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22 people, including 6 children, died and about 20,000 were evacuated following the storms and floods that hit in recent days, the west of Ukraine, according to a new balance of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, disclosed the second Monday.

The previous release had advanced the balance of 13 dead and more than 6,700 Ukrainians evacuated.

Fifteen people died in the region of Ivano-Frankivsk, the most affected by the disaster, including five children, and seven others, including a child, died in the region of Tchernivtsi, moved into the Minister reported.

More than 40 thousand households and 34 thousand hectares of agricultural land were partially flooded, while a hundred
localities was deprived of electricity, as a consequence of cutting of high voltage power lines. More than 900 bridges and 680 km of roads were also damaged. The first aiders evacuated more than 19,800 people.

The President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Ioulia Timochenko visited, on Sunday, the areas most affected.

“We should keep us united. There will be abandoned in this situation, we will solve all the problems together,” said Yushchenko Galytch of the inhabitants in the region of Ivano-Frankivsk.

The Head of State asked the government to prepare, this Wednesday, the estimates of damage and delivery of compensation to people affected by the disaster.

The authorities distributed, Monday, food, drinking water and medicines in areas affected.
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, were also ongoing work to restore power supply, the pumping of water in flooded homes, cleaning of rivers and strengthening of coastal areas.

Sales of the new iPhone is to be a success. Apple announced that it has sold a million units.

The previous model took 74 days to reach that number of sales. The new product from Apple is the venda since last Friday.

Faster and adapted to the 3G technology, the new iPhone appears to be available in two versions of 8 GB and 16 GB (in the colors black and white) and combines features multimedia, touch interface (does not have the traditional keyboard) and surfing the Internet .

With autonomy for 300 hours on standby, the iPhone 3G stores music and films, is equipped with GPS and brings integrated camera. Moreover, allows easy access to e-mail, contacts and installation of various computer applications.

The balance of the double attack occurred, Sunday evening, a commercial avenue in Istanbul it amounted to 17 dead. Of the 154 injured, 115 remain hospitalized.

The Turkish authorities admit that the number of victims could increase because of the high number of people who continue to receive hospital care, seven of which have serious injuries.

The double attack, considered “terrorist” by the Turkish authorities, occurred in a commercial avenue of the margin of European Istanbul.

Several Turkish newspapers attributed to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to authors of the attack, but authorities said that was still too early to pronounce.

Immediately after the incident, the firefighters who went to the site had attributed the explosion to a gas leak.

The turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has decided to cancel the council of ministers and go to Istanbul, said the Turkish television.

The secretary general of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has already condemned these “terrorist attacks on a brutal and deliberate targeted innocent civilians”.

The twins, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt saw the light of day, this Saturday in Nice. The news was advanced to the daily “Nice-Matin” by Michel Sussmann gynaecologist.

The twins, Leon and Vivienne Marcheline Knox, born around the 20 hours this Saturday (19 in Portugal) and the mother is in good health, advance the “Nice-Matin.” Although this second day, Knox Leon weighs 2.27 kilograms and Vivienne Marcheline 2.28.

The first photo of the twins was sold to a North American newspaper, that “Nice-Matin” did not specify, for 11 million dollars. Sum that will be used by the couple for a humanitarian cause.

The twins were born of cesareans. The operation was scheduled but was a few days early. Angelina Jolie has arrived at the clinic-Santa Maria de la Fondation Lenval in late June, monitored closely in several visits by her husband, actor Brad Pitt also.

The extended family is thus to six children. Brad Pitt, 44 years, and Angelina Jolie adopted three children: Maddox, 6 years old, born in Cambodia, Pax, 4 years old, a native of Vietnam, Zahara, 3 years old, born in Ethiopia. The first biological child, Shiloh, was born in Namibia in May 2006.

The birth of the American actress, 33 years, occurred in the clinical-Santa Maria de la Fondation Lenval, at Promenade des Anglais, facing the sea that bathes the city of Nice. The spokesman of the foundation was not available to confirm the information that Angelina Jolie had given birth.

