March 2006

the éphéméride | All on Mars and 2006

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This page presents a chronology of the events which occurred or which were to occur during the month of March 2006 .

Wednesday the 1st er March 2006

France (1): In the night from February 28th to March 1st, the Sénat adopted, in the same terms that the Assemblée the February 9th had done it, the Contrat first engages (CPE), founded under article 3 (a) of the bill for the equal opportunity. This text collected 172 votes against 142, the majority of the UDF voter against with the left or abstaining from.
France (2): Opening to Paris, in front of the 11th room of the Magistrates' court, the lawsuit of the business of the fictional jobs of the national Mutual insurance company of the students of France (MNEF), blaming about thirty defendants, of which the socialist deputy Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, old number two of the PS, appointed XIXe district of Paris and Marie-France Lavarini, former adviser of Lionel Jospin, member of the team of presidential campaign in 2002,
France (3): The Minister for Health, Xavier Bertrand, announces that 152 drugs not fulfilling the requirements of the rendered medical department (SMR) will not be refunded any more by the Social security - nor taken charges some by the mutual insurance companies - as from this day. Measurement, decided in September and which appears in the finance law of the Social security, should make it possible to save 305 million euros for the year 2007.
France (4): Death of Joelle Aubron (46 years), old activist of Direct action.
France (5): The president of the area Languedoc-Roussillon, Georges Frêche, was excluded, until the commission of the conflicts of the PS comes to a conclusion about its case, of the national office of the Socialist party to have treated Harkis “submen” the last February 11th, at the time of a commemoration.
France (6): At a few days of the resumption of the discussion of the bill on the Royalty , the president of the National Assembly, Jean-Louis Debré, invites a certain number of known singers - among which Charles Aznavour, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Jean Michel Jarre, Enrico Macias, Pierre Perret - and of the representatives of the industry of the disc to a meeting with the deputies with the Hôtel of Lassay. On this occasion, the artists highly criticized the global license and the free downloading on Internet, which they compared to flight, with plundering.
France (7): The satiric weekly Charlie-Hebdo publishes a proclamation of twelve intellectuals , of which Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasreen and Bernard-Henri Levy, entitled “ Ensemble against new the Totalitarisme, the Islamisme ”, following the business of the caricatures of the prophet Mahomet published in the Danish daily newspaper Jyllands Posten ,
Suisse: A project of popular Initiative federal “for the imprescriptibility of the acts of childish Pornographie” was filed in this Wednesday morning with the federal chancellery, provided with 116.248 signatures validated by the communes, in order to fight more effectively against the Pédophilie. The imprescriptibility of the acts paedophiles is in particular justified, according to association “Goes white” at the origin of the project, by the fact that the victims can often denounce the maltreatment only a long time after having undergone them.
Afghanistan: The plane Air Force One of the US president George W. Bush, which must carry out carries out a five days round in India and with the Pakistan, landed with Kabul, on the air military base of Bagram, within the framework of a stopover in Afghanistan, which had not been announced in advance, for safety reasons. According to an Afghan person in charge expressing itself under cover of anonymity, the president of the the United States will be received with lunching by his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai.
Iraq: Dramatic turn of events with the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein. The old deposed president recognizes being the only person in charge of the massacre of 148 villagers Chiites and of the destruction of their orchards, ordered following an attack of the presidential procession in 1982 with Doujaïl, in the north of Baghdad: “I signed the order of the council of the command of the revolution, more the high authority of the country”.
Iran: The former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami, critical her successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on the negation of the Shoah, by declaring in the press that “the Holocauste is a “historical reality”.
China (1): Xiang Junbo, vice-governor of the Banque Populaire of China (central bank) announces that China will apply a law anti-bleaching of money by putting under monitoring the stock exchange sectors and of the insurances in a near future, as of 2006.
China (2): Coming into effect in China of the “ law on the Penalties for offense with the law and order ”, comprising provisions prohibiting with the police force to resort to the Torture, the threat and the lie to obtain confessions, as well as the use of illegal means to obtain evidence. The law defines detailed procedures of investigation applicable to the people continued for attack with the law and order, and expects that the authorities of police force will have also to expose to the accused the facts, the reasons and the legal base concerning the incurred penalties, all in their explaining the rights which they enjoy.
Lebanon: The Council of the bishops of powerful the Church Maronite request implicitly, with the prosyrian president Emile Lahoud to leave the capacity while making him take the responsibility for the political and institutional paralysis which currently Lebanon knows. “The President remains only judge to decide if its maintenance or its departure is useful for the country, or if it harms the reconciliation. It must thus take its responsabilities in front of God and the History”, declared the Council of the bishops Maronites, at the conclusion of his monthly meeting.
Palestine: An top-ranking executive of the Islamic Jihad, Khaled Al-Dahdouh ( Abou Al-Walid ), chief of the Brigades Al-Qods, the armed wing of the movement, in the band of Gaza and in the West Bank, is killed by a missile fired by an Israeli drone, during a raid aiming the car at edge of which it circulated, close to the ministry for Finances in the south of Gaza
Ouzbékistan: Islom Karimov, one of the most repressive dictators of Central Asia, makes condemn Nodira Khidoïatova, co-ordinating of the coalition of moderate opposition “ sunny Ouzbékistan ”, stopped in December, with the return of a voyage in Russia, where she had criticized the capacity, to ten years of prison for diversion and extortion of money . The coalition sunny Ouzbékistan had been made known by denouncing the repression of the rising of Andijan, in May 2005.

Thursday March 2nd 2006

India: At the time of the visit of George W. Bush in India - the fifth of an US president in this country -, the the United States and India concluded a historical agreement from co-operation civil Nucléaire, which must still be validated by the American Congrès. If it is the case, it will make it possible the India to leave insulation in the nuclear field and to obtain fuel as well as engines with the fine civil ones. India, nuclear power declared since 1998, which forever signed the Treated nuclear non-proliferation (NPT), was committed to dissociate its civil nuclear programs and soldiers and letting the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) control its civil installations.
Pakistan: The day before the displacement of the US president George W. Bush in Pakistan, a kamikaze precipitated his vehicle trapped on the car of an American diplomat with Karachi. The attack made four died of which the diplomat like 52 wounded.
the United States: The American Sénat adopts, by 89 votes against 10, the renewal of the Patriot Act , an antiterrorist law promulgated shortly after the Attentats of September 11th, 2001. This text will be subjected to the Chambre of the representatives the next week.
Canada: The Mexicain Kobeh Gonzalez is elected president of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), authority of UNO, charged with harmonizing the standards in the field of air transport, whose seat is with Montreal, to the Canada. It succeeds the Lebanon board Assad Kotaite. Mr. Kobeh Gonzalez will take up duty the next one.
Australia: François Baroin, French Minister for Overseas, during an official trip two days in Australia, sign with Alexander Downer, Foreign Minister and of the Trade, a tripartite declaration (France, Australia and New Zealand) as regards maritime surveyance and fight against illicit fishing in the Peaceful south.
Russia: Justice Russian announces that it transmitted to the British authorities a request for extradition of the Russian business man Boris Berezovski, which obtained the statute of refugee to the the United Kingdom in 2003, because of new criminal charges against him. The Russian business man had declared in the press at the end of January that it prepared “a takeover by the force” in Russia. The British Secretary with the Foreign Office, Jack Straw, indicated to Mr. Berezovski that the British government could constantly re-examine its statute of refugee because of his remarks on the inversion of the government of a Sovereign state.
Ivory Coast: Justice of the Ivory Coast authorizes the extradition towards the France of Youssouf Fofana, principal suspect in the business of the “'' Gang of Bagneux ''”, which removed Ilan Halimi, young Jew 23 year old, discovered failing the February 13rd in the the Essonne, after being sequestered and being tortured during more than three weeks. The extradition will be executory when the president of the Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo signs the decree.
Israel: Meet in the West Bank between the leader of the Israeli Labor opposition Amir Peretz and Palestinian Autorité Mahmoud Abbas chairs it.
Palestine: Ten Palestinian activists of the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs, the armed wing of the Fatah directed by the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, drew from the shots and tried to penetrate of force in the building of the Palestinian Legislative council (PLC) in the Cisjordanian city of Ramallah, while the new president of the Parliament, Aziz Dweik, was there.
Italy - the Vatican: According to the report/ratio of a parliamentary board of inquiry, the the USSR would have financed the attack against the Pape Jean-Paul II in May 1981. These revelations, allotting the decision of the attack to the president of the USSR Léonid Brejnev and its organization with the Soviet military services, rest on the files of an ex-agent of the KGB passed in the West with the beginning of the year 1990, Vassili Mitrokhine.
Lebanon: Opening to Beirut, with the invitation of the president of the Parliament Nabih Berri, of the first meeting of the “National dialog”, convened to untie the political crisis which has shaken the country for one year. This top gathers fourteen personalities - Moslem and Christian main leaders Lebanese - in order to examine the relations tended between Beirut and Damas, the thorny question of the disarmament of the Hezbollah and the international survey on the assassination the February 14th 2005 of the former Prime Minister, Rafic Hariri. The participants, among which one finds in particular the Druze Walid Joumblatt, the sunnites Saad Hariri and Fouad Siniora, the Christians Maronites Michel Aoun and Samir Geagea and the general secretary of Hezbollah, the Chiite Hassan Nasrallah, in particular accepted - unanimously - the continuation of the international survey on the assassination of Rafic Hariri and the constitution of an international court.
European Union: The European Central bank raises its directing rate of a quarter of point to 2,5%, its highest level in three years, by calling upon a reinforcement of the risks Inflation nists in an economy whose improvement is confirmed.
Kosovo : The general Agim Çeku (45 years), a Yugoslav former serviceman who directs since the end of the war the TMK - a civil defense force of some 5000 men -, is had a presentiment of like Prime Minister by the new Kosovan president Fatmir Sejdiu. Its nomination is likely to irritate Belgrade and to complicate still a little more the negotiations, started at the end of February with Vienna, on the final status of this province of the south of the Serbia placed under international protectorate since 1999.
Iraq: The American forces announce to have stopped Monday February 27th, in the area of Falloujah, to 50 km in the west of Baghdad, 61 members of the network Al-Qaïda in Iraq, during a raid against one their bases of drive, where they “manufactured bombs”. Jordanian the Abou Moussab Al-Zarqaoui, the chief of the Iraqi branch of the organization, whose head is put at price for 25 million dollars by the the United States, does not form part of the challenged people.
Libya: The Libyan authorities, at the time of the birthday of the “popular Committees”, release the totality of the 84 still held members of the movement prohibited Islamiste Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya Al-Libiya (Libyan Group islamist), created in 1979, of which the orientations are comparable with those of the Muslim brothers, the movement created in Egypt and who preaches setting-up, from now on without violence, of an Islamic State. For the majority students or academics, they were imprisoned since June 1998, and had been condemned in 2002 to heavy sorrows.
Russia/Chetchnia: Ramzan Kadyrov (29 years), the man who controls the majority of the militia and the economy of Chetchnia, is named Prime Minister for the government tchetchene prorusse by the president of the small Caucasian Republic Alou Alkhanov, with the approval of Vladimir Poutine. Wire of the president Akhmad Kadyrov, assassinated in May 2004, Ramzan Kadyrov was already Prime Minister by interim since the car accident, which has occurred in November, of the chief of the government prorusse, Sergueï Abramov, which resigned Tuesday February 28th. It is the first time that the Kremlin authorizes the nomination as Chetchnia of a Prime Minister tchetchene and not of a Russian.
Nigeria: The Nigerian minister for Information announces that more than 450.000 poultries died or were cut down in 126 farms in Nigeria, because of the epizooty of Avian flu.

