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Saturday, May 5, 2012

The Japan off the last nuclear power plant, nuclear free country

With the end of the last of the 50 nuclear reactors in operation, on Saturday, May 5, 2012 Japan will again be a nuclear-free country for the first time since 1970 when it went into operation at Tokai Japanese first reactor capable of producing 1000 mW of electricity. The energy demand in Japan for over one third is covered by nuclear power. Therefore, the closure of all stations, following the crisis in Fukushima, the plant destroyed by the tsunami of 2011, raises fears of an energy crisis this summer, when there will be a peak consumption of heat-related.Doubts, however, do not stop the activists. "Some politicians and some nuclear energy expert - says Tatsuya Yoshioda, a leading NGO Peace Boat - will say that without nuclear energy our life can not exist. But now in Japan, This is not true at all. Our life can go on even without the atomic power stations. "In Japan we have always been particularly attached to atomic energy - says a man victim of the bombing of Nagasaki - our government has always said it was safe but has betrayed us. Now we want that Japan no longer use this form of energy. " "After the war - added a woman, who was among the survivors of Hiroshima - the victims of the atomic bombings were in favor of nuclear power, because you had to restart the economy. After Fukushima, however, we suddenly remember that it can be destructive. "Officially, the last Japanese atomic plant, in Tomari, Hokkaido Island, will close for maintenance for 70 days. In reality, its future is uncertain and not you know if and when the Japanese government will consent to its reactivation.

At least 20 killed in suicide attack on police station in Pakistan


At least 20 people were killed and 50 wounded Friday in a suicide bombing by a teenager in a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, a stronghold of rebels allied with Al Qaeda, according to new official figures. The attack against the police came in Jar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district near the Afghan border, considered a Taliban stronghold. "Twenty people, including five policemen, were killed and 46 others were injured. Some shops and restaurants nearby are destroyed," Islam told AFP Zeb, head of district administration. The bomber, aged between 14 and 16, according to officials of the intelligence services came to the checkpoint on foot and detonated his explosives around his waist. It is the third bomb attack in the last two days in Bajaur and the bloodiest attack in Pakistan committed since 2 March, when 22 died in an attack on a mosque in Khyber. The district of Bajaur is a stronghold of the Taliban Movement of Pakistan (TTP), a leading Pakistani Islamist insurgent group. The attack was claimed by the TTP, which said was aimed at the local chief of tribal police and his deputy, commissioned by the Government to pursue rebels. The violent attack also occurs at a time when the country is on alert due to the first anniversary of the death of Osama Bin Laden, making fear a wave of reprisals. One day before the United States released documents attributed to Osama Bin Laden, showing that he complained of some practices of Pakistani Taliban allies, particularly suicide bombings that kill civilians, and wrote so to the TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud. Another responsibility of local government, Tariq Khan said the bomber, on foot, fired the trigger of his coat full of explosives as he approached the police checkpoint. The TTP is primarily responsible for a wave of more than 530 attacks - mostly suicide - which caused 5,000 deaths in Pakistan last five years.

At least 25 killed in Syria three days before elections

Three days before the parliamentary elections scheduled for Monday in Syria to elect 250 deputies, the violence continued today in the country, killing at least 25 deaths, while protests continued against the regime of President Bashar al Assad. Most casualties occurred in the provinces of Homs, Aleppo and Idlib, while in many parts of the country were held demonstrations organized by the rebels under the slogan "Our honesty". The opposition announced it would boycott the elections, after two candidates were killed during protests in Daraa and Idlib. However, state television is lowered the importance of violence and candidates and invited to qualify for programs simple "crisis" what happens in the country, the result of a foreign conspiracy against Syria for its "resistance" against Israel. However, the Syrian-Kurdish activist Lokman Suleiman fled to Turkey, told that the peaceful revolution is over. "Now has started the armed revolution." The deserters began attacking security forces, he said, and charged that extremists imprisoned for years and now released, commit atrocities in the name of the Syrian Army Free. Meanwhile, the head of the mission of UN observers should monitor the cease-fire, Lieutenant General Robert Mood, said the military must take the first step to end violence. "The strongest part is the one to take the first step," Mood, who on Thursday toured areas of Hama and Homs rebels. From today there will be eight observers in the southern province of Daraa, 12 in Homs, Hama eight and four in Idlib, the military said. The UN goal is to deploy in the coming weeks to 300 observers in Syria. The peace plan brokered by Kofi Annan's special envoy expected a cessation of hostilities, withdrawal of heavy weapons from populated areas, access to the media and political dialogue between the parties.

