April 2005

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Friday the 1st er April 2005

  • the United Kingdom: according to the American magazine Gourmet , the most important review gastronomical of North America, London is the city where one eats best in the world.
  • America, Euthanasia: died of Terri Schavio which had been in the coma for fifteen years.
  • Asia: the two French surfers were found healthy and safe.
  • Morocco: only one Tourangeau victim of the accident.
  • Monaco: regency is ensured by prince Albert of Monaco.
  • France, Blois: a drama of the road endeuille the fun fair. A 26 year old mother lost the life.
  • France, Court-Cheverny: fatal accident of February 12th, 2005, the driver put in examination.
  • Asia: the island of Denied devastated the assessment of 624 dead could weigh down itself.
  • the Vatican: the health condition of the pope Jean-Paul II worsened on Thursday. Its doctors diagnosed a Septicémie. Several Italian media indicate that it would have received the Onction of the patients. According to the Vatican, it would be with the anguish. It is considered clinically dead.
  • Summary Center of new UNO

Saturday April 2nd 2005

  • Rome: the the Vatican announces officially the Mort of the pope Jean-Paul II to 21:37.
  • the West Bank, Ramallah: Mahmoud Abbas the president of the Palestinian Autorité ordered the Palestinian state of alert of the security forces in the West Bank. He wants to show his force and its will with the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs who drew in the court from the Mouqata' has (the seat of the Palestinian Authority), Wednesday last March 30th. France Info
  • Baghdad, Iraq: attack with two car bombs against the Prison of Abu Ghraib, where took place of the acts of torture against prisoners taken by the army of the the United States in Iraq. 20 soldiers and 12 prisoners were wounded. France Info
  • Indonesia: the helps pain to arrive on the spot of the seism.
  • the United States: the Schiavo business upset traditional cleavages.
  • Spain: arrest of twelve people in relation to the attacks.
  • France:
    • Political: Nicolas Sarkozy defies Jacques Chirac and irritates the close relations of the Head of the State.
    • Ille-et-Vilaine: the Court of Assizes discharged, yesterday, Doctor Daniel Fouchard.
    • Languedoc-Roussillon: new violent actions of the wine growers.
    • Company: examination of the remainders of Agnes Sorel, Jacques marked Heart of poisoning.

Sunday April 3rd 2005

Monday April 4th 2005

  • France, Niort: victim of a road accident in 1963 42 years ago now, Niort dies in the evening in his/her parents without never being left the Coma.
  • European Union, Justice: announces setting in networks at the end of 2005 of their police records by the Germany, the Belgium, the Spain and the France. The conclusion of the negotiations was accelerated by the business Fourniret, of the name of a man condemned for sexual abuse on minor in France and which could become teacher in Belgium, since the Belgian authorities cannot be informed of its legal backgrounds abroad.
  • Moldavie : re-election by the Parliament of the president Vladimir Voronin (communist pro-European).
  • Austria: Jörg Haider makes secession of the left Extrême right-hand side FPÖ, and founds the BZÖ ( Alliance for the future of Austria ). From now on, the leaders of the FPÖ wish a return in the opposition, whereas Haider wants to continue alliance with the preserving of the chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel. This scission intervenes whereas the legislative elections take place with the autumn 2005. France Wikipédia Information in allemand
  • France:
    • the Valley-of-Marne: a 12 year old boy seriously wounded of a stab his 23 year old big brother, yesterday with Creteil.
    • Seine-Saint-Denis: ten young people were challenged Saturday evening with Aubervilliers, at the time one second night of violence, a dozen cars were set fire to by young people.
    • Paris: an insane horse pertaining to the Republican guard wandered in the streets, Saturday at the semi-day.
    • Two-Sevres: the water restrictions were prolonged until the April 16th on 167 communes.
    • Rhone delta: a Aixois 45 years which had stolen a truck rolled to misinterpretation on a7 highway.
    • Mâcon : a coed in 20 years medicine disappeared since the March 19th was killed, her body was found Saturday in the the Saone.
  • Summary Center of new UNO
    • Lebanon: the Envoy of UNO, Terje Roed-Larsen announces a Syrian withdrawal complete from here at April 30th, 2005. article
    • R.D. of Congo: search operations in Ituri the shortly after the expiry of the period of disarmament. article
    • Ivory Coast: the Safety advice extends for a further one month the mission (ONUCI) of UNO. article
    • Zimbabwe: the general secretary invites the Government to found a climate of trust. article
    • the prince Al-Hussein of Jordan presents its recommendations to fight against the sexual abuses of the Blue helmets. article
    • UNO pays homage to the action of the Pape Jean-Paul II in favor of the mission of the United Nations. article
    • Monaco: new test for the princess Caroline already struck by the death of his/her mother and her preceding husband, it now faces the mourning of his/her father and the alarming hospitalization of her husband, Ernest-Auguste of Hanover 51 years old was placed in recovery room.

Tuesday April 5th 2005

  • the United States: the American writer Saul Bellow died at the 89 years age.
  • Ivory Coast: the Safety advice of the United Nations renewed, for 1 month, the mandate of the operation of the the United Nations and the French forces unicorn which supports it.
  • Paris, Museum of Louvre: the Mona Lisa, chief of work of Léonard de Vinci, and the most famous table of the world, moved in the room of the States of the museum of Louvre, especially refitted to shelter it.
  • the United Kingdom: the Prime Minister Tony Blair asked for the queen Elisabeth II of dissolve the House of Commons. The anticipated legislative elections will take place the next May 5th. Tony Blair (Labor) wants to benefit from a favorable economic context. The two chiefs of the opposition parties are Michael Howard (preserving) and Charles Kennedy (liberal democrat). France Info
  • Bosnia-Herzégovine, Serbia-Montenegro: in a maintenance with the Financial Times FT.com , the Foreign Minister of Serbia-Montenegro, Vuk Drašković affirms that the Serb secret services know where the general Ratko Mladić hides, shown Crime against humanity by the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia (TPIY). The chief of these services, Roads Bulatović, regards these allegations as “ridiculous” FT.com .
  • Swiss: the Commission of Swiss competition proposes the application of the Principe of blackcurrant of Dijon with the Member States of the European Union in order to decrease the dearness of the cost of living in the country. * Summary Center of new UNO
    • a report/ratio of UNDP lance a call with freedom and the good governance in the Arab world. article
    • the General secretary, Kofi Annan, gave to the Prosecutor of the CPI the list of the presumed authors of crimes to the Darfur. article
    • the General secretary met with the personnel of UNO to discuss the reform of the Organization. article
    • Of the hundreds of people in danger in the west of the Colombia, prevents HCR. article
    • the radio of UNO in Ivory Coast extends its cover in the North of the country. article

