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Sunday the 1st er May 2005

  • Swiss, Zurich: at least 6 wounded in a brawl which degenerated into shooting. 5 suspects were stopped.
  • Japan: no the damage after a seism of 4,9 on the open scales of Richter in the island of Kyushu.
  • Iraq: an Australian national taken as an hostage.
  • Germany, close to Berlin: big fire in a deposit of tires.
  • Iraq: five Iraqis acknowledge the murder of the hostage Margaret Hassan.
  • Iraq: personal effects belonging to the hostage Margaret Hassan, given for died by London, were found.

Monday May 2nd 2005

  • Afghanistan: 3 women killed by rebels because they worked for an ONG foreign.
  • Ethiopia: at least 170 died and 250.000 moved following the floods which strike the country since the April 23rd.
  • Afghanistan: 28 died and 13 wounded in the explosion in an ammunition dump.
  • China: two accidents of mine make 32 dead.

Tuesday May 3rd 2005

  • Pakistan: an explosion due to gas occurred in a building sheltering a manufacturing plant of ice cream with Lahore in the east of the country making at least 25 died and 20 wounded. The building of two floors which also sheltered cheap apartments is entirely broken down. Three or four surrounding houses as several vehicles were also damaged.
  • Egypt, close to Saqqara: discovered of an exceptional mummy.
  • a moderate seism shook the island of the Crete, the first information makes state only isolated minor damage and no casualty. The Institute of geodynamics of Athens specified that the jolt had a preliminary magnitude of 4,5 on the open scales of Richter and occurred with 0:30 (21h30 GMT) with approximately 280km in the south of Athens.
  • Somalia: explosion at the time of a meeting of the Prime Minister, 15 died and 38 wounded.
  • Angola: WHO publishes a new assessment of the epidemic of fever of Marbourg which killed at least 280 people.
  • a seism magnitude 5 on the scale of Richter shook the west of the Iran: 4 died and 26 wounded.
  • Died of Bob Hunter, cofounder of Greenpeace.
  • China: the flood of a mine on April 24th, has fact 23 died and seven missings (the last assessment).
  • Two strong seisms shook the south of the island of the New Zealand making tiny damage.

Wednesday May 4th 2005

Thursday May 5th 2005

  • Indonesia: the ex-dictator Suharto hospitalized, suffers from an intestinal hemorrhage but its general term is “rather good” according to its doctors.
  • Panama: a seism magnitude 6 on the open scales of Richter was recorded with 19:12 GMT (21h12 hour of Paris), announced the Observatory of sciences of the Earth of Strasbourg. The epicentre of the jolt was located at 5,39 degrees of northern latitude and 82,80 degrees of western longitude.
  • Nepal: the former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba accused for misuse of public money.
  • Pakistan: arrest of 14 islamist supposed related to Al-Qaïda.
  • Lebanon: justice freezes a warrant for arrest against the general Michel Aoun, chief of the opposition, opening the way on its return after 15 years of exile.
  • the United States, New York: explosion in front of the British consulate: no victims.
  • Democratic republic of Congo, close to Kisangani: crash landing of Antonov 26: eleven dead.
  • France, Amiens: the former basketball player Liberto Tetimadingar, 24 years was écroué for the murder of his mother.
  • Iraq: 25 killed in a series of attacks to Baghdad against security forces.
  • France: Aeronautical, first flight of the Falcon 7X since Bordeaux. It is the first business aircraft to electric orders of flight.

Friday May 6th 2005

  • Lebanon: attack with Jounieh, 22 wounded (police force).
  • Yemen: a seism of 5,3 on Richter shakes the south-east of the country without making damage or victims.
  • Iraq: 17 died and 40 wounded in an car bomb attack on a market in the south of Baghdad (police force).
  • Pakistan: the security services adopted a cell of Al-Qaïda which prepared an attack against the president Pervez Musharraf.
  • the United Kingdom: the chief of the conservative opposition Michael Howard, beaten to legislative, announced that he would resign when its party appoints a new leader.
  • Iraq: 14 body of people carried out by ball discovered with Baghdad (police force).
  • the United Kingdom: the Workers party, directed by Tony Blair gains the legislative elections with 35,2% of the votes (- 5,8% compared to 2001), against 32.3% (+0.6% compared to 2001) for Conservateurs directed by Michael Howard and 22.1% (+3,8% compared to 2001) for the liberal-democrats of Charles Kennedy and 5% for others. Rate of participation is in fall compared to 2001 with 57%. The final results should be known in end-of-day, after the examination of the votes in Northern Ireland.
  • Swiss: the to advise national Socialiste Jost Gross is deceased at the time of a friendly match of Football between members of Parliament Suisse S and German.

Saturday May 7th 2005

  • Peru: at least 40 died and 16 wounded in the fall of a bus in a ravine.
  • the United Kingdom: resignation of the Protestant David Trimble, chief of Unionistic of Ulster after its defeat with the legislative ones.
  • Russia: gigantic fire in a metal building firm to Moscow.
  • Burma: three explosions heard in 3 different shopping malls, the shopping mall of Dagon, Trade Centers Rangoun where the Thailand organized a fair biannual exposure and Junction-8. There would be at least 11 died and 162 wounded.
  • Ukraine: explosions in an ammunition dump: nine wounded.
  • Australia: rioters take the control of the reception of a prison of Tasmanie.
  • Lebanon: return of the general Michel Aoun to Beirut after fifteen years of exile in France.
  • Australia: a twin-engine aircraft transporting 15 people was crushed in the north of the country, probably because of the bad atmospheric conditions. There would be no survivors.
  • France: hospitalized, Jean-Pierre Raffarin cancelled its displacement with Rheims where it was to chair the ceremony commemorating the 60 years of the signature of the German military capitulation. It is the Minister for the Defense which replaced it accompanied by the deputy secretary with the War veterans and the Secretary of State to the elderly.
  • Iraq: strong explosion with Baghdad on a market against a foreign convoy, 17 killed including 13 civilians Iraq iens and 4 security guards foreigners, which could be American and 33 wounded.
  • Belgium: the American photographer Spencer Tunick gathers nearly 2000 naked participants for a photo meeting in Bruges.

