Portal talk:Current events/2008 May 29

May 29

May 29, 2008 (2008-05-29) (Thursday)

• 2008 Sichuan earthquake: China begins inspecting the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, searching for clues about why they crumbled. (VOA)
• Tornadoes of 2008: The Governor of Nebraska Dave Heineman declares a state of emergency in relation to tornadoes in the towns of Kearney, Nebraska, and Aurora, Nebraska. (NTV)
• In a 6–5 ruling, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court upholds a 2005 law permitting embryonic stem cell research in the country. (NBC) (Folha de S. Paulo)
• The National Indian Foundation publishes photographs of a tribe of uncontacted peoples in a remote area of Amazonia. (CNN)
• A helicopter crashes into a building in Panama City, killing the Director-general of the Carabiniers of Chile and several civilians. (AP via MSNBC)
• Tropical Storm Alma, the first tropical storm of the 2008 Pacific hurricane season, makes landfall in Nicaragua near the city of León bringing heavy rains and strong winds. (Bloomberg)
• A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss. (CNN)
• The World Bank announces a US$1.2 billion package to fight the global food crisis including $200 million in grants for those most at risk in Third World countries. (AFP via Google News)
• Track and field coach Trevor Graham is convicted of lying to investigators of links to a steroids dealer in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative investigation. (AP via Google News)
• The United States Department of Commerce revises its estimate of economic growth in the United States to 0.9% for the first quarter of 2008. (AFP via Google News)
• At least 20 people are killed and 42 injured after two suicide bombings in northern Iraq. (AFP via Google News)
• A bomb at Edwin Andrews Air Base in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines kills two people and injures another 17. (BBC News)
• Hu Jintao, the President of the People's Republic of China calls for resumption of official talks between mainland China and Taiwan in a meeting with Wu Po-hsiung, the Chairman of Taiwan's ruling party the Kuomintang. (CNN)
• Twenty-six people are dead and fifty-one missing as a result of snowstorms in eastern Mongolia. (UB Post)
• Luxembourg ratifies the Treaty of Lisbon becoming the fifteenth country to do so.
• Iraq delivers a report on security, reconstruction, and economic progress at the U.N. conference on Iraq in Stockholm. Iraq seeks debt forgiveness and foreign investment to aid with reconstruction. (Mawtani) (VOA)
• Torrential rain causes flash flooding across half of Somerset, United Kingdom. (BBC News)

ITN Candidates

• Is there an article for the Mongolia snowstorms? Spencer^T♦C 10:53, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I added information here: Winter_storms_of_2007-08#May_28-present. --Spencer^T♦C 20:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

That meets my standards for minimum updates and I will put it up shortly unless someone points out something I'm missing. - BanyanTree 22:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

If possible, expanding it is always good. Spencer^T♦C 00:13, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I've got my hands full with the cluster bomb item right now. (If half the users who've dropped by the talk page to comment on how much better it would be with X and Y actually added anything, that article would be amazingly good.) In any case, I'm holding off on putting this up until I see what the removal of the India item portends. - BanyanTree 05:29, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure. Spencer^T♦C 10:42, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Posted. Appears as notable as most other weather phenomenon (esp tornadoes) that make it to ITN. Adequate update. - BanyanTree 03:05, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• Nominate China as 2008 Sichuan earthquake is now updated --Lemmey talk 02:21, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

If we put up this one, the other will have to be replaced. Spencer^T♦C 10:45, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Maybe that section could be updated a bit more, to a comparable extent as the "quake lakes" section.--Pharos (talk) 23:48, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Replaced older Sichan earthquake blurb and reset to top of "May 29" set of items to keep it from being pushed off. Appears to be adequate info of effect on schools in the article. - BanyanTree 03:05, 1 June 2008 (UTC)