Monday, April 4, 2011

Burning of the Koran sparked protests in Afghanistan rejection

The threat of a major fault fed Korans to mark the ninth anniversary of the 11-S did not materialize but it was world news. Pastor Terry Jones, head of the tiny Church of Gainesville (Florida), fan, lighted only backed down after receiving a call from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, which ordered him not to do it now that was endangering the lives of innocent people and American soldiers.

Japan focuses work in pot cracked reactor

.- Japanese engineers struggled on Sunday to end the nuclear crisis worst since Chernobyl in the world trying to seal a crack that has been leaking radioactive material into the sea from a damaged reactor. The drama of the Fukushima Daiichi complex of six reactors and entered its fourth week, terrorizing the world nuclear industry and increasing the suffering of Japan after an earthquake and tsunami that left about 27 in 1500 people dead or missing.

Rise to a thousand the number of dead in Ivory Coast

Dies an actor and activist shot in Israel Yenn

Masked gunmen have fired at close range to kill the Israeli actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis in the Palestinian city of Jenin. Mer-Kamis, 53, was a known political activist and advocate for Palestinian rights, who lived halfway between Haifa, Israel, and Jenin. At the time of his death was going to call the Liberty Theatre, which he founded in 2006, following the family trail in the Jenin refugee camp.

Kazakhstan, the election farce

The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev will be held today (Monday, editor's note) the presidential elections in Kazakhstan, which owns the nation's 3 percent of global oil reserves, the first global producer of uranium. The result is obvious: win Nursultan Nazarbayev, 70, in power since 1989.

In February, while the Tunisian people's revolution spread to Egypt, the Asian leader has announced plans to bring forward by one year the election. Has anyone tried to protest, because of the 22 candidates, the electoral commission has accepted only three, all considered pro-government.

Ten rebels were killed in Libya with a shot of the coalition

According to insurgent fighters who attended the scene, ten Libyan rebels were killed in an airstrike in the international coalition on Friday night near the site of Brega oil in the Gulf of Sirte. To believe cookies, elements of the regular forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi would have infiltrated the ranks of rebels and opened fire with antiaircraft weapons.

"Following this, NATO forces arrived and bombed," said one of the insurgents. The rebels claim to control the oil site. Interviewed by several residents of the city asserted that the forces anti-Gaddafi had regained much of the city and were trying Saturday to overcome snipers belonging to the forces of the "Guide" Libya.

Yemeni police killed a protester

.- The Yemeni police killed a protester Sunday, witnesses said, information denied by the regime, whose president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, called for an end to the protests of the opposition, demanding his resignation for trading. President Saleh, a U.S. ally in the war against terrorism, said he was willing to leave power, which holds 32 years, but in the context of an orderly constitutional process.