Showing posts with label Foreign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foreign. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2011

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.

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.

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.
 

Friday, August 26, 2011

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.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Politkovskaya murder organized by a former police officer?

It would come a turning point in the investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya opposition, killed in Moscow shot to death on his way home October 7, 2006: the committee of inquiry has now confirmed not only the detention of a former official police as alleged organizer of the assassination, but also to have information on the principal of the crime.

The spokesman for the investigative committee, Vladimir Markin, said that the former Lieutenant Colonel Dmitri Pavliucenkov, at the time of the section responsible for shadowing the police in Moscow, "has received an order from an unidentified person and agreed to organize the ' Anna Politkovskaya's murder in exchange for a sum of money.

Earthquake in Washington and Congress and the Pentagon Evacuated Ny

The fear of the earthquake is to evacuate the Pentagon and Congress in the shadow of the bomb and which returns Sept. 11. People are afraid to go down the street from Washington to New York. The epicenter is 150 km of the capital, Virginia, but is felt even in Martha's Vineyard, the island on which Barack Obama is on vacation and while the shock traverses half the country is playing golf.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Strauss-Kahn, the attorney asks the storage

Prosecutors in New York called for the filing of charges against the former president of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is accused of rape by an employee Sofitel hotel where he was staying. And 'what emerges from the documents filed by the prosecution. Big disappointment expressed by the Advocate Nafissatou Diallo, the waitress who accused the former number 1 of the IMF.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Madrid, new clashes in the night between police and protestors of the Pope's visit

High tension remains in Madrid. During the night, the Puerta del Sol, the police has once again loaded the "secularists" who protest against the visit of Benedict XVI on the occasion of World Youth Day. Last night officers were in riot gear intervened to clear the square, after Wednesday there had been incidents in which 11 people were injured.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Pope arrives in Spain

The Pope has landed in Madrid on a four-day visit during which Spain will attend the World Youth Day. To welcome Benedict XVI at the foot of the stairs of the plane were King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia and Prime Minister Jose Rodriguez Zapatero's surprise. On the runway waiting for him also some thousands of young Catholic pilgrims who cheered the pontiff, waving flags of the Vatican and Spain.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Falls into the sea an experimental supersonic unmanned U.S. plane

The Falcon supersonic, which would connect Los Angeles to New York in 12 minutes, crashed in the Pacific, fortunately without a pilot, though so far no official confirmation yet there are not. Traveling at a speed 20 times that of sound and could connect the West and the East Coast of the United States in a matter of minutes.

But unfortunately the plane supersonic tested yesterday by the U.S. defense and whose project has so far cost 308 million dollars have literally gone missing, a fact which is making prevail, without doubt, the hypothesis dell'inabissamento ocean . Hit targets anywhere in minutes. The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle (HTV-2) was designed to fly at a speed of 23,860 kilometers per hour and, in theory, should have allowed the American aviation to strike a target anywhere in the world in less than an hour.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The revolt infecting other cities Cameron falls from vacation

Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Bristol. From London the uprising triggered by the killing by police of a young black extends to other British cities. In three days, 35 officers were injured, 334 people, including a boy of 11 years, were arrested and taken to 69 is the indictment. For the third consecutive night the British capital was the scene of a real guerrilla war with buildings and vehicles burned, riots and looting.

The ultimatum from Turkey to Damascus "Stop violence or actions will support the UN"

The diplomacy tightens the circle around the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. The day after the new sentence of Obama and Berlusconi, and especially after the breaking of any delay on the part of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, with the recall of its ambassador from Damascus as an extreme form of protest against the nearly five months of bloody repression implemented by the Syrian government against the popular demonstrations in support of a process of democratization of society, the initiative now goes to Turkey.

