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11/25/2011

Eating slowly to protect against obesity

A new study shows that eating lean more slowly than the owners of obesity, which indicates that the method of eating a role in determining thinner or fatter one.

The site said the U.S. health de News that the study by researchers at the University of Rhode Island, focused on the speed of eating quality, showed that the thin eat at a slower rate of overweight and obese, and that the amount of food they eat less, too.

And found that people who eat quickly ate about 88 grams of food per minute, and ate quickly eat a moderate 71 grams per minute, while dealing with people who eat slowly,56.5 grams per minute.

The researchers conducted a second study showed that men chew their food more quickly than women, Vinolun about 80 calories a minute while dealing with women of 56 thermal units per minute.

It was found that eating foods like white bread, pasta and potatoes is faster than eatinghealthy foods cooked whole beans useful for the body.

It is noteworthy that the results presented at a meeting of the Committee of obesity, which is held in Orlando, Florida.
 
 
Source: UPI

NATO strike kills six Afghan children




















An earlier attack of NATO on the north of Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

Condemned Afghan President Hamid Karzai, killing nine people - including six children - in a raid by NATO (NATO) on the Kandahar province, while NATO has denied the argument raised by the Taliban about how they will drop the helicopter in Kabul.
The Afghan president's office said in a statement that the NATO air strike in the Zahrzaa also resulted in the injury of two girls.
The governor of Kandahar province, said Niaz Mohammad NATO helicopters spotted five militants were planting bombs on the road, helicopter and killed two of them on the spot while two others fled to the village of Saasha.
Mohammad added that "the helicopters then bombed the location where they were hiding, killing six children were playing nearby."
In turn, stressed the NATO commander Gen. John Allen to protect Afghan civilians is central to the NATO mission in Afghanistan, referring to the start of the investigation into the incident to find out details of the incident.
In a separate incident, NATO announced that the helicopter has landed safely in the capital, Kabul, denying what the Taliban announced that they shot down the helicopter.
The Taliban issued a statement saying that its fighters shot down a helicopter belonging to NATO in Kabul, which killed 33 NATO soldiers.
The NATO spokesman said Christopher Dwight safety of all crew members, and stressed that "the preliminary report indicates that there was no enemy activity in the region.
The Taliban have killed at least seven of the private security agents in an ambush in western Farah state on Thursday.
The guards killed in an attack that targeted their patrol during the provision of logistical support for international forces.


 
Source: Agencies

Iraq war left one million widows




















Number of widows in Iraq has steadily increased after the U.S. invasion in 2003 (Jazeera)

According to a report of the New York Times that the number of widows in Iraq has risen to about one million because of the wars of Iraq, has seen a steady increase after the invasion led by the U.S. in 2003.
The newspaper said that widows are not a new problem in Iraq, in particular, that the war with Iran in the eighties of the last century has left tens of thousands of women widows.


Each disaster has left after the war more widows, including the 1991 war with the United States, and the failed uprising of Shiites that followed, as well as the repression against the Kurds, in the words of the newspaper.

And estimates that the Iraqi Ministry of Planning 9% of the women of Iraq, about 900 thousand of widows, while the Ministry of Women raised the estimate to about a million.

The report of the United Nations to reach a peak of sectarian violence in 2006 resulted in about 100 the widow of a day.

These estimates coincide with the report reveals a fall of between 130 thousand and 113 thousand in the recent war, according to the census in Iraq.

The report also includes thousands of troops killed 10 Iraqis at the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as well as an unprecedented number of officers and soldiers during the clash with the "rebels, as well as those who were killed in sectarian violence. 

Aid
Given the large number of widows, the Iraqi government does not provide only minimalassistance from not more than $ 80 per month for those who have become widows in the recent conflict.


According to Noria behind which became a widow four years ago, "We expected to receive more assistance from all parties, both from the Americans or the Iraqi government, but the truth is that no one cares about us."


The paper points out that the camp widows - which includes mobile homes near Baghdadand supervised by the government - a challenge socially difficult to resolve, particularly as the number of women than men in Iraq, which holds opportunities for marriage of widows.


And confirms it back, which says that a widow with a small number of children may findopportunity for marriage again, noting that the opportunity in front of a small because it hassix children.
 