Wednesday April 6th 2005

  • South Africa: the main actors of the crisis of the Ivory Coast concluded with Pretoria, an agreement announcing “the end of the hostilities” on the disarmament and the return of the rebels.
  • the Vatican: the meeting of the cardinals announces that the conclave charged to elect the successor of Jean-Paul II will begin the April 18th 2005.
  • Consequences of died of Jean-Paul II:
    • Cuba: the cuban communist president Fidel Castro attended a mass in homage to the pope Jean-Paul II, in the cathedral, packed, of Havana.
    • Brussels: the European Union announces that the flags of the 25 Member States will be put in Bern at the time of funerals of Jean-Paul II.
    • Italy: the Italian national authority of the civil aviation (ENAC) plans by safety to divert 80 flights of charters whose landing was envisaged Thursday and Friday in Rome. Wednesday evening, the forces about the town of Rome required of the pilgrims to go more to the accesses of the Vatican: more than one million people were there then to request and see the late pope.
  • Iraq: the Parliament elected the Kurdish Jalal Talabani like chair country.
  • Monaco: death of the prince Rainier III of Monaco at the 81 years age. His/her son Albert succeeds to him.
  • Denmark: the children of divorced parents succeed less better with the school, whatever their social environment, 30,60% against 13,60%, at the 25 years age for those which lived with their parents.
  • Tsunami: the bottom of the the United Nations for education and childhood (UNICEF) will rehabilitate 250 schools in the north of the island Indonesia of Sumatra in the three next years.
  • Israel: the unknown ones profaned fall it from Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister assassinated in 1995 by an extremist of right-hand side.
  • France, Tunnel of Mont Blanc: the magistrates' court of Bonneville wondered why the room of French regulation had not simultaneously blocked the vehicles rolling towards the fire by putting at the red the fires installed in the tunnel.
  • Summary Center of new UNO
    • Ivory Coast: Kofi Annan is pleased with the concluded agreement with Pretoria. article
    • the General secretary, Kofi Annan, greets the election of the president Iraq IEN, Jalal Talabani. article
    • the Safety advice will go on mission to Haiti from April 13rd to 16th 2005. article
    • Envoys of the General secretary for the reform of UNO optimistic as for their mission. article
    • Reform of the the United Nations: the debate on the report/ratio of the General secretary started at the General meeting. article
    • HCR : repatriations allow the closing of a refugee camp Burundian in Tanzania. article
    • TPIY request with the Serbia-and-Montenegro handing-over of fugitive before the commemoration of the Genocide of Srebrenica. article

Thursday April 7th 2005

  • Iraq: the Shiite Ibrahim Al-Jaafari chief of the fundamentalist party Dawa was appointed Prime Minister of Iraq by the president Jalal Talabani.
  • World: the Safety advice of the United Nations decided to set up a commission to inquire into the Assassinat of the former Prime Minister Lebanon board Rafiq Hariri.
  • Cashmere: the India and the Pakistan inaugurated the first regular connection since 1947 by bus between the two half of the area, in a historical gesture symbolizing the bringing together of the two rival countries.
  • Cairo, Egypt: a Attentat in evening kills four people in the tourist district of the Cairo Old man. The authors would have acted with motor bike and one of them would have launched a grenade.
  • the United Kingdom: two tourists wandering in the private apartments of the Castle of Windsor, where Saturday the marriage of the Charles must take place, prince de Galles, were intercepted by police officers.
  • France: Confrontation enters the demonstrations high-school girls and the CRS.
  • Strange. The footballer David Beckham and his Victoria wife received the authorization to finish the construction of a maisonnette for their children in their garden, according to the authorities of East Hertfordshire (northern of London). Its cost is estimated at 185.000 euros. (AFP) article
  • Algeria, thirteen people were killed at the beginning of evenings by islamist armies which drew up a fake roadblock close to Larba in the south Of Algiers.
  • Sommaire Center of new UNO
    • Kofi Annan pleads for an in-depth reform of the Commission of human rights (CDH). article
    • the Safety advice creates a Board of inquiry on death the ex- Lebanese Prime Minister. article
    • the absence of consensus on the reform of the Safety advice is not an excuse for the inaction, according to Kofi Annan. article
    • the opening of a line of bus to the Cashmere, prelude to an agreement between the India and the Pakistan, hopes for Kofi Annan. article
    • world Day of health: WHO alarm on maternal death and infantile. article
    • Angola: UNO lance a call for capital of 3,5 million dollars to fight against the virus Marbourg. article

