Pakistan news
Power blackouts have become a regular
part of everyday life in Pakistan with some areas going without electricity for
up to 20 hours a day.
The country's new Prime Minister, Nawaz
Sharif, has promised to make easing the crisis one of his top priorities.
A major cause of the problem is thought
to be residents - both rich and poor - who illegally connect their homes to
their city's power grid by attaching metal hooks to nearby electricity lines.
Comment: We think that it’s unfair to others who pay electricity legally, so
many residents want to connect their homes to the city power grid, they end up
having a power blackouts.
COLOMBIA:
Colombia kidnapping: Spanish tourists freed by police
Two
kidnapped Spanish tourists have been rescued by police in Colombia, while two
people suspected of trying to collect a ransom have been held in Spain.
Spain's interior ministry said
two officers from its kidnapping, unit had travelled to Colombia and taken part
in the release of the tourists. It is not known whether anyone was arrested in
Colombia. It
is unclear who was responsible for the kidnapping. The Spanish interior ministry
said it was ruling out Colombia's main rebel group, Farc, amid indications that
a criminal gang was behind the crime. The ministry said that a
Syrian national and a Spanish citizen had been arrested in Madrid. Spanish radio network
Cadena SER reported that one of Spain's leading judges identified the freed
tourists as one of his relatives, Maria Concepcion Marlaska, 43, and Angel
Sanchez Hernandez, 49. The two, from the northern
city of Aviles, were kidnapped last month in the province of La Guajira as they
drove towards a tourist attraction near the Venezuelan border. They were in good health,
National Court Judge Fernando Grande Marlaska told the radio station.
Comment: We think that they need to watch out who goes in or out of the country. So, it wouldn't give more troubles.
BRASIL:
Brazil to invest $1.2bn in Rio de Janeiro's favelas
Brazil's
President Dilma Rousseff has announced an investment of more than $1.2bn
(£770m) in favelas, or shanty towns, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Ms Rousseff said the money would be spent improving three areas - Rocinha,
Jacarezinho and the Lins complex. They
will be integrated with the rest of the city as Rio prepares to host the 2016
Olympic Games. Sewage and water facilities are scarce in most Brazilian favelas
and access to utilities is poor. The
investments are part of the Growth Acceleration Programme (PAC) launched by Ms
Rousseff's predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Ms Rousseff has implemented
the $742bn second phase, PAC 2, which focuses on six major initiatives -
"better city"; "citizen community"; "my house, my
life"; "water and light for all"; transportation and energy. Brazil will also host next year's football
World Cup.
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| The investments in the favelas are part of the Growth Acceleration Programme |
Comment: We think that it's good for the people who live around the city and it's for the best of the country.
EL SALVADOR:
El Salvador: A dangerous place to be a woman
El Salvador is a country long blighted by
violence, and the abuse of women is a particular problem, with the highest
murder rate of women in the world.
But now women are starting to speak out
about their treatment in the hope that tackling the issue of violence against
women will become a priority for the country's authorities.
link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20514370
Comment: Men have to be punish when they kill or hit a woman.
Camerun:
Former CAR leader Francois Bozize leaves Cameroon
The ousted president of the Central
African Republic, Francois Bozize, has left Cameroon, where he fled in March
after rebels seized power.
The BBC's Jean-David Mihamle reports from
Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, that he took a flight to Kenya. Sources said Mr
Bozize was bound for South Africa. It was unclear whether he was leaving
Cameroon for good. Authorities in CAR issued an international arrest warrant
for Mr Bozize last week. Public prosecutor Alain Tolmo said the former leader
was accused of kidnappings, murder, crimes against humanity, and economic
crimes. During his stay in Yaounde, Mr Bozize had been transferred with some of
his family from a well-known hotel to a villa in the Golf neighbourhood, near
the presidential palace, our correspondent says. He boarded a commercial flight
to Nairobi late on Sunday evening. Mr Bozize, 66, took power in CAR following a
coup in 2003, winning two subsequent elections that were widely seen as
fraudulent. He fled as rebels from the Seleka alliance advanced on the capital,
Bangui. He later accused Chad of backing the rebels - a charge denied by the
government in Ndjamena. An interim government headed by Seleka leader Michel
Djotodia has pledged to hold elections after an 18-month transition. The Agence
France-Presse news agency reported continuing violence in CAR on Monday,
including a deadly attack by men claiming to be Seleka rebels in the central
town of Bouca, and a hostage taking in Baboua in the west. CAR's neighbours
said in April they would send 2,000 troops to help restore security.
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| Francois Bozize took power in 2003, and fled in March as rebels advanced on Bangui |
Comment: He should be more responsible to his country.
FILIPINES:
Two Swedes
jailed for life over Philippine cybersex den
Two Swedish men, arrested in 2009, have been jailed for life for
running a cybersex operation in the Philippines.
A court in the southern Philippines found Bo Stefan Sederholm,
31, and Emil Andreas Solemo, 35, guilty of trafficking charges. The life
sentences are unprecedented both for their severity and for the spotlight they
cast on cybersex dens. These involve naked women chatting and performing sexual
acts in front of webcams for internet clients. Three Filipinos were given
20-year jail sentences for helping the Swedes, who had set up the internet and
payment systems, to run the business. Regional court clerk Nelison Salcedo was
quoted by AFP as saying judge Jeoffre Acebido had stressed the need to protect
women. "Disrespect for Filipino women and violations of our laws deserve
the strongest condemnations from this court," Ms Salcedo quoted from the
judge's ruling. "It will not shirk from its duty to impose the most severe
of penalties against anybody, be he a foreign national or a citizen of this
country, who tramples upon the dignity of a woman by taking advantage of her
vulnerability."