The massacre of the Navy Seals "A Taliban trap"

NEW YORK - It is perhaps fallen into a trap of the Taliban shot down the helicopter of NATO in Afghanistan in the night between Friday and Saturday with thirty-eight soldiers on board, including 30 Americans? It may have been a vendetta against the Navy Seals, the special units of the U.S. Navy who murdered Osama Bin Laden and who now, in one fell swoop, have lost twenty-two of their super-Rambo? The Pentagon denies any such hypotheses.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Iran arrested 17 boys "were playing with water guns"

Seventeen young people, girls and boys, were arrested for participating in a "battle" with water guns in the park at Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. He said the Chief Justice of the province, quoted by the ISNA news agency. Of the 17 boys arrested "five were released immediately, while the other 12 were released on bail today," he said, explaining that young people could weigh on charges of participation in an "haram" (forbidden by religion) and "insult security forces.

London, second night of Flames warfare, looting and hundreds of arrests

Over 100 people arrested: it is the budget of the operation by Scotland Yard after the second night of rioting and looting in London. After the revolt of Tottenham on Saturday night, new violence has rocked it last night, other districts of the capital, where groups of youths clashed with police looting shops and damaging cars and buildings.

In particular in Brixton (formerly Theater years ago of serious racial violence), hundreds of people looted a department store, throwing rocks at the agents, another fifty vandals caused damage in Oxford Circus in the heart of the capital and tourist Other clashes took place at Enfield.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

The UN condemns Damascus "immediate end to the violence"

The "immediate cessation of violence" and strongly condemned the "widespread violations of human rights and the use of force against civilians by the Syrian authorities." Here are some of the passages in the text of the sentence approved by the UN Security Council - but Lebanon has disassociated - the violent crackdown by the Assad regime in Syria.

A statement, not a resolution as they wanted the Europeans and the United States. Decision, it was adopted to avoid a veto by Russia and China who also wanted the document had eliminated all references to an inquiry of the UN Human Rights Council on violence of recent days. The Council has met at UN Headquarters for the third consecutive day in an attempt to break the deadlock on the Syrian crisis.

Obama bitter birthday: recession and crisis of consensus

 "The U.S. economy has weakened, we must redouble our efforts to revitalize." It is with this warning that Barack Obama faces a bitter anniversary: 50 years old today between the distrust of markets, the disaffection of his left base, the nightmare of a relapse into recession. For several hours, and seeks refuge in his distraction Chicago, where "the young president with too much white hair" now spends the holiday.

Friday, July 29, 2011

Arrested in Texas, U.S. soldier "was preparing to attack fellows"

 Police in Texas arrested a U.S. Army soldier, suspected to be preparing an attack against his fellow soldiers. The young soldier, stationed at the base of Fort Campbell in Kentucky, has deserted the weekend of July 4, Independence Day the day after being accused of possessing images of child pornography on his computer, given the risks of being prosecuted before a court martial.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Morocco, 78 dead in plane crash a C-130 crashes into mountain

RABAT - A Moroccan Air Force C-130 crashed near Guelmin: the result of the disaster is 78 dead and three seriously injured. The Armed Forces have announced real. The plane hit a mountain, 830 km south of the capital Rabat, in a desert area and difficult to reach by relief: the causes of the accident are yet to be ascertained, although everything seems to indicate bad weather.

This is the worst air disaster in decades for Morocco.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Ireland, the Holy See responds to allegations pedophile priests, calling back the nuncio

The Vatican Secretariat drew the apostolic nuncio in Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, for consultations following the publication, on July 13 last year, the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Dublin government abuses committed against minors by priests of the diocese of Cloyne, south of the country.

The Secretary of State and other Vatican departments should develop a formal response to requests from the Irish government about the Vatican's involvement in the cover and cover-up of cases of sexual abuse committed by members of the Irish clergy. This is the first Vatican's response to the harsh indictment delivered in Parliament on Wednesday by the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, that "the commission's report has highlighted the attempt of the Holy See to block an investigation into a sovereign, democratic and Republic no more than three years ago, not thirty years ago.