Friday, April 22, 2011

Time: Egyptian blogger on the most influential of 2011

It 's the manager of Google and Egyptian blogger Wael Ghonim, symbol of the revolt in Tahrir square against former President Hosni Mubarak, who led the ranking of the most influential people of 2011 according to the magazine "Time". Ghonim passed the economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the CEO of Netflix and Reed Hastings.

Mark Zuckerberg is only sixth. Julian Assange, already undermined by the young founder of Facebook to appoint a "person of the year, finishing ninth behind Angela Merkel, in the eighth. Motivations. "Wael helped start a peaceful revolution, enfatizando the fact that the scheme would have listened to citizens who have exercised their right to demonstrate peacefully," said the leader of the Egyptian Mohamed El Baradei.

Moscow, kidnapped the son of the king of antivirus

It 's been kidnapped in Moscow Ivan Kaspersky, the son of the twenty-year old Russian programmer Eugene, lab eponymous founder in 1997 became famous worldwide for its antivirus software. The announcement was made a police source, as the news agency Itar-Tass. Members are involved in the investigation of various investigative facilities.

According to Interfax, the son of Kaspersky would have disappeared April 19 and initially deal with the case were only the secret services. Three million euro: the loot, according to the website Lifenews, asked by the kidnappers for the release of Ivan. The young man joined the fourth year of the faculty of mathematics and cybernetics at Moscow.

Bomb in Karachi killed at least 16

It 's at least 16 dead and several wounded the budget of a bomb in Karachi, southern Pakistan, in a crowded reception for betting. The explosion was caused by a grenade thrown by unknown persons. The wounded over 35, were transported to the nearest hospital in the metropolis. At least ten were in serious condition.

The attack occurred in a Ghasia Mandi, near the area of Liyari, an area where there have been several killings in the wake of a feud between rival political clans. According to police, home to the bookies and illegal gambling is run by criminals. The attack could be the result of a battle between rival gangs.

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Finland threatens rescue Portugus

The Portuguese authorities in Lisbon yesterday negotiating a bailout billionaire with European envoys and the International Monetary Fund to avert disaster. They did it with an eye to thousands of miles away, aware that their economic future passes through the Finnish Parliament says yes to the rescue Portuguese in the coming days and is fulfilled and the European requirement for unanimity.

The procedure was complicated substantially after the True Finns party, which opposes financial aid to struggling countries like the EU is now negotiating, achieved massive support in the elections last Sunday. His victory has plunged the political Finnish convoluted negotiations to form a coalition government, which announced last several weeks.

2 Diary from Palestine - Ramallah

Empty streets, all televisions tuned to the game, silence, then the excited voice of the announcer booms and bursts through the streets. It's not Fabio Caressa, who whispers in comparison to the microphone. Yet the atmosphere is that of playing Italy in the World Cup. If not at home, people in bars to cheer and suffer together.

Among the names of Mourinho and Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Guardiola, the words are in Arabic. We are in Ramallah, the capital of Palestine, which was to Arafat. The game is the final of the Copa del Rey, the Spanish international trophy, but, in fact, we're in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and late evening.

In the short term, the Japanese growth will suffer the consequences of the earthquake

The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan will have to have short term negative impact on Japanese growth. After the slowdown, growth will benefit the efforts of reconstruction. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), GDP growth will be limited to 0.8% in 2011, when it expected a growth of 1.7% before the disaster.

"The immediate impact of this horrible disaster is likely to be important, extending beyond the regions devastated by the earthquake and tsunami," she says in a report. "However, experience from past disasters in Japan and other developed countries suggests that the short-term negative impact on economic output will be followed by a rebound with accelerated spending on reconstruction," says the OECD.