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| Young women and girls are often forced to work as cybersex chat girls |
Comment: The police of the Phillippines should control more the websites to have more respects to the women.
ECUADOR:
Ecuador minister meets
Wikileaks founder Assange in London
Ecuador's foreign minister, Ricardo Patino, has met the founder of the
Wikileaks website, Julian Assange, at his country's embassy in London. Mr Assange, who
has been living in the building for a year was "in good spirits"
despite the "limitations of his accommodations", Mr Patino said. The Wikileaks
founder has been granted political asylum by Ecuador, but will be arrested if
he leaves the building. He is wanted for questioning over two sexual assault
allegations in Sweden. But Mr Assange
denies the claims and fears he will be handed over to the US authorities, who
are investigating Wikileaks for publishing confidential US diplomatic
documents.
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| Julian Assange and Ecuador's Foreign minister, Ricardo Patino met at the London embassy. |
Comment: The police in Ecuador should control the websites and the men who is in the building.
URUGUAY:
Uruguay
president 'sorry' for Fernandez 'old hag' quip
The President of
Uruguay, Jose Mujica, has apologised for apparently referring to Argentine
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as an "old hag".
In a radio interview he offered "heartfelt
apologies" and blamed the quip on his "rough language skills". Last
week, President Mujica was overheard saying: "This old hag is even worse
than the cross-eyed man." It was claimed that he referred to Ms Fernandez
and her late husband, whom she succeeded as president. Ms Fernandez's husband,
Nestor Kirchner, had a lazy eye. He died suddenly of a heart attack in 2010. The
comments, meant to be private, were accidentally caught and recorded by a
nearby open microphone. Mr Mujica's words caused outrage in the neighbouring
country and led to an official protest. In
an interview to radio M24 on Thursday, he put the comments down to his
"rough" past life in an armed group. "We can't avoid that our
daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough," he said, adding
that it has been shaped by spending many years in prison cells and detention. "This
kind of language is miles away from public speeches, from the press. It has
only to do with intimate relationships between very few."
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| President Jose Mujica (left) is reported to have an uneasy relationship with President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner |
Comment: The president of Uruguay should control what he says because he is an important person and everything he says could affect himself.
PERÚ:
Peru's Shining Path leader
jailed for life for terrorism
A court in Peru
has sentenced the last of the original leaders of the Shining Path rebels to
life in prison.
Judges in the Peruvian capital, Lima, found Florindo
Flores, who's known as Comrade Artemio, guilty of terrorism, drug trafficking
and money laundering. He was also ordered to pay a fine of $183m (£117m). The Shining Path rebels were severely weakened
in the 1990s after failing to install a Communist state, but some remain active
in southern Peru. After hours of sentencing, Judge Clotilde Cavero said:
"It was proven that he (Artemio) ordered the execution of a number of
civilians, police and soldiers. "It
was proven that he belonged to the Central Committee of the Shining Path. "It was proven that he was the top leader
in the (Alto) Huallaga (Valley)," she said.
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| Florindo Flores raised his fist in defiance as the sentence was read out |
Comment: Florindo Flores have to go to the jail for everything he done.
REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA:
Appeal to free Nicole Reyes from
Dominican Republic jail
The family of a woman
held without charge in the Caribbean on suspicion of killing her husband has
appealed for help to free her from jail.
Nicole Reyes, 37, from Cardiff, was locked up last July after
husband Jorge Quintanilla, 38, died in a road crash in the Dominican Republic.
He was riding his motorcycle alongside Ms Reyes' Toyota SUV when she said she
accidentally ran him over. The Foreign Office said "appropriate"
consular assistance had been given. Ms Reyes moved to the Caribbean country in
2004 with her children Luke, then seven, and eight-year-old Leah, and parents,
Michael and Jeanette Clements, all from Rumney in Cardiff. She met and married
former coconut seller Mr Quintanilla and found work as a rep with holiday
travel company Thomas Cook. But her children moved back to Wales in 2007, aged
10 and 11, with their grandparents because they did not like the country.
No helmet
Then on July 10 last year Ms Reyes was driving home from a night
out with friends at a hotel along an unlit road while her husband rode his
motorbike alongside her. Mrs Clements said her daughter told her husband, who
was not wearing a helmet, to move away from the middle of the road. But Ms Reyes said she touched the back of his
bike with her car and he came off. Mrs Clements said: "She was looking for
him but couldn't find him and then realised he was under the jeep and was
screaming to people standing nearby for help." But Mrs Clements said the
culture on the island is not to help or become involved in traffic accidents
for fear of being blamed. An ambulance took Mr Quintanilla to hospital but he
was found to be dead. Ms Reyes was taken
to a police station and has never been charged or released. She was first kept
in the Puerto Plata part of the island and then transferred to Santiago, where
she is due to stand trial on Thursday. Mrs Clements said: "It's
horrendous. She's not been charged, she's living in the most appalling
conditions and she has quite a few health problems. "I just want her out of
there but we just don't know what to do anymore."
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| Nicole Reyes has been held in jail since husband Jorge Quintanilla died in a road crash |
Comment: We think that Nicole Reyes have to complete her jail sentence.
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