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9/22/2011

Older Arab taxi driver retire







Aisha Yousef Ibrahim spend the oldest taxi driver (taxi) in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf-old bedridden the rest of the city of Aden in southern Yemen after a heavier burden spent nearly eight decades, including nearly half a century behind the wheel of the car.
Aisha Ibrahim and laments (73 years) on a long history epitomized certificates and photographs during their taxi driver since the mid-fifties in Aden, where she was still a British colony.
According to the certificates obtained from the British Governor of Aden to the ancient families and institutions, all of which were damaged by heavy rains swept through Aden in 1993 and included her room adjacent to the adjacent slope of hill.
Aisha Ibrahim and live in the neighborhood of the herd suburb of the town of Crater (freed the town of Aden) and a single shared her room a small radio, is part of her daily life.
And lives in a modest house in the neighborhood inhabited by poverty which is a one room like Bsardab does not exceed an area of ​​eight square meters.
The Traffic Department has honored Aden in 2006 and granted a certificate of appreciation as the oldest taxi driver on the island and the Gulf.
The existence of the island that what Aargaha after it became unable to move a young unknown years before stealing her car from the type of "Opel" in front of her home and selling their parts to scrap metal dealers.
She talks about her experience with pride and nostalgia to the past by saying "I worked a taxi driver since the mid-fifties did not happen during my tenure, which lasted nearly 45 years it had committed any violation or traffic accident."

Existence and descend from the town of Shahr in Hadramout are born to parents whohold the nationality of Somalia, has been moved to the province of Aden with her sisterafter her parents died.

Although he never married as well as the ordinary woman has not received their share ofeducation, where children of the neighborhood described as emerging from the womb of suffering when her parents died, the boys still do not exceed the age of fifteen.

Eisha career began earning a living in a small wooden booth in a popular neighborhoods Pkritr sells cigarettes and some ice cream before donating one of its neighbors, teaching her driving career.

At the age of eighteen years has been able to collect car for work and started a taxidriver offers delivery services to some families in Aden.

Respect
It describes an existence test with the car saying "I was the maintenance of the car itselfhas never been harassed or denied by one and you I have the respect and encourageby all."

In spite of what ties the movement of her body the day of the diseases of agingolder women do not show signs of weakness for the visitors, they are - as described by one ofits neighbors - "the intensity is inherent throughout the journey of life."


Said Mohamed Saleh Mohamed, who volunteered with his family to work on thesponsorship "does not know the existence of a taxi driver in Aden? Was very womandoes not dare to intercept a way."

Although it allows for women in Yemen, Yemeni, led by private car and giving themdriver's licenses without any obstacles, the existence of Abraham is the first among theleading Yemeni taxi.

Statistics
The statistics over the past years and until October / November 2008 stated that in 1935a Yemeni woman who received a license to cars tutor them in 1196 in the capital, and 184 licenses in the governorate of Sana'a, and 141 licenses in the governorate of Aden,and 182 in the governorate of Taiz.

According to the director of the passage of Aden Adel Youssef has been observedrecently a large turnout of Yemeni women's driving, and that the number of women who obtained licenses through the leadership of the past three years up to the weakness ofthe statistics.

He hinted of the island to honor the passing of Aden to an existence comes to highlightits historic role as the oldest taxi driver on the island and the Gulf, "in recognition of the absence of any record of traffic violations."



Source: Al Jazeera














Facebook defeated Reading in Britain




An opinion poll showed that young people go out for the British reading the works ofwriters such as Dickens, Shakespeare and Keats to the concern of social networkingsites on the Internet such as Facebook and Twitter.

The poll that young men and one in six young men are not able to read one book a month, and that less than half of young people choose to read a book outside ofcurriculum time at least once a month.

Instead, the children prefer to see the written word often via mobile phone messagesand e-mail and social networking sites on the Internet such as Facebook and Twitter.

The poll asked 18,141 children aged between eight and 17 years old, conducted by the British charity organization (National Trust for Atrasa).

The director of the Foundation, Jonathan Douglas in a statement that the payment ofthese children to read and help them to love reading is the means to transform their livesand give them opportunities and new expectations.

She explained that the charity in the light of indications that the pace of reading directly related to collecting, there is an urgent need for new ways to encourage more young people to read.

