Lethal drone strike we can anger in Pakistan - New York Times fuel pump

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - American drone attack killed 23 people in the North Waziristan on Friday, Pakistani military said in a strike against militant, relentless pressure from the United States about to mean that Pakistan's military in the midst of increasing resistance to such strikes.

Strikes came a day after the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, met with the Pakistani military, General Ashfaq Kayani Parvez, and asked that more fighters fight Pakistan to the North Waziristan as a starting point, to United States and NATO troops in Afghanistan.

The attack was the second of the United States determination continues to drone attacks since the head of Pakistan's spy Pasha, met Agency, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja this month in Washington with Director Leon E. Panetta by the Central Intelligence Agency to halt the strike order.

Friday's attack could further anti-drone mood the Pakistani public fuel. An official in the North Waziristan reporters Pakistani that were five children and four women among the 23 who were killed.

The attack from forces militant commander, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, highlighted cross its loyalists in Afghanistan American and NATO troops to the border, the official said Government.

Mr Bahadur works under a peace agreement with the Pakistani army, which ensures that militant under his control focus not Pakistani soldiers but is only on the Allied soldiers attack to do.

The victims Friday in Spinwam, an area near Mir Ali in North Waziristan collected were the hub of a fighter in the past few months, had become, said the official.

In the growing public nerves between the US and the Pakistani army is Pakistan's Government a planned NATO protest this weekend in Peshawar set allows. A political leader, Imran Khan, has demonstrators to stage a sit-in Saturday to the block truck with NATO supplies called for the war in Afghanistan. The truck travels through Peshawar from the port of Karachi to Torkham, the gateway to Afghanistan.

Strike the drone came on Friday after Mullen an unusually tough message during his transmitted visit Admiral here, to say that Pakistan's spy directly support agency, inter-services intelligence, and the Haqqani favours network of militants in North Waziristan. The network are responsible for many of the American victims in Afghanistan fighters, American commanders say.

The United States has long held that the network was Haqqani of the Pakistani Spy supports Agency, but it is so rarely publicly says.

In a separate episode, between the Pakistani armed forces and the Taliban, 16 soldiers of Pakistan border Corps were killed Thursday when their checkpoint was overrun by 150 militants near the border with Afghanistan, a Pakistani security official said.

The battle still close to 12 hours at Kharkai in the Northern District of province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly North-West Frontier Province. Sent out to the troops to reinforce two officers, were killed in an ambush, said the officials.

The attack which came as the Army went militants on Pakistani soldiers have proved difficult on a new attack in Mohmand, part of the tribal areas that hold for the Pakistani army.

In a report to the Congress this month, the Obama complained administration that the Pakistani army had to defeat the revolt in Pakistan "no clear path" towards, and cited the failed efforts to eradicate the militants of Abdul Ahad Mohmand as an illustration. The army "was otherwise for the third time in two years" of Mohmand, militant delete according to the report.

The 150 terrorists, which was carried out the attack on Thursday the Army attack on Afghanistan fled and then again in Pakistan the soldiers blow to enable.

General Kayani, the head of the Pakistani military, Abdul Ahad Mohmand visited on Thursday for the second stage of a new attack a narrow valley on the border with Afghanistan on the SURAN, focused.

In the last few months American and NATO have to troops on the other side of the border of Abdul Ahad Mohmand Pakistan militant attack, as she escaped in Afghanistan, Pakistani security officials said helped. But the official said the Pakistani fighters who to escape you prior to the attack on the Suran began and were attacked on Thursday again seemed in Pakistan by elements in the Afghan army, which support them.

Jane Perlez reported from Islamabad and Ismail Khan from Peshawar, Pakistan.

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Pope speaks Q & A - New York Times of Iraq and tsunami in the first TV

Rome - in his first question-and response TV appearance, shown by national broadcaster Italy on Friday, Pope Benedict XVI calls the Christian minority not to give up Iraq and offered his thoughts on euthanasia and the tsunami in Japan.

Included in a segment last week and one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar the Pope, dressed in white and sit out behind a desk in his library, responded to questions from seven persons selected among thousands of entries aired.

As the book-length interview published in November last year, which seemed TV appearance talk the Pope him directly to his followers, helps to the exactly one year after a sexual abuse crisis in Europe plunged the Roman Catholic world into a tailspin and revealed a profound problems of communication in the Vatican.

There were no curve ball questions among those of Italy's RAI State broadcaster selected - and nothing about the sexual abuse crisis. On Thursday, Benedict the crisis in a liturgy, "the shame we feel about our shortcomings" addressed to speak, but add that "it bright examples of faith," including his predecessor John Paul II., which is expected to be closer to Holiness to a beatification on 1 May to move one step mass.

In the TV question and answer session on Friday, which urged Pope, Christians in the war-torn Iraq "against the temptation to emigrate the very understandable in the circumstances, the it in life."

The program revealed a rich tension between the mysteries of faith and the limitations of the TV interview format.

Asked by an Italian man, "what is Jesus doing in the time between his death and resurrection?" replied the Pope: "This descent of Jesus soul should be presented to the other as a geographical or a spatial travel from one continent." "It is the journey of the soul."

Elena, a seven year old tsunami survivors from Japan, asked: "why children need to be sad?" "Please the Pope, I with God, speaks to me to explain?"

The Pope replied, "this suffering was not empty, it was not free, but behind it was a good plan."

"Can you be sure that God will help them," he added.

The Pope said a woman whose son had been in a vegetative coma since April 2009 that "certainly his soul in his body still exists."

The television interview was part of a talk show where a group of three experts discussed the crucifixion. A slogan at the bottom of the screen read "Answers, the Pope to questions about Jesus."

Later Friday, was to attend a good Friday ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica and then run the annual planned stations of the cross procession in close to the Colosseum Benedict.

The texts for the procession this year were of several nuns, who posted the first time, the Pope prepared by women will read texts.

On Friday, the Vatican also announced that Benedict would be the first Pope call space. On 4 may, he is expected at the contact binds with two Italian astronauts of space shuttle endeavour with the station in the satellite be board the international space station.

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Invitation to the Israeli leader is Obama spot - New York Times

Discuss White House officials have for three months, whether Mr Obama turbulence, including the upheaval in the Arab world, make a major address on the region the time has come, and whether he should use the opportunity, propose a new plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

An administration official said this course was Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the President himself, but by Dennis B. Ross, senior advisor to the President to the Middle East.

Because the Administration has brooding, Mr Netanyahu, was been scary, that his country floor plan would lose administration with no Obama, has consideration, whether in the White House with a proposal of his own, before a friendly Congress, prejudice, according to American officials and diplomats from the region.

