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    Conform   Reuters -    Iran a lansat o manevră militară în apropierea graniţei sale cu Afganistanul sâmbătă, semi-oficial de agenţia Fars News a raportat, de zile de la exerciţii navale în zona Golfului a crescut tensiunile cu Occidentul şi a stimulat cresterea preturilor petrolului.

   Mohammad Pakpour, comandant al forţelor terestre Gărzile Revoluţionare ", a declarat ca" martiri Unităţii "exerciţii de lângă Khvat, 60 km (40 mile) din Afganistan, au fost", care vizează stimularea de securitate de-a lungul frontierelor iranian, "a raportat Fars.

   "Forţele navale" Gărzile Revoluţionare    au  facut  un  exerciţiu   de  10  zile  în Golf , care a pus capăt  relatiilor  inrautatite  cu Washington, la  zi după ce preşedintele american Barack Obama a aprobat sancţiuni care au ca scop de a opri ţările   sa   cumpare   petrol iranian

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Threats that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz, which leads out of the Gulf and provides the outlet for most oil from the Middle East, pushed up oil prices and Iran warned Washington not to send an aircraft carrier back into the Gulf.

Forces with the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier strike group, the target of Tehran's threat, rescued 13 Iranian fishermen from Somali pirates days after passing through the Strait. [ID:nL6E8C6004]

Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi played down the political significance of the rescue.

"On some occasions, Iran has helped and secured the released of many other countries' sailors that had been caught by pirates," he told state-run Press TV.

"This is a humanitarian gesture and it is not related to the countries' relations with each other."

   Potrivit  lui  :  The Telegraph

Maghiarii raliu peste constituţie

Zeci de mii de protestatari, luni,au  batjocorit liderii maghiari din afara ,o gală glitzy pentru a marca constituţia ţării de brand nou, acuzând guvernul de exercitare a controlului asupra tuturor lucrurilor din mass-media, la economie şi religie.

O mulţime de oameni au scandat diverse, fluierat şi arborat pancarte în afara Opera de Stat în funcţia de prim-ministru Viktor Orban  , in  timp  ce oaspeţii sărbătoreau   in  interior. Mulţi protestatari   au  numit   pe  premier "Viktator."

Prim-ministrul a    dat  un jurământ de a apăra Constituţia, dar în schimb el a rasturnato,  a  spus  "Laszlo Majtenyi, un fost şef al autorităţii de mass-media, a spus multimii pe bulevardul Andrassy." Tonight Opera este casa de făţărnicie şi de strada de origine de virtuţi constituţionale. "

    Activiştii sirieni  din opoziţie spun ca  autorităţile siriene sunt de rupte    de  promisiunile lor de a retrage trupele de pe strazile  ce  au   sfâşiat  orasele  prin  luptele   ce  au  loc  pe  strazi , în contradicţie cu declaraţiile de pace, Liga Arabă ce  monitorizeaza   situatia  din  Siria  , declara  că forţele guvernamentale   nu  au   retras în  cazarmi  armata.

    O misiune a Ligii Arabe a sosit în Siria săptămâna trecută pentru a verifica dacă guvernul pune  în aplicare un  plan de pace ,în temeiul căruia  s-a convenit ,:

- retragerea militarilor

- eliberarea   a   mii de prizonieri   (  detinuti   cea  au  participat   la  revolta  împotriva preşedintelui Bashar al-Assad   , ce a început în luna martie.

League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said in Cairo on Monday the monitors had reported back that state forces had withdrawn from residential areas. The mission was ensuring a halt to bloodshed and had secured the release of about 3,500 prisoners, he said.

"We are not seeing the release of detainees or the true removal of a military presence from the streets," said Rami Abdelrahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"Army tanks have been replaced with police armored personnel carriers that still have the capability to shoot heavy weaponry."

Videos uploaded by activists on the Internet showed armored vehicles hidden behind high dirt barriers.

"Nabil Elaraby, you are in Cairo and we're in Baba Amr. Here are the tanks and there are your monitors," said one activist in a video uploaded on the Internet which showed a team of orange-vested men who appeared to be League monitors standing near an armored vehicle behind a barrier.

Such footage is impossible for Reuters to verify and Syria has barred entry to most foreign journalists.

Opposition groups in the cities of Idlib in the north, central Homs and Deraa in the south said the army had hidden armor in dugouts and replaced tanks with blue armored vehicles said to belong to police forces.

"BLATANT INTERFERENCE" BY U.S.

Washington accused the government of trying to stoke up more violence to justify retaliation.

