Archive for July, 2009

Life of Kim Jong-Il endorses artificial kidney

Posted in Main News on July 31st, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

In connection with the aggravation of diabetes, the leader of North Korea's Kim Jong Il twice a week, forced to undergo the procedure for kidney dialysis. That was reported by Agence France-Presse with reference to an anonymous South Korean activist, who in turn received the information from unnamed sources in Pyongyang.

Agency also quotes from the President's comments Radio Open Radio for North Korea Ha Tae Kyna, who said that the North Korean leader had deteriorated in May 2009, after which he began to hold regular kidney dialysis.

Ha also said that by May 25, 2009 re – Test a nuclear bomb were to prevent a split within the power elite in relation to the illness of Kim Jong Il.

Health 67-year-old leader of the DPRK and the choice of his successor, was the subject of numerous publications in the world media to fall 2008, when Kim Jong Il long disappeared from the public board. According to the most common versions, in August 2008 he had a stroke.

Later, North Korean media began to regularly publish Photos from Kim Jong Il's visits to the country, but observers noted that the set time of the snapshot could not be identified. read more »

The number of diseased pork influenza in Kazakhstan rose to 15 people

Posted in Main News on July 31st, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

The number of patients

pandemic influenza A/N1N1 (pig flu) in Kazakhstan has reached 15 people. This was reported in the Friday press service of akim (mayor) of the town, passes RIA Novosti .

The Alma-Ata zavoznoy registered another case of influenza A /N1N1 ill nine almaatinets arrived July 22 from the UK , – said.

According to the press service, the symptoms of influenza in diseased appeared July 28 in the form of pain in the throat, the parents treated the child alone, in health organizations called on July 29. Reference laboratory of the Kazakh Republican sanepidemstantsii 30 July confirmed by laboratory strain of influenza virus type A/N1N1, – the message.

According to the press service, now in relation to the satisfactory condition of the patient is ambulatory treatment. In the course of the epidemiological examination of the home found two of the contact, did not reveal signs of disease, medical monitoring of patients and contacts in the source continues, – said.

Of the previously identified influenza A/N1N1 the majority of patients already discharged from hospitals, outpatient treatment to the rest, their health concerns among doctors is. read more »

Representative of the Russian Federation in the Strasbourg court suggested that rejection

Posted in Main News on July 30th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

Representative of Russia to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, proposed to himself in connection with his election to the board of directors of Gazprom, writes on Wednesday, the newspaper Kommersant .

If the judge Valery Musin will be involved in the case of Yukos, working goskompanii, this could create a conflict of interest. In practice, the court accepted that the judge, who became a government official or started working in the organization with the dominant share of the state, ceased to participate in the proceedings, the publication said.

Answer Musin must give up to 1 August. In an interview with Kommersant, he said that thought the answer to a letter from the Secretary-Chancellor of the first section of the European Court of Human Rights, Søren Nielsen. Delicate issue, and I do not wish to comment on the answer to his dispatch, which has a few more days, – explained the judge.

Musin was elected to the board of directors Gazprom June 26, recalled the newspaper, and Nielsen letter with a proposal to commit himself was already on 1 July. In case of rejection of the president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev will have two months to appoint another representative of Russia in the Strasbourg court. read more »

The businessman has accused the tobacco mafia threats to the President of Serbia

Posted in Main News on July 30th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

tobacco mafia threatening the President of Serbia Boris Tadic in connection with the arrests of suspects in the killing of Croatian journalists, argues businessman from Montenegro, Ratko Knežević (Ratko Knezevic). His words led Belgrade teleradiokorporatsiya B-92 .

According to Knezevic, there were serious indications that the Croatian President Stipe Mesic in Sofia Tadic conveyed certain material, which speak of threats to the Serbian president in connection with investigating the assassination of the Croatian Journalists Ivo Pukanicha (Ivo Pukanic) and Nico Franicha (Niko Franjic ).

businessman alleges that the threats come from tobacco cartel, headed by Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic of Montenegro (Milo Djukanovic) and businessman Stanko Subotic (Stanko Subotis). According to him, after the Croatian and Serbian governments, both the former and current, have refused to enter into agreements with the cartel, to Dukanovicha and Subotic started the problem.

Knežević expressed confidence that members of the cartel to collect council , which discussed how to force Slobodan Dzhurovicha (Slobodan Djurovic) and Sreten Yotsicha (Sreten Jocic) – arrested for the murder of journalists – not to tell investigators anything.

The businessman also said that Serbia does not want to have any cases with the cartel, which is frightened by the cooperation of Croatian and Serbian police in the capture of people who ordered and committed the murder of journalists. read more »

The ship Progress M-67 docked to the ISS in manual mode

Posted in Main News on July 29th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

Cargo spacecraft Progress M-67 was transferred to a manual mode, and when such a system, management undertook a docking with the International Space Station (ISS).

