Worst Greek debt that think about

 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.

Wave of NDP in strong second place in the poll (Reuters)

WINDSOR, Ontario (Reuters) - support for the new democratic party climbed within six points of the decision of conservative in an opinion poll Monday which showed Prime Minister Stephen Harper with a tenuous hold on power to the left of the Canada.

The Conservatives, who hope to obtain a majority government in the vote on May 2, remain confident of election victory despite the late boost campaign by Democrats.

The left-leaning NDP have traditionally been less conservatives and Liberals. But his appeal was turned under the leadership of Jack Layton, who supports tax relief for small businesses and for the hiring of new employees.

EKOS survey from Monday more 3,000 Canadian voters put support for the NDP 28%, compared to 33.7% for the Conservatives and 23.7% for the Liberals, which are currently most major opposition party in the Canada.

The NDP would not more seats in Parliament that the Conservatives - they could end up with 100 seats then party Harper was 130.

But its earnings could make the Conservatives, who won the minority governments in 2006 and 2008, vulnerable to the possibility that the NDP and Liberals can agree to work together and push the power.

Minority governments need support of at least one opposition party to pass legislation and remain in power.

"It is difficult to imagine a (conservative) Government decrease in 130 seats would be able to maintain power against a clear majority of seats and an advantage in popular support for the NDP and the Liberals," pollster Frank Graves EKOS said on the website iPolitics.ca.

Much of the gain came in Quebec over separatist Bloc québécois, but surveys indicate the NDP take stronger foot in the English-speaking Canada, as well.

Serious "the idea that you could have a coalition led by Jack Layton seems absurd, but that is what suggest the numbers," said in a commentary on the survey.

The NDP, founded in 1961, labour, party has governed in several provinces, but never won power nationally. In addition to tax cuts, Jack Layton submitted additional spending on education and environmental and social programs.

The Conservatives have argued throughout the campaign that they need a majority to accomplish things in Ottawa.

Otherwise, they said the opposition parties would team up and attempt to take power with a coalition Government led by Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.

Harper, a gathering of campaign in a district held by the NDP in Windsor, Ontario, the Detroit River, the NDP and Layton finger lines attack it is normally used against the Liberals and joked on the changing fortunes of the opposition.

"It is not as clear which is supposed to work for the who in this arrangement," Harper said, referring to any future cooperation by the opposition parties in Parliament.

The Liberals have also stepped up their attacks on the new Democratic Party, but Ignatieff refused that he was captured in a tightening of policy between other parties.

"I think that I got running room it is," Ignatieff told journalists in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Layton, speaking to journalists before the release of the Ekos poll, scoffed at the idea that vote splitting between his party and the Liberals will eventually help the conservatives.

"It is the absurd proposal that somehow you are really a choice but vote for one or other of the two parts old-school", Layton told journalists in Saint John, New Brunswick.

The EKOS survey has a margin of error of more or less 1.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Syria sends in Deraa tanks where the uprising began (Reuters)

AMMAN (Reuters) - the Syrian troops and tanks poured into Adraa Monday, seeking to crush the resistance in the city where broke first uplift for long months against autocratic 11 years of President Bashar al-Assad.

An activist said at least 18 people were killed in the first reported use of tanks in a centre of population since the beginning of peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations in the city of the South, near the border with the JordanMarch 18.

The White House, deploring the "brutal violence used by the Government of the Syria against his people," said the President Barack Obama administration is studying targeted sanctions to clarify that "this behavior is unacceptable."

A U.S. official said that the measures envisaged include a freezing of assets and the prohibition of business U.S. relations.

Security forces have killed more than 350 civilians through the Syria since unrest erupted in Deraa, say rights groups. One-third of the victims were killed in the course of three days as the magnitude and the scope of a popular revolt against El-Assad grew.

Assad lifted State of 48 years of the Syria of emergency Thursday, but activists say that violence the following day, when 100 people were killed during demonstrations across the country, showed that it was not seriously to respond to calls for political freedom.

A leading human rights activist said of the security forces, which was also covered in the suburbs of Damascus agitated the Duma and Mouadhamiya, fire and to carry out arrests, were "a savage war designed to negate the Syria Democrats."

Raids on Monday suggested Assad, who took power when his father died in 2000 after having decided to Syria with a strong hand for 30 years, was determined to crush the opposition by force.

Militant opposition Ammar Qurabi, in contact with the Syrian opposition of Egypt, said at least 18 people were killed by artillery and tank bombardment in Deraa alone, with many more injured or missing.

News Agency State SANA said that the army penetrated Deraa in response to "calls for the aid" of residents and protect "extremist terrorist groups". He said clashes had led to the death of both sides, without giving details.

TANKS OUTSIDE MOSQUE

Earlier, a witness in Deraa told Reuters, he could see the body lying in a main street near the Omari mosque after eight tanks and two armoured vehicles were deployed in the old quarter.

"People are taking cover in homes." "I could see two-body near the mosque and nobody could come out and drag them later", the witness said.

Snipers were posted on government buildings and lattice of the army security forces had fired randomly in houses because the tanks moved in just after the dawn prayer, the witness said.

Tanks at the points of main entrance to Deraa has also shelled targets in the city, a resident named Mohsen said Al Jazeera, which showed images of a black cloud of smoke on buildings. "People cannot pass from one street to another because of the bombing."

Abdallah Abazaid, another activist, said Al Arabiya television he y "20 martyrs" and that the five officers and 10 soldiers refused orders to fire at residents.

"They have ceased to quit their positions because they found us with bare hands," said Abazaid. His comments about defection from the army could not be confirmed, but another witness said Al Jazeera as a unit commander and his troops fired on their side, apparently to allow people to drag the wounded from the street.

"I hope that Arab and Muslim nations to support the Syrian people." "The Syrian people is standing alone, unarmed and destitute, before arsenal," the imam of the mosque of Omari of Deraa said in the images broadcast by Al Jazeera.

Foreign journalists have mainly been expelled from the country, making it impossible to verify the situation on the ground. Macabre images displayed on the Internet by protesters the past few days appear to show the troops firing on unarmed crowds.

"THE OUTRAGEOUS VIOLENCE."

Assad has deepened alliance of his father Hafez Al-Assad with the Iran, onguiculé dos influence to the Lebanon and saved militants Hezbollah and Hamas, but he kept the front line of the Syria with calm Israel and held the indirect peace talks with the Jewish State.

Western critical of repression was initially muzzled, in part because of the fear that a collapse of his Alawi minority in the Sunni majority country could lead to sectarian conflict. But Friday Obama urged Assad to stop the "scandalous use of violence" to repress the demonstrations

Suhair al-Atassi, a leader of Syrian human rights activist, said authorities had launched "a savage war designed to negate the Syria Democrats."

"" President Assad's intentions were clear because he had publicly said it is ' prepared for the war "","Atassi said, referring to a speech from 30 March to the Parliament."

High Commissioner of the United Nations for the rights of man Navi Pillay called for detained activists and political prisoners to appear.

"The first step now is to immediately discontinue the use of violence, then conduct a full and independent investigation into the killings, including the murder of military and security officers and bring the perpetrators to justice."

The Organization of the United Nations, Great Britain, France, Germany and Portugal has asked the Security Council condemned the repression and urge adopted by the Government, the Council diplomats said, but it was not clear if the Russia and China would support the idea.

