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 the Greece austerity measures provoked anger in the Greece country for 2010 budget deficit has been revised to 10.5% of the annual production.

The figure is worse that a previous estimate of 9.6% and far higher than the 8% target agreed in Athens in financial rescue of the country.

The data come as Eurostat Unveils official statistics of the debt for the European Union.

The European Statistical Office also raised deficits in the United Kingdom for the past four years and spending military how in question had been accounted for.

"Eurostat expresses a reservation on the quality of data reported by the United Kingdom", the Agency said.

Eurostat said it is concerned about the timing of when military expenditures have been recorded, saying that they must be on a "delivery" basis, but not the amount being recorded.

The cost of bailing out of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley was more than previously reported, the European Agency said.

A total of 4 euros (￡ 3 5bn, MD $5) has been added to the loans estimated the United Kingdom since 2007, according to Eurostat figures.

The United Kingdom for 2010 deficit was estimated at 10.4% of the gross domestic product - the third highest level in the EU.

Vicious circle

In Greece, level of debt is passed to 142,8% domestic product gross of the country of 127.1% previously.

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Data for 2010. Source: Eurostat

The Greek Government reduced expenses in a chain of drastic cuts and tax rises required by European peers and Fund International Monetary in its bailout last year.

Measures have managed to make the deficit fall to 15.4% of GDP in 2009, but did still not far from what was hoped.

Two years cost the Greece of borrowing rose more in bond markets in more than 23% per year after the publication of data.

The level indicates that the markets believe the debts of the country are difficult to manage and Athens is very likely to impose losses on holders of bonds when its existing loans to bail out expire them in 2013.

The Greek Government blamed excess borrowing on a recession in the country, which proved to be deeper than expected.

"The Greek Government remains committed to its deficit targets," the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

"All necessary measures in this direction are recorded in the budgetary strategy in the medium term to be submitted to Parliament by May 15."

Many economists point out the vicious circle that Greece is taken in, by which Government austerity worsens recession, which in turn increases the deficit.

Unprecedented

Zone euro as a whole, public deficits fell to an average of 6% to 6.3% the previous year, reflecting the first year of pan-European effort to bring public finances under control through austerity measures.

Despite this, levels of public debt as a percentage of economic output has increased in the course of 2010 to 85.1% of 79.3%, low growth and the cost of interest payments.

Meanwhile, Eurostat data also painted a dark image to the Republic of Ireland, whose deficit of 2010 was confirmed to a unprecedented 32.4% of GDP.

The level of new loans - double what had been recorded the previous year - has been largely due to the losses of State-owned Irish banks.

As the Greece, the Portugal - which is becoming the third member of the euro area to receive a bailout - also exceeded its target of 7.3%, with a deficit of 2010 by 9.1%.

As the Greece, Portugal, and the Republic of Ireland also saw their borrowing costs increase after the announcement of data, each light on the performance of the obligations to five years approximately 11.5% increase of deficit.

However, it is good news for the Spain, that many see as next in line to becoming stuck in the quagmire of debt in the euro area.

Madrid has managed to reduce its deficit at 9.2% of the GDP, beating 9.3% target it had set.

Jimmy Carter arrives in Korea N

 former President Jimmy Carter has paid several visits to Northern Korea in the past of former US President Jimmy Carter arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang in boost to resolve the impasse on the nuclear programme of the country.

Mr. Carter took part in a three day visit by the leaders of the old world of a group called seniors.

They hope to meet leader reclus in the Korea of the North, Kim Jong-il.

The group includes the former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and former Irish President Mary Robinson.

He left for Pyongyang, Mr. Carter said that the Group also hoped to meet Kim Jong-il's son and heir Kim Jong-un, according to AP.

But he said it was uncertain if that would occur.

Nuclear tensions

The group, which includes also former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Brundtland, will remain in Pyongyang until Thursday before flying to South Korea.

During the visit, they are expected to submit a report to those involved in the Korea of North nuclear negotiations, based on the meetings held in Beijing, Pyongyang and Seoul.

Six Nations negotiations designed to end Pyongyang's nuclear program were blocked for months.

High tension between the two Koreas - after the sinking of a South Korean warship last year and the North Korean bombing in November of an island in the southern border Korean - hampered efforts to revive their.

Food shortages in the country should also be on the agenda for the talks.

According to the UN, more than six million people – a quarter of the population of North Korea - are undernourished.

