October 2005

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Saturday the 1st er October 2005

• Indonesia: several attacks struck two seaside resorts of the island indonésienne of Bali. According to an high ranking official of the fight against terrorism, these explosions are clearly the work of terrorists. Two bombs exploded towards 19:30 (local time) in two very attended restaurants of the seaside resort of Jimbaran. A witness told on the radio El Shinta that the first load had exploded in a seafood restaurant. Another explosion took place almost simultaneously in a restaurant of the downtown area of Kuta (Bali), to approximately 30 km from there. According to a journalist of the Associated Press present on the spot, the three stages of the building were strongly damaged by the deflagration. According to the always provisional official results but it has 26 died including 3 Australia NS of which a teenager and 1 wounded Japan ease and 107 including 17 Australia NS, six South-Koreans, three Japan boards, two American, 1 Britannique and 1 French.
• Brazil: a ship with 60 people on board entered in collision with two barges before sinking in the the Amazon. The accident made at least 8 victims, ten people being always reported missing. The ship of wood went towards Manaus, to 2.700 km in the North-West of Sao Paulo, when it struck two barges transporting of the trucks. Boats, plungers and helicopters always take part in the search of survivors or of victims but the task is made difficult by muddy water.
• New Zealand: the Workers party of current the Prime Minister Helen Clark should form the next government New Zealand whereas the electoral commission confirmed that the New Zealand “Ploughing” conquered 50 seats at the time of the poll of the September 17th, that is to say two of more than the national Party, principal training of the opposition, according to the official results.
• the United States: two new tropical depressions were formed above the Atlantique and the sea of the the Antilles, according to the forecasters of the American Center of the hurricanes. The first does not threaten the grounds for the moment, whereas second constrained the Mexican authorities with launching has an alarm in the peninsula of the Yucatan. The 19th Tropical depression of the season was formed above the extreme is Atlantique. According to the American Center of the hurricanes, this depressionary system should become a Tropical storm from here Saturday. With 3:00 GMT Saturday, the depression, accompanied by winds blowing to 56 km/h, was to 1.060 km with the west-south-west of the Islands of the Cap Verde. It derived towards the North-West, but seemed almost stationary. As for 20th, it was formed above the west of the sea of the the Antilles, obliging the Mexican government to launch an alarm to the tropical storm for the peninsula of Yucatan. At 15:00 GMT, the depression was located at approximately 200 km with the east-south-east of Tulum, the Mexico, and approximately 180 km in the south-east of Cozumel, according to the center of the hurricanes of Miami. Winds of 48 km/h were recorded, while the depression moved at the speed of 10 km/h in direction of the west-north-west. It should touch the ground Saturday evening or Sunday. An alarm was emitted for the peninsula, of Punta Gruesa with Cabo Catoche.
• France: Sister Jacques-Marie, old Nurse and model of the painter French Henri Matisse, deceased Monday September 26th with Bidart, close to Biarritz, was buried this morning with Vence in the the Alpes-Maritimes.
• Germany: the CDU - CSU of Angela Merkel and SPD of the outgoing Chancelier Gerhard Schröder continues to assert each one the German chancellery with the day before of partial of Dresden, which will perhaps make it possible the country to leave the political dead end. The district of Dresden, where the vote was deferred following the death of a candidate, counts 219.000 registered voters. The poll of Sunday should not radically modify the results of legislative September 18th, which left the country without clear majority with the Bundestag, where the Bavarian Union Christian Democrat and its sister party have 225 seats against 222 for the social democrat Party.
• Mexico: a thousand of people fled their houses, whereas pouring rain falls down on the Mexican seaside resort of Cabo San Lucas with the approach of the Ouragan Otis. Accompanied by winds of 160 km/h, the hurricane advanced with the step in the North-West of Cabo San Lucas and the city close to Los Cabos. According to the forecasters of the American Center of the hurricanes, Otis should then move towards the west of Mexico and fall down Sunday morning on a little populated area of the country, the peninsula of Baja California. The country issued the state of emergency in five communes, of which Cabo San Lucas, Los Cabos and another tourist destination, Loreto. An alarm with the hurricane was emitted in these areas.
• Iraq: the American army launched a new military operation against the network Al-Qaïda close to the border Syria, at two weeks of the Référendum on the text of the Constitution. A force of approximately 1.000 American soldiers is committed in the operation, baptized Iron Fist , or “iron hand”, against a sanctuary located in the town of Sadah, to approximately 12 km of the border with the Syria, in the province of Al-Anbâr. Jebbar Jabr Solagh, the brother of the Iraqi Minister for the Interior and chief of the Iraqi police force, Baqir Jabr Solagh, was removed by armed men with Baghdad whereas it went by car to his residence, in the Shiite quarters of Sadr City, where it works as director of hospital.
• Palestine: the Fatah of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gained 51 councils at the time of the municipal elections in the West Bank and the Hamas obtained 13 from them, within sight of the final results announced by a Palestinian person in charge. On the 104 Municipality S in string in the West Bank at the time of the third phase of the Palestinian local elections Thursday, 40 returned to the other factions.
• Sudan: the African Union shows the government to have taken part in several recent attacks against civilians with the Darfur with the assistance of Milice S Arab S, while reproaching the various parts of the conflict for not respecting the agreements of cease-fire.
• El Salvador: the Volcan Ilamatepec in the west of the country is in phase of eruption, projecting gas, ashes, and rocks extreme in the air, which pushed many inhabitants frightened to leave the area. The authorities ordered the evacuation of three communities which live near the volcano which rises above Santa Anna, second plus big city of the country, to 40 km of the capital San Salvador. There are at least 2 died and 2 missings.
• Turkey: the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared with the Chancelier Autrichien Wolfgang Schüssel that its country will not accept another thing that a complete membership with the European Union, rejecting the offer of Vienna of a partnership.
• Iraq: the Arab countries S should help the country to fight against the insurrectionists if they wish the end of the Iranian interference in the country, explained the Iraqi Ministre Foreign affairs Hoshyar Zebari, which exhorted the press Arabic-speaking person in addition to be ceased using the term of “resistant combatants”.
• Peru, Natural disaster: a second Séisme (after that of the September 25th having had a magnitude of 7,5) of 4,2 on the scale of Richter touched the south of the country to 17:15 local. At least 10 people were wounded and 300 houses were destroyed.

