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Explosion blasts Palestinian • The Mall of Asia formally opened 2006 intelligence service HQ to the public in Manila, with the song Hard Rock An explosion has ripped through Philippines. Philippine President Hallelujah. the headquarters of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo •Thoroughbred racehorse Barbaro Palestinian general intelligence inaugurated the mall May 20. suffers a career-ending injury in service in the Gaza Strip. In Louisiana, United States, Ray the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Palestinian officials say several • Nagin is re-elected Mayor of New Race Course in his quest to people were wounded in the Orleans. become the 13th winner of the explosion, including intelligence Triple Crown of Thoroughbred chief Tareq Abu Rajab. The construction of the Three • Racing, thus extending the Gorges Dam wall, the largest drought to 28 years. 300 Vietnamese fishermen dam in the world, is completed in rescued after record China the People's Republic of China. typhoon Missing girl from British Campaigning in Montenegro's China has rescued more than 300 • Columbia found safe Vietnamese fishermen who were referendum on independence A missing 11 year old girl was missing in the wake of a record ends at midnight local time, with found safe on Thursday around typhoon which blasted the South voting scheduled to begin the 5:00 am PDT after disappearing China Sea. Survivors were found following morning. (B92) A final May 16 while riding her scooter to on 22 Vietnamese ships near the poll shows the independence a local video store near the north Pratas islands, off the southern forces with 56% support, slightly Okanagan town of Armstrong, coast of Guangdong province. above the internationally- British Columbia. Carmen Kados State television reported the imposed threshold of 55%. left home on her regular two kilometer trip to the local store at rescue as the "largest •5,000 medical students, doctors, international marine rescue and lawyers rally in New Delhi, around 6:45 Tuesday evening. She operation ever mounted by India against the boosting of wasn't seen again after leaving the China." quotas for lower-caste students store at around 7:15. in medical, engineering and other colleges from 22.5% to 49.5%. Carmen's mother called authorities Featured story and reported the young girl Interview with Ton •The Iraqi National Assembly missing at around 8:45 -- police Roosendaal about Elephants votes in a new Iraqi government, located her scooter, a cell phone Dream and free content leaving the ministries of Defense, and the video she had rented in a movies National Security and Interior in parking lot near the store. Other Three days after the Internet temporary hands. possessions were found but exact details were not disclosed for release of the free content 3D •A United States Congressman investigative purposes, according short Elephants Dream, we (Duncan Hunter, R-CA) states to Corporal Henry Proce, exchanged e-mails with Ton American troops in Iraq killed 24 spokesman for the Royal Canadian Roosendaal about the reaction to civilians in an incident in 2005. Mounted Police. the film, open source filmmaking, Earlier Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the changes to Blender that had said even innocent women "The first 24 hours, the first 48 resulted from the production. and children were killed in cold hours, are crucial and as more http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Featured blood. time elapses you become more •Finnish rock band wins the and more fearful of a worst-case

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Monday, May 22, 2006 Wikinews Page 2 scenario," Proce said. scene was found unharmed and the rally. Students and doctors say the suspect's remaining two the government has showed A wide net was cast in hopes of children were discovered safe at "scant regard to the sentiments of locating Kados -- police and as home. the students", who have been many as 65 search and rescue protesting the proposed quota- volunteers searched the largely Professionals and students hike for OBCs in elite educational rural area, scouring railroad continue strike in New Dehli institutions. tracks, streams, and parking lots. New Dehli: Almost 10,000 people The girl and her alleged abductor marched to Jantar Mantar from The students had appealed to were located separately at around Maulana Azad Medical College in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to 5:00 a.m. Thursday. The suspect an anti-reservation rally on set up a non-political judicial in the abduction was identified as Saturday. Doctors and medical committee to review the existing a transient known to police. Police students say they will continue to reservation policy and sought an indicate that community strike and protest, despite an audience with him to discuss the involvement, including tips and a appeal from the prime minister to issue. description of the abductor, were call off their agitation. instrumental in locating the Controversy over translation of suspect. The striking medicos under the Norwegian national anthem banner of 'Youth