February

17

Suspected US drone attack kills eight in Pakistan

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Pakistani officials said that a suspected US drone attack has killed at least eight people today, including foreign militants, in the country’s northwest.

The officials said that two missiles were fired at a compound being used by suspected Taliban militants in Mir Ali village, in North Waziristan, a region on the Afghanistan-border that is said to be a militant stronghold.

At least eight people were killed in the drone attack.

“At least eight people were killed in the drone attack. A compound used by militants was targeted,” said an unnamed official to the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

Police official Mohammad Haroon said to the Reuters news agency that “it was a remote-controlled bomb. Two policemen died on the spot, while a third has succumbed to his injuries a short while ago.”

US military officials generally do not confirm attacks such as these, but its armed forces and Central Intelligence Agency employees in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy pilotless drones in the region.

At least 65 similar drone strikes have killed about 625 people in Pakistan since August of last year, according to AFP.

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February

17

Car bomb kills at least three in Dagestan, Russia

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

According to police, at least three civilians were killed and three others injured by a car bomb in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia.

Reports say the blast occurred outside the Karavan Cafe in Khasavyurt and only killed those inside the cafe.

An unconfirmed report says one of the injured died while receiving medical treatment.

There are nearly daily attacks in Dagestan from Islamic militants, wanting to form an Islamic state. The militants usually target police and other security officials.

Militants from Dagestan are suspected in an attack earlier this week at the Domodedovo airport in Moscow, killing at least 35 and injuring 110.

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February

17

Sarkozy appoints François Fillon as Prime Minister of France

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The new President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy has appointed François Fillon to head the new French government. Fillon’s predecessor Dominique de Villepin stepped down yesterday, and formally handed over the post during a ceremony today.

The nomination did not come as a surprise after the British newspaper the Financial Times had reported on May 8 that Sarkozy had introduced Fillon to Tony Blair in a telephone conversation.

François Fillon (53) has been the political advisor of Sarkozy in the UMP for the past 2 years, and he was Sarko’s campaign leader during the recent presidential elections. Fillon has experience in negotiating with the trade unions, having undertaken controversial reforms of the 35-hour workweek and the pension system. Sarkozy in his inauguration speech on Wednesday reiterated his plans to reform the French labour and social system, and Fillon will have to oversee these reforms as the new Prime Minister. Sarkozy said he wants to make the economy more flexible and lessen social tensions.

I expect I’ll end up being the first French premier with a Welsh wife.

The Guardian reported that Fillon is an Anglophile; his wife Penelope Clarke, with whom he has 5 children, was born in Wales. Ideologically, Fillon is being described as a moderate left-leaning member of the conservative UMP party.

Fillon had his first experience as a minister in 1993 when he became Minister for the Higher education and Research under PM Édouard Balladur. He later became Minister for the Post office, Telecommunications and Space, then Minister for the social Affairs, Work and Solidarity, and finally Minister for national Education, the Higher education and Research. At the university, he studied public law and political sciences.

Sarkozy might announce his cabinet of 15 ministers as early as Friday, half of which are going to be women, he said. Fillon will lead the UMP in the parliamentary elections next month. A poll on Wednesday predicted a 1.5% increase in votes for the UMP, up to 40%, compared to 28% status-quo for the allied socialists.

Reports say that Sarkozy has offered the foreign minister post to Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières, who is seen as being on the left in French politics.

