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ETA: proposal to negotiate independence with Zapatero fails to convince

The proposal is a scam because it condemns terrorism, security forces equated with terrorists (…) is the same speech that leads to nowhere, are unable to separate from Batasuna, said Antonio Basagoiti Sunday, Basque leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP). Basagoiti alluded to links between the armed Basque separatist organization ETA and Batasuna, for which this party was banned. Peace brings Euskadi easy. To tell ETA: this is over, peace comes to Euskadi, he said on his part Andoni Ortuzar, head of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV, moderate), in opposition in the Basque regional government. On Saturday, responsible for movement of the Basque separatist left that does not condemn ETA violence presented in Alsasua (Navarra, north) a document proposed dialogue with other political forces to achieve Basque self-determination of the population and that it can rule on the independence of the region. At the same time calling for a process of negotiation between ETA and the Spanish State, which Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba described as more of the same . It's a way we already know that leads nowhere , said on a new negotiation, after attempting to dialogue in Madrid in 2006 that ETA violence miscarried again. On the road to the determination, independence advocate a democratic process to end what they call conflict Basque total absence of violence , although not condemn ETA attacks. Examples show the process of South Africa and Ireland, and want governed by the principles of Senator (George J.) Mitchell.

EU stresses Mission credibility CNE Bolivian electoral process

La Paz, 14 nov (EFE) .- The mission of observers from the European Union (EU) for the election on December 6 in Boliviaconsidera very important the credibility that has reached Delacorte Nacional Electoral (CNE) in the country because masgarantias democratic means for the process. The CNE in this election that enjoys credibility noconocia before and it seems very important because (..) significatambien the credibility of the electoral process and, at the end, losresultados he said in an interview with EFE rumanaRenate MEP Weber, head of mission of EU observers. The good performance of the Electoral Court, according to Weber, it increases elnivel of democratic guarantees in an election before muycomplejo which attend many developments, particularly the implementationof a new biometric voter registration, voting by immigrants launch wave of calls indigenous districts. Another element characterizing this process is the fact that one of the opposition candidates for Vice President larzdscnpe is in prison, which has sparked a controversial debatesobre their rights and limitations for campaigning. is the former opposition prefect Leopoldo Fernandez encarceladodesde fourteen months while awaiting trial for his presuntaresponsabilidad in a massacre of peasants in Pando (north) in 2008. In this case, Renate Weber and his team point out that not esfuncion mission of European observers to rule on The content of the proceedings against Fernandez or the jurisdiccioncompetente about your situation. What we do matters to the EU observers is that writers are a candidate registered for the elections and their rights parahacer campaign, explained the MEP. In this sense, the European mission resolucionesde recalls that the CNE, which has ruled in favor of the right of Fernandez AHAC campaign from jail are mandatory, the codigoelectoral Bolivia.

Lunar experiment is successful: mission finds water

The faint plume of dust raised by the mission's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) last month held at least a little water. Now scientists are working to discover more about it. We are unraveling the mysteries of our nearest neighbor, and by extension, the solar system, he said in a statement Michael Wargo, scientific by NASA's lunar theme. He had already found water on the moon before, but NASA scientists hoped they could find significant deposits in the region of the craters are on permanent darkness, in this case, a crater called Cabeus. If this water is billions of years old, may contain information about the solar system formation. If their presence is widespread even could be used by space travelers. The researchers used a spectrograph to analyze the light from the dust plume.

Facebook, Wikipedia and Google set out in the Vatican

The symposium, which began Thursday and continues through Sunday, also includes intellectual rights on the Internet and cyber-piracy, with testimony from a young Swiss cyberpirate and an official of Interpol specializes in cyber crime.

The meeting is sponsored by the Communications Commission of European Bishops in order to elaborate on aspects of cyber-culture and what they can mean to the mission of the church, and how the church can communicate that mission.

Pope Benedict XVI has sought to bring the Vatican to the Internet age by creating a channel on YouTube this year. Senior clerics also said the pope is communicating by e-mail and surf the net. Peto defects that The Vatican has made use of cyberspace has been evident so deplorable. Earlier this year, Benedict expressed his disappointment because Vatican officials had not made a simple Internet search to discover that an ultraconservative bishop whom the Pope suspended the ban, was denying that the Holocaust Jew had happened.

Northern Areas Pakistan hold first elections after more autonomy

More than 770,000 citizens are called to the polls between las08.00 pm (0300 GMT) and 17.00 (12.00 GMT) for 24 deputies will pick between 256 candidates, told Efe the secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan, Kanwar Dilshad. The elections come after government deIslamabad in August, led by the People's Party (PPP), announced unareforma for so-called Northern Areas limitrofecon a region crisscrossed by Afghanistan and China high mountain ranges. While Gilgit-Baltistan will deprovincia without status, the administration has received more wing skills through reform, and have a governor and a high court of its own. shall also formed a local government and unjefe six Cabinet ministers from the new Legislative Assembly, quecontara with 24 deputies elected today and moreBook nine seats for women and technocrats.

