A double bombing in Karbala caused 18 dead and 55 injured

At least 18 people have died this morning and another 55 were injured by exploding two car bombs in the Iraqi city of Kerbala, 100 km south of Baghdad. The most serious attack, which caused 12 dead and 21 wounded, was to a tour of Shia pilgrims who were in that city, to visit the holy sites for the religious community.

Among those killed in the explosion are Iraqi soldiers, Iraqi officials said. Earlier today, a car bomb exploded in a parking Karbala has killed 6 people and injured 34 others. These days thousands of visitors are in the Shiite holy city of Karbala to participate in Al Arbainiya, the holiday that commemorates the forty days after the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammed and the third most important for this community.

Massacre of pilgrims in Karbala are two car bombs killed 18

BAGHDAD - Two car bombs in quick succession have a massacre in Karbala, the Shiite holy city in this half hour of a great pilgrimage for the recurrence dell'Arbain. At least 18 dead, hundred mathematical injured. The first car bomb exploded in a parking lot at the eastern outskirts of the city, shortly after seven.

According to security sources claimed the lives of six people and injuring at least thirty others. A few hours later there was a second explosion not far from the first, which has killed 12 people and wounding 21. Sources quoted by Nina speak instead of 25 dead and 40 wounded. A third car bomb was intercepted and defused in time, they added the same sources.

In America's increasingly strong antiabortistisono

It 'was the weekend of remembrance, protest, of celebration. In the United States was the weekend that marked the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling in which the Supreme Court in 1973 established the right of women to abortion. And now as then, America is divided. Many have gathered in churches and prayed for a total ban on abortion.

Others asked to defend and expand women's rights. The culmination of the mobilization will be today, Monday, with the traditional "March for Life" in Washington and the arrival of tens of thousands of anti-abortion. The divisions and wounds that still mark the United States with regard to termination of pregnancy were back out in the Declaration of Washington politics.

Lebanon: Hariri's supporters denounced a "coup" by Hezbollah

Hundreds of supporters of the incumbent Prime Minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, demonstrated Monday, January 24 in Lebanon against Hezbollah, accusing it of conducting a "coup" by trying to impose its candidate as head of government. These events occur after Najib Mikati, Hezbollah candidate for prime minister, has emerged as the favorite to be named as future prime minister, instead of Saad Hariri.

Absolve Israel for attack on ship

An Israeli commission absolved the Government and the Army of allegations of wrongdoing by the bloody capture of a Turkish aid ship tried to break the blockade on Gaza, and said the activists on board were responsible for the violence. Turkel Commission, composed of six members, including two international observers, whose report will be the focus of a presentation of Israel to an investigation by the United Nations Organization (UNO) on the May 31 incident, was in favor of naval blockade, but Israel urged to review the implementation of sanctions on the Hamas government in Gaza.

Errors come to light Tianditu, Asian version of Google Earth

Tianditu, the ambitious Chinese version of Google Earth, is attracting ridicule from local surfers errors that collects geographic and place names, and not only outside of their geography, as the mysterious cities named "Unk" in Spain or the United Kingdom. Chinese forums, the Asian country's independent press and the global Internet are checking how China sees the world condemned to exile after Google in its territory.

Muslims, clinging to power in Eastern democracies

It was last January 14 when Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, until then president of Tunisia, was the need to leave their country due to growing social tensions that led disturbioscallejeros. Ali ruled the Tunisians from the November 7, 1987, after 23 years in government, left the country with 14% unemployment and a per capita income of nine thousand five hundred U.S.

dollars. Tunisia is not the only case that an agent has been perpetuated in office. The countries of the North African region have heads of state who have extended their Government up to 41 years and counting. Such is the case of Libya, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi leads the reins of the country since 1969, after a coup d'etat perpetrated in the same year.