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US Army General requests more troops for Diyala Province, Iraq

May 11, 2007

The U.S. military commander in charge of northern Iraqi operations today said more troops are needed to stem rising insurgent violence in Diyala province.

"I do not have enough soldiers right now in Diyala province to get that security situation moving," said Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon, commander of the 25th Infantry Division.

Mixon also said that Iraqi government officials are not moving fast enough to provide the "most powerful weapon" against insurgents — a government that works and supplies services for the people.

Mixon commands the area that includes Diyala province, north of Baghdad. It was a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency before the start of the Baghdad security crackdown and has worsened since militants fled there to avoid the increased U.S.-led operations started in the capital in February.

Mixon has about 3,500 troops in Diyala and there are about 10,000 Iraqi soldiers and several thousand Iraqi police, with 3,000 more police approved but not yet hired and trained.


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Hostage crisis ends at Russian embassy in Costa Rica

May 11, 2007

Police say Roman Bogdanyants, 21, from Kyrgyzstan, entered the Russian Embassy in Costa Rica and took at least one other male hostage at gunpoint, before authorities were able to end the standoff peacefully after four hours.

"It all ended without violence, without loss of life. All the embassy staff are just fine," said Valery Nikolayenko, the Russian Ambassador, who was on a different floor of the embassy, was not injured during the standoff. No other embassy workers or personnel were injured.

Bogdanyants entered the embassy with his mother and took Andrey Yurenkov hostage in what is believed to be a dispute over money. Bogdanyants's mother spent the entire time during the standoff, attempting to get her son to surrender.


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I'm watching it on TV and writing what they report Momodamonkey

Rewrote because all was false
Either the report was what it was at the time, or the information in the article was 100% untrue and unfounded. Even the CNN source was not matching up in the title. Nearly everything was totally untrue and wrong. This needs to be looked at very carefully as for one, why did no one catch it even though several Admins were editing on it?

Check the sources. Click them. Seriously, this was published like that for quite a while...and yet no one at all seemed to bother reading the source (even thought there was only one source). DragonFire1024 05:38, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I was in a rush, a read that the circumstances were unclear... but I agree, we might be doing poor in fact-checking, I often just improve the layout of an article, making it even more easily overlooked.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


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Race for leadership of Parti Québécois begins

May 11, 2007

Two announcements Friday heralded the start of the race to select a new leader for the Parti Québécois (PQ) in Québec, Canada. Gilles Duceppe, leader of the federal separatist political party, the Bloc Québécois (BQ), ended speculation by announcing his interest in succeeding André Boisclair as leader of the Bloc's provincial separatist counterpart, the PQ. Within minutes of Duceppe announcing his intentions, Pauline Marois, a former PQ cabinet minister, threw her hat in the ring.

Since the PQ's weak showing in the last Québec provincial election, held on March 26, 2007, there had been speculation that Boisclair would step down and that Duceppe would take a run at the PQ leadership. "I think it's time to end the suspense. I announce that I will be candidate for the leadership of the Parti Quebecois," said Duceppe in a statement.

Duceppe has been a successful leader of the BQ, garnering over 50 seats out of a possible 75 for his party in the last two federal elections. But Duceppe, 59, will not have an easy time in his bid for the PQ leadership. Although Pauline Marois has run unsuccessfully for the PQ leadership on two previous occasions, she is well respected among members of the PQ and is expected to make a close race of it against Duceppe.

"I'm doing this to win," Marois told reporters in Montreal. "I hope [the PQ] will be able to reconnect with the population of Quebec, because we had an important problem on March 26," she said in reference to the PQ's poor showing in the last election.

Marois, 58, has been a member of the PQ for over 30 years, and has held several major cabinet portfolios. Marois had recently retired from politics after her last failed leadership attempt against Boisclair in 2005. CTV's political correspondent Craig Oliver suggests many PQ supporters are regretting, in hindsight, not choosing Marois as the leader. "Many people felt they made a huge mistake not electing her the last time and picking Boisclair instead," said Oliver.

The race for the PQ leadership will have repercussions for the rest of Canada and will be watched closely. "Anything that affects the Bloc Québécois or the Parti Québécois affects all of Canada because this is the party, which would like to break up the country," lamented Oliver.

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French director Jean Delannoy dies at age 100

June 19, 2008

Jean Delannoy, an early actor who started out in silent film movies and became a film director has died yesterday at the age of 100. The cause of death was announced as old age.

Delannoy was born on January 12, 1908 in Noisy-le-Sec, Île-de-France, France. Amongst his best known works is the 1958 film "Maigret tend un piège", which he directed.

Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a Protestant, a descendant of Huguenots, some of whom fled the country during the French Wars of Religion and were first to settle in Wallonia. After their name became De la Noye and then Delano, they were on the second ship to emigrate to Plymouth, Massachusetts in America.

Delannoy was a student in Paris when he began acting in silent films. He eventually landed a job with Paramount Studios Parisian facilities, working his way up to head film editor. In 1934 he directed his first film and went on to a long career, both writing and directing. In 1946, his film about a Protestant minister titled La symphonie pastorale was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1960, his film, Maigret tend un piège was nominated for a BAFTA award for "Best Film from any Source."