"People seem to think that if you go first gets the upper hand," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator and Director at the new America Foundation. Mr Netanyahu nickname, he said: "If Bibi went first and layout, would a bold peace plan to put it more difficult for Obama actually despite what you said Congress and their applause, that is what I think you should do."

The political diversion between the two men demonstrates how the calculation has changed East in the Middle for a variety of reasons, including the political unrest in the Arab world. But it shows the lack of trust and personal animosity of Mr Obama and Mr Netanyahu is what some officials say.

White House officials to draft a possible proposal which work, but they not decided how detailed it will be or even whether the President will deliver it in a planned speech. If Mr Obama submit to an American plan, officials say it could have four principles or negotiators have cursed mandate, to the final status issues, the peace since 1979.

The terms of reference might call for Israel, to accept a Palestinian State on the basis of the 1967 borders. You would have to accept Palestinians, that they end up not the right to return to Israel would get, from which they fled or were forced to flee. Jerusalem would be the capital of both States, and Israeli security would need to be protected.

Mr Netanyahu has made it clear that he wants to Israel's security before any deal needs dealt with peace with the Palestinians. He has worried more about security, because layers in power among the Arab States have weakened in recent months Israel's already fragile relations with its neighbours, in particular Egypt.

The fighting between the Obama administration and the Israeli Government reached a peak last week when Mrs. Clinton, in Washington for a meeting of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, announced that Mr Obama "more detail would talk East and North Africa about America's policy in the middle in the coming weeks."

Their announcement electrified Israeli officials who got with American officials and journalists quickly on the phone whether Mr Obama had decided to put on the table an American plan. He had not such a decision, and White House officials pointed out that the internal debate was still going on.

But two days later, the House speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, his intention announced, Mr Netanyahu, invite, to address a joint session of Congress. "America and Israel are the closest friends and allies, and we are looking forward to the Prime Minister's views on how we can continue working together for peace, freedom and stability," Mr. Boehner said in a press release.

Like many other foreign leaders, Mr Netanyahu spoke in Congress. He did so in 1996, and four other Israeli Prime Ministers have in the past 35 years. The platform is American elected leaders the possibility of public support for Israel for the politically crucial Israel lobby to demonstrate.

Mr Netanyahu will address the planned meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, probably the most powerful of the American groups together, which advocate for Israel.

Brendan buck, Mr Boehner spokesman, said that staff had received no pushback from the White House about the invitation to Mr Netanyahu. "Of course, it's a troubled time for the region," he said. "Our members were very interested to demonstrate that we are with Israel."

In November last year, representative Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia, said Mr Netanyahu, that would the new GOP majority in the House "review of the Administration, in a statement serve", put the rare his blunt disagreement on American foreign policy as a leading provider of foreign.

Mr. Cantor put out a statement after a meeting with Mr Netanyahu said that he "clearly, that the Republican majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States and the security of every nation of the other independent is made."

Brian Katulis, a national security expert with the Center for American progress, a liberal research organization, said that Republicans were trying "Israel a partisan wedge issue."

"And that's bad for Israel, and that's bad for the United States", said Mr Katulis. But he added that the Administration would never publicly or privately, against the idea of one Israeli leader addressing Congress.

Two American officials, on condition of anonymity by diplomatic caution, speaking, said they thought that if Mr Netanyahu, a bold proposal for peace with the Palestinians should deal, he would do before his own people in the Knesset.

"Instead of concentration on the establishment of peace, everyone seems speech-making, in the Centre of the stand", said Martin S. Indyk, Vice President for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution and a former US Ambassador to Israel. "And unless that talk that generate peace negotiations, so that no peace talk generated."

The debate is in a pending deadline by the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September, when the Assembly is expected to Palestinian statehood in a vote on the whole, support that deeply embarrassing could prove for Israel and the United States planned, both are expected to vote against it.

This article was revised and according to the following correction:

Correction: April 22, 2011

An article on Thursday between President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel falsified the location of a speech in which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that Mr Obama soon would provide policy in the Middle East details of America's last week. It was in Washington, D.C., Forum, not in Qatar, at a meeting of the U.S.-Islamic world.

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Award-winning war photographer killed in attack in Libya - Los Angeles Times

Tim Hetherington, is left in a building by a rebel helped in Misurata, Libya, hours before he was killed. Chris Hondros, right on mission in Misurata of this week. (AFP/Getty Images;) Associated press) reporting of Misurata, Libya - Tim Hetherington, an award-winning news photographer and Co-Director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Restrepo" and Chris Hondros, a veteran war photographer for Getty Images, were killed Wednesday in an explosion in the Libyan city of Misurata, doctors and colleagues reported.

At least two other photo journalist injured in the explosion, which was believed to go through a round mortar be been caused. Held city in the western Libya leader Moammar Kadafi has attacked several weeks by forces loyal to the Libyan the rebels.

The wounded journalists were Michael Brown of the Corbis Agency, and Guy Martin by Panos Pictures. Hondros, 41, whose working published edition of the Los Angeles Times, on the front page of Wednesday's was after suffering a wound and died some hours later fell into the Misurata's Hikma hospital in coma.

Doctors at the hospital said that seven fighters rebelling and a Ukrainian doctor Wednesday in bombings were killed.

The most Misurata is in rebel hands, although it is surrounded by Kadafi of the forces that have superior firepower. The journalists had in the vicinity of the front lines working with a local militia officer in an area of snipers and other fighters loyal to Kadafi challenged. The journalists were revealed to more territory secure again on foot when they were hit by the fire.

Photos: Images by Hetherington and Hondros

"We were trying, in a safe place." It was too quiet. It said dangerous "Guillermo Cervera, a freelance photo-journalist, which a few metres away from the explosion at the time.""I heard the whoosh of an explosion, and all were on the ground."

Rebels moved in vehicles, and hospital, took the photographer hikmah Cervera said. Mohammed Zawwam, a local journalist, said Hetherington Misurata of people help to and to do a video project on the conflict had said.

"He was just a good guy, an amazing guy, me", Zawwam said.

Hetherington in Liverpool, England, born, studied literature at the University of Oxford, according to his website biography. His documentary, "Restrepo" of a train by soldiers in Afghanistan, won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival last year.

The New York Hondros extends conflicts around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Kashmir, Liberia and the West Bank since the late 1990s. In 2004 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the spot news photography for his work in Liberia and in 2006 he won the gold medal by Robert Capa.

