Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Argentina and Uruguay close their airports Puyehue Cloud

The ash cloud from the Puyehue volcano in southern Chile, today has caused some chaos in the affected air traffic at airports in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, forced to cancel some flights, both international and local. The ash did not fall on the capital Buenos Aires or the surrounding suburbs as they did on other southern cities, since last Saturday covered by a dense layer of gray, but the airborne dust was visible to the naked eye in broad areas cord locations around Buenos Aires, and some hospitals were on alert, not so much the direct effect of the ash as the problems caused by ash in patients with asthma or other respiratory ailments.

Yemen: Saleh's departure is a highly symbolic defeat for the regime "

The struggle for power is bound for Yemen. While the opposition believes that the President objected, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was wounded in the attack Friday, June 3 cons of his palace and hospitalized in Saudi Arabia, no longer in a position to govern, his camp maintains that it is always a constitutional head of state.

Franck Mermier, researcher at CNRS and the French Institute of the Near East, the president can not exercise the power again. The changing political and security situation in the country depend, as a specialist in Yemen, the outcome of the conflict between the president's clan, led by his son and nephews who control the major security agencies, and its main Tribal and political opponents.

Mass grave in a house in Texas found 30 bodies, including children

HOUSTON - Before the announcement shock, then denial: the mystery is the discovery of 30 bodies, including children, who were found buried in a sort of mass grave in Liberty County, at an intersection between two roads in the state Texas, between the towns of Hardin and Daisetta. The news was broadcast by local TV Krpc and confirmed by CNN: According to early reports, the corpses were dismembered.

Espionage mission: Iran sends submarine One Red Sea

Tehran - There is already the second challenge of this type that approximately four months had seen the last Iranian naval mission in the Red Sea for massive diplomatic upset - now comes the next venture from Tehran. Iran has for the first time U-boats sent to the region. The goal is to collect "information about warships of other countries," says the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars.

A naval unit with the U-boats had been staying since May in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen and is now run in the Red Sea, they say. How many ships are involved in the mission is still unclear. The U-boats accompanied the Association for a "reconnaissance mission". The boats will gather information about foreign fleets and measure the water depth in international waters.

The Yemeni leader wounds could be more serious than expected

The injuries suffered by the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in an attack on his palace over the weekend were more serious than initially reported, an official said, raising further doubts about his political future in the impoverished Arab nation . At first it was reported that Saleh received shrapnel wounds.

His vice president was quoted on Monday saying he would return to Yemen in the coming days from Saudi Arabia where he is receiving medical treatment. The Yemeni official, like other early American, said Saleh is a more serious condition with burns over 40 percent of his body. Britain called on Tuesday for an orderly transition of power.

Greece, Germany calls for cuts in state-owned companies and shoppers

 - Events of madness, political assaults, death threats that reach Brussels, a short future whose only certainty is heavy sacrifices for all. And 'This is the scenario in which Greece is trying to achieve, with the confidence of EU partners, a new loan to try to stave off bankruptcy. "It 's clear that we are at a critical point," said Bob Traa, head of mission in Greece for the International Monetary Fund, however, recognizing the progress.

Chile .- The ash cloud from the Chilean Peyehue arrived in Buenos Aires

BUENOS AIRES, 7 Jun. The ash cloud caused by the eruption of volcano in Chile on Tuesday Peyehue has come to the province of Buenos Aires and has already begun to be felt in the capital of Argentina, which has worsened the situation of airports that have been forced to suspend further flights. "The cloud passed through the territory of the province of Buenos Aires and is already suburban area and coming to Capital (Federal)," reported the head of the Emergency Council of the Province of Buenos Aires, Jorge Echarren.