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Monday, June 11, 2012

Chinese mother will attend the first manned docking

China on June 16 sending the spacecraft "Shenzhou-9" into space. Among the three crew members with an astronaut is to be expected. The spacecraft was launched on Saturday along with the carrier rocket Long March-2F to the starting area on the ship railway zone in western China's Jiuquan. The astronaut and married mother should be more than 25 years old. Thus it is guaranteed that she has gone around physical and mental conditions. "Astronaut has many advantages masculine than their partners. She is conscientious, has sharp feelings and better means of expression and communication skills," said Pang Zhihao, chief editor of the magazine Space International. Currently there are two Kondidentinenn hard training to choose from. But the final crew, consisting of three persons, is not decided "at the last moment." The spacecraft was launched on Saturday along with the carrier rocket Long March-2F to the starting area on the ship railway zone in western China's Jiuquan. Preparations are already entered its final phase. The manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 will take his crew to Tiangong-1 space laboratory, launched in September last year and was completed with the unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in November. The astronauts are to manually dock with the module and carry out scientific experiments. This was announced by a spokesman for the Chinese space agency with on Saturday. It is the first manned docking between the space station, "Tian Gong 1" and the spacecraft "Shenzhou-9".

The final between Nadal and Djokovic will resume on Monday


The final of Roland Garros between the two world tennis number one, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal Spanish has definitely had to be suspended due to rain and will resume on Monday at 13.00. The party was forced to stop around 19.00, when dominated Nadal 6-4, 6-3, 2-6 and 1-2. The organizers said that the meeting would resume at 20.00 hours, but eventually made the decision to postpone until Monday. Nadal began the match playing very aggressively. The Spaniard hit the ball very hard, especially with his right, while Djokovic appeared nervous, feeling the pressure of playing his first final at Roland Garros. The Serb showed hesitant at key points, knowing that a front was Nadal who was very hard to beat on clay. The Spaniard dominated the game and was soon placed with a 3-0 in favor following two 'breaks'.The first quarter seemed on track, especially in the fourth game when Nadal had a 30-0, but the Balkan rose and put emotion to the game. Djokovic gave him back the pace of the game and began to mark him until he put the 3-3. From that moment, Serbian relaxed and Nadal took the opportunity to give the final thrust and get a new break (4-3). The Spaniard focused on keeping his serve, he forgot to press the rest and ended up clinching the first set 6-4. At the beginning of the second set, Nadal radically changed his game plan and came to be very offensive to others. Djokovic was again surprised and yielded a 'break' at the first hurdle (0-2) but again Nadal and Serbian relax the advantage to overcome the score (3-2). Djokovic had gone around the set while he was watching nervously gesturing too much and getting to break his chair after a hit with the racket. Nadal saw the Serb was not at his best and took advantage to break back the service to register with 5-3. Nadal remained to win the second set but the rain made its appearance. The drops had begun to fall and did some games but the organization had decided to continue until the dispute can not be made party. The stop lasted 30 minutes but the Spaniard returned to the track totally focused and closed the second quarter with a new fracture (6-3).

Djokovic 8-0 FOR PARTIAL

Djokovic did not quite pick up the pace and put Nadal 2-0 in the third set. That moment marked a turning point in the game of Serbian, who began to hit the ball as he had done throughout the game, knowing he had nothing to lose. The world number one started showing that it was about something and started to push Nadal's serve to break three times in a row and win the third set with a 6-2. Nadal was not at all comfortable on the track. The timid raindrops falling on the French capital meant that the land was becoming heavier, making it difficult to play a Spaniard and caused complaints to which the organization responded back to stop the game and covering the track when Djokovic dominated the fourth set 2-1, with a 'break' favor.

