NATO planes sinking eight ships of the Navy's Gadhafi

.- NATO planes last night sank eight ships of the Navy Libya in coordinated attacks carried out in the ports of Tripoli and Sirte Al Khum, the alliance said in a statement. "NATO and allied air forces have continued their precision air strikes against the forces of the pro-Gadhafi during last night with a coordinated attack on the ports of Tripoli and Sirte Al Khums," the note to add that NATO aircraft have reached the ships of war, "sinking eight of them." After explaining that over the past weeks, the Alliance was an increase in the use of maritime forces pro-Gadhafi affecting the safe flow of humanitarian aid and jeopardized the NATO forces, it adopted a "deliberate action" in a response "carefully planned and coordinated" to demonstrate their resolve to protect the civilian population of Libya to use "appropriate and proportionate" force.

Brabo, "If you lose hope knew it was going to end up like a rag in a cell"

Blue shirt and flanked by his parents, Manuel and Victoria, amid shouts of "bravo" or Brabo, visibly tired but with a shy smile and lively. This has presented the photojournalist Manu Brabo, last one in the afternoon, before the press and friends were waiting at the airport Barajas. Wednesday was released by the Libyan government after being arrested by troops him Gaddafi from April 5.

The first to break the ice has been his father, jubilant and excited wanted to thank the support of all colleagues and friends of her son who have mobilized, asking to be released in concentrations and online-during the 44 days that has lasted captivity in Libya, and especially of Diego Ruiz, the representative of the Embassy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "which has kept alive the hope that long." Then he reached the turn of Brabo.

A series of bombings struck the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq

At least 25 people, mostly policemen, were killed and 79 wounded Thursday, May 19, in a series of attacks against police in the multiethnic city of Kirkuk north of Baghdad, sources said. At least three attacks took place in just over an hour in the center of this town that is the subject of a dispute between the central government in Baghdad and Kurdish authorities who wish to incorporate into their autonomous region Kurdistan, said the security services.

DSK will come out on bail after paying bail of a million dollars

After spending three nights in a cell of 12 square meters in the dangerous prison Rikers Island in New York, Dominique Strauss-Kahn will prepare his trial out of jail. A New York judge on Thursday granted bail after imposing the toughest conditions: one million dollars cash bond and a deposit of five million, the obligation to live, 24 hours a day, seven days a week with an electronic bracelet and under the continuous surveillance of an armed guard, in addition, pay Strauss-Kahn's own pocket.

Russia would also have helped to slow Iran's nuclear program

Vladimir Putin, when he was president, has secretly ordered in 2006 to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program, according to Wikileaks revelations published Thursday by the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. According to the newspaper, the director general of the Israeli Commission for Nuclear Energy, Gideon Frank, met Feb.

7, 2006 the then U.S. ambassador in Tel Aviv, Richard Jones, to inform him of interviews with Senior Russian officials, in particular its Russian counterpart, Sergei Kiriyenko. During these discussions, Mr. Kiriyenko assured Mr. Frank that the Russians intended to delay "for technical reasons" the delivery to Iran of new fuel for its Bushehr plant, according to guidelines of Mr.

For Beijing, the Dalai Lama may return as if it gives up Tibet's independence

The "open door" to a return of the Dalai Lama, says Padma Choling, appointed by the president of Beijing's Tibet Autonomous Region. "If he wishes to return the door to China is always open," he said Thursday, Mr. Choling, delivering the first comment by a senior official from the Dalai Lama announced abandon his political role as head of movement of Tibetans in exile, while retaining his role as spiritual leader.

The latest developments in the investigation

Meanwhile, investigators painstakingly trying to reconstruct the chain of events between the arrival of the alleged victim in the bedroom of the former director of the International Monetary Fund and the arrest of the French. Investigators believe that the maid was almost immediately reported the alleged assault to several colleagues.

The first call from the hotel to 911, the emergency number for police, was received at 13 h 32, according to documents cited by this source. The safety of Sofitel said she wanted to report a sexual assault. The first police teams arrived on site thirteen minutes later. For this source, there are two possible explanations for this delay of one hour.