BP Recorded Costs Of $ 32 200 Million Due To Oil Spill

LONDON - British oil group BP said Tuesday it recorded pre-tax costs by 32 200 million dollars due to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and will sell assets for a total of 30,000 million dollars over the next 18 months.

BP suffered an adjusted loss of $ 16,900 million in the second quarter due to provisions for paying the cost of oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

His BP CEO Tony Hayward, will leave office in October and be replaced by Bob Dudley, now in charge of the oil slick, then be appointed to the board of TNK-BP, BP's Russian joint venture.
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Apple Will Sell The iPhone 4 in 17 Other Countries

The company Apple announced Monday that on Friday July 30 will begin selling the iPhone 4 in 17 other countries, which would join nations like the United States and Germany.

It is expected that the new version of the popular phone is on sale next September in 88 countries at least, which puts the product such as more comprehensive development in the history of the company.

Even the iPhone is-so far-the main driver of growth is forecast to Apple and soon to become its biggest source of profit.

However, not all favorable. Steve Jobs, chief executive of technology company, said last week that the iPhone 4 will not be sold in the short term in South Korea, a nation of Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.

"It will take us a little longer to get approval from the government there," said the businessman.

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An Israeli Military Helicopter Fell In Romania

Bucharest, July 27 - An Israeli military helicopter crashed on Monday with seven troops on board in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains, confirmed last night the Ministry of Defense in Bucharest, and while it was initially reported four dead , then a local authority contradicted that report.

The ship carrying six Israeli soldiers and one Romanian in a training flight. The head of the local rescue service, Fanica Boboc said that due to the inaccessibility of the place has not been possible to reach the scene of the tragedy, according to German news agency DPA reported.

He added that the search for victims was interrupted by poor visibility and continue today. The Israeli army reported no casualties. Now send a plane with medical and rescue specialist on the scene.

The accident occurred in a mountainous area difficult to access, near the city of Brasov.

The helicopter of the type CH-53 was part of "Operation Blue Sky," a training exercise in search and rescue missions.

Apparently the machine crashed into a rock, said Gheorghe Hermeneanu, mayor of the nearby village of Bran. He said the helicopter caught fire and rescue teams are guided by the column of smoke.

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Woman Faces Deportation From Canada to Chile

TORONTO - A woman facing deportation from Canada to Chile accused of belonging to a gang, said Monday that all he has done was to sell cupcakes and buy a teddy bear to be pregnant.

The woman, 24, remained in detention since October 8, 2009, after police raided the house where he lived with his family in Toronto.

On 7 July this year, an authority of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada determined that Bell was a member of the international criminal organization Almighty Latin Kings and Queens Nation (Nation of the Almighty Latin King and Queen), also known as Latin Kings.

The authorities then issued a deportation order against Bell.

According to court documents, police in Toronto believes that the local branch of the gang has been involved in gun crime, drug trafficking and aggravated assault.

Campana said the only thing he had done was to sell cupcakes to raise money for a party before the birth of the pregnant woman. Police said a pregnant woman also belonged to the gang.

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More Than 60 Killed in Japan by The Heat Wave

TOKYO - Some 15,000 people were hospitalized and at least 66 died from the heat wave persists in most regions of Japan from a few weeks ago, authorities announced Tuesday.

Last week, the centers reported 9436 people admitted to hospital, of which 57 victims died from the heat, the agency said Fire and Disaster Management.

The number of deaths this year is unusually high, compared with 47 deaths recorded in July and August 2008 or the 16 killed last summer, the agency that performs these statistics since 2008.

Japan is experiencing a heat wave period in July from the end of the rainy season, with temperatures that have exceeded 35 degrees on Sunday in most of the archipelago, the Meteorological Agency said.

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Bridge Collapse Rains Leave 37 Dead in China

BEIJING (Reuters) - A river whose flow has increased by heavy rains brought down a bridge in central China, killing at least 37 people, and authorities warned that the region must prepare for more rain this week, on Tuesday reported several media.

Another 19 people remain missing, local newspaper reported on its website (www.dahe.cn), after a bridge 153 meters long collapsed Saturday afternoon in the mountainous Luanchuan County in the province Henan.

Most people on the bridge fell into the water, whose waters were riots after weeks of torrential rain, but six people were rescued, according to the report.

Three days of heavy rains in the province have left 52 dead, including casualties of the bridge, and 20 missing, said the website in a separate report, adding that nearly 200,000 people had to be relocated.

Also on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported 21 people missing after rains caused a flood in the southwestern province of Sichuan.

According to reports, more than 750 people killed this year by floods and landslides in China, and hundreds are missing. China is prone to heavy rains and floods at this time of year, but this season the damage and casualties have been worse than usual.

During a weekend visit to areas hit by floods in the provinces of Hubei and Anhui, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao described as "critical" to the situation of water control, and urged local authorities to take measures to face more rain in the coming days.

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Iraq Car Bomb Attack Caused 25 Dead 68 Injured

World Wide Web's Zhong Weidong reported on July 27, according to the Associated Press news occurred on the 26th of Iraq against Shiite pilgrims in a car bomb attack, two cars packed with explosives in Iraq, the Shiite holy city of Karbala religious festivals on the explosion, Iraqi police and medical officials said the explosion had caused the incident 25 people were killed. Sunni extremists might be involved in the incident.

Reported that the radical militants to two cars filled with explosives from the pilgrims to stay in the 3 km between the crowd that when pilgrims flocked to the time explosives are detonated. Karbala's police and medical personnel said the incident has resulted in 68 injuries. It is learned that the day pilgrims to Karbala for a major religious festival, the festival has attracted from all over Iraq, Shiite pilgrims.

There are no group has claimed responsibility for the bombings, but the modus operandi of the attack, Sunni extremists and similar style.

Although in the past few years, the number of incidents of violence in Iraq was decreased, but in between 2005-2007, the Iraqi Sunni insurgency Fenzi often Huaiyi Caiquzhendui Shiite religious festival and pilgrimage Di of violence campaign to try to re-aggravate the tense situation in Iraq, will be pushed to the brink of civil war in Iraq.

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