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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The House of the Belgian Parliament on Thursday approved a bill to prohibit the public use of the Islamic veil that completely covers the face, a move that could make Belgium the first European country to make use of the veil a criminal offense. The law, presented as a security measure by its proponents, was an overwhelming support of 136 legislators. There were only two abstentions. The bill that1000would ban all clothing that covers the face of partial or total, would become law in the coming months and is not expected that the Upper House or Senate blocked the legislation. However, the collapse of the coalition government of Belgium last week and the possibility of an imminent election could delay the law, and that Parliament will be dissolved. France, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe, seeks to ban the Islamic headscarf in public, and the Government there will review the draft of a project law in May. It also could become law within a few months. fracofonos Belgian Liberals, who proposed the law of the veil, indicated that the inability to identify people who hide their face presents a security risk and that the veil was a “prison-errant” for women. (continue reading…)

A throughout the empire, drains and rivers polluted chemicals, industrial smoke choked the cities, the radiation destroyed the land, open pit mines were like a scar in the valleys. It was difficult to assess the seriousness of the situation. The goal was always to meet production quotas and no one paid attention to the environment. Today, the eastern part of Europe is divided into two: one part has been cleaned with the help of large amounts money from the West and the incentive represents a possible admission to1000the prosperous European Union, on the other, would give the impression that the commissioners were never communist. Two rivers reflect these stories of contrasts. ___ Explore the Dnieper River in Ukraine, former Soviet bloc countries important, involves crossing black and orange clouds emissions of an industrial plant. On a hill, the passengers feel the smell of burning garbage. Many lots have barbed wire with signs warning of radioactivity. Not far away, a ship passes by the third nuclear power plant world”s largest. near Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, the Dnieper receives the waters of the Pripyat, with radioactive sediment of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, which experienced the biggest nuclear disaster in history in 1986. To the southwest, in countries that joined the EU, another river, the Danube is better every day. Cruise ships pass through areas where the public bathes and people of different nationalities walk the concourses that inspired the music of Johann Strauss. Throughout its course there are more and more forests and swamps declared protected areas. In 1989, the section of the Danube which ran communist countries was as the Dnieper, an ecological disaster of proportions epic. The oil slicks issued reflections with the colors of the rainbow. In many areas there were no fish and the abundant algae stinking banks. Worse than the visible signs of contamination were the invisible micro poisoned the entire ecosystem. At the crossroads of geography and history, however, sealed the fate of two other rivers. The Dnieper is born in Russia and flows into the Black Sea. Walk southeastern Belarus and Ukraine, two countries that are linked to the Kremlin. The Danube, for its part, made a triumphal march through the countries of Eastern Europe that are joining the EU. Born in Germany and represents the boundary between that country and several new EU members: Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria. The river runs through 2857 kilometers (1775 miles) from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. Live in its basin 83 million people in 19 countries. Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, most of these countries sharing the Danube signed an agreement on how to manage river. (continue reading…)

“Syria and Iran are supplying Hezbollah rockets and missiles of increasing capacity,” Gates said during a joint press conference with his counterpart Ehud Barak. “We”ve reached the point that Hezbollah has more rockets and missiles and that most governments around the world, and that”s obviously something destabilizing the entire region and we are monitoring carefully, “he said. But that was not the only major U.S. ad Iran. Earlier, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, reiterated that his country maintains its objective of reaching an agreement to impose sanctions on Iran”s nuclear program within the Security Council of the UN over this spring (northern hemisphere )”. After a meeting with President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, Clinton was pleased that Iran sent to a third country, Russia, its uranium to be enriched to a level sufficient for use for medical purposes. (continue reading…)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The last mission of NASA”s shuttle was postponed until November, so that scientists adapted a particle detector than 2,000 million dollars for a long life on the International Space Station, officials said Monday . There are three shuttle flights and the U.S. space agency planned to close the program on 30 September with the closure of the Discovery mission to resupply the space station.

That mission now delayed until after the launch of Endeavour to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS for its acronym in English), a project of 16 countries monitored by Samuel Tigg, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of Nobel.

“It was clear that the (Endeavour) could not fly in July as was evident,” said NASA spokesman Kyle Herring.

AMS, designed to detect anti-matter particles and other strange forms of matter in space, would fly in July. But with the Government”s proposal to extend the space station program until at least 2020, scientists decided to change the cryogenic superconducting magnet, which they believed would last three years by a permanent magnet that would last between 10 and 18.