She described the proposal of the Minister of Education Secretary Michael Goff to readstudents who have reached 11 years, 50 books per year, as a "big challenge" in light ofthese results.


Source: Reuters

Aisha Gaddafi gave birth at the border




Put Aisha daughter of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's daughter, a day after she fled withher ​​family to others of the Algerian territory.

News of the birth of new grandson of Colonel fugitive days after the fall of his regime andconfirmed by the Algerian Ministry of Health and disclosed, the Algerian Ambassador to the United Nations Mehdi Ben Mrad in a letter to the UN Security Council.

The ambassador pointed out in his letter that Aisha was born came into the world on the same day that her mother crossed the border, "without medical assistance."

He added that Aisha was given the opportunity to enter the territory of his country's"humanitarian grounds".

Called the Associated Press that the baby was born I called descriptive (on the name ofher grandmother) as "dramatic", saying it shows some human dimensions to overthrowthe dictator, who disappeared in an unknown location.

The Aisha Gaddafi, had fled with her mother Safia and her two brothers Mohammed and their children to Hannibal and Algeria on my car, SUV and a bus and a Mercedes.

The Algerian press reported that the pregnancy Aisha Gaddafi was behind Algeria's decision to allow the controversial Colonel's family members to enter the Libyanterritory.



Source: Associated Press

Obama for the Palestinians: We will disrupt the state veto



















Obama and Abbas during the meeting (French)









The White House said U.S. President Barack Obama told Palestinian PresidentMahmoud Abbas on Wednesday that the move to the United Nations will not achieve a Palestinian state and that the U.S. would veto power to thwart any move in the Security Council for the recognition of a Palestinian state.

Said Ben Rdos spokesman for the National Security Council, the White House, told reporters after meeting Abbas in the Obama and New York, "we will have to reject any move in the Security Council of the United Nations, including if necessary the use of theveto."

For his part, said presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told the French pressafter the meeting, "Obama said of Abbas's commitment to two-state solution and the need to establish a Palestinian state, but he stressed his opposition to go the Palestinian to the Security Council and asked him to return to direct negotiations with Israel."

He added that "President Abbas is reviewed during a meeting with President Obama'sposition of going to the Security Council to request full membership of the State ofPalestine."

He explained that Mahmoud Abbas, "discussed with President Obama a draft statement of the Quartet and the Palestinian position it," stressing that the draftstatement "did not meet the required conditions are Palestinian." He also said that the two leaders "discussed the efforts of the international community towards the Palestinian cause."

Without a permitHe did not make any statement by the presidents of the meeting, which followed a private meeting between the President of the United States and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shortly before noon Wednesday.
Abbas has said he will present Friday to the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon asked the membership of the State of Palestine in the UN Security Council.
And the morning of Wednesday, Obama said that there is no path of "short" to achieve peace. He told the General Assembly of the United Nations, "I am convinced that there is no shortcut to end a decades-old conflict. Peace can not come across statements and resolutions of the United Nations, even if it was that easy to just done."

Out and study the two PalestinianHe was a member of the Central Committee of the Palestine National Liberation Movement (Fatah), Nabil Shaath, said Wednesday that the Palestinians Simalon the UN Security Council "some time" to study the request for full membership of the United Nations for a Palestinian state, after U.S. President opposing provide the Palestinians with this application.
As Nabil Abu Rdainah spokesman for Palestinian President, in a statement that the Palestinians are ready to return to the negotiating table as soon as Israel agrees to stop settlement and accept the 1967 borders, as reference conditions for negotiations.
In this context also, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, will examine the proposals for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian leadership provided by French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a speech at the opening meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Sarkozy proposed on Wednesday that Palestine be granted observer status in the international organization and to begin negotiations between the PA and Israel during the month and that is to reach agreement on border security during the six months to reach a final agreement within a year.

The French president said, "Today we face a very difficult choice, we all know that Palestine can not have immediate access to the full recognition and full development of a Member State of the United Nations."
He added, "but doubted that the use of the veto in the Security Council has the potential to provoke a new wave of violence in the Middle East?". Sarkozy said he should not exclude the intermediate stage.
He explained, "Why can not imagine granting Palestine put an observer at the United Nations this will be an important step forward and more importantly is that it would mean out of the stalemate, which is only useful in so doing, we will hope the extremists through the achievement of progress towards a final status."
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) believed that Obama's remarks show the American bias "normal" to Israel at the expense of Arab and Palestinian interests.
He said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that the way to the Palestinian state does not pass through America or the United Nations, but passes only through the Palestinian people and its unity.
Israeli thanked for ObamaFor his part, was Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister thanked the U.S. president for his support of Israel.
This came during a meeting held between the two leaders Wednesday on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the United Nations and after minutes from the dumping of Obama's speech to the international organization.

