CRIME - The bank that liked (too) dirty money

On April 10, 2006 at sunset, a DC-9 landed at Ciudad del Carmen, a port city in the Gulf of Mexico. Mexican soldiers who were waiting to board are 5.7 tons of cocaine - there at the time, for 100 million dollars. But the reconstruction of the circumstances of the purchase of the unit by the cartel Sinaola will lead to a discovery far more important.

After a survey of twenty-two month investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency [U.S. agency responsible for enforcing the law on drugs], the Internal Revenue Service [the IRS] and other federal agencies, it appears that traffickers paid the plane with money laundering by one of the largest U.S.

NATO attacks in broad daylight the palace of Gaddafi in Tripoli

Algiers. .- A NATO air strike today was heard during the day in Tripoli, in the Bab Aziza, where the residential complex Muammar Gaddafi after the Alliance shelled this night several areas of the capital, according to Qatari television channel Al Jazeera. Witnesses in the Libyan capital said they heard a loud explosion at around 10.00 local time (8.00 GMT) near the palace of the Bab Aziza, after which there was a large plume of white smoke rising from the area.

The Netherlands will ban the sale of cannabis to foreigners

The Dutch government said Friday it will start to ban the sale of cannabis to tourists. In addition, authorities also restrict the use of marijuana and hashish to the citizens of the Netherlands. The country has so far maintained a very tolerant policy on cannabis, which is sold widely in the so-called 'coffee shops', which come every year tens of thousands of tourists from around the world.

TUNISIA - How far will the Islamists?

Nahda (Renaissance) party is probably the most influential of the new political scene in Tunisia. Prohibited under Ben Ali, training has been the target of severe repression in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The revolution has challenged the laws in force, notwithstanding section 8 of the Constitution (to be revised), which prohibits political parties based on religion, Ennahda was officially legalized on 1 March by government decree Interim.

Cucumbers infection builds up in Germany and now has 10 dead

Berlin .- Today Saturday has been a tragic day for Germany when the consequences of disease outbreak caused by a bacteria housed in cucumbers from Spain. German health authorities have reported that the death of four people and ten patients died from the outbreak of a variant of the bacterium E. coli "in the country, while the number of people affected remains at about one thousand people.

The last fatality of the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), caused by this pathogen is a woman of 84 years died this morning in Lauenburg, state Schleswig-Holstein (northern Germany), the Ministry of Health this region. Germany today rose to ten the total number of deaths from the outbreak of a dangerous variant of the bacterium E.

The Church of England ordained a priest knowing that he was a pedophile

The correspondence that has appeared recently in a report that was posted on a website and then removed, shows the error of the Church of England when it comes to supporting the victims of a convicted pederast, Roy Cotton, who was ordained . Specifically, in a letter, Lambeth Palace Cotton went on to suggest that should go to "a carefully selected parish." The same years have insisted that, in 1995, there were strong safeguard policies in place to prevent these cases.

ANALYSIS - A corruption problem before any

Bahrainis have a long tradition of political protest behind. In 1922, the population had rebelled against the tax system is discriminatory and against the right chore available to the ruling family. In 1938, activists demanded political reforms (with the promulgation of a constitution and free elections), which earned them to be imprisoned by the British on the island of St.

Helena - the very one who was the last residence of the prisoner Napoleon Bonaparte. As for the current uprising, it is still and always produce a social, political and constitutional. This has nothing to do with Sunni-Shiite tensions, as claimed by the Bahraini regime and as willing to believe the other Gulf regimes and a host of analysts and Western governments.