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Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Chinese economy grew by 7.8%, the lowest rise in 10 years

The economy China grew by 7.8% in 2012 the slowest growth in a decade, with a rise in gross domestic product (GDP) of 7.9% in the fourth quarter, as announced by the National Bureau of Statistics. The figure is well below the 9.3% growth recorded the second largest economy in 2011, and even more far reaching 10.4% in 2010. However, it is above the 7.5% growth posted by the communist regime during the Popular Assembly of March last year, so analysts believe that paves the way for this year is restored. "Above all, the economy has been estabilizand or "Bureau said in a statement released Friday. That institution said that the slowdown in growth occurred in a context of "fear overseas and domestic affliction", referring to the debt crisis that still trail their European and U.S. partners and their effect in China. Almost simultaneously, the Bureau reported that GDP grew 7.9% in the fourth quarter, boosted by government stimulus measures, which ended with the trend of decline in the seven previous quarters. In 2012, the GDP reached 51.93 trillion yuan (8.28 trillion U.S. dollars, 6.19 billion euros). Moreover, the Bureau also announced, including the figures of China's industrial output, which slowed its growth to 10% in 2012, 3.9 percentage points below the rate achieved in 2011. Also, retail sales recorded a rise of 15.2% in December , compared with 14.9% in November, marking a rise of 14.3% in end-2012, still 2.8 percentage points below 2011, told the official said. Instead, the Chinese investment in the property sector rose 16.2% in 2012 compared to the previous year, despite a government campaign to deflate the housing bubble. Real estate is the most important of the Chinese economy, contributing over 10% of total GDP calculation. Prior to the publication of these figures, the main Chinese stock markets opened optimistic, with the Shanghai Stock Exchange up 0.48% and Hong Kong rising by 0.73 in the opening session.

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The UN has warned on Thursday of " serious risk of a renewed recession " if nothing is done to stem the rise in unemployment in the world, and kept its downward revision of economic growth forecasts in 2013 and 2014. The agency expressed concern about the state of the major developing economies such as China , which "face a weakening investment demand due to financial constraints in some sectors of the economy and because of excess production capacity other ".

Survived an assassination attempt a miracle


The leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) survived an assassination attempt Saturday when the attacker holding a gun against his head shot unidentified no. Before he could make a second attempt, both political and security guards attempted murderer captured and beaten constantly on the stage floor where he was talking Dogan. In 58 years, this leader has a quarter century ahead of his movement. Shortly after succeeding the fact is confirmed that suffered no serious injury. The MRF is defined as a liberal party that defends the interests of the Turks and other Muslims in Bulgaria, 12% of the population.

AUSTRALIA OPEN | Third Round Del Potro's surprise farewell


Andy Murray continued his solid start in the Australia Open which saw leave much earlier than expected to Juan Martin del Potro. The Scot won the Lithuanian Richard Berankis 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 on a windy and cool fall day that saw Del Potro 6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 3 -6, 6-3 against Frenchman Jeremy Chardy in the third round.
Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro, sixth seed, became involved in the first big surprise of the Australia Open tournament and was felled after being overtaken by Frenchman Jeremy Chardy (6-3, 6-3, 6-7 (3) , 3-6 and 6-3).
The tennis Tandil, considered alternative to challenge the dominance of the triplet favorite in the first Grand Slam of the year, the box derailed before reaching the second week, in which there will also be a Roger Federer, seeded second, or Andy Murray, third.
"Not a good result, of course. Especially after match two sets down. Jeremy played very well in the fifth set. Deserved to win the match. I broke serve and calmly faced the final moment to close the game," Tandil explained tennis, seventh in the world.
Jeremy Chardy, who described the victory as "the best" of his career took a start blazing performance, which spilled over to South America. No pulse trembled the Gaul in the fourth quarter, after Del Potro to react and equilibrate shock straight sets.
Chardy, 36 in the rankings and that comes first to the fourth round of Australia, finished with 20 aces and 78 winners. French Iguala her best in a 'major', the second round. As in Roland Garros five years ago.
Chardy will be in the fourth round with Italian Andreas Seppi, who starred another marker unexpected. Eliminated the twelfth-seeded Croat Marin Cilic, also in five sets and after three hours and 38 minutes (6-7 (2), 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 and 6-2).
Federer and Murray did not fail. Transit insurance and pace. Without giving his opponents option, usually resigned to their fate. The Swiss, second seed, ended the great local hope, Australian Bernard Tomic (6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-1) and scored the victory in 250 career Grand Slam tournaments.
Winner in Melbourne four times (2004, 2006, 2007 and 2010), overcame setbacks to ease that submitted his opponent, especially in the second set in a tiebreaker determined that pulled the ocean to win. Tomic came within three points of matching a set. But he could pressure the Swiss and the reaction that turned the situation and put the sleeve of his hand.
Federer will face fourth round at Canadian Milos Raonic, thirteenth favorite, previously beat German Philipp Kohlschreiber, seventeenth, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-4. Canadian tennis player completed the game with 23 aces to match its best record in Melbourne.
Murray did not end very satisfied with their game against the Lithuanian Ricardas Barnkis, the only survivor of the previous phase, which overcame a 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. A procedure for the Scots, twice runner-up in the Australia Open (2010 and 2011), who lamented the low rate given the ball. The Scot pushed through the crash in two hours and 12 minutes.

