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Ahern, Blair restate deadline on devolution

June 29, 2006 Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have stated that the November 24 deadline for formation of a devolved, power-sharing government is final and that it is the last chance for parties to restore devolution in Northern Ireland. The two prime ministers met in Belfast at Stormont today with the major parties about the deadline.

Blair stated he would shut down the Northern Ireland Assembly, cut the salary and benefits of all 108 members and forge a stronger direct rule with the Republic of Ireland. He also stated that both governments were not willing to continue talks past the deadline and would instead work on developing joint policies in Northern Ireland.

Blair who is under pressure to resign by next year is seeking a more permanent peace settlement before he leaves office.

"This is the last chance for this generation, really, to make this process work," Blair said. "We've come a long way, but we need to get the rest of the way now."

Ahern said that he wanted to see the institutions active as soon as possible. He added, "The reality of this is that if we don't do this by November 24 then we lose a huge opportunity."

The two prime ministers have also published a in-depth time-line stating what negotiators must accomplish to establish a joint power-sharing administration, one of the main goals of the Good Friday Agreement signed in 1998, by the deadline.

The administration would be led by the two main parties, the Democratic Unionist Party led by Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin, led by Gerry Adams.

The parties gave their opinions over the visit by the prime ministers.

The deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Peter Robinson, said their party stressed the need for the assembly to meet. He added, "If negotiations are going to begin in the autumn, then the assembly is going to have to meet between now and then. We can not move on to the next stage unless we move in the sequence of scoping the issues, debating the issues and then negotiating the issues." Robinson is referring to the fact that the Assembly will go on a summer recess soon.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams hoped the process could move on. "The two governments sought to reassure us of their total commitment to the November 24 deadline and their commitment to making this process work. "We now want them to match that verbal commitment with action in the time ahead," stated Adams.

Yesterday, Sinn Féin announced that the party is thinking of withdrawing from the Northern Ireland Assembly in autumn, after launching an internal review. The review could shift the party's focus from a devolution deal to the next election if the deal is unlikely by the November 24 deadline.

The leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, Sir Reg Empey, said that anyone who has no intention of meeting the November 24 deadline should "have the guts to say so". Empey added, "We want to see devolution restored if the conditions are right at the time and we will spare no effort to see that is achieved."

David Ford, the leader of the Alliance Party said that his party is sharing the frustration of the people of Northern Ireland. He added, "Alliance is prepared to work its socks off until November to get an assembly restored but we need the governments to play their part as well."

The leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Mark Durkan, said ahead of his meeting with the two "The taoiseach and the prime minister shouldn't have to be here today trying to make sense out of a lot of the nonsense that is coming from some of the parties. I hope the two premiers are clear in their message today that they want to see the parties here get on with it, because that is what the public want to see."

On May 15, the parties took their seats in the first session of the Northern Ireland Assembly since October 2002. The assembly had been suspended since 2002 over allegations of a republican spy ring. Direct rule from London has been in place since then.

A Preparation for Government Committee has been formed consisting of the various major parties, but progress has been slow. Especially since the DUP will not cooperate with Sinn Féin until the Irish Republican Army completely disbands. Last year, the IRA decommissioned their weaponry.

Blair and Ahern plan to return to Northern Ireland in October after the publication of a report on paramilitary activity.

Meanwhile, before meeting with the parties, the two prime ministers ventured to Ballymena, County Antrim to meet with cross-community students. The meeting is in response to murder of Michael McIlveen, a 15-year-old Catholic boy by a loyalist/unionist mob in County Antrim.


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Website petitioning in an attempt to save old trillium logo

June 29, 2006

The Ontario Liberal Party created a new Ontario trillium logo at a cost of $219,000 dollars. Many people and the PC Party of Ontario call it a waste of time and money. They replaced the logo with a version of the flower similar to the party's trademark. The picture can be seen here.

Now the Progressive Conservatives have started a new website. The website is a petition to save the old trillium logo. The website just started yesterday. PC leader John Tory had lots of interviews today.

"You just don't arbitrarily tamper with it under cover of darkness," PC Leader John Tory said yesterday, launching the website savethetrillium.ca. "It survived more or less intact through seven governments under all parties until Dalton McGuinty and his partisan pork barrellers got their hands on it," said John Tory. He also said "it is wasting time and money fiddling with marketing and logos while gun violence and energy problems go unattended". Tory calls it a useless use of funds and an inappropriate change because the new logo too closely resembles the flower seen in the Liberal Party banner.

The logo was introduced in 1964. It has undergone minor redesigns, but always remained a stylized T-shaped trillium. The latest version, designed by Toronto advertising agency Bensimon Byrne, is more angular and has no border.

"It's awful," Keith Rushton, a professor of design at the Ontario College of Art and Design. "It was a drastic change. It's a very aggressive, hostile logo."

The Liberals have defended the logo revamp saying "it was time to modernize the symbol in order to attract new business to the province".

For now, the Torys will leave it to the Canadian public.

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Radio station - CFRB Toronto, Canada

Date - 29.06.2006

Time - 17:00, UTC

Commentators - Christina Chernesky, Radio show

Subject - Interview with PC leader John Tory

If there's something more to clarify, just write me on my talk page...

FellowWikiNews 20:22, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * The PC's disolved. They no longer exsist. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 21:38, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * are you sure its the federal liberals not the Ontario Liberal Party (which are two diferent entities). To me the article seems like it should be ontario liberals, but is unclear. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 21:58, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

There's something not quite right with the headline
Is "Internet crusade" just the subject or the subject and verb in the headline Internet crusade to save old trillium logo? If the former, then the headline is without a verb. If the latter, then "crusade" is incorrectly plural. Karen 00:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't to be the verb. But that implies that they are going to save it. As it says in the style-guide says we're not fortune tellers. stuff should be in past tense, already happened, or should have intend to happen, not going to happen, in case it doesn't. Maybe changing title to, intenet crusade plans to save trillium blah blah. Although actually the original title does sound a bit like it has no verb now that I read it. Isn't Crusade already singulur? if you plurilize it, it sounds like the entire internet as a whole is up against the ontario government. oh well this is confusing my little mind, I've never been good at grammer, I don't have a clue what I'm talking about. Happy editing. user:Bawolff

 * How about Internet website petitions to save old trillium logo? Is "Internet website" redundant? Maybe not, I've seen intranet web sites. Used as a verb, "crusades" is singular and "crusade" is plural. - "Bob (singular) crusades (singular) to save the historic landmark" while "Fry, Leela, and Bender (plural) crusade (plural) to end consumption of Popplers." Used as a noun, "crusades" is plural and "crusade" is singular. This sort of confusion occurs when a noun is verbified. Despite all that, the prepositional phrase "to save old trillium logo" describes the crusade, which only implies the intention of the Internet when it crusades (intr.v. cru·sades - To engage in a crusade.), not salvation brought about by the Internet. Assuming "crusade" is actually used in its verb form, "Internet" is then plural. Since there's only one Internet (not counting Internet2), it could imply a collective noun usage - the citizens of the Internet (and others on AOL).