Friday April 8th 2005

  • Monaco: the prince Albert II does not take part in funerals of Jean-Paul II because of the death of Rainier III of Monaco; the Catholicisme is the official Religion of the principality. In same time, it was announced that the brother-in-law of Albert II, Ernest-Auguste of Hanover, is hospitalized for a Pancréatite, serious infection of the Pancréas.
  • Rome, the Vatican: the funeral of Jean-Paul II. The mass was celebrated in the presence of more 2000 personalities come from the Whole world and hundreds of thousands of faithful gathered place Saint Pierre and on several places from Rome where the ceremony was retransmise on giant screen. Part of massed crowd Place Saint-Pierre required the immediate canonization of Jean-Paul II: “That it is made holy immediately”.
Among the official ones, Charles, prince de Galles tightened the hand of the president of the Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, whereas the the United Kingdom is opposed to the authoritative government of this president. The Israeli president , Moshe Katzav, which is native of Iran, tightened the hand and exchanged some courtesies with the president Iran IEN Mohammad Khatami, whereas Iran refuses to recognize the existence of Israel. The Popular republic of China refused to send a representative by learning the arrival from Chen Shui-bian president of the République of China (Taiwan). France Info: photographs of Katzav and Khatami
  • France, Justice: the Court of Appeal of Paris confirms the judgment of first authority prohibiting the posts creators Marithé and François Girbaud freely inspired by Cène of Léonard de Vinci, at the request of association Croyance and freedoms the catholic top Clergé . The judge qualifies this poster of “insult” made with the Christian , insult, according to him, “with the surplus reinforced (…) by the incongruity of the position of the only male character, introduced in an installation ambiguity”. France Information Site of both stylistes
  • Djibouti, presidential election: beginning of voting operations. The outgoing president Ismail Omar Guelleh is ensured to gain the presidential election since the candidates of the opposition withdrew all and called with Boycott er the poll. They affirm that the poll is faked, Guelleh answers that “they are afraid to engage in the battle”.
  • Norway, Oslo: the Norwegian police force stopped a suspect and is said optimistic on its capacity has to find the masterpiece of Edvard Munch catch last year.
  • Iraq: an American soldier was killed by an explosive device in the area of Kirkuk in the north of the countries what carries has 1535 died the number of soldiers killed since March 2003.
  • Yemen: more than 70 rebels were killed and of tens of soldiers found death or were wounded during these two days of violences and confrontation in the North-western of the country.
  • Eastern Timor: visit with Dili of the president Indonesia N Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the old province become independent in 1999.
  • Kenya: 140 tons of crude oil escaped D a tanker flying flag from Dubai in the port of Mombasa. The accident occurred when the tanker struck an obstacle and perforated its structure.
  • France, Aix-en-Provence: an armor-plated van of Sécuritas was tackled this morning in the zone of activity Aix-the-Miles by a commando of four armed men, assembling it was not specified.
  • Summary Center of new UNO
    • “In a larger freedom”: cleavage on the report/ratio of the general secretary is specified between the Member States. article
    • Darfur: the African Union and UNO condemn the “wild” destruction of the village of Khor Abeche. article
    • OCHA : the Ivory Coast received only 0,5% of the humane Fonds required for the year 2005. article
    • Myanmar: call to a “clarification” after the adjournment of national Convention. article
    • Sudan: Humanitarian operations of UNO to the Darfur threatened by a lack of funds. article
    • the China becomes a contributor of food aid, after 25 years of assistance of the World food program (WFP). article
  • Poland: the president, Aleksander Kwaśniewski announced his reconciliation with, Lech Wałęsa, his predecessor and chief of the historical trade union.

Saturday April 9th 2005

  • the Middle East: three Palestinian teenagers were killed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, causing a response of the radical movement Hamas which drew from the shells on Jewish colonies of this territory without making victim, according to the versions, they played Football in a closed area where they tried to cross the border. This incident occurs in a context of tension between Israéliens and the Palestinians: Israeli a ultra-nationalist group announced to want to express Sunday April 10th on the Esplanade of the mosques, considered as a holy place by the Musulman S.
  • the United Kingdom, Windsor: marriage in second weddings of Charles, prince de Galles, heir to the throne of the the United Kingdom, with Camilla Parker-Bowles.
  • China: several violences anti Japan eases took place with Beijing. Stones and other objects were thrown against several Japanese buildings, such as the Japanese embassy, a restaurant and the bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi. These violences make following the publication last week in Japan of handbooks of history qualified of revisionist concerning the crimes committed during the Second world war in which, in particular, the Massacre of Nankin is described as incident. The Chinese persons in charge launched a call to the calm one.
  • Saudi Arabia, Riyadh: two leaders of the terrorist network, Al-Qaida, required since nearly two years, were killed at the beginning of week in the north of Riyadh. The attack also cost the life thirteen other extremists, indicated the ministry for the Interior.
  • Iraq, Baghdad: several thousands of people expressed with Baghdad against the occupation of their country, after the fall of the mode of Saddam Hussein, whereas thirty Iraqis whose sixteen soldiers were killed.
  • Iran: the Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami, contradicted highly to have spoken with the Israeli Moché Katzav and affirmed that Iran did not recognize the existence of the State Hebrew.
  • France: motorcyclists, between 15.000 and 20.000, expressed in several towns of France to protest against the lighting of the dipped headlights in full day.
  • France, Paddle: five people were wounded, including one seriously, in a collision between the nacelle of an attraction and a lifting gear to the park of Nigloland to Dolancourt.
  • France, Antony: an agent the SNCF 38 years old was wounded after being voluntarily thrown train on a way of the RER B whereas no train circulated.
  • France, Paris: “revendifestive” Demonstration (Apolitical) named KarnaVal to denounce the marchandisation of the culture. About fifteen tanks were present, flooding the streets, of the Place of the Republic to the Place of the Nation, of music techno, hardtek.

Sunday April 10th 2005

  • Jerusalem: Israeli ultra-nationalists want to express on the Esplanade of the Mosques, on the site of old the temple to protest against the plan of evacuation of the Israeli colonies of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli police force prevents the access to the site, and of the Moslems remained all the night in the Mosquée Al-Aqsa to defend the place. France Info
*Le Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is in official trip to the the United States.
  • Earthquake magnitude 3,8 in Savoy. The alarm diffused by precise ECA that the epicentre is located at Saint-Martin-of-Belleville with 9:4 min 39 S (French hour).
  • Monaco: as of this afternoon, the Monegasques will be able to collect themselves in front of the skin of the prince Rainier III of Monaco whose body, into large ceremonial dress, is exposed until Wednesday in the small vault Saint-Jean-Baptist, located in the enclosure of the palate, which is usually reserved for the religious ceremonies of the princely family.
  • France, Cycling: the Belgian Tom Boonen gains the Paris-Roubaix after having pedalled during six hours and half.
  • France, Cognac: By allotting the Grand Prix to the black comedy of the Spaniard Alex de Iglesia the Crime farpait , the jury of the 23e Festival of police Cognac film rewarded Sunday evening the only comedy for this edition which largely explored the various aspects of the organized crime, of the Chinese triads to the underworld European. (AFP) article
  • Lebanon: one of the chief of the Christian opposition, the general Michel Aoun who lives in exile in France since fifteen years, decided to turn over to the Lebanon the May 7th.
  • the United States: the preparations of the meeting between George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon were disturbed by the Israeli question of the colonies in the West Bank.
  • Belgium: With Huy with place the first Popular consultation of initiative citizen of Belgium. It relates to a project of town planning of the town of Huy.

