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For the citizens of Kosovo, this is the most important day since the declaration of independence on 17 February 2008, said Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, after voting in Pristina. These elections, in which the Kosovars should elect their mayors and councilors, are the first organized by the Kosovo authorities. Previous elections held in Kosovo since 1999, date of departure of Serbian forces, were conducted under the supervision of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As for the Serb minority, the turnout in the large Serb enclave of Gracanica, near Pristina, and Serbs in villages around the capital, was quite high at midmorning, a source told AFP Serb who spoke on condition of anonymity. Gušterica In the village, south of Pristina, 200 of the 800 Serbs who voted registered before 10H00 (09H00 GMT), said the same source.

Several spokesmen for the Serbs in the enclaves called to vote to affirm the continuation of Serbian presence in Kosovo.

According to the Electoral Commission, 22 of the 74 political parties, coalitions and individual candidates registered for elections are Serbs. Continue reading →

They are artists known for their free thinking, porestar on the side of freedom and in solidarity with our darkest times, said Havel. The former Czechoslovak dissident wanted so remember elsignificado of music and how it played its role here and in paisesque were released Twenty years ago, when socialist regimes began to crumble in the Moscow satellite nations. They joined the conclusion, through recorded messages, elantiguo Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President, Barack Obama, and liderespiritual Tibet, Dalai Lama, whose speeches were recibidascon applause. The highlight of the acts that took place under the motto Uzje to tady! (Is here), was a concert in Santa Ana goticade church, a temple for the community desacralized yreconstruido with the help of the foundation Vize 97, created by Havely his wife, Dagmar.

A request for Havel, Vega sang his famous song Tom #39; sDinner, which started the event, whose instrumental side support contocon Prague Philharmonic.

Reed, a veteran exponent of the underground New York, tambiencondimento his speech to the taste of Czech playwright and closed suparticipacion with the ballad Guardian Angel. Continue reading →

The resupply ship Wave Knight of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, was at a distance from which you could see how the pirates attacked the boat of Paul and Rachel Chandler on October 23. The ship carried light weapons, a crew of 75 merchant marines and 25 sailors from the navy in the Indian Ocean, the ministry of Defense. But the crew could not intervene without putting the Chandler in more danger, so just simply watch the pirates forced the couple to leave their yacht, the Lynn Rival, and carried in a boat discovered. The ministry declined to give another report, saying they could not comment on operational details. Reliance said in a statement that the crew of the Wave Knight behaved very well under those circumstances. Continue reading →

The new figures from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) note that was detected between the new outbreak in April to Oct. 17,a total of 22 million Americans contracted the disease, 98,000 were hospitalized and nearly 4,000 died. These figures contrast with the death toll confirmed by the CDC last Friday, when he estimated that no more than 1,000 people had been killed by the virus between including 129 children. The jump in the estimates must, the director of the Center for the CDC Respiratory Diseases, Anne Schuchat, the introduction of a more accurate counting system, that goes beyond a simple count of laboratory-confirmed cases. Under the filter of the new system, pediatric deaths have also been increased fourfold, reaching 540, while 8 million children have contracted the disease and about 36,000 have been hospitalized. Adults aged 18 to 64 are those who have seen the highest number of deaths, with A total of 2,900 deaths among the 12 million people were infected. Meanwhile, those over 65, which in the case of seasonal flu are the most vulnerable, are this case, the better off, with a total of 440 fatalities. At a press conference to offer the new figures, Schuchat noted that the figures do not represent a sudden deterioration of the pandemic, but are the fruit of a long effort of health authorities to reflect how the disease actually affect the country. Lack of adequate diagnostic tests to identify all cases influenza A and the accumulation of autopsies have found that people suffering from the virus died and led the CDC to stop counting the individual cases for months, and all figures have since been offered estimates. Continue reading →

The Finance Minister, Maria Elsa Viteri, theGeneral filed Nacional (Parliament) budget planning for school in the year, which exceeds the amount last year, when hordeolum 15,000 million dollars. In the 2010 budget income is estimated by 13,836 mil-lion dollars and is expected to contribute 4.124millones external funding, as reported by the Assembly in its institutional alprecisar page project budget amounts. The paper considers the oil revenues by 3.213millones dollars, based on an average oil price para2010 of $ 65.9 per barrel and believes that this product, the basket masimportante Ecuadorian exports, will provide a cent to finance 23por budget. Viteri said that the total budget will go algasto current dollars and 10.179 million in spending capital6.678 million. Continue reading →

A group of Somali businessmen called Juba General Trading Company had contracted cargo ship al-Mizan to transport a shipment from the United Arab Emirates to Mogadishu, said Abdirisaq Abdulkadir, head of the consortium.

Abdulkadir said among the abducted crew members there are 15 Indians, two Pakistanis and a Somali. He denied media versions that the ship carrying weapons.