Ned.Parker@LATimes.com

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GAZA STRIP: Suspect in killing of Italian activist dies in standoff - Los Angeles Times

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GAZA STRIP: Suspect in killing of Italian activist dies in standoffComments (0) April 19, 2011?|? 9:34pm

Hamas rulers in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that a man suspected of killing an Italian pro-Palestinian activist in the territory committed suicide during a tense police standoff.

The suspect, a Jordanian citizen, shot himself after he hurled a grenade at two of his partners, critically injuring one of them, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said in a statement published on its website.

Three policemen were injured during an exchange of fire, the statement added.
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Hamas police said armed officers surrounded a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip in which three Islamist Salafists had taken shelter.

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Police cordoned off the area and evacuated scores of houses. Clashes between police and the armed Salafists lasted almost two hours.

A police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said police tried to resolve the situation peacefully, but the other side continued firing at soldiers and mediators.

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The Interior Ministry on Monday posted names and photos on its website of suspects in the killing of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni and indicated that it had begun a manhunt.?

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The body of Arrigoni was discovered in an abandoned house just hours after a radical Islamist group with links to Al Qaeda announced that it was holding him in exchange for the release of its leader, who is being held in a Hamas prison.

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It was the first abduction of a Westerner in Gaza since 2007. It is also the only instance of such a kidnapping victim being slain.

--Ahmed Aldabba in Gaza City

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Libya rebels reject peace plan - times of India

BENGHAZI: Libyan leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil on Monday rejected an African Union initiative for a truce with the forces of Muammar Gaddafi and called for the overthrow of veteran strongman. "These (African Union) initiative has now surpassed was." From the first day is the demand of our people the fall of Gaddafi and the fall of his regime was "Abdul Jalil said at a press conference in Benghazi rebel held."

"Gaddafi and his sons must leave immediately, if they want to be sure..." "Any initiative, which calls the pages, that do not include popular demand, substantial demand is, can we not see may." Abdul Jalil any kind of mediation which would allow denied, remain Gaddafi and lashed to the strongman. "We can negotiate not with the blood of our Matryrs." We will die with them or become victorious and with God's will we will be victorious, ", said the rebel leader."

Jalili's comments came after talks with a delegation of African heads of State in Benghazi on Monday, a day after Gaddafi the peace plan accepted. South African President Jacob Zuma, said Tripoli of the African Union had accepted plan for a ceasefire, would the NATO bombs to stop campaign.

About 200 people, waving rebel flags gathered outside Benghazi airport when the AU delegation arrived, their efforts but demanding Gaddafi's welcome fall.

Correspondent saw in Ajdabiya more than a dozen burnt-out pick-up trucks which the Pro-Gaddafi East held fighters with heavy machine guns for their abortive offensive on the front line between the rebels and West Government had installed held.

Many of which provide that the rebels close buried warriors on the battlefield on the outskirts until recognition after a NATO strike charred became, combined fend off their own efforts to the loyalist attack. "We 35 corpses, with two in the vehicles more melted found", a rebel fighter said. AFP

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11 killed in blast in Belarus u-Bahn-Station - Los Angeles Times

People help a man in an explosion in a u-Bahn station in downtown Minsk injured. (Anton Motolko, AFP/Getty Images / April 11, 2011)A powerful blast rocked the Metro Minsk during rush hour evening Monday, 11 passengers killed and 126 others in a busy downtown u-Bahn-Station. Belarus law enforcement the explosion on a platform at the station of Oktyabrskaya said when a train arrived, was an act of terrorism.

The explosion destroyed Windows, injured persons within the train and the platform of the station, where close to the presidential headquarters was in the center of Belarusian capital.

"I just entered to bring the station to our daughter of my mother in-law's when I felt a growing smell of burning and saw many people rush out, some of them screaming," Ivan Kaplún, an engineer of the proximity to the station live, said in a telephone interview.

Kaplún said he helped a wounded woman perform over on body and pools of blood.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, often described as the last European dictator, blast placed flowers at the site and hurried to his Office for an emergency meeting, after which he announced that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had offered to send a team of researchers.

"I must admit that we have seriously challenged," said Lukashenko speech conferred on televised late Monday. "An adequate response is required and this answer must be found."

Lukashenko expressed also a desire the support of the public to help "Find this freaks."

The attack was celebrated the first in Minsk since July 3, 2008, when dozens of people in a public park have been violated, as independence day. The perpetrators were not found, even though every adult man the country ordered fingerprints Lukashenko.

Lukashenko was re-elected in December last year, to win about 80% of the vote in a controversial election. European Union observers refused to accept the results and Lukashenko's inauguration in January was ignored by the most Western diplomats.

The tainted vote led to an election night protest that was crushed brutally by the police, dozens of demonstrators, including arrested several presidential candidates.

Lukashenko accused in the West of funding the opposition. "We today could have caught in another country," Lukashenko said at a press conference at the end of December, blaming the opposition for trying to storm Government Headquarters, encouraged by Western support and financing.

"If they me of the West not I tell absolutely trust them probably they tried lull us... but we are now seeing their real face."

Human rights activists warn before serious political consequences in the aftermath of Monday's blast. "Something tells me that the authorities take down you the situation and the opposition can on with renewed force,", said Valentin Stefanovich, Deputy Head of the Vyasna, a Center for human rights.

About 30 activists of the opposition, including ex-presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich and Andrei Sannikov, are still in custody and may face up to 15 years in prison on the election night protests.

Svetlana Kalinkina, editor-in-Chief of the newspaper the independent Narodnaya Volya said "who is behind this inhuman and mysterious Act of barbarism to do nothing which has opposition," in an interview with the times. "But I'm sure that law enforcement is the search for culprits in the opposition, as they always do."

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Israel and the Hamas view ceasefire - New York Times

A drastic reduction in activity represented, because Hamas an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus on Thursday, a 16-year-old boy and setting fired wounding critical way by the Israeli aerial, artillery and tank fire rate against targets in Gaza, 18 Palestinians of getoetet10 of which were militant and the rest civilians, according to officials in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas and other militant groups raised about 130 mortar shells and rockets, including several mid-range-ones, in the southern Israel in the last three days.

Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak, said Sunday that Israel had received several messages that Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls, Gaza, was interested in a cease-fire.

"If they fire on our communities to stop, we will stop trigger," said Mr Barak Israel Radio.

Hamas spokesman offered similar messages. Ghazi Hamad, the Deputy Foreign Minister who radio said Hamas led Government in the Gaza Strip, Israel: "we are interested in peace in the Gaza Strip, but also that the Israeli army to cease operations against our people."

Salah al-Bardaweel, a spokesman for Hamas, said that Israel have accepted the idea of reducing the hostilities. "The groups of the lull to, as long as Israel is,", said Mr Bardaweel.

