January 2004

Thursday the 1st er January 2004

European Union :

the Ireland assumes the chairmanship of the European Union thus replacing the Italy whose presidency was criticized for its failure on the question of the European Constitution.
For one week, seven international flights bound for the the United States have not been able to take the departure because the American authorities, in orange alert, judged the risk of an terrorist attack too high.

France :

At the time of the night of Saint-Sylvestre :

324 vehicles were burnt. The ministry for the Interior notes that “ the tradition of the burnt cars remains ”, but is pleased, however, of a total retreat of 50 vehicles compared to last year.
In Paris, on the avenue of the Fields-Élysées, approximately two thousand “ young people ” sow terror, in spite of the mobilization of 4500 policiers : 161 passers by and 53 police officers are wounded, of tens of broken windows and plundered stores. The police headquarter, as for it, indicates that “ No incident major was raised ”.

rights of some 850 000 unemployed were “ recomputed ” in accordance with the agreement signed in December 2002 by employers, the CFDT, the CFTC and CGC for “ to save the UNEDIC ” and they lose on average six months of allowances. However the Assedic had made them sign the AVOIDS, contract by which they had, in exchange of so much of month of allowances, to commit itself seeking “ actively ” an employment.

Whereas they respected this contract which makes weigh on them a suspicion of idleness, Assedic breaks it unilaterally. Revolted by the brutality of measurement, of many unemployed spontaneously think of acting as justice and turn to the trade unions and organizations of unemployed, who help them to constitute personal files.

Haiti : Beginning of the festivities of the bicentenary of the independence of the island. Those began in violence at the time of clashes between opponents and in favor of the Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Friday January 2nd 2004

European Union : The president of the European commission, the Italian Romano Prodi, has starts a new political storm in Italy by tackling the assessment of Silvio Berlusconi at the conclusion of the six months of Italian presidency of the European Union.

the Italian presidency was marked by the failure of the Summit of Brussels in December, at the conclusion which the Member States did not succeed in agreeing on a project of European Constitution.
This presidency also saw the Germany and the France to free itself from the rules of the Stability pact in spite of the remonstrances of the Commission.
Romano Prodi would have like ambition to return on the Italian political scene and to take the head of the opposition of center-left at the conclusion of its European mandate at the end of 2004.

According to a survey published by the weekly magazine of left Espresso, Romano Prodi would obtain 48,8 % of the voices against 32,2 % for Silvio Berlusconi, if it presented a list to next European.

the United States :

the American department of Agriculture (USDA) refuses reopening partial of the borders to the Canadian cattle before the conclusion of an investigation on the first case of disease of the mad cow in the United States.
Terrorism : The president of the national committee of safety of the American Association of airline pilots (ALPA), proposes the creation of a database which the remarks of some 67 would feed; 000 pilots and 115 000 American agents of edge, and that a specialized federal agency could exploit.

Iran : The Iranian government disallows the American proposal for a sending a humane delegation within the framework of the assistance provided after the seism which devastated the town of Bam the December 26th.
Asia : Signature of an agreement of free trade between 7 countries of South Asia, which gathers 20 % of the world population, for the suppression of the customs tariffs between these countries by on January 1st, 2006.
Sciences of the Universe :

the space probe Stardust crosses, towards 19:40 GMT, the tail of the comet Wild 2, in order to collect samples whose return to earth is envisaged in 2006.
According to Canadian researchers, the planetary system of a star on ten of our galaxy would offer favorable conditions to the development of the life.

Saturday January 3rd 2004

Egypt : A Boeing 737 pertaining to the Egyptian airline company Flash Airlines, accomplishing a flight charter, and transporting 148 passengers whose 133 French and team members, damages in Red Sea, with ten kilometers of the coasts, shortly after its takeoff of the airport of the seaside resort of Charm el-Cheikh : no survivor.

a polemic develops in connection with the maintenance of the apparatuses of the company Flash Airlines.

Sunday January 4th 2004

Italy : The administrators of Parmalat will ask for this week of new financings to allow the Italian dairy giant to continue his activity, whereas the investigation into the fraudulent bankruptcy of the group extends at several foreign large banks.
the United States : San Francisco and Santa Fe comes, with the request movement anti-poverty, to obtain a specific minimum wage, by raising the minimum time rate with 8,50 $US, creating the conditions, as certain economists advance it, of an economic microclimate. In all the country, 110 American agglomerations oblige already their contracting companies to give a higher minimum wage to the workmen.

the average wages with San Francisco east of 17 $US and this measurement relates to 54 000 people. At the national level the average minimum wage is with 5,15 $US.
a person who works full-time and who touches the federal minimum receives wages which automatically place it in on this side Poverty line established at the United States.
Report/ratio of the cost of the immobilier : On a basis 100 in New York, Chicago east to 105, Boston is to 121, San Francisco is to 167, and Montreal is to 29.

Afghanistan : The 502 delegated Loya Jirga (the Afghan traditional assembly or Great council ) adopted a news Constitution of the presidential type, for the “ Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ”, after 3 weeks of stormy debates and peppered with incidents which highlighted ethnic divisions of the country.
Georgia : The lawyer pro-Westerner Mikheil Saakachvili, one of the leaders of the “ Revolution of the roses ”, which had, on November 23rd, 2003, dropped fact the former president Edouard Chevardnadzé, is elected president of the Republic of Georgia, with 96,7 % of voice (83 % of participation).

Cependant, the two main competitors of Mikheil Saakachvili were not authorized to stand as a candidates, and that the SOEC (Organization for safety and the co-operation in Europe), which had estimated that the legislative elections of December 7th constituted “ a regression of the democracy ”, this time does not have, posed any reserve.

the India and the Pakistan multiply the gestures of bringing together of which most spectacular was the advertisement of a meeting today between Indian the Prime Minister and the Pakistani president.
Israel - Palestine : A close relation of the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the deputy and mayor of Raanana, Uzi Cohen , recommends the transfer of the inhabitants of the the West Bank towards the north of the Jordan, where could be created a Palestinian State, and précisant : “ If they would refuse, of the plans must be developed to expel them by the force ”.
Space : The robot Spirit, first of the two twin robots launched by NASA in spring 2003, was posed on the planet Mars, and it transmitted its first images after a perfect landing.

Its first mission is held in the Gusev crater, suspecté to have contained Eau. It sent the first images black and white of surface in accordance with the program of NASA.

Evolution humaine : According to a Japanese study, the bitten young people of portable units, developed an exceptional dexterity with their inches. These teenagers can type with their inches on cellular an incredible quantity of words in one minute, without very looking at the screen. Theirs became more muscular and flexible devices that those their parents, and this transformation enables them to use them for other functions.

Monday January 5th 2004

European Union :

According to analysts, vis-a-vis the flight of the euro which could threaten a still fragile economic revival, the governments and the European Central bank returns the ball, clarifying the absence of a coherent policy of rate of exchange in euro area.
Edgar Bronfman, president of the world Jewish Congress, and Cobi Benatoff, president of the European Jewish Congress, shows, in an interview with the Financial Times, the European commission of “ moral treason as regards anti-semitism ” - http://www.upjf.org/documents/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5834

Organization of the treaty of the North Atlantic : The eleventh General secretary of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer of Dutch nationality, took his functions for first a four years mandate. He succeeds Lord Robertson, who occupied this station of 1999 to 2003.
Egypt : (Egypt) -- Research continued with Charm el-Cheikh at sea Rouge to find the wreck of the Egyptian chartered plane which was damaged with the broad one. In the evening, a French team has “ collected something ” which could be the signal of a block box of the apparatus.
Environment : According to a study of NASA, soots of all kinds, emitted mainly by the thermo plants with coal, heavy industry and the combustion engines like the diesels, would be responsible for 25 % of climate warming.
Space : The American robot Spirit carried out the first photographs color of its environment over Mars, and sent them to NASA to assemble them in order to form a panoramic sight, first postcard with high-definition of red planet.

the panoramic camera of Spirit must take 75 images and each one of these photographs is taken five times, with a different filter, to allow returned color and to high-definition, with 360 degrees.