Sunday May 8th 2005

Monday May 9th 2005

  • the United States: John Hasey, Companion of the Release of American nationality , died in Arlington in Virginia at the 88 years age.
  • Colombia: strong rains make 17 dead and 30 wounded.
  • Gaza: Ariel Sharon confirmed that the Israeli withdrawal of the band of Gaza would begin after the August 14th.
  • Sweden: 25 tons of oil forming a long tablecloth of 97 km were discovered off the Swedish coasts. The origin of this maritime pollution was not given yet.
  • Italy: reopening by the parquet floor of Rome of the investigation into the assassination of the writer and scenario writer Pier Paolo Pasolini on November 2nd, 1975, following declarations in a television program of the man who had been at the time considered and condemned for this murder. This one affirms today to be innocent and “to have acknowledged” by fear of reprisals after having received threats against him and its family. The judgment had often lent to polemics, the conditions of the murder not having never been elucidated in spite of the investigation.

Tuesday May 10th 2005

  • Iraq: armed men removed the governor of the Western province of Al-Anbâr Rajah Naouaf Farhan Al-Mahalaoui whereas it went Qaïm to Ramadi, chief town of the province. The kidnappers called the family for their announced that the governor would be retained until the departure of the American troops.
  • China: it is only today that one learned death from Zhang Chunqiao, one of the members of the Bande of the four shown to have been at the origin of the violent Chinese Cultural revolution between 1966 and 1976. Zhang Chunqiao died the April 21st of one cancer at the 88 years age. He had been condemned to the life imprisonment in 1983 but he had seen his sentence reduced a little later before being released for medical reasons in 1998. One is unaware of still the reason of the delay of the advertisement of this death.
  • Dominican Republic: a road accident made four died of which a French and twenty-four seriously injureds, among couples of firemen.
  • Indonesia: the island of Sumatra was struck by a seism a magnitude 6,6 the scale of Richter; no victims nor of damage.
  • Iraq: the islamist group Ansar Al-Sunnah would hold a Japanese hostage.

Wednesday May 11th 2005

  • the United States, Washington: the intrusion of a small private plane in the airspace protected above Washington caused a short evacuation of several official buildings of which the White House and the Capitole, seat of the American Congress. According to persons in charge of safety, it was not about an attack. Alarm began with 11:28 local (17h28 in France) when the radars of the federal administration of the civil aviation (FAA) located the plane, small Cessna 150, two-seater propeller single-engined aircraft. The apparatus penetrated in the restricted airspace, approaching up to five kilometers Washington according to the spokesperson the White House, Scott McClellan. Two helicopters Black Hawk and of the hunters of the air force were quickly sent on the spot. Cessna was intercepted and diverted under escort towards a small aerodrome of Frederick, locality of the Neighboring state of the Maryland. Challenged as of the landing, the two occupants of the aircraft were heard by the police force at the aerodrome of Frederick. According to the first observations, they are stray pilots. Members of an aero club of Pennsylvania, the pilots, Jim Sheaffer and Troy Martin, went to an air meeting to Lumberton, in North Carolina. George Walker Bush, left to ride bike in a park of Beltsville (Maryland), was not with the White House on the other hand his wife, Laura Bush, like Nancy Reagan, the widow of the former president Ronald Reagan, were at the time of alarm, and were put there at the shelter in the bunker of the White House. The vice-president Dick Cheney who was also with the White House, as for him was evacuated towards another building. The Congress, the Ministry of Finances and the Supreme court were also evacuated. To the Congress, armed police officers ran in the corridors, ordering to the people present to evacuate the places without delay. By saying “It is not a exercise! ”, while the sirens resounded and that military jets flew over the city. The republican deputy of the Ohio Bob Ney indicated to the journalists that people were surprised, that they shouted, that they thought that something had just arrived. The assistant of the Republican senator Stalemate Roberts, Sarah Little, explained that the orders of evacuation were transmitted on small portable terminals available to the members of the Congress. and that this message spoke about an imminent air threat. In June 2004, a radio breakdown had caused an alarm leading to the evacuation of Capitole. The authorities feared an air attack on the building. It was acted in fact of an apparatus transporting the governor of the Kentucky Ernie Fletcher, which went in the capital at the time of the funeral of the former president Ronald Reagan.
  • Iraq: perhaps the Japanese Akihito Saito, 44 years, that the radical group Iraq IEN Ansar Al-Sunnah announced Tuesday on its Internet site to have removed it, was mortally wounded during removal, announced with London his employer, the company of international safety Hart.
  • France: the Cannes festival was opened by Aishwarya Rai, Indian Actrice , and by Alexander Payne, American Réalisateur . The president of the jury is Emir Kusturica.
  • European Union: the Austria and the Slovakia ratify the European Constitution. The Bulgarian Parliament approved the Treaty of Accession signed with the Union.
  • Iraq: 1 died and 23 wounded in an explosion and a fire which destroyed 60% of a factory of manure.
  • France, Dryness: restriction of the taking away of water in three rivers of Seine-Maritime.
  • the Greece is paralyzed by a general strike.
  • Iraq: with Hawija, a man started the belt of explosives which it dissimulated under his clothing whereas it was in a queue before a recruitment center of the security forces, the police force gives a report on at least 35 dead and 54 wounded of which 15 are in a critical condition. With Tikrit, at least 38 people were killed and 84 wounded in a series of attacks. In Baghdad, six people died and 14 others were wounded in the explosion of two car bombs in two districts of the south and the west of Baghdad.
  • Japan: a seism, a magnitude of 4° on the scale of Richter, shook the center of the Japan, without making victims nor of damage.
  • France: collision between a train and a car wedged under the barrier of a level crossing with Coudekerque-Connects (Northern) close to Dunkirk: a death.

