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Norwegian police identified Behring Anders Breivik, 32 years old, as the perpetrator of a shootout on the island Utoya that killed 84 people and wounded dozens. The killer fired at close range in a summer camp of the Labour Party, where hundreds of young people were focused and waiting for the participation of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg for this Saturday.

Over the hours, the police confirmed only on the island of Utoya were reported killed 84 people. Meanwhile, in Oslo, Norway’s capital, after a bombing there were seven deaths.

The death toll in Norway on Friday as a result of both attacks sum so far 91 dead and 15 wounded, two of them are in poor health.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called this Saturday’s “national tragedy” double attack.

“Our country has never been affected by a crime of this magnitude since the Second World War,” Stoltenberg said during a news conference.

“It’s a nightmare,” he added, referring “to fear, blood and death” faced by young people attending university summer youth work when a man dressed as police opened fire on the island Utoya near Oslo.

Norwegian Prime Minister said he can not say if it was one person or more who have carried out the attacks and that until the investigation does not clarify better not going to give a final hypothesis. Read the rest of this entry »

The Security Council of United Nations expressed his concern in the sense that climate change may aggravate the threats to peace and security. The statement came after what diplomats described as intense negotiations between Germany and Russia, which initially opposed any action by the Council.

Germany, which holds the Council presidency this month and launched the debate that took all day, pressed by the statement that links the first time in the history of the Council on climate change to peace and world security. Diplomats said that after Russia blocked a consensus on the declaration proposed by Germany on Wednesday, Germany began high-level contacts with Moscow that produced agreement on a weaker version.

The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because the negotiations were private. The change came after a day of speeches by representatives from over 60 countries, including small islands like Nauru in the Pacific, whose existence is threatened by the rising the ocean, which scientists attribute to climate change.

United States had described unsuccessful attempts to reach a consensus in the morning as “pathetic” and “shortsighted.” “The Security Council expresses its concern that may arise possible security implications for the loss of territory of some states caused by rising sea level, particularly in some small island at sea level, “said the statement adopted by the afternoon. “I would like to thank all the board members for the cooperation and flexibility shown in the intensive negotiations during the last days, “said German Ambassador Peter Wittig. “This was a result of our discussion is good news.”

A video which shows what appears to be an unidentified flying object (UFO) spread throughout the video site YouTube, is causing a stir among netizens from all over the world and adds thousands of hits.

The images in which depicts the alleged UFO was taken at Cape Good Hope, South Africa and if you want to see for yourself just have to put the coordinates in Google Earth: 34 ° 21’12 .34 “S 18 ° 29’24 .01″ E. You must also check the boxes ‘Pictures’ and ’360 ° Cities.

The last phase of the restoration of the Basilica of the Virgin began yesterday with the installation of scaffolding on the façade of the Cathedral, once the party’s oldest city: Corpus Christi. Now the canopy of the 60 covering the square’s days are numbered as his replacement is expected in the last works of the building. Sources with the archbishop, the repositioning of the sheet (funded by the council) will take place this July, alongside the works of cleaning and repainting of the main façade and the restoration of the roof overlooking the square.

In addition, together the beginning of the last phase of restoration work also concluded the so-called Mariano Museum in honor of the Mare de Deu dels Desemparats. And the outbuildings of the Basilica of the Virgin penitential contain the new chapel, the Museum of the Mother of God and other agencies serving the church, announced the rector of the Basilica, Juan Bautista Anton. The restoration of the new facility, covering over 1,000 square meters, was launched in early 2010 and has strengthened structure and foundations of the Basilica and the replacement of the damaged beams.

The museum, which opens next week and will open a second phase early next year, will occupy the top floor of the Basilica and collect the assets, works of art are preserved around the patron as well as “objects and documents of interest about the history of the image of the Basilica and its archicofradía, “according to the sources added.

In the annexe on the north side of the Basilica, has enabled a new chapel penitential three confessionals and various lounges. In addition, its three floors and ground floor, the building will house a room for the dressing of the children of the Choir of the Virgin, and another unit to keep the pilgrim statue of Mare de Deu dels Desemparats, which will be prepared and dressed for her maid.

temple works have involved the repair of 4,000 tiles and are being funded by the Foundation for the Restoration of the Basilica. Now begins the final phase of restoration.

International News

Kabul, June 27. At least 32 Taliban and three soldiers have died in three weeks in allied military operations in Badghis province (northwest Afghanistan), which is deployed part of the Spanish contingent, Efe reported a official source.

