Clearstream: 15 months suspended sentence required cons Dominique de Villepin

Fifteen-month suspended prison sentence was needed on Monday to the court of appeal in Paris against Dominique de Villepin, who was suspected of "complicity in slanderous denunciation" in the Clearstream affair, against the 18-month suspended sentence and 45,000 euro fine required at trial.

Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General's Office has requested thirty months' imprisonment, of which 18 were suspended, against former vice-chairman of EADS, Jean-Louis Gergorin, a year closes.

The mathematician Imad Lahoud has seen cons require him thirty months in prison with 15 months suspended.

The Advocate General Jean-Louis Perol has also requested a fine of 45,000 euros against MM.Gergorin and Lahoud.

At trial, the prosecutor of Paris Jean-Claude Marin was itself mounted at the hearing to take up the case Villepin.He was required against him 18 months suspended sentence and 45,000 euro fine.

Meanwhile, he required two years in prison, 18 months firm against Imad Lahoud and three years in prison, 18 months firm, against Jean-Louis Gergorin and 45,000 euros fine against the two men.

On January 28, 2010, Dominique de Villepin had been acquitted, while Jean-Louis Gergorin and Imad Lahoud were sentenced respectively to 15 and 18 months in prison, for each matched to a fine of 40,000 euros.

The Clearstream affair is a huge case of false accusation in which names, including that of Nicolas Sarkozy, were added to listings bank to pretend they dipped in dark corruption.

For the general prosecutor, Dominique de Villepin was aware of the falsity of listings in July 2004 and thus could stop the slander. The Crown has appealed the acquittal of former Prime Minister believes it should be condemned for "complicity by failure."

But if the "complicity in slanderous denunciation" does exist in the penal code, the "complicity by failure" is a legal concept that the appellate court is free to follow or not.

TERRORISM: In a posthumous message, Bin Laden hails Arab revolutions

Osama Bin Laden hails the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and called on Muslims to take advantage of this "rare historic opportunity" to lift, in a posthumous message audio captured by the U.S. central monitoring Islamist websites (SITE).

The message, posted on jihadist forums on Wednesday by the As-Sahab website, close to Al-Qaeda, takes 12 minutes and 37 seconds, and speaks to Muslims in the Arab revolutions in recent months.

Bin Laden recommends the establishment of a council to advise revolutionary and decide the best time to spread revolt in the Muslim world.

"Any delay could cause the loss of this opportunity and the trigger before the exact time would increase the number of victims," ​​said bin Laden yet, according to the SITE.

"I think the winds of change are blowing across the Muslim world with Allah's permission," says even the leader of Al Qaeda killed in Pakistan by U.S. commandos on May 2

According to a previous release of Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, the instigator of the attacks of September 11, 2001, posted this message a week before being killed in an attack by U.S. special forces against his residence north of Islamabad, where he was hiding, said SITE.

There is "a great and rare historical opportunity to raise with the Ummah (Islamic community) and free yourself from bondage decided by the executives, the law of men and Western domination," said Bin Laden registration with a photo of the former leader of Al Qaeda.

"This is a great sin and a vast ignorance of waste this opportunity that the Ummah has been waiting for decades. So use this advantage and destroy the idols and establish justice and faith," he adds.

In his message he refers to the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, but no mention of the uprisings in Libya, Syria and Yemen, bin Laden also warned against negotiations and compromise.

"To these revolutionary free in all countries stand firm in your initiative and be wary of negotiations, because there is no middle ground between the people of truth and the people of falsehood," he adds .

The Mississippi flood forced the authorities to carry out load shedding in Louisiana

U.S. authorities have opened a valve unloader on the Mississippi River in Louisiana (south), which recorded a historic flood in order to prevent further flooding of New Orleans, six years after Katrina.

The body of Engineers U.S. Army had previously announced it would open gradually from 3:00 p.m. (2000 GMT) the overflow channel of Morganza, Louisiana, to avoid a "wall of water "in the words of the governor of this state, Bobby Jindal, does descend on thousands of homes located along the Atchafalaya River.

"It may be more a marathon than a sprint," said Gen. Michael Walsh at a news conference in Morganza, stating that "enormous pressure weighing on the entire system."

The valve was opened when the river flow reached 42,500 cubic meters per second.This is only the second time since its construction in 1954 that emergency channel is open.

If all the floodway gates were open, the flow would reach a rate of 17,000 cubic meters per second, three times the volume of water that falls daily from Niagara Falls.

To avoid such a destructive flow, a single valve was opened Saturday to pass 280 cubic meters per second, one or two others could be Sunday.

Load shedding, which will supply water into the Gulf of Mexico, is expected to cause flooding of 1.2 million hectares but will save Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the martyred city of Hurricane just who is recovering from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005, Governor Jindall.

New Orleans is protected by dikes upstream from six yards but the water has already reached 5.2 meters, and the worst floods in 70 years-that struck the central United States follow the course of the Mississippi south .

They have so far destroyed thousands of homes, farms and roads in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.

In view of downloading, the authorities have carried out evacuations in rural areas will be affected, a sacrifice which the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, said he was conscious.

"It's a tragic situation for everyone in America and of course for people who live in the Atchafalaya Basin and Morgan City.We wholeheartedly with them, "he said, noting that it would save his city.

Cindy Prejean, a resident of Gibson, a town a hundred miles from New Orleans, expects to see its home swim in 1.5 meters of water.

"What gives them the right to inundate us? Here there are so many neighborhoods, businesses and farms," ​​she told AFP.

According to forecasts, the opening of the channel load shedding could lead to peak at 4.5 meters in some neighborhoods.

The army said it would focus more on individuals than on the property.In anticipation, the American Red Cross has prepared thousands of places for evacuees.

Economically, the activity of the Port of New Orleans are continuing normally but 2,200 oil wells were threatened by floodwaters.

SYRIA: The system maintains the military pressure, two protesters killed in Homs

Two protesters were killed Friday by gunfire police in Homs in central Syria, while many soldiers and members of the security services were deployed in the homes of protest against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Despite the crackdown - which killed at least 700 deaths and thousands of arrests since the beginning of the protest movement in mid-March, according to human rights organizations of human rights - the opposition had appealed mobilization on the "The Syrian Revolution 2011".

In the afternoon, the Information Minister, Adnan Mahmoud, announced a "national dialogue would be initiated in the coming days" in the country.

Fouad Rajab, 40, was hit by a bullet in the head when the security services opened fire to disperse a manifestation of Homs, told AFP an activist of Human Rights, Nawar al-Omar.

A second protester was killed by gunfire in Homs, but the activist was not able to provide his identity.

According Louaï Hussein, a writer and opponent of President Assad had nevertheless instructed police not to open fire on demonstrators.

An adviser to the president, "Bouthaina Shaaban, told me during a telephone conversation that presidential orders had been given strict not to open fire on the demonstrators," said Mr.Hussein on his Facebook page.

Other events were attended by thousands of people Deraa (south), Qamishli, and Derbassyié Amouda (north-east), WQAS near Damascus and Hama 210 km north of the capital.

"Security forces fire into the air with automatic weapons to disperse to Deraa thousands of protesters," said one activist told AFP in this city south, where the protest movement was born in mid- March.

A Qamichli with a Kurdish majority, nearly 3,000 people demonstrated after prayers, according to another activist."With our soul and our blood we sacrifice ourselves for Deraa," chanted the demonstrators, according to a video posted on YouTube.

The protesters also wore a huge Syrian flag on which was written + + Azadi ("freedom" in Kurdish), depending on the video.

In addition, hundreds of people demonstrated in Jdaidet-Artouz, 11 km south of Damascus, "calling for the downfall of the regime," said another activist.

A thousand protesters also marched in WQAS, near the capital, where "significant reinforcements came," according to activists.

In the city of Hama, the police dispersed several demonstrations with batons, tear gas and water cannon.One of the demonstrations took place outside the headquarters of the town hall, where demonstrators tore the portrait of President Bashar al-Assad before being dispersed by Syrian forces, as an activist.

In all outbreaks of the dispute, "there is a large deployment of officers of the security forces," said one activist told AFP.

Asked in the morning, an activist from the coastal city of Banias (North West) stated that "more than 2,000 soldiers" were deployed in the square where people were demonstrating.