Former US President last visited the Korea of the North in August 2010 for the release of an American citizen, Aijalon Gomes, who was imprisoned by the North for illegal entry.

But Mr. Carter said an agency to South Korean press that he did not intend to raise the case of an another U.S. national, Jun Young-su, who is detained in alleged Communist State for missionary work.

The Group of elders was formed four years ago by former South African President Nelson Mandela.

Members believe that their unique experience as the former leaders - and their independence of any country or organization - can help solve some of the most intractable problems of the world.

Statue of peace Turkey demolition

hand has never added to the sculpture, the demolition of a huge Turkish statue devoted to reconciliation with the Armenia started, several months after the Prime Minister described him as a "freak".

The statue of m in height 30 - representing two human figures face to face - was built on a mountain in the Turkish city of Kars, near the Armenian border.

Local authorities ordered several years ago to symbolize the end to decades of hostility and suspicion.

Artists have tried to save the statue, which could take 10 days to dismantle.

The company carrying out the demolition has already reduced one of the figures by crane, said witnesses.

Approximation in the impasse

The work, called the Statue of humanity, has been the creation of the famous Turkish artist Mehmet Aksoy.

When finished, he would have been a figure that extends a hand to the other.

"I'm really sorry, sorry for the Turkey," Anatolia news agency quoted the sculptor said. "They can demolish, we will reinvent it.".

She was commissioned as a gesture of reconciliation, such as the Turkey and the Armenia began attempts to repair relations after a century of hostility.

But this process developed died last year and there were a number of objections to the monument.

During a visit to Kars in January, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described would have the monument as a "freak" and an affront to a sanctuary of the 11th century in the vicinity.

Critics say that Mr Erdogan may aimed his remarks at nationalists, who are strong in this part of the Turkey, before the legislative elections in June of.

Kars was once a large Armenian community, which was shattered in massacres which Armenians and many historians call a genocide in 1915.

The Turkey rejects the term and said atrocities were committed on both sides in the second world war.

In 2009, the two countries agreed to normalize relations and, in this spirit, the former Mayor of Kars commissioned the sculpture.

The United Nations team to probe abuses in Libya

  there are many reports of Libyan forces bombed the rebel-held city of Misrata indiscriminately A team is due to arrive in Tripoli to investigate allegations of violations of the human rights in Libya since the beginning of the conflict in February.

The team was appointed by the Council of the United Nations human rights after the Suppression of the Libyan Government against demonstrators.

The Government said that it will cooperate with the investigation.

Three researchers say they will seek to all allegations of violations, including those that the Government says have been committed by rebels or NATO forces.

The original mandate - to examine the human rights violations allegedly committed by the forces of the Libyan leader, colonel Muammar Gaddafi - remains the priority, says the BBC Imogen Foulkes in Geneva, where the United Nations Human Rights Council is based.

There has been reliable from enforced disappearances, torture and even assassination reports of demonstrators, says our correspondent.

End of February, the Commissioner of the human rights of the United Nations, Navi Pillay, said that what was going on in Libya "may amount to crimes against humanity".

More recently, reported that Gaddafi Col forces trying to resume the rebels Misrata are blindly bombing the city.

On Tuesday, three people were killed that missiles slammed face in the port of the city, a lifeline for those seeking to escape the bastion rebel Benghazi.

Misrata has been besieged by Government forces for two months, leaving parts of the city without electricity or water.

Snipers continued clashes and shelling prevented people from venturing outside their homes for food and medicine.

Human rights groups say more than 1,000 people have been killed in the fighting and many were injured. Ships were ferrying the injured to the hospital in Benghazi and provide humanitarian assistance.

The Libya Government denies that he was indiscriminately bombing civilian areas.

Misrata is the last rebel-held city in the West of the Libya and the fighting was fierce.

United Nations investigators are to present their findings to the Council of the rights of man in June. But their work could be overtaken by other blows, says our correspondent from Geneva.

The United Nations Security Council has asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the Libya on possible charges of war crimes.

"Hind foot.

NATO is implementing a resolution of the United Nations to protect civilians in Libya in a two-month revolt inspired by other uprisings in the Arab world.

A recent strike NATO consisting of Col. Gaddafi in Tripoli has attracted criticism in wrath of the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Poutine, which stated that the Western coalition had no mandate to kill the Libyan leader.

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has defended the strike, calling it a legitimate attack on a military command and control centre.

