TUCSON - He's just 40 years Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat from Arizona. Among the battles of his political life, the struggle is to raise funds to stem cell research and renewable energy. E 'involved in politics for the Democratic Party since 2003, when he was elected to the Senate, Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona is known as a "rising star" by the website Politico.with all dedicated to Washington politics. Mother of two children, is in his third term. It 's the third woman in the history of the State of Arizona to win a bench in the Congress. Giffords is considered a "centrist." He wants to increase the minimum wage, is engaged on issues of immigration, supporting integration programs for migrants and for the legalization of illegal immigrants, but also the strengthening of the country's borders.
TUCSON (ARIZONA) - It started to shoot wildly, killing six people and seriously injured, Gabrielle Giffords, 40, Member of the U.S. Congress. A stranger has made a killing in Tucson, Arizona, during a public initiative which was participating in the parliament, reached the head by a shot fired at close range.
A U.S. House and six others were killed Saturday, Jan. 8 in Arizona by a gunman who opened fire during a rally, according to the U.S. public radio. Gabrielle Giffords was killed by a bullet in the head while she was on a public outing, reports NPR. A gunman emerged and fired at it in all directions, hitting a dozen other people outside a grocery store in Tucson near the Mexican border, add Fox News and NPR.
When Guido Westerwelle after about eight hours flight time from Berlin in his spacious VIP cabin of Air Force jets "Theodor Heuss" woke up, no good news waited for the German foreign minister. Place to land as scheduled in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, told him the captain Klaus Peter Wegener, Airbus had to dodge some 400 kilometers away Lah.
Niamey - were killed two French hostages kidnapped in Niger on Friday night and held hostage near the border with Mali. According to what the security forces of Niamey the two French nationals were kidnapped last night in the capital of Niger, by armed men with their faces covered with a turban at a restaurant in the city center.
A Member of Congress was shot and wounded by fire in Arizona. This is the Democratic Gabrielle Giffords. The woman, known for his pro-abortion positions and against the arms trade, was hit in the head. The site reports the Huffington Post. The incident occurred in front of a business in Tucson. Other people were injured in the shooting.
The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered Twitter to provide all data and information in its possession in relation to a number of accounts belonging to Julian Assange, Birgitta Jonsdottir (Icelandic parliamentary promoter of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative), Bradley Manning ( The soldier accused of having communicated the information to Wikileaks stolen from the archives of the Pentagon) and other activists from Wikileaks.
Haunted by two civil wars (1955-1972, 1983-2005), the semi-autonomous South Sudan's decision on his future, Sunday, Jan. 9, in favor of a referendum on self-history. Cornerstone of the comprehensive peace agreement signed in Kenya in January 2005, the referendum would lead to a split of the country between the North, the Arab-Muslim, and South, mostly Christian and animist.
WASHINGTON - Twitter to reach Assange. And 'this is the path chosen by the U.S. Department of Justice has obtained an injunction from the Federal Court of Virginia for the Colossus of San Francisco to provide personal information, e-mail and private messages of some utilities related to the profile of Wikileaks, including that of its founder in Australia.
A new hawker set himself on fire Saturday, January 8, Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Aged 50, Moncef Ben K., a married father, was doused with petrol while the market was held in the city. He was taken by ambulance and his condition is considered serious. At the same location in Sidi Bouzid, agricultural capital in the heart of Tunisia, a seller of fruits and vegetables, Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, was slain by fire on December 17 before dying on January 4.
CITY 'OF MEXICO - Fifteen beheaded bodies were found near a shopping mall in Acapulco, famous tourist destination in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The local officials of the security apparatus have made it known that they are "men between 25 and 30 years." The gruesome discovery was made after a telephone call warned of a car on fire.
Holmes calls himself and Defence Forum has set up one of those smilies that are used to design a state of mind: the smiley face that chose whistles and looks away. Maybe this would be enough to understand how the Italian soldiers tell "their" war in Afghanistan: "In the case of the poor dead Alpine - Holmes makes clear - it was an action such as this ...
