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Friday, January 25, 2013

Only 14 countries allow to enter combat female soldiers of the Armed Forces

United States has become the fourteenth country to allow women into combat after the Pentagon has lifted the ban on Thursday . "As secretary of defense, is to open more opportunities for our men and women in uniform best qualified will strengthen our ability to fight and win wars," said the defense minister, Leon Panetta. The White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said the president of the United States supports the Pentagon's decision, noting that Barack Obama is convinced that the country must continue to work to eliminate " unnecessary barriers based on gender to serve " the nation. Of the 1.4 million active duty members of the U.S. military today, 205,000 are women. so far, Germany, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Israel, New Zealand, Poland, Romania and Sweden are the countries that authorize the military to fight, according to the American Institute of Strategic Studies and the Ministry of Defence. In 1985, Norway was the first country in NATO to allow their women to participate in all missions, including submarine services. In the mid-nineties, Israel approved the military could be at the forefront, but its army has women since its establishment as a state in 1948 . Currently, 3% of Israeli combat soldiers are women.

In Spain no different missions

In Spain, women can enroll in rapid response units as the Legion and the Parachute Brigade and participate in the same combat missions than men. Featured also abroad, in 2007 the first Spanish soldier died in Afghanistan, Idoia Rodríguez Buján , by the explosion of a mine. The victim, a native of Lugo, belonged to the Airborne Light Brigade (BRILAT), based in the town of Pontevedra Figueirido. As explained then this unit on their website, were at that time " over 300 women who perform their work in the unit, including officers and troops . " In addition, information clarified that "missions are no different, in any way, to the tasks performed by men. They have access to all tactical positions, performing logistical, administrative and tactics."

Facebook beats Google Maps


Last year the social network Mark Zuckerberg rocketed as the application most used mobile in the U.S., thus ousting Google Maps, according to the latest ranking conducted by comScore Mobile MetrixAs explained in a press release, the decision by Apple to block Google Maps on iOS devices 6 ( released last month ) had a great impact on these figures and made ​​the podium leave your application. In September, the social network app was just a few points of Google Maps, as measured by ComScore,  but rose progressively in the next few months and ended up reaching a total of 85.5 million monthly unique users in December. Curve using Google Maps dropped dramatically in October-month began blocking Apple-, grew very timid in the following months and in December had ten million users unless Facebook. ComScore points out that while Google Maps dropped, Google generally maintains a strong position in the Android market  with five of the top six ranking applications,which include Google Maps, Google Play, Google search, Gmail and Youtube.

A Soviet satellite will hit Earth


The Soviet satellite Kosmos-1484 which was launched in 1983 to explore the natural resources of our planet, the Earth will collide approximately January 29Chances are it will be almost completely disintegrate upon contact with the Earth's atmosphere , as reported by Russian news agencies on Thursday, citing U.S. space sources. The Kosmos-1484, which is about six meters long , remains currently an orbit with an altitude of 208 km perigee and 356 km apogee . The satellite, which never got to fulfill their role because of a problem in the steering system, suffered an explosion ten years ago , so has lost some of its original structure . The Russian space agencies - Roscosmos - Europe - ESA - and American - NASA - are raised together in the fight against space junk , because it threatens the operation of the International Space Station.

ASIA | Threat to 'enemy' North Korea does not hide that directs its nuclear and missile tests to U.S.


North Korea has said it is preparing a new nuclear test and continue with the launch of satellites and long-range missiles, said that while these actions are directed against their "enemy" AmericaThe Pyongyang regime made the warning in a statement published by the state agency, KCNA, two days after the Security Council expanded UN sanctions on the communist country for its recent rocket launch. "We do not hide the fact that satellites and long-range missiles that will be launching nuclear test and we will make will be directed to our sworn enemy, the United States," the statement said. The powerful Defence Commission of North Korea, who signed the statement today, considered illegal and illegitimate sanctions of the Security Council of the UN , which he accused of responding to the interests of the U.S. in its "anti-political North Korea ". "Our peaceful satellites launched continuously remain in our national struggle to defend the right to self-defense," the North Korean statement. Fears of a new nuclear threat from Pyongyang increased in recent weeks in South Korea, where Seoul's intelligence services detected by satellite images of North Korean technicians have completed preparations for a trial of this type, according to the local agency Yonhap. South Korea believes that the communist country could carry out within days its nuclear test from the same basis as used in the previous two in 2006 and 2009, which earned him international condemnation and UN sanctions. The latest threat from North Korea coincided with the meeting in Seoul today, the U.S. envoys and South Korea for the stalled negotiations on North Korean denuclearization, to discuss follow-up action after the recent resolution of the Security Council UN. After the meeting, the U.S. representative, Glynn Davies, urged North Korea not to conduct a new nuclear test and improve its relations with the international community.