November 2004

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Monday the 1st er November 2004

  • France: Groove, last ourse of Pyrenean stock was cut down by a Chasse ur.
  • Brazil: Jose Serra, which had been beaten with the presidential election by the president Luís Inácio da Silva, gained the town hall of São Paulo against Martha Suplicy, mayor outgoing of the same party as the president. That confirms a political bipolarisation with the Brésil between the Partido back Trabalhadores (Pt) and the Parti social democrat Brazilian (PSDB)
  • Internet: a new alternative of the Computer virus Bagle is diffused by false messages on the emails when the users open the named enclosures “Price” or “Joke”.
  • Ukraine, presidential election: following suspicions of fraud during the first turn of the presidential election of October 31st, of the demonstrations take place in the country. It is the beginning of the Orange revolution. The observers of SOEC require of the Ukrainian government to respect its commitments to organize a honest poll. To the second turn, the two candidates are:
  • Uruguay, presidential election : victory of Tabaré Vazquez, socialist candidate who received the absolute majority of the voices to the first turn of the 31 October.
  • Israel: A kamikaze asserting PFLP kills 3 people and wounds of them 32 at the market of Carmel with Tel-Aviv.

Tuesday November 2nd 2004

  • United Arab Emirates: died with more than 90 years of the sheik Zayed Ben Sultan year-Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates.
  • the United States of America: legislative elections for a replacement partial of the federal Congress. According to the chain CNN, Wednesday the 3rd, at 1 p.m., Paris time, the Republican party would obtain the absolute majority in the two rooms.
  • the United States of America: presidential election. The two principal candidates are the outgoing president George Walker Bush (republican) and John Kerry (democratic).
    • For the results, to see the article presidential Election of the United States of America 2004
    • At 7 a.m., hour of the East coast (13 hours, Paris time), the candidates are in the expectancy (254 Great Electors against 252 in favor of Bush (270 necessary on December 13rd for the solemn vote)
      the results of 2 States are on standby: Iowa (7 Great Electors) and New Mexico (5 Great Electors). In these two States at the end of the examination, the differences are from 11.000 to 15.000 votes in favor of Bush.
      Except if Kerry carries these two States, in fact the results of the Ohio (20 Great Electors) will decide between the two candidates. But, a great number of bulletins are on standby of a legal decision: a judge must check that the voters are it well in their county. This number would be sufficient to change the result in the State (236 000 votes approximately with the profit of Bush), but of the official buildings estimate that it will be necessary ten days so that this legal process takes place. CNN
  • France: a French court pronounced a withdrawal of case in favor of the police force for the death of Jacques Mesrine during an interpellation, in 1979. Twenty-five years after the death of Mesrine, its car is always preserved at the Fourrière of Paris, it would have contained weapons which had justified the intervention of the police force.
  • Netherlands: assassination of Theo van Gogh, discussed Dutch realizer and great-grand-nephew of the painter.

Wednesday November 3rd 2004

Thursday November 4th 2004

  • Ivory Coast, Bouaké: the town of Bouaké was bombarded by the military aviation of the Ivory Coast. Bouaké is the stronghold of the former rebels of the New Forces. No information is known on the reaction of the international forces of interposition, nor on that of the government.
  • France: the president of the Palestinian authority Yasser Arafat is always hospitalized at the Percy hospital. According to the head doctor Christian Estripeau, spokesperson of the Percy hospital, “Mr. president Yasser Arafat remains hospitalized at the hospital of instruction of the Percy armies. ” According to other sources, the Raïs would be in a state of “brain death” and plunged in a “very major Coma of stage IV”.
  • Iraq: Doctors without borders is withdrawn from Iraq. (TF1.fr)
  • Macedonia: the the United States of America officially recognized Macedonia, old republic of socialist Federal republic of Yugoslavia. The Secretary of State Colin Powell confirmed in a mail that this decision aimed at thanking the country for its support during the war in Iraq and to help to limit the influence of the nationalists anti-Albanian in the country.
    • Since its independence, Macedonia is seen refusing this name by the Greece which fears claims on its septentrional areas. Macedonia is since called Ancienne Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ( FYROM in English) at the time of the official demonstrations.
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: within the framework of the XVIIIe Summit of the G-Rio, the brought together presidents announced creation in one month of the South American Communauté of nations gathering the two regional blocks: the the Andean Community and the Mercosur. This community of 360 million people and a GDP of 800 billion dollars will have the following aspects: economic and commercial, political and physical.

