August 2005

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Monday 2005

Died of the king Fahd of Saudi Arabia:

Saudi Arabia: died of the king Fahd of Saudi Arabia. The crown prince Abdallah becomes king and sultan becomes crown prince.
Algeria: three days a national mourning was issued after the death of the king Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
Spain: following the death of the king Fahd of Saudi Arabia, the day of Tuesday is issued national day of mourning in the country.
France: Jacques Chirac will go to Riyadh Tuesday evening to attend funerals of the king Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

Iran: in spite of the pressure of the the United States, European Union and IAEA, the government announces the immediate resumption of the conversion of the Uranium (preliminary to enrichment), which she does not regard as enrichment, with the factory of Ispahan.
France: a plane Canadair was crushed close to Calvi, killing its two pilots.
France: lower rate of the Livret has with 2%.
France: the Minister for Transport Dominique Perben announces the reopening of the Tunnel of Frejus, closed following an accident, Thursday.
France: the Minister of Justice Pascal Clément proposes to amend the laws making it possible to fight the Terrorisme.
Romania: the heat wave made at least 56 died, according to the ministry for Health. The rivers are drained (at least 230 km in the Vienna
Russia: an explosion on a nuclear submarine in the course of dismantling makes a death and a casualty.
the United States: died of Al Aronowitz, American pioneer of journalism rock'n'roll, one cancer at the 77 years age to Elisabeth in the New Jersey.
Swiss, national festival: the president of the Confederation, Samuel Schmid, is made insult by nationalists and must leave the meadow of the Grütli before the national anthem.
France: died of the general French Jeannou Lacaze, former chief of staff of the armies at the 81 years age.
Egypt: died of the Actor and Egyptian Realizer Mohamed Tawfik with the Cairo at the 75 years age.

Tuesday August 2nd 2005

the United States: the president George W. Bush names John R. Bolton American Ambassadeur with UNO by Décret. ('' Le Monde '')
Terrorism: the Egypt announces to have killed the suspect number one of the Attentat S of Charm el-Cheikh. ('' Le Monde '')
Canada, Flight Air France 358: a Airbus A340 of the company Air France, transporting on board 297 passengers and 12 team members, took fire at the time of its landing missed on a track by the Pearson airport by Toronto. The apparatus would have been touched by the lightning. Flight AF358 left the Aéroport Roissy-Charles-of-Gaulle and was to arrive at Toronto towards 22:12 French hour. According to official a Canadian, Steve Shaw, there would be forty-three slightly injureds. The daily newspapers the Press and The Gazette titrated “It is a miracle! ”, “It' S.A. miracle!” on cover page.
Saudi Arabia: this afternoon with Riyadh the funeral of the king Fahd took place to which many personalities were present. (Wikinews)
the United States: Apple presents the Mighty Mouse , a mouse new generation for its Macintosh.
Iran: the judge Iran IEN Massoud Moqadasi who had judged and condemned in first authority it influence journalist Akbar Ganji was assassinated of a ball in the head by a gunner with motor bike whereas it left his offices of the center of Teheran.
France: the last the Council of Ministers before the estival pause validated the ordinance S, instituting the Contrat news in particular engages.
France: 351 Fetus and body of children still-born children were found in the death chamber of the Saint-Vincent-of-Paul hospital to Paris. Certain fetuses could date of more than twenty-five years, and were preserved apart from any legal framework. A double investigation, legal and administrative, was open. (LEXPRESS.fr with Reuters)
Turkey: strong rains caused important Inondation S and landslides in the north of the country, causing the death of at least six people, while seven others are reported missing.
China: a gas leak in a coal mine in the central province of Henan killed at least 24 minors. Seventeen minors are escaped and two are always reported missing.
Iraq: the American Journalist independent, Steven Vincent, 50 years, was removed by the unknown ones in the town of Al Basra and was killed. It would be about the first case of abduction and assassination of a American Journaliste in Iraq since the invasion of the country in March 2003. (Wikinews)

Wednesday August 3rd 2005

Space: light repair of the shuttle Discovery in orbit. (Wikinews)
France: 13 workmen Polish employed in Sous-traitance by the Chantiers of the Atlantic received 30.000 € arrears of Salaire S, after several weeks of claim and a Hunger strike.
Flight Air France 358: no victim in the accident of the Airbus with Toronto. (Wikinews)
Football: Zinedine Zidane announces its team return of France for the last matches qualifiers for the Football world cup 2006. (AFP)
Iraq: the CIA involved Iraqis to destabilize Saddam Hussein since 2002. (AFP)
Mauritania: soldiers, for the majority members of the presidential guard, perpetrated a coup d'etat to Nouakchott by taking the control of the seat of the staff, the radio and television main roads in the absence of the Head of the State Maaouiya Ould Taya left Monday to assist Tuesday with the funeral of the king Fahd. “The armed forces and of safety unanimously decided to put an end to the totalitarian practices of the deposed mode from which our people suffered these last years so much”, explains the army in an official statement. Late in the evening the putschists named Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, a colonel of the army and chief of the national police force, chairs military council. (Wikinews)
Economy: the sporting equipment supplier Adidas announces the repurchase of his competitor Reebok. ('' Le Monde '')
Iran: taking of of the new Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AFP)
Japan: the former chief French of the prestigious hotel of Tōkyō, the Imperial one, Nobuo Murakami, died of one heart attack at the 84 years age.
France: Year Dresser, Novelist and widow of the painter Bernard Buffet, died Wednesday with Paris and was incinerated Friday in the family intimacy with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise.
France: died of the writer and pionnière of the feminist movement of the Seventies, Francoise d' Eaubonne, with Paris. She was 85 years old.
Canada: the sergeant with the retirement Ernest Alvia Smith, died in Vancouver at the 91 years age. He was the last member elect living of the cross of Victoria, the highest medal of courage decreed with a member of the British forces and the Commonwealth.
France, Bayonne: opening of the Fêtes of Bayonne which gather nearly a million and half of visitors.

