Geneva, Brazil announced today before the Human Rights Council (HRC) United Nations the establishment of a National Truth Commission to investigate the military dictatorship that ruled the South American giant from 1964 to 1985.

The Brazilian Minister for Human Rights, Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi, said that the initiative under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva aims to debug the violations committed during the black period in the life of the nation.

He explained that this is a presidential decree last December entered into the National Human Rights Program, but acknowledged the resistance of certain military officers who threatened to resign when they perform the search.

One of the goals of President Lula before expiry of his mandate and for my part I must say I am ready to resign my office if not achieved the purposes outlined, emphasized Vannuchi.

He welcomed the explicit support to the idea of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navy Pillay, but admitted the ongoing controversy in Brazil for the launch of investigations.

On the second day of the 13th session of the HRC panel also took ownership of high-level segment of the Forum on Education and Training as part of the fundamental aspirations of the people.

Moreover, at the Conference on Disarmament of the UN that also occurs at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to resolve the mess made of its nuclear program directly with the United States.

The North Korean diplomat Jon Yong Ryong rejected the proposal of South Korea to resume six-party talks.

In this regard stated that the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula should be resolved between the Democratic People's Republic (of Korea) and the U.S. in every aspect, "as it is a product of U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK."

"It's an illusion to expect that the DPRK dismantle its nuclear program without the United States remove its hostile policy toward the DPRK," he said.

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Curfew continues in Chile by massive looting after quake
Bachelet confirmed 708 dead and announces state of emergency in two regions

In the central square from Curico there are traces of past, present and future. A past that is only a few days ago when all of Chile felt the worst earthquake in 50 years. A present of tents and alert citizens, many of them waiting patiently in line for someone to tell them what their new morning.

About 90% of the adobe buildings of this town quiet and low ceilings in the center of the country has gone forever: some have collapsed to 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale registered the quake on Saturday, and on the left standing-fronts shelled, misshapen mud brick in the light-weight imminent demolition orders.

"They are preparing to overthrow the decrees what is left, we are the land and carry about 1,000 homes, but we have the survey of rural areas. For now we know that we've lost the old", says the secretary of the mayor, Manuel Castillo.

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Earthquake in Chile: just beginning to see the extent of destruction
Curfew continues in Chile by massive looting after quake

Thousands of troops are being moved from Chile to the areas most devastated by the earthquake last Saturday following the looting that have been seen in several villages.

President Michelle Bachelet Todal indicated that an additional 7,000 troops could be coming to towns such as Conception, where a supermarket in flames on Monday allegedly by the action of the dozens of people who entered the shop to plunder.

Tempers there are very heated about the lack of water and electricity, so the police were overwhelmed by the chaos and came to throw tear gas against the assailants.

That city, the second most populous in India, was the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake of 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale.

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Bachelet confirmed 708 dead and announces state of emergency in two regions
Curfew continues in Chile by massive looting after quake

Two days after the earthquake of 8.8 on the Richter scale that hit Chile, the magnitude of the destruction is only beginning to learn.

At least 800 people died, 300 of them in the fishing village of Constitution, which was ravaged by a tsunami triggered by the quake.

To get an idea of the strength of the Chilean earthquake was enough to say that at least 500 times stronger than that struck Haiti for nearly six weeks.

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The national government in Chile announced emergency half, including a curfew in several towns in the Bio Bio region, including the capital, Concepción, and Maule, following the looting of shops that occurred on Sunday.

The Interior Ministry urged to "act responsibly" and to avoid actions of disorder during the curfew, which applies from 2100 to 0600 local time.

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The quake, on Saturday morning, killed at least 300 people
Earthquake in Chile leaves at least 300 dead.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, reported Sunday that the death toll from the powerful earthquake that shook his country is 708 and announced the declaration of a state of emergency, including a curfew in the departments of Maule and Biobío. In the latter in morning raids occurred.

"708 dead, 541 Maule, 64 Biobío, 103 in other regions and a growing number of missing persons. Probablemnete going to keep growing," said Arroyo in a press conference.

In a press conference held after a meeting with his cabinet to implement the measures to be applied in addressing the "major catastrophe," Bachelet announced a state of emergency in the departments of Biobío and Maule, for 30 days.

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Earthquake in Chile leaves at least 300 dead.
The quake, on Saturday morning, killed at least 300 people

Earthquake in Chile leaves at least 300 dead.
The death toll from the earthquake in Chile rose to 300, said Carmen Fernandez, director of the National Emergency Office, Ministry of Interior (Onemi), adding that the number is "changing minute by minute."

"Chile is a disaster, we have many earthquakes, but this is the worst we've had in the past 30 years," said the president-elect Sebastian Pinera, who expressed much support the current government of Michelle Bachelet, said NEWS collaborator Rodrigo Santiago Bustamante.

President Michelle Bachelet declared a state of disaster in areas affected by an earthquake of 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale that struck on Saturday the center and south of the country.

The government declared "disaster area" five regions, including Santiago, the capital.

Bachelet said that the number of victims could be up to two million people.

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The quake, on Saturday morning, killed at least 300 people
Earthquake in Chile leaves at least 300 dead.