Suspected rebel FARC expelled by the (PA) Venezuela

BOGOTA, Colombia - Venezuela deported to Colombia Monday the authorities said a man was a top FARC guerrilla representative in Europe who operated a website focused on the Swedes used the Agency to press the rebels from the left.

The expulsion of Joaquin Perez, who was arrested in the Saturday Venezuela arriving from Europe, was the latest sign of thawing relations between Bogota and Caracas.

In an interview published Monday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that he personally calls his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, Saturday to inform of the arrival of Perez later that day on a flight from Frankfurt (Germany) and request the arrest.

He called the Perez 55 years old, also known under the name of "Alberto martinez", the biggest cooperative in Europe of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or of FARC.

"It's another sign that Chavez is faithful to his word." We thank him for it, "Santos, said in an interview with the newspaper El Tiempo."

Dressed in a bullet-proof vest, Perez told journalists at Bogota airport after arriving on a Colombian police twin-engined Beechcraft was a "social communicator". He denied belonging to the FARC.

He also denied reports that it floated to Caracas to meet with Rodrigo Londono, alias "Tymoshenko," a commander of FARC top of the page.

Before Santos took office last August, Colombian officials had long accused Venezuela to host senior FARC leaders and hosting rebel camps where the guerrillas received medical care and ran the cocaine trafficking operations.

Chavez retaliated in trade links of cutting with Colombia cost of farmers and ranchers in neighbour of the Venezuela of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The pragmatic Santos opted to repair ties with Chavez, even agreeing to extradite to the Venezuela in the coming days a Venezuelan captured in Colombia last year that Washington considers a drug cartel.

By agreeing to extradite Walid Makled, Santos spurned a request for the extradition of the United States, back in force, at Venezuela, a man who claims that top members of the circle of the decision of Mr. Chávez colluded with him pass smuggled tons of cocaine bound for the United States through Venezuela.

Lawyers of Perez in Caracas had fought his deportation, arguing that he is a citizen Swedish long renounced Colombian nationality. The Embassy of Sweden in Bogota said he sought in the case and was able to confirm the status of Perez.

Earlier, anti-terrorism Chief Prosecutor Colombia, Hermes Ardila, said that Perez was arrested based on emails on computers of Commander FARC Raul Reyes, who was killed in 2008 in a cross-border in Ecuador raid.

Ardila told Associated Press that the emails on computers Reyes prove Perez "was part of the FARC and money received from the FARC to finance the Anncol site," which publishes a press release on the rebel, talks with the FARC leaders and editorials pro - insurgent.

The Gulf Council presents Saleh of Yemen with exit plan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has presented a proposal Thursday that would have the embattled leader to resign within 30 days in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

The proposal came from the cooperation Council for the Gulf (GCC) Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani, who met with Mr. Saleh in Sanaa to deliver the last bid to end nearly three months of political deadlock. The President has not yet responded, and it is difficult to know whether it will accept.

According to a Yemeni Government official, the plan is based on an initiative American and European, known as the Plan of 30-60. It offers immunity for Saleh and his family if he selects a new Deputy, transferring executive powers and resigned from his post in 30 days. Elections are scheduled for 60 days after the departure of Saleh.

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The CGC is led by Saudi Arabia, most major donor of the Yemen and the only country to contribute to the direct budgetary support, adds pressure on Saleh. While this is not the first GCC attempt to negotiate the eviction of the Saleh, the new proposal may gain ground because it would allow him to choose his successor and have immunity.

a€ ?I believe that the plan of 30-60 is the practical way to transfer power, a

"We have accepted immunity, and we have made a significant sacrifice by agreeing that the President will transfer power to a Deputy Minister of his choice." The only condition that we propose is that the Assistant is not a member of his family, adds Mr. Qahtan.

Rapid GCC deteriorationThe initiative, which is not the first attempt to negotiate the eviction of the Saleh, recently in social and economic tensions mount across the country. The value of the local currency has collapsed since the protests began in January and a gas crisis has left many unable to cook food or fuel vehicles. More than 100 anti-government protesters were killed in a series of brutal repression by Saleh regime. Three demonstrators were killed in clashes with security as early as Tuesday.

Already the nation in the Arab world and the home of the most active Al Qaeda franchise in the poorest region, rapid deterioration of these last months of the Yemen led the members of the international community to seek a rapid resolution to the crisis to prevent new destabilization.

Disorders of the country was discussed Tuesday in the Security Council of the United Nations. Although the 15 nation Council do not agree on a unified statement, German Ambassador Peter Wittig said media that most of the members expressed support for the efforts of the GCC.

But Saleh will agree to resign?Even if the international community and the members of the opposition are ready to adopt the final plan, there is little indication that Saleh himself is ready to resign.

"We will continue to resist... unwavering and committed to constitutional legitimacy, while rejecting the plots and coups d'etat,"Saleh said to a crowd of supporters on Wednesday."."

"Those who want to have the President of the power obtained through the ballot box", he added.

For months, the President has varied between conciliatory and defiant. Thursday, he said that it welcomed the efforts of the GCC to resolve Yemena€ ? s crisis, the State-run press agency Saba.

The decision of the General People's Congress Party will issue a response within 24 hours, according to a Government press release.

Regardless of whether if Saleh accepted the proposal, could not put an end to the demonstrations in the sprawling city attempts of the capital known as square of change.

"We consider this as direct foreign intervention in the Yemeni Affairs" said Adel al-Surabi, a leader of the student coalition credited for launching the protest movement. "We are not interested in exchange of a leader for the next, keeping a system where all the power remains in the hands of one man.". We want a parliamentary system, and we will continue until we achieve it. ?

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Unveiled A: first Turkish woman poses for German "Playboy" (Time.com)

This position is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global news site translated stories of note in foreign languages in English. The following article was published in the leading German daily Die Welt.

Struggle with integration, usually performed with zeal grim and intellectual debates, the Germany has a sensual turn last week.

The appearance of the Turkish-German naked body of the actress Sila Sahin attractive in the issue of Playboy magazine shows how young women with a history of immigrants may can get rid of the religious and cultural constraints without the need to quote statistics or elaborate arguments provided by the experts of the integration. (See a brief history of the Playboy Club).

It is usually no longer a major problem when a celebrity or starlet removed her clothes for men magazine. Relentless overexposure to sexually explicit images in the media, advertisements and the Internet made nudity public therefore socially acceptable that we barely take notice.

But the 25-year old Sahin, who plays "ayala" in the German soap opera RTL "Good times, bad times" (Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten / GZSZ) managed to bind his public exposure to the debate on a socio-political issue central: this young Muslim - in this casTurc - women are not allowed to do the same kind of decisions on their own lives and the body revealing sexual majority girls were able to do for some time.

"For me, these images are an act of liberation from the cultural constraints of my childhood, says Sahin." I tried to please everyone for too long. With these images I want to show the young Turkish woman it is OK to live the way they are; It is not cheap to show skin. as you pursue your goals rather than bowing down to others. ?

Playboy could use the PR

It may very well be that the first appearance of a Turkish woman on the cover of the German Playboy is more than an excellent opportunity for the magazine on glossy paper, which could use the debate on immigration to enhance his image a bit obsolete.

And the still relatively unknown Sahin was certainly presented with a possibility of PR to stick host daily nudes fashioning itself as a pioneer brave for emancipation.

Still, his interview in the magazine opens a window on patronizing situations young Muslim girls and women have to deal with on a daily basis.

