More than half of tsunami victims were elderly

.- More than half the deaths due to and tsunami in the northeast of the March 11 were 65 years or more, and most drowned, according to police data released by Japan's Kyodo local agency. The latest data collected on the tragedy speak of 13 000 843 14 000 030 dead and missing, police said today. Of the nine thousand 112 dead in the provinces of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima whose identity is confirmed, four thousand 990 or 54.8% were 65 years or more.

Finland wins the Eurosceptic right "is now stuck on the bottom-saving states"

Sensational turn right in the prosperous Finland. In the country for years called "Nokia republic" recalling its overall excellence, the ultra-right anti-European triumph in parliamentary elections today. The young centrist Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi, the "small Finnish Merkel," is the main loser.

The "True Finns" (Perus suomalaiset) the dynamic, youthful radical right led by Timo Soini, jumping from 4 percent of the general elections in 2007 to 19%. Eurosceptics closely tailed by the opposition Social Democrats (19.1% reduction) and the conservative National Jyrkki KATAINEN outgoing finance minister, previously allies Kiviniemi, who stop at 20.4% of the vote.

Tornadoes afflict the U.S. More than 40 dead in seven states

A series of tornadoes and storms of incredible intensity caused dozens of deaths and many wounded in the south and the Atlantic coasts of the United States. The authorities have stated that it is still a total budget of victims and damage, but so far, would be at least 47 confirmed deaths. The most serious consequences of the hailstorms and high winds that have crossed the last 48 hours the Southern States have occurred mainly in North Carolina: the 24 confirmed dead following the passage of something 62 as a tornado, according to the Meteorological Service reported.

Palestinian Authority will collapse if occupation continues indefinitely: Abbas

.- The Palestinian Authority "will sink" if Israel persists in its need to maintain a military presence in the territory of a future Palestinian state, estimated the organization's president, Mahmoud Abbas, in an exclusive interview. Abbas explained that during the peace negotiations in September 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told of his desire to hold "for 40 years," a military presence in the border zone along the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.

Ral Castro economay commitment to reform the Communist Party in the VI Congress

The words of Raul Castro at the inauguration of the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), last Saturday, confirmed several things: that the Cuban economic reform progresses, even timid, to a mixed system, with more private and less state , that its scope and limits are unclear, although there is talk of a "five" to "update model" there is no respite in sight to replace the historic leadership, and an octogenarian, and the worst enemy of the changes is the actual way of functioning of the PCC and its bureaucracy more orthodox, and to this reality Castro said the party and its methods must also be reformed.

Emergency Law abolished soon in Syria, promises Al-Assad

In a speech before the new government Saturday, April 16 broadcast by public television, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said the emergency law would be abolished at the latest within one week. The abolition of emergency law, in force since 1962 and which substantially reduces civil liberties, is one of the main demands of protesters who are calling for a liberalization of the regime.

"The Legal Committee on the Emergency Law has developed a series of proposals for new legislation. These proposals will be submitted to the government that will enact laws (...) in a week maximum, "said Assad. In late March, Mr. Assad was given until April 25 to a legal committee to draft new legislation.

In Libya, patience cons stalemate

Even under the friendly pressure of Bernard-Henri Levy, who was its originator, Claude Lanzmann was signed March 16, "calling the last chance" for an intervention in Libya. The writer and filmmaker expresses today in these columns more than doubts about the strategy of the interference that leads to "a war without a name, after very uncertain." Parisian controversy? Maybe.

But very revealing of the growing embarrassment that now surrounds the international intervention in Libya. Stalled, discord and, ultimately, failure: that is, in fact, the sequence that threat. More coordinated military operations by NATO air trample over the coalition led by France and the United Kingdom will be exposed to wrangling and strife, which will only undermine its effectiveness.