February 2005

• Santé - HIV: the department of health of New York made public a case of virus of the immunodéficience human (HIV) resistant to the treatments and quickly developing the disease of the AIDS, at a patient new yorkais, who had to be infected a few months ago only. The doctors estimate that this man was infected at the time of sexual relationships not protected with carriers whose virus could develop resistances during anti-rétroviraux treatments.

Saturday February 12th 2005

• French Guiana: successful demonstration of the new heavy launcher ARIANE V   ECA.

Sunday February 13rd 2005

• Iraq, legislative elections of the January 30th 2005: the Iraqi electoral commission announced the results of the election of the transitory National Assembly. The list Chiite of the unified Iraqi Alliance of the Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani carries it with approximately 48% of the voices.

• France, Paris: the Theater of the Empire, Parisian theater, was devastated by a strong explosion of still unknown origin. Located in the XVII {{E}} district, this theater accommodated many demonstrations and television programs, in particular Sunday Martin of Jacques Martin or the Tuesday of the cinema of Pierre Tchernia.
• Spain, Madrid: set fire to Windsor tower, 106 about thirty and height meters skyscraper stages, financial district of the north of the capital. It was extinct after nineteen hours of fight, without any death nor seriously injured. Uncertainties remain on its solidity, the carcass of concrete still which can crumble. Inspections must take place in the days to come.
• Italy, Pollution: with Rome and in other big cities, the cars were prohibited of circulation to reduce air pollution.
• France: died at 77 years of Alfred Sirven, former director of the general affairs of the company Elf, condemned in 2003 to 5 years of prison for embezzlements within the framework of the Business Elf.
• French Polynesia: partial territorial elections in the Windward Islands, following the cancellation of the elections of May 2004 by the Council of State. Nearly 112.000 voters must elect 37 of the 57 members of the Parliament of French Polynesia. This poll should make it possible to decide between the parties of Gaston Flosse (senator UMP, of the party Tahoeraa will huiraatira) and of Oscar Temaru (independence, of the Tavini Huiraatira), both candidates with the presidency of the territory.
• Serbia-Montenegro, Kosovo: the president of the Serbia, Boris Tadic starts a two days visit in the province of the Kosovo. It is the first visit of a Serb president in this province which remains officially started from this country, since that of Slobodan Milosevic in 1995. It takes place whereas the Serb government and the Kosovan self government concluded an agreement to continue the discussions on the future statute of the province with a majority Albanian S.
• Portugal, Fátima: died with the convent of Coimbra of Lucia sister to 97 years, surviving last of the three children who would have seen the Virgin Mary appearing to them, with Fátima, in 1917. The advertisement of its death somewhat disturbs the last week of the countryside of the legislative elections, which will take place Sunday February 20th 2005.

Monday February 14th 2005

• Italy: the automobile groups Italian FIAT and American General Motors separated on an far-sighted agreement the payment of 1,55 billion euros by GM with FIAT, announced the two manufacturers.

• Lebanon, Beirut: died in an attack of Rafiq Hariri, chief of the government of 1992 with 1998 and of 2000 with 2004.
• Filipino, Manila: the movement Abu Sayyaf asserted three attacks which killed 12 people in the capital of Philippines and the south of the country. Abu Sulaiman, spokesperson of the movement, asserted it while speaking about “gift of the St. Valentine's day” for the president Arroyo.

Tuesday February 15th 2005

• France: died of the singer Pierre Bachelet at the 60 years age of the continuations of a cancer.
• Tunisia: beginning of Oil slick close to the town of Korbous, to 50 km of Tunis, after the stranding of a boat Morocco Ain following strong a Storm.

Wednesday February 16th 2005

• Coming into effect of the Protocol of Kyoto in the countries signatories.
• England: last legal Hunt
• North America, Hockey: The police chief of LNH, Gary Bettman, officially announced the complete cancellation of the Saison LNH 2004-05, fault of coming to an agreement concerning a new collective agreement between the League and association from the players. A difference in 6,5 million separate dollars two parts for thus getting along on a ceiling wage and a new collective agreement. It is the first time that a professional league of sport cancels one complete season in North America.
• Cashmere: with Islamabad, the Foreign Ministers of the India and Pakistan announced the opening in April 2005 of a line of bus between Muzaffarabad (capital of the Pakistani cashmere) and Srinagar (capital of summer of the Indian Cashmere). The travellers will be provided with a special permit, Pakistan having refused the use of the Passeport S not to recognize the statute of international Frontière to the dividing line between the two countries.
• Swiss - Nigeria: the Swiss authorities announced that they were going to return to Nigeria 458 million Dollar S US, currently blocked on one of the accounts of the dictator Nigerian Sani Abacha (death in 1998). Switzerland intends to prove that it does not protect the funds from criminal origin; Nigeria hopes that will be used as example with other accommodating countries of the funds diverted by the former dictator.

