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Washington, 31 dez 2016 (AFP) - O Pentágono disse nesta sexta-feira que acredita que o chefe do grupo jihadista Estado Islâmico (EI), Abu Bakr Al Bagdadi, está vivo, apesar das numerosas operações realizadas pela coalizão liderada pelos Estados Unidos para matá-lo. "Acreditamos que Al-Bagdadi está vivo e segue liderando o ISIL (acrônimo do EI). Obviamente estamos fazendo tudo o que podemos para monitorar seus movimentos", disse o porta-voz do Pentágono Peter Cook à rede de televisão CNN. "Se tivermos a oportunidade, sem dúvida aproveitaremos para levá-lo à Justiça". O governo americano elevou para 25 milhões de dólares a recompensa que oferece por informações sobre o paradeiro do líder do EI. O grupo jihadista publicou em 2014 o único vídeo que se conhece de Al-Bagdadi, no qual aparece vestindo uma túnica e um turbante negros. Cook assinalou que Al-Bagdadi está isolado porque os ataques da coalizão liquidaram muitos líderes do EI. "...

Sabine Kinkartz (cn) Na sua mensagem de Ano Novo, chanceler afirma que democracia e Estado de Direito são a resposta ao terrorismo e assegura que governo vai se empenhar pela segurança de todos.No sua tradicional mensagem de Ano Novo, a chanceler federal da Alemanha, Angela Merkel, disse que os alemães estão deixando "um ano de provações difíceis" para trás. Entre elas, o terrorismo islâmico foi, "sem dúvida", a mais difícil, afirmou Merkel, lembrando os vários atentados que ocorreram no ano: Würzburg, Ansbach e, em meados de dezembro, também em Berlim. Doze pessoas morreram no atentado em Berlim, quando o tunisiano Anis Amris invadiu um mercado natalino com um caminhão. O jovem de 23 anos chegou à Alemanha como refugiado. Segundo Merkel, é especialmente triste e revoltante quando atentados terroristas são cometidos por pessoas que aparentemente procuravam proteção no país. A chanceler afirmou que tanto a receptividade dos alemães como aqueles que realmen...

Buenos Aires, 30 dez (EFE).- A Justiça da Argentina determinou nesta sexta-feira o embargo dos bens da herança do falecido ex-presidente Néstor Kirchner que pertencem aos dois filhos que teve com a também ex-mandatária Cristina Kirchner, dentro da causa que investiga supostas irregularidades na empresa Hotesur. O juiz federal Julián Ercolini embargou 16 imóveis de Máximo e Florencia Kirchner que integravam a herança do falecido ex-presidente (2003-2007), assim como a parte dessa sucessão que tinha sido cedida a seus filhos por Cristina, sua viúva, no último mês de março. O embargo responde a um pedido feito na semana passada pelos promotores Gerardo Pollicita e Ignacio Mahiques no marco da causa que investiga supostas irregularidades na gestão da Hotesur, a administradora de hotéis de propriedade da família. Segundo informou nesta sexta-feira a agência estatal "Télam", Ercolini determinou também o confisco de um veículo e da participação societária dos filhos...

Police confirm death of Greek ambassador to Brazil Rio de Janeiro - Civilian police confirmed the death of Greece's ambassador to Brazil, Kyriakos Amiridis, 59. The body of the Greek was found in a car charred and abandoned in the Metropolitan Arch, a ring road of the Metropolitan Region of Rio, at the entrance of Nova Iguaçu, in the Baixada Fluminense, according to information from RJTV, TV Globo TV news. The motivation of the crime would have been passionate. According to the news report, the investigating officer has already asked the court to arrest four people who would have planned the murder, including the diplomat's Brazilian wife, ambassador Françoise de Sousa Oliveira Amiridis, and military police officer Sérgio Gomes Moreira Filho. The cop would have a romantic relationship with Françoise. The other two suspects were not named. The initial version, according to which the diplomat would have left alone in a car he had rented, would be a liar. The victim wo...