The President of the Israeli government expressed the hope that other prominentpoliticians follow the lead of the U.S. president to call for the resumption of negotiationsbetween Israel and the Palestinians.

Netanyahu explained that he "knows that these leaders are under great pressure,"claiming that the proposals are anti-Israel "automatic majority" of the United Nations.

And on the Declaration of the U.S. President in previous statements that he will, if necessary, to use its veto against the Palestinian demand Netanyahu said: "I ​​think this isa badge of honor, and I would like to thank you for the honor of the Order made ​​you this."

For his part, Obama said at the beginning of his meeting with Netanyahu, he can notimpose peace on both sides and this should be the result of the negotiations.

Obama said that "events in the region shows us the extent to which peace can be fragile and this is a great honor that the Prime Minister is here."

The U.S. president said in a speech before the General Assembly that the Palestinian people deserve their own state, but real peace is achieved only between the Israelis and the Palestinians themselves.



Source: Al Jazeera + agencies

10 dead in Yemen and the failure of mediation



Worsening political and security situation in Yemen during the last few hours that have been killed ten people and wounded others in different parts of the arenas of change, while the envoy left the Gulf Sana'a without progress in efforts to transfer power.
In this context, one person was killed and others injured in the courtyard of the change in Sanaa, hours after at least nine people and injuring dozens of sniper fire and artillery shells in clashes between forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and other pro-revolution in Sana'a.
The lifting of those killed during the past few hours the death toll to 85 dead in four days of bloodshed that ended the stalemate long and troubled that swept Yemen amid sporadic attempts to mediate in the crisis.
The forces that support the revolution in a statement to the protesters in the yard of the change in Sanaa, said the military confrontation has not yet started with the designated authority of the gang raped, in reference to forces loyal to President Saleh.
The statement pledged to continue to defend the peaceful revolution and not to be drawn into a military confrontation.
Emerged as a massive march in Dhamar condemning "the continued benefit of the crimes committed by his gang, his family and blood on the youth revolution in the capital Sana'a and Taiz." And vowed to march T. Ali Saleh and his son and his death and confirmed that they will not escape from the punishment of the people.
In the meantime, I went out a demonstration in the city of Ibb to denounce what he called the massacres of demonstrators in favor of a family in Sanaa and Taiz.

The youth revolution in the city say prayers for the dead, peaceful demonstrations andvowed to step up the revolutionary overthrow of the regime, even with all its symbols.

In the western city of Hodeidah Yemen came out a demonstration to demand the trial ofAhmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, commander of the Republican Guard and Special Forces on charges of committing war crimes.

In Taiz, eight protesters were injured when troops dispersed a force loyal to Presidentdemonstration near the building to maintain the call for decisive revolutionarygovernment headquarters and the closure of those forces and set up a security checkpoint near the governorate building and closed all roads leading to the Presidential Palace.

Gulf Initiative
In the meantime, the security reflected the tension on the political efforts to transfer power, and he left the Secretary-General of the GCC Abdul Latif Zayani Sana'a withoutmaking progress on the mediation efforts.

The news agency quoted the Yemeni as saying that he Zayani he had to wait until the"favorable conditions" to achieve this goal, indicating that the two sides are not close toreaching an agreement.

On the other hand a diplomatic source told Reuters that the United Nations plans to pull50 employees on Friday because of the deteriorating security situation.



Source: Al Jazeera + agencies

9/21/2011

Relationship with the absence of early adolescence parents

British study reported that boys who grow up away from their parents, become parents at an early age, showed an earlier study on the relationship between the father and the loss of early adolescence in girls, girls who grow up away from their parents give birth early.