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February

16

Medical Billing Outsourcing Making Collections Easier

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As a small business owner in any sector, there are a lot of things to worry about. Invoicing and billing is one of the most important factors because without income from services rendered, any business will quickly default on its own financial obligations. The same holds true for doctors’ offices. However, their accounting can be even more complicated because insurance companies can be unpredictable about paying out their claims. Medical billing outsourcing can help eliminate some of this confusion, which consequently eliminates the need to hire additional staff dedicated to collecting payments and claims. Basic health care services, including an annual check-up or treatment for a minor cold, can be fairly inexpensive. However, this cost can add up for families with young children or older patients with multiple health concerns. Luckily, carrying health insurance helps to cover some of these costs, so all the patient has to do is provide their health insurance information to pay for their doctor’s visit.Unfortunately, collecting payment from the insurance company is easier said than done, especially since medical billing is regulated by a complicated coding system. This system helps the insurance company to process thousands of claims per day, and the doctor’s staff must be specially-trained in order to efficiently use this system.Hiring new staff isn’t always practical, since the cost of employee training, salary, and benefits might not always be affordable for smaller practices. Likewise, some professionals may attempt to handle the billing themselves, only to find that it is too time-consuming and takes too much focus away from their patients. Furthermore, industry studies have found that claim rejections due to coding errors are very common.Medical billing outsourcing is indeed a quick and easy fix for getting payment from the insurance company without the need to hire additional staff. Increasing claim revenue is one of the biggest advantages to outsourcing these services. Many practices, both large and small, can ill-afford long billing cycles simply because they are slow to output their claims or experience a high frequency of rejections due to coding errors. Medical billing outsourcing streamlines the billing cycle with highly-trained professionals and extensive claim follow-up services.Providing savings to the healthcare practice is one of the most attractive advantages to medical billing outsourcing. Many outsourcing companies only charge for what they receive. In addition, without the cost of additional staff, software licensing, or training, there are additional resources for the doctor to spend caring for their patients and rewarding their staff.

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February

14

On the campaign trail in the USA, October 2016

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Sunday, November 6, 2016

The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories.

In this month’s edition on the campaign trail: the Free & Equal Foundation holds a presidential debate with three little-known candidates; three additional candidates give their final pleas to voters; and past Wikinews interviewees provide their electoral predictions ahead of the November 8 election.

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February

13

Lobby groups oppose plans for EU copyright extension

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The European Commission currently has proposals on the table to extend performers’ copyright terms. Described by Professor Martin Kretschmer as the “Beatles Extension Act”, the proposed measure would extend copyright from 50 to 95 years after recording. A vast number of classical tracks are at stake; the copyright on recordings from the fifties and early sixties is nearing its expiration date, after which it would normally enter the public domain or become ‘public property’. E.U. Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy is proposing this extension, and if the other relevant Directorate Generales (Information Society, Consumers, Culture, Trade, Competition, etc.) agree with the proposal, it will be sent to the European Parliament.

Wikinews contacted Erik Josefsson, European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (E.F.F.), who invited us to Brussels, the heart of E.U. policy making, to discuss this new proposal and its implications. Expecting an office interview, we arrived to discover that the event was a party and meetup conveniently coinciding with FOSDEM 2008 (the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting). The meetup was in a sprawling city centre apartment festooned with E.F.F. flags and looked to be a party that would go on into the early hours of the morning with copious food and drink on tap. As more people showed up for the event it turned out that it was a truly international crowd, with guests from all over Europe.

Eddan Katz, the new International Affairs Director of the E.F.F., had come over from the U.S. to connect to the European E.F.F. network, and he gladly took part in our interview. Eddan Katz explained that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is “A non-profit organisation working to protect civil liberties and freedoms online. The E.F.F. has fought for information privacy rights online, in relation to both the government and companies who, with insufficient transparency, collect, aggregate and make abuse of information about individuals.” Another major focus of their advocacy is intellectual property, said Eddan: “The E.F.F. represents what would be the public interest, those parts of society that don’t have a concentration of power, that the private interests do have in terms of lobbying.”

Becky Hogge, Executive Director of the U.K.’s Open Rights Group (O.R.G.), joined our discussion as well. “The goals of the Open Rights Group are very simple: we speak up whenever we see civil, consumer or human rights being affected by the poor implementation or the poor regulation of new technologies,” Becky summarised. “In that sense, people call us -I mean the E.F.F. has been around, in internet years, since the beginning of time- but the Open Rights Group is often called the British E.F.F.“

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February

12

Forex Trading Software Or Forex Trading System Which One To Choose?

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Forex Trading Software Or Forex Trading System – Which One to Choose?

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In the recent time many forex trading systems and forex trading software have been evolved. For the new comers it is difficult to know the differences between a forex trading system and a forex trading software and how to choose system or a software that is suitable for the beginners. Now I will give you the differences and usage of both forex trading systems and forex trading software to gain more profits in forex trading use them.

