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U.S. President Barack Obama and the South Korean president Lee Myung-bak on Thursday agreed on the need for an international response "strong and united" if North Korea goes ahead with its threat to launch a rocket.

The two presidents met at a separate summit of the twenty richest nations of the world known as G-20, which faces the challenge of trying to redirect the ailing world economy.


The two leaders spoke before meeting with their peers in a meeting to coordinate responses to contribute to economic recovery.

North Korea says it will put into orbit a communications satellite with a multi-stage rocket sometime between Saturday and Wednesday, but United States, Japan and South Korea see it as a test of missile technology and a possible violation of a Security Council resolution the United Nations.


Obama said Wednesday the Chinese President Hu Jintao that the United States considered launching as a provocation and that he will seek sanctions in the UN.

After the meeting with Obama, the South Korean presidential office said in a statement that both leaders agreed to continue collaborating in a verifiable dismantling of North Korean nuclear program.


The statement added that the two agreed on the need for "a strong, united, the international community."

Senior White House officials confirmed this description of the encounter.


Obama told the press that South Korea is one of the closest friends and old allies of United States and praised the leadership of Lee. He added that the two discussed several issues, including the defense and "peace and stability on the Korean peninsula."

Today, in a few hours .. nothing airs the first chapter of the last season of The L word, I could not stop writing a post before seeing anything.

I was reading some spoilers which I could not even believe it when thinking about the idea that Jenny was killed suddenly came out from somewhere.

After watching a video (video at the end of this post) it was confirmed that Jenny dies, is not a pleasant thing to me .. because I loved that character from the beginning.

All the 6th season will focus on "Who killed Jenny Schecter? ...
The truth is that for me, with the amount of things that went ... each season is none other but who can she be that kind of final.
It would be fair that did not even any of the other characters in the kill.

Jenny is totally the link between all these characters who lived in 6 seasons thousands of things ...

beyond what it was and hated it and this will be the 6th season I could never understand why this hate so much ... .. I understand God ... in order.

I'm not too much time to dwell much on the subject but wanted to post this today.

recently in two days I can see the 1st chapter.

Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple" and Pulitzer Prize winner, will travel to the Gaza Strip along with other activists to highlight the damage caused by the Israeli invasion in the territory.

"I think what is happening in the Middle East is very important because the situation is so volatile," said Walker in a telephone interview from the border crossing at Rafah, while the group was waiting to enter Gaza. "I love people and love children and I think the Palestinian child is as valuable as the child of Afro-American and Jewish children."


Walker is part of a group of about 60 women coming to Gaza to distribute aid and meet with NGOs and residents of the coastal strip. His trip, organized by the American group Code Pink (Code Pink), is designed to force Israel and Egypt to open its borders with Gaza, said Medea Benjamin, a founder of the group.

The trip coincides with the stagnation of efforts to achieve a truce between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas. The Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip to prevent rocket and mortar attacks against the Jewish state's south, was completed on January 18 with separate statements of truce from Israel and Hamas.


Group members remain in Gaza until March 11, said Benjamin. During his trip to Gaza delivered baskets full of personal feminine products such as shampoo.

Walker, on his first visit to Gaza, said it is important for Americans, who give so much military aid to Israel, to understand how their money is used.

The health system reform, the debate was opened by President Barack Obama will have a "huge impact" on communities of Hispanics and blacks, the two largest minorities in the United States on Friday said Melody Barnes , presidential adviser on domestic policy.

40% of Latino children and up to 1 in 3 Hispanics in general do not have health insurance and reform will touch not only this aspect but the cost and infrastructure of the system, Barnes said in a dialogue with journalists from Hispanic media in the House Blanca.


He said the plan aims to have a health system "affordable and accessible to all."

"It will be a tremendous impact on Latino communities, black, Asian and other sources," he said. "We are working to provide necessary assistance to each of them."


Barnes, director of domestic policy from the White House, is the third official team of advisers of the president speaking to reporters in the Hispanic work six weeks of the new Democratic administration, in an unprecedented plan developed by the office of Latino media contacts.

White House sources also reported Friday that Obama will deliver a speech on Tuesday 10 in the Chamber of Commerce Hispanic-Americans. Although not specified themes, Obama addressed, from his campaign on the issues on immigration reform and the advancement of minorities, including Hispanics, in fields that include health and education.