Source: New York Times

Yemen after Saleh: the revolution will continue



















Abdo Ayesh - Sanaa
Analysts Yemeni that a new phase began in Yemen after the signature of President Ali Abdullah Saleh on the initiative, Gulf, and the most important goals of the revolution completed the departure of the benefit from the political scene, while stating that youth revolution, anger gave the president and his aides guarantees from prosecution, and stressed that the revolution will continue and hunt down the killers , and will spend in building a civil state, they said.
Yemeni street and saw a large and broad optimism in the wake of the president's signature initiative for the Gulf in November 23 in Riyadh this.
The activist said square change in Sana'a and Waleed Al-Amari for the island, "The revolution has to overthrow Saleh, and building a civil state of democracy, will not allow youth revolution remain corrupt in power or their participation in the new government, or the survival of those who participated planning and execution in the murder of youth revolution."
The Amari that the youth of the revolution would go sit in the courtyard of change, indeed, revolutionary and continues to drop and immunity guarantees granted by the Initiative for the Gulf and his aides and said, "I will not give up the blood of the martyrs and immunity to murderers, and will pursue them locally and internationally."
And on the position of Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi - who will take things the country in the next three months, and end with the holding new presidential elections - considered the Yemeni activist as "a partner to the Saleh regime to commit massacres against the demonstrators," and said that he had to determine its position on the crimes of murder against the man of the Revolution, and declare his readiness to judicial accountability and to make the killers to justice.
For his part, said political analyst Hussein Allswas of the island should be on young people in the arena of freedom and change, keep up with reality resulting from the signing of the initiative Gulf are to ensure the protection of their revolution and not subjected objectives of infanticide or absence, noting that this will only be achieved by starting in the order of the papers and unite and not allow the signing of the initiative and the resulting impact on the course of revolutionary action.
He pointed out that a large number of rebels do not believe in signing the initiative Gulf and the mechanism of the Executive its revolutionary victory, "Vanasr real for the rebels would be when achieved Gaetan, the first in the success of the restructuring of the military and security in the liberation army and the security of the grip forces Altorithih dominant and the second in the final out for his children and of power.
Since the agreement the transfer of power would go ahead - say Allswas - the "stream of hawks in Congress loyal to the children of the benefit will spare no effort in an attempt to disrupt the agreement and put obstacles in the way of its implementation, including that the devil always lies in the details will find hawks excuses many to disrupt the implementation process, such as form a coalition government and restructuring the military and the security preparation for the presidential elections, in order to obstruct any real progress in the implementation of the agreement. "
Remnants of the regimeThe head of the Center for Future Studies, Dr. Fares Saqqaf sees that the initiative Gulf taken out in favor of the predicament the sanctions that were Sttoulh of the UN Security Council, as directed by the Authority and made the most important objectives of the youth revolution of peaceful, the departure of the benefit, noting that the youth revolution continue to revolutionary action to accomplish the projection system remains valid and his children and relatives.
Said Saqqaf in an interview with the island that "a valid system has multiple endings, it ended legitimacy of committing a massacre dignity, March 18 / March, and appeared before the world system that kills people, and internally split his senior military commanders, ministers, MPs, officials and leaders of his ruling party."
He pointed out that the end of the second system was the breakthrough for the security infrastructure of its own, pointing out that what is revealed is the bombing of the presidential house in Sanaa, June 3rd and last attempt to assassinate the President with all senior state officials.
He Saqqaf to end the third for the signature on the initiative Gulf under which the transferred his powers to his deputy, bringing out of power and a former president, according to the criteria of legal and constitutional and international, the Constitution of Yemen does not have a honorary president, and America expressed their eagerness to work and partnership with the new leadership in Yemen .
In Saqqaf belief that "the end, the last expected his staff will be shifting from the remains of the system and of his sons and his brothers and his associates from their positions in the army and security, and believes that the benefit will not keep out the legitimacy of his children and his brothers and relatives, and would weaken their position.
He pointed out that the military commission that will consider the military leaders of the people of Saleh and his relatives would have no choice but moved about from their sites, especially as the operational mechanism of the initiative provides for the assumed government ministers the new persons who have committed violations against human rights, and these of course charged with the killing of demonstrators peacefully, with no room for them only safe exit, so as not prosecuted.
He expected to get Saqqaf large splits in the Republican Guard, led by Saleh's son, as well as in the framework of governmental and civil institutions and within the rest of the ruling Congress party, said that all the pillars of his rule would be deported and Satlachon as if nothing had happened.

