The Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, announced yesterday that put the Pentagon budget cuts totaling 78,000 million dollars (about 60,000 million euros) over the next five years. This will be the first contraction of the U.S. military budget since the occurrence of the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, after the nation launched two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.Gates explained that the two branches of the Pentagon that will be most affected will be the Army and Marines. The first body will lose 40,000 soldiers, and the second, 20,000. "Since I took up my post four years ago, I have always said that it is necessary to maintain the structure of our armed forces, while maintaining growth in our budget that is realistic and modest in its long-term forecasts, said at a press conference the head of the Pentagon, a Republican who has served under Presidents George W.
The government of Laurent Gbagbo, one of the two presidents announced the Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan announced the dismissal of ambassadors of Great Britain and Canada, Thursday, Jan. 6. These decisions were taken "under the principle of reciprocity governing diplomatic relations," said a statement read by spokesman of the government, Ahoua Don Mello, on state television RTI.
The Pentagon will cut into its programming and operating costs over the next five years to slow the growth of military spending, announced Thursday, January 6 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Some 150 billion (115 billion euros) will be saved over the years from 2012 to 2016 through restructuring or abandonment of weapons programs and lower operating costs.
Between street protests, lawyers' strike, suicide attempts and arrests of Internet users, social unrest part of Sidi Bouzid three weeks ago has continued Thursday, January 6, Tunisia, despite government measures to calm . A rapper and three activists and bloggers have been arrested by police, according to their families and the organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Tunisia's 25-year-old who detonated a grenade, Wednesday, January 5, outside the Embassy of France in Bamako told police he wanted to prove to "old friends" of Al Qaeda that was "able to strike a blow himself," said a police source. During his interrogation in the anti-criminal brigade in Bamako, the young man, "as an individual, a hatred of France," said he had been first contacted in 2005 when armed Islamists was " in Koranic schools in Mauritania.
The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, did not want to waste time and before the eighth day of his inauguration has convened ten ministers and launched what he called the "PAC against poverty", their first against a particular program painful reality that despite the great successes achieved by his predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, even "embarrass the country" as she said Friday in his speech referring to the 22 million citizens live in "extreme poverty".
WASHINGTON - Two parcels delivered in two different government offices in the state of Maryland, have exploded. The packages were sent to the Maryland Department of Transportation, Hanover, and Jeffrey Building, Annapolis. Local radio reported that police said Wtop Maryland nobody was seriously hurt, but a spokesman for the mayor of Annapolis, Joshua J.
The explosion of the BP platform in the Gulf of Mexico could be avoided. Among the causes of one of the greatest environmental disasters in history, there were in fact the wrong choices of managers of the oil company. Which have tended more to the need to lower costs, than to that of providing security.
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, decided to appoint William Daley, a former minister of Bill Clinton, near Wall Street, as Secretary General of the White House. According to senior U.S. officials, the appointment should be made official Thursday, January 6, Obama has scheduled an announcement regarding the "personal" from the White House at 14 h 30 (19 h 30 GMT).
Alassane Ouattara, recognized President Cote d'Ivoire by the international community has called for Thursday, January 6 commando action "nonviolent" of West Africa to hunt Laurent Gbagbo's power and "take it elsewhere." "If he persists, he belongs to the ECOWAS [Economic Community of West Africa] to take the necessary measures and these measures may include legitimate force," he said at a conference Press at his headquarters in the Hotel du Golf d'Abidjan, blockaded forces loyal to the regime.
"Laurent Gbagbo has blood on his hands. He has ordered the assassination of foreign agents citizens," he assured Alassane Ouattara, the winning candidate in the November 28 elections in Ivory Coast and continues to be held at a hotel in Abidjan to waiting for the current president, Laurent Gbagbo, left office.
Tunisia protests spread to neighboring Algeria, the most populous and wealthiest country in the Maghreb. In the capital, in a dozen cities, including Boumerdes, and, above all, in Oran, the second largest city in the country, hundreds of young people very violently confronted the police throughout the afternoon of Wednesday and sometimes until the early hours of Thursday.
Isabelle Mandraud, journalist with "Le Monde", believes that economic difficulties have undermined the tacit contract on which rested the Tunisian regime. The next day, December 18, an event took place in the city, soon followed by others throughout the country. The economic situation is somewhat less successful than last year, and especially youth unemployment has increased a lot.
In a few days of southern Sudan will decide whether to split off into a separate state. The referendum is the decades-long civil war put an end. UN human rights commissioner Pillay urged those in power now urges a fair vote. Four days before the start of the referendum on the independence of Southern Sudan has UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay called for a fair conduct of the vote.
The United States agreed Thursday, 6 January 1400 to send more Marines to Afghanistan. The defense secretary, Robert Gates, has "approved the dispatch of Marines as reinforcements in southern Afghanistan to build on progress achieved and consolidated, and put the enemy under pressure during the campaign winter, "said Col.