It will be the first occasion on which the president addresses the Democratic Hispanic community since he assumed the government.

Obama launched the campaign for health reform at a forum Thursday at the White House in which leaders of several Hispanic activist organizations, which are an "important source" for the generation of ideas, Barnes said.


Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, one participant said that although health was an "urgency to the Hispanic community, the reform project begun 15 years ago during the administration of President Bill Clinton has found difficulties to succeed.

Barnes also acknowledged that Obama will face resistance, particularly in its attempt to universalize health care to all who live in the United States, but expressed optimism, noting that the government hoped to have draft legislation ready for debate in the final quarter of the year.


He noted that the minority of people with chronic illnesses, including diabetes, no lack of help with a system that is expected to be more effective not only with a better quality of care but with prevention programs, pharmacy and trained professionals to meet group minority.

Microsoft announced that the new version of its Windows platform will allow its users to disable the Internet Explorer browser and other integrated programs, a matter of dispute with the European Union.

The group was indicted in January by the European Commission for abusing its dominant position to incorporate its browser to Windows Internet Explorer, well away from other market competitors explorers.


The Windows platform operates in more than 90% of the world's computers.

The custom of Microsoft to maintain secrecy about their programs to prevent other manufacturers create programs compatible with yours, that's what the EU's condemnation in 2004.

Most U.S. shares rose on Friday as rising oil prices encouraged the energy sector, which overshadowed a liquidation of securities in technology.




The market spent most of the session low, but financial shares recovered after the Wall Street Journal newspaper reported that Lloyds Banking Group and the British Government agreed to a scheme of protection against losses on toxic assets.

During the session, the Dow Jones and S & P set new minimum of 12 years, but erased its losses late in the session after the newspaper report on Lloyds.


The report on Lloyds' is positive news that the minor things are being cleaned. I think it is temporary, but the news is these that help the market, "said Giri Cherukuri, head trader for Oakbrook Investments LLC.

Cherukuri said that the report set off a bidding game.


JP Morgan lowered its target price for the shares of Apple Inc and its earnings forecasts, leading to a low of 4 percent in their roles and the Nasdaq sank to an intraday minimum of six years.

Shares of Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron underpinned the Dow Jones after the oil price rose 4.38 percent, to close at about $ 45 a barrel amid expectations that OPEC could cut production again .


The roles of Chevron climbed 3.2 percent to $ 58.27 and Exxon added 2.9 percent to 64.03

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 32.50 points, or 0.49 percent to close unofficially at 6626.94. The Standard & Poor's 500 advanced 0.83 points, or 0.12 percent, to 683.38. But the Nasdaq composite index gave 5.74 points, or 0.44 percent, to 1293.85.


It was the fourth week to the bottom of all the indices, while the S & P 500 had its worst week since November.

During the week, the Dow Jones lost 6.2 percent, the S & P 500 yielded a 7 percent and the Nasdaq 6.1 percent a restaurant.


Weak economic news added to the negative tone of the market. The U.S. government reported that unemployment last month rose to 8.1 percent, its highest level since December 1983 due to 651,000 lost jobs.

Some 12,000 Americans and 4,000 British soldiers will leave Iraq in September, announced on Sunday the U.S. military, shortly after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives next to police officers who were front row at the entrance to the academy Police in Baghdad, killing 32 people and injuring dozens, authorities said.

As for the announced withdrawal of allied troops, Gen. David Perkins said it will reduce combat units in the United States from 14 to 12 brigades. He added that the U.S. military is handing over to the Army military installations in Iraq as part of the withdrawal of forces.


The U.S. president Barack Obama has said that all combat troops from Iraq will end in August 2010 and that the remaining troops will leave by the end of 2011. The 4,000 British troops will leave Iraq will be the last to remain in this Arab nation.

There are currently some 135,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq. With the departure of 12,000, there are still 123,000 troops in the country.


Hours earlier on Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a side entrance of the academy, which is in a mostly Shiite area of the capital. A police officer said the attacker was on a motorcycle when he approached the row of policemen, but the Interior Ministry said that the method of attack had not yet been determined.

Three medical officers and a policeman were in the area said 32 people died, including 19 soldiers and some 60 wounded. Another police officer at the Interior Ministry said 28 died and 57 were injured.