Thursday August 4th 2005

Israel: a deserting soldier, Jewish extremist, killed four people, of the Christians and the Israeli Moslems, in a bus close to Shfaram in Galileo, before being lynched by crowd.
Greenland: the Denmark sends a patrol boat towards the island Hans to maintain sovereignty Danish on the island, in counterpart with the visit paid on the island the July 25th by the Canadian minister of defense, Bill Graham.
Sciences, Cloning: southern scientists Korea NS have clone the first dog (Wikinews).
Latin America, Political: the president of the Surinam, Ronald Venetiaan has just been re-elected for a third mandate. (SDA-ATS)
Political Canada, : the Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that the journalist Michaëlle Jean will be named general gouverneure, to replace Adrienne Clarkson. (the Duty)
Turkey: two people were killed and four others wounded, in the night with Istanbul, during an explosion whose origin was not given yet. The explosion took place shortly after midnight in the residential district of Pendik, located in the Asian part of the city.
the United States, Economy: the company Lego sold its amusement parks Legoland at the Ameworland company.
Terrorism: in a video diffused by the chain Al-Jazira, the chief-assistant of Al-Qaïda, Ayman al-Zawahiri threat London of more destruction (new terrorist activities), adding that British the Prime Minister Tony Blair of it will be responsible. He also threatens the the United States, in particular Washington of catastrophes worse than than they knew with the Vietnam. Zawahiri in addition showed the American president George W. Bush, the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Secretary of State to Defense Donald Rumsfeld to hide the truth on what occurs in Iraq.
Mauritania: the new mode dissolved the Parliament, while proposing with the government to remain in place, the shortly after a Coup d'etat without bloodshed, condemned by the African Union which suspended this country of its rows and called on a return to “the constitutional order”.
Italy: the brother of the Pope Benoit XVI, Georg Ratzinger, was hospitalized at the Gemelli polyclinic of Rome for cardiac problems. The doctors placed a pacemaker to him. Georg Ratzinger, which is priest, remained with his/her brother with Castel Gandolfo, residence of summer of the pope in the south of Rome.
Russia: Priz, a military bathyscaphe Russian is immobilized on the bottom of a bay of the Kamtchatka with approximately three days of oxygen reserves. The military authorities ensure that they are in a state " normal". To help them, a second similar pocket submarine should be used. During a exercise of routine in the bay Berezovaïa with 75 kilometers in the south of the town of Petropavlovsk-Kamtchatski, the bathyscaphe clung to an object not identified and could not go back to surface. The specialists estimate that the apparatus could cling to a wire rope or a trawl which would have run at this place. Moscow required the assistance of the Japan and the the United States. A Russian ship of rescue succeeded in Friday fixing a cable on the Russian minisubmarine blocked by 190 meters basic in the Pacifique, and going up it towards less deep water.

Friday August 5th 2005

the United States: at the time of the birthday of died of Marilyn Monroe, the former assistant lawyer-general of Los Angeles, John Miner revealed today in the press of the new notes of the confessions of the actress to her psychiatrist which call into question its suicidal character. He would like that a new autopsy is carried out on the actress and thinks that the barbiturates in great amounts found in its body could have been to him managed by someone else.
Ukraine, Scandal: the son of Viktor Iouchtchenko, Andriy, is the exclusive owner of all the royalties of all the merchandizing of the " Orange revolution " , according to the revelations of an Ukrainian newspaper. That would have brought back 81 million euros to him.
Political Brazil, : lawyers ask for the dismissal of the Brazilian president Lula, accused of corruption, in spite of the absence of proof. (Reuters)
Algeria: a Boeing 747 of Air Algérie ensuring a scheduled flight between Algiers and Marseilles made half-turn on the airport of Algiers following an technical incident. The decision taken by the commander to return on Algiers was justified by an alarm indicating an overheating of the sampling system of air to the level of the pylon of the N1 engine. The passengers of the flight were dealt with by the teams of stopover of Air Algérie and re-embarked on a plane of substitution, A-330/200 bound for Marseilles.
Spain: the chief of the Spanish government Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero recovers from a muscular tear to the left leg which it was made yesterday during part of basketball with friends on the island of Lanzarote, with the the Canaries. The president of the government had arrived Wednesday to spend his holidays on the island and to celebrate his 45e birthday yesterday. According to its spokesperson, the wound is not serious and requires only one or two days of rest.
Hungary: Laszlo Solyom became the third president post-Communist at the conclusion of a short ceremony of nomination to the Sandor palate of Budapest. It succeeds Ferenc Madl, whose the five years mandate expired Thursday at midnight. 63 years old, he was elected by the Parliament with the third ballot the June 7th, on a proposal from the principal party of the opposition of center-right, which caused a political crisis within the coalition of center-left to the capacity.
Uganda: the president Uganda is Yoweri Museveni affirmed that the death of the former chief rebels Sudan board John Garang was perhaps not “not” an accident, thus contradicting the official version. A commission of international survey was installation at the Sudan, composed of the Uganda, of the Kenya, the the United States, the Canada and the Russia.
France, Drome: two people were killed in the crash landing of a Hélicoptère with Treschenu-Creyers.
the United States: the president of the American Supreme court , William Rehnquist, which suffers from a Cancer of the Thyroïde, was briefly hospitalized for a fever at the hospital of Arlington in Virginia.
Morocco: a boat of clandestine immigrants made shipwreck with Tarfaya in the south of the country making of 23 dead. The victims are probably originating in sub-Saharan Africa. Two survivors, a Mali in and a Senegal board were challenged and a judicial enquiry was open.
Germany: a Italy N armed with a knife wounded eight people, including four seriously in a crammed bus of Munich. The man was finally stopped. It proved to be drunk and unable to explain its gesture.
Ecuador: at the time of a press conference and with the general surprise, the Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio was ready to leave the capacity if the calls to its resignation multiply on behalf of the population.
France: died of Monseigneur Jean Dardel, former highly skilled bishop of Clermont-Ferrand. It is deceased with Toulouse at the 86 years age.

