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Tuesday the 1st er March 2005

• the United States, Capital punishment: by 5 votes against 4, the judges of the Supreme court decided that a minor could not be condemned to dead (business Roper v. Simmons ), describing it as cruel and unusual punishment within the meaning of VIIIe amendment with the constitution. This decision is a reversal of the Court compared to its preceding jurisprudence established in 1989 by the stop Stanford against Kentucky . The voice of Kennedy judge, moderated conservative, was decisive. In 1988, the Court had already prohibited this sorrow for less than 16 years.
• France, Royalty: the court of appeal judged that the trade unions of joint owners from now on are compared to companies of spectacles and must pay royalties with SACEM, like at all the other society of perception of royalties. The court decided following several judgments pronounced against the joint ownership of Parly 2 (Chesnay, Yvelines) which had made the choice of a parabolic Aerial common for the reception of the programs of Télévision.
• Martinique, Fort-de-France: the humorist discussed Dieudonné was attacked while going in the buildings of the Antilles Télévision.

Wednesday March 2nd 2005

• France, education: resignation of the rectrice of the academy of Toulouse, Nicole Belloubet-Frier. She justified her decision because she estimates more to be able to achieve her mission with the means placed at her disposal.
• Data-processing, the United Kingdom: the queen Elisabeth II made to Bill Gates “knight commander about the British Empire” for her economic successes and her charity works. It will not be able however to carry the title of “ Sir ”, since he is not British citizen.
• the United Nations: the Safety advice of the United Nations supports the blue helmets Monuc stationed in Ituri (area of the Democratic republic of Congo) and which resist the attacks of the nationalist Front and integrationist of Ituri (FNI). On the spot, of the members of the community lendue show the blue helmets to have killed out of the civilians during these interventions against the militiamans.
• Russia, Censure: the Douma voted for a resolution enjoignant the parliamentary commission of the culture to inquire into the morality of the opera the Children of Rosenthal of Vladimir Sorokine, soon with the poster of the Bolchoï, Moscow. This part introduces five type-setters clones by a scientist.
• Togo: Kofi Yamgnane, having the Togolese and French dual nationality, former Secretary of State in the French Socialist governments of Pierre Bérégovoy and Edith Cresson (1991-1993) and former mayor of Saint-Coulitz (Finistere), announces in a platform of the daily newspaper Le Monde (dated March 3rd but appeared 2) its intention to aspire to the presidency of the Republic of Togo, at the time of the consecutive presidential election with died of the president Gnassingbé Eyadema, election which, according to the terms of the Constitution, should be held at the latest the April 5th 2005 (60e day of the vacancy of the function).

Thursday March 3rd 2005

• Aeronautical: on board GlobalFlyer, the States-Unien Steve Fossett is the first man to make a success of the round the world tour in the plane without stopover into 67 H2 min 38 S, with departure and arrival at the aerodrome of Salina (Kansas). It was financed by Richard Branson, founder of the group Virgin. This round the world tour was to measure 36 787,559 km, that is to say the length of the Tropic of Cancer.
• Azerbaïdjan, Bakou: assassination in the night of the Journalist Elmar Hüseynov in front of its residence. It was known for its investigations into the corruption of the local political personnel; it had spent six months in prison after the publication of its discoveries on close relations of the president İlham Əliyev.
• Canada, Alberta: four agents of the royal Gendarmerie of Canada (GRC) died during an operation anti Drogue close to Mayerthorpe, in the Alberta.
• France, Angers: opening of a lawsuit where 39 men are judged and 27 women for facts of Pédophilie: sexual assaults, Rape S, of Procuring and not denunciation of these crimes, between 1999 and 2002, on older children of a few months to 12 years. The public ministry guarantees to have prepared a file which would avoid a new “business of Outreau”.
• France - Iraq, Business Julia: in the catch of hostages of the journalist Florence Aubenas and of his guide, the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin announced that the authors owed asresser with the French authorities if they wanted to negotiate. According to DGSE, the deputy Didier Julia did not have new information to communicate, whereas its name was quoted by Mrs. Aubenas in a video.
• France, economy: Louis Schweitzer, former general president-director of the group Renault, is named president of the High authority of fight against discriminations and for the equality (Dump).
• French Polynesia: Oscar Temaru of the Union for the democracy was elected president of French Polynesia with three votes in advance on its adversary Gaston Tong Sang of the Tahoeraa will huiraatira, the party of the former president Gaston Flosse.

Friday March 4th 2005

• France: the president of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, announces that the referendum aiming to the ratification of the Traité establishing a Constitution for Europe (the “European Constitution”) will proceed Sunday May 29th 2005. Among the opponents souverainists with the draft treaty, some point out in a discrete way, in the days which follow the settlement of the date of the consultation, that Mr. Chirac, which for a long time endeavoured “to uncouple” the possible adoption from the Constitution of the question, very discussed in France, of a prospect for adhesion of the Turkey in the term of ten years, chose a curious date for this popular consultation. May 29th will be indeed the date of the 552e birthday of the catch of Constantinople by the Othoman , on May 29th 1453. For this reason, these opponents with the treaty, in spite of the constant refusal by Mr. Chirac of all “amalgam” between the two questions, choose to see there a symbol related to their dispute of the constitution project, to which number of them are opposed by considering on the contrary that the two debates would be intrinsically dependant.
• France, university of Lyon 3: the disciplinary authorities of the university Jean-Mill excluded for five years Bruno Gollnisch, directing National front and teacher of this university, because of its remarks on the Shoah.
• Iraq: Italian release of the journalist Giuliana Sgrena removed the February 4th 2005, with Baghdad. But, it was wounded by American shootings against the convoy which led it to the airport; Nicola Capilari, one of the Italian agents in charge of her protection died, a agant second is seriously wounded. The president of the Italian Council, Silvio Berlusconi claimed an investigation with the authorities of the the United States whose president George W. Bush presented his regrets in the evening to him.
  Le president of the Republic, Carlo Ciampi, seemed not to be satisfied, Saturday, March 5, of the “regrets” presented by the White House, while the companion of the journalist, Pier Scolari, carried serious charges against the American troops, by saying that “the American soldiers did not want that it (Giuliana Segrana) was left there alive” because it would hold, according to him awkward information for the United States. Mr. Scolari adds in addition that “all the shooting was followed on line by the presidency of the Council which was on the telephone with one of the members of the special services” in the convoy taken for target by the American soldiers. On its side, Fausto Bertinotti, general secretary of the Party of the Communist Recasting, estimate that “the only thing to be made now is to withdraw troops of Iraq”.
  As for the parquet floor of Rome ( got it di Roma ), it opened legal information for worsened voluntary manslaughter ( proceeded per omicidio volontario aggravato ).
• Iraq: the same day, a soldier of the Bulgarian quota of the coalition, the machine gunner Gardi Gardev, is killed by a shooting of the American army, in a “bur” being explained apparently by the circumstances of the incident: the Bulgarian soldier would have indeed drawn in the air in order to warn an Iraqi civil vehicle which approached its armored vehicle, which would have been interpreted as a threat by a position of communication of the American army which was in the vicinity and would then have carried out heavy shootings which would have cost the life to the allied soldier. Bulgarian parliamentary opposition of the Bulgarian Socialist party (PSB, ex-Communist) car started from this incident to put in the embarrassment the government of center-right of the ex-king Siméon II, alias Siméon of Saxony-Cobourg-Gotha and to require the withdrawal of the Bulgarian quota of Iraq, this a few months before the legislative elections envisaged in June, for which it leaves favorite, and about at the time when the raising of the 450 men of the Bulgarian quota in Iraq is supposed to take place.
• Portugal: the Prime Minister Jose Sócrates (PS) presented his government made up of sixteen ministers.
• Quebec: more than 67.000 coeds and students in unlimited Strike general through Quebec in order to denounce, inter alia things, the cuts of 103 million dollars made in the loans and purses with the higher learning by the Liberal party of Quebec. Despite everything, the coūts of studies in Quebec are lowest through all Canada.
• Turkménistan, Health: the president Saparmyrat Nyýazow orders the closing of all the hospitals because “they are not used for nothing”, except that of the capital. The dictator turkmene recently was however operated eye.
• Ukraine: Iouri Kravtchenko, former minister for the Interior, was found died in its residence; it would have obviously committed suicide. The same day, he was convened by the police force about the assassination of the Journaliste Gueorgui Gongadzé, in September 2000.

