The popularity of Putin dropped 20 points in three years

The rating Elections Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, fell 20 points to 39% from the peak recorded in 2008, according to a survey of independent Levada Center published Friday, August 26. Vladimir Putin, President from 2000 to 2008, remains the most popular politician in the country. His ratings had peaked in 2008 (58%), at the height of the blitz with Georgia for the control of a separatist Georgian Republic.

Syria: Arab League condemned the "unnecessary force against legitimate claims"

The Arab League moves against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Before the condemnation of the violence, which occurred at the beginning of an extraordinary ministerial meeting of the organization, then the announcement of the Secretary's trip to Damascus to present the Arab initiative to close the Arab crisis.

"The use of force is useless," said Al Arabi in the opening of the meeting, in front of the "revolutions" and "uprising" which "demand radical changes" claims with "legitimate". "We have to react positively - still the head of the Arab League's 22 countries - to the demands of Arab youth," he said in Cairo.

10 000 prisoners freed from Libyan regime

Libyan rebels said on Sunday, having released some 10 000 prisoners of the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, but estimated that nearly 50 000 others remain missing. "It is estimated that between 57 000 and 60 000 people were arrested in recent months," military spokesman said the rebels, Bani Omar Ahmed at a press conference in the city of Benghazi.

"Between ten and eleven thousand were released (...) Where are the others?" He said. "Many residents of Tripoli are discovering mass graves in the vicinity of the detention and imprisonment of Abu Slim," said . Eight days after the start of military offensive against the rebel capital, new incidents were reported Saturday night in Tripoli, where explosions were heard and isolated bursts of gunfire from automatic weapons, no one knew whether it was celebrations or shootings.

Irene... at the end only a shower

Irene is gone. New York takes a deep sigh of relief. The hurricane accelerated its course and now focuses on Boston. Irene lost gallons of storm, after being downgraded from category two to one hour is just a poor tropical storm. Manhattan has been spared by the powerful winds that swept the other hand, New Jersey and North Carolina before the hurricane hovering over Long Island and eventually New York City.

Rebels reject dialogue with Gadhafi

The situation in Libya seems to indicate that the rebels and no one stops them in their mission to rid the regime of Moammar Gadhafi. So much so that the head of state would almost have finished your options to find a way out: a call to negotiate without success and setting in motion of a mobile ballistic missile launcher Frog 7, neutralized by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ), while 18 ships undertake the work of unloading the first humanitarian assistance.

Iraq, bombing of the mosque there are at least 28 victims

At least 28 people were killed in an attack against the Sunni mosque of Umm al-Qura, in Baghdad. The explosion, which caused injuries to 35 people, including children, took place in a western district of the Iraqi capital. Among the victims was also a member of the Sunni province of Al Anbar, Khaled al Fahdawi.

The Lockerbie bomber is in a coma in Tripoli

The head of the 1996 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, the Libyan Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, was found comatose in Tripoli due to prostate cancer sufferer, reported the CNN. The station reported statements by his son, Khaled Elmegarhi, who said he receives only oxygen and no one has given any advice.

After the fall of President Gaddafi last week Relatives of Al Megrahi have complained that the former Libyan intelligence agent, whose last appearance was in July in a wheelchair with former Libyan leader, lacked proper medical care. "No doctor, no one who ask. We have no phone line to call anyone, "he lamented his son.

Gb, the new uprising against the British tea-mix change

The brand that popularized for three hundred years the national drink of the United Kingdom has changed the formula, altering the taste, and it is as if the revolution had broken out in London. The Twinings, which opened in 1706 founded the first "tea rooms" a stone's throw from Trafalgar Square, has changed the ingredients of his most popular blend, the Earl Grey, became so famous that for many has become synonymous with the tea.

 

Italy has the highest youth unemployment in Europe

Italy has the highest youth unemployment the highest in Europe, according to a study released Wednesday by Confartigianato, the Italian federation of craftsmen. Particularly affected, the age of 15 to 24 years experiencing an unemployment rate of 29.6%, against an average of 21% in Europe. The unemployment rate for 15-35 years is he, in Italy 15.9%, with a marked concentration in the south (21.1% of the population in this age group is unemployed).

Lady Gaga's songs and Backstreet Boys banned in China

Formally, it is to preserve "the security of the state culture." Specifically, the announcement by the Chinese Ministry of Culture banned the broadcast of a hundred songs on the online music platforms from August 19th. Among the artists considered to be unacceptable, the singer Lady Gaga, boyband the Backstreet Boys, Beyoncé Knowles, Canadians Simple Plan or the former group of British crooner Robbie Williams, Take That.