Sunday October 2nd 2005

• North Africa: Within the framework of the co-operation in the fight against clandestine immigration towards the Europe, the authorities Morocco groins, 700 sub-Saharan Africans give up, of which women and babies, in the middle of the desert. * Slovakia: a fire was declared on board a Rumanian ship , which carried out a cruising on the the Danube. The firemen always try to control the fire. A team member, who would be Rumanian, is reported missing. In the evening, the firemen found remainders flarings of a body. It would be about this woman. According to the spokesperson of the firemen, 77 Belgian tourists Danish and like 44 Rumanian team members and Serb were on board. He contradicted the information given before by his colleagues, affirming that these tourists were French and Norwegian.
• Taiwan: the typhoon Longwang struck the country, making at least to a death, a missing, forty six wounded, seven destroyed houses and depriving of electricity a half-million hearths. The China, where the typhoon is waited this evening or tomorrow morning in the south-east of the province of the Fujian in the south of the country, evacuated 300.000 people of the threatened coasts. Strong rains fall already this afternoon on the province from Fujian.
• Mexico: the Tropical storm Stan fell down early this morning on the Mexican peninsula of the Yucatan with winds of 72 km/h. According to the forecasters, it should quickly be retrogressed in simple depression. An alarm with the storm was emitted for the east coast of the Yucatan, of Chetumal to Cabo Catoche. At 9 a.m. GMT, the center of the storm was located at approximately 65 km in the south of Tulum and at approximately 120 km in the south-south-west of Cozumel. Up to 25 centimetres of precipitations are awaited on the Yucatan and in the north of the Belize. If the storm could be retrogressed at the time of its passage on the peninsula, it should be reinforced on its arrival tomorrow in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Spain: at least 4 people died drowned and 14 others are reported missing after the shipwreck yesterday from their boat off the coast from the island from Fuerteventura in the archipelago from the the Canaries whereas they tried to join Spain since the North Africa. The Civil guard helped 17 people and recovered the bodies of three victims. Another person drowned with broad Large Canarie. At dawn this morning, research showed to find the 14 missing reported people, without success for the time being. The survivors were to be neat then transported in a camp before being expelled.
• the Vatican: the Pape Benoît XVI accommodated the bishop S of the whole world, except for the Chinese, for the first Synode of sound Pontificat, by denouncing “the hypocrisy” of the companies which exclude the Religion from the public life.
• Israel: the country announced the suspension of the air raids, targeted eliminations and the artillery shootings in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank in order to allow to the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to act against the groups armed before its visit with Washington.
• the United States: 20 years ago, the Acteur Rock Hudson died after having given a face to the AIDS. The actor was the first world-famous personality to announce to be sick AIDS, thus contributing to sensitize the general public with pandemia. In 1985, the AIDS was still a disease of sodomites, drug addicts or other people in margin of the company, not of stars American, and especially not of guy as strapping men as Rock Hudson. In addition to the fact that the AIDS, at the time, meant death shortly, the shock had also come from the awakening owing to the fact that one of large the sex-symbols American was gay. But Hudson forever, with large never recognized that it was homosexual. The death of Hudson marked the beginning of an implication of long time of the American industry of the entertainment in the fight against AIDS, whose Actrice Elizabeth Taylor, a close relation of the actor, is always one of the figureheads.
• Taiwan: The Typhon Longwang struck the country early this morning, with gusts of wind to 227 km/h and torrential rains, stopping the air traffic the island. The international flights were cancelled and a plane transporting the President Chen Shui-bian was diverted towards the Indonesia. The interior flights and the rail traffic were stopped. The typhoon caused cuts of electricity for more than 500.000 hearths, in particular with Hualien. After the crossing of the island, it should strike the province of Fujian in the south of the China this evening, according to the weather services. No human account was published.
• Germany: two weeks after the legislative ones of the September 18th, the CDU - CSU of Angela Merkel leaves reinforced partial poll organized in the district Dresden, in the east of the country, where the poll had been deferred following the death of a candidate. It is indeed the candidate of the CDU-CSU which gained the seat. After examination of the bulletins in the 260 polling stations, Andreas Laemmel of the CDU-CSU arrived at the head with 37,0% of the votes, preceding the candidate of the social democrats of Gerhard Schroder, Marlies Volkmer, with 32,1%.
• the United States: died of the American Playwright August Wilson, of a Cancer of the Liver. It was 60 years old. August Wilson had announced itself in August which there remained to him nothing any more but a few months to be lived.

Monday October 3rd 2005

• Palestine: the Palestinian Parliament adopted a motion giving two weeks to the president of the Palestinian Autorité Mahmoud Abbas to form a new government.
• South Korea: eleven people died trampled and 44 others were wounded in a sway in the crowd at the entry of a stage where was to be held a concert. The drama occurred whereas the victims tried to penetrate in the enclosure of the stage towards 17:30 in the town of Sangju, with 270 kilometers in the south-east of Seoul. Five thousand people were present for this spectacle organized by a local television.
• the United States: a ship of excursion capsized on the lake George in the north of the State of New York making 21 died and 27 wounded. The boat, a ship protected by a canopy, with about fifty people on her board, all the pensioners originating in the Michigan. The boat of 12 meters, could have capsized because of a wave created in the wake of an other boat. An investigation was open to determine the origin of the accident.
• Norway: the Australia NS Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren were seen decreeing the Nobel Prize of medicine for their work Pd the part played by bacteria, and not by the Stress, in the appearance of a gastric Ulcère. This discovery made in 1982 made gastric ulcer, up to that point chronic disease, a curable pathology by a treatment including antibiotics in particular.
• China: three people perished, 59 soldiers are reported missing in south-east from the country in floods with the passage from the typhoon Longwang which swept the coasts before weakening progressively patriciasa progression in the grounds. This afternoon, Longwang lost its power and was retrogressed with the row of Tropical storm.
• the United States: the president George W. Bush announced that it chose Harriet Miers, 60 years, chief of the legal departments of the White House and former personal lawyer of George W. Bush, to sit at the Supreme court of the United States. Harriet Miers, which forever be judge, is proposed to replace the Juge center and pragmatic, Sandra Day O'Connor, which announced its resignation beginning July, played a part of pivot at the Supreme court. More the legal high authority of the country would thus always count two women, with the judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She must however be confirmed by the Sénat. On the whole, two of the nine posts of judges of the Supreme court, appointed for lives, had been vacant for this summer, after the death of the president of the Court, the ultra-conservative William Rehnquist. William Rehnquist was replaced Thursday by the judge John Roberts, a conservative largely sharing her standpoint. Its nomination should not modify the political balance of the Court a priori.
• China: at least 34 minors were killed by an explosion.
• Swiss: The country decides to extradite towards the the United States the Russian former minister of Atomic energy, Evgueni Adamov, imprisoned since May.
• America: the Tropical storm Stam made at least 31 died in Central America.
• France: the American Actress Jane Fonda, 67 years old, underwent this morning of the medical examinations at the American hospital of Neuilly-sur-Seine, close to Paris, because of pains to the Dos and the Hanche.
• Turkey: Ankara accepted the framework proposed by the European Union for its negotiations of adhesion, one learned from Turkish official source with Luxembourg.
• Space: the crew Russo-American of the Soyuz like Gregory Olsen, third “tourist of space” penetrated in ISS. Being Scientific contractor, and , this last will carry out some scientific experiments at the time of its one week stay on board which probably cost him 20 million dollars.
• Sun: a annular eclipse of sun is visible Portugal with the Indian Ocean while crossing all the North Africa. It is also visible partially of 9:42 and 12:38 in France.
• France: Lucien the Leger, oldest condemned to perpetuity of France, was given in parole after 41 years of imprisonment for assassination.
• France: died of the writer French Guillaume Dustan of an involuntary medicamentous intoxication with Paris. It was 40 years old.
• Quebec: William Bouchard under the name of Billybob had been stopped for triple murder in Saguenay with the D.E.P. y' has a few years it compared in an arrest of the motorcyclists this one will have to purge a 3 years probation.

Tuesday October 4th 2005

• Norway: the Nobel Prize of physics 2005, was awarded to two American, Roy J. Glauber and John L. Hall, like with the German Theodor W. Hänsch. Hall and Haensch are distinguished for their contributions to the development from the Spectroscopie from precision to the Laser while Glauber is rewarded for its contribution to the quantum theory for optical coherence.
• France/Italy: the France and the Italy agreed at the time of the 24e Franco-Italian top on the launching of the first section of the program of 27 European frigates multimissions (Fremm). The construction of 17 frigates is entrusted to Armaris, subsidiary of DCNS (ex-Direction of naval constructions) French side, and, on the Italian side, 10 frigates will be built by Orizzonte Sistemi navali, subsidiary of Fincantieri and Finmeccanica.
• France: interprofessional Strike and demonstrations organized by all the trade unions to defend, inter alia, purchasing power, the employment and rights of the employees. The newspaper Humanity announces that 74% of the French express their support or their sympathy with this mobilization and a million people would have taken part in the demonstrations.
• El Salvador: the state of emergency was issued in all the country, after landslides started by torrential rains which made 31 died and forced more than 8.500 evacuations.
• Mexico: Stan passed from the row of Tropical storm to that of hurricane, and is on the point of striking in the course of the day the Mexican coasts in the Gulf of Mexico. An alarm with the hurricane was launched on part of the coast, of Palma Sola with Chilitepec. The port of Veracruz was closed, like several schools. Thousands of inhabitants gained tens of refuges installed along the evacuated coast and several oil platforms.
• France: the senator Charles Pasqua was put in examination by the judge Philippe Courroye within the framework of an investigation into generosities of the business man Lebanon boards Iskandar Safa granted to the entourage of the ex- Minister of Interior Department. Charles Pasqua is personally shown to have profited, between 1989 and 1993, of buildings located in the 7th district of Paris and pertaining to Iskandar Safa. The old right-hand man of Charles Pasqua, Jean-Charles Marchiani was also put in examination for trading of favors. Profiting from a parliamentary Privilege, Charles Pasqua was already put in examination in six other businesses since 1994.
• France: died of the sociologist French Jean Cazeneuve, member of the Institute, professor emeritus to the Sorbonne and former general president-director of the Office of broadcasting French television, to Paris, the 90 years age.