Friday November 5th 2004

  • Ivory Coast: with Abidjan, the buildings of the old rebel movements were ransacked, whereas in the area of Bouaké, their old stronghold, the army of the Ivory Coast continues its Bombardement S. According to Michele Alliot-Marie, minister Frenchwoman of Defense, a column of the army was stopped by the French forces of interposition, under mandate of UNO.

Saturday November 6th 2004

  • Dominican Republic: marriage with Romana, of Louis de Bourbon (1974-), with María Margarita Vargas there Santaella.
  • England: a car passing on a Crossing level causes the derailment of the express train London - Plymouth of the company First Great Western close to the village of Ufton Nervet not far from Reading. The assessment of six died, five seriously injureds and nine slightly injureds.
  • Ivory Coast: the French ministry of Defense confirmed the destruction on the ground, with Yamoussoukro, of both fighter plans of the Ivory Coast which bombarded a French position with Bouaké. The French soldiers of the Opération Unicorn destroyed all the average air soldiers of the governmental forces (2 Soukhoï planes 25,5 helicopters MI-24 and 1 helicopter MI-8). They also took the control of the airport of Abidjan. Last nine French soldiers and a civilian states-unien were killed and 39 wounded.
    • In addition, the civil population of Bouaké was caught some to the French soldiers, who are the cause, according to it, of the Bombardement S of the last days. The government of the Ivory Coast affirms that the bombardment of the French station is an error, but does not explain the bombardments of the last days on the city. The president of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, ordered “the destruction of the average air soldiers of the Ivory Coast used in violation of the Cessez-le-feu. ”
    • With the airport of Abidjan, of the soldiers of the Ivory Coast opened fire on French soldiers. The French college and schools, as well as trade held by French, were attacked, even burnt. Several French civils servant of these establishments were saved by the intervention of the French forces.
    • the French government decided to send two companies in reinforcement on the spot and invites Laurent Gbagbo “to assume her responsibilities” and its nationals not to be left in the streets of Abidjan.

Sunday November 7th 2004

  • Ivory Coast: on Saturday night, the Safety advice of the United Nations unanimously condemned the attacks of the army of the Ivory Coast and confirmed the right that to ONUCI to use of the means necessary to ensure the return to the Cessez-le-feu.
    • According to the president of the National Assembly of the Ivory Coast, Mamadou Coulibaly, about thirty civilians of the Ivory Coast would have been killed during the operation of destruction of the average air soldiers, this information was immediately contradicted by the French authorities.
  • Meurthe-et-Moselle, France: an antinuclear militant died after having had a leg divided by a train transporting of the Nuclear waste, whereas a group of demonstrators had been connected on the way. The convoy of waste chartered by the company Cogema moved towards the center of storage of Gorleben, in Germany.

Monday November 8th 2004

Tuesday November 9th 2004

  • Germany: the fifteenth birthday of the fall of the Berlin Wall is celebrated with the end of a political debate over the national bank holiday of the October 3rd, date of the German reunification. The government of Gerhard Schröder gave up removing this bank holiday and placing it one Sunday of at the beginning of October. The objective was, by creating one working day moreover, to increase the economic growth of the country and the tax re-entries of the government.
  • Belgium: the Belgian court of appeal confirms the judgment for Racisme pronounced by the Court of Appeal of Ghent in April 2004 against the party Flemish independantism , the Vlaams Blok. Article of Humanité.presse.fr
  • Ivory Coast: the French Army draws on a demonstration in front of the Ivoire hotel from Abidjan. The shootings of the French Army make “an about sixty” died according to the International federation of the human rights, the French government denies initially, then admits the November 30th having killed “a score” of the Ivory Coast.
  • Internet: version 1.0 of the Navigateur Web Mozilla Firefox is available. It has been a question of the first navigator to take market shares to a significant degree to Internet Explorer for eight years.

