Côte d'Ivoire: the pro-Gbagbo always threatening to take the hotel Ouattara

A helmet protects the blue Gulf Hotel, Abidjan, which serves as headquarters to Alassane Ouattara and his government. Pending a possible attack to "bare hands" supporters of Laurent Gbagbo on the headquarters of his rival Alassane Ouattara. Charles Ble Goude, leader of "Young Patriots", asked the fervent supporters of Laurent Gbagbo to stand ready to assault unarmed and "bare hands" after January 1, Hotel du Golf, which serves HQ Alassane Ouattara.

Year to date: M than 10,000 dead in Afghanistan

Cruel balance for Afghanistan: The war, according to an independent organization last year more than 10,000 people dead, among the fatalities in 2000 were civilians. In many places, the security situation had deteriorated - even at the Bundeswehr site Kunduz. Kabul - by attacks and fighting in Afghanistan have been killed in the past year, more than 10,000 people.

Among the victims of violence, around 2,000 civilians, as the news agency icasualties on the basis of official figures and information provided by the independent website. org on Sunday charged. The Afghan Interior Ministry on the number of civilians killed, police and insurgents 8560th The Defence Ministry in Kabul registered 810 Afghan soldiers dead.

Tehran says it downed two drones Western

A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said he killed two drones "Western spies" in the Gulf, Sunday, Jan. 2. He did not say when these events allegedly took place. "Westerners have capabilities that can not be ignored, particularly satellites, or for example they spy planes that can take pictures," he told the Fars News Agency, Ali Amir Hajizadeh, commander of the Air Force of the Guardians of the Revolution.

Dilma Rousseff get 40 minutes to Prince Felipe and promises to support the Spanish as a second language in Brazil

True to its property of timeliness, this morning the brand new president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, came to the meeting he had with Prince Philip at 9.30, a quarter of an hour before finding the door of the palace cars of the two leaders . The encounter with the Prince was the first private meeting with a foreign leader.

Should have been the second, after Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president, who left yesterday without waiting for an appointment and without explanation. The conversation between Prince Dilma and lasted 40 minutes in which the interpreter had little work because both are understood in almost everything.

Cock stroke in Mississippi

Question: what is freedom in Mississippi? Answer: This is a kidney. Or, if you want more appropriately monetize the exchange, that is U.S. $ 200,000, multiplied by the number of years of life that dialysis can give to those who - as in the case of Jamie Scott, who was sentenced to two life sentences for complicity in robbery in 1993 - of functioning kidneys no longer has any of them.

Just this fact, a kidney, is the price that Gladys Scott - Jamie's sister and, as you pay for the same offense, not one, but two lives in prison - has in fact paid to leave, along with her sister, from prison in which is closed for 16 years. The story - already reported, even by some Italian media, space and tones usually reserved for "colored news" - is actually very simple.

Sakineh case: "The stoning may be deleted"

The sentence of stoning for Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani could be undone. He said Malek Ajdar Sharifi, head of the Iranian judiciary in Azerbaijan, which has as its capital Tabriz, where he is imprisoned Sakineh. "Everything is possible," said Sharifi, because there are still "some doubts" about the "evidence" in the case of the woman, who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in 2006 and for the murder of her husband.

Gulf, Iran's announcement "pulled down two spy planes"

TEHRAN - Iran announced that it had killed two "spy planes" over the skies of the Gulf. A leader of the Revolutionary Guards official Fars agency said that "Many of our spy planes were shot down by our enemies. We have also killed two in the Gulf. But it is the first time that we announce." The military chief has not explained where the activities were conducted and what nationality they were airplanes.