MADRID, 19 The number deaths caused by floods in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday has risen to 717 deaths, according to the latest official figures released by the Civil Police and published by the Brazilian news agency. The municipality of Nova Friburgo remains the greatest number of deaths result by heavy rains last week, with a total of 338 dead.Teresópolis fall behind, with 292 fatalities, Itaipava - Petrópolis district municipality - with 63 people, Sumidouro, with 19, San José José do Vale do Rio Preto, four, and Bom Jardim, with one death. On Wednesday, the Official Journal of the European Union has issued orders for state recognition of public calamity in the municipalities of Nova Friburgo Petrópolis and that will enable cities and population affected by floods that have tax benefits and exemption from bidding for emergency works contracts or resort to the Guarantee Fund for Length of Service.
The IBU announced a new fighter from Germany, the German Taliban Mujahideen appoint a new chief, al-Qaida explains how anyone can blow up a house, Taliban leader Mullah Omar has said heart problems: Terror News in recent days at a glance. After a long silence, there is news of German jihadists in the Afghan-Pakistani border area.
Nicolas Sarkozy made a slip yesterday linguistic connotations historical and geopolitical. The president of the French Republic in public mistook the French region of Alsace (where the president was speaking to farmers) with Germany. "I can accept distortions of competition with China or India, but not with Germany (...) This is completely incomprehensible," Sarkozy said first, later adding: "I do not mean simply, dear Philippe Richert (Chairman of the Alsace region), because it is in Germany.
TUNIS - "theft of property" and "illicit financial investments abroad." These charges assumed in the investigation opened by the judiciary against the former Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his family. The agency reported Tap. Switzerland has frozen the bank accounts opened in Swiss banks by the Tunisian president deposed only by the outgoing president of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Ggagbo.
"We hope to bring this revolution beyond the borders of Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt over the Maghreb, against dictatorships and democracy." Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian journalist and dissident, is convinced that the 'bread riots' that filled the streets of his country from December 17 last year and took down the regime of Ben Ali was only the first spark of a wider rebellion in Arab world.
In an interview with French daily La Croix, published Wednesday, January 19, the elected president and recognized by the international community, Alassane Ouattara, said that the failure of talks with Gbagbo require Ecowas to use "legitimate force" to force the incumbent president to accept his defeat.
An earthquake of 5.3 magnitude on the Richter scale has jolted the eastern Turkish province of Ardahan, without, according to initial reports, there had been victims. Turkish media reported that the epicenter of the quake was located on the border with Georgia and that the tremor could be felt in several surrounding provinces.
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as "Baby Doc" was arrested shortly after his return from exile in the capital Port-au-Prince. The public prosecutor brought a charge of corruption, theft and embezzlement against the 59-year-olds. Port-au-Prince - The Haitian ex-dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier is just two days after his unexpected return to Haiti have been arrested.
He sought a venue for the new James Bond novel - and immediately Jeffrey Deaver Dubai came to mind, where the Mossad had killed a year ago, a Hamas arms dealer. Now, the U.S. author, has here his book "Carte Blanche" before and asks: How far can go agents? An agent couple descends into a luxury hotel, disguised with a false beard and wig.
The national unity government of Tunisia, named on Monday and in just 24 hours later began to falter with the retirement of four ministers, meets today for the first time. Their situation is weak, following the resignations yesterday, carried out by three trade unionists and Bejafaar Mustafa, leader of one of the legal opposition parties, who oppose the presence of six ministers from the Constitutional Democratic Grouping (RCD), the party fled President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
ROME - "Although there are questions, as the president said Berlusconi, on the mission in Afghanistan, I do not think it's our turn now to undermine the efforts of those who has been there for so long." Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa responds at a distance, during the transmission of Belpietro on Channel 5, the concerns expressed by the Chairman of the Italian mission after the death of the Alpine Sanna.