The Hamas led Government said, that helped regional and European parties to achieve the slowdown. He thanked Egypt, but not the other mediators to call.

Still, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that if the attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers, "the answer very be hard."

Strategy towards Gaza, still further escalation with the potential for a total conflagration would be warned that a return to the quiet tense, pushed the largely in the last two years not the lack of a coherent balance Israeli Israeli analysts before that, prevents.

"I think, as far as Israel is concerned, we remain policy, a policy," said Efraim Halevy, former Chief of the Israeli secret service Mossad, who now head of the Shasha Centre for strategic studies at the Hebrew University. Israel, he said has "sit down and work out a policy, whether the Hamas to destroy, or whether it is something else."

"People have to understand, what is the ultimate goal," he said, adding that Hamas, must make some decisions.

During the relative calm of the last two years, both Israel and Hamas have upgraded weapons at your disposal.

The latest escalation began as the military wing of Hamas a Kornet anti-tank missile on the school bus from a distance of about two miles raised. It was an advanced, the first time Lasergelenkte weapon against a civilian target used.

Hamas said the attack was to avenge Israel's killing of three of the fighters of the group, on 2 April an Act, the Hamas said violated a previous cease-fire.

In a further development, which has changed the equation in the region, Israel's new iron dome missile defense system antirocket managed to catch eight of the nine destroy group tourism rockets of the Gaza Strip to cities in South Israel, them in the air.

The success of system, iron Dome, subjected to still evaluation, increases prevent additional damage and the Israelis sense of security. Mr. Barak, the Defense Minister, the Government with additional flexibility available said it provided and allowed on appropriate decision making.

However, independent commentators noted that the iron dome system could protect not Israeli communities near the border and not the possibility of Hamas or Israel includes carrying out a strike, that a large civilian toll, also unintentionally hinausgejagt and set off a war.

Despite its clear benefits, the new antirocket system "serves as no real solution," wrote Ben Caspit, columnist in the newspaper Maariv on Sunday. "The problem of Hamas in Gaza goes to the root, is strategic in nature and will be resolved not by the purchase of domes of various kinds."

Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006 and then took a year later after a short factional war full control of Gaza. The Group has lost popularity, which escalate to speculation, that you can have tensions with Israel to create a distraction. A Palestinian poll in March found that two-thirds of the residents of the Gaza Strip supported demonstrations in favour of the change of Government.

But Amos Gilad, a senior official in the Israeli Defense Ministry, told reporters last week that the Palestinians would have to be removed work of Hamas.

Last month, a merchant ship in the open sea Israel intercepted and seized weapons, including six advanced antiship missiles, which it said is bound for Gaza. Hamas holds an Israeli soldier, Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit, captured in a cross-border RAID and Gaza 2006 meeting.

Fares Akram contributed reporting from Gaza.

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No excuse, but NATO is statement of regret after airstrike rebels - Los Angeles Times

A rebel Libya waits with his weapon on the edge of Ajdabiya, Libya. (Maurizio Gambarini, EPA / April 7, 2011)Reporting from London and Tripoli, Libya - NATO Rear Admiral Russell Harding, Deputy Commander of the NATO operation in Libya, said Friday that NATO planes can indeed beat rebels close to the city of Brega on Thursday but offered no apology for what apparently was a fatal mistake.

The Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has a statement of regret about the rebel deaths, apparently by the NATO air strikes outside Brega added.

"This is a very unfortunate incident." I regret stark the loss of life "said Fogh Rasmussen." "I can assure you that we do our utmost to avoid civilian casualties."

In the meantime ship for the first time un with tons of humanitarian supplies brought relief, the besieged city of Misurata. The ship chartered by the world food programme, food and medical supplies for tens of thousands of civilians trapped by Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi include armed forces in the rebel held town.

A NATO led Alliance, which includes the United States battle to Kadafi's forces from the hurt civilians in different parts of the country to prevent controlled East, in particular the rebels, where forces loyal and against the longtime ruler of Libya in a battlefield standoff were locked.

NATO appeared to admit that his actions in the death of rebels may have been for the second time in less than a week.

"It seems that two of our strikes yesterday [Thursday] the death of a number of [transitional National Council of] forces may have been," said Harding from Naples, Italy. He said that after Ajdabiya saw, made North-East of Brega, the fighting on the road very confusing and difficult to monitor the situation.

"The situation in the area is always still very liquid liquid, with tanks and other vehicles moved in different directions, so that it can very difficult that they cannot be." "In addition, up to that time, the we not the TNC holding tanks, had seen", the British officer said.

He added that it not NATO responsibility to try to improve communication with the rebels to more erroneous air strikes to avoid.

"It is not for us trying civilians what persuasion, to improve communication with the rebels to protect", he said.

World Food Program Executive Director Josette Sheeran described the arrival of the ship relief in Misurata as "a breakthrough for the un humanitarian operation in Libya." He said it "can we reaching tens of thousands of people who caught in one of the toughest areas of conflict."

People randomly shooting and targeting their access a former Libyan Energy Minister, that the city on a fishing boat escape said news agencies, that Kadafi of the armed forces were to subdue civilians in Misurata, constant bombing to water supplies.

Fathi Omar bin Shatwan and his family arrived in the island nation Malta days after the escape of Misurata, where he been less than six weeks.

"she bombed food shops, supermarkets, water supplies and the port," he was quoted words. "It is that it has become natural for people like this for so long." "It is scary, but the fear is normal after a while."

He also said that he saw no future for Kadafi or his sons in a future Libya. He claimed that more officials of Kadafi itching were regime to defect as Foreign Minister Musa KUSA fact, but were afraid to do so.

He urged NATO to quickly to end the conflict through targeted all Kadafi of military equipment. "NATO do the job is good," he said.

Henry.Chu@LATimes.com

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Radiation from nuclear plant millions times over limit

Workers try to stop the spread of radiation on the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi.The levels of emissions hot offshore deleted, but are often had the legal LimitWater in a pit, 7.5 million times on the standard radiation is a fish in the sea leaking is radiation and radiation in the seafood are now recognized RegulatedAn are official is "sorry", to be flip 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the sea

Tokyo (CNN) --japanische utility and Government authorities suffered fresh setbacks Tuesday detecting radiation in fish and news, that water gushing from the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi in the Pacific radiation had more than a million times on the border and regulatory levels.

Readings of samples Saturday in the concrete pit outside the building the plant No.2 turbine reactor-one of six at the site of crisis geplagten-- radiation said 7.5 million times the legal limits, an official with the Tokyo electric power company, which runs the plant. Newer findings, showed 5 million times from Tuesday afternoon, a considerable decrease in the standard.