Thursday May 12th 2005

  • France: a flight of Air France Paris - Boston was diverted towards the airport of Bangor at the request of the American authorities which want to check the identity of a passenger. According to Ass Davis, spokesperson with Boston of the American Administration of safety in transport (TSA), flight AF332 was diverted because of the presence on board a homonymous traveller of a person being reproduced on a list of passengers prohibited by the American authorities. Flight AF332, with 169 passengers and 12 team members on board, was initially awaited local Boston with 15:30 (21h30 French hour). It was diverted towards the international airport of Bangor, where the landing took place between 14:30 and 14:45 (between 20:30 and 20:45 French hour). Agents of the FBI, American federal safety, Immigration and Customs as of the TSA awaited the apparatus with Bangor. In the evening, a person in charge of the TSA, administration in charge of the safety of air transport declared that the passenger was not suspecté of terrorism and that at this stage, it did not exist any information which could bind this passenger to a terrorist network. This passenger was always heard by the American authorities with Bangor for reasons without bond with terrorism, according to a source with the airport of Bangor. The plane of Air France (flight AF-332) remained with Bangor during one hour and 40 minutes before being able to take off bound for Boston, where it was posed towards 16:40 (20h40 GMT). The airport of Bangor is the principal ground of diversion for the transatlantic flights. In last September, a plane carrying out the connection London - Washington with on board the ex-pop star Cat Stevens had had to be posed with Bangor. The singer converted with Islam under the name of Yusuf Islam is indeed reproduced on a list of people to supervise, Washington suspecting it of having “activities potentially likely to be related to terrorism”. He was given on an aircraft bound for London.
  • Russia: mig 29 is crushed a death.
  • India: a grenade launched close to a school of Srinagar made at least 50 wounded.
  • Swiss: a seism a magnitude of 4,1 on the scale of Richter shook the area of Balsthal, in the canton of Soleure. The jolt occurred towards 3:40. No serious damage was announced.
  • France: a seism of 3,8 on the scale Richter shook the area of Mulhouse.
  • Iraq: supposed insurrectionists assassinated the general Iraq IEN Iyad Imad Mahdi who went by car to the ministry for Defense to Baghdad. The attackers opened fire since two cars on its vehicle in the district of Djihad in the west of the Iraqi capital towards 6:45 (2h45 GMT). One does not have any other detail yet. At least 24 Iraqis were killed, including 15 in a suicide bombing with Baghdad, while two American soldiers perished in violences which do not cease growing since the arrival beginning May of the government of the Shiite Ibrahim Al-Jaafari.
  • Germany: the deputies approved with a very vast majority the European Constitution, in the absence of a wide-ranging public debate which, according to its detractors, did not make it possible to the Germans to take the measurement of the stakes. The treaty will be definitively ratified the May 27th, two days before the referendum in France, when the Bundesrat, Upper House representing the Regional states, confirms the ratification of the Bundestag.
  • Yemen: epidemic of polio, more than 60 cases.

Friday May 13rd 2005

  • France: the producer and editor of music Eddie Barclay died this night of the continuations of one cardiac arrest at the hospital Ambroise Paré where it had been allowed for two weeks. It was 84 years old. He had discovered innumerable talents, among which Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré, Dalida, Charles Aznavour, Mireille Mathieu, Claude Nougaro or Eddy Mitchell.
  • the Vatican: the American archbishop William Joseph Levada named with the head of the Congregation for the doctrines of the faith.
  • Sweden: the Swedish singer of jazz Monica Zetterlund died during the night in a fire. She was 67 years old.
  • Ouzbékistan : a violent insurrection made at least 750 died with Andijan, important city of the east of the Ouzbékistan, where the president Islom Karimov went in urgency and where soldiers shot at crowd come to support the insurrectionists. Insurrectionists took by storm in the night a military garrison where they were seized of an important quantity of weapons. They then attacked a prison of high security of which they released 2.000 prisoners. Then they took the control of the seat of the regional administration in this town of 300.000 inhabitants of the Vallée of Ferghana. And of the thousands of people gathered in front of the building in the course of the day to support them, by asking “the democracy”, the improvement of their standard of living, and “the resignation of president” Karimov.

Saturday May 14th 2005

  • France: an employee with the kitchens of the Necker hospital to Paris (XVe) was killed with blow of saber on his work place. The murderer, who did not seem to enjoy all his faculties, presented himself around 8 p.m. to the central police station of XIVe, his saber ensanglanté with the hand, to show murder. He was led to the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarter. According to the hospital the murderer knew his victim. The attacker of the victim, “one of its knowledge had come to seek it on its work place”, specified the director of the Necker hospital which stressed that it was “a business of a strictly private nature, external at the hospital”.
  • Egypt: a bus falls into a river: a death, forty missings.
  • Tunisia, Tunis: about fifteen case of Méningite were recorded in the district Tunis since the last April 15th, of which seven are transmissible announced the Tunisian ministry of the Public health. According to its official statement, the sanitary services concerned immediately took instructs the people reached with them and follow with attention the evolution of the situation, qualified tranquillizing. The analyzes of laboratory carried out showed that the responsible bacteria are various types and that only seven cases have a potential of transmission and correspond to isolated cases, geographically dispersed.
  • Indonesia: an underwater seism a magnitude of 6,9 shook the island Indonesia of Sumatra, causing a movement of panic in several cities. One does not give a report on victims nor of damage, and the jolt did not start a Tsunami. The epicentre of the seism magnitude 6,9, which occurred with 12:05 (5h05 GMT), was located at approximately 50km in the south-west of the town of Padang, in the west of Sumatra.
  • Ouzbékistan : the president Islom Karimov states that the events of Andijan made 169 died. A leader of the opposition ouzbèke declared Tuesday, May 17 that its party had drawn up a list of 745 people killed by the police force. The president of the party of the free Peasants, specified that repression by the governmental forces made 542 died with Andijan and 203 died in Pakhtabad, another city of the valley of Fergana.
  • Algeria: an earthquake of magnitude 3,5 on the scale of Richter was recorded this night with 2:47 (1. 47 GMT) in the department of Chlef (200 km in the west of Algiers). The epicentre of the seism was localized to 16 km in the North-East of Chlef. There are neither victims nor damage.
  • Germany: a seism of 3,2 on the scale of Richter shook the south-west of the country.

