The time is 17:30 (UTC) on August 26th, 2006, and this is Audio Wikinews News Briefs.

Contents

  • 1 Headlines
    • 1.1 Iran inaugurates heavy-water production plant
    • 1.2 Congo electoral commissioner condemns Kinshasha clashes
    • 1.3 Deadline to release “Muslim prisoners” passes, journalists still being held captive
    • 1.4 Courtrooms in Ontario to get cameras
    • 1.5 Four year-old boy bound to a tree and battered with a brick in East Yorkshire
    • 1.6 All-Ferrari front row on 2006 Turkish Grand Prix
    • 1.7 South Africa lose to the All Blacks at rugby in Pretoria
    • 1.8 Umpire Darrell Hair offers to quit ICC elite panel for $500,000
  • 2 Closing statements