Thursday February 17th 2005

• England and Wales, Hunt: the traditional hunt is from now on prohibited in these two countries of the the United Kingdom.
• France: end of the exchange of the parts of French franc in Euro.

Friday February 18th 2005

• Samoa: two days after the passage of the Cyclone Olaf nine missing sailors are counted.
• French Polynesia: without surprise, the president of the government Gaston Flosse (near to Jacques Chirac), which refused to resign after the defeat of its party, on February 13rd at the time of the bys-election, was reversed by a motion of censure with the territorial Parliament, where were combined the 27 independence votes of the Union for the democracy (UPLD, carried out by Oscar Temaru, president reversed last year) and the 3 center votes of Alliance for a new democracy (DNA, carried out by Nicole Bouteau, near to Francois Bayrou). The 27 elected officials close to Mr. Flosse did not take part in the vote. The election of the new president should intervene on February 28th, and should be preceded by intense negociations taking into account the composition of the Parliament, in whom no group of has the absolute majority.
• France: Jean-Charles Marchiani, former prefect of the VAr (and famous near to the senator and former minister Charles Pasqua), which was imprisoned since August 2nd, 2004 after being put in examination for “concealment of abuse of corporate asset and trading of favors”, is given in freedom by the room of the instruction of the Court of Appeal of Paris, which has compels it with a very strict judicial control with house arrest with Toulon.
• Togo: the president Faure Gnassingbé announced the organization of presidential election in the sixty days following the death of his father, the former president Gnassingbé Eyadéma, in accordance with the Constitution. However, in the day of the Saturday the 19th, the Togolese opposition always claims the departure of Faure Gnassingbé, and the countries of the African Union remain very reserved on this advertisement.

Sunday February 20th 2005

• Turkish Cyprus, anticipated legislative elections: the voters of the Turkish République of northern Cyprus granted half of the seats of the Parliament to the Turkish Republican party (CTP, of center-left) of the Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat, in favor of the reunification of the island within the European Union. These elections were convened to leave the political dead end of their country, following the failure of the peace plan of 2004 qu' they had however accepted by Référendum. The southern part of the island, the Republic of Cyprus, had adhered to the European Union while refusing this peace plan.
• Spain, Referendum of ratification of the the Treaty of Rome of 2004: the Spanish voters were the first to ratify by referendum the treaty instituting a Constitution European Union. Three countries already ratified the text by the parliamentary way.
• the results of this referendum are observed attentively by the political personnel in France, country whose voters will have to also decide by referendum in a few months.
• Environ 42% of the registered voters moved to vote.
• Portugal, anticipated legislative elections: the Socialist party carried out by its general secretary Jose Socrates gains the absolute majority of the seats of the Parliament. It beats the democratic social Parti the Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes.
• With the the United States, the journalist Hunter S. Thompson, creator of the Gonzo journalism, gave itself death. It was 67 years old.

Monday February 21st 2005

• the United States - Europe: the president of the United States, George Bush, begins a four days visit in Europe, in particular in several countries which were opposed to the intervention in Iraq of 2003: the Germany, the France and the Russia.
• Togo: the National Assembly of the Togo cancelled the constitutional reform of the last February 6th who had allowed to legalize the accession with the capacity of Faure Gnassingbé, wire of the defunct president Gnassingbé Eyadéma. However, Mr. Gnassingbé remains with the capacity since the president of the National Assembly, Fambaré Ouattara Natchaba, is always with the Bénin since the Togolese army closed the borders, on February 5th; he cannot thus claim to hold the presidency by interim while waiting for new presidential elections.

Wednesday February 23rd 2005

• Canada: first budget of the government of Paul Martin. The Minister for Finance of the Canadian federal government, Mister Ralph Goodale, deposits its first budget today. It is about the first time since 1980 qu' a minority government deposits a budget. Failing to have the support of at least an opposition party, the government will lose the vote on this question and will have either to pass the hand to an opposition party or to go in front of the people in an anticipated general election.