Wednesday November 10th 2004

Thursday November 11th 2004

  • Lithuania: the Lithuanian Parlement ratified the treaty of European Constitution, that made of Lithuania the first European country ratify it.
  • Palestine: died of Yasser Arafat to Clamart, close to Paris, with 3:30 hour of Paris, it was hospitalized there since the last October 29th.
    • the various stations which Yasser Arafat occupied were allotted to several people:

Friday November 12th 2004

  • Germany: a company of Tabac discovers that passive smoking is more dangerous for the Santé than the active nicotinism. Article on Libé.fr.
  • Ivory Coast: for a few days, riots in racist and xenophobe matter, accompanied by intimidations, plunderings and rapes, have involved the departure of thousands from abroad, of which many French.
  • France: died of the actor Jacques Dynam, 81 years old. In addition to its participation in many American film doublings, it will remain like a specialist in the supporting roles, for example that of the assistant “scapegoat” of the Juve police chief (played by Louis de Funès), in the comic series of the films Fantômas.
  • Italy, Milan: the parquet floor required eight years of prison against the president of the Italian Council, Silvio Berlusconi. He is accused of corruption of magistrates in the Années 1980, before he enters in policy. Mr. Berlusconi denies the loads selected and affirms being victim of a denigration campaign of judges of left. The defense counsels will say their pleading the December 3rd, and the judgment should intervene before the end of the year.
    • corruption would have taken place at the time of the repurchase by the group Fininvest of an agroalimentary state enterprise.
    • the lawsuit lasts since 2000. It was stopped when a law granting an immunity to the large characters of the Italian State, of which the president of the Council (Berlusconi at the time of the vote of the law). The lawsuit began again with the cancellation of the law by the Constitutional court.
  • Palestine: Yasser Arafat, former president of the Palestinian Authority, was buried with Ramallah, in the West Bank, in a tomb dug inside the ground of Mouqata' has, its general headquarter. The ceremony took place after funeral of State to the Cairo (Egypt).

Saturday November 13rd 2004

  • ODB : one of the singers founders of Wu-Tang, died while leaving its studio of recording. It was 35 years old. The thesis of the Heart attack is privileged.

Sunday November 14th 2004

Monday November 15th 2004

  • Ex- Yugoslavia: opening to the International penal court of $the Hague of the first lawsuit of commanders of the Armed with release of Kosovo (UCK, Albanian), shown crimes against humanity.
  • France: opening of the lawsuit of the Business of listenings of the Elysium under the presidency of François Mitterrand.
  • Namibia, elections presidential and legislative: the favorite candidate, current Minister for the Earth, Hifikepunye Pohamba of the left SWAPO ( South West African People Organization ) gained the presidential election with 75, % of the voices. He will become thus the second president of the country since his independence.
    • During two days, a little less than one million voters have to renew their president and their Parliament for the third time since independence in 1990.
    • the president Sam Nujoma (75 years) of the SWAPO completes its third and last mandate.
  • Orbit selene: The probe SMART-1 of ESA, to ionic Propulsion, entered the zone of lunar attraction. Advertisement of ESA
  • Serbia, Belgrade: first visit of Croatian a Prime Minister in Belgrade since the Yugoslav war croato- between 1991 and 1995. Croatian the Prime Minister Ivo Sanader wishes to join again truly with Serbia in order to regulate the problem of the Serb refugees having fled Croatia during the war.
    • the bringing together of the two countries is related to their bonds with the European Union. Croatia wants to be able to begin the negotiations of adhesion in a serene way at the beginning of 2005. Serbia wishes in the near future to open negotiations for an agreement of association with the EU.

