Two dead and scores injured in Yemen

.- At least two people were killed and dozens wounded in clashes between security forces and demonstrators in several cities of Yemen, during another day of protests against the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh. The major incident occurred in the capital, where earlier today the police tried to evict thousands of protesters for several weeks are camped outside the University of Sana'a.

According to Efe could check, the officers used smoke canisters and fired in the air to disperse the demonstrators, forcing them to raise the tents that were installed on a street near the University, after the neighbors protested this camping . There, one protester was shot dead in a clash between protesters and residents of this area, according to eyewitnesses told Efe.

Confirm nuclear plant explosion

The Chief of Cabinet Secretariat of Japan, Yukio Edan, confirmed that there was an explosion and radiation leak at the nuclear plant in Fukushima of the firm Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO). "We are analyzing the cause and the situation and make this age when we have more information, "Edan said. "At the moment, we believe that an evacuation of 10 km (radius) is appropriate," he added.

Earlier in the day, Japan warned of a meltdown in the reactor that was damaged when a powerful earthquake and tsunami rocked the northeastern coast, but said the risk of escape of radiation containment systems was small. Edan also said that Japan had extended the evacuation area around the nuclear plant in Fukushima.

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The EU needs to evaluate the effects of sanctions on Libya

.- The European Union needs to evaluate the effectiveness of sanctions on Libya before deciding further action, said Saturday the head of the bloc's foreign policy, Catherine Ashton. Ashton also said before an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers to travel from Budapest to Cairo to discuss Arab League on Libya.

When asked about whether the EU was seeking to impose more sanctions on Libya, including measures to vital sector of oil and gas, Ashton said: "As you know, we have taken action not only against people but against what we call entities" he said. "And with all the sanctions is really important that we continue to analyze how effective they are and if there is more we can do.

China enacts the 'civil death' of the Nobel Peace Prize

When the Nobel committee awarded the Peace Award 2010 to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, his wife, Liu Xia, was totally surprised. He thought that he had exerted diplomatic pressure the Beijing government to prevent her husband from receiving the prize was so strong that they would bear fruit. Not so.

The Norwegian committee resisted and Xia Liu October 8 savored that one of the sweetest moments of his life after years of fear, threats and forced separation from her husband. That same weekend, the police accompanied him to visit him in prison in Jinzhou (Liaoning Province), where her husband is serving 11 years for inciting subversion of state power.

Use in Wisconsin a law against public employees dirittidei

NEW YORK - Protesters invade the halls of parliament in Madison. Some are dragged out. The police barred the doors. The legislators, who were shut out, in a rather daring, coming from the window. What happens in Wisconsin, was passed by the Democrats to the Republicans in November? Why so much anger on the part of public employees? It happens that, after weeks of bitter debates and massive demonstrations, a law was passed limiting the rights of public workers' unions (the so-called union).

Images of Japanese earthquake

Back to pictures on one of the most powerful earthquakes that hit Japan, Friday, March 11. An earthquake followed by tsunami affected a large part of the country.

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Fukushima, evacuations and nuclear nightmare is contaminated

TOKYO - Perhaps in order not to alarm the Japanese authorities do not have much information about the incident at the nuclear plant in Fukushima. In the Italian night, the situation back under control seems to - as confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency - the first while they are contaminated.

Three are chosen to sample between the 90 patients evacuated to a hospital, five kilometers from the central place. The authorities ordered the expulsion of 140 000 people living within a radius of twenty kilometers from the plant, a measure "purely precautionary," said the Agency for Nuclear and Industrial Safety in Japan.