Thursday, February 24, 2011

African heads of state leaving Abidjan

The four heads of state sent by the African Union to Abidjan to try to resolve post-election conflict in Ivory Coast left the country after meeting with the protagonists of the crisis, without having obtained a solution. In a statement released to local media, the four governors, Jacob Zuma, South Africa, Idriss Deby of Chad, the Tanzanian Jakaya Kikwete and Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, announced that they will meet in Nouakchott in the coming days address the situation.

Argentina .- Fernandez de Kirchner appointed a new head of presidential security

BUENOS AIRES, 23 Feb. The president of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, on Wednesday accepted the resignation of presidential security chief, Colonel Alexander Graham, to be replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Agustin Rodriguez. The resignation of the head of the Military is produced after January 12, an employee of the agency stole a sum of money would be earmarked to pay for the tour that the President of Argentina made by Turkey, Kuwait and Qatar.

Obama says U.S. action in Libya with the international community

Barack Obama yesterday called for an end to violence in Libya and stressed the need to coordinate with the international community to take action against Muammar Gaddafi, but announced no concrete measures the United States rather than shipping in the coming days emissaries to Europe and the rest of the world to exchange proposals.

Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton will travel next Monday at a meeting of foreign ministers in Geneva to discuss the situation in Libya. With the same goal, his number two, William Burns, will launch tomorrow a tour of several Arab and European capitals. "This is not just a U.S. problem," Obama said in a statement read at the White House, "is the whole world is watching." "In a situation as volatile as this, it is imperative that the world speaks with one voice," he added.

What you wrote about the death quandosi

We talk about the dead, so many deaths. But as you die, hit by bullets in the streets and squares of a war (civil or not)? What is a body falling on the pavement with a bang? As c falls orpo dead, in the pure and simple law of physics and end of life. In front of everyone, in front of other linked up to that moment the same fate.

The arbitrariness of the death strikes as the sniper who shot, with the accuracy of the bullet. And the soul that has the loop c olor blood coming out from the wound. What is an army checkpoint, or on a street in the middle of nowhere, or in a hail of bullets from behind a building or three herbs of the savanna, or the dunes of Africa.

Libya: fear of a mass exodus to neighboring countries and Europe

While dozens of countries are evacuating their nationals by air or by sea, Libyans and Tunisians but also thousands of Egyptians are in a hurry on the roads to flee Libya. Crescent suggests a risk of mass exodus, and Europe is preparing to face a major humanitarian crisis on its doorstep. "5700 Tunisians and Libyans who fled Libya crossed the border between the two countries at Ras Jedir Monday and Tuesday.

"Unconstitutional the law against gay marriage"

WASHINGTON - It was one of the key points of the program at the election of Barack Obama on gay rights. For then presidential candidate of the United States, the DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act, in defense of marriage), was to be repealed, and had to stop discriminating against same-sex couples in this regard (a concept contained in a leaflet still on tenant of the White House website).

A line, however, are not reflected in the activities of the Department of Justice, which continued until a few months ago, to defend the rule in court in the face of complaints from gay couples. Federal law establishes two principles in question severely challenged by groups fighting for gay rights.

Revolt against Gaddafi: Libya's dictator uses impotence of the West

Angela Merkel and other leaders to the Libyan dictator an immediate cessation of violence - but its appeals unheeded. The influence of the West on Tripoli is low, in the end it will depend on the will to hold opponents of the Gaddafi. Despite the speech was Muammar al-Gaddafi on Tuesday, "very, very scary," have been ruled Angela Merkel.

The Chancellor threatened Libya with sanctions should not be violence against opponents of the regime set. As the German head of government, other Western politicians have not let a lack of sharp words of condemnation for the brutal attacks of the Libyan armed forces and foreign mercenaries on demonstrators in Benghazi and Tripoli.