World News Post: May 26, 2011

Thursday, May 26, 2011

RUSSIA - Moscow suspends oil exports

"The gasoline will be reserved for the Russian motorists," as the English-language daily. April 28, after leaving a meeting with leaders of oil companies, the Deputy Energy Minister Sergei Koudriachov, announced in May the suspension of exports of Russian oil products. Several regions of the country are currently experiencing a shortage of gasoline.

The media accused the power to have inadvertently encouraged by imposing export pump prices low to counter inflation.

Premieres in the Bundestag: presented some

More local: Chancellor Merkel and Minister of Economy Rösler 26th May 2011 2011-05-26 16:52:53 terms is the condition of the coalition, the defeat of the CDU and FDP in recent state elections and the personnel upheavals in the FDP, the debate in parliament on a policy statement by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel a moderate course.

The speaker of the opposition were the subject of "Government Statement on G-8 summit on 26-27. May 2011 in Deauville, "which was perhaps also because the beginning of the meeting - was scheduled for the unusual time 8.30 clock - because Mrs Merkel's departure to France. In general terms, and without provisions in detail, the program was Mrs Merkel of the G-8 meeting before - with the focus of change in Arab countries, which was to help now.

Spanish police aborted the sale of military helicopters to Iran

Madrid - In a crackdown on illegal arms trafficking, Spanish security forces prevented the sale of nine combat helicopters Bell-212 to Iran and spare parts to that country so as to Venezuela, reported the general direction Police and Civil Guard in Madrid. In addition to seize the aircraft and parts, valued at 100 million euros (140 million dollars), the officers arrested the five Spanish entrepreneurs who wanted to conduct the sale and three Iranians who traveled to Spain to formalize the purchase.

The G-8 looks at the Arab Spring

The leaders of eight world's richest countries (G8) will begin on Thursday a two-day summit in Deauville (France) focused on helping to consolidate democratic movements in the "Arab spring." World leaders will devote the first day and dinner most of his second day to address the demands for political change in North Africa and Middle East.

Nuclear safety after the accident at the Japanese central Fukushima and its implications for energy policy, climate change, development and regulation of the Internet are other main topics of the agenda organized by the French president and host, Nicolas Sarkozy. The fragility of economic recovery and the debt crisis in the eurozone focus the lunch which will start at 10.45 GMT, the summit brings together Sarkozy, U.S.

UNITED KINGDOM - Kate Middleton marries her prince

"Mum Would Be So Proud" (Mom would be so proud), as the tabloid. The most widely read of all British newspapers, like his fellow devotes its front page to the event on 29 April: London wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, thirty years after those of Prince Charles and "Mom" Lady Di . The ceremony will be broadcast live around the globe.

The newspaper calls his readers to "share the joy" of young couples, because "the monarchy in the United Kingdom provides that stability and continuity that make you dream all countries governed by an obstinate leader to serve only its own interests. And this are the major rituals of monarchy, which provide translation of British traditions to new generations.

The 'Arab spring' marks the G-8 summit in France

Deauville .- The leaders of eight world's richest countries (G8) summit started today a two days in Deauville (France) which will discuss the Arab spring, the economic crisis, nuclear safety and regulation of the Internet. The meeting opened at 10.45 GMT with a working lunch hosted by the host, Nicolas Sarkozy, U.S.

President, Barack Obama, Russia's Dmitri Medvedev and the prime ministers of Japan, UK, Italy and Canada, along German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The eight leaders, whose countries account for two thirds of gross domestic product (GDP) and 50% of trade, address the fragility of economic recovery and the debt crisis in the eurozone, and probably, informally, the succession of IMF managing director.

Thousands of angry Greek recall to Spain in protest against the Government

At least 7,000 people, police said, met on Wednesday in a peaceful manner in Syntagma Square (Constitution) of Athens, in response to a call of "outraged" Greek to protest against government austerity measures. The concentration in the square facing the Greek Parliament began at 18.00 hours after the call through social networks such as Facebook made by the "outraged" following the model of the protesters who have camped in Spanish plazas.

