Govt successful in dealing with power crisis
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Israeli Aggression
Breaking Gaza siege convoy files lawsuits to enter sinai
The executive committee of "Breaking Gaza Siege" convoy said that they are going to file lawsuits against the persons responsible for their prevention from crossing Sinai and reaching Rafah gateway.
Representatives of the committee said in the press conference -which was held at the entrance of Al Ismailyya city on Wednesday Ramadan (September) 10 at night- that they are going to file lawsuits against Minister of Interior and Governors of Al Ismailyya and North Sinai, to enable them to move freely inside Egypt reaching its eastern border.
The MPs participating in the delegation of the convoy said that they are going to make a parliamentary accountability for the responsible of preventing the delegation, about breaching law and Constitution, which ensure the right of Egyptians to move freely within their territories.
Preventing peaceful Egyptians, who do not have but relief materials for their brothers and sisters in Gaza, shows that the Egyptian government is participating in the provisions of the imposed siege on Gaza, the MPs said.
(IkhwanWeb – Egypt)
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India begins lunar mission countdown
Picture: (AFP/File/Dibyangshu Sarkar)
The satellite Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, India’s first moon mission craft is seen from behind glass at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) center in Bangalore.
India began counting down today to the launch of an unmanned mission to the moon that will mark a giant catch-up step with Japan and China in the fast-developing Asian space race.
The lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 is scheduled to blast off aboard an Indian-built rocket at 6:20am (0050 GMT) on Wednesday from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in southern Tamil Nadu state.
"Everything is going perfectly as planned," the centre’s associate director M.Y.S. Prasad told AFP after the official countdown began in the early hours of Monday morning.
The launch is a major step for India as it seeks to keep pace in space with China and Japan.
All three countries have eyes on a share of the commercial satellite launch business and also see their space programmes as a symbol of international stature and economic development.
The Chandrayaan-1 is being sent on a two-year mission to provide an in-depth map of the lunar surface’s mineral, chemical and topographical characteristics.
The cost of the operation has been estimated at more than 80 million dollars.
India started its space programme in 1963, developing its own satellites and launch vehicles to reduce dependence on overseas agencies.
It carried out the first successful launch of a domestic satellite by a home-built rocket in 1980.
Sapa-AFP
Peres may meet Zuma in davos to save el al route
By Raphael Ahren
(source: Haaretz)
Hopes are high that President Shimon Peres will meet with his South African counterpart next week to discuss the future of the only direct flight between Israel and South Africa.
Many fear El Al’s Johannesburg-Tel Aviv line will be canceled at the end of January because Pretoria refuses to provide Israeli security personnel with diplomatic passports.
A well-informed source, who asked to remain anonymous due to the issue’s sensitive nature, told Anglo File yesterday he expects Peres to attempt to solve the crisis during a meeting with President Jacob Zuma at the World Economic Forum in Davos next week.