Friday March 3rd 2006

Vietnam: The ex-star of the British Glam rock'n'roll Gary Glitter is condemned to 3 years of prison for obscenities on young girls of less than 13 years.
Iraq: The Iraqi government issues a diurnal curfew for the day of Friday March 3rd after the new wave of attacks, which strikes the country since the destruction, the February 22nd, of the dome of the Gold mosque of Samarra, high place of worship of the Chiite S. This cycle of religious violences made at least 478 died, according to careful estimates diffused by the authorities, and makes fear that the country does not rock in the civil war.
France: The examination of the bill on the research, which envisages a progressive rise of the budget of Research up to 24 billion euros in 2010 was completed in the night of Thursday 2 at Friday March 3rd with the National Assembly. Already approved by the Senate according to the emergency procedure (a reading in each assembly), the text will be the subject of a solemn vote Tuesday March 7th.
Russia/Palestine: Arrived at Moscow of the delegation of the Hamas, for an official visit in Russia, the first in a nonArab country, which will give to the organization Islamiste charged to form the next Palestinian government, following its victory with the legislative elections, the occasion to have for the first time of the direct contacts with a power implied in the israélo-Palestinian peace process, Russia being international member of the Quartet for the Middle East, at the sides of the the United States, of the European Union and UNO.
China: Opening to Beijing of the 4th session of the 10th National committee of the political advisory Conference of the Chinese People (CCPPC).
French Polynesia: The senator UMP of Polynesia Gaston Flosse, former president of French Polynesia, was put in examination the February 20th by the judge Anne Barruol, for “misuse of public money” and “illegal catch of interest” in the business of the repurchase of the Atoll Anuanuraro with Robert Wan, following a complaint against X deposited in October 2004 by Oscar Temaru, the current president of French Polynesia.
Romania: The presence of the virus H5N1 is confirmed on hens in the village Morteni (southern of Romania), as on a died found wild goose with Buzau (is), announces the ministry for Agriculture.
Italy: The Head of the Italian State, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, refuses to sign an Order in Council, adoptee two days earlier by the government of Silvio Berlusconi, envisaging various assistance measures for the avicolous sector touched by the Avian flu, because of the lack of financing to apply them.

Saturday March 4th 2006

France (1): The presumed head of the “gang of the barbarians” in the Business Ilan Halimi, Youssouf Fofana was repatriated of ivory Coast today on board a plane Airbus A310 of the Air force which arose for 17:30 with the Aéroport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. It at summer transferred under very good escort to the law courts from Paris to see itself there subjecting its Put in examination in the business Ilan Halimi.
France (2): A new association of “workers of the sex”, baptized “ the Whores ”, takes its first militant action, with the accesses of the Hôtel Matignon with Paris, where its members, who dispute the Loi on the internal security of March 2003 making soliciting liable to 2 months of prison and 3.750 euros fine and withdrawal to the residence permit for the foreigners, have pretends to solicit the passers by, by requiring the abrogation of the provisions of this law known as “law Sarkozy”, voted three years ago.
Pakistan: Two days after the made murder attempt Thursday with Karachi, the US president George W. Bush arrived at Islamabad, where it rented the “courageous decision”, in a country in prey at a radical anti-Americanism, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf to join the “Guerre against terrorism”.
Saudi Arabia: The French president Jacques Chirac starts a visit of two day old State in Saudi Arabia, his fourth visit in this key country for the safety of the area, where it will try to negotiate the sale of Rafale and important electronic monitoring system fighters of the borders baptized “Miksa”.
Algeria: Algeria undertook to release former members of the armed islamist Groupes (GIA) under the terms of an amnesty decided by the president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to support the national reconciliation after 14 years of civil conflict. The first released prisoners left this morning the of Algiers prison of Serkadji. The last releases of prisoners went back to 1999.
Swiss: In an interview published by the Basler Zeitung , the president of the Conference of the cantonal directors of the state education (CDIP), Hans Ulrich Stöckling, is opposed to the port of the veil at the school by the pupils Musulman are, privileging freedom of instruction rather than that of religion.
Palestine: Several thousands of Israeli Arabs, to which had joined Ramez Djerayssi, the Christian communist mayor of Nazareth, Sheik Raëd Salah, the chief of the Israeli islamist movement; Mgr Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and several Israeli Arab deputies, in particular Ahmed Tibi, Mohammed Barakeh, Azmi Bishara and Abdel Malek Dehamshe, ravel peacefully in the streets of Nazareth to express their indignation after the incident which has occurred the day before in the Basilique of the Annunciation, one of the high places of Christendom, and to denounce the three Israelis, who launched detonators in the Basilica, the largest church of the the Middle East, which rises on the site where, according to the Christian tradition, the Archange Gabriel announced with Marie that it carried the child Jesus.

Sunday March 5th 2006

China: Chinese the Prime Minister Wen Jiabao opens with Beijing the annual session of the Popular national assembly (ANP, Parlement) by promising a new industrial relations policy in favor of the poor of the country and by announcing a Economic growth of 8% for 2006, a figure lower than the forecasts of the economists.
China (2): The ministry for Chinese Health confirms that a 32 year old man, deceased the March 2nd in the Chinese province of Guangdong, indeed was victim of the virus H5N1 of the Avian flu. The man, who attended the markets with the poultries regularly, started to have fever the February 22nd before contracting a pneumonia. China announced already more than 30 hearths of stock H5N1 on its territory during the past year, and added up 14 human cases, including eight mortals.
Qatar: In a video recording diffused this day by Al-Jezira, the number two of Al-Qaïda, the Égyptien Ayman Al-Zawahri, capped of a black turban, the publication of the caricatures of the prophet Mahomet in several European newspapers informant criticizes that “the insults against the prophet Mahomet are not the result of the freedom of thought” or adding still only “what is crowned changed in this culture”.
Benign: Presidential election with Benign to allow more than four million voters to decide between 26 candidates with the succession of Mathieu Kérékou with the presidency of the Republic. The former president, who remained thirty years with the head of the country, did not indicate any dolphin. Three of the candidates are quoted like favorites: the former president of the National Assembly Adrien Houngbédji, arrived 3rd at the first tower of presidential of 2001 with 12,62%, the strong ex-man of the government, Bruno Amoussou, 4th with the same poll with 8,59% of the votes and the former president of the West African Bank of development (BOAD), Yayi Boni, which is presented for the first time, acting as outsider, according to the majority of the observers.
France: A first highly pathogenic case of virus H5N1 of the Avian flu was detected for the first time in the Rhone delta on an wild swan, whose corpse was discovered with Saint-Miter-the-Ramparts in the Camargue. There still, usual measurements (protection zone of three kilometers and surveillance zone of seven kilometers) are applied.
France (2): the Regional office of the hospitalization (ARH) of the island of the Réunion confirms that the 10 year old young girl, whose death in February had been allotted to the Chikungunya, succumbed to a Méningo-encéphalite due to the virus which is thus “the direct cause” of its death.
France (3): The Minister for Health, Xavier Bertrand announces the creation of a commission of evaluation of the system of Health monitoring, to determine if this one can be improved.
France (4): Died with Paris, the 85 years age, Simon Nora, general inspector of Finances, former director of ENA, the continuations of a cancer. He was in particular the author, with Alain Minc, of a famous report/ratio on “the computerization of the company”, in 1977.
Greece: The Greek minister of Agriculture announces four new cases of virus H5N1 of the Avian flu, which relate to three swans and a cormorant, which changes to 26 the total of the cases listed in the country.
Saudi Arabia: the president of the French Republic, in official visit with Riyadh, accompanied by an important delegation of personalities of the business world, benefitted from it to greet the “spirit of Démocratie” started by the new sovereign Abdallah Ben Abd Al-Aziz Ben Abd Al-Rahman Al Saoud.
Palestine: The Hamas is not anxious with regard to the Western threats to suspend financial aids with the Palestinian Autorité, because it is convinced of its capacity to find financings elsewhere, according to the statements made at the agency Reuters of the chief of her political office, Khaled Méchaal, which added: “Unfortunately, all the parts which seek to impose their conditions to us want to exchange the rights of our people against money. Ca will not occur like that”.
Libya: A new Prime Minister, Baghdadi Mahmoudi, is named in Libya to replace the liberal Choukri Ghanem, who leaves the government.
the United States: At the time of the 78ème ceremony of the Oscar S with Hollywood, the film of Paul Haggis “ Collision ” gains the Oscar of the best film, consequently stealing occasion the high-speed motorboat with the “ Secret of Brokeback Mountain ” of Ang Lee, which had been presented like the big favorite. Accustomed to the supporting roles, Philip Seymour Hoffman, which was named for the first time, removed the Oscar of the best actor for his performance in “ Truman Capote ”, a biography of the American novelist author of “ Of cold blood ”, while side actress, it is Reese Witherspoon which received most prestigious from the statuettes for its service in Walk the line , a film on Johnny Cash, in which she camps the character of the singer of country June Carter. Crowned in 2005 by the Lion of gold of Venice, “the secrecy of Brokeback mountain”, which was eight times named finally received only three rewards, of which that of better realizer for Ang Lee. Four years after the realizer Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, who had been preceded for “ an Ideal culprit ”, the French realizer Luc Jacquet took down in his turn the Oscar of the best documentary film for “ the Walk of the emperor ”.

Monday March 6th 2006

India: Triple bomb attack perpetrated in the Holy City of Vârânasî, high place of Hindu Pilgrimage and of tourism, in the north of India, makes at least 21 dead and 60 wounded.
Poland: The Avian flu makes its appearance in Poland: the Polish national laboratory of Pulawy, in the east of the country, confirms the first case in Poland of the highly pathogenic virus H5N1, detected in two swans. Poland is thus the ninth country of the European Union struck by the epizooty.
Austria: The council of the governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meets this Monday with Vienna to hear the report/ratio of his managing director, the Égyptien Mohamed El Baradei, on the program Nucléaire Iran IEN and to take note the failure of the ultimate negociations entered into between the troika of the great powers of the European Union (Germany, France and the United Kingdom), on the one hand, the Russia, on the other hand, and the Iran to convince this last to put an end to his activities of Uranium enrichment. Way will then be led to the examination of sanctions, still extremely distant.
Democratic republic of Congo: The European Ministers for Defense must specify, at a meeting today with Innsbruck (Austria), their intentions on the sending of a modest force as a Democratic republic of Congo (RDC) to help to make safe the elections, envisaged in theory in June.
the United States: The selection of the jury to the lawsuit of Zacarias Moussaoui, started the February 6th, is completed with Alexandria, in the suburbs of Washington. The lawsuit of the terrorist of Al-Qaida between now in the sharp one of the subject and should proceed in two phases. During the first, the charge will have to prove “beyond the reasonable doubt” that the French is “eligible” with the Capital punishment. If, at the end of an initial deliberation, sworn are not convinced by it unanimously, the lawsuit will end and Moussaoui will turn over in prison until the end of its days. If they estimate it on the contrary “qualified”, one second phase will open to determine if the capital punishment is the “suitable” sanction of its crimes.
Palestine: The new Palestinian Parliament, dominated by the islamist movement Hamas, which controls 74 of the 132 seats of the Legislative council (PLC, Parliament) after his broad victory with legislative of January, repeals, at its first meeting, series of measure voted in February by the preceding Room controlled by the Fatah, in particular the nomination of members of this organization at key administrative stations and the creation of a Constitutional court whose Mahmoud Abbas would name the judges. The deputies of Fatah, training of the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, had withdrawn themselves from the enclosure before the vote in sign of protest.

