June 2005

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Wednesday the 1st er June 2005

  • Afghanistan: a bomb exploded inside a Mosquée of Kandahar in the south of Afghanistan. The police force makes state of more than 20 dead of which Mohammed Akram Khakrizwal, chief of the police force of Kabul and former chief of the police force of Kandahar and at least 52 wounded. The deflagration occurred whereas the faithful ones gathered to pay homage to Mawlavi Abdullah Fayaz, a dignitary favorable to the president Karzai, following its assassination by armed men on May 29th. According to witnesses, the suicide bombing was made by a man in uniform of police officer mixed with the police officers in charge of safety with the chief with the police force.
  • Netherlands, European Constitution: “not” by 61,6% of the voices compared with 38,4% in favor of “yes” with the advisory referendum carried it, with a rate of participation of 62%, whereas the necessary threshold so that the poll is taken into account was of 30%. The Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende confirmed that the government intended to take account of the result.
  • France, Internet: 4 banks, the General society, BNP Paribas, CIC and CCF, alert their customers on the existence of an attack of Phishing directed against them.
  • Israel, Jerusalem: the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas underwent an operation of the heart in a Jordanian hospital. He was allowed in a hospital of Amman, complaining about an access of tiredness. He underwent a angioplastie, proceeded making it possible to emerge the coronary arteries. The Palestinian authorities did not give any detail, affirming only that the intervention had been a success and that it should be of return in its office of Ramallah as envisaged Thursday, day when Israel should release 400 Palestinian prisoners within the framework of the signed truce the February 8th between the two camps. Mahmoud Abbas, 69 years, completes a long displacement abroad. It does not have any known antecedent of cardiac problems, but of the Palestinian persons in charge affirmed that it had a too high tension. A few years ago, it had had a Cancer prostate. Since it took the succession of Yasser Arafat in January, the president of the Palestinian Authority always appeared in good health and always respected his engagements.

Thursday June 2nd 2005

  • France: died of the actor Mike Marshall of a cancer in a hospital of Caen, at the 60 years age. He was the only son of the actress Michele Morgan.
  • Latvia: The Saeima ratifies the Constitution for Europe (71 votes for; 5 votes against).
  • Cuba: died of the scenario writer Pastor Vega with Havana at the 65 years age. It was one of the principal figures of the cuban cinema industry of the last decades. He was married with the actress Daisy Granados.
  • Democratic republic of Congo: two members of Doctors without borders, a French logistic coordinator and a Congolese driver, were removed by men armed in Ituri, in the North-East of the country. The organization Doctors without borders specified to be without news of the two members who went in a car clearly identified on the camp of moved of Jina in the area of Djugu, located at 35km in the north of Bunia, the capital of the district of Ituri. Witnesses pay to have seen them being made stop and lead to foot by a group of armed men not identified towards an unknown destination. Removal was not asserted and no request was formulated.
  • Ukraine: a goods train struck a coach in the South of the country making at least 14 dead. The accident occurred with a level crossing not kept close to the village of Novosselovka in the area of Odessa. The ministry for the emergencies specified that two children appeared among deaths and that at least seven people, perhaps nine, had been hospitalized. Four are in a serious condition.
  • Greece, Athens: a bomb exploded early this morning before the Greek minister of Work, causing light damage but not casualty. The attack was not asserted. The bomb exploded towards 3:10 local (0. 10 GMT) near a dustbin, in front of the ministry. The deflagration blew the windows of the building, which was empty at this hour. An anonymous phone call with the Athenian daily newspaper “Eleftherotypia” ten minutes before the explosion had prevented imminence of an attack. An investigation was open. This series of explosions revived fears of a resurgence of activity of the radical groups of extreme-left Greeks.
  • Sudan: five people were killed and 30 wounded in the accident of a plane which was crushed on takeoff with Khartoum. The Minister for Aviation Abdel Karim Abdullah declared that the plane left the capital to el-Fashir, with the Darfur, with 42 passengers on board.
  • Lebanon: attack with Beirut, 1 dead. It is about the Lebanese journalist of reputation Samir Kassir.
  • France: composition of the new government announces directed by Dominique de Villepin.
  • France: Opening for 3 days of the Prime Minister national Living room of the humanitarian in Cergy Pontoise

Friday June 3rd 2005

  • France: died of the painter Raymond Moretti with Paris of a pulmonary embolism at the 73 years age.
  • China: the torrential rains which touch since the May 29th the country caused the death of at least 255 people while 79 are reported missing. In addition more than 100.000 people were also evacuated. The ruptures of 37 dams in the province of Hunan caused destruction in an about sixty villages, involving the collapse of some 35.000 buildings. Telecommunications, transport and the water conveyance are cut.
  • Poland: Monseigneur Stanisław Dziwisz, former secretary personal of the late pope Jean-Paul II was appointed archbishop of Cracow. The office of Mgr Jozef Kowalczyk specified that Stanislaw Dziwisz 66 years old was going to take up the duty formerly reserved for Karol Wojtyla. Mgr Dziwicz, 66 years succeeds the cardinal Franciszek Macharski, 78 years, which continued to assume the pastoral load of archbishop of Cracow at the request of Jean-Paul II, after having required to give up it three years ago because of its age.
  • Luxembourg: Luxembourg the Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker announces that he will resign if the European constitutional treaty is rejected at the time of the referendum of the July 10th.
  • Sweden: the country authorizes from now on the Lesbienne S to have recourse to artificial insemination and to the In vitro fertilization to have children, the Parliament indicated.
  • Iraq: ten people were killed and twelve others wounded in a suicide bombing with the car bomb close to Balad, with 70 kilometers in the north of Baghdad.
  • Democratic republic of Congo: an attack against helicopters of the Mission of UNO caused the death of a Nepalese blue helmet.
  • Canada: a flight of the company Virgin Atlantic between London and New York was intercepted by Canadian hunters which obliged the plane to be posed with the Canada. The cause of this interception is badly given but according to Canadian and American media, the plane sent by error following engineering problems a message indicating a diversion by hijackers and the crew was not in measurement to stop it.

