French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has joined its voice to that of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling on his countrymen confidence in the European economy after the financial rescue operations in Greece and Ireland, where Germany has been the main contributor. "Do not think, dear compatriots, those who suggest that we should leave the euro ...The end of the euro would be the end of Europe," Sarkozy said in his televised New Year's Eve. "I will fight with all my strength against these setbacks it could undo 60 years of European construction, which brought peace and brotherhood to the mainland," he added. Sarkozy has also assured that France will not follow the lead of other European countries that have experienced debt crises this year and has promised to keep the plans to improve state finances.
Elizabeth Tamez Gabriela Muniz, aka The Redhead, leader of a gang of kidnappers in northern Mexico, has now appeared hung on a bridge in the city of Monterrey after last Monday managed to escape from police in a spectacular operation. Four days ago, also in the capital of Nuevo León, The Redhead was being transported in a police car from a prison to a hospital when a group of armed men intercepted the vehicle and took it without firing a shot, before the impotence agents.
CITY 'OF THE VATICAN - "Our time is full of human evil, of suffering and tragedies of all kinds, from those caused by the wickedness of men to those resulting from natural events ominous, but it contains now and permanently and indelibly the news joyous and liberating of Christ the Saviour. " The Pope said in his homily of the Te Deum at the end of year, recited in the basilica of San Pietro, in front of the faithful, religious and civil authorities and ambassadors accredited to the Vatican.
Alassane Ouattara, known as the President of Côte d'Ivoire by the international community gave Gbagbo until midnight on Friday, December 31 from power. Through his prime minister, Guillaume Soro, Alassane Ouattara has promised that the incumbent president "would have no trouble" if he withdrew in time.
A strike called by Islamist parties paralyzed the major economic centers of Pakistan, Friday, December 31. AP / BK BangashUne strike called by a dozen Islamist parties paralyzed the major economic centers of Pakistan, Friday, December 31, including the capital Karachi where public transport is stopped.
Violations of human rights in Côte d'Ivoire, following the presidential election on Nov. 28, could constitute "crimes against humanity" to be "severely punished", say experts from the UN Friday, December 31. "According to credible sources, enforced or involuntary disappearances, arbitrary detentions, extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and acts of sexual violence may have occurred or could still occur in Côte d'Ivoire" , denounced these experts depending on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has today laid the foundation stone of the building housing the Palestinian embassy in Brazil, who admitted this month a Palestinian state with 1967 borders. Abbas thanked the gestures of Brasilia to the recognition of a Palestinian state "initiative and this month was followed by the governments of Argentina, Bolivia and Ecuador, and logistical support for the installation of diplomatic representation, according to AFP.
MINSK - Belarus has ordered the closure of the Minsk OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. This was announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Belarus has decided not to continue the operations of the OSCE office in Minsk," he said without another spokesman Andrei Savinykh.
ALBUQUERQUE - No pardon for Billy the Kid, Billy the Kid a legend. It's been 129 years since "the Kid was" killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett, and now the governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, announced the television channel ABC that he examined the case and decided not to grant pardons posthumously to the legendary bandit.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has decided today to deny the extradition of Italian Cesare Battisti, sentenced to life in his country for four murders committed 30 years ago, when integrated a left-wing armed group. Lula, who will pass his office on Saturday to President-elect, Dilma Rousseff, rejected the extradition requested by Italy and approved last November by the Supreme Court of Brazil, according to Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said in a brief statement to reporters.
ROME - An Italian soldier died in Afghanistan. The report news agencies quoting parliamentary sources. According to preliminary information, and as stated by Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa, the soldier was killed by a sniper. The incident occurred a couple of hours ago, in the Gulistan district, west of the country.
The French authorities today recommended to families with children that are national in Ivory Coast to leave the African country's political crisis facing the country, which is on the brink of civil war after the election rigging. In an update of its recommendations in past weeks, the French Foreign Ministry advised in a statement "to the French that they can, and in particular to families with children, that will be Ivory Coast temporarily pending the situation returns to normal.
The Ivorian electoral losers Laurent Gbagbo clings to the presidency and is therefore isolated internationally. But to his supporters he can count on still. They refused the UN human rights experts access to suspected mass graves. Abidjan - followers of unauthorized remaining in office Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo have prevented according to UN figures investigations into alleged mass graves.
Draw a kidney and got out of prison. So you play a scowling "Monopoly" of justice in the State which was the most racist and segregated of America, Mississippi, where a kidney is the paper that the Scott sisters, for robbery convicts, will fall by order of the governor if they want to return free.