 * "Petition" is just another verbified noun, but a bit less dramatic than a full-blown crusade by the citizens of the Internet (and those on AOL) against the Ontario government (assume mutual exclusivity with respect to Internet access?). I'll change the headline later if there's no objections. Karen 08:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. Mabie we should change it to Website petitions to save old trillium logo? FellowWikiNews 13:28, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Website petitioning in an attempt to save old trillium logo is a bit longer, but satisfies user:Bawolff's issue with sounding like the old trillium logo has aready been saved. Karen 23:19, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Internet crusade to save old trillium logo
Good article.

""It's wasting time and money fiddling with marketing and logos while gun violence and energy problems go unattended" said, John Tory." Tory calls it a useless use of funds and an inappropriate change because the new logo too closely resembles the flower seen in the Liberal Party banner. And I think he's right. I don't get how the Ontario Liberal Party did this.


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Talk:U.S. military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay lack Congressional authorization, violate U.S. law and Geneva Conventions

Rename
I renamed this page - it is very much in question whether the ruling of the Court is that the "are unconstitutional." We are much better off actually following closer to what the court said in the Syllabus - that the court has jurisdiction, that the tribunals require specific authorization by Congress, and that they are not implicitly authorized. Trödel 20:27, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't object to the rename, but the military commission for Guantanamo as it exists today (decreed by the President, not sanctioned by Congress) is very much unconstitutional because it was created by the President in excess of his constititutional executive powers. --Deprifry|+T+ 20:42, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * From what I can tell (still reading) the President/Secretary did not even claim that the constitution granted the authority to establish the tribunals, but they were implicit from an Act of Congress. Thus, on could argue (though I think it is a stretch) that the Court ruled that the detaining and trying of prisoners at Guantanamo is constitutional, but they must be tried by under the UCMJ absent the President making an official determination that it is impracticable to apply the normal rules for courts-martial. Trödel 21:01, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * The government stance was indeed that the joint resolution gave them the power to establish the tribunal. But I think what is relating to our discussion is this (I'm cutting the context here to keep it a reasonable length but the sentences are on p. 27, 2nd paragraph):

"The Constitution makes the President the “Commander in Chief” of the Armed Forces, Art. II, §2, cl. 1, but vests in Congress the powers to “declare War . . . and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water,” Art. I, §8, cl. 11, to “raise and support Armies,” id., cl. 12, to “define and punish . . . Offences against the Law of Nations,” id., cl. 10, and “To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces,” id., cl. 14."

 * This is where the problem lies, IMHO. The president believes that conspiracy should be tried in these commissions, but by doing so he defines a offence against the law of nations which is not within his authority but is Congress' prerogative. --Deprifry|+T+ 21:17, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

"For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the military commission convened to try Hamdan lacks power to proceed because its structure and procedures violate both the UCMJ and the Geneva Conventions." (page 10)

 * the court did not rule that the commissions require congressional authorisation, it ruled that they lack it. i'll rename accordingly. as quoted above, it also ruled that they violate UCMJ & the Geneva Conventions, the current headline is a corrollory of the judgement issued and is therefore original research, not a reporting of the event. Doldrums 04:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I made the use of the abbreviation "U.S." consistent in the headline, which has the side effect of making the headline yet longer by two characters. I think this is the longest headline I've seen - ever. Karen 20:39, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

good article
really well done. Neutralizer 23:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

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Hi! Please, modify french interlink: fr:Les tribunaux militaires de Guantanamo doivent avoir l'accord du Congrès. Thanks, ×α£đ~es 00:09, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

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Campaigning begins for groundbreaking Congo elections

June 29, 2006

Over 200 parties are gearing up to begin a month of campaigning across the Democratic Republic of Congo, ahead of voting at the end of July.

At midnight on June 29, canvassing can officially begin across the country, in the first open elections since the country gained independence in 1961. Polls were originally due to take place last year but were delayed twice by the interim government.

The international community is taking a keen interest in events, many with a hopeful belief that the elections will end nearly a decade of violence in the country. The South African government announced earlier today that they hoped the ballot would “mark the culmination of over ten years of peace efforts by the people of the DRC.”

However some are concerned that despite the presence of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) the campaigning would still not be fair. More than 200 parties are plying for votes, but only a few have enough money to target the mass media. The current President, Joseph Kabila has a monopoly on the state media, according to the  BBC, and in over a third of constituencies, there is only one candidate.

The UN mission in the country, Monuc, has been monitoring the peace during the transitional period since war officially ended 3 years ago. In a statement today they said they demanded that “the electoral campaign takes place in a calm, serene and constructive spirit.”

A key area will be the fragile eastern parts of the country still recovering from the long war with Rwanda. Yesterday three people died in the eastern town of Goma as the roof of an aircraft hanger collapsed under the weight of hundreds of Kabila supports who had gathered to see the interim president, and likely winner of next months polls.

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Portugal receives Russian aerial firefighting airplane

June 29, 2006

Portugal received on June 29 a Russian Beriev 200 airplane that the Portuguese Government has rented for two months. The stated objective is to test the aircraft during the forest fire season, allowing the Ministry of Internal Administration to determine if it should buy it.

The correspondent agreement agreed to by the Portuguese vice-Minister of Internal Administration, Fernando Rosa Andrade, and the director of the Russian company Beriev, Victor Kobzev, will cost Portugal €1,234,000 (USD 1,552,802) for two months rent and maintenance. The objective is to test the aircraft in real firefighting situations this summer, these tests will then provide information for the Ministry of Internal Administration, so that this can make a final decision about a purchase.

With the double of capacity for the transport of water and fire retardants of other aerial firefighting aircraft that usually operate in Portugal, mainly the Canadair CL-415, the Beriev will operate throughout Portugal, independently of its base. The Beriev's capacity is almost twice that of the Canadair, 12,000 L/h and 6,160 L/h respectively.

"As of June 1, the aircraft will enter in operational tests in real environment, during 60 days", Gil Martins, operations commander of the National Center of Rescue Operations, told Rádio de Renascença News Agency.

"The Beriev is an amphibious aircraft of the same type as the Canadair, that transports a dozen tons of fire retardants, the double than a Canadair aircraft", Martins added.

The aircraft arrives Thursday night at Monte Real Air Base, were he will stay until August 31, and will be visited tomorrow (July 1) by the Minister of Internal Administration, António Costa.

The plan is to purchase four heavy aircraft for fighting forest and ground fires which will become available in 2008. In addition to the order of airplanes the Government as purchased six medium and four light helicopters, in two separate bids, in which the deal for the six medium helicopters caused the dispute of an multimillion dollar war between the three competing companies in the courts.