Tuesday March 7th 2006

Serbia-and-Montenegro: Milan Babic was found died Sunday in its cell.
UNO: In a ratio of 34 pages to the General meeting, entitled “ To invest in the United Nations to give him the means of its world vocation ”, the General secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, proposes, with the Member States a vast reform of the administration of UNO, awaited by the world leaders after the Organization had been shaken by a series of scandals. Mr. Annan presented series of measure going of the delocalization of certain services to the reinforcement of the system of making of the markets.
the United Kingdom: The United Kingdom presents a plan to privilege the entry in the country of the most qualified immigrants and to restrict the access of the others, via the introduction of a system of points similar to that existing in particular in Australia. “We want that students come in our universities and we want the workers highly qualified which our economy needs, but we want to prevent the abuses the system of immigration”, explained the Prime Minister Tony Blair in a videoconference in front of Indian students.
Israel: The Israeli Minister for Defense, Shaul Mofaz, prevents that Israel would not remain without reacting to a resumption of the attacks and that, in addition to the activists of the Islamic Jihad, indicated Palestinian the Prime Minister, Ismaïl Haniyeh, would not be safe from an elimination if the Hamas “would continue its terrorist activities”.
Palestine: The deputies of the Fatah decided to present a recourse in front of the Palestinian Supreme court asking for the invalidation of a vote of the Parliament cancelling of the measurements ratified by the preceding Room the February 13rd.
Palestine (2): The the World Bank (BM) announces the releasing of a help of 42 million dollars to the Palestinian Autorité, which faces a financial serious attack. The director of the BM for the the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, David Craig, indicated that the granting of this help aimed at maintaining with flood finances of the Palestinian government at the time when Israel has cold the transfer of funds due to the Palestinian Authority.
Jordan: The king Abdallah II announces that Jordan wishes to organize a conference gathering the religious leaders of Iraq, where intercommunity violences made hundreds of victims since the end of February.
Lebanon: The skin of the French sociologist Michel Seurat, in love insane with Lebanon and the Arab world, removed during the civil war and died whereas it was retained as an hostage with the journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann leaves Beirut and this Raising to which it dedicated a passion not very common, who led it besides to death, for Paris to edge of a special plane.
Iran: The Iranian Parlement authorizes the government to be drawn with height of 1.940 billion Rial S (212 million dollars) in the “funds of stabilization tanker”, to complete the Nuclear plant Bouchehr, built by the Russia, whose building site took delay (for technical reasons, and nonpolitical, the Russians affirm). Iran hopes that the power station, which comprises a engine and whose cost is estimated at 800 million dollars, will be finished by the end 2006.
Iran (2): In an interview with the British television channel BBC, the chief negotiator of the Nucléaire Iran IEN, Ali Larijani informs that the the United States are likely to fall into the same trap as in Iraq if they launch out in a military action against Iran because of his nuclear program. The US government committed itself in a “psychological warfare” with the objective trailing Iran in front of the Safety advice of the United Nations, which could consider economic sanctions and possibly even a military action.
Venezuela: The Parliament of Venezuela adopts the amendment of the national flag in order to adapt it to the “socialist revolution” of the president Hugo Chavez, on the initiative of the project. Entirely controlled by the partisans of the Head of the State following the boycott of the legislative elections by the opposition in December, the Parliament approved the addition of an eighth star in homage to the national hero Simon Bolivar, liberator of the Latin America and inspirer of the ideology of the mode. The deputies Venezuelans also modified the gallop of the white horse being reproduced on the national escutcheon in order to turn it, either towards the right-hand side, but towards the left, in order to symbolize the political orientation of the government. The Parliament also decided certain additions on the escutcheon, such as a kayak, an arc and an arrow representing the weapons of the natives or a machete of peasant, in homage to the roots of the descendants of African origin.
France: The deputy UDF of the Yrénées-Atlantiques Jean Lassalle starts, on a bench of the room of the Four columns of the National Assembly, an hunger strike to protest against a project of Délocalisation of a factory of the Toyal group, specialized in the treatment of aluminum for the production of painting intended for the auto industry, installed in his district, which employs 150 people in the Vallée of Winder.

Wednesday March 8th 2006

Lebanon: Basing itself on unfavourable statistics at the public school, which accommodates only 40% of pupils of Lebanon - a figure which betrays “the crisis of confidence” of Lebanese in the public school -, the Lebanese Minister for State education, Khaled Kabbani, affirms that the government is given to take up the challenge and announces the launching of a national plan of education for all, in accordance with the protocol known as Dakar 2000, with like horizon the year 2015.
Syria: Syria celebrates the 43e birthday of the come to power of the Parti Baath, in the insulation and on bottom of international charges in the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
Iraq: Baghdad was the theater this morning of a spectacular removal operated by men armed vêtus with the uniform of the commandos of police force. The band of attackers made irruption in the buildings of the company Al-Rawafed, which ensures of the security guards, disarming the 50 employees present and forcing them to follow them towards an unknown destination.
France (1): The demonstrations anti CPE continue today. The principal strikers are obviously the young people who are the first concerned. Dominique de Villepin as for him remains on its positions. The Sorbonne, nearly 300 people asked to be able to return in order to block the FAC, they ran up against the C.R.S which used the teargas grenades. The students took refuge on the Saint-Germain boulevard building of the wild barricades, the movement it is stopped Saint-Michel place where the demonstrators mixed to the flabbergasted tourists.
France (2): The Minister for the Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres announces the reintroduction of the article first bill on the Royalty , whom it had withdrawn Monday, which opens the way with the “global license”, however rejected by the artists and the industry of the disc.
France (3): Yves Bot, Public prosecutor of Paris, heard by the parliamentary board of inquiry into the Business of Outreau, proposed to the deputies the suppression of the Juge of freedoms and of detention, a function creates in 2000 to discharge the Examining magistrate, which, according to him proves “to be an pseudo good idea”.
France (4): And number two the Minister of Interior Department of the government, Nicolas Sarkozy starts a displacement with the the Antilles which it had been constrained to cancel the December 7th, in full polemic on the Colonisation. It is still not known if it will be received by the former deputy inhabitant of Martinique Aimé Césaire, who answered a journalist of international Radio the Caribbean which required of him, last Sunday, if it intended to receive the president of the UMP, “It is which, this young man? Why would he like to meet me? I do not know it”.
Iran: The managing director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Egyptian Mohamed El Baradei, exhorts the Western and Iranian leaders “to lower the tone” in the arm wrestling which opposes them about the program Iranian Nucléaire, at the end of a three days meeting of the Council of the governors of the IAEA devoted to the file, which was held on bottom of exchange of threats between Iran and the the United States.
Iran (2): The ambassadors of the five permanent members of the Safety advice of the United Nations (China, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Russia) meet in New York to discuss the file Iranian Nucléaire and to provide the foundations of a future text of the Council.
International justice: The Serbia-and-Montenegro, shown by the Bosnia of Genocide in front of the the International Court of Justice (CIJ), starts its pleading while wondering on the competence of the Court and the qualification of the crime, at the time of an audience in front of more the legal high authority of the the United Nations. During the war in Bosnia (1992 - 1995), the Bosnian Moslem presidency showed the mode of Belgrade to have killed, raped, tortured, kidnapped, held illegally and exterminated citizens of Bosnia-Herzégovine, charges disputed by Belgrade.
Swiss: Hooliganism: The Council of the States adopted a law against violence in the stages. But contrary to the National, it decided to limit its duration to 2009, that is to say after Eurofoot of 2008 and the Championships of the world of hockey of 2009.
the United States: The American Chambre of the representatives definitively adopted, by a majority of 280 votes against 138, the final version of a text renewing antiterrorist measurements of the law Patriot Act of 2001, marking the epilog of a difficult debate on the means of the Guerre against terrorism. This vote makes it possible to the president George W. Bush to perennialize the majority of the means granted to the police force for their antiterrorist investigations since the law adopted five weeks after the Attentats of September 11th, 2001.

Thursday March 9th 2006

France (1): Wage earners associations (CGT, CFDT, FO, CFTC and the CFE-CGC) and the organizations coeds and high-school girls (UNSA, FSU, UNEF, Confederation coed, UNL, FIDL) agreed to organize on Saturday, March 18 one day of united action against the Contrat first engages adopted on Thursday, March 9 with the Parlement.
France (2), the Sarthe: Fine peaceful of the Taken of hostage of Sablé-sur-Sarthe, carried out by a teacher to the unemployment and suffering of depression, carrying a “factitious weapon”, during five hours in a classroom of the technical school Colbert de Torcy with Sablé-sur-Sarthe. The 23 people selected, whose 20 pupils - teenagers of 17 and 18 years -, all were released healthy and save. The man, who wished to draw the attention of the authorities to his professional situation, went without violence.
France (3): The Belgian Bernard Foccroulle, current director of the royal Theater of the Currency to Brussels, is named, for a five years mandate taking effect on January 1st 2007, director of the Festival of lyric art of Aix-en-Provence, where it will succeed Stephan Lissner, which will be devoted, after the edition 2006 of the festival to the Scala of Milan, whose it was appointed director.
France (4): During the discussion of the bill on the Royalty , after one day of surging exchanges, the principle of the global license is finally rejected by the National Assembly in the absence of the deputies Verts, communist, socialist and of the UDF. Consequence, the free Remote loading of music or films and the Peer to Peer from now on are rejected into the illegality.
Economy: According to the classification 2006 of the American Magazine Forbes of greatest fortunes of planet published today, the founder of Microsoft, American Bill Gates, remains, for the twelfth consecutive year, the richest man of the world, with a fortune passed in one year from 46,5 to 51 billion dollars. From one year on the other, the club of the billionaires accommodated 102 novel members to pass to 793, mainly thanks to the performances of the stock exchange places world, according to Forbes. The sum cumulated by these 793 fortunes rises with 2 600 billion dollars, is a little more than the Gross domestic product of L `Germany, 7th worldwide economy.
Palestine: The Hamas and the Fatah continue today with Gaza their discussions for the formation of a Palestinian government of coalition, of which the chances to be born were compromised by a parliamentary master key of weapons between the two movements. Two days ago, Hamas and Fatah had clung at a first surging meeting of new the Legislative council (PLC, Parlement), after cancellation by the deputies of the Hamas of series of measure voted by the preceding Room dominated by Fatah.
Swiss: The federal council envisages an agreement of free trade with the EU, in particular at the agricultural level. This decision takes place following the failure of such an agreement with the United States.
European Union: In the conflict opposing the Suisse and the European Union in connection with the tax practices, the Swiss ambassador transmits a document of fifteen pages to the Commission of Brussels, in connection with the special fiscal advantages that certain cantons grant to the companies, which would contravene the agreement of Libre-échange signed in 1972 between Switzerland and Europe, in particular with the provisions on the State aid.
Health: A pandemia of avian flu will take place early or late according to David Nabarro, the coordinator of the the United Nations for the Avian flu.
Azerbaïdjan : Eleven people, originating in same village close to capital, Bakou, whose eight of same family, which had poultries which fell sick during the previous weeks, were probably contaminated by the virus H5N1 of the Avian flu. Three of them died. Taking away must be sent in a British laboratory for confirmation.
China: The Office of the Information of the Conseil of the Businesses of State of China publishes, for the seventh consecutive year, a file comprising of the facts and the figures on serious violations of the Human rights to the the United States, of which it draws up a long list, as a response with the annual report of the American State Department on the human rights in China.
Turkey: A Attack-suicide, which aimed at a car of the municipal police parked in front of a sports hall of the city, causes the death of three people and 19 wounded with Van, in the east of Turkey with Kurdish majority. The attack was not asserted, but the authorities show the separatist rebels of the Parti the workers of Kurdistan (PKK), particularly credit in this city and its surroundings.
Israel: Ehoud Olmert, the Prime Minister by interim, whose centrist party Kadima is given favorite for the legislative elections of March 28th, announces in an interview with the “ Jerusalem Post ” which it hopes, if it gains the poll, to trace, if necessary unilaterally, the final borders of Israel from here 2010. He wants to equip the Hebrew State with “permanent borders, by which we will separate completely from the majority of the population Palestinian and will not preserve an important and stable Jewish majority in Israel”.
Iraq: The American Armée announces the nearest closing of the Prison of Abu Ghraib, close to Baghdad, in Iraq, sadly celebrates since the publication in 2003 of photographs showing of the American soldiers inflicting of the maltreatment to prisoners, and who had already been used as center of Torture under the mode of Saddam Hussein. The 4.500 prisoners who are locked up there should be transferred towards other detention centres in Iraq, within one to three months.
Spain: Two low power bombs explode, without making victims, close to highways of the north of Spain after telephone warnings in the name of the separatist organization Basque ETA. The purpose of this resumption of the attacks, after the attempt at negotiations, these last weeks, of the chief of the government socialist Spanish, Jose Luis Zapatero, coincides with a call to the General strike launched for this Thursday by the political window of ETA, the Basque organization Batasuna - prohibited since 2002 - and is to protest against prohibition by the government of the Basque autonomous Communauté of a public homage to two prisoners of the ETA group, died in detention last week, one of an heart attack, the other by suicide.