And adopted Paula Sheppard from the London School of Economics and Rebecca functioning of the University of Durham in their study, published Tuesday in the journal "biological to Aters", to data of several thousands of men in Britain, which have studied in which whether the father's absence a relevant time of puberty and age at marriage and childbearing with the exclusion of other conditions that are not suitable for kids as well as taking into account the time of the loss of the father.
And concluded researchers that boys who were raised away from their parents have children early in the year, and said in their study that it is hard statistically that this applies to boys who have lost their parents at the age of seven, and there was a high probability that the birth to these boys children at least until the age of twenty-third, While the boys who lost their parents in between the ages of 11 and 16 years, they reach their teens often too late.
Also tend to boys who were raised away from their parents to marry late, especially for the age group at the age of 7 to 11 years, which means proof that parents influence the reproduction of their children, male and the age of adolescence, as concluded researchers in their study, in addition to the time of the loss of the father plays a role as well.



Source: German

NASA expects to fall of the satellite Friday




















NASA said it was impossible to know where it will be located wreckage of the Moon (French)

Is expected to air satellite, an American on the ground next Friday to fall in place is stillunknown until now, as announced by U.S. space agency (NASA), adding that the risk tothe population is "very low" because the bulk of the vehicle will explode in the atmosphere.

The length of the satellite "Upper Otamossador Risterch Satellite" 10.6 m and 4.5 m in diameter and weighs nearly six tons. The placing in orbit the shuttle "Discovery" in 1991 to study the upper atmosphere.

Satellite has completed its mission in 2005 after 14 years of work, and will return toEarth because of lack of fuel in about 23 September / September of this, as announced by NASA on its website.

NASA explained that it is impossible to know where the moon will be located the wreckage in advance, because "a large part of it be beaten and turned into pieces uponentering the atmosphere, but the debris will burn a whole." The scientists predicted thatup to the ground about 26 pieces.

The orbit of the satellite passes over most of the planet, from the far north of Canada to the southern part of South America.

So far "has not been confirmed in any event, due to the return and the fall of a spacecraftin the atmosphere," according to the agency.



Source: Daily Telegraph


Fisk: Middle East will not return as it was


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Predicted by the British journalist Robert Fisk that does not get the Palestinians an independent state for them when he presents President Mahmoud Abbas, an application to the United Nations in the Sea this week, but said the region will never return to normal.
Fisk said that a reporter a special Middle East, told The Independent British afterthought "However, the Palestinians will prove - if they have enough votes in the General Assembly of the United Nations and if you do not comply Abbas to pressure the Israeli and American - that they deserve to have a state."
They will prove to the Arabs what Israel made up by the permit, the more expanded in building settlements on land "stolen" when they describe it as "facts on the ground" and not in a position the United States and Israel that the Arab discourse with contempt and anticipate them to comply.
The United States has lost influence in the Middle East, and dashed the "peace process" and the "Road Map" and the "Oslo Agreement" and all that nonsense has become part of history, in the words of Fisk.
He spoke with a writer who lives in Beirut, Lebanon, a long period of time about what he thinks of the establishment of the State of Palestine, he wrote "In my personal belief that Palestine is not the only state in the awakening dreams, it is impossible created now that the Israelis stole most of the Arabs for the establishment of colonial projects.
Just go to the West Bank and look at what is happening there that did not believe me.Valmstamrat massive Jewish malignant and restrictions imposed on Palestinians not to build houses for them more than one floor and sealed until the drainage systems of the death, and roads for settlers only, all referred the West Bank into what looks like smashed glass front side of the car shattered. "
And continued with the saying "Sometimes I suspect that the only thing which prevents the existence of a Greater Israel is Palestinian intransigence of those annoying".
According to Fisk, that the vote on the Palestinian demand of the United Nations will split in the West, between Americans and Europeans and a number of other countries, and likewise between Arabs and Americans, and will increase the rift within the European Union between the Eastern Europeans and Western Europeans, and between Germany and France, where he supports the First Israel for historical reasons and show other Dgerha because of the suffering of the Palestinians.
British writer and concluded that the Sultan of America in the Middle East Satdeda this week because of Israel, "a great sacrifice on behalf of freedom."