Wednesday October 5th 2005

• Norway: the Nobel Prize of chemistry 2005 was decreed with the French Yves Chauvin and with the American Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock for their work on the development of the method of the Métathèse.
• China: Flood of a mine shaft of Longtan in the town of Guang' year, in Sichuan, at least 10 died and 18 missings.
• France: the antiterrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, owner of the antiterrorist pole, judges that the toughening forever be as strong in France, and estimates as the chemical threat of attack is not to exclude.
• Doping: the newspaper the Team affirms that the finalist of the tennis tournament of Roland Garros 2005, the Argentinian Mariano Puerta, was controlled positive with a stimulant prohibited after his final lost vis-a-vis the Spaniard Rafael Nadal on June 5th, 2005. If the facts are proven, this discovery should put an end to the career of the tennis player. Indeed this one had already been convinced of doping to the Clenbuterol, a Stéroïde anabolic, in 2003. It had been suspended for 9 months of competition.
• Mexico: the hurricane Stan touched Mexico and America of the center, making 66 died, mainly on the coasts of the El Salvador.
• the United States of America: Jeff Bush makes pass a law in Florida, authorizing the population to be drawn as soon as it feels threatened, without needing the recourse to the self-defense, of the political adversaries launch a warning campaign intended for the tourists for the dangers which they incur.

Thursday October 6th 2005

• the United Kingdom: Handing-over of the Price Ig Nobel with Harvard.
• Vietnam: the annual floods in the delta of the Mekong in the south of the country made 34 died including 30 children. The authorities expect that the level of water is even higher the next week.
• Canada: a respiratory Maladie not identified made sixteen died (all the elderly) in a private clinic of Toronto, including six new victims yesterday, but this epidemic does not constitute a risk for the public health, announced the health authorities. According to the health authorities, the epidemic is regressing even if other deaths are probable. , and it is not nor about the Avian flu, of the Légionellose, or of the grippaux viruses has and B. the epidemic is confined with the patients, the team and the people associated with close with only one building with the private clinic.
• the United States: the republican senator John McCain, former prisoner of the War of Vietnam, made adopt by 90 votes against 9 a amendment on the prohibition of treatments cruel, inhuman, or degrading towards prisoners, in spite of the opposition of the White House which threatened to put its Veto at the budget of Defense so necessary.
• El Salvador: the landslides and the mud flows caused by the hurricane Stan made more than 241 victims in Central America, in particular with the Guatemala and El Salvador, and the assessment should strongly worsen. In Guatemala, which was struck yesterday by new mud flows, the last official results give a report on 160 dead, 49 wounded, and between 150 and 200 missings and caused the evacuation of more than 6.000 people. In El Salvador are at least 67 people who died but also nine others with the Nicaragua, thirteen with the Mexico, four with the Honduras and one with the Costa Rica.
• Political France, : the spokesperson of Workers' struggle Arlette Laguiller announces in Le Figaro that its party will have a candidate with the presidential 2007.
• South Korea: nine workmen working on a building site of Icheon, to 80 km in the south of Seoul were killed following a collapse of concrete reinforcements which also made five wounded. Rescuers continue their operations in the debris in the search of possible survivors.

Friday October 7th 2005

• Norway: the Nobel Prize of peace 2005 was awarded to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and to its chief, the Égyptien Mohamed El Baradei, for their efforts against the proliferation of the nuclear weapons and for the promotion of the Civilian nuclear. They were one of the big favorites for the prestigious reward, which they had missed of little in 2004.
• France: INSEE publishes a study which shows that 9% of the French are illiterate at the exit of the school system.
• Political France, : according to a survey BVA , the Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy and the president of the area Poitou-Charentes Ségolène Royal would be the best candidates of their respective parties for the presidential of 2007.

Saturday October 8th 2005

• India, Earthquake of October 8th, 2005: a violent one Séisme a magnitude of 7,6 on the scale of Richter shook the north of the country, but also the Pakistan the Pakistani authorities for the time being gave a report on 18.020 died in the worldwide, including 17.155 in only the Pakistani Cachemire, the area touched hard, where the epicentre of the seism was. According to the Shaukat Sultan general, some 41.000 people were also wounded, and the Afghanistan where preliminary information gives a report of victims of unspecified number and extensive damage.
• Guatemala: at least 1.400 people died in the flood and landslides caused by the Ouragan Stan.
• Romania: the health authorities started to vaccinate hundreds of people in the east of the country, where three Canard S servants died of the Avian flu, while representatives of approximately 80 countries met yesterday in Washington to coordinate their efforts in order to avoid a Pandémie.
• France: an official statement of the ministry for defense indicates that Jacques Chirac is again authorized to fly; the examinations which it passed this Saturday to the military hospital of the Valley-of-Grace following its “cerebral small vascular accident” made say to the doctors whom the president of the republic is again authorized to carry out air displacements.
• France: Jean-Marie Le Pen confirmed her participation in the French presidential election of 2007 at the time of the festival of the blue-white-red of its party, the National front. He regards himself as a potential favorite because of traditional line division.
• Space: the satellite European CryoSat, transported by the Russian rocket Rockot, disintegrated in flight and its remains were damaged in the Arctic Ocean Northern.
• Turkey: 2.000 Dinde S died of the Avian flu in the space of a few hours on Friday night. They all belonged to the same stockbreeder of a village close to Balikesir in the west of the country. It is what the Turkish Minister for Agriculture confirmed, Mehdi Eker. It specified that any transport of animal in direction or at the beginning of this village is prohibited. An investigation was open to know the causes of the appearance of the disease in this breeding. However, according to the minister, the disease was probably brought by migratory birds come from the mountains of the the Ural.

Sunday October 9th 2005

• Swiss: the government does not judge for the moment not necessary to reinforce its preventive device after the appearance of the avian flu in Romania and Turkey. It is about a problem of veterinary medicine. The evaluation of the risks for the man did not change.
• Poland: the second turn of the presidential election Polish, envisaged the October 23rd, will oppose well the liberal candidate Donald Tusk, arrived at the head of the first turn, with 36,3%, with the conservative candidate Lech Kaczynski, who collected 33,1% according to the official results published Monday. According to the television of State, the participation amounted to 50,5%.
• the United States: a Boeing 757 of the American company American Airlines carried out an emergency landing with the international airport of Washington after smoke had been observed on board. The plane carried out the connection between New York and Miami. It landed without problem and all the passengers are in good health. The origin of smoke is not known in the immediate future and the airline company opened an investigation.
• Poland: the country prohibits the importations of poultry of Turkey and Romania following the discovery, Friday and Saturday, of dead animals of the Avian flu.
• France: the Eiffel Tower and the Jardin of Luxembourg to Paris were evacuated this afternoon after false alarms with the bomb.
• Italy: an Italian helicopter, a Squirrel of French manufacture, with 6 people on her board disintegrated by touching the ground in the fall of their apparatus, in the area of the Lac of Like, in the north of the country. According to the authorities Italy, the five of the six passengers could be tourists. Their nationalities were not specified.
• Political France, : Laurent Fabius affirmed on Radio J that he will be candidate with the presidential candidate for the Socialist party, and this, even if its motion were minority with the Congrès of Mans, which is envisaged with the mid- November 2005.
• France: died of the Archeologist French Serge Lancel, author in particular of work on Hannibal and Carthage. It was 77 years old.

Monday October 10th 2005

• Germany: at the end of the negotiations between CDU and the SPD, Angela Merkel is ensured to become the news chancelière of Germany, with the head of a coalition CDU/SPD. Arrived at the head of the German federal elections of 2005 in September 2005, it had to be solved to be combined with its opponent of left and predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, to form a great coalition right-hand side-left. The discussions remain open for the formation of the government and the designation of the ministerial positions returning to each camp Edmund Stoiber (CSU) will be named Minister for the Economy.
• Sweden: the " Nobel Prize of économie" 2005 allotted to the Israeli Robert J. Aumann and to the American Thomas C. Schelling.
• European Union: the European Union prohibits the importation of live birds and feathers of Turkey due to threat of Avian flu.
• Guatemala: three days of mourning national were issued after the passage of the Ouragan Stan.
• Cashmere: following the Earthquake of October 8th, 2005, the Pakistan launched a new call to the assistance at the international community vis-a-vis the width of the damage. Many areas, very mountainous and glazes of forests, have not been able yet to be joined by the first-aid workers; the number of the victims, according to certain sources, could be 40.000.

