World News Post

Monday, February 21, 2011

Gaddafi shoot at protesters: reports of hundreds dead in Libya

According to eyewitnesses, it was shot with machine guns on government opponents during a funeral march in the city of Benghazi. A doctor said his hospital - one of two in the second-largest city in the country - had run out of supplies.

After reports of the opposition within two days, at least 200 people were killed, but the protests are spreading. Before the Supreme Court in the Libyan capital, Tripoli demonstrated by eyewitness accounts on Sunday lawyers, judges and prosecutors against the use of force against demonstrators.

Afghanistan: double murder of civilians

Two murders in two days in Afghanistan, with a total budget that could exceed hundreds of deaths. A U.S. raid in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan has killed 65 civilians, including 22 women and over 30 children. He denounced the governor of Kunar province, Fazlullah Wahidi, in an interview with the Washington Post, Sunday after the President Hamid Karzai had spoken of 50 victims.

MOROCCO - The official press blind to the protests against power

"It's nothing to understand. Those who had to go wire some foreign news agencies [February 20] had to derive a huge question: what we talk about Morocco?" writes the daily Casablanca, subservient to power. At most, he concedes What happened "events in economic connotation" when, according to foreign media, thousands of people marched in cities across the country to demand that the king transferred his powers to a government elected.

Seriously injured an opposition MP during a police charge in Algiers

Second Saturday in protest in Algiers and second win of the police on opposition much less in number and wills. Thousands of riot police have been monitored at all times hundreds of protesters, from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon, have occupied the streets near the Plaza on May 1. Police have used smoke canisters or projectile fragmentation.

Neither has had to use water cannons. Their numerical superiority was such that you have enough batons and shields. A deputy of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) has been seriously injured. It was the only victim of the march. The regime of President Bouteflika had cut off access to the center of Algiers.

Bahraini opposition calls for political reforms before talks

Bahrain strike has had an uneven track after the unions decided to call off the opposition and affect their participation in a national dialogue with the Government to take steps leading towards political reform. The strike was called on Saturday by the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions to support the political protests that erupted on 14 February and has already caused half a dozen dead.

UGANDA - President Museveni leaves for a fourth term

Unsurprisingly, Yoweri Museveni won the presidential election held on February 18 in Uganda. The outgoing head of state, in power since 1986, was credited with 68.38% of votes. Even before the formalization of the results, Kizza Besigye, the main opposition candidate, has stepped into the breach to denounce fraud and irregularities.

Without commenting on the reliability of the poll, the daily mentions of Kampala, in an editorial, a deteriorating political climate in Uganda, may fuel suspicion.

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Berlusconi asked for his phone to Naomi Campbell

London. .- The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi asked for the phone to British model Naomi Campbell at a dinner for world leaders and diverse personalities that took place in London for a summit. This was revealed by Sarah Brown, wife of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, that the March 3 release "Behind The Black Door" (After the black door), a memoir of three years they lived at number 10 Downing Street .