Shows the death of Cuban In prison

Raul Castro (left) has issued an amnesty for 3,000 prisoners last month (French - Archive)

Announced opposition to the Cuban Elizardo Sanchez political prisoner Wilmar Villar, 31, died Thursday at a hospital east of Santiago, Cuba, after 50 days of hunger strike.
Said Sanchez, who heads the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, a committee is not legally recognized, but the authorities are not exposed to it, the Wilmar Villar declined to eat in protest against the sentence to a term of four years issued against him the Court of Cuban November 24 last year.
He added that Villar's health gradually deteriorated and died on Thursday at 18:45 local time (23:45 GMT).
He pointed out that Villar was for several days in case of danger, Department of Intensive Care in the Hospital of Santiago, Cuba, 900 km southeast of Havana.
Sanchez said that the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and National Reconciliation "is that the moral and political responsibility and jurisdiction for the death of Villar borne by the Cuban government," adding that "his death could have been avoided."
In December / December, Cuban President Raul Castro amnesty included about 3,000 inmates in prisons in the largest mass release in the history of the Cuban regime.
According to Sanchez estimated the number of detainees in Cuba between 70 thousand and 80 thousand, pointing out that the amnesty covered about 4% of the detainees, said that most of the released detainees small misdemeanors.

Source: French

230 injured in Iran earthquake

Of the former city of Bam earthquake that killed thousands (French - Archive)

Rose to about 230 people, the number of wounded earthquake shook the province of Razavi Khorasan northeastern Iran, without yet received any reports of fatalities.

The Iranian media sources quoted official sources as saying that an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck on Friday, a number of villages near the city of Nishapur in the province of Khorasan.

Announced the Iranian state television that the number of injured quake rose to 230 after it was responsible for crisis management in the region argument to Chinvar occur earlier in the injury of one hundred people in the earthquake, which lasted seven seconds, pointing out that it was to be rescued 83 people from minor injuries, and transfer to the rest hospitals denying the occurrence of any casualties in the incident.


Local reports said the quake did not cause any serious damage to cause only a few minor cracks in the walls and smashed the glass in some villages, sparking panic among the population in the extreme.

And other local sources to 36 aftershocks followed the quake, the first is the strongest in the history of the region ten years ago.

According to the news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, earthquake occurred at dawn and was centered at a distance of ten kilometers outside the city of Nishapur, about seventy kilometers from the city of Mashhad.
Iran lies on a large seismic ruptures, and saw a large number of destructive earthquakes were most violent earthquake in Bam, southern Iran, which took place in December / December of 2003, which killed 31 thousand people.


Source: Agencies

Putin promotes provided by opinion polls

Continues to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin - who faces a protest movement unprecedented in the country - to offer the intentions of the vote, which showed, according to a poll published on Friday that he will win the presidential election scheduled for the fourth of March / March of the first session by obtaining 52% of the vote.

During a previous survey conducted by the Institute "Vtseyoum" and published last Friday, Putin won 48% of voting intentions.

The last poll was conducted for the Institute in January 14 on a representative sample of 1,600 people, showed that Putin will advance to the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov 11%, and ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky 9% in the case of elections were held Sunday.

For his part, won the billionaire Mikhail Brocuruv 2% of the vote drop points compared with the previous poll.

According to another poll conducted by the Institute for Public Opinion on a representative sample of three thousand people between 14 and January 15, will not get Putin, only 45% of the vote, and will have to fight a second round for the first time since coming to power.

Putin was elected president of the first session in 2000, winning 52.94% of the vote and was re-elected in 2004 increased by 71.2%.

The system is experiencing Putin candidate for a third term in the Kremlin - after two terms in 2000 and 2008 - the movement of protest and a wide fired after the legislative elections held on 4 December / December and won by the ruling party "United Russia", where considered observers and the opposition that it was marred by fraud.

