The eminent Harvard professor was shocked. It 's a very mild Italian-American gentleman, happy, very busy with his work (helps torture survivors to heal from the trauma). E 'husband and father dovoto. "Berlusconi has damaged me beyond repair, it took me 50 years to explain to Americans of Italian origin that we are not the maniacs ...we do not think that just touch the girls ass and try to pick up the young ones. And 'since I was kid that I have been fighting against stereotypes that haunt us Italian-Americans. I was opposed to those who consider us all a bit macho and 'pigs (pig-male chauvinist and' the exact wording, ed.) And there I was able ...
Tunis, Special Envoy - despised by former president Ben Ali, who rarely left his palace in Carthage, the Kasbah, the government headquarters in Tunis, now focusing all eyes. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, tries to stay there, while very determined demonstrators demanding daily disappearance of the provisional government he formed.
CITY 'OF THE VATICAN - The social network, to which more and more people, especially young people, participating on the Internet, offer new opportunities for "sharing" and "dialogue, exchange, solidarity and creating positive relationships." But should "avoid its dangers," as "the refuge in a sort of parallel world, or excessive exposure to the virtual world" to deal with the internet is Benedict XVI, in his message for the 45th World Day of Social Communications, on theme "Truth, Reporting and authenticity of life in the digital age, giving children specific advice on how to behave on the network.
BRASILIA, 24 The lieutenant governor of Rio de Janeiro, located in the southeast of Brazil, Luiz Fernando Peza, has announced the start of the meetings between the authorities and employers in Nova Friburgo, Petrópolis Teresópolis and - the cities most affected by floods - to coordinate its reconstruction.
A fund of one million euros to ensure compensation of 5,000 euros, equal to the 205 victims of sexual abuse in schools belonging to the Jesuit order. Was announced by Klaus Mertes, president of Canisius College, the first institution to bring to light last year with allegations of abuse occurring between 60 and 80, in an interview with German radio Deutschlandfunk.
Socrates is at the head of a minority government, since he at the parliamentary election in autumn 2009, lost its absolute majority. "We can not be satisfied," said Sócrates on Sunday evening. As the Election Commission CNE for the closure of the last polling stations in Lisbon next announced, the Socialist Manuel Alegre, 74, landed far behind in second place.
PARIS - Nicolas Sarkozy will not reoccur in the 2012 presidential nominations. That the contents of the brief message appeared last night on the Facebook Wall of French President, written by a hacker. What has not been paying attention to grammar. The hoax message had several spelling errors. "Dear compatriots - it says - taking into account exceptional circumstances facing our country, I decided in my soul and conscience not to introduce myself after the expiration of my term in 2012.
TIRANA - "Italy and the EU should not accept an unacceptable reality in Albania for the democratic world and condemn the state violence that kills innocent people": this is the appeal this morning by the Albanian Socialist opposition leader, Edi Rama, in a conversation with Italian journalists. "Europe - added Rama - can not accept that things can happen in Albania that would never accept in their countries, based on principles and values are not negotiable: that people die because they protest or opposition is called 'bastard 'by the government.
The group Semco in Brazil has made billions listening to the workers. Did you know? This strange company is enjoying great economic success. This is one of the largest industrial groups in the country, initially was a steel company in the industry, real industry, in short, not the creative industries on the internet.
Time is leakage. Wikileaks after the news channel Al-Jazeera, associated with the Guardian, embarks on a large scale disclosure of diplomatic notes. Those that concern us (the broadcast began Sunday, January 23 and will last until 26 January, said the chain) concern the Israeli-Palestinian and Palestinian mainly deals allegedly made [more ...]
CAIRO - I like watching the Nile, in the light of the mild winter, Levantine, and imagine the lively conversations elusive, as thick as gusts of wind infiltrated among the luxury, overbearing skyscrapers sprouted on both sides of river. You have the impression to hear the rustle of democracy. I guess what is in fact a democratic debate.
More than 30,000 Belgians, according to police, said yesterday in downtown Brussels to express their disgust and shame by a political class unable to agree on forming a government more than seven months after the June elections. The peaceful march in good spirits specific to the Belgians, was an expression of popular impotence against a political class unanimously described as incompetent.
The official death toll from the weather on 12 January in the mountainous region north of Rio de Janeiro was Sunday, January 23 further increased, reaching 803 deaths. Of these 803 victims, the statement of Civil Defense reported 389 dead and 324 in Nova Friburgo in Teresopolis, the two cities hit hardest by torrential rains and landslides, 65 deaths in Petropolis, 22 and three in Sumidouro two localities.
The pressure of the street in Tunis to demand the resignation of the transitional government and ministers from the Ben Ali regime has taken a new dimension Sunday, January 23, with the seat of the Prime Minister's palace, begun by a thousand young people from the center the country. The continuing protests throughout the weekend in Tunis has revived speculation about the ability of the interim government to resist popular pressure, but an appeal to the indefinite strike of primary teachers has been launched on Monday, when Theoretical classes resume.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has rejected the report of the Israeli commission of inquiry, published Sunday, January 23 and whitens Israel in the murderous attack on a Turkish ship humanitarian in May off the coast of Gaza. "What value can have a report prepared and controlled in the same country ?(...), questioned Mr Erdogan faced reporters in Ankara.
.- South Korea is negotiating the delivery of captured Somali pirates for the release of the freighter "Samho Jewelry" to a third country, but has met with reluctance, reported a source in the South Korean Foreign Ministry told Efe. "We are negotiating with third countries to accept the pirates captured alive, but there are difficulties, especially in the case of money, because the costs are high," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman.
