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Monday, July 2, 2012

Euro 2012 Final: Spain showed its power, took the title and made history

The run by Vicente Del Bosque beat Italy by 4-0 with goals from David Silva, Jordi Alba, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata . Thus, the "Fury" came into football history with a hat-trick of titles, featuring two Euro and World Cup in the last four years. Spain again proved to be one of the best teams of today, because beat Italy in the final of Euro 2012 and won his third consecutive European title, something never achieved by a national group in the history of football. The string of championships began in 2008 when the Spanish kept the Euro finals in Austria and Switzerland were then won the World Cup South Africa 2010 and finally won the tournament in Poland and Ukraine. David Silva, Jordi Alba, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata were the scorers in the final against the "Azzurra", which could do little against the power of a team that was superior from start to finish, but also had a great performance goalkeeper Iker Casillas, who took several important balls. For Italians is to think ahead and enjoy what has been done in this tournament, which is something, if not come as a favorite and also broke with his eternal way of playing football: the catenaccio recognized. His coach, Cesare Prandelli , I changed the thinking to his players and sometimes Italy gave high yields, coupled with a display that uncommon in this soccer national team. For their part, driven by the "mustache" remain as one of the best teams, but not the best, at the selections and also confirmed that they can maintain their way of playing in difficult times. 

Mursi presidential term begins in Egypt for open government

Mursi first president and the country's civil Islamist, was sworn in on Friday, before receiving the hand of the executive Council of the Armed Forces (CSFA), that President Hosni Mubarak entrusted the reins of the country when he resigned in February , 2011. While waiting for a new government, led Mursi Sunday a meeting of the outgoing cabinet of Prime Minister Kamal al Ganzuri, appointed last year by the military and responsible for the transaction of business flows. The meeting focused on economic issues and security, according to state media. The outgoing government signed an agreement with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), based in Saudi Arabia, an amount of 1,000 million dollars, to import fuel and basic foods in a crisis period economy.The army promised to "stand by the president," but in any case Mursi is being watched by the military junta, which retains a veto on any law, budgetary measure or item of the future Constitution. - In anticipation of the new government- Last week, the environment Mursi said it wants to form a "coalition government" headed by an "independent person". recently circulated the names of the former head of the UN atomic agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, and former Finance Minister Hazem the Beblaui, but nothing is confirmed officially.Saad Hosseini, one of the leaders of the Party for Freedom and Justice (PLJ), emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood official told the newspaper Akhbar that "it is impossible the prime minister is held by a member of the Brothers or the JLP ", thus confirming the wishes of political openness of the president. On the international front, Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter to new president Egypt to ask you to respect the peace treaty signed in 1979 by the two countries, said on Sunday a senior Israeli official told AFP. In this letter, Netanyahu emphasizes "Israel's desire to continue strengthening cooperation and peace" said this person. Israeli President Shimon Peres sent a congratulatory message to his Egyptian counterpart, which stresses that "unlike war, peace is a victory for both sides." Since the announcement of his victory , Mursi is committed to respect all international documents signed by Egypt, including the one signed to establish peace with Israel.

Record heat, millions of people without light after storms

Continue the exceptional heat wave in the US record temperatures, which also was followed by violent thunderstorms Friday 'had caused the deaths of at least 12 people and knocked down power lines from Indiana to Maryland, leaving nearly 3 million of people without electricity, and hundreds of thousands of people this morning were still without light. It 'was declared a state of emergency in Washington DC, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia because of the damage created by the rains, which were accompanied by high winds. The fury of the storm and 'was followed by record temperatures above 38 degrees (with peaks of 41 degrees in town' south as Atlanta). Nineteen states have issued warnings of excessive heat, particularly dangerous for larger groups' vulnerable, elderly and sick.

Three astronauts return to Earth of the Soyuz


The Soyuz spacecraft with threeastronauts on board landed successfully on Sunday in Kazakhstan , ending a mission of 193 days on the ISS International ( EEI ), reported the Control Center Space FlightRussiaThe capsule, which returned Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko , U.S. astronautDonald Pettit and Dutchman Andre Kuipers , landed at 12:14 local time (08:14 GMT) about 150 kilometers northeast of the Kazakh city of Dzhezkazkgan. The decline of the Russian spacecraft from the air was followed by three planes and 12 helicopters flew rescue the vast area where the Zoyuz landed, according to Russian news agency Itar-Tass and Novosti. "The crew endured well the descent and landing. The cosmonauts are in good spirits," said a member of the search teams to the Control Center Space Flight. The three astronauts posed for pictures and underwent medical tests before being flown to the Cosmonaut Training Center Yuri Gagarin, on the outskirts of Moscow, where they will spend a period of rehabilitation. During his stay on the ISS, which began in late December, Kononenko, Pettit and Kuipers performed a spacewalk, received and unloaded three ships docked Russian Progress, and unhitched the first U.S. cargo ship Dragon. The three astronauts performed some 30 experiments aboard the space platform for more than six-month mission. The return trip from the ISS lasted three hours and 26 minutes after the Soyuz is disengaged from the platform, where the Russian Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and NASA astronaut Joe Acaba Puerto Rican. To the three astronauts will join three other crew members this month: Russian Yuri Malenchenko, the American Sunita Williams and Japanese Akihiko Hoshide, who will be traveling from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Japan rekindles reactors