Saturday June 4th 2005

  • Political France, : Laurent Fabius, until there number two of the Socialist party is excluded from the direction of the party, following its standpoint for “not” to the referendum on the European Constitution.
  • France: set fire to in the Tunnel of Frejus where a transporting truck of the tires took fire after having run up against another weight-heavy. Two people died. The died person, whose death was announced since the Italy, was found in a shelter in extreme cases of the France and Italy. In addition, six other people were poisoned including two users of the tunnel, but their state is not alarming. Two firemen of the French company of the road tunnel of Frejus (STRF) and two sappers firemen of the rescue squads were also poisoned by smoke. One of them was transported to the hospital. According to the Italian helps, the fire occurred in French territory with approximately half of the 12,8 kilometers long tunnel. The closing of the tunnel of Frejus should last of the months. The new Minister for Transport Dominique Perben went Sunday morning noted the damage.
  • Palestine: the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas announced the carryforward of the legislative elections, envisaged at the beginning the July 17th, causing the anger of the Hamas. A new date will be fixed by decree after consultations with the various Palestinian movements and the adoption of a new electoral law by the Palestinian Legislative council (PLC, Parlement). Hamas immediately reacted, denouncing a unilateral decision.
  • the United States: the country evoked the possibility of sending more international troops in Haiti and to re-examine the device places from there from the point of view of the general elections envisaged this autumn in this country of the the Caribbean in prey at a serious insecurity. The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made these suggestions following an outburst of violence this week in the country, which cost Tuesday the life a French honorary consul and makes ten dead in the attack of a market of Port-au-Prince by armed men. She qualified the developments in Haiti of disconcerting and declared that the United Nations and the other institutions which help Haiti to find stability must examine seriously if the organization of the forces over there is adequate. Municipal elections must proceed in Haiti the October 9th, followed elections legislative and presidential the November 13rd and the December 18th.

Sunday June 5th 2005

  • France: died of the scenario writer Laurence Merganser of one cancer at the 56 years age.
  • France: victory of Rafael Nadal to the International of France of Roland-Garros in front of Argentinian the Mariano Puerta over the score of 6-7, 6-3, 6-1, 7-5.
  • Political France, : Nicolas Sarkozy would have evoked her desire to leave the fine Gouvernement Dominique de Villepin 2006. The president of the UMP would then devote entirely to presidential 2007. Nicolas Sarkozy would have felt during his maintenance, the May 30th with Jacques Chirac, that the Head of the State “did not agree to lose the capacity. However, by appointing me Prime Minister, it lost the capacity”. According to “Le Monde”, Nicolas Sarkozy should find his fine freedom to maneuver 2006 after having regulated the nominations for the legislative elections, a task for which its cap of the Interior will be determining. He would devote himself then to the candidate nomination of the UMP to the presidential election, persuaded, seems he, to be the only official candidate of his Même camp if he entrusted a presidency delegated to Jean-Claude Gaudin, the Minister of Interior Department would continue to have the upper hand on UMP while attending all the strategic meetings.
  • Swiss: in popular Referendum, the Swiss ones say yes to 54,6% with adhesion with the Espace Schengen and the Convention of Dublin and to 58% with the introduction of a partnership recorded for homosexual.
  • Paris, Sports: the Avenue of the Fields-Élysées is transformed for the day into immense sports ground with track of athletics, watery basins, tatami… to emphasize the candidature of Paris for the organization of the Olympic Games of 2012. Immense popular success with more than 700.000 spectators (according to the town hall of Paris).
  • Political Quebec, : Bernard Landry, chief of the opposition to the National Assembly of Quebec and ex-First minister of Quebec, announced its resignation after having received the support of 76,2% of delegated to the national council of the Parti Québécois. Disappointed by this mitigated support, he announces his retirement of the political life, as chief of the official opposition, the party and like deputy of Verchères.
  • Brazil: the torrential rains which have fallen down on the North-East of the country for three days killed at least 28 people and forced nearly 31.000 people to flee their residence. The majority of the deaths is due to the floods and flow mud in the State of Pernambuco, to 2.000 km in the North-East of São Paulo. Almost 300 houses collapsed or were carried by the currents and 1.300 others were partly damaged. The people without roof found refuge in gymnasia, schools and other public buildings, specified the authorities. The state of emergency was declared in 23 cities of the State and of the hundreds of soldiers were able to take part in the rebuilding. For Wednesday, 229 millimetres of rain have fallen on Recife, the capital of the State, that is to say more half (59%) usual precipitations for the unit of the month of June.
  • France: the current trainer of the AJ Auxerre, Guy Roux, 66 years, announces that it puts a term at his career of trainer.
  • Mauritania: 18 soldiers died and 20 were wounded at the time of an attack conducted by men armed against a base with the army located in the North-East with the country. The attack occurred with envion 400 kilometers in the east of Zouérate, in Lemgheity, near the borders of the Mauritania, the Algérie and the Mali.
  • United Arab Emirates: the husband of old the Prime Minister Pakistani Benazir Bhutto hospitalized with Dubai after an heart attack.

Monday June 6th 2005

  • the United States: died of the actress Anne Bancroft of a cancer of the uterus in a hospital of New York. She was 73 years old.
  • the United States: died of the actor Dana Elcar of pulmonary complications at the 77 years age.
  • the United States: Opening of WWDC 2005 with San Francisco.
  • Germany: died of the musician Siegfried Palm in Frechen-Buschbell at the 78 years age.
  • Iraq: four Iraqi soldiers were wounded in a suicide bombing with the car bomb close to a base of the Iraqi army with Tikrit, in the north of Baghdad.
  • Nepal: at least 37 people were killed and 72 others wounded of which some seriously in the explosion of a landmine under a coach crammed in the south of the country. The coach which circulated on a country road was entirely destroyed by the explosion of this mine close to the village of Badarmude, killing 25 people on the blow. The police force suspects the rebels Maoists of having placed this mine.
  • Turkey: a seism a magnitude of 5,7 degrees on the scale of Richter shook the south-east of the country, making at least 54 wounded. The seism occurred with 10:41 (7. 41 GMT) close to the village of Karliova in the rural province of Bingol to some 900 kilometers in the south-east of the capital of Ankara, specified the Kandilli observatory. The jolt was felt provinces close to Erzurum, Mus and Tunceli, according to the Anatolia agency. Several houses crumbled.
  • the United Kingdom: suspension of the referendum on the European Constitution.
  • Canada, Quebec: Louise Harel, named chief-interim of the Left Québécois.

