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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Tens of thousands demonstrate Japanese oppose nuclear power


For two weeks in Japan are two more nuclear power plants in operation. In contrast, stimulates resistance. For the second time, thousands of people demonstrate against the use of nuclear power. The second week in a row, thousands of people protested in Tokyo against the reopening of two nuclear reactors. According to the organizers, 150,000 people marched to the residence of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in the center of the capital. They held signs with slogans such as "The era of nuclear energy is over" and "Stand up against the re-activation" in hand. In mid-June had arranged Noda resumption of operation of two reactors at Oi in the central province of Fuki. In contrast, there was already a week ago, a mass demonstration. After the nuclear disaster at Fukushima nuclear power plants in the country all had been turned off. The government had justified the restart with feared energy shortages due to increased electricity demand for air conditioning in summer. Until the accident Fukushima Japan moved about a third of its electricity from nuclear power. As a result of nuclear disaster, the rejection of nuclear power in Japan, but grew significantly. The Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima was the earthquake in the 11th March 2011 and the subsequent tsunami severely damaged. The failure of the cooling system it came to core melt, large areas within the plant were contaminated with radioactivity. It was the worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

SYRIA: Assad deploys troops to border with Turkey


Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has made according to a rebel general's marching troops to the border with Turkey. An estimated 2,500 troops had been with 170 tanks and military vehicles stationed about 15 kilometers from the border, said Mustafa al-Sheikh. Some of the soldiers was near the city of Aleppo in northern Syria was stationed, General al-Sheikh said, referring to fighters of the rebel army . The military parade was a "show of force" and a response to a strengthening of Turkish troops on the border with Syria after the shooting of a Turkish fighter jets a week ago . Turkish media it was said that Turkey was in the process to create a new immune system for long-range missiles for the equivalent of some 3.2 billion euros. The Syrian opposition accused government forces of having committed a new massacre against the civilian population. Alone in the City Duma are more than 50 people were killed, including two entire families, activists said.
According to the opposition killed a total of 190 people
The 15 kilometers from Damascus town is besieged for weeks by forces that keep President Assad. "This is yet another massacre of many massacres Assad and his secret police," said a man in an on Youtube popular video, which will come from the Duma. Are on the video side of the road lined up to see veiled corpses. A man holds the lifeless body of a girl in her arms, whose pink shirt is soaked with blood.In total killed on Thursday in Syria after opposition Information 190 people.It was one of the richest days in the victim sustained for 16 months uprising against Assad. Before Saturday planned international conference in Syria crisis mediator Kofi Annan expressed confidence about a new plan for resolving the conflict.There will be an acceptable solution, he said.
Consultations to form a transitional government
In Geneva, the Foreign Minister to the UN veto powers, and from countries of the region through a new plan of Annan's Special Envoy for the formationof a transitional government advice in Syria . According to diplomats information was already negotiating to News is not expected before the end of a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with her ​​Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Friday evening in St. Petersburg.Thus, the West warned against a failure of the conference, should succeed no agreement. Above all, Russia and China had in the past against a crackdown by the United Nations propped against Assad and prevents two resolutions of the UN Security Council against Syria. Finally, the government in Moscow, but hinted at a willingness to negotiate. She would not accept that Assad is excluded at the outset of a new transitional government.

China's first astronaut returns to Earth


The space mission Shenzhou 9 ended successfully today after 13 days in orbit , toreturn to Earth the three astronauts, including the first Chinese woman to go into space. The Shenzhou 9 landed this morning at around 10:00 local time (02:00 GMT) in adesert area of the Asian giant in expecting a large group of scientists and doctors. The Chinese news agency Xinhua said the astronauts, who were examined just returned to Earth, "are in good health." Chinese state television, which has given extensive media coverage the event, broadcast part of the return to Earth, and again emphasized that for the first time three astronauts have made ​​manual coupling between the capsule Shenzhou 9 and the space station Tiangong- 1 , into orbit space since September 2011. The three astronauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Wang and Liu Yang, the first Chinese to go into space, fell to the Chinese media and smiled, after completing 13 days of mission in which, in addition to carrying out the manual docking the Tiangong-1 , have carried out scientific experiments. The Chinese media have presented this mission as a milestone in American history as the most important event since the Beijing Olympics in 2008. This is the fourth manned mission conducted by the Asian giant and is intended to lay the foundation for building a space station larger China, to come into operation around 2020 and could compete with those with Russia and the West.

Dead celebrations in Italy!

When joy is sorrow could be the title for the celebration of Italy for the great qualification for Germany in the final of Euro, as a fan of "skouantra atzoura" lost his life during the celebrations. The unlucky 52chronos Antonela Ida, at the end of the match slipped while celebrating and fell onto a glass table, which broke one of his glasses cut the femoral artery behind his knee.'reaction was immediate relatives, and invited ambulance, but 52chronos expired before they come to the place of accident first aid. The sad fact reported the news agency «Ansa», but providing more information about the victim except that he lived in Tempio Paouzania in Sardinia. Just missed yesterday's celebrations to be in Italy and another victim, as a 10 year girl in Como diakomisthike hospital having bullet wound received in the back seat of his parents. The little girl was to undergo surgery to remove the bullet, while the police tries to find the perpetrator of the shooting.

Shop through ebay Village in Tuscany sold over 2.5 million

The lovely medieval village Prataritsia aged 800 years, lies about 25 miles east of Florence and 700 meters from the sea . According to the newspaper Telegraph, the village was abandoned in the 1960 and now consists of 25 abandoned and dilapidated houses. Prataritsia The village is not the only piece of Italy put up for sale. The Italian government has 9000 properties for sale in 2010 in an attempt to cover the debt, which touched the two trillion euros.