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BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown vowed on Tuesday to return to traditional values to rebuild a country damaged by excessive spending and the financial crisis, with the hope of avoiding defeat in elections next year. In a speech to the Labor Party conference traditionally held in Brighton in the south of the country, Brown said the government will act firmly against the culture of the bonuses at the banks and against young people causing disturbances in the inner city by a return to the virtues of justice and accountability. Call it middle-class values , call on traditional values of the working class, call on family values, call them all away: these are values of the majority, he said. His speech was seen as an attempt to relaunch the Labor, which carried 12 years in power, during which there has been an economic boom that has crashed in the past year by the financial crisis. But analysts expressed their doubts about whether voters will achieve recovery skeptics, who have turned to the Conservative Party in search of change. A couple of speeches in a sunny autumn day along the coast can not hide the #39; permafrost #39, (permafrost) in the opinion polls in the long term, said Tony Travers, professor of politics at the London School of Economics. Brown also gave the British a referendum on electoral reform, which aims to attract the Liberal Democrats if the result in Parliament weretoo tight after an election expected in May. Continue reading →

HONG KONG /BANGKOK (Reuters) – Finally, an experimental vaccine against AIDS seems to be the first to protect some people and the credit for success should be to Thailand, where the test was conducted, experts said. The research was criticized for five years by 22 renowned scientists who doubted that Americans would have any effect. Washington was convicted of wasting over 100 million dollars in funding the project. But the Thai health authorities and their U.S. National Institutes of Health Research Institute Walter Reed Army continued the trial of 16,000 volunteers in one of the countries leading the battle against HIV. It was a difficult decision. I am delighted that we have taken, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, United States, who defied the critics and went ahead with the initiative. experimental vaccine was developed from other previously failed two products: the fowlpox vaccine from Sanofi-Pasteur ALVAC and AIDSVAX, created by a San Francisco company called VaxGen and now owned by the charity Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases.

Donald Burke, dean of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, said the trial was controversial from the start and had been slighted by major U.S. scientists due to previous failures in vaccine evaluations.

But because of the importance of the AIDS epidemic, the decision was to continue regardless of these criticisms. It was a difficult choice, but courageous, said Burke, who led the research on AIDS at Walter Reed before retiring in 1997. Burke isolated the AIDS virus from a young Thai soldier infected with HIV in 1989, after Thailand's army doctors discovered an outbreak of human immunodeficiency virus among conscripts in Chiang Mai, north of the country. This show went on to become one of the viruses that were placed on the experimental vaccine, the expert said. The Thais did a remarkable job on this, he told reporters Dr. Eric Schoomaker, Surgeon General U.S. Army. They did a great job of recruiting volunteers and conducting this trial impeccably, he added. Continue reading →

/ / Sent ========== / POLITICS-PORTUGAL – Lisbon – The Socialist Party, with 36.5 of the vote, today won the legislative elections in Portugal /

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PAPA-R.CHECA – Brno (Czech Republic) – Benedict XVI visitaBrno, the capital of Moravia, where decatolicos offer the greatest number of the Czech Republic. Continue reading →

Today in Portugal, there will be elections to the Assembly of the Republic (Parliament). Voters are given a chance for the next four years to determine the new legislature, consisting of 230 deputies. Candidates put up 16 parties, five of which are represented in Parliament.

According to ITAR-TASS , opinion polls predict victory of the ruling center-right of the Socialist Party with a score of 38-40%. Second place with a score of 29-31% are in their traditional rivals – right-wing Social Democratic Party. Since the April 1974 revolution which overthrew the dictatorial regime of Salazar-Caetano, the two parties alternate in power. Almost a fifth of respondents said that had not yet determined the choice.

In 2005, the Socialists gained 45% of votes, allowing them to obtain absolute majority in parliament and form a single-party government. If the polls are confirmed, this time the Socialist Party will elect approximately 100 deputies and will not be able to achieve an absolute majority, forcing it to either enter into a coalition with one of two left-wing parliamentary parties, or form a minority government.

