For freedom and dignity, the Tunisian people rose up. Yes, such insurgencies are still possible today. They are needed. They are promising. But they are threatened because they challenge powerful local interests and structures of international order that the fear and works immediately to crush them or mislead them.They need unity, determination, insight, and solidarity. After twenty-three years of "passivity" apparent in a few days of heroic struggle and intelligently, without fear of repression, ideological without inflation, citizens of Tunisia - unemployed with or without qualifications, workers, students, professors, lawyers , officials, merchants, soldiers - shot a brutal dictatorship and corrupt, wasteful and shameful for their country for their land of ancient civilization, which remained in power supported financial institutions, governments and military alliances in the region , experts from the world "governance".
.- An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 rocked a remote area in southwestern Pakistan and was felt in several parts of the country, where it caused fear among the population, researchers said. The earthquake had its epicenter in the province of Balochistan, the least populated area of the country, reported the U.S.
The new coalition government of Tunisia faced difficulties on Tuesday with the resignation of three ministers and one opposition party alliance retired even transition to protest the presence of members of the outgoing president's political organization. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi opposition leaders joined a coalition announced Monday, after President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia after weeks of violent street protests.
BUENOS AIRES, 18 The president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, met this morning with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al-Thani, with whom he signed agreements on tourism, science and technology at the beginning of the Bachelet's official visit to this country. Fernandez de Kirchner was received at the emir's palace next to the Planning Minister Julio de Vido, the Science and Technology, Lino Barañao, and foreign, Hector Timerman.
"If the rest of autocratic regimes in the area do not want to deal with mass demonstrations such as Tunisia, have to start making concessions." So at least I think Eugene Rogan, who has gone through Madrid to present his book The Arabs. Ottoman Empire to the present. "I think other countries would be more difficult to overthrow the rulers of what has been Tunisia," he admits, "but anything is possible, because no one hoped would happen in this country.
BERLIN - It 's the fault of the Russian flight controllers and their military commanders to instruct them, bad if Moscow on April 10 last year the Polish president's plane, carrying the then Head of State Lech Kaczynski and other 95 people , fell while attempting to land at Smolensk. He says the Polish Committee of Inquiry on the disaster (in which they died Kaczynski, his wife Mary and all the other passengers on the Tupolev 154) flipping heavy charges to the Russian side, the limits of willful murder.
Amman, special envoy - "We ask the Jordanians to stay calm and to respect public property. We do not want chaos or violence of any kind, but we demand political and economic reforms under the leadership of King Abdullah II. " This call to law enforcement in respect of the stability of the Hashemite regime could be launched by Prime Minister Samir Rifai, but Hamza Mansour, secretary general of the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political wing Muslim Brotherhood and the main opposition party, who is the author.