Sunday, January 16, 2011

Tunisia, army against the militias attacked the presidential palace Ben Ali

The old regime tries to resist. The militias of the former Tunisian President Ben Ali are not there to lose everything. They fear the purge after 23 years of unchallenged rule. So in the evening the army under the command of the new leadership from the assault on the presidential palace in Carthage, a suburb of Tunis, where they holed up some elements of the presidential guard loyal to Ben Ali.

Continued violence and looting stormed the presidential palace

TUNIS - More chaos and violence in the capital of Tunisia. waiting for the new government of national unity. Before the shooting of some snipers in the city center, then neutralized by the intervention of security forces who used tanks and armored vehicles in the streets of downtown. Then the onslaught of army units at the presidential palace in Sidi Abu Said in high places in the suburbs of the city.

Power struggle in Ireland: Cowen provides confidence

Dublin - A man fighting for his posts: Ailing Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen will remain, despite numerous calls for his resignation Prime Minister and Chairman of the Fianna Fáil party. "I have come to the conclusion that I should go on and lead the party. I think it is in the best interest of our country," Cowen said on Sunday evening at a press conference in Dublin.

He also announced on Tuesday set at a party meeting the vote of confidence to want to. The vote is done by secret ballot. Cowen had fallen because of his association with the banking crisis under massive pressure. The Heavily Indebted had fled Ireland during the past year under the rescue EU and the International Monetary Fund.

A Richland, radioactive and proud of it

No chance: for once Richland, Benton County, Wash., has the honors of "a" Wall Street Journal, is a history of radioactive rabbit droppings. In its edition of December 23, 2010, the business daily said in effect how we discovered there in October droppings which maddened Geiger counters, how we had to find the rabbit in question, and especially, especially, knowing where this brave animal was passed.

Hu Jintao prepares to meet with Obama "weigh the issues and differences"

NEW YORK - "On the relations between us and the United States weigh sensitive issues and differences." Chinese President Hu Jintao does not hide the problems on the eve of his visit to Washington scheduled for Jan. 18, in a rare interview with the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal said he believes that the international monetary system based on the dollar is "a product of the past.

Coming Soon a list of offshore accounts of VIPs Former banker delivery data Assange

LONDON - WikiLeaks move the bead, after the Pentagon and the Cablegate now points to a few thousand multimillion potentially large tax evaders, including a forty politicians. Presenting the data to the site tomorrow Jualian Assange Rudolf Elmer, a former Swiss banker who in three days, Jan. 19, will end before the magistrate for falsification of documents, threats and violation of banking secrecy, a charge relating to the delivery WikiLeaks a package of information ever more mixed up secret accounts offshore - 'only' 15 names - made by the same former banker in 2007.

Euro-debt crisis: rescue dispute divided Berlin and Brussels

Hamburg - around 1.25 billion euros was the highly indebted Portugal last raise in the capital market, including Spain, supplied with fresh billions - but the EU Commission is therefore far from reassured. EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and his Brussels officials fear that fiscal shaky candidates shall soon for new problems in the debt crisis of the Euro-zone.

Brussels is clearly nervous about this issue: "New, also exacerbated tensions seem inevitable in the early months of 2011," it says on the mirror information in a paper from the Department of EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn. The efforts so far have not been enough to allay the concerns of investors.

Arrested security chief Ben Ali while increasing the tension in Tnez

Despite the doubts and unrest, the steps towards the transition in Tunisia and to the purification of responsibilities of the deposed regime Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will happen. Seriati Ali, the head of security of the former dictator, was arrested and will face trial for fomenting violence and threaten national security, public television reported Tunisian agency and AFP.

The former security official is accused of creating divisions among the people, having fostered the chaos and unrest and armed violence have encouraged. The country is now a new round of tension, with thousands of people leaving the capital to the south. The center of the city of Tunis is desert while listening to isolated shootings.

A chef from trucks on the road is the revolution "bustaurant"

NEW YORK - What happens when you meet the demand and supply? He explains it a law of economics: it determines a market price. And when they meet two offers? For economies around the world would be paralysis: try to imagine a planet where there are no restaurants and only willing to pay to sit at the table.