But the information minister said in the afternoon as the army began to withdraw from this coastal town, where she had entered Saturday.

According militants, arrests were also continuing across the country, Deir Ezzor (is) in Lattakia (northwest) and to Qamichli Deraa. Wednesday, 19 civilians had been killed by security forces in Dera and Homs, according to an NGO.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said he was "extremely concerned" by reports of NGOs have reported 700 to 850 deaths among the demonstrators and called on Damascus to stop trying to "silence opponents.

The British Foreign Ministry announced it had summoned the ambassador of Syria, threatening to "further sanctions".And Australia said it would tighten its financial sanctions against Damascus.

The head of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton, had not ruled yesterday that the sanctions taken against 13 members of the scheme can be extended to President Assad.

The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, however, warned against foreign intervention, calling on the Syrian opposition not to repeat the "Libyan scenario," according to Russian news agencies.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on his part that he was "too early" to say whether President Assad had to go.

SYRIA: Damascus regime predicted the imminent end of the revolt

It is a media outlet even more remarkable that Syrian officials were not usually speak in Western media. Boutheina Shaaban, Special Advisor to President Bashar al-Assad - who often takes on the role of spokesperson - awarded the "New York Times an interview in which she displays confidence regime against the protests that rocked the country for two months.

"I hope we are going through the end of this story. I think the most dangerous moment is behind us.I hope, I think, "said Councillor journalists from U.S. daily, which had special permission to enter a couple of hours in the country to meet briefly with their interlocutor.

Since the beginning of the protest movement, Syria is in effect closed to journalists and the few reports emerging about the violence between security forces and opponents of the regime come from witnesses and activists of human rights.

On Monday, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH) has reported that authorities have made further arrests in the capital, Damascus and Banias, a town on the Mediterranean coast.Since the beginning of the revolt in mid-March, between 600 and 700 people were killed and at least 8,000 arrested, according to NGOs.

In this regard, Boutheina Shaaban justified in the New York Times "the repressive regime, which" may not be sympathetic with people who lead an armed rebellion. "

Sanctions "manageable"

The international community does not share this analysis. The sanctions against 13 officials and Syrian arms embargo adopted by the European Union (EU) to halt "repression against the people" came into force on Tuesday.

Among these leaders face particular Maher al-Assad, younger brother of Syrian president and head of the Republican Guard, officials said Tuesday morning.The Head of State, himself, is currently not covered by the EU sanctions.

The United States has in turn imposed economic sanctions on officials of the country and warned Friday that they could adopt new measures if Damascus did not put an end to repression.

But these retaliatory measures do not undermine the optimism of the plan. In the interview with U.S. newspaper, Councillor Bashar al-Assad believes that these sanctions are manageable. "This is a form of pressure that has often been used against us. Just arrange a time that our country will be safe again. We're not going to live forever this crisis," says she.

TERRORISM: Obama closing "a historic week" at Fort Campbell

AFP - Barack Obama closed on Friday "a historic week" for the United States with the decoration of the U.S. commando members who, by shooting down Osama bin Laden five days ago in Pakistan, "decapitated" al Qaeda.

Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden visited earlier this afternoon on the military base of Fort Campbell (Kentucky, western central) to meet the assault force that led the operation against bin Laden .

The President has awarded them a "Presidential Citation, the highest award that can be given to a unit in recognition of their service and their extraordinary success," said an official on condition of anonymity.

"This week was historic for our nation," began a little later Barack Obama in a speech to soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division gathered at the base.

Mr.Obama said that eliminating bin Laden, the U.S. had "decapitated" al Qaeda and they would come to the end of the Islamist organization.

"We have beheaded Al-Qaeda and we will eventually overcome it," he promised the applause of the military.

"It was a chance for me to say on behalf of all Americans and all peoples throughout the world, good job. Good job!" He said. The men who led the raid against bin Laden are "professionals of the shadow of America ...they have trained for years, they are battle-hardened, they are prepared relentlessly for that mission. "

"When I ordered (to intervene, ie), they were ready. And these days, the whole world could see how much they were."

"Of those Americans who deserves credit for one of the largest military and intelligence operations in the history of our nation," he added.

No details were given on the exact composition of the squad but the president has met with members of the unit of helicopter pilots who participated in the raid and other special forces.

Vice President Biden simply stated the fact that members of the Navy Seals, Special Forces U.S. Navy, were involved.

But the White House refused to confirm his participation in the assault.

"Team 6" Navy SEALs (Team 6), presented by the media as the spearhead of the raid conducted against the residence of bin Laden in Pakistan, is the aristocracy of the SEALs - an acronym for Sea, Air, Land (sea, air, earth) also meaning seal - and its missions are considered so sensitive that their existence was never confirmed.

Osama Bin Laden was killed in the night from Sunday to Monday by a U.S. special forces operation against the residence where he was hiding in Abbottabad, a garrison city near Islamabad, Pakistan, ending a 10-year hunt .

Moreover, the Washington Post reports that the CIA since his "hideout" installed to monitor the residence of bin Laden, had observed that anyone leaving the residence should move away by car while riding for at least 90 minutes before use his cell phone to escape a possible electronic surveillance.

The U.S. plays were first picked up a phone call sent the emissary of bin Laden, who lived in the residence.The envoy said at the time the caller on the phone: "I'm back with people with whom I was before," reports the Washington Post.

Through this call, U.S. intelligence was able to identify the telephone number of the effluent. Then use "amount of human and technical resources," the CIA has finally located the residence of Abbottabad, where lived the outfall, and Bin Laden.

TERRORISM: The U.S. squad had prepared to kill Osama bin Laden

REUTERS - The U.S. special forces involved in the attack against the residence where Osama bin Laden was hiding were prepared to kill the leader of Al Qaeda, officials said Monday U.S. national security.

"It was an operation to kill. If he released the white flag to surrender, he was captured alive," said one official.But during the preparation of
the operation, the working hypothesis was that bin Laden and fought, what actually happened.

The Islamist leader has "participated" in exchange of gunfire between U.S. commandos and the occupants of the fortified residence in which he entrenched himself in Abbottabad, north of Islamabad, the official said.

Other officials said the clash lasted 40 minutes and that the al Qaeda leader had been shot in the head and chest and did not return fire.

Three other men and a woman were killed in the assault of American forces that have no loss in their ranks. A wife of Bin Laden, believed to be dead at first, is in fact injured.The woman killed in the raid was not used as human shields, an official said, correcting earlier statements.

Navy Seals

A senior U.S. administration has confirmed that the soldiers involved in the transaction knew that bin Laden would prefer to die rather than be captured alive.

"The U.S. troops do not seek to kill if there is a way to get a surrender in accordance with military rules of engagement.That said, I think the idea was widely shared that it would end with a death, "the official said.

The operation involved 15 members of special forces, mostly U.S. Navy Seals (elite unit of the Navy), who were based in Afghanistan, said an official familiar with the details of the attack.

Specialists in forensic medicine have also participated in the raid to recover evidence to prove the identity of bin Laden and hunt down information which other leaders of Al Qaeda or to foil the conspiracies being prepared.

According to the National Journal, U.S. authorities had used the information collected on the complex of Abbottabad to build a replica and conduct training sessions in early April.

In the hours that followed the death of Osama bin Laden by President Barack Obama, the commandos have surrounded the remains of Bin Laden at sea

This measure was taken so that the body of the leader of Al Qaeda does not become the object of a cult and it does not appear as a martyr for future activists.

The trail of a "mail"

The crucial information that helped track down bin Laden was provided during interrogations of activists detained by U.S. troops after the attacks of Sept. 11.

Some activists, many of which are held in military prison at Guantanamo, have informed U.S. intelligence on the existence of an "e" close to the Islamist leader.

Initially, U.S. officials did not know the names and activities of this messenger. His identity was discovered four years ago. Two years ago, another reliable information was obtained about the fact that this letter and his brother operated near Islamabad.

In August 2010, the United States end up unable to locate a residence in Abbottabad in which live two brothers, their families and a third larger family.

The residence is at the end of an unpaved road, not far from a military academy in Pakistan.Some residents are retired Pakistani officers.