for Equality' were A suggestion to translate the Kados was brought to Vernon joined by students from Delhi national anthem of Norway into Jubilee Hospital, and her parents University and medical colleges Urdu is causing controversy. The joined her there. Police reported around the capital, parents, Progress Party opposes the idea, she had been injured, but the lawyers and accountants. saying that people who cannot injuries were not life threatening. understand Norwegian could just Both Kados and her parents are The students and their supporters hum with the Norwegian citizens. traumatized by the incident, and want total rollback of a proposed For a week there have been huge spokesman Proce did not expect quota-hike for OBCs in elite patriotic rallies in Norway to mark they would be making a public educational institutions, and a the occasion of Syttende Mai, statement soon. review of the present reservation Norwegian Constitution Day on policy. "There are very less seats May 17. "I think anybody that's a parent in the post-graduate streams can only begin to imagine how it compared to the undergraduate The editor of Utrop, a newspaper must feel not to know where your courses. Hence the reservation for the minorities in Norway, child is," said Proce. "This is a little move will affect the future of suggested the translation of the 11-year-old girl and to not know majority students," said student national anthem in an editorial in where she is even for an hour, leader Praful Raj. the national paper Vårt Land. Such never mind 36 hours, would be a translation, he said, would allow something only a few of us can The students have support from immigrants of Pakistani origin to even imagine." many groups. They were led by show their love for Norway by the Youth for Equality, an AIIMS singing the Norwegian national Five dead in Louisiana church initiative, while United Students, a anthem. The title of the national shooting DU and JNU group, IIT alumni, anthem is after all "Ja vi elsker A lone gunman has shot and killed RWAs (under the banner of United (dette landet)" which translates as four people at the Jesus Christ Residents Joint Action), Resident "Yes, we love (this country)." church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Doctors Associations from various government and private hospitals, "This is integration in reverse," The suspect was initially identified Chartered Accountant’s said Per-Willy Amundsen, the as Anthony Bell (25) and was Association, students from private Progress Party spokesman on arrested near an apartment block universities like IP and parents of issues dealing with immigration. close to the scene. The suspect's agitating students also joined in. According to him, "the best gift wife (whose name has not yet that the immigrants could give to been released) was also shot. Students from medical colleges in Norway would be learning the Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat, Punjab language of their new homeland". A child who was abducted at the and Karnataka also took part in

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Iran stands defiant on Uranium economic sanctions against Iran, A number of people, including enrichment the refusal to issue visas to Inspector General of Police, Iran has rejected European Union Iranian officials and a freeze on Srinagar, K Rajendra and Deputy incentives to give up its Uranium the assets belonging to individuals Superintendent of Police Faizal enrichment program. Foreign and corporations with ties to the Ahmad have been injured in the ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Iranian regime. attack which occured at around Asefi said that any plan has to 13:59 IST (07:29 UTC). Security acknowledge Iran's legal rights Mr Asefi said he would not forces stated that two of the under international law, including comment on the proposal at this fidayeen were killed by them. Two Article IV of the Nuclear Non- stage. He said it would be "hasty civilans and one police officer lost Proliferation Treaty (NPT). to comment on a raw proposal their lives in the cross-fire. that has been brought up in the Wikipedia has one or more articles media, and still neither officially 'Naked Guy' Andrew Martinez about Nuclear Non-Proliferation nor unofficially given to us." dies Treaty. Andrew Martinez, a former student Mr Asefi said that any plan would at the University of California at have to recognise Iran's rights to Berkeley who was better known as It is believed that Britain, France be considered. "The basis of our "The Naked Guy" in the early and Germany, all member states work is that the Islamic Republic 1990s, died on Thursday in an of the EU, are developing of Iran's rights must be recognised apparent suicide. He was 33. incentives for Iran to give up its in any plan," he said. enrichment programming in an Guards at the Santa Clara County attempt to defuse mutual fears "We cannot retreat. The proposal Jail reportedly found Martinez and perceptions of threats by US, should provide ways to secure our unconscious in a jail cell, with a Israeli and Iranian governments. rights," he said. "We will not stop plastic bag cinched around his The incentives