China - China's Lunar New Year celebrations are compromised by snow

The Lunar New Year holiday, a traditional period of travel in China, are highly disturbed by the cancellation of flights and trains due to heavy snowfall.

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Koreas agreed between military dialogue

After the military tension between South Korean and North dePyongyang attack the island of Yeonpyeong, both nations agreed to hold high-level military talks. The pact between the two arises hours after U.S. President, Barack Obama, and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, criticized the nuclear ambitions of North Korea.

A Unification Ministry official said Pyongyang North Korea bowed to South Korea to discuss specifically the collapse of one of its warships last year, plus an attack on a South Korean island. Deputy Spokesman U.S. State Department, Mark Toner, said that despite the efforts between the two Koreas, the United States will not resume the six-party talks (with Russia, China, Japan and the Koreas) until the communist regime does not show their willingness to seriously address its denuclearization.

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Grief in Tunisia by the demonstrators killed in protests

.- The Tunisians on Friday put its flag at half mast and state television broadcast readings from the Koran in memory of the dozens of people killed during protests that led to the ouster of a president for over two decades, ruled with an iron hand . The government declared three days of national mourning from Friday.

The Interior Minister said that 78 civilians were killed in protests that lasted nearly a month, many of them because of the shooting in the street demonstrations against unemployment, corruption and repression. A French photographer, and some members of the security forces were also killed during the protests, and many people were injured.

Iraq bombings kill 50 pilgrims killed

Two suicide bombings carried out in North and South of the city of Kerbala, Baghdad, killed at least 50 people dead and 150 others wounded, sources with the Iraqi Interior Ministry. The victims of the attacks, which allegedly were launched with two car bombs, would be pilgrims to participate in the celebrations of "Arbainiya", the holiday that commemorates the forty days after the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Muhammad and third most important magnet for the Shiite community.

Tunisian minister officially asked to cease

Protests were held in Tunisia after the overthrow of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, because the citizens are crying not include members of the old regime in the interim government. On the streets, at least a thousand protesters, complaining about the presence of many ministers of the ousted regime of Ben Ali.

"The people want the government to resign," chanted the demonstrators, who had signs that read: "Traitors, and we are not afraid." "I'm with you. We will not shoot, it is essential that the concentration is peaceful, "said an Army colonel. During the first Council of Ministers after the overthrow of Ben Ali, the interim president, Mohamed Ghanuchi, decided that the State will take possession of "movable and immovable property of the Democratic Constitutional Assembly (RCD) party of ousted president.

Evo Morales Bolivia .- meets this Saturday, 5 years at the helm of the presidency

LA PAZ, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, begins Saturday its sixth year presidential term, with the need for measures favorable to foreign investment although this could cause political difficulties. The political and economic situation of the country depend largely on how the president will continue his relationship with the unions, indigenous people and other social organizations, which has promised to consult economic measures after the failure suffered by the increase in fuel prices that have cost harsh protests.

Amounted to 764 dead on the balance of the floods in Rio de Janeiro

RIO DE JANEIRO, 21 Brazilian authorities have risen to 764 Friday to official figures of people killed by floods in recent days in the state of Rio de Janeiro, where the death toll could rise in the coming hours, the extent that about 400 people remain missing. The State Public Prosecutor has indicated that nearly half of the missing have been reported in the town of Teresopolis, where he seeks to 195 people.