Using photographs provided by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) from spy satellites and aircraft as well as plays the NSA, the CIA has concluded that the residence was equipped with safety means unusual. It also appeared that its occupants were taking precautions also unusual.

In early 2011, the CIA became convinced that a target "important" was in the residence of Abbottabad and the probability was high whether bin Laden. The CIA, however, has never had the "absolute certainty" that the leader of Al Qaeda was actually in residence, said an official.

SYRIA: The Council for Human Rights convened at the request of Washington

The Commission on Human Rights UN meets on Friday for a special session on Syria at the request of the United States who want a resolution on violence committed during the repression is adopted.

This special meeting of the 47 member states of the Geneva-based organization was convened on Wednesday by the United States.Fifteen countries have signed the application session, including France, Britain, Spain, Japan, Poland, Switzerland, Mexico, Zambia and Senegal.

This session comes as the Security Council failed Wednesday to agree on a statement condemning the repression in Syria and that representatives of 27 countries of the European Union (EU) are to meet Friday Brussels to discuss possible sanctions against Damascus.

The Council meeting should start at 11:00 (0900).

"We expect members of the Council of Human Rights they call the government of Syria to fulfill its responsibility to protect its people and stop these attacks," noted the U.S. ambassador to the Council, Eileen Donahoe.

"The international community has been shocked by the hundreds of civilians killed in peaceful political demonstrations last week," she added.

The crackdown on protests against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria killed at least 107 dead between Friday and Sunday, as the High Commission of the United Nations for Human Rights, which requested the initiation of an investigation into these events.

The UN media release a first draft resolution prepared by the countries that have requested the holding of the session, asking "urgent dispatch of an independent commission of inquiry and internationally to investigate alleged human rights violations rights in Syria. "

The Commission on Human Rights meets in special sessions rarely but they generally lead to the adoption of a joint resolution, as on February 25 concerning Libya.

For NGOs, this attention on Syria could jeopardize the recent nomination to the Council of Syrian human rights.

In early March, Damascus has in fact formally launched his candidacy for one of the available seats in the Council of Human Rights, based in Geneva and consists of 47 members.

IMMIGRATION: The Tunisian migrants in the heart of a summit between France and Italy

AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy met Tuesday in Rome, the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to try to ease tensions arising between France and Italy on the issue of immigrants from Tunisia, Libya and the acquisition of French in the Peninsula.

Immigration and Review of the Treaty of Schengen free movement will be the most sensitive points of the summit, taking place in the bucolic setting of the Villa Madama, sixteenth century mansion surrounded by gardens on the banks of the Tiber.

France "does not suspend Schengen" but "review the safeguard clauses in special circumstances," he assured Henry Guaino, special adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy.

Italy supports a kind of "technical control" to determine how the treaty was adapted to current realities, "said chief diplomat Italian Franco Frattini

On 17 April, Paris had raised the ire of Rome in suspending the movement of trains from the Italian town of Ventimiglia to France, saying that a train with onboard demonstrators wanting accompany Tunisian immigrants posed a risk to public .

France was upset by Italy, which has decided to grant residence permits of six months to more than 20,000 Tunisians arrived on its shores since January so they can join "friends and family" in France and elsewhere in Europe.

Other friction: Libya, where the peak position of France upset Italy, the former colonial power which it has significant economic interests.

Again, following a winded departure from Italy, which has been reluctant to release his ally Muammar Gaddafi, the positions converge: both countries have officially recognized the Libyan rebellion and sent military advisers on the spot.

Finally, MM.Sarkozy and Berlusconi should address the "problem" of the thirst for acquisition of French groups in the peninsula: LVMH and Bulgari grabbed the dairy group Lactalis is party to storm the local giant Parmalat.

All these topics should be addressed during this summit-flash, which begins at 0900 GMT and will result in a joint press conference expected around 1030 GMT.

TECHNOLOGY: Samsung cons-attack and in turn drags Apple to court for plagiarism

Reuters - Samsung Electronics has filed several complaints against Apple accusing it of plagiarism in the design of the iPhone and iPad, making shot after shot for a similar procedure against him by the firm at the apple.

The California group was asked last week the opening of proceedings against its South Korean rival, whom he accuses of having "slavishly" copy successful models in its range of phones and tablets Galaxy.

In a statement, Samsung said Friday that the iPhone and iPad violating 10 patents owned by itself and requires its U.S. rival put an end to plagiarism and he compensates.

"Samsung strongly responds to the legal proceedings launched against us to protect our intellectual property and ensure the continuation of our innovation and our growth in the area of ​​mobile communication," can you read.

This escalation could jeopardize relations between the two companies, providing Samsung Group Cupertino, fleas and other LCDs.

Last year, Apple was the second South Korean client behind Japan's Sony with about 6,200 billion won of sales (3.9 billion euros), and looks set to become its first customer this year.

Ten complaints were filed before the justices South Korean, Japanese and German concerns a system for reducing energy consumption during data transmission or 3G technology to reduce errors during the transmission.

FRANCE: "Immersion, Piss Christ," a controversial art photography, vandalized in Avignon

A photographic work by American artist Andres Serrano depicting a crucifix dipped in urine, and has provoked strong protests from Catholic movements who considered blasphemous, was vandalized Sunday in the premises of the contemporary art collection Yvon Lambert in Avignon (Vaucluse).

The work entitled "Piss Christ Immersion", and another snapshot of the New York artist whose subtitle, "Sister Miriam Jane" were destroyed Sunday around 11:30, shortly after the museum opened, two visitors equipped with a "hammer and a blunt object, such ice pick or screwdriver.

Three guards who tried to intervene were threatened and beaten, while the assailants managed to escape the museum, said the leadership of the collection that has filed a complaint and said that the museum would reopen its doors on Tuesday morning with "works shown as they are destroyed."

Sunday evening, the Minister of Culture Frederic Mitterrand condemned an "attack on a fundamental principle, the presentation of these works squarely within the creative freedom and expression which is part of the law," while recognizing that "one of the two works could offend some audiences.

Conducted in 1987 by Serrano said to be a Christian, "Disposal Piss Christ" display as part of an exhibition entitled "I believe in miracles", celebrating ten years of the collection was the subject since early April of strong protests from many Catholic movements, especially fundamentalists.

The Civitas Institute, which presents on its website as "a work of regaining political and social re-Christianize France to" activist "establishment of the Social Kingship of Christ over the nations and peoples", launched a petition against the work.

The series editor, Eric Mézil, had already reported several hundred phone calls and emails "offensive" after the launch of the petition. Saturday, a demonstration involving some "800 ultra-conservatives and fundamentalist youth," according to management, was forced to close the museum.

The bishop of Avignon, Archbishop Jean-Pierre Cattenoz, had also demanded the withdrawal of the work, denouncing a cliche "abhorrent" that "violates the image of Christ on the cross, the heart of our Christian faith."

"I am persecuted by telephone. I received 30,000 emails, I am not exaggerating, 30,000 emails fundamentalists (...) This ignorance, such intolerance.It's the Middle Ages who returns to big-step ", has outraged Yvon Lambert, who lent his collection for twenty years to a future donation to the state, with deposit works in Avignon.

The Observatory for the freedom of creation, from the League of Human Rights, denounced in a statement "these acts of vandalism" and reiterated: "That the public to judge the works, not self-appointed censors" .

The work, which was the subject of controversy in the U.S. media "extremists" at the time of its creation, had elicited no response in a retrospective in 2007 at Avignon, at no more than National Campaign to display the exhibition, which included the work.

Boasting approximately 350 works, the collection is allowed Lambert in the eighteenth century mansion owned by the city of Avignon. The municipality, region and state are subsidizing the arts center. The exhibition "I believe in miracles" opened Dec. 12, 2010 must be completed on May 8

BURKINA FASO: Mutiny on the presidential guard of disorder in Ouagadougou

AFP - The head of state of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaore left Ouagadougou facing a mutiny by soldiers of his presidential guard to his hometown, located about thirty miles north of the capital, officials said Friday, a military source .

President Compaore, in power for 24 years, who usually resides at the presidential palace in Ouagadougou which is a party mutiny, has left on the night of Thursday to Friday to visit Ziniaré, the city where he was born, the source said.