Thursday February 24th 2005

• Canada - the United States: Canadian the Prime Minister Paul Martin announced that its country will not take part in the development of the anti-missile Bouclier in project in its powerful neighbor.
• Catholic church, Rome: hospitalized in urgency with the Clinical Gemelli, the Pape Jean-Paul II underwent a Trachéotomie to help it to breathe. It should not have the use of the word during a few days.
• France - South America, economy: fusion announced between Mandrakesoft and Conectiva.
• France, education: again, large manifestation of the College NS (several thousands) against a bill on the education called project Fillon, demonstration with the call of UNL and FIDL, supported by the student trade unions and the trade unions of teachers.
• France, Haute-Savoie: a fire destroyed most of the complex of leisures of the Macumba , located at Saint-Julien-in-Genevese, close to the border with the Suisse. The customers, still very few, could all be evacuated. The complex was described like largest of Europe with a surface of 8.000 m ².
• Avian flu: since Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Joseph Domenech, Director of animal health to FAO, invited with a greater financial effort to find means of fight against this disease: drugs, vaccines, better hygiene and followed dies of breeding. WHO worries in same time about the transmission risks about this disease to other animal species and the human being.
• Palestine: within the Palestinian Authority, the Legislative council voted in favor of the government presented by the Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei of 24 ministers, primarily composed men (2 women) and top-civils servant of the Administration. It should last until the next legislative elections in a few months.
• Somalia: elected official and named at the end of 2004, but sitting in exile with Nairobi (Kenya), the president Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed and the Prime Minister Somali Ali Mohamed Gedi visited for the first time since their taking of their own country, always in prey with the consequences of the Civil war started in 1991.
• Swiss, breeding: the Federal council decided to prohibit the Chanvre like food for livestock, starting from March 1st. Traces of Psychotrope S were detected in samples of Lait.
• Chetchnia, European Court of the human rights: the Russia was condemned by the European Court of the human rights for “attack to the right to the life” and not to have to inquire indeed into the crimes with which the Red Army was shown by six Tchétchènes, whose close relations were killed or themselves wounded by Russian soldiers at the beginning of 2000. Russia has three months to appeal. Hundred fifty other requests of the same type await the judgment of the European Court.

Friday February 25th 2005

• France, Business Gaymard: Herve Gaymard resigns of her post of minister of the Economy following the polemic born of the revelations on the apartment which it occupied with the expenses of the State (600 m ² for a rent of 14.000 euros monthly, without counting the five servants) and with the inconsistencies and lies which it stated to be defended.
• Thierry Breton, known to have directed several companies whose State is shareholder, was named in replacement.
• Israel, Tel-Aviv: a Attack - suicide in front of a discotheque of Tel-Aviv killed its author and three people. Asserted by the Islamic Djihad, it has been about the first attack for four months in Israel.
• Togo: Faure Gnassingbé, wire of the late president Gnassingbé Eyadéma gives up the presidency by interim. The international pressure played certainly: the country had just been suspended Economic community of the States of West Africa (CEDEAO) and African Union (UA). The first vice-president of the National Assembly takes over temporarily the presidential duties. The opponents remain critical as long as the opponent Gilchrist Olympio (favorite at the time of the election of 1998 suspended by the army) will not be able to present himself, but French diplomatic sources fear that its participation does not lead to a crispation of the Togolese army.

Saturday February 26th 2005

• Sanaa, Yemen: judgment in call of shown Attack against the warship states-unien, US Adhesive , on October 12th, 2000, with Aden. On the six shown, Abdel Rahim Al-Nachiri currently held with the the United States sees its confirmed death sentence.
• Data-processing: died of Jef Raskin, father of the Graphical interface of Mac OS version I, it invents the Slip-to deposit and the majority of the familiar elements to all in the use of a microcomputer.

Sunday February 27th 2005

• Iran - Russia: signature of an agreement between these two countries for construction in Iran from here the end of 2006 of a nuclear plant with Bouchehr. The fuel will be provided by Russia and will be recovered by it; IAEA and the the United States fear that the worn Uranium serf with the manufacture of nuclear armament by Iran.
• Kirghizstan : legislative elections whose stake is for the local political community to find candidates with the succession of the president Askar Akaiev who cannot present to the presidential election October 30th 2005. This one nevertheless warned its people against the “revolutionary virus” which according to him would have touched in the ex- Soviet Union, the Georgia and the Ukraine (see presidential election in Ukraine, 2004). The country accommodates military bases of the Russia and the United States: the foreign influences in the event of such crisis would be thus important on this country.
• Lebanon, Beirut: a demonstration of opponents to the presence Syria nne took place on the place of the Martyrs, in Beirut, in spite of the prohibition of the Lebanese government. The demonstrators claim the departure of the Syrian troops of their country and show the government of Damas to have financed the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
• Health, Tobacco: coming into effect of Convention-tallies of the the World Health Organization for the fight antitabac, adopted in May 2003 and ratified by about fifty country in the world. It aims prohibiting the Publicité for the tobacco and at limiting consumption in the public places of it.
• Tadjikistan : legislative elections where the party of the president Emomalii Rahmon is highly likely to carry the poll because of the authoritative aspects of the current mode.

Monday February 28th 2005

• Lebanon: Omar Karamé, chief of the government, presented the resignation of its government at the time of the opening of the meeting of the Parliament.
• France: the Parliament assembled in Congress with Versailles adopted the bill constitutional revising title XV of the Constitution, precondition to the ratification of the treated establishing a constitution for Europe.
• Burundi, constitutional referendum: the Burundian voters must come to a conclusion about a news Constitution at the time of the first poll since 1993 and the Civil war. This text fixes the number of representatives elected by “Ethnie” (Hutu and Tutsis). Six votes must follow to compose the unit of the new political institutions of the country.
• France - Poland, Arras: first top free-Polish enters the presidents of the French Republic Jacques Chirac and Polish Aleksander Kwasniewski.

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