Ban calls for restraint from the two Koreas after the naval clash today

The UN spokesman, Farhan Haq, said Ban, who before his current position deasumir was foreign minister of South Korea, following closely the development of the tense situation in the product peninsulacoreana first naval clash between the seven dospaises years. Ban urges both sides to contain the maximum. Esteincidente stresses the need to resolve all asuntospendientes through dialogue and peaceful ways, agregoHaq. The exchange of fire between the two ships occurred las11.27 local time (2.27 GMT) on the border of MarOccidental (Yellow Sea), a disputed area between the two countries the recent past queen suffered severe clashes that hansaldado with the death of sailors from both sides. In the version of Seoul, a North Korean patrol masda ventured a mile into South Korean waters, and a sighting, a barcomilitar Seoul made several warning shots, which North Korea responded elbuque direct attack.

Micheletti requires Congress to decide soon on restitution of Zelaya

At the National Congress demanded an early decision as no or yes (…) the return of Mr. Zelaya in the presidency, told a news conference Morales, who acknowledged, however, that legislators do not have a legal deadline to rule. This is one of the most controversial convention hagenerado, as the ousted leader considers elLegislativo can not vote against his restoration to power and have done before quedebia 5 November, the date of cessation the establishment of a unity government. However, the board of the legislature merely elpaso Tuesday, four days after receiving the request alrespecto, to ask their views to the Supreme Court and to alternative bodies without giving them time and without convening the full. Micheletti's announcement that it would shape the participation Ejecutivosin Zelaya, who is Listof refused to provide suggestions to the Cabinet on the grounds that lecorrespondia unit to the header, led the ousted ruler adeclarar the pact failed.

Estimated how much it cost the restoration of East Germany

Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the new federal states of Germany are still dependent on the help of old. According to the report of the Institute for Economic Research in Halle, since 1991 the eastern regions of the country have received huge financial support amounting to 1.3 trillion. euro.

As the Deutsche Welle , a large portion of this amount, namely 67%, was spent on social benefits . In this regard, one of the authors of the report, Joachim Ragnits noted that in recent years expenditure on social assistance to citizens of new lands is not reduced but even increased.

Nevertheless, the experts optimistic about the prospects for integration and alignment of standards of living. According to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Germany, Thomas de Mezieres, departments, which is responsible for restoring the new federal states, in recent years, the differences in the east and west of the country have become noticeably smoothed.

Ida hit Mexico without causing havoc and heads for U.S.

The National Civil Protection System (SINAPROC) told las18.30 local time (0.30 GMT on Monday) that upstate deQuintana Roo, the most threatened by the storm, spent a alertanaranja (high hazard) after being almost all day in elmaximo level. In the last hours, in an area where there were an estimated unos36.000 tourists when passing Ida, only about 1,500 evacuees personasfueron in its Most fishermen in Holbox Island coastal yhabitantes. In standard yellow (moderate hazard) was maintained at horadel last day the state of Yucatan and Quintana Roo downtown area, while the southernmost area of the state and Campeche, vecinoal earlier, stayed with a green alert (low risk), according to SINAPROC. The agency placed the hurricane Ida to 215 kilometers and 315 Cancun nortede Dzilam Bravo increasingly laPeninsula away from the Yucatan. Meanwhile the National Weather Service (NWS), under the Commission unorganismo National Water (Conagua), inits of 19.00 (1.00 GMT Monday) elfenomeno detailing that moves with winds of 165 mph and up to 205 kilometers rachasde. Right now moves to 19 miles an hour at elnorte, heading for the coast of Louisiana (USA) by delGolfo Mexico. The prognosis of NMS is that the winds decay something lasproximas hours to 155 kilometers per hour and are accompanied Derache up to 195 miles. The hurricane, which has surprised caribenospracticamente Mexico and other countries at the end of the cyclone season, has not nor dejadovictimas considerable material damage, reported fuentesoficiales the state of Quintana Roo.

Peru alert outbreak of rabies caused by bats indigenous

The dead are native populations in the Morona district of San Juan, in the northern region of Loreto, and died at the time norecibir antidote for rabies, due to difficult access wing area, which is reached after 12 hours of river travel , detalloel daily Peru.21. Executive Director Disease Control and Prevention Regional Health dela de Loreto, Yuri Alegre, said more people quehabrian bat bites, but not pudoprecisar the number due to the remoteness of the community. For the bad weather that is affecting Iquitos pudimosviajar yet to the area to assist the population affected, but loharemos between Sunday and Monday nosh for an oil company offered support to the place, said Alegre.