Violence has erupted in the Maghreb region. The riots, which began in Tunis a few days ago, have spread to Algeria, where a deep tension reigns after riots and clashes during part of last night in several neighborhoods of Algiers because of rising prices. The most violent protests have erupted in the ancient quarter of Bab El Oued, ten minutes from downtown Algiers, where traces of the fighting and destruction were still visible, according to Efe.
VALLEY Gulistan (Afghanistan) - It 's still controversy about the death of the Alpine Matteo Miotto. The news of the exchange of gun shots during which the soldier is dead - now he was told that the young soldier had been the victim of a sniper - was notified only in a second stage at the same defense minister, Ignazio La Russa, who said he "angry" with the military.
An American woman has been arrested in Iran on charges of spying after illegally entering the country, according to newspaper said today the Iranian state in an information not yet officially confirmed. The story notes that the woman entered Iran through the border with Armenia and was detained by border guards in the town of Nordouz.
Martin Bormann Jr was a priest who raped and beat his students. Not a priest anywhere, but the son of one of the most important Nazi leaders, Hitler's personal secretary, Martin Bormann. The accusations come from a former student at a religious school in Salzburg and refers to incidents that would occur in the 60s.
BRASILIA - Brazil has not complied with the extradition treaty, and then the international tribunal in The Hague would "definitely" reason to Italy in case Baptists. The largest Brazilian newspaper writes today, the Folha de S. Paul, who has been consulted about some of the top lawyers in the country.
The Italian Mafia is stretching its tentacles upon the UK economy, especially in the financial sector, using the City of London as a strategic base for operations of money laundering. The alarm is launched by Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero, co-director of the Centre of Crime and Conflict Middlesex University, and Robert Fort, director of FLARE (Freedom, Legality and Rights in Europe), the European NGO that fights against organized crime.
Incidentally, on a cold January day, before the Butyrki, the oldest Moscow detention center, one can not help but have a thought for the defendants who live by - 13 ° C in open cells to all the winds, a simple iron gate serving window. Life is pretty tough to Butyrki! Built in the eighteenth century on the orders of Catherine the Great, the fortress of red brick was originally a barracks for hussars.
An "American spy" was arrested a week ago on the border with Armenia while trying to cross into Iran, said Thursday the semi-official Fars agency quoted an unidentified source. "There are about a week, an American spy, identified as Hal Talayan, was arrested by security officers Nordouz," Fars said, quoting an "informed source".
In the vicinity of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army soldiers have at least one Palestinian killed. A military spokesman said a group tried to overcome the barrier to Israel. Then troops had opened fire. Gaza City - The violence on the border with the Gaza Strip has escalated again. Israeli soldiers killed on the night of Thursday, two Palestinians.
Explosion outside the French Embassy in Mali: A man lit a bomb, injuring two people. He was arrested. The backgrounds are unclear. Bamako - In a bomb attack on the French Embassy in Mali were injured on Wednesday evening, two people. As the news agency learned from security sources, a man threw an explosive device in front of the diplomatic mission in the capital Bamako.
GENOA - "Together with the Holy Father Benedict XVI in front of astonished us so much violence and religious intolerance, sorrow and wonder why?". These are the words of the Archbishop of Genoa and president of CEI, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, delivered this morning during the homily for the Mass of the Epiphany in the cathedral of San Lorenzo.
Live debate with Isabelle Mandraud, a journalist with Le Monde. 
SARA 'for love, with a capital A, it always ends with the passionate, the better it is contrasted. Or will it be because the story of the blonde and the moustachioed Nabih Samar, separated by a Syrian Druze border war, follows the script of Syrian Bride, The winning entry of Israel Eran Riklis. The fact is that yesterday thousands of virtual guests, most from the East but also from the West, attended on Facebook at the wedding between the two, blessed with the International Red Cross.
Mexico Police yesterday blamed a border patrol agent of the United States for the death of a 17-year allegedly trying to enter the country illegally. The boy, identified as Ramses Barron, was found dead Wednesday morning near a hospital in the city of Nogales in the Mexican state of Sonora. Three people would have left next to the center.
In the classroom where two centuries flowed in from the waves of popular instincts more tumultuous in the nation, "the House of Representatives" that is renewed only every two years yesterday by beating the new heart of American politics and pounding on the right. But it is a right, indeed, an American, then the federalist, libertarian, anti-government but also fiercely, fanatically devoted to the Constitution that today, at the behest of the controversial new members elected by the tide of populist Tea Party will be recited in a loud voice from the benches of the House.
All new members arrived yesterday marching and accompanied by their constituents to the installation of the National Assembly of Venezuela, which will legislate until 2016. Chavez's supporters, chanting the slogan "We are most / with Hugo Chávez Frías," and opponents under the slogan "Fifty-two percent / Fifty-two percent" in reference to the percentage of popular votes won in parliamentary elections 26 September 2010.
Bill Clinton, Sean Penn, Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez are the options for the role of U.S. ambassador in Caracas. The list of names was proposed by Venezuelan president in order to unlock the diplomatic impasse generated in the United States after a challenge by Chavez Larry Palmer, the ambassador chosen by Barack Obama.
The Israeli government would soon allocate more than 5,000 additional work permits to Palestinians. 