Saturday August 6th 2005

Latin America, Media: Telesur, a television channel which has just been created by the countries of Latin America in order to thwart the media hegemony of other international large chains has problems. Officially launched on July 24th, the chain is inalienable in certain countries and is diffused only very partially in others.
the United Kingdom: died of the British former minister of the Foreign affairs, Robin Cook, after having had a faintness at the time of an excursion in the mountains of the north of the Scotland. It was 59 years old.
France: 19 people were poisoned of which certain seriously in the fire of a motor coach of subway at the Simplon station, with Paris.
Italy: a plane of the Tuninter company, a subsidiary company of Tunis Air, with 34 passengers on board all of Italian nationality, and five Tunisian team members, carried out an emergency sea landing with broad of Palermo. The apparatus, a ATR 42 of Tunisair, connected Bari to Jerba in Tunisia. According to news agency ANSA, quoting a prosecutor of Palermo, 13 bodies were recovered, 3 people are reported missing. The official number of survivors is established to 23 of which several seriously wounded. The twin-engined turboprop jet “had problems of engine and tried to carry out an emergency landing with the airport of Palermo and had to land on sea in the sea”, declared the spokesperson of ENAV, the Italian Civil aviation. The reasons of the accident were not yet known.
History: there is sixty years, with 8:15, Enola Gay released “Little Boy” on Hiroshima. The world had just entered the nuclear era. Three days later, Nagasaki underwent the same fate.
Nuclear Iran, : Teheran disallowed the proposals for a co-operation of three European countries (who negotiate in the name of the European Union), the Germany, the France and the Great Britain, considering them unacceptable.
Space: the Space shuttle Discovery désarrimée International space station as envisaged in the mission STS-114. It will return on Ground Monday.
China: more than one million people were evacuated before the arrival of the Matsa typhoon on the south-eastern coast of the country. The typhoon already caused the death of at least a person and destroyed several of the buildings. After having poured torrential rains on Taiwan, the typhoon arrived on the continental China close to the town of Yuhuan in the province of the Zhejiang, where the authorities carried out evacuations of mass. It is with approximately 300 kilometers in the south of Shanghai and should pass to the west of the city. Some 20 million inhabitants of Shanghai received for instruction to remain on their premises and to take precautions against the possible remains flights. The two airports of the city were closed.
Cuba: died of the singer Cuba in Ibrahim Ferrer, one of the most famous members of the mythical musical group Buena Vista Social Club, in the medico-surgical Center of Investigations of Havana where it had been allowed a few days ago for symptoms of gastroentérite whereas it returned from a one month round in Europe. It was 78 years old.
Latvia: died of the poetess and novelist Vizma Belsevica, one of the Latvian authors most known, at the 74 years age of the continuations of a long illness.
the United States: died of the colonel Joseph Rogers, legend of American aviation which flew fighters during three wars and always has the speed records for a plane with single engine. He died in Healdsburg at the 81 years age.
Italy: a Airliner ATR -72 of the company Tuninter, which ensured the connection Jerba - Bari and which transported 38 people on board, fell at sea to broad from the Sicily. 23 survivors, 13 died, 3 missings.

Sunday August 7th 2005

Zambia: Zambia extradited Haroon Rashid Aswad towards the Great Britain where it is suspecté of complicity in the Attentats of July 7th, 2005 in London.
Russia: rescue successful of Priz, this military bathyscaphe Russian immobilized on the bottom of a bay of the Kamtchatka in the Peaceful since the August 4th. The cables which retained it under water with 190 meters of depth, were divided by Scorpio, a submarine robot British dispatched on the spot. The seven members all of the crew are healthy and safe.
Israel: resignation of the Israeli minister of Finances and former Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahou because of its opposition to the retirement scheme of the Gaza Strip. It is Ehud Olmert which replaces it.
Mauritania: the Prime Minister Sghair Ould Me Bareck presented his resignation and that of his government.
Germany: a big fire devastated Schloss Hôtel of Elmau, luxury hotel of the the German Alps close to the ski station of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Ten people, including two firemen, were slightly wounded. The fire would have been caused by a defective electric cover. New Observateur
China: 123 minors are blocked in one of shafts mine Daxing the coal close to the town of Xingning, in the province of Guangdong.
France: five people, including four children, were poisoned by chlorine emanations to the public swimming pool of Saint-Amand-the-Water involving the evacuation of the 40 people who were there. The five poisoned people were transported to the hospital to be placed in observation there. Twenty-eight other people were examined on the spot. The swimming pool was closed and the ventilated buildings. One is unaware of the origin of the problem.
Chad: cabinet reshuffle, 15 ministers leave the government.
Mauritania: Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, former ambassador of Mauritania in France was named at the post of Prime Minister by the chief of the junta, the colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall. The new chief of the government, old 49 years, had returned Saturday of France, where it served like Ambassadeur since 2004.
France: the president of FN Jean-Marie Le Pen affirmed Sunday that it had “all the chances” to be, as in 2002, present at the second turn of the presidential election of 2007 but this time vis-a-vis the left-wing candidate. According to its forecasts, the line will count, in addition to itself, several candidates with the first turn: “a candidate chiraquien, the current president Jacques Chirac or the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, as well as the president of the UMP Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of the UDF Francois Bayrou and chairs it MPF Philippe de Villiers. On the left, there are far too many elephant calves but they have the spirit of conservation. They will not go to the fight and will prefer to choose a neutral candidate”, it added by quoting the name of the Socialist Ségolène Royal. He in addition said himself persuaded to obtain 500 sponsorships of necessary elected officials to his entry on the lists.
the United States: died of the American journalist , presenter high-speed motorboat of the chain ABC, Peter Jennings, of the continuations of a Cancer of the lungs. It was 67 years old.

Monday August 8th 2005

Iran: Teheran takes again the conversion of the Uranium to its factory of Ispahan under the monitoring of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
China: an explosion with gas in a coal mine Wanzi located at Liupanshui, in the province of Guizhou made at least 14 died and 2 missings. Twenty-three minors succeeded in leaving the mine after the explosion.
Japan: the Japanese government decided to dissolve the Room of the Parliament, thus allowing anticipated elections. The Prime Minister Jun' ichirō Koizumi convened an extraordinary meeting of his cabinet shortly after the rejection by the Senate of the privatization of the Japanese Post office. The anticipated legislative elections will take place the September 11th.
Space: the return of '' Discovery '' within the framework of the mission STS-114 was deferred to Tuesday, August 9 because of an unfavourable weather in Florida putting an end to the rumor on the fact that the set of tires of the landing gear of the shuttle is mark Michelin. That thus made last suspense around this first landing of an American space shuttle since the disintegration of '' Columbia '' in 2003. (AFP)
Turkey: at least two people died and six others were wounded in a suspect explosion with Istanbul.
Spain: 18 people were hospitalized because of the heatwave which has touched the country for several weeks.
Brazil: burglars concealed during the weekend at least 150 million reals (52 million euros) to the seat of the Central bank with Fortaleza.
Palestine: an high ranking official of the Palestinian Autorité revealed that the suspicions whereby the former president Yasser Arafat would have been poisoned were confirmed by the special subcommittee in a medical report/ratio.
Spain: two foreigners of the same sex will be able to marry if one of them resides in the country. Their union will be valid even if no legislation of their country allows such marriages.
Germany: a fire which was declared in the stair-well of a residential building of four stages of Berlin made nine died including five children and 50 wounded of which 25 were hospitalized, fifteen is in a serious condition. The police force suspects a criminal gesture and opened an investigation.
the United States: Eleanor Cook and Ray Hultman, two of sworn which discharged Michael Jackson stated on an American chain to regret their decision and affirm that they voted like the others after being threatened of exclusion by the president of the jury. They must each one publish a book on the lawsuit.
France: died with Turns of the writer Algeria N Jamal Eddine Bencheikh, of the continuations of a cancer. He was a large specialist in the Arab world and Arab poetry and large poet himself. He was 75 years old.
China: a Fermier 42 years suffering from a Lung cancer exploded a bends artisanal in a Autobus with Fuzhou (Fujian), killing and wounding at least 31 people.

