Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Assange claim to be suffering "an Orwellian situation"

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has denounced a campaign by U.S. authorities, whom they accuse of trying to collect information on their Twitter followers about him and others involved in the publication of secret documents to launch a process proceedings against him, and considered that his arrest in a rural area of England is "an Orwellian situation." "I'm permanently secure" Assange complained in an interview broadcast in the early hours of today by France Info and although it has acknowledged being "used to this kind of pressure, the current situation is" perhaps the most dramatic "than ever lived.

René Préval: "I can not go from February 7"

"I can not go from 7 February," said Monday, January 10 Haitian President Rene Preval. According to the Haitian Constitution, the president, elected for five years, has to leave power on February 7 for the fifth year of his mandate. But René Préval, who was sworn in May 14, 2006, argued that he could remain in power in order to complete the five-year, due to the problems posed by the contested results of the first round of elections, November 28, 2010.

Study: One in every seven Trkin married under 18

Every seventh woman in Turkey is on their wedding under the age of 18: This is the result of a study by the Parliament in Ankara. Many of the marriages are arranged, also there are tens of thousands of cases of polygamy - although polygamy is prohibited by law. Istanbul - Turkey, according to statisticians in the Turkish one in seven women married before their 18th Of age.

This is clear from a scientific study shows for the Equality Commission of the Parliament in Ankara, told the newspaper Milliyet on Tuesday. The legal age for marriage is in Turkey for 16 years. Especially in rural areas but many girls are already married by their families. The total number of brides under 18 years is the study estimated at 5.5 million.

Rescuers searching for 66 missing by giant floods in northeastern Australia

Australia seeks today in the mud and water at 66 people missing after giant waterspouts were generated yesterday and last night went for 20 towns of the State of Queensland, northeast of the country, the area hardest hit by severe flooding. "We have nine confirmed deaths at this time, but we expect that figure to rise and the increase can be very big," admitted the head of the State Government of Queensland, Anna Bligh, who has risen in five the last digit of four victims released yesterday, when there were also six missing.

Assange: "We lose a lot of money WikiLeaks will not survive"

LONDON - WikiLeaks, which is facing economic difficulties,''can no longer survive at its current pace.'' He said in an interview with Europe 1 radio the founder of the site specializes in publishing files and dossiers secrets Julian Assange. "We can not survive the way things are - he said in the interview Assange -.

The donor money struggling to get there, because all of our accounts are blocked. I estimate that we are losing € 500,000 a week." But, he added Assange, "we will fight back." The founder of Wikileaks, Australia, is now in Great Britain under probation, pending assessment of the request for extradition presented by Sweden against him for alleged sexual abuse.

The gunman in Tucson for the first time in court

Jared Lee Loughner, 22, the young man accused of opening fire on Saturday on twenty people at a public meeting in Tucson, Arizona, leaving six dead and fourteen injured, including elected Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, appeared Monday, January 10 for the first time in court in Phoenix. At the hearing a little less than a quarter of an hour, the accused, shaved head, handcuffed and shackled, responded calmly to regulatory issues with representatives of the federal prosecution, which served her with five counts indictment, including the attempted assassination against Representative Gabrielle Giffords.

"It's ironic, but the burqa protects me. I can not see below"

Rangin Hamidi, 33, is smart and stubborn. It also has a habit of going against. When I studied Religion and Gender at the University of Virginia (USA) began to wear the Muslim veil that had not previously felt the need to look - "was my way of fighting the prejudices of my fellow" -. And in October 2001, while everyone who could afford desperately fleeing from Afghanistan, she returned to the country he had to leave after four years.