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.