Sunday May 15th 2005

  • Bangladesh: the shipwreck of a ferry overloaded in the south of the country made 88 died. Victim of a strong gale, the boat with two bridges ran in the mouth of the river Bura Gauranga. The ferry transported more than 150 passengers, that is to say twice his maximum capacity.
  • Iraq: four people were killed and 37 others wounded in two bomb attacks which occurred with Baqouba, a city located at 60km in the North-East of Baghdad. Raed Rachid Hamid Al-Mullah Jawad, governor of the province of Diyala, left unscathed the first attack-suicide to the car bomb which aimed its convoy while three of its guards were wounded. Five minutes later, with 500 meters from there, an equipped kamikaze as a police officer exploded himself when the commander Imad Shakir Mahmoud prevented it from entering a court. Armed men opened fire on the convoy transporting the colonel Jassam Mohammed Al-Lahibi, an old agent of the intelligence services which was assistant editor in load of the governmental buildings to the ministry for Industry. It was killed on the blow. In another shooting, armed men killed the Shiite monk, the Sheik Qassim Al-Characine, and its nephew in the district of News-Baghdad. The Iraqi authorities launched warrants for arrest against two former ministers for after-Saddam Hussein, accused of corruptions. The former minister for Transport, Louei Hatim Sultan Al-Aris, as well as the ex-minister of Work, Leila Abdul-Lative case, is the subject of continuations in distinct corruption affairs. Mister Al-Aris is accused of corruption administrative while Mrs Abdul-Lative case is at the same time required under the accusation of corruption financial and shown to have restored in their functions of former heads of the Baath party to the capacity under Saddam Hussein. Mister Al-Aris left the Iraq on an unknown date and one is unaware of in which country it is currently. On the other hand, Mrs Abdul-Lative case is always in Iraq. Another former minister, Hazem Shaalan, which held the wallet of Defense previously, received to him also the order not to leave the country. With the beginning of the year, Mr Shaalan was criticized for the discussed transfer of a sum of 500 million dollars (383 million euros) towards a Lebanese bank for the purchase of weapons. The armed men who had removed the governor of the Western province of Al-Anbâr Rajah Naouaf Farhan Al-Mahalaoui whereas it went Qaïm to Ramadi, was released after being retained during 6 days.
  • Spain: four explosions in the Basque Country made 3 slightly injureds.
  • Turkey: two earthquakes of a moderate force shook the towns of Alanya, at the edge of the the Mediterranean, in the south of the Turkey, and of Cay, in the center of the country, without making damage and victims. The first seism, of 4,8 degrees, occurred with 2:46 (23. 46 GMT Saturday). The epicentre of the underground phenomenon was localized in the the Mediterranean, to a hundred kilometers of the coast. Alanya is a tourist city which attracts in particular many Germans and Netherlander. The second jolt, of 4,5 degrees, occurred with 13:54 (10. 54 GMT). Its epicentre was with Cay, in the province of Afyon, with 250km in the south-west of the capital, Ankara.
  • Russia: the vice-president tchetchene of 1997 with 1999 Vakha Arsanov was assassinated by the Russian forces in a village close the capital tchetchene Grozny.
  • Iraq: the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a visit surprised in the country.

Monday May 16th 2005

  • Political France, : the suppression of this bank holiday was accompanied by a great strike where less than one worker out of two worked.
  • Syria: arrest of the writer and militant of the human rights Ali Abdallah.
  • Kuwait: the Kuwaiti Parliament approved an amendment of the electoral law granting the right to vote and eligibility with the Femme S.
  • Afghanistan: amenable a Italy, Clementina Cantoni, working for International the Care humanitarian organization in Afghanistan, was removed in the center of Kabul by armed men. Tuesday, the criminal group “   ” of Tela Mohammed asserted the responsibility for the abduction. The group proposed its exchange against the freedom of its chiefs Tela Mohammed and Omara Khan and others their stopped accomplices. Amenable Canadian, former employee of Care it was also removed by four men.

Tuesday May 17th 2005

  • France: the producer of emissions and writer French Claude Mettra died in Antony in the Hauts-de-Seine. He was 82 years old.
  • Bangladesh: a ferry with approximately 250 people on board made shipwreck on the Padma river, in the province of Manikganj, close to the capital Dacca. 58 people died 144 different are reported missing.
  • France with About fifteen the realizers of the Cannes festival: first of the film Cache-cache of Yves Caumon the non-speaking part of Bernard Blancan is noticed by the critic.
  • France: died of Claude-Marie Shrimp one of “hairy” the last ten of the First World War. It was 109 years old.
  • France: died of the painter Jean-Pierre Pincemin of a lung disease. It was 60 years old.
  • the pop singer Australia Kylie Minogue which suffers from a Breast cancer in first phase, cancelled its round in Australia and Asia.
  • China: a firedamp explosion makes 21 dead in a mine.
  • India: the fall of a bus transporting the participants in a marriage in a throat of the north of the country cost the life 37 people, while 20 others were wounded.
  • the United States, terrorist alarm: a flight Alitalia Milan - Boston diverted towards the Maine because the name of the one of the passengers was reproduced on the list of the prohibited people of flight by the US government.
  • France, European Constitution: nearly 6 farmers out of 10 will vote not, according to a Ifop survey for the Parisian one/Aujourd'hui in France.

Wednesday May 18th 2005

  • France: the funeral of Eddy Barclay took place in the church Saint-Germain-of-Meadows, in the presence of his last wife in date, Caroline Barclay, and of many personalities such as the Minister for the Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres but also Jean-Michel Boris, Carlos, Stephan Collaro, Danièle Gilbert, Johnny Hallyday, Philippe Lavil, Henri Leconte, Michel Legrand, Eddy Mitchell, Georges Moustaki, Orlando, Florent Pagny and Line Renaud.
  • France: Joelle Aubron ex-member of Direct action was hospitalized with Paris for a double fracture of the leg.
  • the United States: Antonio Villaraigosa, wire of Mexican immigrants, elected mayor of Los Angeles.
  • Russia: firedamp explosion in a mine of Siberia, a death and ten wounded.
  • India: at least 26 died of bacterial meningitis in 3 weeks with New Delhi.
  • Japan: an earthquake of magnitude 5,1 occurred in the north of the country, but any risk of tsunami is isolated. No information not making state of victims or damage was disseminated. The epicentre of the seism, which took place with 1:33 local (Wednesday the 16th H 33 GMT), was localized with an about sixty kilometers under the sea-bed off the coast of Kushiro (890 km in the North-East of Tokyo), in the north of the island of Hokkaido.
  • Zambia: 13 officers killed in the crash landing of a military aircraft.
  • India: the heatwave which has fallen down for one week on the State d' Orissa, in the east of the country, made at least 13 died. The assessment should be weighed down, of information giving a report on tens of victims additional being in the course of checking, specified the Minister for the Health of the State, Bijoyshree Routray. The temperatures in this poor area exceed the 40 degrees since more than one week. In certain cities of the west of Orissa, mercury rose up to 46,6 °C. The heatwave should still continue several days.
  • World: the manufacturer Japan board Toyota will point out approximately 860.600 vehicles in the world, including 790.000 in the United States, because of a problem of defective suspension.

