Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Full towards Brisbane ordered eviction worst floods in 120 years

SYDNEY - are leaving by the thousands. Leave the order to evacuate by the authorities in the suburbs of Brisbane, capital of Queensland, while advancing toward the coast full of water that is flooding the Northeast for weeks in Australia. The city has two million inhabitants. And this is the worst flood since 1893.

The Brisbane River has burst its banks, the city continues to be battered by torrential rain and thunderstorms and in accordance with local authorities and the Mayor Campbell Newman around 6500 properties will be inundated and 16,500 others partially affected. VIDEO Yesterday a 'tsunami inside' in the town of Toowoomba in its hinterland has killed at least nine people, while dozens are still missing.

Rap, spokesman for the Tunisian youth

From Tunisia, Malek Khemiri remember another number, hangs up twice because in the payphone, the police "look". Then he asks to be recalled and speaks, "stressed", ready to "deal" being cited in this article. He feels watched. Malek Khemiri is not a political opponent nor a trade unionist. He is a rapper.

In a country that has known since the mid December an unprecedented social protest, the rappers seem to be a target of the plan. Thursday, January 6, Hamada Ben Amor, 22, was arrested and released three days later. In a video broadcast on the Internet, he called the head of state, Zine El-Ali AbidineBen: "President, your people died." "Rap is the voice of Tunisian youth," said Malek Khemiri.

WikiLeaks-founder: British justice starts extradition proceedings against Assange

For ian Assange it is narrow: By early February a court in London decides on his extradition to Sweden, where it threatens a method for rape. The WikiLeaks founder condemns the "brutal rhetoric" against his person - and draws parallels with the assassination of Arizona. London - Just before Christmas was ian Assange, founder of the unveiling WikiLeaks platform, has been released on bail.

On Tuesday entered Assange, which is in Sweden on suspicion of having sexually abused two women, once again a courtroom. The date it was first in London to procedural issues. The actual decision about a possible deportation to Sweden to London, according to the judges fall in February. The next time put the court on the 7th February resistant.

Assange claim to be suffering "an Orwellian situation"

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has denounced a campaign by U.S. authorities, whom they accuse of trying to collect information on their Twitter followers about him and others involved in the publication of secret documents to launch a process proceedings against him, and considered that his arrest in a rural area of England is "an Orwellian situation." "I'm permanently secure" Assange complained in an interview broadcast in the early hours of today by France Info and although it has acknowledged being "used to this kind of pressure, the current situation is" perhaps the most dramatic "than ever lived.

The mediator of the African Union returned to Ivory Coast

The mediator of the African Union (AU) to the Ivorian crisis, the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, will for the second time in Cote d'Ivoire "Thursday or Friday," his spokesman announced. "He will meet first with the chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping in Nairobi on Wednesday, before leaving for the Ivory Coast," he said Tuesday January 11 at the Dennis Onyango.

Mr. Odinga visited the first time in Abidjan, in early January, where he met with three heads of state mandated by the sub-region, MM. Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo. Kenyan Prime Minister has repeatedly protested against the possibility of setting up a coalition government in Côte d'Ivoire to end the crisis, saying this would amount to "a rape of democracy".

China showcases its advanced weaponry during Gates visit

Chinese President Hu Jintao, has confirmed today to Secretary of U.S. Defense, Robert Gates, who made the first flight test of the ultra-modern stealth fighter. Using this type of fighter shows that China has shortened considerably the difference in advanced weaponry over the U.S.. The test on this game, which could potentially be detected by the radars, there has been in southwest China, in the city of Cgdu.

Australia: an assessment of flooding in Queensland gets heavier