An unemployed with no fixed residence of 33 years, suspected of having killed two French students at the end of last month in London, was formally accused by the court of murder and arrested.

Following a brief hearing that lasted several minutes, the judge decided to hold while Nigel Farmer hopes a new hearing that was scheduled for next October in the 16th criminal court of Old Bailey in London.

Nigel Edward Farmer spoke only to confirm the identity, date of birth and lack of fixed residence.

The judge formally accused Farmer for the murder of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez and by arson and attempted obstruction of justice.

Farmer surrendered to the police on Monday morning, a squadron south of London, was arrested and immediately hospitalized for burns in the arms and hands, before being interrogated.

It is with anxiety that the fans of new technologies waiting by beating the twelve badaladas tonight.

It is that time is beginning to be sold in 22 countries (including Portugal), the new version of Apple’s phone, the iPhone 3G.

In our country, the operator Optimus and Vodafone already secured its venda and once by midnight will open venda of strategic points to provide the equipment. Soon, the TMN have the iPhone.

Faster and adapted to the 3G technology, the new iPhone appears to be available in two versions of 8 GB and 16 GB (in the colors black and white) and combines features multimedia, touch interface (does not have the traditional keyboard) and surfing the Internet .

With autonomy for 300 hours on standby, the iPhone 3G stores music and films, is equipped with GPS and brings integrated camera. Moreover, allows easy access to e-mail, contacts and installation of various computer applications.

At midnight, the Optimus vai the iPhone launch 3G in isolation in stores Fnac (Colombo and Norteshopping) and Apple (in Lisbon). For the same time, Vodafone open the doors of four stores in the country (Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and Faro), to sell the phone, whose prices range between 129.90 euros (on plans to sign) and 590.90 euros ( casual or the operators plan to pre-pay for the Optimus).

Soon, TMN will also market the 3G iPhone. The chairman of Portugal Telecom (PT) assured yesterday that the company’s leadership in the mobile telecommunications market is “a way to ensure the iPhone.” Negotiations with the TMN Apple will remain in place and Zeinal Bava not advance, for now, when the phone vai be placed in its network. “We have a good relationship with Apple,” said Bava, adding that “given the position that TMN holds in the market, I believe will have the iPhone.”

Meanwhile, the operator vai launch this month, in isolation, two new devices that promise to compete with iPhone, the similarity of characteristics: the HTC Diamond, available next Monday (449 euros in pre-paid plan) and later , The Samsung I900 Omnia.

Angela Merkel announced a series of measures to take during the summit of the G8 industrialised countries, Japan, to combat the food crisis worldwide, which may have repercussions on international security.

In an interview with daily “Tagesspiegel Am Sonntag”, the German Chancellor said that a “wide range of measures to ensure the food world” should be adopted at the summit of the eight major industrialised countries, taking place tomorrow and then Toyako in northern island of Hokkaido.

Such measures, based on a conception of the German Government, aim to “alleviate the short term the food crisis” and “according to a long-term strategy to increase agricultural production worldwide.” According to the magazine “Der Spiegel”, Merkel warns against the devastating effects that could have a global food crisis of long duration.

This crisis could “endanger democracy, destabilize states and create problems for international security,” states the magazine, citing a document of six pages sent last Monday by the Chancellor to his colleagues the other seven countries (Canada, the U.S., France, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan and Russia).

The G8 countries during this summit will create a working group to tackle the food crisis worldwide, also reported in last Monday the Japanese daily “Yomiuri Shimbun” citing government sources in Tokyo. According to the newspaper, that the working group will examine the possibility of removing certain export restrictions that prevent the countries most in need of access to food surpluses in rich countries.

Five thousand demonstrators linked to non-governmental organisations, trade unions and groups of activists protested yesterday through the streets of Sapporo to protest against the meeting. The protest, held in a peaceful way, resulted from the arrest of two demonstrators, one of which a truck driver who participated in the procession, and from which messages were given anti-globalisation.