Judging from the statements in the past on the eve of the election rallies, the Socialists are more inclined to the second variant. Continue reading →

To perform this task, the G20 will serve as the principal forum for international economic cooperation, an initiative that is detrimental to the Group of Eight (U.S., Japan, Germany, France, UK, Canada, Italy and Russia) which has been developing this role in the last 30 years. This movement towards the Group of Twenty (G20), which includes countries like China, India , Brazil or Mexico, demonstrates the reality of the new international architecture, and the growing influence of emerging economies. The final declaration, nations recognize that, although that has begun recovery, we must not fall into the complacency, but should also advance the reforms necessary to achieve sustained and balanced growth. We want growth without extreme cycles ( boom and crash) and markets to encourage responsible, not reckless, say the leaders. Among its proposals, the G20 recommended that countries adopt internal policies that promote macroeconomic stability . It also suggests that international agencies give a greater role in developing economies, citing in particular the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where rich countries will yield 5 per cent capacity voting to emerging nations that are underrepresented. G20 leaders pledge to end the excesses in the banking sector, given the record that his recklessness and lack of responsibility led to the crisis. The statement adopted today attacking senior bank executives bonuses that they recommend, are fixed by long-term objectives linked to performance of the entity. Continue reading →

The current President of the highest organ of the UN, embajadoraestadounidense Susan Rice, called the meeting to be held apuerta closed at 1500 GMT, fuentesdiplomaticas Efe said today. This Thus, the fifteen Council members serve lapeticion they moved on Tuesday the Brazilian government in Tegucigalpa is cuyaembajada the gobernanteconstitucional Honduran refugee. The Security Council has so far kept the margenpracticamente of the crisis caused by the conflict unleashed after elgolpe of State June 28, which has debatidoprincipalmente in the forum of the Organization of American States (OAS). For your hand, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, decided Wednesday to suspend paiscentroamericano electoral assistance due to the instability by queatraviesa. On June 30 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution poraclamacion which demanded the immediate eincondicional restitution of Zelaya as president legitimate yconstitucional of Honduras. Continue reading →

counter attempts to revise the outcome of the Second World War should remain a priority for the United Nations. Said President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev in his speech during the general debate on the 64 th session of UN General Assembly.

According to D. Medvedev, we see from time to time raised his head neo-fascist organization, committed crimes of racial, national, ethnic, attempts to whitewash Nazism, deny the Holocaust, to review decisions of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Continue reading →

So I took the stand's largest planet, armed with a manila folder full of notes, and vented with a speech of one hour and 36 minutes. Gaddafi's speech fell short respect to longer than four hours and 29 minutes given by Fidel Castro in the 1960s, according to UN spokesman Farhan Haq. The impact of prolonged unprecedented intervention Gadhafi was amazing. Half the auditorium, packed to hear the first UN speech U.S. President Barack Obama, disappeared. The faces of the delegates showed fatigue and discomfort. In his speech, sharply criticized the Security Council and requested that it remove the veto power to its five permanent members. Gaddafi said he had to do a thorough reform of the Council and abolish the veto power the U.S., Britain, China, France and Russia, or they admit more members to make it more representative. It should be called the Security Council, but #39; advice of terror #39, he said. Continue reading →

NEW YORK (Reuters) – An impatient Bush, Barack Obama, on Tuesday rebuked Israeli and Palestinian leaders for not doing enough to unblock the peace process in the Middle East, and urged them to resume negotiations soon. The time for talk over the beginning of negotiations is over. It's time to move forward, Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who met for the first time since the Jewish state's leader took office in March. In a statement, Abbas reiterated the Palestinian demand that Israel halt construction in settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, something that the Netanyahu Government has resisted. Since its arrival in the White House in January, Obama has found peace in the Middle East as its highest priority foreign policy, in contrast to his predecessor George W. Bush, who was criticized by the international community for neglecting the conflict. The meeting offered no immediate sign of any progress. It was the most direct role in Obama's six-decade conflict that has long defied efforts by U.S. diplomats. However, in a sign that pressure from Obama could produce progress, Netanyahu told reporters after talks that there was a general consensus, including the Palestinian side, that the peace process should be resumed as soon as possible, without preconditions.

It was unclear when that might happen.

Netanyahu has resisted American pressure to freeze all Jewish settlement activity in West Bank, a key Palestinian demand. During the meeting, Obama had to convince Abbas to Netanyahu and to shake hands, and two had strained smiles. The president seemed frustrated at times and urged the parties to relaunch the stalled negotiations without delay. Continue reading →