In recognition of his long service to the French motion picture industry, Delannoy was given an Honorary César Award in 1986.


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Ayatollah Emami-Kashani calls Americans 'murderers'

May 12, 2007

Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani fiercely lambasted Americans as an occupier in Iraq for not caring about the fate of Iraqis during Friday prayers at Tehran University. During the same prayers he stated that vanity and arrogance are the root of all evil.

Emami-Kashani is a senior member of the Assembly of Experts; the Assembly of Experts is a clerical body charged with reviewing the actions of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to ensure conformity with Islamic laws. Furthermore, the Assembly of Experts chooses a new Supreme Leader should Khamenei become incapable of leadership.

Emami-Kashani told prayerful supporters,The Americans are murderers, and yet they propagate about the aggressive nature of our dear Islam, or being uncivilized of the great Iranian nation.

He also spoke about the Social Security Plan of Iran. However, he wasn't referring to social insurance; Emami-Kashani meant the necessity of ridding Iran of moral corruption: "It is not right for an Iranian mother to stare worriedly at the entrance door of her house till hours after midnight for the return home of her daughter, lest an ethically corrupt boy would have cheated her."

He also said that Americans care only about U.S. deaths.The only important point for the US statesmen is that 4,000 US soldiers have gotten killed in Iraq, not caring a bit about the huge number of the innocent Iraqis that have gotten killed at home due to the United States' arrogant policies.

Last month, he said that the West wants "a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other."

In December of 2006, Ayatollah Emami-Kashani ran for re-election and garnered 823,308 votes in his district. This may attest to his popularity, that was second only to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the 2006 Assembly of Experts vote.


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Syrian democracy advocate Kamal Labwani jailed for 12 years

May 12, 2007

Syrian medical doctor Kamal Labwani was sentenced in a Syrian court Thursday to 12 years of hard labour, one of the longest sentences for a dissident meted out by a Syrian court during Bashar al-Assad's presidency.

Labwani is a prominent activist with a history of advocating democratic reform in Syria. Labwani founded the Democratic Liberal Gathering, which Human Rights Watch describes as "a group of Syrian intellectuals and activists who advocate for peaceful change in Syria based on democratic reforms, liberalism, secularism and respect for human rights."

"The Syrian government has accelerated its crackdown on free speech and peaceful activism,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Peaceful activists like Labwani are paying a heavy price for expressing their views."

Labwani was convicted of inciting a foreign country to attack Syria. The charges may have stemmed from meetings Labwani held in late 2005 with American officials while on a visit to the United States. He was arrested at Damascus Airport on his return to Syria in November 2005.

The White House issued a statement on Friday condemning the sentence, and suggested that Labwani may have been treated harshly under inhumane prison conditions. "These developments demonstrate that the Asad regime in Syria continues to suppress dissent and crack down on those who peacefully seek to defend their rights and bring democratic reform to their country," said Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary. "As the President stated last year, all political prisoners in Syria should be released immediately."

The sentencing of Labwani comes just two weeks after Anwar al-Bunni, another Syrian democracy activist was jailed five years for signing a petition, the "Damascus Declaration", which encouraged significant changes to Syria's involvement with Lebanon.

Labwani's defense lawyer, Khalil Maatouk, rejected the charges against his client and indicated he would appeal the judgment within 30 days. "This is a political trial," said Maatouk. He suggested that Labwani "believed in peaceful change from within Syria."


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Category talk:Dick Cheney

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This is an encyclopedic category. We are not Wikipedia. If we have one for him then every person we write about has to have a category. Please discuss this. IMO I think it should be deleted. DragonFire1024 05:46, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia does not, but Wikinews should keep sorted these news tidbits in the public record of people it reports upon. Useful stuff for researching a current story, if the occasion calls for an understanding what happened earlier. -Edbrown05 07:41, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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Two children witness woman being killed by a tiger

May 12, 2007 Tanya Dumstrey-Soos, 32 was killed at the Siberian Magic exotic animal park in Bridge Lake British Columbia, Canada after being attacked by a Bengal Tiger named Gangus.

"The animal is part of a collection of exotic and domestic animals. It appears that the animal ... reached outside of the cage and grabbed her. Upon arrival police determined that all the animals were in their cages and the woman was found lying on the ground receiving help from family," said Const. Annie Linteau, a spokeswoman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, [RCMP]. Gangus is one of two Bengal Tigers at the park. The owner of the park is Kim Carlton, the boyfriend of Dumstrey-Soos. The entire attack was witnessed by the children of Carlton, his 15 year-old daughter and 12 year-old son who both called for help shortly after the attack.

Dumstrey-Soos was standing near the tiger's cage when he grabbed her legs. According to the mayor of nearby Williams Lake, Scott Nelson, all of the injuries inflicted onto Dumstrey-Soos were at her waist and below. She was taken to a hospital in the town of 100 Mile House, where she was pronounced dead.

