World News Post: Apr 23, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

U.S. drones sent to Libya

U.S. will use 'drones' armed on Libya. U.S. President Barack Obama, has approved the use of unmanned aircraft on Libyan territory, as announced on Thursday Defence Secretary Robert Gates. This decision coincides with the arrival of U.S. Senator John McCain on a visit to Benghazi in Libya insurgent stronghold, according to AFP.

Obama "has approved the use of armed Predators," said Gates. These devices, already used to bombard strongholds talibanesen the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, will allow precise attacks against gadafistas forces, Gates said at a news conference. The missions of the drones are starting, "he said.

PERU - Humala in the polls

Ollanta Humala, who a few months ago, was an outsider in the race for the presidency made a spectacular recovery. All the latest polls before the first round of the April 10 puts it all in the lead with nearly 26% of the vote, said El Comercio. According to these surveys, three candidates are vying for second place: the former president Alejandro Toledo, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator and former Economy Minister Pedro Pablo Kuzcinsky.

Saharawi students in Rabat cause riots after the death of a young

Rabat. Riot control agents today .- dispersed a group of Sahrawi students who caused damage at a residence at the University Mohamed V in Rabat, after the death last night of a young man in a fight, police sources told Efe. The source said that "the young man who died was named Hamadi laData and died yesterday after being stabbed in Rabat." The civil governor of the Moroccan capital, Mohamed Regreg, told reporters that "a group of students from the southern provinces (Western Sahara) used the death of the young to retain in his office at the residence hall director Suisi 2" which was released shortly afterwards by police.

Pope responses

Pope Benedict XVI has responded to seven questions of Christians in the RAI: Question .-. Holy Father, I thank you for your presence fills us with joy and helps us remember that today is the day when Jesus shows his love in the most radical, dying on the cross as the innocent. Precisely on the issue of innocent suffering is the first question that comes from a seven-year old Japanese girl, who says: "My name is Elena, I'm Japanese and I have seven years.

FRANCE - Sarkozy fanned the embers of secularism

Quotes disagree unfortunately not on television and is a real calamity. This story of "debate" on Islam and secularism shows us once again. Last month, when he was low in the polls, Nicolas Sarkozy took a new rabbit out of his bag. The French president announced that he would organize a big "debate" on Islam.

As often happens with presidential ads, the media buzz has finally taken the place of debate and balloon was quickly deflated. While the left and right rightly denouncing the stigmatization of Muslims, we realized that this great "debate" would boil down to little things. No committee, no committee of wise men, no report or discussion in Parliament.

The Syrian regime left dozens dead after suppressing protests against Asad

Cairo / Damascus. .- Dozens of people died today in Syria on the day's bloodiest political protests in the country since the start of demonstrations against the regime of Bashar al-Asad. The human rights activist Haizam Maleh, one of the figures of the country's most respected opposition, Efe said by telephone that he had received reports that in different parts of the country had lost more than 50 people.

Saharawi students in Rabat cause riots

Riot police dispersed a group of Sahrawi students who caused damage at a residence at the University Mohamed V in Rabat, after the death last night of a young man in a fight, police said. The source said that "the young man who died was named Hamadi laData and died yesterday after being stabbed in Rabat." The civil governor of the Moroccan capital, Mohamed Regreg, told reporters that "a group of students from the southern provinces (Western Sahara) used the death of the young to retain in his office at the residence hall director Suisi 2" which was released shortly afterwards by police.

NORWAY - Russia is preparing its forces for Arctic warfare

Russia will seriously strengthen its military brigade Petchenga on the Kola Peninsula, a dozen kilometers from the Norwegian border, reports the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. The new brigade has 4,000 soldiers who will be specially trained to fight in difficult weather conditions in order to defend Russian interests in Arctic areas.

It is estimated that up to 25% of methane resources are found in Arctic waters. In a commentary on the subject, Aftenposten states that "Large military forces may also be used - as leverage - in a political conflict or for real action." It does not express concern about Russian plans, but rather rent capacity to anticipate the big neighbor.

A colonel and twelve other Libyan officials, were arrested after entering Tunisia

Tunisia .- A colonel and 12 other Libyan officials have been arrested by soldiers after crossing the Tunisian border to this country fleeing from the rebels who took the post of Dhib in the southern desert region of Tataouine, TAP agency reported. The Libyan military group responsible for customs post had taken refuge in Tunisia, where the rebels fighting the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi took the facility after an intense battle that has developed throughout the early hours of Thursday.

New protests Friday against Asad in Syria

Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday the state of emergency order (maintained for 48 years) hours before the activists announced a 'Good Friday', which again hundreds of thousands of people will take to the streets Syrian cities to demonstrate after completion of their prayers. Asad on Thursday passed this law to quell demonstrations against his government, but apparently has not done much.