Monday April 11th 2005

  • the Vatican: the cardinals, after one day of rest, resumed their work to seek a consensus on the profile of the next pope before the beginning, the April 18th, of the Conclave charged to elect the successor of Jean-Paul II. The mass directed by the American cardinal Bernard Law in homage to Jean-Paul II was marked by a demonstration against this cardinal who had not intervened to draw aside from the priests paedophiles. France Info pre-conclave Information cardinal Law
  • Monte Carlo, Tennis: beginning of the tennis tournament of Monte Carlo. In spite of died of the prince Rainier  III, large Patron of the sport which had contributed to make principality one of the high places of world tennis, first Masters Series European of the year takes place as from this Monday as envisaged, but all the extra-sporting festivities were cancelled. article
  • Bangladesh: to two hundred people can be taken with the trap in the debris of a textile factory of eight stages which collapsed close to the capital Dhâkâ, making at least six dead one indicated official sources.
  • Paris: the police force evacuated the pupils who occupied the buildings and the roof of the Lycée Montaigne, one of the most prestigious Parisian colleges. The high-school pupils have protested for a few months against the law Fillon on the School.
  • Kirghizstan : the Parliament khirgize accepted the resignation of the deposed president Askar Akaiev and fixed the date of the presidential election which will take place the July 10th.
  • France, Justice: the commission of revision of the penal judgments of the Court of appeal reaches at the request of revision of the sentence for murder of Guillaume Seznec of 1924. NouvelObs.com
  • France, Justice: within the framework of the fight against the criminality, it Minister of Justice, Dominique Perben, announces the examination, before the end of the year 2005, of a bill which would make it possible, if it were adopted by the Parliament then validated by the Constitutional council (which could be seized of an emanating recourse of members of Parliament), to confiscate and sell without judgment the goods of the people supposed “large criminals”, while considering the possibility of refundings in the event of releases or payments of suspects.
  • Egypt: arrest of family members of the author of the suicide bombing which shook in middle of week the bazaar of Khan el Khalili with the Cairo.
  • Iraq: three suicide bombings with the car bomb were made against an American military position with Al-Qaim in the west of the country, with less the two wounded soldiers.
  • : the ministry Iran IEN of Defense announced to have stopped, one week ago, a kidnapper of the French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot released in December 2004.
  • Monaco: the prince Ernest-Auguste of Hanover, husband of the princess Caroline of Monaco in reanimation for six days following an acute pancréatite, has been in an health condition in improvement.
  • Senegal: an epidemic of Choléra knew an abrupt recrudescence mid-March. It contaminated at least 6  059 people and makes 81 dead since the March 26th.
  • Panama: gas beating Panamanian house with has thirty-six edge team members derives with approximately 250 kilometers in the south from the island from Porquerolles. A building of the National marine was dispatched on the spot to tow it. article
  • Popular republic of China - Indian Union: the concluding of an agreement with New Delhi between Chinese the Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Indian the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. This agreement envisages a resumption of the relations between the two countries by a Pacific regulation of their frontier dispute concerning the territories of the Arunachal Pradesh and the Cachemire. France Info
  • Japan, Tokyo: a seism of magnitude 6,1 shook the area in morning, disturbing circulation.
  • With Seville (Spain), alternate of El Salvador the Cortes, Spanish Matador.

Tuesday April 12th 2005

  • France: died of the Large journalist Odile, collaborator of the Marianne weekly magazine, at the 74 years age.
  • India: a agreement sino-Indian was signed in order to define the “great principles” of a reconciliation between these 2 countries. The India and the China hope to improve their relations in order to support their exchanges and their development. The idea of an immense zone of Libre-échange was also evoked. That would relate to 2,5 billion Homme S.
  • France: the Court of Appeal of Paris débouté Johnny Hallyday by refusing to him the restitution by Universal Music original soundtracks of its songs, cancelling the judgment given in first authority by the court of arbitration in August 2004.
  • France: the company Cogema is condemned for illegal storage of nuclear waste, following a complaint of Greenpeace.
  • Iraq: the American secretary with Defense Donald Rumsfeld indicated to Baghdad that the United States did not have yet strategy of exit of Iraq.
  • the United States - Israel: Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, recalled to the order on colonization in the West Bank the day before by George W. Bush, refused to yield while again obtaining the downstream of the US president for his retirement scheme of the Gaza Strip.
  • Colombia: at least 11 people died in the floods and of believed of rivers caused by strong rains in the Andean departments of Colombia. The rains also caused landslides.
  • Iran: the preserving Parliament adopted a legal text authorizing the abortion lasting the first four months of pregnancy if the life of the mother is in danger or if the doctors note a malformation of the fetus.
  • Iraq: the Poland will put an end to its mission in Iraq before the end 2005 during the expiry of the mandate of UNO in this country.
  • Germany: four schoolgirls taken as hostages during more than five hours by a man armed with two knives, with Ennepetal, in the north of the country, were released healthy and save.
  • New Caledonia: a fort Séisme a magnitude 6,6 degrees on the scale of Richter occurred, without making damage nor of victims.
  • Spain, Madrid: the police force challenged in the port of Algésiras, a national Morocco Ain Soufiane Raïfac suspected of having obtained the explosives of the attacks of Madrid of the March 11th 2004.
  • Teheran: the Iran announces that it refuses the Canadian application of investigation by experts international legists on the death of the photojournalist Montreal ease Zahra Kazemi.
  • Indonesia: towards 11:30, a Volcan culminating with 2599 m awoke while spitting of ashes and expelled a cloud of smoke; the helps after a fashion try to evacuate the surrounding population.
  • Northern France, : close to 80 tombs was profaned in the night, in the municipal cemetery of Beauvois-in-Cambrésis close to Cambrai.
  • France, Savoy: a fire of unspecified origin completely destroyed without making victim, a hotel of Val Thorens whose 300 occupants could be evacuated and rehoused, 70 firemen be on the spot.