The company said also Tuesday that reduces the levels of emissions strongly could have a few dozen metres from the leak, with their assessment that the spill is a minimal effect on Sealife. But even in these spots, the levels of emissions, several hundred - thousand times the permitted remained.

Pointed out the problem, that getting a handle on how to minimize the radiation in the Pacific Ocean is the new, primary Battlefront in the week long crisis at the nuclear plant.

At about the same time as the said message Tokyo Electric Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano the presence of radioactive iodine "in a pattern of fresh fish" authorities, to regulate the radiation on seafood for the first time invited.

While fishing within 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi was banned, it had no restrictions on seafood, was for some vegetables and milk from specific locales. Now, apply the same radiation standards, for vegetables apply ocean products as well.

"The" provisional swallowed limit, synonymous with vegetables and applied to fish and shellfish, will take effect immediately, "said the Minister."

Tuesday, Edano excused earlier for the decision, deliberately dump 11,500 tons of radioactive water in the sea-all part of the effort to the river of the more toxic liquid discovered before noise from outside the unit No. 2 days put an end to areas.

The process of the designation of contaminated water in the plant water treatment facility and some of its nuclear reactors began Monday and five days, a Tokyo Electric of official said.

"The water contains high levels of radiation," said Edano of the liquid dumped in the Pacific Ocean. "We are sorry for this decision, which we have to make."

The most contaminated batches of this water comes from outside of the reactor No. 6, said probably got via groundwater (and no breach in the device itself) officials. It has a concentration of iodine-131, which was 100 times more than the maximum number of tap water, drink the babies, and 10 times more than what would be OK in food.

As a whole is the dump is equivalent to about 3 million gallons, Gary was, nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan.

But Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial Agency, said: "we have decided that unloaded the contaminated water into the sea poses no threat to the great health."

Experts say this is given a fair assessment, the probability that the contamination quickly diluted should, above all, when the tainted material mainly loses iodine-131, half of his radiation every eight days.

"To put this in perspective, keeps 300 trillion swimming pools full of water, and they go around the Pacific Ocean, full to about five swimming pools, share", said Timothy J?rgensen, Chairman of the Committee for radiation safety at the Georgetown University Medical Center. "So hopefully that quickly churning of the ocean and the streams that will dissipate so that it gets too much you dilute concentrations relatively quickly."

John till, President of South Carolina-based risk assessment Corp., said that he was not expected to see any permanent effects on marine life, even close to the plant. However, he added that officials radiation levels available - which reached oceans as should monitor as seafood, restaurants and markets.

A piece of good news, is reported to Japanese Government, that airborne radiation seems ever will fall to North-Eastern Japan. Quantities of radioactive iodine-131 two measures 15 km or less from the plant showed in between 2 and 3, 7 times of legal standards, with a much longer lasting caesium isotopic below the official limit.

Utility and Government officials have also described conditions in the Fukushima Prefecture Daiichi plant reactors and spent nuclear fuel pool as a generally stable. Exceptions only - such as the new must pump 3-meter-deep water in a drain outside the number increase 5 and 6 units out of fear that it could enter turbine building and short from power for the units close to nuclear fuel cooling systems. But not occurring in the same tempo, or with the same apparent heavy, how obvious weeks was such problems before.

However, the priority is that water stop, directly into the Pacific Ocean a broken concrete through shaft outside the reactor No. 2 was gushing has.

Edano said Monday that the decision, poisoned water from other reactors, and the waste water treatment facility No. 2 was dump "inevitable" to ensure "Safety" of the reactor core.

The idea is the tainted water from all around the No. 2 reactor turbine construction, reduction in so water no longer crashes into the sea off quickly to pumps, said an official of the Japanese nuclear safety. This comes after two failed the problematic anbrechen-- one of plug concrete walls, the other a chemical compound with sawdust and newspaper use mixed.

Reactors No. 1 and no. 3, which have lower levels of the water, must also be drained. Tokyo Electric's plan, that the water to other tanks, including some that are still set up to pump. Water in and around the No. 5 and 6 reactors is dropped directly into the sea, officials said.

A major problem could be that still do not know how got contaminated the bubbling water authorities, where it came from or how to fix potential holes and cracks deep in the reactor complex and nuclear fuel.

Michael Friedlander, a former senior U.S. nuclear engineer, said late Monday that authorities still, some problems related to excess, radioactive water - and the need to outrun - dump as long as they avoid large quantities in fuel to inject cores overheating in reactors and spent fuel pools.

"This is not a one-off thing," said Friedlander dumping radioactive water in the ocean. "This issue of water and water management will torture them until they can get (fully operational) long-term core cooling." CNN's Whitney Hurst, Matt Smith and Kyung LAH and journalist Hiroo SASO contributed to this report.

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Radiation from nuclear plant millions times over limit

Workers try to stop the spread of radiation on the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi.The levels of emissions hot offshore deleted, but are often had the legal LimitWater in a pit, 7.5 million times on the standard radiation is a fish in the sea leaking is radiation and radiation in the seafood are now recognized RegulatedAn are official is "sorry", to be flip 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the sea

Tokyo (CNN) --japanische utility and Government authorities suffered fresh setbacks Tuesday detecting radiation in fish and news, that water gushing from the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi in the Pacific radiation had more than a million times on the border and regulatory levels.

Readings of samples Saturday in the concrete pit outside the building the plant No.2 turbine reactor-one of six at the site of crisis geplagten-- radiation said 7.5 million times the legal limits, an official with the Tokyo electric power company, which runs the plant. Newer findings, showed 5 million times from Tuesday afternoon, a considerable decrease in the standard.

The company said also Tuesday that reduces the levels of emissions strongly could have a few dozen metres from the leak, with their assessment that the spill is a minimal effect on Sealife. But even in these spots, the levels of emissions, several hundred - thousand times the permitted remained.

Pointed out the problem, that getting a handle on how to minimize the radiation in the Pacific Ocean is the new, primary Battlefront in the week long crisis at the nuclear plant.

At about the same time as the said message Tokyo Electric Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano the presence of radioactive iodine "in a pattern of fresh fish" authorities, to regulate the radiation on seafood for the first time invited.

While fishing within 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi was banned, it had no restrictions on seafood, was for some vegetables and milk from specific locales. Now, apply the same radiation standards, for vegetables apply ocean products as well.

"The" provisional swallowed limit, synonymous with vegetables and applied to fish and shellfish, will take effect immediately, "said the Minister."

