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The number of victims of the earthquake in Chile is growing

A powerful earthquake with magnitude 8.8 points in central Chile claimed the lives of at least 47 people, according to local media.

As the BBC , President Michelle Bachelet said that the big wave struck by one of the southern group of islands.

U.S. warned of the tsunami threat to the coasts of Chile, Peru and Ecuador. Later, there were warnings of Columbia, Antarctica, Central America and all the Pacific Islands. Australia also announced the threat of tsunamis. Airport of the capital of Chile Santiago is closed.

President urged citizens to remain calm and go to the authorities in case they need help. She said that a large wave struck the island group Haunia Fernandez and stopped halfway to the Territory. M. Bachelet warned that, if followed by more shocks, people in coastal areas should go up on the hill. She encouraged citizens not to travel to the affected areas due to the lowering of the bridges.

Chilean officials noted that the most affected city Parray, located close to the epicenter.

Costa Rica asked the ICJ to participate in the event Nicaragua-Colombia border

“After conducting a thorough review of the latest documentospresentados before the Court by the parties, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Colombia quetanto found in major and minor medidarespectivamente had made approaches to the Court queafectaran Rican rights and interests in the Caribbean Sea,” said a statement from the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry. Applications for participation was delivered today by elvicecanciller Edgar Ugalde, who met with Secretary of the Court, Philippe Couvreur.

On forms that are affected, Costa Rica explained that inthe case of Nicaragua, “found that within its claims inthe Caribbean Sea, submitted to the Court documents and maps in South sulimite significantly overlapping maritime areas queCosta Rica considers him entitled to as Territorial Sea and Exclusive ZonaEconomica.

“Those areas are several thousand overlapping kilometroscuadrados, including spaces that could contain recursosenergeticos and fisheries,” said Costa Rican Foreign Ministry. As for Colombia, Costa Rica said that “by setting a pretensionpara maritime boundary with Nicaragua,includes heading south unalinea potentially overlaps with areasmaritimas in Costa Rica considers have rights.

Moscow believes that the ratification of START again will be difficult in the U.S. and Russia

“We are counting issues that require definitive efforts to polish the text. In nine negotiating rounds have come a long way. For some time between Moscow and Washington had not so intense negotiations, and the result is very close,” said Deputy Russian Foreign Foreign Riabkov. Meanwhile, Riabkov expressed his displeasure over the fact that analysts and media to speak only of the possibility of ratifying the new treaty in the legislature of the U.S. and not in Russia”s parliament, controlled by the Kremlin party, United Russia. “For some reason, many are focused on the prospects for ratificationin the U.S. Senate, and forget or intentionally refrain from talking about that also in our Federal Assembly (legislature) is expected to process very seriously, “he said. According Riabkov” any such document is the result of specific commitments and balance of interests, so it would be naive to expect ratification to be easy. ” diplomats working with the International Affairs Committees of both houses of Russian parliament to” explain that the treaty is balanced and, in principle, deserves to be ratified, “he told Interfax news agency. ” We do not want us, the representatives of the executive, we do after accusations that the treaty does not meet Russian interests, and that the document stays in the air, “he said. Riabkov stressed that directs its warning to U.S.

Number of U.S. soldiers killed in the Afghan war reaches 1,000

The website icasualties.org, which tracks military deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq, said that 54 soldiers were killed in the war so far this year, against 316 last year, the worst since the invasion of Afghanistan led States in 2001. The U.S. military”s highest rank, Admiral Mike Mullen, warned of more casualties due to the offensive by US-led troops in Marjah, a Taliban stronghold, where foreign troops faced stiff resistance. “We must muster the courage for the hardest days to come, no matter how successful we are one day,” he told reporters on Monday. In the provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, where U.S., NATO and Afghan forces fighting Taliban-Marjah occurred in the highest number of U.S. casualties and coalition. U.S. Defense Department announced that the last citizen fallen in the war was conducted Gregory Stultz, 22, who died Feb. 19 in Helmand province. After the attacks of 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington, the U.S. led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban regime that harbored al Qaeda.

But the Taliban and insurgents associated regained strength since then and now challenge the authority of the Kabul government in the south and east.

President Barack Obama accused his predecessor, George W. Bush of neglecting the mission in Afghanistan and send 50,000 additional troops ordered since taking office a year ago. Because of doubts there from both sides of the Atlantic for the complicated current mission in Marjah, U.S. commanders and NATO officials said the offensive is an attempt to turn the tide of war and ensure that the Taliban return to power.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

(photo). Havana .- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, visited Cuba. (photos and audio). Port of Spain .- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, visitaTrinidad and Tobago. Port au Prince .- Judge investigating the alleged abduction de33 Haitian children will hear the statement by the two misionerasestadounidenses still detained. (photos and audio). La Paz .- The Armed Forces of Bolivia will today juezarchivos tax and the dictatorship of Luis Garcia Meza (1980-1981). Funchal (Portugal) .- Monitoring of floods in Madeira (photo, audio and video). Brussels .- Round of negotiations for a EU-Central America Association Agreement for . Geneva .- The Emergency Committee meets WHO paraanalizar the situation of influenza A. (photos and audio). Geneva .- The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) presented a report on the development of technologies for information /communication.