Sunday March 6th 2005

• Chile: Marine Gladys, historical figure of the Chilean Communist party and one of the symbols of the fight against the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, died this night with Santiago at the 63 years age, victim of a cerebral tumor.
• Bolivia: the president Carlos Mesa announces his intention to give his resignation, 17 months after his election, following important waves of demonstrations and with an attempt at blocking of the road main axes of the country to the call of Evo Morales, leader of the Movement Towards Socialism (left opposition) and leader of the Bolivian coca planters. The opposition had in vain tried to make adopt at the Congress, Friday, March 4, a bill on hydrocarbons, aiming at a surtaxation of the foreign oil companies. The Congress must however approve this resignation formally before it is effective. Big demonstrations of support for the “outgoing” president, in the main cities of Bolivia on March 6th at the evening, as well as the support posted by the army Monday, March 7, leave think that this “resignation” would be likely to be refused by the Congress and to thus lead to a reinforcement of the governmental camp, up to that point weakened by the manifestations of the opposition.
• Moldavie : legislative elections in this old Soviet republic ; the Parliament elects the president of the Republic. The Communist party of the president Vladimir Voronin, given favorite thanks to an economic assessment favorable and a speech in favor of an integration of the country to the European Union, obtains 56 seats out of 101: the Communists will continue to control, but will have to compose for the election of the president elected in the majority of the three fifths. The PC had been elected in 2001 on a program pro-Russian.
• However, the Russia supervises this country because of the presence of an important Russian community and Red Army in Transnistrie and importance with Russian gas exports in the Moldavian economy.

Monday March 7th 2005

• South Africa, Pretoria: the municipal council of Pretoria voted the name change of the city for Tshwane ; Pretoria remaining the name of the historical center of the city. This name is that given to a river close by a former chief to tribe. If the mayor Smangaliso Mkhatshwa justifies this choice after years of debates by quoting the examples of Harare (Zimbabwe) and of Maputo (Mozambique), the opponents with this change evoke the cost of the replacement of the road panels and administrative papers (evaluated to approximately 130 million euros).
• Belgium, Brussels: inauguration by the king Albert II and his wife the queen Paola of the exposure Made in Belgium (manufactured in Belgium, English). Through many objects, it presents the history of the Kingdom of Belgium, for its 175e birthday.
• Economy: Harry Stonecipher, president of Boeing, leaves the head of the group. It is replaced by James Bell.
• the United States, public International law: information revealed by the Washington Post of March 10th, 2005, Condoleezza Rice announced by mail the March 7th with the General secretary of the United Nations that the United States of America withdrew optional protocol with the Convention of Vienna of 1963 on the consular relations. This text makes it possible to the foreign defendants to be assisted by their consulate. However, the the International Court of Justice obliged on several occasions the United States with rejuger foreign nationals condemned to death, because they had not been informed of their right to be thus assisted.
• the United States, UNO: the president George Bush named John Bolton ambassador of the United States in the United Nations. This choice surprises because Mr. Bolton is known to have regularly disparaged UNO. Certain political observers wonder whether the Sénat will confirm this nomination.
• France: the parquet floor of Paris opens legal information against Jean-Marie Le Pen, president of the National front, for “apology for war crimes”, making following a discussed passage of a maintenance granted to the weekly magazine Rivarol , in which the politician, after having declared that “in France at least, the German occupation was not particularly inhuman, even if there were burs, inevitable in a country of 550.000 square kilometers” , it added - and it is this passage which is aimed by the parquet floor of Paris -: “I remember that in North, a German, insane lieutenant of pain which its leave train ran off the line in an attack, thus causing the death of his young soldiers, wanted to shoot all the village: it had already killed several civilians besides. And it is Gestapo of Lille, informed by the SNCF, which arrived at once at two cars to stop the massacre”. On the same subject, the parquet floor of Paris had already opened an preliminary investigation in January, with the request express of Dominique Perben, Minister of Justice, Minister for Justice.
• Italy: Nicola Calipari, officer of the Italian secret services, killed Friday, March 4 in turbid circumstances by shootings of the American army in Baghdad, during the release of the journalist Giuliana Sgrena, by making him rampart of her own body, was honoured by state funeral in the basilica with Holy-Marie-of-Angels in Rome. More the Italian high ranking authorities, in the forefront of which the president of the Republic Carlo Ciampi and it president of the Council Silvio Berlusconi, took part in the ceremony, which was retransmise on line by several television channels.
• Quebec: the coeds in strike contruisent a shantytown before the Québécois Parliament where they/they intend to spend the night in order to testify to their financial position since the budget of the government Charest. > LCN

Tuesday March 8th 2005

• the whole world celebrates the international Journée of the Women, event instituted by UNO in 1977 to draw up an assessment of the progress made as regards equality of the sexes.
• Bolivia: the Bolivian Congress - unanimously of the 130 deputies and 27 senators present - refused the resignation of the president Carlos Mesa, resignation which had been announced Sunday, March 6 and formally presented the following day. The president, which the capacity leaves relatively reinforced by this test - consecutive with a social crisis related to a controversial bill on hydrocarbons - then altered its government, preserving seven ministers for the former team and by naming eight new, among which three women (what is an innovation in Bolivia, and which intervenes at the time one day in charge of symbolic system for the “cause with the women” throughout the world).
• France: demonstrations of approximately 130.000 College NS in several cities of the country for the withdrawal of the bill suggested by the Minister for State education, Francois Fillon, and already voted with the National Assembly. Mr. Fillon affirmed Wednesday, March 2: “nothing will be able to make that the law is withdrawn from the parliamentary debate”.
• Kosovo : the Prime Minister for Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj, former dignitary of high ranking of the Army of release of Kosovo (UCK) during the war of 1998-1999, is accused of “war crimes” by the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia (TPI). He resigns at once of his functions in the Kosovan government and announces his decision to go to $the Hague in order to answer it of the charges carried against him. The detail of the facts complained of Mr. Haradinaj is for the moment nonknown, but the incriminations emanate in particular from Serb justice , which charges to him 108 war crimes supposed against of the Serb civilians in Kosovo.
• Lebanon: a million and half of Lebanese are descended in the street to denounce the international pressures requiring the withdrawal of the Syrian troops of Lebanon.
• Chetchnia: the Russian authorities announced that the special forces of FSB killed the independence president tchetchene Aslan Maskhadov, in the village of Tolstaoï-Iourt.
• Terrorism, Madrid: one year after the attacks of March 11th, 2004, the town of Madrid (Spain) accommodates during three days an International Conference on terrorism.

Wednesday March 9th 2005

• France: Demonstration of the researchers to invite the government to hold its promises of the last year.
• France, Herault: demonstrations of wine growers of the Languedoc-Roussillon were punctuated material degradations and sometimes of scuffles with the police force in the streets of Montpellier and Sète. The highway Péage of Bessan (close to Agde) was ransacked. The wine growers of this area estimate to have respected the various EU law on agriculture, but they claim that they are victims of French and European areas which do not respect them while overproducing.
• France, European Constitution: the president of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, sign the decree subjecting to the referendum (the May 29th) the authorization to ratify the “Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe”.
• Olympic Games, Paris 2012: Paris receives until saturdays March 12th the commission of evaluation of the International Olympic committee to test its candidature for the organization of the Olympic Games in 2012.
• Kosovo : as of its arrival with the Netherlands, outgoing the Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, come freely to answer the inculpation of “war crimes”, was led to $the Hague, where the detention center of the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia is.
• Quebec, Canada: Grève more than 80.000 Québécois students is in strike, in opposition to the cuts in financial aid being studied carried out by the government Charest. In addition, the students occupied the offices of the Minister for Education with Châteauguay in order to express their dissatisfaction for inertia with Jean-Marc Fournier.