Tuesday June 7th 2005

  • Egypt: seventeen people, including four children, perished in the collapse of a building with Alexandria, in the north of the country. Sixteen bodies were extracted from the debris and the corpse of a seven year old boy had been shortly after discovered the collapse of the building. According to the police force, 14 to 20 wounded people are always neat at the hospital. A woman was found alive and hospitalized, but several people would be still captive of rubble. The building collapsed on the wall of a school where a score of women came to seek pupils who finished their examinations. A person in charge of the police force specified that the owner of the building had added three stages to construction, violating the law and causing, according to him, the accident. The drama occurred in one of the most populated districts Alexandria, that of station Al-Raml.
  • the United Kingdom: an airliner, with on its board 103 passengers and five team members, party of the Portugal bound for the Great Britain, was diverted towards a London airport after the discovery of a suspect object on board. Two fighter plans of the British air force escorted the apparatus of the Thomson company to the airport of Stansted, located at about thirty kilometers in the North-East of London, where it landed without encumber with 19:41 (20. 41 GMT), specified a spokesperson of the ministry for Defense. The plane had as a destination the English city of Coventry. Information had been received from the crew saying that a suspect object had been found in the cabin by a passenger. The decision was made to divert the apparatus on Stansted by measure of precaution. The spokesperson refused to specify the nature of the suspect object. After the landing, the passengers and the team members unloaded all healthy and safe. A team of bomb disposal experts of the police force as of the experts in explosives went to the site, but the airport remained normally open.
  • France: according to the Italian Minister for Transport, the Tunnel of Frejus could reopen in 2 or 3 months.
  • Bangladesh: a fighter bangladais is crushed on a Bidonville of the suburbs of Dacca making eight wounded.
  • France: the former president of S.O.S Racism and old Appointed European Fodé Sylla challenged in a business of drug.
  • Colombia: 1.200e day of detention for the former candidate of the Greens to the presidential election of 2002, Ingrid Betancourt.
  • India: a cable with high voltage fell on a coach killing eleven passengers and while wounding fifteen others in the State d' Andhra-Pradesh in the south from the country. The passengers died on the blow when the cable fell on the coach in the village from Ponnampally. One is still unaware of what caused the fall of this cable. Three teachers who went to their work appear among the victims. Ponnampally is located at 450 kilometers in the south of the capital of Andhra-Pradesh, Hyderabad.
  • Hungary: László Sólyom is elected president de Hongrie by the Hungarian Parliament.

Wednesday June 8th 2005

  • China: at least 19 people died and 2 others are reported missing in collapse from a mine.
  • Denmark: the car of the Minister for burnt Immigration.
  • Azerbaïdjan : 3 people were seriously wounded in the collapse of a staircase in the subway of Bakou.
  • France: a Boeing 737-500 of the airline company Air France had to be diverted for safety reasons on the airport of Zurich - Kloten, whereas it travelled of Paris to Vienna with 106 passengers on board. The pane ducockpit was damaged. The plane landed without encumbers with 14:22. All the passengers could take seat on board other flights bound for Vienna.
  • France: a fire which was declared in the night in an accommodating center of motor disabilities with Montblanc in the Herault made a death and a seriously injured, while nine other patients were slightly poisoned with CO2. The deputy secretary with the handicapped people, Philippe Bas, went to the site at the beginning of afternoon to express the solidarity of the government to the victims and their family. The fire, apparently of accidental origin and which could be caused by a cigarette having ignited a mattress is established towards 0:15 in a room of the first stage of the Saint-Pierre Center, which accommodates 52 handicapped. Two assistance-looking after of guard quickly intervened with an extinguisher and succeeded in leaving a patient the room. On the other hand, a patient tetraplegic of forty years died asphyxiated and another boarder was burned with the 2nd degree. About fifty firemen, intervened with 20 vehicles, evacuated 10 residents of which five were led to the hospital for monitoring.
  • France: The Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin makes his speech of general policy in front of the National Assembly.

Thursday June 9th 2005

  • Afghanistan: the hostage Italian Clementina Cantoni, removed the May 16th was released. Clementina Cantoni, 32 years, employee of International humanitarian organization CARE, had been removed with Kabul by armed men whereas it returned by car at it.
  • France, Arras: violent explosions occurred following a collision between a train regional express and a truck charged with bottles of gas which immobilized on a level crossing with height of Saint-Laurent-Blangy. The train Douai - Arras, which transported at least 150 people was quickly evacuated. At least two people were wounded.
  • the Vatican: a ceremony marking the opening of the process of Beatification of Jean-Paul II, first stage towards possible a Canonization, will take place the June 28th, announced the cardinal Camillo Ruini, vicar of Rome. The Ruini cardinal, who expressed himself in the Midsummer's Day basilica of Lateran with Rome, specified that the ceremony would proceed at 7 p.m. (17 hours GMT).
  • Bolivia: at the end of a new day of demonstrations, the president of the Bolivian Supreme court Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze was invested president of the country after the Congrès accepted the resignation of the Head of the State Carlos Mesa and wiped the refusal successive of the presidents of the Senate and the House of Commons, numbers two and three of the State. The members of Parliament approved by a show of hands the resignation of Carlos Mesa, whose government did not resist the national demonstrations which have paralyzed the Bolivia for several weeks and which made a death. The president of the Senate, Hormando Vaca Diez, and that of the House of Commons, Mario Cossio, numbers two and three of the State according to the Bolivian Constitution, then successively refused the presidential load. Hormando Vaca Diez, which chaired the session of the Congress, invited the members of Parliament to appoint the president of the Supreme court Eduardo Rodriguez Veltze Head of the State by interim, as the demonstrators require it. The president of the Supreme court decided in favor of anticipated elections in order to find an exit durable with the crisis.
  • France: the Action against the hunger and the Fondation of France presented to the press an assessment sums paid for the victims of the Earthquake of December 26th, 2004 which had made more than 230.000 died. Action against the hunger poured on a total of 15,2 million euros, 1,85 million with the Indonesia and 2,21 million with the Sri Lanka. Foundation of France as for it poured 15,5 million euros including 6,017 million with the Indonesia, 2,152 with the India and 2,317 with the Sri Lanka.

