Wikinews:Briefs/April 15, 2010: Difference between revisions

== Intro ==

From Wikinews, the free news source, this is the audio Wikinews brief for Thursday, April 15th, 2010. I'm Dan Harlow and here are today's top stories:

 

 

 

At least 31 people were killed by a cyclone in the North Dinajpur district of West Bengal, India late Tuesday. The storm uprooted trees and destroyed several huts in the North Dinajpur district of the state. The storm snapped telephone and electric wires and 50,000 mud huts were destroyed by the storm.

 

 

 

People in the area of the Eyjafjallajökull (Aevaloik) glacier in Iceland have been evacuated due to concerns of flooding from meltwater after a volcanic eruption created a large hole in the glacier, as well as a 2 kilometer (1 mi) long fissure that is forming under the glacier. Plumes of steam up to 5,000 feet in altitude could be seen rising over the glacier. The first evacuations began at about 02.00 local time (03.00 UTC) today because earthquakes in the area had pointed to an imminent eruption. Air traffic is prohibited in a large area around the eruption zone.

 

 

 

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Krakow objecting to plans to bury the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, at Wawel Castle this Sunday. Burial spaces at Wawel castle are normally reserved for Polish kings and heroes.

 

 

 

Somali Islamic militants issued an order 10 days ago to all of that nations radio stations to stop playing music because the programming is seen as un-Islamic. The only stations not in compliance with the ban are a government controlled station and a UN-funded station based in Kenya. Stations that have reported that they complied with the ban did so over fears for their lives.

 

 

 

The United States Library of Congress plans to create an archive of every "tweet," or post made on Twitter. It announced the move today via Twitter.

 

 

In 1912 the passenger liner RMS Titanic sank about two hours and forty minutes after colliding with an iceberg, killing over 1,500 people.

 

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