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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 09:37 AMThousands of people fled their homes Venezuela, Tuesday, after landslides and overflowing water from several rivers have killed at least 21 people and threatening to cause damage again.
Bad weather makes the closing of the two largest oil refineries in the OPEC member states on Monday (29/11). A source at state oil company PDVSA said they are slowly begin operating again Tuesday.
Millions of poor people in Venezuela live in a shack that was built without planning in the slums on the hillsides in Caracas and along the Caribbean coast. Heavy rains remind the public about the landslide which caused major damage in 1999 that killed at least 10,000 people.
Small landslide toppled dozens of homes, and cars pile up and block the road this weekend. Most of the 21 people are killed by landslides, while others washed away river.
The government has declared a state of emergency in three states and Caracas, as well as cancel a lesson at school and opened hundreds of shelter from the storm.
"The rain will continue for at least three days ahead," said Vice President Elias Jaua told state television station.
Formed long lines in poor areas of Caracas, when the official family record which will be placed in temporary shelters, including hotels, government offices and even the presidential palace.
Vice President Elias Jaua said 5600 people were forced to flee their homes due to heavy rain.
Most areas of the oil-producing states, Falcon, was flooded, resulting in a little oil spill near and Amuay Cardon refinery, which has a combined capacity of 955,000 barrels per day.
The main unit in Amuay, which can produce 645,000 barrels per day began operating again on Tuesday, a source at the oil refinery complex. Cardon will require 10 days to operate normally again after a power outage in the service industry, said Monday.
The source, who refused to be named because he was not authorized to speak, said the shipment of two oil refineries were not affected.Andean Development Corporation, a regional development bank, said the bank was passed 100 million U.S. dollars aid to Venezuela to help the country cope with the disaster.
SOURCE : ANTARA
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 10:44 AM Stockholm (AFP) - WikiLeaks, an international organization headquartered in Sweden, in a message on Twitter network, said web pages that deal with new attacks after a similar incident at the weekend, just before the networks began to broadcast a secret diplomatic information the United States.
"We now face another DDoS attack," WikiLeaks said in its official account on Twitter.
DDoS stands for Distributed denial of service. Classic DDoS attack occurs when the legions of computer "zombies", which usually is a device infected with a virus, was ordered to visit a network simultaneously.
Massive attack like that can cripple servers, slow service or fully make it out of the network.
One message that was broadcast recently on a Twitter account, WikiLeaks, stating, "DDoS attacks are now exceeding 10 gigabits per second."
Jon Karlung, leader of web hosting company in Sweden, Bahnhof - which became part of WikiLeaks web host, including documents about the role of Iraq, confirmed the attack, but not the initial target server in Stockholm.
"We do not have cable logs (leakage diplomatic) primer, we do not accept it. But we can see there is an attack, we could not see how big, but we can see their server is very slow," he said.
Karlung said WikiLeaks mainly do web hosting on Amazon's network, the U.S. company, which has a server in Seattle.
"One American company into WikiLeaks web hosts, and it was very unusual," said Karlung.
Karlung add WikiLeaks recent weeks have been using a server based in France.
There has been no answer from Amazon about confirmation requests AFP that the company provides services for WikiLeaks server.
Amazon is the main provider of web hosting services in the World, which rents space on a server computer to customers worldwide.
WikiLeaks reportedly do web hosting on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Internet platform called EC2.
On Sunday, when WikiLeaks started broadcasting electronic messages as much as 250,000 U.S. embassy, the Twitter page that states that these networks have faced a DDoS cyber attack.
WikiLeaks however insisted that the newspaper El Pais, Le Moden, Der Spiegel, The Guardian and the New York Times will resume publication of the first such document, even if networking WikiLeaks jam.
WikiLeaks later able to outsmart the attack by creating sub-networks http://cablegate.wikileaks.org-- because its main network - http: / / wikileaks.org-- could not be accessed after the attack.
Until Tuesday, 18:00 GMT Wednesday (1:00 pm), both address "online" is still operating.
SOURCE : ANTARA
Friday, November 26, 2010 11:32 pm
North Korea on Friday through its official media warned that the plan of the United States naval training and the South Korean peninsula would bring it closer to the war.