Thursday March 10th 2005

• China and the United States: Lenovo, the largest producer of computers in China will become purchaser of the division of the personal computers of IBM.
• France: several Syndicat S calls the employees of the Private sector and the Public sector to a general Grève to require of the government Jean-Pierre Raffarin measurements to help with the improvement of the Purchasing power of the Ménage S, the defense of the public services. The chances of success are weak: since 2003 the sentence of Mr. Raffarin “it is not the street which controls”, few strikers was heard and satisfied; moreover, in spite of the rehandling of March 2004 (Government Jean-Pierre Raffarin (3)) to leave a second chance to the government for better explaining the committed reforms, in one week, three days ago of demonstrations in France. The mobilization brought together approximately 500.000 people.
• Lebanon: the president Emile Lahoud invited the pro-Syrian Omar Kamaré to form a government of national union with the opposition which expresses regularly in Beirut since the assassination of Rafic Hariri. However, the chiefs of the opposition parties do not seem inclined to take part in this cabinet.
• Quebec, Canada: the University Concordia and the Polytechnic school of Montreal unite with the strike which gathers already more than 80.000 Québécois students. It is about the first mandate of strike of the history of the association of the students of polytechnic, which gathers the students of academic works of first cycle. In addition, several students of the secondary disconnected in their turn in order to give their support for the coed cause.
• Rwanda: The popular courts “gacaca”, which judge the executants of the genocide of Tutsis and the massacre of moderate Hutus of 1994, are held through all Rwanda. The pilot phase of these courts had started in 2001. See Genocide in Rwanda

Friday March 11th 2005

• Argentinian: the president Nestor Kirchner calls his fellow-citizens with Boycott er the service station of the company Shell because it increased the price of the gasoline in a price in prey with the Inflation.
• France, left the console with double-screen of Nintendo: the Nintendo DS
• France, Corsica: in one week, six attacks aimed at institutions and state enterprises (national police, EDF, Departmental management of the equipment) whereas is opened Thursday March 10th the lawsuit of Charles Pieri, suspected by the police force of being the chief of a clandestine group FLNC-UC (one of the movements resulting from the Front of national release of Corsica).
• France, Saint-Maur-of-Ditches, the Valley-of-Marne: An employee of the médico-psychological center Jean-Mill of Saint-Maur-of-Ditches was seriously wounded with stabs Friday, March 11 by a patient followed for schizophrenia. The victim, old from about fifty years, received two stabs in the thorax and another with the abdomen, according to SAMU 94.
• France, State education: Le Figaro revealed that a report/ratio of the Court of Auditors, not yet officially made public, reveals that the equivalent of 32.000 full-time teachers of primary and secondary education do not teach while being paid (estimated cost: 1,5 billion euros). The report/ratio shows mainly the administration of State education for a bad staff management of replacement, but also to pay itself of the teachers detached near other administrations or associations more or less related to teaching.
• Nepal: release of the former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and of 18 other people imprisoned since the king Gyanendra took the full powerss, the 2005.

March 9th, the 2005 province of Ontario promulga the Law amending the Law of 1999 on the town of Ottawa http://www.ontla.on.ca/documents/Bills/38_Parliament/Session1/b163_f.htm and then recognized officially the bilingual character of the town of Ottawa. This caused to promulgate official bilingualism for the national capital of Canada.

Saturday March 12th 2005

• Palestinian Authority: for the first time since the Agreements of Oslo of 1993, the Hamas wishes to take part in the Palestinian legislative elections planned for the summer 2005.
• Football: the referee Swedish Anders Frisk stops its international career. Its decision was caused by the death threats received since its arbitration of the match Ligue of the Champions between the Chelsea FC and FC Barcelona. The English team of Chelsea and her supporteurs show the referee of partiality.
• HongKong: the government Chinese accepts the resignation of the Chef of the executive of HongKong Tung Chee-Hwa of the last March 10th and names to take over temporarily the duties Donald Tsang, in accordance with the basic Loi of HongKong.
• Quebec: demonstration monster of the Québécois students with Montreal to denounce the budgetary cuts in education. At present, more than 85.000 students are in unlimited general strike through the Quebec, which accounts for approximately 20% of all the cégepiens and academics of Quebec. Moreover, the movement must develop during the next week whereas at least 20.000 other students envisage to put themselves in strike. Meanwhile, the president of the Conseil of the Treasury, Monique Jerome-Forget, expresses agreement to reinject money, which lets believe that the government Charest could reconsider its steps rather soon.

Sunday March 13rd 2005

• Argentinian - Chile: Argentina gave old the Nazi Paul Schaefer to the authorities of Chile which suspect it of Pédophilie and of Torture during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In 1961, Schaefer had created in Chile a Secte, the Colonia Dignidad, of which it had disappeared whereas the other leaders were stopped and judged for pedophilia.
• France, Paris: revealed by the Sunday newspaper , the Turn Montparnasse, higher Parisian Skyscraper, is infested with Amiante. The joint owners wonder about the way of “désamianter” the building.
• France, Paris, demonstration against the end of the winter Truce which will take place the March 15th, with the call of a collective gathering the Right Association in particular with housing, the French Ligue of the human rights, AC! and the Peasant confederation which requires the stop of the expulsion S without Relogement, end of the sale to the cutting of buildings, and a device of moderation of the Loyer S.
• Israel, occupied territories: the Israeli government decided to dismantle the colonies not - authorized in occupied territories (Gaza Strip and the West Bank) created since 2001.
• Central African Republic: presidential election in this country ruined. The favorite is the general François Bozize, who reversed by a coup d'etat in 2003 Angel-Felix Patassé exiled with the Togo.
• Togo: funeral of the president Gnassingbé Eyadéma, dead the February 5th 2005.
• the Vatican, Catholic church: the Pape Jean-Paul II returned to the Vatican after eight days of care to the Clinique Gemelli of Rome.

Monday March 14th 2005

• China - Taiwan: the National Assembly of the Popular republic voted a law allowing the use of the force if the Republic of China (Taiwan) declares its Indépendance. The Popular republic regards Taiwan as a rebellious province; on the island, political movements have wanted for a few years to be declared independent of China formally.
• the United States, California: seized on the bottom by the mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, a judge of the city estimated that a Californian law which would limit the Mariage to a union between a man and a woman would be anticonstitutional because it would not respect the equality between the citizens. The judge affirms in his decision that “to summarize, of the marriages between people of the even sex cannot be prohibited only because California always acted like that”. At the time of the last elections in November 2004, eleven states of the United States had adopted by Référendum legislations prohibiting the Homosexual marriage.
• Quebec: the studied movement becomes extensive. 100.000 students are at present burdens some to claim the abolition of the reform of the loans and purses which transforms 103 M$ of purses into loans. The movement becomes extensive and more than 200.000 students are likely to disconnect Wednesday on March 16th. The government intends to propose tracks of “carrying solutions” by the weekend with the FEUQ (University Coed Federation of Quebec) and with the FECQ (collegial coed Federation of Quebec). These two associations coeds reminded today the Charest government that they would not sign an agreement in on this side 103 M$ claimed. Let us recall that the Fournier minister drew aside the CASSÉÉ (Coalition of the Widened ADZE) of the negotiations because she did not want to condemn the acts of “violence” of last week.
• UNO: with Geneva (Swiss), the Commission of the human rights begins its 61e session, which will be completed on April 22nd. Louise Arbor, high commissioner of UNO to the human rights declared in its speech: “That it is a question of facing situations of violations with large scales or sporadic violations of the human rights, our approach of the human rights, as regards diplomacy - at the same time in the plans bilateral and multilateral, remains unsatisfactory. ” Mrs. Arbor also recalled that “the obligation to respect and ensure the application of the human rights fell on the States. When the States violate these rights, it continued, either directly because of their own actions, or indirectly while failing to implement the treaties or to force other entities to respect them, they take the responsibility for there. ” -
• Togo: several political parties of opposition indicated Emmanuel Akitani Bob of the Union of the forces of change (UFC) like their one applicant with the presidential election of April 24th, 2005. It had been already presented to the election of 2003 and had collected a third approximately votes behind the president Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
• France, Council of State: seized in urgency by Bruno Gollnisch, professor with the university of Lyon-3 and in addition acting general of the National front, following various statements in its opposition made by Alain Morvan, vice-chancellor of the Academy of Lyon, declarations making following the controversial statements made by Mr. Gollnisch at the time of a press conference the October 11th 2004, the section of the Dispute of the Council of State - supreme French administrative jurisdiction - orders “with the administrative authorities having to know disciplinary action which was committed against Mr. Bruno GOLLNISCH, because of the remarks that it held on October 11th, 2004, to abstain from taking public positions, as well about it as with regard to the criminal prosecutions diligentées because of these same remarks, under conditions which would be contrary with the principle of the Présomption of innocence” , as well as the payment by the State with Mr. Gollnisch of a sum of 2.000 euros in accordance with the article L. 761-1 of the code of administrative justice. Sources: press release and Council Decision of State and press release of the plaintiff.

