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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events UN aid convoys face passes a bill containing measures President Frederik Willem de increasing attacks in Darfur recommended by the 9/11 Klerk had hands "soaked in A dramatic Commission. blood" and had ordered political escalation in killings and other crimes during •The United Nations Educational, attacks by armed the anti-apartheid conflict. Scientific and Cultural bandits is Organisation dispatches a team affecting the to investigate the shooting of four Claire Danes appears on World Food mountain gorillas in the Virunga MuchMusic to promote film Programme's National Park in the Democratic Actress Claire Danes appeared ability to operate Republic of the Congo. Wednesday in Toronto on the in the region, television series MuchOnDemand, where it feeds more than two •Yakub Memon, one of the to promote her new film, Stardust. million people. masterminds behind the 1993 Bombay bombings, is sentenced Danes appears in the fantasy epic Two missing after severe to death in India. Stardust opposite Michelle Pfeiffer, thunderstorm in St. Paul, •The European Commission Robert DeNiro, and Sienna Miller. Minnesota accuses Intel Corporation of anti- The film is based on Neil Gaiman's At least two storm sewer workers competitive practices against novel of the same name. Danes in St. Paul, Minnesota went Advanced Micro Devices. plays a striking girl named Yvaine, missing when a severe who is a fallen star. Pfeiffer, thunderstorm hit the city on •A Serbian gunman kills at least DeNiro, and Charlie Cox are all Thursday causing a 150 foot deep nine people in the village of pursuing her. storm sewer to flood. At least 9 Jabukovac in eastern Serbia near other workers made it out of of the Bulgarian border. Best known as Angela Chase in the the sewer. •The Israeli Defense Force 1994 television series My So- suspends a company for shooting Called Life and Juliet in Baz Featured story an unarmed man in West Bank Luhrmann's 1996 film William city of Hebron. Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. She Man charged following bomb began stepping back into the threats which closed 14 Tesco •Two news helicopters collide spotlight a few years ago, with supermarkets in UK while covering a car chase in lead roles in The Hours, Stage Hertfordshire Phoenix, Arizona, leaving at least Beauty, Shopgirl, and The Family police have four dead. Stone. charged a •Former French Prime Minister man with Dominique de Villepin is charged This September, Danes will hit four offences with "complicity in slanderous Broadway for the first time, as after 14 denunciations" and "complicity in Eliza Doolittle in a revival of Tesco using forgeries" for allegedly Pygmalion, also known as My Fair supermarkets in the United trying to discredit current Lady. She will soon be seen in Kingdom were closed after the President Nicolas Sarkozy. another film, The Flock, opposite company received threats. Richard Gere. •Jailed policeman Eugene de Kock claims in an interview from prison Wikipedia Current Events MuchOnDemand is a long-running that former South African •The United States Congress program MuchMusic, Canada's

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Saturday, July 28, 2007 Wikinews Page 2 primary music channel. The the hospital. program airs every weekday at 5 Cadel Evans of Australia, who is pm ET, as an hour-long per second overall, shaved off 3 "Our units arrived on the scene at broadcast viewer interactive seconds of the advantage that a remote test site in the northeast television program. Contador holds over him, by portion of the airport. What they finishing in a smaller group that found was six victims of an Two news helicopters crash in finished just ahead of the peleton. apparent explosion with various Phoenix, Arizona traumatic and burn injuries," Four people are dead after two "I hope I don't lose because of Diffenbaugh said. news helicopters have crashed in three seconds," said Contador. Phoenix, Arizona, in the United "This yellow jersey is very Burt Rutan, founder of Scaled States. The helicopters were important. It's important that I Composites, said a press covering a high-speed chase within have it tonight. I'm not a time-trial conference: "We just don't know" the city, when, at some point, the specialist but I'll do all I can not to why the explosion occurred, two choppers inadvertently lose one minute, 50 seconds." nitrous oxide usually is "not crashed into each other. Wikinews considered a hazardous material." has learned that the two Tomorrow's stage is the second helicopters belong to independent time trial stage, with long straight Scaled Composites is in a TV station KTVK, and ABC affiliate stretches, some beautiful sections partnership with Richard Branson's KNXV, respectively. of unbending road, some slight Virgin Galactic to build inclines and again favours the SpaceShipTwo, which hopes to There is still no word on an exact soloists. It is 55.5 km long and become the first commercially cause of the collision, however, the runs from Cognac to Angoulême. available passenger spaceflight for FAA is reviewing tapes to see if the Sunday, will be the grand finale, as space tourism. helicopter pilots were the race enters Paris to complete communicating with air traffic the eight laps of the traditional The accident comes just days after controllers at the time. circuit around the Champs- Northrop