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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events former spy chief, and members of the SISMI military intelligence 26 Americans, mostly CIA •General Motors is in talks to buy agency. agents, charged for DaimlerChrysler AG's struggling kidnapping in Chrysler Group in its entirety. This is the the first criminal trial On Friday an Italian judge ordered •Iranian security forces clash with over "renditions", aspects of the 26 americans, a CIA-led team, to militants after the explosion of a Bush administration's "war on stand trial for kidnapping of bomb in the town of Zahedan in terror". One of the defendants Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in southeastern Iran. Robert Seldon Lady, the former CIA 2003. station chief in , said via his •The House of lawyer that he did not recognise North Korea agrees to end Representatives passes House the court. nuclear program Concurrent resolution 63; a non- North Korea has agreed to end its binding resolution criticising U.S. Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, a nuclear program and close down President George W. Bush's Surge Muslim cleric also known as Abu its nuclear facility at Yongbyon Plan in . Omar was taken by a CIA-led team within 60 days. •An Italian judge has ordered 26 in Milan on 17 February, 2003 and U.S. citizens—most of them CIA allegedly transferred by vehicle to Featured story agents—to stand trial over the the Aviano Air Base near Venice. kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Then by air to the Ramstein Air Cars big winner as 34th Milan in 2003. Base in Germany from where he Annual Annie Awards handed was sent to . He was released out •Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the current from prison on Sunday and says he Cars drove home the big prize last leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, has would like to return to Italy. He night, from the 34th Annual Annie been wounded in fighting in says he has been tortured with Awards, while Flushed Away won Baghdad according to Arab TV electric shocks, beatings, rape five awards, the most of the night. stations. threats and genital abuse, and that The animation industry's highest •The President of "I have been reduced to a wreck of honor, ASIFA-Hollywood's Annies Hamid Karzai meets with the a human being." recognise contributions to Prime Minister of Italy Romano animation, and Wikinews was Prodi to discuss Italian Though Mr Nasr was under there, capturing moments on the contributions to the fight against investigation for terrorism-related red carpet. the and drug traffickers in activities at the time of his Afghanistan. abduction no charges have been Wikipedia Current Events brought against him. Italian • A Turkish court hands down life 26 Americans, mostly CIA officials says Nasr was suspected of sentences to seven Al Qaeda agents, charged for kidnapping recruiting fighters for radical associates for their involvement in in Italy Islamic causes and fought in the 2003 Istanbul bombings. On Friday an Italian judge ordered Afghanistan and Bosnia. Montasser al-Zayat, lawyer, said Nasr had only •A United States businessman is 26 americans, a CIA-led team, to traveled to Jordan, Yemen, Albania charged in Manhattan with stand trial for kidnapping of Hassan and Germany. financing terrorism and material Mustafa Osama Nasr in 2003. He support of terrorism for allegedly was brought to Egypt were he says Disney prohibits LGBT passing on money for a training he was tortured as a subject to CIA production of Sister Act camp in Afghanistan. " rendition". He was later released. Also on trial is Nicolo Pollari, Italy's Disney's given a thumbs down to a

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Saturday, February 17, 2007 Wikinews Page 2 university's LGBT club stage becomes law, the government noted that shark, swordfish, king production of Sister Act. After would respect it." mackerel should not be eaten more working six months on the than once weekly. production, the group at Irish The bill will be sent to the Senate university NUI Galway were told to of Canada for approval before it is An FDA spokesperson said that cease production, or suffer the actually made law. The legislation neither the FDA or the EPA had any consequences of legal action. will only give the government 60 comment on the study and would days to come up with a plan that need to review it before Jeff Rockett, producer of the play, meets with the Kyoto Protocol. commenting. commented to the Irish Times, "We are dumbfounded by Disney's Kyoto wants to drop 6% of Potential charges against stance towards what is a greenhouse gas emissions starting "Tigger" bounced: District charitable, non-profit-making from 1990 to 2012. The attorney society, aimed at promoting safety Conservatives say it is bad for the Tigger costumed character actor and integration for the student Canadian economy. Michael J. Fedelem, 31, has been LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and cleared by the Florida state transgender] community. We were Political experts are now saying attorney's office. After reviewing just having fun." that a federal election could come tape of an incident where Tigger as soon as spring 2007. The appears to bop a 15-year-old in the Reports claim the story was only Conservatives were elected on the face, the office decided that the "loosely based" on the film, and so 23 of January in 2006. allegations were false. the play's producers are investigating with lawyers what Study finds pregnant women Jerry Monaco Sr. and his family, changes can be made, to make the eating seafood helps child including Jerry Monaco Jr., were production completely independent According to a recent survey and visiting the Walt Disney World of the original concept. study reported in the British journal theme park early this year. The Lancet, mothers eating fish during tape of Junior being hit in the face, Galway's Town Hall Theatre will certain parts of their pregnancy distributed to the media by Senior, refund tickets to the production. could possibly help a child's quickly went international, with development. Junior telling the press that the An officially licensed Sister Act: The attack was completely unprovoked. Musical is on stage in Atlanta, Seafood is the predominant source before making its way to Broadway. of omega-3 fatty acids, which are While the short clip the media aired essential for optimal neural of this scenario would seem to Canadian government 'will development. prove his statement, the full-length respect' Kyoto law video shows Junior pulling on the The Conservative Canadian The survey of more than 11,000 Tigger costume's tail, thus blocking government have decided to obey women in the , proper air flow. Even earlier in the the Kyoto bill which was a forced noted their weekly seafood intake clip, Senior is heard mocking the decision by the opposition Liberals. and found that low seafood intake character, sarcastically apologising Prior to this decision, the Liberal was correlated with a higher risk of for supposedly sitting on its head. opposition party said the suboptimal developmental government could be sued if they outcome. The DA commented to television would ignore the law. station Local6 that "The family During 2004, the United States didn't react like they wanted "If and when that becomes law, the Food and Drug Administration and justice, they reacted like they government would respect it. I'll the Environmental Protection wanted cash." just point out ... that the bill has no Agency released a report plan of action in it, the bill gives the recommending pregnant women Jean Erik Redrupp, general government no authority to spend and nursing mothers should eat manager of Park Operations at any money to have a plan of less than 12 ounces (340 grams) of Disney-MGM Studios, had phoned action," Canadian PM Stephen seafood every week to prevent to apologise after the incident, but Harper told the House on Thursday. development problems due to the Senior repeatedly demanded "Of course, if and when that toxins in the seafood. The advisory Fedelem himself reply.

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