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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the release of one of the youngest of the detained military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is expected to return to Afghanistan.

The case could be an example to follow on how to deal with the other 228 prisoners remaining at Guantanamo.

The release of Mohammed Jawad would be the first under strict rules set by the U.S. Congress to deal with detainees held in prison for terrorist suspects in Cuba located, that the U.S. president, Barack Obama, promised to close by mid-January 2010. The Government U.S. insisted that it is still evaluating a criminal case in U.S. federal court against Jawad for allegedly launching a grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their interpreter in Kabul in late 2002 but had not yet made a decision. U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle, said in a packed court that Jawad is expected that the way to Afghanistan for the August 24, but declined to order the time and methods for this maneuver. It has been imposed too young for this, said Judge. Huvelle, who has boosted exchanges with the Government on the case, Jawad said that it remained in prison for over six years, but much of the evidence had been discarded, since it was obtained through torture. Continue reading →

The police commander of the state of Borno announced over state radio that Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the sect, which some see as the Taliban in Nigeria, had died in police custody. There were no further explanation, but the spokesman for the state's governor, Usman Ciroma, told The Associated Press that I saw his body at the police headquarters. I think he was shot while trying to escape. Yusuf's death could provoke more violence, although it is believed that supporters of the sect are scattered Boko Haram. Security forces bombed the Yusuf mosque in northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Wednesday, but Yusuf, 39, managed to escape along with some 300 sismpatizantes, some of them armed. The soldiers killed about 100 Islamist militiamen count as a journalist for the Associated Press, half of them inside the mosque of the sect. Then, the military launched an operation and arrested Yusuf was apparently a corral for goats in the house of the relatives of his wife. Security forces on Thursday, chased home by home to Islamic militia.

An important group of human rights defender said that government forces killed civilians and other bystanders. A military spokesman denied it and said it was impossible for employees of the organization to distinguish between civilians and members of the sect Boko Haram, which the government blamed for instigating the violence in the mostly Muslim region for several days.

The government ordered the public to evacuate the area, and the Wednesday night shooting and invaded the mosque and headquarters of the sect. It then started shooting the militiamen retreated home and fighting with guns, fire bombs, bows and arrows, machetes and scimitar. Continue reading →

During five hours of an interview with two lawyers for private plaintiffs, cited today by the ABC Madoff said that for years hoped that the financial supervisory authorities (SEC) fraud uncovered pyramid system.

There were several meetings with the SEC and I often thought 'I have,' said the former banker's lawyer Joseph Cotchett, who represents some victims of the financial and Madoff interviewed in prison in Butner (NC) yesterday and then told the press.

The SEC acknowledged serious errors of omission in the case of financial fraud Madoff. Despite several indications, the authorities did not discover the fraud for years. Cotchett secured the interview after threatening to sue Madoff family members, including his wife, two sons and his brother, the publication, which indicates that the defender was former financial package with two 25 cent coins to buy food in the machines of the prison. For their families outside of deceit, Madoff unbraided how committed the fraud. It gave us a lot of information that he believes can serve to help the victims. He was very direct and does not save anything, said the lawyer told the press that he hoped upon leaving the prison.

frank and open. The details were extraordinary. I was surprised as frank and open that has been publishes the New York Post on what the lawyer. Continue reading →

Although it seems unlikely now, the current president of Venezuela when he was offered such promise candidate. And the image was recorded in the archives of the Univision Network, which released a few days na for current content. According to the Hispanic, in an interview conducted on December 5, 1998, a day before the election which consecrated him as president for the first time, until Chavez described as a dictatorship The Government of Cuba, led by his friend Fidel Castro. When asked if he is prepared to leave office in five years, Chavez replied: Of course I'm willing to deliver it. Not only after five years, even before. Because we are going to propose a constitutional change, a transformation of the political system to have a true democracy. Continue reading →

The so-called Mount of Flags, created in 2006 in response wing screen installed on the fifth floor of the U.S., represents a grief that will remain forever on the island, Efe dijohoy a director of the Anti-Tribune of Havana, Ivan Smith. It is a tribute to 138 years of struggle from 1898 to 2006. Unluto it will keep forever because it represents 138 years delucha of martyrs and victims of terrorism in our country, said Smith. The official said that in recent days have raised banderascubanas for the holidays for the Day of National Rebellion, but tomorrow will be placed usual black deluto teach in the 138 masts of the mountain built as an extension Tribuna Anti dela. On Tuesday morning only 22 flags hoisted laperspectiva small to bad weather, a sign that some interpreted island in the Cuban government's response to the decision of the United States to end its transmissions panel. The State Department spokesman, Ian Kelly, said ayerque light was turned off the screen in June because it was not really effective as a tool to provide information to loscubanos. Continue reading →

