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Thursday the 1st er February 2005

  • the United Kingdom: after years of procedure, Rachid Ramda is extradited towards France to be judged within the framework of the attacks of 1995 in Paris.
  • South Africa, Homosexual marriage: the Constitutional court declares that the legal definition of the Mariage is “incompatible with the constitution and not-valid insofar as it does not allow the of the same couples sex to profit from the statute and the advantages, as well as responsibilities, that it grants to the heterosexual couples”. In its stop, the court gives a one year deadline to the South-African Parliament to amend the law of 1961 on the marriage and to make it compatible with the constitution of 1996.
  • France: in the Affaire of Outreau, the Court of Assizes of Paris discharges the six marked ones, condemned in first authority and which had interjeté call. This conclusion puts an end to four years of what proved to be a true legal shipwreck. Several people had already been discharged at the time of the first lawsuit. Just after the statement of the verdict, the Minister for Justice, Pascal Clément, announced, during a press conference, the opening of triple inquires into the business, the adoption of various measurements as well as the possibility of administrative sanctions against certain legal actors of the business.
  • France: the French ministry of the Environnement modifies the regulation concerning the official documents of transport of dangerous waste. BSD (form of follow-up of the Waste) in particular comes to replace it (form of follow-up of the industrial Déchets).

Friday December 2nd 2005

Saturday December 3rd 2005

  • Pakistan: an high ranking official of Al-Qaida was killed Thursday in the Waziristan, tribal Pakistani zone bordering on the Afghanistan. According to the intelligence services Pakistani, the Egyptian Hamza Rabia directed the “Ministry for Foreign Affairs” of Al-Qaida. He had already escaped with an attack of the Pakistani Security forces the November 5th in the same area.
  • Norway: Norway celebrates the birth of a new prince, third in the order of succession with the throne, after his/her father and his older sister. to see the continuation on WikiNews

Sunday December 4th 2005

  • Ivory Coast: Charles Konan Banny, governor of the Central bank of the States of West Africa (BCEAO), is designated as Prime Minister for the Ivory Coast by the mediators Olusegun Obasanjo, president of the African Union and the Nigeria and Thabo Mbeki, president of the South Africa, at the conclusion of their visit with Abidjan.
  • Venezuela: the legislative elections vénézuéliennes were held in a climate of strong tension because of the boycott of the poll by the very divided opposition. A Boycott denounced by the president Hugo Chavez, who speaks about electoral coup d'etat orchestrated by the the United States. Only 10% of the candidates (556 on the most 5.600 who had presented themselves) were officially withdrawn from the race, according to electoral sources. Fourteen million voters had to elect 167 deputies for a five years mandate. The poll is very discussed. The Movement of the fifth republic (MVR), expects to gain the majority of two thirds at the Parliament, whose opposition controlled up to now 79 seats out of 165.
  • Mexico: died of the French singer Gloria Lasso at the 83 years age. She was known for her voice but especially for her six marriages.

Monday December 5th 2005

  • Iraq: Bernard Planche, an engineer French working for the American ONG Aaccess, was removed this morning by 4 people out of weapon, in front of her residence of the district of Mansour, with Baghdad. Removal was not asserted yet.
  • Mexico: Felipe Calderón will be the candidate of the SIDE for next the presidential elections.
  • France: one learned today the identity from the French tourist killed Friday with the Niger. It is about François Ménégoz, doctor Grenoble-native famous. It was old of 57 years and father of three children.
  • the United Kingdom: after the Netherlands, the Belgium, and the Spain, the United Kingdom is the fourth European country to authorize the Homosexual marriage.
  • Iraq: the American army announces the death of the former Prime Minister Iraq IEN and near collaborator to Saddam Hussein, Mohammad Hamza Al-Zoubeidi. It is deceased in prison of natural death the Friday December 2nd towards 07:30 (local time) after being felt sorry for of pain to the chest.
  • central Africa: Powerful a Séisme took place in the area of the Lac Tanganyika. For the moment, there are few victims. Its intensity lies between 6,8 and 7,5 on the scale of Richter