Dozens of soldiers from the presidential regiment divided two barracks in the capital, including one inside the walls of the residence of Mr.Compaore, mutinied on Thursday evening to protest against non-payment of premium housing that was promised to them.

They took to the streets, firing into the air, looted many shops in the city center and torched the home of General Diendiéré Gilbert, Chief of Staff of Blaise Compaore as well as that of two other officers , said a journalist from AFP.

Several people, civilians, have been "slightly injured" when looting the home of one of those officers, according to a military source.

The mutiny was then extended to three other barracks in Ouagadougou.

"Discussions were held with the rebels and they are trying to lay down their weapons," a military source said an AFP reporter who did hear gunfire in the morning near the three barracks.

Late March, soldiers angry protesting against the conviction and imprisonment of some of their comrades charged in sex cases and rape, had seized weapons in war garrisons in several cities, including Ouagadougou.

They had already fired in the air in the streets, looted shops and released some of their imprisoned comrades.

After these incidents, President Compaore had met all the components of its army, privates to generals, and announced the "end of the crisis" after these meetings.

RENAULT RE: "Patrick Pelata was the only one to head to Carlos Ghosn"

It is no longer CEO of Renault. Patrick Pelata, emblematic of the French automotive group, presented Monday his resignation to the board's special company, which accepted it. The right arm of Carlos Ghosn is the most senior of the company to make false charges of espionage affair that rocked the automaker

This former home of the Renault was the current office of the company. So much so that some, like Peter Alanche, a former employee and author of "Renault, side yard" (ed.Workshop, 2007) believes that his departure is bad news for the group.

FRANCE 24: The resignation of Patrick Pelata the post of director general is it bad news for Renault?
Alanche Peter: Yes, Patrick Pelata had managed to make the connection between the base of the group and management. Near Carlos Ghosn - they were classmates at the Polytechnic, he is considered one of the principal architects of social dialogue at Renault. He was also responsible for all operational and has personally overseen the implementation of the strategy of the electric car of Renault.

His resignation also marks the withdrawal of a leading critic of the social tradition of the group.Patrick Pelata has worked 30 years for Renault. He went through all services prior to accessing the highest offices. Do not forget that he is the author of a thesis on the social dimension of any industrial strategy and has been a time fellow traveler of the French Communist Party.

F24: How was he regarded by employees of Renault?
Alanche stone: He was clearly regarded as one of the leaders most open to dialogue.The company is not just for him at an industrial strategy. Instead, Patrick Pelata has always highlighted the social dimension in the company, which was for years the specificity of Renault.

Most importantly, everyone agrees that Patrick Pelata was the only dare stand up to Carlos Ghosn. He was never afraid to contradict the boss and discuss his choices. However, we should not kid ourselves, the two men had the same strategic vision for the group.

F24: Under these conditions, why the board did accept the resignation of Patrick Pelata?
Pierre Alanche: Carlos Ghosn did not want to part with his No. 2. He had already once refused his resignation in early March.He is convinced that Patrick Pelata committed no errors. So here it is not a power struggle. But public opinion and the state wanted to cut off heads, and only Patrick Pelata has sufficient stature to play the sacrificial victims. The other option was to sacrifice Carlos Ghosn as CEO but is the glue of the entire Renault-Nissan, it was impossible to drop it.

Patrick Pelata still remains within the group, which is still a strong signal. Now it is still necessary to know what role he will be awarded?

SYRIA: Authorities in the blood repress a demonstration in Deraa

Thirteen demonstrators were killed and dozens wounded Friday by gunfire from security forces in Dera (100 km south of Damascus), where several thousand people demonstrated after prayers, according to revised figures provided to AFP by activist for human rights.

A previous report from the same source reported the deaths of seven people in this city, the epicenter of protest against the regime.

"Members of the security services in civilian clothes opened fire to disperse the protesters after the prayer," said the activist reached by telephone.

According to him, thirteen identified protesters were killed and dozens wounded by fire from security forces.

The demonstrators then set fire to a seat of the ruling party, the Baath in the city.

The official media have referred two deaths, a member of the security services and an ambulance, and dozens of wounded civilians, police and security services hit by gunfire attributed to "armed men opened fire on the crowd ".

Syria was the scene since mid-March of a protest movement unprecedented regime of Bashar al-Assad.

JAPAN: TEPCO continues to reject radioactive water at sea and plunges to the Exchange

AFP - Shares of TEPCO, which owns the plant at risk of Fukushima, plunged to a historic high at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday because of the spill in the Pacific Ocean thousands of tons of radioactive water from the reactors Nuclear.

After 25 days of an uphill struggle to avoid an uncontrolled fusion fuels in rugged installations, the danger of a major disaster was still not excluded and environmental pollution worsened.

The title of TEPCO Electric Power (TEPCO) has unscrewed from 11.53% in mid-session, investors are increasingly doubting the ability of the utility to pay huge compensations that will be claimed.

The action dropped 51 yen Tuesday mid-day to fall to 391 yen.It even fell in the early morning to 376 yen, or prices lower than the lowest end of session for nearly 60 years.

"The compensation payments are likely to explode with the release of radioactive water," said a broker.

The course of TEPCO has loosened over 80% since March 11 closing in, weighed down by the cascade of explosions and leaks of contaminating stored in Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1).

The group also decided Tuesday to postpone to a date not announced its financial results for the fiscal year from April 2010 to 31 March, because the consequences of the disaster triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in the northeastern Japan, told AFP spokesman.

Opposite the central operations of ocean dumping of 11,500 tonnes of radioactive water were continuing on Tuesday after starting the day at 19:00 (1000 GMT).

Expected to last for five days, these discharges 250 km north of the metropolitan Tokyo and its 35 million people, relate to a slightly contaminated water, assured Tepco.

The evacuation of this water in the ocean where the radionuclides are expected to concentrate, according to TEPCO, is imperative in order to free up storage tanks intended to be filled with highly radioactive water.

The fishing was prohibited within a radius of 20 km around the plant, corresponding to the exclusion zone on earth.

All power supply system of six reactors in Fukushima broke down March 11, stopping the pumps for cooling the nuclear fuel that was allowed to warm dangerously.

Technicians are now scrambling to repair this equipment is locked in a vicious circle: it is vital to cool the reactor fuel and spent fuel stored in tanks, but they use more water, more radioactive groundwater rise.And unless they inject water, the temperature increases in the reactors.

The "wash out" caused massive flooding in buildings and underground service tunnels, which are invaded by thousands of tons of radioactive water, which retards the progress of work to rehabilitate the electricity network.

Even if disposal of polluted water seems to have eclipsed the cooling, it was continuing Tuesday, thanks to huge concrete pumps sent from abroad.

Technicians also continued to try to plug a leak of highly contaminated water that has accumulated in a pit near the shore technical and empties directly into the ocean.

They try to understand where the water infiltrates, presumably coming from the reactor building 2.

"TEPCO will conduct drilling to follow the flow of water and inject water glass (sodium silicate)" to close access to the tank cracked, said Tuesday Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman of the Security Agency Japanese nuclear.

More than three weeks after the tragedy, the results are still provisional police amounted to 12,321 confirmed dead and 15,347 missing.

JAPAN: Discovery of a crack in the No. 2 reactor in Fukushima

Technicians working tirelessly to rugged central Fukushima discovered Saturday that the highly radioactive water flowed into the ocean from a well cracked, announced the company operating the site.

"Today around 9:30 (0030 GMT), workers have discovered that water from a radioactivity of 1.000 mSv per hour had accumulated in a well" near the sea, an official said Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO).

"They realized that the well was a crack of 20 cm and radioactive water escaped into the sea," he added.

TEPCO intends to plug the crack and perform analysis of the level of radioactivity in seawater, by taking samples near the plant and three locations located 15 kilometers from the site, said spokesperson.

TEPCO announced Thursday that measured in seawater collected at 300 meters south of the central rate of radioiodine 4,385 times the legal limit.

The Japanese authorities make every effort to avert the risk of nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima (northeastern Japan), while continuing radioactive releases that are sustainable and pollution fears of widespread environmental.

To keep the oil at a temperature below the melting point, thousands of tons of water were dumped on the reactors. Consequence of this "wash", huge quantities of contaminated water seeped into the crawl underground and runoff into the Pacific Ocean nearby.