2012 France: Sarko 'but it was' the favorite Hollande

Last Comeback candidate for President Nicolas Sarkozy who, two days before the runoff election on Sunday, has 'eaten' the advantage previously granted by the polls to Francois Hollande. The latest survey of Ifop for Paris Match in the afternoon gave him 48%, only 4 points from 52% of Hollande. Against the incumbent president, however, the Socialist candidate still maintains a wide margin of advantage, including as appropriate precisely between 4 to 7 percentage points: still too large to be cleared in no time remained available. Yet the president does not give up and, in his last rally in Les Sable d'Olonne, Vendee, has confirmed that it wished to beat "until the last minute," denouncing the slanders against him, and by defining the left of Hollande focused "only on your own navel. " "Do not imagine how things will play on the razor's edge" has so prophesied. More and more 'self confident' that Hollande rally in Haut-Homburg in the Moselle said to represent the left "but also more 'leftist'. "I represent all Republicans and those that are related to values ​​and principles," he said. While a good handful of French artists and intellectuals, including the ubiquitous actor 'friend' Gerard Depardieu, for Sarkozy lines up with an appeal on the site of the conservative candidate, the bookmakers are always more 'confident of the victory of left-wing candidate. For many in fact, without the decisive support of Marine Le Pen, who announced the turnout, Sarkozy has finally seen the victory away. And this has affected also the explanation of vote for the centrist candidate Francois Bayrou Hollande, today criticized Sarkozy for "inconsistency" 'cause he had previously said that the Socialist candidate would lead the country into bankruptcy. But the games remain open and continue the challenge until the silence that will shoot 'tonight at midnight: the followers of Le Pen, Sarkozy has just issued an ultimatum reminding them that they are subjects and, therefore, need not comply with the decision of the leaders of extreme right . For its part Hollande tries to ensnare the undecided more 'Europeanists soften its positions on Fiscal Compact. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung and 'in possession of certain minutes of meetings between diplomats and employees of the German Socialist candidate for the Elysee, where and' wrote that in case of victory Hollande would adopt a "pragmatic solution" regarding Fiscal Compact instead of doing it jump without warranties of growth, as threatened in his campaign. In fact it will 'just Europe the first game that the new president will have to' play and the event will be 'at the end of May beginning of June with the informal European summit in Brussels.

At least 130 injured and two killed in new unrest in Cairo


New riots around the Ministry of Defence in Cairo (Egypt). At least two people have died and 296 people injured. Of these, 131 have been taken to hospitals for injuries related to the impact of rocks, the asphyxiation by inhalation of toxic gases and cuts, reported Al Ansari to the Egyptian news agency Mena. In response to the serious clashes between police and protesters, the Egyptian military junta has declared a curfew from 23:00 local time (21.00 GMT) on Friday until 07.00 (05.00 GMT) on Saturday in the area and 170 protesters have been arrested, according to press a military prosecutor. This new outbreak of violence occurs when missing less than three weeks to the Egyptian presidential elections and just two days after 20 people died, according to medical sources, nine officials said, in clashes that occurred after a group of agitators attacked a camp established at the Ministry of Defence. In a statement read by General Mokhtar to Mula on state television, the military leadership has warned it will take "all measures provided by law" against those who violate the ban on driving on the streets around the ministry, in the Cairo neighborhood of Abasiya. 