Canada/Denmark: according to Danish the Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Canada would agree to negotiate with the Denmark the litigation which opposes them on the sovereignty of the island Hans. This negotiation will be held in margin of the General meeting of the United Nations next September.

France: died of the actor French Paul Persson at the 74 years age, the Saint-Louis hospital with Paris.
the United States: died of the American Actress Barbara Bel Geddes with Northeast Harbor of a Cancer of the Lung at the 82 years age.

Tuesday August 9th 2005

Iran: the directory of IAEA met this afternoon to discuss the Nucléaire Iran IEN.
History: sixty years ago, to 11 H2, three days after Hiroshima, Nagasaki was the target of “Fat Man” the second atomic bomb released by the American bomber Bock' S Because .
Space: the space shuttle '' Discovery '' was posed in California because of the bad weather in Florida. Discovery was posed with 5:12 local (12. 12 GMT, 14:12 hour of Paris).
Iraq: the mayor of Baghdad Alaa Al-Timimi was dismissed by the provincial council and the management of the capital Iraq ienne was entrusted to the governor of the province. The provincial council indicated Jaber Al-Issawi to become the next mayor.
France: died of the former French athlete Colette Besson. This morning with 10:30 with La Rochelle of the continuations of a Cancer, at the 59 years age. She was Olympic champion of the 400 meters with Mexico City in October 1968. Its funerals will be celebrated Friday at 3 p.m. with the cathedral of La Rochelle.
Corsica: a 48 meters length yacht ran aground about thirty kilometers in the north of Ajaccio, where it with half is immersed. Part of its 70.000 liters of fuel started to be spread in the sea. The tug boat Abeille Flanders is awaited on the spot.
the United States: old the American Actress Dana Reeve, widow of the American Actor Christopher Reeve deceased in October 2004, revealed that she suffered from a Cancer of the Poumon. This revelation intervenes at two days later of the death, of the continuations of the same disease, the presenter high-speed motorboat Peter Jennings, a disappearance which caused the emotion in all the country.
UNO: the Austria will present its candidature to obtain a seat of not-permanent member to the Safety advice of the United Nations for 2009, 2010. The Turkey and the Iceland them also will present their candidature for a seat for the same period. The Austria, which is a neutral country, was already twice not-permanent member of the Safety advice, in 1973 and 74 and in 91 and 92.
the United States: died of the Pianist and Type-setter of blues Emery Williams Jr with Chicago at the 73 years age.
the United States: died of the American writer Judith Rossner, which was a great success with the novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar , adapted to the cinema in a film with Diane Keaton. She died in the medical center of the university of New York, the cause of the death not being in the immediate future given. She was 70 years old.
Swiss: died of François Paves, former chairman of the group French of cosmetics L'Oreal of 1957 with 1984, at the 87 years age to Geneva where it resided since many years.

Brazil: with Fortaleza, 156 million réaux was catch in the Banco Exchange C Brasil.
the United States: the space shuttle Discovery lands without encumber on the basis of Edwards in California.

Wednesday August 10th 2005

France, Weather: fourteen departments were placed in orange alert because of the risk of violent one storms accompanied by strong gusts by wind, of hail as well as strong intensities of rain being able to punctually exceed 50 liters with the square meter in a few hours. They are those of the Ariège, of the Aude, the Aveyron, the Gers, the Haute-Garonne, the Hautes-Pyrénées, the Herault, the Landes, the Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, the Yrénées-Atlantiques, the the Eastern Pyrenees, the Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne.
the United States: a fire burst in the night in a chemical plant of Romulus in the suburbs of Detroit. The inhabitants were invited to evacuate their houses in a radius of one kilometer insofar as released smoke could be dangerous.
China: the number of minors blocked in a flooded mine was revalued by the first-aid workers, who estimate at 122 the number of men for which it remains only little of hope of survival three days after the disaster, whereas the body of a minor was discovered and re-installed on the surface. Only four minors succeeded in escaping after the flood Sunday from a gallery from 480 meters under ground, in the province of Guangdong.
Iran: floods make at least 20 dead in the North-East of the country.
Italy: a A320 Airbus of the company Italy Volare with 158 passengers and six team members on his board carried out an emergency landing this morning with 11:21 (9. 21 GMT) with the Linate airport of Milan from where it had just taken off bound for Catane in Sicily. No casualty was announced. He landed after the pilot had announced problems with the landing gear.
Estonia: a helicopter with two pilots and 12 passengers on board damaged at sea Baltique with broad capital Estonia. Sikorsky-76 accomplished a scheduled flight between Tallin and Helsinki in Finland when it was damaged at sea for a still unspecified reason with some five kilometers off the coasts. One is unaware of still the fate of the 12 passengers and the two team members. The tail of the helicopter was still out of water when the helps arrived on the spot but the remainder of the apparatus was immersed. The origin of the crash landing is still unspecified. A storm in the sector had constrained the ship-owners to cancel the last ferries between Tallin and Helsinki. According to the Prime Minister |Estonian, Andrus Ansip there is little hope to find survivors.
Iraq: armed men removed in full center of Baghdad the general Khoudayer Abbas who occupies the office of the administrative businesses to the ministry for the Interior.
Italy: the remainders of the Journalist Italy N Enzo Baldoni, removed and assassinated in August 2004 by the Islamic army in Iraq, were identified thanks to tests DNA.
France: died of Sophie Vidal, known in the medium tauromachic nîmois, at the time of a votive festival in the village Cailar in the Gard, when the horse drawing the cart where it was packed, it was seriously wounded with the head while falling. She died at the Lapeyronie hospital of Montpellier where she had been transported by helicopter. She had supported with her Jean-Pierre husband the bullfighters French during their difficult emergence in the Seventies. She was 58 years old.
the United States: a truck transporting nearly 16 tons of explosives was turned over and jumped on a highway of the Utah in the west of the country, making 19 wounded.