INDONESIA - A radical movement out of the shadows

The police conduct an all-out campaign aimed at identifying the tens of thousands of members of the Indonesian Islamic State (NII), an underground radical group, rapporteThe Jakarta Post. Founded in the 1950s, the movement is suddenly out of the shadows following the arrest of one of its former members, Fernando Pepi, suspected of masterminding an attack against the cathedral of Serpong (Java West) but thwarted by the anti-terrorist squad on the eve of Easter.

Disputes against the regime cause dozens of deaths in Yemen

Sanaa (Writing / AP) .- A total of 24 people have died last night in Sana'a due to armed clashes between security forces loyal to President of Yemen Ali Abdallah Saleh and supporters of the leader of the Hashid tribal federation, Sadiq al Ahmar, Yemen's capital Sanaa, according to government sources, reports the French news agency AFP.

According to witnesses, the house of al-Ahmar has been seriously damaged. These massacres are produced after the end of Yemeni International Airport last night because there was heavy fighting between the regime's police and militants who have launched in recent days an offensive to take control of airport infrastructure.

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A protest in the capital of Georgia is settled with two deaths

Dozens of Georgian opposition were arrested on Wednesday when riot police repress opposition protest in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi. In these demonstrations have killed two people including a policeman. The policeman died and a former officer were killed in a car accident. According to sources, the driver of another car was one of the organizers of the protests, which disappeared after the crash.

BAHRAIN - Four protesters sentenced to death

"The Bahrain condemns four people to death for killing police officers," as the Emirates daily. "Activists and families are questioning the verdict rendered by a military tribunal," he adds. On 28 April, four Shiite militants were convicted of killing "with premeditation" two police officers during the big demonstrations in March, had shaken this small country ruled by a Sunni dynasty.

Three other people on the other hand received a sentence of life imprisonment.

At least one seriously injured in a bomb blast in Istanbul

Istanbul / Barcelona (Editorial / Agencies) .- Early in the Turkish police on Thursday confirmed the explosion of a bomb of unknown origin and that has not yet been claimed Etiler residential district of Istanbul, Turkey on a street full of shops. The blast occurred, according to preliminary information from a police officer Etiler district, at a bus stop and would have caused serious injuries to seven people, according to the French television channel France24 on information accessed by La Vanguardia.

A new luxury apartment DSK

The former managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been moved from an apartment in Lower Manhattan to another in the plush neighborhood of TriBeCa, where he continued his house arrest under the supervision of an armed guard. The Frenchman, wearing a gray suit and blue shirt, came out of their home without handcuffs, but escorted by two security personnel.

MOROCCO - Attack at the heart of Marrakech

"Attack of Marrakech: the King gives instructions to the Ministers of Interior and Justice", states on its Web site the week of Casablanca. Day of prayer requires, it is the only publication to have updated their Moroccan edition featuring news of the MAP, the official news agency. On 28 April, a bomb killed at least 16 dead in Marrakech, including six French.

This is the deadliest attack since the Islamist attacks in Casablanca in 2003.

Marrakech (geolocation) Marrakech (wikipedia)

U.S. reduce its military presence in Pakistan at the request of Islamabad

Washington .- The United States is reducing its military presence in Pakistan at the request of Islamabad, on Wednesday reported a Pentagon spokesman Dave Lapan. "Recently, in the last two weeks, we were notified in writing that the Government of Pakistan wanted the U.S. to reduce its footprint in Pakistan.

Consequently, we have undertaken such reductions," said the colonel. More than 200 U.S. military personnel in Pakistan, all in the service of the Office of Defense Representative in Pakistan. Lapan detailed that they include about a hundred devoted to "train the trainers" of the Pakistani Frontier Corps, a paramilitary group deployed in the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan.

The king of Bhutan, the youngest of the world, getting married in private

The king of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the youngest monarch in the world with 31, will marry next October but will not invite foreign royal families because he wants a "simple wedding." This was explained by the press officer of the royal family of Bhutan, Dorji Wangchuck, who said that the bride is a student, Jetsun Pema, about to turn 21 years who was accompanying the King on his last trip.

UNITED STATES - voodoo ceremonies in the basement of Brooklyn

It's 3 o'clock in the morning. In a dark cellar in Brooklyn, Jack Laroche, a computer engineer from Haiti, nervously awaits his bride, a voodoo spirit Ezili named Freda who has the power to give love and wealth. While four men beat drums in rhythm, voodoo priestesses dressed in colorful robes dancing in circles ecstatic, sprinkling the ground with rum and chanting "Ayibobo!" - The voodoo Amen.