This accumulation of highly radioactive water in the site is very problematic in terms of storage and treatment and severely hindering operations to boost the cooling circuits of the plant.

The situation in Fukushima "remains very serious," said Friday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

MEDIA: The wall of the New York Times paid no fee if it

The information site most visited in the world, the New York Times, came on Monday in a new era. That of charges. A bet that it hopes the famous American newspaper, should not cause him to lose the nearly 30 million unique visitors per month used to receiving their daily dose of information without spending a penny. To achieve this, the paper has introduced a subscription system considered complicated and very porous by more than one user.

The purpose of the New York Times is not to make that pay the most "addicted" to his readers. "It is above all an investment in the future," wrote on the site on Monday, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the newspaper's editor.For now, the reader does not pay until the 21st article retrieved within a month. In addition, users can continue reading without counting it comes from an article on Twitter, Facebook or blog. He even entitled to five free visits per day from search engines. Besides those who subscribe to the paper version also free access to the site.

Proliferation of avoidance strategies

To be faced with "wall" of the fee must be a major consumer of the site. And the New York Times is not kind to those he calls "the most loyal readers."They will pay $ 15 per month for access to the site and the application on smartphone, $ 25 for the site and the iPad version and $ 35 for all. The Times does not ask for her hand as $ 13 per month for the gathering offers all its services.

Yet, despite the flexibility of the model for "casual readers," the transition to fee has not been smooth. Soon, workarounds Wall paying emerged.

The first to have found the technical gap in the wall is a Canadian computer - the subscription system was tested one week in Canada before its worldwide deployment. He has published last week, a small code to never have to pay.Another user has created a Twitter feed that publishes links to all articles of daily life, allowing them free access. Finally, two former Google employees have set up "New York Times for a nickel" [The New York Times for anything, Ed], a site that lets you view the newspaper without paying.

NYT vs. Murdoch

Why then have paid $ 40 million charge as a wall pierced? The New York Times has asked two former Twitter and Google to stop their initiatives, but stating that he would not complain in court."There will always be some clever to circumvent the system," concedes, a philosopher, a spokesman for the newspaper.

A laissez-faire seems surprising at first, but if we look at the fate of the other big wall project fee, that of the Murdoch empire is finally in line with the era of time. In June 2010, the media tycoon Robert Murdoch decided to erect a model paying much more binding on all its publications. For the British Times, one of its flagship, while paying the passage was rare: 21 million monthly visitors it passed in late 2010, to 2.5 million. A destiny that the New York Times that claims to be the reference on the Net does not surely know.

EURO ZONE: Portugal he needs 75 billion euros?

The leader of the finance ministers of the euro area, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, said on Thursday on FRANCE 24 that Portugal would need 75 billion euros, probably over several years. Earlier he had told a German radio that he did not expect a request for help from Lisbon. Some economists put the figure at 26 billion euros. What are the possible scenarios? What number remember?

Portugal can he get away without asking for financial assistance to the EU and the IMF? This is what Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested initially."I do not think Portugal will apply for financial assistance," he told German radio Deutschlandfunk Thursday.

"Portugal has certainly put in place measures to reassure markets, but there is no guarantee that this will suffice," says FRANCE 24's Christophe Blot, a specialist in the European economy at OFCE-Sciences Po Most economists even think that the country will turn to the EU until June when some of its maturing debt.

In fact, the situation is reminiscent of Ireland. Until the last moment, the European authorities had suggested that Dublin could go it alone."Juncker made a statement of intent, if he had discussed an appeal for EU support, this would have been increasing speculation in the markets," says Christophe Blot.

What are the debts that Portugal should pay? The first major event occurs in June. Lisbon would have to find more than 9 billion euros to pay off a series of loans a decade ago. For the full year, the amount of debt owed is about 26 billion euros.

Lisbon may then become simply asking for 26 billion euros."It is unthinkable for a loan, whose amount would be recalculated as needed, is implemented with a first tranche of 26 billion," said Christophe Blot.

Hence out of 75 billion euros? When the EU assesses the amount of aid, she not only takes into account debts. It also looks at the deficit level to estimate the financing requirements that a country will need to implement measures of fiscal consolidation.

Also - this is what happened to Greece, which received 100 billion euros over 3 years - given the envelope does not necessarily mean that the current year."If we compare Portugal to Greece and Ireland and we observe the country's economic problems, 75 billion euros seem a reasonable estimate," concluded Christophe Blot.

If such support is decided, Europe and the IMF have spent on everything from Greece, 255 billion.

JAPAN: "It is quite possible that the yen continues to rise"

France24.com: How do you explain the surge in the yen against the dollar?

Danielle Schweissgut: The markets anticipate that the Japanese will repatriate some of their money. These are mainly insurance companies, which will have enormous needs. These companies have placed their currencies around the world and will have to convert them into yen, which will increase demand and thus raising the price of local currency.

F24: The government has denounced speculation ...

DS: Yes, because for now, insurance companies are still assessing the cost of this disaster and have not begun to repatriate that money.So these are speculators who plan what will happen to buy yen in dollars, therefore raising the price of the Japanese currency against the greenback.

F24: Can we expect the yen continues to rise?

DS: That's entirely possible. When everyone has an update on the money to pay insurers and organize the reconstruction, the actual movement of money will start, thus putting further pressure on the yen.

F24: Who suffers the most from this surge in the yen?

DS: This is in theory a bad news for Japanese companies whose business is export oriented. The yen is more expensive, more products would be difficult to sell abroad.In practice, Japanese companies should get out. Indeed, the soaring yen is not new: the course had already appreciated the yen against the dollar last year, and a similar phenomenon occurred after the Kobe earthquake in 1995. These firms have adapted by investing heavily in innovation and positioning themselves in niche markets - where there is little competition, which reduces the importance of the yen.

F24: What can the authorities to counter this surge?

DS: The levers are now in the hands of the Central Bank, which can handle them in two ways. First, it can flood the market by issuing yen, which should lower the value of money.That's what she started, but for now, this has not prevented speculation. The other lever, the central bank could now operate, is to directly intervene by selling yen and buying, as any player in the market in order to counterbalance the speculation.

BAHRAIN: The security forces violently dislodge protesters from the center of Manama

REUTERS - Opponents Bahraini reached Sunday to block access to the Financial Harbour business district of Manama, despite police intervention
of the order who used tear gas and water cannons.

The fighting has been unprecedented violence since February 17, when seven people were killed by the army.

Young protesters set up barricades across the avenue leading to the business district, having overwhelmed riot police who were trying to contain near the Place de la Perle, the epicenter of the dispute.

"The Interior Ministry is currently conducting operations to re-open the avenue of King Faisal and advised the demonstrators to return to the Place de la Perle for their own
security ", officials say in a statement.

Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, is restless since last month by an unprecedented protest movement since the 1990s, inspired by the popular uprisings of Tunisia and Egypt.

The Youth Movement of 14-Feb, whose militants are encamped on the Place de la Perle, announced Saturday his intention to form a human chain to block access to the Financial Harbour.

PAKISTAN: At least 24 dead in suicide bombing at a funeral

AFP - At least 24 people were killed Wednesday by a suicide bomber who detonated his bomb at a funeral in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, a country gripped by a deadly wave of bombings Taliban allied with al-Qaeda , police said.

The tragedy occurred at the funeral of the wife of a man fighting in an anti-Taliban militia, in the hamlet of Adeza, on the outskirts of large metropolitan France's northwest, located at the gateway areas tribal stronghold of Islamist insurgents.

"The bomber came on foot, his goal was the anti-Taliban militia members" who attended the funeral of the wife of one of them, told AFP by telephone Ijaz Mohammad Khan, an officer Peshawar police.

"At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 were injured," he added.

This new attack comes a day after a devastating attack at a service station near the offices of the powerful intelligence services in Faisalabad in central Pakistan, which killed 25 people and injured over 150.

Pakistan is experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks (over 450), mostly perpetrated by Taliban allied with al-Qaeda that killed more than 4,100 dead in three and a half years.

