“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…)