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Tsunami waves hit American Samoa, a U.S. territory, causing 14 deaths, and also affected the nearby nation of Samoa where there was so far undetermined number of deaths, local media and officials said.

In the area there are unconfirmed reports of waves up to 4 meters.

As of now, everyone is in the high mountains, said Senetenari Malele, announcer on local radio station Showers of Blessings. He said the local meteorological authority had issued a statement with 14 deaths in the last minute. In nearby Western Samoa also had reports of fatalities and destroyed houses, but the amount was unknown. However, fears of a devastating tsunami across the ocean were dissolved after the Warning Center Pacific Tsunami warning canceled for the region. The alert had been issued three and half hours after a powerful earthquake of 8 magnitude shudder to American Samoa. Experts had said they were expected to waves were so strong and tall as in the 2004 Asian tsunami, which left some 230,000 people in 11 countries, but also warned people across the region to move to higher ground and stay away from the coast. I can confirm that there is damage, I can confirm that there are dead and can confirm that there are wounded, a police spokesman by telephone from Western Samoa. I can not say anything more right now, he added. A resident of a coastal town in Western Samoa, Theresa Falele Dussey, told Radio New Zealand that his home was destroyed by a wave, like houses and cars in other nearby villages. Read more »

CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinean security forces killed at least 58 people by firing live ammunition to disperse hundreds of demonstrators on Monday, a group of human rights in an escalating political crisis in the largest exporter of bauxite the world. Witnesses said that many prominent opposition leaders were arrested, and protesters were injured in the fighting that began when hundreds of people took to the streets and gathered in a stadium Despite the large security operation made by the authorities. The incident, the worst since the military ruler Moussa Camara Dadis came to power in a coup in 2008, came after months of wrangling between House and its rivals. Camara has not ruled out standing as a candidate in elections, infuriating his opponents and foreign donors alike.

Only in a hospital, we have counted 58 bodies, Reuters reported Maadjou Thierno Sow, president of the Guinean Human Rights Organization. It seems that there are many more bodies (the other hospital), he added. Read more »

Officials fear the figure will rise in coming horasen and around the capital, since some populations still hanpodido contact with deDesastres National Coordinating Council chaired by Defense Minister Gilberto Teodoro.

Nearly 60 bodies were recovered this morning deMarikina municipality, but will not be listed until susidentidades be confirmed by the Government.

In less than twelve hours, Ketsana made zonasafectadas falling on a rainfall well above the monthly average inthis season and beat the previous record registered in 1967. Some 435,000 people have been displaced or have lost sushogares and has declared a state of emergency in Manila and otras25 provinces affected by the storm on the island of Luzon, dondemuchos uploaded two days have hit the roof of their casasesperando help arrives. Television footage showed dozens of manilenosdesplazandose in plastic boats or makeshift rafts by laciudad, full of abandoned cars and submerged, and miles deatascos in almost all 17 municipalities, depending onthe Internet videos posted by hundreds of witnesses. Read more »

during military exercises, Iran tested two new short-range missiles and multiple rocket installation.

As the BBC BBC , on Saturday, Iranian Revolutionary Guards, an elite branch of the armed forces, announced a large-scale military exercises. This step can worsen the already tense relations between Iran and Western countries that a formal suspect Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

Friday Iran admitted under pressure from the West, not far from the capital built another plant to enrich uranium.

According to the United States, Britain and France , Iranian authorities have tried to conceal its existence, the Western countries also say that the construction of this facility violates the obligations of Iran before the UN International Agency for Atomic Energy (IAEA). Read more »

Abbas is the first in a series of leaders who visit the island after attending the UN General Assembly in New York. In a speech in Havana where Castro invited disputed Middle East, the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) reiterated that Israel must take an early decision to resume the dialogue for peace, this week after rejecting a new proposal from the international community.

Israel has to give a quick initiative. We have extended our hand for peace, so we ask Israel to respond and accept this call that he has done, Abbas said in his speech.

