Libya aims to fend off Internet protests

Internet services in Libya were cut at a time when growing protests against the country's leader Moammar Gadhafi, according to a U.S. company that monitors network traffic. Arbor Networks, based in Massachusetts, said data collected from 30 ISPs around the world showed that online traffic to and from Libya abruptly disconnected yesterday.

The data also showed partial disruption of service in the early hours of Friday. With the cut to network traffic, the regime attempts to suppress one of the great tools of the Libyan opposition demonstrations were successful in Tunisia and Egypt, with calls for street protests, which led to the fall of leaders.

Crisis in Libya, Qaddafi uses mercenaries Italy and now fears a flood of migrants

Mercenaries paid up to 30 thousand dollars, snipers on rooftops and then gunfire, blood, dead. More than a hundred victims. This is how Colonel Gaddafi exercises its power. Result: the revolt of the people drowning in the blood. All in the silence of the Italian government. "I do not want to disturb him," said Silvio Berlusconi yesterday.

Speaker, however, is also the Minister of Interior, which warns of exodus. The concern of the Interior Ministry, gathered today in Corriere della Sera, is this fact: if the government in Tripoli is unable to contain the protest involving hundreds of thousands of new landings. Roberto Maroni from hours live in fear that Gaddafi would remove controls at ports and along coastlines.

Portfolio - "The World Magazine" In Algeria, the Internet space

Like Tunisia and Egypt, calls for demonstrations in Algiers are supported by Internet and social networks. For "The World Magazine", the photographer Lahcène Abib has turned his sights in cafes in Algiers and at a meeting of young Algerian militants. He saw the same desire for freedom deploy there.

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Yellow on Iranian ships in the Suez Canal TV: "already passed" but denies Fars

CAIRO - Two Iranian warships are to transit the Suez Canal directly to Syria. The move, according to officials from the Channel, will take place in the coming hours, but it is yellow: according to Iranian state television Al Alam had already happened. News, however, also denied by the agency Fars, as well as the head of the Canal.

The agency says that the two warships in Tehran "will now" in the Channel and "will arrive tomorrow in the Mediterranean." Immediate reaction of Israel, which has already defined the transition, the first since the Khomeini revolution of 1979, as "a provocation". Concern was expressed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Killed in Libya, Bahrain protests, incidents in Algeria

.- The protesters returned to take the place of the Pearl of Bahrain despite the brutal repression, in an eruption of protests against the authoritarian regimes of the Arab countries that left nearly 80 dead in Libya and a dozen in Yemen and Saturday hit Algeria. Thousands of protesters set up tents in the central square in Manama, Bahrain's capital, where they had been expelled Thursday in a police raid that left four dead.

More than 100 dead in Libya, according to the human rights organization Human Rights Watch

The CEFR of deaths in protests in Libya rises above 170 people. It is the latest figure supplied by the human rights organization Human Rights Watch based in New York. The real figure could be higher, and that in accordance with information provided by the organization, this figure is conservative and has been collecting interviews with witnesses and hospital staff.

In contrast, the Libyan Government has not provided any number of wounded or dead, or has made any comments on violence in the country. The British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said yesterday that it was known that only one hospital had 35 bodies. Quryna, the newspaper's son Seif el Islam Gaddafi's son, has acknowledged 24 dead in Benghazi and killed while trying to attack police stations and barracks.

Middle East crisis, the U.S. look to Bahrain. The strategy is an attack on Iran

It 's a difficult obstacle course that the administration of Barack Obama is following in those hours. The riots in the Middle East into question decades of American foreign policy and open scenarios currently not easily predictable. "The United States condemns the use of violence by governments against peaceful protesters," said Obama, while protests, accidents, deaths take to the streets of Libya, Yemen, Bahrain.