The gift came last year but from now on, nothing will ever be in the world that lays bare the weaknesses not only of America. A federal judge has upheld the first class action filed by professionals in the world of strip-tease. "We stripped our clothes - said the slogan of the battle - but not strip us of our rights." They won.
Holes and leaks everywhere: in earth Islands in the Gulf of Mexico, on U.S. diplomats in the coffers of the Treasury. 2010 was the year that urged the everywhere disagreeable to the surface. It is amazing that the world is still rotating, says Alexander Smoltczyk. There is no getting past the inspection: 2010 was the year of leaks.
About 200,000 people are isolated in Australia as a result of torrential rains in recent weeks that have flooded, according to authorities estimate, an area equivalent to the sum of the territories of France and Germany. Days of torrential rain have left thousands of homes and businesses flooded, flooded crop fields and roads severed, a disaster that will cost several billion dollars to local authorities and insurance companies.
Even before the rotating presidency of Twenty-Seven for six months, from January 1, Budapest is the subject of criticism more vivid after the adoption of a controversial law which could undermine the freedom of the press. The Hungarian Parliament adopted on 21 December, a series of measures to regulate the media.
The remains of a burned car in the aftermath of anti-Christian violence, December 25, in Maiduguri, Nigeria. AP / Njadvara MusaDes suspected Islamists have killed eight people including three policemen in the city of Maiduguri in northern Nigeria announced Thursday, December 30 the army and police. "The authors of the five armed attacks Wednesday night are suspected of belonging to the sect Boko Haram," said a spokesman of the army.
Street protests against the decree of rising fuel prices continued yesterday in Bolivia, despite government efforts to neutralize them with the announcement of a substantial wage increase for next year. Moreover, the demonstrations were mainly in Cochabamba, El Alto and La Paz, considered strongholds of support for Evo Morales and his party, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS).
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has advanced in his New Year speech that 2011 will be a year "difficult" for the United Kingdom because of the plan of reducing public spending has led to significant cuts, and also because it provides new economic-cutting measures . "2011 will be a difficult year because we have been hard but necessary steps to fix things," Cameron said in reference to the adjustment program of public accounts approved by his coalition government with the Liberals which provides for a reduction of 19 percent of expenditures for the next four years, in order to reduce a deficit of around 10 percent.
"Germany needs Europe." Is the resounding message that Angela Merkel sent to his country was New Year's address, to be broadcast on German television today, which shows its strong commitment to the euro and urges people to follow suit despite the large mistrust generated after the bailouts to Greece and Ireland, where Germany has been the main contributor.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, must take a final decision just hours before the end of its mandate and take its successor office Dilma Rousseff on Saturday. Brazilian President to decide whether to grant refugee status or permit extradition to Italy's left-wing activist Cesare Battisti, held in Brasilia for four years.
It is with Tamar, one of two very promising offshore fields discovered in recent years off from Israel. It is probably the most important discovery in energy since the establishment of the State of Israel. The U.S. group Noble Energy, the main operator of an offshore natural gas field off the coast of Israel, called Leviathan, said Wednesday, December 29 that its reserves were estimated at 450 billion m3, which will enable Israel to become an exporter.
At least four people were killed and 22 others wounded in several attacks in Iraq, six of which were aimed at houses of Christians. At least two Christian citizens were killed and three wounded by the explosion of a device near his home in the neighborhood of al-Gadir, southeast of Baghdad, which also caused extensive damage materials.
A series of newspaper articles that proved fateful: A court in Turkey has sentenced a Kurdish journalist to 138 years in prison. The texts had been classified as propaganda for the terrorist group PKK. Diyarbakir - Journalist Emine Demir was sentenced for a series of newspaper articles that were considered by the court in Diyarbakir as "pro-terrorist propaganda" on the banned Kurdish terrorist group PKK.
No mercy for the Putin-opponent: A Moscow court has sentenced the ex-oligarch Khodorkovsky, to a total of almost 14 years in prison. The judge's decision destroyed the hopes of Russian liberals to radical reforms and the enforcement ability of President Medvedev. The hopes of the defenders on a mild punishment was Judge Victor Danilkin destroyed even in the morning: was for an improvement of the indicted ex-oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky necessarily need an "isolation from the society." Then the judge announced the Moscow Chamowniki-court, the penalty for Russia's once richest man and his partner Platon Lebedev: 13.5 years in prison for embezzlement of 218 million tons of crude oil and money laundering.
