Foreign journalists targeted

Many journalists covering the deadly clashes in Cairo between supporters and opponents of the regime of Hosni Mubarak complained of increasing violence against them. In the streets of the capital, reporters have been attacked by men in civilian clothes in favor of President Mubarak, but also by anti-government protesters, more and more nervous.

Benjamin Barthe, Special Envoy of the World in Egypt, was questioned at length, without violence by the Egyptian secret service this morning at Suez: Listen! According to Benjamin Barthe, journalists are all asking themselves how to move, protect themselves, trying to work. Hotels around Tahrir Square has been emptied - more or less forcibly - by the henchmen of the Mubarak regime.

Obama asked to meet Abdullah Ali reforms in Yemen

.- U.S. President Barack Obama praised the political reforms announced by Yemen and called for restraint against the protests that continue to protest against the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the White House said Thursday. "President Obama called Yemeni President Saleh (Wednesday) February 2 to salute the important reforms that President Saleh had announced that day and asked him to fulfill his promises to take concrete measures," he said in a statement the U.S.

Egypt rejects and start''transition''

The new prime minister of Egypt, Ahmed Shafiq, rejected the U.S. demands and the international community''and''start transition of the country and promised to punish those responsible for violence in Tahrir Square. Under the tenth consecutive day of protests demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and the second in clashes between opponents and supporters of the president, Shafiq gave Thursday a press conference to calm things down.

Berlusconi conducts federalist reform despite the rejection by Parliament

The Italian government approved by decree the country's entry into the municipal fiscal federalism, demanded by the Northern League party, a partner in Silvio Berlusconi's executive, hours after parliament voted against the measure, in a decision that Opposition calls "unprecedented." "It is an outrageous political act: it is not never seen a council of ministers convened urgently to speak out against an election of Parliament." The text, however, must still be ratified by the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano.

Egypt into chaos, the UN left the country hunting for journalists, U.S.: "Unacceptable"

CAIRO - Another day of high tension in Egypt. Cairo continued clashes between the protesters who oppose Mubarak and those who support it. For the Ministry of Health in two days of mobilization, there were thirteen dead and over 1,200 injured. In this budget, unfortunately temporary, must be added - according to sources not yet confirmed - a foreign national killed in Tahrir Square.

A situation that has prompted UN officials in the country to leave Egypt. In the evening, President Mubarak said in an interview with ABC broadcaster: "I resign if I could, but it would be chaos." Then, from Washington, warning of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, calling for "restraint by all parties concerned", urged his Egyptian counterpart to enter into "negotiations and expanded credible" and stressed "the responsibility of the Egyptian government not to escalate in violence in peaceful demonstrations.

Now the U.S. is expected to bond centenarians

Primates, you know, are made to be broken. Even when the existing ones appear to have science fiction. Or, rather, "fantafinanziari. No exception to the rule nor the bond market, a favorite place of unprecedented storm now affecting the sovereign bonds of all or most of the major economies of the planet.

In a surprise move, the U.S. Treasury Department was urged by his advisors to bring to market a product never seen before: Federal bond maturing in 2111. No, not a typo, we mean just "duemilacentoundici. Because, believe it or not, the idea is this: place a bond on the market in 100 years, a period that is twice that found today in the longer-term securities on the market.

New York passed the ban on smoking in outdoor

It will now be forbidden to smoke a little away on the lawns of Central Park. After the Spaniards, it is now the turn of New Yorkers having to comply with a particularly restrictive tobacco legislation. The New York City Council adopted Wednesday, February 3, prohibition of smoking in its parks, beaches and other outdoor venues.

The ban, immediately welcomed by the mayor, Michael Bloomberg, 1700 extends to parks and beaches about 22 kilometers from the city, as well as pedestrian areas like Times Square or walking, Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. Michael Bloomberg, a former smoker became fierce opponent of smoking, had met with strong opposition in 2003 when he banned smoking in bars and restaurants.