The former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, who two days ago gave data Wikileaks 2,000 customers suspected of tax evasion, will attend a preliminary hearing today for the reading of the charges against him for violating bank secrecy, although previous facts unrelated to the case of leaks to the portal. Elmer faces a prison sentence of eight months and pay a fine of 2,000 Swiss francs (1,549 euros) for soliciting money in exchange for providing secret information on the accounts of several clients in the Cayman Islands, violating bank secrecy and business and threaten to several colleagues in the institution where he worked, the Swiss investment bank Julius Baer.
Catherine Soft * Take David Cameron and Nick Clegg. The conservative Liberal Democratic duo has actually decided to overturn the UK, reversing a sock as a country "on the brink of the abyss." For better or for worse, have been going their own way. There are people who at least try, to become statesmen.
Haitian Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) said Tuesday evening that he would not change the results of the first round of elections on December 7 last published. The PRC made the announcement after receiving a report by an expert mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) to assess the disputed electoral process.
The Tunisian national unity government must meet for the first time Wednesday, January 19, when he is already in a serious crisis: four opposition ministers calling for a complete break with the regime of Ben Ali had left the government to denounce the presence in its ranks members of the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) party of ousted president.
On the eve of the official publication of key economic indicators in the country, the news channel Phoenix TV of Hong Kong indicates that the gross domestic product (GDP) of China has increased from 10.3% in 2010. Inflation, which is one of the main concerns of the government, would be established according to Phoenix TV, citing anonymous sources within the Central Bank, for all of 2010 to 3.3%, and 4.6% in December, down from 5.1% in November, which were the strongest price increase in over two years.
The Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, was allegedly the victim of a heart attack for which he was treated in Karachi with the assistance from the Pakistani secret service, says the Washington Post. The spiritual leader of the Taliban, who fled during the overthrow of the regime, the fall of 2001, would have had a heart attack on January 7.
NEW YORK - The advertising preceded the invasion of Chinese red-stained Times Square, with 300 advertising messages per day purchased by the People's Republic in one of the famous "light walls" of the square, New York. And after that spectacular prelude to last night he arrived, Hu Jintao, "the other owner of the world," the leader of the superpower is intended to dispute the primacy of America in the twenty-first century.
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, has won the confidence vote held Tuesday, Jan. 18 in his party, Fianna Fail, obtaining insurance to remain in his head to the laws of March. Faced with the rebellion that has been brewing for months within the Fianna Fail, fueled by economic difficulties, the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) had called Sunday evening to organize a vote of confidence from the parliamentary group of his training .
The transitional government formed Monday in Tunisia is far from unanimous in the left and the Islamists, but among the population. Tuesday, January 18, several thousand demonstrators took to the streets in Tunis and in the provinces to protest the presence at key positions of ministers of deposed President Ben Ali.
Shanghai Correspondence - In 430 of the street Tongbei played a story of the most common in China. The house that was promised to them is destruction, its people must move out. Real estate developers and local officials have other plans for the neighborhood northeast of Shanghai, bordering the Huangpu River and faces the huge towers of the financial heart of the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday awarded the newborn political party that will lead Ehud Barak, now defense minister, with four ministries. This agreement reflects the satisfaction of Netanyahu to Barak out of the Labour Party and setting up a new party and a Zionist center "on Monday.
British households have enough to have low morale. According to estimates published by the National Statistics Office, Tuesday, 18 January, inflation in Britain was much stronger than expected in December to 3.7% (against 2.2% for the euro area ). More bad news when the UK is undergoing a drastic austerity measures.
Approvals Board for the Chamber of Deputies today begins debating the request sent on Monday by prosecutors in Milan to come to new police records, this time in the accounting office of Silvio Berlusconi, a place that enjoys parliamentary immunity to be considered part of the political secretariat of a graduated, Efe said.
The words of Michèle Alliot-Marie on Tunisia are likely to leave traces. After the NPA and the Left Party, has asked Europe Ecology, Tuesday, January 18, resignation of Minister of Foreign Affairs. In a statement titled "Michele Alliot-Marie, resign!", Jean-Louis Roumégas, spokesman for the Green party, said that "for proposing the 'knowledge' of our security forces on the Tunisian authorities, the Minister Foreign is not excusable.