The blast was a bloody reminder of the ability of insurgents to launch spectacular attacks in time when the U.S. begins to reduce its forces in Iraq. Extremists have targeted their attacks more and more Iraqi troops, who are trying to prove that they can take over the security of the country so that U.S. soldiers can be withdrawn.

The main police academy in Baghdad has been the target of several attacks. On January 1, another suicide bombing there killed 33 people.


Iraqi officials provided different figures of casualties, a common after attacks of this magnitude.

Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but usually the suicide attacks in Iraq are attributed to al-Qaida and other Sunni militias that seek to undermine public confidence in the safety improvements that have led to a considerable decline in violence.

President Barack Obama said it halved the huge national deficit exceeding trillion (correct) dollars, in a bold promise hours before delivering his first speech to Congress on Tuesday.

The economy has taken the agenda of Obama, but all economic indicators have worsened significantly since it started its government, the Congress won the approval of his stimulus plan of $ 787,000 million and strove to keep afloat the financial sector the nation.


Obama will leave it clear that the massive economic deficit was "inherited." In other words, wants to remind the public that President George W. Bush and Congress earlier this stopped him, forcing him to promote the costly economic stimulus package.

In attempting to deal simultaneously with the unprecedented budget deficit, Obama passes on a tightrope, and depends on its ability to reduce the cost of war in Iraq, tax incentives for the rich and government spending, to start down the national debt.


In Congress, the president believes that everyone will say how the economic factors are linked.

Obama will seek to ensure universal health insurance, expand educational opportunities, diversify sources of energy, have rights as a retirement system and to halve the budget deficit in four years.

Officials warned on Tuesday that the fires that devastated the south this month in Australia could ignite again when strong winds and high temperatures sweep the region later this week, and it updated the death toll from the fires to 210.

The Security Council of Australia, meanwhile, reported thousands of claims for payment for a total exceeding $ 500 million and damage by fire of February 7 that burned the state of Victoria.


Still continue to burn in the four major fires, and officials warned that it is expected to considerably increase the temperature on Friday, accompanied by strong winds.

"It's important that people understand that the events of Saturday were unable to complete black," said Commissioner of Emergency Services of the State of Victoria Bruce Esplin, referring to the conflagrations of February 7. "The devastating fire season continues," he said.


Hundreds of fires swept through a wide area of Victoria where record temperatures near 47 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit), winds of 100 kph (60 mph) and Dry Forests by years of drought combined to create an inferno. The number of confirmed dead rose to 210 on Tuesday and is expected to increase further as more remains are identified in the rubble.

Firefighters continued to fight fires as they prepare for the expected changes in conditions.


"We must do our best to manage fatigue among our squad and work strong enough to contain these fires and prepare for Friday," said the head of the County Fire Authority Russell Rees.

A bomb exploded in the early hours of Monday outside the local Socialist Party of Euskadi (PSE), in the town of Lazkao (Guipúzcoa, Basque Country), after a call from the armed Basque separatist group ETA, said the channel CNN + news in Spanish.

The explosion, which caused extensive material damage but no injuries, occurs when the Basque country which is preparing for the upcoming regional elections, the channel reported, citing that local government officials.


The explosion occurred at approximately 03H00 (0200 GMT), about two hours after the roadside assistance service for Spanish DYA received a phone call in which someone who spoke in the name of ETA warned of the explosion of a bomb, he added .

ETA usually call the DYA to warn of its attacks.


Polls published on Sunday show that in the upcoming regional elections, the moderate Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) could lose after nearly 30 years in power in the Basque Country, with the Socialists.

The armed group ETA was responsible for the deaths of 825 people throughout its 40 years of struggle for an independent Basque country, straddling northern Spain and parts of southwestern France.


The group is considered a violent terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States.

ETA ended a ceasefire in June 2007, citing the lack of concessions from the government of socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in preliminary peace talks.


Since then, ETA has committed thirty attacks, killing six people including three policemen.

A Mexican judge ordered the attachment (custody) for forty days of seven men who allegedly participated in a street confrontation between the army and thugs in the northern city of Reynosa, leaving five dead and seven wounded, said an official source.