Source: Independent

Human Rights ": 2700 dead in Syria

The Office of Human Rights at the United Nations on Monday that Syrian security forces killed 2700 of anti-government protesters since the beginning of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in March / last March, including at least 100 children.
Called Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights the Assad government to cooperate with the international investigation into the bloodshed, to ensure accountability for all perpetrators of violations.
Kang said - in a speech before the Human Rights Council of the United Nations - "Even today, killing 2,700 people - including at least 100 children - at the hands of the army and security forces since the start of mass protests in mid-March / March past."
She said "in spite of the increasing pressure from the international community during the last six months since the start of the demonstrations, the bloody repression in Syria condenses." "During recent weeks called for large demonstrations in other parts of Syria to the international protection and to the presence of international observers."
"Ultimately, it is the catastrophic situation indicates that more and more of Human Rights in Syria and to the urgency of an effective international response to treatment."
She "on the Council and its members continue to use various means available for this purpose", and Kang pointed out that the Syrian government has promised political reforms but "consistently repudiated the promises of excessive use of torture and other abuses."

She added, "I conclude by stressing the importance of holding accountable the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, were found to be likely that such crimes committed in Syria," referring to a UN report released in August / August.
The mission of experts mandated by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spoke in a report in August / August for the past practices committed by the Syrian security forces could amount to "crimes against humanity" worthy of referral to the International Criminal Court.
Crush protestsKang told the Council - which comprises 47 countries - that the Syrian security forces continue - backed by tanks, helicopters and snipers - crushed the protests in cities including Homs, Lattakia and Damascus, and a shield.
She said that large-scale attack in Homs this month left at least 23 civilians dead and dozens injured.
She added, "and reported the output of the Syrian security forces forcibly patients from hospitals, including the operating rooms in Homs, and prevented medical personnel from reaching the injured."
She stated that the Syrian activists demanded international protection and deployment of international observers in the country, in an indication of the seriousness of the situation.
Syrian refusal toAnd, in turn, rejected the Syrian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva Faysal Khabbaz Hamwi Kang's remarks and the results of the initial report of the United Nations, prepared by the International Organization investigators who were not allowed to enter the country, describing bias.

He said that "there are many gangs in Syria, you want to trigger sedition and attack innocent civilians and the destruction of police stations and killed several members of the police."
He added that "many members of these gangs were arrested and admitted that they fired on the protesters to incite violence."
He explained that the Syrian government "will continue to implement its comprehensive reform and the protection of its citizens and their property."
Denounce the U.S.For its part, denounced the U.S. Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe "ongoing campaign of repression" by the Syrian government, and reiterated U.S. calls for a lion to step down.
She said that "The death toll is increasing every day," citing a United Nations report which found that the Syrian forces responsible for the executions and arbitrary arrest and torture.
She added that "Damascus step down repeatedly blamed the rebel gunmen in damage to thousands of its citizens who bleed in the streets of Syria, these assurances are not credible."
The French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Monday in New York that "silence is unacceptable," the UN Security Council what he described as "crimes against humanity" in Syria.
Juppe said - in remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York - "there are crimes against humanity committed in Syria and the regime's leaders must be held accountable for this."
He added that the leaders of the Syrian regime must be held accountable for crimes against humanity committed during their campaign against anti-government protests.

Source: agencies

9/20/2011

Mexico to learn their children to avoid lead




































Police carrying children through the exchange of gunfire in Mexico (Reuters - Archive)

Mexican children begin this year to see the article recently appeared in their approach is educational, is how to avoid the bullets.
And monitors the police in the Mexican city of some school bus routes, where they were shooting at a bus carrying seven children from a school Merecha last week.
LieA woman sends her children to school themselves in the path of a bus is different, the German news agency requesting anonymity, said the driver and one observer of children making the children to protect themselves lie on the floor, and after the shooting took them directly to the doctor psychological school to give his emotions.
In May / May, and in a school in Monterrey became a school kindergarten to a national hero, where children made Anbtahon on the ground and sing a song about the famous cartoon character, is a dinosaur, "Barney" to cover up the sound of shooting.
In some areas of the Mexican capital, you can see cars carrying bodyguards follow the yellow school buses to monitor the children's employers, these guards.
Although this is not a phenomenon affecting the whole country, several incidents have caused concern among Mexican parents and school children and teachers in recent days.
PoliceIn the tourist town of Acapulco overlooking the Pacific, authorities chose this week put the warning buttons in schools to be linked, police and air patrols and ground, surrounding the teaching facilities at the moment. The aim is to re-teachers to 52 schools to resume their studies education after three weeks of absence in the wake of extortion.
He was forced Mexican President Felipe Calderon to tackle the issue late last month to provide education grants.
Calderon told his audience of young people he knows they feel sadness, anxiety and distress because of the violence waged by some of the criminals against the Mexicans.He stressed that his government was doing all it could be to Mexico to live in peace.
There have been several incidents this year, including the schools, including the shooting last month, wounding four people waiting for the parents of their children in elementary school city of Ciudad Juarez.
In the past year, I started summer holidays early by three weeks in the state of Nayarit, fearing violence.
False reportsLast month saw a big incident in the state of Veracruz by a wave of false Internet reports of attacks on schools, causing desperate parents rushed to fetch their children.
And arrested a man and a woman and charged with terrorism and sabotage, for publishing what he called the rumors via e-communication "Facebook" and the location of micro-blogging "twitter", and still the two Ikavan in prison and face a sentence of up to prison for 30 years, despite criticism of rights organizations, civil answer authorities as inappropriate.