Thursday August 11th 2005

the United Kingdom: Abou Qatada was stopped with the the United Kingdom. He is often regarded as the right-hand man of Bin Laden in Europe.
French Guiana Kourou: the rocket ARIANE 5 placed on orbit Thaicom-4 Ipstar, the largest telecommunications satellite (6,5 tons) ever built.
Sudan: Salva Kiir Mayardit was invested with the Sudanese vice-presidency to replace John Garang, died in an accident of helicopter the last July 30th.
Central Africa: a boat transporting approximately 150 people made shipwreck, there would be deaths and missings.
Iran: forty people were killed since Tuesday in floods due to strong rains.
Italy: an apparatus of the Greek company Alexandair carried out an emergency landing with the airport of Milan without making victims.
Iraq: Al-Qaïda threat to kill whoever will take part in the development of the Constitution or the referendum for its adoption.
Peru: resignation of the Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero.
France: died of the painter French Gerard Tolck, of the continuations of one cancer at the hospital of La Chaux-de-Fonds at the 62 years age.

Canada: discusses around the nomination of Michaëlle Jean at the station of General governor of Canada. The Globe and Mail and the Duty published the declarations of a personal friend of the husband of Michaëlle Jean which supports that the couple is very close to the souverainists and even some ex-felquists.
Kourou, French Guiana: takeoff and mission successful for ARIANE 5 which manages to put on orbit the heaviest communications satellite ever built.

Friday August 12th 2005

Brazil: the police force Brésil ienne found in a van a small portion of the 165 million reals (56,4 million euros) stolen in one of the greatest break-ins of the history at the Central bank of Fortaleza, with nearly 2.000 kilometers of the place of the vol. On the indications of a dealer of cars intrigued by the payment of one of its cars in liquid, the police officers stopped with Belo Horizonte a conveying truck of cars, of which a van containing 1 million reals (352 000 euros) in small cuts.
China: the bad weather made at least 900 died since the beginning of the rain season at the end of May according to the Croix-Rouge and 1.200 tourists are taken with the trap by a landslide.
the United States: Matthew McGrory, the American Actor of 2 meters 13 which had incarnated a good giant in film of Tim Burton Big Fish in 2003, died at the 32 years age of natural causes in its residence of Los Angeles.
the United States: The largest Martian space probe built by the man, called Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched by NASA thanks to a launcher Atlas V. It will begin its scientific expedition in November 2006. On this date, four orbiteurs will be in activity around red planet.
Sri Lanka: the minister Sri Lankian of the Foreign affairs, Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73 years and resulting from the ethnic minority tamoule, was the target of two marksmen not identified, in front of his residence with Colombo. Touched to the head, it was transported urgently to the national hospital of Colombo in a serious condition to undergo there an surgical operation little time after it succumbed to its wounds. The Sri Lankian army shows the rebels of the Tigers tamouls to have perpetrated this assassination.
France: died of Claire Quilliot, widow of old the Senator - Mayor of Clermont-Ferrand, Roger Quilliot. She was found this morning drowned in a pond close to Saint-Avit in the Puy-de-Dôme. She probably committed suicide, of the empty boxes of sleeping pills were found on the banks of the pond. She was 79 years old.
Swiss: died of the Pianist and Belgian Type-setter Francy Boland with Geneva at the 76 years age.
Finland, the French Ladji Doucouré is world champion of the 110m hedges to Helsinki.

Saturday August 13rd 2005

Sri Lanka: the Sri Lankian president Chandrika Kumaratunga issued the state of emergency a few hours after the assassination of the Foreign Minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, for which the rebels for the Tamouls Tigers would be responsible. This assassination puts in danger a fragile peace process between the two parts. (Wikinews)
Data-processing, Internet: Google suspends its numerical project of books. (Wikinews)
the United States: an immense fire already devastated more than 19.000 hectares in the south-east of the State of Washington and destroyed more than 100 houses. Vis-a-vis many fires which burst in the East this State, the governor of the State, Christine Gregoire, issued the state of emergency Thursday.
Iraq: Al-Qaïda threat to kill all Imam which would invite to take part in the Référendum on the Constitution.
Kenya: 13 people died in a collision between a bus and a truck charged with cement between Nairobi and Nakuru.
Italy: 2 people died in the crash landing of a ULM in Calabria.
New Zealand: died of the former Prime Minister New Zealand David Lange, at the 63 years age. It directed its country of 1984 to 1989.

Sunday August 14th 2005

Greece: a Boeing 737 with the number of flight HCW 502 of the Cypriot company Helios Airways, with 115 passengers on board whose 48 children and 6 team members coming from Larnaca in Cyprus was crushed not on a mountain of the peninsula of Eubée, like the tower of control of the airport of Athens had initially indicated it but on a zone not inhabited to Varnava, with 40km of Athens. The Boeing was to rejoin after a stopover with Athens, Brno in Czech Republic. Little before it is crushed, the airport had lost any contact with the apparatus, two military aircrafts had been sent in recognition and had located it flying above the peninsula of Eubée but saw one of the pilots folded into two in the cockpit. The police force privileges the thesis of the accident within sight of a last message sent by the pilot giving a report on a breakdown of pressurization. According to the chief of the Greek firemen, there is no survivor. 119 bodies were found for the majority partially calcined. More information…
France: a single-seater, which took part in an operation on a fire with Sérignan, close to Béziers, in the Herault, was damaged at sea for unknown reasons. The pilot succeeded in being extracted from the plane but died shortly after of an heart attack. The rescue squads did not succeed in reanimating it.
Germany: a plane of British Airways with 45 passengers on board slipped beyond the track with Hanover without making victims.
Gaza Strip: Removal of Mohammed Ouathi, technician of France 3 by men armed in the town of Gaza.

Monday August 15th 2005

Egypt: an explosion occurs close to a military airport used by the Multinational force and the observers of the the United Nations close to Rafah in the peninsula of the the Sinai in the North-East of the country. The explosion would be due to the explosion of a mine under a vehicle or to an gas explosion.
Gaza Strip: the French authorities require the “immediate liberation” of Mohammed Ouathi, a taker of sound of the television channel France 3 removed the day before with Gaza. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (France) specifies that the taker of sound was in company of a journalist and a cameraman of France 3. Removal was made by several men whereas the team of the French television channel regained her hotel at the end of the evening to Gaza.
Cyprus: Cyprus declared three days of mourning national whereas the flags are put in Bern Tuesday in all the Greece after the terrible air crash which because death yesterday of 115 passengers and six team members.
Iraq: the president of the Parliament Iraq IEN Hashim Al-Hassani announced that the charged commission of written the Constitution had not managed an general agreement. He asked the members of Parliament to amend the provisional constitutional charter in order to leave one week additional to the commission of drafting of the Constitution. Unanimously, the Parliament voted yes.
Gaza Strip: Israel officially launched the process D `evacuation of the Gaza Strip and blocked L `access to the Jewish colonies of this occupied territory. It gave 48 hours to the remaining colonists to leave or be evacuated of force.
the United States: died of James Dougherty, first husband of the Actress Marilyn Monroe. It is deceased of a cancer with San Rafael in California at the 84 years age.
Venezuela: a small plane of the company vénézuélienne Wayumi Entreprises with 11 passengers on board was forced to land urgently with Caracas because of engineering problems. The plane connected San Juan de Manapriere to Puerto Ayacucho. A woman died.