Tuesday, Edano excused earlier for the decision, deliberately dump 11,500 tons of radioactive water in the sea-all part of the effort to the river of the more toxic liquid discovered before noise from outside the unit No. 2 days put an end to areas.

The process of the designation of contaminated water in the plant water treatment facility and some of its nuclear reactors began Monday and five days, a Tokyo Electric of official said.

"The water contains high levels of radiation," said Edano of the liquid dumped in the Pacific Ocean. "We are sorry for this decision, which we have to make."

The most contaminated batches of this water comes from outside of the reactor No. 6, said probably got via groundwater (and no breach in the device itself) officials. It has a concentration of iodine-131, which was 100 times more than the maximum number of tap water, drink the babies, and 10 times more than what would be OK in food.

As a whole is the dump is equivalent to about 3 million gallons, Gary was, nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan.

But Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial Agency, said: "we have decided that unloaded the contaminated water into the sea poses no threat to the great health."

Experts say this is given a fair assessment, the probability that the contamination quickly diluted should, above all, when the tainted material mainly loses iodine-131, half of his radiation every eight days.

"To put this in perspective, keeps 300 trillion swimming pools full of water, and they go around the Pacific Ocean, full to about five swimming pools, share", said Timothy J?rgensen, Chairman of the Committee for radiation safety at the Georgetown University Medical Center. "So hopefully that quickly churning of the ocean and the streams that will dissipate so that it gets too much you dilute concentrations relatively quickly."

John till, President of South Carolina-based risk assessment Corp., said that he was not expected to see any permanent effects on marine life, even close to the plant. However, he added that officials radiation levels available - which reached oceans as should monitor as seafood, restaurants and markets.

A piece of good news, is reported to Japanese Government, that airborne radiation seems ever will fall to North-Eastern Japan. Quantities of radioactive iodine-131 two measures 15 km or less from the plant showed in between 2 and 3, 7 times of legal standards, with a much longer lasting caesium isotopic below the official limit.

Utility and Government officials have also described conditions in the Fukushima Prefecture Daiichi plant reactors and spent nuclear fuel pool as a generally stable. Exceptions only - such as the new must pump 3-meter-deep water in a drain outside the number increase 5 and 6 units out of fear that it could enter turbine building and short from power for the units close to nuclear fuel cooling systems. But not occurring in the same tempo, or with the same apparent heavy, how obvious weeks was such problems before.

However, the priority is that water stop, directly into the Pacific Ocean a broken concrete through shaft outside the reactor No. 2 was gushing has.

Edano said Monday that the decision, poisoned water from other reactors, and the waste water treatment facility No. 2 was dump "inevitable" to ensure "Safety" of the reactor core.

The idea is the tainted water from all around the No. 2 reactor turbine construction, reduction in so water no longer crashes into the sea off quickly to pumps, said an official of the Japanese nuclear safety. This comes after two failed the problematic anbrechen-- one of plug concrete walls, the other a chemical compound with sawdust and newspaper use mixed.

Reactors No. 1 and no. 3, which have lower levels of the water, must also be drained. Tokyo Electric's plan, that the water to other tanks, including some that are still set up to pump. Water in and around the No. 5 and 6 reactors is dropped directly into the sea, officials said.

A major problem could be that still do not know how got contaminated the bubbling water authorities, where it came from or how to fix potential holes and cracks deep in the reactor complex and nuclear fuel.

Michael Friedlander, a former senior U.S. nuclear engineer, said late Monday that authorities still, some problems related to excess, radioactive water - and the need to outrun - dump as long as they avoid large quantities in fuel to inject cores overheating in reactors and spent fuel pools.

"This is not a one-off thing," said Friedlander dumping radioactive water in the ocean. "This issue of water and water management will torture them until they can get (fully operational) long-term core cooling." CNN's Whitney Hurst, Matt Smith and Kyung LAH and journalist Hiroo SASO contributed to this report.

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Radiation from nuclear plant millions times over limit

Workers try to stop the spread of radiation on the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi.The levels of emissions hot offshore deleted, but are often had the legal LimitWater in a pit, 7.5 million times on the standard radiation is a fish in the sea leaking is radiation and radiation in the seafood are now recognized RegulatedAn are official is "sorry", to be flip 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the sea

Tokyo (CNN) --japanische utility and Government authorities suffered fresh setbacks Tuesday detecting radiation in fish and news, that water gushing from the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi in the Pacific radiation had more than a million times on the border and regulatory levels.

Readings of samples Saturday in the concrete pit outside the building the plant No.2 turbine reactor-one of six at the site of crisis geplagten-- radiation said 7.5 million times the legal limits, an official with the Tokyo electric power company, which runs the plant. Newer findings, showed 5 million times from Tuesday afternoon, a considerable decrease in the standard.

The company said also Tuesday that reduces the levels of emissions strongly could have a few dozen metres from the leak, with their assessment that the spill is a minimal effect on Sealife. But even in these spots, the levels of emissions, several hundred - thousand times the permitted remained.

Pointed out the problem, that getting a handle on how to minimize the radiation in the Pacific Ocean is the new, primary Battlefront in the week long crisis at the nuclear plant.

At about the same time as the said message Tokyo Electric Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano the presence of radioactive iodine "in a pattern of fresh fish" authorities, to regulate the radiation on seafood for the first time invited.

While fishing within 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi was banned, it had no restrictions on seafood, was for some vegetables and milk from specific locales. Now, apply the same radiation standards, for vegetables apply ocean products as well.

"The" provisional swallowed limit, synonymous with vegetables and applied to fish and shellfish, will take effect immediately, "said the Minister."

Tuesday, Edano excused earlier for the decision, deliberately dump 11,500 tons of radioactive water in the sea-all part of the effort to the river of the more toxic liquid discovered before noise from outside the unit No. 2 days put an end to areas.

The process of the designation of contaminated water in the plant water treatment facility and some of its nuclear reactors began Monday and five days, a Tokyo Electric of official said.

"The water contains high levels of radiation," said Edano of the liquid dumped in the Pacific Ocean. "We are sorry for this decision, which we have to make."

The most contaminated batches of this water comes from outside of the reactor No. 6, said probably got via groundwater (and no breach in the device itself) officials. It has a concentration of iodine-131, which was 100 times more than the maximum number of tap water, drink the babies, and 10 times more than what would be OK in food.

As a whole is the dump is equivalent to about 3 million gallons, Gary was, nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan.

But Hidehiko Nishiyama, an official with Japan's nuclear and industrial Agency, said: "we have decided that unloaded the contaminated water into the sea poses no threat to the great health."

Experts say this is given a fair assessment, the probability that the contamination quickly diluted should, above all, when the tainted material mainly loses iodine-131, half of his radiation every eight days.

