MOSCOW, March 30 – RIA Novosti. The government of Pakistan to declare the operation to find and destroy the militia, seized on Monday morning training center Police in the area of the city of Lahore in the east of the country, reports Reuters.
Operation completed. Four terrorists killed and three were arrested, – quotes agency the words of Kamal Shah, Secretary Ministry of Internal Affairs (Kamal Shah).
According to Shah, in the attack and subsequent operations were injured at least 89 police officers, the number of deaths clarified.
militants, disguised in police officers, attacked the police training center in eastern Pakistan. Several dozen people were killed, more than 100 were injured. Read more
Posted in Main News by admin: March 31, 2009
BID-ASAMBLEA/REUNIÓN – Medellin (Colombia) – The board degobernadores IDB concluded today in the Colombian city deMedellin its annual meeting at which will launch a plan paracapitalizar body .
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U.S. – San Jose – Central American Presidents and Vice President of United States, Joe Biden, will meet at the capitalcostarricense.
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EU – Tegucigalpa – Central America and the EU started deNegociaciones Round VII of the Agreement of Association which hopes to sign this year.
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CRISIS-AUTOMÓVIL/EEUU – Washington – Washington is a ultimaoportunidad GM and Chrysler to restructure
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ARAB-SOUTHAMERICA – Doha – Majority South American leaders to strengthen ties acudea appointment Arabs
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EUROPE-USA – Washington – Obama begins his first tour Europe tomorrow to forge a new relationship with the allies.
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CONFLICT-COLOMBIA – Bogota – New proposal generaesperanzas of the FARC, but the government shut
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REPORT – Medellin (Colombia) – The Inter-American Development Bank increased loans without sovereign guarantees
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R.UNIDO-MEXICO – London – Calderon and Brown agree that should ELG-20 support countries emerging
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PAKISTAN-ATTACK – Islamabad – Command 8personas kills terrorist assault on a police academy in Lahore
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SPAIN-BELARUS – Moscow – levantamientode Moratinos called for all the sanctions on Minsk
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-ARAB SUMMIT – Doha – Arab leaders closed ranks around Sudanese alpresidente
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FRANCE-ETA – Paris-France Ainhoa Garcia Condenados in three other suspected ETA Monteroy
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-PALESTINIAN OCCUPATION – Ramallah – Thousands of Palestinians protestancontra land expropriation and racism
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AFGHANISTAN-CONFERENCE-The Hague-The Hague Conference buscamas support plan for the U.S. Read more
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By Luis Jaime Acosta
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The FARC announced on Sunday that handed the remains of a police officer died in captivity in Colombia and say they are ready to start an agreement with the Government hostage.
They called for the return of the bodies of two of their commanders dead.
The ads in the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) revived the hopes of achieving an agreement with the Government to achieve the freedom of 22 Army troops and police were kidnapped and set the foundations for a peace process to put an end to internal conflict for more than four decades.
The remains of the couple (Julio Ernesto) Guevara will be handed to his mother at that time and place indicated below when the situation of public policy allows it, said the letter sent to the Colombian rebel group and Colombianas por la Paz, a group of representatives of civil society.
As we raise the application Colombians and Colombian Peace by the National Government to require delivery of the dead commander Raul Reyes and Ivan Rios to their families, he said.
Guevara died in captivity in the jungle of Colombia in February 2006 after having spent over seven years was kidnapped after he was captured by the FARC in November 1998 during the assault on the town of Mitu, capital of the jungle department of Vaupes.
Reyes died on first of March last year during a Colombian military bombardment in a jungle area of Ecuador, while Rios was killed days later by one of his guards handed over the body to the Army to collect a million dollar reward .
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The rebel group said it is willing to put aside its demand that the government withdraw the Armed Forces of a region 780 square kilometers of mountains, in the southwest of the country to establish a security zone in which to gather delegates from the two sides to negotiate a hostage. Read more
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RIA Novosti. Anna Granik
British Queen Elizabeth II greets Mexican President Felipe Calderon
LONDON, March 30 – RIA Novosti, Anna Granik. In London, the capital of the summit, G20, in spring warm and sunny. At the summit leaders to visit countries, and yet, on the eve of a meeting in Britain on a state visit, arrived Mexican President Felipe Calderon.
By tradition, the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II meets guests at the palace, and goes to it.
For Brits are probably seen as a common sight: they are not going to Buckingham Palace. But tourists from all over the world are here at least a few thousand. Hard to believe that there is still some time here so you can easily see the queen coach, met his guest.
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Preparation begins several hours before the meeting itself. Police otseplyayut building of Buckingham Palace. Impatient tourists, they explain in detail where and what they can see.
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British Queen Elizabeth II greets Mexican President Felipe Calderon
first to pass the palace guard and band. Guards then builda special way – one of them comes with a pair, and by measuring the distance between the guards, said each location.