Authorities with the B.C. SPCA are not surprised that the attack happened, claiming that they tried to remove the tigers from the park several times.

"This is extremely sad, but not unexpected. We've spent thousands of dollars trying to have these animals removed." said B.C. SPCA spokeswoman, Marcie Moriarty who also said that the animals arrived in 2005. Moriarty also said that the tigers lived in small cages made of chain-linked fencing and that the locks were too small.

The reason that the tigers were not removed from the park is because, according to Moriarty, the SPCA does not have the facilities to hold the tigers until proper housing can be provided for them.

"When we went up there, we realized we weren't just dealing with animal cruelty, we were dealing with a public safety issue," added Moriarty.

Dumstrey-Soos worked as a receptionist and saleswoman at the 100 Mile House Advisor newspaper.


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Is it more important that children witness or that a woman was killed? Shouldn't the title be ''Woman killed by tiger! Two children witness!''? --161.116.111.12 09:36, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Is that better? Let me/us know :) Keep reading :) DragonFire1024 09:51, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * better :) --161.116.111.12, 23:06, 12 May 2007

The whole thing's very sad, of course. Animal cruelty leads to a woman being killed, and two kids saw it, too. 76.104.5.71 22:27, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


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Violence surrounds political rally in Pakistan

May 12, 2007

Violence erupted in Karachi, Pakistan as recently suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry reached the city to address a rally of supporters.

Clashes erupted in the streets between rival political factions. Members of the pro-government party, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), clashed with supporters of Chaudhry, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). There are reports of up to 34 people killed in the riots and another 120 injured. Supporters of Chaudhry accused the MQM of initiating the violence, but the MQM has denied the accusation.

Chaudhry had flown in to attend the rally in the city, but was unable to leave Karachi airport due to the violence. After spending several hours at Karachi airport, Chaudhry returned to Islamabad.

In what was considered a controversial move, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf suspended Chaudhry, March 9, 2007, on charges of misconduct. Critics say that Musharraf removed Chaudhry to put in place a Chief Justice more sympathetic to Musharraf's military-ruled government. There are reports Musharraf will put in a bid later this year to extend his rule by another five-year term and will seek legal support for his actions.

While the unrest in Karachi was taking place, President Musharaff addressed a large pro-government rally in Islamabad where approximately 80,000 people turned out. "This is a historical day... because I haven't been to any gathering where I have seen so many people in support of the government's policies," Musharraf told the crowd.

Musharraf ruled out imposing an emergency in Karachi. "There is absolutely no requirement and absolutely no environment for taking such drastic measure," he said.


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Tamil Nadu film 'Sivaji: The Boss' release date changes again

May 12, 2007

AVM have now officially announced the recent postponing of Sivaji: The Boss to May 31, one day after saying it would be on May 26. Ayngaran have for the first time put on their website a date for the release which is also May 31. This is said to be the last postponing of the film, but due to the multiple previous postponings there is speculation about this.

When speaking to employee's in Ayngaran there seems to be a rumour that it will be released before the May 31 in the UK, this could be a possible preview show of the film.


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I have spoken to Ayngaran International employees this morning before reading IndiaGlitz and its reporting of AVM saying a 31st May release date. Ayngaran employees told me that the release was on the 25th of May. Although looking at the website it is different.  Vagish  [wp]  [wn] 15:32, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * who are avm - need to know for the wlinks. cheers --Mark Talk 15:39, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
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 * May 13, 2007 - Tamil Nadu film 'Sivaji: The Boss' may have a delayed release in Kerala
 * May 12, 2007 - Tamil Nadu film 'Sivaji: The Boss' has release date changes again
 * May 11, 2007 - Tamil Nadu film 'Sivaji: The Boss' expectations peak
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Longest coffee table symbolises World Fair Trade Day in Belgium

May 12, 2007

Oxfam and several other fair trade-organisations organised coffee tables all over Flanders  to celebrate the World Fair Trade Day. The combined length of the tables at different locations was meant to exceed 2015 meters (to remind people of the U.N. millennium development goals for 2015), but eventually reached over 3000 meters.

The fair trade organisations distributed a petition addressed to European commissioners for Trade Peter Mandelson and commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel, in which they asked for:
 * Market regulations to compensate the small farmers for the instabilities in the natural resource prices
 * Access to information about the coffee market
 * The right for networks of small farmers in Africa to join negotiations.

Hundreds of volunteers across Flanders lured people to the tables with free fair trade coffee, hot chocolate and cake. The action came at the end of a month were films and debates brought the situation of small coffee farmers in Africa under the attention.


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Stevenage Borough win 2007 FA Trophy at Wembley Stadium

May 12, 2007

Stevenage Borough beat Kidderminster Harriers 3:2 in the final of the FA Trophy after being 2:0 down at half time.

The game was the first competitive club match to be played at the new Wembley Stadium.

James Constable scored the first goal after 31 minutes, and a second one at the end of the first half. Mitchell Cole scored the first goal for Stevenage 5 minutes into the second half, then Craig Dobson equalized. Steve Morison scored the winning goal 2 minutes before the end of normal time.