“We started thinking about it late last year and early January when people spoke of reaching the space station by 2020 and beyond,” Ting said in an interview. (continue reading…)

After being watched during the morning of Sunday, a funeral procession consisting of the hearse, which was also carrying Rebecca Schaefer”s adopted daughter, and a vehicle in which he was the lawyer for both left for the cemetery. A group of neighbors in the wake threw dirt on the float to its output. The funeral was brief and private, and attended by about five people. Rebecca Schaefer remained for about 30 minutes walk from the tomb, a witness told AFP. According to local press, the gravestone of former Nazi is unnamed and will remain so for a while. Together with a group of German settlers, Schaefer in 1961 founded Colonia Dignidad, a community was presented as1000benevolent society for disadvantaged children in truth was a casualty out enclave where former Nazi atrocities committed against children and worked with the military dictatorship. (continue reading…)

“No to Impunity! Is the dignity of victims of Franco what is at stake,” said the filmmaker Pedro Almodovar to read a manifesto at the end of the march in Madrid convened under the slogan “Against the impunity of Franco in solidarity with the victims. ” ” That judicial initiatives right-wing organizations have managed to halt the investigation of the crimes of the Franco regime, represents an unprecedented scandal, “complained the writer Almudena Grandes . Poet and prisoner of Marcos Ana Franco considered “incomprehensible that a democratic state charged with a crime of malfeasance to a judge in Spain to apply the doctrine of international criminal law a few years ago he allowed to act against such crimes committed in countries like Argentina or Chile. ” ” Crimes against humanity can not be granted amnesty and never prescribe and 1977 amnesty law can not override the Constitution itself, “says the manifesto, after reading which observed a minute”s silence for the victims. Meanwhile, several dozen people demonstrated convened by the Spanish Falange Party, which denounced Garzon on the grounds that investigated the disappearances without jurisdicti1000on to do so. The demonstration of Madrid joined those organized in several Spanish cities, which brought together hundreds of people in Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, among others. Outside of Spain, over a hundred people gathered in Paris and London about thirty. Also convened in Brussels, Lisbon and Dublin, and Latin America in Buenos Aires and Mexico City Spanish Forum in Paris echoed the merger, as well as social network Facebook. Similar concentrations were held this afternoon in various cities in the south of France, Pau, Montpellier and Bordeaux, convened by the memory associations Republican Spain and Association Memory of the Spanish Republican Exile in France. Garzon”s trial, which will begin soon, sowed controversy in Spain and raised a wave of support abroad, especially in Latin America, where the judge, 54, is known for its practice of to achieve universal justice and the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998. (continue reading…)

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A second Afghan-born man pleaded guilty on Friday of plotting to attack subways in New York, in what U.S. officials said was the most serious threat to the city from the attacks of September 11 2001. Zarein Ahmedzay The driver pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and provide material support Al Qaeda of Osama bin Laden. Ahmedzay, 25, is a former high school teammate in the United States Zazi Najibullah, who this year admitted to receiving weapons and training from Al Qaeda and planning a suicide bombing in the underground city. Prosecutors said the men planned to carry out the attack during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, between 22 August and on 20 September last year, but abandoned the plot when they learned they were being investigated. (continue reading…)

139 tissue samples from killer whales around the world point at least three distinct species, the researchers reported in the journal Genome Research. The researchers suspected that this could be the cause for which mammalian white and black or gray and black are subtle differences in staining and even in feeding behavior. As a group, orcas are not considered endangered, but some populations designated predators are. A new species designation could change this and affect conservation efforts. One of the newly designated species feeds on seals of Antarctica, while others eat fish, “said Phillip Morin, of Fisheries Science Center Southwestern National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA for its acronym in English) U.S., who led the study. His team sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of whales , part of the cell that contains only part of the DNA. Mitochondrial DNA is passed with little change from mother to offspring. New DNA sequencing methods finally made possible the study, Morin said in a statement. “The genetic characteristics of mitochondria of killer whales and other cetaceans, changes very little over time, making it difficult to detect distinctions without looking at the whole genome in recently evolved species,” he said. (continue reading…)

In principle, separate collection of dry and wet waste will begin on May 17 and will cover the center of the capital and suburbs Candioti South, North Candioti, Seven Heads, Villa Setubal, Guadalupe East, West Guadalupe, Sargento Cabral and Maria Villa Selva . Environment Undersecretary Roberto Celano said Monday and Thursday from 21 dry waste will be collected, while wet waste will be lifted on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Friday after a publicity campaign to explain to citizens the scope of the program. Social Development Secretary municipal, Alejandro Boscarol, said at a news conference that “what days was observed was more convenient to remove each residue. (continue reading…)