In a statement, the Attorney General's Office (PGR, OTP) indicates that the seven arrested are being investigated by the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (OFDI).


Last Tuesday a group of thugs clashed for a couple of hours at various points in the city and full light of day with soldiers and federal agents, in a crash in which brought to light rifles and grenades, causing panic among residents Reynosa, on the border with the United States.

In the scuffle alleged hitmen killed five and wounded seven federal agents.


The root is a legal measure which allows the Prosecutor to expand its research on detainees to present evidence to a judge.

After the confrontation, the federal forces seized an 60 mm mortar, five rifle grenades and two fragmentation, bulletproof vests and two trucks.


The clash coincided with several locks, allegedly paid by the Gulf cartel, which made hundreds of people in this border city to protest against the presence of the Mexican Army.

Belongs to Reynosa Tamaulipas, a state considered the seat of the powerful and violent Gulf cartel, who disputed control of several regions of the country with Sinaloa.


This war between the cartels and against the federal forces had left the country so far in 2009 over a thousand dead and some 10,000 in the three last three years, according to sources.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Mexico said today that there were not enough safety in offshore oil platform Usumacinta by bad weather that hit in 2007 with another, killing 22 workers and injured 68.

The NHRC, which acts as an Ombudsman on Sunday issued a recommendation to the state company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Attorney General's Office (PGR) on the accident which occurred on October 23, 2007 when two platforms in the Gulf Mexico collided pushed by high winds and swells.


He said that according to research there were "violations of human rights to life, the law, legal security and integrity of individuals."

Pemex employees stated that "allowed the platform to operate without observing the rules and safety regulations that are required in such facilities."


"There was a poorly trained and equipment provided to employees of these facilities and not have rescue boats in the vicinity of the platforms," said the NHRC said in a statement.

These "(...) flaws and omissions are attributable to the company" oil, he said, noting that the recommendation calls for Pemex to investigate the officers involved in the incident and that no bids awarded to firms that do not comply with measures greater security.


Furthermore, Pemex sought to conduct an adequate and ongoing training in the use of safety equipment, providing evidence that the victims were compensated, and survivors received medical and psychological care.

The PGR asked officials to investigate that hampered the investigation of the NHRC.


Last October, an independent commission, headed by Nobel laureate in chemistry Mario Molina, issued its findings of an investigation into the accident.

The committee explained that the accident was avoided if the weather was sufficiently accurate and if the platform had not been moved.


He also indicated that a safety valve did not work and no lifeboats remained closed.

While plans and followed the procedures established in the security protocol, the problem focused on the safety boats, called "mandarins" for its similarity in shape and color with this fruit, were opened during the storm, leaving the open their occupants.

Two robbers escaped convicts from a prison on Sunday Athenian up a rope ladder to a helicopter for the second time in three years, the authorities said. A woman who was the helicopter and exchanged fire with the guards of the prison.

Vassilis Paleokostas, 42, and Alket Rizaj, 34, were picked up by the helicopter that flew over the courtyard of the Athens Korydallos prison. The prisoners entered the aircraft after climbing the ladder of ropes thrown by a passenger, said the Ministry of Justice.


The guards shot the woman and returned fire with an automatic rifle. No one was injured.

Three years ago Paleokostas and Rizaj escaped the same prison with the same procedure.


An elderly couple found hours after the helicopter left near a road north of Athens, police said. The pilot was handcuffed, and gagged with a hood over his head.

Told the police that the helicopter was rented by a couple who said want to go to Athens from the village of Itea, in central Greece. The couple had rented a helicopter on several occasions in recent weeks.


There were contradictory reports from local residents about the number of vehicles from the place where the helicopter landed, the police said.

Authorities feared at first that four people could have escaped, but a second count of inmates at the prison confirmed that only two had disappeared.


Paleokostas and Rizaj should have appeared on Monday before a judge in connection with his escape by helicopter earlier, the June 4, 2006. That deal was engineered by the elder brother of Paleokostas, Nikos, a convicted criminal who escaped the same prison in 1990.

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President Barack Obama wants to reduce the fiscal deficit in half by the end of his first term, largely by reducing the cost of Iraq war, increasing taxes on the wealthiest and streamline the federal bureaucracy, said an official of the administration.

