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Monday, April 18, 2011

ITALY - FRANCE: Brussels tranche the discord between Rome and Paris on the train of Tunisian immigrants

France had the "right" to suspend temporarily Sunday rail traffic with Italy, said Monday the European Commission, while the two countries meet on the issue of Tunisian immigrants.

France explained "it was a very temporary interruption (...) and now traffic passes normally," and it seems "that it does not fall under the regulation of the Schengen border control," said Commissioner European Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström.

According to information provided by France, the decision was motivated by "reasons of public order," she said, holding that "apparently, they have the right to do that."

The French decision to suspend a few hours Sunday during the movement of trains from Ventimiglia (Italy), while a convoy of Tunisian migrant rights activists accompanied the French and Italian man would cross the border, angered Rome, which protested against a "violation of EU principles."

Friday, April 15, 2011

LIBYA - EXCLUSIVE: In Misrata, the rebels besieged desperate NATO

Every night for five weeks, a rain of shells fell on Misrata. And every morning, the last bastion of anti-Gaddafi rebellion in the west of the country buries its dead. According to our correspondents on the spot, they would already be close to 400 to have died since the fighting began. Number continues to increase ...

Our reporters visited the main hospital in Misrata, where doctors are faced with a steady stream of victims of all ages. "I was at my house. I just went out the garbage and suddenly the bombs [in the army Gaddafi ed] fell all around me," said one wounded about fifty years, lying on his hospital bed.A story similar to that of other victims in the room.

"I do not know what to do to stop this massacre, laments a doctor. The government army sends troops into civilian cars and NATO can no longer differentiate between rebels Gaddafi," says he disappointed.

Meanwhile NATO ...

However, NATO is expected as the messiah by the insurgents.They do not believe in the powerlessness of the Atlantic Alliance, which has already struck strategic positions on the city earlier this week without discouraging the bombing of the loyalist forces.

Moktar join our reporters, who took the lead a small group of rebels. He just locate a position Gaddafi: a building on which floats the green flag of the Colonel. Both men are stationed on the roof. They are the eyes of the army. They are responsible for directing the shooting of the different points of Misrata.

Why NATO strikes Does not this building? Difficult to understand ... This position is indeed visible and isolated. And, therefore, to thank you for an airstrike.

Monday, April 4, 2011

PRESIDENTIAL HAITIAN: Government calls for calm before the announcement of preliminary results

AFP - The Haitian government has appealed for calm Monday in a few hours of the announcement of preliminary results of the second round of the presidential election, fearing violence as those who had followed the results of the first round last December.

Secretary of State for Public Security, Aramick Louis, asked the candidates to urge their supporters "not to violent demonstrations in the streets," regardless of the result which would be announced at 17:00 am (2200 GMT), by spokesman for the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Richard Dumel.

The second round was between March 20 popular singer Michel Martelly, poll favorite, the University Mirlande Manigat, a former first lady aged 70.

Without waiting for the official publication of results, both sides claimed victory in recent days.

The publication of preliminary results in early December of the first round ranking Michel Martelly, 50, in third place - and thus excluding the second round - had thrown thousands of demonstrators in the streets for several days.

Faced with an outburst of violence that left several people dead, the authorities had to review the results and had returned the singer in the race to the detriment of the government candidate, Jude Celestin.

For supporters of Michel Martelly, there is no doubt that the singer called "Tet Kale" ("shaved" in Creole) will succeed Rene Preval, who was constitutionally barred from claiming a third term.

"It is slow to give results, but the president is none other than Tet Kale," said a man listening to the radio on a street in Port-au-Prince, the capital devastated by an earthquake Earth in January 2010.

"At least we can go out tomorrow," replied another man sitting beside him, explaining that in the case of the announcement a victory for Ms. Manigat, there could be violence.

The PRC had announced last week that the consultation had been tainted by fraud and that several hundreds of minutes sent by different polling centers had been canceled.

Monday, schools remained closed in Cap-Haitien and Les Cayes, the country's largest cities after the capital Port-au-Prince, local radio reported.Les Cayes, a city where violent clashes had taken place particularly in December, armored MINUSTAH, the strength of peacekeeping to the UN, were in position in the streets, and vehicles of the Haitian police

The second round was marked, a few days before the consultation by the return to Haiti of former President Jean Bertrand Aristide, who remains very popular among disadvantaged seven years after being ousted in an armed insurrection, with the blessing France and the United States.

Two months earlier, was the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier who had returned to the country after 25 years of exile in France."Baby Doc" was sued by the Haitian justice for corruption and embezzlement, while several complaints of crimes against humanity have been filed against him by former opponents to his regime.