The international contest was launched by the Portuguese Government in November 2005 for six medium helicopters was participated in by: Heliportugal, Helisul, Helibravo, Eurocopter and the Polish PZL. With the decision made by a jury of seven members, in April the Cabinet decided to purchase from Heliportugal six Kamov 32 helicopters worth 42.1 million EUR, scheduled to arrive June 1.

Early this month the Polish company PZL interposed an action for a provisional legal remedy to the Supreme Administrative Court. In June 21 the Portuguese company Helisul made a plea for the decision of the Cabinet in April 27.

With about 3.2 million hectares of forest in 1995 and 2.5 million hectares in 2005, Portugal lost about fifth of its forest in ten years to forest fires.


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English source?
Just wondering if you've got a source which is in English by any chance? Makes it a bit easier to validate the facts... R2b2 21:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Best regards, Get_It 22:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't have any sources in English. But I used Google News to search any related to "Beriev 200", and I found two news about the signing of the contract: Irkut Corporation Leases Be-200 Aircraft to Portuguese Ministry (09/06/2006), Russian amphibious plane to fight wildfires in Portugal (08/06/2006).


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Wikinews:Proposed deletion

Proposed deletion (PROD) is a method of proposing a page for uncontroversial deletion. It sits between the regular deletion process and the speedy deletion process. There are five main criteria for proposed deletions:

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Template:Minimal
similiar to template:minimal. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:23, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Then we should integrate it into the system. — THIS IS M ESSED [[Image:R with umlaut.png]] OCKER (TALK) 22:28, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

This is good
I like this idea. --Chiacomo (talk) 04:41, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I support this to be policy. Doldrums 12:42, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Abandoned articles
What about minimal edits? I think edits like placing tags on an article and moving to a different title shouldn't count when considering an article as abandoned.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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Interior Ministry, Fatah offices in Gaza hit by Israeli airstrikes

June 30, 2006

The Israeli Defence Forces have carried out 5 to 8 air strikes targeting the office of the Palestinian interior ministry's headquarters occupied by the governing party Hamas in Gaza and an office of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party in Gaza, Palestinian and Israeli sources say.

Israel claims its ongoing Operation Summer Rains, which began early on June 28, is in response to the capture of Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit by Palestinian militants.

There were mixed reports of casualties from the air strike, although one source said a member of Islamic Jihad had been killed in the air strikes. Television images showed emergency crews responded to the attacks.

The Israeli military said the ministry office, controlled by Hamas, was "a meeting place to plan and direct terror activity." In addition, an Israeli official stated to the Associated Press that the attacks will only end when the captured Israeli soldier is unconditionally freed.

Days after the initial raid reports from Israeli officials stated that they had found the body of 18-year-old Eliyahu Yitzhak Asheri who was kidnapped by the Palestinian ruling party, Hamas, and shot in the back of the head on Sunday.

In his first appearance since the raid began, Palestinian PM and leader of the Hamas organization, Ismail Haniya denounced the raid saying it was a "premeditated plan" to bring down the new Hamas government. He accused Israel of hiding behind Cpl. Shalit to carry a "systemic campaign" against Hamas.


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Police crackdown on illegal tow operations in Sydney

June 30, 2006

New South Wales Police, in connection with the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority, Tow Truck Authority and Centrelink (the agency responsible for providing income support) conducted random checks on tow trucks on Thursday. The checks were carried out in Bankstown, a suburb in Sydney's South-West.

According to police, 50 tow trucks were pulled over during the operation, coined "Operation Hook" between 8:30 a.m. AEST and 4 p.m. Of those, 26 were directed to report to a vehicle inspection facility for further investigation.

Police issued 70 infringement notices (fines) during the operation. 11 were for being unlicensed to conduct business as a tow truck driver or business, and 13 for having incorrectly secured loads. 17 vehicles were issued defect notices as part of the operation.

Tow truck operators (business owners) are required to make a payment of AUD$770 per year to the NSW government, while drivers are charged $152 per year for their licence. An additional charge for tow truck number plates of $292 per year also applies.

The maximum penalty for operators not being licensed correctly is $11,000 or 12 months imprisonment, drivers without the correct licence can be fined $5,500 or sentenced to 6 months.


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Original Reporting
Article written from the police media statement - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 03:47, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Typo
editprotected "licenced" => "licensed" (in BE the verb is "to license" and the noun is "a licence") Van der Hoorn (talk) 23:37, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

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Re: Hi
and Hi to you too, Pandoo. Doldrums 12:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * nice going ... Doldrums 14:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

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Agni test firing
now that u've renamed the article, pls fix the article, with sources, such that it substantiates its title. (and try to edit/correct while they're in development, or quickly after publication, as far as possible. thanks. Doldrums 18:31, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

note that wikinews print edition and audio wikinews wld have already broadcast the article as it stood. i think that now, the best thing is to leave the article as it stands, and write another article updating the info. if i recall correctly, early reports of the launch did describe it as a success, later on, reports of some lapses turned up. so it's ok for wikienws to follow that chronology. i'll now revert the article to where it stood. Doldrums 18:35, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * done! reverted published article. u can develop the new article India's Agni-III test termed a "failure". Doldrums 18:41, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

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Published without formal review
editprotected As far as I know, we never publish anything without peer review now. Should we get rid of this perpetually-empty section? Heavy Water (talk) 17:51, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * And, while we're at it, Collaboration requests should go, it's just transcluded from Disputed. --Heavy Water (talk) 17:59, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I didn't do this (yet) because I think it is possible for articles to get published without a formal review if an admin or reviewer goes rogue. And there are always attempts to self-publish by various other users. Though they would not show up on the main page, I think they would show up here.
 * As far as the second issue, I think if you look at Wikinews:Newsroom/Collaboration it is possible for other articles to show here. I think (maybe) there is a template or category to use to request collaboration/assistance on undisputed articles. These things said, I have never been good at interpreting the code used for dynamic page lists. Cheers, SVTCobra 22:47, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Is my assessment correct then, @Heavy Water? You probably have more CSS and HTML knowledge than I do. Cheers, SVTCobra 05:22, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is. My fault, "REMOVE these from Category:Published...unless peer reviewed" makes clear it is an undesirable outcome, but for some reason I did not understand.
 * As for Collaboration, there is a deleted article displaying there right now, and I thought that would update itself. My understanding now is: Collaboration shows all disputed articles, and developing articles tagged with helpneeded. Heavy Water (talk) 14:15, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * And, occasionally, a deleted article or two. Heavy Water (talk) 14:15, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I am not seeing any deleted articles on my end at this time (and don't remember seeing any ever). Do they still show after a refresh/purge cache? SVTCobra 19:55, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yeah, after purging again it's gone. Heavy Water (talk) 19:57, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Purge buttons or URLs often don't work for me at first, with the exception of the Main Page one. Heavy Water (talk) 20:01, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

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Ullrich and Sevilla suspended from Tour de France

T-Mobile suspended the Tour de France contestants Jan Ullrich and Oscar Sevilla, and they will not participate in the Tour de France. Ullrich's mentor, Rudy Pevenage, is also suspended.