Tuesday October 11th 2005

• Liberia: elections Parlement surfaces and presidential are organized at the same time in a country devastated by fourteen years of civil wars. Among twenty-two candidates, one finds the ex-high-speed motorboat of the Football George Weah and old an economist of UNO and the World Bank, Ellen Johnson Sirleafune. The official results will be known the October 25th and if there is no absolute majority, a second round is planned for the November 8th. According to partial results (on a third of the polling stations stripped dated October 15th), the former footballer of the PSG George Weah would obtain 32,6  % of the votes, in front of Ellen Johnson Sirleafune 18,6  % and Charles Brumskine 10,6  %. These results still very partial are however to take with precaution, taking into account sampling.
• Iraq: a series of attacks suicides, bomb attacks and shootings made 53 died and of many casualties in the worldwide. The principal action, a Attack-suicide on the market of Tall Afar, made 30 victims and 45 wounded. This outburst of violence intervenes before the referendum of the October 15th on the new Iraqi constitution. Within this framework of violence, the provisional government ordered the closing of the international airport of Baghdad, the prohibition of the motor vehicle traffic and the closing of the administrations the day of the poll, as well as a curfew of night.
• the United Kingdom: Scotland Yard announces to have stopped eighteen people suspected of having organized an important network of clandestine immigration which made it possible to make enter illegally of tens of thousands of people, primarily of the Kurdish of Turkey, to England. This operation, in which took part Europol as well as the police forces of many European countries most important is ever carried out by Scotland Yard against a clandestine network of Immigration. It makes following a two years investigation which implied two hundred British police officers.

Wednesday October 12th 2005

• China: the Chinese government has just signed with the company Sun Wah Linux Ltd a contract of 42,7 million dollars for the supply of more than 141  000 computers equipped with a version of Linux based on Debian. These computers will be deployed in the schools of a very populated area.
• China: two Taïkonaute S Chinese took off on board the vessel Shenzhou VI (divine Vaisseau) since the bases space Jiuquan, in Mongolia-Interior for a five days mission in the space, two years after its first Space flight inhabited. Fei Junlong (40 years) and Nie Haisheng (41 years) the two Chinese astronauts, were placed in Orbite 21 minutes after takeoff.
• Romania: after the suspicion of case of Avian flu in ducks, thousands of poultries were cut down in Romania. The virological tests on the possible presence of the Virus carried out by European experts appeared negative. The European commission thus does not consider any more measurements of Embargo.
• France, Parisian Tram: envisaged for a startup in December 2006, the Parisian Tramway electric (T3) built by Alstom carried out a course of test between the bridge of Garigliano and Balard. The tram, controlled by a woman machinist of drunk to the RATP, transported in particular Jean-Paul Huchon (PS), president of the District council of Ile-de-France, the Maire of Paris Bertrand Delanoë (PS) as well as the president of the RATP, Anne-Marie Idrac. (Source: AFP)
• Syria: the former chief of the military information Syrian to the Lebanon and current Syrian Minister of the Interior, Ghazi Kanaan, is committed suicide, according to the official version of the Syrian authorities. Its death intervenes at 13 days of the handing-over of the Commission Report of investigation of the the United Nations, into the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, killed in an attack with Beirut the February 14th 2005. The reasons of its suicide are not clearly known.
• Iraq: a Attack-suicide made 30 died and 35 wounded in a recruitment center of the army with Tall Afar in the North-West of the country the shortly after an other attack-suicide on the market of this city and which had made the same number of victims. Six people were also killed at the time of shootings with Baghdad.
• France, strange: an inhabitant of Lodève in the Herault, dissatisfied with the rise of his real estate tax, paid it with a check reproduced on a cow in agglomerate of almost two meters in height. “The check more cow of the world, has it says. The law authorizes the accounts - checks on any support insofar as the obligatory mentions appear in it. ”
• China: a man armed with artisanal guns opened fire in an elementary school of the east of China, wounding 16 schoolboys. Seven children were hospitalized for serious wounds, and nine others suffered from light wounds.
• the United States: died of the Composer-songwriter Baker Knight, whose songs were interpreted by stars like Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin. He died in his residence of Birmingham at the 72 years age.

Thursday October 13rd 2005

• France: in a double decision, the Constitutional council, seized by the president of the Republic, Jacques Chirac, decides that the Protocol n° 13 with the Convention of safeguard of the Human rights and Fundamental freedoms, relating to the abolition of the capital punishment in all circumstances, signed with Vilnius the May 3rd 2002 by the Member States of the the Council of Europe, can be ratified by France. On the other hand, the Second optional protocol referring to the international Pact relating to the civil laws and policies, aiming at abolishing the capital punishment, adopted by the General meeting of the High commissionership of the United Nations to the human rights, in its resolution 44/128 of the December 15th 1989, would require, to be ratified by France, a preliminary constitutional revision. The Constitutional council considered that the absence of methods of denunciation of this protocol “would bind France irrevocably even if an exceptional danger would threaten the existence of the Nation” and that it would carry consequently “reached to the essential conditions of exercise of national sovereignty”. See the full text of the decision.
• France: after 3 weeks of strike and under the threat of a setting in bankruptcy by the State of the company SNCM, the syndicated workers of the CGT voted the resumption of work. Wikinews
• Nobel Prize: it is Harold Pinter, playwright British which receives the Nobel Prize of literature 2005.
• Romania: after having announced Wednesday October 12th 2005 that the virological tests on the presence of the Virus of the Avian flu were negative, the experts sent by the European commission confirmed the presence of the virus. Same measurements of Embargo taken against the Turkey, Monday October 10th 2005, will thus be applied for the live birds, the poultry meat and the other products resulting from the poultry. (Source: AFP)
• Russia: Military combat took place with Naltchik capital of the republic of Kabardino-Balkarie in the the Russian Caucasus. During the morning of the rebels tchetchenes by storm the ministry for the Interior, the secret services, three police stations and an arms manufacture take. Quickly the security forces Russian manage to dislodge the attackers thanks to important aerial combats and terrestrial in all the city. In the evening several tens of deaths are to be regretted and some rebellious tchetchenes remain still cut off with hostages.
• the United States: died of Vivian Malone Jones, the first black coed whose efforts to enter to the Université of Alabama had caused the virulent countryside of the American governor George Wallace in 1963. It was 63 years old.
• Peru: approximately 1.400 tourists and inhabitants are blocked close to the famous archeological site INCA of the Machu Picchu in Peru after a landslide which carried in the night 400 meters of railways.
• Pakistan: the official results of the seism in Pakistan are established from now on with 25.000 dead and more than 63.000 wounded.
• Germany: the direction of the social democrat Parti (SPD) appointed the eight ministers who will take part in the future coalition government with CDU/CSU leads by Angela Merkel (CDU): Franz Müntefering, president of the SPD, will be vice-chancellor and federal minister for Work and of the social Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, currently chief of the federal Chancellery, will be federal minister for the Foreign affairs, while three women of the Cabinet Schröder II will occupy the same functions in the Merkel cabinet: Ulla Schmidt with Health, Brigitte Zypries with Justice and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul with the Economic cooperation. One notes also the arrival of Peer Steinbrück to the Finances, of Wolfgang Tiefensee with Transport, and of Sigmar Gabriel with the Environment.

Friday October 14th 2005

• Political France, : Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, appointed of the Essonne, chairs club Debout the Republic and “leader” of the souverainists of the UMP, announces its candidature for the presidential election of 2007, in a maintenance to be appeared in Le Figaro on Saturday, October 15. It reserves however the possibility of taking part in “primary ” if a “credible and honest” system of nomination candidate of the presidential majority had suddenly been set up and if the potential candidates joined there.
• Ecuador: the former president and colonel Ecuadorian Lucio Gutierrez, relieved by the congress in April 2005 and sought by justice, was stopped on its return of exile of Colombia. It is continued under the reason for threat to the national security to have refused to recognize its dismissal and the nomination by the congress of the current president, Alfredo Palacio.
• Iraq: To the day before it referendum to adopt the new constitution, acts of sabotage aimed at electric lines which deprived of electricity of broad sectors of Baghdad and its surroundings during the evening.
• Netherlands, Terrorism: the police force Dutchwomen stopped seven people suspected of terrorism with Almere, Amsterdam and $the Hague. During the operation, in $the Hague, the seat of the government and the Parliament were encircled by the police force.