The Syrian government on Wednesday rejected accusations from Washington that it was failing to live up to its agreement with the Arab League.

"Such a statement is offensive to the Arab League ... because it is a blatant interference in the core of its work, the sovereignty of its states and an unjustified attempt to internationalize (the Syria crisis)," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdesi said in a statement.

The mission is expected to report on its first week of work by the end of this week.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe called Syrian repression "savage" and talked of the possibility of U.N. action.

"The Arab League has the merit of having taken the initiative, but Arab League observers cannot allow themselves to be manipulated by the regime as the regime is trying to do," he said in Lisbon.

"We hope the Arab League has clear objectives and if these objectives are not met we will work with the (U.N.) Security Council so it pronounces itself about the Syrian situation."

PRISON VISIT

Activists said monitors visited the main prison in Homs. They were greeted with chants of "freedom, freedom" and "the people want the fall of the regime," the activists said, citing leaked messages from detainees and guards.

"The security forces moved some of the detainees but the numbers are so huge they couldn't move them all," said Homs activist Abu Rami. "They moved some detainees to military bases and moved away the ones who are in bad health."

Rights groups say there may be more than 30,000 in prison and activists put the death toll since the team's arrival last week at between 130 and 390 people.

More than 5,000 people have been killed in the crackdown on protests, according to the United Nations. Damascus says it is fighting Islamist militants, controlled from abroad, who have killed at least 2,000 of Assad's forces.

Colonel Riad al-Asaad, head of the rebel Free Syrian Army, pledged this week to escalate operations against Assad's forces in response to what he said was the unsatisfactory performance of the Arab League monitors.

Since November rebel fighters have ambushed military convoys, attacked an airbase, seized army checkpoints and launched symbolic attacks on an intelligence centre and an office of the ruling Baath Party in the heart of Damascus.

**  sursa  :  Reuters

Guvernul spaniol va aproba în continuare măsuri de reducere a deficitului, în această săptămână, in  topul  reducerilor  de  circa  15  miliarde de euro  este   un   pachet de creşteri de taxe şi reduceri de cheltuieli     -au anunţat doar cu  câteva zile în urmă, miniştrii au declarat luni.

Ei au declarat de asemenea că deficitul bugetar 2011 ar putea fi chiar mai mare decât 8 la sută din PIB, a anunţat săptămâna trecută.

Această cifră a fost deja o creştere majoră asupra prognozei  pentru 6 la sută de către guvernul anterior.

Ministrul Trezoreriei Cristobal Montoro a declarat că noile măsuri ar fi adoptate la o întâlnire de Cabinet joi. Pachetul de austeritate a fost anunţat anterior vinerea trecută.

Montoro gave no details but told reporters the measures would show Spain's eurozone partners and other countries that Madrid's new conservative government is serious about acting quickly to shore up public finances.

Separately, Finance Minister Luis de Guindos said that the government, which took power just before Christmas, found out only early last week how bad the 2011 deficit numbers were and had no choice but to act quickly by increasing income and property taxes, despite an election campaign pledge not to do so.

The conservative Popular Party swept to victory in Nov. 20 general elections, winning a comfortable majority in Parliament as voters enduring 21.5 unemployment and a stagnant economy dumped the incumbent Socialists.

De Guindos said the 8 percent figure would have come out in a matter of weeks anyway and would have almost certainly led to a punishing rise in Spain's borrowing costs.

So the government acted quickly by announcing Friday the package of tax rises and spending cuts at the same time as it unveiled the new deficit estimate, so as to stay ahead of events, he said.

"It was an act of responsibility and political initiative to keep the Spanish economy from reaching a situation that would have been practically unsustainable," de Guindos told Cadena Ser radio.

He said both the central government and Spain's regional governments shared blame for the overspending.

As for the final 2011 deficit figure, he said: "It is possible that it will exceed 8 percent. Not by much, I certainly hope."

He said Spain right now, with its economy a mess and the eurozone in a debt crisis, could not afford to announce its deficit will be two points higher than forecast without also quickly taking measures like raising taxes, as unpleasant as that might be.

"If we had not, others would have done it for us," de Guindos said, suggesting the European Union would have stepped in somehow.

The deficit-reduction package is a first bitter taste of austerity for Spaniards under the new Popular Party government. It came as part of an extension of the 2011 budget because none for 2012 had been passed when the government changed hands.

More austerity is expected when a full-blown 2012 budget is approved in late March.

The government's goal is to get the deficit down to 4.4 percent of GDP this year.

**  sursa     :Associated Pres

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