Friday June 10th 2005

  • Japan: a eighteen year old high-school pupil threw an explosive device in a classroom of the college of Hikari in the Préfecture of Yamaguchi to the southern point of the island of Honshū. According to the Kyodo agency and the public channel NHK, the machine resembled a kingpin, contained in a bottle of glass which a flame left.
  • Spain: two explosions occurred with the airport of Saragossa, preceded by a call by ETA, not of victim.
  • China: a torrent of water descending a mountain fell down on a city of the North-East of the country, Shalan, killing at least 92 people, including 87 children and by wounding 35 others in an elementary school. The four adult victims were of the villagers. Four other people, including two pupils, were sought by the helps. Thirteen children received emergency care. Some 352 older children from 6 to 14 years, like 31 teachers, were in the elementary school of Chang' year at the time when the flood reached the city located in a basin, in the province of Heilongjiang. The phenomenon was caused by recent and very strong rains on the zone.
  • France, Seine-et-Marne: discovered close to the Ferté-sous-Jouarre, of the body of Nelly Crémel disappeared since the June 2nd whereas it made its jogging. Legal information was open for “assassination”.
  • China: 31 died and 15 wounded 4 are in a serious condition, in the fire of a hotel in the province of Guangdong, in the south of the country. The number of people being in the building at the time of the fire still remained to be established. An investigation was open.
  • France: a thirteenth case of new varying Disease of Creutzfeldt-Jacob identified.
  • France, Paris: founded in 1870, Samaritaine, which knew its hours of glory in the Années 1930, will close its doors the June 15th for safety reason. The 1.250 paid ones worry on their future.
  • the United States: the Arlene tropical storm approaches the coasts of the Louisiana.

Saturday June 11th 2005

  • Iraq: the journalist French Florence Aubenas and its Iraqi guide Hussein Hanoun was released after 157 days of captivity.
  • France: died of the Argentinian writer Juan Jose Saer in a hospital of Paris following a long illness at the 67 years age.
  • Italy: died of the Bulgarian Professional singer Ghena Dimitrova this night with Milan at the 64 years age.
  • France: died of the cyclist Jose Beyaert with La Rochelle at the 79 years age.
  • France: Nelly Crémel, whose body was found yesterday in a wood close to the Ferté-sous-Jouarre in Seine-et-Marne died of the continuations of several violent one blows and shots carried to the head. It was not raised in the state of traces of sexual assault. Various medico-legal checks will continue in the days which come. 39 year old mother, Nelly Crémel had disappeared at the time of a jogging in wood near her residence the last June 2nd. The open legal information for “removal and sequestration” had been extended yesterday evening to “assassination”.

Sunday June 12th 2005

  • Iraq: the journalist Florence Aubenas left Baghdad with 12:00 local (10. 00 with Paris) and arrived towards 19:10 at the military airport of Villacoublay, in the Paris region after a stopover with Cyprus. It was accommodated by the president Jacques Chirac.
  • Italy: Referendum of June 12th, 2005 on the procreation médicalement assisted in Italy
  • Russia: the express train connecting the capital of the Chetchnia, Grozny, with Moscow partly ran off the line with 150km of the Russian capital, following an bomb attack on the railway making about fifteen wounded including two seriously. According to the Interfax agency, two children, one year old and half and 11 years, appear among the casualties. The accident did relatively few victims because the convoy rolled slowly. The Minister for the Emergencies Sergueï Choïgou went to the site.
  • the United States: the Arlene tropical storm, although weakened with the approach of the coasts of the Florida, was at the origin of heavy precipitations, waves 6,1 meters height and of strong winds in this devastated area nine months ago by the Ivan hurricane. The first baptized storm of the season threatened to be transformed into hurricane but the winds blew only to 96 km/h in contact with the grounds, on the coasts of the Alabama and of Florida. The listed damage is for the moment tiny, with some cuts of electricity and of the floods on the coastal roads of Alabama.
  • Palestine: The executions of condemned to dead began again after almost 3 years of suspensions (the last date of the August 7th 2002. Several governmental organizations (ONG) against the capital punishment protested and required the dead halt of the executions and the abolition of the capital punishment. ONG étasunienne Human Rights Watch (HRW) estimated that at least 27 of the 70 condemned to dead did not have a equitable Procès because they were judged by military tribunals.

Monday June 13rd 2005

  • Portugal: the historic leader of the Portuguese Communist party Álvaro Cunhal, emblematic figure of resistance to the dictatorial mode salazarist reversed in 1974, died at dawn, the 91 years age.
  • France: meteoroligic alarm of level 3 on a scale of 4 concerning violent one storms accompanied by intense precipitations, violent gusts of wind and sometimes of hail on 25 departments of the Yrénées-Atlantiques to the the Rhone for Monday the 6th hours at Tuesday the 16th hours.
  • Portugal: died of one of the Poet S Portuguese the most respected, Eugénio de Andrade of the continuations of a long illness. It was 82 years old. Its funeral will take place Tuesday with Oporto.
  • France: opening of the 46e aeronautical Living room of Le Bourget, the Airbus A380 is the high-speed motorboat.
  • the United States, California: the Chanteur Michael Jackson was discharged from all the criminal charges by the jury of Santa Maria. The star risked 20 years of prison.
  • Chile: a powerful seism shook the north of the country, killing at least eight people, five people (three adults and two children) died after an enormous rock S is crushed on the car in which they were, close to the town of Iquique and three elderly in two villages of the Andes, of which an octogenarian wedged under his house which collapsed and causing many damage in this mountainous region. The Minister of Interior Department Jorge Correa announced that additional victims could be listed in insolated villages with which the means of communication were cut. According to the Chilean authorities, the jolt, to 18:54 local (22. 54 GMT), had a preliminary magnitude of 7,9 on the open scales of Richter. The epicentre was located at 110 kilometers in the North-East of Iquique, (1.800 kilometers in the north of Santiago) in a slightly populated Andean area. The jolt was felt in several cities of the North, of which Calnama, near Chuquicamata, the largest copper mine of the world with open sky, whose activity had to be stopped. south of the Peru and in Bolivia, but without making victim nor of major damage. The Chilean vice-president Francisco Vidal and the Housing and Health, Public works, Ministers of Interior Department must go in the affected region Tuesday to coordinate the assistance.

