Yemen clashes leave 84 injured

Yemeni security forces used ammunition and tear gas against protesters demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, injuring at least 84 people, according to activists. Protesters in the city of Taiz in the south of the country, said 80 people were injured there and another four in the capital, Sanaa.

The official media did not mention the incidents. The Government page on the Internet September 26 said that there were demonstrations in major cities in support of Saleh and his offer of political reforms, including not to seek reelection in 2013. The state of the Arabian peninsula, the oil giant neighbor, Saudi Arabia has been rocked by weeks of protests to try to topple Saleh, who has 32 years in power.

The Dalai Lama recognizes tiredness

The Tibetan Parliament in exile a historic session opened with the reading of the letter in which the Dalai Lama asks to be freed from his political duties in the Tibetan movement, said in Dharamsala, India. In the letter, addressed to parliamentarians, the Dalai Lama, 75 years old, says that any postponement of the decision of the Assembly on his retirement could pose a political challenge "overwhelming" in the future.

Gadhafi is threatening to take over tonight Benghazi

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi announced that government forces attack on Thursday night the city of Benghazi, a stronghold of the rebellion located a thousand kilometers from the capital, in a televised message. "The decision has been taken. Get ready, we got tonight, "he said in a speech to the inhabitants of the city.

"We will expel the traitors from Benghazi," he added. Moammar Gadhafi's regime, in power for almost 42 years, lives a revolt not seen since mid-February. Benghazi is the headquarters of the National Transition Council, the governing body built by the insurgents. While the Committee on Safety of United Nations prepares to vote this afternoon (16:00 hours Mexico City time) a resolution authorizing the use of force in Libya to protect civilians and stop the Allied forces Gadhafi .

.- Honduras Honduras deny that is to close its embassy in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina

TEGUCIGALPA, 17 Mar. The Government of Honduras has denied it will close its embassy in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina, because countries do not recognize the government of Porfirio Lobo, and reiterated that his desire is to "establish relations diplomatic and trade relations with all countries in the world.

" In a statement, the President explained that "at no time" the Government of the Wolf "has ordered the closure of embassies in South American countries, where previously there were diplomatic representatives of Honduras." The official statement was issued hours after local media statements disclose Honduran Foreign Minister, Mario Canahuati, on the supposed intentions of Tegucigalpa to close its diplomatic missions in several countries and allocate these resources to open trade offices in India, Singapore, China and Canada.

In the central Fukushima, the loneliness of "fire" of nuclear

How are they? "The fifty Fukushima," as the British press has christened the following statements by the Japanese government? Seventies, as assumed in the Guardian, or even one hundred and seventy, as finally said TEPCO, the operator of the Japanese nuclear plant where more accidents since the earthquake of Friday, March 11 raised fears of a major disaster .

What strikes first is the loneliness of these men. It was only Wednesday that an army helicopter was mobilized, unsuccessfully, to try to cool the reactors, and it has been proposed to use water cannons by the police. Most of the eight hundred employees of the plant was evacuated Tuesday when the radioactivity has increased the country's fate depends heavily on a small number of employees and subcontractors, the Prime Minister has accused the company while paying tribute to these individuals.

Radiation soars in Japan 16 times more than allowed

After the explosion in reactor number two at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), operator of the complex, acknowledged that fears a radiation leak from a possible meltdown. The blast caused radiation levels reached 217 mark eight thousand microsievert (measuring unit of absorbed radiation dose) per hour, ie 16 times the amount recommended for health, which is 500.

Before yesterday's explosion and there were two more blasts in the same plant, though on different days and reactors, but the radiation levels had not been fired much. Also in the province (state) of Ibaraki, southern Fukushima, also detected an increase in air ionization. Despite this, Japan's ambassador in Mexico, Masaaki Ono, said the government has everything under control.

U.S. tries to convince the UN no-fly

The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said his country is trying to "convince" the Security Council authorized the UN to further action against the regime of Muammar Gadhafi, including "the imposition of a no-fly zone." "If Gadhafi will not now pose a serious threat to Tunisia and Egypt," Clinton said at a press conference after his first visit to Tunisia since the fall of former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali on 14 January.