The EU adopted in "emergency" restrictive measures against Gaddafi

Brussels. .- The head of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton, said today that the EU will take "urgent" measures against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya as the freezing of its funds, the travel ban and arms embargo on the same line of Security Council resolution from the UN. "The EU fully supports this resolution and to impose restrictive measures urgently," the High Representative said in a statement released this morning.

More than 20,000 aspiring doctor signed a letter of protest against Guttenberg

More than 20,000 applicants for the academic title of doctor has signed a letter of protest to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, by their attitude to the call 'cause Guttenberg' and his defense of the defense minister, Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg to charges of plagiarism. In the open letter submitted through the Internet and initiated by thousands of students who are currently working on his doctoral thesis in the meantime had become citizens with the academic title of Ph.D.

TURKEY - The whirlwind tour of Sarkozy displeased Ankara

Nicolas Sarkozy is expected in Ankara on Feb. 25 to talk primarily G20, chaired by France. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has not hidden his displeasure, saying that relations between both countries deserve better than a quick visit. He would have preferred Mr. Sarkozy comes as President of France and not the G20, and for longer.

On the eve of the visit, the Turkish Minister of European Affairs, Egemen Bagis, claimed the right for Turkey to participate in EU summits.

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Gaddafi harshly repressed in the West while losing control of the third-largest city

Rabat / Tripoli / Cairo. Ato .- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today amounted to 100,000 people the number of migrant workers in Libya who have fled in recent days of repression exerted by the Gaddafi regime against popular rebellion. UNHCR has set up emergency teams in the Tunisian and Egyptian borders to help local authorities and NGOs present in the field to address the humanitarian catastrophe.

Gaddafi tried to recover more than 1,000 million British banks has

The regime tried to regain Tripoli last week Libyan dinars for an amount equivalent to 900 million pounds ($ 1,053 million euros) which was deposited in the northeast of England, reported Monday the newspaper 'The Times'. According to 'The Times', the British finance minister, George Osborne, ordered to file a series of logistical obstacles to the output of that money while preparing for the freezing of assets of the Libyan dictator and his family in the UK.

Wikileaks - Assange can be extradited to Sweden

A London court has validated 24 February the extradition warrant issued by Sweden against the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange. Accused of sexual assault and rape of two Swedes, Assange is under house arrest and 200 miles from London since mid-December. The Stockholm daily welcomes the fact that "rape in Sweden is also a crime in Britain." Julian Assange will appeal this decision to the High Court in London.

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The UN unanimously approves sanctions against Gaddafi

United Nations. .- The Security Council unanimously approved a UN resolution imposing sanctions against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi and his environment, as the freezing of assets abroad, the travel ban and arms embargo. The resolution adopted by the fifteen members of the highest UN body also authorizes the International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague, an investigation into human rights violations incurred in the Libyan regime.