The British Labour won 75 of the 181 municipalities in play


Labour Ed Miliband clearly prevailed in the municipal elections held on Thursday in England, Scotland and Wales, where they won 75 of the 181 municipalities that were at stake, while still not known results of the vote in London. The Labour Party won 32 municipalities and 823 councilors, making a total of 2,158 councilors. Still second in the number of divisions obtained conservatives, who won in 41 municipalities having lost 12 on the last elections and won a total of 1,005 councilors, after losing 405. The Liberal defeat in six municipalities only after losing one and obtained 431 councilors, 336 less. A significant fact is that the party of extreme right British National Party (BNP) did not get a single councilor and lost six councilors who had been in previous elections four years ago.

Bin Laden hoped to murder Barack Obama


Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin hoped shop on the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama and the U.S. through a takeover by Vice President Joe Biden would be plunged into political chaos. This emerges from the now-terrorism center of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point published papers, which has ensured a special unit a year ago to bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad property. Overall, were found after the killing of bin Laden's papers totaling about 6,000 pages. From the letters and draft letters from the years 2006 to 2011, the Bin Laden and other senior Al-Qaeda representatives and allied groups in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan have been drawn up, stating that Bin increasingly shop in his last years of his powerlessness frustrated and angry about was that he allied groups in Yemen and Iraq, whose "fault", he was alarmed, could not control. Bin Laden was angered by "poorly planned operations" of the allies, which led to the deaths of thousands of Muslims. In a letter written in 2010, he complained that the sympathy for Al-Qaeda in the Muslim world is disappearing because of it. Bin Laden ordered to exercise caution and avoid attacks on Muslim victims as much as possible In an undated and unsigned letter is also considering a change of the name Al-Qaeda. The author of this letter suggests several names with a stronger Islamic terms in order to strengthen the identification of Muslims with the terrorist network.

China: solution to the Chen case, a study visa for the U.S

After days of tension China and America make several steps forward in solving the case of Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese dissident who with his sensational escape the embassy in Beijing USA had triggered a major diplomatic crisis between the two nations. "The latest positions taken by the Chinese Foreign Ministry said they are encouraging-the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a press conference in Beijing during the day-and we achieved some progress on the situation of Chen Guangcheng." As you read about AgiChina24. it, Friday 'the Beijing government allowed U.S. officials to the doctor and the U.S. Embassy to meet with Chen after a ban that lasted three days. The climate had already softened 'a few hours before, with the opening of the Chinese Foreign Ministry to the hypothesis of an activist grant to study in a foreign country, and a visit to a dissident officer of the Central Committee of the CCP. The solution that is looming and 'thus that of a student visa for the United States and request political asylum, which would have seriously embarrassed both Beijing and Washington. The U.S. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said on the margins of the Conference of Hillary Clinton that a university 'U.S. has already' Chen offered a scholarship, and political activist will be able to 'be accompanied by his wife and two children."The Chinese government announced that it will accept 'the demand for Chen to obtain the necessary documents-Nuland said-and we expect that the procedure will be' completed soon.  Washington will grant 'the priority' to request a visa to Chen and for his family. " As you read about AgiChina24.it, the story of Chen had fallen on the evening of Wednesday ', when the dissident from the flight-proven and years of abuse-had begun to issue conflicting statements. Chen told that he left the U.S. embassy to undergo medical treatment at a hospital in Beijing only for fear of reprisals to his family. The dissident had also changed version of his intentions, saying at first the decision to stay in China, and then to seek asylum in the United States. Chen Guangcheng, forty years old, blind from childhood, and 'a self-taught lawyer and who' fought against the practice of forced abortions applied by officials of his province to maintain the dimensions of births set by central government.  In 2010 he had been subjected under house arrest without formal charges, a common practice in China to control dissidents. The following year, defying censorship, had posted a video documenting the violence that was given by local police.  When Chen Guangcheng is still in the hospital with his family in Beijing in which 'hospitalized for three fractures reported in escape. If the student visa will be 'granted in the near future, as now seems likely, the Obama administration that the Beijing government will tone down a story that has held both on the edge right in the course of an important bilateral summit .