Close the doors to the Schengen Romania and Bulgaria. After the rejection in France and Germany at the entrance of the two countries within the EU area of free movement, expressed in the last days of December, Bucharest and Sofia seems to be no more hope. Despite attempts at mediation in Hungary, the head of the Presidency of the EU, the Franco-German axis seems to have had the upper hand, because to accept a new country within Schengen you need unanimity of the member countries.
Ernesto Galli Della Loggia has more names than ideas, this time he's had as many as two. Corriere writes that the discrediting of that enjoys Italy, Brazil and France on the food inedible by Battisti case, has a hidden cause insidious. It depends (this is the first idea) by that devil of Franco Frattini, Foreign Minister that "for years without completely abandoned our cultural institutions." Guilt aggravated by a subsequent perfidy: "attention should be absolutely inadequate foreign correspondents in Italy is not providing them with meaningful opportunities for deep knowledge of the country." Task which should contribute not travel agents, but the same Italian intellectuals that "too provincial" is not enough to defend the image of Italy, at least for the love of the Fatherland.
Guido Westerwelle Pakistan has started its journey with a bus trip involuntary. Due to dense fog could be no government plane to land in Islamabad, but had to dodge Lah. The rest of the way he has in a hour-long bus ride to travel. Lah - It is a trip with obstacles. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrived on Saturday for a two-day visit to Pakistan.
The riots that shook Algeria on Tuesday to have left two policemen dead and 320 wounded, confirmed today the Minister of Interior, Dahou Ould Kabli. On the death of Azzedine Lebza, shot yesterday when he tried to break-ins at the headquarters of the prefecture in Msila, has joined other young today seriously injured in Bousmail, 50 kilometers west of the capital.
A year after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, reconstruction has barely begun. Of the disaster that killed nearly 250,000 people, the survivors hoped to see emerge a new country, "refounded" and decentralized, with the 10 billion pledged by the international community. Twelve months later, the population is exhausted and no prospects.
Inflated expense accounts while in Parliament, in England, it costs the prison. Thus the former Labour MP David Chaytor was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison, after being involved in the scandal in 2009 involved several British politicians to have required repayment is not due. Chaytor, 61, was elected to the seat of Bury North, Manchester.
ALGIERS - It 's very high and will increase the tension in Algeria to protest against rising prices of food staples, which began last Tuesday and it literally exploded yesterday in a country where the population, according to data from the International Monetary Fund, is to 75% less than 30 years and 20% of young people are unemployed.
Correspondent Jerusalem - In this dark and tragic history, there is only one certainty: Jawaher Abu Rahma, a Palestinian 36 years, died Saturday, January 1, to the hospital in Ramallah. The circumstances of his death give rise to a growing debate in Israel, combining the activists of the movement against the "security fence" (the "wall" of separation) which cuts the West Bank, an Israeli press often very partisan, and responsible for the Army ready to exploit a truth that suits them.
The radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to "resist by armed resistance and by all means" to U.S. forces during a speech Saturday, January 8, before nearly 20,000 supporters in the holy city of Najaf. It is his first public speaking since his return to Iraq of a self-imposed exile of four years.
The radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr today called the new Iraqi government to "look for the exit of the occupier", in reference to the U.S., but not necessarily by force of arms. In his first public speech since his return this week after several years of self-imposed exile in Iran, Sadr has called on his followers to give an opportunity for the new government led by Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
TEHRAN - Iran is capable of producing only the fuel rods to power the reactor of its nuclear program. He said the minister for nuclear energy and the interim foreign minister of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, contradicting the belief of the West that Iran does not possess the technology to produce fuel rods.