Tuesday March 15th 2005

• France, end of the winter Truce.
• the West Bank, Jericho: following an agreement with Israel, the Palestinian Autorité will ensure itself the safety of Jericho. It is the first application of the transfers thus envisaged the February 8th 2005 by Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon to the Sommet of Charm el-Cheikh, in Egypt. The other cities to be transferred are Tulkarem, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Kalkilya.
• France, Royalty: the Court of appeal handed down a judgment which déboute the artists Daniel Buren and Christian Drevet, and confirms the judgments of first authority and the Court of Appeal. They had carried felt sorry for against of the editors of postcards showing their installation of the Place of the Composts. The Court recognizes that installation is “a work in oneself”, but that the postcards in question showed the whole of the place, of which it “constitutes a simple element”.
• Israel, Jerusalem: inauguration of the new building of the Memorial of Yad Vashem.
• Literature: more than one year and half after its publication, the cardinal Tarcisio Bertone orders, on Radio Vatican, with faithful not to read, nor to buy the novel Da Vinci Code .
• Filipino, Manila: the police force put an end to a mutiny in a prison of Manila, started the day before. 21 prisoners died in the attack, including three of the leaders of the islamist group Abu Sayyaf: Galib Andang (“commander Robot”), Nadjmi Sabdulla (“Total”) and Alhamser Limbong (“Kosovo”).
• Summary Center of new UNO
• Kosovo: The envoy of UNO condemns the attack to the bomb against President Rugova.
• Israel, Jerusalem: The Holocauste occupies a single place in the history of the the United Nations, affirms Kofi Annan with Jerusalem.
• the Middle East: the General secretary approaches with the Israeli ministers the next stages of the Roadmap.
• the Middle East: In round in the Middle East, the General secretary meets Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas.
• Somalia: the Safety advice calls with an strict application of the embargo on the weapons.
• Stockholm: The general Vice-Secretary calls with the world financing of the Funds against the AIDS, the Tuberculose and the Paludisme.
• Haiti starts its operations of demobilization, first step towards the national reconciliation.
• Burundi: the Safety advice invites the political directors to hold quickly of the elections.

Wednesday March 16th 2005

• the United States, Oil: the Sénat voted the finance law, to which the republican had included the authorization to make oil drillings in a natural reserve of the Alaska, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The text must be confirmed by a vote of the Chambre of the representatives.
• Iraq, Baghdad: with far from the noises of combat, the National Assembly of Iraqi transition opened its inaugural session, whose the General secretary is pleased with the United Nations Kofi Annan.
• Iran: a serial killer found responsible for died for 21 children received 100 whiplashes, a stab before being hung in public place. * Montreal, Canada: several thousands of students, from 80.000 to 100.000, come from all the corners of the province, are descended in the streets from the metropolis to protest against the cuts in the mode of loans and purses of the government of Jean Charest. More than 230.000 students are currently in strike on the 450.000 students of the collegial and university networks. It is about the very first strike of the Polytechnic school of Montreal as well as school HEC Montreal. The Minister for Jean-Marc Fournier education had made a proposal on Tuesday, March 15, of 41,5 million dollars for 2005, amount which would reach 95,5 million in 2009 gradually. But associations coeds specified that they will not go down in on this side 103 M$ claimed.

• European Union: the European Union deferred the opening of the negotiations of adhesion with the Croatia while requiring of this country to deliver the general Ante Gotovina to the International penal court. Although shown war crimes and crimes against humanity, this one is regarded as a national hero by the Croatian population to have taken part in the reconquest of the Krajina.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• Tsunami: the general secretary names Erskine Bowles at the station of special correspondent associated for the rebuilding.
• the humanitarian crisis in the east of the Democratic republic of Congo is more serious than that of the Darfur, according to Jan Egeland.
• Ivory Coast: the Operation of the United Nations in Ivory Coast request the opening of an investigation into the death of 13 prisoners.
• Burundi: the food deficit which worsens threat the peace process.

Thursday March 17th 2005

• Belgium: vote of a law protecting the sources from the Journaliste S by the Chambre of the representatives. The journalists working in Belgium will be able to conceal their sources, like their technical collaborators (cameraman, taker of sound, assembler). An exception was defined in the event of threat with the physical integrity of the people.
• France, French Academy: election of Rene Girard, professor of comparative literature and Christian philosopher, with the armchair 37, where it succeeds the Reverend Square Père, deceased the January 15th 2004.
• France, Railroad: the national company, the SNCF, presented its new logo. Its design cost 67.000 Euro S and its progressive installation in the letters, the stations and on the trains should cost 4 million euros.
• France, referendum on the European Constitution: holding meeting with Strasbourg within the framework of the pre-countryside of its party for the Referendum of the May 29th, Nicolas Sarkozy, president of the UMP, declare “at all anxious” with the advertisement of the publication of a survey CSA- Parisian the - Aujourd' today in France, to appear Friday, March 18 in these two daily newspapers, which is the first to reveal the possibility of a victory of “not” at the time of the referendum (51  % of not, 49  % of yes and 53  % of abstentions or blank votes or null). Source: dispatch 3-Alsace France. In same time, another survey TNS Sofres-Unilog for RTL, Le Monde and LCI, carried out March 9th and 10th (day before and the very same day demonstrations in France in favor of and the purchasing power wage increase), had also been published Tuesday, March 15, and was also translated him by a noticeable decrease of the voting intentions in favor of the ratification (56  % of yes, 44  % of not, 37  % not having expressed an voting intention), while considering probable a victory of yes (the 68  % of yes, 13  % of not and 19  % of “without opinion”).
• Genetic: the scientific magazine Nature publishes articles on the Séquençage of the Chromosome X at the human being.
• Quebec, it there has 50 years today, the suspension of Maurice Richard two weeks before the eliminating heats, to have hustled a referee, caused an important riot with the Forum of Montreal. The presence in the steps this evening there of Clarence Campbell, president of LNH and person in charge of the suspension of the “Rocket”, was the drop which had made overflow the vase. The suspension imposed by president Campbell was perceived by the Inhabitants of Quebec as a deep injustice towards their idol which carried the aspirations of the people then. March 17th, 1955, Red Wings de Detroit are in Montreal to face the Canadian. At the time when the Canadian is dominated 4-1 by the Red Wings, Clarence Campbell makes her appearance, in company of its secretary, and takes seat with its seat. The partisans of the Canadian perceive the attitude of the president like an arrogant provocation. He is taken with part, he receives tomatos, a slap in full face, and a teargas grenade explodes near him. Several historians classify today this event like one of the releases of the Quiet revolution.
• Quebec: During its morning emission, “the parallel world of Jeff Fillion”, Jean-François Fillion leaves his station of organizer. The president de Genex Communications and owner of CHOI Radio operator X, Patrice Demers, affirm in press conference that: “Jeff Fillion did not have the taste to make radio in the context that we and the company impose to him”.
• the United Kingdom: for the first time for 23 years, the Victoria Cross has been given to the soldier Johnson Beharry of the 1st battalion of the royal regiment of the princess of Wales (born with Grenade), for two acts of heroism to Al-Amara, in Iraq. In the first, it succeeded in saving soldiers under enemy fire in spite of a fire in its armored vehicle; in the second, it succeeded in bringing back its machine in spite of a wound to the head. It is one of the thirteen alive medal-holders out of the 1.355 soldiers who were brave vis-a-vis the fire of the enemy.
• Sudan, Safety advice of the United Nations: the Safety advice did not succeed in voting for a resolution on two problems in Sudan. The first part does not pose a problem: sending of an international force in South-Sudan to help with pacification. However, the sanctions against the Sudanese government on the massacres of the Darfur are refused by the Algérie, the China and the Russia, and the will of the countries of the European Union to translate the culprits in front of the International penal court counterirritates the the United States. In same time, the 2.000 soldiers of the African Union cannot prevent the continuation of the exactions.
• Tunisia: Abdelsattar Ben Foamed, barristers president about the Tunisian lawyers, held a press conference to denounce “brutalities and violations of the right of defense” in its country. The barristers president acts after two weeks of tension between the police force, the judges and lawyers Tunisian after the imprisonment of the lawyer Mohamed Abbou for “incentive with enfreindre of the laws”.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• Lebanon: Kofi Annan expects a complete withdrawal of the Syrian troops before the elections.
• Sudan: Jan Pronk requires of the assistance of the countries of the European Union.
• the Safety advice extends for a further another week the preparatory mission of UNO in Sudan.
• WHO disadvises the use of the beds of bronzing for less than 18 years.