A Danish court has charged three people with attempted act of terrorism and possession of weapons by planning an attack against a Danish newspaper, reported Thursday Lykke Sorensen, a member of the Security and Intelligence Service (PET), told reporters in Glostrup city. Police on Wednesday arrested four men in Denmark and one on suspicion of trying to attack the offices of Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.
The suspected terrorists reject the allegations, but the security authorities are sure: the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten should an attack be committed. The plot is reminiscent of the foiled plans of Pakistan's extremist Kashmiri and his follower Headley. Berlin - published since the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten "In 2005 his series of cartoons of Mohammed goes by, hardly a week goes by without al-Qaeda or another militant organization calling for vengeance.
Pope Benedict XVI today issued a document to combat money laundering in financial institutions in the Vatican, three months after the Vatican Bank to be investigated. Benedict XVI stresses through an apostolic letter, his commitment to the adoption of the principles and legal instruments promoted by the international community to combat the phenomenon of money laundering and terrorist financing and indicates that it adopts a rule for this purpose.
This is a telegraph post inspired by two reports in the media almost simultaneously. The first concerns the reasons for the sentence to 14 years imprisonment imposed at first instance the Carabinieri General Giampaolo Ganzer, commander of the ROS, in relation to some chores unedifying in narcotics operations.
Former Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, who has been convicted of two rapes and several cases of sexual violence. This was decided by a district court in Tel Aviv, after an investigation and a trial lasted four years and a source of great controversy in the country. Katsav has been convicted of two rapes of an official from the Ministry of Tourism, at the time when the former president was charge of the department, between 1996 and 1999.
The tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela intensify: Washington now has the Ambassador of the South American country deprived of the visa - in response to the refusal of the Chavez government to accept the proposed U.S. ambassador in Caracas. Washington - It is no longer desirable in the United States: Washington has withdrawn the Venezuelan ambassador for the visa.
The Bolivian government expects the city mood, very disturbed by the substantial increase in fuel prices effective from Monday, will appease the offer of a wage increase of 20% and other social measures announced in last night (early morning Today in Spain) by President Evo Morales. 
A bomb exploded early Thursday, December 30 at the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, causing damage but no casualties. "There was an explosive device outside the Greek embassy," said a spokesman for the police stressed that the damage was not substantial and that an investigation was underway. Almost at the same time, a bomb exploded in a court in Athens, causing damage but no casualties, less than three weeks of the trial of suspected members of a radical anarchist group suspected parcel bomb attacks that have targeted embassies in Greece in November.
More tanks and more specialized units: North Korea has developed a South Korean study found that its armed forces along the demilitarized zone. The paper Pyongyang as an "enemy" - and thus aggravated the tone toward the communist neighbor. Seoul - South Korea feels increasingly threatened by its neighbor North Korea: a study by the South Korean Defense Ministry, according to the communist country has deployed along the demilitarized zone, new tanks and increases the strength of its special forces to 200,000.
A bomb exploded outside a court in the Greek capital, Athens, Thursday, December 30. A phone call warning sent to a TV station and a newspaper had allowed the evacuation of the area. Police said the bomb exploded at 8 h 20 local time (7 h 20 to Paris). Television images showed smoke rising from the building before the trial court in Athens, several windows were shattered.
Russia has bought two warships Mistral in France. / FOCKE STRANGMANNLa construction by the French shipyards of two warships Mistral for the Russian army in Moscow will cost a total of 1.37 billion euros, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Mistral is a versatile warship able to carry helicopters and tanks, to host a field hospital or a staff on board.
It is a huge mine. Size and value but certain, but unknown dimensions. There are seams of varying sizes and qualities and exploited, at least partially. Then there are the veins that are known. As much as many governments have wanted to minimize the value of the unique findings, are abundant in number, quality and size of gemstones found so far.
U.S. visa revoked yesterday the ambassador of Venezuela in Washington, Bernardo Alvarez, said Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Temir Porras through Twitter. "I confirm. USA revoked the visa of Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez," said Porras. 
The United States has revoked the visa on Wednesday Venezuela's ambassador in Washington, Bernardo Alvarez, as reported by the Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Temir Porras through Twitter. "I confirm. USA revoked the visa of Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez," stated Porras. In a moment, and of great tension between the two countries, the decision to temporarily suspend diplomatic ties since the appointment of Larry Palmer as U.S.