Hurricane Irene increasingly strong "Evacuation Possible in New York"

Hurricane Irene swept the approaches to the Bahamas and east coast of the United States, where it should arrive on Saturday. The Federal Emergency services have called on the population of the area between North Carolina and New England at full attention. The New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged people to prepare for the arrival of the hurricane, and said that will decide, if necessary, Friday, called for the evacuation of Zone A, which includes neighborhoods of Battery Park City in Manhattan, Coney Island in Brooklyn and Far Rockaway in Queens.

Eight dead in Pakistan hotel blast

At least eight people were killed and fourteen wounded in the explosion of a bomb in a small hotel in northwestern Pakistan, said a police source. A bomb placed on a bicycle exploded outside the hotel, located in the town of Nowshera, the source said, adding that the victims include several policemen.

The blast took place in the market Rasalpur at 20:45 local time. The attack comes less than a week after the end of Ramadan, Islam's holy month during which there have been other attacks in Pakistan. Nowshera district is located near Peshawar.

53 killed in the attack to a casino in Monterrey, Mexico

At least 53 people died Thursday in the Mexican city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (northeast), after a criminal group would cause a fire in a betting shop. It was the worst attack on civilians in Mexico's recent history. At 15.20, a group of armed people came to the Casino Royale and after making threats to those who were in those times when the shots were fired betting shop with heavy weapons and fired, according to testimony collected by the local press, fragmentation grenades.

New Israeli raids on Gaza

Three Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids during the night of Wednesday to Thursday, August 25 in the Gaza Strip. These new attacks bring to five the number of victims in 24 hours, according to a report from Palestinian medical sources. A Palestinian was killed during an attack in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, during which twenty were wounded.

In addition, another Palestinian seriously injured Wednesday night during a previous Israeli attack against a smuggling tunnel near Rafah in southern Gaza, died. A fourth Palestinian killed Wednesday night Atya Moqat, was part of Islamic Jihad, according to a statement issued in Gaza by the al-Quds Brigades, armed wing of the radical organization.

Russia and China rejected the UN sanctions on Syria

Russia and China today once again showed their opposition to the U.S. proposal and the countries of the European Union (EU) for the United Nations approved a package of sanctions against Syria by not members of their delegations to a meeting of the Council Security on the matter. A Western diplomat confirmed that neither Russia nor the representative of China's appeared at a meeting he had convened the highest international security body to discuss the draft resolution on Syria.

Nearly 100 Kurdish rebels killed by Turkish aircraft strikes in Iraq

The Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq have "neutralized" between 90 and 100 Kurdish rebels and wounding 80 others, announced Tuesday, August 23 the Turkish army on its website. The military uses the term "neutralized" to refer to the rebels killed. Turkey took over the August 17 air strike Kurdish rebel positions in the mountains of Iraq, a process which she had not used for over a year.

The renewed fighting followed an attack by members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in south-eastern Turkey, bordering Iraq that killed nine members of its security services. Turkey estimates that about 2000 the number of rebels holed up in the area under Iraqi Kurdish administration.

Rebels announce a reward of $ 1.7 million on Gadhafi

Libyan rebels announced Wednesday a reward of nearly $ 1.7 million (two million dinars) for the head of Moammar Gadhafi, dead or alive. This initiative, funded by Libyan businessmen, with the approval of the National Transitional Council (CNT), political arm of the rebellion. "Inner circle members (Muammar Gadhafi of) that will kill or capture a guaranteed amnesty by the people, "he told reporters the president of the CNT, Mustafa Abdeljalil." Moammar Gadhafi's regime will not be finished until it is captured dead or alive ", he said, adding that" we do fear behavior catastrophe "without give further details.

Opened four programs to combat famine in Somalia

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) today announced that, given the rapid increase in the number of mothers and malnourished children in southern Somalia, has launched four new outpatient therapeutic feeding clinics regions Gedo and Bakool. "About 20 percent of Somalis suffer from acute malnutrition, which is really worrying," said the president of the Somali Red Crescent, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, in a statement released in Geneva.

Moody's down one notch the rating of the long-term debt of Japan

The rating agency Moody's announced on Wednesday, August 24, she dropped one notch to Aa3, the note of the long-term debt of Japan because of the massive debt the country, aggravated by the earthquake March 11 in the northeast. Japan is in debt to the tune of about twice its gross domestic product (GDP), and the burden grows each year through the issuance of treasury bills to fill much lower income to spending.

The EU could vote an oil embargo on Syria

The member countries of the European Union could agree on an oil embargo against Syria before the end of next week, said, Wednesday, Aug. 24, a European diplomat quoted by the agency. Discussions took place on this subject in Brussels on Monday and no penalty has objected, he said. The bloc has already imposed yesterday a series of sanctions against the Syrian regime, accused of leading a bloody crackdown against his opponents, but none so far was oil.