JFX Health Online & Mental Health

The interior defense dines under the sabotage.

Celebrities of the Spanish cultural community on Sunday voiced their support for a general strike to be staged on Wednesday.

Leaders of the country’s two main labor unions — UGT and Comisiones Obreras, CC.OO — held a meeting at the weekend, accompanied by actors, singers and writers.

The strike was called to protest the government’s labor reforms, pension freeze and wage reductions for public employees, which are part of a package of measures introduced by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to combat the economic crisis and cut the state deficit.

“People could lose their jobs because they had a flu now. Never in our wildest nightmares did we think that could have happened,” said CC.OO leader Ignacio Toxo.

President of the Spanish Actors’ Union Jorge Bosso promised his members would support the strike call.

“We are going on strike because there is an abusive labor reform that affects all workers,” he said.

“Culture is not just for decoration, it is economically important and it is important to show people values,” UGT leader Candido Mendez said.

Basque separatist group ETA said on Sunday that it could be prepared for a permanent and verifiable ceasefire in northern Spain.

Two ETA members made the remarks in an interview with Gara, a newspaper which is generally supportive of ETA.

“The objective resides in the democratic resolution of the political conflict … that means we have to act with responsibility to everyone,” they said, implying that ETA is looking for a change of attitude.

“It is important for all parties to be able to act in equal conditions in which civil and political rights have been established. It is important to deactivate the situation of pressure, inertia and violence,” they said.

“ETA is prepared to take that step and also to go further if the conditions are created which allow that to happen,” they added.

ETA called for a truce on Sept. 5 and issued a further call for negotiations two weeks ago in the face of skepticism from the Spanish society.

All of Spain’s political parties have criticised ETA’s failure to specify whether the truce was temporary or permanent and pointed out that the group’s four previous truces had all been ended with a return to violence.

The Spanish government has so far refused to change the way it has acted toward ETA and has recently arrested nine members of a group with close links to ETA.

ETA’s campaign for the independence of the Basque region in northern Spain and southwestern France has claimed more than 800 lives in the past 40 years.

Two of the seven victims kidnapped on Thursday in Southern Philippines have been released unharmed, officials said on Friday.

“They were already released. We are working out others will also release soon,” Chief Superintendent Bienvenido Latag, regional director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters Friday afternoon.

The victims came from Davao city and were heading to Marawi when they were taken by 15 armed men led by Commanders Basit and Joel Kasanguan late Thursday afternoon.

Philippine security forces have launched a pursuit operation against suspects.

The motive behind the kidnapping remains unknown but the official said it could be retaliation to an earlier abduction of a certain Aris Lidasan of Lumba Bayabao town in Lanao Sur on September 13.

Clan war or rido is common among warring clans in Southern Philippines. Sometimes, the hostilities could last for decades until a peace pact is reached usually through mediation by religious leaders and the payment of blood money.

Among major causes rido include land disputes, particularly those caused by disputed government surveys or ancestral land claims; political rivalries, mostly election-related; crime- related, including murder and proliferation of illegal drugs, competition over resources and businesses.

The Philippine government on Friday secured a five-year 434 million U.S. dollar anti-poverty grant from the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), a statement of the U.S. state firm said.

Aimed at reducing poverty through economic growth, the compact is intended to support reforms and investments to modernize the Bureau of Internal Revenue, expand and improve a community-driven development project, Kalahi-CIDSS, and rehabilitate a secondary national road in Samar province in Central Philippines.

Among its major projects are: the Revenue Administration Reform Project which will focus on increasing the efficiency and sustainability of revenue collection through a redesign and computerization of business processes; the Kalahi-CIDSS project which plans to build infrastructure like water systems, clinics, and schools in select poor communities; and the Secondary National Roads Development Project which will build and repair 222 kilometers of Samar Road to reduce transportation costs and increase commerce between the provinces of Samar and Eastern Samar.

“The Philippines compact is a results-focused program promoting sustainable economic growth. This example of country-designed solutions strives to move the poor from poverty to prosperity,” MCC Chief Executive Officer Daniel Yohannes said in the statement.

