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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Assad said his army to Syria's fate depends on his victory


Syrian President Bashar Assad has been commemorated on Wednesday the day of the armed forces with a message through a statement that ensures the ongoing battle that will determine the fate of the country. "The destiny of our people and our nation, past, present and future depends on this battle," the president in the message published in the army. Assad added that the soldiers are the trustees of the "values ​​of the people". The autocrat did not appear in public. No one speaks to audiences since before July 18, when an attack took the life of the military leadership in a military headquarters in Damascus. Only been seen at official events on television. And the battle continues in Aleppo. While the heavy artillery of the Syrian army destroyed the city with airplanes, helicopters and tanks, the decisive battle for control of the city is increasingly taking the form of a guerrilla war. Street by street, the two opposing sides try to gain a territory where there is no clear fronts, and where the sniper fire makes the city, the main economic center of Syria, is in many city neighborhoods a ghost that bleeds slowly. What seems clear is that the Army is encountering fierce resistance in Aleppo, and after 10 days of fighting , has not been able to retake the city, which is quite different from what happened from July 18 in Damascus , when the Insurgents launched an offensive that was repelled in a few days. However, some rebel commanders say the conquest of the city is a matter of days, not weeks. "The regime has tried for three days to conquer the district of Saladin, but their attempts have failed and suffered many losses in human lives, weapons and tanks, and was forced to retire," he assured Reuters Tuesday Oqaidi Abdel Jabbar al , head of one of the rebel groups in Aleppo. Is fighting in this district southwest of the city and others who had been free of skirmishes. But nothing suggests that the very short term one side can definitively imposed. The militia of Free Syria Army (SLA) begin to have grenade launchers, rifles and explosives as well, but can do little when they come into action, as yesterday, helicopters and Mig fighter. The 3,000 insurgents-figure provided by Al-try Oqaidi step closer to the center of the ancient city, but also try to keep hospitals and clinics running underground, trying to secure supplies of bread, and to organize the low traffic of vehicles traveling the streets and avenues of Aleppo, and seek the water and electricity do not deteriorate further than it already is. In addition, its still small arms, despite reported efforts of Saudi Arabia-Tasting or prevented rapid progress against a much better equipped military. But the rebels say the morale of the soldiers of the regime is in tatters and hope that time is on their side. A group of soldiers was ambushed while trying to approach a Christian neighborhood to go there with the fight against the regular army. On his way he met the shabiha , the regime's thugs. The details of the story are not entirely clear, but it seems that the SLA had reached a pact with theshabiha to let them go ahead without a fight. A change would be treated with compassion. But it turned out to be traps. The mercenaries were attacked with grenades and gunfire. "They surrounded us and we started shooting. 10 people have died in total. One of Albab, another Aleppo and eight of here, "says Mohamed, one of the rebels who witnessed the confrontation in the city of Tallrifat. Hours after the ambush, the rebels announced the arrest of 30 shabihas , including Zaimo Barri, the head of the family Barri, a group of gangsters who controlled the city and who called himself "the governor of Aleppo." At night, the rebels said they had executed and euphoria erupted. "Soon we will get the control of the entire city," said a supporter. Another 10 shabiha killed in the fray. Mohamed, with a plaster on his neck, just a scratch in battle, attends the funeral of the eight people in his village. The bodies are carried through the village between songs and words of encouragement to young people who are falling in Aleppo."Do not forget the blood of these martyrs," shouts the crowd. Not far from the area where the ambush took place, the rebels managed to finally take the police station that prevented them from moving freely in the south of the city. After several days of combat and can say without doubt that the SLA has finally managed to establish a corridor between east and west. Yesterday they killed the police chief. The street is one of the gunmen. If 200,000 people have fled the city in recent days , tens of thousands more evade leave their homes if they can. Thousands of people take refuge in schools and mosques in a city of 2.5 million people are living the strangest month of Ramadan in recent decades: when breaking the fast, the sun fell, the streets of any Arab city fill with people. 

Tensions between Beijing and Washington to discuss the Chinese bank Kunlun

This is a new standoff between China and the U.S. on Iran. Beijing has just demanded that Washington reverse its decision to punish the Chinese bank Kunlun. She is charged with aiding Tehran in its nuclear proliferation activities. The United States has further strengthened yesterday, Tuesday, July 31, their sanctions against Iran because of its "non-compliance with its international obligations." Kunlun was a Chinese bank business tour to Australia and Canada. To Iran as well, if one believes Washington, which accuses him of helping Iranian banks in transactions of several million dollars even though these institutions were already blacklisted supports nuclear program Tehran. According to the U.S., the Chinese will push against the existing sanctions, because it allows Iran to circumvent the embargo, and to sell its oil. Kunlun is now off the U.S. financial sector. And Beijing reacted strongly: the accusations are unfounded, it said in a statement from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, echoed by all the Chinese press. They only weaken the Sino-US relations. China, a major consumer of Iranian oil, said she has always been opposed to nuclear proliferation. But she also refuses sanctions against Tehran. These have also enabled Chinese companies to increase their presence largely in Iran.

Confusion about Mursi alleged message of peace to Israel


The Egyptian President the existence of a peace message from President Mohammed Mursi to his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres denied."Everything that was published in Israeli newspapers and on to some Egyptian websites, invented and without factual basis," said the spokesman for President Yasser Ali, the government newspaper Al-Ahram . The Israeli side, however, said the letter had been handed over to the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv. The diplomatic representation has even agreed to the publication. That now get a denial, be surprising, given the huge media interest, not the letter, said a senior official, who wished to remain anonymous. The Israeli President was yesterday quoted passages from the alleged letter to Peres Mursi and a facsimile common. This is the Egyptian president has called for "joint efforts" to "make the Middle East peace process rolling again" in order. This stake was "security and stability for all peoples of the region - including the Israeli people - allow".
Letter implied the recognition of Israel
This formulation was because Mursi, an Islamist and former official of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, to recognize Israel's existence seemed. He would also be clearly separated from the Gaza Strip, the ruling radical Islamist Hamas. It had emerged from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Israel argues, however, from right to exist. Peres had Mursi congratulated on his election in June and the beginning of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan on 20 Again in July sent a letter to him. Egypt had closed the first Arab country in 1979 a peace agreement with Israel. The election of the former Muslim brother in Israel, however, Mursi had raised fears that he could put into question the peace treaty .