On 10 December / December opposition collected tens of thousands of people, in mobilizing unprecedented in Russia a decade ago, and then on December 24 / December rally between 70 and 100 thousand people in Moscow to demand the abolition of the results of legislative elections, Prussia "without Putin".

It is expected to organize a demonstration of the new major opposition in the February 4 in the Russian capital.

 Source: French

Statins for the treatment of breast cancer soon

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Scientists have discovered evidence that women with breast cancer and have a certain genetic mutation can benefit from statin therapy that lowers levels of cholesterol in the blood.
Although scientists confirm that the search is still in very early stage to provide definitive conclusions, they said that it holds much significance.
The research focuses on a gene called "my 53" which usually stops cancer cells. However, often turn a gene which gives the wrong functions enhance the new cancer, which leads to the growth of irregular and aggressive cells.
According to the authors of the study, more than half of all human cancers carry mutations of the p53 gene.
The study showed laboratory at Columbia University that the U.S. treatment of breast cells that carry mutant p53 genes statin drugs decreased aggressive growth and in some cases disappear to the cells. In this reference to the possibility of identifying subsets of patients who have tumors that can respond to statin drugs.
It is worth mentioning that the separate studies have indicated that statins can help in the fight against cancer, the study published last year in the journal Cancer that men who take statins may be less likely by 30% because up to them after prostate cancer surgery.
And another report showed a decline of 12% in the development of colon cancer in those who were taking statins for at least five years.
But these studies were observational, meaning they can not prove causality. It is also not looking at the probable cause of the decline in cancer is clear.

Source: The Daily Telegraph

4 killed French soldiers in Afghanistan

Picture of archival combines French soldiers and Afghans joint patrol in a village in eastern Afghanistan (French)
Four French soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan by an Afghan soldier, and after one day of the killing of six soldiers from the NATO (NATO) in a helicopter crash south of the country.
 The security official said in Afghanistan that the Afghan soldier opened fire his weapon at a group of French soldiers in the north east of the country on Friday, killing four and injuring 16 others.
 The official - who requested anonymity - said that a soldier in the Afghan National Army carried out the attack at the base of joint military forces, including Afghan and international troops to help stabilize the security and stability in Afghanistan (ISAF) led by NATO.
 Kapisa provinceHe added that the incident occurred in an area Tagab state of Kapisa, where are stationed the bulk of the French forces, pointing out that the arrest of the bomber, Abdul Sabour.
 For his part, said a spokesman for ISAF forces killed four soldiers but did not specify their nationality, saying only that international forces have arrested the bomber a soldier in the Afghan National Army, note that other media sources indicated that the operation was by a gunman wearing army uniforms.
 This brings the number of French soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to more than 80.
 Plane crashThe incident comes after only one day of the killing of six soldiers of the ISAF forces in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan.
 The spokesman for ISAF and the accident on Thursday night, but refused to disclose the nationalities of the dead or the area where the plane crashed, while the confirmed media reports that they are American soldiers of the U.S. Marine Corps (Marines).
 The spokesman added that it "is not monitoring any armed activity in the area at the time the crash," asserting that the relevant authorities opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident.