Saturday October 15th 2005

• Spain: a building crumbled in the old working of Piera, close to Barcelona, making five died and four wounded. One is unaware of for the moment how much people were in the building when it collapsed. The firemen inspect the debris in the search of survivors. An investigation was open to determine the cause of the accident. According to the coordinator of the regional center of help, collapse could be caused by the strong rains which have fallen down on the Catalogne for two days.
• Romania: the taking away analyzed by a laboratory Britannique show that the birds died in Romania were carrying the virus H5N1 of the Avian flu. It is this stock which killed out of the thousands of poultries and contaminated 117 people in Asia, from which 60 died. Virus H5N1 was also detected this week in breedings in Turkey.
• Iraq: beginning of voting operations at 7 local times in order to make adopt by Referendum the news Iraqi Constitution. More than 15,5 million Iraqis have to vote under sedentary high surveillance of fear of attacks.
• Iran: four people died and 702 others were wounded in a series of explosions to the Khouzistan. These attacks, and the precedents, are according to the authorities due to separatists in exile supported by the the United Kingdom, which the latter demented person.
• Pakistan: the official results concerning the Earthquake of October 8th, 2005 which touched the Cachemire give a report on 38.000 dead and 62.000 wounded. In India, they are 1.350 died which is to be regretted.
• Ufologie : first European ufologic meetings with Châlons-in-Champagne intended to promote the ufology near the general public.
• Bangladesh: at least 25 people died, 23 are reported missing and 2 others were wounded in an accident of coach in the area of Bogra to 190 km in the North-West of Dacca. The coach did not succeed in braking with the approach of a small bridge which spans the Kichak river and fell into the river. The coach ensured the connection between Bogra and Joypurhat.
• India: a boat capsized in the Gange, the north of the country, making at least 36 died and 40 missings. The boat of 50 places transported a hundred people when it ran in the middle of the river. A score of people succeeded in gaining bank with the stroke. An investigation was open to determine the causes of the accident. The victims were for the majority of the farm laborers who returned on their premises after work.
• Pakistan: a helicopter of transport MI-17 of the Pakistani army which completed a mission of assistance to the victims of the seism is crushed close to Bagh, killing the six soldiers who were on board. The crash landing could be caused by the bad weather or a technical failure.

Sunday October 16th 2005

• Italy: the polling stations opened this morning at 8 local times (up to 10 p.m.) to make it possible to the left sympathizers to take part in the first national primary elections organized in the country. The sympathizers must appoint their leader for the legislative elections of 2006. It is old the President of the Council and former president of the European commission, Romano Prodi, which is given favorite. He is regarded as the best adversary vis-a-vis the current president of the Council Silvio Berlusconi. Six candidates face Romano Prodi but none is likely real to obtain the nomination. The Italians who want to take part in the primary educations must pay 1 euro for the expenses of organization and state to be left sympathizers. The first results should be known after midnight.
• Asia: in visit in the South-East Asia, area the most touched by the Avian flu, the American secretary with Health, Mike Leavitt, was pessimistic on the possibilities of preventing a news Pandémie of Grippe. After its voyage in Thailand, with the Kampuchea, the Laos and the Vietnam, he recognized that it would be very difficult to locate and to contain the expansion of the virus in the event of change towards a transmissible form with the man.
• Japan: light seism a magnitude of 5,1 on the scale of Richter, no property damage.
• Argentinian: a fire started apparently by prisoners in an Argentinian prison, in the south-east of Buenos Aires, made at least 32 died. Prisoners would have put fire at mattresses and covers, apparently to ask more for visiting times for their close relations.

Monday October 17th 2005

• World, international day of the elimination of poverty: Kofi Annan recalls that some 800 million people suffers from the Faim and of chronic Malnutrition. Each day, 30.000 Enfant S die of causes directly associated with the Pauvreté.
• Italy: the leader of the opposition Romano Prodi was appointed like candidate of the center-left Sunday by the militants at the time of primary educations organized in the country. According to the communicated results, Romano Prodi gained it with 74,6% of the votes in 92,4% of the 10.000 polling stations.
• Cayman Islands: a bulletin of monitoring to the hurricane was emitted for the Cayman Islands, which could be struck by a Tropical storm in the next days. The storm could be named Wilma, which would make of it the 21e depression bear a name this season. At 3 a.m. GMT, it was located at 250 km in the south-east of Grand Cayman, according to the forecasters. It moved at the speed of approximately 3 km/h, with winds of almost 56 km/h.
• Greece: the Greek authorities confirmed the first case of Avian flu on their ground, the first case proven within the European Union, and of the analyzes are in hand to know if it is about the deadly virus H5N1.
• France: died of Jean Lescure, former president of the French Association of the Cinemas of Art and Test. He was 93 years old.
• Italy: according to an expert, the arrival of the Avian flu in the country is only one question of days.
• China: died of Ba Jin, one of most famous the writer S Chinese of the communist period. It is deceased with Shanghai at the 100 years age.
• Germany: the CDU and CSU appointed the eight ministers (6 CDU and 2 CSU) who will take part in the government of “great coalition” CDU-CSU/SPD, under the direction of Angela Merkel, which should be confirmed in theory on November 17th by the Bundestag. See the article Cabinet Merkel.
• the United States: General Motors, the first car manufacturer American will remove 25.000 employment
• Norway: the Labor Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg takes up duty, to replace the Christian-Democrat Kjell Magne Bondevik.
• World, one can assist has a lunar eclipse partial.

Tuesday October 18th 2005

• Russia: died with Moscow of Alexandre Iakovlev, one of the principal architects of the Perestroika, at the 81 years age.
• India: the Ministre of the Education of the State of the Jammu-and-Cashmere was assassinated in its residence by armed men. Three other people were killed at the time of this attack. At least four supposed militants launched a grenade against the soldiers who assembled the guard close to a residential complex in the center of Srinagar, sheltering the houses of several deputies and ministers, before penetrating in the zone. A soldier was killed and four others wounded, according to the police force. The militants made then irruption in the house of a deputy and drew with the blind man. The member of Parliament, Youssouf Tarigami, was not touched, but one of its bodyguards was cut down. The attackers then climbed a wall to enter the house of the Minister for Education, Ghulam Nabi Lone. This last is deceased of its wounds during its transfer to the hospital. The attack was asserted by the group Al-Mansoorian.
• Australia: died of William Evan Allan, last Australian veteran having served during the First World War. It was 107 years old.
• the Tropical storm Wilma was reinforced to become the 12th hurricane of the season to be formed in the Atlantique, which equalizes the record of the year 1969, announced the American National center of the hurricanes. Wilma, which could reach the west of Cuba or the peninsula of the Yucatan in the next days before touching the south-west of the Florida from here the weekend, was transformed into hurricane towards 15:00 GMT when its winds exceeded the speed of 120 km/h. It is the second time only since 1851, date of the first weather files, that 12 hurricanes are formed in the Atlantic in the same season. Wilma had already become the 21e Tropical storm of the season to bear a name. In the history of the American weather, only one season knew this record of 21 storms, it was in 1933, at one time when the hurricanes were not systematically baptized.
• France: the Ministre of Defense Michele Alliot-Marie made a decision without precedent by suspending the lieutenant-general of army Henri Poncet, suspected “of having covered” the supposed murder of a Man from the Ivory Coast, when it controlled the operation “Unicorn” in Ivory Coast in last May.
• Germany: parliamentary reopening of new the the Bundestag, one month day for day after the federal elections of September 18th, 2005. Legally, the functions of the outgoing chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, ended with the opening of the parliamentary session. However, the president Horst Köhler charged Mr. Schröder with taking over temporarily the duties the chancellery until the nomination of the Cabinet Merkel, planned for on November 17th.
• China: Wikipédia again is completely blocked in China, at the time of the publication of one white paper on “the construction of the political democracy in China”, according to Reporters without borders. (see also Internet and the censure).

Wednesday October 19th 2005

• Quebec: died of Corinne Side-Lévesque, widow of the former Prime Minister Rene Levesque, at the 61 years age.
• Iraq, Baghdad: the lawsuit of the former dictator Saddam Hussein and seven others baassists opened at 11 a.m. Sworn are under anonymity in prevention of reprisals. He is judged initially for the massacre of 143 Iraqis in 1982 with Doujaïl. Twelve other businesses are in instruction, of which that of the Kurd gazage with Halabja in 1988. The defendant risks the capital punishment by hanging. But the lawsuit was deferred at November 28th. According to the Kurdish magistrate Rizgar Mohamed Amine, president of the Iraqi special court, this adjournment is " principalement" had with the absence of tens of witnesses.
• Haiti: the Ouragan Wilma reaches the category 5.
• Macedonia: a suspect case of Avian flu was detected. The authorities began the demolition of 10.000 chickens in a village of the south of the country with measure of precaution. The poultries were cut down with Mogila, close to Bitola, after an epidemic of the disease of Newcastle, a frequent viral disease in the birds. Demolition was ordered after one of chickens had developed abnormal symptoms. A sample was sent in Great Britain to check that it is not a question of the avian flu.
• Poland: Marek Belka submitted to the Parliament the resignation of its government after crushing defeat at the polls wiped by the Alliance of democratic left SLD. The President Aleksander Kwaśniewski designated the conservative Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, to form a new coalition government.