Wednesday April 13rd 2005

  • Health: the the World Health Organization (WHO) launched an alarm to mean at more 3.700 laboratories in the world which they received by error of the samples of the Grippe of 1957-1958 and must destroy them. The error of sending was made with the the United States, by the Collège of the American pathologists, which could cause a world epidemic. The Canada figure among this France Info
  • European Union: the the European Parliament accepted the Treaties of Accession with the Romania and the Bulgaria; those should be signed the April 25th 2005, opening the way, after ratification, with an adhesion of these two countries in 2007.
  • Iraq: whereas Iraqi soldiers neutralized a bomb placed on a Oléoduc close to Kirkuk, another bomb exploded at once which made nine died of which the commander of oil installations.
  • Afghanistan: Donald Rumsfeld arrived has Kandahar, in the south of the country, for a surprised visit. It should speak about the fight against the talibans and the militants of Al-Quaïda.
  • Baghdad: a car bomb exploded in the passing of a convoy of the department American, damaging two 4x4 official and five civil cars.
  • Teheran: the Iran contradicted information according to which it moved towards an unknown place of the Uranium in one of its nuclear installations.
  • Belgium: justice launched new excavations to find one or more young girls killed in France between 1987 and 2001 by supposed guilty the Michel Fourniret that it would have buried in his property of Sart-Custinne.
  • Angola: An epidemic of fever of Marbourg reached 235 people of which 215 died, according to an official statement of the ministry for health.
  • Indonesia: a new volcano of Java awoke like another with Sumatra the day before, already shaken by the seisms. The mount Tangkuban Perahu close to Bandung thundered during the night.
  • the United Kingdom: Tony Blair confirmed that the legislative elections of the May 5th will be its last as a Prime Minister.
  • Yaounde: the epidemic of Choléra, where 6000 cases were listed since the beginning of the year, already killed 70 people “nobody will not be soon with the shelter”.
  • Germany Karlsruhe: the federal court of justice started an examination against the “cannibal of Rotenbourg” Armin Meiwes, 43 years, condemned to eight years and half of prison to have Dépecé up and ate in 2001 an agreeing victim.
  • Rome: to five day of opening of the conclave to the the Vatican, the cardinal Joseph Ratzinger given favorite by the press.
  • France: the crown prince to Arabia Abdallah Ben Abdel Aziz was accommodated in Orly by Jacques Chirac.
  • Paris: a notary was condemned to pour more than 3 million euros with Cécile of Bourbon-Parma to have mislaid a crimped diadem of diamonds entrusted in 1996.
  • Lebanon: the Prime Minister Omar Karamé resigns fault of having succeeded in forming a government of national union. The opposition parties fear that this resignation involves a carryforward of the legislative elections which should be organized before May 31st.

Thursday April 14th 2005

  • France, Media: the president of the Republic Jacques Chirac takes part in an emission of TF1 on the Référendum on the European constitution founded by the the Treaty of Rome of 2004. See the complete article: Referendum: on line with the Swiss president
  • : the Federal council presents his position, favorable, and its arguments with respect to the accession of Switzerland to the Espace Schengen and the Convention of Dublin which will be subjected in popular voting the June 6th 2005.
  • Iraq: at least Fifteen Iraqi, for the majority of the police officers, was killed in a double murder commits suicide with Baghdad, one of the most fatal clerks in the capital.
  • Ivory Coast: nearly one year after the beginning of the investigation into disappearance the 16 April 2004 of the journalist Guy-Andre Kieffer the mystery planes on its abduction and its nearly certain death.
  • Germany: thirty people suspected of belonging to a criminal band organized by theBulgarian ones in the north and the west of the country were challenged following the traffics of human beings.
  • the West Bank: the president of the Palestinian authority, Mahmoud Abbas, ordered that all the security services are gathered under the authority of three principal authorities.
  • Beirut: the Lebanese opposition antisyrienne prepares to engage the battle, to save the elections of May, the governments American and French wish that the electoral deadline be respected.
  • European Union - China: by a vote, the the European Parliament decides against the lifting of the Embargo on the sale of weapons in the Popular republic of China.

Friday April 15th 2005

  • Space, Baïkonour: the Italy N Roberto Vittori, the Russian Sergueï Krikalev and the American John Phillips took off Friday of the cosmodrome of Baïkonour to the Kazakhstan on board a Russian vessel Soyuz TMA-6 towards the International space station to which they will be fastened two days later.
  • France, Vierzon: an accident of coach transporting a score of elderly going to Montpellier, took place on the A71.
  • Italy: resignation of the moderate ministers for the Union of the Christian democrats (UDC) of the government of Silvio Berlusconi. Political commentators evoke the possibility of anticipated legislative elections. Berlusconi and her coalition lost the control of six areas to the regional elections of the beginning of April.
  • Lebanon: the Lebanese Prime Minister Nagib Migati is indicated. * Monaco: transformed into fortress, the principality celebrated funerals, solemn and thoroughly regulated, of Rainier III, in the presence of tens of crowned heads and international political officials. Among them are Jacques Chirac (France), Juan Carlos Ier of Spain, Albert II of Belgium, Charles XVI Gustave of Sweden, the minister Sergueï (Russia), Francisco Flores (El Salvador). Rainier III is buried in the Abside of the cathedral, beside the tomb of his wife Grace of Monaco.
  • Paris: the fire which devastated a hotel of the IX {{E}} district, on Thursday night, on the spot has fact 22 died, including ten children, according to a new assessment of the firemen. It is about the one of the most fatal fires in Paris of these twenty last years.

