Secretary informed the former UN envoy to Syria and Kofi Annan, the UN Security Council that Syria had agreed on the 10th of April to achieve complete cessation of violence.Annan asked the Security Council to set a deadline for Syria to implement his plan does not exceed the tenth of this month, stressing that there has been no progress for the implementation of the cease-fire in Syria.Annan asked the Security Council to study the proposed mechanism of the cease-fire in Syria.The U.S. Secretary of State demanded that the Syrian regime last Saturday "to meet its obligations to the Annan plan," Annan demanding a timetable for the steps required of the Damascus regime, because the Syrian government did not work on the implementation of its agreement with Annan.View the original content on the gate of dawn e - Annan: Syria has agreed to stop the violence on April 10
Obama told a group of Democrats participating in a pool party in the state of Iowa center of the country that put forward by the many promises need to be a further period to achieve more of them, expressing optimism that more successful than it was in the first period.Obama said at the rally that "Americans must be reminded of the way full Ajtznah."Accuse the Republican candidates in the race to the White House Obama to fail, especially on the economic front, a charge rejected by the U.S. President during the meeting and spoke about health insurance has accomplished, it became a reality for millions of Americans, he said.In response to a question by one of the activists is on the way in which people who take it not to do a lot of achievements, Obama said, "We have done a lot, and still have a lot of things to do." Obama said that "this is the reason for which we need four more years."And without reference directly to the Republican candidates vying for the right face in the elections of November 6, Obama spoke of "the forces of several you want to get us and eliminate some of the changes" made during his presidential term.Republican candidate elections
On the other hand each received from Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney at 24% of the vote in the primaries for the Republican Party does not campaign for the U.S. presidency after the announcement of the results of more than half of the electoral complexes.
And make the two narrowly on Ron Paul, who received 22% of the vote comes in when House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former U.S. in fourth place by winning 13%.
Competitors seeking to win the Republican nomination to face President Obama's Democratic Party candidate.
The primaries for the Republicans held on Tuesday in Iowa is the culmination of several months of campaigning in the state.
The clashes took place Saturday evening in New York between police and members and supporters of the Movement of the occupation of Wall Street when he tried to re-occupation activists Zhukhota Park site that originated the movement on the occasion of the passage of six months of their existence.
He joined the filmmaker Michael Moore to about six hundred demonstrators from the anti-Wall Street tried to set up a tent in the courtyard. Police then intervened to disperse the demonstrators and arrested a number of them.
Police did not provide for the time being no information on the number of those detained, but reporters saw about a dozen people were arrested.
And was hit by three women were injured during the clashes and has healing in an ambulance.
The activist took part in the rally Saturday in the park, said he hoped to become Zhukhota Park once again a center for protesters. Said Rob (28 years), who declined to give his nickname, "The garden has become a symbol for us and them at once. And Snstrdjaha."
The protesters were singing and dancing while members of the police watching them in large numbers.
During the day, protesters marched in the narrow streets near Wall Street, which led to the arrest of a number of them also said the police.
The Movement for the occupation of Wall Street, which denounces the power of money on politics and the growing social inequality occupied Zhukhota Park during the months between September and November two years before graduating from the police.
The group announced its intention to organize rally Saturday at the site to celebrate six months of their existence.
Washington - The experts in the areas of health and weather on Friday that the heat wave "unprecedented" hit most parts of the United States during the month of March, it said, with equal degrees of heat or exceeded seven thousand of numbers recorded, indicating the direction of the temperature to rise in general.
The scientists said in the reports over the phone, or websites that while climate change play a major role only natural that what aggravated by changes resulting from human activities, resulting in this extraordinary heat wave.
Heidi said Colin of the (Central Claimit), a scientific body does not seek to profit, "This heat wave is basically unprecedented." She said that since March 12, the current was recorded seven thousand degree heat and the world superpower equal to or exceeded the figure recorded by the U.S. National Center for climate data.
She said the website of the U.S. National Center for climate data is disabled because of the large number of users of the site who are trying to identify the extreme temperatures.