Obama's proposal for fiscal year 2010, which begins on 1 October, projected that the deficit inherited from the administration of George W. Bush, of about 1.3 trillion dollars, shall be reduced to 533,000 million dollars in 2013.


"We can not generate sustained growth if we do not control the deficit tax, Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and the internet.

Obama is expected to provide a summary of their proposed budget on Monday at a reunion at the White House on tax policy. It could also provide an explanation on Tuesday night, when deciding his first speech to Congress.


It is believed that Obama will send a sketch of the proposed budget to Congress on Thursday, barely a week after the promulgation of its economic stimulus plan by 787,000 million dollars.

It is expected that the draft budget also takes steps Obama to fulfill their campaign promises to establish a universal health insurance and reduce dependence on foreign oil.


The official, who spoke Saturday on condition of not being identified, said that Obama expects to reduce the fiscal deficit by generating savings in three areas.

Obama has pledged to withdraw most combat troops from Iraq in a span of 16 months after taking office.


He also said that it will expire in 2011 tax cuts for people earning more than $ 250,000 per year. This measure was enacted by Bush.

He also promised to improve government efficiency and reduce costs by eliminating programs that do not work.

At least 74 miners were killed and 114 wounded, several of them seriously, after a gas explosion occurred on Sunday in a coal mine in northern China, state media reported. It was the deadliest mining accident in China in over a year.

China's mines are considered the most dangerous in the world, with over 3,000 deaths a year from fires, floods and explosions.


The Xinhua news agency reported that the gas explosion occurred before dawn, when there were 436 workers in the coal mine of Tunlan, belonging to the Group in Shanxi Jiaomei City Gujiao near Taiyuan, the provincial capital of Shanxi.

At least 74 miners were killed and 113 were hospitalized, 21 of them in serious condition, Xinhua said information. Six of the seriously injured were in critical condition, said the news agency.


By Sunday night, all the trapped miners had been found, Xinhua said citing rescue officials. No other details were provided.

A miner who was hospitalized, Huancheng Xue said, according to Xinhua, the foreman ordered him to flee, because the ventilation system had stopped working.


"At that time the underground electricity supply was cut off and we had to walk out," said the miner. He added that he fainted when he was about to reach the exit, after walking about 40 minutes.

Xinhua said that most of the injured miners were poisoned by the inhalation of carbon dioxide, according to doctors at a hospital nearby. The carbon dioxide can cause death.


CCTV state television showed footage of rescue workers with orange uniforms and helmets with red lights, entering the elevator down into the mine tunnels, while others came from the same workers carrying stretchers and ambulances came in they were waiting at the scene.

The owner of the mine is the Shanxi Jiaomei Group, the largest producer of coke in China, which is used in steel production. The company operates 28 mines.


There had been no accidents in the mine Tunlan in the last decade, Xinhua reported. The mine produces five million tonnes of coking coal per year.

Although the Chinese authorities have sought to reduce accidents of this activity to close more than 1,000 small and dangerous mines last year, the country's mining industry remains the deadliest in the world.

President Barack Obama raised the firm belief of Abraham Lincoln to unify a divided nation by participating in a ceremony Wednesday to celebrate the restoration of the Ford Theater with an investment of $ 25 million.

Obama and first lady, Michelle Obama, attended with Hollywood stars and other personalities in the evening on the eve of the bicentennial of Lincoln. The theater where Lincoln was assassinated, has reopened after a renovation that included 18 months of comfortable armchairs, a modern lobby and dressing rooms renovated.


Among a ceremony enlivened with music and moments of drama, the actor Sidney Poitier and director George Lucas was awarded the Medal Lincoln.

Obama, andalusia andalusia theater qualify as a "sacred space" where the legacy of giant Lincoln, rioja commended for restoring the sense of unity in the country.


"Despite all that divided us _ North and South, white and negros_ had the unshakable conviction that we were, essentially, a nation and a people," said the president. "And because of Abraham Lincoln, and all those who have followed his work in later generations, that is what we remain today."

Obama entered the theater with the notes of the tune "Hail to the Chief" amid applause from the audience that was standing.


The violinist Joshua Bell opened the show with a traditional piece of the spiritual kind that was played again for the first time in the Ford Theater the night that Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. The ceremony included passages from a book on the life of Lincoln, along with other tribute speeches and musical performances.

