May 30, 2006 The free-content news source that you can write! Page 1 Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events thousand Malayan and British troops and civilians lost their lives. Earthquake kills thousands in incumbent president Salvatore Indonesia Cuffaro of the House of Freedoms The film features "interviews with Over 2,500 people have been leads over Rita Borsellino. the people in the towns [Peng] killed and thousands more injured •In Kabul, Afghanistan, thousands lived from birth to national in a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in demonstrate against the United independence" that is Indonesia. States after several civilians were "interspersed with specially killed in a car accident in which 3 composed songs in the mould of Iraq roadside bomb kills four, US humvees collided with a traffic old-fashioned propaganda films." including two journalists jam. The film made its world debut at A roadside bomb in the Iraq the Berlin Film Festival. It also capital Baghdad has killed four •The Times reports on appeared at this year's Seattle people, including two journalists investigations into an incident in International Film Festival and the working for television network al-Haditha, Iraq, where US London Film Festival. CBS. Marines are accused of having covered up the murder of 24 The ban comes after Berita Harian, Featured story civilians after a soldier had been a conservative Malay daily, printed killed in an attack. a series of articles critical of the Keep your eyes peeled for film and the Censorship board. In cosmic debris •The Lebanese-based Hezbollah the first article, the reporters ask Stardust@home will use group threatens Israel with government ministers and distributed computing which will Iranian-made rockets. professors to comment on the allow participants to discover impact of the film. interstellar dust. Andrew Malaysia bans film "The Last Westphal is the director of Communist" Lebanese Hezbollah militants Stardust@home and Wikinews Malaysia – Manjit Kaur of the threaten Israel with long range interviewed him. Malaysian Star reports the rockets controversial documentary The http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Keep_your According to the Israeli newspaper Last Communist or Lelaki Komunis _eyes_peeled_for_cosmic_debris Haaretz, the Lebanese militant Terahkir has finally been banned group Hezbollah has new long- by the Home Ministry under the Wikipedia Current Events range rockets. These replace the Film Censorship Act 1991. • In Toronto, Canada, a labour short-term rockets that Hezbollah fire occasionally on Israel, since dispute at the Toronto Transit The film was passed without any 1995. The last rocket attack was Commission shuts down the city's cuts by the National Film on May 28, 2006. A few rockets public transit system Censorship board in March but the were fired toward a military base unexpectedly, leaving commuters Home Ministry retracted the on the Meyron Mountain, about 10 stranded. approval ten days before film was km. away from the Northern scheduled to start screening. •In the Italian municipal elections, border. The base was damaged, centre-left incumbent mayors and one soldier was injured. Walter Veltroni, Sergio The film is described as a "semi- musical documentary" and is Chiamparino and Rosa Russo The long-range artillery rocket inspired by the leader of the Iervolino lead in Rome, Turin and Zelzal-2 is made in Iran. If disbanded Malayan Communist Naples, respectively. In the obtained by Hezbollah and fired Party, Chin Peng and the Malayan regional election of Sicily, from south Lebenon the rockets Emergency during which over ten If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit e n . wikinews.org Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Wikinews Page 2 are capable of hitting targets and episodes of the new Doctor Who. said, would divide the country on causing damage on most of It is based upon the collapse of the basis of caste thereby Israel's large cities, including Tel- Moffat’s first marriage. threatening India's integrity. The Aviv and southern center Be'er Bench said that the questions Sheva. The show stars Robert Bathurst, posed to it had serious social and who played David in Cold Feet, political significance and would Iraq roadside bomb kills four, and Fiona Gillies, who appeared in hence be dealt with appropriately. including two journalists Peak Practice. The cast say that The two petitions were filed by A roadside bomb in the Iraq they are often approached by Shiv Khera and advocate Ashok capital Baghdad has killed four people who remember the show. Kumar Thakur. Additional Solicitor people, including two journalists Bathurst, Gillies, Moffat and co- General Gopal Subramianam, who working for television network star Tracie Bennett recorded was representing the respondents, CBS. The two journalists, interviews and a commentary for