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President of Guinea submits to military

May 12, 2007 Today, the Guinean President Lansana Conté gave into military demands to remove his Minister of Defence, which was a main demand in the three day old military revolt in the African nation. The President also raised the pay of soldiers.

The revolt began when it was leaked that no promotions would occur for Officers unless they had 14 years of service. When this had been announced, junior officers began revolting and making demands of higher pay and the removal of the Minister of Defence, amongst other things.

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Object that fell through roof of New Jersey home not a meteorite

May 12, 2007

An object that fell through the roof of a New Jersey home in January was not a meteorite, according to Jeremy Delaney, a geologist at Rutgers University. Instead, it appears the object was space junk or orbital debris.

"Basically, it's a piece of stainless steel. There's huge amounts of material that have been left by the various space programs of the world," said Delaney.

The meteorite shaped object was not from a naturally occurring substance and had a silver like reflection. It weighed about the same as a small can of soup, 13 ounces (about 370 grams), but was no bigger than a golf ball.

Earlier during the incident, scientists from Rutgers examined the object visually along with police who were at the scene, and determined it was a meteorite. But further tests by geologists confirmed that it was not a meteorite, but probably a metal piece from a rocket or satellite. They had earlier thought it was made of iron.

"That's the nature of science. If the conclusion from the test says it's not a meteorite, then it's not a meteorite. We have to move forward," said Srinivasan Nageswaran, a member of the family that found the object.


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Talk:Violence surrounds political rally in Pakistan

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Category:Sindh and Category:Karachi need to be added. Ali Rana (talk) 05:56, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
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This has a brief tag on the bottom, who thought that merited lead material? --Brian McNeil / talk 20:10, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Steven by the looks of things. Have to agree with you it's not really lead material.  --Mark Talk 20:38, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * When I checked it was the lead on BBC News and Google News, although the article was a stub. There wasn't really an alternative. Feel free to revert me anytime.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:42, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't revert, the article has developed nicely. The point I may have been trying to make is that this went on a lead about one or two hours before it should have. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:51, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Please indicate which news source actually saw that Jamaat-e-Islami was directly involved with the incident on the half that supported Chaudhry, instead of "students and lawyers" as CNN indicates on its main article. I looked into all of the references cited and could nto find discussion of JI anywhere. I want to be hesitant as it seems news sources today like linking everything to terrorism, and this could be more simple than that. Chantoke 22:27, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I just had a look, Chantoke, and found it in the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Monsters and Critics) article. Second paragraph: "News reports described the scene as a 'battleground' as armed workers of the pro-government party Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) clashed with activists of the oppositional Jamaat-i-Islami religious party, the Geo news channel reported.". Hope this helps. -Jcart1534 23:00, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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Serbia wins Eurovision Song Contest 2007

May 12, 2007

Serbia's entry, Molitva (A Prayer), performed by 23-year-old Marija Šerifović, has won the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki, Finland, with a score of 268 points.

Second place was claimed by the Ukrainian drag queen Verka Serduchka, and third place went to the Russian entry of Serebro. Turkey took the fourth place with Shake It Up Shekerim. Greece with Sarbel's Yassou Maria came 7th as the first Western-European country, while Ireland took only 5 points, finishing below France and the United Kingdom which shared the second-last place.

16 out of 24 finalists came from Eastern Europe, which caused many Western European countries to doubt the possibility that a country from Western Europe could ever win the final. Although France, the U.K., Spain and Germany are the big sponsors of the festival and are automatically selected for the final round, they all ended up at the bottom of the ranking. The fact that affiliated countries vote for each other (neighbourhood countries such as Scandinavian, Balkan or ex-Soviet countries) is also an annually returning matter discussed in the media.

A record 42 countries entered the 52nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, but 18 didn't make it through the selection rounds. Serbia competed as an independent country for the first time, separate from Montenegro or Bosnia-Herzegovina, and immediately won the competition. This year's edition was the first to host new styles like jazz side by side with traditional ballads and rock. The winning song was also the first non-English song to win since the transsexual artist Dana International won for Israel in 1998.

The competition took place in Finland because last year the Finnish hard rock song 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' by Lordi won the competition. The song kicked off the final in Helsinki. Hosts were Jaana Pelkonen and Mikko Leppilampi

After the victory, many Serbs took to the streets with flags to celebrate the victory. Aleksandar Tijanic, director of RTS state television, was glad that Serbia made the news in a positive way: "I'm so glad it wasn't some war song. Hosting this event in Belgrade next year will mean we have finally crossed into normality." The country is still sometimes associated with the Yugoslav wars which led to the disintegration of Former Yugoslavia.


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Italian Geographic Society's 140th anniversary

May 13, 2007

The Italian Geographic Society (Società Geografica Italiana) celebrates the 140th anniversary of its foundation (1867).

Today an official ceremony, the first of a series, was held in the Palazzetto Mattei at Villa Celimontana in Rome, Italy, where the Society is based in a historical palace. The former chief of state Francesco Cossiga, a honorary member of the Society, was among the many personalities invited to the ceremony.