U.S. - Obama for re-election

Rumor has swollen in the American press throughout the weekend. Monday, April 4, in the early hours of the morning Barack Obama has finally ended the suspense. The U.S. president has announced in a video posted on his website, his candidacy for the 2012 presidential election, giving the kickoff to his re-election campaign, reports Politico.

The New York Times points out, for its part, the coincidence of this announcement with the changes underway in the Arab world intervention in Libya and the threat to Washington of blocking the federal government. The New York daily also highlights the many challenges facing the American president: a fragile economy, unpopular wars (in Libya and Afghanistan) and fiscal policies and energy widely criticized.

3,000 people calling for political reform in Oman

Salalá (Oman) .- Some 3,000 people demonstrated in the coastal town of Salala, in southern Oman, to demand political reforms, conducting one of the largest concentrations from two months ago began protests the country. Instead of praying in a mosque, as usual, a preacher, has rallied the faithful in an outdoor parking next to the governor's office.

After the sermon have been marching through the streets of the city. "The Omani people are not afraid to protest as it takes to be carried out reforms. The most important thing is to be tried in court to government officials who have been embezzling funds for years," said the cleric Amer Hargan told the crowd.

27 killed in Philippines landslide

At least 27 people have died and dozens are missing due to a landslide happened today in a mining area in the southern Philippines, officials said. The incident occurred at dawn on the outskirts of the village of Pantukan, in the province of Compostela, about a thousand kilometers south of Manila, where they have moved military units to participate in the rescue of victims.

According to the provincial police chief, Aaron Aquino, rescue teams have located 27 bodies and six other people who were moved to a hospital with injuries prognosis. Celso Saren, mayor of the village, told local radio that the landslide buried several huts which housed the miners and their families, and also plug the entrances to the mine, operated illegally.

THAILAND - Floods monsters in the South

Torrential rains and unusual in this season caused landslides in southern Thailand in which at least 45 people died, reports The Nation. About 200 000 households are affected, 20,000 people were evacuated and a thousand other rescued by helicopter. The damage is already estimated at 1.5 billion baht [35 million].

Released without charge, a young Spanish woman caught in Senegal

She Salamanca Valladolid .- 25, Virginia RE, detained for 22 months in Dakar (Senegal) after finding drugs inside his suitcase, has been cleared of charges after being tried and will return to Spain next week, according to EFE confirmed his mother, he is "ecstatic." Dakar in jail since being arrested on July 2, 2009 with his partner, that has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking, she has enjoyed the company of his mother, Isabel Estévez, which moved his residence there since last summer.

Kill the emissary of al Qaeda for the Caucasus

The National Counterterrorism Committee (NAC) of Russia announced today that the country's security forces killed in Chechnya "principal emissary" of Al Qaeda in the North Caucasus, a Saudi mercenary nicknamed "Mohanned." The terrorist was killed yesterday in a battle that killed two Islamic rebels, in which security forces suffered no casualties, the ANC said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.

JAPAN - Inspection of contaminated food

"The control and restriction of agricultural commodities by the prefectures will now be organized by the boroughs," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. Among the prefectures which have undergone the prohibition to collect and deliver products such as spinach (Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma) since March 21, some areas were not affected by radioactive contamination.

Therefore farmers, suppliers and consumers have requested to have more details and distinctions among the contaminated areas. "With this new organization, some areas will be able to resume their distributions and locations of departments that have not yet been affected by this measure may also be subject to the restriction that the test results to be made a Once a week, especially in the Tokyo prefecture, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Nagano, Saitama and Chiba, "tells the Asahi Shimbun.

The Egyptian judiciary extends 15 days the detention of Mubarak

Cairo .- The Attorney General of Egypt decided Tuesday to extend for another fifteen days the provisional detention which is under the president Hosni Mubarak, officials said. The order, issued by the Attorney General's Facebook page, was issued by the prosecutor general Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, to follow the interrogations is undergoing Mubarak.

The exgobernante is admitted to a hospital in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh in South Sinai Peninsula, where he was admitted on 12 April by a heart attack. The first order of arrest was determined by the Attorney General of Egypt on 13 April and affected both Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal.

ISRAEL - Back on the Goldstone

In 2009, Justice Goldstone had accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity in Gaza. On 2 April he returned to his main charge. For the Israeli columnist Aluf Benn, the report nevertheless deterred Goldstone Tel Aviv bombing Gaza regardless of the civilian population

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Syrian police fired tear gas against protesters

Amman (Reuters) .- The Syrian security forces fired tear gas Friday to disperse protesters who had gathered in the Midan district in central Damascus to call for democracy, witnesses said. In addition, thousands of people took to the streets of Deraa, in the south, to seek "the end of the regime" of Bashar Assad, according to attendance.

