Russian and American presidents hope to conclude in early December, a
"legal binding nature" of new nuclear disarmament agreement to replace
the START, which expires on December 5, the Kremlin announced Saturday,
quoted by AFP.
"Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama intends to develop a legal
document with binding nature of the START agreement or early December,"
explains the Kremlin, in a press release issued after a telephone
conversation held between the two heads of state.
"To this end, further consultations will take place at different levels", added the communiqué.
Roso-American negotiations aimed at redesigning the agreement to
reduce strategic nuclear weapons (START) have resumed in Geneva on
October 19. The seventh round of negotiations could last two weeks,
according to Russian diplomatic sources.
Russia and America have intensified in the last month,
negotiations to replace START treaty, signed in 1991 and which expires
on December 5.
After the sixth round of negotiations in late September, which
lasted two weeks, compared with the average of the previous meetings,
three or four days, the chief diplomats of the two powers have
reaffirmed, in early October, promise to set up a new agreement by
year's end, referring to "substantial progress".
During the summit in July in Moscow, Medvedev and Obama have
decided to reduce, between 1500 to 1675, the number of nuclear
focoaselor (compared to the peak of 2200 in terms of the agreement
START) and range from 500 to 1100 the number of nuclear vectors
(intercontinental missile , submarines and strategic bombers).
Until now, the ceiling will be exactly the reduction remains to be negotiated by the two largest nuclear powers.
Government of Ethiopia has asked the international community aid for
175 million dollars to face the drought affecting East Africa,
recalling the famine of 25 years ago led to the deaths of over 1
million people, writes The Wall Street Journal .
More than 23
million people in East Africa have limited resources of water and food,
mostly due to drought, as non-governmental organization Oxfam
International. The main reasons that brought the region in such a
situation are the lack of rain, which is felt in increased food prices,
and investment in agriculture.
"It is the worst drought of
the past 10 years," said Paul Smith-Lomas, regional director of Oxfam
International. Periods of drought in the region increasingly often put
in difficulty even in the more developed countries. "It was a bad year
in a series of bad years," he said Smith-Lomas.
Mitiku Kassa,
Ethiopian minister for emergency situations, said the number of people
who depend on such aid has increased from 4.9 million last year to 6.2
million currently, from a population of 83 million. Some of the 175
million dollars will be invested in agriculture, and the remaining
amount is 160,000 tons of aid health and nutrition.
Drought, debt and despair drove the Indian farmers to desperate
solutions. To survive this period, farmers borrow money from
moneylenders, called "Paisawalla" (in Hindi, rich people who borrow
money), but interest rates are very high, notes CNN.
Because
fail to pay their debts many farmers come to work for those that have
borrowed to manage to cover the whole sum, and in very desperate cases,
including amounts large enough men come to sell their wives. "It
happens and when people borrow something," said the wife of a farmer.
According to the police said that a rich man bought it. For 30 days
farmer's wife was forced to live with an unknown man. When the case was
publicly revealed she returned to her husband, but has retired from the
police filed charges against the usurer.
Most of the farmers
living in rural areas of India still use animal traction when it comes
to agricultural work. A farmer behind a plow paralyzed with animal
traction seems a movie scene to people living in developed countries
and highly mechanized, but for farmers in Northern India, Bundelkhand,
is how to manage to put something on the table.
A coalition of several atheist organizations in New York will begin by
next Monday, an advertising campaign in subway stations in the
metropolis, with the center message: "A million New Yorkers are good
without God. You are?". The New York Times, the campaign that will last
a month, costs $ 25,000 and money was offered by an anonymous donor.
The campaign is coordinated by the Coalition of Reason, an
organization that brings together young atheist in New York. Besides
the main slogan, posters in subway stations and website will mention
BigAppleCoR.org, which contains a list of organizations which are part
of the Coalition of Reason.
The campaign which will begin next week comes a few months after a
similar action carried out on buses from the American metropolis. Jane
Everhart, spokeswoman for the organization's New York City atheists
said, referring to the campaign in July, took a big hit, causing
attracting new members.