Tuesday August 16th 2005

Venezuela: an airliner was crushed between 3:30 local (7. 30 GMT) and 3:45 (7. 45 GMT) in the mountainous area of Sierra of Perija, in the west of the country, with 152 passengers on board of which a child all of French nationality living the Martinique and eight team members of nationality Colombia. The plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 of the company Colombia West Caribbean Airways, connected the Panamá to the Martinique. It had announced problems of engine to the tower of control of Caracas shortly after 3 local times (7 hours GMT) and had asked for the authorization of urgently be posed with the airport Maracaibo. There is no survivor.
France: following the air crash to the Venezuela, Jacques Chirac made share in an official statement of its sharp emotion after this accident of which “were victims a very great number of French” and “asked François Baroin, Minister for Outre-mer, to go immediately” in Martinique. An crisis cell is reachable to the 0.800.174 174 and one interdepartmental cell of crisis was installation. Many foreign governments expressed their solidarity with the French authorities.
Japan: a powerful seism a magnitude of 7,2 on the scale of Richter shook the North-East of the country, making at least 56 wounded. The victims were listed in four prefectures: Miyagi (28), Iwate (9), Fukushima (5) and Saitama (4). The most serious incident took place with Sendai, a city of more than one million inhabitants to approximately 300 kilometers in the north of Tōkyō, when the roof of a sports complex partially crumbled: 19 people were wounded, including one seriously. The jolt was followed 18 minutes later of a very light Tsunami, a 10 centimetres height only. Alarm with the Raz-de-marée was then raised, but the weather Agency Japan ease prevented that strong seismic counterparts, a magnitude of 5 or more, could occur in the next days. The epicentre of the jolt, which took place with 11:46 local (2. 46 GMT), is located at 20 kilometers under the ocean with 80 kilometers at broad of the Préfecture of Miyagi in the island of Honshū.
Germany, Cologne: official beginning of the world Days of youth 2005.
Greece: one of the seven medical examiners of the Mortuary of Athens announced that the autopsies practiced on twenty body of the victims of the Cypriot plane whose steward showed that they were alive at the time of the crash landing. It specified that the autopsies showed that the hearts and the lungs of the victims functioned when the apparatus of the Helios company was crushed with 121 people on her board. There is no survivor. “The steward was alive and died of the wounds” undergone at the time of the crash landing, said the doctor.
Afghanistan: a helicopter pertaining to the international force of safety was crushed, killing 12 soldiers and five team members all of Spanish nationalities . There would be no survivor.
France: Jean-Pierre Raffarin declares officially candidate with the senatorial ones.
Peru: the president Alejandro Toledo chose the leaving Minister for Finance, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, to become Prime Minister, five days after the fall of the government caused by the discussed nomination of an unpopular ally. Its number two with Finances Fernando Zavala should take the head of the ministry which it gives up.
the United States: Coretta Scott King, 78 years, the widow of the leader of the movement for the civic rights to the the United States, Martin Luther King, assassinated in 1968, was hospitalized at the Piedmont hospital of Atlanta for a not specified reason, one learned from medical source.
France, Taizé: Frère Roger, founder of the the Community of Taizé, was assassinated of three stabs by faithful whereas it celebrated a religious service. According to the first elements of the investigation, an young woman of Rumanian origin and 36 years old rose during the ceremony to which 2.500 people assisted and it carried by behind three stabs to the throat of the monk, who died on the blow. She then was controlled by the other faithful ones and was placed as a police custody in the buildings of the gendarmerie of Tournus, in Saône-et-Loire. Frère Roger was 90 years old. Its funerals will take place the Tuesday August 23rd with Taizé at 2 p.m. in the church of the Reconciliation.
Colombia: the navy announced that of 94 people were reported missing in the shipwreck from an Ecuadorian boat which transported illegal immigrants in the Pacifique. A fishing vessel succeeded in collecting only seven men and two women. The shipwreck occurred with more than 160 kilometers to broad of the country.
Aeronautical: At the time of the aeronautical Living room Maks 2005 in Russia, the space manufacturer RRK Energia presented the program Kliper, which must take its take-off in 2011 to succeed the American Space shuttle. In addition, European group EADS announced the acquisition of 10% of the capital of the firm IRKOUT, manufacturer of the planes Soukhoï.
Political France, : the party Hunting, fishing, nature and traditions (CPNT) for introducing a candidate to the presidential of 2007, affirms its president Jean Saint-Jose who represented the movement with the presidential last and which does not make application form.

Wednesday August 17th 2005

Bangladesh: approximately 350 bombs exploded in the country in quasi simultaneous attacks asserted by islamist militants of the group Jamayetul Mujahideen according to leaflets found on the spot. The bombs exploded in the near total of the 64 main cities and localities of the country between 10:30 and 11:30 (between 4:30 and 5:30 GMT), including 20 with Chittagong, large port of the south-east of the country, 15 in the capital Dacca, 9 with Barisal and at least six with Khulna. The bombs “were of low power, of manufacture artisanal and intended to create panic”. Two people died and hundred others were wounded.
Iraq: three car bombs exploded in the center of Baghdad, making at least 43 died and 40 wounded. A first car exploded towards 7:45 (3. 45 GMT) in the station of bus Al-Nahda and the second, ten minutes later, with the entry of the station which serves the provinces Shiite of the south of the country. The third attack took place with about fifteen meters of the entry of the service of the urgencies of the hospital.
Venezuela: following the air crash, one has learned by the spokesperson from the company West Caribbean, owner of the apparatus, that a woman of French nationality , originating in Martinique, did not embark at the beginning of Panamá. That one or more family members close to the interior inhabitant of Martinique of the team of France of basketball Sandra Dijon belong to the victims of the crash landing, that four close relations of the mayor of the common inhabitant of Martinique of Francois, Maurice Antiste, died in the accident, that a couple inhabitant of Martinique living with Vauréal in the Val-d'Oise, belonged to the victims and that sixteen paid general Case of the Social security of Martinique appear among the victims.
Greece: an older child of 5 or 6 years which was on board the Cypriot Boeing which was crushed in Greece was still in life after the plane was crushed against an mountainous area of the north of Athens, brought back Greek television quoting a medical examiner.
France: four people were seriously wounded in an amusement park of Saint-Paul, close to Beauvais. The nacelle was taken down at the time of a loop of attraction “Loop” towards 13:40. The identity of the victims and the nature of the wounds were not communicated. One of the victims, which was in a state considered to be serious, was transported by helicopter towards the hospital of Beauvais. The horse-gear was placed under seals for the needs for the investigation.
Gaza Strip: Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said himself very touched by the images of Jewish settlers evacuated of the Gaza Strip. He underlined the " efforts" Palestinian to maintain the calm one, but announced the continuation and the development of colonization in the West Bank.
Tunisia: rehandling partial in the government of the president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

