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April 12, 2005
A 15-year Palestinian boy was caught in Hawara checkpoint (near
Nablus), hiding five pipe bombs under his coat. He apparently
tried to ignite them with a match when the soldiers apprehended
him. Soldiers later pose for photographs with the boy. His brother
says he did so in order to study for his high-school matriculation
exams in an Israeli prison. [1] [2] (Haaretz)
Andrus Ansip is confirmed by the Riigikogu,
the Estonian Parliament, as the country's next Prime Minister,
following the 24 March resignation of former Prime Minister Juhan
Parts. (BBC)
Four girls who were held hostage for four
hours are freed from a house in Ennepetal, in the state of North
Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (BBC)
Israeli citizens against the proposed Israeli
dismantling of Jewish settlements on the Gaza Strip have chained
shut 167 schools and nurseries in Tel Aviv as part of their protest.
The Fire Service quickly cut through the chains. (BBC) (Jerusalem
Post) (Haaretz)
The death toll in the collapse of a factory
in Dacca, Bangladesh rises to 21 and hundreds are still trapped.
(New Kerala) (Reuters)
Anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles
applies for asylum in the United States. Fidel Castro accuses
the US of hypocrisy for protecting a terrorist. (Prensa Latina)
(Wired)
MareNostrum, Europe's most powerful (and the world's fourth most
powerful) supercomputer, is booted up for the first time in the
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain. (BusinessWeek)
In Hungary, a group of people that claim
descent from Attila the Hun demand minority status. (BBC)
Three British men are indicted by a United
States court in a 2004 alleged plot to destroy financial institutions
in the USA, including such notable landmarks as the New York
Stock Exchange in New York City, the Prudential building in New
Jersey, and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
in Washington, D.C.. The U.S. claims that one is a senior Al-Qaeda
member. (Wired) (ABC News)
Same-sex marriage in Canada: The Canadian
government's Bill C-38 survives a vote on a wrecking amendment
which would have defined marriage as a union between a man and
a woman, introduced by the Conservative Party of Canada. (CBC)
According to report of the Human Rights
Watch, young veterans of wars in West Africa have been recruited
to fight in other conflicts because they have had no other means
of support. (Human Rights Watch) (Reuters AlertNet) (BBC)
The Iranian parliament approves abortion
in cases where mother's life is in danger or the fetus is deformed.
The bill still needs the approval of the Guardian Council. (IranMania)
(Reuters UK) (Middle East Online) (Persian Journal)
In Israel, Mordechai Vanunu is charged
with 21 counts of violating the terms of his parole. (Ha'aretz)
(Arutz Sheva) (Reuters)
In Saudi Arabia, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul
Aziz al-Sheikh rules that forcing women marry against their will
is against Islam. (Arab News) (Al Jazeera) (Middle East Online)
The Indonesian army promises to give up
its businesses within two years. (Jakarta Post) (Bloomberg) (BBC)
Anheuser-Busch, the largest U.S. beer brewer
and the No. 1 buyer of rice in the United States said it would
not purchase rice grown in Missouri if it were genetically modified.
This decision was prompted by a Ventria Bioscience plan to grow
200 acres (800,000 m²) of genetically engineered rice in
Missouri. (AP)
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