The vessel was carrying 3,000 tons of general business material, he said. He left for Dubai on 24 October. We had expected to reach 6 or 7 of this month but did not arrive. When the consortium called the ship, he added, a pirate replied the phone and told them he had been kidnapped. A man who answered the satellite phone number provided by Abdulkadir on Tuesday was identified as a pirate and said he demanded a ransom of three million dollars. The man refused to give his name for fear of being arrested, and indicated that the vessel was captured 10 days ago 97 kilometers (60 miles) off the Somali coast. Continue reading →

The main work focused on the department of San Vicente in the east where the town of Verapaz interlocking, about 70 km from the capital, the most affected by the disaster. The bodies of relief sought in the department to 72 missing, of which 60 in Verapaz. President Mauricio Funes, who on Sunday night declared state of national emergency, toured the devastated area Verapaz and approached to verify the ravages of the waters that wiped off the map the districts of Las Mercedes and San Antonio. This time the government will not leave the people alone , Funes said before announcing that he will devote $ 150 million to deal with this catastrophe, one of the worst the country has known in recent years, although it needs the green light from Congress.

The problem here is to locate the bodies to remove this flow of rocks and trees, he told AFP Carlos Ernesto Arce, 27, a resident of Verapaz, once a picturesque village of some 6,800 people and flooded today mud.

The currents carried the people in the houses and rolled crops, says Javier Martinez, a farmer who observed destruction.

The storm left 130 dead and 13,680 homeless, who are in 118 shelters distributed by 7 departments of the country, said Interior Minister Humberto Centeno.

The department with the largest number of deaths San Salvador is 63, San Vicente (40), La Paz (12), Cuscatlan (11) and La Libertad (4), the minister said. The torrential rains also damaged 1835 dwellings, although 209 were totally destroyed, as well as 18 bridges. Authorities also tried to restore vehicular traffic in the five departments where he was declared a national emergency: San Vicente, Cuscatlan , La Libertad, San Salvador and La Paz, all in the Midwest. Continue reading →

in Berlin are preparing for the celebrations to commemorate the 20 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is expected that the event, which the Germans call Celebration of Freedom, will gather in Germany's capital, hundreds of thousands of visitors. Expected to come more than 20 heads of state television channel Vesti .

In the center of the capital of Germany erected a symbolic wall in the form of giant dominoes made of foam. Total made a thousandsuch blocks. They are installed over a half kilometers to the place where formerly stood the Berlin Wall – from the area of Potsdamer Platz to the Reichstag building, where today sits the German Parliament – Bundestag. Weight of each knuckles – 20 kilograms. Continue reading →

The text is the third part of the Trilogy of the Bicentenary Bengoa crumbles whichthe various aspects of Chilean society, which also consisted of lost community (1998) and Comunidadreclamada (2007). A trilogy that evaluates the concepts of modernity, inequality, identity, utopia and memory of Chilean society in its 200 yearsof life Republican, to be held in 2010. gaze Bengoa is disenchanted: Some thought dairies (in 2010) a developed country. has not been achieved. Photos My Lightboxes, we find a country dominated by the market as a reason ybarometro of social life, without the ability to provide goods distorts balanced, said at launch. Young people may go to Bicentennial fuegosartificiales view of the celebrations, but have not voted laselecciones (13 of December) from which emerge ThePresident that tuning in wick quecortara fanfare and fireworks and the band of new buildings, he said. In The Lost Community , part of the trilogy, Bengoaplantea that Chile gives the feeling of having lost some of suidentidad. The last few decades, full speed ycontrarrevoluciones, joys and sorrows, successes and economic crisis, we produce the feeling of having broken the old links have not yet created Yde new ties, reentusiasmen porvivir us all together, in society, poses. In The Community claimed, the author examines the unrest accompanying socialque economic success and the accompanying grief to lamodernidad. In this book, saying that state terror (in the Pinochet dictatorship deAugusto) broke espaciospublicos basic solidarity, which have not yet been able to rebuild. Continue reading →

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) – Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 nations pledged on Saturday to prepare exit strategies for relief to their economies, but said they will continue giving support until recovery is assured. The world's largest economies, the countries of the European Union, the United States and Japan hope to emerge or have emerged from recession in the third quarter.

This has caused a discussion about when to start to cut billions of dollars of aid to cushion the worst economic recession since the Second World War, to maintain the credibility of fiscal policies to the markets and consumers.

Officials of the 20 largest developed and emerging world economies said at the end of the meeting in the small Scottish town of St. Andrews that although the economy has improved, the recovery is still uneven and still depended on the political support . Although it will continue to support the economy until recovery is assured, we are also committed to developing further strategies to manage the withdrawal of our macroeconomic policies and financial support extraordinary, said . But some central banks like Europe (ECB) have already taken some steps to move past the liquidity support to address the crisis and the ECB president, Jean-Claude Trichet, said Saturday that the U.S. Federal Reserve had similar plans. We had a chance to say which was our understanding of the drawdown of unconventional steps that have been decided on both sides of Atlantic, but also by other central banks, Trichet told a news conference. Continue reading →