Source: Agencies

Saudi Arabia, UAE deny exposure to piracy

Denied Markets in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, reported the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz that Israeli hackers disrupted for some time, websites of the two bourses.The Saudi Capital Market Authority (trading) in a statement today on the market, it emphasizes the All-dealers not to be true, and that all systems continue to function normally, and indicated that they applied many of the procedures and systems developed to protect the security and continuity of operations to ensure the safety and regularity of alltheir work.The newspaper Haaretz reported that the hackers group calling itself the "Group of the IDF, I managed to Shell site circulation, and cause significant delays to the work site (ADEX).The newspaper quoted one of these pirates as saying that the attacks came in response to a series of Internet-based attacks waged by Arab pirates on the credit card companies, banks and government sites to Israel recently.The pirates have threatened to disrupt the Israelis of these sites at a later stage for up to two weeks or a month.The director of Al Jazeera's bureau in Ramallah, Walid al-Omari The identity of the pirates Israelis are not known, but their mission is to work to fend off pirate attacks.He added that he did not issue any official statement from the Israeli side on the subject, although the authorities had confirmed earlier that they will address these attacks, and it came short of threatening to carry out the liquidation of the penetrations.The Director of the Office of the island that the comments published in Israeli newspapers and sites considered it in response to the Arab pirates, and described as some of them came to teach the Arabs and familiarize them with the capabilities Zionist Jewish mind.Arab attackThe group - has announced it is working from Saudi Arabia - have embraced the attacks on Israeli positions, she supported the Palestinian cause and put all their knowledge and capabilities and expertise in e-service, in the words of the Israeli authorities, as well as groups of Arab and other Palestinian.And returned the same group to adopt a new offensive aimed at my stock market and the El Al airline, already received the stock market calls from customers inquiring about the reason for the slow clear in the performance of the site, while the company said it has taken the maximum safety procedures, and other than slow the attack did not disrupt the site.The same thing applies to the airline, El Al, which rushed to save what can be saved so that their activities are not affected by the attack.Arabs and pirates put messages on sites threatened to target Israeli websites one by one, "as long as the occupation continues in the digestion of Palestinian rights and aspirations of the future" and stressed that the war will continue to e-Israeli front, as in the other.PraiseFor its part, praised the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the words of its spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, the successes of the "hackers" Arab prejudice in many of the interests of the Israeli occupation, and considered these successes, "a new arena from the yards of the resistance against the Israeli crimes" and called on all Arab youth tocontribute to this electronic warfare against Israeli crimes.The Kuwaiti Islamic scholar Dr. Tariq Suwaidan, has called for pooling the efforts of Arab pirates in the project "e-jihad" against Israel.The invitation is the first Suwaidan by renowned scholars of religion since the crisis began, a hacker penetrated the Saudi and Israeli credit card two weeks ago.