On Thursday, the U.S., Russia, United Nations and the European Union, the so-called Quartet of negotiators, renewed the call for Israel to resume peace negotiations in the region. Two days earlier, President of the PNA and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, held a meeting in New York in the presence of U.S. Read more »

Qari Hussain Mehsud, known for training the suicide bombers of the Taliban, gave an interview to an AP reporter on Thursday at an undisclosed location in the North Waziristan near the Afghan border, a few hours before a U.S. rocket attack in the tribal region that killed 12 people. The United States has launched dozens of rockets in an attempt to kill leaders of al Qaeda and Taliban in northwestern Pakistan during the last year. Although Pakistan usually protest the attacks, is believed to secretly cooperating with them. Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mesud died in one attack in August, and statements by Qari Hussain Mesud apparently are the latest attempt of the militants to end speculation about infighting among the commanders of the rebel group to replace him in command. Our movement has gained more strength after the fall of Baitul Mesud, said the militiaman. We are united, he said. Commander, in his 40s, curly black beard and mustache, was surrounded by dozens of militiamen and local residents. Read more »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A committee of the U.S. Senate, which discusses a broad health system reform, confirmed Thursday that the requirement for individuals to buy health insurance. panel also rejected a proposal that could sink the agreement of 80,000 million between the White House and drug manufacturers. During the third day of debate on health system reform, the Commission on Senate Finance moved slowly in hundreds of amendments to the bill, the last of five pending in Congress regarding the national top priority of U.S. President Barack Obama. panel, controlled Democrats, defeated in a partisan vote a Republican proposal to allow people to be able to reject the requirement of the law so that all individuals have health insurance. reform plan health will require all U.S. Read more »

Swedish security company G4S in the south of Stockholm, was subjected to unprecedented plunder. Attackers have landed in a stolen private helicopter on the roof dengohranilischa and got on with the help of explosives.

As transmits radio Freedom , witnesses saw the robbers loaded the bags into the helicopter, then left the scene . A few hours later hijacked the helicopter was found near one of the lakes in the northern part of Sweden's capital. Read more »

It is time for the world to move in a new direction, Obama said in his first speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, a message that attracted attention for its openness. Our work must begin now, he said. Obama said he never apologize for defending U.S. interests, but also criticized what he called an almost anti-American attitude of reflection that has sweeping the globe and said it would seek to counter that trend. To do so, Obama ticked off a litany of policy changes and actions that his government has undertaken since taking office nine months ago. He noted that the United States has no interest in doing the things on their own and instead wants to act as an equal partner with other countries on the world stage. The president seemed to fix a new tone in the country's relations with other nations, unlike the government of his predecessor George W. Bush, criticized for unilateralism that led to a distancing of other governments. Those who used to criticize the United States to act alone in the world can not stop and wait for U.S. resolve itself world problems, Obama said. We have looked at the word and deed, a new era of engagement with the world, Obama said, echoing the theme of cooperation often used as a presidential candidate and has subsequently used as a pillar of its foreign policy. Now is the time for that we all take our share of responsibility. also made his first appearance before this forum Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who started against the Security Council and requested that it remove the veto power to its five permanent members (U.S., Britain, China, France and Russia). Read more »

It is past time that we speak to start negotiations, it was time to move forward, to show flexibility, good sense and spirit of compromise necessary to achieve the objectives. The permanent status negotiations should begin quickly, said Obama at the start of a summit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting with them is the first since Netanyahu took office March 31. Israeli Prime Minister and Palestinian President shook hands with Obama supported theirs on the backs of both visitors.

No one, however, hoped that the involvement of Obama were sufficient to resolve the deep differences between Israelis and Palestinians and a resumption of talks held since late 2008.

The U.S. president did, however , Abbas and Netanyahu sent his negotiators to Washington next week for further talks in New York. Despite the obstacles, despite the weight of history, must find a way out of the block in which they were trapped generations of Israelis and Palestinians, in an infinite circle of conflict and suffering, said Obama. The Middle East special envoy, George Mitchell , said meet representatives of the two leaders this week. But he conceded that differences remain and prevent the resumption of negotiations. Talks between Israelis and Palestinians faced the rejection of Netanyahu to completely stop the colonization of the occupied West Bank and the Abbas to discuss in these conditions. Read more »