Monday, March 28, 2011

INTERNET: The "hacker" that Iran wanted to avenge Stuxnet

He presents himself as a young Iranian 21 years, calls himself ComodoHack and launched last week, a cyber attack that would "potentially could undermine the trust we place on the Internet," in the words of Lawrence Heslaut, responsible for security at Symantec France.

In a message posted Friday on the Web, ComodoHack said he wanted "revenge operation Stuxnet led by the United States and Israel against Iran's nuclear power plants last summer.In broken English, the young man, who claims to have "the capacity of 1 000 hackers gathered," promised that he would attack other computer using the same modus operandi.

What did he do exactly? ComodoHack is one of the first hacker to have managed the feat of creating digital certificates authentication system by hacking Comodo, one of the leading companies in the closed world of certification.

Gmail, Skype or Yahoo

Comodo, like Verisign or RSA, to validate the identity of secure sites whose addresses begin with "https."Without certification, there is no evidence, for example, a site selling online has not been established by a small malignant eager to retrieve the data bank of a surfer.

Motivated more by politics than profit, the hacker Iranian authentication certificates issued on behalf of Comodo for Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Skype, instant messaging popular with opponents of the regime in Tehran. With these certificates usurped, cybercriminals was able to create fake Gmail and Skype conversations which he recovered and personal data of users fooled.An amount of information it could then sell to the highest bidder or give generously to the Iranian authorities.

By last weekend, Microsoft, Mozilla (Firefox), Google had, in an emergency, to update their browser to identify and banish the Net certificates. Still, the attack proved that the security of commercial transactions and the confidentiality of conversations is to be engraved in stone digital. Lawrence Heslaut even sees one of the major trends in cybercrime: "Today, criminals are doing everything to confuse the issue between what is true and what is wrong on the Internet."

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Liveblogging: The Japanese authorities make every effort to avoid a nuclear accident

AFP - Fears of a major nuclear accident are alive after an explosion Saturday in a nuclear power station 250 km from Tokyo, following the strong earthquake and tsunami that have made the day more than 1,800 dead or missing in Japan.

The accident has been assessed at Level 4 on the scale (which goes up to 7) nuclear and radiological events (INES), announced the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety.

The government ordered the evacuation of residents within a radius of 20 km around the NPP.

The toll of the earthquake and tsunami could rise.Saturday night the authorities were without news of some 10,000 of the 17,000 inhabitants of the port city of Minamisanriku in north-east, according to the television channel NHK.

Monday, February 21, 2011

MOROCCO: Five persons died on the fringes of protests in the city of Al-Hoceima

Five people were killed and 128 were injured, including 115 members of security forces, during disturbances that followed the events, otherwise largely peaceful, which took place Sunday to Morocco, officials said Monday.

"The charred bodies of five people were found inside one of the bank branches burned by the troublemakers in the town of Al Hoceima" in the north, "said Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui In a statement to press.

An investigation is underway, added the minister, adding that 120 people were arrested following disturbances in a half-dozen Moroccan cities.Minors arrested were handed over to their families.

Thousands of people marched Sunday in several cities in Morocco to demand political reform and limiting the powers of the king, responding to a call at home by young people on Facebook and taken up by various NGOs and organizations.

The interior minister argued that "democratic practice" of Morocco and the "right to freedom of expression in the country", have ensured that the demonstrations Sunday "took place in a peaceful atmosphere imbued serenity and discipline. "

The minister said some 37,000 people have participated in these gatherings.

But trouble erupted after demonstrations in the cities of Tangier, Tetouan, Larache, Al Hoceima in the north and Marrakech in the south Guelmin well as Sefrou (center).The Minister attributed the violence to "troublemakers, including minors and habitual criminals."

A Larache, the "troublemakers," he said, have invested a customs building and seized drugs and liquor that were seized by customs.

Cherkaoui has finally stated that 33 public buildings, 24 banks, 50 shops and private buildings and 66 vehicles were burned or damaged.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

HANDBALL: France world champion

AFP - France has been crowned world champion in handball for the fourth time in its history, beating Denmark 37-35 after extra time in the World Cup final-2011, Sunday in Malmo.

Shaken ever since the tournament began, the Blues have overcome the equalization of Denmark at 31-31 with four seconds remaining in regulation time to talk about their experiences in overtime.

France had already won in the same conditions the final of 2001 World Championship in Paris against Sweden.

It Nikola Karabatic, voted best player of the tournament before the final, which was the major player in the French success with 10 goals, but the captain Jerome Fernandez who proved decisive with two goals late on capital .

The scenario of this crazy fantasy game just adds to the happiness of players Claude Onesta which base a little place more marked in the legend of the sport.

