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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events the other federal party's have not yet been chosen. According to US: Melamine from •The People's Bank of China reports Deros received 350 votes contaminated pet food enters increases its deposit reserve ratio and Basilio Giordano received 220. human food chain to prevent possible overheating of At least 45 people are reported to the economy. He will run in the 40th Canadian have eaten pork which came from •More than a million secularist federal election, which must be a hog farm in Ceres, California in Turks march in Istanbul to protest called no later than February 13, the United States, where pigs against the candidacy of Islamist 2011. from the farm were fed pet food Abdullah Gül in the 2007 which was recalled because it was presidential election. "I'm a teacher; I'm a convenor; I'm contaminated with the chemical a gatherer; I'm someone who melamine. So far none of the •Iran's national security adviser Ali reaches out to people and is deeply individuals have experienced signs Larijani visits Iraq for talks. interested in what they have to of illnesses. •The President of Ireland dissolves say," Trudeau said. "And people see the 29th Dáil and calls for a that I'm not faking it. I'm actually wins Liberal general election on 24 May 2007. genuinely committed to this Party nomination dialogue that we're opening up, •The Tamil Tigers launch an air Justin Trudeau, son of former late and this understanding that needs attack on the Sri Lanka's two oil Prime Minister , has to happen in order to be an facilities near the capital Colombo. won his riding nomination for the effective MP." in •Two killed in shooting at Ward Papineau, Quebec. To win he Parkway shopping center in Trudeau does not live in Papineau. needed 634 votes. He received Kansas. It is the poorest riding in Canada 690. Trudeau, 35, is the second and the smallest. It consists of child born to a Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wins Liberal blue-collar residents. during his term in office to Party nomination Canada's first, Sir John A. Justin Trudeau, son of former late The riding has a long history of Macdonald, who had his daughter Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, has Liberal MPs. In the 1949 federal Margaret Mary Macdonald during won his riding nomination for the election an Independent MP held his time in office. Liberal Party of Canada in the riding. Liberal Adrien Meunier Papineau, Quebec. To win he was re-elected three times holding Featured story needed 634 votes. He received the riding from 1949 to 1962. Liberal Guy Favreau was re-elected Australia defeats Sri Lanka in 690. once holding the riding from 1963 2007 Cricket World Cup Final to 1965. Liberal André Ouellet was Australia have defeated Sri Lanka This is his first attempt at running re-elected six times holding the by 53 runs in the Final of the for politics since his father was riding from 1967 to 1984. Liberal World Cup in Barbados, giving in the Pierre Pettigrew was elected in them their third successive title. 1960's until the mid-1980s. 2004, he came in second to current Bloc Québécois MP Vivian Barbot, Wikipedia Current Events His two other competitors for the nomination were natives from the who won by 17,775 votes. •Worldwide protests occur on the town; , a city councillor fourth anniversary of the Darfur and Basilio Giordano, a former city Trudeau, 35, is the second child conflict in Sudan. councillor and journalist for a local born to a Prime Minister during his Italian newspaper. Competitors for term in office to Canada's first, Sir

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John A. Macdonald, who had a his his truck before the fire. He was the a moment of silence before their daughter Margaret Mary Macdonald only person reported to be hurt, game, displaying Hancock's picture during his time in office. He has a suffering second-degree burns. No on the scoreboard. Bud Selig, Bachelor of Arts of English other vehicles were involved in the Commissioner of Major League literature from 's McGill crash. Baseball, said "All of baseball today University and the Bachelor of mourns the tragic and untimely Education from the University of The driver was believed to be death of St. Louis pitcher Josh British Columbia. He eventually speeding, resulting in a loss of Hancock. He was a fine young became a teacher in British control of the truck, causing it to pitcher who played an important Columbia. flip over and subsequently burst role on last year's into flames. As the truck was championship team." He married French-Canadian traveling on the interchange of I-80 televison personality Sophie eastbound to I-880 southbound This is the second time in recent Grégoire on March 18, 2005. In near the San Francisco Bay Bridge, years that a Cardinals pitcher has April this year they announced they it is speculated to have hit a guard died during the regular season. In are expecting their first child. Since rail or column during a turn. 2002, was found dead in his youngest sibling Michel Trudeau Shortly thereafter, it exploded into his room at the team's hotel during died in an avalanche in 1998, a fire that lasted several hours. a series against the Cubs in Trudeau has been an active Chicago, Illinois. The final game of campaigner for winter sports Caltrans officials have announced the Cardinals-Cubs series, safety. His younger brother that repairs will be fast-tracked, but scheduled for 7:00pm tonight, has is a journalist. will still take several weeks. Public been postponed because of the He put his support behind Liberal transit has responded with plans to tragedy. leadership candidate Gerard increase service and re-route Kennedy during the Liberal Party of busses that used the destroyed US: Melamine from Canada leadership convention, interchange. contaminated pet food enters 2006. Kennedy dropped out of the human food chain second ballet of voting and both he MLB: Cardinals pitcher Josh At least 45 people are reported to and Trudeau went on to support Hancock killed in car accident have eaten pork which came from a now leader Stéphane Dion. Pitcher Josh Hancock passed away hog farm in Ceres, California in the early Sunday after crashing his car United States, where pigs from the Tanker truck fire causes into a tow truck. The accident farm were fed pet food which was collapse on Oakland Freeway occurred on Interstate 64 in St. recalled because it was A tanker truck carrying Louis, at about 12:30am, contaminated with the chemical approximately 8,600 gallons of and was pronounced dead at the melamine. unleaded gasoline caught on fire on scene. He was 29 years old. the Interstate 80/880 interchange So far none of the individuals have in Oakland, California early Sunday Josh Hancock was drafted by the experienced signs of illnesses, but morning around 3:40 AM. The fire in 1998 and made it is not known what effect the resulted in the collapse of at least his Major League debut in 2002. He chemical, when ingested, has on two sections of bridges at the was later traded to the Philadelphia humans because no major study interchange, including one carrying Phillies and the has taken place on melamine. I-580. The multi-level freeway before being signed by the St. interchange known as the Louis Cardinals in 2006. He was On April 21, at least seven urine MacArthur Maze connects the Bay part of the samples taken from pigs at hog Bridge (Interstate 80) to Cardinals team, and a current farm, were tested and the results Interstates 580, 880, and 980 and member of the Cardinals roster. He came back positive for the chemical California State Highway 24, and as had just played in Saturday melamine. At least three samples such it connects several major afternoon's game against the from the feed used to feed the pigs cities in California, including San , pitching three solid were tested and those results also Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. innings. came back positive for melamine.

