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Monday, April 23, 2012

The ceasefire in Syria


The ceasefire in Syria has been broken at the weekend appeared again. A day after the UN Security Council for an increase of the UN observer mission in Syria had decided on 300 men were reported on Sunday to new attacks. Government troops have taken a suburb of the capital, Damascus, under fire, reported the opposition Coordination Committee. Several explosions have shaken the Duma, while soldiers stormed several quarters. There was no independent confirmation of the information is not there. According to the opposition, the Syrian regime tried to deceive the UN observers.On Sunday it was said that the soldiers at the roadblocks, the protest stronghold Rastan changed their uniforms. She wore more clothes now no army, but the police uniforms. The activist, Mohammed Said, reported two deaths in the Duma.The place was panic broke out, he said. "The UN Observer thing is a big joke. If they are there, the bombardment stops and the tanks are hidden, but if they go, the shelling resumed." The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported in the village Hteita outside of Damascus was a man was killed when soldiers fired from one of control. 

Iran decoding technology of US drone

The drone , supposedly one of the most advanced air vehicles, crashed in December in Iranian territory and that country's experts were able to extract information, the General Amir Ali Hajiyadeh that the U.S. drone is now in the hands of the Iranian revolutionary guards and experts were able to extract information from it. Hajizadeh says Iran could taste success the operation revealed some details of intelligence , such that the plane was in California in October 2010 before being taken to Kandahar a month later. He was then taken back to the United States technical problems and, after repair, was used in the operation to breathe the hideout of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. The drone captured, supposedly one of the most advanced unmanned aerial vehicles,crashed in December in Iranian territory , 225 kilometers from the Afghan border. Iran said the U.S. had defeated in battle technology. However, NATO officials acknowledged the loss of the aircraft , but said they flew over western Afghanistan on a mission when the operator lost control. U.S. President Barack Obama called on Iran in December to return the drone, but Tehran refused on the grounds that its airspace had been violated and Washington must first apologize for it. Since then studies the technology of the aircraft type RQ-170.

Pakistan buries victims of plane crash

Most of the victims of the crash of a Pakistani airliner crashed near Islamabad, causing 127 deaths, have been buried over the weekend while research continues to elucidate the causes of the tragedy. The Bhoja Air flight from Karachi came down in fields near a village on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital on Friday evening, in the city's second major fatal air crash in less than two years. All 127 people on board -- 121 passengers and six crew -- were killed when the plane crashed and burst into flames at around 6:40 pm on Friday. There were 11 children among the dead. The crash came less than two years after the worst ever air disaster on Pakistani soil. In July 2010 an Airbus A321 operated by Airblue crashed into the hills overlooking Islamabad while coming in to land in heavy rain and poor visibility, killing all 152 people on board.

Train crash in Amsterdam

Saturday evening, at Amsterdam Central Station, hundreds of people get into the local train in the direction Uitgeest. Only 28 minutes usually takes the short journey. Then a bang pushes the "Stoptrein" near the railway station Amsterdam-Sloterdijk on a bridge over a canal head-on with an oncoming double-decker express, After the train crash in Amsterdam, where an express train collided and a local train, a 68-year-old succumbed to her injuries. According to official figures, 117 people were injured.One of the victims, a 68-year-old woman, a day after the accident, succumbed to her injuries. About 42 people were seriously injured.16 of them still had to be hospitalized.Among the seriously injured will also be the driver is the fast train to Den Helder-Nijmegen.