World News Post: Apr 13, 2011

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Highest security level declared: Fukushima bad as Chernobyl

The radioactive contamination after the nuclear accident in Fukushima is expected to reach the scale of the reactor catastrophe at Chernobyl. The nuclear regulatory authority in Tokyo raised the assessment of the nuclear accident at level 5 the highest level 7, which had been achieved so far only the accident at Chernobyl.

A new video shows the disproportionate use of force the U.S. Army in Iraq

Barcelona (Editorial) .- A new video released by PressTV page shows images of U.S. soldiers putting a disproportionate use of force against Iraqi prisoners. Apparently, the events date back to 2005, prisoners in the center of Iraq's Camp Bucca, near Basra. Iraqi detainees were protesting the desecration of U.S.

troops from the Koran, has denounced the Association for American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU in its acronym in English). In the recording can be seen as the soldiers allegedly fired at the prisoners and may even throw what looks like a grenade. Four prisoners were killed by gunfire and five others were wounded during the riot.

Arrests and disappearances in the day of freedom in Swaziland

"The first domino date African" or "the fall of the last king of sub-Saharan Africa are some headlines. The planned protests on Tuesday in Swaziland, which have the support of South African Trade Unions and the ANC Youth League, the governing party in South Africa can make this small, atypical, poor country in the first black African to is caught by the wave of democratic demands which began in the Maghreb.

CAMBODIA - The Torturer Douch considered on appeal

The appeal trial of Duch, former head of the center S-21 prison, where some were tortured 15,000 people before being executed, opened March 28. Found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, he was sentenced in July 2010 to thirty years imprisonment. But his lawyers requested his release, arguing that their client is not within the mandate of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution "top officials" of the crimes committed under the Democratic Kampuchea.

The Belarusian KGB is looking for the perpetrators of Minsk metro

Moscow, April 12 .- The Committee for State Security (KGB) of Belarus have arrested several suspects of involvement in the brutal bomb attack on Monday in Minsk metro has left in shock at the last dictatorship Europe. "It was like a cold shower. I was on the next train and when we pass by the station platform where the explosion took place thought I was in Israel and Russia.

It was unreal. In Belarus these things do not happen," said Efe Yaroslav Romanchuk, opposition politician and former presidential candidate. According to the head of the KGB, Vadim Zaitsev, three people have been arrested and are being questioned for possible involvement in the blast, which killed 12 people and wounded nearly a hundred serious and moderately serious.

United Nations counted 536 corpses result of the massacres in Ivory Coast

Researchers from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights deployed in Ivory Coast have been counted 536 bodies, belonging to people killed in massacres in the west of the country since late March. This was announced by the spokesman of the Office, Ravina Shamdasani, who specified that the bodies were found in the towns of Duékoué, Guiglo, and Buutuo Bangolo.

Since most of those killed were part of ethnic Guéré, which supported the now former President Laurent Gbabgo, is estimated to have been killed at the hands of supporters of the current leader, Alassane Ouattara. Indeed, Shamdasani consulted on any legal charges against Ouattara supporters following the announcement by him that Gbabgo and their supporters will be judged, the spokesman specified "any person who has committed crimes, no matter which side it should be judged according to international standards.

CUBA - Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter visited the island

Jimmy Carter, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, was received on March 28 at the airport in Havana by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. "This is the second time that former U.S. president comes to the island," said the official daily. His previous visit was in May 2002. "This is further proof of his interest in improving bilateral relations," the newspaper added.

Carter should particularly address the economic reforms launched by the Cuban government.

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Mubarak, questioned by the prosecution for embezzlement

Barcelona / Cairo (Writing and agencies) .- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 82, was admitted to the hospital Tuesday in Sharm el-Sheikh International to undergo medical examinations, reports the BBC. Mubarak traveled Tuesday to the city of Al Tur, on the Sinai Peninsula, to appear before a representative of the prosecution over allegations of embezzlement of public money.

According to the BBC, Mubarak has suffered a "heart attack" while being interrogated by the prosecution but his condition is now "stable." Former president visits Egypt to Germany to be his heart disease have been repeated in recent years. Apparently, to the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh have been moving Jordanian doctors treat their case.

Several people arrested after the Minsk subway attack

A dozen people were arrested Tuesday in Belarus for the attack on the subway in Minsk, Belarus capital, this morning. After the attack, in which 12 people died, 149 injured include 22 of them are serious. "We are already investigating several people who have been arrested," said Andrei Shved, deputy prosecutor and head of the task force investigating the blast occurred at rush hour in the central station "Oktiábraskaya." Shved denied that the explosion had been caused by a "suicide bomber" and stressed that the power of the bomb was equivalent to not less than 3 kilos of TNT.