Saturday April 16th 2005

Sunday April 17th 2005

  • Cyprus: election with the Vote for all of the Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat (Turkish Republican party, center-left, parliamentary majority) with the presidency of the Turkish Republic of northern Cyprus. It obtains 55,6% of the voices and largely precedes its main adversary, Dervis Eroglu (Parti the national unit, center-right). The outgoing president, Rauf Denktash, was not represented.
  • Spain, Basque Country: regional elections in the the Basque autonomous Community. The coalition with the capacity (Left nationalist Basque and Eusko Alkartasuna) and its leader Juan Jose Ibarretxe expected a result allowing them to propose their plan to make Basque Country a State associated with the kingdom with Spain.
This coalition obtains a weaker relative majority by obtaining 29 of the 75 seats (33 previously). At the Parliament the Communist party of the Basque grounds appears (PCTV), which obtained the support of the prohibited party Batasuna. Le Monde of April 19th, 2005
  • France, bad weather: the strong falls of Neige cause cuts of electricity and closings of roads and highways in the areas Franche-Comté and the Rhone-Alps. In the north of the Auvergne and in the south of the Burgundy, the levels of the the Loire and its affluent the Allier are supervised following the strong rains.
  • Swiss: a serious accident of because on the road leading to the tunnel of the Large-Saint-Bernard made 12 died and about fifteen casualties. The vehicle left the road, flipped over on 60 meters before falling at the bottom of a ravine of 150 meters. More than 200 first-aid workers were dispatched on the spot.

Monday April 18th 2005

  • Union of the Comoros: the Mount Karthala, Volcano of Large Comore, larger island of the Archipelago, entered in eruption.
  • the Vatican: beginning of the Conclave of the cardinals who must elect the successor of the Pape Jean-Paul II. To 20:05, local time, the black smoke which escaped from the Chapelle Sixtine indicates that the first vote did not allow the election of the pope.
  • India - Pakistan: an agreement was signed between the two countries, developing their commercial relations and aiming at improving the connections by bus between the two countries, in particular with the Cachemire.
  • Data-processing: Adobe Systems announces the acquisition of Macromedia for 3,4 billion dollars. This fusion aims at preparing competition against certain functionalities of Windows Longhorn, new Operating system of Microsoft envisaged for 2006.
  • Iran: the government ordered the “provisional” closing of the office of Al-Jazira to Teheran. It reproaches the chain of information for having covered in a partial way the interethnic disorders which took place the April 15th with Ahvaz (3 died, 200 wounded). The city is in the Khouzistan, area where live the Arab majority of the S Iranian. The chain in particular diffused the remarks of a separatist movement based with London, the Popular front and democratic of the Arabs of Ahvaz. Le Monde dated April 29th, 2005

Tuesday April 19th 2005

  • Axoum, Ethiopia: the Italy returns the first of the three pieces of the Obélisque of Axoum, taken by the Italian army at the time of Mussolini.
  • Catholic church, the Vatican: election of Joseph Ratzinger Pope under the name of Benoit XVI. He is the successor of Jean-Paul II.
  • Spain - Argentinian: the national Audience, plus Spanish legal high authority, condemned to 640 years in prison (30 actually, including 4 carried out) the Argentinian former serviceman , Adolfo Scilingo for crimes against humanity, illegal detentions and Torture S, at the time of the military Dictature. He is the first former serviceman of this dictatorship to being condemned in his presence, all the others were it by Contumace. Le Monde dated April 21st, 2005
  • the United States: the democratic senators obtained a postponement of the vote confirming the nomination of John R. Bolton as ambassador of the United States to UNO.
  • Kuwait: the Parliament voted a bill granting the right to vote and of eligibility to the women for the municipal elections. The next elections of this type must take place in October 2005.
  • Lebanon: the Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced the formation of a government of 14 members, representatives several political parties. Wikinews
  • Lebanon, Beirut: in gift of thanks whereas the armies and the intelligence services Syria NS evacuate Lebanon, the general secretary of the Hezbollah offered a rifle of attack in his ECRIN to the general chief of the Syrian army and to the chief of the Syrian intelligence services.
  • Bicycle: Lance Armstrong, surrounded by rumors of doping, announced that the turn of France 2005 will be its last race before its retirement.
  • Paul Bush, organizer and cameraman of the Network of the sports (RDS), dies at the 41 years age of a respiratory stop.

Wednesday April 20th 2005

  • Ecuador: the Parliament relieved the president Lucio Gutierrez who found refuge in the embassy of the Brésil to Quito. It is replaced until the end of its mandate (January 2007) by the vice-president Alfredo Palacio.
  • Internet: Wikipédia, the free and free encyclopedia, reached the 100  000 articles for its French-speaking version.
  • Italy: resignation of the president of the council Silvio Berlusconi which intends to form a new government from here the next weekend.

Thursday April 21st 2005

  • Gujarat, India: a rail crash fact 24 died and a hundred casualties.
  • China: An explosion which has occurred in a chemical plant of the south-west of China made twelve died and seven missings. Remains of the factory of two stages were found with more than 80 meters of the site. The authorities inquire into the causes of the accident.
  • Spain: within the framework of a reform of the Civil code, the the Cortes, Spanish National Assembly, adopted a bill authorizing the Homosexual marriage and the Adoption children by homosexual couples. Once adopted by the Senate, the law should come into effect during the summer 2005.

Friday April 22nd 2005

  • the United States: the French Zacarias Moussaoui pled guilty of complicity of plot to make a Attentat, to hijack a plane, to destroy a plane and to use weapons of massive destruction within the framework of the attacks of September 11th, 2001. For these four reasons, it incurs the Capital punishment. It announces nevertheless that it did not take part in the attack of September 11th, 2001, but which it had received from Usama Bin Laden the order to prepare an attack against the White House.
  • Iraq - Romania: in a video diffused by the television channel Al Jazira, a terrorist group orders with the Rumanian government to repatriate its troops sent in Iraq in the four days; or he threatens to kill three Rumanian hostages, removed the last March 28th.
  • Jakarta, Indonesia: to celebrate the 50e birthday of the Conference of Bandung, the countries of Africa and Asia meet in top.
  • Togo, Lome: from night, the , Minister of Interior Department François Boko, announced to the journalists and diplomatic foreign that he hoped for a carryforward of the presidential election of April 24th and the formation of a government of national union. It fears that its ministry is not able to maintain safety in the country in the days and weeks to come. Le Monde dated April 23rd, 2005
  • Romania more than 2000 people was disaster victims because of strong floods and snowfalls which also disturbed circulation and caused cuts of current.
  • Strange France, : a Sanglier destroyed for 150  000 euros of Porcelain after having smashed the door of a workshop in a small village close to Limoges.
  • France: the Court of Appeal of Paris makes prohibition - they are the terms used - to use on a DVD a system preventing the copy. This practice is incompatible with the exercise of the private copy. This judgment contradicts that returned in first authority, at the end of April 2004, and constitutes a serious reverse for the producers in question, Alain Sarde and StudioCanal. 01net.com
  • France - Pierre Bodein is put in examination for a third murder.

