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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Strong earthquake shakes northern Italy Six deaths - historical buildings in ruins


In the middle of the night were surprised by the people of Northern Italy by the earthquake. The worst hit were the Bologna region: Historic buildings but also modern factory buildings collapsed. At least six people were killed, including apparently a German. Even hours after the quake, the damage can not be estimated yet. The worst hit area was the north-east of Bologna, the epicenter of the quake was at St. Augustine. There collapsed in a factory, produced in the ceramic tiles. Two workers were killed on the night shift from the rubble. a colleague of the two, the factory building is fairly new and have been earthquake-proof. "The fact that the building collapse was not foreseeable, it was on this crazy strong shock. A third colleague was able to save himself only because he was working on the other side of the building and was hit by the collapsing roof." The quake had a strength of 5.9. At least six dead and 50 wounded, according to the initial assessment of the victim. Among the dead is also a 37-year old German woman. This was, according to Italian workers do not have a hit by debris, but in consequence of the earthquake it suffered a shock and then possibly a cardiac arrest.

The Champions League: Drogba in Chelsea offers the grail


Chelsea won the final on penalties (4-3, 1-1 in regulation time). After a final two-faced, sometimes tense, sometimes crazy, Chelsea wins on penalties (4-3, 1-1 in regulation time). The disappointment is huge for Bayern Munich who missed a penalty during overtime.
Penalties. Bayern: Lahm does not tremble. 1-0. Chelsea Mata Neuer pulls! Still 1-0. Bayern: Gomez puts it. 2-0. Chelsea: David Luiz strength. 2-1. Bayern: Incredible, this is the keeper Neuer which pulls and puts. 3-1. Chelsea: Lampard in the middle. 3-2. Bayern: Olic misses! 3-2. Chelsea: Cole does not fail and evens. 3-3. Bayern:Schweinsteiger on the pole. 3-3. Chelsea: Drogba puts (4-3) and offers the Champions League for Blues.

Why there will be French soldiers in Afghanistan after 2012

"I consider that the mission is completed" asserted Francois Hollande 2 May by announcing that he should "not take any risk to our troops' to withdraw the 3,400 French troops still present in Afghanistand'iciàlafinde2012. With either a year ahead of schedule announced in January byPresident Sarkozy and even two years ahead of the one originally set by NATO. But this promise-reiterated yesterday before Obama White House-is likely to face the reality principle. For it will certainly French soldiers in Afghanistan after 2012.Pour three reasons. The France signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation. Signed on January 27 by President Karzai at the Elysee Palace, the treaty will run in twenty years and has a "military component" with the continued training of Afghan security forces, the national army as the police. Several hundred military should therefore remain in place to ensure the long term this training and monitoring. President Holland has also assured his U.S. counterpart that "there would always be a support to Afghanistan in another form." Retrieve the material will necessarily take time. Evacuate 3400 our soldiers should not require a Airbus dozen rotations Paris-Kabul. But this is material that poses a problem. "Time logistics is not political time," says one to the staff of the armies, listing all materials that will bring much of Afghanistan: 900 vehicles (including 500 tanks), 1400 containers, 3 and 14 Mirage 2000 helicopteres. Techniquement, this withdrawal will take time and be costly. Especially since France does not have cargo planes and will probably rent to € 35 000 per flight hour. France could also face congestion at airports Kabul and Bagram transit of the 23,000 U.S. troops to leave the country by the end of September. The impossible distinction between combat forces and noncombatant. " a theater of war where there is no front, there is not really back and all our forces are destined to fight or, at least, to defend themselves by arms, "said an officer who previously served in Afghanistan. Want to distinguish between combatant forces, which would all be removed by the end of the year, and the other is an illusion. Because it will take many armed soldiers to secure the withdrawal to the end of our men and their war material - all observers agree to recognize-will not be completed by the end of the years.