are believed to enrichment." neck, at about 11:19 p.m. include a raft of security, trade and Wednesday. Martinez was taken to technology benefits. Mr. Asefi warned Europe against a local hospital where was economic sactions saying that they pronounced dead early Thursday. The proposal by the three EU would harm Europe. "We have He had been incarcerated since members encourages other broad trade and economic ties January 10 on charges of battery nations to support the with European and non-European and assault with a deadly weapon. construction of light water power countries. These ties can be generation reactors, to set up a damaged and this damage will Martinez is best known for nuclear fuel bank and the harm European countries even attending his classes in the nude relaxation of United States trade more" he said. in the fall of 1992. He became an restrictions to allow Iran to instant celebrity, appearing on purchase commercial planes built Militants target rally in national television talk shows in the US. These incentives are Srinagar where he defended his practice as conditional upon Iran renouncing A meeting organised by the Youth a form of free speech and a its rights under Article IV of the Congress at Srinagar's Sher-e- challenge to sexual repression in NPT, i.e. stopping its Uranium Kashmir park to mark the 15th Western society. enrichment program, and death anniversary of the late cooperating with the United Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has Martinez was eventually expelled Nations International Atomic been attacked by terrorists. from UC Berkeley for violating the Energy Agency (IAEA) in ways school's code of conduct, and additional to its present Official sources say intense firing Berkeley city officials passed a cooperation, which at present and some explosions were strict anti-nudity ordinance. includes continuous monitoring of reported by eye-witnesses. There many key Iranian nuclear facilities were atleast two militants involved Family and acquaintances report by the IAEA. in the incident according to Deputy that Martinez had been suffering Inspector General of Police Gopal from undetermined mental illness If Iran doesn't comply Britain, Sharma. over the past decade for which he France and Germany will support never found comprehensive

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Monday, May 22, 2006 Wikinews Page 4 treatment, and had been in and landslides, flooding and forced forces in Kandahar. France has had out of halfway houses, psychiatric around a million people to 200 special forces officers in institutions, and jail. evacuate. Landslides and south-eastern Afghanistan since collapsing buildings killed 15 2003. A US soldier was killed and Said close acquaintance Bryan people and left four missing in six others wounded after a bloody Schwartz, a civil rights lawyer in China's Fujian province. Eight clash on Friday in Uruzgan Washington, D.C., "He was a more people died in neighboring province, when a joint patrol person with tremendous gifts and Guangdong province. Flooding in encountered Taliban fighters. charisma who could have been a southern Taiwan swept two women great asset to our society, but to their deaths. The Taliban have stepped up instead I feel like society -- me attacks on foreign and government included -- failed him. It's such a Chanchu, the most powerful on forces recently as NATO increases waste." record to enter the South China its peacekeeping force from 9,000 Sea in May, left a wake of damage to 16,000 - as they prepare to 300 Vietnamese fishermen in the region - killing at least 37 take over from US forces in the rescued after record China people in the Phillipines last South. typhoon weekend. China has rescued more than 300 Helmand, the main opium poppy- Vietnamese fishermen who were The typhoon, with winds of up to growing region, has become a missing in the wake of a record 170 km per hour, has reportedly major focus of violence. Over the typhoon, Chanchu, which blasted killed 23 people in China. past week there has also been the South China Sea. Vietnam's Fisheries Ministry had attacks in Zabul province and the listed more than 400 fishermen as western city of Herat. Scattered Survivors were found on 22 missing from Danang city and the clashes in the southern provinces Vietnamese ships near the Pratas nearby provinces of Quang Nam in the past four days have killed Islands, off the southern coast of and Quang Ngai. around 150 people, including Guangdong province. State Taliban, Afghan police and military television reported the rescue as Violence escalates in personnel and civilians. the "largest international marine Afghanistan rescue operation ever mounted by Two French special forces troops Finnish metal band win 51st China." and a US soldier were among 34 Eurovision Song Contest killed in Afghanistan in a violent A "cartoonish" band from Finland Eight fishing ships sank 1,000 km upsurge in recent days. General has won this year's Eurovision east of Vietnam's central city of Rahmatullah Raufi, military song contest in Athens. "Monster- Danang, while eight remained commander for the southern themed" rock band Lordi beat 23 missing. Rescuers