The Leader of the Libyan opposition, Abdeljalil Moustapha, called with the international community in an interview with the German press. "If there is no international intervention, Gaddafi will destroy our country. That he does not care if people die," said the leader of the National Transitional Council (CNT) formed by the opposition to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi In an interview with Die Welt newspaper.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Tucson Shootout: Jared Loughner pleads not guilty
Jared Loughner, accused of being responsible for the shooting of Tucson, Arizona, during which six people died and a Democratic representative was injured, pleaded not guilty Wednesday of the 49 charges brought against him. Jared Loughner pleaded himself at a hearing before a court in Tucson. In the U.S., plead not guilty is not to declare himself innocent.
It is a legal procedure that gives the accused greater flexibility in its defense. Jared Loughner was charged last Friday with a total of 49 charges. Previously, he was prosecuted for three charges, including attempted murder of the elected, for which he had pleaded not guilty in late January.
It is a legal procedure that gives the accused greater flexibility in its defense. Jared Loughner was charged last Friday with a total of 49 charges. Previously, he was prosecuted for three charges, including attempted murder of the elected, for which he had pleaded not guilty in late January.
The Dalai Lama withdrew from the Tibetan government in exile
The Dalai Lama's announcement Thursday that he plans to relinquish his position as head of the Tibetan government in exile, saying it was time to make way for a new leader "freely elected". "My desire to pass the authority has nothing to do with wanting to give up responsibility," said the Dalai Lama during a speech in Dharamsala, northern India inhabited by Tibetans in exile.
"It's for the long term good of Tibetans. This is not because I feel discouraged," he added. The leader of Tibetans in exile, aged 75, Nobel Peace Prize, said he would seek an amendment allowing him to relinquish his duties during the next session of Tibetan Parliament in March. A spokesman for the Dalai Lama had announced in November its intention to leave his position as head of the Tibetan government in exile to lighten his workload and reduce its official role, without abandoning his spiritual role.
"It's for the long term good of Tibetans. This is not because I feel discouraged," he added. The leader of Tibetans in exile, aged 75, Nobel Peace Prize, said he would seek an amendment allowing him to relinquish his duties during the next session of Tibetan Parliament in March. A spokesman for the Dalai Lama had announced in November its intention to leave his position as head of the Tibetan government in exile to lighten his workload and reduce its official role, without abandoning his spiritual role.
Berlusconi launches the law to limit the power of prosecutors
The government led by Silvio Berlusconi today approved an extraordinary Council of Ministers the draft constitutional law of judicial reform, in essence, limit the power of prosecutors and researcher reduce the independence and autonomy of the judiciary. The chief executive, accused in four half-dozen trials for crimes, presented the initiative as the fulfillment of a promise made when he entered electoral politics in 1994, and said he has "nothing" to do with their own judgments.
Libyan Foreign orders .- Rousseff take "urgent measures" to liberate the Brazilian journalist detained in Libya
BRASILIA, 10 Mar. The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff on Thursday ordered the Foreign Ministry of that country to take "urgent measures" to safeguard the lives and freedom of journalist Andrei Netto the newspaper 'O Estado de Sao Paulo' arrested in Libya. Rousseff "following closely the situation of Brazilian journalist Andrei Netto" and called on Foreign take "urgent measures to ensure their physical integrity and freedom", reports the Ministry of Social Communication of the Presidency.
Forbes: absolute record number of billionaires in the world
The United States and Old Europe continue to decline in 2011 of the Forbes list, confirming that Mexico's Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world and the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) show an increase insolent. Among powerful nations, the crisis is forgotten: the total number of billionaires is 1 210 in 2011, a record since the twenty-fifth anniversary of this classification, and 214 more than last year .
Suman 25 dead and 250 injured in China quake
The death toll left by the earthquake of 5.8 magnitude on the Richter scale that struck Yingjiang County in southwest China rose to 25 dead and 250 wounded, according to the latest official figures. Civil Affairs Department of the Yunnan province in a statement updated death toll of the quake and reported that about a thousand buildings were destroyed and more than four thousand suffered damage of varying magnitude.
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