Sunday, March 20, 2011

The protests continue in Yemen

.- The violence shook back to Yemen this Saturday, leaving seven injured, one day after the bloody police crackdown that left 52 dead and 126 wounded among the demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. At least seven people were injured, three of them by gunshots, when Yemeni security forces opened fire on protesters guarding a roadblock in a suburb of Aden (south) and during a subsequent attack on a police station, witnesses said.

Earthquake and tsunami left 178 dead five thousand, according to new estimates

The earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11 left 178 dead five thousand and eight thousand 606 missing, according to a provisional official figures released Thursday by the police. The number is two thousand wounded 285, according to this balance. More than 88 thousand homes and buildings were destroyed, totally or partially.

This balance, published six days after the strongest earthquake that has ever suffered Japan may yet much worse. On Wednesday, the mayor of Ishinomaki, a city in Miyagi province, said he feared the disappearance of about 10 thousand inhabitants of the municipality, according to information published by local media.

France is planning imminent military action in Libya

The French ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, said that military intervention in Libya could begin "hours after" the conclusion of an international summit in Paris today. Speaking to the BBC, the Frenchman to the agency representative said that this space would be used to make the final warning to Tripoli.

"The United States, Britain and France have issued an ultimatum on ceasefire (...). So I think that after the summit, in the hours following launch military intervention. " The French official statements in Washington happen to remark that Moammar Gadhafi says "defied international demands for an immediate ceasefire", after the president Barack Obama warned that the leader would face military action if he failed.

The wave of protests against the corruption in Syria defies the rge of El Asad

And Tunisia, the Syrian revolt began with a discussion between a seller and a policeman. On 17 February, an old market trader from Damascus was vexed by an agent and hundreds of people took his side, shouting against corruption and abuse of power. Was the starting point of a string of protests. On Friday, police killed at least three protesters in the city of Dera, near Jordan.

Yesterday, the police attacked with tear gas canisters at the crowd that attended the funerals of three victims. Funeral services were held on the outskirts of Dera and brought together several thousand people chanting the phrase "God, Syria, Freedom" and hurled criticism at the government of President Bashar Assad.

Seven days in Tunisia

Let me suggest what I received in-country outpost of the Arab Democratic wave. And the video made by Cosimo Caridi services. Seven days in Tunisia are not sufficient to understand the complex and not always transparent interplay between old and new, but serve to frame the questions and feel the feelings.

Tunis "Horra" (free) will also Tunis "Laika" (secular)? This is the main question for the feminist elite are beginning to ask, besides the problem of the Constituent Assembly elections of 24 July, one of the municipalities. But in general it is not - and maybe not - the number one problem.

Computer graphics - In Algeria, housing riots cons

In recent years, Algeria has been transformed into a gigantic construction site. However, the slum dwellers are tired of waiting shelter and housing is the primary cause of riots in the country.

"On the government lied Hiroshima today to find the courage of truth"

HIROSHIMA - The city of old and new holocaust are geographically to the two opposite sides, one to the southwest, the other north east. From a land-based portion of the fault that bisects the island of Japan's Hiroshima, built on a large delta formed by myriads of small rivers. It is the historical symbol of nuclear destruction caused by years of research to bring down western Japan in the war.