had found 26 provinces, said the clash erupted other competitors. Lordi scored bodies and rescued 81 others, the when militants ambushed a 292 points from telephone voters Vietnamese government said in a military convoy. in 38 countries with its song "Hard statement. "However, the number Rock Hallelujah" in a performance of missing fishermen and the ships Fears of a resurgence of the that both shocked and amused remains huge," Prime Minister Taliban have been boosted by a viewers. Phan Van Khai said on state-run sharp rise in violence in the past Vietnam Television. few weeks, much of it in Helmand The band, described as "cartoon province. Around 120 people died metalheads", wearing latex On Da Nang coast, relatives of the in 24 hours last week. Attacks on monster masks and weilding missing fishermen erected altars Friday have claimed another 34 spark-spewing instruments, beat with flowers and fruits. Weeping lives. Officials say the fighting was runner-up Russian "heart throb" families burnt insence and prayed some of the heaviest since the . Bosnia's Hari Mata for loved ones to return. Taliban were ousted by the US-led Hariwas came third. A invasion in 2001. spokesperson for Lordi said: "We Typhoon Chanchu was downgraded won the contest, looking like this,” to a tropical storm on Thursday The French Defence Ministry said he said. “It just goes to show that when it crossed the southern two French soldiers were killed on Europe is not such a bad place." Chinese coast. The storm caused Saturday in a battle with Taliban

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The Finnish band thanked viewers The 51st annual Eurovision was denied the privatisation was a for voting for their song, which broadcast live across Europe, "grab for cash". featured the lead singer hoisting a watched by an estimated 100 double-headed axe over his head. million viewers. Regarded by many Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan is The win has been dubbed as a as the "contest good taste forgot," demanding a constitutional "radical departure" from the Eurovision is adored by fans of referendum to hand control of all catchy pop tunes, folk songs and kitsch and camp everywhere. rivers to the Commonwealth. He emotional ballads normally claims the Snowy Hydro sale associated with Eurovision. Lordi join the likes of Abba, Bucks would damage regional Australia Fizz, Dana and on the and is being forced by state Complete with distortes guitars, a elite list of Eurovision winners. governments, to prop up their catchy chorus and "mock-demonic budgets. "I've expressed my imagery," Lordi is reminiscent of Snowy Hydro Scheme to go extreme distress and 1970s American band Kiss - an public disappointment both to the federal inspiration acknowledged by lead The New South Wales (NSW) and state governments in no singer Mr Lordi. "What this has government says small investors uncertain manner," he said. "I shown is that there are different will have the first opportunity to think it's a national disgrace and I styles of music than just pop and buy shares in one of Australia's think we will live to regret it in the rock," Mr Lordi told news media most unique public assets - the future. after the surprise victory. "That Snowy Hydro Scheme, the sale of should be the goal of Eurovision," which begins officially on Monday, Senator Heffernan says he has he said. May 22. NSW Finance Minister had trouble trying to raise the John Della Bosca denied the sale issue with his colleague, the Mr Lordi, whose real name is Tomi was incongruent with Labor's Finance Minister Nick Minchin. Putaansuu, hails from Lapland and stance on privatisation, or that it "There's been no discussions," he says his band's masked personas was a pre-election strategy. said. are just characters. "The guys behind the masks are not The hydroelectric scheme is jointly NSW irrigators have withdrawn interesting - underneath, there's owned by the New South Wales, support for the sale after the NSW, just a boring, normal guy who Victorian and federal Victorian and federal governments walks the dogs, goes to the governments, which have decided agreed to a 10 per cent limit on supermarket, watches DVDs and to sell their shares by floating the the number of shares an individual eats candies. You really don't want company on the Australian Stock can buy. to see him." he said. But the Exchange. characters "live on stage and they Greens MP Slyvia Hale says she live in a fantasy world", he said. NSW taxpayers hold 58 per cent of believes the Government will "This element of mystery is one of the shares in the scheme and the attempt to limit the release of the cornerstones of Lordi." State government stands to make documents relating to the sale between $1.5 billion and $2 billion when Parliament resumes next The band has upset many Finns from the sale. Selling the Snowy week. "As with eveything with their outrageous behaviour. Hydro scheme could raise up to $3 connected with the sale things "This is a victory for rock music... billion for the Victorian, NSW and have been kept very quiet and the and also a victory for open- federal governments. Government will continue, I mindedness," Mr Lordi