Friday March 10th 2006

France (1): 100e birthday of the Catastrophe of Courrières which it on March 10th 1906, made 1099 died. The greatest industrial catastrophe in Europe at the 20th century.
France (2): At the conclusion of a meeting of the Council of the University, the president of the university of Nantes, François Resche addresses a “open letter” to the Prime Minister to require of him to suspend the Contrat first engages, flagship measure of the law on the equal opportunity adopted by the Sénat the March 9th, and “to open negotiations with all the professional organizations and coeds concerned”.
France (3): Demonstration with Toulouse of the stockbreeders of cattle of the the Pyrenees against the project of reintroduction in this area of five Ours, coming from Slovenia, which must be released between mid-April and at the beginning of July, and will come to join the 14 to 18 bears currently present in the Pyrenees.
France (4): The humorist Dieudonné, who had declared the February 8th 2004, in the Sunday newspaper , in connection with the Juifs: “They all are of the slave traders reconverted into the bank, the spectacle and today the terrorist activity”, is condemned by the Magistrates' court of Paris to a fine of 5000 euros, with the great satisfaction of associations which constituted civil Partie: the international League against racism and the anti-semitism (LICRA), the Union of the Jewish students of France (UEJF), the Consistory Jew of France, the Lawyers without borders and S.O.S Racism, which obtains each one one euro symbolic system of damages.
France (5): Continuing in Martinique its round intended to join again the dialog with the West-Indian, Nicolas Sarkozy is received after many hesitations by most famous of the Inhabitant of Martinique, Aimé Césaire, the “cantor of the négritude”, which, at the conclusion of their maintenance of almost one hour, offered to the president UMP a specimen of its book “ Discours on colonialism ”, that it dedicated to him.
France (6): Robert Feliciaggi, 64 years, elected official UMP of the Assembly of Corsica, and mayor of the commune of Crushed-Canale, in Corse-du-Sud, is killed, shortly after 23:30, on the carpark of the Aéroport of Ajaccio, by an unknown, which escaped on board a car driven by an accomplice who awaited it near the offices of the hirers out of cars. Reached by several balls with the head. he was transported urgently towards the hospital of Ajaccio, where he is shortly after deceased 1:00 of the morning.
France (7): Declarations in front of the court, during the lawsuit into correctional of the fictional jobs of the Mutual main road of the students of France (MNEF), of the former managing director of the MNEF, Olivier Spithakis, blame the former socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and its entourage. He confirmed that Marie-France Lavarini, former collaborator of Lionel Jospin to the PS and at the minister of education, had profited from wages of kindness by the mutual insurance company coed of 1990 with 1993, at the request of the principal private secretary of Lionel Jospin, Minister for the State education of 1988 with 1992.
African Union: Meeting with Addis-Abeba, (Ethiopia), of the Council of peace and safety (CPS) of the African Union (UA) to come to a conclusion about the transfer to the the United Nations of its force of peace to the Darfur, area of the west of the Sudan in prey since three years with bloody a Civil war. Finally, at the end of the meeting, subjected to the pressure of the international community, the African Union agrees to prolong until the September 30th its mission in Darfur.
Chad: The Chadian president Idriss Déby sign a decree of radiation of the rows of the national army of seventy soldiers who deserted these last months to join a rebellion in the east of Chad. Among these erased soldiers appear the generals Seby Aguid and Issaka Diar, two former close relations of president Deby who had deserted the February 17th whereas they were on mission in the east of the country, to negotiate with the rebellion.
Palestine: Since Damas, where he lives for safety reasons, Khaled Mechaal, the chief of the Hamas, rejects the plan of Israeli the Prime Minister by interim Ehud Olmert aiming at fixing the Israeli borders unilaterally, qualifying the project of “declaration of war”.
Iran: Disallowing the Russian proposal new discussions as a preliminary, the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice affirms that the file of the policy Iranian Nucléaire must be treated now by the Safety advice of the United Nations.
the United States: First woman to direct the ministry for the Interior since creation of this department, 156 years ago, Gale Norton (51 years), which sat in the Cabinet of George W. Bush since the arrival of Texan to the White House, in January 2001, confirms its intention to leave its governmental functions, to join, at the end of the month, the private sector.
Algeria: At the time of the first visit in Algeria of Vladimir Poutine since her accession with the Russian presidency, Algeria and the Russia conclude an agreement for the signature from a contract of bearing military equipment on air acquisition for 7,5 billion dollars of hunters and defense systems. Within the framework of this agreement, Russia agreed, for its part, to erase the 4,74 billion debts contracted by Algeria at Moscow in the years 1960 and 1970, under the Soviet era .
Kosovo : The appointment of Agim Çeku, old ordering of the guerilla Kosovan, shown War crimes by Belgrade, at the post of Prime Minister for Kosovo is ratified by the Parliament of the autonomous province of the south of the Serbia, by 65 votes against 33.
Italy: The Parquet of Milan claims the behavior of a lawsuit against Silvio Berlusconi in a business of Corruption supposed also implying the husband of the Minister for the British Culture. Berlusconi is continued for “corruption in judicial documents”. It is suspected of having poured 600.000 dollars with British business lawyer David Mills in exchange of false witnesses and destruction of documents at the time of two lawsuits brought against him in 1997 and 1998. This advertisement falls to most badly for the president from the Italian Council in one month from the legislative elections from the 9 and April 10th, which is announced tight.
Iraq: The body of the American hostage Tom Fox (54 years), which belonged to the four members of the ONG “Christian Peacemaker Teams” removed in Iraq the last November 26th, was found, according to an advertisement of a spokesperson of the American State Department.
Indonesia: The Avian flu killed a 22e nobody in Indonesia confirmed by analyzes carried out by the the World Health Organization (WHO), according to an advertisement of a spokesperson of the ministry for Health indonésien. This last victim is a 12 year old child, Hanif Cahaya Fitri, deceased on March 1st in a hospital of Solo (center of the island of Java).
UNO: Japan presents proposal to committee budgetary of General meeting of UNO, asking five permanent members the Council, namely the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, China and France, to pay each one at least of 3% to 5% of contributions of UNO, which would bring China and Russia, which ensure currently only 2,1% and 1,1% of totality, to pay much more than front.
Peru: At one month of the presidential election of the April 9th, the electoral campaign in Peru enters its last straight line with the war of the surveys currently putting at the catches three candidates: Heavy Flora Nano for the alliance of right-hand side National unit (ONE), the former president Alan Garcia, candidate of the Left Peruvian aprist (PAP), and the soldier with the retirement Ollanta Humala for the Left nationalist Peruvian (PNP). The last survey allots 27% to Flores, 20% with Garcia and 19% with Humala, after a series of denunciations against the ex-soldier and nationalist candidate for supposed violations of the human rights when it fought the guerilla of the luminous Sentier.
Planet Mars: The American Space probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (acronym MRO), which left the Ground in August 2005 for an odyssey of 500 million kilometers in direction of Mars, carries out the delicate operations successfully enabling him to enter in orbit around red planet, which she will study for one two years nominal period.

Saturday March 11th 2006

France (1): The university of the Sorbonne, occupied by 200 hostile demonstrators with the Contrat first engages (CPE) since a dozen hours, is evacuated by the police force towards 3:45, on requisition of the vice-chancellor of the Académie of Paris, chancellor of the Université S. During the evacuation, the C.R.S challenged eleven people.
France (2): The European space launcher ARIANE-5 ECA (the heavy version of the rocket) successfully carries out - after three carryforwards since the February 21st - its first shooting of the year 2006, since the Space center of Kourou, in Guyana, and puts into orbit two satellite S representing a load of almost 7,8 tons: Spainsat, a military satellite of communication which must triple the capacities of Spanish protected governmental communications and Hot Bird 7A, managed by the European operator Eutelsat, satellite of diffusion for the radio and the Télévision.
Serbia-and-Montenegro: Died in its cell of the prison of $the Hague, where it appeared before the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia, since February 2002, accused of more than sixty counts of indictment, for Génocide and War crimes made during the wars of the Balkans, the former president of Serbia and of the Federal republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloševic (64 years). One is unaware of at this hour the causes of his death, but it is known that the Serb former president suffered from health issues with repetition which had delayed its lawsuit.
Iran: According to a jointly drawn up text project, American Européens and propose that the Safety advice of the United Nations gives two weeks to Iran to stop its suspect activities Nucléaire S. This proposal for an ultimatum must still receive the downstream of the Russia and the China.
Chile: Nomination of the new president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, during a ceremony, in the port city of Valparaiso, to 110 km in the west of Santiago, in the presence of more than thirty Heads of State, of which the new Bolivian president Evo Morales. It becomes thus the first woman of the history to be reached the post of head of the State in its country and the sixth in Latin America.
Sweden: Chechmates Söderlund, alias Günther, plays for the first time its individual Like Fire Tonight with the Melodifestivalen (Swedish Song Contest) with Sunshine Girls.
Formula 1: The septuple world champion of Formula 1, the German Michael Schumacher, on Ferrari, realizes, into 1 ' 31" 431 best times of the tests qualifiers of the Grand Prix of Bahrain, first test of the championship of the world 2006, thus equalizing the record of “pole positions” (65), held until there by the Brazil IEN Ayrton Senna. It will have at its sides on the grid departure its new Brazilian fellow-member Felipe Massa, 24 years old.

Sunday March 12th 2006

France (1): The Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin confirms, at the time of a twenty minutes intervention in the newspaper of 20:00 of TF1, the implementation of CPE. He proposes to supplement the device by new guarantees, like a complement of remuneration making it possible to have a formation in the event of Licenciement, or the creation of a referent to accompany and advise the young employees.
France (2): Yves Chastan, which led a list PS - PC - Verts, gains, as of the first turn, the municipal election of Privas, (Ardèche). With 55% of the voices, its list precedes that of the outgoing mayor Michel Valla (UMP), which obtains 34% of the voices, and that of its former assistant Christian Farjot, UMP also, which collects only 11% of the voices. It is the smallest prefecture of France which passes on the left for the first time since 1945.
France (3): The project of conciliation between the groups Savings bank and Banque Populaire, intended to give rise to the second French bank with a market share from 20 to 22%, enters an active phase with the board meeting of the two banks. This project always runs up against the opposition of the Deposit and consignment office, which “would make exploit its right to veto” this subject.
China: In an interview granted to the news agency Xinhua, the president of the supreme popular Court, Xiao Yang - former minister for the Justice of 1993 with 1998 - indicates that China is not laid out to abolish the Capital punishment for the moment, even if it considers that it “must be applied with prudence”.
Colombia: The coalition of the parties favorable to the president Alvaro Uribe arrives at the head of the legislative elections to Colombia, according to the first results, after examination of 67% of ballot papers.
Central Africa (1): The Central African presidency shows the deposed president Angel-Felix Patassé, in exile with the Togo, reversed by the force in March 2003 by the current president François Bozize, and certain leaders of her party, the MLPC (Liberation movement of the Central African people), to destabilize Central Africa by training “rebels” at the border with the Sudan.
Central Africa (2): The Central African historical opponent Abel Goumba yields the head of his party, the patriotic Front for progress (FP), with his son Alexandre Goumba (49 years), elected by acclamation of the militants to the presidency of the central committee of the party, at the end of an extraordinary general assembly.
Formula 1: Fernando Alonso (Renault) gains the Grand Prix of Bahrain, with 1" 246 in advance on Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) and 19" 360 on Kimi Räikkönen (McLaren Mercedes), left the last place.