Growing up "with a father who is an actor and a mother very conservative, I am not for everyone, but in my case, things were black or white." Sexual relations before marriage was wrong, he should pray every Friday and so forth. "Long she thought"that I have to do what the man said." "(See the storied life of Hugh Hefner).

The emancipation of women and the cultural critic purists can sniff out the fact that Sila Sahin sees an act of liberation by posing nude for men who are not primarily interested in the intellectual discourse. But tastefully nude photos shot of young Turkish women remind us that marketing reviled female body that now seems as an element essential to daily life, played an important role in the history of the emancipation of women in the Western world.

With nude photos of the Sahin made as a contribution to the debate on the emancipation of Muslim women, the German Playboy draws on the historical tradition of the American original.

Its first edition, published in 1953 with a centerfold of Marilyn Monroe, was undeniably journalistic spearhead of opening sexual then still dormant in a strictly Puritan America.

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Like no other magazine Playboy amounted to a liberal sociopolitical spirit, whose breakthrough in America of the 1960s has contributed widely to facilitate. The subsequent increase in feminist criticism of structures patriarchic society discredited largely permanent policy of the magazine and its founder, Hugh Heffner, who just celebrated her 85th birthday.

Point of symbolic counter to "the girl with the scarf. (See review of the time of the documentary Hugh Hefner).

If nothing else, campaign of Sila Sahin use nudity as a means of self-determination tells us that this criticism may be short-sighted.

Because legitimate debate on if or when the body of naked women displaying begins to interfere with the women's dignity or, on the contrary, it, promoting presumes the capacity of women to decide for itself what it wants to know if her body naked to be represented or not.

This is how the right to pose naked gains an undeniable importance and explosivity - also for the control of the Muslim community in its relationship with the profane, an open society.

That Sila Sahin faces threats in her own family for its explicit photos, but radical Turkish nationalist groups also, illustrates this.

We have to realize and recognize that the pop culture and trivial lifestyle is a powerful force in the debates on emancipation because they produced iconic images that can make a company in one direction or the other.

By creating an interesting example of the autodéterminées, young Turkish woman who wants to live just as freely and without that its German peers without immigrant roots, Sahin photos have the potential to set a symbolic counter to the recent trend of the "girl with the scarf.

Beautiful photos breathe a new life in the values of the constitution and our liberal legal system which are too often just hailed in the abstract.

Now, we certainly would like to know what German feminists have to say. In the past, they had conducted campaigns against the bare covers on magazines. Today, they are fighting against the mandate for women to cover in the Muslim community.

The fact that Muslim women are using nudity as a lighthouse against their entrapment in their traditional culture could affect some ideas in the feminist community.

Obama, Cameron discuss tightening pressure on Gaddafi (Reuters)

President Barack Obama and the British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday discussed the need to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, said the White House.

The two leaders agreed that the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council demanding that the Libyan Government to stop the violence against civilians must be fully applied.

"Increase the military pressure and protect civilians through the operation of the coalition which is responsible for NATO, the leaders discussed the importance of increasing the diplomatic and economic pressure on the regime of Kadhafi to stop the attacks against civilians and comply with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council" has declared a "." statement by the White House.

The White House said earlier that Obama still opposes sending troops to the U.S. in Libya soil, but it supports a move to French and British to send military advisers to help rebels fighting Gaddafi.

"The President obviously is aware of this decision and supports and hopes and believes it will help the opposition," white spokesman House Jay Carney told journalists traveling with Obama in California. "But it does not at all the policy of the President on no boots on the ground for troops, Carney said.

France will send up to 10 Libya military advisors, while Britain said it could send up to a dozen agents to help the opposition to improve the Organization and communication, but said he would not arming rebels or train to fight.

Why the Syria sees a threat coming from small Lebanon? (Time.com)

Syria long has been accused of stirring trouble in the territories of its neighbors by exporting unwanted people across porous borders - Kurdish separatists into Turkey, Sunni insurgents into Iraq and Palestinian militants and Al-Qaeda sympathizers into Lebanon. But with Syria reeling from the worst internal unrest since the ruling Baath Party took power nearly 50 years ago, it is Damascus' turn to complain about the alleged infiltration of foreign militants seeking to stir anti-regime violence. Amid President Bashar al-Assad's hard-soft campaign against the unrest (crushing violence against protesters on one hand; lifting the nearly half-century "emergency law" and promising reforms, on the other), the official media in Damascus is focusing on the threat from across its borders.

On Sunday, for example, a refrigerator truck filled with automatic weapons, grenade launchers, sniper rifles, night-vision goggles and ammunition was seized by Syrian customs were crossing into Syria from Iraq, according to Syria's SANA news agency. The driver, the report said, claimed to have been paid $20,000 by an Iraqi to deliver the weapons into Syria. (See Protests in Syria)

But the brunt of Syrian paranoia seems to be focused on Lebanon. Last week, Syrian state television area the alleged confessions of three members of the Muslim Brotherhood who claimed to have been planning to encourage protests and form armed groups on the instructions of Jamal Jarrah, a Lebanese parliamentarian belonging to the Future Movementa Sunni political block headed by Saad Hariri, the caretaker prime minister and the stupid black of Damascus. Jarrah has denied the charge, but the claim has ignited fresh tensions between the Syrian authorities and Lebanese opponents of the Syrian regime. "If any harm comes to syria, then Lebanon will be harmed," said Ali Abdel Karim Ali, the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon, in what many Lebanese interpreted as a threat.

Hizballah and other Lebanese allies of Syria have seized upon the charges to launch verbal attacks against their domestic political foes in the March 14 parliamentary coalition, which includes the Future Movement. March 14 retorted that the charges suggested was "dangerous conspiracy against Lebanon" and warned the Lebanese "against getting involved in a new plan aimed at creating strife among them."

A look at Lebanon's northern border with Syria, from the standpoint of Wadi Khaled, a remote impoverished village of black basalt homes scattered over a hillside, makes it immediately clear just how easy it would be to slip from one side to the other. The border here follows the Kabir river. Kabir may mean "great" in Arabic but this watercourse is barely larger than a small creek, flanked by dense Western of trees and lush verdant pastures.

"Yes, it is very easy to cross, especially in summer when the river is low," says Mohammed, owner of an electrical goods store a stone's throw from the river. He says smugglers charge $1,000 per head to cross one way or the other. Most people crossing the border are either economic migrant (Africans, for example) who hope to find jobs in Lebanon or Lebanese criminals on the lam who sneak into Syria until the heat has died down back home.

Purpose are the Lebanese sending co-operatives in subvert to Damascus? The political traffic seems to be the other way around. Rami Nakhle, a Syrian opposition activist, slipped across the border in Wadi Khaled in January to avoid being arrested by the Syrian authorities for his anti-regime activities. A Syrian smuggler in Homs charged him $1,500 for the trip. Rami agreed, but said he would only pay once in Lebanon. The two men rode motorcycles from Homs until they reached the border, then continued on foot. Purpose as they reached the river, they were ambushed by Syrian border guards. "They were firing in the air and we split up." "they chased but me I kept running into Lebanon," Rami says. (See pictures of Protests in Lebanon)

Although he lost his guide, Rami bumped into another Syrian smuggler on the Lebanese side of the border who offered to take him to Beirut for only $500. Rami presently is in hiding in Beirut and, operates under the nickname Malath Aumran, using the internet to help organize protests.

