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• Following a provincial general election that saw no party win more than 39% of the seats, the Liberal Party retains power in Quebec (flag pictured) as the province's first minority government in 129 years.
• Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is declared the winner of the Mauritanian presidential election.
• In Northern Ireland, members of the DUP and Sinn Féin, led respectively by Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, meet face-to-face for the first time, and agree on a timetable for implementing the St Andrews Agreement.
• Iran's Revolutionary Guards detain fifteen British Royal Navy personnel assigned to HMS Cornwall, alleging they illegally entered Iranian waters.
• Jamaican police are treating the death of Pakistan cricket team coach Bob Woolmer during the ongoing Cricket World Cup as a case of murder.

From Wikipedia's newest articles:

• ...that the passing of the Great Comet of 1577 (pictured) caused almost century-long debate, during which Galileo argued that comets were merely optical illusions?
• ...that Cesar Picton, who was enslaved aged six in Senegal, died in England as a wealthy coal-merchant?
• ...that, according to human rights organizations, Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev has been beaten, received death threats and had his father kidnapped due to his criticism of the government?
• ...that three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1, killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more?
• ...that during the Battle of Jarosław in 1939 the Polish Army defended the town for two days before retreating in good order?
• ...that in the 1850s Arnold Guyot measured the elevation of Old Black in the Great Smoky Mountains to within 3 feet (1 m) of the modern value?
• ...that Sir David Robertson initially agreed to mind the constituency of another British parliamentarian who was interned during the Second World War?

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Notices

• Community enforceable mediation has entered a 90 day experimental phase. This new dispute resolution option allows editors to resolve conflicts with binding agreements. To request a case visit this page.
• Good article candidates continues to have a large backlog (approximately 150 articles!). Although Good Articles has just reached a new milestone with its 2,000th article, reviewers are still needed to help eliminate the backlog. If you are new to reviewing, see the GA criteria and the instructions on the candidates page. If just a hundred reviewers look at one article each, the backlog can quickly be eliminated and allow for a smaller time period in waiting for articles to be reviewed. Any assistance is appreciated!
• WikiProject Vandalism studies has completed Study 1 that analyzed 100 random articles' total 668 edits during the months of November 2004, 2005, and 2006. The salient findings suggest that in a given month approximately 5% of edits are vandalism and 97% of that vandalism is done by anonymous editors. Further discussion is happening for Study 1 and Study 2 is being planned out right now.
• An essay, Wikipedia:We aren't Citizendium, has been written in response to a recent blog post by Larry Sanger. Please make appropriate changes and place feedback on the talk page.
• Messedrocker's Contest, which is centered around the improvement of articles to Good Article status, has begun.
• Following statements by Jimbo Wales, there is a new discussion about whether there was a consensus to merge Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research into Wikipedia:Attribution.
• The new lesson at the Virtual classroom is Yuser, on fighting linkspam.
• An essay has been written on the credentialling dispute suggesting that Credentials matter. Please read and comment on the talk page.

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