And the EU will reduce the upper limits of radiation permitted for food

 - The European Union is preparing to crack down on the ceilings of radiation allowed on food imports from Japan. This was announced by Health Minister Fabian Austrian Fusseis citing the EU health commissioner John Dalli during a meeting of EU ministers.

Freedom of association threatened to Cambodia

Several groups of human rights including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called Thursday, April 7, the Cambodian government to abandon a bill which they say aims to limit the activities of nongovernmental organizations. The project threatens the freedom of association and could be used "to silence critics of civil society" because it would allow the government to deny registration to NGOs or close them without appeal, say the organizations in a statement.

Forces loyal to Qadhafi storming the city of Ajdabiya

The confusion in the Libyan civil war is becoming greater. Thursday doubts about the perpetrators of an attack in the city of Brega, as well as the death toll has been changing throughout the day. As reported by the rebels and a nurse at the hospital in the city of Brega at the agency, apparently an air strike by NATO would have reached a position controlled by opponents of the Gaddafi regime in the eastern oil city of Tripoli, attack which have killed at least five people.

Bank of Japan: new measures against the economic effects of the earthquake

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) left, Thursday, April 7, its zero interest rate policy and adopted new monetary measures to counter the negative effects of the earthquake and the nuclear accident which has devastated the country and threaten its strong economic health . The BoJ has recognized that the dynamism of the Japanese economy is badly affected the supply side and demand, due to the effects of the disaster of 11 March and the nuclear accident that block the activity Business buyers and morale.

Japan uses nitrogen to avoid an explosion in Fukushima

Technicians of the nuclear Fukushima (northeastern Japan) started, Thursday, April 7, injecting nitrogen to avoid an explosion in a damaged reactor and prevent a worsening of the nuclear accident since Chernobyl's largest there are twenty-five years. The president of Tokyo ElectricPower Company (TEPCO), operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 in Japan, returned to work.

Brazil .- confirm the death of 10 children in the school attack Rio, nine of them girls between 12 and 14

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 7. The Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro has confirmed the deaths of ten children in the attack Thursday at a school district Realengo that left eleven dead, including nine girls aged between 12 and 14 years old , the official Agencia Brasil. The assailant is an alumnus of 23 years identified as Wellington Menezes de Oliveira.

According to initial accounts, the dead man broke in the local school Tasso da Silveira, located in the neighborhood of Realengo, west of the city of Rio de Janeiro, around 0830 hours (1330 hours in mainland Spain). The attack might have continued for about five minutes, according to the versions of some witnesses.

UNOCI "encircles the last defenders of Gbagbo"

The soldiers of the UN force in Cote d'Ivoire, ONUCI, encircle, Thursday, April 7, the last defenders of outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan, said Gerard Longuet, the French minister of defense. He described as "extraordinarily difficult" situation in the economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire, which has over four million inhabitants.

In Abidjan, "the troops who were dependent on the previous power pose major risks to people, not counting the bands of looters who draw the total absence of rule of law and personal opportunities," added the minister. Earlier in the day, sporadic shooting of heavy and light weapons were heard in Abidjan, around the palace and residence of Laurent Gbagbo.