For this fourth world title after the 1995, 2001 and 2009, allowing them to join Sweden and Romania on the list.It is also the fourth major title in a row for the Blues after their victories in the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the World-2009 and Euro-2010, a fourfold increase ever.

In total, France has now seven major titles.Have managed to raise in just sixteen years testifies to the meteoric rise of a team that, thirty years ago still remain constant in third world division.

Qualified for the Olympics

Another remarkable fact, France has lost one of its eight major finals, the first in the World-1993, before winning the next seven.

This new title offers the Blues as the direct qualification for the London Olympics in 2012 and the next World Cup that will take place next year in Spain, a significant luxury for players in high demand.

In Sweden, players Claude Onesta, performed a flawless, winning nine out of ten matches, conceding only one draw in the first round to Spain, who took the bronze medal Sunday.

They flew the second phase, beating Hungary, Norway and Iceland to reach their eighth final four in a row in a big tournament.They have dominated the other two Scandinavian teams with Sweden, beaten 29-26 in the semifinals Friday, and Denmark on Sunday.

Doubt, however, was allowed in early tournament with the absences of two major players of previous campaigns, Daniel Narcisse and Guillaume Gille.

But the absences were offset by two youths who have successfully completed an amazing World, and especially William Accambray Xavier Barachet, author of a new great game in the final.

In the finals, the Blues were pushed into a corner by a generous Danish team, led by its star Mikkel Hansen, a diabolical efficiency (10 goals) and has successfully completed a second period of great beauty.

Led 15-12 at the break, Denmark returned to the tune of the Blues to a quarter of an hour remaining. And while France had recovered a goal ahead, the Scandinavians have equalized by Bo Spellenberg four seconds of the term in a crazy atmosphere, punctuated by the Danish and Swedish supporters.

A first world title seemed so close at hand for Denmark, beaten in the final in 1967.But then the Blues have shown what was their strength: self-control, and physical experience enabled them to control the extension in which they were conducted for the first time in the match (32-33) before ending on a 5 - 2 full of panache.

Thus ensuring a fourth coronation is also the third world title for Didier Dinart staff, Jerome Fernandez and Thierry Omeyer, already there in 2001 in 2009 and have already promised to continue at least until the London Olympics .

Friday, January 28, 2011

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: The crisis in the eurozone stirred debates in Davos

AFP - The euro zone has again stirred the spirits in Davos (Switzerland), where it appeared more than ever torn by differences over the means to end once and for all with the debt crisis in Europe.

The euro zone should it find its salvation in a stronger European integration, for example by organizing a real union of transfers of wealth from richer countries to poorer? Or should it move towards a debt restructuring - ie reduction in their practice - starting with those of Greece?

This is essentially the dilemma presented by a senior member of the eurozone to a gathering of EU ministers and policy makers gathered for an informal lunch on the occasion of the great mass of Davos.

Between these two options, Europe hesitates.Yet despite the relative calm in the markets, "time release", according to some European leaders, speaking on condition of anonymity, as is the rule in most discussions at Davos.

The first option, advocated by the so-called devices that have an interest, such as Greece, Portugal and Spain, was clearly rejected by Germany, the main donor in Europe.

It promotes respect for the rules and conditions its support to drastic measures of fiscal consolidation.

On the other hand, a debt restructuring is advocated by many economists, who believe that some countries in the euro area, starting with Greece will have no choice because of the massive debt which they are victims.

The subject remains taboo in Europe and all rumors or press reports suggesting that eventuality, including Germany, are immediately denied.

"This will cause" terrible injuries ", held Friday a senior European official. This option was again rejected Thursday by the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.

"We're not trying to direct us towards a restructuring. We have a very clear path, a roadmap out of our debt problem," saidPapandreou before an audience of decision makers from around the world during the 41st World Economic Forum (WEF).

Greece, recalled his Prime Minister, did what was necessary, and it now has the solidarity of its partners. "This is not only of Greece, not even of solidarity, it concerns the conditions for stability" in Europe, argued on this subject a high EU official.

But solidarity is organized around the Fiscal Stabilization Fund, created last spring, and which must be sustained in 2013. But then again, opinions differ.Some European officials recommended a doubling in private, citing the need for "liquidity, massively beyond what is necessary" to calm markets.

It now has 440 billion euros in loan guarantees, a lending capacity of about 250 billion. European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Olli Rehn confirmed Friday in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that lending capacity would be increased, but not the total amount.

A decision is expected in March, during an EU summit.

The ultimate path that would forget the debt crisis, is that of growth.But Europeans are still lagging behind with a modest increase of 1.5% expected in 2011 in the euro area, against 4.4% for the entire planet, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).