SOMALIA adopts new constitution

Somalia gets a new constitution with the violence of the issued land will take a path towards a more effective government action.621 dignitaries voted on Wednesday after a weeklong debate on the document. There were 13 votes against and eleven abstentions. Under the new constitution must comply with all laws of the Islamic law of Sharia. It also provides for the right to an abortion if the mother's life is in danger. Furthermore, the standard in Somalia, genital mutilation of girls is forbidden. With the vote of the Constituent National Assembly, the country has completed its phase of the transitional government, said the Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Abdiweli. The UN mandate for the current Somali government is the 20th Of august. Before the deadline to select the elders in addition to the Constitution and a 275 member strong parliament and a president. The adoption of the new constitution was overshadowed on Wednesday by an attempted suicide attack. Prior to the conference building there were two explosions, the two attackers were developed according to the police by security forces.

Obama announces new sanctions against Iran


U.S. President Barack Obama today approved a new Executive Order which imposes new sanctions on the energy and petrochemical sectors of Iran for the "breach" of its international obligations. Obama reiterated that, despite sanctions, the United States remains "committed" to a "diplomatic solution" in the Iranian case, according to a statement from the White House. The newly announced measures seek to prevent bypass the fines established by the purchase of Iranian oil, which the White House re-tighten the screws on Tehran over its nuclear program. "America is announcing today two significant steps to strengthen our efforts to isolate and pressure Iran for its repeated failure to fulfill its international obligations," Obama said in a statement. The U.S. president said his government has decided to impose new sanctions and strengthen existing ones to prevent the sale of Iranian oil. The Executive Order criminalizes also recently approved acquisition of petrochemical products. The penalties also apply, said Obama, those individuals and entities that seek to provide material support to the National Oil Company Iranian company Naftiran Intertrade Company or the Iranian Central Bank. Obama said while the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions today against the Bank of Kunlun in China and the Islamic Bank Elaf in Iraq to facilitate transactions worth millions of dollars on behalf of Iranian banks are subject to sanctions for links to " illegal actions of Iranian proliferation. " "The actions taken today will post to make it clear that any institution, regardless of where located, allowing an increasingly desperate Iranian regime to maintain its access to international financial system," said Obama. "Since we started our mandate we presented to Iran a clear alternative: meet with your international obligations and Get back to the community of nations or face increasing consequences," Obama said. He insisted that the measures recently announced that the Iranian government seeking to take responsibility for their actions. "The U.S. remains committed to finding a diplomatic solution but is the responsibility of Iran to fulfill their international obligations," he said. He noted, in that sense, that if Tehran continues its defiance both the U.S. and its international partners continue to impose increasing penalties. Democratic and Republican lawmakers reached Monday night agreement on a bill that seeks precisely to impose new sanctions on Iran and expected to be voted on this week, first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate.

The bloodiest months of the last two years was in Iraq in July

July was the bloodiest months of the last two years in Iraq, with 325 deaths, according to official figures released today. total 325 people - 241 civilians, 40 policemen and 44 soldiers - were killed across the country and 697 injured of which 480 civilians, according to data gathered by the Iraqi ministries of Health, Defense and Interior. This is the worst review from August 2010 when 426 people were killed and 838 were injured. The bloodiest attacks (29) occurred in July 23 killing 113 people and injured 250.

Costa Rica, one of her videos "hot" ends up on YouTube: The deputy minister resigns


Forced to resign for a movie hot shot for her lover and ended up in the treacherous links of the global network. Ends up , so not very glorious career of the Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs of Costa Rica, Karina Bolaños . In the video posted on YouTube appears the woman in sexy version lying on a bed , a full underwear that does not leave much to the imagination, the busty breasts in the foreground .He turns to her lover and seems almost to justify the beginning "I'm not used" to then indulge in kissing and explicit gestures . As the video is over the network still remains a mystery . The woman, who has released so far, only one interview to CNN said the video was filmed in 2007 at the time of separation from her husband and that was stolen by a computer technician who had called him to fix his PC . He reported being the victim of "extortion and threats" about a year, but not to have a word to anyone. In Costa Rica the video has created quite a stir so that thePresident Laura Chinchilla , whose government has already been undermined by a series of corruption cases has been decided for the removal of the deputy minister from his prestigious post. "I respect the decision of the President - said the Bolaños - but as a woman I had the least right to defend myself "

India regains electricity


The current was restored in the Asian country after the massive blackout on Tuesday. Virtually all electricity in India was restored after the great blackout of leave without power Tuesday to more than 600 million people. This was stated by the main electricity distribution company in the country. Electricity demand in New Delhi and northeast India was covered completely, while in the north and east of the country, the other areas affected by the outage, the service is currently 95 percent, according to public company PSOC. The blackout affected nineteen regions, with a combined population of 600 million people, causing paralysis of industrial activity and services and subway trains, and left the hospital with an emergency supply. India Power Corporation then explained that the blackout was the result of five regions will exceed the power consumption quotas allocated, although India has a structural energy deficit of about 10 percent. Tuesday's outage was the worst recorded in India, a country where much of the population has poor access to the mains. There was only one day after another major power outage that affected seven regions of the north.