Rio de Janeiro, Dec 30 (EFE) .- Civilian police agents found in a city of Rio de Janeiro a burned vehicle with a charred body, with the same car plate rented by the Greek ambassador to the country, Kyriakos Amiridis, who is Missing since last Monday, according to reported on Thursday the official sources. The car was found under a viaduct of the Metropolitan Arch in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, and inside it was a charred body, according to information from the Civil Police. "I can not confirm categorically, because the vehicle was burned. I can confirm that it has the same characteristics, it was the same model and had the same record as the car rented by the ambassador," said delegate Evaristo Pontes of the Homicide Baixada Fluminense (DHBF). Pontes, quoted by Agência Brasil, said that now will be held necessary technical expertise "to know if the body really is the ambassador." Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was last seen on Monday and his whereab...

LUCCA, 29 December (ANSA) - Italy reported two more deaths from bacterial meningitis, including a 22-month-old baby, and one case of severe contamination. The new episodes involving the disease linked the alert in the country and rekindled calls for the population to be vaccinated. Last Wednesday (28), the boy, born in February of 2015, had entered the Hospital Meyer, Florence, in a very serious condition and with a high fever. The doctors still tried to treat him, but it was too late. The diagnosis confirmed C-type meningitis, a disease that has killed six people in Tuscany in 2016. The region has been carrying out a vaccination campaign that has already affected a large part of the population, but many families have not yet been warned. The boy's parents and daycare colleagues were placed under follow-up due to the risk of transmission of the bacteria. "At this time, not vaccinating children in Tuscany against meningitis is irresponsible," said Walte...

Pedro Ladeira - 25.May.2016 / Folhapress Greek ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis (right) talks with President Michel Temer during a ceremony to present  ambassador credentials at the Planalto Palace. Delegate Evaristo Pontes, of the DHBF (Homicide Office of Baixada Fluminense), said on Thursday (29) that he does not believe that the Greek ambassador to Brazil, Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, has been kidnapped. Pontes investigates the disappearance of Amiridis since the night of this Wednesday (28), when the fact was informed to the Civil Police of Rio. Amiridis has not been seen for three days. On this Thursday, Pontes heard witnesses of the case. Françoise Amiridis, wife of the ambassador, who is Brazilian, was one of the people listened to. Yesterday, she informed the PF (Federal Police) about the disappearance of her husband. The PF evaluated that the disappearance had no relation with the diplomatic activity of Amiridis in Brazil. Therefore, the case was referred to DHBF, whic...

Valletta, Dec 23, 2016 (AFP) -Two men armed with grenades and a pistol kidnapped and diverted a Libyan plane to Malta on Friday, where they surrendered after releasing the 116 passengers and crew of the aircraft. "The last members of the crew left the plane with the pirates," announced shortly after 3.30 pm the Prime Minister of Malta, Joseph Muscat, who informed on Twitter the whole operation. "The air pirates surrendered, they were searched and placed in detention," Muscat wrote. According to the Foreign Minister of the Libyan National Unity Government (GNA), Taher Siala, the two men are supporters of the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi and seek political asylum on the Mediterranean island. They also want to announce the creation of a pro-Gaddafi political party. However, during a press conference after the crisis ended, Muscat denied that the two men, "probably of Libyan nationality", sought asylum. According to television fo...

Odebrecht offices in Ecuador are the target of a search and seizure operation. Quito, Dec 23 (EFE) .- The Ecuadorian Public Prosecutor's Office carried out a search and seizure operation at Odebrecht's offices in Guayaquil on Friday, where it seized documents that may relate to information on tuition of more than US $ 35, 5 million to government officials. In the operation, carried out during the night, 23 folders with papers, three books and 23 notebooks were seized, as well as two CDs and four portable computers, according to the Public Ministry. The agents also confiscated a CPU (central processing unit) and two external hard drives, according to the prosecution, who requested criminal assistance in this case from the United States, Brazil and Sweden. The operation took place in two offices in a commercial center in the port city and, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office in its Twitter account, sought "documentary, material and digital eviden...