Azarenka and Serena, unchecked

The women's draw, however, had no mishaps. Watched the progress of the champion, the Belarusian Viktoria Azarenka , after overcoming the shock to the American Jamie Hampton, Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki, designed to encourage players the final leg of the tournament.
Hampton got into trouble Azarenka, which took the third set unexpectedly. But the world number one survived the setbacks and amended the situation (6-4 4-6 6-2). No pulse trembled to the U.S., which has never won one of the top ten in the world.
"I think everyone was surprised. Not only me," he said after the game the world number one, who will play in the second round with Russian Elena Vesnina, who beat Italy's Roberta Vinci, sixteenth favorite (4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4).
Serena Williams kept the acceleration has shown from the start of the tournament. Keep racking up wins Florida tennis player, who seeks his sixth title in Australia and the assault on the number one.
Only four games left before the Japanese Aytami Morita (6-1, 6-3) and will face Russian Maria Kirilenko, seeded fourteenth, who won in straight sets to Belgian Yanina Wickmayer, the twenty-fifth).
Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki also failed. Determined to return to the elite and improve the semifinals in 2011, won two races to Caroline Wozniacki the only survivor of the previous phase, the Ukrainian Lesya Tsurenko (6-4 and 6-3).
Wozniacki will play Russian veteran Svetlana Kuznetsova, who stopped the last hopes of Spanish in the competition, Carla Suárez Navarro, second in three sets (6-2, 4-6 and 6-3).
Furthermore, Serbia's Bojana Jovanovski won the Japanese Kimiko Date-Krumm (6-2, 7-6 (3)) and will face the American Sloane Stephens, who overthrew the British Laura Robson (7-5 ​​and 6-3 ).

ALGERIA | Seven hostages killed in the final assault Ends kidnapping in Algeria with 23 hostages and 32 terrorists killed


The final tally of victims confirmed that at least 23 Algerians and foreign hostages and 32 terrorists were killed in the military operation launched by Algerian Interior Ministry said in a statement picked up by the state agency APS. "The intervention has culminated in the release of 685 foreign workers and 107 Algerians , 32 terrorists neutralized and the deaths of 23 people, "said the statement gave no details on the nationalities of those killed. The paper also notes that after the operation the army seized various types of rifles, two mortars, six missiles C5 type with 60 mm launchers , two grenade launchers with eight missiles and ten grenades arranged in explosive belts. After ensuring that "Algeria has just deal with a terrorist attack large amplitude, which has endangered hundreds of lives and strategic economic infrastructure", the Ministry stressed in its statement on the complexity of the situation. "The primary concern of preserving human lives, the risks arising from the nature of the facilities gas companies, their configuration, and threats to the hostages, were complex intervention special forces " , highlighted in the note. The ministry justified the rapid intervention as the only way to prevent more deaths. "To avoid ending up with a bloodbath and given the extreme danger of the situation , taking into account also the stated intention of fleeing terrorists with hostages and fly gas installations, Army special forces carried out with efficiency and professionalism required intervention to neutralize the terrorist group ", stated in the note.

The latest offensive

Eleven terrorists and seven Western hostages. Balance is the tragic end of the Algerian army assault on the refinery facilities Amenas gas, security sources said. British Defence Minister, Philip Hammond, has confirmed in a press conference that the abduction has ended "with an operation that has led to more deaths." Both he and French President Francois Hollande have supported the Algerian government. After 72 hours of tense kidnapping negotiations with the armed Islamist group had reached a stalemate and the Algiers government ordered a rescue noon desperately to prevent jihadists blew themselves up with their prisoners. It could not be, because the kidnappers apparently preferred to die fighting than surrender to the special you were. further 16 prisoners, however, have been rescued by the intervention command, according to Reuters, including two U.S. citizens would be found, two Germans and a Portuguese. In disarray news from inside the gas plant, some media also say the recent discovery of 15 charred bodies could be some of those killed during the assault last Friday, when the seven helicopters and tanks surrounding facilities not allowed out five jeeps as a group of militants tried to escape with some Western prisoners. Four of the vehicles were bombed and one interception. The government of Algiers, which has always been adamant when negotiating with terrorists in the past, unilaterally decided to send a strong message to the kidnappers. And it was a slaughter.

