Sobe to two the number of people killed in earthquake in Greece

Two people died and 37 were injured in the earthquake of 6.5 degrees on the Richter scale that shook the peninsula of Peloponnese in the south-west of Greece, this Sunday (8) informed the Greek authorities.

The victims are a man of 56 years and an elderly of 88. Both lost their lives in the collapse of their homes.

The Greek Minister of Interior, Prokopis Pavlopulos, said the tremor demolished 50 buildings in various localities of the region and that "the damage was limited" taking into account the magnitude of the shock.

The earthquake, recorded at 15.25 (local time), happened almost one year after the devastating forest fires that left over 60 dead in the Peloponnese.

Source: G1

Cuba set up a TV channel with content abroad

Cuba will take from this semester a new television channel that will operate 24 hours and whose programming will include material from foreign companies as Televisión Española, Discovery, Telesur and Venezolana de Television, informed the local press here Saturday.
The President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT), Ernesto Lopez, quoted by the official newspaper Juventud Rebelde, said the new channel "can be seen in a first step, for 50% of the population of the island."

Lopez made the announcement at the Commission of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Parliament, one month after the ICRT has received much criticism in Congress 7 of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).

The programming of state television was accused of being superficial, boring and bad play of foreign models, also has little domestic production.

In Cuba, there are now four national channels: Cubavisión, Tele Rebelde and Educational 1 and 2.

A fifth channel, Cubavisión International, conveys to the outside, but inside the country reaches cable to hotels, foreign companies and diplomatic delegations.

Also, there are regional channels in each province that work eight hours a day.

Source: EFE, Terra

Chinese Premiê says post-earthquake situation is worse that estimated

The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said that the situation in southwestern China is estimated that more serious after the earthquake that struck the region this Monday (12), he announced in television channel CCTV.

"The situation is worse than previously estimated, and we need more people here to help," said Wen at the heart of emergency services in China Dujiangyan, 100 km from the epicenter of the earthquake.

The earthquake, of magnitude 7.8, was in this direction Monday in densely populated areas of the province of Sichuan.

More than 8,700 people died as a result of the tremor, according to a news agency Xinhua. To give estimates of about 10 thousand injured.

Source: G1