More than 34,000 people have been evacuated from the Syrian city, but thousands remain in the area; UN believes that operation is in the final phase; Families receive clothes for the cold and winter kits. Displaced in Aleppo, Syria, they queue to receive food distributed by the World Food Program,  WFP. Photo: PMA / Hani Al Homsh Leda Letra, from UN News in New York. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Ocha, this Friday released the latest information on the plan for the withdrawal of civilians from Aleppo, which enters the final phase. Thousands of people are still under siege in the Syrian city, but with the help of the Red Cross and the Syrian Red Crescent, many families left Aleppo at dawn. The operations follow during the day. Snow Since Thursday night, UN observers have been accompanying thousands of people from eastern Aleppo to private vehicles, who have had difficulty following a snowstorm and sub-zero temperatures. The Re...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will fine General Motors' joint venture of 201 million yuan ($ 29 million) for monopoly practice, state television said on Friday, ending speculation after an authority warned it Sanctions against the automaker. Shanghai's price regulator has said it will fine GM's partnership with China's largest automaker, SAIC Motor, for setting minimum prices on certain models of Cadillac, Chevy and Buick, according to China Central Television. "GM fully respects local laws and regulations wherever we operate," the automaker said in a statement emailed. "We will fully support our partnership in China to ensure that all appropriate action is taken on this matter." SAIC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The fine comes after statements by US President-elect Donald Trump questioning Chinese policy and naming Peter Navarro as trade consultant, a hard line on trade with the Asian giant. However, there is no e...

SÃO PAULO, DEC. 23 (ANSA) -The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed Thursday the effectiveness of the vaccine against Ebola virus after testing in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Produced by Merck, Sharp & Dohme, the vaccine was named rVSV-ZEBOV and offers 100% protection, according to the scientific journal "The Lancet". The drug was given to around six thousand people, including adults and children, and 10 days later, everyone was immune to the disease. Among those who did not receive the drug immediately, 23 cases of the disease were registered. However, the final results of the study give hope to better protection against the disease that devastated some African countries in 2014, killing more than 11,000 people. A few months after the first tests, WHO said the preliminary results were an "extremely promising development." The company Merck, Sharp & Dohme has promised to ensure that 300,000 doses of the vaccine will be available in the...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - After taking out stand-alone cars from the streets of California, Uber Technologies has now placed them in Arizona, where there is no special license requirement to test the program. The company shut down the project in California a week after it started because of opposition from regulatory authorities. On Wednesday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked permission of 16 cars from the company's test fleet, which the agency said had no proper authorization. In Arizona, however, stand-alone vehicles are subject to the same rules as any other automobile, according to the Department of Transportation. On Thursday morning, Uber put the cars in trucks owned by Otto - a company acquired in August. "Our cars left for Arizona this morning in trucks," the Uber spokeswoman said in a statement. "We are going to expand our pilot project of autonomous vehicles over the next few weeks," he added. Arizona Gov. ...

Internet image MOSCOW, Dec 21 (ANSA) - Italian actress Ornella Muti, 61, has filed for a request for Russian citizenship, the Moscow press reported. "It is not that I do not love Italy, but I want to live in a country that has a future like Russia. My dream is that my passport is delivered by Vladimir Putin," said the actress, who is the daughter of Russian mother and grandparents. Ornella Muti made her film debut in 1970, and in 1994 was considered the most beautiful woman in the world by international readers of Class magazine. One of the curiosities of the Italian's career is that she refused the role of "bond girl" in the classic "007 For Your Eyes", 1981. "I am seriously intent on regaining my Russian roots," she said. (ANSA)

