Worse cardiovascular health problem Ben Ali

Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled his country on 14 January under pressure from a popular revolt, is "in a coma for two days in a Saudi hospital after suffering a stroke, said Thursday a family friend. "He went into coma for two days. It is located in Jeddah hospital, in western Saudi Arabia, said a source in his family environment.

"Suffered a CVA (stroke), is in serious condition," said this source reached by telephone by the agency AFP in a Gulf country. Ben Ali, 74, and his family fled to Saudi Arabia after almost a month of popular revolt, after 23 years in power. The release also was published by French daily Le Monde, which cited the blog of a journalist specializing in Tunisian problem.

The Argentine government has blamed the company Ferrobaires train crash

BUENOS AIRES, 17 Feb. The Argentine government has blamed the train accident that left four dead and over hundred injured, the company Ferrobaires, but will remain cautious as they develop research and do not discard any hypotheses. "We have seen, from the administrative standpoint, that there was a great responsibility by training who dispatched Ferrobaires brakes with emergency death and void", explained at a press conference the Planning Minister Julio De Vido .

"On Twitter a novelty lasts three days"

Half Brazilian and half Japanese, Alexandre Okada is proud to have helped bring Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil. "It was something historic. Lula had been a president superimportant and gave way to a stranger." To meet the challenge, the Sanhedrin who designed the presidential campaign (five politicians and five communications professionals) opted for a revolutionary formula.

From Brasilia headquarters controlled all the information 24 hours a day. "It was like a Big Brother," he said. The aesthetic of the campaign took close to advertising methods. "We introduced visual codes, graphics, color, lights and television structured blocks dynamically. As if it were a variety show.

Green light in the Brazilian Congress to the proposal to increase minimum wage

BRASILIA, 17 Feb. (Reuters) - The Chamber of Deputies of Brazil has given the green light Wednesday to the proposal of President Dilma Rousseff to increase the minimum wage, which is his first major legislative victory since taking power on 1 January. The parliament approved a bill to increase the national minimum wage to 545 reais (240 euros), rejecting the amendments supported by labor leaders on an even larger increase.

Learn the art and put it aside

It is now known that our country is light years away from the rich cultural and artistic splendor which have marked the course of history, and London, as well as being a destination for many Italians (and not) in search of employment, is now also a kind of focal point for art and culture. Bringing the term "art" out of conventional places such as museums, galleries, concert halls and the like, you realize immediately how you feel here a fair amount of freedom of expression at the level of all amateur who has something to say is free to do so and usually there is someone who listens.

No Iranian warship borrows the Suez Canal

In the aftermath of an Israeli warning, the authorities of the Suez Canal were informed on Thursday the cancellation of the planned move by the strategic path of two Iranian warships were to win the Mediterranean. The two vessels, the frigate and the ship-Alvand tanker Kharg, currently located near the Saudi port of Jeddah on the Red Sea.

The Iranian news agency Fars (Fars News Agency, ANF) announced on 26 January that the cadets of the Iranian navy were leaving for a training campaign a year and they win the Red Sea via the Gulf Aden, then travel to the Mediterranean after taking the Suez Canal to join a Syrian port. During their mission, the cadets will be trained to defend the cargo and tanker against the continuing threat of attacks by Somali pirates continued FNA.

The Italian kidnapped in Algeria "are in the hands of al Qaeda"

ROME - "I'm in the hands of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, but I'm fine." And 'what you hear in the audio broadcast from satellite TV tonight' al-Arabiya '. "I'm Sandra Maria Mariani - the woman said in French in the audio message delivered to the TV in Dubai - and I was kidnapped on February 2, 2001 near Djanet, Algeria.

I'm still in the hands of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in particular are in the hands of the battalion Tareq Ben Zayad, which is led by Abdul Hamid Abu Zayd. " LISTEN TO THE AUDIO The Italian woman had been kidnapped in southern Algeria for more than two weeks ago. The recording begins with the voice of a man speaking in Arabic and stated, "We, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, declare that we have in our hands this woman from Wednesday, February 2 and demand that she might go to his head of state."

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• Arab Revolution: Will Algeria's Regime Be The Next to Fall? (14/02/2011)
• Arab Revolution: Will Algeria's Regime Be The Next to Fall? (14/02/2011)
• Report: Italian Tourist Abducted in Algeria (04/02/2011)

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