Nearly 500 prisoners escaped from a prison in Kandahar

About 500 prisoners have escaped today from a prison in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, through a tunnel dug 360 meters for five months. The inmates, mostly Taliban, were in the prison block housing the convicted politicians. "A tunnel several hundred feet to escape served to 476 political prisoners," said the prison director, Gen.

Ghulam Dastagir Mayar, information confirmed by the Governor of the province, Tooryalai Wesa. However, the Afghan police confirmed the leak only 400 of these prisoners. For its part, the Taliban have claimed the leak, which as it has allowed out of prison inmates to 541 (106 majors), in a statement.

Brazil .- EUR 12 deaths due to the rains in southern Brazil

BRASILIA, 25 Abr. The death toll due to rains in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Iraq has risen to 12, according to an updated official figures also raised to 36,500 the number of victims. The most serious incident took place early Saturday when seven people died because of a landslide occurred in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, Brazil Agency reported.

Another three people have died in Harmburgo Novo, while in the towns of Sapucaia do Sul and Vila Nova Fazenda two people have died. Since the beginning of April, a total of 23 prefectures have declared the emergency, while ten cities have asked the Civil Defense disaster area declaration.

Libya, Italy to bombardamentiLa Russa: "But only on clear objectives"

And 'yes Italian arrived in Libya in the bombing. "Do not indiscriminate bombing," explained the defense minister, Ignazio La Russa, but "missions with precision missiles to precise targets." With the go-ahead by the Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy approved the request of NATO to take part in "actions".

After a telephone conversation with U.S. President, Barack Obama, the premier will call soon, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, and NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to inform them. The Italian decision will also be at the center of tomorrow with the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, at the intergovernmental summit planned in Rome.

Libya: Heavy shelling Misrata

Although they announced their departure from the city, armed forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi Misrata bombing, Sunday, April 24. "The situation is very dangerous," said a spokesman for the insurgents "brigades Gaddafi began bombing in the early hours of the morning. The shelling continues. They are the center of the city mainly street in Tripoli and three residential neighborhoods, "he added.

Explosion at "Big Brother" wounded a security guard

Mysterious explosion on the set of "Big Brother" Russian in the Moscow region: one was hurt an agent who tried to move an abandoned backpack. The backpack was found by security guards, who were identified within the area from where they are filming morning of reality TV, popular in Russia. When they tried to move it, it exploded, injuring one of them.

"One of the officers suffered multiple injuries and is currently in hospital," said a spokesman for the authorities responsible for investigation, Goumennaia Irina, the Russian news agency Itar-Tass. The TV channel TNT DOM 2 (House # 2) was shot near the capital. Now studies have been undertaken to ensure that there were no other bombs in the area.

Immersed in the virtual world of neo-Maoist China

Beijing correspondent - The tension of the authoritarian Chinese regime is accompanied by a resurgence of nationalist movements, often neo-Maoists. If there for several years while a current of thought represented by intellectuals called the New Left, is on the Internet that are expressed tendencies the most virulent of these often disparate movements.

These sites, which take some of défouloir are not sanctioned by the regime. They are most often available in China, unlike many sites yet harmless. Their members are less worried by the police than are the pro-democracy activists. Are they handled or manipulated by the security organs? Some clues suggest, as the appearance of a blog "anti-Ai Weiwei", March 27, a week before the arrest of artist by Chinese police on 3 April at the Beijing airport.

Mubarak to be taken to a military hospital in Cairo

The Egyptian prosecutor ordered Sunday that the ousted President Hosni Mubarak is transferred to a military hospital in Cairo after attending the doctors ruled that he is able to travel. The exmandatario will be admitted to this facility, whose location is not specified for safety reasons, pending his transfer to hospital in the Tora prison outside Cairo, which is not yet prepared to receive him.