At all stages of the motorcade hang flags of the United Kingdom and Mexico. Read more
Posted in Main News by admin: March 31, 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama said he will consult with leaders in Pakistan to attack militants in the country. This is B. Obama said in an interview with American television channel CBS.
As reported by the BBC, in particular, President United States emphasized that the goal of American policy in the region – to help Pakistan defeat the extremists. B. Obama noted the need for closer cooperation with Pakistan is a sovereign state.
We must enable them to assume much greater responsibility for what happens, – said Boris Obama, called the situation on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan is still extremely dangerous.
Saturday Pakistan's President Ali Zardari said that no one would allow to question the independence of his country. Read more
Posted in Main News by admin: March 30, 2009
During the elections to local parliaments of Turkey having riots in which five people were killed and 90 wounded. That was reported by AFP in Sunday, March 29.
According to the agency, the riots took place, mainly in the east and south-east of the country where the majority population of Kurds.
In the provinces of Sanliurfa and Diyarbakir shooting occurred as aresult of which killed three people. The city Diarbykar (the capital of the province), as reported by AFP, one man died of a heart attack during a dispute at a polling station. In the province of Van, one voter had died from multiple stab wounds.
As recent opinion polls, a winner of local elections in Turkey is the governing Justice and Development Party, led by the country's current Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. Read more
Posted in Main News by admin: March 30, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has no plans for a reunion fundamental with Iranian officials at a conference on Afghanistan in The Hague next week , said Thursday the State Department.
No meetings are planned with key Iranian officials in this time, said State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid, when asked if Clinton was planning to have a meeting with Iranian officials as a follow-up to the conference on Tuesday.
This conference is to reach a regional consensus on Afghanistan. It is a conference on the (inter) United States and Iran he said.
But Duguid welcomed Iran's participation in the conference in The Hague, that Clinton proposed, and the hope that Iran can help stabilize Afghanistan.
We want this conference is a regional conference, which would be incomplete without Iran, said Duguid.
The Iranians have always played a useful role in Afghanistan . Read more
Posted in Main News by admin: March 27, 2009
American credit analyst Paul Binstok filed in the Court of the State of New York sued his former employer at the rating agency Moody's. According to the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Binstok believes that the reason for his dismissal in December 2007 was the complaint of his supervisor, who refused to raise the ratings of one of the credit companies on the grounds that it does not pay Moody's. The claim could cause even more resentment and more stringent standards for rating agencies in the United States and Europe.
According to Paul Binstoka, 4 December 2007, he introduced the ad hoc committee of Moody's, its proposal to increase the credit rating company Express Scripts – the basis for this was improve the performance of the company. Initially, five of the seven members of Moody's Committee voted in favor of increasing the assessment. However, the rating committee chairman Patrick Finnegan did not agree with the outcome and offered to repeat the vote. In doing so, he reportedly added that Express Scripts does not deserve a better conversion rate, as the agency does not pay. If you vote against increasing the assessment voted six of the seven members of the committee. Paul Binstok the next day filed a complaint to the appropriate department of Moody's, but on 12 December has been dismissed from the company.
Representatives of Moody's claim that Binstok was dismissed in December 2007 within the planned downsizing. Read more
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current Georgian government will be in power until 2013, as envisaged by the Constitution the country. Says the Georgian Foreign Ministry statement issued on Friday to interview the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, the newspaper Financial Times.
Information the newspaper Sight, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia considers that Mr. Lavrov voiced willingness of the authorities of Russian Federation in Georgia change the democratically elected government.
Handbook Russia must understand that the people of Georgia will never choose a power that is to accept the occupation of the inalienable parts of Georgia, with expulsion from their homes by an absolute majority of the indigenous inhabitants of Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region, – underlines the Georgian Foreign Ministry. Read more
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EU fears that the political crisis in the Czech Republic will have negative consequences for the whole of a united Europe. In Prague, strong opponents of a Europe-wide constitution. With the departure of M. Topolánek government, in favor of strengthening the EU, the distribution of forces may change, said EuroNews.
suggested that the current Government of the Czech Republic is likely to remain in power until July 1, when the Presidency of the EU, and Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek on Wednesday assured the deputies of the European Parliament: The situation does not affect the presidency of the Czech Republic in the EU. This is just a sad fact: the Social Democrats tried to undermine the presidency but the presidency that will not prevent .
Endorsing Tuesday vote of no confidence the Government majority in the Parliament of the Czech Republic sent a resignation Cabinet Premier M. Topolánek. According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, President Vaclav Klaus to appoint a new head of government. On Wednesday W. Klaus said that the making of motions of no confidence in the current Cabinet of Ministers will not have catastrophic consequences and assured the EU in the stability of the political course of the country. Read more
Posted in Main News by admin: March 26, 2009