Professor Salvatori, in his welcoming speech, summarized the historical growth and the principal results of the institution, starting with its first expeditions in Africa at the beginning of the 20th century, underlining the modernity of the latest programs recently launched. Also, the many agreements with international institutions and universities and the activities for the preservation and advancement of the geographical culture, Salvatori said, keep the Society at a level of excellence in its field.

The Society received the compliments and greetings of the principal Italian institutions. Messages were read which came from Mr. Napolitano, current chief of state, and other authorities. Representatives from UNESCO, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Accademia dei Lincei, and the well known IGM, Military Geographical Institute (Istituto Geografico Militare), among other ones, brought the salute and the gratitude of their own institutions.

Most speakers pointed out the extraordinary scientific patrimony collected over time by the Society (450.000+ volumes, rare ancient maps, technical studies, images), which is among the greatest sources of academic pride for Italy. Further, its international prestige was complimented: the Society hosts in Palazzetto Mattei the European Geographic Society (EUGEO), as well as the so-called "Home of Geography" (for the International Geographical Union), and is involved at a primary level in a UNESCO program for the Education in the Sustainable Development.

Celebrations will continue over the next days.

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Summarized translation from it.news - Gianfranco not logged in --151.75.204.181 00:12, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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Maybe it's just me, but I don't know what this means (from last sentence): "two members attended the celebrations at a personal title." at a personal title? --SVTCobra 19:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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Gilles Duceppe drops out of Parti Québécois leadership race

May 13, 2007

Just one day after announcing his intention to run for the leadership of the Parti Québécois (PQ), Bloc Québécois (BQ) leader Gilles Duceppe announced Saturday that he has dropped out of the race.

Duceppe also announced that he is supporting Pauline Marois, the only remaining candidate at the moment, in her bid to become PQ leader. Marois, a former PQ cabinet minister, is very popular with PQ members and shown to be the preferred PQ candidate in recent polls.

"We need to renew the dialogue of sovereigntist movement with Quebecers," said Duceppe in a press release.

Before their announcements on Friday, Duceppe and Marois had arranged to meet this weekend to get a feel for each other's intentions with regard to a leadership bid. Before those discussions could take place, Duceppe announced his bid to the media Friday morning. Marois announced her candidacy minutes later. “I decided this morning,” said Marois when asked about the timing of her decision.

PQ MNA Marie Malavoy expressed her surprise at Marois' declaration of candidacy on Friday, but offered her support. “Things happened very fast. I thought it would come after the weekend,” said Malavoy at the time. “She couldn't allow it to float around all weekend. It was important for her to announce her candidacy quickly.”

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Reports: Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah killed in Afghanistan

May 13, 2007 Mullah Dadullah, also known as Mullah Dadullah Akhund, a Taliban leader, radical and military commander, has been killed in southern Afghanistan after an encounter with Afghan and Allied forces, according to the Afghan government.

Saeed Ansari, an Afghan intelligence spokesman said, "Mullah Dadullah has been killed and his body is in Kandahar."

The governor of Kandahar, told Reuters: "Yes, he was killed last night and right now I have his body before me." He added that Dadullah was killed in Helmand Province.

NATO spokesperson Major John Thomas confirmed that Dadullah has been killed. "We fully expect Mullah Dadullah will be replaced in time, but for now the insurgency has received a serious blow," Thomas said.

Mullah Dadullah was frequently seen in videos with a machine gun and artillery in his clerical clothing along with his turban. However, it is known that he attended before joining the.

Last month, Mullah Dadullah gave an interview in which he said that Osama bin Laden was alive and was coordinating the activities of the Taliban. In 2005, Mullah Dadullah vowed, "The will not lay down their arms unless the Americans leave and an Islamic state is established."


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Five members of US patrol killed; Three missing in Iraq

May 13, 2007 Five members of United States patrol were killed and 3 presumed kidnapped in Mahmoudiyah, a town just south of Baghdad, Iraq when militants attacked their patrol. Three of the killed were US soldiers. An Iraqi interpreter who was traveling with the soldiers was also killed. The fifth body has yet to be identified.

"We can establish now the identity of three of the American soldiers who were killed and the one Iraqi Army interpreter that was killed. So the identification of four of the five is now complete and the fifth one is still ongoing," Major General William B. Caldwell, chief spokesperson for the Multinational Force Iraq, said at a news conference.

Soldiers near the patrol heard the sound of explosions and gunfire at about 4:44 a.m [local time] and tried to radio the patrol, but with no success. 15 minutes after the attack, U.S. military unmanned sky drones spotted the two vehicles in the patrol on fire.

The U.S. military has launched a massive search for the soldier which includes a house-to-house search and the setting up of roadblocks on roads leading into and out of the city so that the missing soldiers will not be moved out of the city and also to prevent the militants from entering an area that the U.S. military calls the "triangle of death." The U.S. military states that the search for the soldiers will go on until they know if they are dead or alive.