Saturday April 23rd 2005

  • Cinema, the United Kingdom: died of the actor Sir John Millets to 97 years.
  • Cinema: died of the realizer George Cosmatos at 64 years of a lung cancer.
  • France: Marine Le Pen, vice-president of the National front, was hooted and could not witness a ceremony of remembering for the 90e birthday the Armenian genocide, with Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise). France Info on April 23rd, 2005
  • Iraq: combat and attacks in several cities of the country made more than 60 died in one day, including/understanding Iraqi civilians like American soldiers. The cameraman of the American agency Associated Press, Saleh Ibrahim, was killed in Mosul. During this time, the president Jalal Talabani constitutes with many difficulties a government of national union.
  • Italy: the president of the council Silvio Berlusconi presented his new government, almost identical to the precedent. See Government Silvio Berlusconi III.
  • Vietnam: the tests carried out on Kampuchean deceased in a hospital appeared positive with the avian flu.
  • Baïji, Iraq: the bodies of Nineteen Iraqi soldiers removed recently, were found sifted balls in the north of the country.
  • Florida, the United States: a mother intends to prosecute the police officers who intervened in the nursery school of his/her daughter with Saint-Petersburg and handcuffed the five year old undisciplined young girl.
  • Saudi Arabia: the religious authorities briefly stopped Hisham Abdel Rahman, the last winner of the Star Academy Saoudi, to have caused a scene considered to be indecent.

Sunday April 24th 2005

  • Montreal, Canada: Transfer of the tomb of Holy-Marguerite-Bourgeoys of her head office to the Vault Our-Lady-of-Good-Help to Montreal after a mass to the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal.
  • Israel: died of the former Israeli president Ezer Weizman.
  • China: 69 minors were taken with the trap during the flood of a coal mine to Jiaohe in the province of the Jilin. The minors were underground in the mine of Tengda.
  • France: according to the police force, the Filipino diplomat Alicia Ramos was strangled in his residence by robbers.
  • Cyprus: Mehmet Ali Talat lent oath like chair Turkish République of northern Cyprus. In its speech, he showed the president of the République of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, to be intransigent and to prevent the resolution of the Cypriot partition. site France Info, on April 24th, 2005
  • Ecuador: the former president Lucio Gutierrez fled with the Brésil which granted the Political asylum to him after having accommodated it in its embassy of Quito.
  • Florida: the American scenario writer Albert Wing died following an accident of jump in Parachute. By running up against the wing of the plane from where it had just jumped, its legs were divided on the level of the knee. He then succumbed to his wounds at the hospital. An investigation was open. This type of accident is extremely rare.
  • Togo, presidential election: the Togoleses voted in great number to elect a successor with the late general Gnassingbé Eyadéma, in a climate of high voltage. At least three people were killed and thirteen others wounded, including three by balls, with Lome, the end of the elections according to diplomatic sources and hospital.
  • the Vatican: inaugural mass of the Pope Benoit XVI after his election, Tuesday April 19th.
  • France, Gard: the last of the seven wolf S which was escaped enclosure of a refuge of animals with Servas was recovered alive.
  • Swiss, Geneva: the voters have approved a revision of the cantonal constitution granting the communal right to vote the abroads domiciled on the canton and residing in Switzerland for more than eight years. The initiative aiming at also granting the right of eligibility to them was rejected, just as seven other financial objects.

Monday April 25th 2005

  • Czech Republic: Jiří Paroubek named new Czech Prime Minister after the resignation of its predecessor the social democrat Stanislav Large discredited by a scandal around its personal fortune.
  • Japan, Amagasaki: five cars of a suburban train crammed pertaining to JR West, circulating too quickly, ran off the line before striking a residential building close to Osaka in the west of the Japan. The assessment is at least 107 died (59 men and 47 women), 41 missings and 458 wounded including 150 in a serious condition.
  • Axoum, Ethiopia: the Italy returned the last piece of the Obélisque of Axoum which had been carried by the Italian troops at the time of Benito Mussolini.
  • France: the photograph “the Kiss of the town hall” 1950 taken by Robert Doisneau and having belonged has its heroin Francoise Bornet was allocated to the biddings in the evening at the price of 155.000 €.
  • Russia: the president Vladimir Poutine stated that the Russians must develop with their rate/rhythm as “a free and democratic State”.
  • Finland, Helsinki: a 43 year old man is suspected of having misused of 445 young boys since 1989.
  • Stockholm: the owner of a restaurant which expelled of its establishment two women who embraced themselves was condemned to pay the sum of 50.000 crowns.
  • Iraq: sixteen civilians found the death and 50 other people wounded in two attacks with the explosive, in a district of Cholaa, in the north of the country.

Tuesday April 26th 2005

  • Austria, Vienna: died of the actress Maria Schell.
  • Paraguay: died of the Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos.
  • the United States: died of the American astrophysicist Philip Morrison, creator then denouncer of the atomic bomb.
  • Burma, Rangoon: the explosion of a bomb in a market of Mandalay made two died (two women) and fourteen wounded including twelve women.
  • Ethiopia: at least 72 died in floods.
  • Togo, presidential election: the Electoral commission announces the victory with 60,22% of the votes of Faure Gnassingbé, whereas the opponent Gilchrist Olympio denounces “a massive fraud”. Tuesday, after the proclamation of the results, violent incidents burst in the capital Lome.
  • France: died of the journalist Claude Lorieux, former collaborator of the Barber since 1978 and large specialist in the the Middle East.
  • Iraq: the group Ansar al-Sunna announces the abduction of six Sudaneses working for the the United States.
  • Japan, Nimori: a passenger train struck a truck with a level crossing. The driver of the semitrailer was slightly wounded and the first car of the express train ran off the line. According to the first elements, the semitrailer was found wedged on the level crossing after having lost a wheel. The driver of the heavy truck set off the alarm of the level crossing but the train could not stop in time.
  • Indonesia: a seism a magnitude of 5,4 on the scale of Richter shook the island of Sulawesi, in the east of the Indonesia. Half an hour after, another earthquake a magnitude of 5,5 shook the coasts of the island of Sumatra. The earthquakes were felt by some inhabitants of the two islands, but there no was damage nor of casualty.
  • Lebanon: the army Syria did not complete the evacuation of Lebanon. The the United States await the inspection of the UNO which will check if this withdrawal is complete.