Tuesday December 6th 2005

  • Katanga : There is very a humane serious attack in Katanga, denounces the local catholic bishop, Mgr Muteba. The locality of Dubie is taken by storm by 5.000 refugees coming from Kisele. Mitwaba is another hearth of this catastrophe.
  • Mexico: Gloria Lasso, deceased Sunday at the 83 years age, was incinerated Monday evening with Cuernavaca, in the center of Mexico, at the request of his/her three daughters, announced the service of the undertaking of the city.
  • Iran: a military aircraft Iranian C-130, transporting 84 passengers like 10 team members, was crushed against a residential building of a zone densément populated of Teheran, little time after its takeoff. It there no survivor among the passengers and team members of the plane. The accident also killed at least 22 inhabitants of the building. See also on Wikinews
  • Indonesia: researchers of WWF would have discovered a new species of carnivorous Mammifère in the forest of Borneo, in a zone threatened by the project of creation of vast a palm plantation.
  • Wikipédia : The founder of the encyclopedia, Jimmy Wales, decides to block the creation of new pages by anonymous users, on the English version of Wikipédia, following a vandalism on the biography of John Seigenthaler Senior.
  • China: In the province of the Guangdong, with the borough of Dongzhou (prefecture of Shanwei), the police force opened fire on peasants expropriés to build a wind , causing at least three dead. See Demonstrations of Dongzhou.

Wednesday December 7th 2005

  • the United Kingdom: Margaret Thatcher, 80 years, was hospitalized with London after being itself felt weak in end of the afternoon, announced the Conservative party.
  • the United States: Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger of a Boeing 757 of the company American Airlines was killed by balls whereas it had just gone down precipitately from the apparatus to the airport from Miami as had asked him the Federal Air Marshall Service. This 44 year old American said being in possession of a bomb. The incident occurred whereas flight 924 had just arrived of Medellin in Colombia. The apparatus carried out a stopover with Miami before owe redécoller bound for Orlando in Florida. No bomb was found neither in the luggage of the suspect nor in those of the 119 other passengers and team members who were on board apparatus. See also on Wikinews
  • Canary islands, Spain: The Croatian ex-general Ante Gotovina, required for war crimes during the War in ex-Yugoslavia, was stopped on the island of Tenerife. He is transferred to $the Hague to be submitted in front of the TPIY (International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia). Its arrest will be made public only the following day.

Thursday December 8th 2005

  • Kyrgyzstan: The police officers of the road safety of Bichkek were in Grève Thursday to denounce the Corruption of their chief Raïmkoul ououlou Kassymbek, who shows in return his men to act of the kind to protest against his policy to fight against… corruption.
  • Indonesia: The government indonésien received Swiss laboratory Roche the authorization to produce its Antiviral Tamiflu, likely to be effective in the event of human flu pandemic of avian origin.
  • Venezuela: The legislative elections of Sunday in Venezuela were equitable and transparent, in spite of the Boycott by several opposition parties, Tuesday the observers electoral of the European Union estimated, estimating that criticisms and the charges of irregularities of these parties had contributed to the very weak participation.
  • Érythrée : The Eritrean authorities ensured Thursday not to have any intention to reconsider their decision to expel in the ten days the American, Canadian, European members and Russian of the Mission of UNO charged to supervise the border between the Ethiopia and Érythrée.
  • Zimbabwe: Two hearths of Avian flu were discovered in cattle-breeding farms of ostriches of the south of Zimbabwe, where a H5 virus was detected, which involved the health authorities of the country to suspend meat exports of Autruche and Volaille S.
  • France: adoption of Tax (called “contribution of solidarity”) on ticket of Plane on the basis of France (except for those which make right stopover), intended to finance the fight against certain diseases in the poor countries (the AIDS and the Paludisme in particular). This text which is an initiative of Jacques Chirac, was adopted by 38 votes against 5, composed of the Socialist party, part of the UMP and UDF and abstention from the Communist party and republicans. Following a Amendment, the law will be evaluated two years after its coming into effect to decide if its application will be prolonged. On the basis of 60 million passengers, this tax will bring back 210 million euros per annum.
  • France: Greenpeace gains against Cogema. The Court of appeal rejected yesterday an appeal of Cogema making thus final its judgment for illegal storage of Nuclear waste coming from Australia in La Hague (Handle).