Source: Al-Jazeera

Accused NATO of committing war crimes in Libya

Select the NATO civilian sites as military targets


The Independent published a new report the content of a number of organizations of civil society after the mission in Libya provides a basis for charges of war crimes by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during his mission there.According to the report published by human rights groups that the Middle East there is evidence that war crimes and human rights violations committed by all parties, NATO and the rebels and forces loyal to Gaddafi in the Libyan uprising last year.Published report Thursday on the Arab Organization for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the International Legal Alliance support.And includes the results of an intensive effort to fact-finding mission to Libya carried out by experts of law and crime, although the report confirms that the results are not final, but it adds to concerns about abuses by all sides in the conflict.According to eyewitness accounts and field visits to the sites targeted by NATO bombing report says the task of civil society during the operations that NATO considered some of the sites of civil military targets.The UN Security Council, the UN identified the NATO mission in Libya to protect civilians from attacks by the Gaddafi regime during the uprising against his rule last year.According to the Independent famous incident took place in Sirte, as narrated by eyewitnesses that the civilians had gathered around the place by a missile, killing another bombing killed 47 civilians and then in September.The Independent commented that both these events to reach the level of war crimes or not, detected more than embarrassment of NATO, which was confirmed that the aim of his mission is to protect civilians from murder.The International Criminal Court said on the tongue of the chief prosecutor last November that he will investigate the practices of NATO forces along with the rebels and forces loyal to the system to make sure not to violate the laws of war.Independent and re-reference to the rejection of the UN secretary general last year that have exceeded the limits of NATO's mission in Libya.The report quotes as well as abuses by the former opposition forces allied with the Transitional National Assembly, including the evidence of murder, torture and arrest of those who were loyal to the former regime.The paper quotes the report the incident forced displacement of the suspect in that they are "enemies of the revolution," particularly in the town of Toariqh near Sirte, which it reports that it has become the "City of Habah" after the expulsion of about 30 thousand of the population from their homes in what looked a process of collective punishment carried out by militants opposed to Gaddafi."Inventing the AIDS"The Daily Telegraph published a report on what it describes as a scratch from the new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.The paper says that after his claim that the attacks of September 11 in America was planned locally and saying Israel must be wiped off, claiming the Iranian president said Western countries invented the AIDS virus to weaken the third world and open new markets for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products.According to the report, Ahmadinejad said that African countries were told falsely that the source of the epidemic is immoral practices but did not prove that those acts were committed in areas where the epidemic appeared.The report cites Iran's president as saying: "It is clear that he went to plunder the wealth and resources of African countries, the Great Powers behind the development of these diseases so that you can from the sale of medicines produced by poor countries."And transmits the report of the telegraph from the Iranian Health Minister Fatima and only saying that the profit margin from Iran, oil production does not exceed 5 percent of the selling price while the profit margin of pharmaceutical companies of the sale price of any drug in the range of 20 percent.Currency swapThe Financial Times published a report to the correspondent of Abu Dhabi for a currency swap agreement between China and the UAE with more than $ 5.5 billion in the framework of strengthening economic relations between the two countries.The agreement was signed during the visit of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf tour includes three countries.The agreement provides for the possibility of central banks to withdraw the value of barter trade transactions between the renminbi and the dirham.And China held a national currency swap agreements with 10 other countries in an attempt to reduce reliance on the dollar in foreign trade exchanges.And that these agreements were intended to rule out that the liquidity obstacle stands in front of commercial exchanges between China and the countries that held currency swap agreements with them.The Financial Times report says that Gul Wayne is not only aimed at strengthening economic and trade relations, but also target the energy sector in the GCC.Perhaps the Beijing eye on oil concessions, which will be awarded by Emirates in 2014 when the term of the current privileges.Analysts polled by Asahev opinions that companies in Asia, particularly China, will be a strong contender for the Western companies that have oil concessions, such as the UAE is currently Dech Royal Shell, Exxon Mobi and BP and Total.
Source: BBC Arabic

50 million Americans suffered from mental illnesses

Revealed a government report released today that the U.S. every five American adults, or about 50 million suffered from mental illnesses in the past year, and it was for women and young people a large share in this suffering.A study conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration and mental health services that 5% of American adults or 11.4 million people suffered a mental illness serious interference in their lives dramatically in the last year.The study showed that women are more likely than men to mental disease by between 23% and 16.8%.While the incidence of mental illness among young people aged between 18 and 25 years who twice aged 50 years and older.Suicide and depressionThe report said that about 8.7 million Americans think very seriously about suicide in the same period and a 2.5 million plans to commit suicide with 1.1 million people tried to commit suicide.The Americans who suffer from mental illness are more prone to drug abuse or addiction of healthy adults by three to one.And exposure of persons between the ages of 12 and 17 years (8%) of any of the 1.9 million adolescent acute bout of depression known exposure of the person of the state of depression or loss of interest for a period of at least two weeks.The rate of use of those who suffered from depression of narcotic drugs double their peers who were not exposed to depression.The study included 67,500 people aged 12 years or more in all parts of the United States.

Source: Al-Jazeera

Sale of souvenirs crimes ... Sector is witnessing widespread in the United States