Thursday May 19th 2005

  • celebrates It police inspector Michael Ohayon, the hero born under the feather of Batya Gour, is orphan. The Israeli writer of international repute is extinct at the 57 years age of the continuations of a long illness. Batya Gour was also enthusiastic militant for peace. It will be buried this Friday, May 20 in the town of Jerusalem where it lived.
  • France: top of the Triangle of Weimar to Nancy; Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder of agreement to say that the Plan B is a Utopia.
  • Bangladesh: at least 45 people died and approximately 30 others are reported missing after the shipwreck from a vessel fishing taken in a storm. The trawler out of wooden, which transported on its board a hundred people, sank with the mouth of the Meghna river, in the province of Bhola, with 105 kilometers in the south of the capital, Dacca. At least 70 people swam to the coast or were helped by boats which were in the vicinity.
  • China: 51 minors missing in the explosion from a mine in north from the country.
  • Thailand, Tsunami: four bodies, of which apparently that of a Western woman, found five months after the drama.
  • Chile: 21 killed soldiers and 24 missings during a exercise in a snowstorm.
  • Indonesia: strong seism of 6,8 on the scale of Richter.
  • Angola: more than 300 victims of the fever of Marbourg, according to WHO.
  • France: a fatality of Légionellose in the VAr.
  • the United Kingdom: neat the Prime Minister Tony Blair for a slipped disc.
  • Chile: the former dictator Augusto Pinochet was transported to the military hospital of Santiago after having been victim of an interruption of blood flow towards the brain. The health condition of the 89 years old ex-leader “evolved/moved in a favorable way and it will be transferred to its residence” once the completed examinations announced the establishment.
  • Hurricane: the El Salvador and the close Guatemala declared the state of emergency. The authorities of the El Salvador closed the schools of the country and ordered the evacuation of more than 10.000 people, whereas the Adrian hurricane prepares to sweep the country. It is the first time that a hurricane touches full whip the El Salvador. Usually arriving by the Atlantic face, the hurricanes weaken while passing above Honduras. However, Adrian arrives by the Pacific Ocean and should thus sweep El Salvador with full power.

Friday May 20th 2005

  • France: the philosopher French Paul Ricœur died this night in his sleep in his residence with Chatenay Malabry in Paris region. He was 92 years old.
  • France: the opponent Togo alluvium Emmanuel Bob Akitani was hospitalized in neurology at the American hospital of Neuilly, close to Paris after having undergone an brain attack.
  • the Adrian hurricane reached before the paddle the coasts of the El Salvador, involving cuts of electricity, the evacuation of some 14.000 people as well as the closing of the schools. The Salvadorian authorities did not give a report on victims in the immediate future. The hurricane touched ground close to the port of Acajutla, with approximately 55km in the west of the capital San Salvador. It weakened in the passing on the dry land, the falling wind with 65km/h while the storm was evacuated by the Honduras.
  • Russia: two people, for which Zagir Aroukhov the Minister for the Information and the ethnic questions of the regional government of the Daghestan were killed by an explosion which occurred in the court of a building with Makhatchkala. The other victim is a woman who was not identified. According to the Interfax news agency, quoting a police source, several other people were wounded.
  • Argentinian: the singer Mercedes Sosa was hospitalized with the private clinic of the Trinity of Buenos Aires for dehydration. She will remain in observation between 48 and 72 hours. At the time of its faintness, it was in its residence of the center of Buenos Aires and was transferred to the hospital in the private car. She will celebrate her 70e birthday the July 9th.
  • Netherlands: according to a new survey not with the European Constitution obtains 63%.
  • Australia: the singer Australia Kylie Minogue was operated of her breast cancer and the operation occurred well. The operation took place at the hospital St Frances Xavier Cabrini of Melbourne and the star recovers well from the intervention.
  • Congo-Brazzaville: setting under forty the village of Etoumbi because of an epidemic of Ebola.

Saturday May 21st 2005

  • the United States: a small private plane left in gimlet and was crushed in full day on the famous New Yorkean beach of Coney Island, killing its four occupants but without making victims on the ground. The accident of Cessna 172-S occurred towards 13:30 local time (17h30 GMT) whereas, in spite of shone upon time, a number relatively not very significant people were on this public beach located on a point of the island of Brooklyn, which belongs to the town of New York. The flabbergasted witnesses saw the plane turning above the beach when suddenly its engine was cut for an unknown reason. Cessna then plunged bores some on the beach. The police force and the firemen arrived quickly on the spot but the pilot and the three passengers had already died. The access to the beach was closed whereas tens of curious observed the scene since the walk skirting this tourist site. The accident also could be seen of a Large Wheel located in a nearby amusement park. The passengers of the plane paid an air visit of this part of New York. The beach of Coney Island and its walk in boards accommodate each summer of the thousands of New Yorkean and tourists. Charles Lindbergh and Sigmund Freud belongs to the celebrities who attended it.
  • France, European Constitution: according to a new Ifop survey not moves back of 2 points but remains majority to 52%. 78% of probed (+6) declare themselves “sure” of their choice.
  • Eurovision : the Greek singer Helena Paparizou gained the victory of the 50e edition of the contest. The French candidate , the Ortal singer, obtained the 23e and penultimate place of the contest.
  • Austria: gigantic fire in a store of do-it-yourself.
  • the United States: seven children and two adults died in the fire of a house of Cleveland in the North-East of the country. The people present in housing were old from 4 to 34 years. One is unaware of the origin of the disaster. Neighbors stated on television local in vain to have tried to extinguish the flames, too important. An survivor of housing was hospitalized.