Friday December 9th 2005

  • Ireland Great social conflict. More than one hundred thousand people are gone down in the streets with the call from the Confédération from the Irish trade unions. They protested against the Licenciement of 543 paid Irish by the Maritime company Irish Ferries which wishes to replace the whole of its flight crew, almost entirely Irish, by crews Latvian S engaged via an agency of recruitment based with Cyprus.
  • Germany: The drawing lot of the matches of the first tower of the Football world cup 2006 took place Friday evening.
  • Italy: Laure Manaudou took down with Trieste, the title of the 800 m, matched world records, improved of more than two seconds (8 ' 11 25, against 8 ' 13 35).
  • France: The Ifremer publishes an alarming report: The fishing such as it is currently practiced in France is not durable; the captures of the fishermen exceed the natural capacities of biological Renouvellement and the restraint measures of the fishings decided by Brussels are not enough to restore the resources. It is in Celtic Mer, in the south of the Ireland, that the situation is most worrying, with eight species, not threatened of disappearance but which risk, in the long term, not to be more in sufficient quantity to be able to be exploited.
  • Brazil: Eliana Tranchesi, owner of the more department store of Luxury of Latin America Daslu, of which the opening to Sao Paulo had made great noise in June 2005, risk up to 21 years of prison after committal for trial for Tax evasion.
  • the France festival 100 years of the law of separation of the Church and the State, foundation of the Secularity, promulgated in 1905 under the impulse of Emile Combes, Aristide Briand and Jean Jaurès.

Saturday December 10th 2005

  • Nigeria: 106 passengers of an airliner Nigerian and civilians on the ground perished, at the time of the crash landing, followed of a fire, of their plane, a DC-9, with the airport of Port Harcourt, in the south of the country.
  • the United States: died of the Actor and comic American Richard Pryor, on Friday night at the 65 years age of an heart attack.

Sunday December 11th 2005

  • Series of explosions to the oil terminal of Buncefield in the United Kingdom, on December 11th, 2005. See also on Wikinews
  • Australia: Riots burst in the suburbs of Sydney.

Monday December 12th 2005

  • Australia: Second night of riots in Sydney. See the article on Wikinews
  • China (1): The police force opened fire on demonstrators. See the article on Wikinews
  • France: French petition EUCD.INFO against bill DADVSI exceeds the 68.000 signatures. See the article on Wikinews

Tuesday December 13rd 2005

  • the United States, California: Execution of Stanley Williams with the prison of Saint-Quentin, close to San Francisco. Voir also on Wikinews
  • celebrates It satirical writer of Science-fiction, Robert Sheckley is deceased the December 9th at the 77 years age.
  • the United States, Montana: In the National Glacier Park, only 27 mammoths remain in the glacier against 150 when the park was created.

Wednesday December 14th 2005

  • France: The choice of the transferees of the companies of highway stopped. See the article on Wikinews
  • France: EDF recognizes the possible failure of the cooling systems of 34 Nuclear reactors
  • Tanzania: The former Foreign Minister, Jakaya Kikwete, candidate of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) gains the presidential election with 80,3% of the voices.

Thursday December 15th 2005

  • Iran: Zabihollah Mahrami, 59 years, father of 4 children, died in his cell for unknown reasons. It purged a custodial sentence with life for crime of Apostasie. Its capital punishment had been commuted to 1999 vis-a-vis the pressures of the international community, in particular those of the European Union. Its only crime was to belong to the Bahaïsme, religion not recognized by the Iranian mode.

  • the West Bank: Launching of a dissenting list of the Fatah by Marouane Barghouti: Al-Moustaqbal (future in Arabic).