Tuesday June 14th 2005

  • Afghanistan: more than 2.000 cases of Choléra were listed with Kabul and at least eight people died about it. Yesterday, the ministry for Health had confirmed 300 cases but affirmed that these cases were treated and that there was no death.
  • Greece: the Jamaïcain Asafa Powell beats the world records of the 100 meters into 9 S 77.
  • Iraq: 20 people were killed and 81 others wounded in an attack with the explosive made in the morning in front of a bank of Kirkuk. Practically at the same time, 10 Iraqi, including 2 children, was killed and 7 others wounded in an car bomb attack perpetrated in a locality in the north of Baghdad.
  • California: a violent one Séisme occurred in the evening in California temporarily involving an alarm along the coasts. Alarm with the Tsunami, effective of the American border with the Mexico until Vancouver, with the Canada, summer raised at the end of one hour. The seism, a magnitude of 7.4 on the scale of Richter, did not make a victim. The epicentre was recorded towards 19:50 local (23. 50 GMT) in the south-west of the coastal town of Crescent City located at a few 480 kilometers in the north of San Francisco. The residents of Crescent City alive in the low zones of the city were briefly evacuated.
  • Haiti: the Haitian Minister for Justice Bernard Gousse presented his resignation to the Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, whereas the polemic swells on the detention of Yvon Neptune, chief of the government of the former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In his letter addressed to Gerard Latortue, Bernard Gousse does not give any explanation to his decision. He makes nevertheless the object of criticism for the prolonged detention of Yvon Neptune, stopped 11 months ago but only accused in May to have planned the murder of opponents with Aristide before the beginning of the rebellion which led the former president to the exile in February 2004. The Haitian minister was also shown to have been unaware of the atrocities supposed made by the police force against the partisans of alive Aristide in the shantytowns of the capital Port-au-Prince. If it were accepted, the resignation of Bernard Gousse would be the first major defection of a Minister for the temporary government named after the exile of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
  • the United States: a transporting helicopter of the tourists was damaged in East River a few minutes after its takeoff whereas it carried out an overflight of Manhattan. By chance, units of the police force patrolled in the port at the time of the accident and could quickly help the pilot and the six passengers who were held on the wreck of the helicopter when the high-speed motorboats arrived. The seven occupants were transported to the hospital by measure of precaution. Six of them were able to go, another was evacuated on a stretcher. Two women were slightly wounded one by exposure to the fuel of the helicopter, the other after being fallen with water. One of them was in a critical condition and was placed in an artificial coma. The helicopter was towed to a pier in low-Manhattan. The causes of the accident were not known in the immediate future.
  • France: four people died and four others were wounded including two seriously with Saint-Quentin in an explosion due to the accidental boring of a gas pipeline.
  • Corsica France, : a man who circulated in the car at the exit of Porto-Vecchio, in the Corse-du-Sud, was killed by balls around 13 hours by two people circulating has motor bike.
    • the bakery of the president of the Guild chamber of Haute-Corse, All Saints' day Galli, was slightly damaged with Bastia by an attack with the explosive.

Wednesday June 15th 2005

  • France: died of the actress Suzanne Flon at the 87 years age. She died brutally in a Parisian private clinic of the continuations of gastro-enteritis.
  • Russia: two explosions occurred early in the morning in an oil deposit with Noginsk to forty kilometers in the North-East of Moscow making two died and a casualty. The deflagrations would be due to engineering problems.
  • Australia: the Prime Minister John Howard announced that an Australian hostage who had been held for six weeks in Iraq was released after an military operation of the Iraqi forces. Mr Wood is a 63 year old engineer who lives for a long time in California and is married with American, had been removed at the end April. A little later an organization hitherto unknown, the Council of Choura of Moudjahidines of Iraq, diffused a DVD on May 1st showing this hostage requiring of the Australia to withdraw its 1.400 soldiers of Iraq.
  • Italy: died of the leader Carlo Maria Giulini of the continuations of one long illness at the 91 years age. He was regarded as one of the most talented Leader of the 20th century.
  • the United Kingdom: died of Percy Arrowsmith 105 years, which with his wife Florence Arrowsmith, 100 years was the alive couple with being married since longest, two weeks very right after having celebrated their 80 years of marriage and to be thus entered the Guinness Book of the records. Percy Arrowsmith died in the morning in its residence of Hereford, in the North-West of London, with his wife at her sides. Arrowsmith, which had three children, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, had revealed the secrecy of their longevity: after an argument, never not to go to lie down without being itself reconciled…
  • France: The Parisian department store firm Samaritaine temporarily its doors in an environment of suspicion enters the owner LVMH and the trade unions.

Thursday June 16th 2005

  • France: the writer Assia Djebar, who appears among the traditional ones of the Algerian literature of French expression, became the first Maghrebian author with being allowed with the French Academy.
  • France: the former Iraqi hostage Hussein Hanoun arrived at Paris at 6 p.m., where it was accommodated by the journalist Florence Aubenas. He was accompanied by his wife and of his son and one does not know how long he will remain in France.
  • Portugal: funeral worthy of a Head of State was celebrated in the honor of Alvaro Cunhal, historical figure of the Portuguese Communist party. A flag red, struck sickle and hammer, recovers its coffin which circulates in the streets of Lisbon. Some waited hours, under a blazing sun, to be able to approach that which was the general secretary of the Communist party lasting more than 30 years: dictatorship of Salazar to the construction of the Portugal of today while passing by the Revolution of the eyelets of 1974.
  • Kampuchea: at least 40 older children from two to six years coming from Australia, of the Kampuchea, the Canada, France, Indonesia, the Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the Filipino , Taiwan, Thailand, Swiss, Great Britain and the the United States, like 3 professors, were taken as released hostages then. A Canadian young girl three years old was killed during the police operation to release the few 40 young pupils and three professors selected several hours by four men masked and armed in an international school close to Angkor-Vat in the North-West of the country. This taking of hostages had proceeded in the principal tourist center of the country with Siem Reap close to the site of the temples of Angkor-Vat to 225 kilometers of Phnom Penh and where resident of many expatriates.
  • the United States: a seism magnitude 6,4 on the scale of Richter shook the south of the California, of Los Angeles to San Diego. No casualty nor damage was announced.
  • France, Indre: a seism a magnitude of 3,4 was felt in the Nickle silver-on-Hollow area of . No casualty nor damage.

Friday June 17th 2005

  • Brussels: failure of the negotiations on the budget of the widened EU. The European leaders did not manage an agreement on the financing of the widened Europe.
  • Argentinian: approximately 1.200 people, mainly of the minors and the workmen working in a gold mine, are blocked following strong snowfalls with more than 4.500 measure altitude in the Andes cordillera, in the province of San Juan, the mid-west of the country.
  • Kirghizstan : the anti-riot police force Kyrgyz intervened to dislodge several hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who occupied since the beginning of the morning the Electoral commission with Bichkek, to claim the recording of a business man like candidate with the presidential election of the July 10th.
  • Guatemala: at least 25 died in a landslide.
  • Russia, Moscow: following a derailment which has occurred Wednesday, between 60 and 300 tons of fuel oil were spread in the Vazouza river and threaten the water provision of the capital.
  • France: the public made its entry with the aeronautical living room of Le Bourget to admire the A380, the military aircrafts and the drones, whereas the commercial quarrel Airbus/Boeing was completed which showed a victory of European at the conclusion of the four days reserved to the professionals. Some 300.000 visitors are awaited during three days general public, that is to say as much as throughout all living room at the time of the preceding edition in 2003. Because of the multitude of the visitors, the organizers had to close the doors of the living room during half an hour between 3 p.m. and 15:30.

