The police announced that at least 19 people were killed Tuesday in a number of cities of Haiti after Hurricane Hanna, who turned on Tuesday evening to a tropical storm.

The previous toll spoke of ten people.

The police officer said that ten people died in the city of Gonaïves (152 km north of Port - or - Prince), which completely flooded by water level rise after three neighbouring subject.

On his part, Mayor Gonaïves that "proceeds partially because it is impossible to enter the city now."

He declared a state of maximum emergency in the city and called on the central authorities to provide assistance.

The deputy from the town of Gros - Morne near Gonaïves that two people were killed in this town.

In the south another deputy counted at least seven dead and described the situation as "very difficult" for residents of this region, which flooded a number of cities there.

In the city of Port - or - Peyman (south) of water flooded three alive and held a number of houses According to the municipal head Jeremy Dyoussol in a telephone conversation with Agence France Presse.

The type of hurricane Hanna of the first category on a scale of five categories but reduced the strength Tuesday morning to become a tropical storm

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Warned the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in a statement Friday that three million children face the risk of death or serious illnesses in the Horn of Africa coincided result of drought and conflict and rising food prices.

UNICEF reported that "three million children in this arid region and marginalized face the risk of death or illness or the consequences of malnutrition in the long run and they represent a large segment of the 14 million people infected with a serious and growing numbers are cause for concern."

And issued warnings in recent weeks as several humanitarian agencies of the United Nations and non-governmental organizations estimated the number of people threatened by serious food crises in East Africa is estimated at 14 million people.

UNICEF pointed out that drought added to the "worst acts of violence" defined the region for years in Somalia and "some parts of northern Ethiopia", as well as rising food prices, which exceeded 200% during the last eight months in areas suffering the most.

The UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Per Angebak that "it is necessary to adopt national policies on energy in this difficult phase and additional international monitoring of funds quickly. The threats to children and their families, serious and time is short to contain them."

He said Angebak "The security (humanitarian workers) presents a major problem" in many regions of the Horn of Africa.

In Somalia the vulnerability of these workers from local and foreigners in the past months of bloody attacks and kidnappings increasingly led to the deaths of six drivers Somalis working for the WFP from the beginning of 2008.

According to the United Nations, about 23 million Somalis representing about 40% of the population will need humanitarian assistance by the end of the year, up 77% since January 2008

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Euro exchange rate went down at about 10,55 GMT Friday to their lowest levels since October 24 as it totaled $ 1,4196 following the issue of German industrial production figures, which exceeded expectations Askt retreat in July.

The decline in German industrial production in July by 1.8% monthly rate, a percentage much higher than the expectations of analysts, according to interim figures published by the Economy Ministry on Friday.

And thus continue to decline, the European currency versus the U.S. currency since mid-July after registering a record in the historic July 15 amounted to $ 1,6038. The euro has since then more than 11% of its value.

And reducing the European Central Bank on Thursday forecast for growth during the current year to 1.4% versus 1.8% previously. Having seen the euro area, which includes 15 states during the second quarter of the year, the first contraction in economic activity since its inception year 1999.

Did not give the European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet no indications on the possibility of lowering interest rates to stimulate the European economy.

However, although his comments suggested that the possible adoption of softness in cash by investors after the sale of turnout has led to the euro currency in such a low price on Thursday in exchange markets in favour of the dollar and yen

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A powerful earthquake in north-west of Argentina on Wednesday, according to a U.S. National Geophysical Institute.
He said that the strength of the American Institute earthquake reached 6.3 degrees on the Richter scale and struck at a distance of 170 km northeast of Santiago del Estero in Argentina at a depth of 547 km.

There were no reports of casualties or damage according to the Institute

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Rajendra Pachauri called on Indian Prime group of governmental experts climate in a statement Sunday Observer magazine, to reduce the consumption of meat in order to combat climate change on a personal level.

The Rajendra Pachauri, which happened with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, which devotes its work for decades to protect the environment for people to start not eat meat only once a week and then abandoned altogether.

The economic expert believes that changing food will be an important step in combating climate change because raising livestock contributes to global warming.

Advised Rajendra Pachauri, who is not only eats plant "at the outset satisfied by eating meat one day a week and then stayed out of consumption." He added, "What I want to stress is that we must work to reduce consumption in every sector of the economy

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An official with the American army on Thursday that the suicide rate in the U.S. Army Land in 2008 may exceed the record level recorded last year and approaching the suicide rate among civilians for the first time since the Vietnam War.

These officials added that 93 soldiers had committed suicide in 2008, a figure approaching the index recorded in 2007 and hit 115.

The colonel led Stevens Assistant Director in charge of human resources "with the remaining four months may go beyond the 115" case of suicide.

According to the current pace, surpassing the suicide rate in proportion to the Land Army civilians, which amounted to 19.5 as of hundred thousand According to the information available.

He explained Officials at the U.S. Defense Department that this situation has not been happening since the late sixties and early seventies during the Vietnam War.

The General President Rhonda Donsker help doctors in the army, "U.S. Army Land, which was the main force in the global war on terror is subject to great psychological pressure."

Continue to rise since 2003, when the suicide rate reached 12.4 for the hundred thousand despite the continuing efforts of the army to deal with these problems in its ranks

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"Motorola" company relaesed a new mobile phone for the operation of multimedia introduce direct broadcasting of TV channels, offering songs filmed on demand and programmes stored on digital video recorders.

The new phone with a five-minute memory enables users to stop the direct supply of television channels, and can also provide Memory Cards to increase the memory capacity of even registered ninety minutes of video, in addition the battery can work for four hours.

Motorola indicated that the size of the new screen is 4.3 inches and will be presented to the public in the course of electronic devices will be held in Las Vegas next week.

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