Wednesday April 27th 2005

  • Ethiopia: the assessment of the floods was weighed down to be established with 88 dead.
  • Iraq, Baghdad: the deputy Lamia Abed Khadouri Al-Sagri, member of the Iraqi list of the former Prime Minister Iyad Allaoui was assassinated by attackers having made irruption at it.
  • France: Laetitia Bléger, Miss France 2004 prohibited of crown and scarf for one six months period to have posed less than with half-vêtue for Play Servant boy.
  • Togo: at least 11 died and 95 wounded in the riots of Lome. The candidate of the coalition of the opposition Emmanuel Akitani Bob proclaims president of the Republic.
  • Sri Lanka, Colombo: a passenger train entered in collision with a coach Wednesday making at least 35 died and 60 wounded including 10 seriously. The accident occurred with a level crossing in the village of Alawwa. According to the first elements, it would seem that the coach which also transported passengers was unaware of the signals of the train arriving on the way and wanted to cross it. The train carried out the connection between the capital Colombo and the Holy City of Kandy.
  • Japan, Tokyo: a train and a car entered in collision. The car engaged on the way with a level crossing with Yokohama and struck the train of the private company Sagami Railway which passed at this time. The driver of the car was seriously wounded and was transported in a close hospital. None of the 130 passengers of the train was wounded. The barriers of the level crossing were descended at the time from the collision and an investigation was open to determine the cause of the accident.
  • Aeronautical France, : the first takeoff for a trial flight of the Airbus A380, since the airport of Toulouse - Blagnac.
  • Belgium: Sœur Emmanuelle is hospitalized following light a faintness at the time of a conference. Hospitalized for a few days, it should not be transferred in France. The nun was to take part in conference series organized this week in Belgium.
  • Egypt: the laic movement of opposition Kifāya manages to ravel in fifteen cities of the country, in spite of its nonlegal existence.

Thursday April 28th 2005

  • Haiti, Port-au-Prince: the leader of the Movement for the national rebuilding, political party of center-left, Jean Henold Buteau which is also doctor, was removed by armed men whereas it left his vehicle in front of his private clinic. The kidnappers claimed the payment of a ransom of 30.000 dollars and negotiations are in hand. One is unaware of if this removal revêt a political character. Jean Henold Buteau is the first leading one of a political party to being victim of a removal since the beginning of a series of abductions recorded after the inversion of the former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004. General elections are envisaged in October and November in Haiti.
  • Peru: a plane of the Peruvian army was crushed close to a power station exploiting important gas reserve naturalness of the area of Camisea. The 13 passengers died.
  • Ivory Coast: the first tower of presidential fixed at the October 30th.
  • Swiss: eleven years after the first blow of pickaxe, the last meters of rock of the basic Tunnel of Lötschberg were dynamited this morning under the the Alps. The work, length 34,6 kilometers, will enter in service in 2007.
  • Togo: more than 3.000 Togoleses take refuge in the south of the Bénin to flee violences (Western diplomatic source).
  • Egypt: an Egyptian team discovered 26 rare seals which belonged to the king Chéops, founder of the large pyramid of Guizeh in the south-west of Cairo.
  • Togo, Lome: at least 31 people were killed, including eight Natives of Niger, and more than one hundred wounded, in the riots since Tuesday according to official sources and hospital.

Friday April 29th 2005

  • Haiti, Port-au-Prince: Jean Henold Buteau, leader of the Movement for the national rebuilding (political party of center-left), was released, the shortly after its removal after the payment of a ransom to its kidnappers.
  • Djibouti: the dryness threatens of famine 30.000 stockbreeders
  • Brésil, Sao Paulo: 6 prisoners were assassinated these the last 2 days in prisons.
  • France, Arcachon: fishing, the collecting and the sale of oysters and shells of the Basin of temporarily prohibited Arcachon, because of the presence of toxic microalgae.
  • France, the Moselle: the pilot of a small private plane was killed and his passenger seriously wounded in the crash landing of the apparatus.
  • France: Jean-Marie Le Pen protests against the decision of Simone Veil to be put on leave of the Constitutional council to take part in the countryside chief clerk.
  • Chad: intervention in urgency of Doctors without borders where an epidemic of measles killed 115 people.
  • Togo, Lome: a group of strongly armed men invaded the Institut Goethe and threatened the guards with their weapons while other attackers put fire at the library. The concrete building was completely destroyed as well as a cottage located in the vicinity and a van. No victim is deplored. Thanks to films, loans of books and German lessons, the Institute favoured Goethe the promotion of the cultural exchanges between the Togo and the Germany, the old colonial power until the German defeat of the First World War.
  • Indonesia: a seism of 6,3 on the scale of Richter caused yesterday evening panic in the north of Sumatra and in Nias.
  • Corsica France, , Bastia: a technical premise of France Telecom destroys this night in an attack.

Saturday April 30th 2005

  • France, Vienna: the pilot and the passenger of a private plane were killed in the crash landing of their apparatus.
  • Egypt: bomb attack close to the Egyptian museum of the Cairo: a killed tourist, other wounded foreigners. Two people killed in a second attack which shook the center of Cairo in popular quarters. These attacks were asserted by the Brigades of the martyr Abdallah Azzam
  • Turkey, Kusadasi: an explosion kills a police officer and wounds two other people.
  • France, Yrénées-Atlantiques, Ciboure: during the night, the unknown ones launch a Kingpin in front of the residence of the minister Frenchwoman of Defense Michele Alliot-Marie.
  • Turkey, the North-East of Ankara: the earthquake causes a death.
  • China, Shaanxi: 15 minors killed in a Firedamp explosion.
  • Angola: WHO publishes a new assessment of the epidemic of fever of Marbourg in this country which killed at least 257 people.
  • Vietnam: a military aircraft is crushed a death and a casualty (military source).

Zh-min-nan: 2005 nor 4 goe̍h

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