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The Philippine government will form a task force that will review all reported and unresolved cases of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, President Benigno Aquino III said on Friday.

During the celebration of International Human Rights Day in Malacanang, Aquino said that Justice Secretary Leila de Lima would sign the department order creating the Department of Justice Task Force.

“Through the reviews, they (task force) will recommend measures for the effective and expeditious investigation and prosecution of the cases,” he said.

Aquino added that the task force would be mandated to speed up the resolution of cases with sufficient evidence and the necessary reinvestigation to re-open cold files.

“We are also working overtime to prevent new cases of human rights violations and to continue to resolve previous cases,” he said.

A United States-funded study previously revealed that of the 305 reported incidents of extrajudicial cases from 2001-2010, only four had successful convictions or about 1.05 percent rate.

Italy’s pension system has recovered during the year a total of 4.5 billion euros (5.95 billion U.S. dollars) of evaded taxes and 1.5 billion euros of unpaid contributions, according to a report issued by the National Institute of Social Security (INPS) on Friday.

The data is indeed impressive and shows the results of the tightened fight against tax dodging adopted by the government and all its agencies in a bid to recover useful resources with which to fuel Italy’s slow economic revival.

According to Inps, this year’s tax recovery registered a 10 percent increase compared to 2009. The fight against tax dodging is in fact on the rise: last year the pension system was able to recover some 66 percent of additional resources with regard to 2008.

“The data demonstrates a growing positive trend that is finally showing concrete results,” said Inps director Antonio Mastrapasqua.

“Recently contributions by firms are also on the rise and this is very important because it means that cooperation between the pension and the industrial systems has turned out to be quite successful,” he stressed.

Mastrapasqua noted that the extraordinary outcomes of the fight against tax evasion were also the “sign of a new economic phase Italy had entered”.

Tax payers’ perception is also changing. According to a recent survey almost 80 percent of Italians are against tax evasion and criticize those citizens who try to deceitfully fraud the state.

Italy has suffered from tax evasion for long. A recent study by a taxpayers’ lobby highlighted that the fiscal evasion in Italy still amounts to an average of 157 billion euros per year with a considerable damage to the state.

The first pilotless vessel of France’ s Espadon research study in mine countermeasure was launched in the northwestern water off the country, French Defense Ministry said Thursday in a statement.

The demonstrator, a pilotless yatch about 17 meters long and of 25 metric tons, usually called unmanned surface vessel (USV), will be equipped with a towed sonar and underwater unmanned vessels in 2011.

The study acronymized Espadon from its French full name is expected to demonstrate how USVs and unmanned underwater robotic vehicles can replace human work to remove mines from a danger zone, according to the ministry.

Defense companies DCNS, ECA and Thales are working on the program and share different responsibilities in assembling the system, which include operations on a mother ship, an unmanned surface vessel and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs).

Russia and France inked a package of agreements, including those on energy, military cooperation here Thursday with an aim to strengthen bilateral economic ties.

The agreements were signed during the 15th session of the Russian-French intergovernmental commission for bilateral cooperation.

In particular, after negotiations between Russian and French prime ministers Vladimir Putin and Francois Fillon, the two sides decided to set up a joint center on energy saving and energy efficiency.

French Alstom conglomerate also signed several documents with Russian companies, such as RusHydro, Inter RAO and Rosatom.

Calling French companies strategic partners of Russia on global energy market, Putin meanwhile urged Europe to buy more Russian gas to combat this winter’s cold weather.

As on military cooperation, Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport signed a document with French Sagem Defense Securite on a joint venture on advanced navigation systems that will be based in Russia.

The two sides also agreed to jointly develop the Sukhoi Super Jet 100 regional airliner project.

Concerning the international tender by the Russian side on helicopter carrier, Putin said Russian experts remained studying French proposals, while Fillon said France had no problems of transferring production technologies of the Mistral-class amphibious warships.

Fillon also pledged to ease visa regime for Russians on behalf of his country.

Other documents signed were in the sectors of health, agriculture, finance, among others.

The goal of annually mobilizing 100 billion dollars by 2020 to battle global warming may be challenging but feasible, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.

“Climate financing is one of the most important aspects of our efforts to address the climate change challenge,” Ban said at a side meeting of the U.N. climate conference in Cancun, Mexico.

It is crucial for the climate program to catalyze the efforts for developing countries and for building trust between developing and developed nations, Ban said.

The UN leader urged the gathering to make extra efforts to identify new, innovative and additional sources for long-term financing.

The financing would help developing nations buy advanced clean-energy technology to reduce their own emissions, and to adapt to climate change, such as building sea walls against rising seas and upgrading farming practices to compensate for shifting rain patterns.

Despite failing to agree on a legally binding climate deal last December in Copenhagen, industrialized countries set a goal of mobilizing 30 billion U.S. dollars by 2012 as fast-start funding and 100 billion dollars per year by 2020 as long-term funding to support adaptation and mitigation in developing countries.

Ban stepped into the middle of the debate earlier this year by enlisting a high-level group of international political and financial leaders to offer advice.

On Wednesday, Ban presented the group’s ideas to the conference, including airline and foreign-exchange levies, as he led a discussion with key figures on the panel.

The group studies potential sources of revenue that will enable climate change financing promised during the Copenhagen summit. It also develops proposals on how to increase long-term financing from public and private sources.

The annual meeting of parties to the 193-nation UN climate treaty, running from Nov. 29 to Dec. 10 in this Mexican resort city, aims at finding solutions to global climate change.

Asian-American and Pacific Islander student leaders from nearly 60 U.S. universities have sent a letter to Congress, urging members to pass the DREAM Act as both houses of Congress are voting on the bill Wednesday.

