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Tehran, an Iranian Red Crescent official, Sunday (06/13/2010) states that the two ships which handled the humanitarian organizations that are ready heading to Gaza to bring aid. Now, the two ships just waiting for the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“We are ready but still waiting for the permission of the foreign ministry for political, military and security in the region,” said Mojtaba Majd, a senior Red Crescent officials quoted by the Mehr news. The two ships, each of which will carry food and medicine, is expected to contrast this weekend. In addition, humanitarian organizations also said it would send a plane carrying 30 tons of medical equipment sent to Egypt to Gaza.

Majd says more than 100,000 Iranians have signed up to go to Gaza as a volunteer on the ship. However, the Red Crescent will only allow for volunteers who have expertise only to be sent to the Palestinian territories.

Iranian Red Crescent had previously sent a ship carrying food aid and medicine to Gaza in December 2008 but banned from entering the area by the Israeli navy. Iran’s decision to send the new assistance was made after Israeli commandos attacked the ship carrying aid Mavi Marmara and pro-Palestinian activists last month.

Johannesburg, South Africa 2010 World Cup opened with great celebration, at the Soccer City Stadium, Friday (11/06/2010). The entire country of South Africa (South Africa) as if shaken. During the opening ceremony of the World Cup 200, in various parts of the country, people continue to sing and dance, has welcomed the first World Cup in Africa.

FIFA Fan Fest in, thousands of people menyemut. They kept dancing while watching the opening ceremony via giant screens. As if, they witnessed the opening ceremony was. In the streets, people also go out, dance and traditional horn kept blowing, Vuvuzela.

Was echoed throughout the country and rock. Fans Fest in Sandton South Africa filled with dozens pendukuing. They kept shouting Bafana Bafana to provide support to the team. Heat did not care.

WASHINGTON,  An earthquake measuring 6.4 has hit the eastern part of the Andaman Islands in India and sparked a local tsunami warning, the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported.

The USGS said the quake struck at 1:21 pm Tuesday local time (19:51 GMT Monday or Tuesday at 2:51 o’clock pm), 120 km east of Port Blair at a depth of 79.4 miles (127.7 km).

“Earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along the coast are within a few hundred kilomter from the epicenter,” said the tsunami warning centers.

Dublin, A cargo ship carrying aid to Gaza, on Wednesday (06/02/2010), resolved to accomplish his mission despite the sea blockade and the threat of deadly attacks by Israel as experienced by previous aid convoy ships, Monday.

MV Rachel Corrie, a merchant ship that has been modified and purchased the pro-Palestinian activist and named after an American woman who was killed in the Gaza Strip in 2003, set out from Malta, Monday. The ship was carrying 15 activists, including Nobel Peace Prize Northern Ireland. A ship’s crew, Derek Graham, said Rachel Corrie is estimated to reach the location where the ship Mavi Marmara Israeli commandos raided, about Friday night or Saturday morning to come.

Israeli navy raided a Turkish ship that led the convoy of six ships, on Monday, killing nine people. However, the Israelis said, his troops had opened fire lethal self-defense. However, the killing of the activists that the world has triggered protests and condemnation of Israel.

“We’ve had a meeting after what happened on Monday morning and we became more convinced than ever to continue our mission,” said Graham told RTE Irish Television, Wednesday. He was told he would tell the Israelis about the position of the ship’s passengers and ask people on the ship to remain calm.

“I will let the passengers and crew to sit quietly with their hands to show that they (Israel) can not do like they did on Monday and claimed that we attacked them,” he said. “We are a mission of peace.”

The Israeli government has offered to escort ships and civilian aid is distributed.

However, Graham says, he worried that not all goods will be delivered. The ship was carrying medical equipment, school equipment, and cement, the type of materials that are prohibited from Israel into Gaza.

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who describes the ship
it as belonging to Ireland, said the ship should be allowed to complete his mission.

GUATEMALA,Tropical storms that hit Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador have caused landslides that destroyed buildings, bridges break down, and killing residents. In addition, the storm also left a trail of phenomenal that may not be found elsewhere: a giant hole in the road.

In the northern part of Guatemala City, the heavy rain and strong storms created a large hole in a road intersection. According to locals, a three-floor building and a house go in the hole. The local newspapers also mention the security guards who died when the hole is open, but the authorities have not provided confirmation of the news.
Residents said the poor underground drainage system is one cause of the opening hole. Last year, a similar hole is also formed in the region.
The storm that swept over the weekend has killed 115 people. In Guatemala, at least 92 people were killed, 54 people were missing and 59 people were injured. Approximately 112 000 people were evacuated and more than 29,000 people have been forced to stay at the shelter.

JERUSALEM,  Protests against acts of violence done to the Israeli military’s humanitarian volunteers Mavi Marmara ships that are heading to Gaza is also happening in Israel. The Arab community living in the Zionist state called for a strike as a form of protest.

The Organization of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, which represents 1.3 million members of the Arab community in Israel, called for a national strike for a day. Movement of the strike will be held on Tuesday (06/01/2010) and is called by the Arabs in Israel.