The search is also going to continue into the night. "A lot of our vehicles have thermal capabilities, which sometimes work better at night than they do during the day," said U.S. military spokesman, Lt. Col. Christopher Garver.

Associated Press is reporting that the Islamic State of Iraq has claimed responsibility and said it is holding US soldiers per a statement found on an Islamic website.

The attack brings the current U.S. soldier death toll to at least 3,391.


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Replace copyrighted image
Please replace this copyrighted image with the public domain image Image:NguyenTanDung 2006-Nov-17.jpg on commons, then delete the image.

I also believe that the name "Nguyen Tan Dung" should be replaced with its properly formatted name "Nguyễn Tấn Dũng". —Zachary talk 08:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Done DragonFire1024 08:47, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Reports: Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah killed in Afghanistan

As i understand it, what we have here is a claim by just one party, unconfirmed by any other party. I therefore propose to change the title to reflect this - for example, by adding the word "possibly". --82.141.52.57 08:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Done :) DragonFire1024 08:52, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Mullah Mohammad Omar was an amputee whose beard was graying and conducted many interviews before being killed by Afghan and coalition forces. the first part doesnt read well - amputee, graying beard and interviews have nothing to do with each other. more importantly, WP has no mention of Omar beig dead, which is also my understanding of the situation. where is the statement of death sourced from? –Doldrums(talk) 09:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Having "Reports" and "possibly" is sort-of redundant. The first implies that there is a report that has no confirmation, the second makes it appear the report covered in the story is unsure if he's dead. Oh, and this is up as lead with a different title.  I haven't changed it because I'd like to see a different title first. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:06, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Done. DragonFire1024 09:13, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

unsourced?
I don't doubt that the Taliban would deny the reports, but I think I read all the listed sources and didn't see the denial. --SVTCobra 10:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Obituary?
I don't know how strict we are on the obit category. But this seems to be a strech. An obituary would normally give a fuller account of the deceased's life. --SVTCobra 23:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

 * It is well known that Mullah Dadullah was the highest-ranking Taliban leader after Mullah Mohammad Omar. He was a mullah or akhund who hailed from the Oruzgan province.  He viewed "suicide attacks" as "martyrdom operations"; he glorified the idea of "martyrdom operations" in his speeches and pledged to send out more of them.  He knew a little Arabic from his Islamic studies but was not capable of conducting an entire interview in Arabic.  The language he knew best was Pashtun.  He was partly responsible for putting down the revolt of the Afghan Hazaras in 1999.  There was a link to Wikiquote for Mullah Dadullah that was removed.--Blivit 06:23, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I know a when I see one, and this story is not an obituary. Removing category from story. -Edbrown05 07:13, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Madrassas
"However, it is a known that he used to attend madrassas" - Corrected the obvious grammatical error, but I'm not quite sure what to derive from the sentence anyway. It seems a bit abrupt, pointless, and irrelevant. Also note that "madrassa" is simply the arabic word for "school". I'd like to see it removed, as it doesn't add anything to the article, while also disrupting the flow of the rest of the article. -Etafly 05:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * All Taliban (Islamic students) have studied in madrassas (Islamic religious schools). Other sentences that I had added were gradually whittled away.  I wanted to turn it into an obituary and include things like Dadullah moved to Karachi where he reportedly visited madrassas to motivate religious fervor among the students and encourage them to join a holy war against foreign troops in Afghanistan, labeling these troops infidels, but I gave up.--Blivit 06:45, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Welcome to a wiki, where the best laid plans sometimes run awry. -Edbrown05 07:11, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


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did the government award the sentence? or did a court? –Doldrums(talk) 09:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I suppose there is a question of how much influence the government has on the court (or how independent the court is). But you are correct to say the court hands down the sentence. I fixed up the first paragraph, as per your suggestion. Jcart1534 12:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

 * yep, we could've reported any influence if we could source it. thanks for fixing up. when my habit of commenting instead of reading the sources and fixing myself gets particularly grating, don't hesitate to let me know. :) –Doldrums(talk) 13:11, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


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Tamil Nadu film 'Sivaji: The Boss' may have a delayed release in Kerala

May 13, 2007

Rajinikanth's latest film Sivaji: The Boss may be delayed in Kerala due to opposition to a ruling by the Kerala Film Chamber of Commerce. The Kerala Film Chamber of Commerce ruled that the film should be released in more theaters than the theaters which it is set to be released in (48 theater owners have bought the rights) so it can have greater exposure to the public, but the theater owners who have the rights to show the film disagree. They do not wish to lose money due to more theater owners cashing in on Sivaji: The Boss.

In Kerala 38000 CDs of the Sivaji: The Boss audio were sold on the first day, which is a first for a non-Malayalam film audio to sell. Sayanora who originates from Kerala is a lead singer in the song Athiradee, the song also features the voice of A. R. Rahman who is the music director for the film and also had made himself a name from creating the musical Bombay Dreams. The Sivaji: The Boss songs have been top of the charts in Tamil Nadu since they were released on April 2, 2007.