"To put this in perspective, keeps 300 trillion swimming pools full of water, and they go around the Pacific Ocean, full to about five swimming pools, share", said Timothy J?rgensen, Chairman of the Committee for radiation safety at the Georgetown University Medical Center. "So hopefully that quickly churning of the ocean and the streams that will dissipate so that it gets too much you dilute concentrations relatively quickly."

John till, President of South Carolina-based risk assessment Corp., said that he was not expected to see any permanent effects on marine life, even close to the plant. However, he added that officials radiation levels available - which reached oceans as should monitor as seafood, restaurants and markets.

A piece of good news, is reported to Japanese Government, that airborne radiation seems ever will fall to North-Eastern Japan. Quantities of radioactive iodine-131 two measures 15 km or less from the plant showed in between 2 and 3, 7 times of legal standards, with a much longer lasting caesium isotopic below the official limit.

Utility and Government officials have also described conditions in the Fukushima Prefecture Daiichi plant reactors and spent nuclear fuel pool as a generally stable. Exceptions only - such as the new must pump 3-meter-deep water in a drain outside the number increase 5 and 6 units out of fear that it could enter turbine building and short from power for the units close to nuclear fuel cooling systems. But not occurring in the same tempo, or with the same apparent heavy, how obvious weeks was such problems before.

However, the priority is that water stop, directly into the Pacific Ocean a broken concrete through shaft outside the reactor No. 2 was gushing has.

Edano said Monday that the decision, poisoned water from other reactors, and the waste water treatment facility No. 2 was dump "inevitable" to ensure "Safety" of the reactor core.

The idea is the tainted water from all around the No. 2 reactor turbine construction, reduction in so water no longer crashes into the sea off quickly to pumps, said an official of the Japanese nuclear safety. This comes after two failed the problematic anbrechen-- one of plug concrete walls, the other a chemical compound with sawdust and newspaper use mixed.

Reactors No. 1 and no. 3, which have lower levels of the water, must also be drained. Tokyo Electric's plan, that the water to other tanks, including some that are still set up to pump. Water in and around the No. 5 and 6 reactors is dropped directly into the sea, officials said.

A major problem could be that still do not know how got contaminated the bubbling water authorities, where it came from or how to fix potential holes and cracks deep in the reactor complex and nuclear fuel.

Michael Friedlander, a former senior U.S. nuclear engineer, said late Monday that authorities still, some problems related to excess, radioactive water - and the need to outrun - dump as long as they avoid large quantities in fuel to inject cores overheating in reactors and spent fuel pools.

"This is not a one-off thing," said Friedlander dumping radioactive water in the ocean. "This issue of water and water management will torture them until they can get (fully operational) long-term core cooling." CNN's Whitney Hurst, Matt Smith and Kyung LAH and journalist Hiroo SASO contributed to this report.

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Japan's Ocean meets radiation 7.5 million times legal limit - Los Angeles Times

A broker leads earthquake and tsunami disaster between fish at the fish market of Hirakata, Osaka in Kita, Japan, trade, for the first time since the March 11. (Toru Yamanaka / AFP/Getty Images / Bongarts / April 5, 2011)The operator of Japan's Fukushima knit nuclear plant said Tuesday, that it radioactive iodine to 7.5 million times of the permitted in sea water sample in the vicinity of the plant had found, and Government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish.

The reading of the iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, said Tokyo Electric Power Co.. Another example taken Monday found on 5 million times of the permitted. The Monday examples were also found contain radioactive caesium in 1.1 million times of the permitted.

The exact source of the radiation was not immediately clear, although Tepco has said that strongly contaminated water from a mine close to the No. 2 reactor were leaking has. The utility initially believed, that was the leak of a crack, but several attempts, the crack seal has failed.

On Tuesday, the company that leak could come instead from a faulty joint said the pit is a tube, so that radioactive water in a layer of gravel under penetrate. The utility said that this would fit "liquid glass" into gravel in an effort to stop more leakage.

In the meantime further Tepco share, what it than water with low radiation into the sea to make room in on-site storage tanks for more highly contaminated water. In all the company said it planned, but on Tuesday morning, it had 11,500 tons of water, less than 25% of that amount will appear.

Although the Government which authorized release of 11,500 tons and said that radiation would quickly diluted and dispersed into the ocean, fish with high readings of iodine are found.

On Monday officials recognized that more than 4,000 Bequerels iodine-131 / kg in a kind of fish called a sand eels caught less than three miles off the coast of the city Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. The juveniles contained also 447 Bequerels of caesium-137, as problematic regarded as iodine-131, because it has a much longer half-life.

On Tuesday, chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that the Government was establishing a standard of 2,000 Bequerels of iodine Atom per kilogram fish, allows the same level in vegetables. Previously, the Government had no specific level for fish. An another haul of the eels with 526 Bequerels of cesium was detected Tuesday, about the standard of 500 Bequerels per kilogram.

Fishing of sand removed lances. Local fishermen calls Tepco to stop the release of radioactive water into the sea and demanded that the company they compensate for their losses.

Fishing has in the close to been the plant banned, and the vast majority of fishing activities in the region has stopped tsunami and earthquake damage to boats and port on 11 March was. However, some fishermen are making catches, only to a few buyers due to concerns about the radiation to be found.

It is not clear, which could provide the Fischer Tepco, but has the company Tuesday saying that it "condolence payments" residents to local amounting to 180 million yen ($ 2 million) had to evacuate their homes due to the radiation of the Fukushima plant had offered. A city, refused payment.

The company has yet to decide as residents in the vicinity of the facility for damage, make up for it would, while financial analysts say, the claims could be in the tens of billions of dollars. TEPCO's executive Vice President said on hinges decision on damages Takashi Fujimoto of the company how much the Government are parts of the load.

Edano asked the company to speed up that his decisions on compensation.

For now the company has offered 20 million yen ($240,000) for each 10 villages, towns and cities within 12 miles of the plant give Fujimoto said.

"We hope that they will find it useful for now," he said.

Namie, a city of about 6 miles north of the plant, refused to take the money 20,600. city official Kosei Negishi said, that he and other government officials from a makeshift Office in nihonmatsu, Fukushima city, somewhere else in Fukushima Prefecture, worked and that she faced more pressing issues.

"The coastal areas of Namie hard hit we were by the earthquake and the tsunami but due to the radiation and the evacuation had order still no chance to the 200 people perform a search, are missing," said Negishi. "Why should we use our resources less than 1,000 yen ($12) to everyone, residents spent?"