Well, the miracle could only happen in the land of eternal frontier. In America? More. In California: the final frontier. The recession had led to the crisis of the many restaurants and chefs were found for a walk. But the recession had led to the crises of that particular restaurant that here in America has always gone very strong and it's called street food: because there were fewer employees and workers to serve the route for the road.

A new roadside bomb blast kills seven civilians in northern Afghanistan

.- A new explosion of a roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan today caused the deaths of six women and a child, which has risen to 23 the number of civilians killed in such incidents since last Friday in the central country Asian, Efe reported an official source. The incident occurred around 14:00 local time (08:30 GMT) Shahabudin Area in the northern province of Baghlan, where an explosive device blew up a vehicle carrying civilians, said provincial governor Munshi Abdul Majeed.

Arrested security chief Ben Ali accused of instigating riots

Despite the doubts and unrest, the steps towards the transition in Tunisia and to the purification of responsibilities of the deposed regime Zine el Abidine Ben Ali will happen. Seriati Ali, the head of security of the former dictator, was arrested and will face trial for fomenting violence and threaten national security, public television reported Tunisian agency and AFP.

The former security official is accused of creating divisions among the people, having fostered the chaos and unrest and armed violence have encouraged. After four weeks of popular revolt, which culminated on Friday, without assistance, with the overthrow of the tyrant Ben Ali, yesterday began the road to democracy may lead to important decisions of the Constitutional Council as the interim president's name-the first Mohamed Ghanuchi minister was forced to resign after 16 hours in office, and call for elections within 60 days.

French photographer wounded died in Tunisia

.- The French photographer Lucas Dolega, regular contributor to the Agencia Efe, died Wednesday in Tunis where he was wounded on Friday by a tear gas bomb while covering the riots in the country to EPA. The reporter, 32, was in serious condition at a Tunisian hospital where the doctors could do nothing to save his life, told Efe responsible for European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) in France, Horacio Villalobos.

Le Pen's daughter, after being elected leader of the National Front: "I assume all"

Marine Le Pen was this morning officially proclaimed the new president of far-right party Front National (FN) in place of his father, the historic leader of the movement and gave the baton to the age of 82. Although the news was leaked on Friday, the outcome of the primaries, read by his father, has not been known until this morning.

It was also unclear whether Marine intends to introduce changes in line or will follow a continuous line and, above all, how big is the shadow of his father and his role in the match. "I assume all" Marine has been sentenced in an impromptu press conference after being proclaimed head of rows, in reference both to power in the party as to the inheritance of his father.

U.S., poor children "segregated" in a school in North Carolina

Stop the policy of integration of pupils in a school district in North Carolina. In favor of a line is to concentrate with all poor children not to 'contaminate' the rich ones. This was decided by the board of directors of an institution of Wake County, became a Republican majority, with support from the Tea Party.

The school district of Wake County, North Carolina, in the last decade was distinguished for its excellence and its policy of racial integration and social support. Thanks to a free bus service, in fact, students could attend schools far from their neighborhood, so away, in many cases, situations of extreme poverty and getting in touch with peers belonging to different social classes and, often, different ethnic groups .

Gen. Ali Sariati arrested in Tunisia

Sariati .- Gen. Ali, security chief of the deposed President of Tunisia, was arrested yesterday for organizing acts of vandalism and looting that members of the bodyguard of Ben Ali are making across the country, Efe reported sources close to the palace Carthage. The military supported the constitutional president, Fouad Mebazaa, which are confined in a military barracks unknown, according to sources.

The security chief Ben Ali, charged with fomenting violence

Despite the doubts and uncertainties about the process, the steps toward the transition in Tunisia and to the purification of responsibilities of the deposed regime of Ben Ali will happen. Responsible for the security of the president ousted president, Ali Seriati, will be judged by fomenting violence and threatening national security, according to the Tunisian public television.

The former security official is accused of creating divisions among the people, having fostered the chaos and unrest and armed violence have encouraged among the people. About Seriati weighs a search and arrest warrant and is in hiding. After four weeks of popular revolt, which culminated on Friday, without assistance, with the overthrow of the tyrant Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, yesterday began a path of transition with major decisions of the Constitutional Council as the interim president's name-the first Mohamed Ghanuchi minister was forced to resign after 16 hours post exercise, and call for elections within 60 days.