Japan 73 years to scale Everest for the second time


For the second time, a Japanese 73 year old became the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest, repeating her own record of 10 years ago, said the company that organized the climb on Saturday. Tamae Watanabe reached 8850 meters (29.035 feet) from the top with a Japanese partner and three Nepalese Sherpa guides on the morning of Saturday, disseSherpa Ang Tshering, who runs the Asian Trekking company that provided the logistics for the team.  "Watanabe and the other climbers are in good physical condition. They are down to their last camp which is located at an altitude of 8.300 meters (27.230 feet)," he said. Watanabe, who first became the oldest woman to climb the mountain in 2002 at age 63, improved her own record and set a new feat in mountaineering, Sherpa said. She climbed the peak by the Tibetan side of the mountain. Mount Everest straddles the border between Nepal and Tibet. He was cast by 3,700 people since the New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Norgay Sherpa climbed to 1953. The list includes a blind person, a man with an artificial leg, an American boy of 13 years and a Nepalese 76 years. About 400 climbers are on both sides of the mountain waiting for better weather to make their attempts to reach the top. Officials of the Ministry of Tourism of Nepal said that dozens of climbers have already climbed the Nepalese side of the mountain.

Chen in U.S. closes crisis that began in late April

The Chinese dissident blind Chen Guangcheng, his wife and two sons have left today for New York , ending a crisis that began last April 27 that threatened to create tensions between the U.S. and China. Chen has not been expelled, or has applied for asylum. For him, it was found the easy solution of a visa to study at New York UniversityAdmitted to a clinic in Beijing after being a guest of the U.S. Embassy in China, Chen told the 'Washington Post' that the authorities have warned him only this morning at 11 o'clock the next departure. All'aeoroporto arrived, Chen got the passports and visas. Then I flew out just before 18 (local time) accompanied by U.S. officials. "I try all sorts of emotions," Chen said on the phone just before leaving, still bewildered by recent events. Kept in hospital in recent days, Chen could not even greet his mother before leaving. It has repeatedly expressed concern about the fate of family members left behind, after his brother Chen Guangfu was tortured by police and his nephew Chen Kegui was charged with attempted murder for defending himself by plainclothes officers who were assaulted. The case is deflagrato Chen in late April on the eve of the session of strategic dialogue and economic between the U.S. and China, to be held in Beijing with the participation of the Secretary of State Hillary. The dissident was adventurously escaped from house arrest which was in fact confined to his village of Dongshigu in the eastern province of Shendong, the night between 22 and 23 April. Arriving in Beijing, after a journey of 650 kilometers accomplished with the help of friends, Chen has taken refuge in the U.S. .And 27, thanks to the Chinese in exile in the United States, was released on YouTube a video in which he asked Justice at the top of Beijing. For several days the U.S. Embassy has maintained silence on the presence of Chen, taken for granted by various sources. In the meantime, has started a frantic diplomatic negotiations, which seemed to find a solution on the morning of Clinton's arrival in Beijing on May 2. Chen was released by the embassy and was rushed to a hospital, where he riabbracciato his wife. The agreement was that it was a free citizen, but soon Chen began to fear for his safety. And less than 24 hours after its release from the embassy has asked to come to the U.S. The solution found so as not to publicly embarrass China was that of the visa application to study abroad.Clinton is back in the U.S. and Chen remained in Beijing. Now that the dissident party, while world leaders gathered for the G8 summit at Camp David, Washington can boast a successful result of a diplomatic 'soft', without head-on collisions that were likely to be counterproductive. Chen will be accepted in the United States by China Aid , the Chinese dissident Christian organization led by Bob Fu, who has always been close. Became blind as a child, Chen is a self-taught lawyer engaged in defending the rights of the peasants of his native province of Shandong. In 2005 it became known denouncing the story of thousands of women forced to have abortions or be sterilized in the name of the one-child policy. The authorities punished some officials in charge, but while Chen was sentenced to four years in prison for inciting the protests. And once his sentence, he found himself under arrest domicilari fact, from which it then sensationally escaped.