Thursday October 20th 2005

• France: died of the painter and Belgian Draftsman Jean-Michel Folon at the 71 years age with Monaco of the continuations of a Leukemia.
• France: today has place starting from aujourd' and this until the Tuesday October 25th the birthday of the Protestant federation of France which celebrates its 100 years of existence.
• Argentinian: died of the War criminal Serb Nebjosa Minic at the 40 years age in a hospital of the area of Mendoza in the west of the country.
• Iraq: Me Saadoun Sghaiyer Al-Janabi, lawyer of Awad Al-Bandar, shown to have delivered the orders of execution against 148 inhabitants of Doujaïl, was removed in its cabinet of Baghdad.
• the United States: died of the Pianist and American Singer Shirley Horn, at the 71 years age, Washington. She one of the last divas of the Jazz, was revealed with the beginning of the year 1960 by the legendary Trompettiste Miles Davis which played like she of silences in Musique.

Friday October 21st 2005

• Pakistan, Earthquake of October 8th, 2005: Kofi Annan, the general secretary of the the United Nations, calls with the financial and material gifts so that the number of victims (estimated at 79.000) does not continue to increase. (Wikinews)
• the United States, Undertaken: Ford announced a deficit of 284 million dollars for the third quarters of the current year and will most probably announce new factory shutdowns next January. (Wikinews)
• Syria: the board of inquiry of the prosecutor elected by UNO Detlev Mehlis confirms that Syrians are implied in the assassination of the ex-first Lebanese minister Rafiq Hariri. The US president, George W Bush, claimed that a meeting of the Safety advice of the United Nations is convened “as quickly as possible” in order to study the continuations to be given. He also declared that “the world must take the actions pursuant which are essential”.
• Iraq: the body of Me Saadoun Sghaiyer Al-Janabi, the lawyer of one of the co-defendants in the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein, removed yesterday evening was found behind a mosque of Baghdad.
• Meteorology, Mexico: The Hurricane Wilma, considered “extremely dangerous” and of category 4 on the scale of Saffir-Simpson, approaches the peninsula of the Yucatan.
• Beirut: The foreign pressures to obtain the resignation of the president Emile Lahoud intensify.
• France: Paris: The president and the Prime Minister retorted to the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy, by reaffirming both their attachment with the law of 1905.
• France: Azouz Begag, French minister delegated to the Promotion of the equal opportunity, was victim of a control “pushed” with the airport of Atlanta, with the the United States, the last October 13rd. This regrettable incident caused tensions with Washington. The French minister, of origin Algeria, was retained by an agent of the American customs for “a control a little too thorough”, whereas it was carrying a diplomatic passport and a visa. After a request for “explanations”, the American State Department recognized that a “professional misconduct” had been made by an agent of the customs, and excused itself.
• France: in the business of the “false SMS in racist matter” diffused on December 1st, 2003 within the framework of the emission One cannot like everyone against Dieudonné balled Me balled Me, for which justice pronounced in first authority, on September 29th, 2005, a judgment with a sorrow of fine against Marc-Olivier Fogiel and to the mention, in a later emission, judgment of “MOF” in its capacity as producer-organizer, it with what this one refuses for the moment, the president of the National front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, is solidarized of Mr. balled Me Meballed, by calling, in an official statement, the “persons in charge of the audio-visual public, financed with the money of the French taxpayers, to require the resignation of this Fogiel individual to the scandalous methods”.

20/10: adoption of Convention on cultural diversity, with UNESCO.

Saturday October 22nd 2005

• Hispaniola : the Tropical storm Alpha was reinforced in the south of the island.
• the United States: died of the Franco-American sculptor Arman, with New York, of the continuations of a Cancer. It was 76 years old.
• Political France, : according to the Appointed E UMP of the the Gironde, Marie-Helene of Esgaulx, Alain Juppe will be candidate in the Gironde with the legislative of 2007. This made advertisement, Alain Juppe refuted this information at once.
• America: the Ouragan Wilma of category 4, which strikes hard the North-East of the Mexican peninsula of the Yucatán with winds of 220 km/h, passes to the category 3. 500.000 people were evacuated with Cuba in governmental shelters. Although it passed on level 2, the cyclone is always baited on the peninsula of the Yucatan, flooded by destroying rains.
• Damas: after the publication of the Report/ratio Mehlis on the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri which shows it, the Syria did not say if it agreed to take part with UNO, to the risk to attract itself international sanctions.
• Baghdad: the Arab League obtained the support of the Chiites in Iraq, large the Ayatollah, Ali Al-Sistani, thanks to the step of national reconciliation in the country.
• the United Kingdom: a Perroquet coming from the Surinam is suspected of having perished of the virus H5N1 at the time of its setting in Forty. The other birds present at the same place for forty all were eliminated.
• Lebanon: Mehlis report/ratio: “with the height of the hopes” according to the Lebanese government. Position diametrically opposed to that of Damas which rejected Saturday the conclusions of the Mehlis report.
• France: the National Assembly, during the examination in first reading of the project of finance law for 2006, adopts a amendment unanimously, deposited by Louis Giscard d'Estaing, which envisages the reduction from 19,6% to 5,5% of VAT for the artisanal Bonbon S with the Chocolat.
• Sweden: The Swedish national veterinary Institute confirmed the presence of the Avian flu during analyzes carried out on found ducks died in the south of the country, but is unaware of if it is about the lethal strain H5N1. The analyzes related to four yesterday dead ducks found in the area of Eskilstuna, in the west of the capital Stockholm.
• France: Demonstration for the language occitane: more than 10.000 people express in Carcassonne to defend the Occitan language.

Sunday October 23rd 2005

• Nigeria, Flight 210 Bellview Airlines: crash landing of a Boeing 737 of the airline company Bellview Airlines. According to the president, Asmaa Rachimi, the plane which went to Abuja and which transported 116 people damaged shortly after its takeoff of Lagos.
• Political Poland, : the conservative, Lech Kaczynski, 56 years, was elected president with 52,8% to 53,5% of the voices compared with 47,2% to 46,5% of the votes for his adversary Donald Tusk, according to the surveys left the ballot boxes published at the conclusion of the second round.
• Nepal: seven Mountaineer S French and eight carriers and Sherpa S Nepal board are reported missing since Thursday after strong snowfalls in the Himalayan chain, in the North-West of the country. The French mountaineers, five men and two women, tried to climb the top Kang Guru, located at 5.000 meters of altitude, in the solid mass of the Annapurna. To Paris, the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs was said “always extremely” anxious. The bad weather delayed aid operations, but a helicopter of research was sent today on the spot.
• Nigeria: the first lady Stella Obasanjo, wife of the president Olusegun Obasanjo, died following an surgical operation in Spain, it is what announced the Spanish ministry of the Foreign affairs. Mrs. Obasanjo died this morning in a hospital of Marbella where it paid a private visit. The ministry specified that a Autopsie should be realized with Malaga, that it did not have information on the cause of its death and that it was unaware of if she had undergone an surgical operation. It was 60 years old.
• Political France, : the first secretary of the PS, François Holland declared on Radio J that it did not exclude to call old the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin for the presidential of 2007.
• the United Kingdom: the parrot died in quarantine the Avian flu was quite carrying the lethal strain H5N1, it is what announced a spokesperson of the Department of the Environment, Food and Businesses rural.
• Cuba, Hurricane Wilma: three foreign tourists, an Italian, a Netherlander and another of still unknown nationality were killed and 16 people were wounded in an accident which has occurred during an evacuation. A Cuban was also killed during the accident, which has occurred Friday with 86 kilometers in the south-east of the capital on the highway leading to Cienfuegos, close to the locality of Nueva Paz, when a coach of the company Via Azul, which transported about fifty tourists, ran up against a car and was turned over.