The Army reached the cities devastated by the rains and rescued a hundred families was isolated

Having suffered 615 deaths, a figure still called to grow, and many of them still unburied for want of relief teams, under pressure from public opinion nationally and internationally, the government of President Dilma Rousseff, after four days of largest natural disaster the country has sent 250 men of the Army National Force.

Within hours, the Army managed to rescue and one hundred families were isolated and desperate. The governor of Rio, Sergio Cabral, who visited the disaster zone yesterday confessed without shame: "I spent a lot of fear." The rain increased, and from the helicopter saw a barrier collapsed on the road RJ-116 Itaboraí going to Freiburg.

Unrest in Tunisia: German-French African photographer succumbs to injuries

He reported on the revolt in Tunisia - now he was a victim of violence. A German-French photographer, has succumbed to his injuries in Tunis. He was only 32 years old. Tunis / Paris - In his photographs have captured Lucas Mebrouk Dolega actions of a desperate country. Young men who fight by tear gas fog, weeping women, people with clenched fists.

Mebrouk Dolega photographed Tunisia in transition. As late as Friday, he was with his camera - then a tear gas canister hit him in the head. He was taken to a hospital in the capital Tunis. In the very first night described his German mother's health of her son as very serious. This Sunday he died of his injuries.

Sentenced to death the main accused of killing six Copts in Egypt a year ago

Egypt seems to be beginning to pay his debts outstanding with its Coptic Christian community after the bombing of a church that left 23 dead two weeks ago in Alexandria. The Supreme Court of State Security in Egypt has sentenced to death today, the main accused of the murder on Christmas Day a year ago, seven people, six of them Christian, in Naga Hammadi, 600 kilometers south of Cairo.

And next month will decide the future of the other two defendants in this case. The verdict comes amid an atmosphere that many consider sectarian crisis between Christians and Muslims. It is not just for the massacre in the church of the Dos Santos in Alexandria. Earlier this week a Muslim policeman came out of a train while he was stationed in the southern city of Samalut in the governorate of Minya, 260 kilometers south of Cairo, killing a 71 year old man and wounding five women and four men, all Christians.

Tunis, still fighting: three people killed the nephew of Ben Ali

Still shots of gunfire in the night in Tunis. According to the satellite TV 'al-Arabiya' are three of the deaths recorded. But by morning the atmosphere in the capital is characterized by a calm full of tension. In the center of the city, the scene of violent clashes area until the flight of Ben Ali, some cafes have reopened.

The army continued to patrol the streets to avoid a repetition of the looting and violence of the last hours. The military police have arrested so far about 3 thousand Tunisians considered loyal to ousted President Zin El Abidin Ben Ali. According to reports from the Arab TV 'al-Jazeera', among them was arrested a group of 50 agents of Ben Ali's personal guard who tried to escape on board some buses to Libya.

Sentenced to death the main accused of killing six Coptic Christmas in Egypt

Egypt seems to be beginning to pay his debts outstanding with its Coptic Christian community after the bombing of a church that left 23 dead two weeks ago in Alexandria. The Supreme Court of State Security in Egypt has sentenced to death today, the main accused of the murder on Christmas Day a year ago, seven people, six of them Christian, in Naga Hammadi, 600 kilometers south of Cairo.

And next month will decide the future of the other two defendants in this case. The verdict comes amid an atmosphere that many consider sectarian crisis between Christians and Muslims. It is not just for the massacre in the church of the Dos Santos in Alexandria. Earlier this week a Muslim policeman came out of a train while he was stationed in the southern city of Samalut in the governorate of Minya, 260 kilometers south of Cairo, killing a 71 year old man and wounding five women and four men, all Christians.

New leaders are trying to regain control in Tunisia

Tunisia's new leaders, headed by Feud Mebazaa, president of Parliament proclaimed interim head of state, trying to regain control of the situation in a country on the brink of chaos after the flight to Saudi Arabia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In Tunis and its suburbs, where some neighborhoods were under the law and violence from looters, sometimes identified by witnesses as supporters, including police, the regime of Ben Ali, the people trying to organize defense committees.

The hero who will not be

No matter who has told hundreds of times. Or who already have read many others. When Daniel Hernandez tells the sequence of events that followed the bullet that hit in the head by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the stomach stretches and you, almost certainly, will arise the question: "What have I done?". For although the world seems a heroic resolution and his nerve to apply pressure and hold the head that had just one shot break open, Hernandez, 20, refuses to be considered a hero.