Saturday June 18th 2005

  • Iran: moderate the Hachemi Rafsandjani arrives of little at the head of presidential in front of a ultra-conservative after examination from approximately 80% of the bulletins, and a second turn will be necessary to slice the election, most dubious of the history of the Islamic Republic. According to figures obtained Saturday, the shortly after the poll, near the ministry for the Interior and the prefecture of Teheran, former president Rafsandjani, considered like pragmatic, obtains to 21,57% vote out of approximately 25,6 million bulletins stripped, in front of two perfect unexpected, the mayor of Teheran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (19,98%) and the moderate monk Mehdi Karroubi (18,68%). These calculations take into account the examination in approximately 2.200 offices of Teheran (on 2.760). They confirm that a second turn will be necessary. It could take place next Friday. It will be a first under the Islamic Republic. The three men precede the ultra-conservative Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf (14,60%), the reformer Mostafa Moïn (14,29%), another ultra, Ali Larijani (6,36%), and another reformer, Mohsen Mehralizadeh (4,48%). The positions can still evolve/move with the end of the operations of counting in the big cities. But this one was announced a priori more favorable to Ahmadinejad than in Karoubi, even if this last, former president of the Parliament, carried out an unhoped-for score by promising the fortune of 500.000 rials (55 USD) per month with all the Iranians of more than 18 years. Still a few weeks ago, Rafsandjani was given like gaining some.

Sunday June 19th 2005

  • Iran: an American airliner carried out an emergency landing on a track of the airport of Teheran after having announced engineering problems in its section cargo liner. Apparatus, a DC-10 of the Northwest Airlines company, travelled towards Amsterdam coming from Bombay, in India, with 255 people on her board. The incident did not make any casualty and the plane was to take again its flight after the intervention of technicians. The American commercial aircraft do not serve the Iran, this country remaining subjected to economic sanctions imposed by the the United States. Washington broke its diplomatic relations with Teheran shortly after the embassy sound recording at the time of the Islamic revolution of 1979.
  • South Korea: a soldier launched a grenade and fact fire on his own unit in the north of the country, killing eight soldiers and by wounding two others. The 22 year old young man, shot at his comrades in arms whereas the majority of the members of this unit stationed at the border North-Korean slept. The cause of the shooting remains unspecified but the military authorities have advanced the assumption of frustration vis-a-vis the military life or problems in its home environment. The two wounded ones were allowed in a military hospital. The soldier was questioned by the investigators.
  • the United States: a seism magnitude 5 occurred with approximately 195 kilometers off the northern coast of the California. The earthquake, whose epicentre was localized with some 210 kilometers in the west of Eureka, took place with 1:27 local. According to the authorities, no information giving a report of victims or damage was disseminated in the immediate future.
  • Swiss: the fall of a private plane made two died in Dittigen. The apparatus was crushed on the ground towards 15:00 not far from the aerodrome. We do not know the reasons of this crash landing.
  • Germany: two parachutists killed themselves after being entered in collision in freefall. The accident occurred close to Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony. The two men, old of 39 and 40 years, were experienced parachutists, who were exerted with figures in the airs. They tried to form a star by giving the hand to a third parachutist after their jump with 4.400 measure altitude, brought back witnesses. But they were struck and could not recover from the collision. Third could open its parachute and land healthy and except.
  • India: according to a new assessment 200 people died following the heat wave.
  • Afghanistan: the Afghan intelligence services succeeded in thwarting a plot aiming to the assassination of the ambassador of the the United States, Zalmaï Khalilzad, adopting three Pakistani armed with rocket launcher and rifles with attack. The alleged terrorists were stopped in the province of Laghman, with 50 meters of the place where the ambassador was to inaugurate a road with the Minister of Interior Department. The arrival of Khalilzad and the minister Ali Ahmad Jalali was cancelled in extremis, and none of the two official ones were in danger.
  • France: A 11 year old child is killed by ball with Courneuve. Visit Nicolas Sarkozy the following day; 3 suspects out of 4 are stopped.

Monday June 20th 2005

  • France: died of the American writer Larry Hakes at the 75 years age, one brain hemorrhage at the hospital of Frejus in the VAr (France).
  • France: restriction of the use of water because of the dryness in the Herault.
  • the United Kingdom: risings caused by strong rains in the area of the moors of the Yorkshire in the north of the England destroyed several bridges and half-compartment of the roads in two villages. The Rye river left its bed in these moors very little populated and the level of the east is quickly assembled to reach 60 centimetres, flooding the houses and the main streets of Helmsley and Hawnby, carrying cars and trees on its passage. A spokesperson of the police force of Yorkshire specified Monday that water of rising reached a peak with 1:37 (0. 37 GMT) but started to drop at daybreak. Inhabitants and firemen started to clean, this morning.
  • Japan: five moderate seisms shook north and is country, causing panic among certain inhabitants in an area which knew the most fatal earthquake of these ten last years. A person was slightly wounded with the leg while slipping in Kashiwazaki into the north of the country. Nearly tens of houses and public edifices cracks and damage underwent. The first two jolts, magnitude 5,6 and 4,1 occurred with 13:19 (16. 19 GMT) and 13:20 (16. 20 GMT), in the prefecture of Chiba, in the east of Tōkyō. They especially touched the towns of Hikari and Narita, close to the international airport of Tōkyō, and felt until in the center of the Japanese capital. Two other jolts struck with less than 15 minutes of Niigata interval, the first a magnitude was of 5 and the following one of 4,1. One hour after the seisms of Niigata, a new jolt of 4,5 struck Gifu.
  • Afghanistan: for Thursday of violent one storms have caused important floods in 10 provinces of the country in particular that of Badakhshan. At least 48 people died including 36 in the province of Badakhshan, 14 others were wounded and more than 1.000 destroyed dwellings.
  • Belgium: bones probably belonging to Mananya Thumpong, one of the victims of the alleged serial killer Michel Fourniret found in the forest of Nollevaux.
  • France: Philippe de Villiers does not exclude to be candidate with presidential of 2007.