Tuesday November 16th 2004

  • the United States of America, New York: the Safety advice of UNO has adopted this night unanimously, a resolution aiming at an immediate embargo of the sales of weapons to the Ivory Coast, shaken for several weeks by riots. This resolution, emitted by the France, made following the destruction of the air means of the Ivory Coast by the force of French interposition Unicorn, under mandate of UNO, in reprisals with the Bombardment of a general headquarter by the governmental forces.
  • the United States of America: nomination by George W. Bush of Condoleezza Rice at the station of Secretary of State to succeed the resigner Colin Powell. This arrival is had a presentiment of like a confirmation of the policy of the “falcons” of the Bush administration.

Wednesday November 17th 2004

  • France, Paris: Bill Gates, founder of the company Microsoft, was received by Jacques Chirac, with all the honors due to a Head of State. Bill Gates signed a partnership with the UNESCO and Dassault Systèmes. He then gave a conference in front of more than 800 students.
  • France: the network of the operator of Mobile telephony Bouygues Telecom was inalienable during the major part of the day (the breakdown started at 6 o'clock in the morning and in the evening, the network was still not fully functional). It is the first breakdown of this scale which mobile telephony in France knows.
  • Russia: the president Vladimir Poutine announces publicly that Russia is developing a new model of nuclear missile. He justifies this work by the need for his country for protecting itself from any future danger.
  • California: the X-43 has, plane without pilot of NASA, made a success of a flight at a constant speed of Mach 10 during nearly 10 seconds. It was propelled by a ramjet with supersonic combustion experimental.
  • Hockey: with Moscow, Aleksandr Ragulin, triple Olympic champion of hockey, die following an heart attack at the 63 years age.

Thursday November 18th 2004

  • Belgium: the Belgian authorities placed several political personalities under protection after having received death threats against them. These threats relate to personalities which took positions against the Islamisme and against the limits of the freedom of the Moslem women.
    • the Belgian authorities inquire into the bond between these threats and the assassination of Theo van Gogh, with the Netherlands, by islamist.
  • Environment: UNO announces that the Protocole of Kyoto will come into effect the February 16th 2005: the ratification of the protocol by the Russia, in margin of a meeting of the safety advice, will mark his coming into effect more than seven years after its conclusion. The coming into effect of the protocol of Kyoto, after its rejection by the the United States, depended on Russia, because this one was to be signed by 55 countries accounting for at least carbonic 55% of the gas emissions of the developed countries. The countries signatories will have in the future to reduce their emissions by six gases carried responsible for the Climate warming.
  • the United States of America, Arkansas, Little Rock: inauguration of the library of the presidency of Bill Clinton. It brought together the former still alive presidents, Jimmy Carter and George Bush, and the current president George W. Bush. The singer of the group U2, Bono, ensured musical animation. Article on NouvelObs.com
  • France, 0 hour: beginning of the marketing of the new Beaujolais wine.
  • the United Kingdom: visit until Friday of Jacques Chirac in Great Britain for the end of the celebrations of the centenary of the Harmony.
  • Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo, the president of the Ivory Coast, accommodated the decision of UNO well to impose a Embargo on the sales of Arme S bound for its country, it in addition launched a call of return to the French contractors. (see the article on the Civil war of Ivory Coast) Article on nouvelObs.com
  • Sudan: extraordinary session of the Safety advice of the United Nations to Nairobi (Kenya) for the vote of a resolution to encourage the talks of Peace between the Sudanese government and the rebellion of the south of the country, in Civil war since 1983.
    • It acts of the fourth session of the Safety advice apart from New York (the United States) since 1952.
  • European Union: The Comité of the areas of the Union approves the European Constitution massively.

Friday November 19th 2004

  • Colombia: at the time of the thousandths day of detention of the free - Colombian Ingrid Betancourt and of her assistant Clara Rojas by the FARC. The sympathizers of Ingrid Betancourt and her family organize a walk of solidarity to Paris and 1.000 Arbre S will be planted with Bogota and in the rest of the world. There would be more than 3.000 civil hostages and soldiers in Colombia. Ingrid Betancourt make party of rare the Otage S French in the world with the French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot in Iraq. article of Express.fr
  • the United States of America, New York, seat of UNO: the trade union of the personnel of UNO engages the vote of a motion of distrust with regard to the general secretary Kofi Annan, after this last exonerated the internal assistant general secretary at the monitoring services of UNO, Dileep Nair, shown Sexual harassment and of Favoritisme. dispatch afp on yahoo.fr
  • Kenya, Nairobi: the Safety advice of the United Nations, sitting exceptionally in this town of Africa, unanimously adopted the resolution 1574 which encourages the end of the hostilities to the Sudan and in particular with the Darfur. dispatch afp on yahoo.fr