The driver, James Mosqueda, 51, of Hancock was mourned around the Yesterday, the United States Food Woodland, California, escaped from league. The Cleveland Indians held and Drug Administration or FDA,

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Monday, April 30, 2007 Wikinews Page 3 said in a statement that "we have her e-mail was bounced because it marry or have their marriage no evidence of harm to humans contained the word gay eight protected in the state of New York. associated with the processed pork times. The automatic reply Ms Strong, stable families are the product" and that "no recall of Hamilton received stated that the cornerstones of our society. The meat products processed from e-mail was not suited for "business- responsibilities inherent in the these animals is being issued." like communication". institution of marriage benefit those individuals and society as a whole," Despite the consumption of pork by Website designer and lesbian, Gay said Spitzer in a statement he humans, the FDA states that the Hamilton had sent the largest issued to the press. risk to human health is minimal. public company in New Zealand an e-mail to their help desk via e-mail, Although Spitzer said that the time "The assessment that, if there were asking if she was able to receive to propose the bill "is right," he to be harm to human health, it their broadband services in her doubts that it will pass state would be very low, is based on a Nelson suburb. legislator. number of factors, including the dilution of the contaminating Lenska Papich, spokesperson for "I do not think there is a realistic melamine and melamine-related Telecom, has said that e-mails are shot that it gets passed, but I will compounds from the original rice usually only monitored internally, submit it because it's a statement protein concentrate as it moves and the words are blocked to help of principle that I believe in and I through the food system. First it is reduce harassment cases by want to begin that dynamic," added a partial ingredient in the pet food; threatening disciplinary action. Spitzer. second, it is only part of the total "Our systems internally detect a feed given to the hogs; third, it is number of words, including both The bill states that it would not known to accumulate in the the words gay and heterosexual, "establish equal responsibilities, hogs and the hogs excrete that could be deemed as recognition, benefits and melamine in their urine; fourth, inappropriate for use at work." protections for all married couples even if present in pork, pork is only Telecom refused to list the other [and] would additionally stipulate a small part of the average words that are blocked. that no clergy member or religious American diet. Neither FDA nor institution should be compelled to USDA has uncovered any evidence Ms Hamilton has said that she is perform any same-sex marriage of harm to the swine from the worried about the amount of time ceremony." contaminated feed," added the and effort Telecom must have put statement. into deciding that gay was an Currently, same-sex marriages are inappropriate word in e-mail only legal in the state of On march 19, the manufacturer of communication. "If they do have to Massachusetts. Civil unions, are the food, Menu Foods, which is put content filters on, then maybe only legal in Connecticut, New based in Mississauga, in they should ensure that it only gets Jersey and Vermont and domestic Canada, recalled all of its dog and genuinely abusive words." partnerships are currently only cat food which totaled over 60 legal in the states of California, million items. On April 28, Ms Hamilton has been apologised Maine and Washington. In New Canadian officials announced that to by Lenska Papich, who said that York City and Washington D.C., they will hold products, such as she was very good about it all. domestic partnerships are also wheat and corn gluten, as well as legal. soy and rice proteins that have New York state Governor Eliot been imported from China until Spitzer proposes legalization of BBC and ITV to provide free they can be tested for melamine. same-sex marriages satellite TV in the UK The Governor of the state of New Approval has been given to the BBC It is not known how extensive the York, Eliot Spitzer is proposing a bill (British Broadcasting Corporation) outbreak is. that would make same-sex by the BBC Trust to go ahead with marriages legal in the state. a proposal that would allow satellite Telecom New Zealand bounces TV to be "subscription free." gay e-mail "This legislation would create equal Telecom New Zealand has legal protection and responsibilities Freesat will have no monthly apologised to Gay Hamilton after for all individuals who seek to subscription fee, and according to

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