It aggravates the budget of the first federal aid floods and controversy

RIO DE JANEIRO - At least 271 people have lost their lives in floods and landslides that are developing in the knee region Serrana, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. And the weather does not foresee an improvement in the short term. According to experts, in the last hours in the area have fallen 84% of the predicted rainfall for the entire month of January.

The places most affected by the floods is Teresopolis, a hundred kilometers from the state capital: the city budget is at least 130 deaths. Other 107 victims were registered in Nova Friburgo, 140 km north of Rio. Among the latter there are at least three firefighters, were swept away by a landslide while engaged in rescue operations.

A University of Oise killed in the violence in Tunisia

One civilian killed Wednesday by gunfire in the town of Douz, Bettahar Hatem, a professor of computer science at the University of Technology of Compiègne, said Wednesday evening at a teacher unionist. Stephane Tassel, Secretary General of Snesup-FSU, the first union of higher education, said that Mr.

Bettahar, 38, was over ten years professor at the Joint Research Unit heuristic and diagnosis of complex systems (Heudiasyc) of the UTC in Compiègne. "The death, in addition to others, is unbearable and intolerable," said Tassel. "I vehemently denounces the repressive policies of the Tunisian government, I support and assure the support of our struggles over the Tunisian territory.

USA: Man arrested for death threats against MPs

Arrest in California: A few days after the assassination of Arizona taken by the police in the neighboring state of a man who allegedly threatened a U.S. lawmakers on the phone with death. Los Angeles - In California, make death threats against Democrats in an uproar: According to police, a 32-year-old man was taken in Palm Springs.

He had previously threatened in two telephone calls to the democratic parliament of the State of Washington, Jim McDermott, in vulgar language. The federal prosecutor in California said that the general statement of Palm Springs suspects had threatened in his first call to kill McDermott, his family and friends.

I, prisoner of student blogger Ben Ali

We publish the testimony of a Tunisian university student who signed with a pseudonym: the text has been posted on the blog collective Nawaat, located close to the opposition I am part of the new generation lived in Tunisia under the absolute reign of Ben Ali. In high school, college, you are always afraid to talk about politics.

"There are spies everywhere," he said. No one dares to discuss it in public. Nobody trusts. The neighbor, friend, the grocer may be a spy for Ben Ali. Want to take you away by force, you or your father, in some undefined place in the evening or four in the morning? We grow up with this fear of commitment, and we continue to study, you go around, you come out at night without caring about politics.

Tucson, the appeal of Obama "America finds itself"

NEW YORK - From Tucson, Barack Obama's appeal to Americans: If America really wants to honor the six victims of that massacre in Tucson, then find himself. The must Gabrielle Giffords, "that this evening for the first time he opened his eyes," and Christina Green, 9 years old girl killed last Saturday and that "America deserves a worthy example that she had imagined." America is capable of doing so.

Flooding in Australia: the worst is over for Brisbane

Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, hit by the worst flooding in decades, offering a landscape of desolation Thursday, with 30,000 homes damaged, while at least one resident was killed. People evacuated from their homes during the last two days trying to assess damage, just hours after the floods reached their peak on Thursday at dawn.

According to the weather, the water rose to 4.45 meters in the downtown, while the forecast predicted a rating of 5 meters. During the catastrophic flood of 1974, the river reached 5.45 m. Entire neighborhoods were submerged yesterday, and electricity was cut as a precaution to 116,000 subscribers to avoid electrocution.

Spiritual Bubbles

If you get up from a satellite map of the bulldozers and cranes now in action on the entire planet's surface, something entirely possible we could see that in large swathes of the earth's crust does not move a handful of soil or building a small wall of stone. Just would detect any movement in the United States, Ireland and Spain.

Something, but without exaggeration, in emerging countries: Russia, China, India or Brazil. Everything is stopped, however, in large mammoth projects of oil-rich Persian Gulf emirates, full of empty skyscrapers and vast sea for millionaires now ruined. Only two foreign territories and peculiar, about two cities in the same geographical region, still roaring cement, new feathers are lifted and removed the land.