Grumman announced it Élysées. would increase its stake in Scaled Eye-witness, Mary Lewis, said: "I Composites to 100%. looked up and I see this 'boom,' Meanwhile, former yellow jersey and I see one of the helicopters leader, Michael Rasmussen, insists Two missing after severe coming down, and I said 'Oh my that he did not lie about his thunderstorm in St. Paul, God'." whereabouts. "I feel I've won the Minnesota ... but victory has At least two storm sewer workers Tour de France: Sandy Casar been stolen from me." He also said in St. Paul, Minnesota went wins stage 18 that he will not retire, but continue missing when a severe Sandy Casar of France has won his career. thunderstorm hit the city on stage 18 of the 2007 Tour de Thursday causing a 150 foot deep France in a time of 5h 13' 31". Blast kills three at Mojave storm sewer to flood. At least came in second. Spaceport, California seven other workers made it out of Three people were killed and of the sewer. Sandy Casar, Alex Merckx, Laurent another three seriously injured in a Lefevre, and took blast at Mojave Spaceport, located "Nine went down and seven came control of the stage with a break- in California, United States. The out," said the fire chief of St. Paul, away that gave them a 10-minute blast occurred on Thursday at 2:34 Mark Mueller. lead on the peleton. p.m. PDT (UTC-7) while Scaled Composites was conducting cold The workers were part of Lametti of Spain, who flow test of a rocket engine. and Sons, a private agency finished with the peleton keeps the employed to repair the city's storm yellow jersey. This 211 km long According to Tony Diffenbaugh of drains. At approximately 3:00 p.m. stage, with a few small climbs near the Kern County Fire Department, (central time), they were ordered the start, and was considered by two of the victims died to evacuate the drains. The many as the last chance for any immediately in the blast, while the flooding began as the last of the surprises. third succumbed to his injuries at men were climbing to the surface,

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, July 28, 2007 Wikinews Page 3 but when the seventh man turned wearing uniforms but often in one more than two million people around, the other two were gone. group of bandits there may be every month. more than one uniform. Thus, we A search was conducted, but are not pointing fingers at any one The WFP indicated that it has been nothing was found and another group." said Emilia Casella, WFP difficult to hire and retain the search will take place on Friday Spokesperson for Sudan. "We are commercial trucking companies when authorities will begin to calling on all parties to respect the used to move food and supplies search areas of the Mississippi neutrality of humanitarian convoys throughout the region due to the River. and their drivers, who are risks involved in the service. WFP delivering food to civilians who are Public Affairs Officer in Washington The names of the men are not victims of the conflict." D.C. Jennifer Parmelee told known. Wikinews that "hiring reliable "On July 20, a convoy traveling on transport in other insecure UN aid convoys face increasing the Tawilla-Kaura road in North environments, [such as] attacks in Darfur Darfur was stopped by 16 armed Afghanistan and Somalia, is The United Nations (UN) World men. The drivers were forced out extremely challenging." Food Programme (WFP) raised of their vehicles and the robbers concerns about a dramatic demanded 5 Sudanese pounds Air service is employed for remote escalation in attacks on food aid from each (roughly equivalent to locations and where delivery by convoys by armed bandits in the US$2.50). Those who could not road has become too dangerous. Darfur region of Sudan. WFP says pay were beaten. Similar incidents the attacks constrain its ability to have happened on the same road Parmelee told Wikinews that the feed the more than two million in the past two weeks." —Emilia "increasing insecurity will almost people in the area receiving aid. Casella, WFP Spokesperson for certainly further constrain [WFP's] Sudan ability to operate in Darfur - it Negotiations over a UN Security already has." WFP Spokesperson Council resolution authorising a According to WFP, in 2007 so far, for Sudan, Emilia Casella, joint UN-African Union security 18 WFP convoys have been indicated that "humanitarian force for the region continue but attacked - "shot at, looted, drivers access is likely to be increasingly full deployment could take upto a robbed and/or injured". Four difficult due to insecurity." year. vehicles were stopped and the However, the situation has not drivers and passengers robbed. Six prevented all aid delivery. "Despite "In the last two weeks, nine food vehicles were stolen, where the insecurity and access problems, convoys have been attacked by gunmen drove away with the WFP WFP food assistance reached gunmen across Darfur," said Kenro staff members still inside, though about 2.6 million people in Darfur Oshidari, WFP Sudan they were later released. "There last month," said Casella. Representative. "WFP staff and were no major physical injuries, contractors are being stopped at but naturally such experiences are A UN resolution on the deployment gunpoint, dragged out of their very traumatic," said Casella. of a hybrid African Union (AU) and vehicles and robbed with alarming "These incidents have occurred in UN force of 26,000 troops is frequency," he said. all three of the Darfurs, in