She said that these measurements included the records of the highest temperature during the day and the lowest temperature during the night while temperatures recorded showed in some cases, up from record highs earlier in the day.
And went on to say that this rise was part of the direction leads to the early start of the spring season with an average of three days in 48 U.S. states.
Said Aaron Bernstein of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School that this contributes to the early finding catastrophic medical conditions, especially for children.
He said the preparation of disseminated pollen of flowering plants over the border in the standard across the United States indicating that the disease cost the U.S. economy is sensitive between six to 12 billion dollars annually.
He said the heat wave early this stimulate the growth of plants as well as their impact on the extension of pollen dispersal season by two to three weeks, compared with half of the last century in encouraging high gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere producing plant pollen in causing allergic children.
Columbus (Ohio) - In the fiftieth anniversary of the rotation around the Earth that has befallen on Monday to remember the first American John Glenn orbited the Earth that the trip the best day in his life.Said Glenn (90 years) for the audience in Columbus that the trip was the result of "more than two years of training and working with a great team."He said, "That's why the vehicle was named Friendship 7 for the team."Trip and put Glenn leading the 20th of February in February 1962 the United States in a heated race in space with the Soviet Union at that time who had been sent cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit around the Earth before ten months.Glenn said Democratic Senator in the Senate from Ohio in the period from 1974 to 1999 "This was the best day of my life."And on the trip said Glenn, "It seems as if he had passed two weeks and not 50 years," adding that the day that passes since then, without asking for one space or flight "on Nader."And marked the fiftieth anniversary with a series of celebrations and Glenn took the opportunity to criticize the reduction in funding the space program in the country.Glenn returned to space in 1998 at the age of 77 years on board the space shuttle Discovery to conduct experiments on aging sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
WASHINGTON - get filmmakers who produce a film about a raid by U.S. special forces that killed Osama bin Laden to the assistance of the Ministry of Defense (Pentagon), but the government of President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected concerns that confidential information may be disclosed.
Is scheduled to be put to film - which deals with one of the major successes during the take over the presidency of Barack Obama, United States - in October 2012, less than a month before the elections and is seeking the Democratic Party to win a second term.
He called Peter King, a member of the House of Representatives for the Republican Party and chairman of the Homeland Security Council - on Tuesday to open an investigation into communication between the government of Obama and the film-makers. King asked whether the methods of operations have been at risk.
Said Jay Carney, White House spokesman "These allegations are ridiculous."
He added, "Do not discuss confidential information. And I hope in time we face the constant threat of terrorism to be the Homeland Security Committee in the House of Representatives of the most important topics to discuss the film."
Said Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Ministry of Defense shall cooperate with the director and writer Catherine Bijlo Film Mark Boal in their film which deals with the raid that killed bin Laden.
In response to an article in The New York Times says that the timing of the film was chosen to give Obama "in support of persons" in his quest to win a second term to the King called for an investigation to make sure to let Bijlo "briefed high-level mission to the most secret in history."
Carney said that the information provided to the makers of the film, "focused on the role of the president."
Said Carney told reporters: "There is no difference in the information we give to anyone who works on the subject for which we give to the present here in this room who have worked on the story in the days and weeks following the raid itself."
WASHINGTON - A powerful earthquake struck the eastern coast of the United States on Tuesday, shook buildings in the U.S. and led to terrorize thousands of office workers fled to the streets.
There were no reports of major damage or injuries caused by the earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 and was centered in Mineral, Virginia.
This was the strongest to hit the state of Virginia since 1897 and was at a shallow depth, adding to its strength.
And closed two reactors at a power station Nooyan North I in the state of Virginia after a power outage from the station, but the company that operates the reactors said there had been no major damage. And will remain closed until the reactors can be safely reboot.
It was the evacuation of the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense (Alneptajohn) and the White House and Capitol Hill in Washington and rushed thousands of workers took to the streets after the earthquake, which occurred at lunchtime to drop things on the ground from store shelves and offices.