France: Le Pen's extreme right CHOOSE to head

The top job at France's extreme right will remain in the family: Marine Le Pen is the new chairman of the National Front. She is the daughter of the notorious party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, there are more moderate than her father a racist - but no less populist. Paris - Marine Le Pen on Sunday the leaders of the extreme-right Front National is from her father, who led the party for almost 40 years.

Marine Le Pen, officially proclaimed the new president of the National Front

As leaked on Friday, Marine Le Pen is the successor to his father as head of the far-right National Front (FN). This morning, the 42-year policy has been heralded as new president of the controversial match in place of his father, the historic leader of the movement that gave the baton to his 82 years.

Pending that delivers his first speech, at three in the afternoon, the only novelty in regard to guided and managed is the percentage of his victory: the new president of the group has been imposed in internal party elections to 67, 65% of the votes to another candidate, Vice President Bruno Gollnisch movement.

The hero who will not be

No matter who has told hundreds of times. Or who already have read many others. When Daniel Hernandez tells the sequence of events that followed the bullet that hit in the head by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the stomach stretches and you, almost certainly, will arise the question: "What have I done?". For although the world seems a heroic resolution and his nerve to apply pressure and hold the head that had just one shot break open, Hernandez, 20, refuses to be considered a hero.

Israel computer science design a virus to boycott the Iranian nuclear program

Israel has perfected a computer virus as they say has sabotaged nuclear centrifuge program and has slowed their ability to develop a nuclear weapons program, reports The New York Times today, citing intelligence and military experts familiar with the situation. In what is described as a "joint effort" of U.S.

and Israel to attack Iran's nuclear program, the newspaper said Stuxnet virus has designed during the last two years in the Israeli secret Dimona facility in the desert the Negev, where Israel has developed its nuclear program, never officially recognized. The New York Times says that the project has come to build centrifuges identical to what has Iran in the Natanz facility, reason for the success of the virus when directly affect the regime's nuclear capability, experts say consulted.

Violence and looting, stabbed and killed three people dead nephew Ben Ali

TUNIS - The violence did not subside in the Tunisian capital: this night a gun battle between security forces has caused three victims. On the outskirts of Tunis and the people trying to organize defense committees, many groups of looters and vandals have been clearly identified as being composed of Ben Ali or partisans of the former regime linked by police.

The country's main union, the UGTT, has launched an appeal on national television for the formation of safety committees in the district so that people can defend themselves in case of attack. But the fourth victim of the last hours is Imed Trabelsi, nephew of the wife of Tunisian President Ben Ali, who died after an attack on Tunis, probably with cold.

Concubine and alcohol Suleiman in TV series and Turkey broke out in defense of the Sultan

IN SE Turkey was enough to deserve the pillory once attack the figure of Mustapha Kemal, who was the man who in 1934 became the "Father of the Turks" by special decree, now simply tarnish the image of a former sultan. It happens in these days the producers of the serial The magnificent century, when the golden age of the Ottoman Empire is told through the life of Sultan Suleyman (1520 - 1566) as an era of shady intrigues and debauched morals .

Giffords and breathes through it s

His head was the target of the first political assassination attempt in the United States in three decades. Was unsuccessful. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is recovered "miraculously" according to their doctors with a bullet that entered his ear and exited through his forehead. Move your arms, legs and President Barack Obama was the one who announced that he opened his eyes.

Gabby, the wounded girlfriend of the U.S., is slowly returning to life and after opening the eyes can follow an object with their eyes and breathe today and of itself just a week after the attack. The doctors have proceeded on Saturday to release airway U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, for which you have removed the ventilator.

Die apualado the nephew of the wife of Ben Ali

While Tunisia is moving towards a transition between stress and uncertainties, disturbances and violence dot the first few hours after the fall of the regime of Ben Ali. Imed Trabelsi, nephew of the wife of Ben Ali and mayor of the coastal town of La Goulette, died yesterday at the military hospital in Tunis after reaching stab wound.