Burundi: The rebels Hutu S Burundian of the National liberation armies (FNL), last movement in war against the transition government of Burundi, agree to negotiate with the Burundian president Domitien Ndayizeye and announce, in same time, the lifting of the ultimatum which they had launched the December 31st against the president of the Episcopal conference of Burundi, Mgr Simon Ntamwana, to which they had given 30 days to leave the country, after this one showed them “to have carried out” the December 29th the Apostolic nuncio in Burundi, Mgr Michael Courtney.

Tuesday January 6th 2004

European Union : Several European deputies received letter bombs of which at least two exploded yesterday without making victim. The letters were freed in Bologna, from where had been sent in December the first four letter bombs addressed to several European persons in charge. The Italian police force suspects of the anarchists opposed to the “ new European order ”.
the United States : The total debt of the households in the United States rose with 1 980 billion $US in October 2003, and which more than doubled in ten years to reach levels records hard to bear for many American families.
the tropical Cyclone Heta devastation the island of Niue making 2 victims and of the considerable damage in all the island.
Egypt : The research teams succeeded in locating with broad Charm el-Cheikh, one of the block boxes of the apparatus, but it is between 600 and 800 meters under the sea level, with too a great depth to be able to be recovered in the immediate future.
India - Pakistan : The two nuclear powers of South Asia which already delivered three wars in one half-century, announced their decision yesterday to reopen as of the next month of the talks “ total ” on all the subjects which oppose them, the first of which figure the Cachemire.
Iran : The Iranian authorities are worry about a possible repetition of the drama of Bam, shaven with 90 % on December 26th by a seism a magnitude 6,8 on the scale of Richter, killing more 30 000 inhabitants in their sleep, the area at the seismic risk of Teheran. They would plan to move the capital towards a surer zone, indicated yesterday the press and of the Iranian persons in charge. A seism as that of Bam would kill more 700 000 people in the capital.
Turkey : from January 6th to 8th, official visit of the Syrian president Bachar el-Assad, it acts of the first official visit of a Syrian president in Turkey.

the two countries affirm their opposition to the possibility, evoked the day before by the US government, of a independent Kurdistan Iraqi. These two countries holding of the territories of ex-Kurdistan, the revival of Kurdistan on the Iraqi territories could bring to instability in the area.

China : The Chinese government while deciding to cut down 10 000 chives, reveals the increasing extent of the consumption and the traffics of wild animals, and underlines the possible bond between the contamination by the virus of the SARS (acute respiratory syndrome severe) and the wild meat consumption which poses new medical problems while threatening survival of many species.

Wednesday January 7th 2004

France : Death of, the producer press baron of radio and discs, specialist in the Jazz, Franck Ténot at the 78 years age.
Great Britain : Thanks to the erosion of the American dollar vis-a-vis the euro, the noble metals (except for palladium) have seen their price leaping with records ever reached for several years.
Italy : The scandal of the Affaire Parmalat splashes the banks now, whereas justice tries to clear up their role before the financial crash of the agroalimentary giant and that the anger of the suppliers and the savers thunders. Parmelat was declared insolvent on December 27th and was placed under supervision of the State after the discovery of a countable hole evaluated for the time being from 8 to 13 billion euros.
Sweden, death of the actress Ingrid Thulin, at a few days of its 78 years. http://www.commeaucinema.com/mcm/news.php3?nominfos=25783&cinenews=7
the United States : The president George W. Bush presents a temporary plan of regularization from 8 to 12 million clandestine immigrants, as a majority of Mexican origin.
Brazil : The new security checks in the airports and American ports, with catch of prints and photograph for the foreigners equipped with a visa, cause a sharp tension with Brazil, only country in the world to have decided the reciprocity for the American citizens. The Americans constitute the strongest quota of foreign visitors arriving at Brazil by air with 582 000 people in 2002.
Iraq : 35 American soldiers were wounded yesterday by mortar fires against an American base located at the west of Baghdad.

Thursday January 8th 2004

France :

the French Parliament votes for the text on confidence in the digital economy (LEN) which constitutes in particular the first legislative stage of plan RESO 2007 initiate by the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
the Québécois multinational Alcan succeeded in obtaining more 97 % of the capital and the rights to vote of Pechiney with the scratch date of the reopened offer, on December 23rd, and will be able to carry out an public offering of withdrawal and an obligatory withdrawal in order to acquire the whole of the titles Pechiney remainders.

the United States : The Fonds international currency (the IMF) invited the United States to work out a clear project of return to the balance of their budget, by underlining the limited impact of recent tax reductions and the risks created by the imbalance of public finances for the growth, in the United States as in the rest of the world.
China : from January 8th to 10th : official visit with Beijing and Hong-Kong of the French Minister for the interior Nicolas Sarkozy, with the key, the signature of an agreement in order to reduce Chinese clandestine immigration towards the France.
Iraq : The Fondation Carnegie indicates in a report/ratio that the administration of the president George W. Bush has “ systematically presented in an inaccurate way the menance consisted the weapons of massive destruction and the programs of Iraqi ballistic missiles ”.
Sudan : Signature of an important agreement, for autonomy, between the government of Khartoum and the popular Army of release of Sudan (SPLA). The conflict opposes the south of the country, with Christian majority and animist, in north, arabo-Moslem. 20 years of a conflict which made approximately 1,5 million deaths. The agreement approaches the division half-half of the oil incomes (300 000 crude barrels per day), administration of the central bank of the country and the creation of a commission of follow-up of the oil production.

Friday January 9th 2004

European Union : the European commission wishes to soften the national constraints on the cinema, by redefining the mode of government aid to cinematographic works and televisual and while allowing the producers subsidized to choose more freely in which countries of the European Union (UE) they will turn.
Great Britain : David King, scientific adviser principal of British the Prime Minister Tony Blair, affirms que : “ the climate changes constitute a threat probably more dangerous for planet than terrorism (...) the United States, first world source of gas with greenhouse effect (the fifth of the annual planetary emissions), should take the threat of the climate changes more to serious (...) the Bush administration made a major error by withdrawing protocol of Kyoto, by claiming that the US economy would go more badly from there; ”.
Canada :

the federal minister of Agriculture and Agroalimentary decided to give up its project of development of a corn stock genetically modified, carried out with the giant of biotechnology Monsanto.
At the time of the mégapanne of August 2003 which plunged in the black the major part of Ontario and a good portion of the North-East of the United States. Some 50 million people was then affected by the failure, which occurred in Ohio on August 14th and started a series of breakdowns in cascade. The federal government had to then apply an emergency plan dating from the cold war, and which was clearly exceeded. It needs a serious revision, to reflect the new reality of the events which could occur in North America, including Cyberattaque S, incidents ascribable to terrorism and failures of essential infrastructures resulting from a breakdown of électricité ”.