Syrian activists came out on Friday to the streets, through coordinated demonstrations in several parts of the country, reclaim democracy and the banning of single party, the Baath. In their first joint statement since the protests began five weeks ago, the Local Coordinating Committees, representing all the provinces have called for "freedom and dignity," two goals "can not be achieved except through democratic peaceful change" .

21 killed in Pakistan by U.S. attack

At least 21 people were killed in a missile strike from a U.S. drone in the Pakistani tribal region North Waziristan, reported various local television channels. The event took place in the area Spinwam, located in the troubled Afghan border demarcation, according to Geo TV network. U.S. aircraft fired five missiles, as this chain, which wounded several people.

The dead included five children and three women, according to dpa. In the demarcation of North Waziristan, mountainous and difficult to access, hide alleged jihadist networks, factions of the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban and Al Qaeda. The attack comes two days after the visit to Pakistan's Chief of U.S.

CHINA - The artist Ai Weiwei arrested

The artist and blogger Ai Weiwei was arrested by police on April 3 at Beijing International Airport as he prepared to fly to Hong Kong. He has since disappeared and police have released no information about his arrest, said one of his collaborators in Hong Kong daily Ming Pao. The same day, police seized nearly three computers in his studio at Caochangdi, a suburb of Beijing, and interviewed eight of his assistants.

Allied attacks did not stop the war Gaddafi

Tripoli (Writing / AP) .- The allied air strikes against the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been damaged or rendered unusable by 30% and 40% of them, although the situation of fighting between rebels and gadafistas seem to move troops to a standstill. This was said Adm. Mike Mullen, chief of staff of U.S.

Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a visit to U.S. troops in Baghdad. "Progress is indeed a deadlock," he said, about the fighting in Libya. "At the same time," Mullen said, "we managed to neutralize between 30% and 40% of Gaddafi's ground forces, its core competency. This will remain so for the moment." Meanwhile, Republican Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain arrived in the U.S.

Japan intended to rebuild 33,000 million

The Japanese government approved on Friday an initial extra budget of four billion yen (33,000 million euros) to finance the first phase of reconstruction in areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March. It is anticipated that the budget is presented on the 28th to the Diet (Parliament) for approval on 2 May, Kyodo news agency reported.

The aim is to cover the costs of the initial phase of reconstruction, including clearing debris in the northeastern regions affected by the disaster and the construction of temporary housing for victims. The Richter 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami mainly affected the northeastern provinces of Miyagi, Fukushima and Iwate and left 14,133 dead and 13,346 wounded, police at last count.

UNITED STATES - The Mormons in the spotlight

Do you know the last date on Broadway sensation? This is the new musical The Book of Mormonsécrite by the two creators of the popular animated television series South Park. Meanwhile, among the potential Republican candidates in the presidential election of 2012, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, both Mormons, were rather on the rise, notes the Washington Post.

Long despised because of their faith and their customs, especially polygamy, Mormons seem more and more accepted across the Atlantic, the paper notes in the capital. This emphasizes that 5% of senators and 2% of deputies in Washington are Mormon faith.

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Exhume 177 victims in the graves of Tamaulipas in Mexico

Mexico City - Mexican police found another 33 corpses in clandestine graves in San Fernando, bringing the total number of bodies exhumed in the municipality of the northeastern state of Tamaulipas increased to 177, according to official reports released today in the capital. Meanwhile, in another gruesome discovery, federal agents found 11 bodies today in a farm town of Durango, a figure that rose to 41 the number of bodies found between Monday and Thursday in this northern Mexican city.

Ouattara announced his inauguration in May

Alassane Ouattara, President-elect of the Ivory Coast, has expressed his desire that the country held legislative elections "at the end of the year." Occur, this election would be the first since 2000. The president also announced that its investiture ceremony will take place "in the second half of May" in Yamoussoukro, the political capital and that the new government is formed soon after.

"The government established after the inauguration," said Ouattara, the leader recognized by the international community, through TCI Ivorian television. The hearing occurred ten days after the arrest of his predecessor, Laurent Gbagbo, after a bloody clash between forces loyal to either leader.

HONG KONG - Visa minute for Refugees in Japan

Hong Kong sets up an expedited procedure for visa applications from white-collar leaving Japan, reports the Wall Street Journal. The territorial administration has approved a simplified system that responds specifically to requests from expatriates who leave the Japanese financial markets to be relocated in other Asian countries.