Obama said that Lincoln was "a unique personality" that led the country through the Civil War. Lincoln also told how he wanted the workers to continue building the federal Capitol, despite the fact that raw materials could have been used to make bullets.


Poitier, who broke racial barriers with films like "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", said Obama was a man of simple origins "inspired by Lincoln.

Lucas, distinguished by their films as "Star Wars" and its actions to improve schools with multimedia elements, urged Obama to make education its primary goal as president.

The wife of Bernard Madoff withdrew more than $ 15 million for a signature of which he was co-owner, including 10 million the day when their children handed the financial authorities for leading an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud announced on Wednesday, the principal securities regulator in Massachusetts.

Secretary of State William Galvin said Ruth Madoff, 67, withdrew 5.5 billion on November 25 and 10 million on December 10 _un days before outside arrestado_ Bernard Madoff Securities Cohmad's Corp., a New York firm of that her husband was part owner.


The secretary cited the bank as evidence given by Cohmad of withdrawals. These occurred at a time when it was discovered the pyramid scheme type Madoff and Investors filed applications for refund of their money by 7000 million dollars.

It also seems to follow what the authorities described as a worrying trend from Madoff to hide money that would be used to compensate investors affected.


Prosecutors had also said that detectives had discovered hundreds of checks signed by 173 million dollars Madoff was ready to send to friends and family closest to the time of his arrest in December. Two weeks later, during the holidays decembrinas, the financier sent over a million dollars in jewelry and expensive gifts to family and friends.

"We're not accusing him of having done anything improper," said Galvin spokesman Brian McNiff. "It's one of the things that appeared in the response received from Cohmad" after the citation of the officials of Massachusetts. "What we may think some officials in New York or the feds on this is something completely different."


A phone number under the name Ruth Madoff in Palm Beach, Florida, sounded busy, and a number in New York had been disconnected. A spokeswoman for Cohmad in New York said the company had no comment.

Ira Sorkin, a lawyer at Bernard Madoff said that he had no comment on the withdrawals.


Madoff, a former president of Nasdaq stock market in 70 years of age, is confined to his Manhattan apartment under house arrest.

Moreover, given the closeness of the deadline for an indictment by a jury instruction, the government and lawyers Madoff on Wednesday agreed to request an extension of 30 days. The new deadline was set for March 13.


A federal judge on Wednesday approved the delay, when the government faced the expiration of the deadline for the indictment against the Wall Street Financial.

Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for the prosecution, said that his office had no comment.


In the same way when they found a similar extension a month ago, the federal district Deputy Marc Litt writes that the government demanded the extension of the period "to allow enough time to conduct further discussions on a possible agreement in this case. "

Already been widely anticipated that the case will be resolved before the trial through an agreement between the government and lawyers Madoff.

Democratic leaders announced on Wednesday they reached an agreement on an economic stimulus plan of 789,000 million dollars which seeks to preserve or create millions of jobs amid an intense recession.

"The point at which we created more jobs than the original version of the Senate and costs less than the original version of the House of Representatives," said the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Harry Reid.


However, the chairman of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, did not attend the press conference that announced the Senators agreed, and it remained unclear whether his absence was due to his disagreement with the measure.

The bill should create or preserve 3.5 million jobs after the president signs it Barack Obama, said Reid.


Obama thanked the legislators who have made what he called a "very disputed meaning."

"I want to thank the Democrats and Republicans in Congress agreed that harmoniously in a highly contested settlement that will save or create more than 3.5 million jobs," he said in a statement the president, who has lobbied strongly for the early adoption of package.


Obama also said that tax aid and investment in health care, energy, education and construction revive the economy.

Republican Senator Susan Collins estimated the cost of the plan at 789,000 million dollars without counting interest, lower than previously approved by the cameras. The measure includes money for the victims of the recession, states in a position to illiquidity and tax credits for individuals and businesses.


Affected persons will be assisted by the extension of benefits for unemployment insurance, free coupons to purchase food and other social benefits and health insurance and millions of dollars for states will be forced to cut their own programs and social budgets.

Also prevailed tax refunds requested by Obama, that will benefit millions of people by their low or no income pay no income tax.