In Iraq :

Attack against a Shiite mosque of Baquba, in the north of Baghdad, during the prayer of the vendredi : 5 died and 38 others wounded, whereas 6 other people found death in various armed incidents.
Washington wishes that UNO return in the country
the Pentagone| indicates that the ex-dictator Saddam Hussein is regarded as a “ prisoner of war enemy ”, and specifies that this statute does not modify of anything the conditions of its detention, whose place is always held secret.
In the south of Iraq, the confrontations between hundreds of Iraqis and the soldiers British continued, the shortly after clashes which had made at least five died among the demonstrators, and whereas influential directing Shiite was opposed to Washington on the sovereignty of Iraq.

Israel : The government require that Syria “ cease its support “ with terrorism ” to take again the peace negotiations. At the same moment, Tel-Aviv approximately 100 000 people expressed against the project to dismantle Jewish colonies.
Libya : The collective of the families of the 170 victims of the Attentat against the DC-10 of ATU in (1989) signed in Paris, an agreement with the representatives of the Fondation Kadhafi, at the end for which the compensation for having the rights of each victim is fixed at a million for US dollars.
Turkey : The Turkish government signs the 13° protocol of the European Convention of the human rights abolishing the capital punishment.
Hong-Kong : Discovered of a new suspect case of SARS on a 35 year old patient, in the Chinese province close to Guangdong, from where the epidemic had left a little more than one year ago.

atypical pneumonia had appeared in Guangdong in November 2002, before being spread in about thirty country, mainly Asia, making 774 died, including 349 in China and 299 in HongKong, and more than 8000 patients.

Saturday January 10th 2004

Data-processing : A problem can appear with the timestamps Unix version. The date is indeed stored of many seconds since 1970, on an entirety 32 bits. Out of C, an average with (time_t) ((T1 + t2)/2) or (time_t) ((T1 + t2) >> 1) , a problem can appear. One can then use (time_t) (T1 + ((t2 - T1) >> 1)) or, if the compiler supports the entireties 64 bits, (time_t) (((long length) T1 + t2) >> 1) .

Sunday January 11th 2004

the United States : the former Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Paul O'Neill explains, during an interview on CBS, that the invasion of the Iraq, was decided as of the entry according to the new president George W. Bush in January 2001. Paul O'Neill had démissonner in December 2002 to be itself opposite with the new fiscal policy.
In Iraq :

With Amara to 320 km in the south-east of Baghdad, confrontations violent one between hundreds of Iraqis, who claim work, and soldiers British, following the clashes which had made at least five or six died among the demonstrators.
With Al Basra, two Iraqis working with the coalition were killed.
With Mosul, four mortar shells exploded yesterday in front of the office of the patriotic Union of Kurdistan, without making casualties.
With Takrit, a former militiaman of Saddam Hussein shown murder and of concealment of weapons was stopped, and several militiamans of the Brigades Badr, armed wing of the Supreme council of the Islamic revolution in Iraq (SCIRI, Shiite), were also challenged in this city, stronghold of Saddam Hussein.
the large ayatollah Ali Al-Husseini Al-Sistani, very listened by the Shiites who represent 60 % of the 25 million Iraqis, gave an opinion yesterday against the procedure of transfer of sovereignty developped at the point by the the United States and the temporary Conseil of government (IGC).

This monk of Iranian origin, most influential of the country, requires the direct election, and not by Great Electors, of a provisional National Assembly to which will be subjected the constitution project and the agreements concerning the presence of the forces of the coalition after the transfer on July 1st.

Iran, the Conseil of the guards of the constitution declares ineligible 3605 candidates (out of 8157) with the next legislative elections, including 84 outgoing reforming deputies. These elections are envisaged on February 20th.

the majority of the candidates were rejected for “ non-observance of Islam ” and “ not-fidelity with the Constitution and the principle of Velayat Fagih ”, primacy of the monk in the political matters, whose rise the wide capacities from the supreme guide. Among the rejected candidates the grand-daughter of the Imam Ruhollah Khomeiny (the founder of the Islamic Republic) appears, Zahra Eshraghi, and her husband Mohammad Reza Khatami, brother of the president Mohammad Khatami and chief of the Front of the participation (FP), reforming principal party at the Parliament.
Of the protest demonstrations is held before the Parliament.

Israel : Approximately a hundred and thousand people expressed with Tel-Aviv against the dismantling of the Jewish colonies, undertaken with the intigation of Ariel Sharon. The Israeli Army, specifies that only 3 colonies were occupied on about thirty dismantled establishments.

Monday January 12th 2004

the United Nations : According to the United Nations for the food and agriculture, the measures adopted in several countries to counter the disease of the mad cow are insufficient to reassure the consumers. It is necessary to reinforce the screening tests and the preventive measures in the countries where the disease made its appearance, in order to test all the old animals of more than 30 months. ESB
European Union : The European commission recommends in a report/ratio the reception of new immigrants of non-European origin.

Marie-Therese Hermange, appointed French with the the European Parliament, on the list of Nicolas Sarkozy, qualifies this report/ratio of “ satisfying as a whole ”.

In France :

the bill for confidence in the digital economy was adopted in second reading by the National Assembly. This decision raised a wave of protest on behalf of the world of the French Internet (FAI initially) and of the defense organizations of the Human rights. More information files digital economy or even National Assembly 1 (pdf) and National Assembly 2 (pdf).
the bankruptcy court of Paris condemned the US bank Morgan Stanley to pour 30 million euros of damages for moral wrong with the group of French luxury LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which showed it to have published during three years “ of systematically erroneous and skewed information ” and to have carried damage with its image popur an amount of 100 million euros.

Italy : A reform of the control line of the governorship of company and supervision of the saving are binding to the Italian leaders whereas the country discovers day after day the width of the financial drain left by the former managers of the Parmalat group today in prison.
Swiss : The group Adecco, n°1 world of temporary work, revealed, while remaining very vague, the discovery in its accounts of irregularities in the North-American activities of Adecco Staffing , obliging it to sine die push back the publication of its financial results, an advertisement which frightens the investors and causes the fall of sound Stock exchange courts, until 48 % on the market of Zurich.
Americas : from January 12th to 13rd, with Monterrey with the Mexico, 5th Summit of Americas, thirty-three Heads of States and Latin-American government, around the president George W. Bush. Two absents : the Cuban president Fidel Castro and the new Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.

firm Opposition of presidents Vénézuélien Hugo Chávez, Brazilian Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentinian Nestor Kirchner and Chilien Ricardo Lagos, with the project of a Free exchange zone of Americas (ZLEA) which would extend from the Alaska to the Ground of Fire, other than Cuba.
In margin of the top, George W. Bush obtained a solid support of its Mexican counterpart Vicente Fox about its new proposals relating to immigration, at the time of a meeting aiming at alleviating the tensions between the two countries.

Economy :

the flight of the euro worries the ECB largely. The currency of the European Union establishes a new record of all times compared to the dollar, and reached 1,2898 $US before setting out again a little with the fall, after the declarations of French the Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and of the owner of the European Central bank, the French Jean-Claude Trichet, announcing their concern.
the the United States announces their intention to start again the world trade negociations for an increased liberalization of the exchanges, and propose the complete abolition of the agricultural grants to export, collecting the congratulations of the European commission.

Data-processing : A group of physicists and data processing specialists have just presented the prophilography applied by computer to archeology. This new technology thus makes it possible archeology to make a remarkable technological jump, by reconstituting by means of computer the potteries with an unequalled objectivity.

Of the hundreds of thousands of shards of pottery could be to exhume wall cupboards, digitized, analyzed and to allow the virtual reconstitution (form, dimensions, style) of the potteries to which they belonged.
Thanks to the prophilography applied by computer, the archeologists will save thousands of tiresome work hours, spent to handle the shards of pottery for a work of puzzle.

