The Literature Nobel Prize winner in Nigeria Party

LAGOS (AFP) - Nobel Laureate in Literature, Wole Soyinka, on Saturday, declaring the birth of a new party called Democratic Front for the People's Federation (DFPF) ahead of Nigeria's presidential election.

DFPD it is not just political parties but also spearhead the monitoring of democracy that will eradicate corruption and give young voters are forward-looking, he said.

"I want to emphasize the function and it obviously means a warning and insistence," he said.

On top of that, DFPF is also the party of young people whose ideas they are frustrated and hampered, he said.

This movement is intended to question whether it is true in Nigeria, a country rich but fettered this corruption, it is not possible if you do not wallow voiced wealth?

Figure 76-year-old who was elected leader of this new political party said he will not get ahead in the presidential election of 2011 was.

Soyinka has been a harsh critic of the military regime which has ruled the West African country rich in oil that since independence from Britain in 1960.

One of the figures being subjected to criticism is the former military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida, who calls himself an "evil genius".

Babangida himself is now trying to gain the leadership of the ruling party.

Another former military leader who was also eyeing the presidency of Nigeria is Muhammadu Buhari.

President Goodluck Jonathan promised presidential elections free and fair, but historical facts show voters are not free from intimidation.

Election Commission (INEC) said May 29, 2011 as the inaugural date for the winner of the presidential election even though the schedule was changed.

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Iran: Obama International Criminal

TEHRAN (AFP) - Chairman of Iran's parliament, on Saturday, calling U.S. President Barack Obama as an "international outlaw" for saying the United States supports the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people.
"How dare Obama announced that he wanted to help the Iranian nation? He must know that he was an international outlaw," said Ali Larijani during a visit to the city of Shiraz in southern Iran, ISNA news agency was quoted as saying.
"America show that deserves a medal action international crime ... Obama must know that we do not need a message, what we need is to trust the words he put it," he said.
Larijani made the statement a day after the U.S. leader told the BBC Persian language service that the door for diplomacy with Iran is still open in connection with a longstanding nuclear dispute with the "international community".
"Our strong option is to resolve all these issues diplomatically. I think it was the interests of Iran. I think it is the interests of` international community ', "he said.
"I think it is still possible, but it would require a change in the pattern of thinking within the Iranian government," he said.
When asked whether she supports or opposes the Iranian people in their struggle for greater independence, Obama said Washington supports the democratic aspirations.
"The answer is for those who aspire for their voices heard, to participate in a democracy that recognizes the sovereignty of them as people - we will always support them," he said.
Relations between Tehran and Washington have been growing since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's murky start position in 2005, and in connection with his actions continue Iran's nuclear program, which is controversial.
While attending the UN General Assembly in New York last week, Ahmadinejad said, Tehran is open for new talks on nuclear as long as the United States and other Western countries to respect the Islamic Republic.

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Russia Oppose Sanctions Against Iran

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia remains opposed to unilateral sanctions on Iran although it has banned shipments of air defense missile systems S-300 into the country earlier in the week inik, firmly Mentei Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov on Saturday.
"They (sanctions unilaterally) is a violation, even without mentioning the legal aspects of this problem," Lavrov said in an interview with state television Rossiya i was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. The interview was broadcast Saturday night.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has issued a decree on September 22, which prohibits delivery of S-300 systems and other weapons to Iran, which has been criticized by tindakah Tehran.
Explains Lavrov, Russia decided to ban the sending of it to meet the Security Council resolution the United Nations.
"We simply have been documented in the letter was what prompted the decision of Russia and all other countries in relations with Iran after the passing of this new resolution," Lavrov said.
S-300 air defense system is remote, moveable, which can detect, pursue and capture and destroy ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and low flying aircraft.
Iran announced an agreement to obtain the S-300 systems from Russia in 2007, and Russia has used the treaty as a lever in diplomacy with Tehran and the West.
Russian officials have promised not to send S-300 after the support of the fourth round of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran last June for refusing to suspend its uranium enrichment program. Uranium enrichment by Iran, according to Western countries and a number of other countries, aimed at developing atomic weapons.
Mengatakab Lavrov of Russia and China have raised the issue of Iran is at the ministerial meeting of five permanent Security Council members and Germany in New York.
"If we work together, and if our Western partners say already know from the beginning is important to maintain a common stance against Iran, we need to decide whether we will have a joint stance on all issues ... but if something can not be achieved, the state- own country will do so through an agreement reached with the Security Council, said Lavrov was quoted as saying by Interfax.