accepted the notice and cameraman Paul Douglas and the disc in central London in appreciated the Court's view that soundman James Brolan, both January. agitating medical students should British, were embedded with the return to work in the interest of American 4th Infantry Division and The disc, available from today, is the patients. were on a routine patrol when a being distributed via Robins’ nearby car packed with explosives website. He hopes to release The medical students welcomed was detonated. A US army officer further forgotten classics. this move and have decided to and an Iraqi interpreter were also start running parallel outpatient killed. CBS correspondant Moffat says: "I would be clinics from tomorrow onwards. Kimberly Dozier, who the absolutely delighted if this was a They have however clarified that journalists were working with, was success." their movement will continue seriously injured and was flown to despite the government's a U.S. military hospital to receive Indian Supreme Court issues assurances that the number of surgery. notice to government over seats in institutes will be quota issue increased. The main opposition CBS President Sean McManus said A vacation bench of the Indian party, the BJP has said that it it was "a devastating loss". Supreme Court comprising supports the reservation policy, Justices Arijit Pasayat and L.S but that financially disadvantaged Fan resurrects sitcom Panta issued a notice to the students from the "forward" castes A fan who set up his own company Central Government questioning should also be given consideration. and bought the rights of his the basis for the government's favourite sitcom has today decision to reserve 27% of the Boeing delivers final 717 to released the DVD. seats in universities for members AirTran, ending Douglas era of the Other Backward Class group Boeing Commercial Airplanes on Craig Robins, 41, was so frustrated of castes. The notice also asked Tuesday delivered the final 717 jet that Joking Apart, originally shown the government to explain how ever built to AirTran Airways in on BBC Two in 1993, had not been this move would be implemented ceremonies in Long Beach, released that he secured the rights without depriving meritorious California, bringing production of from the BBC and did it himself. As students from the "forward" castes McDonnell Douglas jets to an end. a video technician, he was able to their fair chance at securing seats. produce the DVD, and has The court also wanted the Centre "AirTran Airways would like to established a label to sell the to explain the basis on which thank the many Boeing employees product. castes would be classified as for their hard work and dedication "backward" or "forward". over the years and enabling us to He is thought to be the first build a world-class aircraft fleet individual to have achieved such a The government has been granted that is unparalleled in the aviation feat. eight weeks time by the Bench to industry," said Joe Leonard, file an affidavit in regard to this Chairman and Chief Operating Joking Apart was written by notice. The apex court also said Officer of AirTran Airways. Steven Moffat, best known for that it would examine the effects writing Coupling and some of this policy, which, the petitioner The final Boeing 717 was the If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Wikinews Page 3 15,599th plane built by the Long suddenly changed direction. The report last year, which found that Beach plant, the original home of woman tried to move out of the election terms should be fixed for Douglas Aircraft and McDonnell fire's path but tripped when she three-years at the least could be Douglas. It also marked the end of was climbing a fence where she used to push for reform. Mr the popular DC-9 family of jets, was engulfed by the fire. Whitlam added that it has long which has sold over 2,400 units been Labor party policy for over its 41-year history. The woman was rushed to Australia to have fixed four-year Bathurst Base Hospital before terms for both houses of In 1995, McDonnell Douglas being airlifted to the Royal North parliament. introduced the MD-95, which later Shore Hospital in Sydney where became the Boeing 717 when she died at 1:30AM this morning. Mr Whitlam said the issue of McDonnell Douglas merged with electoral reform was urgent. Boeing in 1996. The 717 had Opposition should push for "Referendum proposals must be suffered from slow sales Australian federal electoral submitted to the electors... not throughout its history, with 155 reform: Whitlam less than two nor more than six planes ordered. In January 2005, Former Australian Prime Minister, months after they have been Boeing announced that it would Gough Whitlam has attacked the passed by an absolute majority in cancel the 717 program after Labor party's stance on electoral each house of the Parliament. The completing all outstanding orders.