Another forum is a demonstrator who, they say, surpassed by “a few centimeters” the line demarcated by the police for the parade. The protesters, who travelled about three kilometres on foot, contest, as always happens on these occasions, economic inequalities in the world.

A confrontation between prisoners and prison guards, a chain near Damascus, resulted in the death of at least 25 prisoners, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The institution, based in London, says that prisoners have died after the military police opened fire on a group of detained Islamists.

The Syrian authorities have not yet spoken on the case. One prisoner was telling the BBC that the dead serião in number considerably higher. The confrontation was triggered by situations such as the beating of detainees or desecration of the Koran by prison guards, always in accordance with the testimonies of Islamic integrals

According to the prisoners, these operations, which happened always at dawn, have been a reaction of the authorities of prisoners at a protest against poor conditions in prison, which lasted for several weeks.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that a prisoner testified, using phone, which began the revolt by Muslim prisoners. The organization says also that several prisoners had to climb to the roof of the prison, to escape the shooting of the officers.

The North American president, at the end of mandate, enacted legislation to release 162 thousand million dollars (nearly 103 thousand million) for financing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until 2009.

“I thank the Republicans and Democrats in Congress that they have seen on these crucial funding for the commanders (military field) are not of hands tied, or subject to an artificial timetable for withdrawal (of troops),” said George W. Bush.

The Democratic opponents of the president, majority in Congress, they abandoned the intention to impose legislation on a date for the withdrawal of troops, as had imposed in 2007, when they took the majority in Congress.

The North American military presence in Iraq is one of the major topics for the November presidential elections.

The Republican John McCain supports the policy of the current president, but the Democrat Barack Obama not. The senator Illinois advocates of the early withdrawal of troops from the moment they take office in the White House, where the presidential win of November.

George W. Bush used the release of funds to enhance progress in Iraqi internal security, to the point that “some soldiers have begun to return home,” he said. But not talked about what will happen after the summer, in the last quarter of its mandate. The North American contingent in Iraq should be reduced until July to 140 thousand personnel. Then, there was an assessment period, to decide whether there is or not, able to continue to reduce the presence of troops in Iraq.

African Union Summit reveals deep divisions over what happened in Zimbabwe

The African Union, meeting in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, showed that Africa is divided as to what happened in Zimbabwe and do not know what to do with more media figure this: Robert Mugabe.

“Africa should fully assume their responsibilities are and what you’re doing everything in its power to help the parties overcome the challenges,” said the chairman of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Jean Ping, at the opening of the summit of the organisation which brings together 53 nations.

Although pressed on several fronts, particularly by European countries, U.S. and UN but also by some Africans, the AU shows serious internal divisions that prevent that there is a consensus to condemn the president of Zimbabwe. Although less visible media, countries such as Russia and China seek to add points in Africa, not aligning with the criticism of Robert Mugabe.

Evidence that the older leaders of Africa are seeing the situation in Zimbabwe as a neocolonial interference was yesterday given exactly the oldest African head of state, the president of Gabon

Saying that “before or now, Africa is not obliged to follow orders from abroad, on the contrary,” Omar Bongo Ondimba has no doubts: “Mugabe was elected, provided oath, is here with us, so he is president and not we can ask nothing more. ”

The president of Gabon told reporters that President Mugabe was welcomed as a hero, “explaining to the most sceptical that” elections in Zimbabwe were made and that Robert Mugabe won. ”

In power since 1967, Omar Bongo Ondimba said, “as more former Head of State, it can say what many others think but that at this time and for various reasons, has no courage to say”. In other words, “Africa is, at least most, with Robert Mugabe.”

“There was a time when Africa had to do what Europe wanted, despite being in disagreement. Today no country or organization has the authority to tell Africans what they should do,” added the president of Gabon for whom, incidentally, ” other countries and other African leaders should follow the example of Robert Mugabe. “