The revolt suppressed infects Syria protests: 4 dead

A new revolt in Syria, is added to the "springtime of freedom" in the Arab world. Like the others, bears a date: "March 15". And since yesterday has its first victims. The news of four or six dead, according to the contradictory voices that run on social media, arrived on the fourth day of protests called by opposition sites.

Yesterday, on Friday is prayer day, the date of the applicant in the Arab street rallies, Facebook sites have proclaimed a "Day of Dignity". Hundreds of Syrians took to the streets of several cities: a Da'ara in the South, not far from the capital Banyas where an imam has harangued a thousand supporters from the balcony, in Tartous, along the coast, and Homs, in ' East The clashes occurred as hardest Da'ara.

Pour water on nuclear reactor in Fukushima

Japanese army helicopters able to pour a large amount of water on Thursday morning on two of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power to try to cool the fuel, which threatens to enter merger, according to images broadcast live on public television NHK. Apparatus, type CH-47 Chinook, flying over the central and four times seven poured 500 liters of water over the damaged reactor three and four, according to the images.

Shot down a military plane flying over Benghazi

A military plane, apparently a Mig-23, was shot down in Benghazi, a stronghold of the rebellion in eastern Libya, and fell to the ground, AFP journalists found. The device, which took several minutes over the city and its right rear was on fire, crashed in a residential area south of Benghazi, causing an explosion followed by smoke.

For the time has not been able to determine how the plane was shot but his fall set off cries of joy in Benghazi. The pilot got out of the device before it crashed. According to AFP journalists, it's a Mig-23.

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With Libiacontro Libya

Here they come from the extraordinary Council of Ministers, La Russa (Defence) and Frattini (Foreign Affairs). Are to inform congressmen and senators (in a classroom of the Senate) on the state of war that is being created with Libya. You read that right, Libya, the country in which we are bound by a treaty brother never complained, never deleted.

Just to remind you that Treaty, art. 4, paragraph 2 reads: "Italy will not use or permit the use of its territory in any hostile action against Libya." Well, now La Russa, the Defence Minister, will tell MPs and senators on one side and the other Italian bases that are available to NATO.

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According to a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, women in the army, committing suicide three times more than men. Marriage for both sexes, appears to reduce this risk.

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The gun of the West

The war that seems to start as far away as remote as Afghanistan or Iraq. Libya is part of our geography - is a shot of Scud from Lampedusa - and the pages of our history (not the best: there, our aviation invented the bombing of civilian populations, 1911). It 's even a not insignificant piece of our economy.

All this makes it even more surreal randomness with which suddenly urgent moral calculations of others, evanescence our smallness and European catapult us into a conflict. A conflict is not only very dangerous for us than for others, especially when unrelated to any strategic rationality.

Increases to four thousand 134 the death toll in Japan

The authorities of Japan increased four thousand 134 dead and 606 missing eight thousand of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 11 in the northeast of the country, said today the last count of the police. However, it is believed that the final number of victims may increase even in some municipalities of the provinces most affected, and Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, where thousands remain without being located.