The decision to send a letter to the U.S. Congress is taken by the Youth Advisory Council, a project of the Asian American Justice Center, as many Asian-American and Pacific Islander student leaders in the U.S. feel frustrated that passage of the historically bipartisan legislation has been blocked.

“We urge Congress to give these outstanding young people the chance to give back to America,” said Stewart Kwoh, president and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles.

The House of Representatives is expected to take up the bill Wednesday and the Senate may vote later in the day as well. The DREAM Act would allow eligible undocumented youth who were brought to this country as young children the opportunity to become citizens.

“The DREAM Act allows students to pursue their dreams and allows America to fulfill its claim as a nation founded and built by immigrants,” said a Stony Brook University student who identified himself only as Ling.

“It allows students who grew up in their communities to give back to the country that educated and raised them and makes sense from every perspective. These students did not willfully break the law because they were brought to the U.S. without their knowing of the immigration rules and should not be punished,” Ling was quoted as saying in a press release.

One in 10 students who would be covered by the DREAM Act are Asian American while 65,000 DREAM-eligible students graduate from high school each year.

“The DREAM Act is an excellent opportunity for both parties to show voters that they can, and will, work together to fix our shattered immigration system,” said Karen K. Narasaki, AAJC president and executive director. “Congress must act now and vote yes on the DREAM Act.”

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the DREAM Act would generate 2.3 billion dollars in tax revenue over 10 years.

Passage of the DREAM Act would mean that more of the Asian American community’s best and brightest young people can become successful and productive citizens.

The British government announced plans on Tuesday to limit the number of foreign students studying in the country.

The plans, announced in a government green paper, are not yet certain to become law but they could see up to 120,000 students from outside the European Union (EU) excluded from studying in Britain in future years.

Britain is unable to limit the number of students from EU countries who study in there, but the new coalition government faces a problem because the senior coalition party, the Conservatives, promised in its manifesto in the run-up to the May general election that it would cut the number of immigrants from 215,000 in 2009 each year to a promised “tens of thousands” by the time of the next scheduled election in 2015.

Last week the government took the first step towards reaching this target by restricting the number of visas available for workers from outside the EU to come and work in Britain.

Immigration Minister Damian Green explained the plans on Tuesday to limit student numbers. He said: “We must be more selective about who can come here and how long they can stay. People imagine students to be those who come here for a few years to study at university and then go home — that is not always the case.

“Too many students coming to study at below degree level have been coming here to live and work, rather than studying. We need to stop this abuse.

“Today’s proposals follow a major review of the system, and are aimed at a more selective system and, crucially, reducing the numbers to meet our target of reducing net migration to sustainable levels.”

In addition, favorable visa policies which allowed students to remain in Britain and look for work after their courses had finished will be changed. Tens of thousands of non-EU students who are currently able to remain in Britain, may soon be forced to return to their home countries.

British government statistics show that up to 66 percent of non- EU immigrants arrive as students who later seek work after finishing study.

The government estimates that 300,000 students from outside the EU study each year in Britain, and that 120,000 of those study on courses below degree level. It is these students who will be most affected by the proposed changes if they are introduced.

The government has said it will only allow highly-trusted educational institutes, like universities, to offer places to non- EU students, and this could spell financial disaster for the many private colleges which have sprung up across the country.

The government says that some of these colleges are not strict enough on students, and allow them to work when they should be studying full-time, while other courses are bogus and merely allow foreign students to come to Britain and to then hunt for work.

The government paper will be open for discussion for the next two months. It also includes proposals to introduce a tougher English language requirement ensuring students wishing to extend their studies show evidence of academic progression; limiting students’ entitlements to work and their ability to bring in dependents; and improving the accreditation process for schools and colleges, alongside more rigorous inspections.

The government aims to have any changes in student visas in place for the next academic year, which begins in autumn 2011.

Some professional bodies were swift to criticize the government plans.

Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK which represents the universities in Britain, said: “We do not think international students should be counted as migrants. They are not here for economic reasons. Unlike workers, their time in the UK does not count towards any later application for settlement, and they have no recourse to public funds. If students wish to progress onto further study or take up employment, they must apply to the Home Office for another visa.

“As part of the review, it’s crucial that the Home Office publishes more information about the different types of international students coming to study in the UK — whether they are here to study at universities, independent schools, further education colleges, English language colleges or in the private sector.”

She warned that international student mobility was “crucial” to the success of British universities, and that policy decisions about future student immigration policy was “based on proper evidence and not anecdote.”

Iran’s representative at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Mohammad Ali Khatibi said Tuesday that the era of cheap crude oil supply is already over and the global oil crisis is approaching, the semi- official Mehr news agency reported.

Talking to Mehr, Khatibi said the era of producing and supplying the cheap crude oil is already over and in future the global production of the crude oil will drop, adding the uncertainty crisis over the crude oil supply to the world market is approaching.

Talking ahead of the 158th meeting of the OPEC to be held in Ecuador, Khatibi also said studies show that in the mid-term perspective the crude oil prices will soar in the global market.

In 2011, it is something natural for the crude oil to be supplied at 100 U.S. dollars a barrel, said the Iranian official.

In recent years, some of the none-OPEC oil producers have oversupplied the market which will be unlikely to happen in the future, he said.

It is even possible that the OPEC members to decrease their output in the mid-term run and this causes major concerns over the stable supply of the crude oil in the energy market, he added.

The 157th meeting of OPEC decided to transfer the presidency of the organization to Iran from January 2011. For the first time in the past 36 years, Iranian Minister of Oil Masoud Mirkazemi was elected as chairman of OPEC at a one-day meeting in Vienna.

The OPEC is a cartel of 12 developing countries made up of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.

Iran, one of the OPEC members, is the world’s fourth largest oil producer.