Abdelwahab Abdallah: Foreign Minister to replace Abdelbaki Hermassi.
Rafaa Dékhil : Minister for the Communications and the relations with the House of Commons and the room of the advisers.
Ali Chaouch: Minister for the social Affairs, solidarity and Tunisian abroad to replace Rafaa Dékhil.
Kamel Morjane : Minister for National defense to replace Hédi Me neighed.
Raouf Najjar : Minister for Education and training to replace Sadok Korbi.
Taïeb Hadhri : Minister for the Scientific research, the technology and the development of competences to replace Raouf Najjar.
Dali Jazi: Economic and Social Council chairs.

Greece: according to the Greek media quoting of the government sources, Andreas Prodromou, a 25 year old steward, who had a license of piloting, would have tried to save the Cypriot Boeing before it is crushed. It would have taken the orders and would have reduced the plane 11.000 meters of altitude to approximately 2.000 meters trying to make it land, but it would have been too late because the 737 would not have had apparently more fuel, because the aircraft had flown twice a long time than the normal way between Cyprus and Greece. The Greek authorities refused to comment on this information.
France: died of the Historian French Barthelemy Amengual with Valence at the 85 years age.

Thursday August 18th 2005

Morocco: the freedom fighters of the Front Polisario, which militates for the independence of the the Western Sahara, announced the release of their 404 Moroccan prisoners. They must be escorted with Agadir by the Croix-Rouge.
France, PS: in a maintenance with the Nouvel Observateur , the socialist Michel Rocard declares that “at the end of the congress of Mans, there will be a minority, which will have to be subjected or be dislocated (…) The worst would be to remain in confusion”. According to him, “it is necessary to regulate this debate centenary between pseudo Marxiste S and true reformists (…) We should have sanctioned those which transgressed our group decisions at the time of the referendum of May 29th”. Qualifying the possible candidature of Laurent Fabius for the presidential of 2007 of “deeply opportunist”, it estimates that it “would perhaps be necessary to consider the creation of a new party”, in case change of majority at the time of the congress. “If the PS made the error to destroy the most credible candidate whom it has, it would be a political catastrophe” rétorqué Jean-Luc Mélenchon to him.
France, Agriculture: on the initiative of the agricultural trade union MODEF, producers of Fruit S and vegetables organized a sale at cost price in Paris (place of the Bastille) and in Paris region to denounce the margins practiced by the Large distribution.
France: fifteen Docker S and a warehouseman of the Port authority of Bordeaux, which continued their employers for “inexcusable fault” for occupational diseases due to the Amiante, obtained win in front of the court of the social Affairs of the Gironde. “That creates a jurisprudence. Never in a file of this type, the whole of the dockers had not gained” was pleased their lawyer Me Sirgue.
Germany, Cologne: arrival of Benoit XVI with the XXe world Days of youth 2005.
Saudi Arabia: one of islamist most required of the country, Saleh Al-Aoufi, was killed Thursday by the police force with Médine. It would have replaced Abdel Aziz Al-Mouqrin, the local leader of Al-Qaeda, cuts down the June 18th 2004 with Riyadh.
Hungary: a Airbus A300 of the company Fly Air, with 293 passengers and 11 team members, coming from Istanbul and on the way for Brussels, had to carry out an emergency landing with Budapest after the breakdown of the one of its two engines. It was posed without difficulties and no casualty is to be regretted. One is unaware of for the time being what could cause the breakdown of the engine.
the United States: the Actrice Eva Longoria was wounded during the turning of the Televised series to success Desperate Housewives with Pasadena in the north of Los Angeles. It received an element of decoration on the head and lost consciousness, it was evacuated urgently towards a hospital which it then could leave. The state of the boyfriend of the basketball player French of the San Antonio Spurs Tony Parker did not inspire any concern.
Greece: 26 of the 121 bodies of the victims of the accident of the Boeing 737 -300 of the Cypriot company Helios Airways were identified. The investigation is directed towards a breakdown of the system of oxygen pressurization and supply.
Colombia: a military aircraft of Hercules type of the company Colombia West Caribbean Airway transporting 180 passengers was forced to land urgently with Bogota following engineering problems. The plane connected the island of San Andres, in the the Caribbean with Medellin.
Hungary: a Airbus A300 of the Turkish company Fly Air carried out an emergency landing with Budapest with 293 passengers and a crew of 11 people on board after a breakdown of the one of its two engines. The incident did not make of casualty. It connected Istanbul in Turkey to Brussels in Belgium.
the United States: Coretta Scott King, the widow of the leader of the movement for the civic rights to the the United States, Martin Luther King, assassinated in 1968, was victim of an heart attack followed by an important concussion, but it is " completely consciente" , a doctor of the hospital announced where it was taken of load Tuesday. A blood clot was formed in its heart before being placed in an artery of the brain, weakening all its right-sided. It cannot speak any more but " it is completely consciente" and it should cure completely after a few days of rehabilitation at the Piedmont hospital of Atlanta.

