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Top Stories 'Suspicious package' causes Wikipedia Current Events closure of busy street in At least 10,000 reported dead region, Santa Cruz, support Buffalo, New York after Burma cyclone proposals for greater autonomy Early Cinco De Mayo celebrations At least 10,000 people are dead in a referendum. President Evo were interrupted after a and another Morales condemns the suspicious package caused the 3,000 are missing referendum, calling it "illegal." closure of a busy street in after Cyclone Buffalo, New York's Allentown Nargis hit the District. For nearly three hours White House spokesperson country of on Monday May 5, 2008 a busy discusses situation in Burma Myanmar. Nargis street, popular with clubs and A spokesperson for the White made landfall on hotels, was shut down while House has discussed the situation May 2. The authorities examined the in Burma in a recent press United Nations package. conference. He started by saying says that it is that "we [the US government] are rushing aid after the "alarming" Wikipedia Current Events obviously very concerned about report. the reports coming out of Burma Ronnie O'Sullivan wins the 2008 and we mourn the loss of life." White House spokesperson World Snooker Championship. discusses situation in Burma •The United States Federal He then explained the aid given by A spokesperson for the White Reserve System reports that the US in the aftermath of the House discussed the situation in banks are tightening lending cyclone in Burma. "The embassy Burma, standards on home mortgages, was able to provide an initial saying that other types of consumer loans package of aid and assistance that "we are and business loans in response to goes through the World Food obviously the subprime mortgage crisis. Program, as well as other aid very entities." The initial aid package concerned •Crude oil futures contracts reach provided by the US government about the reports coming out of $120 a barrel on the New York will be worth US$ 250,000. Burma and we mourn the loss of Mercantile Exchange for the first life." time due to a weakening United A journalist then claimed that the States dollar and renewed initial aid package provided by the Clinical signs a 'reliable tensions with Iran. US Government was just a "drop measure' of HIV treatment •Somalian troops open fire killing in the bucket, " due to the large progress at least two people during food size of the storm. Scott Stanzel , Researchers have found that, in riots in Mogadishu. the spokesperson, responded by terms of saying that "we're [the US survival, •Cyclone Nargis: State media in government are] in the process of assessing the reports the death toll from the assessing what more we could status of a HIV/ passage of the cyclone in provide. So we're just in the initial AIDS patient by Myanmar rises past 10,000. stages, obviously, of this tragedy, clinical examination is almost as •Three people are killed and so it's something that we're taking reliable as laboratory blood another three injured after an a very close look at." testing during their course of explosion on a Shanghai bus. treatment. Stanzel finished discussing the •86% of voters in Bolivia's richest Burma situation by saying that "

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Wikinews Page 2 officials at the [US] embassy are in water has been contaminated. known about the effectiveness of touch with Burmese officials and this strategy. we want to be as supportive to the "What is clear is that we are humanitarian crisis as we can." dealing with a major emergency The researchers used a computer situation, and the priority needs model to simulate the course of Over 4,000 people are dead and now are shelter and clean drinking HIV infection and estimate the nearly 3,000 are missing and water," said United Nations impact on survival of monitoring dozens are injured after Cyclone disaster response spokesman, by viral load, CD4 count or clinical Nargis hit the country of Burma. Richard Horsey. observation.

At least 10,000 reported dead There are 47.8 million people living The model was initially developed after Burma cyclone in Myanmar with over 5 million in for wealthy countries, but was At least 10,000 people are dead Yangon. adapted for lower-income and another 3,000 are missing countries by taking into account after Cyclone Nargis hit the Clinical signs a 'reliable factors such as interruptions in country of Myanmar, according to measure' of HIV treatment drug supply. Foreign Minister Nyan Win, who progress spoke on state television. Just Researchers have found that, in It predicts that after five years, 83 hours later Xinhua News Agency terms of survival, assessing the per cent of patients monitored by reported that government officials status of a HIV/AIDS patient by viral load, 82 per cent of patients had told them that 15,000 were clinical examination is almost as monitored by CD4 cell count, and dead. reliable as laboratory blood testing 82 per cent of patients monitored during their course of treatment. by clinical examination alone, The United Nations (UN) calls the would have survived. This report "alarming". Paul Risley, a Poor access to laboratory tests decreases to 67, 64 and 64 per spokesperson for the World Food should therefore not be a barrier cent, respectively, after 20 years. Programme said, "The UN will to rolling out antiretroviral (ARV) begin preparing assistance now to drug programmes for HIV in Andrew Phillips, professor of be delivered and transported to developing countries, they say. epidemiology at the UK-based Myanmar as quickly as possible." Royal Free & University College The findings were published in The Medical School and lead author of "The UN will do whatever it can to Lancet recently. the study, says the findings provide urgent humanitarian shouldn't dissuade people from assistance. Because of the lack of Patients on first-line ARVs in the relying on viral-load monitoring. communications, we are not quite developed world are monitored sure what will be the total extent regularly for the amount of HIV "I certainly wouldn't want to inhibit of damages and casualties. I am circulating in their blood. When the roll-out of viral-load very much alarmed by incoming this falls below a certain level, monitoring and the development of views that casualties have risen to treatment switches to second-line cheap and robust tests that don't more than 10,000, according to ARVs. rely heavily on infrastructure or Myanmar's foreign ministry," said highly skilled laboratory staff," he the Secretary-General of the UN, But because of limited access to told SciDev.Net. Ban Ki-moon. laboratory tests, the WHO recommends that people in the But, he says, that shouldn't be The death toll has risen from developing world are monitored for done at the cost of getting ARVs to Sunday's count of only 351 clinical signs of HIV progression, everyone who needs them. deaths. such as bacterial infection in the mouth and certain types of cancer. "The issue of whether to use viral- Food and water has become scarce load monitoring or not pales into and hundreds of thousands of Monitoring of CD4 cell levels — an insignificance when dealing with people are homeless with several indicator of the health of a whether you've actually got towns being completely destroyed. patient's immune system — is also everyone who needs ARVs on In the city of Yangon, there is no used when laboratory testing is therapy. Having drugs without power and much of the drinking available. Until now, little was viral-load monitoring is a lot better