Forex trading software

Forex trading software also called as ‘forex robots’, which allows everyone to trade automatically in online. Some clever mathematicians worked out program software with many trading formulas to the predict the forex market and make the trades for you. Most of the forex robots use Fibonacci formula, which determines the most profitable time to enter and exit the trade. The caution for new comers is that before you start trading with forex robots, it is a good idea to practice them on a demo account and learn the in and outs of it. If you do know the in and outs of it then you will waste large amounts of money. So you must have an idea of how a forex trading software works.

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Forex Trading Systems

These are the formulas developed by the trader’s. These can predict the fluctuations in market, learn from swings and need to take the guess work out of trading. Some systems make predictions on currencies and emailed to user. Other are essentially ‘live platforms’ which plug straight into the market and feeds data back to user. So forex trading systems are safer in trading-which reduces the risk. In the recent times, all the formula’s of forex trading systems have been embedded as program to automate the trading process. And these programs are called as “forex trading system software”.

These are the most powerful tools now a days. Using forex trading system software ant beginner can make profits with ease in forex trading. This software really plays a vital role in forex trading.

They are very intellectual. They always try to minimize your losses and increases the profitable trades to make get more profits.

Conclusion

Its not a matter that you are choosing a system or software to assist your trade, make sure that you have a understanding of trading and risks involved in it. The recent down turn has made foreign exchange a more attractive form of investment. Having a forex trading system software can simply reduce the risk and increases the ongoing profits.

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February

10

“Creationism and intelligent design have no place in the UK science curriculum” says UK Government

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The Government is clear that creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programmes of study and should not be taught as science.

The U.K. government defined Intelligent Design along with creationism as religion and ruled that neither has a place within the country’s school science curriculum.

This was in reaction to an electronic petition launched by James Rocks of the “Science, Just Science” campaign, a group formed to oppose “Truth in Science” and other groups in the anti-evolution lobby in the UK. The petition was signed by 1,505 people.

In the petition details, Rocks wrote, “Creationism & Intelligent design are greatly featured in the media and are being used disingenuously to portray science & the theory of evolution as being in crisis when they are not. Moreover groups such as Truth in Science are targeting our nation’s children and their science education with material that is not only non-scientific but have been rejected by the scientific community. These ideas therefore do not constitute science, cannot be considered scientific education and therefore do not belong in the nation’s science classrooms.”

A spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s office wrote: “The (UK) Government is aware that a number of concerns have been raised in the media and elsewhere as to whether creationism and intelligent design have a place in science lessons. The [UK] Government is clear that creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programmes of study and should not be taught as science.”

The government will also be “publishing guidance for schools, on the way creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching”.

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February

10

Wikinews attends 2018 Bangalore ComicCon

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Thursday, November 29, 2018

On November 17 and November 18, Wikinews attended the 2018 Bangalore Comicbook Convention, in Karnataka, India. Beginning on Saturday morning, the ComicCon continued till Sunday. Organised by ComicCon India, who organised Comic Con in Hyderabad in October, this event was held at Karnataka Trade Promotion Organisation (KTPO)’s convention hall. Wikinews spoke to convention’s international guests Ryan O’Sullivan, Dan Watters, and Vanesa Del Ray.

UK-based freelancer comicbook writer Ryan O’Sullivan, who has worked for Image Comics and Vault Comics, and wrote video game comics including Eisenhorn, Warhammer 40,000, and Dark Souls, was one of the guests attending ComicCon. Along with him, London-based freelance comic book writer Dan Watters was also one of the attendants. Watters has worked with Image Comics on Limbo, as well as Lucifer for Vertigo Comics. Watters has also written comics for Assassin’s Creed, Wolfenstein and Deep Roots. Cuban comic book artist Vanesa Del Rey was also one of the guest attendants, who has illustrated Scarlet Witch, Daredevil Annual, and Spider-Women Alpha for Marvel Comics; and Redlands for Image Comics.

