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Washington, 21 may (EFE) .- estadounidensesanalizan Congress a report that identifies Spain, Mexico, China, Russia and Canada as nations where there is a higher level in depirateria Internet and calls for action to governments estospaises.

The report was circulated in the last hours loscongresistas among all Americans and has been prepared by the International Piracy Caucuscontra Congress, formed by 70senadores and members of the House of Representatives, as Republicans tantodemocratas.

In a letter released by the Congressional Caucus and the lacquer had access Efe noted that the list identifies those countries that have not done enough to stop the theft of U.S. intellectual property.

These countries are distinguished by the extent and severity of susproblemas piracy cost the country millions deestadounidenses working in these companies billions and because dedolares piracy in these countries is largely the result of the lack of political will, added the letter.

Alex Swartsel, spokeswoman for the Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a president of the models Caucus, told Efe that publication of lalista is designed to pressure countries.

The list is intended to focus the attention of the States United States, as well as the international community in the problem of where aquellasnaciones esparticularmente intellectual property theft seriously, said Swartsel.

The Caucus said that piracy has reached in Spain a nivelepidemico and the authors lack the tools necessary to assert their rights parahacer Internet which undermines the development of legitimate trade and hurts the industry in the United States common European country.

Caucus The conclusion is that the situation in Spain is unsustainable, so asked the Spanish Government that ejerzaun active leadership, working with authors and suppliers deInternet reasonable to implement practices that protect latransmision legal over the network. read more »

Two former employees of a private security company Xe (read as Zee), formerly known as Blackwater, have accused its leadership of the illegal issuance of weapons to its staff in Afghanistan. This May 21, said Associated Press.

According to Justin Cannon (Justin Cannon) and Stephen Makkleyna (Steven McClain), dismissed in May 2009, instruktiruya staff at all times to carry weapons, the company violated the U.S. Army a directive prohibiting the arm civilians.

Cannon and Makkleyn have repeatedly drawn the attention of management Xe on the existing ban on the issuance of weapons, but senior staff each time said that they are not concerned with.

Both staff members, as well as two more companies of guards had been dismissed shortly after the shooting of their participation, which resulted in the death of one civilian and two other Afghans were wounded. During the incident, the Americans fired on their car crashed into a car before taking it for the Afghan fighters. read more »

Mexico, 20 may (EFE) .- The mayor of Mexico City buscaconvertir hygiene measures against the epidemic of influenza A in a new tourist attraction for a megalopolis that is trying to marchasforzadas recover its image after a drop in ocupacionhotelera up to 12% when the average is 65%.

This was announced today by Secretary of Tourism of the capital, Alejandro Rojas, in an interview with Efe, which laurbe said that today is cleaner than before, has many more conditions dehigiene through the health alert issued on 23 abrilpasado.

It is a value added so that tourists will come to know that even a restaurant, a convention, and measures to be excessive dehigiene, he said.

According to Rojas, will train managers and workers of genetic establishments commercial for exigenciapara raise its quality and service.

The measures will be particularly strict in offering puestoscallejeros famous tacos and other dishes tipicosmexicanos, where there is greater likelihood of infection .

We're forcing all those who have too many stalls quetengan hygiene requirements, with gloves tratena people, leading cubrebocas and those who do not charge you seanlos same shipped food, he said.

75 per cent of visitors to the city is inside Mexico and between 80 and 90 percent of foreign procedede United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America.

The epidemic caused by virus AH1N1 that has left 3660 dead and up ahora74 infections in the country, had its epicenter in lacapital Mexico, which has a population of 9 dehabitantes million, a figure that rises to 19 million taking into account metropolitan Suzon.

Except for the 1985 earthquake, which caused thousands of deaths, There is no recent history in Mexico a unfenomeno very strong impact of this nature, enormevolumen magnified by the addition of information that has generated a product of globalization, Rojas acknowledged.

The blow to the city's economy was brutal , Wrecking Crew, condanos estimated at 150 million dollars a day for sectorescomercio, tourism and services, which are linked dosterceras parts of the local economy, he admitted. read more »

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Women are especially susceptible to the toxic effects of smoking cigarettes, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

The team noted that women smokers develop lung damage than men and that a reduced exposure to snuff produces lesions on them, compared with men.

Overall, our analysis indicated that women would be more vulnerable to the effects of smoking, said Dr. Inga-Cecilie Soerheim of Brigham and Women #39; s Hospital in Boston and the University of Bergen in Norway.

Soerheim, who presented their findings at a meeting of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego, California, said that investigators suspected but until now it had no evidence.

The authors studied 954 people with lung disease in Norway Chronic obstructive (COPD), including problems from bronchitis to emphysema.

COPD affects about 210 million people around the world. The most common symptoms are shortness of breath, cough and a limited ability to do physical activity.

In the study, about 60 percent were men and 40 women. All were current or former smokers. read more »

WASHINGTON, May 19 – RIA Novosti, Maria Tabak. United States alarmed by the decision of Russia to withdraw from the Geneva consultations on the situation in the Caucasus, said the transmitted in a special statement, said the spokesman of the U.S. Department of State Ian Kelly.