As the RIA Novosti , docking should be carried out at 15:15 Moscow time in the automatic mode, but the MCC recommended to switch to manual control. The reason for this decision are not reported.

Progress M-67 was launched to the ISS on July 24 from Baikonur on the launch vehicle Soyuz. The ship is delivered to the station more than 2.5 tons of cargo. In particular, it has delivered fuel to maintain orbit stations, scientific equipment, water, and food parcels for the astronauts, the new suits for future crews, fresh media.

ship also delivered to the ISS products, which the cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Roman Romanenko, astronauts Michael Barratt, Timothy copra, Frank De Winn Tire and Robert, who is now working on the ISS, ordered before the flight. read more »

Patriarch Cyril spoke about the benefits of financial crisis

Posted in Main News on July 29th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

unbridled consumption kills a man, and joy at the global level can destroy the planet. However, it can help the world financial crisis. The statement was made by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill Tuesday broadcast TV channel Inter.

According to the newspaper Sight Kirill noted that it is possible to buy a boat, another one, the second plane, but the acquisition of the holder ceases to please – every time he needed something more, and this race has no limits. Предстоятель remembered that once asked a very rich man, whether it is a pleasure from the fact that buying a new thing, and in response was: Perhaps, when the sign a check. Unbridled consumption removes this joy. Rob a man, – explained the patriarch.

then, according to him, the man who gave unbridled consumption typically begins to look for other levels of satisfaction, such as: what line he took in the magazine Forbes. If all societies rise to this level of consumption, the Earth did not stand – warned Moscow pervosvyatitel.

In support of his words He cited a forecast, according to which, if around the world at the same level of consumption, both in the United States, the entire resources of the planet enough for 40-50 years. read more »

A Colombian anti-guerrilla seized from Sweden

Posted in Main News on July 28th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

Swedish authorities demanded that Venezuela's explanation about how the Swedish weapons previously purchased Venezuelans fall into the hands of militant Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Reported AFP in Monday, July 27.

Eriksson Jens (Jens Eriksson), adviser to the Ministry of Trade of Sweden, told AFP, that the Swedish side will never agree to resell their arms Colombian rebels.

Earlier Monday, Vice-President of Colombia Francisko Santos (Francisco Santos) told the press that during the operations against the FARC rebels to one of their bases were found anti-AT4, produced by Swedish company Saab Bofors Dynamics. These complexes were delivered a few years ago, the Swedish armed forces of Venezuela.

According to the AFP, Venezuelan Interior Minister Tarek El Ayssami (Tareck El Aissami) described the requirement of Sweden another attack on the country. read more »

At the Earth's shed rain of the instruments, NASA astronaut lost in space last November

Posted in Main News on July 28th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

At the Earth's inhabitants may leak unusual rain of debris from the instruments, lost in space NASA astronaut at the time of the issuance of open space in November last year.

According to the website of the American control of outer space, then that remain of the bag with the tools today to reach the surface of the planet, ITAR-TASS news agency.

initially fall of the cosmic messengers expected on 25 July, but then, scientists recalculated the date of the mini-apocalypse. However, experts did not identify what exactly the point of our planet that can happen.

Tools for working in open space are made of special steel high, so it is likely that some fragments are not burned in the dense layers atmosphere and reach the surface of the Earth , – told the agency earlier expert in rocket-space industry. read more »

Zelaya decided to build the camp from the Honduran border

Posted in Main News on July 27th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

removed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya announced that it intends to build a camp near the Honduran border, passes on Sunday agency Associated Press .

Zelaya, in the territory of Nicaragua, made a day earlier a few symbolic steps on the territory of Honduras, but to return to the country was unable to.

at border crossings, through a megaphone expelled president appealed to hundreds of his supporters, and almost the same number of journalists. He vowed to remain at the border until he was not allowed to return to Cuba, and demanded that the country's new authorities to allow him to see family. Previously, a spouse Zelaya told the media that the military and the police stopped her car when she tried to get to the border.

meantime, near the scene discovered the body of one of the supporters of Zelaya, reported Agence France-Presse . As has been able to establish, killed – 23-year-old resident of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. read more »

He died last English veteran of the First World War

Posted in Main News on July 27th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

in the UK held a national memorial service for victims of First World in connection with the death of the last veteran of that war, Harry Patch. It was reported the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown.

According to the radio Echo of Moscow, the exact date of service is not called, but, according to the prime minister, the main ceremony, most likely will take place in Westminster Abbey. read more »