The Iraqi city passed under the protection of local troops.

Since 30 June the protection of security of Iraq will deal with local military personnel, reported AFP. U.S. troops leave Iraq.
In Baghdad and other cities, additional security measures that should prevent the activation of fighters: for example, on the streets of Baghdad there are extra police patrols and introduced a temporary ban on the movement of motorcycles, because over the past few months, suicide bombers have arrived at the place of terrorist attacks on two transportation.
The Civil Defense in Baghdad Takhsin al-Sheyhli said that the Iraqi people welcome the opportunity to defend himself. Evening on Monday in Baghdad have been celebrating the withdrawal of American troops. The former building of the Ministry of Defense was once again transferred to the Iraqi government.
Note that in the last month at the hands of terrorists killed hundreds of Iraqis. As a result of a truck explosion mined in Kirkuk on 20 June killed 72 people and wounding 200 more.
The total number of Iraqi troops and police is 175 thousand people. By mid-June in Iraq remained 131 thousand American soldiers: the withdrawal of troops must be fully completed before the end of 2011.

Captain crashed Airbus Yemeni found alive.

KommentariiVtoroy for mesyats30.06.2009Aerobus with 142 passengers on board fell into the Indian okeanSyuzhetyKatastrofa Airbus A310-300 from the Comoros ostrovov30.06.2009Samolet was inspected a month before avariiKapitan crashed the morning of June 30, from the Comoros Airbus A310 - 300 Hadzheb Khalid (Khalid Hajeb) found living in the area of crash, said Yemen Post. Details of detection Airbus Captain Khalid Hadzheba not shown.
To clarify this edition Yemen Post, in a plane crash as a child survived a five-year (previously, it was reported that his age - 2-3 years).
Airplane Company Yemenia Airways crashed during a flight from the capital Sanaa in Yemen, Comoros. On board were 11 crew and 142 passengers, including three children. According to the Yemen Post, on the plane were citizens of Yemen, France, Palestine, Canada, Morocco, the Philippines, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Great Comore.
Causes of the crash is not yet known. According to preliminary data, they could be adverse weather conditions or technical issues.
So far, rescue teams working in the area of the fall, found the wreckage of the plane and the bodies of three dead. The search led rescuers from Yemen. From France to the place of accident sent two military ships and aircraft with divers and doctor on board.

Germany has suspended the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon.

SyuzhetyRatifikatsiya the Treaty of Lisbon 06.05.2009Cheshsky Parliament approved the Lisbon dogovorFederalny Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe on 30 June declared the Lisbon treaty with the relevant Basic Law of Germany, but postponed its ratification by requesting some amendments to the legislation, reports Der Spiegel .

Meanwhile, the so-called accompanying the law regulating the participation of the National Parliament of Germany in the adoption of pan-European solutions, was deemed inconsistent with the Basic Law of the court.

The judges ruled that under the Lisbon treaty to replace the single European constitution, the German parliament - the Bundestag and the Bundesrat - should be given more rights.

As the Financial Times Deutschland, the Constitutional Court concluded that the EU is short of democracy and the powers of national parliaments should be strengthened.

For the amendment expands the rights of parliament, the Bundestag deputies would be forced to interrupt the summer leave and meet in extraordinary session. In the first reading amendments to be considered at the end of August, and finally accepted until 27 September.

Recall that, for the entry into force of the Lisbon treaty must be ratified by all 27 EU members. To date, the contract has not yet been ratified by four countries: Germany, Poland, Czech Republic and Ireland. In doing so, the Irish had previously been the failure of the referendum on the Lisbon Agreement and the fall of 2009, will vote again.

Italian rescuers found the victim fourteenth gas explosion.