Friday March 18th 2005

• Angola, Health: the the World Health Organization (WHO) announces that the disease resembling the Virus Ebola seems to touch only the children of less than five years. It has killed 39 people in Angola for three months.
• France: failure of the negotiations on a wage increase in the private sector, which took place within the framework of the National Commission of the collective agreement. The deputy secretary with the business acquaintances, Gerard Larcher, invited the Syndicat S of paid and owners to be re-examined the next June 10th, after the Référendum on the European constitution of the May 29th.
• Kirghizstan : with Och, second city of the country, demonstrators attacked a public building. Since the second turn of the legislative elections of the February 27th and last March 13rd, several similar facts took place in the country. These elections were largely gained by the parties close to the government. Two children of Askar Akaïev, president of the country, were elected.

• New York, Islam: a Moslem religious ceremony was directed by a woman, Amina Wadud, in the presence of faithful female and male. Professeure with the Virginia the Commonwealth University, it wants to draw the attention to the place of the women in the Muslim community.
• Paris, France: top in Paris where the leaders of three countries of the European Union with Vladimir Poutine meet, president of Russia: the French president Jacques Chirac, and heads of government German Gerhard Schröder and Spanish Jose Zapatero. Were evoked the Ukrainian presidential election, the nuclear program Iran IEN and the departure of the troops Syria born of the Lebanon. This top announces the top Union European-Russia of Moscow, the May 10th 2005.
• Quebec: the grogne coed is accentuated. While the Minister for Jean-Marc Fournier Education tries to convince the public opinion that its proposal for a refunding of debt is better than the old mode of loans and purses, the studied movement becomes extensive. Nearly 150.000 students of the universities, colleges and even of the secondary schools are in strike. Critic of the opposition as regards education, Pauline Marois, request with the government to give up “its complex and alambiquée formula of remittal of debt”. In room, it qualified the Fournier minister of “new Robin of Wood, flying to the poor to give again with the poor-poor”.
• the United Kingdom: the Committee on Transport notes that the Privatization Métro of London did not make improvements (the delays and the security issues increased) although the public expenditure doubled since 1998 to mitigate the insufficiencies. The private contractors, as for them, made benefit.
• the United States: The Patriot Act is considered to be anticonstitutional and illegal in the State of the New Mexico.
• Sommaire Center of new UNO
• Kofi Annan will present Monday his report/ratio on the reform of the United Nations.
• the Burundi is on the right track but the support of the international community imperative, according to Is sent UNO.
• the Prosecutor of the International penal court “conscious” of the process of reconciliation in Uganda within the framework of its investigation.
• Kosovo : the Envoy of UNO greets the nomination of a new Prime Minister.
• WHO creates a Commission to attack the social causes of the bad health.

Saturday March 19th 2005

• Brussels, European Union: the European Confédération of the trade unions (THESE) calls with a demonstration in the Belgian capital to protest against the Directive Bolkestein, of many trade-union organizations (not all members of the THESE, such as, for the France: the European Public Service Union Interdependent and the FSU) and of associations such as Attac or AC! answered it. Many organizations present benefitted from it to reaffirm their position on the European Constitution. This directive bears the name of old a European Commissioner, Frits Bolkestein. The goal of THESE is to alert the Heads of State of the Union who meet the 22 and next March 23rd. The demonstration joined together between 50.000 and 60.000 people.
• Automobile France, : the manufacturer Renault invites the drivers of vehicles of the mark equipped with a Limitateur speed to come in his dealers to see itself recalling how to use this equipment. He would be related to several incidents having frightened owners of Renault vehicles which had not been able to slow down their vehicle under sufficient security conditions. For the manufacturer, the reliability of the limiter would not be in question, but the misuse in a situation of panic.
• Lome, Togo: Gilchrist Olympio held an electoral meeting in support for the candidate of the opposition for the presidential election Emmanuel Akitani Bob. Directing Union of the forces of change (UDC), Olympio lives in exile in France.
• Media: the Agence France-Press (AFP) continues Google in justice and claims 17,5 million dollars, because the Search engine reproduces without authorization of the photographs, the titles and the starters of articles in its section Actualités ( Google News ).
• French Polynesia: election of Virginia Teriiama with the Academy tahitienne, institution which makes an effort, since 1972, to promote the language tahitienne.

France

• - Survey IFOP - " JDD ": Chirac - 5 (42%), Raffarin + 1 (33%)
• - Dieudonné: six months of prison against its attackers on March 1st.
• - Deprived: Guillaume Sarkozy (Medef): no negotiations on the wages.
• - Factors of the Rhone delta: end of conflict after 3 weeks.
• - Pile-up on A4 in Seine-et-Marne: no casualties.
• - the Agence France-Press engaged an legal action against Google.

Foreigner

• - Qatar: Explosion close to a British school. A death, 12 wounded.
• - Pakistan: 35 died in an explosion close to a Moslem sanctuary.
• - Lebanon: the opposition rejects the call to the dialog of President Emile Lahoud.
• - Bastia: A death in the collapse of the building.
• - Bastia: 5 wounded (a low register) in the collapse of a building.
• - the Lebanese president will not attend the Arab top of Algiers (22-23).
• - China: Fatal firedamp explosion in a mine of the north of the country.
• - Three alleged members of the ETA stopped in France, according to Madrid.
• - Three police officers killed at the time of the funeral of a colleague with Kirkuk.
• - Several casualties in the collapse of a building with Bastia.
• - Lebanon: the president invites pro and anti-Syrians with discussions.
• - Singapore puts an end to its military operations in Iraq.
• - Pakistan: shooting of test of a Missile long range with Nuclear capacity .
• - Condoleezza Rice proposes a partnership Custom-Japanese on the development assistance.
• - Condoleezza Rice lance a call to the democratization of China.
• - Condoleezza Rice invites Pyongyang to take again “immediately” the negotiations.
• - Airbus/Boeing: The the United States threaten to turn over in front of OMC.
• - Lebanon: an attack in the east of Beirut makes several casualties.

Sunday March 20th 2005

• Belgium: the Moslem of Belgium renew the General meeting of the Moslems of Belgium, charged to represent them. The Parliament elects then the Exécutif Moslems of Belgium (EMB) which dialogs with the State.
• Francophonie: international day of the francophonie.
• Qatar, Doha: attack against a British school of Doha.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• “In a larger freedom”: Kofi Annan proposes in his report/ratio a reform without precedent of the the United Nations.
• Reform of UNO: a “contract” suggested at the international community.

Monday March 21st 2005

• Ile-de-France, Justice: opening of the lawsuit of the gone of the colleges of Ile-de-France.
• Estonia: resignation of the government of Juhan Shares. The Parliament voted a Motion of censure in discredit of the Minister for Justice Ken-Marti Vaher and its fight plan against the Corruption.
• France, European Constitution: a new survey carried out March 18th and 19th by the institute Ipsos for Le Figaro and Europe 1, confirms, three days after the publication, on March 18th, of a survey in Parisien revealing a comparable tendency, that the possibility of a victory of “not” at the time of the Référendum of the May 29th 2005 is not to draw aside. 52  % of the people having expressed an opinion at the time of this investigation decides there for “not”, 48  % for “yes”, 24  % of the people stating some to go to vote not having expressed an voting intention and approximately a third of the total sample expressing its intention not to vote. Compared to a similar survey of the same institute carried out on March 4th, the voting intentions were largely reversed (60  % for “yes” and 40  % for “not”).
• the United Nations: the general secretary Kofi Annan presents officially a report/ratio for the reform of the United Nations and the relations between States. He in particular proposes to create a procedure of entry in war which reinforces the role of the Safety advice.
• Quebec: In front of the refusal of the opposition to sign a blank check, the government had to call upon the law of the muzzle to make adopt the appropriations necessary with the operation of the State for the three next months. It has been the first time for 64 years which a government is not able to deposit a budget on date. The Charest government in has full the arms, in addition to the 170.000 students in strike who “reflect”, the teachers, whose work contract has been expired for two years, voted in favor 2 days of strike.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• Presenting his Report/ratio, Kofi Annan hopes for decisions with the Sommet of evaluation of the Millenium.
• “In a larger freedom”: the Report/ratio presented at the time of a press conference.
• R.D. of Congo: the Government and militia returned to their responsibilities by Jan Egeland and the MONUC.
• Lebanon: it will be necessary to fill the vacuum created by the withdrawal of the Syrian forces, affirms Kofi Annan.
• Kyrgyzstan: call of the General secretary with the dialog on bottom of electoral controversies.
• documents with reading
• the declaration of the General secretary in the General meeting, Kofi Annan. He stressed that this report/ratio was presented six months before the great meeting of September. He invites the Heads of State to examine it by hoping that this time will be sufficient so that the leaders of the whole world can make, at this time, the decisions which are essential.
• the report/ratio entitled: IN a LARGER FREEDOM towards the development, safety and human rights for all.

