AP INTERNATIONAL - 6 AUG (08:00 GMT) -.
CHILE-ACCIDENT At least 34 people trapped in a mine in northern Chile Santiago de Chile .- rescue units work hard to find at least 34 people trapped in a mine in the Chilean city of Copiapo, 834 miles north of Santiago, though the police know their status. Radio information show that the accident occurred around 20:30 pm (0030 GMT Friday), mortal gold, in the Mine "San Esteban", located about 80 km from Copiapo, and that the collapse would have occurred at 300 meters deep.
US-ESPIONAGE Clapper The Senate confirmed as the new Director of U.S. National Intelligence Washington .- The U.S. Senate approved the appointment of James Clapper, a dedicated military intelligence affairs throughout his life, as the new Director of, tera gold, National Intelligence ( DNI). Clapper, he held since the April 11, 2007 the post of undersecretary of dnse for intelligence what became the primary adviser on these issues to the Secretary of Dnse, retired in 1995 from U.S. Air Forces in lieutenant general after 32 years of service.
BRAZIL-ELECTIONS presidential candidates debate a warm Brazilian television star, ffxiv gil, Sao Paulo .- The main Brazilian presidential candidates staged a warm discussion on national issues in the first televised debate ahead of the October 3 election, marked by shortages government proposals.
Dilma Rousseff (Workers Party) and Jose Serra (Brazilian Social Democracy Party), the best placed candidate in the polls on voting intention, polarized a discussion in which I talk a lot of social programs but very little about economics and nothing about international relations.
COLOMBIA-D.HUMANOS Detainees twelve o'clock Colombian military accused of extrajudicial Bogota .- The Colombian authorities arrested in the south and southwest of the country, twelve soldiers, one of them now retired, for his alleged responsibility in the deaths of some 20 civilians presented as casualties in battle with illegal groups, said the Justice. The soldiers collected belong to the Battle of Boyaca Battalion and "are being investigated for having allegedly committed the crimes of murder of protected persons, aggravated criminal conspiracy and falsifying public documents" on events that occurred in the last two years in different parts of the Southwest Colombia.
US-BORDER U.S. Senate approved $ 600 million for Mexico border security in Washington .- The U.S. Senate approved before the summer recess of the Congress, a party of 600 million dollars in additional funding to improve security in the border with Mexico. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Charles Schumer, to provide funds to cover the purchase of more unmanned aerial vehicles and the hiring of 1,500 new federal agents to patrol the Southwest border, among other measures.
VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA/UNASUR Kirchner began his first term as head of the mediating Unasur Caracas .- Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner began with a "face to face" with the Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez, his first management mediatoras Secretary General of UNASUR in the crisis between Colombia and Venezuela, rrring to the need to respect the "diversity" and "plurality" in the region. His efforts, he said, suggests that Latin America "emerges in the world as a region" where "we know definitely understand that we live among all, respecting diversity, respecting plurality."
US-ECONOMY resigns Obama's chief economic adviser Washington .- The president of the Council of Economic Advisers in the White House, Christina Romer, announced to resign from his office on 3 September to exercise again as a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkley.
The White House said in a statement that Romer had long expressed his desire to return to California, where his son started school this fall.
HAITI-POLITICS Wyclef Jean says is the voice of "youth" and "neutrality" in Haiti Washington .- The Haitian singer Wyclef Jean stated in his first live interview since a few hours before register as candidate for presidency his country in the November election, which is the "voice of youth" and "neutrality." In the CNN television network, the musician 40 years and born in Haiti but has lived most of his life in the U.S., explained that, after the tragic earthquake of January 12, over 50 percent of the Haitian population is young and has a chance to rebuild from scratch the country, to promote a real education in schools, building infrastructure and creating decent jobs and quality.
JAPAN-NUCLEAR Hiroshima remembers 65 years of the atomic bomb in the presence of U.S. and UN Tokyo .- The Japanese city of Hiroshima remembered the 65th anniversary of the launch of the first atomic bomb with a call for nuclear disarmament at a ceremony in which For the first time, participate officially the U.S. ambassador and the UN secretary general. At 0815 local time (2315 GMT Thursday) the same in which the U.S. plane "Enola Gay" drop the atomic bomb in 1945 that killed 80,000 people at once, a heavy silence fell among the 55,000 people who, according to local agency Kyodo, gathered at the Peace Park in Hiroshima.