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British Prime Baby Sleeping in cardboard

Brisbane (ANTARA News) - Babies newest Prime Minister (PM), English David Cameron slept in cardboard boxes instead of cots, the PM said in a statement quoted by the BBC, Sunday.
According to AM Cameron, when Florence was born August his family did not have cots, but the oldest child named Nancy Cameron (6) soon decorate a cardboard box as a crib.
Prime Minister Cameron's wife, Samantha, gave birth to her fourth child when they were on holiday in Cornwall.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the British leader says that babies sleeping on cardboard Florence Nancy made even after the family arrived back at the official residence in Downing Street UK Prime Minister 10.
AM Cameron says baby baby Florence was a "beautiful and very menyenangkan.Dia eat and sleep at regular times and she was very cheerful."
Furthermore, PM Cameron explains that "the other children, Nancy (6) and Elwen (4), very pleased with the attendance of Florence and they were invited to play baby Florence."
Still according to Cameron, Florence will be able to say to everyone that "once I had grown up in a box when I lived in Downing Street."
Birth of Florence almost coincided with the death of Cameron's father, Ian, who suffered a stroke while on holiday in France last August.
AM Cameron admitted had invited the streets 77-year-old father had to Chequers shortly before his father passed away

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Iran Refuses Invitation Barack Obama

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran rejected the invitation of President Barack Obama, American leaders who viewed Tehran as "international criminals", for resolving differences.
Obama's rejection of the invitation was delivered by Chairman of the Iranian Parliament, Ali Larijani, quoted by ISNA news agency on Saturday.
"How dare Obama announced that he wanted to help the nation of Iran. He must know that he was an international outlaw," he said during a visit to the city of Shiraz.
Ali said the American people are showing the action that deserves a "medal of depravity".
"Obama should know that Iran does not need the message. What we need is to be able to trust the words," he said.
Ali Larijani delivered his remarks a day after Obama told BBC Parsi language section that the door is still open for diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear dispute with the citizens of the world.
For the U.S., their strong preference is to resolve the issue diplomatically, the U.S. leader said.
"Our strong preference is to resolve these issues diplomatically. I think it represents the interests of Iran and the international community," he said.
According to Obama, Iran remains a chance but needed a change of thinking pattern rule.
The relationship Tehran and Washington continued to be problematic since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pesiden in 2005 and developed a nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad, who had delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly said, Iran is open for new nuclear talks.

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NATO's Afghan Militants Kill 30

Kabul (AFP) - Afghan troops and NATO-led forces have killed 30 insurgents in air and ground attacks in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday.
International Assistance Force (ISAF) led NATO in a statement said more than 250 Afghan security personnel and coalition forces have been fighting militants in Laghman province, southeast of the capital Kabul, after receiving small arms attack.
There are no immediate reports of coalition or civilian casualties in the attack, the ISAF said continues.
Violence and casualties are increasing is a deep concern in Washington, where U.S. President Barack Obama will do the review of strategy increasingly unpopular war that December.
Afghanistan has received new scrutiny after parliamentary elections last weekend affected by violence and claims of widespread fraud, pemiliahn second spot in the 13 months after the presidential election.
Meanwhile, two ISAF soldiers were killed by the explosion of a homemade bomb in eastern Afghanistan Friday, ISAF said in a separate statement.
At least five militants were killed in a shootout that erupted after a suicide attacker attacked a NATO-led base in Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan. In a separate incident, a boy was killed and 27 civilians terlukan in another suicide attack in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.

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Settlement Threatens to End Moratorium Middle East Peace

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Freezing 10 months of construction of new Jewish settlements on land Palestinians in the occupied West Bank ended at midnight Sunday.
Conditions that endanger the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks less than a month after the President of the United States (U.S.), Barack Obama is facilitating the talks.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly said that he would leave the negotiating table for peace directly with Israel that if the freezing of development was not continued.
President Obama has asked Tel Aviv to continue the freeze it but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not intend to continue the moratorium on the construction of settlements.
In contrast, Netanyahu - whose government supported the pro-parties settlement construction - just offer a new building restrictions than the command extension moratorium.
Israeli and Palestinian officials met U.S. diplomats in New York on the weekend. Third party seeks to find solutions and avoid the failure of the negotiation process that has been running.
"We do everything we can to keep all parties involved in these direct negotiations," said Foreign Ministry spokesman PJ U.S. Crowley.
In connection with efforts to maintain the momentum of the peace talks directly to the Palestinian-Israeli U.S. bridged it, Crowley said, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, met with President Abbas about a half hour on Saturday.
Some allies of Prime Minister Netanyahu, including members of his political machine in the Likud Party, plans to lay the first stone for the construction of new homes in the area of remote settlements in the West Bank Revava north as a sign of the end of freezing on Sunday midnight.
At least 430 thousand Jews live in more than 100 settlements built on West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Under international law, hundreds of settlements built on Palestinian Arab land Israel seized in 1967 war was illegal.
But Israel was violating international law. Palestinian Parties affirm Jewish settlements difficult for them to realize the country has a future.
The issue of settlements is considered the Palestinians as one of the main obstacles to the process of achieving any peace with Israel.
When responding to the problem, President Mahmoud Abbas had been asking the Israeli ultimatum Tel Aviv to choose between "peace and development of new settlements."
Assertion Palestinian Abbas in a speech delivered before the UN General Assembly on Saturday.
Palestinian leaders said the choice should be taken if Tel Aviv wants a successful international negotiations.
Abbas also condemned what he called "the mentality of expansion and domination" that controls Israeli policy.
The Israeli government has so far continued to support new residential development project for Jews in the land of the Palestinian people in Jerusalem.
But Abbas also confirmed its readiness to work with the United States (USA) that seeks to help the success of the political process to achieve comprehensive peace in the Middle East dil funds.