LIBYA - The United States had a responsibility to act

President Barack Obama has largely defended his decision to intervene in Libya and its handling of this crisis, tells the daily. On 29 March the head of state spoke for the first time on television since the beginning of military operations by the international coalition in Libya. Faced with criticism from some lawmakers, he said the U.S.

had a responsibility to avoid a massacre in Libya. Barack Obama also warned that it would be wrong to oust Colonel Gaddafi of power by arms, without mentioning what non-military means could be employed.

The defector will meet with Musa Kusa "Libyan representatives" in Qatar

London .- The newly defected Libyan Foreign Minister of Libya, Musa Kusa, has left London to meet members of the Qatari Government and "Libyan representatives" in Doha, said Tuesday the British government. The international contact group will meet Wednesday in the capital of Qatar to discuss the future of Libya.

"We believe he is traveling today to Doha to meet with the Government of Qatar and a group of Libyan representatives to offer their views before the meeting of contact group," said a ministry spokesman. Kusa had taken refuge on 30 March in the UK after defecting from the government of Muammar Qaddafi.

The police attacked a march by university students in Algiers

Algerian riot police on Tuesday charged against some 3,000 university students attempted to march in protest at the government headquarters in Algiers, according to Efe found. This comes after the clashes that took place on Monday, during which 20 students were injured. The students, on strike for about two months, wanted to express their opposition against the government's decision to reform university education and to demand a reshaping of the curriculum.

KOSOVO - The presidential election invalid

The Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the election of President Behgjet Pacolli of 22 February announced the Pristina daily. The Court had been asked by the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), two major opposition parties. Often described as a man "richest of Kosovo," Behgjet Pacolli was elected to the presidency following an alliance with the Democratic Party of Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

Spain sent a diplomat to negotiate the release of Manu Brabo

Madrid .- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a diplomat to Tripoli to negotiate the release of the Spanish photographer Manuel Varela de Seijas, known as Manuel Brabo, who was detained for eight days in Libya, according to diplomatic sources have confirmed. Brabo was arrested earlier last week by the Libyan leader's forces in eastern Libya with American reporters James Foley and Clare Morgan Gillis and fellow South African photographer Anton the Harmmel.

Syrian security forces veto health care for injured demonstrators

Syrian security forces on demonstrators injured vetoed access to hospitals and health services prevented Atenco in two protests were held last Friday, according to Human Rights Watch report. HRW, citing witnesses to 20 in three Syrian villages, called on the authorities to allow medical access to the injured protesters and to stop the unjustified use of force against those that focus on democratic reforms.

AUSTRALIA - Tsunami policy in New South Wales

"A list of earthquakes and tsunamis that devastated several countries in recent times, we can add a masterly and shocking event, a metaphorical earthquake that destroyed a political party," says The Age. Indeed, the liberal coalition Barry O'Farrell has just ended at sixteen years of political domination by the Labour Party on the Parliament of New South Wales.

A win "long-planned" but "no less impressive. Sixteen years in power to find the best with 22 seats, with the worst 19 in a parliament that has 93 "the worst election result for Labour in 107 years." The paper says this is the beginning of the end for the party that had yet three years ago all Australian states.

Paris allocated 400 million euros to revive the economy of Ivory Coast

Paris. .- The French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, today announced that Paris will allocate 400 million euros to finance emergency needs of Ivory Coast and to help revive its economy. This contribution will be "at first, to finance emergency expenditures for the population, the city of Abidjan and the return to normal public services," the minister said in a statement.

"This support should also be used (...) to revive economic activity and allow credit" Ivory Coast "in the face of financial institutions," said Lagarde. France also called for lifting the economic embargo against Ivory Coast. According to the Foreign Ministry, the decision to end the embargoes imposed by the European Union at the request of France, could be taken this afternoon during the General Affairs Council of the Twenty held today in Luxembourg.

Czech President kleptomania the rage in Internet

A Czech Television video which shows how the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, remains, apparently, with a pen during a recent press conference in Santiago de Chile with his Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera, because rage on the Internet. The images, posted on the website of the Czech Television (www.

ct24. Cz/media/120750-klaus-a-chilske-pero-1-0 /) and also on the platform YouTube (www. youtube. Com / all_comments? v = hkt1wSXRnRg) have been seen by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. While Piñera greets journalists, is how Klaus opened the box of the luxury boom, gets under the table first, hence the apparently passed from one pocket to another, finally closing the jacket, but without the pen in hands.

