Posted in: World News by Paul Crisan | July 12th 2010 | no comments
The project is called TARANIS and will begin training the first flights in 2011. UK Ministry of Defence officially presented the first prototype of an unmanned aircraft type UCAV (unmanned combat air vehicle).TARANIS is a concept built aircraft for missions over long distances in which have been invested over 3 million work hours.Defence Minister Gerald Howarth said it is truly a "great [...]
Posted in: World News by Paul Crisan | July 12th 2010 | no comments
Legendary kingdom of Camelot Roundtable would find in western England town of Chester. According to historians, around the table of King Arthur could take place 1,000 people.
Researchers exploring the legend of Britain’s most famous Knight believe his stronghold of Camelot was built on the site of a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre in Chester.Legend has it that his Knights [...]
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Nearly two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the fall in the worst recession the country's financial heart of New York began to beat, and this is a good sign for economists.The place where the financial crisis broke, the sun begins to emerge. Le Figaro notes that Wall Street has been employed 2,000 people in February, under which 28,000 people lost their job since 2008. [...]
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Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev were just a step to get behind bars, having hosted the Andrei Sakharov Museum in Moscow, an exhibition in which Jesus Christ was depicted in controversial poses.Also, a Moscow court convicted the two men, Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeyev, to pay fines of 5,000 euros each one. Judges have ruled that a 2007 Moscow exhibition entitled "Forbidden Art", [...]
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Street riots of young Irish Catholics that erupted Sunday night in the capital of Northern Ireland have claimed nearly 30 policemen injured.About 200 people turned out Sunday on the streets of two neighborhoods dominated by Irish nationalists in Belfast, the day before massive parades organized by the Protestant Orange Order brotherhood. During parades are sectarian tensions in Northern [...]
Posted in: World News by Paul Crisan | July 11th 2010 | no comments
The protesters waved flags and displayed messages of independence. The protest was organized in response to a decision by the Spanish Constitutional Court regarding the status of Catalonia. The Court decided that there is no legal basis for independence of this region, that its inhabitants required intensive.
"Spanish Constitution is rigid and stable, they told us, instead of flexible [...]
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro visited a scientific institute in Havana, Wednesday, the first known exit in public in December, when he met the President of Nicaragua, who is visiting Cuba, according to images broadcast Saturday by an official website.
Dressed in sports clothes, Fidel Castro, 83 years old, visited the National Center for Scientific Investigations, which has reached 45 [...]
Posted in: World News by Paul Crisan | July 10th 2010 | no comments
The real winner of World Cup could be the country's economy, because Spain or Holland will receive an additional growth of about 0.25 percentage points from victory in the most watched match of the world, many analysts consider.
Accelerating economic growth will be based on higher consumer spending and could reach about 0.25 percentage points, according to ABN Amro Bank Hein Schotsman [...]
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A painting that depicts Nelson Mandela on an autopsy table caused outrage Saturday in the South African ruling party, although the author argues that the panel wanted only to bring tribute to the former president.
Damaso Yuill's work presents Nelson Mandela dead and lying on an autopsy table, under the eyes of South African political figures.
The painting, exhibited in a gallery [...]
Posted in: World News by Paul Crisan | July 9th 2010 | 2 comments
A huge swastika displayed on the facade of an art gallery in the city of Poznan has sparked a huge scandal in the proportions in Poland, but can not be removed since it doesn't violate the law.
A giant poster was exposed on the front of the Polish city of Poznan showing a swastika with a women standing naked with Mickey Mouse's head and reproducing opera "NaziSexyMouse", conducted by [...]
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Poland has requested U.S. help to clarify this issue, and Americans have promised, according to Polish media, satellite images and telephone records held by the Tu-148 passenger before the accident.
Poland has requested U.S. help to determine whether it is possible that the Russian side to be artificially created fog in the Severn military airport in the Smolensk region (western Russia) [...]
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Sending the U.S. military submarines off the coast of China send a message to the Beijing government, which mobilized about 1,000 missiles in the Taiwan Strait and its influence is becoming greater in the region, commented Time magazine.
Basically, near the Chinese were mobilized in a single day, 462 U.S. Tomahawk missile.
"There was a further decision of U.S. Pacific forces," [...]
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Russia and the United States conducted the biggest spy swap since the Cold War on Friday, trading agents on Vienna airport tarmac in an evocative climax to an espionage drama that had threatened improving ties.
Two aircrafts -- one Russian, one American -- parked side by side for around 90 minutes as vehicles shuttled between them. The agents changed places under the cover of gangways [...]
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U.S. President Barack Obama believes that the source of distrust that some Israelis feel toward him could be that one of his first name is Hussein, of Arab origin, inform the online edition of Haaretz newspaper.
U.S. President Barack Obama told Channel 2 News on Wednesday that he believed Israel would not try to surprise the U.S. with a unilateral attack on Iran.
In an interview [...]
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"I can tell you that terrorism program offered guidance to the Norwegian investigation of the al Qaeda threat," said Stuart Levey Under Secretary for terrorism in Brussels. The statement came after the European Parliament adopted Thursday a new version of anti-terrorist agreement on transfer of SWIFT banking data to U.S. after certain security guarantees negotiated following the [...]
Posted in: World News by Paul Crisan | July 8th 2010 | no comments
European deputies in Strasbourg today adopted a resolution on Kosovo which calls on all EU member states to recognize Kosovo’s independence. The resolution was adopted with 455 votes in favour and 155 votes against.
MEPs “would welcome the recognition by all Member States of the independence of Kosovo”, the resolution says. In addition, the text recalls that Kosovo’s declaration [...]
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Germany has launched legal proceedings against Facebook over privacy concerns that could result in Facebook being fined tens of thousands of euros for saving private data of people who don't use the site and haven't granted it access to their details. Germany also has launched an investigation into Google over its Street View mapping program.
A German data protection official said [...]
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Undertakers in Belgium plan to eschew traditional burials and cremations and start dissolving corpses instead. The move is intended to tackle a lack of burial space and environmental concerns as 573lbs of carbon dioxide are released by each cremated corpse.
Under the process, known as resomation, bodies are treated in a steel chamber with potassium hydroxide at high pressure and a [...]