Details of the operation

Explosions, gunfire ... According to AFP, seeing that the security forces were able to advance to the point in the boiler room where they were holed up, the kidnappers had decided to execute their prisoners and fall as martyrs for Allah So concludes one of the bloodiest pages Islamist terrorism in the Maghreb, which began on Wednesday 16 with the occupation of the industrial core refines 18% of the gas produced in Algeria by 32 heavily armed fighters brigade who sign with blood, led by Mokhtar Ben Mokhtar the fearsome, a dissident leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). "They wanted to take foreigners hostage and move to Mali, to put pressure on France and other countries involved in military action against the Islamists in the North African country," said a source from the Algerian defense. Those who have lived to tell the tale speak of a group of fighters from different nationalities, dressed in army uniforms, armed with automatic assault rifles, machine guns and rocket propelled grenades, who knew perfectly the situation of all the booths where the police stood guard, immediately ordered stop production of the factory and from the beginning showed a remarkable knowledge of the place. "They seemed well organized and experienced fighters," said one of the victims last night on French television of BFMTV. Serval operation with France for a week fighting the terrorist coalition that has gripped the entire north of its former colony had been placed as an excuse, at first, to the decision of the central gas company. terrorists But soon proposed release their captives in exchange for the release of two Islamists currently serving sentences in U.S. prisons: the Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui and the Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman, the latter in 1993 Brain attack against the World Trade Center neoyoquino. Neither Algeria nor the White House were willing at any time to negotiate on those items. So Abdelmalek Sellal government opted for a military solution, which has ended in dramatic fashion. True, working at the refinery up to 2,000 people and the majority managed to hide or escape during these days or was freed by soldiers. But dozens of hostages have died as a result of the two attacks by the army: the first on Thursday, with the help of tanks and helicopters, and the second today, Sunday with assault troops. A lack of official confirmation, among the hostages killed since Wednesday, Belgian passport holders would, American, Japanese, British and French ... that would add a total of between 25 and 27 victims.now explosives specialists seeking Algerian army against clock facilities Amenas bombs allegedly placed jihadists have left to blow around if their plans failed. Furthermore, commands Amenas track after missing the past. Norway, Japan and the UK have ensured that citizens are still unaccounted for, hiding or perhaps dead. Hence, French President François Hollande, in a speech this afternoon in Tulle (Corrèze), specifying that "despite what is said, the rescue operation is still ongoing" ... Algerian Energy Minister, Yusef Yusfi said Tuesday that exports of gas in his country have not decreased as a result of the attack and hostage taking that last Wednesday held a Salafist group of anti-gas plant Amenas, in southeast Algeria. "Our partners have not been affected by the situation. We reduced our gas exports, but simply have compensated for the lack of production" that was detected in the affected plant, increasing "flow of other sites" the minister told the Algerian official news agency APS. Amenas production "is no more than a small part of our national total," said the minister. With a production capacity of 9,000 million cubic meters per year, Amenas, operated by the Algerian state company Sonatrach, along with BP and Norway's Statoil, produces 12 percent of the total gas in Algeria and provides around 18 percent of its exports, most of them for the European market.

Iran does not abandon nuclear plan "for a second"


"There is something that Western countries should recognize. Iranians are not going to capitulate. [...] We will not suspend enrichment because we are an independent state and has the right to enrich.'ve Not violated international law," he warned.  "We had two days of intense negotiations. We were able to close some controversy to a certain degree, but no, we have finally signed anything, "said Soltanieh, who recalled that the parties continue to negotiate on 12 February. According RT spread the portal, the Iranian again reminded that West visit Iranian nuclear facilities steadily and that Tehran has never delayed a day in the granting of visas to inspectors during the past 10 years. United States and the European Union repeatedly sanctioned the Iranian government for its nuclear plan. banned imports of Iranian natural gas , which is added to the oil embargo already in place.  It also  prohibited the Member States of the  European Union  Iranian ships register and provide tankers to Iran , and a  ban on the sale of materials  that can be used in nuclear development, such as  graphite and aluminum. The goal is to  economically strangle  the Iranian regime  to give guarantees access to the peaceful nature of its nuclear program.