Two dead in a string of attacks in a city in southeast China

A string of three explosions at government agencies this morning caused two deaths and at least six wounded in the city of Fuzhou, Jiangxi province in eastern China, according to the official news agency of China. One of those killed died instantly within government offices, and the second was made later in a local hospital, according to Xinhua.

The blasts, the agency said quoting official sources, resulted from a farmer angry with the way in which the legal authorities of the province were operating a personal dispute. According to the story of a provincial government spokesman surnamed Zhang, the first blast occurred shortly after 9 am (3 am Spanish) in a car parked in the basement of the municipal prosecutor's office, followed by two other every 10 minutes.

GERMANY - Succession to the ECB: Berlin balks and dithers

The inside pages of the popular German newspaper published a picture of Italy's Mario Draghi, wearing a Prussian helmet. "The [future] new head of the European Central Bank (ECB) is also German as that," he quips. Citing government sources, the newspaper said that Angela Merkel would not submit a German candidate to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet.

The Chancery was immediately denied, but the idea does make its way from the withdrawal of Axel Weber, head of the Bundesbank.

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Serbia confirms arrest of war criminal Ratko Mladic

Belgrade (Writing / AP) .- The Serb former general Ratko Mladic, alleged war criminal most wanted war in the former Yugoslavia, was arrested by Serbian police in Belgrade confirmed the president of Serbia, Boris Tadic. Mladic was arrested under a false name of "Milorad Komadic" in a village near the town of Zrenjanin in northern Serbia.

"Today we have closed a difficult chapter in our recent history," said the Serbian president told reporters . Serbian secret services have also confirmed the arrest of Ratko Mladic, the former Serbian general fugitive from justice on charges of genocide and war crimes against civilians in the war in the former Yugoslavia in the early nineties, according to local Serbs.

A dozen dead plane crash near New Delhi

At least ten people were killed and one was injured in the crash of a plane that crashed into two houses in a residential area near New Delhi, official sources reported on Thursday. The accident happened last night due to bad weather in the town of Faridabad, a dormitory town for the capital of India, told IANS India agency police sources and aviation in India.

The dead are the seven occupants, including two pilots, the aircraft that was carrying a critically ill patient to a hospital in India's capital, and three people who were at the crash site, told the agency commissioner PK Aggarwal police. The plane, a model single-engine Pilatus PC-12, was traveling between the city of Patna (north) and Delhi, and crashed minutes before its scheduled landing.

CHINA - Wen Jiabao reached a peak of ambiguity

Repression of dissidents and praise of freedom of thought: the Hong Kong just to see clearly in the game of Wen Jiabao. Traveling in Malaysia, the Chinese premier said China needed criticism and dissenting opinions. "Our country will be invincible if our 1.3 billion countrymen can be creative and think independently," he declared.

Strange, while Beijing, as stated in the newspaper, recently increased its crackdown on opponents.

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A triple bombing of a peasant unrest in China caused two deaths

A triple bombing in the vicinity of three government buildings has killed two people and injured to varying degrees in four others this morning in the city of Fuzhou in Jiangxi Province in southeastern China, according to the official news agency Xinhua. The author would be a farmer who had subsequently absconded, according to provincial government sources.

The first of three explosions, recorded between nine and ten o'clock, took place near the seat of county government Linchuan. Police said the attack killed two and wounded six others. One of them later died, the way to hospital. Several witnesses said the bomb exploded in the parking lot, located one hundred meters from the eight-story government building, whose windows were damaged.

U.S. wants to store data from European passengers for 15 years

The personal data of millions of passengers flying between the U.S. and Europe, including phone numbers, addresses and credit card may be stored up to 15 years by the Department of Homeland Security U.S., according to a draft agreement between Washington and Brussels. The draft, seen by the newspaper 'The Guardian' opens a channel for the data provided to airlines in the check-in can be analyzed by the U.S.