Said Larry Beach, who works at the U.S. Agency for International Development in downtown Washington at a distance of 133 km from the epicenter of the quake, "we Ntargeh. Was certainly strong." He returned federal workers in Washington to go home early.
And hit the Washington National Cathedral funeral ceremony, which saw many of the heads of the United States to break the damage where three peaks in the East Cathedral tower.
Do not feel the east coast of the United States earthquakes usually strongly as it did on Tuesday. The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake at 5.8 degrees to reduce the previous estimate of 5.9.
And cause earthquakes, which range between 5.5 degree its six Drhat usually damage to buildings and other facilities.
As if that were rarely strong earthquake was not enough Vistad the east coast of Hurricane Irene also strong coming from the Caribbean, which may reach over the weekend.
The quake to swing the chandeliers shook Capitol Hill by the Senate before working out. And Congress in recess and most members are not there.
Said Wendy Auskarson Kirchner Assistant Senate "I thought at first that someone shakes my seat and then I thought it might be a bomb."
And disrupted phone service across the region and resulted in a scramble for mobile phone calls to the inability of users to make calls.
In New York, was forced authorities to evacuate the courts and the municipal building after the earthquake, which caused also stopped working in the World Trade Center site.
Evacuated and watchtowers Bmtara John F. Kennedy in New York and New Ark of Liberty in New Jersey, delayed flights temporarily in Washington, Philadelphia and New York. The quake was felt up to Toronto and evacuated buildings in Boston.
Washington - led by retired Gen. David Petraeus, right, director of the US Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday to take over the job in time is not clear where the dividing line between the CIA and the military is increasingly in the fight against Islamic militancy.The Petraeus, who included in his military career over 37 years to become the brightest star of the US military was sworn in at a ceremony at the White House in the presence of Vice President Joe Biden.The president chose Barack Obama, Petraeus, the Central Intelligence Agency as part of a major adjustment in his national security team, which included the transfer of Leon Panetta of the CIA to take over as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to succeed after his retirement.Petraeus is credited for his role in changing the course of the war in Iraq and in the activation of Obama's new strategy in Afghanistan, which aims to reduce the power of the Taliban and lay the groundwork for a gradual withdrawal of US troops.The Petraeus and the administration and the CIA less than a week of the tenth anniversary of the attacks atheist th of September on New York and Washington, which led the US to a long-term battle against al Qaeda and its allies.And Petraeus (58 years), who was wearing a civilian suit on his first day as director of the CIA is at the top of the chain of command among a group of US intelligence services.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement edit Libya on Sunday urged the transitional government there to respect human rights and work to bring democracy in the country after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.Obama said in a written statement, "After four decades of brutal dictatorship and eight months of deadly conflict has become the Libyan people now able to celebrate his freedom and the start of a promising new era."He added that with the end of the fighting should be for the Libyan Transitional National Council to turn its attention now to the election.He said that should the new rulers of Libya that "continue to fulfill their obligation to respect human rights and begin the process of national reconciliation and secure weapons and dangerous materials and the integration of armed groups under the leadership of a civilian uniform."He said that the United States will work with international allies "to help in advancing the process of transition and a stable democracy."
And sent Lemke letter to Sepp Blatter, President of the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA), in which he expressed support for the right to wear the players head cover, and expressed the hope that is resolved the matter in a way with a degree of respect for the rules of the game as well as cultural considerations to allow all women to exercise football without discrimination.
The Lemke that this will send a letter stating that every player has the freedom to decide whether to have the desire to wear the hijab while in the stadium, which will give the opportunity of mathematics outstanding to confirm that the wearing of the headscarf is not an obstacle in the way of excellence in life and sport.
Will hold the International Council of football at its annual meeting on the third of March / March and eight on its agenda proposals and amendments to the rules of the game, including a debate on the veil.
It is noteworthy that the Olympic games such as rugby and taekwondo allow for players to wear the Muslim head scarf during the competition, while opposed to football this is for safety reasons.
Washington - showed a detailed document obtained by Reuters news agency that the budget of the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon) for the fiscal year 2013 of 525 billion dollars.