Tuesday June 21st 2005

  • Pakistan: heats which have prevailed for several days on the country made 60 died.
  • Filipino: died with Manila of the cardinal Filipino Jaime Sin, 76 years old.
  • the United States: died with Dallas of the inventor of the integrated electronic circuit and Nobel Prize of physics in 2000, Jack Kilby of one cancer at the 81 years age.
  • France: Weather France lance an orange alert with the Heat wave in the Isere and the the Rhone for Wednesday the 6th H 00 until Friday the 16th H 00.
  • Lebanon: the former Communist leader, George Hawi assassinated in an bomb attack.
  • Russia: launching of Cosmos 1, the first space engine with solar Veil. After its launching, the communication with the space engine was very difficult. The telemetric reception of the data was long in coming and when they started to be received, the communication was cut.
  • Israel: a collision between a train and a truck close to the Israeli city of Ashdod, in the south of the country, made at least 8 died and more than 191 wounded. The exact circumstances of the collision were not in the immediate future given.

Wednesday June 22nd 2005

  • Swiss: in the largest breakdown of its history, the Swiss Railway network (CF and BLS) was completely paralyzed during three hours between 6 p.m. and 21 hours. More than 100.000 travellers remained blocked, sometimes inside coaches whose air-conditioning did not go any more. The situation was standardized during the night.
  • France: two people died and twelve others were poisoned by the emanations of a generator in the cellar of a bar with Bordeaux.
  • France: died of the lyric writer Michel Rivgauche at the 82 years age of the continuations of a long illness. He was in particular the author of the text of the song of Edith Piaf Crowd .
  • South Africa: the South African president Thabo Mbeki named the first vice-president of the country, the station being vacant following the dismissal last week of Jacob Zuma, implied in an corruption affair in which it known as innocent. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, minister with the Mines and Energy, thus takes the succession.
  • Bangladesh: according to an assessment published by the authorities 32 people died following the heat wave.
  • Ukraine: set fire to of a boat with Montevideo, 11 sailors are reported missing.
  • France: a coed in IUT, 20 years old, was killed by ball on the campus of the Source with Orleans. One of his/her comrades entered the class, armed with a rifle 22 long riffle, bought on Internet a few months earlier, and opened fire with three recoveries. It was stopped forty minutes after the facts.
  • Chile: the former dictator Augusto Pinochet left the military hospital of Santiago, one day after having been allowed there following an attack. Its spokesperson, the general reprocesses Guillermo Garin, declared of it that Augusto Pinochet, 89 years, recovered from this last health issue.

Thursday June 23rd 2005

  • France: died of the writer and poet max Rouquette with Montpellier at the 96 years age.
  • Australia: the Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson announced his resignation for health reasons before the Parliament. John Anderson had been Deputy Prime Minister for six years. He also left his post of leader of the National Party (preserving), the minority party of the coalition to the capacity in Australia. The preserving leader, who will leave mid-July, explained that he resigned because of benign problems to the Prostate.
  • United Arab Emirates: a U2 plane is crushed on an air base, the killed pilot.
  • France: as announced a little earlier by an alarm of Weather France, very violent ones storms fell down starting from 17:00 on the Paris region in a tropical atmosphere. Cloudburst flowed on a very dry roadway and caused traffic jams in very many places, in particular on the peripheral. The lines of the RER has, C, and D and certain underground lines (2, 6,8,9, 10,13) know disturbances. More impressive the National Assembly was flooded.

Friday June 24th 2005

  • France: Weather-France emitted an alarm of level three (orange) until Saturday the 6th hours on seventeen departments recovering the areas Auvergne, the Rhone-Alps and Languedoc-Roussillon (the excluded Eastern Pyrenees) as well as the Saône-et-Loire because of violent one storms. The stormy activity will begin in the afternoon on the Languedoc, before shifting on the Massif Central, then the area the Rhone-Alps. These storms will be accompanied by very strong gusts of wind and hail. Side precipitations, of the local office pluralities from 80 to 100 millimetres are possible in little time.
  • China: the floods and the landslides which struck the country in the two last weeks made 536 victims and forced the evacuation of almost a million and half of people, the government declared Chinese. The most important damage occurred in the south, where torrential rains and mud flows killed at least 97 people this week, during the most fatal rain season in ten years.
  • Russia: a brawl joining together nearly 200 people in the center of Moscow made 1 died.
  • Iran: 3 workmen were killed in an explosion in a factory of industrial acids in the west of Teheran.

Saturday June 25th 2005

  • Iran: the ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gained the presidential election, a victory whose its close relations compared the width with that of a “Tsunami” and who is likely to upset the face of the Iran and its relations with the Occident. It collected more than 61% of the near total of the stripped bulletins.
  • Greece: a because of reprocessed is reversed making 3 dead and 4 seriously injureds.
  • France, Finistere: two died in the fire of a house with Loctudy.
  • Bulgaria: the socialist opposition gained the legislative elections without to profit from the absolute majority. With 97,50% of the stripped bulletins, the Socialists collect 31,17% of the voices, while the party of the First outgoing minister, the former king Siméon of Saxony-Cobourg-Gotha is far behind with 19,91%.
  • Kenya: at least 49 people died after having consumed adulterated alcohol containing Méthanol.
  • Italy: the heatwave which has touched the country for several days made 2 died.

Sunday June 26th 2005

  • the United States, Florida: the beaches of the North-West of the Florida remained opened to the bathers in spite of the attack of a Requin from approximately 8 feet which cost the life a 14 year old young girl. There were twelve attacks of sharks on the coasts of Florida in 2004, significant drops by comparison with the thirty attacks in 2003. The specialists estimate that this low number is related to the big number of tropical cyclones in 2004, such, and.
  • Indonesia: a seism of a magnitude of 5,8 shook the island of Sulawesi without making damage nor of victims.
  • France: Dalil Boubaker, vice-chancellor of the Large Mosque of Paris was re-elected president of the French Conseil of the Muslim cult.
  • China: according to a new assessment the floods and torrential rains which devastated the country made at least 567 died and 165 missings.
  • Ivory Coast: a mud flow makes six dead with Abidjan.
  • the United States: a seism a magnitude of 5,2 degrees on the scale of Richter shook the north of the California, but no casualty nor damage was announced in the immediate future. The jolt, which has surprised the popular tourist locality of the edges of the Lac Tahoe with 11:45 (18. 45 GMT), is the sixth significant earthquake which touches this State in two weeks. The epicentre was localized with 19 kilometers with the north-north-east of Tahoe City and with approximately 32 kilometers in the south-west of the town of Reno, famous for its money plays.
  • 60e birthday of the signature of the Charter of the United Nations.