Smuggling activities have slowed since the uprising in Syria began five weeks ago. Syrian troops have reinforced their border positions and increased the number of foot patrols along this stretch of the frontier. Wadi Khaled and most of the neighboring villages are populated by Sunni and are fans of the Future Movement which, as far as the Syrians are concerned, is good reason to keep a wary eye open for possible infiltrators. "our blood belongs to saad hariri and we are with the Syrian uprising one hundred percent," says Ali, a young man sitting astride the ubiquitous Syrian-made motorcycles used for transport in the Wadi Khaled area.

Local residents say they are monitoring the border for possible Syrian infiltrators who they believe may attempt to create strife in Lebanon. Some members of Fatah al-Islam, an Al-Qaeda-inspired faction that fought a bloody three-month battle against Lebanese troops in a north Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp in 2007, Lebanon entered via the Wadi Khaled district. "we will let sunni refugees come here, but we will not allow any Alawites to enter," says Ali, referring to the minority Alawite sect, an off-shoot of Shi'ite Islam whose adherent form the backbone of the Syrian regime.

Although the Kabir river provides a clear geographical marker for the path of the border, the Lebanese-Syrian frontier is less well defined elsewhere. Much of the border is in dispute, with claims and counter-claims that both countries are encroaching on each other's territory. The fault for the ill-defined nature of the border rests with the French mandatory authorities who never properly delineated and demarcated the frontier when the modern state of Lebanon was established in the 1920s.

Syrian border security concerns run highest in areas adjacent to Lebanese Sunni populations, but a few miles to the east, in the remote Shi 'ite populated Hermel district of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, a center of support for the Syria - allied Hizballah, the border restrictions are much more lax. It is through the rugged mountains of the eastern Bekaa that Hizballah is believed to bring much of its substantial arsenal of weapons from Syria. Locals allege that when the electricity supply is suddenly cut at night and cellphones lose reception, it means Hizballah's cross - border arms convoys are on the move.

At the tiny farming hamlet of Haush Sayyed Ali near Hermel, the border is marked by a concrete culvert and a narrow stream along which gushes icy snow melt from the mountains to the west. A Syrian border guard sitting in the entrance of a small concrete hut with the national flag painted on one wall stares curiously as a small group of people pass by a few yards away. A tractor carrying a trailer piled high with sacks of cement chugs down a steep ramp into the stream opposite the Syrian border post. The Syrian guard does not even glance up as the tractor driver follows the water course for about 50 yards before heading up another earth ramp onto the Syrian side.

"You have just watched someone smuggling cement into Syria," chuckles Hussein, a self-confessed smuggler and farmer.

On the other hand, the tractor's short trip may not have constituted an act of smuggling after all, because, according to standard maps of Lebanon, Sayyed Ali Haush lies almost one mile inside Syria. Just another weird anomaly along the porous and ambiguous Lebanon-Syria border.

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Director of "restrepo" Tim Hetherington killed in Libya: doctors (Reuters)

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - of the fighting in the besieged rebel Misrata city the Libya killed at least 10 civilians, including a British filmmaker named Oscar, and NATO has urged non-combatants to avoid troops so he could intensify air strikes.

Among the dead were photojournalist Tim Hetherington, Co-Director of the documentary of war named the Oscar "restrepo" and American photographer Chris Hondros, killed when a group they were in came under mortar fire.

Seven Libyan civilians and a Ukrainian doctor were also killed in the fierce fighting in the third largest city of the Libya, said nursing.

France promised the insurgents Wednesday that it intensify airstrikes on the Libyan Government forces and send liaison officers, echoing a move by Britain, to help organize the poorly trained insurgents.

Rebels said they were fighting for control of a main street of Misrata, a port of 300 000 people and the last bastion of insurgents in the West of the country, where civil war unleashed in February on requests for the end of the rule of 41 years of Qaddafi.

About 120 people were injured, including the wife of the Ukrainian doctor who lost both legs, according to Khalid Abufalgha, a doctor on the Committee medical Misrata that tracks of civilian casualties.

Abufalgha, said a total of 365 people were killed, including at least 85 civilians, and 4,000 people injured in the Mediterranean city since it came under siege from Government about seven weeks ago. Civilians say they live in constant fear of Government snipers.

"Mohammed and his friends were in our garage." They went outside to play when he had to pause to put on his shoe. "At this time the ball hit his head," said Zeinab, mother of a 10 year old boy who was in bed with a gunshot wound.

Rebels complained that there were too few NATO air strikes.

"NATO has been ineffective in the Misrata." NATO has failed completely to change things on the ground, "spokesman for rebels Abdelsalam said."

Early Thursday, Libyan State television said that NATO forces had hit the Khala al-Farjan region of the capital, Tripoli, killing seven people and injuring 18 others. The report could not immediately be independently verified.

Also, spokesman for rebels Abdulrahman, reached by telephone from the Western City of Zintan, said clashes took place in Nalut, near the western border with the Tunisia.

"Clashes are currently produced in Nalut and going on since Monday." Gaddafi forces are using Grad missiles and mortar shells to attack Nalut. It is not an even battle. The rebels are not well armed. ?

NATO TELLS CIVILIANS TO AVOID GADDAFI FORCES

Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, Commander of NATO operations in the Libya, said civilian Libyan should stay away from Gaddafi forces to help NATO to conduct air strikes.

"Civilians may help NATO in is distancing himself from Gaddafi regime forces and equipment whenever possible." This will allow NATO to strike these forces and equipment with great success..., "said Bouchard in a statement.

Aid groups that the humanitarian situation in Misrata turns serious due to a lack of food and medical supplies.

Forces loyal to Qadhafi have been bombarding the Misrata strongly last week. The Government denies that it is targeting of civilians in the city.

There are long queues for gasoline and electricity was cut for residents rely on generators. Foreign migrant workers stranded thousands are waiting for rescue in the port area.

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister British David Cameron discussed Wednesday the need to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on Kadhafi, said the White House.

France said that he would send up to 10 military advisors in Libya, following the plan of Great Britain to send up to a dozen agents to help the rebels to improve the Organization and communication. Neither country plans to arm and train the insurgents to fight.

In Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who led the intervention backed NATO United Nations, has promised more strong military action in his first meeting with the leader of the opposition of the Libyan National Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil.

"We will in effect intensify attacks and responding to the request of the national Council of transition," an official in the Office of the President said, citing Sarkozy as saying Abdel Jalil: "we help you".

He did not say how NATO-led forces planned to overcome the stalemate on the ground after the United States and several European allies refused week last to join the strikes on the ground.

Abdel Jalil told journalists he had invited Sarkozy to visit to the eastern rebel powerbase town of Benghazi to emphasize French support to put an end to the autocratic mandate of Gaddafi and "boost the morale of the revolution."

French officials have not said if Sarkozy had accepted.

Evidence resurfaced Wednesday that the Government of Gaddafi is dodging sanctions of the United Nations to import gasoline to the West of the Libya by intermediaries who fuel transfer between ships in Tunisia, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters.

Wines rival life in the Court of the United States for "mother" label (Reuters)

sellers Rival wine targeting overworked mothers are fighting over the use of the word "Mother" on their labels of wines, as a trial commenced in the Court Federal San San Francisco.

In the suit, filed Monday, California winery Clos Lachance wines asked the Court to declare that his "Mommyjuice" does not infringe the trademark of "Mother of Out Time", which is marketed by a distributor in New Jersey.

"'mommy' is a generic word that they do not have a monopoly on", said KC Branch, a lawyer representing Clos Lachance.