The news was published at today's press meeting.

It is the first consequence of the big Spanish doping-scandal. The 32-year old Jan Ullrich won Tour de France in 1997. He was together with Team CSC's Ivan Basso the favorite winner in Tour de France, and the Spaniards Oscar Sevilla was one of Ullrich's most important helpers.

All three have to prove their innocence before they can be released, said the German crew who will try to get the two new bikers in the game.

Team CSC-owner Bjarne Riis said friday, when he was on his way to meet the other sports executives, and the Tour-management:

- "It is sad news. I just heard it. It is of course a shame."

Altogether 22 riders are mentioned on the list.


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Talk:Interior Ministry, Fatah offices in Gaza hit by Israeli airstrikes

it takes only a quick look at the sources to see that it wasn't Mahmoud Abbas's office that was targeted but instead, the interier minister which belongs to the hamas and not to fatah. If you're familiar with the conflict, thats a HUGE diffrence. TiB 17:46, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the article itself but I don't know how to change the title which is completely wrong and misleading. TiB 17:46, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 * reintroduced removed text and removed tag, as per this source:
 * "At least 20 other targets included an office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah group, militant training camps, a weapons storage facility in Gaza City and sites used by militants to fire rockets at Israel."
 * Doldrums 11:53, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Reintroduced tag, the number of attacks targeted at Fatah offices are not documented to be between 5 and 8. Sources talk about "an office". --Filip nohe 14:42, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

1 office. not offices.

and as you can see from the sources, it was a minor building compared to the Ministery of the interior which is a hamas building.

Added many sources. Removed the sources tag. I believe the title should still be changed because its misleading. TiB 17:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

 * renamed the page to a more accurate version. (TiB - to rename, see the link at the top of the page to the right of "history".) Jobrahms 18:31, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

"Forcible capture"
What other kind of capture is there? Reverting. In fact, rewording the first paragraph. Jobrahms 16:10, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


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Australian shot in Thailand

June 30, 2006

An Australian has been shot in the abdomen in Thailand. The 22-year-old man from Wagga Wagga, Lee Burkinshaw, was shot in the Chantaburi province during a drive by shooting. He was evacuated to Bangkok hospital after receiving some treatment at a local hospital. An operation is needed to remove the bullet from his abdomen. He is expected to make a full recovery.

His spleen was removed but no vital organs have been damaged.

His father received a call at 2 a.m. AEST.

Lee went to Thailand to study the gem cutting.

“It is the gem capital of the world, and a lot of the rough cut gemstones come into there to be cut and styled,” Mr. Burkingsaw said.

He is undeterred from revisiting Thailand.

“This is purely a one-off incident ... Thailand is a wonderful country, it's just an unfortunate incident,” said Lee.

This is the second incident in recent weeks in which an Australian had been shot in Thailand. Last week a nurse was killed when she was shot in the neck near a bar.

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French Parliament adopts controversial copyright bill

The French parliament has today finally adopted a law known as DADVSI implementing the 2001 European directive on copyright, roughly an equivalent to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The final text criminalizes sending copyrighted data over peer-to-peer networks, and enacts tough penalties for those designing programs "evidently designed" to send copyrighted data or meant for circumventing DRM protection techniques.

Free software groups contend that the law could in effect make it impossible to implement free software capable of reading DRM-encumbered formats. EUCD.info denounces the "worst copyright law imaginable".

The text started to be examined in Parliament in December 2005, when it took an unexpected twist with an amendment decriminalizing peer-to-peer networks (in exchange for the payment of a flat fee), since repealed. In March, other amendments were strongly criticized by Apple Computer, and as a result the US government pressured the French government to rescind them.

The ruling UMP party voted in favor of the law, but a number of its parliamentarians, including a vice-president of the National Assembly, expressed strong reservations; the centrist UDF split over it, with its president François Bayrou being opposed to the bill, but some other members abstaining from voting; the left-wing opposition PS and PCF voted against it. The opposition has announced it would mount a challenge over the law before the French Constitutional Council.

Proponents of the bill claim that it will rein in unauthorized copying of copyrighted content, which they claim jeopardizes artistic creation in France. Opponents opposed both the way the bill was examined in Parliament, which they claim was put under pressure, and some clauses that they claim may violate civil liberties or jeopardize free software.

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US Seeks to Lift Export Sales Ban on the F-22A Raptor

June 30, 2006

The US House of Reprensentatives is seeking to lift a nine year old ban on export sales of the F-22A Raptor stealth fighter.

US lawmakers approved an amendment that would allow Lockheed Martin, the aircraft's primary manufacturer, to sell the aircraft overseas to foreign nations. Every defence bill since 1997 contained language that prohibited the sale of the multi-role aircraft to foreign nations, due to concerns that the advanced technology in the plane may reach the wrong hands. Japan and South Korea, both strong allies of the United States are considered to be likely customers, if the ban is lifted.

The amendment was introduced by Rep. Kay Granger, (R-Texas), whose constituency, the Fort Worth district is home to a major Lockheed Martin facility. The lifting of the ban comes at a time when continued US orders will no longer be guaranteed and that the aircraft's continued production is important for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics' business.


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Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Freitas do Amaral resigns

June 30, 2006

The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Freitas do Amaral has resigned from his position. Replacing Freitas do Amaral in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be Luís Amado, current Minister of National Defense.

Prime Minister José Sócrates requested President Cavaco Silva to relieve Freitas do Amaral of his posts of minister of state and foreign affairs, on his request, for reasons of health, according to a cabinet press release.

In the press release, José Sócrates also proposed the nomination of the current minister of defense, Luís Amado, to replace Freitas do Amaral. José Sócrates also proposed the nomination of Nuno Severiano Teixeira as the new defense minister. Teixeira was the Internal Administration Minister in the second executive lead by António Guterres (1999/2001). Both possessions are scheduled for next Monday morning.

"In this occasion, the Prime Minister desires to underline the extraordinary contribute which, with all his experience and international prestige, the professor Diogo Freitas do Amaral gave to the Government and the national interests in the conduction of the Portuguese external politics", the press release stated.

In a press conference this Friday afternoon, Foreign Affairs spokesman António Carneiro Jacinto said that Freitas do Amaral will be operated next Monday (July 3) to an injury in the cervical column which hinders him from travelling by airplane in the coming months.

"The resignation was not motivated by politic divergences of any type, which had not existed, nor exist. It's because the aggravation of the health" of Diogo Freitas do Amaral, said the spokesman in the press conference.

The resignation of Freitas do Amaral was expected has for some time. On March, in an interview to the Portuguese newspaper "Expresso", the Minister said that he arrived home "at the end of the day completely tired" and admitted that he would not be able to handle the work of the ministry when Portugal starts to exercise its presidency of the European Union in 2007.


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Palestinian PM: Israel aims to topple government

June 30, 2006

Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Prime Minister, said Friday that; "This total war is proof of a premeditated plan. When they kidnapped the ministers they meant to hijack the government's position, but we say no positions will be hijacked, no governments will fall."