Source: Al Jazeera

11/22/2011

Suspended the commander of U.S. aircraft in the toilet



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Suspended the commander of U.S. aircraft in the toilet his flight to New York to raise his absence the sudden panic of a possible terrorist threat.
According to CNN, the U.S. commander of the aircraft, which was on a flight from Asheville North Carolina, to LaGuardia Airport in New York, came to the toilet half an hour before landing and commented in it because of a faulty door latch hit, so he knocks on strongly to be saved.
She added that a passenger in the seat next to the toilet he heard the uproar, rushed to help open the door, but his attempt failed.
And asked him to notify the captain of the aircraft cockpit situation, but the co-pilot refused to open to him after that suspected foreign Blkinth and the sudden disappearance of the captain.
A spokesman for the airline, Peter Kulok, even after he explained that the passenger that the captain is stuck in the toilet and that sent him to the cockpit, the co-pilot holding his ground refusing him entry.
The pilot said Assistant to the control tower, the captain disappeared in the back and there is a person with a foreign accent, trying to enter the cockpit.
And the control tower asked the pilot of the declaration of a state of emergency and landing directly on the ground, but that the captain was able to get out in time after paying the door firmly, and assured everyone that the situation is under control.
It is noteworthy that the only trip the host was unable to provide assistance to the captain because of the entry into the cockpit after he left her, as it requires the presence of the security protocol in which two people for the duration of the trip.
The plane made an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport, carrying 14 passengers in addition to a crew of 3 persons including the pilot.

           
  


 
Source: UPI

Decline in cases of HIV infection



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Decreased infections of HIV, "AIDS" to the lowest level since monitoring of the disease, as confirmed by the United Nations.
According to the report of the United Nations program to combat AIDS, the number of new infections with the virus causing the disease in the world fell by a fifth (21%) in the period from 1997 to 2010 to 2.67 million cases per year.
According to the report, which was announced Monday in Berlin, about half of pregnant women infected with HIV Taatin drugs believed to prevent transmission to their children.
The number of HIV cases among children to 390 thousand cases compared to 550 thousand in 2001.
It is estimated that the United Nations the total number of people living with HIV in the world with 34 million cases, of whom 68% (22.9 million) live in sub-Saharan West Africa, although the number of inhabitants of this region does not exceed about 12% of the world's population.
 
The number of people living with HIV worldwide in 2001, nearly 28.6 million people.
The number of people living with AIDS in West and Central Europe by about 840 thousand cases in 2010, while the number of new HIV infections by about 30 thousand cases of infection annually, and the number of deaths from the virus towards the 9900 case.
Amounted to deaths from AIDS worldwide in the past year about 1.8 million cases.
The authors stressed that the report on the drugs used against AIDS have prevented the occurrence of some 700 other deaths.
And decreased deaths among children under the age of 15 years between 2005 and 2010 by 20%.


 
Source: German

Oliver Stone: America is not democracy.



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U.S. sees Oliver Stone film that the U.S. does not live in a democracy, even in the current era of President Barack Obama, denounced the chaos on Wall Street and the American tendency to war and the indifference of his countrymen about the rest of the world.
He said - in a press conference in Algeria - that Americans are angry anti-Wall Street to convey their protests to the community money in New York to Washington, where their influence will be greater.
Expressed Stone - hosted "Film Festival binding" in the Algerian capital - shocked "that the worship of money into the U.S.," in addition to the consequences of the crisis.
He directed the film "Wall Street" (1987) and "Wall Street Money Never Silz" (2010) that the middle class is the greatest victim of the Ozmaalrahna, but that something can not budge the American system, he said.
He condemned the director, "thirty years of lies" with the Vietnam War that inspired his film "Platoon" (1986), pointing out that Americans have lived with the idea that "communism would dominate the world," but it collapsed in 1989, stressing that his life was "ruined" when he participated in the war .
He later discovered that "The reality, particularly the U.S. military-industrial power," stressing that "the system will destroy the world."
In response to a question about U.S. support for Israel, Stone said, "We can not talk about that in the United States, because the money, the media and pressure groups have a strong lead in the absence of truth."
And governing director of 65 years to crush its citizens, saying that "Americans do not really care about the problems abroad and not to sympathize with the problems of others."
According to the press in his country have changed since the end of the Vietnam War, "and they have changed and are now corrupt but I am optimistic and convinced that things may change again."
Wings sixtieth now a documentary film of ten hours, entitled "The Ontold Story Of The U S" (the date the United States is spoken), which is expected for release in May / May next, as well as the film "Savidgiz" which tells the links young people from California with the drug cartel in Tijuana Mexican city located at the border with California.


 
Source: French

European-American agreement to monitor travelers




















America, the European Union negotiated two years ago on the exchange of airline passenger data (Reuters)
The European Union and the United States on a draft agreement on the transfer of air passenger data from EU member states to America.

