Freedom Flotilla 2 ready to sail "The Israelis will not stop us"

This will run in two or three days - the appointment is set to off Crete between Thursday and Friday - the boats of the pro-Palestinian activists the "Freedom Flotilla" determined to force the Israeli naval blockade and reach the Gaza Strip. The departure of the mission, reduced the number of participants and boats after the "withdrawal" of Turkish activists dell'Ihh, was delayed from week to week.

Japan: two ministers will be responsible for reconstruction and the nuclear crisis

Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, has reshuffled his government Monday, June 27, creating two new ministries in charge of reconstruction in the north-east and the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Ryu Matsumoto, 60, who was previously environment minister, was appointed Minister of Reconstruction in the Tohoku (northeast) region devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, which have a twenty-three thousand dead or missing.

TEPCO Company launches recycling system of radioactive water

The company TEPCO, operator of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, set up a system to recycle water that floods the highly radioactive core and reuse it to cool the reactors. After several days of testing today against the operators reactivated the system, which had been stalled by technical problems for ten days, just five hours after its launch.

A TEPCO spokesman said the proper functioning of the device to treat the liquid is "a step to solve the great unfinished business", ie the accumulation of more than 110 tons of highly contaminated water at the nuclear plant. "Once to stabilize the system and we can solve the problem of contaminated water can increase the amount injected into the reactors to cool them further, "he added.

Tropical storm leaves 90 000 homeless in Philippines

At least two people were killed, 15 missing, 90 000 are affected and more than 700 000 were affected in Northern Philippines (photo) by the passage of tropical storm "Meari" which also hit southeastern South Korea . The National Council for Disaster Reduction and Management of the Philippines (NDRRMC) presented the preliminary assessment of damages "Meari" after three consecutive days of strong winds and heavy rains in the north of the country.

Israel "determined" to stop the second flotilla to Gaza

The Israeli security cabinet ordered the navy, Monday, June 27, to stop the international flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, avoiding confrontations with pro-Palestinian activists will be on board. The vessels in the fleet should from Greece in the coming days. The statement said the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued after a meeting of the security cabinet, "the State of Israel is determined to prevent the arrival of the flotilla to Gaza." The ten boats which will be the second fleet to carry Gaza militants on board twenty-two countries and humanitarian aid.

Gays persecuted in Russia

"We are locked in a cell for two to four feet, nine. We are suffocating. It's like being in a sauna. The police refused to give us water." They have defied the authorities by introducing a cell phone in their cell, escaped the raid, and publishing, on Facebook, updates on their detention. 14 are the homosexual activists, who, on Saturday afternoon were detained in St. Petersburg, for demonstrating in a Gay Pride banned by the authorities. A prohibition that is common to all attempts of the Russian movement Glbt take to the streets to demand equal rights. It happened last May 28 in Moscow (twenty arrested), but also in the Slav Pride 2008. Their event, the day when New York celebrated its yes to gay marriage, lasted less than five minutes: the time to display some banners and a protester being beaten by homophobic.

Japanese parents protest in Fukushima

Angry parents marched with hundreds of people in the Japanese city Fukushima to demand the protection of children to radiation, more than three months of the great earthquake and tsunami that triggered the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. "We want our lives back, we want to live like before the earthquake in happy families," said Hiroko Sato, who marched in heavy rain accompanied by his nephews, three and seven years, with banners saying "nuclear" and " A Fukushima enough.