  • Quebec: The government of Jean Charest puts an end to the negotiations with the trade unionists of the sectors public and parapublic and convenes the National Assembly in extraordinary session to make adopt a law of exception issuing the new work conditions.
  • the European Union in fact had secretly allowed as of 2003 the the United States to use some of its airports within the framework of the fight against terrorism for the transit of prisoners. * Canada: Discusses televised between Paul Martin of the Liberal party of Canada, Stephen Harper Conservative party of Canada, Gilles Duceppe of the Québécois Bloc and Jack Layton of the Nouveau Democratic party of Canada within the framework of the electoral campaign which is held until the federal general elections of the January 23rd.
  • UNO: Creation of a Funds urgently humane which will allow more quickly Réagir in the event of Natural disaster or of Crise
  • Iraq: legislative Election, 7.655 candidates of 231 lists made countryside for the 275 seats of the Parliament. Contrary to the elections of last January, the minority Sunnite takes part this time in the elections.
  • China: Han Guizhi, the former deputy secretary of the Communist party in the province of Heilongjiang, judged guilty by a court of Beijing ( Beijing ) to have accepted bribes of an amount of 7 million yuans - that is to say 730.000 euros - between 1992 and 2002, is condemned to the capital punishment within two year. Usually, these sorrows are transformed into life imprisonment if condemned show repentance.

Friday December 16th 2005

  • Iraq: Bulgaria starts its military withdrawal of Iraq and the repatriation of its 334 infantrymen. The whole of the quota will be of return in Bulgaria to December 31st according to Vladislav Prelezov, carries word of the ministry for Defense.
  • Russia: The anxious Russian parquet floor of the storage of radioactive material in a deposit of a state enterprise in ruin with Grozny.
  • Russia: An explosion occurred not far from the Nuclear plant of Saint-Pétersbourg in the North-West of the country, but far from the engines and without involving a rise of Radioactivité, according to the Russian authorities.
  • France: a 18 year old pupil of the college of Louis-Blériot vocational training to Étampes in the the Essonne seriously wounded a professor of applied arts. The Minister for State education, Gilles de Robien went to the site in after midday.
  • the United States: the review Science publishes research on the Poisson streaks making it possible to note that the Couleur of the skin results from changes of the gene slc24a5 .

Saturday December 17th 2005

  • Quebec: died of Marc Favreau, at the 76 years age following a cancer. The Québécois actor became famous by creating a character named Sol.
  • Bolivia: Evo Morales favorite of the presidential one. If the victory of Evo Morales to presidential were confirmed, Bolivia and its reserves of Natural gas, most important from South America after those of the Venezuela, would pass in the camp of the " revolution bolivarienne " impetus by Hugo Chavez with the support of Fidel Castro.
  • Argentinian: the Argentinian President Nestor Kirchner announces refunding by anticipation of the Argentinian debt with respect to the Fonds international currency, even if the economists show more skeptics.
  • Ecuador: Maria Esther of Capovilla born the September 14th 1889 is the senior of humanity today.
  • Aujourd'hui it is the Saint-Modeste, festival of many Wikipédiens.
  • European Union: the leader policies of the countries of the European Union (UE) succeeded after several months of difficult negociations, to find an area of agreement on the budget 2007 - 2013 of the EU. It is mainly following the acceptance of Tony Blair to give up 10,5 billion euros of its reduction and to increase the entire amount of the budget of the EU with 1,045% of GDP of the 27 (25 members of the EU plus the Bulgaria and the Romania). N the other hand, there will be a " exhaustive and broad revision " of the whole of the budget towards 2008 - 2009. Thing that the France did not want, because that opened the possibility of a reduction of the agricultural assistances of the common Agricultural policy (CAP).
  • European Union: just after the agreement on the budget of the European Union (EU), the Macedonia obtained the statute of official candidate for an adhesion at the EU.
  • France: death of Jacques Fourroux, " small the caporal" French Rugby. The former player and trainer of the team of France of Rugby died in Auch at the 58 years age

Sunday December 18th 2005

  • Colombia: With Santa Marta, the Colombian president Uribe denounced the plot against Hugo Chavez prepared by former servicemen Venezuelans who asked for the political asylum in Colombia.
  • Tanzania: Jakaya Kikwete, candidate with the presidential election of the party in power in Tanzania since 1961, gained without surprised the organized election Wednesday, thus succeeding Benjamin Mkapa.
  • Bolivia: Bolivian presidential Election
  • Democratic republic of Congo: The constitution project of May 2005 of the Republic is accepted by the Congolese people by referendum of the December 18th and 19th.