The owner of the "time of judgment of MOM" has refused to comment on the prosecution.

To succeed in a case of violation of trade-mark, an owner of the mark must show that it is likely that mark of a rival will create confusion in the minds of consumers.

The front label of "mommyjuice" presents a drawing of a woman juggling with a House, Teddy bears and the computer. The back label advises mothers to tuck your children in bed, sit and have a glass of Mommyjuice. Because you deserve it. "Wine is available in a white Chardonnay and Red mixed mixture.

The front label of "Of MOM Time Out," an Italian wine sold in red and white, shows an empty chair in a corner. A bottle of wine and glass to sit on a table next to the Presidency.

Trademark of conflicts between winegrowers are relatively common, said Richard Mendelson, a producer of wine from California who teaches a course on the right wine at Faculty of law, Boalt Hall in Berkeley.

"For a wine to go out on the market, it is difficult to find a name that is not in use" he said.

Mendelson also noted that the wines with "fanciful" names have proliferated as marketers try to reach new categories of clients. In recent years, winemakers have launched wines as "Fat bastard", "Cleavage Creek" and a red wine featuring a cock called "Big Red Pecker."

Southern Sudan troops die in attack

April 21, 2011, last updated at 00: 28 GMT at least 20 armed South Sudanese soldiers were killed in a clash with the rebels.

A spokesman for the Sudanese army in the South, the SPLA, said that the soldiers were killed when rebels attacked a village in the State of the unit.

The oil-producing State is in the North of the region, which will become an independent country in July after a recent referendum.

There were a number of recent attacks in the region.

In the South, the leaders have accused the Government in Khartoum of arming the rebels in an attempt to destabilize their region - something Khartoum denies.

South Sudan voted to separate from the North in a referendum promised under a 2005 peace agreement which ended decades of civil war.

The underdeveloped region is the source of most of the 500,000 barrels a day of oil Sudan.

All Black Thorn to play Japan (AFP)

 enforcer All Blacks Brad Thorn rugby club, to play the Japan after cutting this year the of the world, the New Zealand officials said Thursday.

The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) said that the 36-year lock has signed a two year contract with the Blues of Sanix of Fukuoka to the Japan for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

All Blacks coach Graham Henry described Thorn as the "ultimate professional" and said that it was a source of inspiration of the New Zealand team, which is the favourite of the bookies to win the cup of the world of football in September-October.

"The remarkable thing is the young 36 years, that he is still improving and, knowing that Brad, will continue to improve, Henry a." it will be to go to the Japan year next with our best wishes. ""

In addition to win 50 All Black selections, Thorn has also experienced a successful career in rugby league, Australian rugby representative kangaroos and won the first three NRL and a Super League title with the Brisbane Broncos.

Inflation shock revives rate hike talk (Reuters)

 Inflation in the Canada rose in March, markets amazing, and when combined with raised bubbly Q1 growth signs the likelihood of the Central Bank will soon resume increases in interest rates.

Due to the strong rises in gasoline and the prices of foodstuffs, the annual inflation rate shot up to 3.3% in March, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday, the highest level since September 2008 and above the Bank of Canada comfort zone.

On the basis of months on the other, the price index rose to 1.1% in February, the sharpest rise since January 1991.

"I was certainly surprised by the number". Everyone was surprised. (It was) a little more than expected, "said Jacqui Douglas, a strategist of senior currency at TD Securities in Toronto.

"The markets were launch around when exactly the first hike (Bank of Canada) is going to come." It definitely looks like it to come in the course of the next few months, as opposed to later this year, "said."

The Canadian dollar strengthened after the report and markets started this year in a slightly higher probability of rate hikes in price on each date of policy-announcement of the Bank of Canada. Even more suddenly depart may 31 and July see the sooner that the Bank will tighten credit.

The rate of core, closely watched by the Central Bank, inflation remained tame but it was also higher that the markets had anticipated.

The Bank of the Canada target inflation in a range of 1 to 3 per cent.

March, Canada had largely gone to bucking the trend to the increase in prices seen in many other countries. The recent increase in the rising Canadian dollar reached the year peaks 3-1/2 a helped reduce import costs.

Statistical Canada also expressed Tuesday February wholesale return given some of the gains achieved during the previous six months, down 0.6%, but activity remained above recession levels.

The composite leading indicator rose 0.8 percent in March, double the increase that had been scheduled, on the heels of a revised gain of 1.1% in February.

Analysts said until this low growth in February but growth data points in the first quarter overall.

"Our view was that, as move us forward, we will see persistent strength of the economy and that the Bank research to restart its program (higher rates) in the summer months," said Dawn Desjardins, Assistant Chief Economist at Royal Bank of the Canada.

"I don't think this as that this will not suffice to revive things, but at the same time that it is certainly something that they will keep a very keen on because it passes a little contrary to certain things."", they have been worried."

The Central Bank was the first country in the G7 of advanced economies to raise interest rates last year, but has kept its unchanged rate to 1 per cent since September, pending further evidence that the global recovery is strengthened.

In its quarterly report on 13 April, the Bank of the Canada should total CPI would peak at about 3% at some point in the second quarter because of the impact of high energy and prices of foodstuffs as well as provincial changes to sales taxes.

He said that it expected the rate to ease to 2% in mid-2012 target.

Core, on the other hand, inflation had fallen in the previous months, and the Bank has seen amounting to its target at about the same time.

The Canadian dollar increased top C$ 0.9552 to the US dollar, is $1.0469, following the Tuesday data, from the Monday close to C$ 0.9642 to the US dollar.

Overnight index swaps, which trade based on expectations for the key central bank rate, showed a probability of 91.2%, the Central Bank would keep rates unchanged in may, down by more than 99% on Monday. Markets are fully priced in a quarter-point in September increase.

Trade surplus plunges March after the tsunami (AFP)

 trade surplus plunged 78.9% in March from the previous year, exports fell after a March 11 earthquake and the tsunami that triggered a nuclear crisis, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.

The surplus reached 196.5 billion yen ($2.37 billion), still manage to stay in the black for the second month of law, said the Ministry.

Exports fell by 2.2 per cent to 5.87 billion yen ($70.9 billion), falling for the first time in 16 months by shipments of automobiles and ships, he said.

He came slightly below a decrease of 2.0% planned in a survey by Dow Jones and Nikkei's joint.

The fall was led by exports of vehicles, which dropped by 27.8%. Abandoned ships 10.0% and parts electronics exports fell to 6.9%, said the Ministry.

For the 15th straight month, up 11.9% to 5.67 billion yen, on the increase in oil and iron ore prices, imports have said the Ministry.

The value of oil rose 14.8% of imports. The value of imports of iron ore exploded at 74.9%. Coal imports rose 39.4%.

The Ministry also said Japanese exports for the year to March increased by 14.9% 67.8 billion yen, while imports increased 15.9% to 62.4 billion.

Annual trade surplus increased by 3.9% 5.4 billion yen, the Ministry said.

U.N. said 20 children killed in Misrata (Reuters)

The United Nations appeal Tuesday for a ceasefire in the city of Misrata Libyan, saying at least 20 children had been killed in attacks by besieging the Government forces rebel-held parts of the city.

Third city of the Libya, where hundreds are believed was killed by gunfire bombardments and sniper by the forces of Muammar al-Gaddafi, is the main objective of the efforts to protect civilians caught in the submission of the Libyan leader end to an armed rebellion to put.