Less than two months of fasting Nuclear Japan: To avoid the risk of a blackout summer Kansai Electric Power (KEPCO), which provides electricity' to the rich regions of Osaka and Kyoto, has reactivated the reactor No. 3 of the Central Oi, while in a few days will be 'the turn of No.4. And 'the first such operation ever since, after the devastating earthquake / tsunami of 11 March 2011, and' crisis erupted Fukushima plant where there was another little incident.

Kenya: 17 killed in attack on two churches in a town near Somalia


Seventeen people were killed Sunday in an attack on two churches in a town in eastern Kenya, the Somali border region, in the deadliest attack since the intervention of the Kenyan army late 2011 in southern Somalia against the Islamist Shehab. Armed men, wearing balaclavas, opened fire and threw grenades at two churches in Garissa, when the faithful gathered for Sunday mass. These coordinated attacks have not been claimed, but are undoubtedly new retaliatory invasion Kenyan pending against the Shebab. Earlier this afternoon, a twitter account usually used by the Shebab welcomed the "successful operation in Garissa", without necessarily claiming responsibility clearly. "Ten people were killed within the walls of the church AIC (Africa Inland Church), and three were injured in the Catholic church, told AFP the number two regional police, Philip Ndolo. The head of the Kenyan Red Cross, Abbas Gullet, said that other people had died during transfer to hospital, raising the toll to 17 deaths total, including three children. At least 40 people were injured and hospitalized, ten of which are in serious condition, according to the same charge. The attackers were seven in number and were first killed two policemen on guard outside each building, police said. "We have not arrested any suspects, but we have information on the presence of five attackers at the AIC, and two in the Catholic church," said Ndolo. The bloodied bodies of victims lay on the ground, while the emergency services rushed to evacuate the wounded, witnesses said. "It's a terrible scene, we see dead bodies in blood on the floor (...)", said the police chief of the North Eastern Province, Leo Nyongesa. "The nation will not let itself be intimidated by such cowardly acts," he assured in a statement the Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, urging Kenyans to "religious tolerance". The Vatican has denounced a Sunday "is horrible and very disturbing" an "unspeakable cowardice". The Supreme Council of Kenyan Muslims condemned the attacks, noting that "all places of worship should be respected." In North Eastern Province of Kenya, Garissa is located about 140 km from the border with Somalia. The city is also located 70 km from the huge Dadaab refugee camp, home to nearly 465,000 Somali refugees and humanitarian where four foreigners working for the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) have been kidnapped Friday and a Kenyan driver killed. The army has started since a vast search operation throughout the region to find the kidnapped, but without success so far. Several Kenyan cities including the capital Nairobi and the major coastal city of Mombasa, have been targeted in recent months by attacks - mainly with grenades - since the Kenyan army came in October 2011 in southern Somalia for dislodge the Somali Islamist Shebab and that they have threatened to retaliate against Kenya this "aggression". The security forces patrolling the Kenyan side in the border areas are also regularly targeted explosive devices and targeted attacks. Kenyan authorities generally attribute these attacks to Shebab, but they have never claimed. Garissa, which has a large community of ethnic Somali Kenyans, has experienced several such incidents since the invasion of Kenyan troops in Somalia. On 1 January, five people were killed in a grenade attack against a bar. On 24 November, two grenade attacks had killed three people and November 5, a grenade thrown into a church killed two people. Elsewhere in the country, a grenade attack against a bar of Mombasa killed three people on June 25, less than 48 hours after a warning from the Embassy of the United States, alerting its citizens "of an imminent threat terrorist attack in Mombasa. " In May, an earlier grenade attack in a bar-restaurant frequented - including tourists - Mombasa, Kenya's second city and capital of the popular tourist coastal province, had already killed one person.

Drone kills six in northwest Pakistan


A U.S. plane drone killed at least six insurgents on Sunday in an attack on a camp in the tribal region of North Waziristan, a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, Pakistani security forces. The android launched two missiles at the camp in Shawal, 50 kilometers southwest of Miranshah, capital of the district, which borders Afghanistan. Only this year have occurred more than twenty attacks in the region and the number of deaths has exceeded one hundred.