In a communique, the government continued its response to the text Stop aggression, which has already returned the last Friday in which they requested the AEDEP as indispensable that the president RafaelCorrea and government officials down the national weather deconfrontacion causing many of his statements. The press association directly responsible to the Government a series of events that are related to actions delictivascomunes , reflects the presidency. In response, Quito, rejects the unfounded set of criteria created quehan media, journalists and articles in ultimosdias on an alleged campaign of official persecution found in the media and journalists. also refuted by the lack of consistency that she sefomente a climate of violence that has affected accionesdelictivas against the union.

According to the Government, made no pronouncements AEDEP of esetipo against attacks on journalists in previous governments, or in relation to violent acts against members of the produced FuerzaPublica. Continue reading →

Spetsposlannik United States in the Middle East, George Mitchell, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that their meeting on the resumption of peace talks had been productive, passes the BBC .

Earlier U.S. representatives said that Israel will have to make difficult choices. Washington demands that the Israeli government to stop building new Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

The meeting B. Netanyahu said of the progress to achieve understanding, which will continue and conclude the peace process .

We intend to continue discussions to reach a point where we can move toward a comprehensive peace, – said in turn Dzh.Mitchell.

Shortly before the meeting, Netanyahu refused to freeze settlement construction, saying that natural growth of settlements allow. In the West Bank, home to some 450 thousand Jews.

On Monday evening, U.S. envoy meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Continue reading →

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The obesity-related diseases account for almost 10 percent of the medical expenses of United States, which amounts to 147,000 million dollars a year, researchers reported on Monday.

The experts said that obese people spend 40 percent or more in costs of medical care that people of normal weight. These are $ 1429 more per year.

It is crucial that we take effective measures to contain and reduce the enormous burden of obesity in our nation, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention United States (CDC for its acronym in English), at a meeting on obesity from the CDC, where he was presented the study. Revert obesity not will be achieved successfully with an individual effort, said Frieden. This will be achieved as a society, he added. The new CDC outlined 24 recommendations on how communities can combat obesity in their neighborhoods and schools by encouraging healthier eating and exercise. The Democratic Senator Tom Harkin, a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, said that the report stresses that prevention and efforts for the welfare should be part of any plan to reform the health system in United States. Report after report shows that if we fail in making decisions now about disease prevention chronic conditions such as obesity, health care costs continue to spiral out of control, Harkin said in a statement. OBESITY RATE Over 26 percent of Americans are obese, which means having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 points or more. Continue reading →

deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya called the United States have increased pressure on the interim government of Honduras, which came to power after a coup at the end of June this year, passes the BBC .

M. Zelaya's statement from his camp, which deposed President of Honduras, was founded near the Honduran-Nicaraguan border, since the military blocked roads leading into the center of the country. Continue reading →

United States is determined to achieve a comprehensive peace in the Middle East that includes Israel and Palestine, Israel and Syria, Israel and Lebanon as well as normal relations with all countries in the region, Mitchell said after a meeting in Tel Aviv with the Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak. It's personal vision of the U.S. president, Barack Obama, he added, according to a ministry that summoned him. Mitchell then traveled to Cairo, where he arrived in the evening as a responsible airport to meet on Monday with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak. Egypt conducted a mediation in the dialogue between rival Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah in search of a government of national unity. But Egypt also half between Israel and Hamas (in power in the strip Gaza) about the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured in 2006. Hours before arriving in Israel, Mitchell had met in Damascus with Syrian President Bachar Assad with the who discussed the prospects for progress towards (their) goal, a comprehensive peace in the region and to improve relations between United States and Syria. I informed Assad that President (U.S., Barack) Obama was determined to provide (the establishment) of a genuine Israeli-Arab peace and global, between Palestinians and Israelis, between Syria and Israel and between Lebanon and Israel, he added. In the end, United States wishes to reach a full normalization of relations between Israel and all countries of the region, added Mitchell, who arrived in Damascus on Saturday night from Abu Dhabi, first stage of a new tour in the region. Continue reading →