Haniyah said that that Israel's offensive in the Gaza strip was part of a premeditated plan to bring down the elected Palestinian government led by Hamas, and that it would fail.

Israel's air force struck roads, bridges and a power plant in Gaza within the past 24 hours, and the United Nations said it believes the destruction of the Gaza power plant has pushed Gaza close to a humanitarian crisis.

Israel maintains that its military activities are for the purpose of obtaining the safe return of one of its soldiers, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Palestinian militants this past Sunday. Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said, "The quicker this is done the better it will be. If the soldier will be returned and the Qassam (rocket) fire will be halted, we will also return our soldiers to their bases."


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Germany master penalties to beat Argentina to semi-final spot

June 30, 2006

Germany beat Argentina 4-2 on penalties to book a place in the Fifa World Cup semi-finals in Berlin, Friday.

The match had drawn 1-1 without many clear chances for either side due to defensive play on both sides. First it was Germany who were unable to be positive as Argentina dominated play with 65 per cent of ball possession.

Until their goal Argentina controlled the game.

Four minutes after half-time Roberto Ayala got across Miroslav Klose to meet Juan Riquelme's corner which he powered between Jens Lehmann and his near post guard, Philipp Lahm.

The goal early in the second period made for a more exciting match which had been mostly uneventful in a first half during which neither side could muster more than a single shot. However; good scoring chances where hard to come by.

Juergen Klinsmann may be credited with a substitution change that partially helped Germany get an equalising goal. The fast David Odonkor troubled Juan Sorin and the Argentine left flank and allowed Germany to press forward nearer to the opposition penalty area.

Argentine manager may also have made a tactical mistake and suffered form a moment of bad fortune. In the minutes before Germany equalised from Ballack's wonderful left field cross his goalkeeper had to be stretchered off with a muscle injury.

Jose Pekerman followed his keeper's substitutions with two defensive ones; taking off creative midfield playmaker Riquelme and forward Hernan Crespo. The gifts of Lionel Messi and Javier Saviola were left on the bench while Julio Cruz, a long ball-holding forward, was brought on to partner Carlos Tevez.

The bad luck and changes seemed to put Germany in charge of the tactical game for the first time in the match. A minute after Cruz arrived Pekerman might have regretted his decision. Klose's fifth World Cup goal ten minutes from time put him at the top of the Fifa Golden Boot leader board as the tournament's highest goalscorer. He beat his marker to dip and head beyond Leonardo Franco after Tim Borowski, a substitution on 74 minutes, had flicked on a Ballack cross.

The game finished 1-1 and the two halves of extra time mirrored the match; first half uneventful, the second half more attacking. Fabricio Coloccini came closest to breaking the deadlock when he hit the crossbar from 45 yards trying to catch Lehmann off his goal line.

Neither Germany or Argentina had lost in a World Cup penalty contest; both sides had won three. All the penalties hit the target and were well struck, except Ayala's who hit a soft effort which Lehmann saved to his left. Cambiasso's effort to Lehmann's left was better struck but the keeper had guessed the right side to dive to break Argentine hearts.

Post shootout melee

FIFA launched an investigation into an on-field melee which began after the penalties had been decided in Germany's favour.

Punches and kicks were thrown in the tangle. Unused Argentine substitute Leandro Cufre assaulted German Per Mertesacker and was presented the red card by Lubos Michel.

According to the German captain Michael Ballack the conflict originated when Argentine players shouted at the German team during the shootout. When Tim Borowski got Germany's fourth penalty he made a sign to the Argentine players to be quiet.

After the penalty kicks Argentine players approached Borowski and a scuffle of mostly pushing began that involved dozens of players, referees, coaches and substitutes.

FIFA said television pictures would be looked at and fines or sanctions would be considered if appropriate.

Quarter-finals
Match 57

Attendance: 72'000

Penalties
Notes are from the goalkeeper's view.

Germany

Substitutes
 * 62' David Odonkor 94'[[image:Yellow card.svg|10px]] for Schneider
 * 74' Tim Borowski for Schweinsteiger
 * 86' Oliver Neuville for Klose

Coach: Juergen Klinsmann

denotes one goal scored.

Argentina

Substitutes Coach: Jose Pekerman
 * 71' Leonardo Franco (GK) for Abbondanzieri
 * 72' Esteban Cambiasso for Riquelme
 * 79' Julio Cruz 95'[[image:Yellow card.svg|10px]] for Crespo
 * unused Leandro Cufre 120' [[image:red card.svg|10px]]

denotes one goal scored.

Officials
Referee: Lubos Michel

Assistant referee: Roman Slysko

Assistant referee: Martin Balko

Fourth referee: Massimo Busacca

Fifth referee: Francesco Buragina

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The time is 20:00 (UTC) on June 30th, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs.

Interior Ministry, Fatah offices in Gaza hit by Israeli airstrikes
Palestine

In response to the abduction of Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit by Palestinian militants, The Israeli Defence Forces carried out 5 to 8 airstrikes targeting the office of The Palestinian interior ministry's headquarters occupied by the governing party Hamas in Gaza and an office of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party in Gaza, Palestinian and Israeli sources say.

Palestinian PM: Israel aims to topple gov't
Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Prime Minister, said Friday that; "This total war is proof of a premeditated plan. When they kidnapped the ministers they meant to hijack the government's position, but we say no positions will be hijacked, no governments will fall."

Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Freitas do Amaral resigns
Portugal

The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Freitas do Amaral has resigned from his position.

French Parliament adopts controversial copyright bill
France

The French parliament has today finally adopted a law known as DADVSI implementing the 2001 European directive on copyright, roughly an equivalent to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The final text criminalizes sending copyrighted data over peer-to-peer networks, and enacts tough penalties for those designing programs "evidently designed" to send copyrighted data or meant for circumventing DRM protection techniques.

Police crackdown on illegal tow operations in Sydney
Australia

New South Wales Police, in connection with the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority, Tow Truck Authority and Centrelink (the agency responsible for providing income support) conducted random checks on tow trucks on Thursday.

Amsterdam to open a "Chocolate Factory"
Netherlands

Amsterdam will get an amusement park dedicated to chocolate and inspired by Roald Dahl's children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, city officials and entrepreneurs said Thursday.

Australian shot in Thailand
Thailand

An Australian has been shot in the abdomen in Thailand. The 22 year old man from Wagga Wagga, Lee Burkinshaw, was shot in the Chantaburi province during a drive by shooting. He was evacuated to Bangkok hospital after receiving some treatment at a local hospital. An operation is needed to remove the bullet from his abdomen. He is expected to make a full recovery.

Germany master penalties to beat Argentina to semi-final spot
sports – football or soccer

Germany beat Argentina 4-2 on penalties to book a place in the Fifa World Cup semi-finals in Berlin, Friday.