Tuesday January 13rd 2004

European Union : The European commission, under the pressure of the Spaniard Pedro Solbes, seizes the European Cour of justice (CEJ) against the decision of the the Council of Ministers Europeans of Finances of the November 25th, 2003, to authorize the France and the Germany to be withdrawn temporarily from the criteria of the stability pact, and takes the risk yesterday to start again the political crisis on this pact.
France : Within the framework of the Business Vincent Humbert, her mother Marie Humbert is put in examination for “ administration of toxic substances ”. The following day, January 14th, the doctor Frederic Chaussoy is him also put in examination for “ premeditated poisoning ”.
Great Britain : commit suicide in its cell of Harold Shipman, Serial killer condemned for the murder of 15 people and suspected of that of 215 others (at least).
Italy : The Constitutional court invalidates the law granting immunity to the chief of the government, adopted in June 2003. Silvio Berlusconi loses her immunity and will see the probable fast recovery of the lawsuit in which he is accused of corruption of magistrates.
the Sommet of Americas ended in an agreement for launching at the dates envisaged, i.e. in January 2005, the Free exchange zone of Americas (ZLEA), which will include 800 million inhabitants. The the United States did not obtain the inclusion of a “ clause of transparency ”.
Canada : The people of the Innus of the Seven-Islands ( Uashat-Maliotenam ) claim a billion $can and start continuations against the Quebec, the federal government of Ottawa and the Hydro-Quebec company.
the United States : Alan Greenspan, very listened to president of the American Federal fund, promises an improvement of employment “ in a rather significant way ”. Employment remains the weak link of the American recovery which reached +8,2 % in annual rhythm, (unemployment of 5,7 % in November 2003). Since the beginning 2001, the United States lost 2,4 million employment whereas the country is not in crisis; this unheard of situation makes fear with the economists to see to be durably established a dichotomy between growth and employment, whereas the productivity gains are very importants : +9,4 % in annual rhythm.
In Iraq :

the US government, reconsiders its decision of the December 9th, 2003 to draw aside from the invitations to tender of the contracts of rebuilding, the countries not having joined the countries of the coalition, but in the condition that these countries “ cooperates again fully ” with the the United States.
With Baghdad, of the women expresses, against the advertisement by the temporary Conseil of Iraqi government of the abolition of the code of the family of 1959, which was most advanced of the world arabo-Moslem. In this business the Western mediums remained as discrete as the chancelleries.
According to the daily newspaper Al-Azzaman ( Time ), Saddam Hussein would have negotiated her rendering.

Iran : Following the decision of the the Council of the guards of the constitution making ineligible 3600 candidates with the next legislative elections on eight thousand, the president Mohamed Kathami request with the Council to re-examine this decision.

Wednesday January 14th 2004

Spain : Spanish the Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, in visit with Washington, proposes the establishment from here 2015, of a “ Atlantic economic zone ”, founded on the dismantling of the economic barriers between the European Union and the the United States. Moreover it has affirmé : “ I do not believe in the European cultural exception ”.
France : the government names for the first time, as a prefect, French of origin kabyle and resulting from immigration, it has Aïssa Dermouche, director of the ESC of Nantes. At the time of the following days, several acts of ill will and attacks, could be related to this nomination, without any element making it possible to find suspects.

18, attack with the explosive against its car.
the 25, attack tells the entry of the ESC of Nantes.
29, explosion of a bombinette in el college attended by his/her son.

the United States :

the president George W. Bush announces a new stage for the Space conquest. Two objectives clairs :

On the one hand, the return of American astronauts on the the Moon between 2015 and 2020, followed installation of a permanent base, in order to prepare live missions about March and beyond .
In addition, to accomplish a human flight in direction of the planet Mars.
Another information given, a news Space shuttle should be born.

the president George W. Bush intends to start again from here presidential November its plan of defense of the family and marriage like social institution, with a budget of 1,5 billion $US in five years for a program in favor of the marriage, which includes/understands provisions in favor of the family, the incentives to work rather than to perceive the unemployment insurance, maisaussi the simplification of the rules of adoption and the responsibilisation of the fathers.

Iran : Following the decision of the the Council of the guards of the constitution making ineligible 3600 candidates with the next legislative elections on eight thousand, the supreme Guide Ali Khamenei request with the Council to re-examine this decision.
Israel : Attack-suicide by a Palestinian heune of the Hamas, Reem Reisha , at the point of passage of Erez, in the band of Gaza : 4 dead (including three soldiers) and 7 wounded.
Internet : According to the study World Internet Project realized by Californian university UCLA, the average Net surfer, contrary to certain generally accepted ideas, is in fact a being cultivated and sociable, which likes the books, is sulky television and maintains many friendly relations.

Thursday January 15th 2004

In France :

a French laboratory announces that after the Caulerpa taxifolia, a news invasive Espèce invades the Mediterranean, the Caulerpa racemosa. See Le Monde
the Bugaled-Breizh , trawler of the Guilvinec (Finistere) undergoes an implosion and dark with its five sailors, with broad of the Cape Lizard in the south-west of the England : no survivor.
Death with Paris of the Square R.P. Ambroise-Marie (95 years), member of the French Academy.

Canada : The Canadian government, in a letter sent to Donald Rumsfeld, confirms her intention to take part in the financing of the American program of anti-missile defense
Afghanistan : The militia started, to give their heavy weapons to the governmental forces, within the framework of the programme of collection of the weapons, which continues with the support of NATO.
Iraq : 150 congressmen of the “ Group independent of the Iraqi women ” within the framework of a conference on the statute and the role of the woman, are worry about their future statute in the “ new Iraq ”.

the Government council repealed, on December 29th, the code of the family in force since 1959, considered as one of most advanced of the Moslem countries, which amounts leaving de facto with the religious authorities the care to settle questions like the divorce, the marriage, the guard of the children…
Différentes speakers have déclaré : “ It is a terrible regression, they try to make us return to the Stone Age (...) I fought all my life for the equality of the sexes, I had much hope to the fall of the mode of Saddam Hussein and I note that all the promises are betrayed (...) the mode was very bad, but the code of the family was a good law, and of it were satisfied we (...) if the code is repealed, they are the monks who will manage our businesses ”.

Lebanon : The Lebanese government announced yesterday the recovery in the next days of the capital executions, after a six year old bracket, causing the reprobation of the European Union, of associations of the human rights and political personalities.
Turkey : from January 15th to 16th, official visit of Romano Prodi, president of the European commission (first visit since 1963), which déclare : “ Thanks to the made efforts these last years, Turkey is closer than ever to the Union ”.
Space : The robot of Spirit exploration posed its six wheels on the ground of red planet for the first time since its arrival there is nearly two weeks. Charles Elachi, the director of the JPL has déclaré : “ Mars is our sand vat today and we are ready to play and learn ”.

Spirit should deploy its arm robot and take its first photographs with a microscopic system of imagery, then should begin a tortuous voyage in direction of a crater located at approximately 250 meters.