EGYPT - The curfew is lightened

"Curfew has been reduced to three hours between 2 pm and 5 am," announced the newspaper. He was previously in force from midnight to 6 hours. It was established on January 28 in three major cities, Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, as a result of violent riots during protests against President Hosni Mubarak.

Denying rumors, the military also confirmed March 28 that Mubarak and his family were still under house arrest in Egypt.

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China evicts 80,000 citizens of Shenzhen for being "dangerous"

Beijing. .- Around 80,000 people have been forced to leave the city of Shenzhen in southern China, to be considered "dangerous" for the good performance of the XXVI Summer Universiade, the city will host this year, said the newspaper official Global Times. Police Department deputy director of Shenzhen, Shen Shaobao announced this as part of a 100-day campaign, launched in January, to ensure the safety and good organization of this international competition among universities.

Several attacks near Baghdad left six dead

At least six people, including five Iraqi soldiers were killed Tuesday in two attacks in Iraq, said an Iraqi police source. In the first attack took place in the area of Khan Dari, 25 kilometers west of Baghdad. According to the account of the source, an armed group placed two bombs near the home of a member of the Salvation Council, government militias, and later detonated one of them.

The explosion caused the death of women of the militiaman and wounded several of his children and two women who were in the house. Shortly thereafter, coinciding with the arrival of an Iraqi Army patrol the scene, the terrorists detonated the second explosion, which killed three soldiers and wounding two others.

JAPAN - Gradual return to normal transport

Main title of the business daily, the reopening of almost all main roads in areas affected by the earthquake of March 11. A little over two weeks after the terrible earthquake and the deadly tsunami, ports, airports, railway lines and roads are 90% in use. The high-speed line linking Tokyo to Aomori, the northernmost of the country, will return to service by 10 April.

That should help move more easily with food and equipment for reconstruction.

A Saudi young man disappears after asking for freedom for the cameras

Saudi Arabia in addition to being the country with the largest oil reserves in the world and the great ally of the U.S.. UU. in the area, is also one of the most repressive authoritarian regimes on the planet. The House of Saud Al-queen with an iron fist in a country politically and socially it has always seemed stable, but with the arrival of the so-called Arab spring can begin to wobble, and the regime knows it.

The agitator of the burka

Under the cry of "no fear" has come to the rescue of the female body that covers his face fabric. Has encouraged them to rebel against the Law, has become their leader and protector. Also in his patron will pay for the dishes they break. Real estate speculator and philanthropist heart, Rachid Nekkaz has been the captain's armband in the struggle to defend the rights of women, although they will cover up and down to hit the street.

ISRAEL - A religious service at the head of internal security

The Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, announced March 28 the appointment of Yoram Cohen for the leadership of Shin Beth, the Israeli internal security service, Yuval Diskin, replacing, who was stationed since 2005. Joined Shin Bet in 1982, Yoram Cohen is a man of the harem who headed the department including terrorism in Arab countries and Iran and controlled sector of Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Ivory Coast begins now peace and reconstruction Ouattara

Abidjan (Editorial / Agencies) - The president recognized in Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara called for peace after his rival was arrested with the help of French troops, but ahead is an enormous task to reunite a country ravaged by civil war. Ouattara, who won in November's presidential election results as certified by the UN, can finally begin to assert their authority over the West African country after his predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo, was captured on Monday, ending more four months of deadlock that led to a full-scale armed conflict, reports Reuters.

Netanyahu proposes a withdrawal from West Bank

"Tsunami diplomat." Is a term increasingly used by media and some ministers of Israel warning to what awaits the country in September: the recognition of a Palestinian state on '67 borders by the UN General Assembly. To stop the tsunami, the head of the Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu, studies yield to Palestinian Authority security control of the West Bank.

It is unclear the extent of the withdrawal but is one of the main measures that arises, as revealed on Tuesday the newspaper Haaretz. Another possibility would be to hold an international summit, with the participation of Israelis and Palestinians to relaunch the peace process. Netanyahu is aware that the Palestinian President Abu Mazen, is not willing to sit down and negotiate for several reasons.

ITALY - Berlusconi back in court

"Berlusconi in court - then this is the show with the fans," as the Turin daily beside a photo of President of the Council welcoming the crowd out of the hearing March 28 in Milan. This is the first time in eight years that Silvio Berlusconi finds himself in court. The hearing was the first in a series to determine whether Berlusconi should stand trial for tax evasion and embezzlement in a case of overcharging of TV rights by one of his companies, Mediatrade-RTI.