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea stepped up a boost on Friday to encourage its oil and gas companies to invest in shale gas projects in the US amid expectations that more opportunities will emerge under the Trump administration. Asia's fourth-largest economy is the world's second largest buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) after Japan, importing about 30 million tonnes a year through state-owned Korea Gas Corp (KOGAS). In a meeting with the heads of Korea's gas companies, Energy Minister Joo Hyung-hwan emphasized the need to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the gas sector with the first Korean imports of US shale gas scheduled to begin in the next year. "As the future Trump administration also has a strong interest in exporting fossil fuel energy sources, including shale gas, we, the government, are planning to strongly support the cooperation of our companies in the shale gas sector," said Joo at the meeting . KOGAS will import 2.8 million ton...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels bombed Aleppo on Friday and killed three people, state television reported, a day after insurgents finished withdrawing from their last pocket of territory in the city. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in the United Kingdom, said that around 10 projectiles fell in the al-Hamdaniya neighborhood in south-western Aleppo. The rebels who seek to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been frequently targeting the government-controlled Aleppo areas throughout the conflict that began in 2011. The destruction in these parts of the city has been much lower than in the eastern neighborhoods that the rebels occupied until this month. The latter left the village late Thursday on the way to the interior immediately west of Aleppo, following a ceasefire agreement during which the International Committee of the Red Cross said about 35,000 people, mostly civilians , Left the city. Many of those who left t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations has called on the United States on Friday to support Israel in a vote on the Security Council resolution calling for an end to the settlements. "We urge the United States to stand by us and we hope our great ally will follow with us in this long standing policy to veto this resolution," Danny Danon said in a statement. Western officials told Reuters on Thursday that the US intended to abstain on the resolution.

VATICAN CITY, DEC. 23 (ANSA) - The Vatican will donate 6 million euros to those affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, the Pontifical Council Cor Unum said on Friday. The money will be sent to 2 million people, regardless of religion or ethnicity, mainly from the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhia, Kharkov and Dnipro. In April, Francis announced that churches in Europe had collected an "extraordinary" sum to fund projects to assist people living in war zones. The Holy See, through the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, has set up a committee with Ukrainian religious to coordinate donations. Since the beginning of activities, in July, the committee selected and evaluated the assistance projects of Christian charities and international agencies. Now, the committee will finance 20 large-scale projects, each of up to 250,000 euros, and 39 solidarity initiatives of up to 20,000 euros each. The resources will be divided into services and products, such as medicines, ...

BERLIN, Dec 23 (ANSA) - Two men suspected of planning an attack on a shopping mall in Oberhausen, western Germany, were detained by police early on Friday (23). According to the German authorities, the suspects are two brothers, aged 28 and 31, from Kosovo. So far there is no indication that the attack was linked to the truck bombing at a Christmas market in Berlin claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. According to an official source of the Essen police, the authorities are assessing the degree of preparation for the mall attack. However, the security of the site and a Christmas fair near the commercial complex was strengthened. Based on the initial investigation, the German investigators believe that the "possible attack was not imminent". The two brothers have been detained by police and will remain in custody at least until tomorrow (24). "Investigators should be able to take time to see if the suspicion that the two brothers wanted to make a...

ROMA, 23 DEZ (ANSA) - Na madrugada desta sexta-feira, dia 23, dois policiais que estavam na Piazza Primo Maggio na cidade de Sesto San Giovanni, perto de Milão, foram os responsáveis por parar e matar o tunisiano Anis Amri, o maior suspeito do ataque a um mercado de Natal em Berlim na última segunda-feira (19).  Os dois agentes, Luca Scatà e Christian Movio, pararam o homem, que depois foi identificado como o terrorista, e pediram para que ele mostrasse seus documentos. No entanto, Amri recusou a fazê-lo, tirou uma pistola calibre 22 da sua mochila já pronta para atirar e disparou contra os oficiais.  Movio, de 36 anos, foi atingido por uma bala no ombro direito.  Ele foi levado para o hospital San Geraldo, na cidade de Monza, e fez uma cirurgia no local onde foi atingido, que já terminou.  Movio "está bem bem e tranquilo, nunca sofreu nenhum perigo" de vida, disse o médico que o atendeu, Giovanni Zatti.  O oficial nasceu no muni...

