Feb 15 2010 Events

15 February 2010 (2010-02-15) (Monday) edit history watch

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga accuses the President Mwai Kibaki of "overstepping" his powers after the latter re-appointed two ministers sacked by Odinga over a corruption scandal. (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation) (BBC) (AP) The United Nations Special Envoy to Burma, Tomas Quintana, arrives in the country on the first day of a five day visit to assess the progress on human rights. (Al Jazeera) (Global Times) (BBC) Halle train collision: 20 people die in a train collision in Halle, Belgium. (BBC) (Flanders News) Jamie McMurray wins the 52nd Daytona 500. (NASCAR) 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: Alexandre Bilodeau scores first place in the men's freestyle skiing moguls, winning Canada's first ever Olympic gold medal on home soil. (BBC) Pope Benedict XVI begins a two-day meeting with all 24 Irish Roman Catholic bishops to discuss child abuse in a "quite unprecedented" move. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) Five men are imprisoned for up to 28 years, after being convicted over the 2005 Sydney terrorism plot. (BBC) (ninemsn) Mike Velarde of the El Shaddai movement endorses the candidacies of Arroyo-critic Manny Villar and his running-mate Loren Legarda for the 2010 Philippine presidential elections. (BBC) (The Philippine Star) (Channel News Asia) Cyclone Rene hammers Tonga with gusts of 160 kilometres an hour, isolating natives for several days. Contact is lost with Vavaʻu. (TVNZ) (The New Zealand Herald) A joint Nato and Afghan military operation is succeeding in pushing Taliban fighters from their strongholds in Helmand province. (BBC)

February 15, 2010 Wikinews articles

Train collision kills at least twenty outside Brussels, Belgium

Current events of 14 February 2010 (2010-02-14) (Sunday) edit history watch

NATO admits it killed 12 civilians when two misfired rockets hit a house in Marjah, Helmand. President Hamid Karzai orders an explanation. (BBC) (news.com.au) (Reuters) Viva Leroy Nash, the oldest death row inmate in the United States, dies of natural causes at the age of 94. (BBC) (The New Zealand Herald) (Taipei News) Thousands of people collect in Beirut on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in a bombing alongside 21 other people, with his son and current Prime Minister Saad Hariri addressing the crowd. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Irish Times) (CBC) (The Independent) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki undoes the suspensions for fraud of the agriculture and education ministers handed out by his Prime Minister. (BBC) BMW Oracle win the 33rd America's Cup becoming the first American team to win since 1992. (BBC) (TVNZ) saling.org/wordcup/news Rafiq Husseini, a top aide of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is suspended following involvment in an alleged attempt to trade influence for sex. (MSNBC) (The Jerusalem Post)(The Guardian) Cyclone Rene heads for Tonga and Niue after brushing American Samoa. (The New Zealand Herald) (The Sydney Morning Herald) Nine Irish Roman Catholic bishops and Cardinal Seán Brady arrive in Rome to discuss the Murphy Report and Ryan Report into the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland with Pope Benedict XVI, the first such meetings there in eight years. (RTÉ) (Reuters) (Gulf Times) (The Irish Times) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemns the bomb blast in Pune, India, one day earlier, saying Pakistan is against terrorism and that his country wants better relations with India. (The Hindu) Iran detains five more members of the Baha'i minority, in addition to Baha'i leaders jailed since 2008, for alleged involvement in protests against the regime. (The Jerusalem Post) The death toll from yesterday's double bus electrocution in Port Harcourt rises to as much as 40, with more than 30 injured. (THISDAY) (The Punch) (Press TV) (The New York Times) Viktor Yanukovych is officially named winner of the Ukraine presidential election. (RIA) (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) (AP) (AFP) Jamie McMurray wins the 52nd Daytona 500.

February 14, 2010 Wikinews articles

Bill Clinton leaves hospital following heart procedure Wikinews interviews journalist Konrad Godlewski, who uncovered BATUTA hoax Chip and PIN 'not fit for purpose', says Cambridge researcher Chicago Metra considers selling naming rights for train lines, stations Winning British EuroMillions lottery ticket worth £56 million claimed

Current events of 13 February 2010 (2010-02-13) (Saturday) edit history watch

Cyclone Rene approaches Manu'a at full force winds of 150 kilometres an hour. (Radio New Zealand International) A suspected terrorist attack in the western Indian city of Pune kills 9 people and injures more than 45 others. BBC news (The Times of India) (The Hindu) (The Times) Burma releases vice-chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Tin Oo at the age of 82, after he has spent more than a decade in prison or under house arrest. (BBC) Jabez Bryce, the longest-serving bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion and first Pacific Islander to become an Anglican bishop, dies in Suva at the age of 75. (Radio New Zealand International) (Fiji Times) The Côte d'Ivoire government is dissolved with President Laurent Gbagbo saying on state television that the peace process has broken down. (Al Jazeera) (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Reuters) 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: The men's downhill skiing is postponed due to "slushy conditions", with the women's super-combined event having already been postponed. (BBC) (Sky Sports) The luge event goes ahead at the Whistler Sliding Centre a day after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili. (BBC) (The Times) (ABC) Year of the Tiger: China prepares to celebrate New Year holidays with tens of millions of people travelling and fireworks anticipated. (The Daily Telegraph) Wen Jiabao delivers his New Year message in state newspapers. (Reuters) Clashes erupt in Dresden 65 years after the city was bombed at the end of World War II. (Al Jazeera) (CBC) (Press TV) (The Washington Post) (BBC) Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki demands eight senior officials to resign due to corruption scandals in the education ministry and a maize scandal. (BBC) NATO forces in Afghanistan launch Operation Moshtarak against the Taliban-controlled village of Marja in Helmand Province. (The New York Times) At least 10 people are electrocuted to death when a power cable collapses onto a bus in Port Harcourt. (BBC) Three people die and others are seriously injured after a Danish bus en route from Berlin to Munich hits a barrier and flips over on the Bundesautobahn 9 near Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt. The Autobahn is closed in both directions. (The Local) (IOL) (RTÉ) The letters of J. D. Salinger reveal new details about how the author became reclusive and reluctant to engage with the "big shitty world". (The Times)

February 13, 2010 Wikinews articles

Georgian Olympian luge competitor dies in training accident Airborne laser successfully destroys ballistic missile Landmark coalition offensive launched in Afghanistan