May 22, 2006 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Wikipedia Current Events Explosion blasts Palestinian • The Mall of Asia formally opened Eurovision Song Contest 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 Lordi 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 If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Monday, May 22, 2006 Wikinews Page 3 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.