Monday June 27th 2005

  • Russia: seven people were wounded afterwards of the falls of trees because of strong rains and of the strong winds which fell down on the area of Moscow. The storm of involved power cuts depriving more than 25.000 hearths of electricity.
  • the United States: new earth tremor of 5,2 on the scale of Richter in California. No victims.
  • France, Herault: a factory classified Seveso with Béziers victim of a fire of unspecified origin this night.
  • France: Dominique Strauss-Kahn declares that it could be candidate of the PS to presidential of 2007.
  • France: the First secretary of the PS, François Holland, shows the government of " to court the populism and to make rounds of jambe" with the extreme right-hand side to justify its refusal to go to Matignon to the invitation of the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to speak about the Europe after the reception of a delegation of the Front National.
  • Northern Mariana Islands: the emperor Japan board Akihito arrived today at Saipan, the site of one of the most decisive battles of the countryside of the Pacific of the Second world war in June and July 1944, to pay homage to those which lost the life in the conflict. 55.000 Japanese and 5.000 American died for the conquest of Saipan and the island close to, two islands of the Mariannes which gave to the American forces a base allowing new the B-29 to bombard Tōkyō, to approximately 2.000 km in north. The terrible human losses, which were repeated with Iwo Jima and Okinawa the following year, convainquirent the United States to use the atomic bomb in August 1945. Gay Enola, which released Little Boy on Hiroshima and Bock' S Because, which released Fat Man on Nagasaki took off both of.
  • France, Heat wave: a 74 year old man died today of Hyperthermie to Paris, in the XI {{E}} district. The eight departments of Île-de-France were classified on the level 3d' alarm of the heat wave national plan and restriction of the taking away of water in the Orne.
  • Central America: at least 37 died with the El Salvador and the Honduras because of pouring rain.
  • Morocco: died of the British journalist Stephen Hughes at the 81 years age to the private clinic of the United Nations of Reduction following cardiopulmonary complications. He was the senior of the foreign journalists accredited with the Morocco and chair foreign press association.
  • the United States: died of the novelist and American historian Shelby Foote at the 88 years age, whose work on the American Civil War attracted million readers.

Tuesday June 28th 2005

  • Canada: the House of Commons of Canada adopted by 158 votes against 133 the bill which redefines the marriage like: “The marriage is, on the civil level, the legitimate union of two people, other than any other person. ” When this bill is adopted by the Sénat of Canada and is obtained the royal sanction, Canada will become the third country to legalize the marriages between joint of the same sex.
  • France: searchings ordered by the judge Henri Pons in the ministerial office of Thierry Breton to Bercy. Justice seeks to establish the implication of the Minister for Finance in financial embezzlements concerning the company Rhodia whose minister was member of the board of directors and president of the committee of audit until June 2002. The searchings also aim at low prices establishing evidence on another business concerning the transfer of Canal+ Technologies with Thomson Multimédia, company whose Thierry Breton was chairman until September 2002.
  • Paris, France: a drawing of Genevieve Laporte realized in the the Fifties by Pablo Picasso was sold at the time of an auction sale for 575.357 USD.
  • Italy, Rome: opening of the first stage of the Process of canonization of Jean-Paul II, the lawsuit in beatification.
  • Lebanon: the pro Syria N Nabih Berri is re-elected for the fourth time of continuation chair Parliament, the House of Commons.
  • Iraq: died of the senior of the Iraqi Parliament, Dhari Al-Fayyad, 87 years, killed in a suicide bombing with the car bomb with Baghdad.
  • Albania: heatwave, seven dead.
  • France: monseigneur Raymond Centène, chancellor of the diocese of Perpignan, named bishop of Valves by the pope Benoit XVI.
  • the United States: died in an accident of ULM of the American billionaire John Walton, wire of the founder of Wal-Mart, world number one of the distribution.
  • Filipino: thousands of Filipinos, simple people with the more political top-ranking executives, took part in Manila with the funeral of the cardinal Jaime Sin, one of the craftsmen of the fall of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Some 6.000 people have assity with a ceremony with the cathedral of Manila one week after death at 76 years of the continuations of a disease of old the Archevêque of the capital, remained the spiritual leader of the Filipino catholics in spite of his retirement in 2003. The president Gloria Macapagal-Stream, the ex-president Corazon Aquino, the chief of the supreme court Hilario Davide, the soldiers and the diplomats were present.
  • France, economy, Internet: the French manager of domain names Gandi .net was sold for 10 million euros. The identity of the purchaser was not revealed. (Article on Silicon.fr)

Wednesday June 29th 2005

  • France: died of the founder of association Survival and specialist in Françafrique, François-Xavier Verschave, of one cancer at the 59 years age.
  • Italy: Silvio Berlusconi will aspire to a new mandate of president of the Italian Council in 2006.
  • Europe: Bill Gates decided to give via its foundation Bill Gates 0,02% of his personal fortune (that is to say 9 d'€ million) at European organizations for the search for a vaccine against the Hépatite C.
  • Swiss: the bad weather in the country made a death (a woman crushed by a branch).
  • Canada: The firemen of Quebec are to call for an ammonia emanation which will averra superflou
  • Netherlands: the senior of humanity, the Dutchwoman Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper celebrated her 115e birthday today, receiving for the occasion the cordial wishes of the royal family of the Netherlands and the football club of Ajax of Amsterdam.
  • Italy: the heatwave which has touched the country for two days made at least 16 died.
  • India: the strong rains of monsoon which have fallen down for several days on the country made at least 17 died.

Thursday June 30th 2005

  • the United States: little before 19 local times (0 hour GMT), the police force briefly evacuated the Capitole, seat of the American parliament, and the White House after a private aircraft had penetrated the airspace prohibited in the North-East of the Reagan international airport. The president George W. Bush was transferred from his residence towards a surer place. The other principal persons in charge were put at the shelter during approximately ten minutes, before the police officers do not cancel the order to evacuate the places.
  • Lebanon: Fouad Siniora indicated at the post of Prime Minister.
  • Sudan: release of the islamist opponent Hassan Tourabi.
  • France: the Chômage recorded for the second consecutive month a light fall of 0,10  % in May compared to April, is 2.300 applicants for work in less, according to the figures published Thursday by the ministry for Employment.
  • France: the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared at the time of his first press conference that it knew why it fought in Matignon and that each day which master key is one day of action.
  • Cyprus: the Parliament of Cyprus ratified the European Constitutional treaty with 30 votes for and 19 vote against and an abstention.

Zh-min-nan: 2005 nor 6 goe̍h

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