Memorabilia of crimes market is rapidly expanding in the United States, and many products of this type for sale on the Internet, such as a calculator of the student killer at Virginia Tech and a lock of hair killer Charles Manson and the killers left messages Mtzlslon.And share the six sites around the sector Vtabie so-called "Mrdrabilaa" or mementos of crimes and court documents and photos signed by the prisoner to the pipe and the forensic report.And on the "Sobernot. Com", for example, can we buy compared to $ 3,700 calculator sold "serial killer Xu Song - Hoy on the + eBay + to buy weapons and ammunition" Astamlhaahab, 23 years later to kill 32 people on the campus of the University of Virginia Tech ( Virginia, eastern United States) in 2007.The site for sale for $ 8500 X-ray image of the spinal marrow, Charles Manson, "obtained from a relative who took her from working in a prison," where there's one of the most famous criminals in the world. Vcharles Manson committed many crimes, the most brutal murder in 1969 that killed Sharon Tate wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski while she was in the 26 years of age and pregnant in the eighth month and a half.Eric and confirms again the site, "Keller Megaupload Sync. Net" that "private goods Pmanson are still required to a large extent." He says again, which also sells letters and photographs signed by the offender himself, "It is an evil of the twentieth century and all of the loves collecting memorabilia have a purpose and one of its purposes at least."The site contains auctions "Mrdr Auctions dot com" turn commodities back to the date of the crimes the U.S., such as a message from the leader of the Mafia Al Kabonah (shown for 8 thousand dollars) and images of bandits in the American West (ten dollars) and packets of dirt were used to bury the victims.Says Eric, who again sold more than 500 pieces in three years thanks to the publicity indirect Omentha the American press has Pttrgaha to these sites that "the market is expanding significantly."He adds that "death and impress everyone as long as people wanted to own purposes related crimes", referring to the Roman soldiers who took the pieces of the Cross of Christ and to the collectors of Nazi insignia.It is noteworthy that the U.S. government itself was sold in 2011 and for personal purposes, victims of Theodore Kaczynski, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998 for killing three people and injuring 29 others through a booby-trapped parcels.He says again he was able to collect all these purposes because it is "personally known to most serial killers." He adds, "Most of our goods we get from the prisoners themselves," asserting that they do not receive any compensation for it.And add William Harder, who runs the site "Mrdr Auctions" that the purposes comes from the "shops or museums, prison guards and detainees who are stealing sometimes, but often come from the prisoners themselves." The customers are from all categories ..Lawyers, policemen and workers ...But this trade is disgusting to the families of the victims. Pam Hobbs says that conducted a television interview after the sale of photographs of the bodies of three boys in the age of eight, including her son "any patient seeking to profit through the sale of pictures of my son's body?".It is noteworthy that eight U.S. states out of 50 prohibit this type of trade. Have launched campaigns to prevent this "terrible trade," according to Senator John Cornyn of Texas.The Harder said, "United States country of entrepreneurs," says Eric again, "to feel resentful refrain from visiting the site."

Source: French

Thai Customs seized the skulls of tigers in the mail

Thai Customs announced Friday that it seized in the mail in Bangkok four boxes containingthe bones and skins of tigers, worth thousands of dollars.
The Director-General of the Royal Thai Customs that the destination of tigers, which cameprobably from Indonesia, China, where they may be used to decorate the procedure.
He explained, "we have seized four boxes each of which contained a tiger skin and bonesand a skull. The weight of each box at least five kilograms."
Organization estimated "Freeland" on combating trafficking in animals the entire value of the shipment sixty thousand dollars and said that the Tigers are an endangered species.
Thailand is of the thirteen countries that are still wild tigers live. The number of tigers in the world compared to 3200 tiger hundred thousand a century ago today.

Source: French

Found on the top and near the panel condemns "Hollywood" famous

Said police found the head and hands are in the path leading to the drawing board "Hollywood" famous incident at the top of a hill overlooking the famous district of the same name in Los Angeles.
Detectives are trying to find out the identity of the head, found by two women were accompanied by  in place. The victim is an American of Armenian origin in the fourth decade of life.
The assistant coroner Ed Winter said the victim's identity may be determined through the teeth or fingerprints of the hands that were found near the head, investigators Wednesday.
Police said the victim may have been killed elsewhere and quoted parts of his body to the path leading to the famous painting that captures pictures of her millions of tourists annually.
She explained that these body parts appear to be cut off "recently."

Source: Frederick Brown | French