Monday October 24th 2005

• Meteorology, Florida: after being last on the Mexico and Cuba, the Ouragan Wilma, which already made 8 died, is awaited in Florida where it should arrive soon. Reinforced, it reaches from now on the category 3.
• France: The Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin lance the Privatization partial of EDF, affirming that it was not “not question of disengaging EDF” and that the State would preserve “at least 85% of the capital of the company”.
• Iraq: three nearly simultaneous suicide bombings against hotels inhabited by journalists and employees, made 17 died and nine wounded with Baghdad. They are the most fatal attacks in the Iraqi capital since the Référendum on the constitutional project of the October 15th which was massively rejected by two provinces with a majority sunnite, Al-Anbâr and Salaheddine. One was unaware of at the end of the evening if there were also foreigners among the victims.
• the United States: the president George W. Bush chose Ben Bernanke, 51 years, current president of the Economic council of the White House, to succeed the owner the American Federal fund Alan Greenspan, a true legend whose mandate expires soon. Mr. Bernanke, whose nomination will have to be validated by the Senate, is a former member of the council of the governors of the EDF and a ex-professor of the university of Princeton, where it directed the department of Economy. The mandate of Alan Greenspan, who had arrived at the head of the American central bank in August 1987, comes to a end the next January 31st.
• the United States: Rosa Parks, whose temerity had launched the combat against the segregationist laws étasuniennes, died in her residence of Detroit in the Michigan at the 92 years age.
• Brazil: The 122 million Brazilian voters voted not (63,9%) with the referendum whose question was “the trade of the firearms and ammunition does have to be prohibited in Brazil? ”. “Not” in the totality of the 27 Brazilian States gained.

Tuesday October 25th 2005

• Haiti: ten people were killed, eleven wounded and three are reported missing because of caused floods this weekend by the Tropical storm Alpha. Alpha is the twenty-second tropical storm indexed of the season, beating the record ever established by a cyclone season, according to the National center of the hurricanes (NHC) of NOAA based with Miami, in Florida.
• Nepal: the body of one of the seven mountaineers French killed with eleven Nepalese guides after a snowstorm last week in the Annapurna was found. The body was not identified yet. According to the Association of the helps in the Himalayas (HRA), all the members of forwarding died. These declarations confirm those of local televisions, which announced as of Sunday evening that the eighteen mountaineers had died. On the other hand, the French ministry of the Foreign affairs always refuses to confirm the deaths. But according to Philippe Douste-Blazy, the chances to find survivors are “unfortunately very weak”. Four sherpas of forwarding which was out of the tents of the camp at the time of the avalanche were helped Sunday by helicopter with the favor of a break, after four days of a snowstorm unusually early which had isolated forwarding on the way for the top from the Mont Kang Guru.
• Germany: Angela Merkel will be elected with the German Chancellerie the November 22nd.
• France: the government communicated a list of 21 departments considered at the risk for the transmission of the avian flu H5N1. In order to prevent the risks, the birds of these departments will have to be confined at least until the December 2nd 2005. The departments concerned are those of the Ain, of the Aube, the the Low-Rhine, the Rhone delta, the Charente-Maritime, the Gard, the the Gironde, the Haute-Corse, the Haut-Rhin, the Haute-Marne, Ille-et-Vilaine, the Indre, the Landes, the Loire-Atlantique, the Manche, the Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Meuse, the Seine-Maritime, the Somme and the the Vendée.
• France: the president of the National front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, suspended temporarily, of the political office of this movement, Marie-France Stirbois, former deputy of Eure-et-Loir, which had disputed a decision touching with the business Jacques Bompard. At the same time as the widow of Jean-Pierre Stirbois, former general secretary of the FN, is sanctioned an elected official of the Var, Philippe de Beauregard. This last had protested Friday, in a press conference with Mrs. Stirbois, against its ousting of the secretariat of its department. According to the FN, Mr. de Beauregard was évincé of this station to have wished to preserve its use of territorial lawyer at the municipality of Orange, after the departure of the FN of the mayor Jacques Bompard. An employment which the FN considered to be incompatible with an important responsibility in the party, in a context of very critical declarations of Mr. Bompard against the FN and whereas it is question of a possible bringing together between the Orange mayor and Philippe de Villiers, president of the Mouvement for France.
• Dominican Republic: a river which had overflowed of its bed under the effect of pouring rain flooded the town of Puerto Plata, causing the death of six people, including two children of 11 and 12 years. The floods destroyed at least 10 houses and a bridge between two villages. Two fishermen had already drowned at sea during the passage of the Tropical storm Alpha which touched the country Sunday. A young boy since is reported missing.

Wednesday October 26th 2005

• Pakistan: the the United Nations will carry the call of emergency aid from 312 to 549 million dollars to help the victims of the Earthquake of October 8th, 2005 in Pakistan. The Séisme made 54.000 died and 77.000 wounded, according to a new assessment announced by the Pakistani Minister of Interior Department Aftab Sherpao.
• China: a scuffle in a staircase of an elementary school of Tongjiang (a county of the province of the Sichuan, to 1.200 km in the south-west of Beijing) made seven died and 37 wounded including 5 in a serious state. According to a local daily, this scuffle would have burst when a pupil howled with the phantom in the dark stair-well the children having then started to run. Whereas an investigation was open to determine the exact circumstances of this drama, the authorities dismiss the assumption of a collapse of the building, the school having been built last year. The scuffle intervened in the staircases at the time when the schoolboys left their class Tuesday evening.
• Haiti: Alpha, 22e Tropical storm of the Atlantic season, made at least 15 victims at the time of its passage to Haiti and in Dominican Republic, before continuing its walk towards north in the Atlantic Ocean. Ten people are also reported missing in the two countries from the island from Saint-Domingue, where the mud flows and the overflow of the rivers flooded the streets and the houses. The assessment of the storm remains still provisional and the number of victims should increase. For the moment, 13 people were killed with Haiti, the majority drowned. If the helps did not reach all the disaster areas yet, the shipwreck of a Red boat close to Anse, in the north of the country, could weigh down the human account. At least 400 houses were damaged or destroyed by the floods and the flows mud and hundreds of inhabitants were rehoused in shelters. In Dominican Republic, the authorities found Monday the bodies of two fishermen whose boat had capsized.
• Croatia: the lethal strain H5N1 of the virus of the Avian flu was detected.
• the Meeting: suspicion of Avian flu on three patients hospitalized after a stay in Thailand, where they had visited an ornithological park.
• Iran: at the time of a conference on the world without the Zionism , the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declares: “Israel must be striped chart. ” It is the first time since years which an Iranian leader placed also high preaches publicly the disappearance of the State of Israel, even if this one belonged to the propaganda of the mode. Following these remarks, old the Israeli Prime Minister , Shimon Peres calls with the expulsion of Iran of UNO. The France, the Spain, the the United Kingdom and the Russia, which condemned these remarks, convened the Iranian ambassadors to mean their disapproval officially to them.
• Political France, : the president of the district council of Poitou-Charentes, Ségolène Royal, very badly affirms to have lived certain reactions to her possible candidature for the presidential election of 2007.
• France, H5N1: the Poulet S of Bresse originating in the Ain are authorized to leave each day between 14:00 and 0:00 notwithstanding the decree containment of the French poultry concerning 21 departments. These labelized chickens must indeed be high in the open air the 3/4 of their life. Health monitoring will have to be reinforced by the controls ensured by the veterinary surgeons of the poultry owners with the support of the Management of the veterinary services of Ain.

