Two suicide bombings in Karbala killed at least 50 Shiite pilgrims in

Karbala - At least 45 people died and 150 were injured as a result of two separate attacks in the Shiite holy city of Kerbala, Iraq. The suicide bombers have used two car bombs. The victims, mostly women and children, pilgrims would arrive in town for a party. The first bomb exploded north of Karbala about 13 hours to Italy.

The second blast occurred about twenty minutes later, ten miles south of town. A Karbala in recent days we celebrate the Arbain, or annual pilgrimage to the holy places of the city on the 40th or the day after Ashura, which commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in 681. In the city are expected to attract around one million pilgrims.

Case Battisti, now the European Union also calls for extradition

STRASBOURG - The case of Cesare Battisti walks in the European Union. With the resolution adopted today by an overwhelming majority in Parliament, who wanted the extradition of terrorist refugee in Brazil is not only Italy. That is in Strasbourg came the same relatives of the victims of Baptists and attended a press conference organized by all the Head of Delegation of the Italian parties (PDL, PD, IDV, UDC, Lega).

Tunisia - The Palestinian Authority banned a demonstration in support of Tunisia

Ramallah, special envoy - The Palestinian Authority has prevented the holding of a rally to support the revolution of Tunisia, to be held Wednesday, Jan. 19, Ramallah, the political capital of the West Bank. The few dozen protesters who defied the ban by the authorities, have encountered when they arrived at the Manara, the main town square, a gathering of activists from the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas .

Students take 5 ex repressors trial of Argentina's dictatorship

BUENOS AIRES, 20 A court in Buenos Aires on Thursday will resume the trial of five former oppressors accused of crimes against humanity for acts that occurred in the clandestine detention center known as Motor Orletti during the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). The hearings will take place until Friday morning in Federal Court number one which started these proceedings on 3 June.

More than 80 witnesses have testified about the events in Orletti Automotive facilities, where they held the opposition to military rule. In the case are accused former Colonel Reuben and former general Visuara Eduardo Cabanillas, plus former members of the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) Honorio Martínez Ruiz, Raul and Eduardo Guglielminetti Ruffo.

Death of a traveler on a flight carrying cocaine between Colombia and Spain

A passenger on a flight from Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Madrid has died of an overdose caused allegedly by the balls of cocaine, carried in the stomach, reports EFE. Iberia's plane had to make an unscheduled landing at Lajes airport on Terceira, Azores Islands, due to the unwillingness of the young, 22.

The flight landed at Barajas with three hours behind his schedule. The Aviation Herald magazine says Terceira police sources said that the man had a "large number of capsules of cocaine inside her body," as determined by autopsy. Another ill during a flight An eight-month pregnant woman was arrested Sunday in Palma de Mallorca when he started having seizures during a flight from Madrid.

Siege to the party of Ben Ali's government approves amnesty

TUNIS - People keep screaming to get off the streets, showing signs, slogans. Calls for the resignation of the government. He wants to erase the traces of the party that has been in power for 23 years. And the day when you meet for the first time the Council of Ministers of the new 'government of national unity', the protests have had effect.

The central committee of the RCD, the party of former Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, is dissolved. He reported the state television, explaining that the decision was taken after several committee members, who are also ministers of the new transitional government have resigned yielding to pressure the opposition.

Mafia, big haul in New York arrested 127 members

Maxi-FBI raid against Cosa Nostra in New York. During the operation were arrested 127 members in five families of Italian Americans in the Big Apple: Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno and Colombo. According to what has been learned in the coming hours there should be a stop in Italy. Ended up in handcuffs a few men of the clan of DeCavalcante, which operates in New Jersey.

Arrests in New England. The haul was taken before dawn and within two hours dozens of gangsters have been brought into the prison at Fort Hamilton. More than 800 officers involved. Among the charges mafia association, murder, extortion and gambling. The New York Time s, who has called the anti-mafia operation, the more important that the federal police have ever made, said that the Colombo family was the hardest hit by the raid, which led to the arrest of the entire leadership.