At the same time the Western powers are seeking ways to support the efforts of rebels to overthrow Gaddafi, while NATO said there are limits to what air power could do to end the siege of the city.

Britain said that he would send military officers to advise the rebels on the Organization and communication, but steps to train or arm of combatants. France, said that the West had underestimated the ability of Gaddafi to adapt his tactics in response to the NATO operation.

Italy, said that the international Contact Group Libya was the search for ways to allow rebels to sell the oil produced in the East by the rebel despite an embargo on Libyan oil sales United Nations.

Nine weeks after the rebellion broke out, inspired by the other uprisings against the autocratic Arab rulers, the air campaign led by NATO to prevent the forces of Gaddafi out of air and attacks against civilians, is not to stop the bombing of Misrataa city of 300,000 people.

"Fifty days in the fighting in Misrata, the complete picture of the toll on children is emerging - far worse than what we had feared and some worse unless there is a ceasefire," said Marixie Mercado of the United Nations Children's FundUNICEF.

"We have at least 20 verified deaths and many more injuries caused by the shrapnel from mortars and tanks and bullet wounds," she told a press briefing in Geneva.

Aid groups say food, medicines and other basic items are in short supply of the city, and tens of thousands of victims and foreign workers are waiting at the port to be evacuated.

Many NATO members refuse to go beyond to enforce a UN-mandated no-fly zone to attack the forces of Gaddafi, despite the insistence of the United States, France and Great Britain.

Some of those that helped the United Nations Security Council resolution on the Libya pass say that it is poorly used to give the rebels military aid - although combat appears to have prevented on a front line west of Ajdabiyah in eastern Libya.

AIR STRIKES

NATO said that many air strikes Monday night targeted Gaddafi communications infrastructure and the seat of his 32nd brigade, 10 kilometres (six miles) South of Tripoli. Libyan television said Tripoli, Sirte and al Azizia had been bombed.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said support air West was allowing the Libyan opposition refuse to sit down to negotiate.

"The Security Council of the United Nations never to overthrow the Libyan regime", said in Belgrade. "All those who currently use the resolution of the United Nations for this purpose violates the mandate of the United Nations." "It is essential to establish a ceasefire."

France, said President Nicolas Sarkozy would meet the rebel leader of the Libya, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, in Paris, on Wednesday, but his Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, said that the France, such as Britain, remains opposed to sending ground troops.

The European Union presented a draft plan Monday to this effect, with a mandate without combat, to protect shipments Misrata and elsewhere if requested assistance by the Organization of the United Nations.

Any mission of the European Union, could ensure the transport of supplies in Libya, in particular Misrata military personnel.

United Nations World Food Programme said it had with Libyan, sent consent of Tunisia eight trucks with 240 tons of food - sufficient for 50 000 people for 30 days - to the West including Zawiyah, Zintan and Nalut villages which are mainly under the control of Qaddafi after the uprisings have been crushed.

GASOLINE CARGOES

A combination of fighting and the UN sanctions have caused shortages of gasoline in Tripoli and other cities controlled by the Government in the West.

But oil State official Bashir Guiloushi, who chairs the Brega oil company, told state television "we are working to ensure the arrival of successive cargo of gasoline," without specifying where he came from.

He said the oil refinery at Zawiyah West of Tripoli, where production has stopped for several weeks then that the rebels controlled the city, was now working at full capacity again.

For now, lifeline of the Misrata is its port, where humanitarian supply ships were docking and ferries were evacuating some foreign workers injured, as well as trapped, while several thousand are still waiting for a passage to security.

"There is no electricity." The city is running on generators... fuel reserves are used, "researcher of Amnesty International Donatella Rovera told Reuters by telephone from the city." "" Water supply has now been cut for weeks therefore, once again, which is used is reserves. ?

Shelling Government continues Tuesday, said Rovera, and a rebel spokesman said at least 31 people were killed in there Sunday and Monday by Government shelling and snipers.

The Arab Medical Union doctors working in Misrata said the World Health Organization that the 120 - bed hospital he was "overwhelmed."

They said about 30 patients with multiple injuries, and requiring surgery were admitted each day.

Libyan officials say they are fighting against the armed militias with ties to al-Qaeda bent to destroy the country and denied that Government troops are bombing Misrata.

The rebels who control the territory of Eastern around Benghazi had hoped to sell the oil produced it to finance the rebellion, but the sanctions of the United Nations to cut revenues from Gaddafi prevented them from selling more that a net of water.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that he hoped a meeting in early May of the Contact Group of the Libya - European and the countries of the Middle East, of the Organization of the United Nations, the African Union and the Arab League - would accept a way of allowing the rebels to sell oil on international markets.

Deadly assault assisted on Webcam

Police hope that a stolen laptop computer and webcam could provide clues as to who killed a student in his apartment in Toronto as her boyfriend helplessly watched on the internet from 11 000 kilometres in China.

The Toronto Police said Qian Liu, a Chinese of 23-year-old national study English at the University of York, was killed Friday morning when she let a man not identified in his room while chatting online with her boyfriend in Beijing.

The boyfriend said police there was a knock on the door of Liu around 1 pm and Friday and a man asked to borrow his cellular phone.

The boyfriend witness "a struggle between the deceased and the man", according to the police, until the suspect shut down his computer and stole the laptop. Also stolen were webcam that it used to chat with her boyfriend and his cell phone.

The boyfriend, who police have not been publicly identified, immediately took to the internet to raise awareness that he knew to the Canada which could warn the police. He contacted the family of Liu in Beijing that calls the Chinese Consulate in Toronto. But it was almost 10 hours after the intruder has knocked on the door that the police finally entered Liu apartment and found the death of the wife.

Liu was found naked in size, but there was no sign of sexual assault, according to police.

Police interviewed the boyfriend on the phone, which describes the intruder as a white male, 20 to 30 years old, 175 to 200 pounds, with "medium length brown hair, disordered at the front and treated at the rear.".

Police do not yet have the man at the door to identify or determine if Liu knew.

Deadly assault assisted on Webcam

"I will not question whether if she knew him,", said detective Frank Skubic. "It has opened the door to him." "That is said, there was no Judas to assess who was on the other side".

Police said that the boyfriend, or a third party registered their cat. However, they hope that they might be able to find "remnant" images from the time the intruder entered the House if they locate a laptop of Liu, a Thinkpad T400 or webcam, or are able to access the boyfriend computer.

SKUBIC said police had been in contact with several people, including a "person of interest", which was seen in photos with Liu circulating on the internet.

SKUBIC has no "" to confirm this time ", said that the person of interest is the intruder, but said police had been queries since Friday evening."

It would not confirm if it corresponded to the physical description of the intruder.

You want to Blockbuster FX? Head of New Zealand (Time.com)

When Warner Bros. proposed relocation of production of the Lord of the prequel film of two rings the Hobbit of New Zealand, due to a prolonged dispute with the actors Equity, Prime Minister John Key Union intervened personally. Connection long of the country with the franchise of the rings - an association which has been a great boon to linked to tourism - and the jobs of 2500 would create production of Bilbo the Hobbit $ 490 million was at stake. Therefore, there was relief in Wellington when filming began finally last month, with the actors and Warner Bros Thieu of the labour law reform and tax breaks respectively. Hamstrung by the cost of two large earthquakes (estimated at $ 11 billion), New Zealand needs all investments that its film industry can bring.