North Korean communist regime on Tuesday, firing cannons and rockets into the South Korean island Yeongpyeong that killed four people.
Pyongyang claimed that the shots that were a reply after South Korea held military exercises.
United States aircraft carrier USS George Washington on Friday toward the Korean peninsula where the U.S. and South Korea plans to hold naval exercises during four days in the Yellow Sea began Sunday.
Washington said the war games had been designed before the attack happened on Tuesday.
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in his article commenting on the plan Friday that war game with the phrase "war-imperialist forces like the U.S. and Korean puppets" and the exercise was intended to "incite a war."
"The situation on the Korean Peninsula inched closer to the brink of war because the plan elements reckless drivers who likes to war with the targets of the DPRK," the media.
SOURCE : ANTARA
READ MORE - U.S. warns North Korea and South Korea "at the Threshold of War"
Sunday, November 28, 2010 22:06 AMJerusalem (AFP) - Palestinian Fighters in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, but caused no casualties or damage, the Israeli army said.
The rocket exploded in the air as to the Shaar HaNegev, which lies along the northeastern border of Gaza, said the spokesman.
According to the count of the army, the Palestinians since the beginning of this year has been fired more than 190 rockets or mortars into Israel from Hamas-controlled coastal strip.
Violence has recently occurred after several months of generally calm after the war in Gaza, when Hamas took steps to control the armed groups are smaller and harder, which is believed to be behind rocket attacks.
Hamas strongly opposes the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which began back in Washington in September after stagnating for almost two years.
The second round of talks scheduled to take place on Tuesday in Egypt.
By the end of 2008, Israel waged a large 22-day war over the Gaza Strip to halt rocket attacks against its territory.
Turmoil that has killed 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.
Israeli Air Force bombed more than 40 tunnel, which connects the isolated Gaza Strip with Egypt's Sinai desert during the onslaught began.
Cross-border tunnels used to smuggle goods and weapons into the Gaza Strip, which cut off by Israel since Hamas master excommunicated in 2007.
Operation "Cast Lead" Israel, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians, including hundreds of residents and destroying a large number of areas on the coastal path, stated aims mengahiri firing rockets from Gaza.
Thirteen Israelis were killed in the war.
Stalled Middle East peace efforts since the crisis and the Gaza Strip remained isolated Israel.
Gaza Strip, a densely populated coastal areas, isolated Israel and Egypt after Hamas took power.
Group Hamas controls the Gaza Strip in June 2007 after defeating Fatah forces, loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a deadly battle a few days.
Since then, the poor are excluded Israel. Palestine had become two separate unitary areas, namely the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, and the West Bank, which is under Abbas's government.
European Union, Israel and the United States incorporate Hamas into the list of terrorist organizations.
Poor region has a population of 1.5 million is largely dependent on a network of tunnels on the border since Israel and Egypt sealed Gaza off from all quarters in 2006, except for essential assistance, after militants captured an Israeli soldier.
Israeli soldiers on Sunday shot and wounded four Palestinians as they look for building materials near the Gaza border with Israel, medical sources said.
Teenage boy 15 years, including a shot in the northern town of Beit Hanun area, said emergency services spokesman Gaza.
Israeli soldiers opened fire ensures a number of people, "who approached the border fence" after ignoring warning shots.
Gazans are constantly threatened with injury or killed by a search of gravel in the ruins of abandoned buildings along the border, although close to 300 yards particular territory Israel 300.
Israel declared the territory should not be encroached upon it is necessary to prevent Palestinian bombers gunner and reach, and might violate, the border fence. (*)
SOURCE: ANTARA
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 06:42 AM | Abroad | Middle East / Africa | Read 1173 timesBanjul (Reuters) - Gambia, on Monday announced the country was cut off all economic relations, political and diplomatic with Iran and gave 48 hours to the personnel of the Iranian government to leave the country.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Gambia did not give reasons for those actions.However, his neighbor, Nigeria, early November said that all documents for illegal arms shipments from Iran who intercepted his secret service in Lagos seems to show the weapons are directed to the Gambia to be re-exported.
"All government programs and projects in Gambia, which will be implemented in cooperation with the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been canceled," according to the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Gambia. (*)
SOURCE: ANTARA
Monday, November 29, 2010, 05:50 GMT
YEONPYEONG - China proposes emergency talks on the settlement of the crisis on the Korean Peninsula on Sunday (28/11). This happened after a number of global pressure on China to take a more active role in both the Korean conflict, as well as control the North Korean allies.