Sunday May 22nd 2005

  • Bangladesh: violent rains struck the country, causing the death of at least 17 people, struck by the lightning, by wounding more than one hundred of others and destroying a thousand of houses. Seven people were in particular killed by the lightning in a rice field, and the majority of wounded were it in the fall of trees or the collapse of their houses. The storm also damaged vegetable and rice harvests.
  • Iraq, Baghdad: Ali Moussa, managing director in charge of the service of auditing of accounts to the ministry for the Trade, was assassinated in the west of the capital whereas it went by car to his work.
  • China: the country is in state of alert after the discovery of a new epidemic of Avian flu which killed out of many migratory birds. The country issued measurements urgently in particular closing with the public of natural reserves. The local authorities received for order to supervise the wild birds and, in the event of symptoms of avian flu, to impose forty. The breedings located near the routes of migration must vaccinate their birds. And the public must cease any contact with the poultry.
  • Iraq: Ghazi Hammoud Al-Oubaïdi, former chief of the Baath party to the capacity for the Al-Kout area and N32 on the list of the Iraqi dignitaries most sought by the United States after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, is the first of these ex-persons in charge to being slackened. Its lawyer specified that its customer suffered from a cancer of the stomach at the final stage and that it had left his prison the April 28th. He in very bad form, would be nailed in a wheel chair, but he would have obtained the authorization to go to be made look after in Germany. He had been captured the May 7th 2003, nearly one month after the fall of the mode of Saddam Hussein. Its release was endorsed by the Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari. Eleven of the 55 Iraqi ex-dignitaries of the card deck of the Pentagon of the men to be stopped are always in escape, the others having been made prisoners or having been killed. Only 52 of the 55 names of the suspects are known. Fugitive the most required is N6, Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, vice-president of the Council of command of the Revolution and confidant of long time of Saddam Hussein.
  • Norway: the Légionellose makes two dead.
  • Iraq: the Romania announced the release to defer it Marie-Jeanne Ion and of the cameraman Sorin Miscoci, who work for PRIMA TV, as Ovidiu Ohanesian of the daily newspaper “Romania Libera” and their interpreter irako-American Mohammed Monaf, retained as hostages since the March 28th.
  • Israel: the First lady of the the United States Laura Bush was apostrophized by demonstrators anti-American during a visit with the Dome of the Rock, an important Moslem crowned place, within the framework of its close relation-Eastern round precisely intended to alleviate the feeling anti-American in the area. The Israeli police force formed a protective cord around the wife of George W. Bush while pushing back the demonstrators. A little earlier, Laura Bush had, like it wants the tradition, slipped a message between the stones of the Wailing Wall, sanctuary more crowned Judaism, whereas forty people required the release of the American Jonathan Pollard, in life imprisonment in the United States for espionage with the profit of Israel. Sympathizers with his cause were also in front of the residence of the Israeli president Moshe Katsav, first stop of Laura Bush. This one went to Jericho, in the West Bank, to discuss with eight influential Palestinian women, members for some of the government and the Parliament. Of return to Jerusalem, it was inclined in front of the memorial of Yad Vashem to the six million Jews killed during the Second world war. Not far from the Holy City, she will visit tomorrow a church of the borough Arab-Israeli of Abou Ghosh, before leaving for the Egypt. The woman of the US president had passed by Jordan, where it had attended an international economic conference on the the Middle East Saturday.
  • Denmark: 56% of the Danish have the intention to vote yes and 32% not at the time of the referendum on the European Constitution the next September 27th, according to a Gallup Poll published in the daily newspaper “Berlingske Tidende”. 12% of the questioned people were undecided.
  • Greece: died of the old-chief of the Greek Communist party Charilaos Florakis.
  • India: bombs exploded with fifteen minutes of interval in two cinemas of New Delhi making at least 1 died and 49 wounded. Both establishment are located in the district of Karol Bagh, in the west of the Indian capital . The machines were apparently placed close to the screen.

Monday May 23rd 2005

  • Iraq: Wael Al-Rubaei, close adviser of the Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari was assassinated with Baghdad, in the main street of the central district of Mansour whereas it went to work. 35 people were killed and 25 others wounded in a double murder commits suicide in Tall Afar, in the north of the country.
  • Ireland: 5 teenagers die in a school accident of bus in the North-West of Dublin.
  • France: In Charente-Maritime, the water restrictions are renewed until the June 8th.
  • Lebanon: UNO certified that the Syrian forces had been well withdrawn from Lebanon. The Syria had announced one month ago to have concluded the withdrawal of all its troops of this country.

Tuesday May 24th 2005

  • Iraq: Abou Moussab Zarqaoui, the chief of Al-Qaïda in Iraq, would be wounded. It is what the terrorist organization in an official statement affirms which is allotted to him. The head of this Jordanian 38 years was put at price for 25 million dollars.

Wednesday May 25th 2005

Thursday May 26th 2005

  • France: the father max Cloupet, priest of the diocese of Bordeaux, former general secretary of catholic teaching, vice-chancellor of Saint-Louis of the French with Rome until 2005, died at the 75 years age. For eight days, hospitalized for an surgical operation, the father max Cloupet has died out while entering in operating room. Its funerals will take place the Monday May 30th 2005 with 10:00 with the cathedral of Bordeaux. They will be chaired by Mgr Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux and President of the Conference of the bishops of France.
  • Democratic republic of Congo, Kinshasa: 26 people were reported missing after the crash landing yesterday from a plane in the east from Congo-Kinshasa. The apparatus had lost the radio operator contact with the tower of control, three minutes after its takeoff of Gummed bound for Kindu. The helicopters of UNO located the wreck of the plane yesterday evening in the thick forest surrounding Walungu, to 120 km in the south of Gummed. The 21 passengers were Congolese, including women and children. The pilot was Russian and the four Ukrainian team members. Research was to start soon.
  • Iraq: the Minister of Interior Department affirms that Abou Moussab Zarqaoui actually was wounded.
  • the French Pascal Lamy, former European Commissioner with the Trade, was officially named with the head of the World Trade organization (OMC). Pascal Lamy, which was indicated managing director of the organization by the general advice of OMC at this meeting in Geneva, will take its functions on September 1st for a four years mandate.
  • France, Referendum: Not would carry it with 55% of the voices on May 29th, according to two surveys one SCUMS and other Ipsos.
  • France: the lawyer Jean-Marc Varaut, defender in particular of Maurice Papon, died at the 72 years age.