Monday March 13rd 2006

Iran (1): Iran announces its intention to build, after that of Bouchehr (southern of Iran) of a capacity of 1000 megawatts, which should take up duty end 2007, one second Nuclear plant. Work should begin in the six next months. This advertisement, which is likely to cause the ire of the international community, intervenes whereas the file Iranian Nucléaire must be examined this week by the Safety advice of the United Nations.
Iran (2): The Iranian Minister for the foreign affairs, Manouchehr Mottaki, evokes the possibility that its country gives up the Traité nuclear non-proliferation. The spokesperson of the Iranian diplomacy, Hamid Reza Asefi, as for him, ensures that “never” Teheran would not obey an injunction of the Safety advice of the United Nations to stop its enrichment of uranium.
Iran (3): The five permanent members of the Safety advice of the United Nations meet for abstract consultations - third in one week - with the American mission in the United Nations with New York, but without managing to bring closer their divergent points of view on the manner of answering the crisis of the Iranian Nucléaire.
France (1): The agents of the fourteen strategic sites of Gaz de France (GDF) are put in strike to mark their opposition to the Privatization company. According to the sections CGT and FO of the terminal of Fos-sur-Mer, the national day of action is followed by 70% of the agents of the strategic sites of the terminals methane tankers of Fos and Mounting block-of-Brittany (Loire-Atlantique) and of the twelve sites of underground storage located primarily in the northern half of France.
France (2): Robert Louis-Dreyfus (the majority shareholder of the club), Roland Courbis (the former trainer) and twelve agents of players or ex-leaders of the Olympique of Marseilles appears before the sixth room of the Magistrates' court of Marseilles for suspect transfers. Justice suspects the defendants of having set up a system of “surfacturations, forged invoices and occult payments”, dependant on about fifteen transfers of players carried out between 1997 and 1999, of which those of Laurent Blanc, Fabrizio Ravanelli or Claude Makélélé.
France (3): The Rap fear, Mr R, of his true name Richard Makela, compared in front of the Magistrates' court of Melun (Seine-et-Marne) for “diffusion of violent, pornographic message or opposite with dignity accessible to a minor”, following a complaint of Daniel Mach, appointed UMP of the the Eastern Pyrenees. Its lawsuit is deferred to the May 29th.
France (4): Legal sources are indicated that the oil group Total, its legal director and two of his subsidiary companies, like eleven other natural persons or morals, put in examination in the shipwreck of the tanker “Erika” in December 1999, will be judged October 30th with the December 27th 2006 for “maritime Pollution” by the Magistrates' court of Paris.
UNO: Joined together with Geneva for the opening of its annual session, the Commission of the Human rights of the Office of the High Commission of the United Nations with the human rights (HCDH) suspends its work, to give time to the Member States to agree on the creation of the Conseil of the human rights, which must succeed to him.
Australia: The day before the arrival of the queen Elisabeth II of the the United Kingdom, which must officially open Wednesday March 15th with Melbourne the Jeux of the Commonwealth (15 March 26th), the Aborigène S, for which the invasion of Australia by the Great Britain in 1788 remains an opened wound, express and threaten to continue sovereign the British for Génocide. This advertisement makes following the report of the absence of a text recognizing the “injustice” of the condition of the Aboriginals since the British “invasion”.
Angola (1): The chief of staff of the Angolan army, the general Agostinho Nelumba, admits that the separatist are always active in the oil province of Cabinda (northern), showing them of “actions of banditism” in spite of negociations entered into with the government. Wedged between the Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic republic of Congo (DRC), Cabinda produces the essence of the Pétrole Angolan, which generates more than 90% of the receipts of the country.
Angola (2)/Public health: Six people died of the Choléra to Luanda, according to an advertisement of the department of health of the city in an official statement informing the population of the epidemic. The hearth of cholera was localized in the Bidonville of Boa-Vista, near to bay of Luanda, where the first suspect cases had been recorded the February 13rd.
Burundi: The Burundian government is ready to negotiate with the rebellion of the National liberation armies (FNL), if the request comes from the regional initiative for Burundi. According to the government, “the Tanzania was charged to bring the FNL to the negotiation table: it must now send a report/ratio on the initiative regional which has only the prerogative to decide following giving to this request”.
Democratic republic of Congo: At the stage of Mbuji-Mayi, in the province of the Eastern Kasaï, the Assistant general secretary of UNO to peace operations, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, points out, at the time of its meeting with the political parties and the actors of the civil society, that “the Safety advice of UNO cannot decide reopening of the polling stations”.
Liberia: The bast government asks the Nigeria to extradite the former president Charles Taylor.
Cameroun: After the Nigeria, the Egypt and the Niger, three countries where the discovery of the virus H5N1 had been announced last month, the Cameroun becomes the fourth African country touched by the deadly virus of the Avian flu, the disease having been detected in a duck of breeding in the extreme-north of the country. This news comes to confirm fears of the experts to see to extend the epizooty in Africa.
Burma: According to the United Nations for the food and agriculture (FAO), the virus H5N1 of the Avian flu was identified among 112 dead found chickens one week ago in breeding S of the area of Mandalay, in the center of the Myanmar (ex-Burma). They are the first official cases indexed in Myanmar, which divide borders with the China, the Thailand and the Laos, where the highly pathogenic stock of virus H5N1 was already confirmed on several occasions.
the United States (1): Dramatic turn of events with the lawsuit of the French Zacarias Moussaoui, alleged member of Al-Qaïda, suspended during 48 hours by the judge Leonie Brinkema, in order to measure the consequences of a serious violation of the rights of the defense, which could involve a cancellation of the procedure. A lawyer working for the government - charged with coordinating seven witnesses who were to be questioned on the activities of the federal Administration of air transport before the September 11th - their communicated a transcription of the first day of audience of the March 6th, which is strictly prohibited. These procedural irregularities could save to the prisoner the Capital punishment and would condemn it to perpetuity.
the United States (2): The construction of the monument in homage to the memory of the victims of the Attentats of September 11th, 2001 begins officially, with New York, on the site of the World Trade Center. Several victims' families, estimating that only the maintenance of the site such as it is will make it possible to honor with dignity the memory with their missing close relations, are opposed to this construction. They gathered with the accesses of Ground Zero and seized justice to try to prevent work.
UNO: The China, by the voice of its vice-representative at UNO, Zhang Yishan, stated that it cannot accept the proposal Japan ease, bearing on the revision of the shares of contribution to UNO and the establishment of a minimal proportion for the permanent members of the Safety advice.
China: Following a Firedamp explosion to 03:25 of the morning in a mine of coal, close to the town of Erdos in the Mongolia-Interior autonomous region of in China of north, whereas thirty-four minors worked there, seventeen minors were killed and five others are always blocked at the bottom of a well. Twelve minors could be saved. The owner of the mine, Li Zhongfu, did not have a license of production, and is currently held by the police force.
the Caribbean: Cuba and the Brésil prepares a cooperation agreement with the Economic community Caribéenne (CARICOM), in the field of the fight against the AIDS, in order to come to assistance of the 500.000 patients carrying the virus in the fifteen countries the regional organization. Cuba will take care of the staff training which will look after and treat the carriers of the virus and Brazil will provide the drugs. This help is evaluated to 2,5 million dollars.
Haiti: The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, confirm the will of his country to maintain the 1.200 soldiers Brazilian integrated into the Mission of the United Nations for the stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH) in Haiti all the time necessary, according to the wishes of the Haitian authorities and of those of the the United Nations. The elected president of Haiti, Rene Préval, estimates, as for him, that the presence of the U.N. troops will be necessary “until one can consolidate the Haitian police structure, so as not to create a vacuum” as regards safety.

Tuesday March 14th 2006

France: Criticized since the fiasco of the Business of Outreau, the magistrates, with the call of their trade unions - the Trade union of the magistrature (SM), the European Public Service Union of the magistrates (USM) and FO-Magistrature -, open the Law courts to the members of Parliament and the citizens, for one day of mobilization, with an aim “of restoring the bond necessary between justice, the Parliament and the city”. Several deputies Members of the parliamentary Commission of inquiry into Outreau, in particular the president Andre Vallini (PS) and the rapporteur Philippe Houillon (UMP), envisaged to come to visit the Law courts of Paris.
France (2): With Berlin, where, in the absence of Dominique de Villepin - which brings together this evening in seminar its ministers - it took part at the Franco-German Council of Ministers, Jacques Chirac, during a joint press conference with Angela Merkel, flies to the help of the chief of the government, abused by the dispute anti CPE: “It goes without saying I support completely and without reserve the action led by the Prime Minister and the French government”.
Latin America: The Court latinoaméricain of water (TLA), civil organization which holds this week with Mexico City a session parallel with the 4th World forum of the water, which must open the March 16th, estimates that there is an acute crisis of water in five countries of the Latin America and the the Caribbean: the El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Peru and the Mexico. This situation is due, according to Javier Bogantes, director of the TLA, with one cooking problem of planning, the absence of control on behalf of the State and the political corruption.
Venezuela: Opening in the island of Margarita, in Venezuela, under the auspices of the Organization of the American States (OAS), of a conference on the traffic of human beings in Latin America. The human traffic relates to various cases of exploitation of human beings, and extends from the Esclavage to the sexual Exploitation, while passing by the Commerce of bodies and the traffic of women and children. At the time of this meeting, recommendations must be produced for the next assembly of the Ministers for the Justice of the OAS.
Serbia-and-Montenegro (1): The question of funerals of the former president of Serbia and of the Federal republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloševic constitutes a true headache for the Serb government. Mirjana Markovic, wife of Slobodan Miloševic, and their son Marko has seems it decided that the burial would take place with Belgrade. Right now, the president of Serbia Boris Tadic excluded categorically from the funeral of State, in spite of intense pressures of the nationalist mediums. Moreover, Mirjana Markovic is under the blow of a warrant for arrest for abuse of power and would be exiled since 2003 in Russia, just like its Marko son and the brother of the former president, Borislav Miloševic.
Serbia-and-Montenegro (2): The International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia has pronounced officially the end of the lawsuit of Slobodan Miloševic, open for more than four years, for Crime against humanity in ex-Yugoslavia. Later in the course of the day, Serb justice raises the warrant for arrest against Mirjana Markovic, its widow.
China (1): Enclose of the annual session of the National People's Assembly (APN, Chinese Parliament) to Beijing, the delegates separated after having adopted a series of major documents for the socio-economic development of the country. The deputies approved with one crushing majority (more than 97%) the management report of the government and the 11th Five-year plan of socio-economic development. They adopted the Development plan of 2006 and certain reports/ratios presented by the Standing Committee of the APN, the supreme popular Court and the supreme popular Parquet floor.
China (2): China and the South Korea discuss with Beijing the recovery the talks with six gathering China, the democratic Popular republic of Korea (RPDC), the the United States, South Korea, the Russia and the Japan, suspended at the conclusion of the first phase of the 5th cycle of the negotiations, which proceeded in Beijing last November.
China (3): China and the Australia wish to cooperate in the peaceful field of application of the nuclear energy on the basis of of the equality and reciprocity, according to a declaration of the spokesperson of the Chinese ministry of the Foreign affairs.
China (4): At the time of a press conference, behavior with Beijing shortly after the annual session closure of the 10th National People's Assembly (APN, Chinese Parliament), Chinese the Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announces that China will inflict a severe punishment with any individual who will requisition illegally grounds of peasants.
China (5): The group Nucléaire French Areva would have lost a contract for the construction of four nuclear plants in China, in negotiation since 18 months, with the profit of its competitor américano - British Westinghouse - repurchased in January by the Japan board Toshiba - while refusing to yield with the Chinese requirements as regards Technology transfer, which would have made it possible to the Chinese to manufacture themselves the future units.
South Korea: South Korean the Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan, splashed by charges with Corruption, gives his resignation, with the president Roh Moo-hyun, who accepted it.
Burundi: The Minister Burundian for Justice, Clotilde Niragira, primarily announces the release of a last group of 1.864 political prisoners, of the Hutu S marked of massacres of Tutsi S, indicating that “the Charged commission to identify the political prisoners completed his work”. These new releases change to 3.299 the number of prisoners released since January within the framework of the policy of national reconciliation.
Palestine (1): At the time of a spectacular raid against the prison of Jericho, the Israeli forces obtain the rendering of six Palestinian prisoners, of which Ahmed Saadat, the chief of PFLP, organizer supposed of the assassination of the Israeli minister Rehavam Zeevi in 2001.
Palestine (2): Bandage Gaza: Removal of two Frenchwomen members of Doctors of the World. With 21:30, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs announces that they were released.
Palestine (3): The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, in visit with Strasbourg decides to curtail the round that it carries out in Europe and to regain the Palestinian territories immediately, because of the situation created by the Israeli attack against the prison of Jericho.
Italy: The president of the Italian council Silvio Berlusconi and her adversary Romano Prodi, candidate of the coalition of center-left, is found for the first of the two televised debates which will oppose them from here to the legislative elections 9 and next April 10th.
Sudan: The Sudanese government reiterates its opposition to the deployment of a force of peace of UNO to the Darfur “even if no peace agreement is signed”, affirming that the role of UNO was to be limited to the Development assistance. The government would not accept only UNO violates the sovereignty of Sudan, nor that the International penal court (CPI) judge of the suspectés Sudaneses of implication in crimes related to Darfur.
Ivory Coast: The leader of the rebellion of the Ivory Coast of the new Forces, Guillaume Soro, of return to Abidjan after one year of absence, meets the president Laurent Gbagbo to discuss the peace process, and wishes “to take again his place” within the transition government.
Haiti: The new Haitian president, Rene Préval, completes a round in Latin America. At the time of a meeting with Buenos Aires with the Argentinian president , Nestor Kirchner, Mr. Préval claim the increase and the maintenance of MINUSTAH in Haiti.
Ethiopia/Érythrée: The Safety advice of the United Nations extends for one one month period the mandate of MINUEE (resolution 1661) and requires of the parts that they abstain from resorting to the threat or the use of the force.