Friday January 16th 2004

Worldwide social forum : from January 16th to 21st, in Goregaon, in the northern suburbs of Bombay in India, 4° Worldwide social forum which should gather between 80 000 and 100 000 participants, originating in 130 countries. After the Brazil and Porto Alegre, this go of the dispute of an liberal internationalization chooses and a country of Asia of more than one billion inhabitants. The Western militants will have to confront itself with ways of thinking, organizations and problems that much is unaware of. A thousand of conferences, workshops and events cultural will be organized during this forum
the United States : The “ king of the pop music ”, Michael Jackson, pled not culprit yesterday with the court of Santa Maria, in California which formally meant the loads retained against him to him. The artist, old of 45 years, is accused sexual assaults on minor of less than 14 years and administration of “ agent poisoning ”, between on February 7th and on March 10th, 2003. Released in exchange of the payment of a guarantee of three $US million, it does not cease protesting its innocence.

In an interview with the CBS, it has déclaré : “ people think of the sex. My spirit does not function in this way. When I see children, I see the face of God. This is why I like them so much. I never nothing would make the sexual one with a child! ”.
In a documentary British diffused in February 2003, Michael Jackson admitted there having shared its bed with children in his ranch, adding that slept to him by ground.
In 1993, boy a 13 year old had already shown the singer of sexual assault. No proof will be found. Nevertheless, Sony Music, the recording company of Jackson, advises to him to cross short to this business by regulating it by amicable agreement in the form of financial arrangement with the family of the teenager.

Egypt : In the night of the 16 to the 17, then on January 18th, the two block boxes of the apparatus of Flash Airlines which had been damaged in Red Sea, on January 3rd, are recovered after many efforts and the technical intervention of the French marine and the submarine robot Scorpio 2000 .
Israel - Palestine : Israel openly threatens to start again its operations of elimination of the leaders of the Palestinian radical movement Hamas, in particular its spiritual leader the sheik Ahmed Yassin, held personally responsible for the last attack made by Palestinian which exploded the load that it related to it to Erez, the main thing not of passage between the Gaza Strip and Israel, killing four Israelis.
Morocco : the reform project of the code of the family ( Moudawana ), presented by the king Mohammed VI of Morocco, is voted unanimously by the House of Commons.
Health : The Vietnam and Taiwan ordered massive demolition contaminated by the Avian flu and prohibited any sale. An consumers' association shows the Thailand to dissimulate a hearth of epidemic.
Internet : Inauguration of first French-speaking Internet site of legal music downloading, with an initial bank of 15 000 songs, that the consumer can download against payment.

Saturday January 17th 2004

France : Nearly twenty thousand demonstrators with Paris, the call of the Left the Moslems of France, against the bill aiming at prohibiting the wearing of religious signs open at the public school.
Poland : From January 17th to 18th, official visit of Spanish the Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar with Warsaw. He declares that the two countries must maintain a “ strategic partnership ” within the European Union.
Iraq : The American army launches to Baghdad, the operation “ Determination of iron ”, aiming “ chiefs of the cells and treasurers of the guerilla ”, to counter the actions of resistance which intensify.
GMO : According to a study of International Service for the Acquisition off Agri-biotech Applications , the production of biotechnological food grows at intervals higher than 10 % in the world in spite of the debate and the controversy surrounding the risks and the benefit which can result from this, for example, the number of hectares devoted to harvests of genetically modified organizations increased 26 % with the Canada in 2003. and relates to 4,4 million hectares today (3rd with the world rank behind the the United States and the Argentine).

Sunday January 18th 2004

Spain : An Imam of a mosque of Madrid defending the right to beat the women bails out 15 month of prison. Among the councils donnés : “ “ One never should strike in a situation of exacerbated anger and blind man to avoid larger evils (...) never not striking significant parts of the body (face, chest, belly, head) (...) the blows must be given on parts of the body like the feet or the hands, with a fine and light rod which does not leave scars (...) the goal is to cause a psychological suffering and not to humiliate or maltreat physically; ”.
France :

an attack with the explosive reached with Nantes the car of Aïssa Dermouche. This attack intervenes some days after its nomination under prefect of the the Jura, which makes of him the first prefect resulting from immigration.
the ex-wife of a witness who excluded the thesis from the plot aiming at killing the Princesse Diana in Paris in 1997, affirmed that her husband had lied and that she had seen well a FIAT Uno right before the car accident which cost the life Diana, according to the weekly magazine The People.

Egypt : In the business of the crash landing of the plane of Flash Airlines, the French persons in charge gave yesterday to Egypt the second block box comprising the last messages of the Boeing 737 of Flash Airlines, feeding the hope to determine the causes of the catastrophe which made 148 died.
Iraq : Attack-suicide with the car bomb in front of the main entrance of the old presidential palace of Saddam Hussein, today seat of coalition (American HQ) with Baghdad : 31 dead including 2 American and more than 90 wounded.
Israel : The Israeli government discusses on the layout of the “ fence of safety ” separating Israel from the West Bank, with like objective making this barrier disputed more justifiable in front of Israeli justice, but before the International Court of Justice (CIJ) in $the Hague which must be seized of this file on February 23rd.

the “ fence of safety ”, long 150 km and made concrete walls, barbed wires and trenches. It has as a function to bar the road with the Palestinian kamikazes whose attacks caused the death of more than 400 Israelis these three last years.

Monday January 19th 2004

France : Within the framework of the Business of the trawler Bugaled-Breizh, the prosecutor of Quimper reveals that according to the first elements of the investigation, the ship would have been well éperonné by a building of the container ships type.
Italy : In the Parmalat business, the investigation took to a new width yesterday with the arrest of one eleventh person and the calling into question of two Italian countable cabinets as moral persons.
the United States : In the State of the Iowa, Caucus of the Democratic party gained by the senator of Massachusetts John Kerry with 37,6 % of the votes.
Iraq :

the American administrator Paul Bremer and his British counterpart Jeremy Greenstock, accompanied by ten members the the temporary Council Iraqi government, come to New York to request from the General secretary UNO, Kofi Annan, the sending of a mission of experts of UNO, on the “ feasibility ” of elections before the next June 30th.
With Baghdad, more than one hundred thousand Shiites, in favor of the Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, expresses to claim direct elections shortly.

Tuesday January 20th 2004

France : Death with Paris, of the former minister and historical baron of the gaullism, Olivier Guichard at the 83 years age.
Great Britain : 258 cases of parents, condemned these ten last years for the murder of their baby, will be revised after the payment in December of a marked mother to have killed her two sons, undoubtedly victims of the “ sudden death of the infant ”.
the United States : The president George W. Bush, in his Discours on the state of the Union defends his policy in Irak firmly;: “ America will never require the permission to defend the safety of its citizens (...) there is a difference between leading a coalition of several countries and to subject itself to the objections of a small number (...) the terrorists continue to plot against America and the world civilized (...) David Kay already identified tens of programs related to the weapons of massive destruction as of the significant amounts of equipment which Iraq had dissimulated in the United Nations (...) if we had not acted, the programs of weapons of massive destruction of the dictator would continue today (...) As long as the Middle East will remain in prey with tyranny, despair, with anger, it will continue to produce men and of the movements which threaten safety of America and our friends (...) So that the diplomacy is effective, the words must be credible and nobody must doubt the word of America (...) for all those who like peace and freedom, the world is better and surer without the mode of Saddam Hussein ”.
Israel : The Israeli air force launched two raids to southern Lebanon in response to an attack of the Hezbollah at the time which an Israeli soldier was killed at the israélo-Lebanese border.
Ivory Coast : from January 20th to 22nd, with Abidjan, lawsuit of the sergeant Theodore Séry Tolou Dago , shown murder the last October 21st, of the French journalist Jean Helene. He will be recognized guilty “ of homicide volontaire ” and condemned the firm January 22nd to 17 years of prison.