Tuesday March 22nd 2005

• Economy, equipment of Ski: Quiksilver, undertaken clothing and of equipment Australian specialized in the Surfing, announces the repurchase of the French company of equipment of ski, Rossignol.
• France, naval House: burden with the Merchant navy French whereas the National Assembly begins the examination of a private bill of the senator UMP Henri de Richemont. This proposal wants to make attractive the registration of tradind ships under French house. The sailors and companies of French merchant navy speak about the creation of a Flag of convenience.
• Quebec: The students intensified their means of pressure. The access to the wearing of Montreal was blocked during a few hours by the demonstrators requiring the abolition of the reform of financial aid of the students. In Quebec the students were made hear bruyamment, in particular by blocking symbolically the boulevard Charest the time of the red lights, withdrawing themselves as soon as fires of circulations changed with the green, each time under a rain of horns of encouragement.
• the Vatican: the health condition of the pope “is more serious than when it was at the hospital”.
• Monaco: the health condition of the prince Rainier III of Monaco, 81 years, hospitalized since March 7th worsened. The sovereign was placed in reanimation, according to an official statement of the palate.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• Haiti: the operations of MINUSTAH (Mission of the United Nations for stabilization in Haiti) do not constitute a “change of attitude”, estimates the Envoy of UNO.
• the Special court for the Sierra Leone greets the arrest of a close relation of Charles Taylor.
• Kofi Annan will require of the Arab Ligue its support for the reforms of the United Nations.
• Afghanistan: MANUA (the Mission of assistance of the United Nations in Afghanistan) will play its part in the legislative elections fixed at September 18th, 2005.
• the United Nations launch the “Decade of Water for the life”.
• Died of two Blue helmets in Haiti: judgment of the General secretary and the Safety advice.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

• the United States: a Court of Appeal rejected a new recourse of the parents of Terri Schiavo to continue its food by a Cathéter. * Europe: several experts estimate that the Euro takes a more important place like international currency. * Literature: Jules Verne, whose centenary of death is celebrated today, will have mixed reality with imaginary, through a hundred novels and news.
• Summary of the center of new UNO:
• Kofi Annan invites the Arab Ligue to support the draft convention on terrorism.
• Sudan: the situation with the Darfur requires the presence of 8.000 men on the ground, according to Jan Pronk.
• Safety advice: the co-operation with TPIY half-opens the way of integration to the Europe of the Bosnia-Herzégovine.
• Lebanon: the general secretary considers an in-depth survey on the assassination of Rafic Hariri.

Thursday March 24th 2005

• Japan: grand opening of the World Fair Aïchi 2005 close to Nagoya.
• France: Dominique de Villepin announced Thursday the creation of “cyberpatrouilles” of police force on Internet.
• Kirghizstan, Bichkek: the opposition seized the power with the Kirghizstan, whereas the president Askar Akaïev would have left the country. Demonstrators took possession of several ministries, leading the Prime Minister Nikolaï Tanaïev to resign. The old Parliament elected Ichenbaï Kadyrbekov to be its president and appointed it president by interim. The government is entrusted to members of the opposition parties carried out by Kourmanbek Bakiev.

Since the first turn of the legislative elections in February 2005, of the demonstrations takes place in the country, except the capital, to denounce irregularities in the electoral process.

Within the the Community of the independent States, the Kirghizstan is the third country to know a revolutionary process of this type these last months after the Georgia and the Ukraine.

• Texas: an explosion which has occurred Wednesday with the BP refinery of Texas City made at least 14 died and more than 70 wounded.
• Chamonix : the families of the 39 victims of the fire of the Tunnel of Mont Blanc gathered Thursday morning with Chamonix for the sixth birthday of the drama of March 24th, 1999.
• France: the high-school pupils greet the law Fillon by blocking colleges and while ravelling.
• Spain: Augusto Pinochet escapes a lawsuit for the assassination from the Général Prats in 1974.
• France: the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin ensured Thursday evening on TF1 that it was going to lead the explanation campaign of the government for yes to the referendum on the constitution European, and reaffirmed his optimism on employment and the growth.
• the United States of America: NASA envisages starting from May 15th to install the shuttle Discovery on its launching pad in the first week of April in preparation of a resumption of the manned flights towards the International space station (ISS), announced Thursday the American space agency.
• Monaco: no improvement was noted Thursday concerning the health condition of the prince Rainier, placed in reanimation and under respiratory assistance following a doubled lung infection of insufficiencies cardiac and renal, one learned near his entourage.
• Video game: Exit of the Portable PlayStation (PSP) in North America.
• Brisbane : diplomatic incident between the Australia and the New Guinea-News-Guinea after the Prime Minister of png, Michael Somare, had to expose himself to pass a security check to the airport of Brisbane. Since, the government of png claims official excuses.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• the Safety advice vote the creation of a Mission of the United Nations in Sudan (WASHOUT).
• Sexual abuses of the Blue helmets: a report/ratio of UNO proposes concrete measures.
• Kyrgyzstan: the General secretary calls with the payment of the crisis by peaceful ways.
• the Middle East: the dead end is raised, estimates Kieran Prendergast.
• the Ivory Coast in critical situation, according to a report/ratio of the General secretary.
• Afghanistan: the Safety advice extends the Mission of UNO (MANUA) for one New Year's Day.

Friday March 25th 2005

• Monaco: the prince Rainier III of Monaco remains maintained in artificial survival in the center cardiothoracic of the Principauté. “The vital prognosis of the sovereign, because of the brittleness of its functions cardiac, respiratory and renal, remains held”, announced at the semi-day the Press Office of the palate in a medical report.
• Journalism: the agency France-Press gained the price of the best photograph of topicality 2004 and five other prices with the first international contest of photographs of press organized by the Chinese media, announced to Friday the organizers.
• France, Racism: seven personalities from the left or considered close to the left (Ghaleb Bencheikh, Élie Chouraqui, Chahdortt Djavann, Alain Finkielkraut, Jacques Julliard, Bernard Kouchner and Pierre-André Taguieff) launch a call, relayed by the French branch of the movement Zionist Hachomer Hatzaïr and supported by the Community radio Radio Shalom, to denounce the “attacks on immigrants anti-White” which would have constituted, according to their optics, the violences exerted by groups of breakers at the time of demonstrations high-school girls the February 15th and March 8th 2005. This petition causes various reactions, energy of approval to the hostility. See, on Wikinews, the article: Call against the “attacks on immigrants anti-White”.

Saturday March 26th 2005

• Kirghizstan : the former president Askar Akaïev exiled himself today in Russia, after having fled with the Kazakhstan, Thursday March 24th, a rather peaceful revolution.

With Bichkek the capital, the president by interim Kourmanbek Bakiev announced its candidature for the next presidential election which is fixed at the next June 26th. However, of the lately elected deputies in February - March dispute the prolongation of the old bicameral Parliament until June.

Felix Koulov, opponent charged to order the security forces, ensures that the calm one was restored afterwards of plunderings.