Pneumonia and diarrhea kill two million children each year


More than two million children each year die around the world for two known and treatable diseases: pneumonia and diarrhea. To say it is a Unicef ​​report : the little that they can not defeat these two diseases, often "banal" to us Westerners, are concentrated (90%) in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.The figure is impressive, because it is one third of all deaths among children under five worldwide.
TOOLS - Prevention and treatment for both diseases often overlap and include increased immunization coverage, promotion of breastfeeding, hand washing with soap, expanding access to safe drinking water and sanitation, distribution of salts Oral rehydration for children with diarrhea and antibiotics for children with bacterial pneumonia. All things known, and discounted for our children: not just for children born in some developing countries, particularly the 75 states with the highest rate of mortality.
BREAST MILK - Some data in the report: appropriate care for children with symptoms of pneumonia are random, and less than one third of sick children are treated with antibiotics. The oral rehydration salts are a low-cost intervention to help children suffering from diarrhea, but are only used by one third of sick children in developing countries. One of the simplest and most effective ways to prevent the occurrence of such diseases and to safeguard the health of children is breast-feeding, and yet less than 40% of children under six months, in developing countries, receives milk exclusively from the mother. Finally, according to UNICEF, these states should be made ​​mandatory vaccinations against the main causes of pneumonia and diarrhea.

Syria: more than 14,000 have been killed since the beginning of the revolt against Assad


Since the beginning of the revolt against the regime of President Bashar Al Assad in March 2011, 14,115 people, mostly civilians, died in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. According to NGOs, 9,952 civilians, 3,470 soldiers and 783 deserters were killed in the fighting and repression. The Observatory counted as civilians armed men who struggle against the regime. Even with the presence of 300 UN observers responsible for supervising the truce in place since April 12, violence in the country intensified. Last Saturday, 111 people were killed, including 83 civilians and 28 soldiers, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The activist Abdel Basset Sayda chosen new leader of the Syrian National Council, the country's main opposition body, said the Assad regime is "the past".

Growing violence in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber dressed in a burqa detonated explosives he was carrying near a French patrol in Afghanistan Saturday, killing four soldiers and wounding five in an escalation of the offensive of the Taliban. The attack, one of the deadliest against the French contingent in months, occurred in the mountainous province of Kapisa, east of the country, an area patrolled mainly by a French force under the command of NATO. "It was an unfortunate incident. There was a patrol of coalition troops in a small bazaar and were attacked by a suicide bomber wearing a burqa, "the spokesman told Reuters the Afghan Interior Ministry, Sediq Sediqqi. French President Francois Hollande reaffirmed its plan to withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, long before its NATO allies, while offering his condolences to the families of the victims. "This operation will start in July and end in late 2012" said Hollande, who took office in mid-May, while visiting his constituency 500 kilometers south of Paris on the eve of a parliamentary election. Hollande, who was informed of the death of the soldiers while traveling by car to the town of Tulle where will vote, said the defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, and the army chief Edouard Guillaud, planned to be in Afghanistan on Sunday. Speaking on television shortly before leaving for Afghanistan, Le Drian said the soldiers who lost their lives along with an Afghan interpreter were traveling to a meeting with village leaders to discuss development projects when the attacker detonated the explosives. to the incident on Saturday, 83 French soldiers were killed in Afghanistan since the start of the US-led intervention in 2001, the fourth largest number of military deaths suffered by a country, after the United States, Britain and Canada. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the district Nijrab of the province and said in an email that a suicide bomber had beaten foreign troops. Violence has risen across Afghanistan in recent weeks and the Taliban have vowed to attack the Western-backed Afghan government and the forces of security, as well as the 130,000 foreign troops in the country, most of which is scheduled to leave by the end of 2014. France plans to withdraw a majority of its approximately 3,400 troops by the end of the year, two years before the agreed timetable by NATO. French troops have suffered a series of attacks, including several perpetrated by Afghan soldiers have turned against their former allies, which has led to lawsuits in France that his troops are brought back home in advance.France's decision has raised concerns that other members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF, for its acronym in English), led by NATO, will follow suit and accelerate their withdrawal plans, delivering prematurely maintaining security to Afghan forces inexperienced.