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Ecuador extends emergency rule

admin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:28:01 +0000

A state of emergency in force in Ecuador following a police rebellion last Thursday has been extended by the president until the end of the week.

Rafael Correa said he was acting at the request of Ecuador’s National Assembly, which had suspended its activities due to a lack of security.

The army has taken over from police guarding the parliament building, with armoured vehicles deployed outside.

Mr Correa has said the police revolt amounted to a coup attempt.

Carla Bruni is a liability for Sarkozy

admin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:21:27 +0000

The first lady of France Carla Bruni has been called as a political liability for her husband president Nicolas Sarkozy. The book “Carla :A secret life” describes the glamorous lady Carla Bruni and her biography. The former Italian model Carla had previously had some rival with US first lady Michelle. From that onwards the relationship between the two presidential couples has been stained.
The biographical book author is Besma Lahouri who describes each and every point of Carla Bruni. The well heeled image is been maintained by Bruni from the french people as for the popularity of president Sarkozy. The author mentions Bruni as a chameleon and has been a formidable actress until and most of french people don’t even know their first lady. Beshma who is a investigative journalist has been quoted to the media about the book she has written.

Carla Bruni has been seen with many dignitaries from the queen of England and has maintained a her perfect Christan dior skirt suits. The book even has numerous love affairs which include many celebrity boyfriends,plastic surgeon. The relationship between Bruni and the plastic surgeon was for about 20 years and still he is believed to meet Bruni.Bruni has avoided of having any surgery and at present her age is about 42 yearswho was formerly a supermodel.

Koran burning : Disaster waiting to happen

admin — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:48:13 +0000

The New York imam leading efforts to build an Islamic centre near the World Trade Center site says plans by a small US church to burn Korans would have sparked “a disaster”.

Feisal Abdul Rauf told ABC News that the event – now called off – would have “strengthened radicals”.

Mr Rauf also said he believed fear of Islam in the US was possibly greater now than just after the 9/11 attacks.

Rallies for and against the proposed centre marred the 9/11 commemorations.

A full veil ban in France

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:48:52 +0000

A overwhelmingly vote was received from the French lawmakers over the veil ban. French lawmakers opposed the wearing of face covering veils in public places. The veil which covers the face makes it toughs integrating the Muslim community and Europeans.

During the Bastille Day celebration France usually celebrates what has become secular to republic staunchly. There was a poll conducted about which there was 577 national assembly lower house participated. In the assembly there was a 335 votes got against one total ban of full veil covering the face. The bill about the ban of the veil will reach the Senate during the month of September.

There was enough support gained about the niqab and burqa ban by political members. Many opponents feel that the ban may breach the French and European Human rights legislation. The public space in the bill has been distinctly defined like government building,public transport ,streets, markets and private business. France has the most of the Europe Muslim population about 5 million of Muslims where the whole total is 64 million people. The bill for the full veil ban is likely to be passed expects many people in politics.

The ban is expected to widen the gap between France and the Middle East Muslim countries.

The refugee crisis

admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:35:48 +0000

The UN has announced a $71m (£48m) flash appeal for Kyrgyzstan, where it says some 400,000 people have been displaced by inter-ethnic fighting.

The Central Asian state’s interim leader believes the number of people killed since violence erupted just over a week ago may be as high as 2,000.

Up to a million people are said to have been affected by fighting between the Kyrgyz majority and minority Uzbeks.

Many of those who fled their homes are staying in Uzbekistan.

Congo police chief suspended

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:43:14 +0000

The head of police in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been suspended following the death of a human rights activist, officials say.

Three police officers have also been arrested and the president is determined to resolve the case, the interior minister said.

Floribert Chebeya, head of the group Voix des Sans Voix, was found dead in his car near Kinshasa on Wednesday.

He had reportedly been due to meet the police chief that evening.

Both the police and Voix des Sans Voix have said the meeting never took place.

Democrats are losing ground in US

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:05:03 +0000

The US elected their Democratic President after a gap of few decades and that seems to be on the verge of collapse. The Obama administration took over at a very tough situation where the financial crisis pulled down the entire economy.
Then the government was forced to go in for unprecedented borrowing and printing of new money worth over a trillion dollars to save the economy from collapse. The banking industry, the automobile industry, the housing sector and also the insurance industry were standing in cue with begging bowls before the government.
Most of the money is still not recovered and there is hardly any chance of a quick recovery of the taxpayer’s money in the near future.
And during the last one year, the unemployment rate has climbed up to 10% level and is stubbornly holding around that level for the last several months. With the Europe crisis looming large, the private employers are reluctant to hire permanent workers in the near future.
That is capping the employment scope for the near term , that is pulling down the US government reputation as a consequence.
Now the crude oil spill has only added the last nail in the coffin for the Democrats in US, as the oil spill is raging at over 6000 barrels per day for the last 40 days, and the government does not seem to have any clue on how to stop the disaster.
With miles of the coastal region already suffering from irreparable losses due to the crude oil spill, there is hardly any scope for the Democrats to gain back the confidence of the US citizens.

Queen to miss Commonwealth Games in India

admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:37:40 +0000

The Queen will not attend the Commonwealth Games in India in October, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.

It will be the first time in decades she will not be at the sporting event – previously she has attended at some point during the games, either for the opening or closing ceremony.

Prince Charles will represent the Royal Family instead.

Buckingham Palace said the Queen would not be able to attend because of the volume of her engagements this autumn.

Japanese Govt to collapse?

admin — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:30:14 +0000

Japan’s socialist party has voted to leave the ruling coalition because of a row over a US base in Okinawa.

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) had opposed PM Yukio Hatoyama’s decision not to move the US Futenma airbase off the southern Japanese island.

On Friday Mr Hatoyama fired SDP chief Mizuho Fukushima from her ministerial post over her stance on the issue.

The SDP has few seats in parliament but the coalition deal secured the ruling party a majority in the upper house.

The decision came at a meeting of senior party officials.

Impasse in Nepal

admin — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:44:11 +0000

Nepal’s MPs have agreed to extend its parliament by up to a year, as reports suggest the prime minister agreed to resign to allow the deal to go through.

Maoist opponents had demanded Madhav Kumar Nepal’s resignation as part of the deal to avert political crisis.

The parliament, elected in 2008, had been due to expire on Friday.

However, the extension was agreed at the 11th hour by the Maoists and the ruling Communist Party of Nepal and Nepali Congress parties.

Dinanath Sharma, a spokesman for the Maoist party – the largest in parliament – was reported as saying agreement had been reached to form a new national consensus government.