Pakistan, the Taliban killed the singer "excommunicated"

Ghazala Javed was called and it was the most popular singer of Pakistan Pashtuns.They killed yesterday in Peshawar, with six shots, from a team of four men on motorcycles. The claim is not there yet, but the track is more likely that the Taliban. Who had threatened several times. For the simple reason that he sang, against the precepts of the Koran and Sharia law. Ghazala had fled his village in Swat Valley, now under the control of militants in order to continue his career. But it was not enough. They reached the big city where he achieved success and warm. Police confirm "that was reached by six shots straight out of a beauty salon." The first investigations were focused on the track, however, familiar with ex-husband as prime suspect. But a cousin of the girl, Wajid Omer, who plays the harmonica in Peshawar, said that "she was killed by unknown persons. It was four on two motorbikes. They also shot the father, who was with her. I think they were religious fanatics. " Her sister, she on the spot, instead admitted to the hospital, in shock. "Can not bear the pain - Wajid says sadly - I have two funerals in the home at the same time.It is a hit too hard. " Ghazala, from the village of Banrr, in the Swat valley, was the most popular singer in the Khyber region, and known throughout Pakistan, not only between boys and girls, but also at a wider audience adult. She was respected by her fans, also for the courage shown after threats of the Taliban. Its implementation will have a tremendous impact on young people, and above all the other singers, terrorized by Islamists. Anila, a disciple of her, says that may no longer have the courage to perform in public: "I am shocked. I cried. But I'm also scared and wonder if I can continue my career. " Then, after a break, "Ghazala would have certainly continued, however, was so beautiful and brave." Most of the singers in the region did not express their feelings openly.But we certainly feel the threat hanging over them. One, who wishes to remain anonymous, admits, "may strike us simply because we commented on the news of her death. But we have to honor it. It was a great example for young singers and a great companion for me. " The music industry in the region of Khyber is not very friendly to artists, musicians and poets in general. In addition to the pressures of religious, there are other family or social order. And so the potential remains untapped talent of Pashtun music. One of the most important producers already regrets Ghazala: "He had an exceptional talent. Just started was immediately followed her in public. Maybe at the listeners were attracted by her beauty, but the number of fans in the region continued to grow at an incredible, for the angelic sound of his voice, his sense of music and rhythm. " Ghazala was also admired for her courage to perform in public, despite the continued threats, "now his death is a shock, very violent," he concludes. Ghazala Javaid was really a wonderful girl Pashtun and his passing is a blow for Her fans throughout Pakistan, but the pain goes beyond the circle of her admirers, because the Islamist terror has passed another threshold that seemed insurmountable.

Turkish troops attack Kurdish targets in Iraq

After an attack on Turkish soldiers the armed forces of the country's Kurdish rebel targets in several neighboring Iraq have attacked. Combat aircraft and helicopters were hit targets of the PKK on the Iraqi side of the border, said the military. Here are 26 Kurdish fighters were killed and another captured. With a rebel attack on Tuesday eight Turkish soldiers were killed. Kurdish rebels use northern Iraq as a base to carry out attacks on Turkish targets. The rebels have been fighting for decades for autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of Turkey. The President of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq on Wednesday called for an end to fighting between Turkey and Kurdish rebels. The "time for war and weapons is over," said Massoud Barzani, the Turkish state television.

Mubarak between life and death, Egypt awaits the results

The Egyptian crosses another period of turmoil so that Hosni Mubarak apparently struggle against death and that people will wait anxiously to the official announcement of the result of the presidential election an Islamist opposition to a former general. The electoral commission said on Wednesday it was not safe to announce Thursday, as expected, the winner. The two candidates, the Muslim Brother Mohamed Morsi and the last Prime Minister of "rai" fallen, Ahmed Shafik, have each claimed victory. "We can not say exactly when we will announce the results of the election because we are to hear the representatives (of candidates)," said Hatem Bagato, general secretary of the electoral commission. "The committee will then meet to decide whether the appeals are accepted or not. Then we will set the time of the announcement of final result", he added. According to Salama Omar, member of the secretariat of the Electoral Commission, Mohamed Morsi has filed over 150 complaints against his rival Ahmed Shafik. The latter would have filed 221, according to the website of the daily Al Ahram. No figures have been officially announced but the representatives of candidates at each polling station were able to make accounts. U.S. group to oversee the elections said Tuesday they can not say if the Egyptian presidential took place in a free and fair due to lack of sufficient access to polling stations. Various military officials have also announced during the night qu'Hosni Mubarak, 84, was unconscious and on life support, but is not "clinically dead" as announced Tuesday evening the official MENA news agency.