Saturday November 20th 2004

  • the United States: inauguration of the MoMA of New York renovated and increased by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi. Libé
  • Dar Es Salaam: eleven African Heads of State committed themselves making area of the Big lakes, one of the most disturbed Africa, a space of peace and durable safety. This text was concluded under the aegis of the UNO which estimates that this one constitutes an important step towards the Paix.
  • Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo affirms on the forum of the Nouvel Observateur that testimonys affirming that French soldiers would have decapitated young Men from the Ivory Coast can be regarded as “truths”. on the nouvel' obs'

Sunday November 21st 2004

  • Guadeloupe: a Earthquake of a magnitude of 6,3 touched the Guadeloupe (southern Low-Ground and the Archipel of Holy the). An young girl was killed and several casualties were counted.
  • Iraq: the the United States and the Germany concluded a bearing agreement on the debt Iraq ienne. This reduction of 80% of the 33 billion Dollar S had by the Iraq with the G7 could be imitated by the whole of the creditors of the Club of Paris. The question of the debt had been for a long time a subject of discord between the the United States and the countries opposed to the war in Iraq such as the France or the Germany, this agreement are thus seen like an occasion of bringing together between these States.
  • Ukraine, the presidential election oppose the Prime Minister Viktor Ianoukovytch to the one of its predecessors, Viktor Iouchtchenko. Taking into account their divergences as regards foreign politics, this poll appears “crucial”: Ianoukovytch, supported by Moscow is in favor to preserve strong relations with the Russia, while Iouchtchenko wants on the contrary to look further into the relations with the European Union.
    • In the night, after the advertisement of the results of the first calculations giving an advance to the candidate of the capacity Viktor Ianoukovytch, thousands of people express in the capital Kiev to express their support for his adversary Viktor Iouchtchenko.

Monday November 22nd 2004

  • France: following the extension at the Political level of the polemic concerning a famous report of the television channel France 2 diffused in September 2000 and showing a Palestinian child , Mohamed Al-Durah, killed in the arms of his/her father after being taken in crossed shootings, the chain is defended by showing image filmeds in parallel by other teams, and announces to have carried Plainte against X for Diffamation. The images of the report had made the round the world tour and had caused a great emotion. They had strongly contributed to the release of the the Second Intifada in the occupied territories by Israel.
  • Iraq, conference of Charm el-Cheikh: agreement with the International Conference on the Iraq which opened Monday at Charm el-Cheikh (Egypt) for the approval of a finale declaration plan stressing the temporary character of the American intervention in Iraq, without fixing calendar at the withdrawal of the foreign troops, and condemning the Terrorisme.
  • Ukraine: Viktor Iouchtchenko, leader of the opposition and candidate pro Occident Al, exhorted its partisans, gathered with more than 100.000 in the center of Kiev on the place of Independence, to take care all during the night to protest against the results considered to be fraudulent of the second turn of the presidential election of the day before in Ukraine which grant the victory to the first outgoing minister Russian pro Viktor Ianoukovytch.

Tuesday November 23rd 2004

  • Iran: the Iranian government announced its decision to suspend its linked activities with the enrichment of uranium.
    • the American president George W. Bush accommodated this advertisement well, but remains skeptic and waits to be able to really check this engagement.
  • Ukraine, Kiev: two hundred and thousand people expressed in the streets of the center of the capital in favor of Viktor Iouchtchenko, opposing to the current government and which proclaimed its victory with the second turn of the presidential election of last Sunday.
    • At the Parliament, Iouchtchenko even proceeded to an oath-taking in the absence of the deputies of the current presidential majority.
    • the the United States expressed doubts on the sincerity of the elections and suspect the current government of electoral fraud; the government Bush evoked possible sanctions.]
    • Vladimir Poutine considered to be “inadmissible” the reserves of SOEC and the European Union on the transparency of the poll.

