Ireland extreme security measures during the visit of Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II today becomes the first British monarch to set foot on Irish soil in the last 100 years. A historical journey of four days, beginning marked by threats involving dissident republicans. 4,000 police ensure safety the next few days in Dublin, Kildare and Cork, the places you visit the monarch, who have no contact with the Irish for fear of possible attack.

In the last hours, police have turned off on the outskirts of Dublin two homemade explosive devices. The last visit by a British monarch to Ireland back in 1911, the date on which George V visited the island, which was still under the control of London. In 1921, Ireland confirmed its independence and with it ended the fluid diplomatic exchanges between the two neighboring islands.

Donald Trump gives up the U.S. presidential

Billionaire Donald Trump will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election against President Barack Obama. Asked on NBC, he said "after extensive discussions and deliberations, I decided not to introduce me to the presidency" of the United States, "said Trump. "This decision was not easy to take, nor without regret," he said, stating that his name still appeared high in the polls among the candidates for the Republican nomination.

Mario Draghi a little closer to the ECB

Mario Draghi was appointed unanimously by the finance ministers of the euro area, Monday, May 16, future President of the European Central Bank. The current president of the Italian central bank, whose choice will be finally endorsed by Heads of State and Government of Twenty-Seven at a summit in late June, to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet as president of the ECB on 1 November.

Mr. Trichet, whose term ends in late October will be spent eight years as head of the Monetary Institute in Frankfurt. A favorite in the race for several weeks, the Governor of the Bank of Italy was held Monday to cut short the rumors spread light at the last moment to be sent instead to the general direction of the IMF in the wake of legal setbacks for USA Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

NATO target again Infrastructure Gaddafi regime

A building security services and interior ministry headquarters inspection and popular control, body fight against corruption in Libya, were on fire early Tuesday morning, following NATO raids. Both buildings are located on Al-Joumhouriya Avenue, a residential and administrative center of the capital, near the residence of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

At about 3 pm local time (2:00 in Paris) firefighters were still struggling against the flames that ravaged the two buildings opposite one another. Previously, two explosions were heard in this sector to a 30 pm local. The Minister of inspection and control popular on this site, reported injuries among his officials, without giving specific figures.

Rikers Island, a prison island between Queens and the Bronx

Rikers Island prison was transferred when Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday night to Tuesday, is an island of 1.6 km2 located on the East River between the boroughs [administrative division] of Queens and the Bronx, which she is attached, near LaGuardia Airport, which serves New York. It gave its name to the large prison complex that houses it.

It employs seven thousand and fifteen hundred civilian guards. According to several websites dedicated to American prisons, it receives in buildings of varying sizes between three thousand and fourteen thousand prisoners, making it one of the largest detention centers in the world. It can hold up to seventeen thousand, according to prison authorities.

Strauss-Kahn, in prisin without bail

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF managing director, will remain in police custody after the judge presiding over the case rejected at the hearing held yesterday in New York on bail of one million dollars offered by the defense, with the risk that suspect to leave the country. The prominent French politician was also informed of the crimes of which he is formally charged, among which the criminal sexual act and attempted rape, punishable by 25 to 15 years in prison, respectively.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn incarcerated at Rikers Island

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of attempted rape and sexual assault by a hotel employee, spends the night of Monday to Tuesday in the Rikers Island prison in New York. After two nights in police custody in Manhattan, DSK "will sleep tonight at Rikers Island in a single cell," said a spokesman for the prison administration of the city under cover of anonymity.

"I can not tell you if already there, but there will be tonight," he said Monday. It will not be in contact with other prisoners. That does not mean it will still in his cell. This means that when he comes out, it will always be accompanied by a guardian. " Judge Melissa Jackson refused to release DSK bail of one million dollars, two days after his arrest at Kennedy Airport in New York while he was on a plane bound for Paris.