Monday December 19th 2005

  • Israel: Ariel Sharon was hospitalized following a light brain attack.
  • Bolivia: Evo Morales is the first Amerindian president . He is Aymara and elected president de Bolivie with 54,1% of the voices to the first turn, he intends to thus follow a socialist policy and anti-American in rupture with his predecessors.

Tuesday December 20th 2005

  • Algeria: The frontage of the hotel Hadika, a building built towards 1860 close relation of the Algerian National theater with Algiers crumbled, causing the death of 8 people (six men, a woman and a child).
  • Israel: Benyamin Nétanyahou will be the candidate of the Likoud at the post of Prime Minister at the time of the legislative elections of March 28th.
  • New York, the United States: the Transport Workers Union (TWU), rejected an offer of the Autorité of metropolitan transport (MTA) Monday evening little before midnight. Three hours later, the trade union invited its 34.000 members to cease work, causing the complete stop of the grid system, which conveys seven million passengers each day. The last strike of this kind, which goes back to 1980, had lasted eleven days.
  • Pennsylvania, the United States: the judgment by the district court of the central district of Pennsylvania in the business Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School, establishes unconstitutional teaching in the courses of sciences of the theory of the intelligent design like an alternative to the theory of Darwin, and this in the public schools of this district (probably before this is it in the whole of the State, then at the federal level).
  • the United Nations: the Safety advice of the United Nations created a commission of consolidation of peace, charged with helping the outgoing countries of a war not to fall down in violence. The president of the General meeting of the United Nations, Jan Eliasson, greeted his creation and for him it is " the best chance to reverse the tendency " who makes that " half of the emerging country of a conflict sink again in violence in the five years which follow ". There are however some problems with the installation of the commission, in particular following the critics of the American ambassador John R. Bolton who wish the establishment of a credible council of the Human rights and an office of ethics to fight against corruption.

Wednesday December 21st 2005

  • Siberia: Thousands of workmen, Chinese and Russian completed at dawn a stopping of sand and 300 meters length scrap upstream of the town of Khabarovsk to the approach of the polluting tablecloth of Benzène come from China.
  • France: The International federation of the leagues of the human rights (FIDH) carried felt sorry for in the business of the secret flights of the CIA in Europe
  • Tanzania: The Tanzanian president elected Jakaya Kikwete lent oath for a five years mandate, during which he promises to attenuate poverty but also to alleviate the tensions with Zanzibar.
  • the Uganda was judged responsible Monday by the the International Court of Justice of murder, torture and cruel treatment of civilians in Democratic republic of Congo at the end of the Années 1990.

Thursday December 22nd 2005

  • the Supreme court of Canada legalizes the clubs exchangers.
  • Bolivia: A hoax assembled by the radio Catalan woman Cadena COPE caused an diplomatic incident between the Spain and Bolivia. The journalist-imitateur of Cope had been made pass for Mr. Zapatero near Evo Morales congratulating it for his recent victory.
  • New Zealand: 123 Globicéphale S were failed on a beach of the island of the South, volunteers were on the spot to help them.
  • Libya: The Bulgarian singer of origin Sylvie Vartan lance " a call humain" with the Head of Libyan State Mouammar Kadhafi so that it pardoned five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor condemned to died in its country. The express train
  • Liberia: Weah accepts the victory of Johnson-Sirleaf presidential election of November in Liberia.
  • New York: 3rd and last day of Strike of public transport of New York 2005
  • UNO: Humane Urgency in the south of the Somalia. 2 million people is in danger, according to FAO following bad a cereal Récolte last July, the climatic conditions Exécrable S and the Pénurie of Eau and Fourrage, which leads the Bétail to Mourir of Faim.