Threat of national strike was taken by the Israeli Trade Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer. In military radio broadcasts, he urged the Israeli Arab community not to overreact and respond in a rational attack.

Hundreds of people from various political elements in Israel, Monday (05/31/2010), also did a demonstration in the town of Nazareth in northern Israel, the territory which was inhabited by Arab citizens, to protest the attack. One Islamic leader in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, who heads the Islamic movement in Israel, reportedly also injured in the incident.

Since the attack which happened at dawn local time spread in the media, the Israeli police to directly conduct tight security in different cities. Direct security forces held in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Galilee as a precaution against any possible tension.

Criticism even more insistently against violent action Israeli ships opened fire on Monday Marmara Navi assistance (31/5/2010). Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the same day saying that the actions that have killed at least 14 people are inhumane acts.

Similarly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. On Palestinian television, as he set three days of mourning, President Abbas said, “We understand that Israel’s action is the massacre. We condemn the action!”

On the Israeli side, as the AFP announce on Monday, claiming it was just defending themselves. Channel 10 private television channel said the Israeli navy fired because of an attack using arrows and axes from the direction of humanitarian aid ships. Unfortunately, the television station did not say from where information about attacks using the arrows and axes.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared to accept that Guantanamo detainees had been released. Previously, Germany had refused the request of the United States (U.S.), the magazine Focus reported on Saturday (05/29/2010).
Media said Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has sent the message at a meeting of officials of the Party leadership of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union recently. U.S. recently has asked Germany to take three Guantanamo detainees.

Focus reported prisoners each a citizen of Syria, Palestine and Jordan. It is not clear how many prisoners would be acceptable in Germany.

In the area of Hamburg and Brandenburg, de Maizière and some local officials have been examining ways to facilitate the return of prisoners to a normal life, including helping them find jobs and housing. There is also concern about their psychological state after years of living in detention.

Some German officials opposed the reception area in the former Guantanamo detainees refused their own throughout the U.S. in its own territory, says the magazine.

Germany last year rejected the U.S. request to receive the two former Guantanamo detainees, Germany also had previously rejected the proposal to accept some of China’s Uighur prisoners.

U.S. President Barack Obama has promised to close the prison for terrorism suspects in the case in January last. But Obama failed to meet a deadline that is partly because of opposition in the U.S. Congress about the transfer of prisoners to U.S. territory.

Washington has asked the help of some allies to solve the problem of the prisoners who had been cleared of all charges but can not return them for fear they might be tortured in their home countries.

On Saturday, the Washington Post, citing government documents that have not been previously disclosed, reported that the majority of prisoners detained at the U.S. naval base in Cuba it is a low-level insurgents.

Only about 10 percent of the 240 people detained at Guantanamo as an official Obama office in January 2009 was “the leaders, spies or facilitators involved in the plan (attacks) against the United States”, the newspaper reported. In early May, 181 prisoners are still languishing in prison who opposed many of these parties.

Moscow, The death toll from a bomb explosion at the city of Stavropol, southern Russia, increased to seven.
“The death toll of seven people, about 16 people were in critical condition,” said state media, on Thursday (27/05/2010).
The blast happened on Wednesday, moments after it began the concert dance community who attended the President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed.
Russia has said, investigators have opened a criminal case under terrorism laws pascaledakan in Stavropol region, especially in the Muslim North Caucasus republic.
The Islamic fighters vowed to expand its network operations and bombing attacks in the metro pascaledakan Moscow in March, which killed 40 people.
“The number of victims killed two people last night increased to seven, and 16 other victims, otherwise his condition was critical in the chest, abdomen, and gunshot wounds,” said a doctor in Stavropol to the Rossiya TV-24.
Bomb explosion equivalent to 400 grams of TNT was disguised in a juice box.

JERUSALEM,  Israeli forces on the border with the Gaza Strip, Wednesday (26 / 5), shot a Palestinian who approached the border fence and equipment have been ordered back though.

According to a spokesman for the military, the troops fired warning shots into the air when a group of people entered the prohibited zone near the Gaza border fence. “One person remains in the area, troops shot and hit,” he said, without further explanation.

However, Gaza emergency officials said three people were injured by Israeli army gunfire. Human rights groups based in Gaza, Mizan, said the three men in search of building materials used in the rubble of destroyed houses near the northern border.

Every day, hundreds of people picking the rubble and vacant land for building materials at the border are difficult to obtain because of the blockade which Israel imposed. The heavily guarded border zone hit by the escalating violence in recent years.

Tuesday, Palestinian militants detonated a bomb mounted on a donkey cart near the border fence and fired mortars into southern Israel, said Israeli military. Friday ago, two men armed Palstina killed in a shootout with Israeli troops after they violated the border fence and went to the neighboring Israeli village.

The Gaza Strip, the area is densely populated coast, blockaded by Israel and Egypt after Hamas to power nearly three years ago. Group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June of 2007 after defeating Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a deadly battle for a few days.

Since then, the coastal region of Israel dibloklade poor. Any Palestinian entity into two separate areas – the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and West Bank under Abbas government.