Bizerte (Tunisia), Special Envoy - Not a hotel opening, not even a restaurant. Bizerte is under siege. On the terrace of Café mixed with 100% male clientele, young people take the sun to rest after a long night spent with "dams" with other guys in the neighborhood to monitor suspicious vehicles. "We gave the first sweep in chasing Ben Ali.
Correspondence Istanbul - The latest victim of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is an inoffensive sculpture. The monument of humanity, "a high statue of a hundred feet erected on the heights of Kars on the border with Armenia to encourage reconciliation between the two countries, has been called the last weekend of "monstrosity" by the head of government, visiting the region.
Jean-Claude Duvalier on Monday wearing the same blue suit he was wearing on Sunday, on his arrival in Port-au-Prince. A dozen Haitian police and United Nations equipped to an assault took him from his hotel to go to the prosecutor's office. He wore no handcuffs, no it had arrested. What they wanted was questioning the Haitian authorities to determine if Duvalier stole millions of public funds while dictator ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986.
A Palestinian aged 17 was killed Tuesday, January 18 and three other young Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire in northern Gaza near the Israeli border, where an Israeli incursion is underway, according to medical sources Gaza. "Amjad al-Zaanein, 17, died after being hit by Israeli tank fire near Jabaliya," said the spokesman of health services in the Palestinian territory, Adham Abu Selmiya.
RIO DE JANEIRO, 19 More than 700 people have died in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, southeast of the country as a result of heavy rains in recent days in the area, according to new data released Friday by the authorities Civil Defence. More than 21,500 people have had to be evacuated in seven municipalities in the Serrana region, while rescue teams try to locate the dozens of bodies have been buried in the mud and debris, reports O Globo.
With 21 guns and a gala dinner, the U.S. on Tuesday night gave top honors to a distinguished guest, President of China, Hu Jintao, who arrives in Washington to record the appreciation of their country as the new superpower with which is now necessary to negotiate and share the world power. As such, Hu and Barack Obama addressed an agenda that covers all major international problems and try to send a reassuring message, both political and economic issues.
.- An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 rocked a remote area in southwestern Pakistan and was felt in several parts of the country, where it caused fear among the population, researchers said. The earthquake had its epicenter in the province of Balochistan, the least populated area of the country, reported the U.S.
The new coalition government of Tunisia faced difficulties on Tuesday with the resignation of three ministers and one opposition party alliance retired even transition to protest the presence of members of the outgoing president's political organization. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi opposition leaders joined a coalition announced Monday, after President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia after weeks of violent street protests.
BUENOS AIRES, 18 The president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, met this morning with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani, with whom he signed agreements on tourism, science and technology at the beginning of the Bachelet's official visit to this country. Fernandez de Kirchner was received at the emir's palace next to the Planning Minister Julio de Vido, the Science and Technology, Lino Barañao, and foreign, Hector Timerman.
"If the rest of autocratic regimes in the area do not want to deal with mass demonstrations such as Tunisia, have to start making concessions." So at least I think Eugene Rogan, who has gone through Madrid to present his book The Arabs. Ottoman Empire to the present. "I think other countries would be more difficult to overthrow the rulers of what has been Tunisia," he admits, "but anything is possible, because no one hoped would happen in this country.
BERLIN - It 's the fault of the Russian flight controllers and their military commanders to instruct them, bad if Moscow on April 10 last year the Polish president's plane, carrying the then Head of State Lech Kaczynski and other 95 people , fell while attempting to land at Smolensk. He says the Polish Committee of Inquiry on the disaster (in which they died Kaczynski, his wife Mary and all the other passengers on the Tupolev 154) flipping heavy charges to the Russian side, the limits of willful murder.
Amman, special envoy - "We ask the Jordanians to stay calm and to respect public property. We do not want chaos or violence of any kind, but we demand political and economic reforms under the leadership of King Abdullah II. " This call to law enforcement in respect of the stability of the Hashemite regime could be launched by Prime Minister Samir Rifai, but Hamza Mansour, secretary general of the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing Muslim Brotherhood and the main opposition party, who is the author.