Hundreds of taxis blocked traffic around the Transport Ministry in Athens to protest against a new law affecting their business. Papandreou government has recently decided to open its market to all those who want to practice taxi, thus canceling the monopoly of big companies so far. Taxi drivers have a 24-hour strike in response to [...]
Iceland launched the debate in Parliament a draft law that prohibits the sale of cigarettes in shops or public places and offering them only in pharmacies, prescription, leads the Guardian, the electronic edition. According to this project, physicians will be required to encourage smokers to give up vices through various treatments and educational programs. If [...]
An earthquake with magnitude of 7.8 occurred on Thursday morning (Wednesday evening GMT) Pacific.The earthquake occurred near the islands Kermandec, the tsunami alert issued for New Zealand and Tonga, according to USGS. According to the USGS, the earthquake took place on Thursday at 7.03 local time (Wednesday, 22.03, GMT), 200 kilometers east of Raoul Island, [...]
A woman in China has become the heroine in her town after having saved a child who fell from a building floor Ten. Young, who went through the building and put lives in danger and rushed to catch the girl two-year plunge into the void. The two were hospitalized. Wu Juping, wife of 31 years, [...]
Foreign tourists will no longer be received in the famous Dutch coffee shops that sell marijuana. The Government is determined to change the law until the end. Measures against marijuana cafes where the consume will be applied to their own citizens. Neither the Dutch will not only be able to attend the famous places some [...]
The U.S. President won on Tuesday the British and French support for a role for NATO in its air campaign against Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi, while Western allies were discussing operational details to transfer command of the mission. Barack Obama, who has pushed for giving the U.S. command of allied operations in Libya in a [...]
Britain’s interior minister has said, a suspected member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap), the group believed to be behind a foiled parcel bomb attack last week, was arrested in the UK earlier this year On Wednesday in a conference in London Theresa May told, that an “Aqap associate” had been arrested in the [...]
Authorities said Saturday, the local rescue crews have found 135 missing people after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s coast, triggering a tsunami and leaving hundreds dead. According to the Indonesia Disaster Management Agency, at least 413 were killed and 133 remain missing. Officials said dozens were found alive over the past five days, and [...]
Local officials said, aid began reaching a remote Indonesian archipelago Thursday, three days after a deadly tsunami. In the Mentawai Islands continued to rise and the list of missing to fall as more bodies were discovered. By 10 a.m. Friday, local time, 370 deaths had been confirmed and 130 people were missing, the Antara news [...]
In Indonesia in 24 hours the combined death toll from the twin tsunami and earthquake disasters which struck.The local rescuers discovered 282 bodies in the remote Mentawai islands, which were inundated with a 3 metres wave when the Pacific “ring of fire” fault line ruptured on Monday night causing a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.An aid agency, [...]
