Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Brazil .- Rousseff agrees to take "all measures" deemed necessary to curb inflation

BRASILIA, Oct 27. (Reuters) - The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, has promised to implement "all measures" deemed necessary to curb inflation that reached 6.44 percent, near the top of the official target range expected this year. This was the second time in just two days Rousseff spoke forcefully about his determination to curb rising prices, which highlights a growing concern for the Government to the extent that inflation is threatening to keep their tendency to rise.

President, what are the "natural development"?

When we speak of the Head of State should go with feet of lead. For three reasons: institutional respect, because Napolitano is the only (maybe the only) that inspires confidence to the Italians, because Berlusconi fails to diminish the constitutional integrity. But the "natural development" of our military intervention in Libya, are allowed a number of concerns.

The first is a constitutional right: Italy rejects war and enter into a conflict, siding with one of the contenders, it looks like its a mission of peace, not even bothered all the hypocrisy that we are capable. The second is that there are no "rockets extreme, extreme accuracy" because there are no targets of "extreme, extreme" certainty.

Moscow city hall allows for the first time holding a Gay Pride

The mayor of Moscow has allowed for the first time to hold a Gay Pride in the Russian capital, said, Tuesday, April 26, the organizer Nikolai Alexeyev, president of the association Gayrussia. So far, Russian authorities refused rallies in defense of gay rights. The event, which 500 people are allowed to participate, will take place May 28 Bolotnaïa in the center of the Russian capital, but away from main thoroughfares of the city, according to Mr Alexeyev.

Wikileaks: Child soldiers became prisoners-children

The evaluation reports prepared by interrogators at Guantanamo are revealed by Wikileaks shows that among the dozens of detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay while they were still minors, many were directly classified as "enemy combatants" and thus treated as adults and detained indefinitely. This attitude is consistent with the American judicial tradition: until 2010 in various states, a criminal under 16 years could be sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of early release, even if he had killed anyone.

A brutal beating at the Berlin subway shocked Germany

Footage from the subway in Berlin last Friday has shocked Germany. They see how two guys unleashing a brutal beating of a third party who was returning home after attending a sporting event. The boy, aged 29, received a blow that knocked him down and immediately began to stand, unable to show resistance, several kicks to the head that left him unconscious.

Today, four days later, opened his eyes but not yet fully recovered speech. Despite the excessive violence you see in the video and the shock reflected in the German media, a German judge has released the two assailants because no one has filed a charge against them. The attackers, both 18, were released after questioning and to recognize authors of the beating inflicted on early Saturday in the Friedrichstrasse station, in central Berlin.

The great business of the royal wedding

The numbers that revolve around what has been called "the biggest television event in history" - BBC and Sky talk of a television audience of 2 billion people - are staggering. Visit Britain, the tourist agency of the United Kingdom, has estimated that more than one million visitors who reach the capital for the wedding between Prince William and Kate Midlleton, of which 400 000 will arrive by train the same day.

Wikileaks: The French detainees in Guantanamo noted for their "discipline"

Little soldiers of jihad, restive prisoners to the authority of their guardians. Thus appear the seven French detainees in Guantanamo, reading their case files revealed by Wikileaks. Aged 22 to 41 years when they were arrested in Afghanistan in late 2001, they spent two and a half years and three years on the U.S.

base. Their mistake: have found in Afghanistan at the wrong time, driven by their radical faith, thus becoming "enemy combatants". Obsessed by their "links" with senior supposed Al-Qaeda, the U.S. military see them as sources to tap. The first four to be delivered to France, July 27, 2004, were Nizar Sassi, Brahim Yadel, Mourad Benchellali and Imad Achab Kanouni.