DOUBLE UNCERTAINTY

It was still not certain, Wednesday afternoon, he was at one time in a state of clinical death, defined by an absence of heart activity and breathing. Health of "rai" Fallen, which was transferred to Tora prison to a military hospital, the subject of much speculation since his conviction on June 2 to life imprisonment. And the name of his successor is still not known sixteen months after his fall from power. After the second round of the presidential election, Saturday and Sunday, the Muslim Brotherhood claimed victory for their candidate, Mohamed Morsi. His opponent, Ahmed Shafik, the last Prime Minister Hosni Mubarak, has challenged the ad, claiming himself in mind. Regardless of the winner, his presidential powers have been greatly reduced by a decree of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (AFSC) to power, after ordering the dissolution of Parliament, dominated by Islamists. The headlines Thursday reflect the dual uncertainty on the health of Hosni Mubarak and the name of the future president. "Contradictory information about the death of Mubarak after a stroke" and "The 48 hours the most crucial in the history of Egypt" are linked to "an" Al Ahram, which is particularly referring to the examination by the electoral commission of fraud charges coming from both sides.

Difficult to identify

"Mubarak in a coma between life and death", chose as its headline Al Akhbar, whose "one" also states: "The future president in the realm of the unknown". The private TV station Al Hayat released a video of the transfer of Hosni Mubarak, on which we could see a patient - not easily identifiable - lying on a stretcher and taken off an ambulance. About ten people gathered in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday around the hospital had been transferred the former president. Along with onlookers having learned the arrival of a famous patient, supporters came to show their support. "Mubarak is dead for his people was sentenced to prison," said Yamani Loola, 50. "His people treated him unfairly and did not respect his rights." The direction of Tora had so far refused the transfer of Hosni Mubarak, despite the urgings of his lawyers, who argued he was not receiving an appropriate medication for his condition. No independent medical examination has so far helped to pinpoint the ills afflicting the old "rai". State media report a series of conditions ranging from shortness of breath to heart attacks. While some Egyptians suspect the military disguise reality in order to offer an end to Hosni Mubarak lives more comfortable, the fate of former president now seems overshadowed by the new identity. "The news about Mubarak's health are more than speculation," said Maher Eid Hemdan, a retiree of 59 years. "There should be based on reality. We can not continue to follow the rumors."

The U.S. and Israel are developing a computer virus against the Iranian nuclear capabilities

The United States and Israel have jointly developed a computer virus known as the "Flame" for the Iranian nuclear capability, said on Wednesday Washington Post. U.S. officials have said that the malware had secretly nicknamed Flame traced and monitored the Iranian computer networks, citing a series of information campaign to prepare a virtual war, according to the media. The U.S. National Security Agency, the CIA and the Israeli army would be involved in efforts involving the use of malware such as viruses Stuxnet to cause failures in equipment Iranian nuclear enrichment, the newspaper said. A former senior U.S. intelligence dignitary told the Washington Post that Flame and Stuxnet were elements of a broader assault that continues today. The association of the establishment of Flame, which was unveiled last month when Iran has detected a series of virtual attacks on its oil industry between the U.S. and Iran, had not been confirmed. The virus was developed there are at least five years as part of efforts classified under the code name "Olympics", according to officials and experts familiar with U.S. cyber operations. The New York Times reported this month that U.S. President had ordered the intensification of virtual attacks on Iran's nuclear program a few months after his inauguration, greatly increasing the first use of American weapons cybernétiques.Le program, launched by Bush administration and called the Olympic Games, designed the computer systems that manage key Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities, the newspaper said. However, a programming error allowed the virus Stuxnet, developed by the U.S. and Israel to escape from the central Iranian Natanz and go around the world on the Internet during the summer of 2010.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange escapes from the Swedish judiciary

He wants to prevent his extradition to Sweden necessarily Therefore, the controversial activist network in London to the Embassy of Ecuador fled there and applied for political asylum. His impending extradition from Britain to prevent Sweden, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the Embassy of Ecuador in London fled. The 40-year-old Australian who has lived for a year under strict conditions in the UK, have applied for political asylum, said Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino at a press conference in Quito. Assange is the founder of Wikileaks, which has especially with the release of confidential and secret U.S. documents has hit the headlines. The Swedish Justice accuses him of sexually harassing two women and raped in one case to have. For more than a year trying Assange to prevent his extradition. The chain of command in Britain, he has exhausted without success since last week.

No comment from the U.S.