Afghan admitted recruited by Al Qaeda plans to fly NYC Subway

“I wanted to sacrifice myself to call attention to what America is doing against civilians in Afghanistan,” said Zazi, 25, to appear before a Brooklyn federal court. The Afghan immigrant pleaded guilty to three charges: conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder abroad and providing material support to al Qaeda militant network of Osama bin Laden.

Pasible life imprisonment, Zazi had initially pleaded innocent, but decided to admit the charges following an agreement with prosecutors that the accused, which implies that agreed to cooperate with the investigation.

After pleading “guilty of three charges read to Judge Raymond Dearie, Zazi recounted how in 2008 he had traveled to Pakistan to enlist with the Taliban and fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

But rather than join Taliban ranks, was recruited by Al Qaeda, the fundamentalist network which claimed the attacks of 11 September 2001 which caused around 3,000 deaths in the United States.

Zazi, who had lived in New York, returned to the U.S. in January 2009 and moved to Denver (Colorado, west) where he worked as a bus driver at the airport and began planning the attacks.

With instructions in hand he had received from al Qaeda during his training, Zazi bought chemicals, also used for cosmetics1000, and he drove to New York early last September.

The coup in Niger ensure a return to constitutional order and a new constitution

This was revealed members of the joint mission of the UN, the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) found this morning in the capital of Niger for talks with the coup leaders and ask them the country would return “as quickly as possible the democratic path.” The team is composed of Algerian Said Djinnit, representative of U1000N Secretary General in West Africa, his compatriot Ramtane Lamamra, Commissioner peace and security of the AU and President of the Commission of ECOWAS, Mohamed Ibn Chambas Ghanaian. “The mission has been to have a first contact and meet with the Board their intentions. We have expressed our desire to see Niger quickly restore democracy and they have indicated their willingness to do so, “Lamamra told reporters after a meeting with officers posing as coup leaders of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy (CSRD). He added that the perpetrators of the coup that overthrew President Mamadou Tandja pledged to create an advisory council and a national unity government to manage the period transient. “We have provided the necessary guarantees on the return to constitutional order and on the development of a new constitution. We will create conditions to accompany this process, so that Niger speedy return to democracy, “he said, for his part, Ibn Chambas. He explained that the three members of the mission discussed with the means to coup that” the country recover, in the shortest time possible, a standard constitutional means. ” According to Chambas,” have assured us that all this will be done with the participation of civil society and political parties.

Iran rejects report on the alleged manufacture of atomic bombs

“I”ve said many times that when we had none showed those documents confidential or secret stamps,” the Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh. “It was shown that all the documents were fabricated and that are unfounded and therefore have no validity,” he said. The IAEA stated in a leaked report on Thursday, Iran may be producing an atomic bomb. The uranium enrichment activity “raises concerns about the potential existence of secret activities of Iran”s past or present, relating to the development of a nuclear charge for a missile,” the flamboyant director of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, in his first report the Board of Governors. The IAEA had been limited until now to mention Iran”s past activities. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supreme guide of the Islamic republic and commander in chief of the armed forces, also came out to deny suspicions about his country”s nuclear program. “We do not in any way in the atomic weapon and we are not trying to get it,” Khamenei said to assist in southern Iran to the launching of the first destroyer of domestic manufacture. The IAEA several years is to verify the nature of Iran”s nuclear activities. In late 2007, a report by U.S. intelligence services had hinted that Iran may have left in 2003 a secret program to make nuclear weapons.

MS recommends seasonal influenza vaccine containing H1N1 –

GENEVA (Reuters) – The vaccine this year for seasonal influenza in the northern hemisphere should include protection against three strains, including H1N1 pandemic virus, recommended Thursday the World Health Organization (WHO). The composition was announced after a four-hour meeting of experts, means that the H1N1 flu vaccine for possessing the drug could be used as part of a combination vaccine for seasonal influenza in the autumn /winter 2010/2011, said the WHO expert Keiji Fukuda. Some countries, including Germany, France and the United States cut its orders from the H1N1 strain vaccine after few people were willing to receive it. The fact that people need only one dose, not two, also contributed to sobreabastacimiento. “The inclusion of the H1N1 pandemic virus in the influenza vaccine is not a sign that the pandemic has ended, “Fukuda told reporters. “This virus is expected to be a significant threat as we enter the fall and winter period,” he said. Young people, especially with chronic medical conditions and pregnant women will remain under a high risk of infection and viral pneumonia from influenza H1N1, said. The committee of experts in influenza WHO will meet on February 23 to assess whether the world is coming of the pandemic, but it is expected that the H1N1 virus remains a dominant strain anyway circulate globally, he said. “The post-peak period means that we will continue in a pandemic “said Fukuda, but it also means that the spread of the virus is declining and that infection rates are approaching normal.

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