Up to 14 people has increased the number of casualties from the gas tank explosion that occurred on the night of June 30, in the Italian town of Viareggio, passes on the night of Wednesday, the Italian agency ANSA.
The morning on Tuesday reported ten dead. During the day, three died in hospital from his injuries, a fourteenth victim was found by rescuers when parsing the rubble of a house destroyed by an explosion.
On the spot visits of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. He said that should hold the evacuation of all buildings in the area and promised to restore "one hundred percent of the destroyed houses."
The explosion, according to latest figures, 36 people injured. Most of them are heavy burns to 80 percent of body surface. In Viareggio declared a state of emergency, the authorities promise to finish the review of debris by mid-afternoon Wednesday.
Remember, with the gas tank exploded after some cars off the rails. According to Berlusconi, the incident occurred "because of a passing scooter, but he was not told the details of this release. Investigation of the circumstances of an accident in progress, added the agency.

Franco denied the honor posthumously.

City Council of Madrid has deprived the dictator Francisco Franco, died in 1975, honorary mayor, and "foster son," the capital of Spain, reports Reuters. In addition, to deal with advisers, Franco also denied all received medals and awards.
"Now, the capital of Spain is free from the glorification of dictators," - said the representative of the Left in the City Council of Madrid, Milagros Hernández.
In 2007, the Spanish government issued a decree to rename the street named in honor of the dictator, the elimination of monuments and memorial boards dedicated to him and his associates. The last monument to Franco, was dismantled in the city of Melilla, in March 2009.
At the same time in Spain continues to operate the Fund of Francisco Franco, who fought for the restoration of abandoned statues of the dictator.
General Francisco Franco came to power in 1936 through a military coup, which resulted in the Spanish civil war started between the putschists - supporters pravoradikalnyh views - and the leftist government-supported countries. The war ended in 1939, the victory of the troops of Francisco Franco and the establishment of the country's dictatorial fascist regime. During World War II, working with Germany and Italy, Spain, however, officially maintained a military neutrality.
Franco ruled the country until his death in 1975. All this time in Spain continued repression against members of leftist parties.

Czech Jewish cemetery desecrated.

To the east of the Czech Republic vandals desecrated the old Jewish cemetery, the Associated Press, referring to the representative of the Jewish community, the country Yaroslava Klenovskogo.
According to him, the incident occurred on June 28, Sunday, at the cemetery in the small town of Ostrog Uherské, 280 kilometers from Prague. As a result of the actions of hooligans 63 gravestones (a total of 300) were reversed, some burial sites have been divided.
Klenovsky said that the cemetery was opened in 1862 and now it does not perform the burial. Investigation of the circumstances surrounding the incident took police. Does the investigation the suspects were reported.
The Agency notes that the cemetery was desecrated in the day when the Czech Republic held a meeting with the survivors of the Holocaust of Jews, members of the Jewish community, as well as government representatives in more than 50 countries around the world.
At a meeting held in Prague on the question of whether the effective efforts made by the return of property and valuables stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War to their rightful owners or heirs.

Survivors in the Airbus crash was a child.

SyuzhetyKatastrofa Airbus A310-300 from the Comoros ostrovov30.06.2009Obnaruzheny the bodies of three pogibshihChelovekom, who was found alive after the accident Airbus A310-300 off the coast of the Comoros Islands, was a child, reports AFP. Now he is in a rescue boat. AP said that the child is 2-3 years (информагентство uses the word toddler).
Red Cross in the Comoros has confirmed the information about saving a child and stated that it has everything necessary to assist him. Neither sex nor nationality survivor does not specify.
Airplane Company Yemenia Airways flying from the capital Sanaa in Yemen, Comoros, and fell into the Indian Ocean just before landing. On board were 11 crew and 142 passengers. We know that 66 people were citizens of France: they sat on board the aircraft A330-200 in Paris and Marseille, then in Sana'a, carried on board the A310-300.Ranee became known that the collapse in the area discovered the plane wreckage and the bodies of three dead. Searches are Yemeni rescue services, as well as two French military aircraft and korabl.V as a possible cause of crash identified adverse weather conditions, as well as technical issues. Minister of Transport of France announced that in 2007, the aircraft is being tested, which were found many faults. After that, he was forbidden to fly over its territory.