Officials said earlier that one of the outstanding issues is the amount for the modernization of schools, a priority of Pelosi and Obama, who opposed Collins and other Republicans whose votes are essential for the final approval of the Senate .

It was not announced when the final vote will take place in both chambers. In the House of Representatives may be held on Thursday, followed by the Senate.


The bag was recovered and closed with a modest increase of 50.65 points to 7939.53 just after the announcement of Reid.

Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman predicted that the bill "will be the beginning of the upturn in the U.S. economy," adding that the signing of the plan because it runs quickly, a few hours before it announced the agreement, the heavy machinery company Caterpillar Inc . terminated indicated that some of the 22,000 layoffs announced recently, after the draft becomes law.


Democratic Senator Tom Harkin told reporters that 6000 will be put aside millions of dollars, which according to officials may only be spent on repairs and modernization, a limitation to satisfy Republicans and conservative Democrats.

But officials said that representatives Democrats want to increase that item of $ 9,000 million.


The original project approved by the lower house was 819,000 million dollars and was accepted without a single Republican vote.

The project approved by the Senate on Tuesday rose to 838,000 million dollars and was supported by only three of 41 Republican senators, a number sufficient to overcome the 60 votes required.

The complexity of the immigration issue has created "legal confusion" in Colorado, because the local legislators have bills that sometimes overlap or contradict existing laws, said a caucus today Denver-immigrant.

According to the Colorado Coalition for the Rights of Immigrants (CIRC, in English), legislators should "try a dialogue" with representatives of 55 organizations that form part of the coalition that way learn about the needs and contributions of the immigrant community in this state. "


The most recent case is the Bill HB09-1049, driven by the Republican bloc in the local Legislature, which sought to nullify the possibility that an undocumented person is convicted of a misdemeanor to be that way in a state prison and thus avoid deportation.

Julie Gonzalez, spokesman of CIRC and now coordinator of the political coalition, considered that the law was "unnecessary" and opined that the measure would have created "for political reasons."


For González, "is if someone is subject to deportation by federal law." Therefore, he said, no need to question the state legislature for changes in that area.

"It is a pity that the time is spent during the session of the legislature to discuss these laws as politically motivated instead of talking about policies," said the spokesman.


The proponent of the project, Mike May, a Republican from Parker and chairman of the bench of his party, said he believed that the initiative was necessary because this would prevent certain criminal aliens "walking freely through the streets of Colorado."

But this Thursday when receiving the report on his tax proposal, May found that cost two million dollars a year to implement the measure, and that the result would be to incarcerate an average of 17 illegal immigrants found guilty of certain crimes to remain in U.S. (even in prison) instead of being deported.


Because the government of Colorado has a deficit of one billion dollars, and therefore there are no resources to implement the project HB09-1049, May requested the same on Thursday that the Judicial Committee of the state legislature voted against its proposal and the legislators did so.

To Julien Ross, executive director of CIRC, the failed project of May is an example of legislators deciding on complicated issues that affect all people in Colorado, but without the necessary information. "


"It is important that our legislators know that we can provide information to enable them make good decisions," said Ross.

A dump truck loaded with gasoline exploded when hundreds of people were trying to seize fuel, in an incident which killed at least 111 people and 200 others were injured in one of the deadliest accidents in Kenya, reported Sunday the authorities.

Hundreds of people surrounded the truck overturned and blocked a road in the town of Molo on Saturday night when the fuel caught fire and caused an explosion whose blast was felt miles away, said Charles Kamau, 22, who fled his car when the flames rose to heaven.


"Everyone was screaming and ran many of them with fire in their bodies, some of them went into the woods," said Kamau to the Associated Press.

"I just ran to where there was no fire," said Kamau in a shop where the Red Cross reported Sunday on the disappearance of a friend.


The nearby hospitals were crowded full of victims, including young children, who suffered horrific burns. Many were lying on the floor, connected to the serum bottles and screaming in pain while doctors struggled to save their lives.

Through some supplies helicopters were sent to hospital, from bags for corpses and additional drugs.


Cars burned clothes and burned smudge the road, while the remains of the truck remained on the road to Molo, about 170 kilometers from Nairobi, the capital. Authorities were checking the woods in search of burned corpses.

The prime minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga told a press conference that apparently was a cigarette butt caused the explosion, but police still investigating the incident.