Thursday, May 26, 2011

NATO increases pressure on Gaddafi, who seek a way out of crisis

NATO conducted new air raids Tuesday, May 24, to Tripoli, where, according to France, the regime of Muammar Gaddafi would be more weakened by military pressure from the international alliance in favor of the insurgency. Six large explosions were heard Tuesday night in the Libyan capital in the space of ten minutes.

The previous night already, aviation Atlantic Alliance had carried out a series of night raids among the most violent since the beginning in mid-March, military operations in Libya. These bombings Monday night to Tuesday have killed 19 people, according to Libyan authorities. Television has officially blamed on "crusaders colonialists".

Dozens injured during a protest by the opposition in Tbilisi

Dozens of Georgian opposition have been arrested this evening after riot police broke up an opposition protest in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi. "This is a crime. Several opposition leaders have been injured after being hit by rubber bullets," he told television Nino Burdzhanadze, leader of the opposition People's Council (PC), an organization called the protests demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili .

New Pakistani Taliban attack to avenge the death of bin Laden

A suicide bomber driving a truck bomb completely destroyed a police station, killing three policemen and a soldier, Wednesday, May 25 in Peshawar, Pakistan, the Taliban allied with al-Qaida claiming their fourth attack to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden. At least twenty-three people were injured, and rescuers were trying to locate four to five other victims in the rubble.

The Taliban vowed on the day of death of the leader of al-Qaida there are more than three weeks, to intensify their bombing campaign, which has already claimed nearly 4,400 dead in less than four years in this countries allied with Washington in its "war against terrorism." They had promised to address in particular the security forces, accusing Islamabad and his army of complicity in the deadly U.S.

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Development aid: the account is he?

"We want to alert the G8." A two-day summit in Deauville, which begins Thursday, May 26, Sébastien Fourmy, director of advocacy and education Oxfam France, calls the G8 countries on non-compliance with the promises of official development assistance (ODA) made at the Gleneagles summit in 2005. In Scotland, the G8 promised to increase the volume of ODA by 50 billion over the period 2004-2010.

Chavez mobilizes its supporters by the U.S. sanctions PDVSA

The announcement of sanctions against state-run Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) for the United States was heard in Caracas as a rallying cry. "The Revolutionary Government calls on all Venezuelans, the working class, and especially the oil workers to be vigilant and mobilized in defense of our PDVSA and the sacred sovereignty of the country," he urged the Government of Hugo Chavez in a statement.

Netanyahu ready to "compromise" but not a return to 1967 borders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he was ready, Tuesday, May 24, to "painful compromises" to achieve peace with the Palestinians, who appeared before the U.S. Congress that he "will never abandon the pursuit of Peace. If he said that his country would be generous to the borders of a future Palestinian state, but he reiterated his refusal to return to the armistice lines of 1967 and a division of Jerusalem.