Ullrich and Sevilla suspended from Tour de France
sports – cycling

T-Mobile suspended the Tour de France contestants Jan Ullrich and Oscar Sevilla, and they will not participate in the Tour de France. Ullrich's mentor, Rudy Pevenage, is also suspended.

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Nickelback's lead singer arrested for drunk driving

June 30, 2006

Chad Kroeger, lead singer of Canadian rock group Nickelback was caught drunk and arrested last week in Surrey, B.C. The investigation started last week after the lead singer was pulled over on June 22 at about 2 a.m. for driving erratically. Kroeger is from Hanna, Alberta, 170 km northeast of Calgary, Alberta.

The RCMP said the incident involving Chad Kroeger happened on June 22. Cpl. Roger Morrow said officers in two RCMP vehicles were suspicious of the way a vehicle was being driven, and stopped the car without incident.

Charges of impaired driving have been recommended by police against 31-year-old Chad Kroeger to the Crown prosecutor's office. But, no charges have been laid yet. Representatives for Kroeger had no comment.


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Schools benefit from new California budget

July 1, 2006

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bipartisan state budget Friday that invests a record $55.1 billion in education - an increase of $3.1 billion this year and $8.3 billion over the last two years - and allocates $4.9 billion to create a budget reserve and to pay down the state's debt early.

Schwarzenegger credited bipartisan cooperation in coming up with a budget he was willing to sign, and do it on time, a rarity in recent California politics.

"It's amazing what can be accomplished when Democrats and Republicans work together in Sacramento," said Schwarzenegger. "I want to thank the legislative leadership - Senators and Dick Ackerman, Speaker Fabian Nunez and Assembly Republican Leader George Plescia - for all their hard work on the budget. We put politics aside and were driven by the overwhelming desire to do what's best for the people of California.

"I am especially proud that the budget expands preschool, and returns art, music and physical education classes to our children," he said.

said he is pleased by the budget. "The budget passed by the Legislature brings welcome support to education in California, making good on past debts to our schools and investing in sorely needed classroom programs," he said.

He had his own budget favorites: "I’m particularly pleased that the budget includes increased funding for school counselors, teacher professional development, programs targeted to helping students pass the high school exit exam, and expanded and improved student nutrition programs.

"While there are some priorities over which we may disagree, I applaud the Governor and the Legislature for a budget that makes education a top priority."

Barbara E. Kerr, president of the 335,000-member, also likes the direction of the new budget. “The timely approval of the new state budget is good news for our public schools and students," she said. "School districts and teachers can now plan ahead. The nearly six percent cost-of-living-adjustment will allow local schools to restore funding to education programs that have been cut over the past few years and provide for salary increases."

Still, Kerr, said, the budget doesn't go far enough. “This budget is a down payment on the debt owed to our schools. Teachers will continue to work with the governor and the Legislature to ensure repayment of the $3 billion still owed to our schools under Proposition 98 and the lawsuit settlement agreement announced last month. That money will help our schools of greatest need reduce class sizes, improve teacher training and increase parental involvement."

How the budget affects the and, or the, specifically is not yet clear.

, who is running for governor against Schwarzenegger, liked  the increased education funding, and praised his fellow Democrats in the legislature for that, but criticized the entire budget for being out of balance.

“On higher education, Democrats in the Legislature did the right thing, when the governor would not, and gained a $6 per unit rollback in community college fees," he said in a statement. "That is a start. But the governor’s budget will still leave community college fees nearly double what they were just three years ago. And the budget will also leave untouched the fees at CSU and UC, which have increased by $2,000 and $5,000 respectively under Governor Schwarzenegger."

Missing from the budget, Angelides said, is funding to expand health care for low-income children. Schwarzenegger "failed to get members of his own party to agree to a budget that funds health care for more kids from low-income families on the Healthy Families program regardless of the families’ immigration status. Compassion requires – and intelligent public health practice demands – that all people residing in California have access to adequate health care,” Angelides said.

Schwarzenegger credited a strong economy that increased state revenues for providing the cash to cover the increased expenditures and set aside a $2.1 billion reserve and an additional $2.8 billion for debt prepayment. Included in that is $1.42 billion for repaying borrowed funds earmarked by the voters for transportation projects aimed at reducing traffic throughout the state. The early debt payment and the reserve account for nearly 4.7 percent of the overall budget - the highest in 25 years.

Still, Angelides said, the budget is out of balance and the state is running up more debt. “Despite his repeated pledges to ‘cut up the credit card’ Governor Schwarzenegger has produced a budget that still leaves a $3.3 billion structural budget deficit for 2006-07 and more deficits for years to come," Angelides said, "It is a budget that will continue to shift the burden of today’s deficits onto the backs of future generations."

The budget largely mirrors the May Revise, which has since prompted all three Wall Street credit rating agencies to upgrade the state credit rating, reducing the cost of state borrowing. One of the agencies,, cited "California's continuing economic recovery, strong revenue performance and continued progress in reducing fiscal imbalance" when upgrading their rating on the state's general obligation debt from A to A+ last month. also raised its rating from A to A+ in May. raised its rating from A2 to A1 the same month.

Despite the improved credit ratings, Angelides said, the three rating agencies still have reservations about the state's fiscal future. The agencies "have corroborated my warning and that of the Legislative Analyst that while state revenues have improved, California’s fiscal condition will remain insecure until the state produces balanced budgets," he said.

Highlights of AB 1801, the Budget Act of 2006 by Assembly member John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), include:

Preschool through High School Education - The budget includes $100 million for the Governor's targeted preschool initiative, which will make preschool available to every four year old living in a low-performing school district. $50 million of this funding will be used to build and improve preschool facilities. The budget also includes $645 million to fund physical education, arts and music programs. Overall, $11,264 will be spent on each student, an increase of $516 from the current year.

Higher Education - The budget allocates $19.1 billion from all sources for higher education and eliminates tuition and fee increases at UC and CSU. California, which already has the lowest community college fees in the nation, will further lower student fees from $26 per unit to $20, effective Spring 2007.

Law Enforcement - The budget includes an additional $196 million to support law enforcement efforts, including money to fund Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement teams, 500 GPS devices to track and monitor the highest-risk parolees and four new Gang Suppression Enforcement Teams. The budget also proposes the addition of 235 California Highway Patrol positions, includes $56.4 million to replace the CHP's existing radio system and allocates $6.4 million to handle the increasing number of wireless calls. Additionally, the budget includes a $20 million investment to strengthen efforts to fight methamphetamine trafficking and $6 million to create three new California Methamphetamine Strategy program teams.

Disaster Preparedness - The budget provides $220 million to enhance California's ability to prepare for, mitigate and respond to emergencies, including money to strengthen public health response during a disaster. This includes preparations to prevent a pandemic influenza outbreak and expanding efforts to help local governments develop disaster preparedness plans.

Public Health - The budget includes $22.6 million for counties to perform outreach and enrollment activities to reach the 428,000 children who are eligible for Medi-Cal or the Healthy Families program but are not enrolled. The budget for the Healthy Families program also covers enrollment growth for 78,200 additional children.