These insurgent groups and fundamentalist allies have ruled in the summer of 2007 and in unison with Osama bin Laden himself, jihad Pakistani government for its support for Washington since late 2001.

The attacks are mostly security forces - army, police, intelligence services - but also increasingly on civilian targets.

TUNISIA - Feature: The flight of migrant workers continues in Egyptian port of Zarzis

The Egyptian military frigate "The Nasser" is the third of its kind to land on for a day in the Tunisian port of Zarzis, 70 km from Ras Jdir, a border post where, for 13 days, thousands of workers to leave Libya to safety.

After landing 25 tons of food, the Egyptian sailors of "Nasser" took over 400 of their countrymen, which will require two to three days at sea to return to their homeland. The passengers, waiting for the departure, look bleak for those who do not know what the future holds. "I returned poorer than when I'm gone", says Mohammed al-Abd al-Sayeh Rabou, province of Kana.

The men carrying bundles or canteens, tell their flight from the hostility of the Libyans.In the aftermath of the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, the Egyptians living in Libya have been suspected of being agitators and even echoing the discourse of the "Guide" Muammar Qaddafi, 24 February, "to have distributed drugs to resistant" as reported by Ahmed Hazou, from Al-Mansoura.

The military checkpoints, thirty of the 250 kilometers between the Libyan capital Tripoli, the border crossing, have marked their flight.

Each dam was a pretext for a body search, which it was impossible to escape.Ahmed Hazou had to get rid of its Euro 2000, three telephones and tools for ceramics to avoid being beaten.

Through the words of these men, Libya, and its petrodollars, no longer appears as the El Dorado it has long been the eyes of these young men, driven from their countries by unemployment and population pressure.Neither Mohammed or Ahmed never return, they swear.

Egyptian diplomats present at the port of Zarzis on Saturday, felt that the million and a half Egyptian workers living in Libya, some 500 000 have already fui.12 000 are still capable of crossing the border in coming days if the situation Libya deteriorated.

In addition to 400 evacuees with "The Nasser, 600 others waited to be airlifted to rejoin their families. All Egyptian refugee camp of Shusha, situated at the border will then have left Tunisia.

FRANCE: Prison sought against Jean-Marie Le Pen for the sign "No to Islam '

A sentence of imprisonment was necessary Tuesday before the correctional court of Nanterre against Jean-Marie Le Pen for having, by campaign posters, incited hatred against the Muslim population and people of Algerian origin.

The prosecutor, Yvon Tallec, has left it to the fourteenth chamber, captured on direct quotation by the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), determine the quantum of sentence and the amount a fine.

The poster in question was a fully veiled woman beside a map of France covered the Algerian flag on which rose the minarets shaped missiles, with the title "No to Islam".

In the last regional elections in February 2010, the movement "Youth" National Front had released the posters in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur and on its website and then across France.

At the time, the case had sparked protests from Algeria.

In early December, the Paris court had exonerated Jean-Marie Le Pen, prosecuted for the same actions by the League against Racism and Antisemitism and SOS Racisme, without addressing the merits of the case, dismissing the two associations pure questions of form.

At the hearing in Nanterre, MRAP's lawyer, Khaled Lasbeur, produced a video of a speech on 7 March 2010 in which Jean-Marie Le Pen "claims authorship of the poster, thereby constituting the offense of incitement to hatred, "the prosecutor.

For his part, counsel for the National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Mr. Wallerand de Saint Just, said that the poster in question said: "No to Islam" and not Islam.

On the speech of Jean-Marie Le Pen, his lawyer conceded that his client justified the poster, but it does not prove that it "was the author, editor of internet sites who posted the sign, printer or Gluer these posters. "

"This is a baseless accusation that Mr. Le Pen.A politician has the right to say that Islamism is a danger for France! "Said Mr. Wallerand St. Just.

The decision was taken under advisement on April 5.

COTE D'IVOIRE: Violence earn Yamoussoukro, political capital

AFP - Former Ivorian rebels allied with Alassane Ouattara, who hold the north, took Friday two localities in the west under the control of outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo, while violence has won Yamoussoukro, political capital, Abidjan after .

Torn from the November 28 presidential between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, head of state recognized by the international community, the country descends from a week in the violence.

In the aftermath of fighting in Zouan-Hounien between elements of the former rebel New Forces (FN) and Defence Forces and Security (FDS) loyal to Mr.Gbagbo, the FN held Friday, "the whole city," one resident testified.

An official of the SDS in the area confirmed the capture of this town near the Liberian border by the opponent, but spoke of a "tactical withdrawal".

All units pre-positioned on the SDS old front line from west to east cutting the country since the clashes of 2002-2003 are "on alert", he added.

Going a little further south, the FN has also taken on Friday the small village of Bin Houyé, residents said.Farther south, in the same area, fighting raged throughout the day at the entrance to the great city of Toulépleu, witnesses said.

Fighting in the west but also in Abidjan have pushed 24 hours some 5,000 Ivorians flee to Liberia, said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. This movement of population brings to nearly 45,000 the number of refugees in Liberia.

In Yamoussoukro (center), and political capital city symbol, the exchange of gunfire during the night left several people injured in the area of pro-Ouattara Dioulabougou, residents said, referring to shootings and firing "at the heavy weapons. "

In Abidjan, the neighborhood of Abobo (north), in favor of Mr.Ouattara, increasingly resembled a war zone after three days of fighting, including rocket launchers, between SDS and insurgents.

"There are bodies everywhere," said one pensioner, terrified.

Tanks were deployed but residents reported a lull on Friday.

Thousands of families fled terrorized however Abobo.Bundles on the head or shoulder, people were walking along a highway along the city zoo in the south.

"We can not stay there! Children cry," he told a mother.

The Gbagbo government has accused the "rebels" FN have "infiltrated" Abobo and other popular areas, with the complicity of the UN mission in the country, UNOCI.

Charles Ble Goude, minister and leader of the "patriotic" pro-Gbagbo, has called on young people to organize themselves into "self-defense committees" to prevent "by all means" to move UNOCI.

"Today it is not the rebels that we are at war, that UNOCI which we did," he said before about 3.000 people gathered in the district of Yopougon (west), the bastion of his champion.

The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon "strongly deplored" the threats and demanded their "immediate cessation".

At Yopougon also clashes erupted in the morning. Young pro-Ouattara burned a bus and "patriots" have responded by burning several mini-cars ("gbakas"), a mode of transportation deemed controlled by the opposing camp, according to several witnesses. Clashes continued throughout the day.

MIDDLE EAST: The two Iranian warships entered the Suez Canal

AFP - Two Iranian warships entered the Suez Canal on Tuesday at dawn to spend in the Mediterranean, a first since 1979, described as "provocation" by Israel, officials said official sources.

"The two ships (Iranian war) have crossed the canal (Suez) to Tuesday at 5:45 local time (3:35 GMT)" to enter the Mediterranean, told AFP a source of the Canal Authority.

In general, a ship needs 12 to 14 hours to cross the channel.

An official with the Supreme Council of the Egyptian army said Monday night at the private TV Dream, that permission had been given under the Constantinople Convention of 1888 and built which allows the passage of warships through the Suez Canal .

Egypt has allowed both ships to transit the Suez Canal after sending conflicting signals, saying at first did not receive a request for passage and then suggesting that the buildings were indeed blocked.

According to the official news agency Fars, the buildings in question are the Kharg, a supply ship and support of 33,000 tons, and Alvand, a patrol frigate, both of British construction.

The Kharg has a crew of 250 people and can accommodate up to three helicopters.The Alvand is armed with torpedoes and antiship missiles.

Israel, which considers Iran a major threat to its security, denounced on Wednesday a "provocation" by the voice of its Minister of Foreign Affairs, the hawk right nationalist Avigdor Lieberman.

According to Iranian diplomatic sources, the two buildings should visit "routine" of a few days in Syria.

TUNISIA: Hospitalized in Jeddah, the former deposed President Ben Ali would be "in a coma"

AFP - Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 74, who fled his country on 14 January under pressure from the street after 23 years of unchallenged power, is "comatose" for two days in a Jeddah hospital following a stroke, said Thursday AFP close to his family.

"He went into a coma two days ago. He is in hospital in Jeddah," said this source contacted by telephone by the AFP in a Gulf country. "He had a stroke (cerebrovascular accident), it is in a serious condition," she added.

