Mubarak and his transition plan did not appease popular anger

The decision by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to create a commission to reform some laws and the''road map''presented by Vice President Omar Suleiman to ensure the transition has not placated the popular anger. In one of the most massive since the beginning of the revolt, hundreds of thousands of people in Tahrir Square in Cairo returned to pray, dream and cry out against Mubarak, demanding the resignation of the immediate scene was repeated in the streets City of Alexandria.

Brazil .- Rousseff concerned about the imbalance in trade between Brazil and the U.S.

BRASILIA, 8 Feb. The president of Brazil, Dilma Roussef, held Monday a meeting in Brazil with the U.S. Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, which advocated Rousseff solve the trade imbalance between the two countries. Treasury Secretary on Monday traveled to Brazil to meet with Rousseff in a meeting which was also attended by ministers of the Civil House, Antonio Palocci, and Guido Mantega.

Gates urges Arabs to undertake reforms regmenes

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday at a press conference at the Pentagon that it is "essential" that both Egypt and Tunisia make an orderly transition to democracy. "I hope that other governments in the region, seeing the spontaneous movement of Tunisia and Egypt, to take measures to get moving in a positive direction to address the grievances of its people," Rumsfeld said.

Gates's comments were the first who was the chief of the armed forces since the Egyptians took to the streets two weeks ago to denounce the regime of Hosni Mubarak. In turn, Vice President Joe Biden asked his counterpart Omar Suleiman to open the doors of dialogue with the opposition and achieve an "early" transition.

Al Qaeda to the demonstrators: "Let the holy war" Thousands of people still in Tahrir Square

CAIRO - The Egyptian Vice-President Omar Suleiman raised the alarm among the inmates escaped in recent weeks during the anti-government protests, there are some Islamic militants linked to Al Qaeda. News that coincides with the appearance on a jihadist forum of a press with which Al Qaeda in Iraq calls on demonstrators to "jihad against the Egyptian tyrant and his masters in Washington and Tel Aviv" in Egypt for the foundation of an "Islamic state ".

Done at the LSE for the Italian Week

Will culminate Friday with a speech by the director of Done and the Deputy Padellaro Newspapers Anthony Marco Travaglio, the Italian Week held at the London School of Economics (LSE) by the students of the Italian Society. The aim is to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy without rhetoric and false complacency.

Yesterday opened the work Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist and author of the recently released Forza Italy in Italian translation. How to restart after Berlusconi. It goes on today and tomorrow with representatives from the world of sport, as Gianluca Vialli, and the economy, such as Giacomo Vaciago and Andrea Prat, LSE professor in the same.

Beijing strengthens its control over its REE

China began to build up strategic reserves of rare earth elements that could enable it to further control the supply of essential metals in the manufacture of many high-tech products, reports the Wall Street Journal. Storage capacity in place in recent months in Inner Mongolia are greater in volume than the total Chinese exports in 2010, which amounted to 39,813 metric tons, according to the business daily.

Human rights activists against Bush

Under his leadership, should prisoners have been tortured - now want to make human rights organizations, the former U.S. President George W. Bush responsible. They are pressing to lift the immunity the 64-year-olds - a visit to Switzerland had already burst Bush. - International human rights organizations to increase the pressure on former U.S. President George W. Bush. On Monday details of a display were known, had been canceled because of the 64-year-old to visit in Switzerland at short notice. The human rights organization ECCHR Bush had indicated in two cases relating to allegations of torture. She is supported among others by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York.