city of Sidon from the surrounding countryside - believing it to be safe from attacks - when it was hit by Israeli strikes today.

In several towns and cities, food, medical supplies and fuel stocks are running low, and municipal authorities have expressed their inability to assist people. They have called for urgent shipments of food products such as milk, rice, sugar and canned meat; diapers and kitchen tools; medicine such as insulin, painkillers, antibiotics and chlorine to clean water; sterilized gloves; refrigerators to store medicine; tents; electrical generators of 5, 10, 20 and 30 kVA; blankets and other necessities.

In the government hospital in the Al-Bass Palestinian refugee camp, the mass burial of 86 bodies was begun, after rising casualties overwhelmed the local morgue.

Infrastructure hit
The air strikes and bombardment of roads, bridges and trucks has made supplying aid to affected areas even more difficult. Lebanon's only international airport has been out of action since the first days of the conflict. Reports estimate that billions of dollars worth of infrastructure has been destroyed.

UN plans relief operation
The UN relief coordinator Jan Egeland spoke to reporters of the plans for getting aid to Lebanon. He said UN supplies of humanitarian aid would begin to arrive in the next few days. "But we need safe access," he said. "So far Israel is not giving us access." He estimated that US $100 million is urgently needed to help the half a million to one million people in Lebanon who were in need of international assistance.

U.N. and other relief agencies have been asking for humanitarian aid corridors to be opened up. Israel said it opened a 50-mile-long and five-mile-wide (80-kilometre by eight-kilometre) safe passage to Beirut for ships and aircraft to allow aid into Lebanon.

Egeland said the United Nations was planning to deliver aid by setting up humanitarian corridors in the next few days. Aid will be shipped by road and by sea from Cyprus to Beirut and the southern city of Tyre, and by air.

The evacuation of foreign nationals from Lebanon continues, with most being taken to the island of Cyprus, where temporary accommodation has to be found for the estimated 70,000 evacuees, in the middle of the holiday tourist season.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says that it plans to evacuate civilians from the Lebanese-Israeli border in the next few days, but "the ability to move will depend on the situation on the ground".

Situation in Israel
Meanwhile, thousands of Israelis have been living in bomb shelters since the fighting in Lebanon started and between a third to a half of all residents in northern Israel have left the area to escape the bombardment, officials said. "For a week people have been sitting in shelters and security rooms, so they prefer to leave," said Adi Eldar, mayor of Carmiel in a report on Haaretz newspaper's Web site.

Attacks continue
On Saturday, more television stations and mobile telephone masts in Lebanon were targeted in Israeli strikes, killing five people, including a television station employee.

Israel struck Beirut, Sidon, a port city in the south crammed with refugees, for the first time and factories, roads and bridges in air strikes in the eastern Baalbek region, killing one person.

In Haifa, two people were killed by rockets fired by Hezbollah forces, and fifteen people are reported injured.

Casualty figures rise
Current estimates say that more than 350 Lebanese and at least 36 Israelis have been killed in the conflict. One third of those killed in Lebanon are children, according to a UN report released July 21.

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User talk:Doldrums/Newsroom

trawling for coments
This is my attempt to update the "hub of the Wikinews community", the Newsroom. I've also tried to merge all (that i think is worthwhile) of Workspace and Article collaboration, as there was quite a bit of overlap between the three. I'd welcome people's comments and suggestions on how it can be improved to a stage where it can replace the existing newsroom. or feel free to edit and improve it yourself. :)

a couple of things that i can think of are
 * update and possibly reorder the resources section.
 * introduce current water cooler discussions into th community section. (hey, there's nothing wrong in wishing)
 * i guess manual updates of Wn News will have to do the job. Doldrums 06:56, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

 * the source is a hodge-podge of various cut-and-pastes and shld probably be untangled.

Doldrums 16:58, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I like this page. :-) Where were you thinking it would replace? --Brian McNeil / talk 19:13, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * thanks, its supposed to make obselete Newsroom, Workspace & Article collaboration :), a little more tweak and i'll post a notice on wc and see what people have to say about it. Doldrums 19:49, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Bugs

 * 1) Recent Image uploads doesnt seem to do what it shld. Doldrums 17:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Umapathy

Welcome
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Welcoming folks
Thanks for doing all the welcomes, just a minor point... Can you put instead of just  ? The subtle difference this makes is that the user doesn't have an edit link that goes to Template:welcome. That can be a bit confusing. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Brian McNeil / talk, Thanks for your valuable suggestion I will follow your guidelines. --Umapathy 17:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for welcoming me as well! Have a nice day... So cool 16:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome! It's a good thing you're doing. OmniBotMind 16:20, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks a lot.It's my pleasure --Umapathy 19:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

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Wikinews:Briefs/July 23, 2006

The time is 21:00 (UTC) on July 23rd, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs.

Earthquake strikes off Indonesia
Indonesia

Indonesian officials have said an underwater earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has erupted off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. At first, officials told residents to flee coastal areas as a safety measure, but they later said there had been no tsunami. According to reports, no damage has been caused.

U.S. expedites bombs shipment to Israel, outcry in the Muslim world
United States

While whole blocks of Beirut are leveled to rubble and civilians flee by the thousands, the Bush administration is rushing a delivery of bombs to Israel, according to the New York Times. According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald the sale of more American arms to the Israeli army will cause anger and might be used to justify Iran supplying missiles to Hezbollah.

Saddam Hussein taken to hospital
Iraq

Saddam Hussein has been rushed to hospital after being on hunger strike for more than two weeks, prosecutors at his trial in Baghdad have announced.

Human Rights Watch: US abuse of Iraqi prisoners continues
A report is published by Human Rights Watch on treatment of prisoners in Iraq by US soldiers after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. It claims torture and other abuses against detainees in US custody in Iraq continues and is authorised and routine.

Thai king endorses October 15 general election rerun
Thailand

Thailand's king, Bhumibol Adulyadej has endorsed a decree confirming that the new general election will take place on October 15, 2006.

Closing statements
We invite you to visit wikinews.org for up-to-date news and information. This has been Audio Wikinews Newsbriefs. Thank you for listening, and enjoy the rest of your day. This recording has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

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User:Fred~enwikinews

Land Values Research Group The Land Values Research Group was founded in Melbourne in 1943 under the directorship of engineer Allan Hutchinson following studies conducted in Australia by the Canadian land economist H Bronson Cowan. Hutchinson utilised Bronson Cowan's techniques to demonstrate the economic and social benefits of drawing more public revenue from community-generated annual land values and less from tax imposts upon the earned incomes of labour and capital.

Recent studies by the Land Values Research Group have established a lagged and inverse relationship between the direction of the real estate market and the economy.

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News?
If your interestes in writing some news try here type in a headline and write away. MyName 01:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * BTW, here is our standard welcome message:

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