A statement of the European Union that the agreement contains a clause stating that the data provided by European airlines to the United States will not only be used for a specific period and only in order to combat "terrorism" and cross-border crime.

The statement quoted by the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs as saying that the agreement provides strong protection of the private lives of European citizens and without abort with the effectiveness of the agreement in the field of security of the European Union and the United States.

And Cecilia Malmstrom said after a meeting in Washington yesterday, including the Ministers of Justice Eric Holder and U.S. Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and European Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding, that the Europeans and Americans have identified areas in which they can cooperate in particular the exchange of experiences.

She explained, "we have strengthened our cooperation in the field of Internet security and infrastructure protection and response to attacks on children on the Internet."

The meeting, which is held twice a year in the United States and Europe, on Internet crime and to address "terrorism" and border control.

And must be signed by the Parliament and European Council of Ministers of the agreement, which is the fruit of negotiations began in December / December 2010. And will replace the agreement signed in 2007 between the European Union and Washington, according to a statement by the European Union.
Source: French

11/19/2011

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi


Saif al-Islam has become required for international justice (Reuters)

Son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, known in the last decade to play important roles in public affairs Libyan internal and external, without the political office in the Libyan state.
 
Became in May / May 2011 required the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity before the rebels after being held February 17, 2011 August 21 / August of the same year.
Born and raised: Born Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in June 5th, 1972 at Camp Bab Azizia, where she lives a family of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the second son of Colonel Gaddafi from his second wife, a nurse Safia Farkash, and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, five brothers, including one sister.
Study and education: a lesson Saif al-Islam Tripoli schools, majoring in architecture and graduated in 1994 at the Faculty of Engineering, Tripoli, and then joined the Faculty of Economics at the University "Amadk" in Austria in 1998 and graduated in 2000. As he joined the Institute of Economics in Britain to obtain a doctorate degree.
 
Jobs and Almsoalaat: Saif al-Islam joined after graduating from the Industrial Research Center in Tripoli, in 1996, working in the office of consultant. Was awarded the rank of major in the Libyan army though he did not belong to the military establishment. He then became head of the Gaddafi Foundation for Development which was established in 1998.
 
Political experience: Saif al-Islam led the negotiations between Libya and foreign bodies, and was able to resolve many thorny issues. He spoke in the media more than once for political and economic reform in Libya, with an attempt not to deviate from the path charted by his father, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Has contributed to the settlement "a file to Lockerbie," which accused the Libya dropping aircraft, "Pan American" heading to New York over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21 / December 1988 and died on board's 259 people have died with them 11 people of the population of Lockerbie. Libya has paid under the settlement amount of $ 2.7 billion to the families of the victims of the accident.
 
It also had a role in solving the Libyan nuclear program that has been eliminated for lifting the embargo on Libya and US-Libyan relations would resume later in the June 28, 2004.
 
He played Saif al-Islam a central role in the settlement of a Bulgarian nurses who were released about them in July 2007 after he spent accompanied by a Palestinian doctor for almost 8 years in prison, and was a Libyan court has sentenced everyone to death in May / May 2004, convicted of the transfer of HIV to 438 Libyan children in Benghazi hospital, many of whom died.
He also participated on behalf of the Gaddafi Foundation charity in the summer of 2000 in negotiations with the Abu Sayyaf, the Philippine holding hostages Germans, and could save them money compared to an estimated $ 25 million.
 
Some of the spectra of the Libyan opposition abroad is Saif al-Islam will succeed his father, and she had seen in his approach, however moved away from his father's political system, an attempt to save Colonel Gaddafi and polish his image in the West, despite the harsh criticism of the Libyan regime's policy and journalism and management.
The revolution of 17 February: Saif al-Islam the second was considered a personal defense system in the days of the revolution, has appeared on television more than once Libya, where he defended his father and criticized the rebels, whom he described as "customers" and "traitors."
 
In mid-May / May 2011, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo's request to the International Tribunal to issue warrants for the arrest of Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam intelligence chief, Libyan Abdullah Sanusi, has issued the memorandum already in June 27, 2011 to become the sword of Islam is required to justiceInternational.
On 21 August / August 2011, announced the arrest of the Transitional National Assembly Saif al-Islam at the hands of the rebels who entered the capital, Tripoli, but it appeared after a few hours in Tripoli refuted news of his arrest.
On November 19, 2011, said Libyan officials including a file of justice in the Transitional National Assembly Allaqi arrest of Libyan Mohammad Saif al-Islam with his companions in a desert area near the city of Ubari, about 200 km from the city of Sabha.
Source: Al Jazeera

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