Wednesday March 15th 2006

Australia: Opening of the Plays of the Commonwealth
Serbia-and-Montenegro: The skin of Slobodan Miloševic leaves this Wednesday the Netherlands for Serbia, where the former Serb president will be buried Thursday or Friday. Milorad Vucelic, the vice-president of the Serb Socialist party - old formation of Slobodan Miloševic -, confirms that an agreement had been found to organize “worthy funeral for our defunct president” with Belgrade.
China: China plans to open all its civil air lines with HongKong, in order to lower the expenses of transit of the goods to make it possible Hongkong to reinforce its position, as one of the most important wearing of transit of the world. The administration of the Civil aviation of China envisages to gradually open the Chinese sky with the alien companies, mainly the lines of the western half of China.
the United States: More than 400 intellectuals, artists and activists of the whole world sign a petition requesting the closing of the American centers of imprisonment from Guantanamo, territory Cuba under control of the United States. “The Commission of the Human rights (of the the United Nations) or the Council which will replace it must require the immediate closing of these detention centres arbitrary create by the United States and the suspension of all the obvious violations of human dignity”, reads one in this declaration. The document carries the signature of several Nobel Prize, of which Jose Saramago, writer Portuguese, Harold Pinter, British playwright , Nadine Gordimer, South-African woman of letters , Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentinian intellectual , Rigoberta Menchu, leading of the Guatemalan Indians , Wole Soyinka, of the Nigeria, Dario Fo, playwright Italy N.
Bosnia-Herzégovine: The troops of the Eufor and NATO in Bosnia indicate to have seized of the documents at a Serbe suspected of belonging to the support network with Radovan Karadzic, aiming at locating the fugitive accused of Génocide by the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia (TPIY) for its role in the war in Bosnia of 1992 - 1995.
Sudan/Darfur: The special representative of the General secretary of UNO in Sudan, Jan Pronk, declares that the situation in Darfur “is dark whereas engagements take place the every day”. According to him, “militiamans ridden on camels launch attacks against the villages in the south of Darfur, which caused the death of some 400 people since February”.
Ivory Coast: The members of the transition government of the Ivory Coast meet in large complete with Abidjan in the involved Council of Ministers, for the first time in 16 month, of the chief of the rebellion of the Ivory Coast of the new Forces, Guillaume Soro. The disarmament of the belligerents and the identification of the populations constitute the principal files of the transition of the Ivory Coast.
Democratic republic of Congo: With its departure of Kinshasa, the Assistant general secretary of UNO to peace operations, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, warns the Congolese political actors against “the policy of the empty”, appealing chair with a participation of all in the elections of the June 18th as a Democratic republic of Congo, and pointing out in connection with the reserves to enter the electoral process of several political trainings, that “the political actors give some time the impression to be afraid of the elections”.
UNO: The General meeting of UNO adopts by 170 votes (out of 191 Member States), the creation of the Conseil of the human rights, which will replace the Commission same name, in spite of the opposition of the the United States, which voted against, considering insufficient the new parapets posed to guarantee the exclusion of the undesirable countries. It is the too frequent presence, within the old Commission, of not very respectful country of the Human rights, which led to the replacement of a discredited U.N. organization.
France (1): Seventeen University S, on a total of 84, are entirely blocked in end-of-day by the students who express against the Contrat first engages (CPE), that is to say two of more than in the morning, the minister of education main road specifies. In addition, 34 others are disturbed to differing degree.
France (2): Died at the 93 years age, residence with the Morsang-on-Seine (the Essonne), of Rene Lasserre, founder of the famous Parisian restaurant éponyme, created in 1942.
Spain: A ship-hospital of the Spanish navy discovers 24 bodies off the coasts of Mauritania, in the south of the Canary islands. The victims, coming apparently from the sub-Saharan Africa, probably tried clandestinely to reach the Spanish archipelago of the Canaries.

Thursday March 16th 2006

Mexico: Opening to Mexico City of the IVe world forum of water, organized meeting every three years by the World council of water, gathering the whole of the actors implied in the field of the Water and the Cleansing. It constitutes the unique opportunity to share experiments and reflections in order to influence the political water. The challenge is immense: 1,1 billion people does not have a suitable access to the Drinking water and 2,4 billion does not have cleansing. (official site of the Forum (in English))
Iraq: The American armed lance, in the area of Samarra - to a hundred km in the north of Baghdad -, where the mosque of gold, one of the principal holy places Shiite, was destroyed last month by an attack, its greater air and terrestrial offensive in Iraq since the invasion of 2003. The American staff specifies that this operation implies more than 50 planes, 1.500 Iraqi and American soldiers and 200 tactical vehicles. The offensive, baptized “Essaim operation” should last several days.
France (1): Day of national mobilization against the CPE during which student and high-school pupils must express everywhere in France (with Paris starting from 14:00 of the place from Italy to Sevres-Babylon, with Angers also, for example).
France (2): The regional newspaper Southern West announces that Alain Juppe addressed email to him in which he affirms that an anticipated legislature ago with Bordeaux: “I will await the expiry of 2007 to represent itself in the 2nd district”. The former Prime Minister does not bring on the other hand of answer on the question of possible local elections anticipated to the autumn.
France (3): The fair of Contemporary art Art Paris - created in 1999 - opens its doors (until the March 20th), for the first time, under the majestic restored nave of the Large palace. Art Paris will occupy this prestigious place of the capital before the FIAC (International exhibition of contemporary art), its large rival, considered to be more important, who will be there only in October.
France (4): Seized by the opposition of a recourse against the law on the wage equality between men and women, adopted by the Parliament the February 23rd, which envisaged in particular the introduction of quotas of women in the boards of directors, the Constitutional council returns his decision, censuring several articles of the law, by considering them contrary with the constitutional requirements. Blow, the law is definitively emptied of very contained concrete whereas it already did not comprise much of it.
Haiti (1): Temporary the Prime Minister of Haiti, Gerard Latortue, decides against an immediate return of the former president Jean Bertrand Aristide in order to give a chance to the next administration of the president elected Rene Préval.
Haiti (2): In a very critical report/ratio on Haitian justice, the Inter-American Commission of the Human rights (CIDH) of the Organization of the American States (OAS) invites the president elected Haitian, Rene Préval, to almost give more the great attention to the reform of the legal apparatus, considered “very defective on all the levels”.
Israel: Several hundreds of poultries found dead in the Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha , close to the Gaza Strip, in the Negev desert (southern of Israel), make fear with the Israelis whom the country was not contaminated by the Avian flu. The ministry for Agriculture organized an emergency meeting, and a plan of forty is already being studied if it would prove that it is indeed the avian flu.
European Union/Air security: The European commission will adopt within one week the payment drawing up the “black list” of the airline companies prohibited in the European Union, after the unanimous opinion given by the Committee of the air security, charged assisting it with for the preparation of this list.
Democratic republic of Congo: The South African president Thabo Mbeki arrives at Kinshasa to take part, with its Congolese counterpart Joseph Kabila, at the third commission Bi-main road, installation within the framework of the participation of the South Africa in the efforts of peace and the introduction of a democratic transition as a Democratic republic of Congo, and to discuss the preparation of the elections of June.
Russia/China: Whereas the Russian president Vladimir Poutine is on the point of paying an official visit in China of the 21 to the March 23rd, the vice-minister Chinese of the Foreign affairs, Li Today, formless that bilateral political confidence and the co-operation were reinforced in the fields of the commercial exchanges, the investments, energy, sciences and technologies, and that the two countries regulated their frontier problems, and agreed active mutual supports in the problems relative to their reciprocal Souveraineté.
Sao Tome and Principe: The constitutional Court of Sao Tome and Principe announces that ten political trainings, including two coalitions, were authorized to introduce candidates to the legislative elections of the March 26th in the small Portuguese-speaking archipelago of 140.000 inhabitants. More than 500 candidates dispute on these lists the 55 seats of deputy to provide.
Angola: Angola will open its first Stock Market next October with Luanda, according to the advertisement made by the president of the Commission of the market of the capital, Cruz Lima. The purse of Luanda, which will be located in the zone of Mutamba, is intended to become in few years the second in importance of Africa, after that of South Africa.
Burundi: After the withdrawal of Blue helmets of the Mozambique and Kenya, 658 soldiers of maintenance of peace Ethiopia NS of the Opération of the United Nations in Burundi (ONUB) leave Burundi. The calendar of disengagement of the Blue helmets of the ONUB envisages the departure of 40% of manpower from here April 2006.
Afghanistan: The spiritual leader of the Talibans, the mollah Omar, declares that “this year, when the climate will be heated, the cross soldiers and their puppets will have to face a baited resistance, as they could never have imagined it”, and invites the Afghans to join “resistance against the war of crusade and the crusaders”.

