Kyrgyzstan - A year after the revolution, a delicate balance

Here the diagnosis of Andrei Grozine, director of Central Asia to the Russian Institute of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States: "I do not support the idea [widespread] that Kyrgyzstan should cease to exist as a state in itself. It is true that there are many problems between North and South [where the protest movement left in 2010].

It is also true that the south is plagued with separatist tendencies. However, this does not mean that this aspiration will prevail, and for one simple reason: the South lives on subsidies from the North [more rich and industrialized]. Suffice to say that the very structure of the economy Kyrgyz prevents the country from disintegrating.

Suspected radioactive leak at another nuclear plant in Japan

Tokyo, May 2 .- leaks of radioactive material may be occurring at the Tsuruga nuclear plant (central Japan), so that those responsible will carry out the manual shutdown of a reactor, reported local agency Kyodo today. The authorities of the Japanese province of Fukui, Tsuruga where they suspect of leaks from nuclear fuel rods from the reactor 2 of the plant, which in 1981 and suffered a leak of radioactive water.

Osama's corpse

Osama Bin Laden died of a gunshot that destroyed his head inflicted by an officer of the Navy special force, known as the 'SEAL'. Soldiers recovered the body, boarded a helicopter and evacuated to Afghanistan. But it can be in a U.S. military hospital in Germany or even the U.S. itself. According to an official source said the Pentagon told CNN, "has been treated with dignity, according to Islamic rites." And according to U.S.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called on U.S. to withdraw from Afghanistan

Cairo (Reuters) The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood have considered on Monday that U.S. troops should withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq after the death of Osama bin Laden, who orchestrated the attacks of 11-S which led to two US-led wars . "With the death of Bin Laden, one of the reasons that has been practicing violence in the world has been eliminated," he stressed Essam al Erian, a member of the governing board of the Muslim Brotherhood, told Reuters.

Celebration and shouts of "Yes We Can at Ground Zero

There is no sadder sound than the Irish bagpipes at Ground Zero, but today, May 2, 2011, sounded like heaven. There to celebrate the death of Bin Laden, demon guard who egged the American imagination for 10 years. Under the spotlight, including television cameras and still cameras fired in a game of mirrors, anointed stars and stripes, thousands of New Yorkers, most veintañeros chanted patriotic cries near the epicenter of which was the most brutal terrorist attack in history.

CHINA - The Times rewritten as a tribute to Dylan Ai Weiwei

Columnist Joe Joseph gives his own version in The Times of Subterranean Homesick Blues, a tribute to Ai Weiwei. Bob Dylan, which first occurred in China on 6 and April 8 in Beijing and Shanghai, has avoided most of the protesters sing songs at a time when China is experiencing a strong wave of repression.

And despite the recent arrest of dissidents suspected of trying to foment a "jasmine revolution" in China, which the artist Ai Weiwei, the official Chinese media gave wide coverage to the coming of Dylan, as evidenced by this edition of the magazine Sanlian Shenghuo Zhoukan.

• Circle of Animals by Detained Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Opening in NYC (02/05/2011)
• Ai Weiwei TED talk (22/04/2011)
• Ai Weiwei Beat (13/04/2011)
• Why Bob Dylan didn't ring the chimes of freedom over Ai Weiwei (11/04/2011)
• Ai Weiwei (05/04/2011)

Ai Weiwei (wikipedia)  Stadium designer blasts China Olympics - 12 Aug 07 (youtube)  The Times (homepage)  The Times (wikipedia)  

Gaddafi forces heavily bombarded the port of Misrata

Algiers (Reuters) The forces of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, are intensively bombing on Monday the port city of Misrata, the only under rebel control in the west of the country and besieged for weeks, as reported by a spokesman the rebels. "The port is also under heavy bombardment today, have fired about 100 rockets so far.

Misrata The bombing has not stopped in the last 36 hours," stressed the spokesman, who identified himself as Hassan al Misrati in a phone call to Reuters. "It seems that NATO has forgotten us and this has emboldened the forces of Gaddafi. The NATO forces have done nothing in the last 24 hours," the spokesman regretted.