Transportation - In addition, the Budget makes a substantial investment in improving California's transportation system. It provides $1.4 billion to fully fund Proposition 42 for the second consecutive year, and it provides an additional $1.4 billion for the early repayment of past loans from Proposition 42, for a total of $2.8 billion. Of the $1.4 billion repayment, $440 million is designated for cities and counties for local road and street maintenance that would otherwise not be funded.

The budget is the first on time budget since 2000 and the fourth in the last 20 years. The 2006-07 budget's general fund is $101.3 billion and total is $131.4 billion. For a more detailed overview of the budget, please visit www.dof.ca.gov.


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Italy brush Ukraine aside 3-0 to reach semi-final

June 30, 2006

Italy took their chances to take a comfortable win in their Fifa World Cup quarter-final match against Ukraine, Friday.

Gianluca Zambrotta scored the game winner after six minutes and Luca Toni netted a double in the second half to secure a semi-final game with the host nation, Germany.

Zambrotta's early goal for Italy was a 30 yard low hard swinging drive that beat the Ukraine keeper at his near post.

Italy played a very effective counter attack game ceding 58 per cent of possession to Ukraine while they equalled their opponents creativity in front of goal with seven shots on target.

Ukraine played good football in the second period and while they were still one goal down were unlucky not to net an equaliser. They were up against an Italian defence that had conceded just one goal in the tournament - which was an own goal - and was to complete a third consecutive shut out.

On 48 minutes Gianluigi Buffon made a match-winning save from Maksym Kalinichenko. In the process of tipping the downward header onto the post Buffon head-butted the upright.

As Ukraine upped the pressure Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro then made a crucial winning header clearance as Andiry Shevchenko lurked behind.

When Buffon saved again and Zambrotta cleared off the line from Kalinichenko Ukraine coach Oleg Blohkin rued the missed chances. A minute later an Italian attack led to a corner, taken short Totti's near-post ball met a diving Toni and it was suddenly 2-0.

Andriy Gusin then connected with a header and hit the crossbar but though the Ukraine effort was vigorous on the day they did not score.

Ten minutes after Toni's first World Cup goal, Zambrotta dribbled into the penalty area from the left side and passed the ball to Toni who tapped in his second goal from five yards.

An unsung hero of the match was Gennaro Gattuso whose hard work in midfield earned him Fifa's Man of the Match award.

Quarter-finals
Match 58

Attendance: 50'000

Italy

Substitutes
 * 68' Simone Barone for Pirlo
 * 68' Massimo Oddo for Camoranesi
 * 77' Cristian Zaccardo for Gattuso

Coach: Marcello Lippi

denotes one goal scored.

Ukraine

Substitutes
 * 20' Andriy Vorobey for Sviderskyi
 * 47'+ Vladyslav Vashchuk for Andriy Rusol
 * 72' Oleksiy Belik for Milevskiy

Coach: Oleg Blohkin

denotes one goal scored.

Officials
Referee: Frank De Bleeckere

Assistant referee: Peter Hermans

Assistant referee: Walter Vromans

Fourth referee: Toru Kawikawa

Fifth referee: Yoshikazu Hiroshima

Related news
Germany master penalties to beat Argentina to semi-final spot


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World's highest railway links Tibet to rest of China

July 1, 2006 The first trains were flagged onto the Qinghai-Tibet Railway line, the world's highest railway line connecting the Tibetan capital Lhasa with Golmud in Qinghai, China. At its highest point in the Tanggula Pass, the railway line reaches an altitude of 5072 metres.

The line is designed for travel at speeds of 100 km/h on frozen ground to 120 km/h on non-frozen ground. The cabins are supplied with oxygen because of the thin air at the high altitudes. The windows have ultra-violet filters to keep out the sun's glare. Cooling pipes have been used to ensure the ground remains frozen.

Air trips to Tibet are expensive and road trips slow and dangerous. Three trains, each carrying 900 passengers are scheduled to run daily along the line. The basic tickets cost 389 yuan to go from Beijing to Lhasa. The trip should take just under 48 hours. According to state television the tickets for the inaugural trip sold out within 10 minutes.

Speaking at the flagging-off ceremony in front of the Golmud railway station, the Chinese President Hu Jintao said, "The project is not only a magnificent feat in China's history of railway construction, but is also a great miracle of the world's railroad history,"

The Chinese government states that it spent more than US$95 million reducing the environmental damage of this railway. Passengers will not be able to open the windows of the train to litter. There will be a rubbish train to pick up refuse from various sites along the line.

Critics claim that the railway will be used to assert control over Tibet as the line can quickly transport Chinese troops to Tibet during unrest.

They also claim that the railway will damage both the environment and the culture of Tibet. Tibet is home to many endangered species such as the Tibetan antelope.

On Friday, 3 women from the United States, Canada, and Britain were detained for displaying a banner saying "China's Tibet Railway, Designed to Destroy" at Beijing's main station.

"It's the first direct, low-cost, quick, and easy way for migrants to arrive in central Tibet. This will lead to the overwhelming of Tibetans and competition for scarce jobs. The eventual idea is the dilution of Tibetan language, culture and identity," said Lhadon Tethong, executive director of the New York-based Students for a Free Tibet.

"The railway line itself is not a cause of concern for the Tibetan people," said Thupten Samphel, spokesman for the Dalai Lama's government in exile. "How it will be used is the main concern."

"Despite the rosy economic forecasts and dire predictions of Chinese control, the train is unlikely to touch off social disaster or commercial windfall," said Andrew Fischer, an economics researcher at the London School of Economics.

"When the railroad opens the commercial service and more people move in and out of the region, I think it will be good for the outside world to know more about Tibetan culture," Zhu, the railway official, said. "No culture can develop and thrive in a closed environment."


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Purpose of mysterious website Eon8 revealed

July 1, 2006

On July 1, 2006 at Midnight Eastern Daylight Time, the purpose of the website Eon8 was revealed, turning out to be an experiment on how the public reacts to a lack of information. Eon8, prior to the revelation, was a website counting down to July 1 created by a 23-year-old web designer from Florida known only as "Mike". The bottom of the page featured links to other pages and a note on the "project status." Eon8 is often "offline" due to the heavy traffic it is receiving.

Links to other pages included a "deployment tracker," which featured a map of the world highlighting heavily populated areas, and "deployment logs," which were revealed to be arbitrary characters encoded in MD5. Going to eon8.com/security listed a series of rejected "referers"; accessing the website from a link on a website that has not been approved by Eon8 would result in a rejected "referrer" page. Three other links on the main page were password-protected, however it was revealed today that there was no password. Anyone who managed to circumvent the password protection would find a page reading "This is a decoy folder. Please connect to the internal secure network."