Friday May 27th 2005

  • Europe: signature of the treated of Prüm.
  • Spain: a small explosive device exploded on the site of the mausoleum of Francisco Franco close to Madrid, causing damage but not casualties. The police force inquires into a possible bond with the Basque separatist organization ETA. The explosion occurred early this morning in the gardens surrounding the mausoleum of Valle of los Caidos, a tourist site very attended which shelters the tomb of the former dictator Francisco Franco, died in 1975.
  • France: three people were killed when their private plane of the Mousquetaire type was crushed in the evening, for an unknown reason, under the top of the Mont Blanc, announced the gendarmes of Haute-Savoie. The plane had started from Châlon-sur-saône (Saône-et-Loire). It was crushed close to the collar Major, towards 4  740 m of altitude, at the Franco-Italian border but on the side French. They are the gendarmes of the Group of alpine gendarmerie of Chamonix who recovered the bodies of the victims and went down again them in the evening in the valley.
  • Germany: ratification of the European Constitution by the Bundesrat, 15 länder S voted yes, the Land of Mecklembourg-Poméranie Western abstained from.
  • France: Filed: a 4 year old young girl was found stabbed of a hundred blows of an object slicing, like a Couteau or a Scissors , in its bed, one learned from legal source. The father was placed as a police custody while the mother, 36 years old, disappeared from the family home. Her husband, 38 years, stated to have seen it in the evening and not to have found it with his alarm clock.
  • France: restriction of the use of water in the Paddle, the the Marne and the Somme.
  • Saudi Arabia: the king Fahd of Saudi Arabia was hospitalized with Riyadh. The sovereign was allowed at the hospital King Fayçal for examinations. King Fahd, born in 1923, was victim in 1995 of an brain attack which strongly decreased it, affecting his capacities in particular to be concentrated. Since, it is his/her half-brother, the crown prince Abdallah, who reigns. According to a person in charge expressing himself under cover of anonymity, the king would have a pneumonia and its state would be considered to be very serious. But according to a source with the royal palace, the king should leave the hospital quickly. According to another official source, the country issued the state of alert per precaution, and cancelled all the permissions of the soldiers, which does not want however not to say that there are particular disorders. But the spokesperson of the ministry for the Mansour al-Turki Interior contradicted this information. “There is no cancellation of permissions and not of state of emergency”, he affirmed.
  • France: the fire of a house with Longes in the the Rhone makes four dead including two children.
  • Japan: seism of 4,9 on the scale of Richter, neither damage nor victims.
  • Pakistan: a bomb exploded in a Shiite sanctuary near to the Pakistani capital where hundreds of people were gathered, making at least 20 died and of tens of casualties, according to various witnesses.
  • Spain, Madrid: two explosions occurred in the station of Barakaldo, with the Basque Country Spanish, causing damage but not casualties. The deflagrations caused damage with the roof of the station and blew the panes on the level of the counters.

Saturday May 28th 2005

  • France: died of the actor and director Jean Négroni, at 84 years, on Friday night in an old people's home of the Island-Russet-red in Haute-Corse.
  • France: a survey carried out Thursday and Friday indicates intentions of 52% of not and 48% of yes. By holding account only probed Friday, the intentions are of 51% of not and 49% of yes.
  • Indonesia: a double murder with the bomb has fact 22 died and 40 wounded on a market very attended of Tentena on the island of Sulawesi (center of the Indonesia), unstable area touched since years by conflicts between Moslems and Christians. A three year old child and a priest appear among the victims died, according to the police force, which did not receive a claim for the moment. According to witnesses, the first explosion was followed approximately fifteen minutes later of a deflagration of stronger power, destroying the market, close to a police station. A third bomb, which did not explode, was discovered in front of a church in the vicinity.
  • Iraq: the Iraqi authorities confirmed that the Japanese hostage Akihiro Saito was carried out by his kidnappers and was condemned this assassination. Akihiro Saito, which worked for a company of international safety, had been removed beginning May in Iraq. The army Ansar Al-Sunnah, a radical group sunnite, announced yesterday the death of the hostage, photographs of the victim to the support. “I looked at these photographs and confirmed that it is about my older brother. I informed of them the Japanese police force and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs”, declared at the news agency Kyodo Hironobu Saito, brother of the hostage. The Japanese ministry of the Foreign affairs did not make comments in the immediate future.
  • France: the father of young girl the 4 year old, found larded of a hundred blows of a pointed object, Thursday with Filed (the Rhone), was given in freedom.
  • Corsica France, : 14 people were slightly wounded in a collision between two trains following an error of shunting.
  • European Constitution: beginning of the referendum on the constitutional treaty with Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon, because of the jet lag.
  • Australia: in convalescence after her operation of a Breast cancer, the pop diva Kylie Minogue celebrated her 37 years surrounded by her family and her friends in her parents with Melbourne, according to the company which manages its career. The Australian singer, who resides at London, was operated the May 20th to withdraw a cancerous tumor.
  • Afghanistan, Kabul: the Afghan authorities work day and night to ensure the release of the Italian humanitarian Clementina Cantoni, removed the last May 16th in Afghanistan, ensured the Afghan government which specified that its kidnappers had informed the authorities that the young woman was in good health.
  • Italy, Rome: the Alitalia airline company announced that it cancels 196 flights because of a strike of the air-traffic controllers. The Italian company decides to remove 116 interior international flights and 80 flights. The four hours strike was to start at midday (10 hours GMT).

