Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Highest security level declared: Fukushima bad as Chernobyl

The radioactive contamination after the nuclear accident in Fukushima is expected to reach the scale of the reactor catastrophe at Chernobyl. The nuclear regulatory authority in Tokyo raised the assessment of the nuclear accident at level 5 the highest level 7, which had been achieved so far only the accident at Chernobyl.

A new video shows the disproportionate use of force the U.S. Army in Iraq

Barcelona (Editorial) .- A new video released by PressTV page shows images of U.S. soldiers putting a disproportionate use of force against Iraqi prisoners. Apparently, the events date back to 2005, prisoners in the center of Iraq's Camp Bucca, near Basra. Iraqi detainees were protesting the desecration of U.S.

troops from the Koran, has denounced the Association for American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU in its acronym in English). In the recording can be seen as the soldiers allegedly fired at the prisoners and may even throw what looks like a grenade. Four prisoners were killed by gunfire and five others were wounded during the riot.

Arrests and disappearances in the day of freedom in Swaziland

"The first domino date African" or "the fall of the last king of sub-Saharan Africa are some headlines. The planned protests on Tuesday in Swaziland, which have the support of South African Trade Unions and the ANC Youth League, the governing party in South Africa can make this small, atypical, poor country in the first black African to is caught by the wave of democratic demands which began in the Maghreb.

CAMBODIA - The Torturer Douch considered on appeal

The appeal trial of Duch, former head of the center S-21 prison, where some were tortured 15,000 people before being executed, opened March 28. Found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, he was sentenced in July 2010 to thirty years imprisonment. But his lawyers requested his release, arguing that their client is not within the mandate of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution "top officials" of the crimes committed under the Democratic Kampuchea.

The Belarusian KGB is looking for the perpetrators of Minsk metro

Moscow, April 12 .- The Committee for State Security (KGB) of Belarus have arrested several suspects of involvement in the brutal bomb attack on Monday in Minsk metro has left in shock at the last dictatorship Europe. "It was like a cold shower. I was on the next train and when we pass by the station platform where the explosion took place thought I was in Israel and Russia.

It was unreal. In Belarus these things do not happen," said Efe Yaroslav Romanchuk, opposition politician and former presidential candidate. According to the head of the KGB, Vadim Zaitsev, three people have been arrested and are being questioned for possible involvement in the blast, which killed 12 people and wounded nearly a hundred serious and moderately serious.

United Nations counted 536 corpses result of the massacres in Ivory Coast

Researchers from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights deployed in Ivory Coast have been counted 536 bodies, belonging to people killed in massacres in the west of the country since late March. This was announced by the spokesman of the Office, Ravina Shamdasani, who specified that the bodies were found in the towns of Duékoué, Guiglo, and Buutuo Bangolo.

Since most of those killed were part of ethnic Guéré, which supported the now former President Laurent Gbabgo, is estimated to have been killed at the hands of supporters of the current leader, Alassane Ouattara. Indeed, Shamdasani consulted on any legal charges against Ouattara supporters following the announcement by him that Gbabgo and their supporters will be judged, the spokesman specified "any person who has committed crimes, no matter which side it should be judged according to international standards.

CUBA - Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter visited the island

Jimmy Carter, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, was received on March 28 at the airport in Havana by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. "This is the second time that former U.S. president comes to the island," said the official daily. His previous visit was in May 2002. "This is further proof of his interest in improving bilateral relations," the newspaper added.

Carter should particularly address the economic reforms launched by the Cuban government.