Confusions spread among 75 members of Pakistani contingent to participate in the 19th Commonwealth Games (CWG) next month in India after the world media and sports boards had shown dissatisfaction over the facilities and security situation at the venue in recent days.

“Our contingent was planned to leave on Sept. 29 for the Commonwealth Games and before that we wanted to have our own security clearance,” Arif Hasan, president of Pakistan’s Olympic association (POA), told Xinhua on Thursday.

Hasan confirmed that it was true that POA had some reservations and queries about the security arrangements for players at the Games Village in Delhi.

“No doubt we were assured by the CWG organizing committee that our squad will be given foolproof security during the tour but we had decided to ensure it more carefully,” Hasan added.

According to Hasan, Pakistan was ready to be part of the mega event but media reports and sports associations’ objections over the lazy preparations of the venue and substandard facilities at Games forced us to be more careful.

Pakistan had announced to send its security team led by Ahmed Mukaram, assistant inspector general of Police from Islamabad, to check and ensure the fool proof security planned by Indian authorities.

Pakistani security team will leave the country for India on Sept. 26 and will be bound to report back well ahead of contingent departure scheduled on Sept. 29.

Australian Labor Party on Friday re-nominated Member of Parliament (MP) Harry Jenkins to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“Harry Jenkins will be our candidate for Speaker,” Labor front- bencher Anthony Albanese told ABC News in Melbourne.

Meanwhile, Coalition MP Alex Somlyay on Friday has turned down an offer from the Government to become deputy speaker, and pair his vote with Labor Speaker Harry Jenkins.

“I support the Coalition’s decision to reject any pairing arrangements for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker positions on the basis that such a pairing is inconsistent with the Constitution,” Somlyay said in a statement.

MPs will elect the Speaker and a deputy when parliament sits on Tuesday, the first time it has met since the Aug. 21 election failed to give either of the major parties an absolute majority.

If Somlyay agreed to Labor’s offer, it would have helped Labor keep its two-vote majority in the House of Representatives, but would have angered his Coalition colleagues.

The offer came after the Coalition refused on Thursday to agree to provide a pair for a Labor Speaker.

Albanese accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of being a ” wrecker” who did not want to play a constructive role in the parliament.

“Under those circumstances the Labor Party believes it is important to have the best and most experienced person for the job, that is why we will be nominating Harry Jenkins,” Albanese told ABC News.

The South Korean government will invite five non-G20 member countries to the upcoming G20 Seoul Summit in a bid to enhance its effectiveness and representativeness, the summit organizer said Friday.

According to the Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, it has sent invitations to leaders of Vietnam, Singapore, Malawi, Ethiopia and Spain to participate the Seoul Summit which is slated for Nov. 11-12.

Among the five countries, Malawi, the Chair of the African Union, and Ethiopia, the Chair of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), have been selected to strengthen the representation of the African region at the Seoul Summit.

Vietnam, the Chair of ASEAN, and Singapore, Chair of the Global Governance Group (3G), were invited to reflect the opinions of non- member countries, in light of the fact that the Seoul Summit will be the first G20 Summit to be held in Asia, the committee said.

Also, Spain will be present at the Seoul Summit as one of the ten largest economies in the world and a participant in the past four G20 Summits, according to the organizer.

The decision came in accordance with principles agreed upon by the G20 Sherpa to whom are endowed rights to regulate and arrange agendas for the summit, the committee said.

The pro-government “multicolour- shirts” group will launch signature-collection campaigns against the move by coalition Bhumjaithai Party to propose the amnesty bill to parliament, the group’s core leader said on Friday.

Multicolor-shirt core leader Tul Sitthisomwong said at a news conference held at the parliament that he decided to launch the campaign after learning that the Bhumjaithai Party began gathering names in support of a petition for amnesty for political protesters for offenses between Sept. 19, 2006 and May 31, 2010 on Thursday morning.