The convention started at 11 AM. Crossing between the genres of science fiction, horror, anime, fantasy and comics, the event sprawled throughout all corners of the facility. Marvel Zone, Amazon Video zone, AXN Live RED Special Session, Warner Bros’ Aquaman and Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald experience, and Sony Pix zone attracted large number of audience.

On day two, Sumit Kumar, creator of Chin Chin, inspired by Chacha Chaudhary and Tintin, had a panel in the afternoon.

At 1:30 PM, there was a video presentation by Yali Dream Creations. The video was about The Village. Yali Dream Creations’ Shamik Das Gupta said the story of their comic The Village is “supernatural, social, horror”. Later, there was another presentation about their other comic, Rakshak ((hi))Hindi language: ?Protector — A Hero Among Us, about a masked vigilante in India. The first part of the four-part comic was released in 2016’s Delhi ComicCon, Gupta said. Gupta also added “Delhi gang rape story pushed me”. The session ended around 1:45 PM.

After Yali Dream Creations, there was a comic launch by Rahil Mohin. Mohin had previously launched Sufi Comics in 2008, The Wise Fool of Baghdad and two comics about Persian poet Rumi and now Blame it on Rahil. While he was on the panel, he was sketching cartoon, while the host was asking questions that Mohin had prepared, focused on the 90s cartoon themes. The questions were “[What was the] breed of Courage the Cowardly Dog?”, “Catchphrase of Flintstone”, and “Arch nemesis of Dexter”. His session finished by 2 PM.

At 2 PM, there was a session with AXN, and questions about AXN shows. Musician Shrey also played scores of various AXN shows on guitar, which audience had to guess. At 2:30 PM, there was a session with Cuban comic artist Vanesa Del Rey. She said it was her first convention in India, and said, “It is like any major convention in the US”. This year, Vanesa Del Rey was nominated for an Eisner Award. During the discussion, she said she wanted to do sci-fi epic,romance, mystery and thriller comics in future. Regarding romance genre in comics, she said it is “something worth exploring”. And regarding her career choice, she said her grandmother was an artist and her “family was very supportive”.

Later, there was a session with Sony PIX, with Minions appearing on the stage.

The event finished around 8 PM.

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February

8

Understanding Nba Betting Odds

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If you love watching NBA games, you will surely love betting on it too! NBA betting double the excitement and fun as we watch our favorite NBA sport. However, betting on a popular sport like NBA comes a little tough most especially if you dont have concrete ideas to base your betting choices. This derived the NBA betting odds. So, what is it all about?

NBA betting odds is actually a system where all the basic sources to base all your betting choices in every basketball game can be found. It is a system that helps you bet particular amounts while illustrating all the possible prospects of your preferred team winning the game. The data that are given in the system came from a long list of sportsbook and totaled from every basketball match.

The NBA betting odds is categorized into significant segments composed of the date and time of competition, rotation number, teams playing against each other, point spread, money line and total. It is necessary that you are aware of these terms to be successful in your NBA bet.

The game roster is noted on the date and time while the rotation number lists down the name of the visiting team over the home team.

The point spread, which is the most common bet not just in basketball but to all sports, points out the favorite team from the underdog. For example, a game between the Boston Celtics and LA Lakers comes up with a +7 as well as -7, which means, you are able to gain cash if Boston wins the game right away or loses to LA with less than 7 points in the game.

The moneyline is simply betting on which team you think will win. The basis of the betting volume is $ 100. For instance, the money line presents Dallas Mavericks with a -340 and Boston Celtics with +320. This indicates that you must bet $ 340 on Dallas to win $ 100, as well as a $ 100 bet on Boston to obtain $ 320.

The total, which is the easiest type of NBA bet, means betting on the sum of all points from both teams. The hypothesized figure is based on a substantial guess obtained from sports analysis. If the total is 170 and the actual points amount to 180, then those who bet above 170 gains the cash.

Understanding and learning how to read the NBA betting odds is very essential to get a bigger chance of winning your hard earned money. Also, it can provide you better understanding on exactly how the game affects the bets you are willing to wager upon. So, be sure that you have study NBA betting odds prior betting. Good Luck!

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