"If he dies, a dictator is gone and I say good riddance. You turn the page, we have other things to do in this country," Adel responded, teacher of 50 years."If her death is confirmed, however, that I say this without divine punishment fell immediately," said a student of 25 years, Amin, interviewed in downtown Tunis. "I object to his burial in our country," he added.

Asked about the hospitalization of Ben Ali, spokesman for the Tunisian government, Taieb Baccouch, has not been able to confirm.He said that "his health will be discussed on Friday by the Cabinet."

The ousted president, who suffers from prostate cancer, and his family fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14 after nearly a month of unprecedented popular protest quelled in blood with dozens of deaths.

The Tunisian newspaper The Daily had published an article Thursday titled "Ben Ali suffered a stroke," citing the blog of a French journalist Nicolas Beau, expert from Tunisia, where he stated that Ben Ali is in serious condition and that for safety reasons, it "would be treated under the identity of a Saudi Emir.

Touafik Ben Brik, the Tunisian dissident journalist who has experienced the jails of the regime of Ben Ali for his critical articles, told AFP he felt "almost in mourning:" I could not forget it is still in us, it's part of our past and it will live long in us. "

One of the most famous Tunisian opposition, the Communist Hama Hammami, said that "it is the fate of all dictators in the world."

Tunisian lawyer for Yadh Ben Achour, president of the national commission of political, hospitalization Ben Ali proves that "there is justice on earth."

Ben Ali has ruled the country by building his regime on a balance between iron fist based on a policy now disgraced and prosperity, which eventually failed, causing his fall.

Father of six children, three from his first marriage, it appeared the last time often accompanied by his wife Leila Trabelsi.According to observers, he seemed fragile and under the influence of her husband's family accused of grip on the economy.

The revolt against the government began in Sidi Bouzid (West Central) after the suicide in mid-December Bouazizi Mohammed, an unemployed youth of 26 years unable to perform as a peddler by police and became the symbol of the frustration of young people in this country where unemployment is nearly 30% of young people.

The riots had gradually taken a political turn, had spread throughout the country and had won the capital affecting the bourgeois elites.The army played a vital role by refusing to fire on demonstrators at the height of the controversy.

Since his departure, the assets of the deposed president were frozen in several countries, many family members were arrested and international arrest warrant was issued against him and his wife.

Since then, a transitional government led by former Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi and comprising members of the former opposition, promised to devote pluralism and democracy. The first free elections - presidential and legislative-are planned in 6 months.An amnesty law is foreseen and the legalization of former opposition parties banned.

The new authorities, who continue to face social instability and a strong political protest, fear a "conspiracy" of the former regime loyalists.

EGYPT: Hundreds of protesters are resisting Tahrir Square

The Egyptian army began Sunday to dismantle the institutions of the regime of Hosni Mubarak after the ousted president has ceded power Friday night. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has announced the dissolution of the People's Assembly and Shura Council, both Houses of Parliament, and the suspension of the Constitution.Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the Council, also said he would preside over the destiny of the country to organize the next parliamentary and presidential elections, that Mubarak had planned before his departure in six months.

Decisions that consider Cairenes whole "positive," according to Melissa Bell, special correspondent for FRANCE 24 in Egypt. But the political transition will be difficult.

Thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square on Sunday night (instead of "Liberation", in French), Cairo, refused to leave the scene to "maintain pressure on the new government," said Melissa Bell."They told us to collect our belongings quickly or they would fall over," said Sunday, a protester at the microphone from our correspondents. "The army wants to suppress the revolution for failing to meet the demands of the demonstrators, they make us ... just promises," confided another. Some scuffles broke out elsewhere between soldiers and dozens of demonstrators. But all the protesters were asked to leave the square, the symbol of revolution, on Monday under the threat of the army that threatens to arrest them if they insist on staying.

Traffic has resumed for the first time in twenty days, around Tahrir Square. The soldiers removed all their dams, but maintain a significant presence.A return to normal as the organizers wanted the protest movement, even if they continue to call for holding events every Friday.Nagib Ahmed, spokesman of the "supervisory board of the revolution", explained on Sunday afternoon, the protesters "will come each week to celebrate our victory but also to ask the highest military authorities to respect its commitments."

Egypt in the post-Mubarak faithful to its international obligations

According to the Special Envoy of FRANCE 24, "the population as a whole, but trusted the military remains vigilant, because the army has still not responded to two of their demands: the release of political prisoners and the lifting of state of emergency."

For his part, Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik, said his first priority was to "restore security and facilitate the daily lives of the people." He also assured that the former president was still in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, bordering the Red Sea, denying rumors of a move abroad.

Sunday always, nearly 1 000 police officers have also filed past the Interior Ministry to demand higher wages, better working conditions and the sentencing to death of their former minister, Habib el-Adli, revoked under pressure Street at the end of January.Accused of corruption and despised by much of the population, the police wanted to gather "for their honor." "We are not traitors," have we heard in the processions. They assured that they had received orders to brutally suppress the protests that began on January 25.

Side of international relations, Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said the country remained committed by its international treaties and obligations. A message intended to allay the concerns of the United States and Israel about the future of the peace accords Israeli-Egyptian, who make Cairo a key partner for peace efforts in the region.

Appeal to Florence last chance Break Thursday

Cassez, sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico for kidnapping and maintains his innocence, should be attached to his fate on Thursday, with the review by three judges of the cassation appeal, after five years and two months already spent in locks.

The French had been arrested Dec. 8, 2005 on a road from Cuernavaca (center) in Mexico with his former partner, Israel Vallarta, suspected by police of leading a criminal group, "Los Zodiaco", which would have been its credit a dozen kidnappings.

The next morning at dawn, police had arranged before the Mexican television cameras, a scene of arrest and Break Vallarta on a ranch where three hostages were held.The assembly was falsely presented as a live arrest.

Now aged 36 years, Florence Break has always protested his innocence and said she was unaware of the activities of Vallarta, which is still awaiting trial.

She was sentenced to 96 years in prison in the first instance in April 2008 for four kidnappings, involvement in a criminal conspiracy and weapons possession.This sentence was reduced on appeal to 60 years in prison in March 2009.

For advocates of the young woman, the cassation appeal (amparo) filed in August 2010 suggests that all the charges "built on sand" on "falsified evidence."

At the beginning of the case, the opinion was unanimous Mexican Cassez been hostile to media and the verdict was no appeal against the "evil French".

But since the conviction on appeal, the activities of lawyers and press-depth investigations have cast doubt in circles wider and wider in Mexico.

In November, the French received two notable supporters: that the Catholic Church of Mexico and a former federal Attorney-General, the equivalent of the Minister of Justice.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, convinced of the innocence of Florence Break, was personally involved in defending the young woman with whom he has since maintained regular telephone contacts for almost three years.

The announcement of the conviction on appeal from the French, just days before the visit of French president in Mexico in March 2009 and, three months after the formal refusal of Mexican President Felipe Calderon to consider a transfer to France, had emerged as a snub to France.

Associations of Mexican kidnap victims are most opposed to any leniency towards the French.Wednesday night again, four of them have urged the judiciary and the Mexican government to "not yield to pressure the French government" in the case of Florence Break, on behalf of the fight against impunity.

The Embassy of France in Mexico responded in a statement condemning the "direct pressure on the judicial power" exercised by these organizations on the eve of a trial in cassation.

"Many Mexican institutions and individuals have rallied to denounce what they consider serious irregularities and violations of safeguards that have characterized this case since the initial assembly, which in itself casts doubt on the whole the judicial process, "said the embassy.

HAITI: Former President Aristide is no longer persona non grata in Port-au-Prince

The Haitian government has a diplomatic passport issued Monday for former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, giving him the opportunity to enter the country of which he was ousted by an armed insurrection in 2004, told AFP an official Haiti.

"The passport was issued Monday. All the formalities have been completed," the official said under condition of anonymity.

The passport must be presented to a lawyer for Mr. Aristide, Ira Kurzban. The latter, based in Miami, was unable to confirm this information.

"If they issued a passport, they have not told me," said the lawyer told AFP.Asked about the chances of a quick return of the former president in Port-au-Prince, Mr. Kurzban said: "I think it comes close, but we're not there yet."