Mercred1 January 21st 2004

Space : from January 21st to 25th, the robot Spirit, first of the two twin robots launched by NASA in spring 2003, does not answer any more.
Universalization : from January 21st to 25th, with Swiss Davos in , 34e World economic forum, with encloses of it the intervention of the vice-president of the United States, inviting the Europe to support “ democratic reforms in Iran ” and European aspirations of Turkey ".

Iran : Following the decision of the the Council of the guards of the constitution making ineligible 3600 candidates with the next legislative elections on eight thousand, several reforming ministers announce their resignation.

Israel : The Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could be continued in the next months, after the inculpation, yesterday by a court, of a shown Israeli business man of attempt at corruption.

Israel - Palestine :

the Palestinian minister in charge of the negotiations, Saëb Erakat worries about the absence of any reference to their conflict with Israel in the speech of the US president George W. Bush on the state of Union : “ “ The fact that president Bush did not mention closely or by far the peace process means that the year 2004 will be that of the American disengagement of this process and that of the absence of the Roadmap ” which is an international peace plan envisaging creation by stages of an independent Palestinian State from here 2005. Israel is likely to benefit from this situation “ to intensify colonization and to accelerate the construction of the wall, which will lead to more deteriorations, of insecurity and instability in the région ”, in reference to the discussed boundary line set up by Israel in the West Bank ”.

On its side, the government spokesman Israeli, Avi Pazner has déclaré : “ That proves that president Bush on other subjects more important to evoke. With regard to the Middle East, he insisted once again on the need which the countries of the area become democratic, which Israel can only approve ”.

Rwanda : The old one ordering Blue helmets in Rwanda in 1994, the Canadian lieutenant-general Romeo Dallaire, today reprocesses some, supported yesterday in front of the International penal court for Rwanda (TPIR) that it is the Rwandan presidential guard which launched the massacre which made at least 500 000 dead, after the plane of the Rwandan president was cut down, the April 6th, 1994.

the colonel Théoneste Bagosora, the former chief of staff of the Rwandan army, is regarded as the brain of the genocide, in collaboration with the sergeant-general Gratien Kabiligi, the colonel Anatole Nsengiyumva and the major Aloys Ntabakuze, all accused of genocides and of crimes against humanity relating to the massacre, spread out over 100 days, of the Tutsis and the Hutu moderate.

After the death of ten Belgian Blue helmets on April 7th, 1994, the Belgian government had ordered the withdrawal of its troops, and the Safety advice of the United Nations ordered the withdrawal of the other Blue helmets on April 21st. The lieutenant-general Romeo Dallaire, had affirmed to have prevented the general headquarter of UNO in New York which a genocide prepared three months before the facts but that one had not given him the means of countering slaughter.

Health : According to a declaration of the persons in charge of the institutions and national agencies of public health of food of the Convention countries Européenne : “ the overweight and obesity represent, while being based on serious scientific evidence, a severe threat for the public health through the whole of Europe. It is necessary at the present time to take effective measures and relevant in order to try to reverse the increasing tendency of prevalence of obesity. If nothing is undertaken the economic consequences and social could be dramatic. It cannot be excluded that the next generation has an life expectancy lower than that of his/her parents ”.

Thursday January 22nd 2004

France :

Death of the French actor Ticky Holgado at the 59 years age following one ** Modification of the Second government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Nicole Guedj replaces Pierre Bedier as a Secretary of State to the Real estate schemes of Justice, near, the Minister Minister of Justice for Justice.

Great Britain : One week before the very awaited publication of the report/ratio of judge Brian Hutton, BBC was devoted to one shingling self-criticism in a special program on the Affaire David Kelly, fustigating her own direction to have defended an imperfect report on the exaggeration of the Iraqi threat by the Prime Minister.
the United States :

the president George W. Bush, gives her support for the demonstrators anti-abortion and greets to in particular them “ causes just ” by declaring “ the human life is a creation, not a tangible property, and does not have to be used as element of research and the experiments ” and by pointing out several decisions taken since the beginning of its mandate, like the prohibition of the human cloning and, last November, the adoption of a law prohibiting a surgical method of late abortion, disputed in justice by several associations, which regards it as a first encroachment on the right to the abortion, devoted by a decision of the Supreme court in 1973. According to a recent survey 60 % of American do not have an opinion sliced on the question.
In the Business Enron, the former director of accountancy, Richard Causey, 44 years, was accused to have contributed to the organization of a “ gigantic escroquerie ” having allowed to make flame the stock exchange courts of Enron before its bankruptcy. HE pleads not culprit of the six criminal charges for infringements and complicity of infringements to the legislation on the transferable securities which were meant to him. He incurs a 55 years of prison maximum sentence and a fine of 5,25 $US million. According to the act of accusation : “ Richard Causey was one of the principal architects and operators of the plan intended to handle the results published by Enron ”.

Friday January 23rd 2004

European Union : The European commission decides an embargo on the chicken meat imports coming from the countries of Asia. The Asian avian flu epidemic which touches 10 countries, because death of 8 people and obliged with the demolition of more than 20 million chickens.
Russia : the French Minister for the Foreign affairs, Dominique de Villepin, in official visit with Moscow déclare : “ Russia has vocation to be a major pillar of the new international order, by its position between Europe and Asia ”, and calls with a “ strategic partnership ” between Russia and the European Union.
the United States :

accidental Death with Hollywood (California) of the photographer of mode Helmut Newton at the 83 years age.

Iraq :

David Kay, director of the Iraq survey group, charged since April 2003 to discover the weapons of massive destruction, resigns in déclarant : “ I do not think (that these weapons) existed (...) There was not possible to find the least material proof of a program ”.
It is replaced by Charles Duelfer, former vice-president of the Special subcommittee of the United Nations which was in charge of the dismantling of the weapons of massive destruction in Iraq of 1993 at the year 2000.

Economy : According to the International organization of work (ILO), in his annual report on employment in the world, starting from statistics provided by the 180 Member States, unemployment remained on a level record in the world in 2003 with 185,9 million people in the search of an employment, that is to say 6,2 % of the total active population (185,4 million in 2002 and 160 million in 2001).

the epidemic of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) primarily in Asia, the war in Iraq and the persistent moroseness in the industry of world tourism supplied with fears of attacks combined last year to create 500 000 additional unemployed. The organization hopes that the economic revival in progress will result in a fall into 2004. Structure of the chômage : Men 108,1 million (+0,6 %) - Women 77,8 million (- 0,1 %) - Young (15 to 24 years) 88,2 million.
In this report/ratio is not taken into account Chinese specificities, that is to say 150 million rural unemployed persons, nor the million workmen fired by the government enterprises (4 % of the active population).
the number of “ workers pauvres ”, which gains less than one American dollar per day, primarily in the developing countries, remains stable to 550 million people.

Environment : According to a recent study of the university of Leeds (Great Britain), the quarter of the plant species and animal could die out before 2050, because of climate warming. It is the first attempt to model on the scale of planet the effects of the warming of the climate on the animal species and vegetable.
Space :

the probe Mars Express brings the proof that there is water in the form of ice on the planet Mars.
NASA temporarily lost the contact with the robot Spirit over Mars.

Saturday January 24th 2004

France : The procession of Chinese new year (year of the monkey), and marking the Year of China in France, gathers more than two hundred and thousand spectators on the Fields-Élysées in Paris.
Quebec : With the disclosure of the identity of Maria Di Lorenzo, this chirurgienne HIV positive which, without the important administration of the Holy-Justine hospital not being informed of her health condition, operated 2614 children between 1990 and June 2003, bursts the Affaire of the chirurgienne of Holy-Justine.
Iraq :

After having declared that he did not believe that the mode of Saddam Hussein had weapons prohibited before the war, David Kay, which has just resigned of its station, wondered about the " " ' capacity of the services of the information to collect true and valid information ".