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Wikinews Page 3 than not having drugs." 8:14 into the fourth , a Courthouse located in San Diego, tripping to Brian Campbell . NHL: Stars advance in eighth- gave the Stars a power play. 49 longest playoff game seconds into the power play, The bomb exploded around 1:40 Brenden Morrow scored the game- forward Brenden Morrow a.m. Sunday morning on May 4, winning , 9:03 into the fourth redirected a Stephane Robidas 2008 and was reported by guards overtime, as the shot to the right of Nabokov, his patrolling the building. Debris from defeated the 2-1. seventh goal of the playoffs. the blast was found across the The goal gave the Stars a 4- street in the AT&T building eight games-to-2 series win, and they Turco made 61 saves on 62 shots stories above the lobby of the advance to the Western for the win. Nabokov made 53 courthouse. Doors were blown out Conference Finals, where they'll saves in the loss. along with several windows, but face the Detroit Red Wings. there was no other damage. The game is the eighth-longest The game, which took 5 hours and playoff game in NHL history, and The Federal Bureau of 17 minutes to complete, was the third-longest in Stars history. Investigation (FBI) and Bureau of marked by the play of goalies In 2003, the Stars were defeated Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and and Evgeni Nabokov, by the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in Explosives (ATF) is investigating who combined for 114 saves. a five-overtime thriller. A 2007 the incident and evidence has game saw the Stars defeated in been sent to an FBI laboratory in In the second period, the Stars four overtimes by the Virginia for analysis. took a 1-0 lead with an Antti Canucks. Miettinen goal. However, early in Video footage from surrounding the third period, Ryane Clowe tied Dallas avoided a deciding Game 7, cameras is being analyzed, but so the game at 1, with a wrist shot which would have been held in San far there are no suspects and no that soared past the outstretched Jose. The Stars won the first three one has claimed responsibility for glove of Stars goalie Marty Turco. games of the series, but strong the blast. The courthouse did not performances by San Jose, receive any threats prior to the As the game went into overtime, including a Game 5 overtime win, blast. Authorities swept the areas both teams fought hard for early narrowed the series to 3-2. surrounding the courthouse, but chances. Both Turco and Nabokov no other explosive devices were turned away great chances, Conference Finals matchups found. including a glove save by Nabokov that appeared to pull his glove The Stars advance to face the The courthouse will remain closed above — but not over — the goal Detroit Red Wings in the Western today to repair the damage and for line; while the goal light briefly Conference Finals. Game 1 of that authorities to finish the went off, referee Tim Peel waved series is scheduled for Thursday, investigation. off the goal immediately. A video at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. review confirmed that the shot Today in History was not a goal. The Stars outshot The Eastern Conference Finals, 1682 – King Louis XIV of France the Sharks 18-11 in the first OT. meanwhile, is an all-Pennsylvania moved the French royal court and matchup, as the Pittsburgh the seat of government from Paris In the second overtime period, the Penguins, who clinched their series to the Château de Versailles in Sharks outshot Dallas a staggering with a 3-2 overtime victory on Versailles. 11-2, but Turco continued to keep Sunday, face off against the rival 1863 – American Civil War: The the puck out of the net. A third OT . Game 1 will be Army of Northern Virginia, led by hooking penalty against Nicklas held at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Grossman gave the Sharks the on Friday. Jackson, scored a decisive first power play since the second Confederate victory at the Battle of period of regulation, but they were Pipe bomb explodes outside Chancellorsville near Spotsylvania unable to even get a shot on goal, California courthouse Courthouse, Virginia. and did not capitalize on the man No one was injured when one or 1937 – The German zeppelin advantage more pipe bombs exploded outside Hindenburg caught fire and was the Edward J. Schwartz Federal destroyed while trying to land at

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