Friday, April 8, 2011

Five Palestinians killed and 35 wounded by Israeli attacks in Gaza

Five Palestinians were killed and 35 wounded in the last hours in the Gaza Strip in several Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian medical sources said. According to sources, the dead were two Palestinian militants in the town of Rafah, a policeman in Junes Yan, a militant Islamist movement Hamas in the south of Gaza City and the fifth is a civilian, whose origin has not been been determined.

All these Israeli air strikes came after the armed wing of Hamas, the Brigades of Al Azedin Kasen, attacked with antitank rocket at an Israeli bus that ran through the territory of Israel near the Gaza border and the resulting injured the driver and a young, Israeli military sources said.

Two killed, 132 injured quake leaves Japan today

.- At least two people were killed and 132 injured in the earthquake of 7.4 magnitude on the Richter scale that rocked northeast coast, local agency Kyodo reported. The quake occurred at 23:32 local time Thursday (1432 GMT) with epicenter at 40 kilometers deep and the same distance from the coast of Miyagi province, hardest hit by the tsunami and the March 11, more seven thousand 700 people.

Ouattara Gbagbo says he is besieged in the presidential residence

The president-elect of the Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, recognized by the international community, today announced the blockade of the presidential palace where the president in power, Laurent Gbagbo, with his family. "A blockade has been established in the area residence to ensure the safety of the inhabitants of the neighborhood, "Ouattara said in a message to the nation broadcast on Ivorian TV (TCI) controlled by the field.

Ordered the arrest of Videla and his Minister of Interior for the murder of a bishop

BUENOS AIRES, April 8. A federal judge in Argentina's La Rioja province (northwest) has ordered the arrest of former military dictator Jorge Rafael Videla and to be his interior minister Albano Harguindeguy in connection with the murder of Bishop Enrique Angelelli and activist, committed in August 1976.

Daniel Piedra Herrera judge signed the order Thursday after taking a statement from both, said Friday the Argentine newspaper 'La Nacion'. Joining them were twelve other people charged in connection with this case. Videla, 85, currently serving detention in the prison of the garrison of Campo de Mayo (Buenos Aires), while Harguindeguy, 83, is under house arrest.

Humala soars in polls

The latest election poll released yesterday to the foreign press in Lima by Ipsos gives the nationalist candidate Ollanta Humala is a clear advantage for Sunday's election with 28% of voting intentions. Behind this lies Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, jailed for crimes against humanity, with 21%, followed closely by the exmandatario Alejandro Toledo and former Minister of Economics Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (aka PPK), both with 18%.

Dilma Rousseff decreed three days of official mourning for the slaughter at a school in Rio de Janeiro

BRASILIA, April 7. The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has declared Thursday a three-day official mourning for the death of eleven people in a shooting at a school in Rio de Janeiro, while he lamented the demise of the "brasileñitos" that "as early "Life has Period. At least eleven people, including 10 children, were killed Thursday during a shootout in the municipal school Tasso da Silveira, located in the neighborhood of Realengo, west of the city of Rio de Janeiro, around 0830 hours (13.30 hours in mainland Spain).

Japan, water leaks from Onagawa Four new deaths from the quake

Water leaks have been detected in the nuclear Onagawa (Miyagi prefecture) as a result of the earthquake yesterday (Read the report). He said that public television NHK, citing the operator Tohoku Electric, stated that there has been no change in radiation levels outside the plant. The loss of water would have been assessed at 8-9, mainly generated by the cooling tanks of spent fuel of reactors 1 and 2, then a potential of radioactivity.