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Talk:Tamil Nadu film 'Sivaji: The Boss' may have a delayed release in Kerala

There is no article on the Kerala Film Chanmber of Commerce. And I don't know anything about it so I didn't wp link it.  Vagish  [wp]  [wn] 11:36, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

short articles with a single source belong in Wikinews Shorts. –Doldrums(talk) 12:40, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * also, why is the movie being called "Tamil Nadu film" as opposed to simply "Tamil film"? –Doldrums(talk) 12:42, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I originally made an article called Sivaji The Boss (and something after it), and someone moved it to Tamil Nadu film 'Sivaji: The Boss' ... So I kept that naming convention all the way through.  Vagish  [wp]  [wn] 17:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Vagish, are you in any way involved with the production, distribution or marketing of this film? --SVTCobra 14:14, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
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Iceland's government coalition keeps majority

May 13, 2007

With 99% of the votes counted, it appears that Iceland's ruling coalition has held on to a majority in parliament by just one seat.

Prime Minister Geir Haarde's Independence Party, picked up two additional seats for a total of 24. However, its coalition partner, the Progressive Party, went from 12 seats to 8.

This will give the coalition 32 of the 63 seats in Iceland's parliament.

Olafur Hardarson, professor of political science at the University of Iceland, told Reuters that there may still be coalition talks ahead, as the Progressive Party may leave the government because of their weak showing.

The leader of the Progressive Party, Jón Sigurðsson, failed to win his seat.

Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir's Alliance Party, would be the second choice for a coaltion partner, said Haarde.

Business and environment were key issues in the election. The pro-business Indpendence Party is in favor of further development of aluminum smelters in Iceland. Aluminum producers take advantage of Iceland's abundant geothermal power. This development has been an economic boon to Iceland.

The social democratic Alliance party has called for a halt on smelter development until the environmental impact is better known. Another key issue for the Alliance is for Iceland to seek entry into the European Union.


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UK fighters confront Russian bombers over international waters

May 13, 2007 Last week, RAF Leuchars in Fife scambled two Tornado F3 interceptors, when radar detected two Tupolev Tu-142 Bear Bombers and the alarm was sounded "Bears in the Air".

The RAF would not disclose the exact time of the incident, which was to the north of the Outer Hebrides. It did say that no contact was made between the aircraft.

The Russian Bear Foxtrot bombers are renowned maritime raiders that regularly probed the United Kingdom's airspace during the Cold War.

The Russian aircraft were snooping on Neptune Warrior, a Royal Navy exercise taking place near the Outer Hebrides last week. Neptune Warrior was a live-fire naval training exercise involving warships, submarines and aircraft that took place between April 22 and May 3.

The Tornado's watched the Russians for approximately 15 minutes until the bombers returned to their home base in Murmansk.

During the Cold War in the 1970s and 1980s, Soviet spies were sometimes spotted watching from the perimeter of RAF stations to time exactly how long it took jets to take off and intercept Bear bombers, probing the United Kingdom's defences and testing the response. Nato pilots in those days were well accustomed to an almost daily aerial game of cat-and-mouse.

Squadrons of Phantom interceptors were on constant quick-reaction standby through the 1970s and 1980s to deal with the threat of Soviet long-range bombers engaging in a long-range attack on Great Britain. The Bears can carry an arsenal of missiles, some nuclear-tipped, to strike NATO warships blocking the entrance to the vital North Atlantic sealanes between the United States and Europe.

In July, the Tornado will be replaced by the new Eurofighter Typhoon. Currently, RAF personnel on scrambling duty spend most of their time on counter-terrorist missions, checking out commercial airliners approaching Britain in ways that arouse suspicion, either because they have taken the wrong flight path or because the pilot has not contacted ground control.


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 * The Russian Bear Foxtrot bombers are renowned maritime raiders that regularly probed the UK's airspace when the Kremlin still flew the hammer and sickle of communism.

Reworded; this was copypaste from the Herald and a bit dramatic. Naphra 13:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

the latest one is a reminder that Moscow's long-term ambitions are not entirely clear and that the old Cold War rivalries could resurface. is editorial commentary. attribute or remove. –Doldrums(talk) 14:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


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Felipe Massa wins 2007 Spanish Grand Prix

May 13, 2007 Felipe Massa, driving for Ferrari, won the 2007 FIA Formula One Spanish Grand prix at the Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. He made a second hat-trick (pole position, fastest lap, win) after the 2007 Bahrain Grand Prix.

The race was marred at the start by Jarno Trulli stalling his Toyota at the first start, which was placed 6th on the grid after qualifying. After stalling, the field was released to do another installation lap to recover the Toyota to the pitlane, where he would start the race. He would retire just 8 laps later with the same fuel pump issue that caused him to stall on the grid. The race was one lap shorter as a result. Starting from pole, the Brazilian controlled the race from the start, when in the first corner he had slight contact with Fernando Alonso from the McLaren-Mercedes team in the battle for the lead. This caused Fernando to run wide to the gravel trap while his teammate Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen passed his much slower car. However, this was not the only drama on the first lap. Alexander Wurz, driving the Williams-Toyota, slammed into the back of Ralf Schumacher's much slower Toyota, and destroyed his front wing and part of the suspension. As a consequence, he had to park it in the garage and retire from the Grand Prix.

