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The strong flooding in South Africa claimed over a 100 lives. The government declared 33 municipalities as disaster zones. The last weekend the Government informed that most of the victims were from the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The preliminary evaluations show that over 424,150...

Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, suspended his journey to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sweeden, after the explosion in the Domodedovo airport in Moscow. The Russia’s Investigation Committee (RIA), qualified the blast as a terrorist attack. So far the death toll is of 35...

The flooding and landslides in a mountainous region of Brazil have reached 806 killed people, according to Brazilian government officials. The disaster is the second largest in Brazil and it has only been surpassed by a meningitis outbreak that killed 1,500 people in 1974....

Over 33 relatives of the runaway Tunisian president Ben Ali were detained, and one of the ministries that kept his job was forced to resign yesterday in hopes of calming the people’s contempt. The new cabinet reunited for the first time even when over a thousand demonstrators...

The appearance of “Ruby” on television, ensuring that Silvio Berlusconi never had  touched or had an affair with her, have calmed some of the concerns of the Italian prime minister who was been charged for incitement to prostitution of minors and concussion. The...

The authorities of Sao Paulo informed that 400 people are missing after the mudslides from the last week killed 767 people. The Rio de Janeiro prosecutor’s office informed that there is long list of casualties. The death toll from slides caused by deluges in mountain towns north...

127 members of the mafia network Cosa Nostra were captured today in the U.S. The FBI conducted a macro operation throughout the east coast, where they got captured. The charges go from murder to drug trafficking. The 16 charges filed by the U.S. Department of Justice are from...

The Mexican federal police arrested Flavio Mendez Santiago a.k.a. “El Amarillo” one of the six founding members of the drug cartel Zetas. Mendez, 35, was one of the former militaries that deserted the Army in the early nineties and became the armed force of Cartel del Golfo....

Rudolf Elmer, 55, former Swiss banker that two days ago delivered to WikiLeaks information of 2,000 clients suspected of tax evasion is now on a preliminary hearing on a court of Zurich to hear the charges against him. Elmer faces a prison sentence of eight months and a fine of...

A model of the first 100 percent green city, Masdar City, was presented in Abu Dhabi, during the World Future Energies Summit. Masdar City will be the first hundred percent ecologic city of the world when it is completed. This city will not produce C02 and will not allo...