• France: the mysterious Groupe AZF remakes speech of him.
• Monaco: the health condition of prince Rainier more and more alarming.
• Rome: Jean-Paul II appeared Friday evening thanks to a video connection established with its private vault of the the Vatican.
• the Gironde: the butcher of discharged Sallebœuf. This 53 year old man was judged to have wounded, in an access of rage, seven people with stabs in June 2003.
• France, the Sarthe: an accident of coach made two died and twenty wounded Saturday morning on A28, between Mans (the Sarthe) and Alençon (Orne). Three of the casualties are seriously reached. The coach transported thirty-five passengers, especially of the elderly. The driver lost control for unknown reasons.
• France, the Rhone: fourteen people poisoned by Carbon monoxide in a church with Saint-Nizier of Azergues.
• France, failure: to light its dipped headlights the day is still far from being a reflex! Since the end of October, the motorists are incited to roll in day with their dipped headlights, except agglomeration cause a drop in the number of accidents. Only one driver out of four would play the game. The experimentation finishes this weekend and the drivers do not seem not convinced. On the other hand, measurement went this autumn well: a peak was even reached in December, with five drivers out of ten. While waiting for the results of the study, the motorists are invited to continue the operation.
• Pacific Ocean: Maud Fontenoy about to offer a new ocean. After the Atlantic in 2003, it will become the first woman to have crossed the Pacific with the oar. Part the January 12th of the Peru, it is waited this weekend in Polynésie after a tour of 8.000 kilometers in a little more than 70 days, that is to say one month in advance on its forecasts. The navigatrice profited from favorable currents. Maud Fontenoy must accost precisely on Hiva Oa, the mythical small island where are buried Jacques Brel and Paul Gauguin. Arrival under the coconuts Saturday evening or Sunday morning.
• Economy: the purchasing power of the employees, and in particular that of the executives, moved back at the fourth quarters 2004. what gives new arguments to the trade unions which claim opening of negotiations wage in the private sector vis-a-vis a employers more than reticent…
• France: the customs officers seized Friday three tons of Résine of cannabis in a freezer wagon on the A7.
• Lille: two boys were seriously wounded, ejected of a caterpillar of the fair to the horse-gears.
• Paris: the fair of the Throne opens its doors. Five million visitors is awaited there until the May 22nd. The entirety of the receipt of the entries of Friday evening was transferred with the Association Laurette Fugain which fights against the leukemia and the diseases of blood.
• Lebanon: a new attack, the third in one week, struck Saturday evening Christian quarters in the suburbs of Beirut, causing very large property damages and several fires, without it being possible in the immediate future to know so of the victims were to be regretted.
• Japan: French president Jacques Chirac praised Saturday A380 in front of Japanese employers in order to allow Airbus to make an entry in Japan which has been faithful for one half-century to its rival Boeing.
• Great Britain: died of the former British Prime Minister James Callaghan, the day before its 93 years, in its residence of the Sussex (England). Former chief of the workers party, it occupied the post of Prime Minister of April 1976 at May 1979, date on which it was beaten by the conservatives of Margaret Thatcher. Its government did not resist a wave of social movements which agitated the Great Britain during the winter 1978 - 1979.
• Northern France, : an young girl died Saturday evening, stabbed in the street with Tourcoing close to Lille, following a disagreement between young people of two families, one learned Sunday near the police force and of the firemen. The teenager, 17 years old, received at least a stab, according to the police force. Wounded with the thorax, it could not be reanimated by the firemen. The drama, which occurred around 10 p.m., would be related to a “relatively important quarrel between young people of two families” of Tourcoing, specified the police force. The police station of Tourcoing is in charge of the investigation.
• Australia, Melbourne: died of the beater of Crowded House, Paul Hester, on Friday night in Melbourne.

Sunday March 27th 2005

• Europe, passage to the Summer-time: the passage to the summer-time will be done at 2 o'clock in the morning, it will be then 3 hours.
• Kirghizstan, Bichkek: the electoral commission decided so that the Parlement monocamerist elected in February - March is recognized whereas the Supreme court recognized the legality of the Parliament outgoing bicamerist, Thursday March 24th.
• Tokyo, Japan: the French president Jacques Chirac met Japanese the Prime Minister Jun' ichirō Koizumi after three days of visit in Japan. Two problems in the relations between the two countries remained in place. The Japanese government appreciates little that the European Union thinks of raising its Embargo on the sale of weapons to the Popular republic of China (and whereas the Chinese Parliament voted a law authorizing the use of the war if the island of Taiwan pronounced its independence). The two countries are in competition to accommodate the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), experimental nuclear reactor.
• Macedonia: second round of the municipal elections. A majority of the 85 municipalities must elect their mayor if the absolute majority were not reached with the first turn. Ten of them again organize a first turn because of irregularities noted by the observers of SOEC.

These elections are important for the integration of the country in the institutions of association of NATO and the European Union. They are the last clause of the Accord of Ohrid of 2001 which put an end to several months engagements between the governmental army and of the armed Albanian opponents.

• Rome: the pope Jean-Paul II filmed back at the time of the Good Friday, during the way of cross. Absent up to that point of the Easter celebrations, Jean-Paul II was to close the ceremonies by his blessing “urbi and orbi”. Its breath and its suffering did not enable him to pronounce its blessing.
• Greediness: a workshop “special Easter egg” was organized Saturday afternoon at the school of kitchen of the Parisian hotel “Ritz”, for the older children between 6 and 13 years accompanied by their parents. But, before touching with the spatulas, the chief cook gives the first explanations. The exercise is delicate but the pupils rather studious and are applied. The moulding is the second phase: the audience is always also receptive and does not let anything pass to the chief. Once the well cooled chocolate, it is time to pass to the assembly. Remain to look after the presentation.
• Monaco: the prince Rainier of Monaco was Saturday between the life and death, his vital prognosis being judged “extremely reserved” by his doctors who deplore a “progressive degradation” of the vital functions.
• Rome: Jean-Paul II was not able to pronounce the blessing “urbi and orbi” enclosing the celebrations of Easter. Jean-Paul II initially appeared with the window of his apartments of the Vatican to bless the faithful ones places Saint-Pierre at Rome. He followed the reading of his message.
• France: two skiers were forgotten a whole night on a chair-lift with the Arcs 1600 (Savoy). The two skiers, come from Paris, left the hospital Sunday, had been found Sunday morning sitting on the chair-lift in a state of moderate hypothermia. Following the stopping of the chair-lift, they had been abandoned on the ski lift and the station of the Arcs recognized “a lack of vigilence of the personnel present at the beginning of the chair-lift”.
• the United States of America: Terri Schiavo, in the coma for fifteen years, has received the communion.
• Tahiti, French Polynesia: an agreement between the 300 militiamans of the Grouping of Intervention of Polynesia (GIP) and the government of the president de Polynésie Oscar Temaru, puts an end to the blocking of the port of PAPEETE. Temaru gave up naming one of its close relations, Robert Maker, chief of the GIP.

Monday March 28th 2005

• Indian Ocean, earthquake: a seism of magnitude 8,2 took place under the Indian Ocean, to 200 km off the island of Sumatra, towards 23:9, local time, 16:9 GMT. This zone was already touched by a earthquake, on December 26th, 2004.
• Gard and Territory of Belfort, France: Monday of Easter is not non-working in this department which chose this day like day of solidarity to the profit of the elderly. Usually everywhere else selected in France, Monday of Pentecost is one of the days of the Feria of Nimes. However, of many trade and public administrations gardoises remains closed. In the Gard, FCPE and the general advice evoke also the wasting of the opening of the schools where pupils presented themselves little, but who required the maintenance of school transport and the personnel.
• Space: the occupants of ISS began an exit in the space which must last nearly six hours.
• France, VAr: three died in the crash landing of a small private plane.
• Japan: a Airbus A330 -200 of EVA Air, transporting 267 passengers between Taipei and Tokyo, had to carry out an emergency landing on the airport of Tokyo-Narita. Twenty-four people were slightly touched while twelve suffer from more serious wounds like broken bones, according to a person in charge of the airport.
• the Essonne: a supervisor of the prison of Fleury-Mérogis was attacked whereas it made his races as a civilian on the market of Grigny.
• Savoy, Meningitis: an young woman was hospitalized with Monaco after having taken part in a gathering of students.
• Rhone delta: a body in decomposition discovered with the foot of a cave overhanging the sea with Ciotat.
• European commission - Data-processing: the European commission and Microsoft managed an agreement on the denomination of a Windows version without the reader of audio software video Media Player which the giant of the software would like to market from here at a few weeks, one learned Monday at Microsoft. Its name: Windows XP Home Edition NR.
• Quebec, Canada: continuation of the strike of the students who claim 103 million dollars out of purses. This strike has as a bottom the cut of the government of 103 million. The students, after one year of means of pressure, decided to pass to the acts while going towards the general strike. This hard strike since now a month and a dumbness settles between the government and the two great coeds federations which are represented with the negotiation table. The students, determined not to put water in their wine, claim the entirety of the 103 million whereas the government proposes what several Québécois leader-writers treat of wobbly offers. In addition, the opposition, formed of the Québécois Party and the democratic Action of Quebec, supports the students in their claim. Moreover, the thirds left Union the Forces Progressists as Option citizen of the militant feminist Francoise David support the movement which is being accentuated in spite of the danger of a cancellation of session. Trade union movements (CSQ, CSN) support also the movement, them, which will go soon in negotiation in the public sector.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• Safety advice: the feasibility of the presidential election threatened in Ivory Coast.
• R.D. of Congo: the General secretary invites the Government to ensure the safety from the point of view of the elections.
• Iraq: the Envoy of UNO consults Large the Ayatollah Al-Sistani.
• UNO mark the 20th Day of solidarity with the civils servant held or carried missing.
• Lebanon: the General secretary condemns the attack perpetrated the day before Easter.
• Kosovo : the Envoy of UNO greets the agreement of the orthodoxe Église Serb with the rebuilding of the religious sites.