He spoke after a meeting in Washington with British Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who said the Libya rebels had won "momentum" on the battlefield and forces of this Col Kadhafi was on the "rear base".

British Secretary of Foreign Affairs, William Hague said output of 1500 NATO strike on the Libya had "severely degraded the military means of Gaddafi and prevented the widespread massacres planned by the forces of Gaddafi".

"They continue to be unable to enter Benghazi and it is likely that without these efforts Misrata would be fallen, with terrible consequences for this brave people."

Tuesday, the United States eased sanctions of oil against the Libya.

Move allows rebels sell their control and US oil companies to engage in transactions involving oil and petroleum products and natural gas, as long as exports benefit the opposition of the National Council of transition.

Ecuador said the volcano alert

 this is the first significant activity of volcano Tungurahua this year the Ecuador declared an AMBER Alert after the Tungurahua volcano started spewing ash again.

More than 7 km high plume (4.3 miles) could be seen emerging from the volcano in central Ecuador.

Authorities evacuate residents living near the volcano rim and ordered to close local schools.

The Tungurahua erupted periodically over 12 years, but this is its first major activity this year.

Monitors said they have detected six eruptions, ranging from moderate to high.

"According to our observations, damage to crops, pasture and small effects for the health of the people are already evident," Ecuadorian Institute of Geophysics said.

Taliban tunnel frees prisoners in Kandahar, in blow to NATO and forces Afghan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Kabul (Afghanistan) - in one of the more elaborate prison break recent Afghan history, the Taliban managed to free hundreds of prisoners from Kandahar central jail in the early hours of Monday morning by a 1,180 - foot tunnel.

Massive evasion - have not discovered until hours after that that he is more - more shaken the faith of the Afghans in their Government and intensified concerns that the released prisoners will be enhance the insurgency in Kandahar.

The escape is a blow to NATO and Afghan forces who have intensified their campaign against the Taliban in the past year and hopes to increase their earnings this summer. While NATO forces captured most of the Taliban fighters who were detained in the prison, the escape cast doubts on the ability of Afghan forces preparing to take more responsibility for the safety.

"I would call this a shameful incident that the Afghan Government," said Ahmad Shah Khan Achakzai, a former member of Parliament in Kandahar. "It is impossible for the Taliban in 500 men out of jail without the help of anyone.". I think that some people in the prison or to support the Government which has given the Taliban. … It is now clear to everyone is the corruption of the Government is. ?

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The prison held about 1 200 prisoners who were divided into political and criminal sections. All those who escaped were from the political section, which housed mainly people who had been arrested for involvement with the insurgency.

Although the Taliban, said that he released 541 prisoners, officials said 475 people escaped. Approximately 30 detainees are reported to have voluntarily stayed in prison.

Among those released, Taliban say 106 were commanders for the militant organization. However, Afghan authorities keep highest level Taliban detainees in facilities in Kabul or in prisons, managed by the national intelligence service, it is unlikely that prominent members of the Taliban escaped.

Activists began apparently digging the tunnel, there is, the social exodus on a passage which stretched approximately 360 metres (nearly 400 yards) five months under a main road and police checkpoints. Police officials said the insurgents dug the tunnel from outside the prison.

According to a statement of the Taliban, only three prisoners had knowledge of the escape plan. Inmates began moving through the tunnel at 11: 00 pm on Sunday evening and ends at 3: 30 a.m. on Monday morning. Suicide bombers and other activists reportedly waiting to attack if the operation was discovered, but were recalled at the end of the mission.

"The Mujahideen who participated in this operation called a great success." "The enemy even not realize or discover that we perform this operation," said Qari Yousef Ahmadi Taliban spokesman in a statement on the Group's Web site. "The most interesting aspect of this incident is that the operation ends at 3: 30 in the morning, but the enemy knew about it until the sunrise."

Following the escape from prison, Afghan and responsible police military tightened security throughout the city that they are seeking escaped prisoners. Police officials say that they have taken over some of the escapees.

7: 30, Haji Agha Lali Dastagiri, Member of the Provincial Council in Kandahar, began to receive phone calls on the escape from prison, but when he began to communicate with senior officials on the incident, he said that they were not aware of the development.

"As I was in contact with people, this incident has made residents of the town very badly uncomfortable." They feel insecure and they are worried about what will happen after today. "They are concerned, there will be more killing and violence, and they do not believe in the Government, he said."