Friday December 23rd 2005

Saturday December 24th 2005

  • Russia: Leon Kanhem, a student Cameroun board 28 year old living for three months in Russia, has been stabbed with died in full street by young Russians. The six young people, old from 16 to 20 years, according to the police force, had then seriously wounded of a stab to the belly a student originating in the Kenya which was hospitalized.
  • Egypt: The principal Egyptian opponent, the young lawyer Ayman Nour (41 years), nearly one year after his fulgurating political ascendance - it had arrived second at the first multi-party presidential election organized in Egypt, on September 9th, 2005 -, is condemned to five years of imprisonment, officially for “falsification of documents official” during the creation of his party “Al-Ghad” ( Demain ). In fact, it would seem that it is its hostility with regard to the family of the president Hosni Mubarak who led it behind the bars.

Sunday December 25th 2005

  • the Vatican: In its first message of Christmas, addressed to the world since the balcony of the Basilica Saint-Pierre, the pope Benoît XVI calls the humanity of the 3rd millenium to a spiritual alarm clock, without which it has tells “to the man of the technological era is likely to be victim of successes even of her intelligence ”.
  • Palestine: Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, attends the mass of Christmas, in the Basilique of the Nativity to Bethlehem, whereas its predecessor, Yasser Arafat, had been prevented by it by Israel since 2001.
  • Sri Lanka: Joseph Parajasingham (71 years), a deputy Tamoul near to the rebels (the Tigers tamouls ), is killed by balls by not identified gunners, at the time of the mass of Christmas in a church of Batticalasa, in the East of the island.
  • Guatemala: Five children died the morning of Christmas in a fire caused by a fireworks in a poor district of the capital .
  • London: Death of Derek Bailey, guitarist of impromptu Music.

Monday December 26th 2005

  • Argentinian: Argentinian paleontologists discovered the remainders of a young person Titanosaure 10 meters length, almost complete during a seismic exploration of the oil company German Wintershall Energy, in the northern zone of the province of Neuquen. It lived 71 million years ago in the North-West of the Patagonie (southern).
  • France: a data-processing bug paralyzes the Frenchwoman of the plays.
  • France: The daily newspaper Le Monde reveals that the government brings the final key to a project of “refillable mortgage deeds” to start again consumption.
  • Haiti: A Jordanian blue helmet of UNO was killed at the time of a patrol in the Bidonville of Cité Sun with Port-au-Prince. It is the 7th blue helmet killed since June 2004. There are 1.500 Jordanian out of 7.600 blue helmets stationed in Haiti.
  • the Libyan supreme court cancelled Sunday the death sentence of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor , judged guilty to have inoculated the virus of the AIDS to 426 Libyan children, of which 51 died, in a hospital of Benghazi, in the North-East of the Libya.

Tuesday December 27th 2005

  • Ivory Coast: The rebellion of the Ivory Coast of the new Forces (FN) threat, not to sit in the transition government directed by Charles Konan Banny if the Popular front of the Ivory Coast (FPI) of the president Laurent Gbagbo obtained the three ministries for Finances, Defense and Safety.
  • Spain: A sixth finger (radial Sésamoïde) similar to that of the Panda was discovered on a fossil of Simocyon batalleri , small carnivore, remote ancestor of the Petit panda.
  • France: Publication of a study of the ministry for Employment and Health on the “personal Allowance of autonomy” (APA), according to which 911.000 people profited from this help to the September 30th 2005, that is to say a progression of 7% in one year. 59% of the allocatees live in residence and 44% are 85 years old and more. The average amount of this help was of 483 € per month on this same date, with a maximum of 913 €.
  • Poland: Warsaw maintains its soldiers in Iraq until end 2006.
  • Romania: a new hearth of Avian flu.
  • Russia: the patriarchate of Moscow, higher authority of the Russian Église orthodoxe announces, at the conclusion of a synod at this meeting in Moscow, and chaired by Alexis II, the suspension of its relations with the evangelic Church Swedish Lutheran, reproaching this one its decision for blessing homosexual marriages what, according to the official statement of the patriarchate, would be “in contradiction with the biblical concept of family and marriage”, the official statement adding that “testimonys of the Holy Scriptures” would not leave “any doubt about the fact that homosexuality is a sin and a deviation”. The official statement concludes by affirming that the innovation that the homosexual marriage represents would sap “the moral bases of European civilization” and would inflict “irrevocable damage with its spiritual influence in the world”.