Wednesday November 24th 2004

  • France: the Académie of the English Rug decreed its annual price with Claude Thélot, president of the Commission of the national debate on the future of the school, chose because he regards “English of international communication” as a fundamental teaching, with equal of the French language, and on television recommends his training by the diffusion of American serials in original version.
  • Libya: visit Jacques Chirac with Tripoli with the colonel Kadhafi. It is about the first official visit since the independence of Libya in 1951. The official delegation counts Michel Barnier (Foreign affairs), Gilles de Robien (Transport), François Loos (Foreign trade) as well as heads of undertaking.
  • Ukraine, Kiev: second day of demonstration for the partisans of Viktor Iouchtchenko.
    • the electoral commission proclaimed the victory of the candidate of the party in power pro-Russian Viktor Ianoukovytch with the presidential election of last Sunday.
    • the candidate of the Iouchtchenko opposition refuses to recognize the results because of frauds noted by international observers.

Thursday November 25th 2004

  • Canary islands, Spain: a wave of locusts pilgrims reached the archipelago thanks to hot winds blowing of Africa. For several months already, several countries of West Africa have invited with the international assistance to fight against clouds of locusts threatening since the the Maghreb and the south of the Spain.
  • Portugal: opening of the lawsuit of the Affaire of Put Pia to the court of Boa Hora.
  • World: the the World Health Organization has just launched an alarm of risk of Pandémie of Avian flu with, with the key, several million possible deaths. Article on Monde.fr.
  • Summit EU - Russia with $the Hague. The president Putin must meet the commission Barroso for the first time. The result of the election in Ukraine is regarded as a problem for the two parts which hold two opposite positions.
  • Ukraine: third day of demonstration for the partisans of Viktor Iouchtchenko. The Supreme court rejected temporarily the result of the election, announced Wednesday by the electoral commission. Visit Lech Wałęsa with Kiev to support the opponents and to play the role of mediator.
  • Ivory Coast: three weeks after, the president Laurent Gbagbo condemned by official statement the destruction to Abidjan of the seats of political parties and seven newspapers of opposition, at the same time as took place of the demonstrations against the French nationals. Three days earlier, these seven newspapers published a titrated common number “We refuse to die” in whom they condemn the personalities to the capacity which are the cause of the disorders according to these draftings.

Friday November 26th 2004

  • Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: opening of the top of the Francophonie gathering the Heads of State, of government and Ministers for the countries where French is language of use. The meeting will be marked by the situation in Ivory Coast.
    • the minister representing the Ivory Coast in the absence of the president Laurent Gbagbo, left the country being indignant at an excavation; the Burkinabe authorities inform that this minister held leaflets anti-French.
  • Paris/Madrid. With the tv news of France 2, Laurent Fabius declares that “yes” on the project of the European Constitution of the Socialists and social democrats of the other countries of the European Union was imposed “by the top”.
  • France: died of the scenario writer Philippe de Broca at the 71 years age of the Cancer of the smoker.
  • Radio: Cauet begins this morning a special radio program, the goal, to make the longest radio program. For the little story, it is Arthur which was approved with 33h30 whereas Cauet made more 34h of emission. The war between Cauet and Arthur is not finished.

Saturday November 27th 2004

  • Ukraine, Kiev, presidential election: the Ukrainian Parlement, joined together in extraordinary session, decided for an invalidation of the second turn of the presidential election, even if it does not have formally the capacity of it. The Député S indeed estimated that the results did not reflect the public opinion. It is the supreme legal institution which must decide that in the days which come; it already prohibited the official publication of the results by the electoral commission. Viktor Iouchtchenko, the candidate of the opposition, which rejected the results, wishes the organization of a new presidential ballot for on December 12th.

