Warned that press freedom in Argentina is "deteriorating"

BUENOS AIRES, 6 May. The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today warned that press freedom in Argentina has a "process of decline" as a result of the strategy launched by the Government with the aim of establishing the "control information" which affects "as severe," the full exercise of the media.

A mission of the SIP was in Argentina to learn more about the new legislation promoted by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, which "affects the press in relation to discrimination in granting operating licenses, with a clear interference in the contents of media and their editorial policies.

Moral anesthesia

It seems that among the 10 years, millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of hours and thousands of people employed in locating Bin Laden, no one spent a minute to think what would be done after his death, or his body, or with photos. Neither were devoted much time to refine the communication strategy for the account of his disappearance strengthen the U.S.

image in the world, not weaken, and is on track to occur. New Yorker magazine that has rescued the history of the execution of Che Guevara at the hands of the CIA after having been captured alive speaks volumes about how the destruction of a myth can help to strengthen it. So, the news of the decade is poised to become a public relations disaster of incalculable proportions.

The Brazilian Supreme Court in favor of homosexual unions

BRASILIA, 6 May. The Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) has accepted the legality of homosexual unions, with ten judges vote and one abstention. Brazil thus became the second Latin American country to adopt this type of civil unions, after Argentina did so in 2010. Following this ruling, homosexual unions have passed the same legal status as heterosexual, to be considered equally as a "household." So too can benefit from inheritances, pensions, freedom from attachment of the matrimonial home, the registration of Social Security and health programs, authorized to perform risky surgery and the division of property upon separation.

Libya: Italian MPs voted for the war duration

Rome Correspondent - After a week's showdown with the government which is the main ally, the Northern League has managed to vote in the House Wednesday, May 4, a motion requiring the setting of a deadline, in agreement with the allies, the Italian intervention in Libya. The text voted by 309 deputies (cons 294) excludes "any Italian participation" in any ground operations.

But this crisis and its resolution in extremis were all of a psychodrama in Italian. Neither Berlusconi nor Umberto Bossi, head of the Northern League, are dupes. The concept of "fixed-term war" on which they agreed has laboriously only advantage to save their alliance to ten days of the municipal elections of 15 and 16 May (first round).

The dog that attacked Bin Laden

In all, 600 dogs serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, where they are popular with troops.

• Một vài hình ảnh về cái chết của Osama Bin Laden (02/05/2011)
• Osama bin Laden bị tiêu diệt (02/05/2011)
• Màn độc diễn ở sân khấu Nhà Trắng (05/05/2011)
• Osama bin Laden, trùm khủng bố quốc tế, đã bị hạ sát (02/05/2011)
• Lý do để tồn tại nhà nước (04/05/2011)

War is not a term or is done or not done

Wednesday, while the Italian Parliament voted on the mission to Libya, bombs, yes, but in the end, the secretary general of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen reminded reporters the three conditions set by the foreign ministers of the Alliance, meeting in Berlin in April, NATO to suspend attacks on Libya, being held from March 20: the suspension of all attacks against rebels and civilians returning to their bases of all military and paramilitary forces loyal to the regime, ensuring that humanitarian aid can be distributed freely and safely.

Zawahiri, Al Qaeda theorist and potential successor to bin Laden

The "doctor" Zawahiri, an Egyptian graduate of surgery, is considered the ideologue of al-Qaida and the mastermind of the attacks of September 11, 2001. It has long been the principal lieutenant and doctor to Usama Bin Laden. After the latter's death, killed in a U.S. raid, Monday, May 2, in the town of Abbottabad, Pakistan, Zawahiri appears as one of potential successors at the head of the Islamist.