Locations famous scenic in the country are a great draw of Hollywood filmmakers - but they are not the only one. Large Budget screen Production Grant the New Zealand offers a 15% discount on production expenses. The producers of the Avatar, large parts which were filmed in the Studios of street stone of Wellington, has received 32 million of the grant (in return, the country received $ 307 million). Since the scheme started in 2003, overseas productions have reportedly passed 1.42 billion in New Zealand and received 189.4 million in grants. The absence of taxes of the fringe that would be incurred to the United States - such as taxes on benefits employees, compensation, and other levies - also helps reduce the overall cost of post-production. (See than the alternative of the top 10 places to film the Hobbit).

Then, there are industry of innovative visual effects (VFX) of New Zealand, which, although less than ten years now becomes a major player, contributes approximately $ 180 million in revenues for 2006-2007 film only, a survey of statistics. Companies like Weta Digital in Wellington, which won three Oscars for his work on the Avatar, and who will work on both Hobbit films, winning international praise for their work in special effects, art direction and film. "It seems to be a unique creation, New Zealand sensitivity, both artistic and technical sense here and Weta Digital certainly defines that standard,", said Gisella Carr, CEO of the new Film of the New Zealand.

The rings franchise has been a huge boost for the development of local industry of VFX, according to Mike Horgan, Director General of Digipost, digital post production company in New Zealand when it was established in 1990. "The world has always had an eye on the New Zealand film industry, through projects such as Xena, Hercules and, more recently, Spartacus, but [Director rings] certainly, Sir Peter Jackson played a huge part in putting the industry on the map"he says. ". (See why South Africa is becoming a hot film location).

And Weta, companies such as Park Road Post Production will benefit business of Jackson. Costume based in Wellington is a one-stop shop, offering audio service, the digital conversion facilities and film processing laboratories. "The Hobbit has begun production in the studios of here," says Vicki Jackways, head of marketing of Park Road.

Although there is some international hiring, this technology intensive industry depends primarily of local talent. "The majority of our artists is New Zealand and is very experienced and highly qualified to offer to high international standards," said Cree Casares, a VFX producer for house production of Images and sound. Horgan agrees: "there are a number of training institutions very functioning here which help to support and develop young creative minds", he said. I hope that the agreement recently struck between Warner Bros., actors equity and the Government will form a framework to help to maintain this nascent industry on track.

Syrian activists begin sit-in for an eviction Assad (AP)

Beirut - more than 5,000 demonstrators hostile to the Government in Syria returned to the Plaza of the third city of the country Monday, promising to occupy the site until President Bashar al-Assad is ruled out and defy the authorities warn that they will be not forced in reforms.

The Government, however, blamed the weeks of anti-Government unrest in the country on the ultra-conservative Muslims seeking to establish a fundamentalist state and terrorizing the population, in the latest official effort to describe the movement of reform as populated by extremists.

Despite the deadlock of Egypt-style in the Centre of the city of Homs followed by funeral processions of more 10,000 lament for some people killed in clashes Sunday that a group of rights said dead left at least 12 people. It also provided an important challenge to the security forces on the appropriateness of bloodshed more risk - and the international reaction - trying to clear the square.

In the month, in uniform and civilian Syrian security forces launched a deadly suppression of the demonstrations, killing at least 200 people, according to human rights groups. Many Syrians also say pro-government thugs - called Shabiha - were terrorizing neighborhoods with tactics such as the opening of fire in the air.

In the past, the Government has awarded "armed bands" that seeks to raise problems for a large number of murders, such as those who have shot dead seven people, including three army officers, Sunday in Homs.

Monday, the Ministry of the Interior identified gang as "Salafi armed groups", referring to a ultra-conservative form of Islam that has its roots in Saudi Arabia and found throughout the region.

The statement made by the news agency said they seek to establish "emirates" and "abusing the freedoms and the reforms launched by President Bashar al-Assad in the full programme with a timetable."

Assad has played on fears of inter-communal while working to stifle any popular support for the uprising and awarded agitation to a foreign plot to sow sectarian strife - echoing the statements of almost all other assiégée leader in the region.

Earlier in the day, at least six coffins were conducted by the funeral procession in Homs, 100 miles (160 km) North of Damascus, said two witnesses. Security forces remained far the lament in an apparent to travel avoiding confrontation, said the witnesses, who spoke the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from the Government.

The accounts of the witnesses were not independently confirmed because the Syria has imposed tight restrictions on the media and expelled foreign journalists.

After the funeral, thousands of people marched to main its ' a Jadida Square the Homs, or instead of the new clock, where they chanted "people want to overthrow the regime" and "peaceful, peaceful," witnesses said.

As the protesters gathered, security personnel arrived in the region. Three tanker trucks, typically used by the authorities to spray demonstrators with water, have been also stationed nearby.

"A sit-in until that regime is overthrown", the demonstrators chanted.

Witnesses said demonstrators are planning to set up tents and some residents made gift of water and food.

Also Monday, a group of Syrian students said in a statement published on Facebook, they will not attend classes for three days from Tuesday to protest recent deaths and attack the week last by security forces at the University of Damascuswhere a student was killed.

In the town of North of Banias, approximately 300 children released balloons with slogans inviting Assad to leave power, witnesses said.

"Leave, criminal uncle," read a balloon. "Leave so that I can enjoy freedom," read another, witnesses added.

Ammar Qurabi, head of the national organization of the Syria for human rights, said that the number of dead had risen to 12 of the shooting on Sunday during protests and funeral for anti-Government activist.

He said eight people died in Homs and a nearby village. He added that four demonstrators were killed in clashes between security forces and demonstrators in the cities of the North of Latakia and Idlib.

The Syria of the State-run agency of press, however, said a police officer was killed and 11 other officers and staff security was wounded when a "criminal gang army" opened fire on them in Talbiseh Sunday.

The latest murders were bound to increase pressure on Al-Assad, who tried to quell the uprising with force raw mixture and concessions. Saturday, he promised to end nearly 50 years of reign of emergency this week, a request for key to demonstrators.

Widely despised of the Syria emergency laws were in place since the Baath party in power is came to power in 1963, gave the regime the arrest of persons without charge hands-free and extending authority of the State in virtually all aspects of life.

But he warned that there is more "pretext" for the organisation of events once the Syria lifts State of emergency and implement reforms, which said, will include a new law allowing the formation of political parties.

Glencore flotation perforated by the Ministers of the g-20 (OneWorld.net)

 ambitious plans by the trader of major commodities in the world to raise funds in London and Hong Kong markets may be at risk from the threat of scrutiny regulatory international sector.

Meeting in Washington last Friday, Ministers of Finance of the g-20 major economies invectives in response to inflationary pressures are disrupting their strategies carefully developed economic recovery.

Inflation is driven by spiralling prices of food and raw materials. The Ministers believe that non-supervised commercial speculative commodities may be partly responsible.

The documents prepared by the World Bank of information warned the meeting this current spikes in food prices "poses risks of fundamental food security for consumers and Governments, while discouraging investment in the agricultural sector for development".

The Bank estimates that, between June 2010 and 2011 February, 44 million people slipping below the international poverty line. He predicted that a new 10% increase in food prices world would add another 10 million for the roll call of extreme poverty.

Despite this humanitarian distress, or perhaps at his expense, there are winners in the chaos of the market.

Higher prices swell the gains of the small number of companies that control global trade in agriculture and mining products. Handsome profit announcements have emerged in recent weeks of corporations such as Cargill and Bunge agribusiness.