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The UN recorded more than 500 killed in massacres in Côte d'Ivoire

Geneva. .- The investigators of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights deployed in Ivory Coast have been counted 536 bodies of people killed in massacres in the west of the country since late March. This was announced today by the Office spokeswoman, Ravina Shamdasani, who specified that the bodies were found in the towns of Duékoué, Guiglo, and Buutuo Bangolo.

Since most of those killed were part of ethnic Guéré, which supported the now former President Laurent Gbabgo, is estimated to have been killed at the hands of supporters of the current leader, Alassane Ouattara. Indeed, Shamdasani consulted on any legal charges against Ouattara supporters following the announcement by him that Gbabgo and their supporters will be judged, the spokesman specified "any person who has committed crimes, no matter which side it should be judged according to international standards.

Custody for the former number two Hosni Mubarak's party

Egyptian authorities ordered the arrest of former "number two" of the party led by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to power until his resignation on 11 February and whose influence is still felt in the country. According to reports today the government Al Ahram daily, the decision was taken yesterday after the Unlawful Enrichment department will ask for twelve hours.

The organs of observation and investigation of public funds accuse Al Sheriff, also president of the Shura Council (Upper House), to get and cash property illegally using his power. Sheriff Al goods do not correspond with the income from his job as an officer and recorded in his last tax return, the newspaper adds.

Germany - There is no other Chancellor Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel is at a crossroads. At the local elections of 27 March, the greens have seized conservative stronghold of Baden-Wuerttemberg, putting the country upside down. They are now a major party. But the Chancellor will remain in control anyway. For she had predicted the crisis, writes Spiegel.

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France says that NATO is not enough to protect civilians Libya

Paris .- The French foreign minister, Alain Juppe, complained Friday that NATO is not a sufficient role in Libya and asked destroy heavy weapons troops Muammar al-Gaddafi used in the bombing of the city of Misrata. "First, NATO must play its full role. NATO wanted to take the lead in operations and we accept it.

Now you must fulfill its role, ie Gaddafi would not again use heavy weapons to bombard the population," Juppe said in an interview with radio station 'France Info'. This is the Atlantic Alliance "destroy heavy weapons now bombarding Misrata" he added. The French minister said would raise this issue at the meeting Tuesday in Luxembourg with his European Union colleagues will attend an envoy of Libyan opposition and which will be discussed in particular the sending of a humanitarian mission to assist most affected by the fighting.

Eight killed in Russia during clashes in the North Caucasus

In just two days, eight people have died in the North Caucasus, Russia, in the area of Dagestan. At dawn on Tuesday, two policemen were killed in an Islamist guerrilla attack against a motorized column near the town police Eich, Tsuma in the region, according to a Russian Interior spokesman told Interfax.

According to this source, gurrilleros have detonated a roadside bomb a convoy of six police vehicles. Officers responded to the attack by opening fire and wounding three rebels succeeded. According to Interior Ministry spokesman, "has launched a search operation" and has been ordered to step up precautionary measures during the movement of the security forces.

The Yemeni president on trial

A protest movement has rocked the country since the end of January. The reversal of the two main tribal confederations (the Hached and Bakili), which represent the majority of the population of northern Yemen, is a notable loss to President Ali Abdallah Saleh, in power for thirty-two, himself a product Clan Hached.

Protests against Saleh intensified after the death March 18, 1952 Protesters under fire attributed to his supporters.

President 'kleptomaniac' and indiscreet minister

Sometimes we forget that politicians are human, flawed, may be misguided. But others are they who are responsible for reminding us. Two first-line politicians, the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, and the Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has been put in embarrassing trouble in recent days.

The first is the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, who was caught by television cameras staying, apparently with a pen during a recent press conference in Santiago de Chile with his colleague Sebastián Piñera. Czech President images have been seen by hundreds of thousands of people around the world: while Piñera greets journalists, is how Klaus opened the box of the luxury boom, gets under the table first, passes away appearance from one pocket to another, finally closing the jacket, but ...

The UN consider establishing a court to hear piracy

The Security Council adopted UN on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution that promises to urgently consider the establishment of specialized courts to try perpetrators of crimes of piracy in Somalia and throughout the region. The 15-member Security Council recognized the importance of promoting the fight against piracy and voted for that resolution in a session also attended by representatives of Spain, Italy, Ukraine and Somalia, who are not part of the highest body international security.