The health reform of U.S. President Barack Obama has been passed - but the Republicans continue feeling against the law created. Even in January, the party wants to bring reform to the case. This she needed but Democratic supporters. Washington - Republicans in the House want to bring the Gesundheitsrefom U.S.President Barack Obama to case. The legislation has already passed. Republican Fred Upton, the new chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, said his party plan in the House in January, a vote to repeal the reform. This should happen before Obama's speech on the state of the nation in late January.
WASHINGTON - An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale hit the central region of Chile at 17.20 local time (21:20 Italian). The news is the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter was located 590 km south-west from Santiago, Chile, at a depth of only 16 km. The Observatory of Hawaii does not report the tsunami risk.
A Tupolev-154B company Kolovia burning on the runway of the airport of Surgut, Russia. / TVL'Agence Russian Federal transportation, Rostransnadzor a "proposed" Sunday, January 2 to ban flying aircraft Tupolev-154B, until the causes of the spectacular crash Saturday in an aircraft of this type have been established.
They planned to intelligence information a missile attack on the largest football stadium in Jerusalem: The Israeli prosecutor has charged two suspected terrorists. They should be militants of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Jerusalem - The Israeli prosecutor has filed charges against four Palestinians and one Israeli.
LONDON - Six dogs died and another thirty dying. A mysterious disease is wiping out the quadrupeds at Sandringham, the royal estate in Norfolk where Queen Elizabeth spends New Year holiday surrounded by her loyal corgi. Lethal spores, weed killer, a bacterial infection or even poison? The Daily Mail has learned that the Queen has asked to the animal Health Trust to investigate possible causes of the epidemic that began in late summer to mow the little animals.
Strikes and demonstrations were held in Bolivia Thursday, December 30, against rising fuel prices. / DAVID MERCADOLe Bolivian government will again raise fuel prices, after suspending the rise facing a violent social unrest, announced Sunday, January 2nd Vice-President Alvaro Garcia. Mr. Garcia, who did not say when the increase would intervene, argued that Bolivia subsidized imports and fuel consumption (up to $ 360 million per year according to official estimates) and that Part of this fuel was sold smuggled into neighboring countries.
A helmet protects the blue Gulf Hotel, Abidjan, which serves as headquarters to Alassane Ouattara and his government. Pending a possible attack to "bare hands" supporters of Laurent Gbagbo on the headquarters of his rival Alassane Ouattara. Charles Ble Goude, leader of "Young Patriots", asked the fervent supporters of Laurent Gbagbo to stand ready to assault unarmed and "bare hands" after January 1, Hotel du Golf, which serves HQ Alassane Ouattara.
Cruel balance for Afghanistan: The war, according to an independent organization last year more than 10,000 people dead, among the fatalities in 2000 were civilians. In many places, the security situation had deteriorated - even at the Bundeswehr site Kunduz. Kabul - by attacks and fighting in Afghanistan have been killed in the past year, more than 10,000 people.
A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said he killed two drones "Western spies" in the Gulf, Sunday, Jan. 2. He did not say when these events allegedly took place. "Westerners have capabilities that can not be ignored, particularly satellites, or for example they spy planes that can take pictures," he told the Fars News Agency, Ali Amir Hajizadeh, commander of the Air Force of the Guardians of the Revolution.
True to its property of timeliness, this morning the brand new president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, came to the meeting he had with Prince Philip at 9.30, a quarter of an hour before finding the door of the palace cars of the two leaders . The encounter with the Prince was the first private meeting with a foreign leader.
Question: what is freedom in Mississippi? Answer: This is a kidney. Or, if you want more appropriately monetize the exchange, that is U.S. $ 200,000, multiplied by the number of years of life that dialysis can give to those who - as in the case of Jamie Scott, who was sentenced to two life sentences for complicity in robbery in 1993 - of functioning kidneys no longer has any of them.
The sentence of stoning for Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani could be undone. He said Malek Ajdar Sharifi, head of the Iranian judiciary in Azerbaijan, which has as its capital Tabriz, where he is imprisoned Sakineh. "Everything is possible," said Sharifi, because there are still "some doubts" about the "evidence" in the case of the woman, who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in 2006 and for the murder of her husband.
TEHRAN - Iran announced that it had killed two "spy planes" over the skies of the Gulf. A leader of the Revolutionary Guards official Fars agency said that "Many of our spy planes were shot down by our enemies. We have also killed two in the Gulf. But it is the first time that we announce." The military chief has not explained where the activities were conducted and what nationality they were airplanes.
TEHRAN - The sentence of stoning for Sakineh Ashtiani-Mohammadi, the Iranian woman whose death sentence has mobilized the international community, could be undone. He said a "high source" of the Iranian Ministry of Justice Iranian Fars agency, quoted by Agence France Presse. "Everything is possible," said the head of the judiciary in the province of Eastern Azerbaijan, Malek Ajdar Sharifi, when a reporter asked him if the sentence can be annulled.
ROME - The attack against the Coptic Christian community in Egypt was "a cowardly act of death" that "offends God and humanity." The strong condemnation from Pope Benedict XVI is back at the end of the Angelus on Sunday, on the massacre carried out in the New Year's Eve in Alexandria, Egypt. "Yesterday morning - said the pontiff - have learned with sorrow the news of the serious attack against the Coptic Christian community made in Alexandria, Egypt.
Even Christians targeted in the Middle East, this time in Egypt. After Baghdad, Alexandria. An attack announced that reveals how the Christian presence in the universe of the Crescent is increasingly at risk. The Benedict XVI stressed again and reported that Napolitano spoke of persecution: a bloody persecution that threatens one of the most basic human rights, freedom of worship.
The current president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, yesterday rejected the ultimatum to relinquish power that gave the opposition leader and winner of the last election, Alassane Ouattara, whom the international community recognizes as new Ivorian president. A senior UN official also warned Gbagbo and his officials can be accused of human rights violations.
"Mele Kalikimaka." Merry Christmas in Hawaiian. Barack Obama has given hope just got out of the lineup of the plane that brought him to Hawaii, where the president spent with family and old friends a few times in Chicago, the year-end holidays. It 'been a troubled 2010 for him to come to the White House in the wake of one of the most striking phenomena of collective fascination with the past few decades, and soon scontratosi with the reality of government, the opposition Republican, the tangle of power and interests of a complex society.