The budget includes spending 178.8 billion dollars to develop and purchase new warships, fighter aircraft and other weapons, the main deficiency of 7.5 percent from the level that was initially anticipated for next year.
The document showed the decline in the overall budget by about 12.2 per cent from last year's budget.
It is expected in fiscal year 2013 spending of $ 109.1 billion on purchases and 7.69 billion dollars on research and development spending compared to previous projection 117.6 billion on purchases and 75.7 billion on research and development.
It shows the U.S. military to keep high levels of spending on the latest aircraft and warships in the time it turns its focus towards the Asia-Pacific in the new military strategy announced by U.S. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last month.
At the same time spending on programs will be much less armor, where the U.S. military reduces the size of its ground forces and marines after ten years of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Panetta delivered last month highlighted the budget in 2013 is his first budget as minister of defense and the first to take into account measures to reduce the deficit in the budget approved by Congress, which include the reduction of 487 billion dollars of spending over ten years.
This is also the first budget for the Pentagon since the attacks of September 11, 2001 which requires spending less than the previous year.
Weapon and wait for companies such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics and Huntington Anjals and Raithwnin impatiently details of programs that will work on it.
It is scheduled to officially announce the details of the Pentagon budget on Monday, when Obama sends budget to Congress in 2013, which must be approved spending plan.
And requests the fiscal year 2013 budget, which begins on the first of October of $ 9.17 billion for the biggest weapons programs that are working on a program that Pentagon F-35 fighter, a little less of the $ 9.25 billion requested in fiscal year 2012.
Panetta announced last month that the Pentagon will slow the production of the new fighter to allow more time to test and to avoid costly modifications.
Washington - U.S. economic threw Jeffrey Sachs in his name in the arena of the race for the presidency of the World Bank on Friday in a public campaign to achieve the unusual high office.
Sachs, wrote in an article in the Washington Post that his credentials make him a better candidate of bankers and politicians, who often put their names and Washington.
He wrote, "In contrast to former heads of the World Bank did not come from Wall Street or the U.S. political circles. I am for economic development practitioner, researcher and writer."
It seemed more aggressive in a phone call when he said "I do not think the job for amateurs."
Sachs and adviser since the United Nations and many governments on the issues of poverty, which runs the Institute for Development Research at Columbia University in New York.
And leaves Robert Zoellick World Bank president, a former senior executive at Goldman Sachs and previously held senior positions in the U.S. government from his position at the World Bank in June.
The Bank provides loans and grants to developing countries and emerging economies to fight poverty and develop their economies.
The names that were repeated as potential candidates to replace Zoellick and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice.
Sachs said he was earning the trust of many developing countries after it gave her A_i_arart on combating poverty and is expected to be nominated by a number of them formally in a letter soon.
There was no comment from the World Bank. He said he would announce only the names that will be included on the short list before a final decision in April. The right of the member states put forward their nominations until March 23.
WASHINGTON - For the first time since early July, the popularity of U.S. President Barack Obama to the level of 50 percent, according to a poll conducted by Reuters / Ipsos.
The poll shows - which was conducted from March 8 to 11 March in the wake of reports from the addition of 227 thousand jobs to the U.S. economy in February - to Obama's popularity increased by two percentage points over the past month. The percentage of Americans unhappy with the performance of their president, Democratic 48 percent, down from 49 percent in February.
And other surveys have shown some decline recently in the popularity of Obama and correlated this to the rise of gasoline prices.
But for most Americans, other economic trends over the past month was relatively positive. It seems that Obama is benefiting from that and perhaps a bitter election campaign, the Republicans focused on social issues such as the divisive abortion.
The poll found Reuters / Ipsos also said that American confidence in the path of the economy tend to rise. The poll showed that 37 percent of those surveyed said the United States moving in the right direction, up from 32 percent in February.
And make a poll Reuters / Ipsos telephone and included 1084 of adults including 937 registered voters, including 554 of the Democrats and 421 Republicans and 109 independents.
