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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez accused the U.S of being behind the unrest in Ecuador, he made the allegation after emerging from a meeting of The Union of South American Nations today. The Union of South American Nations convened an emergency meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to discuss the situation. Presidents of many South American nations -- including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's Evo Morales and Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos -- were in attendance. "The Yankee extreme right is trying right now, through arms and violence, to retake control of the continent," Chavez said. Earlier Thursday U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a statement expressing support for Correa. "The United States deplores violence and lawlessness, and we express our full support for President Rafael Correa, and the institutions of democratic government in that country," she said. The group of South American leaders Friday condemned an "attempted coup...

Ecuador was forced to declare a state of emergency on Thursday afternoon and the President of the country narrowly escaped after what President Rafael Correa called a "coup attempt" by police and soldiers angered by a new austerity measures ending bonuses and other benefits for civil servants, according to news reports from the South American nation. Look at the incidents occurred on Thursday night in Ecuador's Capital Quito Police officers occupied the National Assembly and troops seized the main airport in the capital, Quito. Protesting security forces occupied several barracks and set up road blocks across the country, demanding the government abandon the austerity measures, passed yesterday by Congress. Members of Correa's left-wing party said they would block efforts to shrink the government, and he is considering disbanding Congress and ruling by decree until new elections can be held, the BBC reports. Correa, who had knee surgery last week and is us...

One may think it as a dream! But now it is reality to Gabrielle Gress,a courageous and youngest teen of the world who showed his charismatic tactics and controlling ability to the world on September 14 this year. At the age of 14, Winter Haven girl has already started setting flight records, not just in her town but all over the world. Gabrielle Gress became the world's youngest person to ever fly a multiple aircraft in the same day after she flew two airplanes and one helicopter solo at an airport outside Toronto, Canada during her birthday last Sept. 14. “The record I broke is being the youngest person to solo aircraft, (fly) an airplane and helicopter,” Gress said. She beat the previous age record by three months. Gress, already an accomplished pilot, trains every day or even twice a day at times at the Winter Haven Airport. She had to taxi out her plane, take off, fly a designated pattern in the sky then land and taxi back in, she said. Gabrielle...

The major records and achievements added by the Indian cricket team in the last one decade, 2000-2010, are to mention as the win of first World Twenty20 Championship in 2007, Runners up in World Cup 2003, ICC Champions Trophy in 2002 and the most recent win of Asia Cup Tournament 2010 defeating Sri Lanka as their fifth tile of the tournament. Indian Cricket Team before the final match of Asia Cup Cricket Tournament  held in Sri Lanka from  15–24 June 2010 Cheerful Indian team after winning first twenty20 champions trophy in 2007 held in South Africa The Indian team also became runners up in ICC Champions Trophy in 2000, and runners up in  Asia Cup Tournament in 2004 and 2008. Before this, the Indian team grabbed  World Cup final championship in 1983 which was the first and highest  achievement of the Indian Cricket and they could not touch the point second time in its cricket history. The Indian Team won the 3rd Cricket World Cup and their first...

The first head of the new United Nations super-agency on female empowerment "UN Women" voiced hope talking to the journalists on Wednesday that the body will be a “strong champion” of gender equality and hasten existing UN efforts to advance the cause of women and girls. The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women was established on 2 July 2010 by an unanimous vote of the General Assembly to oversee all of the world body’s programmes aimed at promoting women’s rights and their full participation in global affairs. Known as UN Women, it will help Member States implement standards, provide technical and financial support to countries which request it, and forge partnerships with civil society. Within the UN, it will hold the world body accountable for its own commitments on gender equality. Michelle Bachelet, former Chilean president and head of UN Women, told reporters in New York on 22nd September 2010 that the body’s creation is “clearly a huge opportun...

A rescue package similar to that introduced after the global financial crisis is urgently needed to halt the worldwide loss of biodiversity, which is resulting in a heavy human cost, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed talking at a high level UN meeting on Wednesday. “We are bankrupting our natural economy,” he told a high-level General Assembly event on biodiversity, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York. According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), ecosystems – and the biodiversity that underpins them – generate services worth trillions of dollars, supporting livelihoods around the world. Characterizing ecosystems as “our natural capital,” Mr. Ban stressed that a loss of biodiversity can lead to the failure of crops, a drop in profits, a deepening of poverty and economic decline. “Allowing [our natural infrastructure] to decline is like throwing money out of the window,” he said. According to the UN, the world will not meet the 2010 target to slow the decline i...

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has opened the annual UN General Assembly summit  with a plea to the presidents, prime ministers and kings to use their power to meet UN goals to help the world's poorest by 2015. Ten years after world leaders set the most ambitious goals ever to fight & check global poverty, they gathered again on Monday to spur action to meet the deadline - which the UN says will be difficult, if not impossible, in some cases. For centuries, the plight of the world's poor had been ignored but with the turn of the new millennium, leaders pledged to begin tackling poverty, disease, ignorance and inequality. Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, made an impassioned plea to developed countries to join his country in raising its contribution to meet the millennium goals. France, he said, would increase its contribution by 20 per cent over the next three years. "We have no right to do less than what we have decided to do," Sarkozy told the...