Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Argentina for the first time gives citizenship to a person born in the Falkland Islands

BUENOS AIRES, 15 Jun. The son of a British veteran of the Falklands War - took place in 1982 - has become the first person born in the archipelago to receive a national of Argentina, a fact that has been held by the Government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. James Peck, a painter of 43 years, received Tuesday his hands DNI Fernandez de Kirchner in an emotional ceremony that commemorated the 29 years of defeat by British troops during the war in which Argentina lost sovereignty Falkland Islands.

Japan prepares radiation measurement scale after Fukushima

The Tokyo metropolitan government on Wednesday launched a large-scale study to measure radiation, sending officials to parks, schoolyards and other places to reassure parents about the leak of the Fukushima nuclear plant damaged in March by a tsunami. The research was conducted in 100 locations. The previous readings of radiation have been limited to a single place in the city of more than 13 million people.

Overnight curfew ends in Egypt

Egypt takes another step toward normalcy and says goodbye to the night curfew that has kept the Army from Jan. 29 to fight insecurity on the roads and streets Egypt after the revolution. In recent weeks, the curfew had been reduced to just three hours from 2:00 to 5:00 local time (00:00 and 03:00 GMT) - although it came to be in effect from 16:00 to 08:00 am local time (14:00 and 06:00 GMT) during the first days of demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak.

Chile .- Argentina and Uruguay resume air operations

BUENOS AIRES / MONTEVIDEO, 15 Jun. Airports in Argentina and Uruguay resumed on Wednesday morning of its flights to domestic and international destinations, after a week of crisis in the airspace of the Southern Cone as a result of the eruption Chile Puyehue. LAN Airlines agreed to resume "progressively operations" in Jorge Newbery and Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires from 08.30 hours (13.30 hours in mainland Spain).

Barack Obama called for the resignation of Anthony Weiner

After two weeks of scandal, Anthony Weiner, 46, Democratic Representative from New York to Congress in Washington, Sunday, June 12 announced that it would take a few days off. The political class, unanimous, including Obama, now claims his resignation. Mr. Weiner is accused of using Twitter and Facebook to flirt hard with a half-dozen young women, including activists, democrats, while he is married and his wife is pregnant.

Children equipped with dosimeters in Fukushima

The city of Fukushima will equip 34 000 children in the fall of dosimeters to reassure families worried about radioactivity, which continues to escape from the nuclear accident, located about sixty kilometers. The Municipality will distribute the equipment in September.

They keep these instruments continuously measures on them for three months, said, Tuesday, June 14, an office manager in charge of education. Gauges will also be distributed to parents of children under three years on request. Since the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March that severely damaged the reactor plant, Japan has raised the level of legal exposure for the population, all ages, from 1 to 20 mSv per year, the standard adopted by many countries for the nuclear industry employees.

Spain, indignados leave the streets to go to the barrios

It's continues along the road, one that goes step by step. For nearly a month this is the content of the speeches that rise from the streets of indignados.