But this new procedure, which will get a visa in 48 hours against six to eight weeks, normally, does not anyone. It concerns the executives working for banks and multinational finance and earning between 150,000 and 300,000 dollars per year. This corresponds, for the moment, 270 applications received between 17 and 31 March.

Thousands of Syrians leave the streets today to demonstrate against Asad

Amman (Syria) (Writing / AP) .- The Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday the state of emergency order (maintained for 48 years) hours before the activists announced a 'Good Friday', which again hundreds of thousands of people will take to the streets to protest Syria's cities once they complete their prayers.

Asad on Thursday passed this law to quell demonstrations against his government, but apparently has not done much, according to Reuters. Thousands of Syrians, inspired by the uprisings that have occurred in recent months against other governments in the Arab world, have held protests across the country demanding reforms which is the biggest challenge ever faced in his 11 years Asad Government.

Neither the financial crisis can Socrates

It seems that nor the crisis may have surrendered to the rescue with the popularity of Prime Minister luso, Jose Socrates. According to a survey released by the "Diário Económico" and the radio TSF, the Portuguese Socialists up 11% ahead of the elections on June 5, reaching 36% in voting intentions, a point ahead of rivals political, social democrats (PSD) by Pedro Passos Coelho.

Since he was elected party leader in March last year, the Socialists had not led any of the surveys conducted by Marktest. However, recent events have ended up favoring the prime minister. And that the March 23 resigned from his post, leaving the country politically adrift, a fact which was exploited by the rating agencies, which savaged Portugal consecutively down the valuation of banks and public companies to levels very close to those of the junk bond.

VIETNAM - A dissident sentenced to 7 years in prison

A speedy trial, a judge ceases to accuse the accused of talking too much, policemen stationed outside the court to silence any gesture of support: Vietnamese authorities have sent on 4 April a clear message that they tolerate no criticism of the current system, reports the Financial Times correspondent in Hanoi.

Japan will allocate 33,000 million euros to rebuild

Tokyo .- The Japanese government approved on Friday an initial extra budget of four billion yen (33,000 million euros) to finance the first phase of reconstruction in areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March. It is anticipated that the budget is presented on the 28th to the Diet (Parliament) for approval on 2 May, Kyodo news agency reported.

The aim is to cover the costs of the initial phase of reconstruction, including clearing debris in the northeastern regions affected by the disaster and the construction of temporary housing for victims. The Richter 9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami mainly affected the northeastern provinces of Miyagi, Fukushima and Iwate and left 14,133 dead and 13,346 wounded, police at last count.

Medvedev, shot on the dance floor

Dmitry Medvedev has been 'caught' doing our best in full dance floor for a private celebration and video with their strutting to the beat of 'American Boy' (a 'hit' of the 90 Russian-speaking according to The Times-a girl who dreams of escaping to a better life with an American boy) has become a cyber success in Russia.

Medvedev hips awkwardly struts with other guests at a party in the half-minute video can be found easily on YouTube. "It seems as if Medvedev had swallowed a stick," said a commentary on the Russian president, whom the publication of the video, which has more than 1.2 million visits-has caught on their way to Hong Kong, "a city the future ", notes in your Twitter account.

UNITED STATES - Obama ready to let go of the President of Yemen

The tide is turning in the White House. "Having long supported the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Obama now believes that it is unable to conduct the necessary reforms should be pushed out," notes the New York Times. Until last week, the U.S. maintained their valuable ally in the Middle East, especially because it was considered a cornerstone in the fight against the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda.

The reporter "green" that played to the French presidency, Sarkozy

The race for the presidency of the French Republic, culminating in elections in the spring of 2012, has a new challenger. This is not a politician or a seasoned and educated at the elite French high schools (ENA, ENS or HEC), but a renowned journalist in France to defend Nicolas Sarkozy, expected to announce that opts for re-election before next summer, he has joined the bid to defend the program ecologist Nicolas Hulot journalist, very popular in France to present and promote the program in defense of nature "Ushuaia".

At least 16 killed in a bombing in Karachi

At least 16 people have died in an explosion caused by a bomb in the Pakistani city of Karachi, has said the Pakistani police. The attack also left more than thirty wounded. The explosion was caused by a bomb that exploded in the district of Lyari, where several drug gangs operate, on a crowded underground gambling house.

The Rummy Club was the largest playhouse in the city. "It's a homemade bomb placed in a package inside the club," said Sharfuddin Memon, a senior government official. "We investigated to see if it is a terrorist act or the result of internal rivalries. It could be the result of a gang war, as frequently occurs between criminal gangs in Karachi," said local police chief of Karachi, the largest city Pakistan, with more than 13 million people, has been the target of several attacks in the past.