Twenty-eight killed in a clash between gangs in western Mexico

Mexico City .- Twenty-eight men died and four were wounded in a gun battle between rival groups in the town of Ruiz, the state of Nayarit, western Mexico. The Office of Nayarit in a statement that the shooting took place at a crossroads. Having learned of the confrontation, the authorities rushed to the scene where they found ten vehicles left with 28 men dead and four people injured.

They also found large caliber weapons. The investigation began when authorities received a citizen complaint about the abduction of a man for the part of those aboard three vehicles, which occurred in the village of Peñas, municipality of Tuxpan (Nayarit). From there, the kidnappers fled to the town of Ruiz, which finally took place a clash between rival groups.

Twenty-eight killed in a clash between gangs in western Mexico

Twenty-eight men died and four were wounded in a gun battle between rival groups in the town of Ruiz, the state of Nayarit, western Mexico. The Office of Nayarit in a statement that the shooting took place at a crossroads. Having learned of the confrontation, the authorities rushed to the scene where they found ten vehicles left with 28 men dead and four people injured.

They also found large caliber weapons. The investigation began when authorities received a citizen complaint about the abduction of a man for the part of those aboard three vehicles, which occurred in the village of Peñas, municipality of Tuxpan (Nayarit). From there, the kidnappers fled to the town of Ruiz, which finally took place a clash between rival groups.

UNITED KINGDOM - The Windsor Are Forever

There are just over a hundred years, May 6, 1910, the crowned heads of Europe gathered in London to attend the coronation of George V, grandfather of Queen. Despite the magnificence of the ceremony, many observers were convinced that the scheme had featured no chance of holding up to the late twentieth century.

The playwright George Bernard Shaw saw the monarchy a "universal hallucination" of people who would soon disappear. H. G. Wells, novelist Progressive, estimated that the monarchy had as much chance of survival that "the Lama of Tibet is likely to become emperor of Earth." These predictions seemed perfectly reasonable.

Strauss-Kahn reappears when moving to another apartment

The former managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) has been moved from an apartment in Lower Manhattan and the luxurious New York's TriBeCa district, where he continued his house arrest under the supervision of an armed guard after his arrest for an alleged sexual assault.

According to data confirmed by the housing agency that owns the new home of DSK consulted by the editor of La Vanguardia. com, the monthly cost of the new home of Strauss-Kahn (4 rooms, a gym and three levels) is $ 50,000 per month (about 35,000 euros). The Frenchman, wearing a gray suit and blue shirt, came out of their home without handcuffs, but escorted by two security personnel and a security guard who is permanently stationed at the entrance of the new residence.

Silvio Berlusconi denies the death of Saif al Arab, Gaddafi's youngest son

The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has denied on Wednesday the death of a son of Muammar Gaddafi. Saif al Arab, 29, youngest son of Libyan leader was allegedly the victim of a NATO bombing carried out on 30 April, according to the Ansa agency account. Evoking this demise, Berlusconi said that "coalación was not involved, it was propaganda, which also Gaddafi's son was not in Libya, who lived in another country, and the story of three grandchildren is also completely unfounded dead ".

UNITED STATES - Obama badly in the American recognition

This document does not prove anything. It could be a fake. While this case is really fishy. Do not we see multiple layers on the document scanned and posted on the website of the White House? And why did we wait so long before publishing? People who do not believe that Obama was indeed born in the United States today show that a good conspiracy theory is like a fire in a coal mine: it does not go off overnight.

The welfare cuts in the U.S. Republicans turn against

Are the Republicans hanging with his own rope? This is the question that yesterday was the political world in Washington following the results of an early election to the House of Representatives in upstate New York. Democratic candidate for Congress, Kathy Hochul, won by surprise Jane Corwin Republican in a district that had spent four decades in the hands of the right.

The GOP proposal to semi-privatize Medicare, the public health system for over 65 years, has influenced the outcome. After two years on the defensive, Democrats now take advantage of the unpopularity of this reform to catch up. Any extrapolation is reckless, and more in a district where two candidates are vying for the conservative vote.

