Thursday, July 28, 2011

Last survivor of plane crash in Morocco dies

The final number of dead after the accident last Tuesday a military plane near Guelmim, in southern Morocco, rising to 81 after the death of the last survivor, said the Moroccan government. Communication Minister Moroccan government spokesman Khalid Naciri, said in Rabat during a press conference that "now there is no survivor." The last survivor, a soldier in his thirties, was under intensive care at a military hospital in Guelmim, near the Western Sahara, while the other passengers were killed immediately or hours later.

Accident in China is due to a failure signal

Train accident that has killed 39 people  in eastern China is due to a problem of signaling equipment hit by lightning, said Thursday the office of Shanghai railway, quoted by Xinhua new. The signal system "could fairepasser the green light to red", causing the train crash that has shaken confidence in the reliability of Chinese high speed trains, said An Lusheng, head of the office.

Attacks in Norway: the killer has sent thousands of emails before the attack

Barely an hour and a half before the killing, and Oslo on the island of Utoeya Anders Breivik Behring has sent his manifesto by email to nearly one thousand people, according to one of the recipients, the Belgian deputy Tanguy Veys, the far-right Flemish party Vlaams Belang. The elected ensures had never heard of the killer before the attacks.

"There were people from Italy, France, Germany, but I think the UK had the largest number [of recipients]," he told the Guardian, identifying two hundred and fifty British. According to Le Point, seventy-four French were also part of those recipients. "It's a low estimate. There are places like 'hotmail.

Torrential rains in South Korea left 32 dead

Torrential rains caused landslides on Wednesday throughout the South Korean capital and a northern village, killing at least 32 deaths, including 10 university students who volunteer. University students who died in the landslide occurred in the morning, had stayed in a cabin in Chuncheon, about 68 miles northeast of the capital, Seoul, when the flood of mud and debris crushed them, said Byun In -soo of the fire station in the town.

Ways to eliminate famine in the Horn of Africa

Emaciated children, long lines of refugees in search of food on land desperately dry: it is the stigma of going through dramatic humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa, experiencing an unprecedented drought. A crisis worse today than some years ago, and could worsen in the coming months, while the next rainy season is expected in October.

In the meantime, nearly 12 million people at risk of malnutrition. Wednesday, July 27, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had to meet the ambassadors of donor countries to take stock of the situation in Somalia, which suffered the brunt of drought and two regions which were reported by UN famine.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The mayor of Kandahar died in an attack

The mayor of Kandahar, Ghulam Haider Hameedi, died today in an attack in the council of this restive city in southern Afghanistan, as reported by official sources quoted by the local AIP. The attack occurred when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive in a hallway near the mayor's office, as indicated by the provincial government spokesman Zalmay Ayoubi.

Apparently, the terrorist encondía the bomb in the turban. The mayor was meeting with some leaders of a district of Kandahar city when one of them approached him and detonated the bomb, as noted by the chief of police of the city, Abdul Razaq. Hamidi's death occurs at an awkward time, just as there is a dangerous power vacuum in the volatile province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban and a focus of recent efforts of U.S. troops to quell the thrust of the insurgency.

U.S. debt: the Republicans will not vote before Thursday

The proposal by the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives John Boehner to leave the United States of the budget impasse will not be put to a vote before Thursday at the earliest, officials said Tuesday, July 26 at the Congress. The postponement will delay further negotiations on raising the debt ceiling demanded by the Treasury before the deadline of August 2 to meet its commitments.