Hague says the Gadhafi regime weakens

.- The British Foreign Minister, William Hague, said today that the NATO campaign in Libya is constantly weakening the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, but vainly sought his ouster. "Time is on our side, not yours. The position of the Gadhafi regime is weakening all the time," said Foreign Secretary to the Sky News television.

Hague said that government troops "have lost major battles," but considered that the international community "must be patient and persistent to achieve success, and remember that time pressure is on the Gadhafi regime." Asked for their preferences on the future of the Libyan leader, when the interviewer gave him the choice between the options of death, exile or surrender, Hague said: "I would like to see him clearly accountable to the International Criminal Court." "But if you escape to a country not party to the ICC, we do not prevent," the British minister.

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Forces attack Syrian border town, residents flee

Syrian tanks and helicopters raided on Sunday in the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, residents said, and state television reported heavy fighting between soldiers and gunmen who are opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. A senior Turkish diplomat said four thousand 300 Syrian refugees had crossed the border and were being treated in hospitals and camps, but a Western envoy said the number was higher and witnesses said some 10 000 people were near the border.

Japan marks three months of the tsunami

Japan commemorated the three months of the disaster of March 11 with anti-nuclear demonstrations and a minute's silence in memory of the nearly 23 thousand 500 people, the balance of the earthquake and tsunami in the Northeast. Survivors of the towns and villages devastated the coast of the Tohoku (Northeast) observed a minute of silence at the exact time that the quake was magnitude 9 on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean after the tsunami triggered giant.

Al Qaeda loses another leader

The alleged leader of Al Qaeda in East Africa, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of the authors of the 1988 anti-American attacks in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, died last Wednesday during a confrontation at a roadblock, Somali officials said. Confirming the news, U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, called the death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed as a "significant setback" for the Islamist group.

Brazil .- Rousseff support increases despite the crisis in his Cabinet

RIO DE JANEIRO, 12 June (Reuters) - The popularity of Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff, rose to 49 percent in June, suggesting that it has withstood the first major crisis of his government, as emerges from a survey of the firm Datafolha posted Saturday on the website of the newspaper "Folha de Sao Paulo." In a consultation conducted in March, Rousseff had obtained a 47 percent approval.

The survey was conducted between 9 and 10 June, after the influential chief of staff Rousseff, Antonio Palocci, resigned amid suspicions by his inordinate enrichment. The survey was conducted among 2,188 people across Brazil, with a margin of error of 2 percentage points. Palocci, an advocate of fiscal discipline and inflation fighting, denied any wrongdoing, but decided to abandon the view that the scandal was damaging the government.

Dies the alleged perpetrator of the attacks against U.S. embassies

.- Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, an alleged member of Al Qaeda and accused of being the organizer of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed south of Mogadishu for four days in a shootout with police , authorities said Monday. The commander of the Somali Armed Forces, General Abdikarin Dhegabadan Yusuf confirmed that Mohamed was killed on Tuesday and his body was handed over to the U.S.

Clinton arrives in Tanzania on a tour dedicated to strengthening trade with Africa

.- The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arrived in Dar es Salaam, in a tour designed to strengthen U.S. commercial ties with Africa, which began yesterday in Zambia and Ethiopia will continue on Monday. The head of U.S. diplomacy, which was received at the airport "Julius Nyerere" in Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian foreign minister, Bernard Membe, will meet with Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, and other members of the Government.