Predictions of the purpose of Eon8 included the distribution of computer viruses, viral marketing, and an alternate reality game. Additionally, plenty of references were made to the Book of Revelations and the Third Reich. The website's popularity spread as a result of plenty of Internet communities reacting to it, including forum posts on 4chan, eBaum's World, Something Awful, as well as a page on YTMND predicting the purpose of Eon8.


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Original reporting
The article is pretty much based on that "haha tricked ya" page released by the creator of Eon8, as well as the original-research filled Wikipedia article which I am hosting here. — THIS IS M ESSED OCKER  (TALK) 05:01, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Great work
Great work MessedRocker.  I think they're faking being down. I just went to http://www.eon8.com/stats/ and it gave a 404 in half a second (now it times out) in addition, pinging them gave an average of 138 miliseconds. Wikinews has 139 milliseconds. I also just sent them an invalid http/0.9 request and it responded with error message fairly fast. (however it didn't echo characters, but really it shouldn't respond at all if its down like that.). Now I can no longer connect on port 80 All very odd. Now It responded to my head request:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 05:26:43 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwli mited/1.4 PHP/4.4.0 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a Connection: close Content-Type: text/html

Connection to host lost. Bawolff ☺☻ 05:19, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the kind words! — THIS IS M ESSED [[Image:R with umlaut.png]] OCKER (TALK) 05:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Othello complex
Great article AND fantastic experiment. Paranoia is nothing new and can be easily planted and fertilized in people's minds for evil purposes as we saw with "Iraq has WMDs". This prank exposes the negativity of our collective western society; I wonder whether the same reaction would occurr in Cuba? Neutralizer 13:07, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Apparently this fear of the unknown is common to everyone in a "big brother" society whether it's capitalist,communist or fascist (or a blend). It is indoctrinated into the children at a young age "don't talk to strangers"...etc. Neutralizer 01:11, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Uh, my understanding was that it only showed up in air-breathing societies. -- 68.125.98.149 02:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


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can someone check whether we can use these images (on the china railway website) in the article. Doldrums 09:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

time frame
please add context for when these events are occurring -Edbrown05 10:51, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Permafrost
"Cooling pipes have been used to ensure the ground remains frozen." Why would they want to keep the ground frozen? Can a woman still block me? 09:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)


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English cricketer Fred Trueman dies, aged 75

July 1, 2006

Former England and Yorkshire cricketer, Fred Trueman, has died at the age of 75. The first cricketer in English history to obtain 300 test match wickets, Truman died after battling lung cancer.

Dubbed 'Fiery Fred', Trueman was born in Stainton, Yorkshire and made his Yorkshire test debut in 1949, eventually retiring 20 years later. Over the course of his career, both for his county and his country, Trueman took in excess of 2,000 wickets.

On retirement from the game, Trueman took up the microphone and worked as expert analyst on Test Match Special (Produced by the BBC Radio 4) until 2000.

Speaking on Sky News (1st July 2006) former England Cricket Captain, Mike Gatting said, "He was in a league of his own, Fiery Fred will be missed."


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Wrestler found to have kidney cancer
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Defamed man to sue website over cheat 'slur'

July 1, 2006

Ted Hollis, a criminal attorney from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is suing the creator of a website which allows women to complain about men they have dated after being named by two women on the self-proclaimed controversial site.

The website, DontDateHimGirl.com, allows women to use a search engine to find alleged deceivers. It calls itself "a powerful online resource that lets women out the men who have cheated on or lied to them". As well as featuring a discussion board that enables women to criticise partners, the website also includes the names, details, and photographs of so-called cheats. Men can respond to postings, but they can't get them erased.

According to Hollis, two local women claimed the man was, among other things, two-timing. Mr Hollis added that he is blameless, and that the website should check the reliability of the information it contains.

Tasha Joseph, the creator of DontDateHimGirl.com, notes that this is the first lawsuit filed against her website. She claims that she cannot be held responsible for the comments of others. This is due to her status as a provider, as opposed to a publisher or a writer, under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.


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more interresting ???
you have a strange sense of interest .... One change the title to remove the number of casualities changing all the time and you pull back a number, just because it's attractive !, not a very good idea, wikinews not tabloid .... Jacques Divol 21:58, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

tsunami story
hi, thanks for ur work on the indonesia tsunami article. i do want to point out though, that updates to an ongoing event shld be done by creating new articles rather than updating old published articles. "Wikinews articles are not works in progress. Developing articles are marked with the template. Once written and published they are historical documents; they should not continue to be updated or changed. Especially, they should not be altered to an angle or POV not reflective of the article as it was published. Wikinews is not an encyclopedia." -- from What_Wikinews_is_not

Every little helps
Just to let you know that people notice even minor edits, every contribution to the project is appreciated even if you end up with the odd discouraging remark due to inexperience. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:32, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I was trying to give you a bit of encouragement with the above comment. It may seem like a small change, but it is the sum of all the small changes which makes the wiki what it is.  You've had a couple of slightly discouraging comments above and I thought it should be balanced a little with some encouragement for something trivial which you could easily have overlooked and assumed someone else would deal with. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:04, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Nice!
Nice job on this one. -MyName 19:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

single source articles
hi, appreciate ur contributions to wikinews. i notice that a couple of articles u wrote, eg Tube train evacuated after a landslide in west London, are based on only a single source. this is not a good idea, as multiple independent sources serve as one means of confirming details of the news event, and also reduced the possibility of a copyright violation (keep in mind, in many cases, a rewrite of a copyrighted article is also a copyright violation, collating the content from many different sources is not). the Content guide also says "To help guard against possible mistakes by news sources and to help establish a neutral point of view, editors are encouraged to find multiple sources on an issue, and fact-check those sources." so, do please have atleast sources in an article before theyre published. cheers Doldrums 04:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Please stop
Please stop editing the British police plot story, it should not be getting revised at all now unless there are errors. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

WHY?
Why this edit: http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Australia%27s_%22most_powerful%22_windfarm_approved&diff=298743&oldid=298739 --elliot_k 09:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Mick. Thanks for the response and the edit. Just to let you know, its good etiquette to leave a reason for your edits in the summary. Cheers, --elliot_k 14:52, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Greece fire story
Thanks for your interest Mick. If you think that you can contribute something to the article, feel free to do it. Zorba 20:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Your question on main page talk
You asked if you can re-order the stories on the main page. Well you sort of can depending what you mean by that. If you wanted to change what day its on, thats controlled by the  on each article (However you should go about making sure that it would be the right course of action to change this date before actually doing it). If you wanted to change it so its going in an ascending order instead of decending order just for yourself, that can sorta be done. Can you be a bit more specific? Bawolff ☺☻ 21:14, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

 * In short, its possible, but very impractical. To do this, you'd proabbly have to go back to manual updating the main page, which is a hassal, and just makes everything more complicated (As well as being more fun for the vandals as less of the main page would be protected, and in theory they could vandalize it quite easily now, its less known now then it would be) (See WN:DPL for more information on how they're ordered currently). Also it would be hard to maintain neutrality when ordering by importance. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:33, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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