Daily World Buzz

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Six policemen killed in an attack attributed to Al Qaeda in southern Yemen

.- At least six Yemeni policemen were killed and another wounded in an attack blamed on the terrorist network Al Qaeda carried out southeast of Sanaa, sources told Efe security services. According to sources, about twenty armed men traveling in two vehicles attacked at dawn a police checkpoint in the area of Rade, in the province of Al Baida, about 200 km from Sana'a.

The attackers, who used automatic rifles and grenades, managed to escape and security forces launched a huge operation to catch them. Moreover, the sources stressed that this is the first time that Al Qaeda operates in Al Baida, since most of the attacks on military and security objectives have been perpetrated in the neighboring provinces of Candid and Shebua, which has its strongholds .

President Ouattara dismisses several senior pro-Gbagbo

.- The president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, has dismissed several senior officials of state institutions in favor of Laurent Gbagbo, local media reported Monday on its website. The destitute were clearly shown and acted in favor of Gbagbo during the five months of institutional crisis and conflict that followed the Ivorian presidential elections on 28 November.

After the elections, Gbagbo, who was ten years in the presidency, refused to recognize the victory of Ouattara and tried, with the support of the military and police, to stay in power despite international recognition of Ouattara as president . Among those dismissed are Laurent Dona Fologo, president of the Economic and Social Council, and Tia Kone, president of the Constitutional Court, to be replaced by Marcel Zadi Kassy and Mamadou Kone, respectively, according to the decree, set out today by the online newspaper Abidjan.

Brain drain? No, of hearts!

Not only do the brains flee from Italy, the hearts sometimes do. Orestes comes from Sardinia and lives in Dublin. When we visit, the first thing he says is a homosexual. It seems almost a liberation, a topic that in Italy, years before, had never touched. Not that the thing itself move an inch the conversation, but we realize what will feel freer to talk about it now, hundreds of miles away from home.

Rises to 89 the death toll in the twin bombings in Pakistan

.- The death toll from twin suicide bombings against a central paramilitary police in northwest Pakistan rose to 89 on Saturday, police said. The Pakistani Taliban said on Friday that the attack in the town of Shabqadar, which also wounded 140 people, 40 of them seriously, was to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden in an operation by U.S.

special forces . It was the bloodiest attack so far this year in the country. "The death toll has risen to 89," he told AFP chief of district police, Nisar Khan Marwat. "Among the dead were five civilians and four other bodies were left in pieces, "he added.

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Syria: U.S. and French diplomats raise their voices

In an interview with pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat, published Saturday, May 14, Alain Juppe launches a warning to President Bashar Al-Assad: "A regime that pulls gun against its population loses its legitimacy. We want a stable Syria but we think stability is not true in law enforcement. It is in reform. " For the head of French diplomacy, the Syrian regime "is in the wall" if it "does not change its political line, if he perseveres in his analysis that the movements (...) that it faces are movements seditious, more or less encouraged from outside ".

Libya, the NATO countries condemn religious "in a thousand will die for every imam killed"

"A thousand people will die for each of the 11 imams killed by NATO." Religious Libyan launch a 'fatwa' against citizens of countries participating in the Alliance's military operations in Libya. Italy, France, Denmark, Great Britain, Qatar and UAE are all considered "legitimate targets". I would announce the Imam al-Noureddin Mijrah, during a press conference on the regime of Colonel raid yesterday in the city of Brega.

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Chile protests against a hydroelectric dam project

A project to build five hydroelectric dams in the wilderness of Patagonia, which recently received an endorsement administrative arouses strong opposition from environmental groups and some of the Chilean public opinion.