The five French, Togo and Madagascar in the hands of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) since mid-September and were held in northern Mali, are no longer on the territory of Mali, said, Sunday, January 23, Malian source familiar with the matter. "Seven hostages have been dispersed and are no longer on Malian territory.
The Egyptian government says have technically had a Palestinian group linked to al-Qaeda is behind the bomb attack perpetrated in a Coptic church in Alexandria that killed over 20 people on 1 January. "We have compelling evidence of their involvement in organizing and carrying out this despicable terrorist act," said Interior Minister Habib el-Adli in a speech broadcast on state television, during The Day of the police.
Nearly 99% of South Sudanese have voted for independence in the referendum on self-determination which took place in mid-January, according to provisional results released Sunday by the electoral commission website after the counting of 98.7% of ballots. This election was planned in the 2005 peace accords that ended decades of civil war.
About 200 Yemeni journalists have called on Sunday for the release of activist Tawakel Karman, arrested overnight by police in Sanaa where clashes occurred at the university. Parties of their union headquarters, journalists staged a march towards the floor of Sana'a, demanding the release of Ms. Karman, who heads the local organization "Women Journalists without chains," reported a correspondent of the.
Hundreds of Tunisians are tonight in the street protesting against the transitional government and skipping curfew imposed in the country since the popular revolt that led to the departure of the despot Zine el Abidine Ben Ali. The protesters are rural dwellers who had come to the capital to join the protests and now have nowhere to go.
Philip Henry Dacoury-Tabley, the Ivorian governor of the Central Bank of the States of West Africa (BCEAO), close to President Laurent Gbagbo out, resigned Saturday under pressure heads of state met in West Africa Summit in Bamako. Philip Henry Dacoury-Tabley resigned himself, said a statement issued at the end of the summit of leaders of the eight member countries of the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA) in Bamako, the BCEAO the issuing bank.
.- China's economy will grow by 9.8 percent in 2011, according to forecast the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS English), an institution that advises the Beijing government, reported the semi-official China News Service The Institute of Economic Forecasts the CASS also indicates that inflation, one of the indicators of most concern to the government and population in China this year will reach 3.7 percent.
Bangui, Special Envoy - Twice postponed, long uncertain legislative and presidential elections in Central African Republic (CAR) must ultimately be held Sunday, Jan. 23 amid protest before the vote is to be held. This is not a surprise in this country of 4.8 million where political violence is recurrent since independence in 1960 and where all social economic indicators are in the red.
.- At least 32 people were killed today when a bus hit a gasoline tanker truck that caught fire near Nooriabad, Pakistan. Police said the accident happened near the town of Nooriabad, in the province of Sindh, where the bus was traveling between Karachi and Sukur. At least 20 to 23 passengers escaped the bus, but 32 others were hit by fire, Geo TV said.
The issue of Iran's nuclear program can not be resolved in one or two meetings, said said Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wu Hailong, according to a statement posted on the website of the Ministry, following the failure of negotiations between Tehran and Western powers. The two days of talks in Istanbul between the Group of Six - Germany, Britain, France, Russia, China, USA, and Iran ended in failure.
.- At least six people were killed and 31 injured when five car bombs exploded in and around Baghdad, police said. The first car was parked in the neighborhood of Al Elam, southwest of Baghdad, exploded as a police patrol, the sources told Efe. The explosion killed two people, one an officer, and wounding eight, including four officers.
LONDON - The Palestinian National Authority has secretly offered to Israel "huge concessions" on Jerusalem in 2008 and 2009, that the Jewish state has also declined. Al Jazeera writes publishing some of the 1,600 secret files called "Palestinian Papers" that the TV claims to have obtained, which publishes the Guardian.
Since the Carnation Revolution in 1974, all outgoing Portuguese presidents were reelected in the first round. The stakes of this election is the score of Cavaco Silva, who will give him a legimacy to dissolve Parliament.
.- Six suspected rebels were killed Sunday in an attack by U.S. drones apparently conflict in the tribal area of North Waziristan, in Pakistan near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said. This military action took place at a time when at least two thousand tribal people, many of them students, were holding a protest in Mir Ali, one of the main towns in North Waziristan.
.- Hundreds of protesters from the interior of Tunisia began to arrive today in a motorcade to the capital of the country to join the protests demanding the departure of the ministers of former transitional government, according to Efe found. About a thousand people from the region of Sidi Buzid in the Midwest, arrived in the central avenue Habib Bourguiba of capital and focused at the Interior Ministry headquarters, shouting slogans against the executive transition and rupture asking with the previous regime.
BRASILIA, 23 The number of people killed by floods in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has now risen to 803 according to the balance reported on Sunday by the Ministry of Health and the state Civil Defense. The authorities had warned that this figure could increase in hours due to the high number of missing.
The Tunisian capital, the Yemeni and Algerian demonstrations paths flaunted the Government claims infected by the demands the Tunisian regime. The protests against the continuation of the chief ministers of the regime of deposed president, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, in the transitional government continued throughout Tunisia, where for the first time in the history of the country hundreds of police took to the streets capital.
SAO PAULO, Jan. 23 (Reuters) - The death toll from floods and landslides that devastated the mountainous region of Serrana (near Rio de Janeiro) has now reached 803, said on Sunday the Brazilian authorities, while Rescue teams were still searching in the mud for hundreds of missing people. The disaster is the second largest in the history of Brazil, according to UN data published Sunday in the newspaper 'Estado de Sao Paulo', exceeded only by a meningitis outbreak that killed 1,500 people in 1974.
About 30,000 Belgians, according to police, have spoken this afternoon in downtown Brussels to express his disgust with a political class unable to agree on forming a government more than seven months after the June elections. The peaceful march and the good spirits that are integral to the Belgian, has been an expression of popular impotence to a political class unanimously described as incompetent.