Friday March 17th 2006

France: Opening to Paris of the 26e edition of the Living room of the book, whose guest of honor the Francophonie is this year, and who will pay homage to the “poet-president” Léopold Sédar Senghor, which one celebrates, this year, the centenary of the birth. The living room, inaugurated yesterday evening in the presence of the former president Senegal board Abdou Diouf, general secretary of the International organization of the francophonie, and the French Minister for the Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, mark the kickoff of the “Festival of Franco' fff' onies”, the French-speaking festival in France. Forty French-speaking authors originating in the five continents where French is spoken will take part in this great festival of the book. Among them, many African authors like the Congolese (RC) Emmanuel Dongala and Alain Mabanckou, the Benign ois Florent Couao-Zoti, the Senegal board Boubacar Boris Diop, the Algeria N Boualem Sansal, the Of the Ivory Coast Veronique Tadjo or Chehem Watta of Djibouti.
Iran: First official meeting of the Safety advice of the United Nations on the Nuclear file Iranian. The France and the the United Kingdom present a text which will open the way with a gradual response of the Council to this problem which worries the Westerners. The text invites Iran to conform at the requests of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and to suspend all its linked activities with the enrichment of uranium. He also asks Teheran to reconsider the construction of a nuclear reactor of research to heavy Eau and to take again the application of the additional protocol of the Traité nuclear non-proliferation (NPT), which allows unexpected and thorough controls nuclear sites of a country by the experts of the IAEA.
Cuba: Sergio Jorge Pastrana, secretary with the Foreign affairs of the Academy of Science of Cuba will chair, for the period 2006 - 2008, the Scientific community of the Caribbean , founded with Carthagène of the Indies, in Colombia, December 2000, which gathers the Academies of Sciences of Colombia, of the Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, of the Guatemala and the Venezuela.
Serbia-and-Montenegro: Fausto Pocar, president of the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia, indicates that no trace of poisoning was detected on the body of the former Serb president Slobodan Miloševic, according to the first results of the toxicological analyzes. The funeral will take place Saturday with Pozarevac, its birthplace, located at some 80 km in the east of Belgrade, in the presence of about fifty foreign delegations, and more than 100.000 Serb, Montenegrins and Serbo-Bosnians.
Democratic republic of Congo (1): The chief of the Union of the Congolese patriots (UPC), Thomas Lubanga, imprisoned since March 2005 with Kinshasa, is transferred to the International penal court (CPI) from $the Hague. This militiaman chief is suspecté of War crimes and to have financed massacres in Ituri, in 2002 - 2003, crimes into which CPI inquires since June 2004.
Democratic republic of Congo (2): A Congolese soldier was condemned to five years of prison for recruitment of Child-soldiers. The commander Jean-Pierre Biyoyo was also judged for desertion and participation in an insurrectionary movement. It is the first time that a Congolese court judges and condemns a soldier for recruitment of children.
Liberia: At a public meeting of the Safety advice of the United Nations, the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, request lifting of the sanctions on diamond exports and the maintenance of a presence of UNO in the country, indicating that the strategy of the government as regards Maintien of peace “rests on four pillars: safety, rule of the law and governorship, economic revival and rebuilding of the infrastructures”.
Ivory Coast: Joined together with Abidjan, the international Work group (GTI) on the Ivory Coast greets “the environment alleviated” in the country and “significant progresses” of the peace process, adding that the actions to be carried out remain many and complex. The chief of the rebellion of the new Forces, Guillaume Soro, for its part invites to create a “staff which integrates the two armies of Ivory Coast” to support a reunification of the country.

Saturday March 18th 2006

Beaucoup of students appears in the streets of Paris and other big cities of France. Following their actions, half of the facs are closed. It is about a sharp reaction against the law proposed on the plan of the Contrat first engages - which should be in force in April 2006. It would make it possible to the employers to lay off without justification of the new employees of less than two years of seniority.
Palestine: The movement of the Palestinian Islamic resistance Hamas, which must present, this day, the list of its government to the chief of the Palestinian Autorité, Mahmoud Abbas, did not manage to form a coalition government, in front of the refusal of the other formations, frightened by its intransigence, to join it in a coalition. The Fatah, in particular, required that Hamas in the past take again on its account the agreements concluded with Israel, but the islamist movement always refuses to recognize the Hebrew State. Ismaïl Haniyeh, which was indicated to direct the government, must hold a press conference towards 16:00 to announce the formation of its cabinet.
France (1): The First secretary of the Socialist party François Holland takes part in Tulle, Corrèze, with the manifestation of the city of which he is the mayor against the Contrat first engages (CPE), before going by the road to the Parisian demonstration. More than 7.000 people according to the organizers, 4.000 according to the police force, crossed Tulle, of the station to the prefecture, taken along by approximately 600 to 700 high-school pupils and students of IUT.
France (2): In visit with the Meeting, the Minister for Overseas, François Baroin with satisfaction noted the fall of rate/rhythm in the evolution of the epidemic of Chikungunya since more than one month. 5.600 new cases were listed on the island of the March 6th to the March 12th. Since his appearance, one estimates at 212.000 cases and 148 deaths the consequences of the viral disease transmitted by Moustique S.
Liberia: The Mission of the United Nations in Liberia (MINUL) announces that it will withdraw 10% of its troops of Maintien of peace in Liberia, that is to say some 1.500 soldiers, within the framework of its retirement scheme whose application must start in the current of the year.
Cuba: Thirty Damas of blanco (“women in white”) express in the streets of Havana to claim the release of Dissident S condemned and imprisoned in 2003 by the cuban authorities. Fifteen of them profited last year from measurements of handing-over in bail for health reasons; the 60 others are always behind the bars.
Formula 1: The pilot Italy N Giancarlo Fisichella (Renault) will spring in pole position, Sunday, on the circuit of Sepang, for the Grand Prix of Malaysia, second test of the season. He signs for the third time of his career the best time of the qualifications. He will have at his sides the Britannique Jenson Button (Honda). The young German pilot Nico Rosberg (Williams - Cosworth), it is only the second race in the category-queen, obtains a promising third places one week after having produced the best turn in race during his first appearance in competition at the wheel of F1.
Rugby: The XV of France is essential in the pain on the Wales (21-16) and gains the edition 2006 Tournoi of the six nations. The France thus precedes with the goal average the Ireland, victorious of the England to Twickenham (28-24) in end of the afternoon. Hustled a long time, the XV of France sealed its success in all end of match thanks to Florian Fritz, author of the saving test at two minutes of the final whistle.

Sunday March 19th 2006

Formula 1: After having carried out the pole position of the Grand Prix of Malaysia on the circuit of Sepang, the Italy N Giancarlo Fisichella (Renault) gains, in 1:30 ' 40" 529 (205,397 km/h of average), third victory of its career, in front of its fellow-member, the Spanish world champion Fernando Alonso, with 4" 585, and the British Jenson Button (Honda) to 9 " 631. It is the first doubled of the Renault stable since 1982.
Boxing: Mahyar Monshipour, demolishes of its world title, puts an end to its career.

Monday March 20th 2006

the Tunisia festival its 50 years of independence.

Tuesday March 21st 2006

Buenos Aires: Renationalization of the distribution of Drinking water by the Argentinian State with the detriment of Aguas Argentinas , subsidiary of the French group Suez

Wednesday March 22nd 2006

Canada: Shipwreck without victim of the Canadian ferry (Colombia-British) Queen off the North .
Spain: The separatist organization Basque ETA announces a permanent cease-fire by justifying its decision by the need “for advancing the democratic process with the Basque Country in order to build a new framework in which our rights as people will be recognized”.
Cuba: Death of the cuban singer Pio Leyva, become internationally celebrates with the Buena Vista Social Club, the group, rested by the cuban type-setter Juan de Marcos and the American guitarist Ry Cooder, which succumbed to an heart attack, at the 88 years age. It is the fourth member of the club who dies after disappearances of Compay Segundo, and of the pianist Ruben Gonzalez in 2003 and of the singer Ibrahim Ferrer in August 2005.

Thursday March 23rd 2006

Benign: Yayi Boni gains the presidential election .
Spain: The decision of the ETA to respect one henceforth “cease permanent fire” is accommodated with skepticism in Spain, and is greeted with Brussels, the opening of their top of spring, by the leaders of the European Union, who see in this gesture of the separatist organization Basque a hope for Spain and the Europe.
France: In a Joint Declaration, the leaders of the five trade-union confederations (CGT, CFDT, FO, CFTC and CGC) accept the invitation that had addressed the chief of the government to them, Dominique de Villepin to come to discuss “as soon as possible” the Contrat first engages (CPE). The meeting will take place tomorrow afternoon with Matignon.
France (2): The bill presented by the minister of sport, Jean-François Lamour, which gives rise to an independent French agency to fight against the doping is definitively adopted by the Parliament, after an ultimate vote of the deputies, putting France in conformity with the international standards enacted by the world Agence antidopage (AMA).
France (3): Opening to the Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis) of the 33e congress of the French Communist party, which must fix its orientation and elect its new direction. The party should prudently defer to the autumn the decision to introduce or not a candidate to the Elysium in 2007.
the United States: With the lawsuit of Zacarias Moussaoui, which recognizes being member of Al-Qaida, liable to the capital punishment not to have denounced the attacks in preparation after its arrest in August 2001, the charge finishes to present its arguments to make the point that consents would have led to the arrest of eleven of the terrorists and the failure of the plot.
Democratic republic of Congo; Following a request of the the United Nations, the European Union gives its final agreement to the sending of a military mission including/understanding to 1.450 soldiers, to which should take part at least ten Convention countries, to support the 17.000 blue helmets already present, which have extremely to make in the immense territory of the Democratic republic of Congo (RDC), to ensure the good progress of the elections envisaged the June 18th.
Afghanistan: The Safety advice of the United Nations extends for a further one year the mandate of the Mission of UNO in Afghanistan (MANUA) and ratifies the recommendations made by the General secretary of the United Nations in his report/ratio of the March 7th (resolution N° 1662). The Safety advice reaffirms his determination to help the Afghan Government and the people to benefit from success from the Conférence of London which was held the January 31st and February 1st, 2006.

Friday March 24th 2006

Bielorussia: With 3:00 of the morning, hundreds of police officers armed with bludgeons invest the central place of Minsk on which the opposition expressed for the fourth consecutive night to dispute the re-election of the president Aliaksandr Loukachenka, challenging hundreds of people. The leader of the opposition Aliaksandr Milinkievitch declared following these arrests that “the authorities destroy freedom, the truth and justice”.
Explosion at the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of chemistry of Mulhouse.
Bolivia: Two explosions with Paz make two dead and six wounded.
Ivory Coast: The president Cuba in Fidel Castro, host of the next summit conference of the non-aligned countries which will take place, to Havana, in September 2006, invites the president of the Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo, with the presence of which it holds particularly, to come to assist to with it.

Saturday March 25th 2006

Afghanistan: The Pape Benoît XVI request by letter with the Afghan president Hamid Karzai the grace for the Afghan Abdul Rahman, 41 years, imprisoned two weeks ago to have given up the Islam and to have married the Christian faith, which is liable to the Capital punishment, according to the Islamic law into force in Afghanistan. Yesterday already, the various pressures of the international governments had pushed an high ranking official of the Afghan government has to announce that the man “should be released soon”.
the United States: A walk of protest gathers more than 500.000 people (according to the police force) with Los Angeles against a legal text, which must be subjected to the Sénat the next week, in virtue of which to live clandestinely on the American territory would become a crime, and which would impose new sanctions to the employers engaging of the immigrants entered the country illegally.
Greece: The Greeks celebrate their national festival.

