Prosecutor requests arrest warrant for Gadhafi

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo, announced Monday he asked the judges a warrant for crimes against humanity against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son Saif al Islam and the head of the intelligence Libyan Abdullah Al Senusi. "Based on the evidence collected, the prosecutor's office has asked the Senate Preliminary No.

1 to deliver arrest warrants against Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam and Abdullah Al Sanusi," said Moreno Ocampo on a wheel Press in The Hague where the ICC is based. "We believe they are the most responsible" for the current conflict situation in Libya, three months after the outbreak of a revolt against the regime of Gadhafi, the prosecutor said, adding that Libyan authorities have the "obligation" to execute the arrest warrants.

The shocking killing of 27 peasants in Guatemala

Few things are capable of causing unrest in a society hardened by violence. Guatemala, with an average of between 18 and 20 murders a day, is one of the most violent countries in Latin America. But the killing of 27 peasants this weekend in the municipality of La Libertad (Petén, north) has shaken the conscience of a population begins to reach unusual levels of anger.

Until noon there were more questions than answers. But all indications are that the Mexican group Los Zetas drug is responsible for the attack. The brutality of the murders leaves little room for doubt: the victims were beheaded and some were amputated legs and arms they used as brushes to leave messages written in blood on the wall of the manor house of the Finca Los Cocos, where the event occurred .

Nabil Al-Arabi, the new "Voice of the Arabs"

Some traditions have survived the revolution of 11 February in Egypt. Again, this is indeed an Egyptian foreign minister in office who was designated Sunday, May 15, at the head of the Arab League. Nabil Al-Arabi, born in 1935, replaces the position of Secretary General Amr Moussa of the organization which had already preceded him for ten years at the helm of the Egyptian diplomacy.

Amr Moussa had himself succeeded in 2001, another former Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed AsmatAbdel Mégib, past the headquarters of diplomacy to that of the League, both located on the same bank of the Nile in Cairo. Now free of any commitment, Moussa may arise in the next presidential election in Egypt.

"Daze" before the images of handcuffed DSK

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France shocked by the arrest of Strauss-Khan

The news of Strauss-Kahn on charges of rape has shocked France, where the head of the IMF was given as the favorite in all polls on the 2012 French presidential elections, although he had not yet resolved the reserve on its possible job. Now the possibility that Strauss-Kahn will present seems to fade out completely, even for a simple technical matter of time, as explained by Jeremie Saland, a lawyer from New York, quoted by the French website Le telegram.

The arrest of DSK plunged Greece into anxiety

Athens, Correspondence - The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) falls ill for Greece, while EU ministers are looking again on the issue of the country's debt, Monday, May 16 The government spokesman said Sunday that the relationship with the IMF was "institutional", but the personal relationship between Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Prime Minister George Papandreou, both Socialists, have played a key role to enable the plan Rescue Greece in May 2010.

Israel accuses Syria and Lebanon after clashes on the border

The Israeli delegation will submit a formal protest to the UN Security Council for the accident on Sunday on the borders with Lebanon and Syria. According to the Israeli military radio said the government intends to accuse the two countries had violated international resolutions and allowed Palestinian protesters cross the border.

The request of the Jewish state is the antithesis of the one already presented by the UN representative in Lebanon, accusing Israel instead of having violated international law and demand an investigation to determine the facts that occurred near the village of Marun A-Ras: the second Lebanon, ten people were killed and 112 were injured when Israeli troops opened fire to stop the protest of hundreds of Palestinian exiles who had stormed the border to commemorate the Nakba, the catastrophe, which leads to flight tens of thousands of Palestinians from the territory that in 1948 the UN gave the new Jewish state.