To capture this value, the giant Swiss Glencore International, announced last Thursday his plans to become a public company, offering to sell about 20% of its shares, mainly to London-based.

The flotation mid-May may collect more than 10 billion dollars, potentially the most important appeal in the history of the London Stock Exchange. 65 Glencore leaders are set to do paper fortune more than $ 100 million.

The timing of the announcement of Glencore involves an element of risk to its proximity to the meeting of the G20. The French Government, current Chairman of the group, made no secret of its intention to convince the leaders of the world to introduce regulations on commercial goods when they meet in Cannes in November.

Institutional investors in their assessment of Glencore will mark if they believe that new regulations are in the pipeline.

"We stressed the need for the participants of the derivatives markets to be subject to appropriate regulation and supervision," was the verdict of the g-20 finance ministers in their statement released Friday. The French are not bluff.

A simultaneous gathering of leaders of BRICs, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa was probably more important than the G20 meeting.

Despite their distance physical and philosophical of the Citadel of Washington from the world of finance, the message of Hainan in China was almost identical.

"The regulation of the market for derivative products must therefore be strengthened to prevent activities capable of destabilizing the markets," said the leaders of BRICS. China and the India in particular are troubled cruelly by the fears of social unrest which may result from the increase in food prices.

Although the main target of the new regulation would be investment banks who design and trade securities index complex based on the price of raw materials, companies like that Glencore are responsible for the underlying contracts for delivery.

They have close trade ties with banks and are more rewarded by increases in the price. The G20 countries have commissioned a report to examine whether the volume of speculative trade contributes to price higher, more fundamental more conventional supply and demand.

Glencore is facing an additional examination by rules of London Stock Exchange requiring disclosure of information which have so far been kept runaway. The company has a history of reluctance in relations with the media.

There were input sharp of institutional breath new Glencore manages at least half of the market in the world production of copper and zinc, but also holds interests in the extraction and processing. Possession of such sensitive market information in parallel with the fixing of prices is bound to offend the principles of liberal markets.

In response to revelations of Glencore, section leader on Saturday in the influential Financial Times concluded: "If policy makers commercial products without supervision, this erstwhile eddies might one day become a sea of economic problems."

Glencore of agricultural trade market share is much smaller, but the genius of regulatory risk is out of the bottle.

The movement of feelings towards the regulation of commercial products in the space of a week will come as a boost to the activists of the struggle against poverty. International NGOs have been pressing for a clamp-down on speculators since the 2007-2008 food crisis.

"Stop the game on food and hunger" was the title of a letter signed by more than 100 groups of civil society in the world prior to the meeting of the g-20 February. The letter called on Ministers to rein in the "small but powerful group of vested interests." that take advantage of fundamentally detrimental activity for the vast majority of people

Luc Lempriere, Executive Director of Oxfam France, gave a swift welcome the outcome of Friday. "Quick action is necessary on the G20 call today for greater transparency and regulation of product markets." "Excessive speculation is amplify the volatility of prices and worsening the food crisis," he said.

Glencore is based on an old adage of the London Stock Exchange: "sell in May and disappear." And the company hopes that the preliminary unpleasant wash his dirty laundry in public may quickly by hidden from view by the distraction of the royal wedding.

New nuclear capable missile of Pakistan test-fires (AP)

 Pakistan's military, said it was test-printed a newly developed capable of carrying a nuclear warhead of short-range missile.

A training military, said the missile "hatf 9" was successfully launched from a location not disclosed Tuesday.

He said the missile has a range of 60 kilometres (35 miles) and can carry nuclear warheads with great accuracy.

Pakistan routinely test-fires that it claims are native developed short and long term of missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons in the country.

The international community closely monitors Pakistan weapons program because the nation has fought three wars with its neighbour of the nuclear weapon, India, since 1947.

West wants military action aid to put an end to the crisis of the Libya (Reuters)

NATO may have to step up attacks against Government forces out of the military in Libya stalemate, while the United Nations grows a humanitarian presence assist civilians caught in the trap in the conflict.

The two approaches to a mandate of the Security Council of the United Nations to protect civilians against attacks by the troops of President Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan, will focus on the city of Misrata West, Western only Libyan always in the hands city rebels.

It is believed that hundreds of people have been killed during the siege of seven weeks of the port city, where thousands of foreign migrant workers are blocked. A rebel spokesman said at least 31 people were killed in Misrata Sunday and Monday by snipers and shells from Government.

Two months after the Jamahiriya rebellion broke out seriously, inspired by the uprisings against the autocratic leaders elsewhere in the Arab world, the insurgents control only in the East of the country of their fief of Benghazi and part of Misrata.

NATO bombing damaged armor of Gaddafi, but not enough to break the deadlock and the alliance has perhaps no choice but to use naval gunfire or helicopter, said analysts - latter vulnerable to fire on the ground by the troops of Gaddafi.

"There is more risk with helicopters, because they are easier to break down, and this is a serious problem if you have victims or persons captured,", said Daniel Keohane of the Institute of the European Union to the security of the think tank studies.

GIFT BOX

The United States, the French and British leaders, said last week that they would not stop military action until Gaddafi smoking.

"They have boxed themselves describing the victory that Gaddafi leaving," said Keohane. "I do not think that there is no way they can go now." It is a political imperative to exercise. ?

While NATO has sought a more effective way to attack forces of Gaddafi despite limited resources, A humanitarian leader Valerie Amos said Monday in Benghazi it was extremely concerned about the fate of civilians in Misrata.

"I strongly hope that the security situation will allow to enter the Misrata", she said. "Person makes no sense of depth and breadth of what is happening it.."

Before the rebellion, Misrata has a population of 300,000.

The European Union presented a draft plan Monday sending European troops to Misrata to protect shipments assistance if requested by the Organization of the United Nations, said the EU officials.

Secretary General of the Nations United Ban Ki-moon, in Budapest, said Qaddafi Government has agreed to a humanitarian presence in the capital of Tripoli. Spokesman Farhan Haq said this included an agreement on the entry of international humanitarian personnel and equipment through the Tunisian border.

Details were scarce, and so far Libya has not agreed on a ceasefire to allow providers to help to work.

Earlier, NATO leaders had excluded sending troops on the ground in Libya, but head of the foreign policy of the EU, Catherine Ashton said "the 27 (EU members) have now unanimously adopted the concept of operations" - Monday if the United Nations has requested.

Any mission of the European Union could involve hundreds of military personnel, security of transport of supplies directly to the Libya, especially Misrata and helping to provide food and shelter to the Tunisian and Egyptian border refugee camps.

EU troops would not have a combat role, except to protect the humanitarian mission, but analysts say the arrival of the first Western troops since the Libyan crisis erupted would be significant.

A Chartered ship evacuated about 1,000 foreign workers injured Libyan Misrata on Monday, the evacuation of the second ship in the last days. Rebel, said that they had gained ground in the fighting in the region of Tripoli Street despite the bombing of the Government.

"It is clear that Gaddafi wants to erase Misrata." Inaction by NATO helps him realize this project. "Are they waiting for a massacre to arrive to realize that they need to change tactics?"rebel spokesman abdelsalam told Reuters by telephone.

The Libyan Government denied the allegations that it violates its people's human rights and said that combat gang of al Qaeda militants.

Pro-Gaddafi forces have also followed an offensive on the frontline outpost eastern rebels, of Ajdabiyah, from which the rebels hope to resume the oil port of Brega, 80 km to the West.