This is not the first time the Taliban saw the day a large number of detainees in prison. In June 2008, the Group launched an attack on the jaila€ ? input main s which allowed hundreds of prisoners to escape. Sixteen policemen were killed in the attack.

War veterans get help of "Therapeutic riding" Rick Iannucci program (The Christian Science Monitor)

Rick Iannucci, Director of Cowboy Up!, a program of therapy of horse for combat veterans, retains a small laptop with citations in the rear pocket of his jeans.

It searches for the words explain how to work with horses helps heal veterans torn apart by the war, it it out and reads aloud the words of Winston Churchill, who served in the Boer War: "It y something on the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man.".

For 2-1/2 years, a stream of Iraqi and Veterans of the war in Afghanistan--many carrying combat - psychological and physical scars have found their way to crossed arrows Ranch of Mr. Iannucci, about 15 miles south of Santa Fen.m..

After the first learn to initiate and specially trained quarter horses, the Veterans walk of working their way up to mounting and their district around the arena.

As veterans of the bond with horses and learn to "read", they begin to heal and feel connected again with the world civil, Iannucci said.

"Horses is that harmony with you - if you once did, they know", he explains. "They coax a degree of contemplation of you." They require that you are in the immediate future. "When the Veterans of began to work with horses, they immediately begin calming down."

Some come with physical disabilities, such as the limited use of the arms or legs injured in combat. Others are dealing with traumatic brain injury, a result of bombs or snipers attacks. Many were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

"We call it ' post-traumatic spiritual disorder,' because we think that the thing is happening to people in war is an injury of the spirit," said Iannucci. "Our goal is to conclude that [wound] and start working on it.".

Iannucci and its instructors integrate the physical, psychological and spiritual healing. "That is still faith – confidence in themselves, of faith in others and faith in God - or the great mystery, as our native [American] brothers and sisters, Iannucci adds."

Backing at the end of the arena, Iannucci watches Nancy De Santis, his fiancée and instructor, teaching to veterans of the Iraq Kristy LaFrance to "lighten up" on the reins.

It was a difficult day for Ms. LaFrance. She arrived, her children in tow, walking with a cane and feel irritable - believed to be an effect of PTSD. It also has a brain injury and leg injuries.

It took all the force that it could gather, emotionally and physically, to move to the saddle. Nevertheless, she left then the arena with a smile. "It was in a wheelchair for three years," Iannucci. ""She got the determination and drive, and will be." It is not the disability, is the ability possessed by [veterans] that we look at. ?

Sterling Bucholz, a veteran of combat was shot in the head by a sniper in Fallujah, in Iraq, in 2004, leaving him temporarily paralyzed on his left side, explains the reins of work helped to increase the scope of the movement in his left hand.

More that anything, however, the program gave him hope, explains Mr. Bucholz, who also suffers from PTSD.

Iannucci has been a large part of this, he added. "It creates a safe environment, a community, and here you have this fraternity that we in the service," says the former marine, now a Cowboy Up! instructor and hand ranch at a nearby ranch. "It is like a big family." The first thing that tells me Rick was, "welcome home". "

Iannucci, a compact man with a walrus moustache and deliberate behaviour, grew up in the country of horse racing in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Go over 12 years, Iannucci trained and rode horses quarter his family kept on the farm of his cousin.

After his retirement from his job as a Marshal of U.S. working in Colombia, he moved to the New-Mexico and returns to riding seriously. He purchased the ranch and built a horse arena, at the outset to provide a place for children to ride.

A few years later, he began inviting veterans to come and work with horses. Word about Cowboy Up! has begun to spread.

The brigadier general Loree k. Sutton, former Director of the centres of Excellence for psychological health and traumatic lesions of the brain, the defence visited the ranch last year.

Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D) of New Mexico also reported visit. "Rick has not hesitated to challenge, but it is also a very humble and patient person", says Mr. Lujan. "The program is really impressive." Just to see the faith that these men and women have is incredible. ?

Therapeutic horseback riding dates back to years after the second world war, when Britain and the Germany use to rehabilitate former combatants. It has gained in popularity after the Olympic Games of 1952, in Helsinki, in Finland where, despite being paralyzed by polio, Liz Hartel of Denmark won a silver in dressage.

As the more veterans return from abroad, Iannucci hopes that its program may expand to other States. "It is even better that we have dreamed that it would be", said Iannucci.