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. FirstEnergy Corporation , which services 1.4 million people in the state, released a statement Saturday that three of its transmission lines tripped off at Unit 5 of their Eastlake Plant hours before the blackout, and may have been its cause. {Link without Title}

Terrorists again fired on children in Gorazdevac , near Pec , this time while they were in the center of the village. No children were injured in this incident, just 4 days since the last. {Link without Title}

Saboteur s cause a series of Explosion s that damaged Oil and Water pipelines in Iraq . {Link without Title} {Link without Title}

Iceland resumes Whaling , 14 years after it stopped Commercial whaling in 1989 . It says that it will hunt 38 Minke Whales for Research on the impact of the Whale s on Fish stocks. [http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V3036.AP-Iceland-Whale-H.html [http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=3289344]

In Canada , Herménégilde Chiasson is appointed Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick on the recommendation of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien .

A Palestinian cameraman working for Reuters , Mazen Dana , is shot dead by a Coalition Tank crew in Iraq while trying to film around Abu Ghraib Prison , after a Mortar attack on the prison. The tank crew mistook the camera for a Grenade Launcher . {Link without Title}