The publication explains that the new U.S. campaign coincides with
the launch of the book "Good Without God", written by Greg Epstein, who
will appear in bookstores on October 27. Epstein is "humanist chaplain"
Harvard University.
Michael De Dora Jr., executive director of the New York branch of
the Center for Inquiry, said in New York there are one million of
atheists. He added that since New York is so big and diverse, the
message is difficult to promote atheism. Among the groups that are part
of the Coalition of Reason longer include Flying Spaghetti Monster
Meetup, New York City Brights, Philosophy New York, New York Society
for Ethical Culture, Richie's List and Secular Humanist Society of New
York.
Commenting on the campaign, Joseph Zwillinge, spokesman for the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, said: "The First Amendment
allows such groups to surrender to religious beliefs. I hope the rights
of other religions also be respected when they want to promote their
beliefs.
New York Times explains that this year have been promoted more
atheistic campaigns. Most took place in Britain, where organizers
placed on 800 buses following message: "There is probably no God. Don
't worry and enjoy life.
In the U.S., Coalition of Reason has posted several posters with
the message "Do not believe in God? You are not alone" in the
Dallas-Fort Worth and Charleston (West Virginia). Also, Indiana Atheist
Bus has developed a campaign with the message "You can be good without
God.
President Dmitry Medvedev meets Wednesday to lead the Union of Russian
Industrialists and entrepreneurs. Topics of discussion are stimulating
domestic demand, access to financial resources and efficiency to the
state.
The meeting will participate, as Union president
expressed, Aleksandr Sohin, "all business people who are well healthy
and not go who knows where absolutely objective reasons. Last meeting
held on September 15, 2008. Since then, Russian oligarchs have gone
through harsh times and have not had the opportunity to share their
opinions Head of State, writes Gazeta.ru.
Now, once the
critical phase of the crisis has passed, apparently, the business must
submit its own development plans. "The spectrum of problems is too
large to predict the outcome of discussions," said interlocutors
publication cited.
Representatives of small and medium-sized
hope, however, that among the topics discussed will figure including
the "Roadmap 2020 for small businesses.
Raping and killing a woman in the age of 42 years, in late September,
increasing by a convicted felon prior to rape rekindled in France, the
debate on the compulsory application of chemical castration if
recidivist rapist, according to AFP.
Analysis of forensic samples from the woman's body revealed the
presence of DNA killer who admitted after the rape and murder victim.
Dede 47 years old, the killer was sentenced to 11 years in prison
in 2002 for kidnapping a girl violsrea and 13 years, but was
conditionally released in 2007. Such cases also more common lately
generated a strong reaction in the French society, more and more voices
calling for the imposition of chemical castration for pedophiles
violatorii and recidivist.
France debates are not unique, with its Polish Lower House, in
late September, an amendment to the Penal Code, the application of
mandatory drug treatment "to reduce sexual compulsion" for pedophiles
and people who commit incest.
After Poland and the Russian Parliament will consider a bill
requiring chemical castration of pedophiles as sexual agreseaza minors
under 14 years. Anton Belyakov told parliament that a more severe
punishment for pedophiles is necessary because 97 percent of these
recur within two years after release from prison. Under the bill,
pedophiles would have given drug Depo-Provera, normally used for
contraception, which contains a synthetic version of the female hormone
progesterone, which decreases testosterone levels, reducing sex drive.
Nobel Peace Prize Award to U.S. President Barack Obama comes too soon,
Lech Walesa believes that he received the same award in 1983, reports
AFP.
"Who, Obama? So quickly? Too fast! Not yet had time to do what has proposed," said Walesa.
"Sometimes, the Nobel prizes awarded to encourage responsible action.
In this case, then Obama's a chance," added Lech Walesa, leader of the
Solidarity trade union history and former president of Poland.
Award will be given of Barack Obama on December 10, in a ceremony that
will take place in Oslo. It is the third senior U.S. Democrat who
receives the Nobel Prize, by Jimmy Carter in 2002, and Al Gore in 2007.
The award is accompanied by a medal, a diploma and a check for 10 million Swedish kronor (about one million euros).
