Ral Castro remodeling new government nothing more to start the year

New changes of government in Cuba very beginning of the year. This time, Raul Castro has dismissed the Minister of Construction, Fidel Figueroa, "for errors" in the performance of their functions, but without specifying which ones. The historic commander Ramiro Valdes, 78, comes also from the Ministry of Informatics and Communications, but maintains his position as vice president and will oversee strategic areas of the economy, basic industry and water resources, in addition to the sectors construction and information technology, so its position is reinforced.

An envelope caught fire bomb at a polling station in Washington

At least one envelope, maybe two, caught fire Friday, January 7 in a post office in the U.S. capital, Washington, causing no injuries, police said. The incident "was described as burning, no explosion at this stage", said a police officer in the city. He said that "one or two" envelopes and had caught fire around 14: 45 pm local time (20 h 45 to Paris) in a post office.

An employee of the postal sorting the mail placed in a vault where the block caught fire, reports the TV station WUSA, quoting officials of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The building was evacuated and a bomb squad was dispatched. The day before in nearby Maryland, two parcel bombs were ignited in public buildings, slightly injuring an employee of mail.

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Explosive package in Washington are like those of Maryland

WASHINGTON - Another explosive package, found in the District of Columbia in the state of U.S. capital, after the two found last Thursday in two public buildings in Maryland. The discovery of the latter envelope arson occurred in a government building for the sorting office. On the spot rushed to the police and emergency services.

According to preliminary information there are no injuries. The police reported that the package caught fire after being handled by an attendant, in a similar way to that place yesterday by the other two envelopes. The discovery of the building was evacuated.

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Dioxin: German manufacturer of pet food suspected of fraud

A German manufacturer of fat cattle for food is suspected of fraud vis-à-vis its customers as part of the dioxin scandal that stirred the country's farms. "Many things suggest that the company misled its customers and has transformed fatty acids of low quality feed to livestock expensive," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture of the regional state of Lower Saxony in German newspaper Westfalen Blatt.

Computer graphics - "The World Magazine: Prophets of doom in Haiti

After the earthquake, cholera ... this country be forgotten by God? A year after the earthquake, "World Magazine" returned to Haiti, where voodoo accuse missionaries of provoking God's wrath.

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Gaza: Four Israeli soldiers wounded by Palestinian gunfire

Four Israeli soldiers were wounded Friday, January 7 at night, by firing automatic weapons and mortar shells at Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Channel 10 TV said two soldiers hit were transferred to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva (Southern Israel) aboard a helicopter, while two others were treated on the spot.

The station broadcast images of the evacuation. Two soldiers are in a state called "serious", while two others were slightly more affected. A spokesman for the army confirmed that four soldiers had been wounded but declined to give further details. The incident - in which soldiers have exchanged gunfire with Palestinians - occurred near the kibbutz (collectivist village) Beeri, located near the Gaza Strip, reports said.

Expense: imprisonment for a former Labour MP in the UK

A former Labour MP was sentenced Friday, Jan. 7, in London a year and a half in prison for false accounting. He becomes the first elected jailed after a resounding scandal of expense that had spattered the British elected in 2009. David Chaytor, 61, pleaded guilty to providing false invoices for a total of 22,650 pounds (27,000 euros) to have them reimburse its expense of parliament.

The sum of related services which had actually been provided free of rent and allegedly paid between 2005 and 2008 for two homes in London and the north-west England. These homes actually belonged to his mother and himself. Mr Chaytor is the first former elected to be sentenced for claiming reimbursement of expenses to which he was not entitled, as a result of revelations in the Daily Telegraph which began in 2009.