areas working its way through the UN. controlled by various groups or the Britain and France presented "These abhorrent attacks, which government." revisions to the draft, which target the very people who are dropped a threat of "further trying to help the most vulnerable In the week of July 15-21, there measures" against Sudan for in Darfur, must be brought under were five incidents in South Darfur, obstructing peace efforts, though control," he added. during which a total of seven Sudan's ambassador, trucks were looted of Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem, has A WFP official told Wikinews that approximately 10.5 tonnes of food objected to the revisions. the attacks and robberies have assistance. occurred in all regions of Darfur, A deadline of December 31 exists and that the blame can't be The Darfur operation is the WFP's to transfer authority in Sudan's ascribed to a particular group. largest humanitarian mission, with Darfur region from the AU to the "Frequently the bandits are about 790 staff working to feed proposed AU-UN force. Full

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, July 28, 2007 Wikinews Page 4 deployment of all 26,000 troops Wikipedia Current Events discovered on a bank of the would take up to one year. Columbia River near Kennewick, •The Commonwealth Director of Washington, USA. The draft resolution would allow Public Prosecutions drops the July 28 is Independence Day in the use of force to protect the charge of supporting a terrorist Peru (1821). Birthday of Ali in Iran mission's personnel and organization against Mohamed (2007). humanitarian workers and would Haneef. Australian Federal Police "protect civilians under threat of admits all their main evidence Quote of the Day physical violence". against Haneef was wrong. We must plan for freedom, and not •Five thousand Zimbabweans only for security, if for no other Jennifer Parmelee of the WFP have been arrested in the last reason than only freedom can suggests that the deployment of month for violating price controls. make security more secure. the hybrid force under such a ~ Karl Popper mandate would be a positive •New Zealand Environment development in the aid agency's Minister David Benson-Pope Word of the Day ability to carry out their resigns from the Cabinet. leitmotif; n humanitarian assistance. "Sure an •Steve Bracks resigns as the 1. (music) A melodic theme expanded AU/UN peacekeeping Premier of Victoria. John associated with a particular force would help." said Parmelee. Thwaites, the Deputy Premier, character, place, thing or "As it is, AU is stretched very very announces his resignation later in idea in an opera. thin, and...is unable to accompany the day. 2. A recurring theme. most of our convoys." Today in History 1794 – French Revolution: Reign of About Wikinews According to WFP, there are Terror leader Maximilien We are a group of volunteer journalists approximately 12,000 Robespierre was guillotined one whose mission is to create a diverse humanitarian workers in Darfur, day after the National Convention community where citizens from around which is a drop in numbers even ordered his arrest. the globe (including you) can though the need for aid workers 1809 – Peninsular War: Sir Arthur collaborate to report the news on a wide variety of current events. By has increased. Wellesley's Anglo-Spanish army making our content perpetually earned a pyrrhic victory at the available for free redistribution and use, Wikipedia Current Events Battle of Talavera against a much we hope to contribute to a global digital commons. •A general strike goes into its larger French force under Joseph third day in Swaziland; strikers Bonaparte. 1914 – Austria-Hungary declared Got news and no computer? demand democratic elections and Call the Wikinews Hotline an end to absolute monarchy. war after rejecting Serbia's +1-866-653-4265 conditional acceptance of only part (toll-free in the U.S.) •Mohammad Ashfaq, a of the July Ultimatum following the +1-202-742-5918 government appointed imam, is assassination of Archduke Franz (outside the U.S.) chased out of the Red Mosque in Ferdinand in Sarajevo, starting +44-871-218-6397 Pakistan by 200 students. A World War I. (U.K. / Europe) suicide bomb near the mosque 1976 – The Tangshan earthquake, License kills at least 13 and injures measuring between 7.5 and 8.2 on This work is licensed under the Creative another 50. the Richter magnitude scale, Commons Attribution License. Articles •The death toll from floods and flattened Tangshan, China, killing published in this Print edition were landslides on the Sulawesi island about 242,419 people and injuring created by Wikinewsies. Other content released under the GNU Free of Indonesia rises to 107. 164,851 others. 1990 – Alberto Fujimori, the first Documentation License. •The President of Indonesia Susilo person of Japanese descent To view a copy of the CC-BY license, Bambang Yudhoyono meets with elected as an executive head of the Prime Minister of Australia visit: state of a Latin American nation, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ John Howard to discuss security took office as President of Peru. or send a letter to issues and the possibility of a 1996 – The remains of the Creative Commons bilateral free trade agreement. prehistoric Kennewick Man were 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor San Francisco, California, 94105, USA

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