Sunday November 28th 2004

  • China: a blow of Firedamp trap 166 minors in a mine of coal in the province of the Shaanxi. The Chinese mines are regarded as most dangerous in the world, with officially 7.000 per annum dead and more than 20.000 according to the defense organization of the Human rights, China Labor Bulletin.
  • France: Nicolas Sarkozy becomes president of the UMP with 85,1% of the voices of the militants of the known as party. Jacques Chirac not having enabled him to cumulate this presidency with the governmental station that it occupied, Nicolas Sarkozy is replaced, on Monday, November 29, with the ministry for Finances by Herve Gaymard.
  • France: a Hélicoptère transporting five gendarme S sudden of the shootings of Orpailleur S. One estimates at approximately 6.000 the number of gold washers in the Guianese forest.
  • Romania, elections presidential and legislative: general elections in Romania. The Roumanians vote for the first turn of the presidential election to designate a successor with Ion Iliescu among twelve candidates. The two favorites are current the Prime Minister Adrian Năstase (left social democrat) and the mayor of Bucharest Traian Băsescu (center-right, alliance “Justice and truth”). If adhesion with the European Union is not any more discusses it in this country, including for the extreme-right-hand side, the center-right criticizes the party in power for specific pressures on the media and justice. Swiss France 2
  • : the Swiss population, in popular Voting, accepted the reform of the financial Péréquation between the cantons, the financial burden-sharing between the Federal state and the cantons (the financial Régime of the Confederation) and the law authorizing research on the embryonic original cells.
  • Japan: violent one Seism of a magnitude 7,1 in the north of the country, on the island of Hokkaido, making thirteen slightly injureds.

Monday November 29th 2004

  • Asia, ASEAN: meeting of the ASEAN with Vientiane with the Laos. The Member States of this regional organization of the Southeast Asia decided to prepare the opening of a free exchange zone between them and the Popular republic of China for 2010. For this purpose, the suppression of the customs duties in several economic sectors was advanced with 2007 for part of the members, and 2011 for the others.

  • France: Cabinet reshuffle of the Government Jean-Pierre Raffarin (3) after the departure of Nicolas Sarkozy.

    • Herve Gaymard was appointed Minister for the Economy, of Finances and of Industry, to replace Nicolas Sarkozy, elected the day before chair of UMP.
    • Dominique Bussereau, which was Secretary of State to the Budget, was promoted Minister for Agriculture, the Food, Fishing and Rurality to replace Herve Gaymard.
    • Philippe Douste-Blazy, Minister for Health and Social protection, was appointed Minister for Solidarity, Health and the Family.
    • Jean-François Cope, acting minister inside, was appointed deputy secretary with the Budget and the budgetary Reform and preserves its attributions of government spokesman.
    • Marie-Josée Roig, Minister for the Family, was appointed minister delegated inside, near Dominique de Villepin, to replace Jean-François Cope. She thus loses her rank of minister of full exercise.
    • Christian Jacob, which was deputy secretary at SME, the Trade, the Craft industry, the Liberal professions and Consumption, on the other hand was promoted minister of full exercise, by preserving same attributions. The government does not comprise any more a Minister of state.

Tuesday November 30th 2004

  • Democratic republic of Congo (DRC): the presence of military forces Rwanda ise was proven by a report/ratio of a patrol of blue helmets of the Mission of UNO in Congo (Monuc). She crossed a hundred Rwandan soldiers inside the territory of the DRC. They would be on the whole four to five thousand.
    • Officially, the government of Rwanda wants to fight against of the Rwandan rebels, related to the Génocide of 1994 and who continue actions against the authorities in place in their country.
    • In addition to the presence of these soldiers violates the independence of the fragile DRC, it makes fear a skid as at the end of the Années 1990: at the time, Rwanda intervened in DRC for the same reason and is shown since to have plundered the natural resources of the east of Congo.
  • Cuba: the journalist, writer and poet Raul Rivero, condemned to 20 years of prison for Dissidence last year by the cuban dictatorship, were released.
  • France: the SCUMS and of many Parlementaire S required of the Council of State the suspension of the diffusion of the chain Al-Manar in Europe following new verbal skids Antisémite S.

Zh-min-nan: 2004 nor 11 goe̍h

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