Death of an Israeli tycoon involved in a scandal with Iran

Israeli magnate Sammy Ofer, 89, who headed the Israeli Ofer conglomerate involved in a scandal for trading with Iran, a declared enemy of the Jewish state, died at his home Friday morning the media reported Israel. According to public radio, Sammy Ofer, whose capital is estimated at more than $ 10 billion, died in Tel Aviv following a long illness.

His death comes after a series of revelations about alleged links Ofer group with Iran, fueling a lively debate on the juicy profits in the guise of espionage. The United States has placed the group on an Israeli blacklist because he sold in September 2010 a tanker for $ 8.6 million to the shipping company IRISL Iran (Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines) in violation of the international embargo imposed on Teheran for its controversial nuclear activities.

The head of the EU mission recommends "maximum restraint" to the Peruvian electoral authorities

If anything matching contributors and Keiko Fujimori Ollanta Humala is predicting that the runoff election on Sunday, June 5 will be defined by narrow margin, may vote to vote. Ignacio Salafranca, head of the EU mission sent to observe the elections, adding to the prayers that have already made the Peruvian electoral authorities and, given the doubts raised primarily by Humala reaffirms the confidence in elections clean.

Blog - Israel: former Mossad chief supports the Arab peace initiative

This initiative provides for a full normalization with Israel for all members of the Arab League in exchange for the creation of a Palestinian state in the lines that existed on the eve of the 1967 war and a negotiated solution between the two parties Palestinian refugees.

• "So That No One Can Say Later That I Didn't Say Anything" (02/06/2011)
• Ex-Israeli Spy Chief Takes Swipe at Netanyahu's Approach to Iran, Palestinians (02/06/2011)
• Ex-Israeli spymaster: No Israeli plan to hit Iran (02/06/2011)
• Ex-Israel Spy: Country Won't Attack Iran Within Next 2 Years (02/06/2011)
• 'Israel Attack on Iran Means Regional War' (03/06/2011)

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New outbreaks of violence in Syria left at least 67 dead

The Syrian security forces opened fire today on demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad in the city of Hama, in the framework of a new day of protests called "Children of Freedom." The balance of the violent crackdown on protesters' peaceful and unarmed "this Friday in Hama is at least 67 dead, said the Syrian opposition groups shortly after activists realized 27 fatalities.

'White Night' by Argentine Ricardo Piglia, Rómulo Gallegos Prize

MADRID, 3 Jun. 'White Night' by Ricardo Piglia (Adrogué, Buenos Aires, 1941), has won the XVII International Novel Prize Rómulo Gallegos, awarded by the Venezuelan government and considered the most important award in Latin America. The winning entry was chosen from among the twelve finalists from renowned authors in Spanish, reports Anagram.

According to the jury, Piglia has won this prize "for the aesthetic, literary engagement, universality and the strong personality of his novel, on the other hand, and received the Critics Award in Spain. 'White Night' (Anagram) tells the story of a people and the hell of family relationships.

The Chilean Supreme partially annulled the sentence of the Mapuche

Chile's Supreme Court today has lowered the sentences of four Mapuche prisoners currently on hunger strike, to three to four years in prison, compared with 20 and 25 years who had previously been sentenced for the attack a prosecutor and attacks on police in 2008. But he kept the penalties of between five and 10 years for violent robbery against a farmer.

The Supreme Court has held that the process should only be considered crimes against police officers in serious injury and less serious injuries against the prosecution, and dismissed the conviction for attempted murder. Now Jonathan Huillical, José Ramón Llanquileo have Huenuche and sentenced to eight years in prison, and Hector Llaitul, 14 years in prison.

Syria, at least 67 dead in Beirut HamaManifestazioni

A "veritable carnage." It 's the description of an eyewitness of the fighting today in the city of Hama, Syria, where at least 67 people have died. "I was to show, we would have been over 10 thousand - he said - there they shot him with great intensity. To kill. Kalashnikovs and machine guns were heavy, at least by the din of gunfire.

" The city hospital is crowded with wounded, "hundreds" according to witnesses, among the protesters against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. An event that already has a precedent in the history of the country. In 1982 the then president, Hafiz al-Assad - the father of - bombed the Syrian city for weeks.