To painful disputes between the Minister of Defense Ignazio La Russa and general Camporini, so sadly typical of today's Italy, I like humanity, sensitivity and depth of the letter that Matthew Miotto, the Alpine killed in combat in Afghanistan , wrote a couple of months ago after the death of four of his comrades.
SAN FRANCISCO - After the relocation of its factories, California relies on "Made in China" where you least expect it: in the government of his city. San Francisco and Oakland Chinese choose two as mayor. The news has reached us and while Lee was at the airport in Hong Kong, ready to board the flight for a short holiday in the spa of Yangmingshan.
LONDON - The letter written in Italian have pidgin, contaminated from English, which still is spoken in Malta. But the message addressed to the Pope, is clear: "We find ourselves very disappointed because these priests today still roam the streets dressed as priests." The victims of abuse with which Benedict XVI prayed in April during his pastoral visit to the archipelago in the middle of the Mediterranean relate to perpetrators of violence: in spite of the apologies and tears of Ratzinger, the men are still in place.
Correspondent Washington - After starting with a bang, the Republicans have had some disappointments from their first days in the majority. The solemn reading of the Constitution, the flagship event of the week in the House of Representatives, has turned into a farce. The Republicans chose not the original version of 1787 but a text stripped of its most embarrassing passages.
In a post office in the U.S. capital of Washington is an envelope on fire. It has been but apparently no injuries. On Thursday, Maryland had two similar incidents occurred. Washington - again breed dangerous mail in the U.S. for attention. In a post office in the U.S. capital of Washington on Friday an envelope is gone up in flames.
Two medium-intensity earthquakes have caused even today an indefinite number of fatalities and considerable property damage in the province of Fars in southern Iran, state television said, reporting that the two tremors have been felt around four in the morning (around one-thirty in the morning in mainland Spain), and marked 5.1 degrees and 5 degrees on the open Richter scale.
"Happy birthday to her and to his people that he loves her, as the election results that are before the eyes of all and we all appreciate." Words of Silvio Berlusconi, a little over a year ago, in November 2009, during an official visit to Belarus. Even then, had sparked controversy as politicians Pier Ferdinando Casini and Piero Fassino, and today they sound even more jarring.
The Iraqi Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr in a speech, the first after the exile, in the holy city of Najaf declared that "we say no to America" and incited the crowd by saying "we are still fighting." Sadr, who has returned to Iraq a few days ago after three years of self-imposed exile in Iran, in his first speech in public in Iraq urged his followers to "resist" the "American occupation" in a "peaceful" and all other occupants of the country.
Since we all are. Reporters, television, observers, peacekeepers, George Clooney, diplomats, experts in national referenda .... and of course, the people of Southern Sudan will vote tomorrow in a historic referendum if it wants to separate the north and become the country number 54 in Africa. In Juba, the capital of this region enjoyed autonomy since 2005 does not fit anyone else.
The European tour that the Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, began Tuesday in Spain, with stops in Germany and the UK, has shown interest in the largest economy by strengthening its already good relations with the continent. Beijing has come with the book open but also demands the bag. The trip comes at a sensitive time, with Europe hurt by the crisis, the euro markets punished and scrambled.
Two French nationals have been abducted in the city of Niamey in Niger, Friday, January 7, by two individuals described as "armed and wearing turbans," witnesses said. The two French nationals were at Le Toulousain in the center of the capital, when kidnappers broke and forced to follow, said a staff member at the agency.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is planning to publish a report in the coming weeks which will reveal the deep rough of what could be one of the least documented humanitarian tragedies of the century: the abduction on Mexican soil than 20,000 migrants American per year. Raul Plascencia Villanueva, president of the National Human Rights Commission said Thursday that his office has documented from April to September after a collective total of 214 kidnappings.
They are biblical images of flood, which is on tonight the televisions in the city of Sao Paulo, with 22 million inhabitants of the three largest cities in the world. Show a city literally under water, with water reaching the windows of cars and detained hundreds of motorists, some uploads to the top for help with your arms.