Wednesday December 28th 2005

  • Canada: a scandal of Délit of initiate splashes the ministry for Finances with Canada, but more particularly the minister Ralph Goodale and the Liberal party of Canada, into full electoral campaign.
  • the Algérie required of the France to present its excuses for the crimes committed for the colonial period, in order to reinforce the bonds between the two countries. " We are favorable to the establishment of privileged relations between the Algerians and the French. But these relations should not build with the detriment of the Algerian memory " , declared with the radio Abdelaziz Belkhadem. (source: dispatch Reuters on www.boursier.com)
  • Yemen: the former German Secretary of State with the Foreign affairs Jürgen Chrobog, his wife and her three children was removed, according to the local authorities. A kidnapper informed that their lives would be in danger if the Yemen resorted to the force to release them. The German ministry of the Foreign affairs declared for its part that Jürgen Chrobog and four members of its family had disappeared since the December 24th.
  • Kazakhstan : Placing in successful orbit, to 23.000 km of altitude, from the Russian space center of Baïkonour, of the first satellite of the European project of navigation by satellite Galileo, which must make it possible Europe to be freed from American GPS, and should be operational in 2010.
  • Iraq: the kidnappers of the hostage French Bernard Planche, taken from Baghdad the December 5th, threaten to kill it if France does not put fine at its “illegitimate” presence in the country.
  • China: According to a recent study of the Administration of State of environmental protection (Sepa), 90% of subterranean water of the Chinese cities are polluted by polluting inorganic organics and . However those provide nearly 70% of the Drinking water of the 1,3 billion Chinese. This pollution relates to especially the cities of north.
  • Iraq: nine died at the time of the escape bid from a Prison with Baghdad.
  • Russia: The commission which inquires into the drama of Beslan shows the local authorities.
  • France: Exit on the French screens of film of the director Algeria Yasmine Kassari the Child enformi , with Mounia Osfour.

Thursday December 29th 2005

  • Israel: a Palestinian kamikaze exploded himself close to a stopping of the Israeli army in the north of the the West Bank, killing an Israeli and three Palestinians.
  • Iraq, Baghdad: a Kamikaze was exploded in a street located near the ministry for the Interior in Baghdad, killing four police officers and wounding four others. Armed men in addition assassinated an Iraqi driver working for a French company in the capital.

Friday December 30th 2005

Saturday December 31st 2005

  • France: After the rejection by the judge of the summary procedures of the administrative court of Paris of the requests of four associations - Greenpeace, the National association of the victims of asbestos (ANDEVA), Ban Asbestos and the Committee anti-asbestos -, which were opposed to the equipment of old the Porte-avions for the building site of Alang, in India where it must be désamianté and dismantled, the Clemenceau, installed without encumbers towards 10:00 of the morning in the port of Toulon, framed by a safety device installed by the police port authority. It was harnessed with four tug boats of the National marine. Once with broad, only one of them, the Carangue, must deal with it and bring it in open sea before giving it to the tug boat of company SDI, charged with the asbestos removal of the vessel. The convoy must be escorted as far as India. This escort will be ensured at a speed of five knots (approximately 9km/h) until the Suez Canal by the frigate Aconit. Another French warship will take over with leaving the channel. The voyage must last two months.
  • Palestine: The Islamic Jihad and several armed factions related to the Fatah, the movement of the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, declare, at a few hours of the expiry of the truce of the attacks against Israel, negotiated in March with the Cairo, that they would not inevitably renew it in 2006.

  • E. - U. : The floods touches the wine-producing area of California. Water invaded the streets of certain cities, in particular in Napa where 4.000 people at least had to be evacuated and where certain houses were damaged by mud flows.

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