Ouattara military helicopters with machine guns and lay siege to his palace Gbagbo

Abiyán/Barcelona.- Forces loyal to the winner of the presidential elections in Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, have continued in the early hours of Thursday to surround with machinegun fire from helicopters and the president's residence 'outgoing' Ivorian Laurent Gbagbo, after an unsuccessful attempt to force him out of his shelter found a strong resistance is last night.

According to French news agency AFP, a group of 200 men remain entrenched in the Presidential Palace where outgoing President Gbagbo held that refuses to relinquish power and flee the country. This source of information explains that soldiers loyal to Gbagbo not exceed a thousand volunteers.

U.S. sees democracy in Iraq an example for Arab countries

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, stated on Thursday at the American base at Camp Liberty, near Baghdad, Iraqi democracy, however imperfect, is an example for the Arab peoples are rising in recent months. "If you look at the turmoil in the region, many of these people would be happy if they were where Iraq is today," he told reporters at the Pentagon chief.

"Not everything is perfect, but it is something new and it is a democracy where the people have their rights," he said. The U.S. wanted to point out that "what has been achieved here (Iraq), thanks to great sacrifices by Iraqis, our soldiers and the American people, is truly extraordinary." Robert Gates met at Camp Liberty with 175 American soldiers involved in training security forces irquíes.

LIGHTING - The timing of Sarkozy's Gaullist

Salon Napoléon III, the Elysee Palace, 15 h 45. A door opens. According to one scene from the White House, a figure walks towards the desk. The pitch agreed and bowed legs, Nicolas Sarkozy has a rendezvous with history. In the afternoon of March 19, Paris is the center of the world. And the French president, the undisputed leader of the international community.

For once, the United States has preferred to stick to a supporting role. The hour is grave. As the whispers in the audience, there is talk of going to war. As the president addresses the world, the French aircraft flying over Libya. Sarkozy is at his best in crises. Impulsive and daring, quick and opportunistic, it is a poor sea captain oil, but a commander in the extraordinary storm.

North Korea denounced the Antarctic fish

Sydney (Australia) .- The Government of New Zealand today denounced the illegal fishing activities carried out by North Korean ships in the Antarctic marine reserves. The complaint was made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray MacCully after reconnaissance planes sighted New Zealand Air Force two North Korean fishing boats in a protected area by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Resources.

What to do with the 57 million gallons of radioactive water Fukushima?

57 million liters of radioactive water accumulated in the Fukushima central to which is being used by hundreds of liters of the plant workers poured into the reactors in an attempt to cool your core. But what can you do with them? After the technicians managed on Wednesday to close the leak which were filtering liters of sea water, the problem arises now in Fukushima is where they are going to stop those who are still accumulating.

Italy granted temporary residence permits to immigrants from Tunisia

The Italian Government signed in the coming hours a decree to be granted temporary residence permits to more than 20,000 immigrants arriving in boats from Tunisia to the coast of Italy since the beginning of the year. This was announced Wednesday at the media the President of the Tuscany region, Enrico Rossi, upon leaving a meeting with the central executive at the headquarters of the Presidency of the Government, Palazzo Chigi, which addressed the distribution between the different cities of the undocumented.

CHINA - Change power in changing society

After twenty years of reform, because of the selfishness of communist power in the political field, also because of the dispersion of forces in society, one sees no political forces capable of changing the regime in the short term to within the system, no power like those suggested by enlightened Gorbachev did embody or Chiang Ching-kuo, while civil society is unable to form a political force sufficient to compete with the regime.