In a statement, China assess the condition of the two Koreas are in the situation "alarming". The country will soon be scheduled talks in December, with China, the United States, Japan, and Russia as a mediator.
However, China did not officially say whether North Korea will join or not join in the dialogue.
Previously, some countries had argued the Chinese are too indulgent of North Korea.Even some speculation, assume China will disturb the atmosphere in the Yellow Sea to defend North Korea.
Tensions between South Korea and North Korea continue to rise. Saturday (27/11) for example, Commander of the Sea of South Korea promised to get even "thousand-fold" on all North Korean attack.
Meanwhile, North Korea admitted it regretted any civilian casualties during attacks dilakukam. However, this communist country believes South Korea is to blame.
According to North Korea, South Korea deliberately using its citizens as a shield. Not only that, North Korea also assess the United States should be blamed as the "mastermind" of this.
Source: Republika
Monday, November 29, 2010, 05:46 GMT
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi civilian was killed after U.S. troops opened fire on his car on Sunday (28/11). He was shot blindly when trying to approach a military convoy near Baghdad airport, a few yards from a U.S. military base in the country.
According to U.S. military representatives in Baghdad, his party had recently tried to stop a civilian vehicle was. But the vehicle kept moving with high speed and close to the convoy.
"The driver failed to slow the vehicle and turned on the lights to the convoy," said the U.S. military. "As a result, the vehicle was considered a threat. The convoy was forced to stop and protect the convoy from possible attack."
Meanwhile, according to the local Interior Ministry victims are civilians. He worked as an engineer at the Baghdad airport.
Although the period has ended its operations in Iraq, U.S. forces often seen patrolling in some areas in Iraq. They are on duty to advise and train Iraqi forces.
Source: Republika
Incheon - Related crossfire between the military of North Korea (North Korea) and South Korea (ROK), Tuesday (23/11) afternoon, South Korean President, Lee Myung Bak held an emergency security meeting. At the meeting, Lee Myung Bak said the attack could not be tolerated because of the number of civilians.
"We will conduct large-scale retaliation if North Korea makes more provocations," said Lee Myung Bak on Tuesday (23/11).
United States (U.S.), which has more than 28 thousand troops stationed in South Korea, condemned the attack. From Washington, White House secretary, Robert Gibbs asked North Korea to immediately stop the attack and threatened to help the defense of South Korea.
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon also condemned the North's artillery attacks. He calls it as one of the worst incidents since the end of the Korean War in 1950 ago.Ban called for each side to exercise restraint and immediately advise all the problems can be solved by peaceful means.
According to South Korean army, the clash left two South Korean marines were killed and 15 civilians were injured. Residents who live on the island was also evacuated to a safer place.
SOURCE : REPUBLIKA
"Every province in Indonesia mimiliki potential to build nuclear reactors since the raw material lots and geologically quite supportive," he said in Pangkalpinang on Monday.
He explained that currently there are three new nuclear reactors in Indonesia, namely in Serpong, Yogyakarta and Bandung, with power around 90 Mega Watts.
"The reactor has a power of 30 Watt Megawa for agriculture and health, while for nuclear could reach 10 thousand Mega Watts for a single reactor," he said.
He said the Koreans are the vast country is only a quarter of three Java can have as many as 20 nuclear reactors, and China has built 30 reactors.
"While Indonesia has only had three small-scale reactor, but allows each province to build a nuclear reactor," he said.
He explained that nuclear power is very cheap energy, not prone to contamination and to build a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is to provide an area of 25 hectares.
"Babylon has been established nuclear power plant site in West Bangka Regency, this province will be faster progress if the NPP had built," he said.
According to him, pros cons of nuclear power plant and a fear society because of ignorance about the importance of this energy.
"If the PLN has supported fully by the PLN and of course they manage it professionally," he said.
Until now, it continues to push the government to build a nuclear power plant and expects each province has a nuclear reactor to be more quickly developed and advanced.
"In developed countries have developed nuclear because it is very important and less expensive than other energy," he said.
SOURCE : ANTARA