 
Source: German

NASA plans for a giant space rocket


Senator Ben Nelson (right) and an official from the NASA press conference dedicated to the giant rocket
 
(French)
Administration revealed Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) today announced plans to build giant rockets to reach deep space, and carries astronauts to the moon and Mars and other locations far from the International Space Station at a cost of $ 18 billion.
NASA identified in 2017 as the date for the launch of the first test flight of the rocket from the Kennedy Center, Florida, in the context of what is known as space launch system.
In addition to the billions ten will spend until the first test flight of the missile, have been allocated six billion dollars, the other dedicated to the construction of the capsule, "Orion", which will carry astronauts to the depths of space, taken from the "Konstelchen" to explore the moon, which abolished the government of President Barack Obama.
It also will spend one billion dollars to renew the base of the launch of spacecraft of NASA in Florida to accommodate the new missile, which will be the most powerful booster rocket "Saturn", which was used in the era of spacecraft "Apollo," which carry crews and equipment to the moon between 1969 and 1972.
He described the Bill Grstnmayr Assistant Administrator for Space Operations at NASA in a video teleconference, the giant rocket project that offers a huge step forward in space exploration.
The announcement of the project after an argument with the Congress took years for the cost of the project and its objectives and technical specifications. The Department plans to Obama, while obtaining an estimate of the cost of an independent on the space launch system.

Source: Reuters

American singer enter Guinness Bozafarha


Entered the American singer in Las Vegas Guinness Book of World Records forlongest fingernails class, having reached a total length of the nails in her hands, both of609 centimeters.


The newspaper quoted Neewooark Daily News for Chris Walton (45 years), nicknamed the Duchess as saying she feels that the nail part of her body, and she was born with itand do not know what to do without them.


"I'm confident that I Saqsa in the day, but I'm not able to see this because I used it a lot."


Said Walton, a mother of six girls and a grandmother of three children, she begandeveloping her nails by accident 18 years ago, so the length of the nail of a finger ring to the Mara.


The previous holder of the title to Lee Redmond has 883 cm of the nails, but lost in a traffic accident in 2009.


Walton said that her nails do not impede the life they are cooked, cleaned, and leadingthe work is different.






Source: UPI

Russia postpone the manned space flights


Soyuz vehicle to the moment of landing on the floor on Friday (French)
Decided that the Russian space agency to postpone the launch date of the next manned flight to space until November 14 next, at the time of announcing the landing capsule space (Soyuz) safely on the ground Friday morning, returning from the International Space Station, carrying three astronauts.
The head of the agency, Vladimir Popkovan It was decided to postpone the launch of the flight carrying astronauts to the International Space Station to November 14 next instead of 22 September / September of this, adding that the manned flight again postponed also from 20 to 21 December / December of the year current.
In the meantime, the Russian landed vehicle (Soyuz TMA -21) successfully on Friday morning at a base in the Kazakh carrying three astronauts, two of them two Russians and one American.
A group of rescue control center via radio that the crew landed safely on the ground, and the astronauts in good shape and the weather was good as well as in Kazakh.

However, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) said that a breakdown in communication devices where the landing had been cut off communication for several minutes between the spacecraft and control center in the town of Korolyov outside Moscow, before the reform.
The three astronauts stayed in the International Space Station since April / April. There are three other leading (American, Russian, and Japanese) are still on board.
It was scheduled to launch replacement crew to the station on September 24 / September but postponed the trip after the accident on August 24 / August to launch a ship unmanned Russian cargo was on its way to the station.

Source: agencies

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