- April 14, 2005
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April 13, 2005 -April 2005 -April 15, 2005 ----
*Microsoft Encarta launches aNupedia -like version of itsencyclopedia where anonymous users can submit their new or edited entries to be approved by a paid staff of editors. Server problems delayed the launch. [http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Encarta-seeks-free-information/2005/04/14/1113251721051.html (FairfaxDigital)] [http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D89ESGN01.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down (Business Week)] [http://spaces.msn.com/members/Encarta/Blog/cns!1pKov6pW19gvfZD4bZjOEp7A!143.entry (Encarta Blog)]
* The claim that traces of the deadly poisonricin had been found in theLondon apartment of allegedal Qaeda operatives is proved wrong, according to a senior British official. [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002241023_ricin14.html (Seattle Times)] [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/attacks/comment/0,1320,1459178,00.html (Guardian Unlimited)]
* Researchers from theUniversity of Miami have published a study which claims thatPrison ers executed bylethal injection in the U.S. may have been aware of what was happening to them. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4444473.stm (BBC)]
*Israeli-Palestinian Conflict :
**Israel kills a member of theAl Aqsa Martyrs Brigade following a raid into thePalestinian town ofNablus . Palestinians maintain that a special unit disguised asArab s carried out the act.Israeli Defence Forces say the man was a "ticking bomb" and that soldier shot only after he opened fire on them. Witnesses from the Balata camp, however, say the Israelis opened fire without warning and then took the body away. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4444859.stm (BBC)] [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/565171.html (Haaretz)] [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/international/middleeast/15mideast.html?oref=login (NY Times)]
** TheIsrael i soldier accused of shooting Britishcameraman James Miller is cleared of any wrongdoing by an IsraeliJudge , meaning the soldier will not be prosecuted. Miller's family accuse theIsrael Defense Forces of a coverup and threaten to sue. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4444781.stm (BBC)]
*Conflict in Iraq : At least 11 people have been killed following a doublesuicide bomb ing in theIraq i capital ofBaghdad . [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4443409.stm (BBC)]
* InQuito ,Ecuador ,riot police clash with demonstrators and strikers that protest against the government of presidentLucio Gutiérrez . Congress replaced the entiresupreme court last December and has not come to an agreement with the political opposition. [http://www.reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=bondsNews&storyID=8171506 (Reuters)] [http://www.wpherald.com/Latin_America/storyview.php?StoryID=20050413-100406-8179r (World Peace Herald)]
* The Czechcoalition government agrees to form a new cabinet.Jan Kohout is expected to succeedStanislav Gross as the newprime minister . [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aH1PLVExi3Hc&refer=europe (Bloomberg)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/13/czech.politics.reut/ (CNN)] The deal collapses later in the day when the Social Democrats reject it. [http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/0407/news1.php (Prague Post)] [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=a6.qpWR7XwL8&refer=europe (Bloomberg)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4442987.stm (BBC)]
*Police in China arrest 15 people involved with illegal blood trade that may have contributed to the spread ofAIDS . [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/14/content_434024.htm (China Daily)] [http://english.people.com.cn/200504/14/eng20050414_181008.html (People's Daily)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8175563 (Reuters)] [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4936157,00.html (Guardian)]
* According toAmnesty International , prisoners of theBlack Beach prison in theEquatorial Guinea are starving. [http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=80256DD400782B8480256FE1003B7665 (Amnesty International USA)] [http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8168769 (Reuters SA)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4442867.stm (BBC)]
* Threepaparazzi who were pursuing Diana andDodi Al-Fayed when they died face a new trial inFrance . [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/13/news/briefs.html (IHT)] [http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-04-13T181926Z_01_HOP365934_RTRUKOC_0_FRANCE-DIANA-PAPARAZZI.xml (Reuters UK)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4442659.stm (BBC)]
* Funding difficulties threaten theMurray-Darling Basin river system inAustralia . [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12839231%255E2702,00.html (The Australian)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4443175.stm (BBC)]
* The trial ofSchapelle Corby , anAustralia n facingdrug smuggling charges inIndonesia , is adjourned after she collapses in theBali courtroom. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1345433.htm (ABC News)]
*Bulgaria sends a diplomatic mission toLibya to seek a solution to the ongoing criminal prosecution of five nurses from Bulgaria for anHIV outbreak amongBenghazi children. [http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=20014 (Bulgaria News Network)]
*Craig Murray , former UKambassador toUzbekistan , will contest election seat against UKForeign Minister Jack Straw in order to highlight Straw's alleged use of false confessions extracted by CIA torture in Uzbekistan. [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/comment/0,15803,1459093,00.html (Guardian Unlimited)] [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/24/news/uzbek.html (Background: International Herald Tribune)]
* In the face of the spread of theMarburg virus , theAngola n government tries to curb traditional funerary practice of kissing and hugging the dead for farewell. Thedeath toll is already over 210. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=8181352 (Reuters)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/04/13/angola.virus/ (CNN)]
*South Korea nTongsun Park ,Texas oilman David Chalmers and two others are indicted forbribery in theoil for food scandal. [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8186105 (Reuters)] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54645-2005Apr14.html (Washington Post)]
*United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announces that law enforcement agencies have arrested 10,340 fugitives in Operation Falcon betweenApril 4 -10. [http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals/falcon/index.html (Operation Falcon website)] [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=671486 (ABC)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=8186497 (Reuters)]
* InZimbabwe , two British journalists, "Sunday Telegraph " correspondentToby Harnden and photographerJulian Simmonds , are acquitted. They were accused of covering the last month's parliamentary elections without permission. They were charged with overstaying their visas and released onbail . [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4444915.stm (BBC)] [http://allafrica.com/stories/200504140707.html (AllAfrica)] [http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-04-14T204900Z_01_DEN474712_RTRUKOC_0_ZIMBABWE-JOURNALISTS.xml (Reuters)]
* Three students of MIT successfully submit a paper "" intoWorld Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics . The paper was made of computer-generatednonsense . [http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=78365 (Boston Herald)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/14/mit.prank.reut/ (CNN)] [http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ (SciGen)]
*India n police arrest 16 people in a case where more than US$400,000 was transferred fromCitibank accounts tofraud ulent accounts in India. [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1076023.cms (Times of India)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8185214 (Reuters)]
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