As stated earlier on Monday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the Russian delegation at the consultations on the situation in Transcaucasia took a break until Tuesday, hoping to obtain new data on this issue from the UN secretary general. On Saturday, May 16, to participate in the fifth round of the Geneva discussions, Abkhazia has refused, citing the fact that the report of the UN secretary general on the situation in Transcaucasia, was not published until 15 May as previously promised. Abkhazia linked its participation in this event with the UN approach to the status of the republic. On Monday, the meeting taking place in Geneva, left yugoosetinskaya delegation.

United States regretted the fact that Russia followed suit yugoosetinskih separatists, leaving May 18 from the Geneva consultations on Georgia at their very beginning. Also, United States regretted the decision Abkhazia to boycott the talks from the very beginning, – stated in a declaration.

U.S. alarmed such behavior, contrary to the spirit of the armistice signed on 12 August, made possible through the mediation of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as the UN Security Council resolution 1866. read more »

World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to maintain the level 5 (on a scale of 6) alert the influenza A , while insisting the need to not let our guard down because the possibility of a pandemic remains latent.

The alert level is in phase 5 for eighteen days, which means it has been demonstrated that contagion exists Community Only one of the regions of the healthcare organization, in this case in Northern America (Mexico and United States).

The director general of WHO , Margaret Chan, has said that nobody knows how long the incidence of mild cases that were observed recently in various countries, and recalls that while this new flu circulating in the world can not be excluded that the risk of combined with other viruses.

We are in a time of great uncertainty , Chan said when opening the World Health Assembly, which this year coincides with the outbreak of influenza A, which focus the discussions. read more »

SOUTHBEND, USA (AFP) – U.S. President Barack Obama called Sunday advocates and opponents of abortion to open mind in a speech at Catholic University Notre Dame, at times disrupted by anti-abortion activists slogans.

When we open our hearts and spirits of those who think like us, then we discover at least the possibility of a compromise, said Obama .

In a way, the views of the two parties are irreconcilable, he said and stressed that each party will continue to propose his view with passion and conviction. But certainly we do not reducing the views of opponents to caricature, he said.

While Obama made his speech, four activists from anti-abortion slogans interrupting the agent.

Stop killing babies, one of the protesters shouted, while pointing out another harangue that abortion is murder.

The four activists were led by Police outside the university where Obama continued his speech.

Open Heart, open-mindedness, impartiality. read more »

Vice President Joseph Biden during a secular lunch on Sunday to let out a secret bunker under his seat. According to the channel Fox, his conversation with a neighbor across the table heard the assistant editor of the magazine Newsweek, which wrote about it.

for lunch in the club of journalists Gridiron Biden told that recently saw the first shelter, hide behind the massive iron door, and a small corridor, which connects the hopper with the premise, filled with telecommunications equipment.

After the 11 September attacks in the bunker, which is now owned by Joseph Baydenu, hiding from the terrorists, former Vice-President Dick Cheney, the American journalist . read more »

RIGA, May 15 – RIA Novosti. The organizers of a gay parade Baltic Pride – 2009 which will be held in Riga on Saturday, fear of provocation on the part of opponents of the procession, said on Friday the Internet version of the republican newspaper Telegraph.

They (the opponents of the parade) are trying to intimidate us, because in fact, opponents of Pride is not so much. In the meantime, Nevertheless, I assume that the radicals try to make trouble. But we will consult with the police and follow their recommendations, – said, Telegraph Iveta Ghosh – Member of the Society Mosaic , which organizes the event.

Earlier, Press Secretary Gospolitsii Latvia Ieva Rekshnya reaffirmed the Telegraph that the situation with security around the gay parade is not very good. According to her, the police will do everything possible to protect the marchers. read more »

Bogota, 15 may (EFE) .- The Attorney General Colombiaanuncio today the opening of a separate disciplinary investigations even advisor and Secretaries General of Press and Presidenciade of the Republic, and and two former heads of intelligence, lasescuchas illegal by judges, politicians and journalists.

are affected Bernardo Moreno, general secretary of laPresidencia Cesar Mauricio Velasquez, press secretary laPresidencia of the Republic, and Jorge Mario Eastman, Advisor.

will also be investigated Jorge Noguera Cotes and Andres Penate, former director of the Department of Administrative Security (DAS intelligence), and Jose Miguel Narvaez, former director of Intelligence yex Deputy Director of DAS.

was also investigated Mario Alejandro Aranguren, actualdirector of Unit Information and Financial Analysis (UIAF).

These officials the Presidency of the Republic, the DAS and dela UIAF, as the Attorney General shall render the explicacionespor alleged illegal wiretapping yseguimientos DAS several personalities, including judges, journalists, parliamentarians and members of the security forces.

The National Public Prosecutor's Investigation in the coming days to hear the affected ypracticara evidence to clarify the alleged misconduct and suresponsabilidad, sources pointed out the Attorney General. read more »