Imed, who was missing since the flight of former president, was part of that group of relatives of the first lady who controlled the country's economy, always associated with the regime's corruption and object of the wrath of protesters. A French judge had opened an investigation against Imed Trabelsi for his alleged involvement in the theft of a yacht that belonged to Roger Bruno, manager of the Lazard Bank.

The future president of France?

A few years ago, an American diplomat who knew him well described him thus: "It's probably the most able of the French Socialist leaders, but lacks the sacred fire to win." By then ran in May 2006 and Dominique Strauss-Kahn was preparing to go to the primaries to become the candidate of the French Socialist Party (PS) to compete with Nicolas Sarkozy for the presidency of the republic.

Lost. Moreover, it was battered by a surprise candidate, Ségolène Royal, which accounted for 60% of the vote in that primary (Strauss-Kahn won 20%, and Laurent Fabius, 18%). Indeed, DSK, as he is known in France, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then the happy lacked fire. But many say the current director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has already found that the opponent is seen as more secure, strong and beneficial to meet Nicolas Sarkozy in the next elections in 2012.

Tnez the first steps toward the transition between riots and looting

The Tunisians have shown that not be fooled by promises, who yearn for a democratic transition and they want it without delay. After four weeks of popular revolt, which culminated on Friday, without assistance, with the overthrow of the tyrant Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, is likely to have been started that way, which undoubtedly will be tortuous.

If successful it would be a historical novelty in the Arab world. But in a country ruled with an iron fist for 53 years, no organized opposition, no convincing leadership, plagued by unemployment, subject to political upheaval and institutional violence battered now, no guarantee of anything.

Division concluded referendum on Sudan

Chavez is prepared to relinquish their special powers in May

New parliament, new life. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, his face last night was more conciliatory in his first appearance before the National Assembly emerging from last September's legislative elections in which opposition parties returned to the Chamber after five years out on your own (not attended the 2005 elections in a failed attempt to boycott).

Away from the pitch in recent days displayed when called on his deputies to "crush" their opponents, the president began his speech, seven hours, ensuring the return of the deputies opponents is a circumstance "wonderful" and calling for dialogue to abandon the "demonization" mutual. And topped with an unexpected statement: he was willing to give more to the "controversial" special powers granted him by the Assembly last December.

Iran says it will continue enrichment program

.- Continue "with determination" its controversial uranium enrichment program despite international pressure, said today the Iranian Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Akbar Salehi. The official, who also is director of the Iranian Organization of Atomic Energy today joined seven ambassadors of countries attached to the body of a visit by the controversial nuclear facilities in Natanz and Arak, in a move that great powers have called propaganda.

Syria seeks to improve ties with Iraq

.- The Prime Ministers and agreed Saturday to increase cooperation in economy and security during a meeting focused on improving bilateral relations, soured by allegations from Baghdad that the Syrians gave asylum to Iraqi insurgents. Syrian Prime Minister Naji al-Otari arrived Saturday to visit two days less than a month to form a new government Iraq, ending the political negotiations started in March.

Increases to 601 the number killed by rains in Rio de Janeiro

SAO PAULO, Jan. 15 (EUROPA Persse) - The Brazilian government reported that 601 people are already killed by the torrential rains that affect the mountainous region surrounding the city of Rio de Janeiro. Meanwhile, continue the search-rescue teams. Most victims have died in the city of New Fribourg (267) and Teresópolis (261), but there are also killed in Petrópolis (53), Sumidouro (18) and in Sao Jose do Vale do Rio Preto (2), as has informed the Secretary of State for Health and Civil Defense of Rio de Janeiro.

Haiti cancels the second round of presidential elections

The polls will not open today in Haiti. The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) of the country has decided this morning, within hours of the opening of schools, to cancel the presidential runoff scheduled for Sunday. The decision was taken at a meeting in which to decide whether to exclude the government candidate, Jude Celestin, son of current President Rene Preval, as recommended in a report earlier this week the Organization of American States (OAS) consider that there was fraud in the first round.

Overthrow the regime: power struggle over the future of Tunisia

Tunisia's dictator has fled, now many people hope for greater freedom and democratic reforms. But the interim head of state is considered to be a follower of the old despot. Do the elites to reform the country - or just replace an authoritarian ruler through the next? Tunis - appeals from around the world reach Tunis: Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a political renewal, French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls for free elections as soon as possible, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called for a "democratic and peaceful" solution to.