NATO helicopters involved in an incident at the border with Pakistan

The Pakistani army has "strongly protested" to NATO after a raid by two helicopters for ISAF in the tribal area of North Waziristan, which injured on Tuesday, two Pakistani soldiers. In Kabul, the NATO international force (ISAF) "has heard of a possible incident" at this point of the border. A Western military official in Kabul confirmed that both NATO aircraft that were operating on the Afghan side had responded to fire from Pakistan.

Syria denies the existence of a mass grave in Deraa

The Syrian Interior Ministry denied, Tuesday, May 17, the existence of a mass grave in the town of Dera, home to the dispute started two months ago. "As part of the smear campaign, incitement, [information dissemination] fabricated, launched against Syria, and continued attempts to undermine stability and peace of its citizens, some channels Television and media have published information, quoting eyewitnesses, alleging the existence of a mass grave in Deraa, "said the official news agency SANA quoted an official at the Interior Ministry.

Funes supports connections of the 'narco' with the State SALVADORAN

The former rulers they never did in El Salvador, it has the current president Mauricio Funes by publicly acknowledging the existence in their country of a drug cartel that has connections with the State's institutions, as well as gang-gangs, and serves springboard to catapult the cocaine from Colombia to the United States, where the market is assured.

Funes confirmed to local and foreign journalists, international journalists at a forum held on Monday, the existence of a large drug trafficking network in the north and northwest of El Salvador, called Texis sign-on to the northern district, where Texistepeque involving entrepreneurs, mayors, deputies, police and judges.

Strauss-Kahn, the IMF no all'immunitàE sprout names for his succession

Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Read the picture) will not enjoy diplomatic immunity. Accepted in the Statute of the International Monetary Fund officials "in the performance of official acts in exercising their functions", but the director was in New York for personal reasons. Even the hotel at the center of the story, the Sofitel New York - where, according to the indictment, Strauss-Kahn would have raped a 32 year-old waitress - "not in the list of hotels" for selected personnel on mission, stressed by the IMF.

Japan will host the IAEA inspectors in Fukushima

Japan is ready to welcome experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect nuclear plant in Fukushima. "We do our best to ensure transparency and accept the arrival of investigators from the IAEA," said the spokesman of the Japanese government, Yukio Edano, at a press conference Tuesday, May 17 An international team of twenty specialists of the Agency will be in Japan from May 24 to June 2 to analyze the accident at the plant.

The black boxes of Air France Airbus crash exempt

PARIS, 17 May. The data extracted from the black box containing the flight parameters of the Air France plane that fell into the Atlantic in June 2009 Airbus could exempt a manufacturer from any liability, according to Gallo publishes the journal 'Le Figaro'. Apparently, the first evidence after reading the flight data to conclude that the A330 was "harmless", which leads investigators to a possible pilot error.

Strauss-Kahn, French socialists prepare for his succession to the challenge to Sarkozy

Faced with the refusal of U.S. courts to grant bail to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French Socialist Party breaks through the inertia and confirm the schedule of primaries for the race socialist Elysium 2012. The announcement, despite calls for caution on a story that many inside the PS, however, define a "private event", decreed the disappearance of the Director of the IMF by the French policy of at least the medium term.