Tokyo electric power Fujimoto recognised, that was a "gap" in the views of businesses and Namie officials.

TEPCO's shares fell to an all-time low Tuesday covered by the maximum daily trading Grenze--about 18%--362 yen, below the previous record low of 393 Yen in 1951 reached. Share of the company has 80% of their Wertes--nearly 1.1 trillion Yen--since the Quake and tsunami, lost after the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Fujimoto said "We share prices decline very seriously," reporters.

Fujimoto said the company's annual earnings report, which was originally scheduled for April 28, would be moved, but he declined it, all other information.

Julie.Makinen@LATimes.com

Hall is a special correspondent.

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Italian Premier sex trial opens, memory - Los Angeles Times

Demonstrators hold posters and shirts carry Milan read "Out" to a court during the first day of Prime Minister of Silvio Berlusconi's "Ruby the heart stealer" trial. (Giuseppe Cacace / AFP/Getty Images / Bongarts / April 6, 2011)The process of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of sexual misconduct and abuse of Wednesday makes open in Milan and was adjourned almost immediately to 31 May.

It was one of the testimony on alleged orgy-like parties at Berlusconi's Villa and phone-tap transcripts with girls who were said to male entertained handsomely paid guests on the most anticipated courtroom include events in the history of Italy, with evidence.

It began negotiations with a disappointing ten minutes.

The Defense list of senior friends, Ministers, members of Parliament, TV presenters and actors is testimony reportedly include George Clooney, has a villa close to Lake Como.

Berlusconi not Moroccan performer Karima El Mahroug, known by her stage name Ruby Biagiotti - Ruby the heart stealer - was present.

The 74-year-old Prime Minister is accused paying for sex with Mahroug last year, when she was 17 - a year younger than for legal prostitution in Italy - if she invited to Parties at his villa in Arcore, outside Milan, described in the press as fixed, which contain striptease and sex.

The Prime Minister has always protested his innocence, denying the sex with her and say that she lied about her age...

He was also accused of calling Milan police in May 2010 release her from prison on suspicion of the theft of more than $4000, claims it was related to then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Berlusconi says that he convinced was that she was related with Mubarak and tried to avoid a diplomatic incident.

Berlusconi, who accused against him politically motivated the Italian justice, is also other studies for corruption, fraud and embezzlement in connection with his activities as a media entrepreneur.

Wednesday's hearing came a day after the Italian Parliament by a narrow margin in in favour of the transition of the study, a ministerial Special Court instead of the Milan court, caused by the charges of abuse of power was. However, not the study is intended to influence the decision, until he is confirmed by the Constitutional Court, told of Reuters is reported.

Coverage in the press was Wednesday study on newspaper and agency limited reporter; TV cameras in Italian courts usually allows were kept outside.

Reports that the prosecution would join Mahroug were denied by her defense lawyer, according to the Italian press agency ANSA. It said that the Court, her lawyer, Paolo Boccardi said, that his client not damage than say they would "not for journeys to the Arcore, neither... sometimes suffer damage from frequenting the Prime Minister"

Boccardi said contradicted the accusation of prostitution "what has always said Karima, she never was the object, sexual acts by the Prime Minister....""she has stressed always, that it, it takes no prostitutes during this study for granted that she were paid."

Janet.Stobart@LATimes.com

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After boat sinks from Italy - New York Times are missing 150 migrants

Rome - A boat of Libya with more than 200 immigrants who said most of them sub-Saharan Africans, on Wednesday from the Italian island of Lampedusa, an Italian island in the close to North Africa, capsized and are at least 150 still missing, Italian officials.

After the sinking at least 50 people reached Lampedusa by early Wednesday afternoon, rescued by an Italian patrol boat and a fishing boat, but Coast Guard officials feared many more still at sea.

"We are still looking for at least 150 people on the sea, but we fear that they might be even more than that," Commander Valerio Alessandro, a spokesman for the Italian port authorities said. He added that about 20 bodies in the water was been seen.

The migrants had sails from Libya before the capsizing was about 39 km from the Italian island, the immigrants and refugees riots in North Africa, which has attracted. In the Italian TV interviews, some of the migrants said that she had come from the western port of Zuwarah near the Tunisian border.

The migrant ship was to try one of the first, reached Lampedusa from Libya, since fighting began last month. Over 22,000 migrants have since January, mostly from Tunisia arrived on the island.

Tuesday's agreement Italy's Interior Minister Roberto Maroni one with the Tunisian Government to try to block the River. Tunisian authorities accepted offer the return of the new arrivals and Italy Tunisia with boats and all-terrain vehicles, to implement border controls, which have ceased almost since President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in a popular revolt in January.

Critics have argued that the agreement set no dates or provide practical details how the repatriation would take place. In a statement Wednesday on the site Italian Ministry of the Interior Mr Maroni satisfaction for renewed cooperation between Italy and Tunisia, but also said that the agreement "now will be implemented."

Wednesday reached in the early morning, an Italian patrol boat of the ship concerned after had sought the help of the Maltese maritime authorities with a satellite telephone on board, said Commander Alessandro.

Just as the Italian coast guard boat boat on water was reached, get stalled his engine. Strong waves and cavalry regiments passengers began rocking the ship, and began falling overboard.

Between 30 and 40 women and five children between which were on board, said Simona Moscarelli, official for the International Organization for migration, has been translated in Lampedusa on Wednesday rescued immigrants and the police.

Rescue operations have through rough waters have been hampered and Italian coast guard officials were searching for possible survivors with naval and Commander Alessandro said air force,...

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Yemen President gets a stern warning of Obama spokesman - Los Angeles Times

Statement of spokesman Jay Carney on violence in the Yemen, the White House provided
The United States condemns the use of force by the Yemeni Government forces against demonstrators in Sana'a, Taiz and Hodeida in the past few days.

The Yemeni people have to a right to demonstrate peacefully, and we remember its President Ali Abdullah Saleh rEsponsibility so that the safety and security of the Yemenis, are their universal right of to political expression exercise.

We call for the Government of Yemen to carry out full investigations into these events and responsible drawn for their actions to the responsibility.

The United States strongly supports the Yemeni people in the search for more options and their exercise of political and economic reforms, which will meet their expectations.

President Saleh has to resolve the political impasse, so that meaningful political change in the near future in an orderly and peaceful manner can take place with the opposition.

We call for all sides and a course of charts, who is Yemen's unity, progress and future prosperity before the individual agendas to conduct a constructive political dialogue.???? ####

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Photo: Yahya Arhab / EPA ('protestors faces in the Yemen of this week). Associated press (Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh).

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Unrest in the Yemen as opening for Qaeda branch - New York Times

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