The Security Council considers a resolution against violence in Syria

European countries of the Security Council have drafted a resolution condemning the violence against civilians in Syria. France, UK, Germany and Portugal have developed such a project presented to the other countries. From this Thursday will discuss its contents in "condemnation of violence in Syria and calling for the protection of civilians", diplomatic sources said.

These countries, of which Britain and France are permanent members while Germany and Portugal are temporary. With U.S. backing, have tried in the last month on several occasions that the Council adopt a statement condemning the violence with which the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has suppressed civil protests.

TUNISIA - The revolution is it still popular?

Young people who are behind the uprising may be recovered by traditional political parties and have their claims ignored, concerned a blogger on the site Nawaat.

Obama: "The U.S. and UK are indispensable in the world"

London (Writing / Agencies) .- "I am here to reaffirm one of the strongest alliances the world has ever known. U.S. and the UK have a special relationship." Thus, Barack Obama said on Wednesday its presence in Westminster Hall, the oldest building in the British Parliament, usually reserved for the speeches of the queen.

There the head of state delivered a historic speech Democrat (available entirely in English at this link) about the ties between Washington and London. "The reason of our special relationship is not about just our historical ties, but with the values we share," said White House occupant in the keynote speech of his visit to the UK, with which Obama became the first U.S.

Hezbollah leader praised the Syrian regime and rejects any outside interference

The leader of the Shiite group Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, on Wednesday praised the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and rejected any foreign interference in the nation, the political protests since mid-March. In a speech via video to mark the eleventh anniversary of the liberation of the south from Israeli occupation, Nasrallah called for the Syrian people to protect his regime.

THAILAND - Carte blanche censorship

Advocacy groups, citizens' rights, defenders of freedom of expression, online media and netizens have all protested against the new bill against cybercrime to replace the current law. They have good reason to fear the new law, because, in comparison, the current legislation, they consider repressive already, will seem rather mild.

The evidence of the severity of the current law are numerous. Since its implementation, July 18, 2007, tens of thousands of sites were blocked, blacklisted or closed by the Department of Information Technology and Communication. Worse, many people were arrested for lese majeste, the best known case being that of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, webmaster for the independent newspaper online Prachatai [part addresses blocked by the authorities and inaccessible from Thailand] .

Amnesty accuses the two opposing leaders in Ivory Coast war crimes

Nairobi .- The NGO Amnesty International (AI) today accused both sides of the post-election crisis in Ivory Coast, the former President Laurent Gbagbo and the current leader, Alassane Ouattara, to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. "We continue to commit human rights violations against supporters and suspected supporters of Gbagbo in Abidjan and the west of the country," said Gaetan Mootoo, West Africa researcher for us.

At least 19 killed in the bombing of Tripoli

Madrid .- The Libyan state television, Libyan, has said that air strikes conducted by NATO early Tuesday on Tripoli and killed around 19 people, all civilians, and wounded 150. NATO has said that the targets were infrastructure and military equipment to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In its previous assessment of the attacks, the Libyan government spokesman, Ibrahim Musa, reported three dead and 150 wounded.

Washington and London will increase pressure on the Qaddafi regime

It was informal convey an image of the two leaders and strengthen their commitment to passing troops in Afghanistan. So the meeting with veterans and the efforts by the barbecue in the garden of Downing Street. An event that was used to compare the skills of Barack Obama and David Cameron on the grill and give photographers the nth symbol of friendship between two leaders from the beginning to emerge some personal chemistry.

Detained in Italy as one of the most dangerous bosses of the Camorra

ROME .- Italian police arrested on Wednesday in the town of Giugliano in Campania (south) to Giuseppe Dell'Aquila, considered the head of the Contini-Mallard Mafia clan of the Neapolitan Camorra and who was on the list of top 30 most dangerous fugitives Italy. According to police sources, Dell'Aquila, 49, who was in search and seizure since 2002, was arrested by agents in his hideout in a heavily guarded villa in the coastal hamlet of Varcaturo, in the municipality of Giugliano in Naples Campania.

The Taliban killed the director of a college educated Afghan girls

The Taliban have killed the director of a girls' school had ignored Afghan death threats from Islamic militias that was required to stop providing education to girls, according to official sources said Wednesday. Jan Mohmmad, director Porak female school in Logar province (an hour's drive from Kabul), was killed on Tuesday near his home, said a provincial government spokesman, Deen Mohammad Darwish.