said. "For believe, to try and ensure that the millionth time, we’re not Mr Della Bosca told the ABC: critical information is withheld Satanists or devil worshippers. "We've looked at all sorts of from the public," she said. This is entertainment. The masks arrangements to raise more are like our calling card and we’ll capital." He said the sale will She says the sale should be never perform without them. It secure the future of Snowy Hydro. suspended while an inquiry takes would be like Santa Claus handing "Snowy is at a point where it's not place. a child his gifts and Christmas responsible for it to go further into time and then pulling off his debt and the best thing for it, to Ray Nagin re-elected New beard..." be able to do, is raise capital on Orleans mayor the stock exchange." The Minister New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin won

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Monday, May 22, 2006 Wikinews Page 6 re-election Saturday night, Democrats, agreed on most issues from Western Australia wanted in successfully weathering a confronting New Orleans, including connection with a double murder challenge from Louisiana upholding the right of residents to in the Sydney suburb of Granville Lieutenant Governor Mitch rebuild in all areas of the city, and on March 29, 2006. Landrieu and allowing him to lobbying for increased recovery aid oversee the continued rebuilding and upgraded levee protection. The victims of the murders were of the Louisiana city decimated by 26-year-old, Bassam Chami, who Hurricane Katrina. What differentiated the two died at the scene and 25-year- candidates was leadership style. old,Ibrahim Assad who died With all 442 precincts reporting, Nagin, a former cable executive is following surgery at Westmead Nagin won 59,460 votes (52.3%) best known for his maverick, Hospital. to Landrieu's 54,131 votes straight-talking, political-outsider (47.7%). The two candidates had style, and his sometimes Following the shootings, NSW been neck-and-neck in the returns controversial remarks to the media Police setup a strike force, called through the night. Early returns in the aftermath of Katrina. Lasswade to investigate the with 22% of precincts reporting Landrieu, a member of a murders. showed Nagin leading 51% to prominent political family in 49%, while a later update with Louisiana, emphasized his ability The woman was arrested by 48% of precincts showed Landrieu to reach consensus and bring detectives of the Major Crime with the lead with the same people together during the Squad in Western Australia at 9PM margin. campaign. AEST last Tuesday. She was found and arrested at a motel in Victoria Nagin first won the office in 2002, Race also appears to have played Park, Perth. winning 76,469 votes (58.72%). a factor, with Nagin winning Nagin, a Cable Executive, defeated majority black neighborhoods and Shortly after the woman's arrest, New Orleans police chief, Richard Landrieu winning majority white the man was arrested by the Pennington, in that election by a neighborhoods. However, Nagin Tactical Response Group as he lead of more than 22,000 votes did also get a significant crossover exited a unit in East Victoria Park. with Pennington receiving 53,781 vote from the more heavily votes (41.29%). The total votes populated, predominantly white On Wednesay, four members of cast for both mayoral candidates neighborhoods. In 2002, both Strike Force Lasswade flew to in 2002 was 130,250 in mayoral candiates, Nagin and Perth and was succesful in comparison with the 113,591 total Pennington, were black. Nagin applying to have the pair votes cast in this latest election. won 100% of predominantly white extradited to NSW to face precincts in that election while his questioning and charges. The pair Both Nagin and Landrieu called for opponent faired better in arrived in Sydney on Saturday the citizens of New Orleans to predominantly black precincts. night. work together in unity. Nagin, in his victory speech, said, "It's time Louisiana Secretary of State Al Once in NSW, police took the pair for us to stop the bickering. It's Ater said that turnout was to Surry Hills police station where time for us to stop measuring comparable to the April 22 they were questioned and things in black and white and primary, when about 37 percent of subsequently charged. The man yellow and Asian. It's time for us eligible voters cast ballots. was charged with one count of to be one New Orleans." murder and another of attempted Nagin's new term begins May 31, murder. The woman was charged Landrieu struck a similar tone in one day before the Atlantic with two counts of being an his concession speech: "One thing hurricane season begins. accessory to murder. is for sure that we as a people have got to come together so we Pair extradited and charged Both suspects were refused bail can speak with one voice and one over Granville, Sydney and are due to appear in court on purpose," he said. "Join with me in shootings Monday. supporting Mayor Nagin." New South Wales detectives have successfully extradited a 30-year- Nagin and Landrieu, both old woman and 23-year-old man

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