The Syrian army besieged towns new

Faced with an unprecedented protest movement, the regime of Bashar al-Assad intensifies every week repression against the Syrian people. The authority had sent the army in recent weeks in several cities, including Tall Kalach (150 km northwest of Damascus), Homs (center), Banias (northwest) and Dera (south), home of the revolt .

Sunday at dawn, "dozens of tanks have surrounded" and Talbisseh Rastan, "and the village of Teir Maaleh, situated between Homs and Hama, said an activist of Human Rights. According to another activist, five civilians were killed and several others wounded Sunday by fire from security forces in cities and Talbisseh Rastan, when the security forces and the Syrian army invaded the city.

WTO chief says Arab revolutions in European tourism benefit

.- The secretary general of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Taleb Rifai, said today that the revolutions in the Arab world have benefited countries such as Spain, but warned that this is a temporary phenomenon. "Some places have benefited, especially in Spain the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and the South," Rifai said during a visit to Cairo, where today he met with the head of government Esam Sharaf and Tourism Minister Munir Fakhri Abdelnur.

The people of Malta voted to legalize divorce

The people of Malta have voted by referendum to legalize divorce. This is the last small country in Europe where divorce was still forbidden. Currently, the Maltese can legally separated, but it is very difficult to remarry because we must first cancel the wedding, a lengthy process - it usually takes about eight years - and complicated.

Voters were asked "Iva" (yes) or "Le" (not) the question: "Are you prepared to offer the possibility of divorce for married couples who are separated for four years when there is no reasonable probability of reconciliation and when the well-being of children is assured? " The official results should be known only in the evening, but the Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, who had fiercely campaigned against the introduction of divorce legislation, acknowledged the defeat of the "no" to the referendum on Saturday.

Belgrade, ultranationalist streets to Mladic. Twenty injured and hundreds arrested

It 'more than one hundred arrests of a dozen injured stock of violent clashes with police erupted in late last night in Belgrade at the end of the demonstration in support of Ratko Mladic organized by thousands of ultra-nationalists and extremists. Police Chief Milorad Veljovic, quoted by Beta, said at least 13 of the wounded were police officers and four of the hooligans who attacked the police with throwing stones and bottles.

Afghanistan: NATO accused of killing thirty civilians

Thirty civilians and 20 policemen were killed in recent days in two separate airstrikes in Afghanistan to NATO, said Sunday authorities of southern provinces of Helmand and eastern Nuristan. In Helmand, a stronghold of Taliban insurgents and most dangerous province for the coalition since the conflict began in late 2001, helicopters from the NATO intervened to defend a position contested hit two houses in the district of Nawzad, explain the governor's .

Mladic "has nothing to do with Srebrenica" Maybe tomorrow the transfer to The Hague

The former Bosnian Serb general, Ratko Mladic, who was captured last Thursday in northeastern Serbia after 16 years on the run and accused of genocide by the international justice could be transferred to The Hague as early as Monday or Tuesday. He reports Judge Mehmet Guney said today the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

"Mladic could come Monday or Tuesday. In application of international law will be immediately submitted to the court, "said Guney that serves as the court added the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Guney also said that Mladic will be transferred after the administrative and financial issues related to his transfer.

Berlusconi faces the specter of defeat on home soil

It was at Milan, it all started for Silvio Berlusconi: his birth in 1936, building his empire in construction and in the media around the 80s, launching his political party, Forza Italia with what he s is slender, in 1994, the conquest of Italy. Is that everything could start to finish? The second round of voting in municipal elections in the Lombard capital, Sunday 29 and Monday, May 30, could spell the beginning of the end for the "Cavaliere" accustomed to upsets most compromised.