In the early part of the race Kimi Raikkonen suffered an electrical problem with his Ferrari car and had to return it to the pits. This was the crucial moment of the race, when the Spaniard returned one place back. The McLaren team occupied second and third place, which stayed that way at the end of the race. Robert Kubica, the young BMW Sauber driver from Poland, was 4th, replacing his teammate Nick Heidfeld, who was out due to the gearbox failure. David Coulthard, the Red Bull-Renault driver, finished 5th, but struggled for several laps towards the end after he lost 3rd gear. He was in danger of being caught and passed by Nico Rosberg, who was 6th for Williams-Toyota. Heikki Kovalainen was 7th for Renault, and Takuma Sato got Super Aguri-Honda's first points finish in 8th place, after Giancarlo Fisichella of Renault had to make an unscheduled pit-stop for more fuel. Both Renaults had problems with their fuel rigs, which meant they made one more stop than they had planned.

FIA Formula One official championship standings is now headed by Hamilton with 30 points, 2 points ahead of Alonso and 3 ahead of Massa. McLaren-Mercedes now have a 9 point lead over Ferrari in the Constructers standings.


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TV channel - REN TV, Russia. Date: 13.05.2007. Time: 15:45-17:00 MSK - "Formula-1: Live from Spain". Commentators - Alexander Kaminskiy and Alexander Kabanovskiy (live event). --Yuriybrisk 15:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


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Comments:Object that fell through roof of New Jersey home not a meteorite

Oh well!
My warped sense of humour says that because this happened in America someone should be getting sued - or at least a ticket for littering. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:19, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


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Comments:Tamil Nadu film 'Sivaji: The Boss' may have a delayed release in Kerala

This movie
Is it going to be released in English? —Zachary talk 18:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think so.  Vagish  [wp]  [wn] 16:02, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Stop this!
Why is someone hijacking the news forum by posting irrelevant ads for a Tamil movie daily? Stop it already.


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Dog escapes fire
Well there needs to be more info like who, what, when, where, how...etc. We usually use more than one source when writing articles. The Style guide will help you out too along with Writing an article. If you need anymore help, feel free to ask me...and also see the welcome message too :) DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 15:31, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Adding it to the shorts is fine. But you need more than one source. It took me a few tries to be an admin, but have been one just over a year. Thanks for the compliment :) DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 15:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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He hasn't done any of that, as far as I can tell. Lyellin 18:42, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

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French structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at age 100

November 4, 2009

Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist who developed structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture, has died in Paris at the age of 100.

Lévi-Strauss was born on November 28, 1908 in Brussels, Belgium. Lévi-Strauss studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Lévi-Strauss lived in Brazil from 1935 to 1939. It was during this time that he undertook his first ethnographic fieldwork, conducting periodic research forays into the Mato Grosso and the Amazon Rainforest. He studied first the Guaycuru and Bororo Indian tribes, actually living among them for a while. Several years later, he returned for a second, year-long expedition to study the Nambikwara and Tupi-Kawahib societies. It was this experience that cemented Lévi-Strauss's professional identity as an anthropologist. Edmund Leach suggests, from Lévi-Strauss's own accounts in Tristes-Tropiques, that he could not have spent more than a few weeks with any place and was never able to converse easily with any of his native informants in their native language.

The war years in New York were formative for Lévi-Strauss in several ways. His relationship with Roman Jakobson helped shape his theoretical outlook (Jakobson and Lévi-Strauss are considered to be two of the central figures on which structuralist thought is based). In addition, Lévi-Strauss was also exposed to the American anthropology espoused by Franz Boas, who taught at Columbia University on New York's Upper West Side. In 1942 in fact, while having dinner at the Faculty House at Columbia, Boas died of a heart attack in Lévi-Strauss's arms. This intimate association with Boas gave his early work a distinctive American tilt that helped facilitate its acceptance in the U.S. After a brief stint from 1946 to 1947 as a cultural attaché to the French embassy in Washington, DC, Lévi-Strauss returned to Paris in 1948. It was at this time that he received his doctorate from the Sorbonne by submitting, in the French tradition, both a "major" and a "minor" thesis. These were The Family and Social Life of the Nambikwara Indians and The Elementary Structures of Kinship.

Lévi-Strauss' later works are more controversial, in part because they impinge on the subject matter of other scholars. He believed that modern life and all history was founded on the same categories and transformations that he had discovered in the Brazilian back country – The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes, The Naked Man (to borrow some titles from the Mythologiques). For instance he compares anthropology to musical serialism and defends his "philosophical" approach. He also pointed out that the modern view of primitive cultures was simplistic in denying them a history. The categories of myth did not persist among them because nothing had happened – it was easy to find the evidence of defeat, migration, exile, repeated displacements of all the kinds known to recorded history. Instead, the mythic categories had encompassed these changes.

Lévi-Strauss is survived by his wife Monique Roman and two sons.