Bhumjaithai MPs set up tables at Victory Monument, urging people to sign their names to support the petition.

Tul said his group did not think that the amnesty bill would bring about reconciliation as claimed. Besides, the issuance of the bill was not in line with legal principle as the judiciary system would not have a chance to take legal action against the offenders, Bangkok Post online reported.

Although the group opposes the amnesty bill, Tul insisted that his group did not object the reconciliation efforts, but just wanted the justice to take place to ensure sustainable peace in the country.

The amnesty bill proposed by Bhumjaithai last August will cover innocent protesters both from anti-government red-shirt protesters who staged the protest in April last year, and the pro- establishment yellow-shirt protesters who staged the protest late last year, but core leaders and those who incited violence are not on the list, claimed the Bhumjaithai Party.

Bhumjaithai is now campaigning for the public to support the amnesty bill, which it claimed was for the sake of national reconciliation, after the bill was earlier rejected by the government whip.

Mexico see “more and more to Colombia from 20 years ago, drug dealers certain parts of the country as a controlled, “said Clinton. The Central American state needs in the fight against the drug cartels more “institutional capacity coupled with the political will” to prevent it from spreading to the drug gangs.

The Mexican government rejected the remarks Clinton back immediately. “We share this view,” said the spokesman on national security, Alejandro Poire, journalists in Mexico City. In Colombia’s territory were once more than 40 percent of the insurgents had been controlled by. That is not to compare with Mexico. The problems of both countries were similar at most, in that the criminals “on the enormous demand for drugs in the United States operate.

Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa urged in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung the U.S. to “curb the trade in weapons, many of which ultimately end up with us.” The “division of the police in as many units was” absolutely true “weakness”, but Mexico’s authorities were vigorously combating drug traffickers. “Now that the cartels come under pressure, they turn to terrorist methods in order to provoke us,” added Espinosa.

The Mexican Chefdiplomatin acknowledged in the “SZ”, however, that the drug cartels had tried in small communities “to replace the State.” They also spoke of a link between Colombian and Mexican drug gangs: since “action will be taken in Colombia, they have become stronger in us.”

In Mexico, a brutal battle rages between rival drug gangs that make the lucrative smuggling routes in dispute in the U.S.. President Felipe Calderón had started after he took office in 2006 a major offensive against drug gangs. Meanwhile, 50,000 soldiers have stopped to assist the police in fight against gangs. According to the Mexican Government of the drug war since December 2006, more than 28,000 people lost their lives.

Yudhoyono expressed his concern about the consequences of the clock at 18.00 on Saturday (Sunday at 00:00 BST clock) planned Koran-burning. “This is a conflict between religions could trigger,” he wrote. Indonesia and the U.S. tried to Islam and the Western world to build bridges between. “If the Koran is burned, these efforts will be nullified.” Indonesia is the country in the world, most Muslims live, followed by Pakistan and India.

India urged the U.S. government to stop the action. “We hope the U.S. authorities to act decisively in order to prevent an outrage,” Interior Minister P. Chidambaram said in New Delhi. He appealed to the media not to publish pictures of the action.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, said the action would “ignite among Muslims around the world and feelings of harmony between religions and world peace cause irreparable damage.” Zardari called on Obama to do everything to prevent this “senseless and despicable act.”

The evangelical group Christian Dove World Outreach Center will “on 11 September before their community in Gainesville in Florida burn about 200 editions of the Koran. Despite the sharp protests in recent days, the Christian fundamentalists hold fast to the project, as its chairman, the Rev. Terry Jones, said at a news conference in Gainesville.

Obama said the U.S. television channel ABC, the planned Koran-burning was “a destructive gesture”, which totally contradicts the values of America “. The planned Koran-burning was a “windfall for Al Qaeda, to recruit people.” The action could be “serious violence in places like Pakistan or Afghanistan are moving to. The project also threatens the U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The supreme commander of German troops in Afghanistan, Brigadier General Hans-Werner Fritz, warned against “Spiegel Online” from possible acts of revenge and to Bundeswehr soldiers.