Mubarak turns a deaf ear to hundreds of thousands demanding his resignation

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on Friday in Egypt during a new round of protests dubbed the "Day out", called to force the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, who was deaf to domestic and international claims. In Cairo, a crowd gathered in the central Tahrir Square (of release), where opponents, dug from the January 25, resisted the attempt Wednesday to a violent eviction carried out by supporters of Mubarak, in a pitched battle that left eight dead.

Unasur Unasur .- Ministers will meet in February to seek consensus on a successor to Nestor Kirchner

MONTEVIDEO, 4 Feb. The foreign ministers of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) will meet Feb. 17 in an attempt to achieve consensus on a successor to former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, as announced Friday by Foreign Minister Uruguay, Luis Almagro. Nestor Kirchner served as secretary general of UNASUR since May 4, 2010 until his untimely death in Argentina on 27 October.

Several names have emerged as possible successors to Kirchner. In this regard, Almagro said that so far only been nominated former Colombian Minister Maria Emma Mejia and former Venezuelan Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque. On 3 December, during the XX Latin American Summit of Presidents held in the town of Mar del Plata, Argentina, the foreign ministers of Unasur not reach agreement on this issue.

Merkel considers errneo hasty elections held in Egypt

Call an election in Egypt at the beginning of democratic reform process would not be very successful, according to today warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "An election precipitated the beginning of the democratization process is probably the wrong approach" since the forced departure of Mubarak could cause a power vacuum dangerous, warned Merkel at the 47 th Security Summit in Munich, referring to the revolt antigovernment Egypt.

Giffords's husband back in space

WASHINGTON - The recall of the space is too strong. So, astronaut Mark Kelly will return to fly, more comfortable because the conditions of his wife, as he said himself, "improving day by day." His wife Gabrielle Giffords, Member of the Arizona seriously wounded by a bullet that has reached the head of 8 shooting in January in Tucson.

Now, is in a rehabilitation center. While her husband, astronaut, April 19 will board the shuttle to drive the last mission of space shuttle Endeavour, which will go on even Italian Roberto Vittori. "The conditions of my wife's improving day by day - he stresses - neurosurgeons and neurologists who follow me say it is a good sign, the speed of progress is very important." For this reason, he decided: "I can not wait to rejoin my crew of STS-134.

London, the Pope's visit was paid for with public funds to aid the Third World

Benedict XVI's visit to Britain, last September, cost the subjects of Elizabeth over 10 million pounds. Now, after a few months, we find that funds with which it was funded the visit of the pope were diverted to other expenditures, and a new controversy rages. Let's see where they were taken money. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth is that which has invested less, only 750 thousand pounds.

The two French hostages did not die under bullets French

The Paris prosecutor confirmed Thursday, February 3, Vincent Delory, one of two French hostages kidnapped in Niger and found dead in January, has been killed in a fire and not by gunfire. The circumstances of the death of a young man, so far unclear, could be determined by expert medical technology and ballistics.

"The expertise showed that his death was not associated with wounds caused by firearms but was put on the account of thermal effects generated by a fire," the prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin said in a statement. Toxics in the car in which he was to be the cause of this fatal fire. The body of Anthony and Vincent Delory Léocour, the upper bound, were discovered after a violent clash between the kidnappers in Mali, who were also prisoners of the Nigerian police, special forces and French.

Egyptian journalist dies

An Egyptian journalist who was injured by sniper fire on Jan. 28 died today in Cairo, according to the media for whom he worked. Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud, 36, employee of a news publication of the conglomerate Al Ahram, was wounded by sniper fire near Tahrir Square while covering a clash between police and demonstrators.

The digital edition of government daily Al Ahram, to make known the journalist's death, said Mahmud went into a coma in a hospital on 28 January but died today from wounds received. This is the first journalist to die in Egypt in recent days during protests against the regime of Hosni Mubarak, which has resulted in over one hundred deaths in the country and some five thousand injured.