Sunday March 26th 2006

Colombia: The FARC gave in freedom 2 hostages, whom they entrusted to representatives of the Croix-Rouge to Dorada, in the province of Putumayo, approximately 540 kilometers in the south of the capital, Bogota: Shine Almanza and Carlos Alberto Legarda (respectively officer and policeman).
Haiti: 17 human craniums were discovered in a wood of easy suburbs of the capital Haiti enne, Port-au-Prince. According to testimonys, the craniums would have been thrown of a car which circulated Saturday morning on a road of the suburbs of Pétionville.
Malaysia: A three year old young girl and a 26 year old young man would have been contaminated by the virus H5N1 of the Avian flu, according to a medical high ranking official, in Malaysian areas already touched by the virus. Placed in insulation, they are in waiting of the results of the complementary examinations practiced to confirm or cancel the contamination. If they are confirmed, these two contaminations would become the first human cases in Malaysia, whereas four hearths of virus H5N1 were announced during these last ten days in the area.
France: Publication with the Official journal of the decree on enforcement of a law of the antiterrorist law of the last January 23rd, obliging the operators télécoms, the suppliers of access Internet and the owners of Cybercafé S to preserve all the data during one year, in order to allow to identify the user, the relative data with the final equipment of communication used, the features as well as the date, the schedule and the duration of each communication and the data allowing to identify the recipients of the communication.

Monday March 27th 2006

the United States: Zacarias Moussaoui created sensation, at the time of the audience of the day of its lawsuit, by speaking, against the opinion of its lawyers, to testify: the defendant affirmed that it was supposed to hijack a fifth plane with Richard Reid the September 11th 2001 and to precipitate it on the White House.
Filipino: The explosion of an handmade bomb in a store, makes at least nine dead and a score of casualties, on the island of Jolo, in the south of Philippines. The attack was not asserted, but the police force suspects the islamist movement Abu Sayyaf, been dependant on Al-Qaida.
Nigeria: Release of 3 hostages (2 Americans and 1 British).
Liberia: The president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, wishes that the bast former president, Charles Taylor, in exile with the Nigeria, be directly extradited in Sierra Leone where he is shown of War crimes and crimes against humanity by the Special court for the Sierra Leone.
Haiti: At the time of an intervention in front of the Safety advice of the United Nations, the president elected Haitian, Rene Préval - which will take up duty officially the next May 14th - invite the international community to continue his long-term assistance to his country, and wish that MINUSTAH take part in the reinforcement of the police force and the legal system like in the process of disarmament and demobilization of the armed bands.
Egypt: Fatma Mahmoud Youssef Sabred, young a 30 year old Egyptian woman, originating in a village of the province of Qalyoubia, in 20 km in the north of the Cairo - the same area that the first human victim of the disease - died of the Avian flu, in a hospital of Cairo where it had been allowed two weeks ago. It is the second human victim of the disease since its appearance in Egypt, one month ago.
Sport: Died of the pilot IndyCar Paul Dana.

Tuesday March 28th 2006

the Middle East: Israeli legislative Elections of 2006.
Sudan: The Liberation movement of Sudan (MLS), rebellious independent group with the Darfur, invites the leaders present at the top of the Arab Ligue, which opens this morning with Khartoum in Sudan, “to adopt a clear position concerning the crisis in Darfur, in conformity with the International law” and to make pressure on the Sudanese government so that it accepts the deployment of an international force of Maintien of peace in Darfur.
Poland: The writer of science fiction Stanislas Lem died Monday at the 84 years age of one heart attack to the cardiologic private clinic of Cracow in Poland.
France: Demonstrations against CPE of the March 28th 2006
Japan: Earthquake in Tokyo.
China/Demography: Zhang Weiqing, person in charge of the “ Commission of State for the population and the family planning ”, indicates, in an interview granted to the Internet site of the Chinese government, that the policy of the Family planning helped China to avoid the birth of 400 million babies during the three last decades. It pointed out that China had spent approximately thirty years to carry out the objective of the control of the population, whereas that had taken hundred in the developed countries of them. “The objective to ensure the Chinese people a relatively comfortable life could not have been carried out if we had 400 million additional people” underlined Mr. Zhang. China currently making vis-a-vis a new peak of its births, the Politique of the single child will not be changed in a near future.
Afghanistan (1): The explosion of a bomb to the passage of a military convoy in the province of Helmand, in the South of Afghanistan, causes the death of six Afghan soldiers. In addition, two police officers were killed with Kandahar, according to the security services.
Afghanistan (2): The Afghan Minister for Justice announces the release - after the heavy abandonment of the charges of Apostasie on him - of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan converted with the Christianisme, imprisoned in the prison of Policharki in the suburbs of Kabul.
the United States/Data-processing: “Bluetooth Special Interest Group” (SIG) announces the next generation of the Technologie without wire Bluetooth, which will be able to ensure of the flows hundred times superiors compared to the current version thus passing of 1Mb/s 100Mb/s (either 12,5 Mo/s). This technology - used in the mobile phones, peripheral data processing and other portable units as the personal assistants (PDA) - will see its transmission speed increased in the years to come, then enabling him to be used for the vidéos high-definition and the file-swapping with its wandering MP3 for example. The new standard will incorporate a new technology radio, known like the Ultra wideband or UWD.

Wednesday March 29th 2006

Israel: After the victory of its party, Kadima, with the legislative elections, Ehoud Olmert tries to form a coalition government, whose principal task will be - as he had announced during the countryside - to trace the final Frontière S of Israel, by the negotiation, or, if that proves to be impossible, unilaterally.
Palestine: The government of the Hamas, directed by Ismaïl Haniyeh, lends oath in front of Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian autonomous Autorité. Its taking up the duties, two months after the electoral victory of the islamist movement, intervenes the shortly after the approval of its composition and its program by the Palestinian National council.
UNO: The Safety advice of the United Nations, noting “with a serious concern” that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “is not able to establish with certainty that there are not materials or activities Nucléaire S not declared in Iran”, adopts a declaration unanimously inviting Iran to suspend its activities relating to the Uranium enrichment and “to implement the measurements claimed by the IAEA, determining to restore confidence in the exclusively peaceful character of its nuclear program”.
France: The 4th room of the Court of Appeal of Paris - confirming the judgment given in first authority the September 27th 2004 - déboute Georges Lopez, the emblematic schoolmaster of the documentary with success of Nicolas Philibert, To be and to have , of its requests for repair for violation of sound Royalty and reached to his Right to the image. She condemns moreover Mr. Lopez to pay 12.000 euros of court fees.
Afghanistan (1): The militia of the Taliban lance his offensive of spring, by tackling an American base in the province of Helmand, in the south of Afghanistan. During the attack, two foreign soldiers - an American and a Canadian - and 32 combatants talibans were killed.
Afghanistan (2): The Italian government grants, after that of Germany, the asylum with the Afghan national who converted with the Christianisme, Abdul Rahman (41 years), threatened again in its country, where the deputies met during more than two hours and estimated that it was not to leave the country in spite of the offers of asylum of Germany and the Italy. In the evening, the President of the Italian Council, Silvio Berlusconi announces that Rahman arrived to Italy.
Nigeria: In escape for twenty-four hours, the former bast president Charles Taylor, sought by justice sierra-léonaise, and continued for war crimes and Crimes against humanity, has been stopped in the State de Borno, in the North-East of Nigeria, near of the Frontière with the Cameroun. He was expelled at once towards his native land - the Liberia - on board a plane of the Nigerian presidency in departure for Monrovia.
China: The Chinese government approves a five-year plan of more than 10 billion yuans (1,04 billion euros), which will be invested to reduce the industrial wastes, to treat waste water and to ensure the monitoring of the river Songhua, polluted in a chronic way, and accidentally by a slick of benzene, following the Catastrophe of the petrochemical factory with Jilin, China, on November 13rd, 2005.
Czech Republic: The laboratory of the European Union to Weybridge, with the the United Kingdom, confirms that the dead swan discovered close to Hluboka nad Vltavou, in the south of the Bohemia, last week, was killed by the highly pathogenic Virus H5N1 of the Avian flu.

Thursday March 30th 2006

Moravie of the South: more than 10.000 Czech will have to be evacuated with causes of the Inondation S which are profiled.

France: The Constitutional council validated the law on the equal opportunity, adopted on March 9th by the Parliament and whose CPE is the most discussed measurement.
Iraq: Release in the Iraqi capital of the American Journalist Jill Carroll (28 years), whose Iraqi interpreter had been killed during his removal in a street of Baghdad the last January 7th. It was deposited in the district of Amriya, in front of the offices of the Iraqi Islamic party, whose leaders had launched vigorous calls in favor its release. This one intervenes one week after that, by Iraqi special forces, of three pacifist Christian - two Canadian and a Britannique - after four months in captivity.
European Union, Competition: The giant of the Informatique Microsoft - threatened of an obligation rising to 2 million euros per day over one period going back to the last December 15th - is auditioned by the European services of Competition with Brussels. The American company must be denied charges of the European Union according to which it would not have respected an injunction inviting it to give of information which would make it possible its competitors to produce Logiciel S functioning with its operating system Windows.
the United States, Data-processing: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announces the recruiting of Samuel Naffziger and eight other developer-keys which worked at Intel with the development of the Processeur 64 bit S Itanium - a chip with high efficiencies for the waiters - which meets a certain number of difficulties since the launching of the project in 2001.
Data-processing: The World economic forum publishes its annual classification of the countries most opened with the new technologies of information and the communication. The France - which loses two places - is classified there in 22nd position on the same level as the Estonia. The the United States occupy the first place in front of Singapore (2nd) and the Denmark (3rd), first European country.
China: Three new courts, specialized in the criminal cases and concerning the popular Court supreme - whose creation had been announced in October - and charged with re-examining some death sentences formulated by the provincial courts, will be operational as of on April 1st. Previously this authority of call was most of the time spring of the provincial courts themselves. The supreme popular Court, in the current system, did not revise and made the final decision only in certain cases of death sentences - in particular when it was about economic crimes - but delegated this power to the provincial courts for other types of businesses.

Friday March 31st 2006

France (1): In ten minutes a short televised speech, the president of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, announces that it will promulgate the Loi for the equal opportunity, with his discussed provision, creating the Contrat first engages (CPE), while asking the government to suspend the application of it, until a new legal text submitted to the Parliament comes to modify the CPE promulgated in two of its essential aspects: the reduction from 2 to 1 year of the trial period during which the young person can be laid off and right that one grants to him to know the reasons of his possible dismissal.
France (2): total opening of the railway freight to competition. In addition to the SNCF, several candidates have right now a license of Railway company: CFTA Cargo liner (Connex), Europorte 2 (Eurotunnel), Rail 4Chem, B-Cargo liner (SNCB), CFL, Euro Cargo liner Rail (EWS).
Turkey: The official results of the riots which proceeded with Diyarbakir between the Kurdish population and the national security forces this week of 6 died.
Iran: A little more than two years after the violent one Seism who had destroyed the historical city of Bam, in the south-east of Iran, a new earthquake strikes the territory of old the Persia - which is with the crossing of seismic plates among most active of the world - destroying more than 40 villages in the province of the Lorestan, in the West of the country. According to a first assessment, at least 66 people were killed and 988 others wounded at the time of this new catastrophe. The first jolt, a magnitude of 4,7 degrees on the scale of Richter, occurred with 01:05 local times (21h25 GMT), striking Boroujerd and Doroud, two cities located at 300 km in the south-west of Teheran. The epicentre was localized in the mountainous areas between the two cities.
China: A group of 80 Chinese engineers leaves China bound for the Lebanon for a mission of Maintien of peace of the the United Nations. They will be joined, in the current of April by 102 other Chinese soldiers. Based in the south of the country, they will deal of the Déminage, the construction of roads, buildings and installations of defense, and will be given the responsability to offer an humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of this area.

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