In answer to a person in charge of the CIA which had stressed that David Kay itself had predicted last year that its searchs for weapons in Iraq would be profitable, it has that his predictions “ … haunts me because I dis ” how could we all mislead us with this point ? " ".

On the ground, three American soldiers were reported missing yesterday in Mosul after upsetting from a boat and the fall from a helicopter in the Tiger, while a GI was killed in an attack in the north of Baghdad.

the Minister for Electricity Ayham Al-Samarraï agreed to authorize Iraqi or foreign private companies to build and exploit powerplants in order to put a term at the shortage of current.

Tunisia : Opening ceremony of the 24e edition of the Cut of Africa of the nations.

Sunday January 25th 2004

Brazil : São Paulo festival 450 years of its foundation, in a great popular holiday (carnival, concerts, giant cake of 450 meters…).
Iraq : A list of 270 personalities and companies, which would have profited from generosities on behalf of the old mode of Saddam Hussein is published by the independent newspaper Al-Mada (the Independent one), created in December 2003. It was about “ coupons ” signed by the dictator which was exchanged against crude oil, according to the quantity indicated on the document.

It would act ministers, former ministers and companies of countries Arab, European, Asian, African and of America, and the whole of the “ gifts ” represents several hundreds million barrels of crude oil. Among them

Eleven French are quoted, of which Patrick Mougin (25 million), the Association of Friendship free-Arabic (15,1 million), Charles Pasqua (12 million), Bernard Miramé (11 million), Michel Grimard, Gilles Munier, general secretary of the Friendships free-Iraqi. Russian
in Europe, 46 entities and personalities, twelve Ukrainians, eleven Swiss, eight Italians, six Belorusses, four Yugoslavians, three Spaniards, two Austrians, two Irishmen, two British of which the deputy George Galloway (19 million), two Bulgarian, two Roumanians, a Hungarian, a Dutchman and a Slovak party,
in Amériques : two Americans, two Brazilian, a Canadian and a Panamanian, and tens of others throughout the world.

However, according to certain sources, this document would be a forgery, manufactured starting from the papers subtilized in the ministries at the time of the fall of Baghdad and opportunely left, whereas David Kay, publishes his report and resigns of its position of director of the Iraq survey group, putting the US president in difficulty, however some of the people quoted on the list, recognize the facts, while declaring these practices completely legal and known, within the framework of the program Pétrole against food .

Israel - Palestine : In a granted interview of Gaza by Abdelaziz Rantissi, one of the more top-ranking executives of the movement, the integrist movement Hamas was said ready to yesterday conclude a truce from 10 years with Israel in exchange of an Israeli withdrawal of the occupied territories since 1967.
Indonesia : The government indonésien recognizes being in its turn struck by the avian flu epidemic and that it struck of the million chickens, but affirming that it had not been transmitted to the human ones.

the analyzes will show if it is of the same stock as that which killed six people and about the million chickens in six countries of Asia (Kampuchea, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam).
Until now the government indonésien affirmed that the recorded chicken deaths were ascribable with the disease of Newcastle, another avian, inoffensive affection for the man.

Space : The probe Opportunity is posed successfully on a site of the planet Mars which seems very promising. The images in black and white and color transmitted show in particular close to the robot a rock exposure, whose scientific interest lies in the fact, compared to stones, which it is about a local rock, dependant on the history of this place, and which it does not come besides.

the scientific leader of the mission Steve Squyres teaching Université of Cornell (State of New York) has déclaré : “ It is the first rock exposure ever found over Mars (...) Opportunity was posed in an odd, strange landscape ”.
the mobile robot with six wheels, with a weight approximately 180 kg, is equipped with four instruments of geological analysis and a drilling machine making it possible to expose the rock.

Monday January 26th 2004

European Union : The pharmaceutical group French Sanofi-Synthélabo announces the launching of a mixed public offering of purchase-exchange on its Franco-German competitor Aventis for an estimated amount of 47,8 billion euros. This fusion will make it possible to create the world n°3 Drug company behind American Pfizer and the British GlaxoSmithKline.
In France :

from January 26th to 29th, visit of State in France of the President of the Popular republic of China, Hu Jintao.

Its speech in front of the National Assembly was marked by a massive Boycott of the Député S, concerned of the human rights in China and to the Tibet.
the president Jacques Chirac signed with him a Joint Declaration making mention duty of the States promote and protect all the human rights and all the Fundamental freedoms .

In same time, it called with the lifting of the European Embargo on the sales of Arme S with Beijing.
It also condemned the Référendum envisaged in March to Taiwan on the relations Peking Taipeh and the reinforcement of defenses of the island.

Hu Jintao, in addition, announced the purchase by the China Southern Airlines of 21 apparatuses to the company Airbus.

the group Sanofi-Synthélabo lance a OPA-OPE not requested on the group Aventis, with an aim of forming the European n°1 chemistry-pharmacy and n°3 world.

Russia : The American Secretary of State Colin Powell, coming from Tbilissi in Georgia, is in visit with Moscow.
the United States : According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the new budget deficit would beat the record of 477 billion $US this year, even more in the event of additional expenditure or of falls of taxes, and will represent 4,2 % of GDP. The budget deficit should then total 362 billion $US in 2005. it was of 375 billion $US in 2003.

Over the decade going 2004 to 2013, the cumulated deficit should border the 2400 billion $US. Moreover the COB a avertissement launches;: “ Even if the growth proves stronger than envisaged, from considerable long-term tensions on the budget will start to intensify during the next decade whereas the generation of the baby-boom starts to leave to the retirement ”.

Iran : The Council of the guards of the Islamic revolution, opposed his veto yesterday to a reform of the electoral code approved in urgency Sunday to allow the reforming candidates invalidated to present itself to legislative of February 20th.
Israel - Palestine : In answer to the offer Hamas which was said ready to yesterday conclude a truce from 10 years with Israel in exchange of an Israeli withdrawal of the occupied territories since 1967, the Israelis answer that any moderation lent to this movement responsible for bloody suicide bombings is not that a smoke screen to enable him to better furbish its weapons against the Jewish State of which he swore the destruction.
Economy : According to a survey carried out by International the Gallup firm, near 43 000 people in 51 countries par : pPlus of half of them would estimate indeed that the saving in their country was degraded during the ten last years against only 31 % which would think the opposite, and their perception of the future would be hardly pinker.
Health : An international team of researchers discovered two genes which quintuple the risk to develop leprosy and which, so would explain its persistence despite everything the means deployed for the éradiquer. Moreover, the function of these genes is so fundamental in the life of the cells which they could play well a determining role in several other infectious illness particularly devastators.
Sport : The champion of French football Zinedine Zidane, which was presented, in front of Italian justice to testify at the time of the lawsuit for doping of his old club, Juventus of Turin, acknowledges to have taken creatin.

Tuesday January 27th 2004

the United Nations : The General secretary of UNO, Kofi Annan, after a discussion with the French president Jacques Chirac, with Paris, announces that it accepts that a mission of experts on the organization of élecions, is sent in Iraq
the United States : In the State of the New Hampshire, Caucus of the Democratic party gained by the senator of Massachusetts John Forbes Kerry with 39 % of the votes.

