Friday, January 28, 2011

It was two days of protests against the government in Egypt

Egyptian activists defied an official ban with a second straight day of protests in Cairo to demand an end to the nearly 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak, but police quickly responded with tear gas and clubbed to suppress dissent. The largest protests in years, inspired by events in Tunisia, threaten to destabilize the leadership of the most important ally of the United States in the Arab world.

New Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina

MADRID, 27 Researchers from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina have discovered a new dinosaur, the Leonerasaurus taquetrensis, according to the organization. Thus, a recent study published in the journal PLOS One shows the discovery of the remains of new dinosaur to complete one of the gaps "most important" in the evolutionary history of Sauropodomorpha and which is the transition between the primitive and the giants prosauropods sauropods.

.- Brussels EU claims to have "clear" what the "limits" in the negotiations with Mercosur

BRUSSELS, 27 European Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Ciolos, has assured that it is "clear" what the "limits" that can not exceed in the negotiations for an FTA with Mercosur countries, relaunched in 2010 after several years stalled. "I assure you that these negotiations do not think there is a lack of consistency between what the EU does and what we will negotiate.

I know there are limits," said the commissioner in the full Committee of the Regions of the EU, advisory body without decision-making, in which regions have passed the doubts raised by an agreement with the Southern Cone countries. The European Commission relaunched contacts with the South American side in 2010, under the Spanish presidency, despite criticism of countries like France and the Gauls and Spanish farmers, among others, who fear losses in their sectors if the market opens Mercosur.

Anonymous detained five young people from attacks by defending WikiLeaks

British police have arrested five people between 15 and 26 belonging to the organization allegedly Anonymous attacks by the end of the year against several multinational companies that had ceased to provide services to WikiLeaks. The arrests took place early in the morning in London and the regions of West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London.

Those arrested are 15, 16, 19, 20 and 26. The department of the French gendarmerie charged with crimes related to the Network also announced today that in December arrested a 15 year old but kept it secret to avoid prejudicing the investigations in the UK. According to the London Metropolitan Police, the arrests are part of "an ongoing investigation about Anonymous that began last year due to criminal charges of distributed denial of service (DDoS, its acronym in English) by a group against several companies.

Free arrested dissidents among them also Farinas

HAVANA - After seven hours of detention, they have released along with another dozen dissidents. It 'was the same Guillermo Farinas to break the news release. The activists of the opposition to the Castro regime were arrested while protesting against the eviction of the house where lives a young pregnant woman.

Psychologist and journalist of 48 years, Farinas had put in place last year on a hunger strike that lasted 135 days, picking up the baton from Orlando Zapata, who died after a long fast to protest the lack of freedom of expression on the island. "We are free. We were arrested for coming to the aid of a family who wanted to evict.

Obama and Cuba

On 13 January, without much fanfare in the international press, President Obama has announced new measures regarding the conditions of travel and sending the U.S. currency to Cuba, to increase contacts between the two countries despite the embargo. Which has resulted now in a first disposition of the President is sent to the Department of Homeland Security and the Ministry of Treasury and State Department, which contains significant reforms.

"Rubygate": a second minor involved

Her name is Iris Berardi. She was born in 1991 and regarded by police as a "known prostitute". It took part in celebrations at Silvio Berlusconi, near Milan, according to documents sent to Parliament by the prosecutor in the investigation of sex scandal "Rubygate. She was underage when she visited at least two residences Cavaliere in November and December 2009, the agency said Anas.

The documents are based on the location of the mobile phone of the girl. Mr Berlusconi is the subject since late December in a survey called Rubygate paid for sexual services of Ruby, whose real name Karim El Mahroug, a Moroccan minor at the time of occurrence, which is a crime in Italy .