Thursday October 27th 2005

• Netherlands: a fire in a retention center of the Schipol international airport of Amsterdam made 11 victims and 15 wounded. The identity of the victims remains unknown in the immediate future. This retention center is usually used to hold the drug traffickers and the clandestine immigrants. The fate of the prisoners remains unspecified, according to television Dutchwoman and one ignores prisoners so escaped.
• Pakistan: in the name of UNICEF, the Reine Rania of Jordan will go Saturday October 29th to the Pakistan, in the zones struck by the tremor of the ground of October 8th.
• France: the daily newspaper France Soir is in suspension of payment. One should know Monday the decision of rectification or liquidation of the newspaper.
• Political France, : there does not return, but remains fuzzy on 2007. Old the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin was again presented today as a “political former head” who “does not aspire to any other” role, without formally dismissing the assumption of one candidature for the Elysium. Careful on the congress of the PS, it reaffirmed its support for the first secretary François Holland.
• France: the ministry for Agriculture announced the extension of the confinement measures of the poultries to 5 new departments. The Aude, the the Eure, the Herault, the Loiret and the Morbihan are added to the 21 departments already concerned by these preventive measures.
• Iraq: a confrontation with Nahraouane in the south of Baghdad opposed militiamans sunnites to faithful of the Shiite Imam Moqtada al-Sadr who sought to release one of their member of the Armée with Mehdi retained as an hostage by insurrectionists sunnites. At least 21 died in the Shiite rows, 2 police officers, and an unspecified number of victims among the sunnites are to be regretted.
• Palestine, Gaza Strip: a person in charge of the Islamic Djihad, Chadi Mhanna, and six other Palestinians were killed by a missile which aimed at the vehicle of the local leader of the military wing of the Islamic Djihad.
• China: a Séisme moderated magnitude 4,4 struck the south of the country, killing a person and by wounding another. A man was killed by the fall of a rock on his house, and a woman was hospitalized. The seism also caused cracks in houses. The epicentre of the jolt was with Pingguo, a district of the Guangxi, with 2.000 kilometers in the south-west of Beijing.
• France, Criminality: Jean-Claude Irvoas, 56 years, consulting for a company havraise of urban furniture, impassioned of this field, is beaten with died with Épinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), in front of his wife and his daughter, by two individuals who stole the camera to him with which it took stereotypes of standard lamps. The widow and the girl of the victim, fear of reprisals, and in spite of the arrest of the alleged murderers, will be received almost in secrecy, on October 31st, by the , Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy. The town hall of Epinay-sur-Seine will organize, 9 days after the murder, on Saturday, November 5, a “meeting of meditation” on the square of the town hall.

Friday October 28th 2005

• Iran: Sina-1 the satellite first Iran IEN builds jointly with the Russia was launched since the space base of Polstesk in the province of Mourmansk in the North-West of Russia to 10:52 local time.
• France: harms of riot Clichy-sous-Bois which opposed, according to the police force, two hundred young people with the police force. The demonstrations make following the death of two electrocuted minors the day before in an electric transformer where they found refuge after a continuation with the police force.
• France: the government allowed GDF to increase its tariffs of Gaz of 12% with an exceptional reduction of 22 euros over wintry time 2005-2006.
• France: the entourage of Dominique de Villepin announced the dismissal of the general police chief in the plan, Alain Etchegoyen. This last has stated “not to be received only once by the Prime Minister for hundred days and two months that it is in function” and denounces a “discrétionnaire decision”.
• the United States: the administration Bush underwent today a reverse without precedent with the inculpation of Lewis Libby, director of the cabinet of the vice-president, shown to have lied and have blocked an investigation into a business of “escape” apparently aiming at making conceal a critic of the Guerre in Iraq. The principal private secretary of the vice-president Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, called “Scooter”, is under the blow of five criminal charges, for perjuries, false witnesses and obstacle with justice. He resigned at once of his functions, according to the White House. Nevertheless, Lewis Libby “will dispute the charges” carried against him within the framework of the business Lime-Wilson, reacted the American vice-president Dick Cheney, while saying to deeply regret the resignation of her principal private secretary.
• China: nine died and seven missings in the explosion of a coal mine.
• France: according to the daily newspaper Le Figaro , which does not quote its sources, of the French islamist extremists would intend to make Attentat S against civil aircrafts in the Hexagon and would have gotten for this purpose two ground-to-air missiles of type SAM 18 in Chetchnia. Information is all the more worrying, continues the daily newspaper, which it emanates from the testimony of an high ranking official djihadist imprisoned with Amman in Jordan and heard recently within the framework of the French judicial enquiry carried out by the judge anti-terrorist Jean-Louis Bruguiere. This Jordanian, Adnan Muhammad Sadik alias Abou Atiya, is a close relation of its compatriot Zarqaoui, chief of Al-Qaida in Iraq. He was especially his representative in the Caucasus. In 2001, it accommodated a group made up of French and Algerians. But according to two Magistrate S close relations of the file, this thesis is not proven because it rests only on the account of a conversation going back in May 2000 and that no material element was collected. “On this business, one can really speak for France about a risk zero”, also ensured the AFP a specialist in this file.

Saturday October 29th 2005

• Sciences, Solar system: the Planet Mars will enter in favorable Opposition with the Sun this Sunday, according to the forecasts of the Institut of celestial mechanics and calculation of the éphémérides (IMCCE). The two planets close will then approach one the other with a Distance to 69,4 million kilometers. (Wikinews)
• France, Clichy-sous-Bois: several hundreds of people took part in a silent walk, Saturday morning, with the memory of two minors died by electrocution following a continuation by the police force. This demonstration makes following two nights of riots which made fifteen slightly injureds, of which several police officers and a journalist. In addition, about thirty cars were burnt and a shooting large gauge aimed at a police vehicle. Nineteen people were challenged.
• India, Andhra Pradesh: a Rail crash made more than one hundred died near the town of Nalgonda in the south-east of India. Other victims were probably carried by the floods of the river where with run off the line the train and whose water had been inflated by the torrential rains which fell down these last days.
• India: three explosions of terrorist origin aimed New Delhi and caused the death of 61 people. Were aimed at a commercial street, a market of the city particularly crammed and a bus. A group cachemiri hitherto unknown of the name of “Inquilab” (revolution) asserted the responsibility for the attacks.
• South America: the Tropical storm Beta, the twenty-third of the cyclone season 2005 in the Atlantic, was transformed into hurricane at the time of its passage on the island of Providence and approaches the coasts of the Nicaragua.

Sunday October 30th 2005

• France, South-west: 14 people were poisoned by ground beef of the supermarkets Leclerc. Last nine older children from 2 to 9 years are hospitalized for a serious food poisoning caused by the bacterium Escherichia coli O157: H7 and suffer from the haemolytic and uremic Syndrome.
• South America: The Ouragan Beta gained power passing in category 3 and directly threatening the east coasts of the Nicaragua. The inhabitants took refuge in churches and schools and the local authorities issued a Couvre-feu to prevent possible plunderings.
• Ivory Coast: hundreds of demonstrators ravelled in the streets of Abidjan to require the resignation of the president Laurent Gbagbo whose mandate expired officially this day. They were put in escape by the police force of the Ivory Coast which carried out warning shots. In addition the Safety advice of the United Nations adopted, on recommendation of the African Union, a resolution now Laurent Gbagbo with the presidency for one period maximum one year, at the sides of a Prime Minister equipped with widened capacities.
• 28 - October 31st, North Korea: the president Chinese Hu Jintao in official visit in North Korea. The question of the nuclear North-Korean is tackled.

Monday October 31st 2005

• Canada, Ottawa: The Canadian authorities announced today that wild birds had been discovered, infected H5 virus of the Avian flu. They however specified that there was no risk for the man.
• Spain: birth of the princess Léonore, girl of Philippe de Bourbon, prince of Asturies and Letizia Ortiz. She could automatically become the first woman Head of the Spanish State since 1868.
• Safety advice of the United Nations: adoption of the Resolution 1636 (2005) unanimously which requires government Syria N to cooperate with the commission of independent survey in charge to establish the responsibilities in the assassination of the ex-first minister Lebanon board Rafic Hariri the 14 February 2005. The resolution is however associated with no threat of sanction in the event of non-fulfilment of this one.
• Poland: Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz was officially named with the head of a minority government of conservative right, after the failure of the negotiations with the liberals. The eighteen Ministers for the new government lent oath in front of the president Aleksander Kwaśniewski who itself will be replaced in December 2005 by Lech Kaczyński, elected on October 23rd. Its government must be invested by the Sejm the November 10th.
• Iraq: a Attentat with the car bomb made 20 died and 45 wounded with Al Basra. Vehicle parking exploded close to a restaurant where many families celebrated one of the last evenings of the Ramadan. Seven American soldiers were also killed at the time of an attack perpetrated close to Baghdad.
• the United States: four days after the renunciation of Harriet Miers of his nomination of the Supreme court, the president George W. Bush announces the nomination of a new candidate in the person of Samuel Alito. This one is generally regarded by the “preserving” movements American as being one their “close relations”. This nomination aims at filling the vacancy of the individual seat of judge whom Sandra Day O'Connor occupies, resigner for reasons of age. She will become effective only after one series of parliamentary hearings before the legal commission of the Sénat, followed by a senatorial vote in plenary session.
• Space: astronomers announced to have discovered two new natural satellite around the planet Pluton. This discovery was carried out thanks to observations carried out with the Space telescope Hubble.
• France: the daily newspaper France Soir is put in rectification for six months.

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