The lawyer, who was recently in Port-au-Prince, plans to return to the Haitian capital in the coming days, but he would not say when.

The Haitian government announced last week that he was willing to surrender a passport to the former president if he so requested.

In a statement released mid-January, Mr.Aristide installed in South Africa, explained wanting to return home for medical reasons and also "to help serve my brothers and sisters in Haiti as a private citizen in the field of education."

If his return is confirmed, Mr. Aristide still popular among the poor, would be the second former president to return to Haiti after Jean-Claude Duvalier.The former dictator "Baby Doc" has returned to Port-au-Prince on January 16 after 25 years of exile in France, while the country was facing a crisis consecutive election in the first round of the disputed presidential election on November 28.

The outgoing president, Rene Preval, had originally due to hand this Monday, Feb. 7, but its mandate is extended, pending the second round of presidential elections, scheduled March 20. The consultation will oppose Mirlande Manigat, an intellectual age 70, the singer Michel Martelly, 49.

The Electoral Council has reversed last week's first round results, excluding the race of the candidate Mr.Preval, Jude Celestin.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 57, a former opponent of the Duvalier dictatorship (1957-86) and priest advocate of "liberation theology", was first elected to lead the country in 1990 before being expelled the country eight months later by a military coup.

Revenue at the head of state in October 1994 through a military intervention by the United States, he completed his term in 1996, leaving power to his heir, the current President Rene Preval.

The former slum priest, relieved of his vows by the Vatican for a dispensation to marry, was reelected in November 2000.But he was forced into exile in February 2004 under the threat of armed insurrection coupled with international pressure, including U.S. and France, who accuse it of incompetence.

EGYPT: New mass demonstrations are expected across the country

Further demonstrations are planned Friday in Egypt at the invitation of the protest movement that hopes to make the day of departure of President Hosni Mubarak, after 10 days of protests and unprecedented bloodshed in the country.

Organizers hope to raise as Jan. 28, one million people after the weekly Muslim prayer at the beginning of the afternoon.

According to the journalist Christiane Amanpour of the ABC, the Vice-President of Egypt Omar Suleiman, met during an interview with Mr.Mubarak in Cairo, told him that the army deployed reinforcements would use "never" force against the population.

After dismissing the appeal of the regime "illegitimate" dialogue, brotherhood Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, reviled by the authorities, felt that the calls for negotiations "will not affect the mass rallies planned Friday to bring down the regime ".

The opposition, composed also of secular parties and movements from civil society as the National Coalition for the change that has formed around the Nobel Peace Mohamed ElBaradei, has made the immediate departure of Mr Mubarak's condition to negotiate with the regime.

Mr.Sulaiman said that the request amounted to a "call to chaos" and urged the protesters to leave the Tahrir Square, the epicenter of protest in Cairo.

On the night of Thursday to Friday on Tahrir Square, thousands of protesters have again defied the curfew at night, camping in tents and warming themselves around fires after a day of intermittent clashes between opponents and supporters of M .Mubarak.

The latter, according to Ms. Amanpour, assured to have "enough to be president," said wanted to "give up power now, but he could not do so for fear that the country could descend into chaos."

For its part, the New York Times has assured Washington that talks with Egyptian officials the terms of an immediate departure of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to a transitional government led by Omar Suleiman, a project to gather support of the Egyptian army.

Mr.Mubarak said Tuesday he does not be seeking a sixth term in the presidential elections of September but this ad has not softened street.

At the same time, the authorities opted for the hard way by arresting seven young leaders of the protest movement, after meeting with Mohamed ElBaradei, the opponent, according to relatives.

At least eight people were killed and over 800 injured Wednesday and Thursday morning in violent clashes between the two camps.More than 300 people died in the first week of protest, according to an unconfirmed report of the UN.

Dozens of foreign journalists were beaten, arrested or intimidated these days, and no television has broadcast images live from Tahrir Square on the night of Thursday to Friday.

A foreigner of unknown nationality was beaten to death nearby, witnesses and rescue services.

Thursday, hundreds of supporters of the regime armed with clubs, knives and some guns, prevented the entrance for several hours on the place of reinforcements or supplies to opponents who are holed up.

The army, the backbone of the system, monitors without intervene.It is rarely intervened to disperse the players or try to save people assaulted.

Other supporters of the plan, posted on the bridge on October 6, threw stones and Molotov cocktails on the opponents. Pavers and curb stone were used as projectiles and barricades were erected.

The authority has rejected accusations that he orchestrated the violence, pointing to the Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition force.

The West has condemned these attacks. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned "in strongest terms" attacks against journalists, calling on security forces to protect them.She also called for "serious negotiations" between the immediate government and opposition "to a peaceful transition and in good order" in Egypt.

In Berlin, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it was "outrageous and totally unacceptable" the repression in Egypt against the media and human rights.

Faced with the alarming situation, Western leaders are maintaining pressure on Mr. Mubarak in calling for an immediate transition of power.

The international community also continues to assist its citizens to leave the country.

Despite the troubles, the Pentagon has assured he would not stop supplying arms to its ally Egypt.Its annual military support amounted to $ 1.3 billion.

U.S. intelligence has warned the Obama administration unrest in Egypt in late 2010, said Thursday before Congress an intelligence official.

Mr. Mubarak, 82, is accused of all evils in this country of 83 million people-poverty, unemployment, deprivation of liberty and police state.

This wave of social protest and political unprecedented swept Egypt since January 25, after Tunisia, which has seen the flight of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali under pressure from the street.

OIL: Why financial markets fear the unrest in Egypt

The unrest in Egypt began seriously to worry the markets. Monday morning, the Tokyo Stock Exchange lost 1.2% and Paris lost 1.12% at the opening. However, as recalled by the New York Times Monday, the healthy financial market in New York had been affected either by the crisis in the eurozone, either by trade squabbles between the U.S. and China. So why Egypt?

It's the return of the specter of an outbreak of black gold. Monday morning, the price of a barrel of crude in London was close to the symbolic $ 100 (99.33), a level it had not met since October 2008. Yet Egypt is only the 30th largest oil producer. But the Suez Canal is an important regional role in transportation."A cargo of oil on six carries," said FRANCE 24 Cécile Antonin, a specialist in energy markets at OFCE-Sciences Po

Every day, nearly 2 million barrels of crude oil pass through this channel. Admittedly, this represents only 2% of world production, but "prices are calculated according to supply more or less compared to the previous situation," said Cecile Antonin. Above all, the oil passing through the Suez Canal is mainly destined for Europe and the United States. The Egyptian authorities have sought to reassure Monday.They stated that the traffic was for the time absolutely unaffected by the protests.

The risk of Algeria

The risk of contagion to other countries in the region most important oil markets, like Saudi Arabia or Iran, also gives a cold sweat to financial analysts. "To avoid social unrest, these countries might be tempted to increase social spending and then to pass on the price of oil," and fears a specialist oil at Goldman Sachs in the Wall Street Journal.

"Do not forget the countries of North Africa such as Algeria in the equation," recalls Cecilia Antonin.If the regime of Abdelaziz Bouteflika was also shaken, soaring prices could accelerate. Algeria is producing more oil than Egypt, and especially this country is a member of OPEC and thus a strategic player in this sector.

There are no worries that oil. Egypt is also the largest importer of wheat. Some fear that to make reservations, the Mubarak regime is still increasing its demand. "Currently, the commodity markets are so tight that the slightest change will raise prices," says Cécile Antonin. A situation particularly disturbing that the spectrum of riots in 2008 is increasingly present.

FOOTBALL: The Egyptian Football Federation postponed games at the weekend

The Egyptian Football Federation (EFA) announced it would suspend the championship games of the weekend because of anti-government protests taking place across the country for several days.

On the website of the federation, to which access is denied since this morning, no official reason has been mentioned. The statement said only that the games provided on Friday and Saturday were postponed to a later date.

In Tunisia, where the regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown, the national championship has been suspended since January 9. The friendly match, to be held on February 9 between Algeria and Tunisia, in Tunis, however, was maintained.No decision has yet been taken on the friendly, laid the same day in Cairo between Egypt and the United States.