Afghanistan : Attack-suicide with Kabul against one of a military vehicle of ISAF : 1 Canadian soldier killed and 3 others wounded, and also making a death and eight wounded among the Afghan civilians.
Iraq : Thirteen people, including six soldiers of the coalition and two Iraqi employees of CNN, were killed, whereas the general secretary of UNO was ready to send a mission to study the possibility of holding of the elections in this country, provided its safety is guaranteed
Asia : Whereas ten countries from now on are touched by the Avian flu (Kampuchea, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Pakistan, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam), and made a total of 8 died, poultry slaughters continue to try to stop the epizooty.

Friday, Anton Rychener, person in charge of FAO in Vietnam, was said worried by the reserve to cut down the poultries in this pays : “ I am a little anxious. The government pays only 5000 dongs for a killed chicken, but their commercial value exceeds the 50 000 dongs ”.
According to Shigeru Omi, regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), the scientists fear a change of the virus of the avian flu (virus H5N1) which could generate an entirely new form of human influenza, comparable with that of the Spanish Grippe, and a pandemia with the potential devastator which could cause “ of the million died in the world ”. The Spanish Influenza of 1918-19, was a terrible fatal pandemia with an assessment estimated between 40 and 50 million deaths.

Food : The US government rejected, in a confidential letter with the managing director of the the World Health Organization, any bond between obesity and bad food.

This letter of William Steiger , assistant special at the Department of Health, is the official answer to the report/ratio of April 2003 of WHO and the FAO which said that the addition of sugar to food should be reached a maximum with 10 % and that the governments should take measures to limit the exposure of the children to publicity for food “ of camelote ”. See Médi CMS

Wednesday January 28th 2004

France : The former minister for the Interior Charles Pasqua, of which her name is quoted in the list published in an Iraqi newspaper, personalities which would have been “ récompensées ” of their support for Iraq with barrels of petrol, contradicts, in a maintenance with the newspaper Le Monde, to be financed by the mode of Saddam Hussein : “ I never received anything from Saddam Hussein, neither oil nor money. I am not and I was never a friend of Saddam Hussein ”.
Great Britain : Within the framework of the Business David Kelly, the report/ratio of Hutton judge, in fact the Prime Minister Tony Blair and his former principal private secretary Alastair Campbell bleaches, by affirming that-cuu did not do anything for “ to inflate ” and to return “ sexier ” the file on the Iraqi arsenal, and did not deliver of the name of David Kelly to the press.

On the other hand, public radio-television BBC is recognized as the single culprit in a business of State which showed the death of a man. The report/ratio judges its leaders “ faulty ”, its organization “ defective ” and its allegations against the government of Tony Blair “ unfounded ”. Its president Gavyn Davies , and its managing director, Greg Dyke is constrained with the resignation. The new president by interim Richard Ryder presents “ excuses without reserves ” with the government.
the Prime Minister Tony Blair déclare : “ I ask those which affirmed in a repeated way that I lied on top to withdraw this allegation ”.

Iraq : Attack-suicide in Baghdad causing the death of three civilians.
Israel - Palestine : At the time of an operation of the Israeli army with Gaza, 13 Palestinian was killed yesterday in the confrontations more the violent ones of these last months.
Internet : New the Computer virus MyDoom (= Mydoom.A, Novarg.A, Shimg, Mimail.R) submerged the transport S and the service peer-to-peer Kazaa very quickly. To protect itself, it is necessary to have a Antivirus up to date, to be under a MacOS system or to be under Linux.
Genetic : A américano-Japanese woman team succeeded in genetically modifying the sperm of a fish and making transmit the genetic modification to each cell including the spermatozoîdes and the ovules of her descendants, thus transferring it to the future generations.

Thursday January 29th 2004

France : Strong manifestation of the enquiring with Paris and in several provincial towns against the weak budget allocated with this paramount sector for health, industry, the culture and the radiation of France.

the researchers estimate that to save research approximately 3 % of GDP (against 1 % today, and even 0,3 % if military research is removed) should be devoted from here to 2010 there. The estimates of the number of demonstrators in the capital oscillate between 6 000 and 10 000. In less than one month, more 35 000 researchers and 15 000 other citizens signed a petition in line entitled “ Let us save the recherche ”. The researchers threaten of a collective resignation from here at March 9th in the absence of reaction of the government.

the United States : The adviser of State Condoleezza Rice, draws aside the idea, put forward by the democrats, of a board of inquiry on the weapons of massive destruction.
Israel - Palestine : Palestinian Attack-suicide with Jérusalem : 10 killed Israeli civilians

Reprisals of the Israeli army with Bethlehem.

Friday January 30th 2004

underdeveloped Countries : With the seat of the the United Nations to Geneva, the Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took up on his account the idea of the French president Jacques Chirac which proposed the creation of an international tax on the sales of weapons and the financial affairs in order to finance a revival of the hunger relief in the world. The resources thus collected will go to a “ funds spécial ” of hunger relief ”, that Jacques Chirac called “ the Funds Lula ”, which resembles the “ tax Tobin ”. An international meeting would take place on this topic in Paris in April.

the general secretary of UNO called on its side the rich countries with “ to entirely open their markets with all the products of the developing countries ” and with “ to eliminate all the subsidies which subject the producers of the developing countries to an unfair competition ”.

Germany : The cannibal of Rotenbourg, Armin Meiwes , 42 years, was bleached yesterday of the count of indictment of “ murder by sexual pleasure ”, the court condemning it to eight years and half of prison to have killed and have eaten in 2001 the engineer Berliner masochist Bernd Brandes , agreeing victim which sought with “ to test the ultimate excitation ”. This lawsuit made discover an unsuspected world of human phantasms giving free course by Internet.
France : Within the framework of the Business of the fictional jobs of RPR, the Magistrates' court of Nanterre condemns Alain Juppe, the president of the UMP, in 18 months of suspended sentence and ten years of ineligibility for “ illegal catch of interest ”. The judges estimate in the writing, that Alain Juppe has “ misled the confidence of the sovereign people ”.

Moreover certain magistrates has seems received pressures and had “ the impression ” to be on listening.

Great Britain : The journalist of the BBC Andrew Gilligan , seriously blamed by the report/ratio Brian Hutton, announced yesterday his resignation, which comes to be added to those of the president and the managing director of a public radio-television in full crisis of confidence.

It however defended the substance of sound scoop centered on the Iraqi file and highly denounced the absence of equity of the Hutton report/ratio, in déclarant : “ This report/ratio throws a cold on the world of journalism, not only that of the BBC. It aims at asking journalists, with all the difficulties with which they are confronted, a level of excellence that it does not seem to require for example files of the government ”.

Internet : According to the Barometers multi-media of Médiamétrie, the number of French Net surfers having carried out an online shopping increased 51 % between December 2002 and December 2003, 4 032 000 Net surfers would have bought on line during the last month of the year, that is to say 21,2% of the population Internaute. See Médiamétrie

Saturday January 31st 2004

Europe : Day of European Demonstration for the regularization of Without-papers and for the closing of the retention centres. The principal gathering places are with Paris, Marseilles, Lille, Lyon, Grenoble, Turin, Rome, Caltanissetta, Freiburg, Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, London, Brussels, Malaga, Madrid, Vienna…
France : The Court of Assizes of Meurthe-et-Moselle condemned Raphaël Merzouk, a 29 years polytoxicomane, at thirty years of imprisonment for the murder of the baby of its concubine, small Océane, 23 month old, beaten with death, the December 6th, 2000, because it did not support any more the tears of the child.

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