The operations have taken place in the last three weeks Jairjan area, located in the district of Qadis, by troops of the Afghan army and international Efe said the deputy head of police in Badghis, Abdul Ghani Saber.
According to Saber, did not practice the joint forces arrested during the fighting, in which at least twenty insurgents were wounded.

In recent weeks news has transcended several skirmishes between security forces and the Taliban in Badghis, a balance particularly painful for the Spanish troops in the area.

This Sunday, two Spanish soldiers died and three others were wounded by a device when the vehicle they were traveling in armored in Afghan district Qala-i-Naw, which are based the troops.

And the past 18 days, a roadside bomb wounding four soldiers and a civilian interpreter, also blew up their armored near the town of Ludina.

The operations of the last three weeks have taken place in the southern part of Badghis, a region with about 500,000 inhabitants and wide as the Spanish province of Cáceres.

There are currently deployed to Afghanistan about 1,500 Spanish soldiers, while Spain, like other members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) of NATO, is planning to start his retirement in the first half of 2012 and complete it in 2014.

A suicide bomber attacked the mosque of Indonesia during the prayers of Friday. He shouted aloud God is great and wounded 26 people after detonating the device.

The bombing took place in the town of west Java and officers were the victims. The spokeswoman of the hospital, Yeni Rahmawati said the victims were rushed to the hospitals nearby with wounds on legs, arms and torsos.

Since the year 2002, Indonesia is under attack by the suicide bombings from al Qaida and the group has targeted its nightclubs, restaurants and hotels. It is a secular nation with 237 million people and has more Muslims than any other nation.

The 260 people killed in these attacks are foreign tourists. The militants say the security forces and the national moderate leaders will be their next target as they want to make the nation an Islamic state.

The police chief of west java, Suparino Parto said the attack was done by suicide bomber and his mangled corpse was found on the spot. He wore a suicide vest under the black Islamic robes.

A 5000 years old mummy has been unearthed by archaeologist near Prague in Czech Republic. According to archaeologists, it is the remains of a Stone Age gay man who was buried like a woman around 5000 years ago.

The skeleton was surrounded by domestic jugs and pointing eastwards. This type of practice was specific to female graves that time. Moreover no weapons have been found with the skeleton.

It has made archaeologists believe that the man was of a different sexual persuasion.

In Stone Age period, men used to be buried lying on their right side with head facing the west while women used to be buried on their left side with head pointing towards the east.

Researchers said that the excavated mummy indicates a tinge of women-like burial because it has been found lying on left side.

The two days of talks with the United States, France, Germany, China, Russia and the United Kingdom on Saturday ended without progress, and the group’s representative, Catherine Ashton, said no further discussions were planned.

“If the other party is determined and committed to the law, respect and justice, there is hope that future sessions will achieve good results,” said Ahmadinejad in a televised speech to a crowd in the city of Rasht.

The Iranian president spoke as if there was no doubt there will be more negotiations.

“In the next meetings will be good deals, as long as both parties remain committed to the spirit of the talks,” he said in the speech, given during one of his frequent trips to the provinces.

Ahmadinejad blamed Israel and its Western allies of the lack of progress.

“Zionists and some uneducated people in the U.S. and Europe hope that these issues remain unresolved,” he said.

The Istanbul meeting was intended to address the deadlock in the dispute with Tehran, it is enriching uranium between Western suspicions that it seeks to develop a nuclear weapon.

Iran says its aims are peaceful and has ignored Security Council resolutions that the UN demand to suspend enrichment, a process that creates fuel for nuclear power plants or, if refined to high level, essential material for the manufacture of a nuclear weapon. Read the rest of this entry »

Egypt has disappeared from the internet map. For several hours and almost all of the country (88%) is disconnected from the network. Mobile does not work much of its territory. According to an article Arabist, disconnection, the first large-scale case of a country, took place just after publication of a video of the killing of a demonstrator.

Egypt has disappeared from the internet map. For several hours and almost all the country (88%) is disconnected from the network. Also the mobile phone does not work either in Cairo or other cities. Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. media company American Express payment of $ 4.057 million won (3.35 dollars per share) in 2010, which is almost twice the cumulative profit of 2,130 million in 2009.

After the close of the New York Stock Exchange, the company reported today that only in the fourth quarter of 2010 was able to increase its net profit by 48% over the same period last year to reach $ 1,062 million (88 cents per share .) Read the rest of this entry »