Rome, Dec 23, 2016 (AFP) - Italian police killed the alleged perpetrator of the attack at a Christmas fair in Berlin late on Thursday night in Milan, northern Italy, ending a four-hunt Days in Europe. The man killed by the police is "undoubtedly" the alleged perpetrator of a Christmas market in the German capital, which killed 12 people and injured 50 others, the Tunisian Anis Amri, said in Rome the Italian Interior Minister, Marco Minniti. The Islamic State extremist group, which claimed the attack, confirmed through its propaganda agency Amaq that the man killed by Italian police during an exchange of gunfire was responsible for the bombing in Berlin. The extremist group's agency has also released a video in which Amri swears allegiance to the EI. In the video, the man, who appears standing and dressed in a shelter on what appears to be a catwalk over a river, speaks directly to the camera. It explains its intention to avenge the Muslims victims of ae...

By Paul Carrel and Matthias Inverardi BERLIN / DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - German police are searching for a Tunisian who has sought asylum in the country after finding an ID card under the driver's seat of the truck that hit a crowd in a Berlin Christmas market and killed 12 people, Authorities and security sources Wednesday. Ralf Jaeger, the Interior Minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, said the suspect apparently arrived in Germany in July 2015 and had his asylum claim rejected. The suspect apparently used different names and was identified by security agencies as someone in contact with a militant Islamic network. The man was living mostly in Berlin this February, but was recently in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to Jaeger. Since November the man was considered a possible threat by the security authorities. After having rejected the asylum application, he should have been deported, but could not be sent back to Tunisia because he was without documents, according ...

Berlin, Dec. 21 (EFE) .-The portal opened by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of Germany (BKA) so that citizens can send photos and videos related to Monday's bombing in Berlin was invaded by hackers on Wednesday and became Blocked for two and a half hours. As reported by the media group "Funke" citing BKA sources, the page was the target of a DDOS attack, which collapses servers by multiplying data traffic. The page was inaccessible between 17h and 19h30 local, when it was possible to reverse the attack. So far, 270 lanes have been received on the portal, while Berlin police have handled more than 500 calls on the hotline to receive any information that might help investigate the bombing, killing 12 people after a truck invaded a Christmas market . Police said on Wednesday the police searched for a Tunisian citizen after finding in the truck cabin documentation belonging to a young man of that nationality who was registered as dangerous in the data ...

Brookfield está perto de comprar fatia da Odebrecht em gasoduto no Peru, diz ministro. LIMA (Reuters) - O fundo canadense Brookfield Asset Management Inc está perto de comprar a participação da Odebrecht em um projeto de gasoduto no Peru de mais de 5 bilhões de dólares, disse o ministro da Economia do Peru, Alfredo Thorne. Numa entrevista à estação de rádio local Canal N na terça-feira à noite, Thorne disse que a Brookfield concordou em assinar uma "cláusula anticorrupção" no contrato para a aquisição da participação de 55 por cento da Odebrecht no projeto. "Estamos quase prontos para fechar (com a Brookfield), estamos em negociações, provavelmente aconteça, não há nenhuma mudança na cláusula anticorrupção", disse Thorne. Um assessor de imprensa da Odebrecht em Lima disse ser muito cedo para fazer qualquer comentário sobre o assunto. No fim de novembro, a Sempra anunciou que as negociações terminaram sem acordo com a Odebrecht para comprar o...

(Antônio Cruz/Agência Brasil)Antonio Cruz/ Agência Brasil Após a aprovação do teto para os gastos públicos, as mudanças na Previdência Social passam a ser prioridade do governo em 2017, disse hoje (21) o ministro da Fazenda, Henrique Meirelles. Em café da manhã com jornalistas, ele declarou que esse será o principal item da agenda do governo no próximo ano. "A priorização é fundamental em qualquer atividade, inclusive na atividade legislativa, não há dúvida. A prioridade número um, certamente, é a reforma da Previdência", disse Meirelles. Ele também destacou as medidas microeconômicas que pretendem aumentar a produtividade do país, as mudanças tecnológicas que facilitam a vida dos cidadãos e das empresas, como a simplificação do pagamento de impostos e de obrigações trabalhistas . "O governo federal não está de mãos atadas. Tem adotado ações positivas para o crescimento. Esse governo não adotará praticas artificialistas, que levaram a grandes fracassos no pa...