Monday, March 14, 2011

Spain will be with the allies if the UN authorized intervention in Libya

.- The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trinidad Jimenez, said today that Spain is allied with the intervention when Libya agreed to monitor its airspace, but insisted that this step requires authorization by the Security Council UN. Jimenez expressed this commitment in a press conference with the secretary general of the Arab League, Amro Musa, at the beginning of his visit to Cairo as part of a Middle East tour that will also take him to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon .

Germany. Five things to consider for a freshly arrived

The cardinal points: East and West The border between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) disappeared 21 years ago, but cultural and economic differences can still be seen. For some East Germans, the Unification was a lost opportunity to integrate into the RFA aspects of the former Socialist Republic, in their eyes, were estimated.

Westerners, meanwhile, no longer have so many jokes about his new compatriots and continue to pay a special tax religiously (the soli-Zuschlag) for the economic development of the eastern region. To measure the degree of acclimation in Berlin, an alien may be imposed on the challenge of recognizing the eastern or western origin of indigenous partners.

Luca, an Italian at the North Pole

It was 2000 when the explorer Alan Chembers arrived first at the North Pole on foot from Canada. Now we leave, and shipping is also an Italian, Luca Esposito, explorer but not in charge of trade relations of two major computer companies. Will come up there after walking 10 days in extreme conditions, dragging a sled for 130 km of 60 kg A move there will be a dual purpose.

The first and most important, to help children suffering from abuse and domestic violence in the United Kingdom through a fundraiser for the NSPCC - the equivalent of our helpline. The second, that even going to plant the flag on the Arctic ice. "I'm not a brain drain," and it probably is, Luke, 35 from around Europe after its maturity, only two and a half in London, "a city that gives so much energy, but it also takes a lot of you.

The Israeli government accelerates colonization in response to the killing of Itamar

The Israeli government Sunday, March 13 raised the alert level for fear of police reprisals after the killing of five Israelis in a West Bank settlement. It also gave the green light to build hundreds of homes in Gaza. The funeral of the family Fogel, parents and three children including a baby, stabbed to death in their beds Friday night in the settlement of Itamar (northern West Bank), took place earlier this afternoon in Jerusalem in the presence of thousands of people in a country in shock.

The Sultan of Oman gives the legislative powers

MASKS - The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos Bin Said al-Said - in power for over forty years - has decided today to give legislative powers to an advisory council, after that in Oman there were several demonstrations to demand political reforms with a growing social discontent in the background. By a decree issued by the official Ona, the Sultan ordered to give "the legislative powers and those of control" of government to the "Council of Oman, formed by a Consultative Council (Shura), elected to 83 members and a Council of State, a kind of senate of 57 members appointed by the sultan.

At least five dead and ten wounded in attacks in Iraq

.- At least five people were killed and ten others wounded in several attacks in different cities of Iraq, police sources told Efe. According to sources, an Iraqi soldier was killed by fire from an armed group in Mosul, 400 kilometers north of Baghdad, while a similar attack a Health Department employee was killed near his home in the Nablus area.

In the same city, a suspected insurgent was killed and three policemen wounded in clashes between police and rebels in the neighborhood of Tamin. Also, an officer was killed and another wounded by the explosion of two bombs at passing police patrol paths also in Mosul. The source added that another person was killed by the explosion of a limpet bomb attached to his vehicle in Fallujah, 50 kilometers west of Baghdad.

Rocket attack caused deaths in Pakistan

.- A couple and their four daughters were killed in a rocket attack in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, told Pakistani television channels. The shell hit a residential district which was completely destroyed Jaffarabad, as the string "Express." Police have not clarified the responsibility for the attack and opened an investigation.

In Balochistan, where separatist groups are active and armed fundamentalists, or events are recorded violent attacks almost daily, although many less intense than in the rest of the country, something that often go unnoticed. A report by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) reveals that in 2010 there were a total of two thousand 113 insurgent attacks, sectarian or terrorist court, which killed 913 people two thousand.