Sunday May 29th 2005

  • France, European Constitution: the French massively voted, with a rate of participation of 69,50%, that is to say an abstention from 30,50%, according to the ministry for the Interior. According to its national totalization, the ministry advances the figures of 54,87% of the votes cast in favor of not and 45,13% for yes. Jacques Chirac confirms a forthcoming governmental impulse. See the article Results of the French referendum of May 29th, 2005 on the European Constitution.
  • Iraq, Baghdad: an car bomb attack occurred in front of the ministry for Oil. At least two vigils were killed and several casualties are counted. The attack occurred towards 13:20 (9. 20 GMT) near the entry of the strongly kept building.
  • France, Rennes: the Court of Assizes discharged seven of the eleven sailors of Winner, cargo liner hailed in 2002 by the French Navy for drug trafficking, and condemned the four others to sorrows going from 3 to 20 years of prison. The special Court of Assizes condemned the Greek Georgios Boreas, captain 61 years old, with twenty years of reclusion and its Cypriot head mechanic Symeon Theophanous, 59 years, at eighteen years of imprisonment, for attempt at importation of narcotics in organized band. She also condemned to ten years of prison a Chilean sailor, Guillermo Sage Martinez, 50 years, and at three years of imprisonment its compatriot Sergio Antonio Cabrera Leon, 53 years, for the same count of indictment.
  • Israel, Jerusalem: the Israeli government joined together in the Council of Ministers approved the release of 400 additional Palestinian prisoners, measurement awaited within the framework of the truce concluded in February with the president from the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas. The ministers voted by 18 votes against 3 to approve this measure, which according to the Ariel Sharon Prime Minister must reinforce Mahmoud Abbas and the moderate forces of the Palestinian Authority.

Monday May 30th 2005

  • France, Paris, Political: the shortly after the massive rejection by the French of the European Constitution, Jacques Chirac started intense diplomatic negociations with its european partners from the point of view of the Council of the 16 and June 17th. It will announce its decision concerning the future of the government tomorrow evening in a radio-televised declaration. Throughout the day, it received in the Elysium the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the president of the UMP Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of the UDF Francois Bayrou, the Minister of Interior Department Dominique de Villepin, that of Defense Michele Alliot-Marie, that of Health Philippe Douste-Blazy, that of Social cohesion Jean-Louis Borloo, but also the president of the National Assembly Jean-Louis Debré and that of the Sénat Christian Poncelet. Six personalities are in search of Matignon, Dominique de Villepin, Minister of Interior Department, Internal security and local Freedoms, Michele Alliot-Marie, Minister for Defense, Nicolas Sarkozy, president of the UMP, Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister for Employment, Work and Social cohesion, Philippe Douste-Blazy, Minister for Solidarity, Health and the Family and Thierry Breton, Minister for the Economy, Finances and Industry.
  • Netherlands, European Constitution: “not” French still weakened the camp of “yes” and “not” should carry it with 59% at the time of the referendum of Wednesday, according to a survey carried out by the institute Maurice de Hond for public television OUR.
  • Japan: died of old the star of the sumo Futagoyama of the continuations of a cancer of the mouth at the hospital of Tokyo. It was 55 years old.
  • Iraq: two kamikazes were made jump in the middle of a great number of police officers gathered to Hillah, in the south of Baghdad, killing at least 20 of enter them and by wounding 96 others.
  • Lebanon, Beirut: Saad Hariri the son of the Prime Minister Rafic Hariri assassinated in February, and its allies gained all 19 parliamentary seat, according to the official results of the legislative ones.
  • Germany, Berlin: the Israeli president Moshe Katsav started a three days visit in Germany to mark 40 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. He was accommodated with the military honors by his German counterpart Horst Köhler after his arrival with the airport of Tegel.
  • France, Grenoble: the agents of the National office of hunting and wildlife (ONCFS) mobilized for one week to try to cut down a wolf suspecté several attacks of heifers in Isere have suspended their tracking.
  • France, Marignane: a shooting burst in a bar making 1 died and 9 wounded including five seriously. The assumption of the settling of score is privileged by the investigators.

Tuesday May 31st 2005

  • France: resignation of Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Dominique de Villepin is named Prime Minister. The making of the capacities took place at 4 p.m. with the Hôtel Matignon. The rumor gives the following stations in the new government which Dominique de Villepin must form (incomplete list): Nicolas Sarkozy, Interior; Francois Fillon, Justice; Philippe Douste-Blazy, Foreign affairs; François Baroin, State education; Philippe Bas, Health; Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Culture; Michele Alliot-Marie, Defense. The composition of the Gouvernement Dominique de Villepin will be known tomorrow or Thursday.
  • Georgia: a transporting minibus of the people who went to funeral left a mountain road, in the area of Mestiyski to approximately 130 km in the North-East of Tbilissi, the capital, making eleven dead. The cause of the accident was not yet given.
  • Indonesia: a Séisme of a magnitude of 5,6 shook the province indonésienne of Aceh and caused a panic among inhabitants who fled their house and all the buildings. In the capital of the province, Banda Aceh, tens of people fled a hotel of five stars. The jolt of ten seconds apparently did not cause any damage in the city.
  • the United States: in a maintenance of W. Mark Felt for the magazine Vanity Fair , this last reveals that he was the secret adviser (called deep Gorge ) of the journalist Bob Woodward. This last, with information of Felt (then assistant editor of FBI, made it possible to reveal the Scandale of Watergate which led to the resignation of the President of the United States Richard Nixon. Bob Woodward confirms the identity of deep Throat the very same day.
  • Canada: Natalie Glebova, 23 years, was elected Miss Universe 2005 at the conclusion of the finale of the organized contest with Bangkok and retransmise in more than 170 countries. The brown young woman with the blue eyes was born in Russia and had emigrated with Toronto.
  • Haiti: during this day, armed strangers opened fire in the center of the capital Port-au-Prince, putting fire at an old market and making at least two dead. At the same time, without it being known if a bond exists between the two events, the French honorary consul of Cape-Haitian was seriously wounded by bullets, close to the airport of Port-au-Prince. Old of about fifty years, Paul-Henri Mourral, reached several projectiles with the abdomen whereas it circulated in its vehicle, is deceased in the evening of its wounds announced the embassy of France.

Zh-min-nan: 2005 nor 5 goe̍h

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