Daily World Buzz

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Defy curfew for a second day in Tunisia

Thousands of protesters defied the curfew in Tunisia and maintain their protest at the government palace in the capital demanding the departure of all ministers of former executive transition. This is the second night the crowd ignores the extent to capital. Over three thousand people remained closed after demonstrating outside the headquarters of the Government.

The Government Palace Square became a makeshift protest camp, where people shared food and drink to the protesters who repeatedly sing the national anthem and chanted slogans against Prime Minister and the Government. While government spokesman announced that a cabinet reshuffle is imminent in Tunisia.

The 'narcos' shoot at a helicopter of the press in Brazil

BRASILIA, 25 A group of drug traffickers shot three times against the helicopter Brazilian channel Globo 'while trying to record images of a police operation in the Morro da Mineira slum in the state of Rio de Janeiro (southeast), said television. Only two of the bullets came to hitting the plane, a Eurocopter AS350-B2 known as 'Globocop' in the downtown area and the tail, thus damaging the control system, so that the pilot Antonio Ramos was forced to make an emergency landing at the airport Jacarepaguá.

Attack on Moscow airport: terrorism is Medvedev's peace course in question

The massacre in Moscow with Russian President Medvedev can stand as a daydreamer. He wants the North Caucasus, from which the terrorists were probably converted to the ski destination, attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists. Instead, Moscow is likely to beat again in the hour of the hardliners.

Dmitry Medvedev had planned his week quite different. On Tuesday the Russian president wanted to fly to the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Wednesday and deliver the opening speech - and draw from the mighty of the world the vision of a peaceful, economically developed Caucasus, with hundreds of thousands of tourists.

Return to growth: a program of reforms to the budget of the European Union

In 2003 Sapir report (Agenda for a Growing Europe) concluded that "the EU budget is a historical relic." Eight years later, amid a sovereign debt crisis, there are still leaders in the Council and European Parliament to insist that the recipe for competitiveness is the same. More taxpayer money for landowners and the big food companies.

More market distortions in the agricultural sector. More subsidies to coal mines, pop music concerts and fuel for fishing vessels. And we wonder why we are not competitive. The EU has made great strides in the last 20 years. We have the single market and the euro. The Lisbon Treaty gives us the constitutional stability and the agreement need to create the European Stability Mechanism provides the foundation for long-term financial stability.

Berisha: "I have foiled a coup to defend the freedom of Albania"

TIRANA - Prime Minister, you talk about the coup, accused the opposition of trying to seize power by force. It is a serious charge. "The whole world saw what happened on 21. The opposition has made a protest in a premeditated attack, with the aim of seizing power by force." There were clashes. But eventually someone fired from the government building and killed three people.

"The investigation will determine who shot him. Dozens of people armed with video immortalized among the protesters. This is not provocation. The plan included a phase A and phase B are taken on time. But the attempt was foiled." They are busy days for Sali Berisha, Albanian Prime Minister, leader of a coalition that won the challenge by measuring the Socialists Edi Rama in June 2009.

Britain, the government opposed the increase in salary of parliamentarians

The British government wants to halt the increase in salary for parliamentarians. To be consistent with the decision to freeze the compensation. And to avoid attacks from the public. In a time when across the country tightens its belt and where the press is back to talk about the scandal of expenses inflated by politicians (a former MP is jailed in recent days).

Senior salaries review body (Ssrb), the body that since 2008 manages changes in salaries of politicians in the United Kingdom, has approved an increase of 1 per cent for MPs equivalent to 657 pounds per year (about 770 €). The increase should be from 2011-2012. The Ssrb calculated variations on the payroll of politicians in relation to the salaries of a number of civil servants from different sectors.

The attack at Moscow airport Domodedovo

The attack has been thirty-five deaths on Monday at the Moscow airport Domodedovo has probably been committed by a woman suicide bomber and an accomplice, a procedure "usual" for the rebels in the North Caucasus, said a police source, quoted by Ria Novosti.