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Octopus Paul backs England to host 2018 World Cup

LONDON (AFP) - Paul the octopus forecasters have become ambassadors for British efforts to host the 2018 World Cup, officials said Friday.
Paul, who spends his days in an aquarium in Germany, became famous during the World Cup in South Africa in June-July, when he accurately predicted the outcome of the game.
Water creature that was two years old, which hatched at Sea Life Centre in Weymouth, England, has joined David Beckham, Formula I racer Lewid Hamilton and singer Sting among British ambassador to the effort, according to British news agency, Reuters.
Although Paul officially retired from football forecast, chose octopus is a rare piece of news for an effort that so far has faced heavy waves.
"After its success during the World Cup South Africa 2010, The Octopus Paul no doubt become one of the biggest names in world football so the news about him to be an official Ambassador of the United Kingdom in 2018 is remarkable for the effort" Back the Bid ', "said fellow ambassadors and former Liverpool and England player John Barnes.
Paul would not move the tank to support those efforts, because he settled in aquariumnya in Germany.
During the World Cup in South Africa, Paul became a celebrity when he accurately predicted the outcome in berurutam eight games, including the final game, by choosing foods from a box containing the national flag of the team that will compete.
Support Paul is very precise time when the FIFA inspection committee is scheduled to be in England next week to examine the effort.
Britain is one of the five countries that volunteered to host the tournament in 2018 and one of eight who seeks to be the tournament host 2022. Host the second tournament will be announced in Zurich in December....

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Love Couple Love Defeat Account

London (ANTARA News) - The British in general are in their bank longer than they are with their partner, according to a survey published on Saturday.
The average British person saying their longest relationship lasted for 14.1 years, but they remained faithful to the provider of their current account number for 16.5 years, according to the Santander bank.
Nearly six in 10 people have been having the same current account for more than a decade, while 18 percent said they had been together with their bank for more than 30 years, said the survey.
Only 7 percent of those polled said they have moved their current account at least three times during the past 10 years.
People in the South East are the least likely to move their current accounts, and average people have been saving money at the same bank for 17.7 years. The place was followed by Wales and East Midlands, respectively, with a period of 17.6 years and 17.2 years.
Consumers in the North West are least likely to be loyal to their bank, but even the people there also have kept the same current account for about 15.3 years.
In all these areas, the average citizen with their bank relationship lasted longer than the longest relationship with their partner.
Helen Bierton, Head of Account in Santander, said, "Make a lot of people enjoyed a successful long-term relationship of any kind is more important than with bergonta couples."
"When it comes to current accounts, people often survive on the same provider, even though it might not be the biggest competition for the prospect to move to a new account at this time can be scary."
Opinium Research questioned as 2000 during February.

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Two sisters meet Separated After 72 Years

Beijing (ANTARA News) - After 72 years apart, an accidental encounter in a church together two sisters in Pingdingshan, Henan, Henan Province recently.
Bian Dou (77) and Hu Xiugai (75) re-unite after several people in the church noticed the physical resemblance and urged them to meet Hu Dou.
The mother of two sisters separated during the war of 1938 because they could not care for them and Hu gave up for adoption.
At first hesitant Dou. "Honestly I have a sister, but we separated for 72 years. I do not believe he's alive," said Dou.
But when Dou see Hu he was surprised and said, "He's very much like my mother."
Given that the sisters can fall when Dou patted his head, he tried to touch the head Hu.
Hu said, "Do not touch my head, I have a particular disease."
"What diseases?" Dou said.
"I'm suffering from the disease early in life. If people patting my head, I could fall from the pain. Even now I'm getting better, I just shivered with cold when people touch my head," said Hu.
Dou very pleased and asked Hu to tell her life. Hu said he remembers her having a sister, "Bian", and his nickname is "Niu" and then he's got another name, "Daiwa".
Dou Hu cried and hugged and cried, "You are my sister separated 72 years! When mother died, I was more than 50, but he told me to find my sister."

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