Patino said that Ecuador will examine the application Wikileaks.The Australian claims that the Swedish authorities to raise the sexual allegations as a pretext and auzuliefern him to the U.S. to want. There, he is threatened with the death penalty, his lawyers had argued repeatedly. In Washington, they wanted to not comment on the new developments in the case. "This is for the UK and Sweden, and Ecuador," says a statement by the U.S. State Department. In support of his asylum application, the Minister makes the read out in Quito, Assange claimed he was from his native Australia has been abandoned. He was being persecuted because he had published information that compromised the powerful because he publishes the truth and thus corruption and serious human rights violations around the world have revealed. How Wikileaks announced via the short messaging service Twitter, Ecuador Assange has been offering since November 2010 seeking political asylum.

Does Assange of Probation?

With his flight to the message of the South American country could Assange have violated his parole, which he has more than one year to bypass the British extradition. The Australian government described the asylum as a private affair of the internet activists. "Mr. Assange make decisions in their own interest as he sees it," said Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan in Canberra. They would "send the widest possible support, as is normal for every Australian citizen abroad" him. Criticism of the government came from the Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam,. "This latest move shows Mr. Assange that he has no confidence in the willingness of the Australian Government to intervene and protect him from prosecution by the U.S.," he said.

Myanmar democracy icon receives honorary doctorate on a visit to Oxford

The Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday received an honorary doctorate which was awarded in 1993 from Oxford University, but that it could not receive because of house arrest imposed by the Myanmar authorities. The activist's visit to Oxford was remarkable because Suu Kyi studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE, its acronym in English) at the university between 1964 and 1967, and have lived until 1988 that English town. In an emotional ceremony held on the morning of Wednesday by the prestigious institution, Professor Richard Jenkyns pointed out that, despite the return of Suu Kyi Oxford represent "a public event," we can not forget that the Parliament now also returns to his former home, "a city full of memories." By using the Latin to grant an honorary doctorate in civil law, Jenkyns said that the presence of activist, who had not set foot on British soil since 1988, "speaks more eloquently than any language." "Here he studied and forged friendships, learned about the wonders of youth, here, as wife and mother, lived a quiet domestic life, until the love of his country and passion for the cause of freedom made it back," said Jenkins. The teacher also recalled how Suu Kyi "has been forced to leave behind her husband and children, and his return to his homeland turned into a kind of exile." "For many years felt the weight of the insulation, demonstrating patience and strength to a degree that is not easily imaginable," he added. Suu Kyi, who completed 67 years on Tuesday, had to return home in 1988 to care for her mother and could not go anymore because the junta has kept for many years under house arrest. In Oxford, Suu Kyi married in 1972 with Briton Michael Aris, who died of cancer in 1999. At the time, the activist was prevented from following the funeral of her husband in the UK. Previously, after learning of the illness of her husband, the Burmese military authorized the trip, but she chose not to go for fear of being unable to return to Myanmar. Regarding the visit to Suu Kyi, the British Foreign Minister William Hague described the activist before the House of Commons as "an absolutely inspirational figure" and warned that "there is still a long way to go, not only in Myanmar "but in terms of human rights worldwide. During its passage by the United Kingdom, the activist must reunite with Prince Charles, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and also with Chancellor Hague before pronouncing a historic speech before both houses of British Parliament. Suu Kyi, who ends his official visit on Friday, will remain a few days in Britain in private.

Pakistan: French arrested for alleged links to Al Qaeda

A French citizen was arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of links to Al-Qaeda terrorist network.According to Pakistani authorities, the man suspected of being a member of Al-Qaeda was identified as Naamen Meziche and is described by Western media as an operative of Al Qaeda-linked jihadist groups in Europe. The man was arrested near the border with Iran 

A suicide bombing in Afghanistan left 16 civilians and three NATO soldiers killed

At least 16 Afghan civilians and three foreign soldiers have died in a bomb attack on Wednesday by a suicide bomber in the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan, as reported by the U.S. Embassy and the Afghan police. Gavin Sundwall, spokesman for the embassy said in a statement that three soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF, the NATO mission in the Central Asian country) and an Afghan interpreter were killed in the attack. According to the police chief in Khost province, Sardar Mohammad Zazai, the terrorist was riding on a motorcycle and detonated his explosives near a mosque in a busy area of ​​town. Zazai has been estimated at 16 civilians dead and local authorities have added that at least 30 people were injured, including women and children. One witness, a local merchant named Mohammad Gul, explained that the NATO troops and Afghan were making use of biometrics to control the population of Khost, the capital of the province of the same name, when "suddenly there was an explosion." Jost is one of the main theaters of operations Haqqani armed group linked to the Taliban and the United States has accused of a series of bombings in Kabul and attacks against international forces in other parts of the country.