Tuesday March 29th 2005

• Bosnia-Herzégovine: the high representative of the international community, Paddy Ashdown, dismissed the representative of the Croats of Bosnia to the presidency, Dragan Covic, which is continued for Corruption by Bosnian justice. By the Agreements of Dayton, the high representative has capacities of which it uses with his discretion to guarantee peace between the communities of the country.
• Iraq, Baghdad: at her second session, the transitory National Assembly - elected on January 30th, 2005 - did not succeed in electing her president. This station is reserved for a sunnite, but the deputies of this religious obedience did not succeed in designating a candidate after the withdrawal of the current president by interim, Ghazi Al-Yaouar.
• Morocco: seven French tourists died Tuesday in an accident of coach to 650 kilometers in the south-west of Reduction. The accident, which occurred at the end of the morning, also made about thirty casualties, among whom three French, according to an hospital source at the hospital of Taroudan. The coach entered in collision with a 4X4 on a road connecting two rural communes of the mountainous region of the anti-Atlas, with 120 kilometers of Taroudan.
• Chetchnia: for the first time for one decade, Sergueï Lapine, an officer of the ministry for the Russian interior , has been condemned to eleven years of prison for “body wounds with citizens of the republic tchetchene”. According to a report/ratio of the ONG Human Rights Watch, from 3 to 5.000 Tchétchènes disappeared since 1999.
• France, Marriage: the Sénat recorded by amendment the age of the marriage of the 15 year old women to 18 years, addition with the proposal of Loi on the fight against violences within the couple. The senators wish to avoid the forced marriages of the young girls. The Public prosecutor guard, in the event of urgency, the right to authorize a marriage before this age. To come into effect, the proposal must be adopted in the same terms by the National Assembly.
• France: the motorist, who circulated Wednesday on A1, affirms that it could not slow down with a toll because of a “defect” of Speed regulator sound . He struck a concrete low wall. According to the daily newspaper “the Breaking news of Alsace” which revealed this new business, the driver had regulated its regulator to 130 km/h and could not decontaminate it.
• France: the experimentation of the lighting of the dipped headlights of the cars the day is prolonged until the nearest autumn.
• France, Turns: Russet-red-Durraffourt Jean-Pierre was condemned to the Prison with perpetuity. The defendant appeared to have killed four people by balls and to have wounded seven others of them the October 29th 2001 during a forwarding of terror in Tours. He is judged since the March 16th by the Court of Assizes of Indre-et-Loire for assassinations, attempted murders, attempted murders on a soldier of the gendarmerie and a police officer.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• Oil against food: Kofi Annan cleared of any fault by the Commission Volcker.
• Indonesia: UNO mobilized with the help of the victims of the Earthquake.
• “do not let crumble the Guinea-Bissau”, exhorts the Envoy of UNO for the West Africa.
• Kampuchea: 38,4 million dollars promised with UNO to finance the lawsuit of the Khmer Rouge.
• “Oil against food”: Kofi Annan receives the second Commission Report of independent survey.

Wednesday March 30th 2005

• Quebec: More than 185.000 students of the collegial and university level are in strike, including 75.000 since soon a month. They claim the abolition of the reform of the financial aid undertaken by the government Charest, the maintenance of the freezing of the school fees as well as the maintenance of the collegial network. One of the principal stakes of this strike is the rising one of 103M$, crossed in the mode of the loans and purses by the Minister for education Pierre Reid (replaced by Jean-Marc Fournier in the middle of the strike). The strike will finish only at at the beginning of April, at the time of an agreement in principle with the government. Although waitings of the students were not entirely filled, the latter will have created a considerable power struggle, in addition to causing a societal debate on the future of education and proposing a plan of company based on a more equitable and accessible education.

• Germany: with Strasbourg, the European Cour of the human rights débouté former landowners and of industris of East Germany which disputes the compensation according to the German law for the September 27th 1994 following the confiscations according to the Second world war.
• the Vatican: Jean-Paul II being very decreased by its problems of breathing, a new hospitalization is considered. It will be about its last public appearance before its death the April 2nd 2005.
• Monaco: the state of the prince Rainier is stationary.
• France: Jean-Pierre Raffarin wants to be reassuring on the fate of Florence Aubenas.
• Ivory Coast: the mandate of the forces of UNO should be prolonged.
• France: the driver increasingly responsible for the port of the girdles.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• PNUE: the degradation of the ecosystem S will compromise the development irremediably.
• R.D. of Congo: the Safety advice request with the Government to disarm the “foreign combatants”.
• Lebanon: the report/ratio on the assassination of Rafic Hariri recommends a Commission of international survey.
• Safety advice: new sanctions imposed on the belligerents of the Darfur.

Thursday March 31st 2005

• Zimbabwe: victory of the party of the president Robert Mugabe, the African National union of the patriotic Zimbabwe-Face (Zanu-PF). The opposition parties denounce frauds.
• Monaco: because of the state of prevention for the prince Rainier III to exert her high positions, the principality announces that his/her son Albert ensures from now on the Régence.
• France, radio - Television: in part of the country, beginning of the diffusion of the free channels of the Digital terrestrial television (TNT). To buy after a numerical adapter. See also: tnt-gratuite.fr and site of TDF.
• Strange Tchéquie, : the postcard which a prisoner of war Czech had sent in 1945 to his parents arrives sixty years afterwards by the family of its uncle, alive to Poland. The chart had started from a prison camp held by the army of the United States, in France.
• France: destroyed by the storm of 1999, the mill of Valmy will reappear.
• France: the failures with the speed regulators multiply.
• Rome, the Vatican: The state of the pope Jean-Paul II worsened these last hours, sovereign pontiff having an high fever and a rather low blood-pressure.
• the United States of America: for the third consecutive year, the singer Michael Jackson, currently translated into justice and under the blow of a charge of Pedophilia, arrives at the head of the “most ridiculous Americans”, according to a telephone survey ( America' S Most Foolish Individual for 2005 ) carried out near 1.030 people by the company of public relations of Jeff Barge, based with New York. This survey also places among the 10 first Martha Stewart, TV host recently released of prison, George W. Bush, president of the United States, Dan Rather, ex-presenter high-speed motorboat of CBS Evening News during 24 years, suspected of lie and handling during the last presidential campaign, and Janet Jackson, sister of the “winner” and itself singer, who had defrayed the chronicle in February 2004, by letting her right center appear, “by accident”, at the time of the Super Bowl XXXVIII.
• Summary Center of new UNO
• R.D. of Congo: the MONUC greets the decision of the Rwandan militia (FDLR) to disarm.
• “Oil against food”: UNO opens an independent survey against the chief of the internal Monitoring services.
• Lebanon/Syria: the Envoy of UNO, Terje Roed-Larsen, starts a new round with the the Middle East.
• Guinea-Bissau: the Safety advice worried by the candidature of the former president Koumba Yala.
• Ivory Coast: serious violations of the Human rights, according to a report/ratio of the Mission (ONUCI) of UNO.

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