Monday, March 21, 2011

GERMANY - Berlin flip-flopped on nuclear power

A bar along the front of the entire German press: the face of disaster that threatens Japan, Berlin is reviewing its nuclear policy from top to bottom. March 14, Angela Merkel announced the suspension of the agreement extending the lifetime of nuclear power plants. "In his explanation lacked only the recognition of a dismal failure and an admission that the antinuclear activists were right," the newspaper said.

French fighters control that ensures no-fly zone in Benghazi

Paris .- French aircraft returned to their bases off today for the third consecutive day resume operations in Libya, the Ministry of Defence. Neither the Ministry nor the Army declined to give details on the program of the day, and referred to a press conference at 17.30 local (16.30 GMT), as two days ago, used to account for the intervention .

The only information was that French aircraft had not flown over Libyan airspace overnight, and neither had done in the night from Saturday to Sunday. French fighters did not shoot yesterday against the forces of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, because he respected the fly in the surveillance zone which are responsible in Benghazi region, and because it found no military attacks against civilians.

Japan, now WHO is warning food "seriously contaminated"

Fukushima, smoke from the reactors after the earthquake, the tsunamis and the nuclear nightmare, Japan is now warning food. The World Health Organisation, in fact, called 'serious' radioactive contamination of food in the country hit by the quake.

WHO: radiation in food is much more serious than expected

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the detection of radiation in food after the earthquake that damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is a problem more serious than originally planned. "It's obviously a serious situation," he said from Manila Peter Cordingley, spokesman for the Office for the Western Pacific of WHO.

"It's much more serious than anyone thought in the early days, when we believed that this type of problem could be limited to 20 or 30 miles," he said. The radiation detected in vegetables, powdered milk and contaminated water are raising fears in the region, although officials have said that Nippon levels are not dangerous.

GUATEMALA - The victims of experiments wild attack the U.S. Justice

Between 1942 and 1944, hundreds of Guatemalans have been inoculated without their knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea, to test the efficacy of penicillin. The researchers who conducted this study were chosen as guinea pigs for vulnerable persons, including mentally ill.

The United States, which officially recognized these experiments in 2010, are now facing a lawsuit, filed March 14 by the families of victims.

The IAEA acknowledges that the situation is still "very serious"

VIENNA. .- The Director of the International Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, acknowledged that the situation around the nuclear Fukushima-1 is "very serious" but he was convinced that Japan be able to overcome the crisis caused by the earthquake and tsunamidel March 11. "The crisis has not yet been resolved and the situation in central Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power is still very serious," said Amano during the emergency meeting of the Board of Governors of the IAEA, the highest body of the international agency.

Published photographs showing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan abuse

The German weekly Der Spiegel has published photographs are displayed as abuse of two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. They see the two soldiers with two bodies, which might be civilians, as if they were trophies. The Pentagon has sought to halt its publication, according to the weekly. A dozen soldiers in this unit are being tried by military courts for abuses committed during his mission.

Prosecutors said the soldiers made fun of the dead and that some of them dismembered body parts as if they were trophies. The U.S. military has officially apologized "for the suffering" caused by photos showing abuses by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.