Friday August 19th 2005

Turkey: PKK (Left the workers of the Kurdistan) calls its military arm, Hezen Parastina Gel (popular defense forces) to observe a one month truce, until the September 20th 2005.
Germany, Religion: at the time of a visit in a Synagog of Cologne, in margin of JMJ, the pope Benoît XVI warned against a resurgence of the Antisémitisme.
Germany: islamist Marocain Mounir Al-Motassadeq is condemned to 7 years of prison by the Court of Appeal of Hamburg, instead of 15 years in first authority, for complicity with the authors of the Attentats of September 11th, 2001 to New York and Washington.
Israel: three rockets were drawn towards the ship US states-unien Ashland, moored in the port of Aqaba, but it was not touched. A group related to the terrorist network Al-Qaeda asserted the attack.
Burundi: the former rebellious chief of the majority ethnos group Hutu E, Pierre Nkurunziza, was elected president of Burundi by the Parliament joined together in the capital Bujumbura.
Pharmacy: the laboratory Merck lost its first lawsuit of civil responsibility brought against its Anti-inflammatoire Vioxx. Considered to be guilty of negligence in the death of a Texan in 2001, the jury condemned Merck to pour 229 million dollars of “punitive damage” and 24 million dollars of allowances to the family of the victim. The group appealed. More than four thousand other complaints were deposited against Merck.
Great Britain: the chief of Scotland Yard excluded to resign after the revelations embarrassing on the conditions of died by error of Jean Charles de Menezes. “I will not resign I have a work to make” declared Ian Blair. The person at the origin of the revelations was suspended.
Polynesia: the strikers of the GIP and their leader Rere Puputauki, near to Gaston Flosse, raised the stoppings which blocked the access to fuel stocks, following an ultimatum of Oscar Temaru.
the Northern Marianna Islands, Guam: a Boeing 747 of the company Northwest, coming from the international airport of Narita, with the Japan was victim of a dysfunction of its main landing gear. 318 passengers, for the majority of the Japan board, and 16 team members were on board. Two people at least were wounded.
France: a chartered plane of the company Astreus with 144 passengers on board has lands urgently with Brest following difficulties concerning a valve touching the system of pressurization. It connected the island of Minorque to Leeds Bradford in Great Britain.

Saturday August 20th 2005

France, Ardeche: a Tracker S-2FT was crushed killing the two pilots engaged in the fight against a forest fire on the commune of Valgorge. It is the third accident this summer in France of a fighter of fire after that of another Tracker the July 19th close to Draguignan and which its pilot had left himself there unscathed, and that of a Canadair in the Corsica, killing its two pilots.
Health: vis-a-vis fears of dissemination of the epidemic of Avian flu, today presents to the mountains of the the Ural with the passage of migratory birds, certain countries take precautions. The Netherlands thus decided to make confine all the poultries raised in the open air.
Palestine: the president of the Palestinian Autorité Mahmoud Abbas fixed the date of the legislative elections, envisaged in July 2005, with the January 25th 2006. He will oppose in particular the Fatah, of president Abbas, with the Hamas.
Great Britain: following the polemic on the murder by error of Jean Charles de Menezes, Scotland Yard modified its procedure of “authorization to kill”; the details were not revealed. Scotland Yard contradicted to have proposed a million dollars to the family of the victim, published by the Daily Mail before admitting having proposed the sum of 15.000 books (22 157 euros).
Indonesia: The president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered an investigation into the gigantic power failure which left 100 million people without current.
Science: The Handwritten of Albert Einstein, titrated " Ideal quantum theory off the monatomic gas" (Condensate of Bump-Einstein), gone back to December 1924 was discovered in the files of the Lorenz institute of the Université of Leyde. This theory is regarded as one of the greatest discoveries of Einstein. Illustrations.

Sunday August 21st 2005

Germany: at the time of a mass to the world Days of youth 2005, the pope Benoît XVI explained in its Homélie in German, English, Italian and French, that the Catholicisme is not a “religion with the chart” whose faithful ones can scorn the most constraining aspects, incentive in particular with assiduity with the Sunday Messe and with words covered with the observance of the moral and sexual doctrines of the Church. He criticized also a “boom of the monk” accompanying “the lapse of memory by God” and announced the place of next JMJ: Sydney in 2008.
France: end this evening of the operation Paris-Beach which gathered 3,8 million visitors, in light retreat compared to 2004 because of the whims of the weather.
France, Socialist party: at the time of the traditional Festival of the Rose of Frangy-in-Bresse, Arnaud Montebourg stated “To transform and regenerate our party around the projects of the voluntary left (…) can pass only by the construction of a new majority (…) It is impossible to build something with Holland, it led us to two disasters, that of 2002 and that of 2005”. “the merchants of scission are mistaken” answering Michel Rocard and inviting his comrades with dealing more with fighting the UMP. Invited honor, Hubert Védrine said that one should not “not give up our ambitions, even our dreams for Europe, but give again a base to them and redefine a method”.
Japan: a seism magnitude 5 on the scale of Richter made two slightly injureds in the North-East of the country. The epicentre of the jolt to 11:29 (2h29 GMT) was localized in the State of Niigata. It was felt until in the States of Nagano and Tōkyō.
Japan: a Airbus A330 of the company Australia Qantas with 178 passengers and 13 team members landed urgently with the airport of Ōsaka and had to be evacuated after smoke was announced in its compartment. Last nine people were wounded, six Japan board, two Australia NS and a Chinese during the evacuation. They were transported to the hospital but no detail was given on their health condition. The plane carried out the connection between Tōkyō and Perth, in the west of the Australia. The first inspections did not reveal any trace of smoke nor of fire and Qantas thinks that a defective sensor was at the origin of the description of smoke.
the United States: died of Robert Moog, inventor of the synthetizer bearing his name and which had revolutionized the pop music and to give rise to the electronic music. Suffering from a brain tumor, it died out in its residence of Asheville in North Carolina at the 71 years age.
Swiss: died of the German Photographe Horst Types, famous portraitist artists and writers. It is deceased at the 67 years age to Vevey, after a long battle against the Cancer.

Monday August 22nd 2005

China: pouring rain and landslides made 15 died. The bad weather strongly disturbed transport in several areas of which industrial centers. Shenzhen and Dongguan, industrial centers of the south of the countries, close to HongKong, were touched hard, with about thirty crumblings announced during the weekend and the ploughed up houses.
Portugal: Incendie S without precedent continue to devastate the country and threaten the third city of the country, Coimbra. 2.700 helped firemen of foreign reinforcements try to suppress the 27 hearths still not controlled (against 50 day before). The fires already made more than 14 victims. The European commission promised a help of the funds against the natural disasters.
Economy, France: the company of shoes of luxury Stephan Kélian Production with Romans (Drome) was put in Compulsory liquidation. The establishment, taken again last year by a Belgian group, should see its production delocalized. The other shoemaker of the city Charles Jourdan announced the same day his Voluntary liquidation.
Palestine: the taker of sound of the French television channel France 3, Mohammed Ouathi, removed the August 14th with Gaza, was released today in the same city. He is in good health, was not maltreated and is between the hands of Palestinian safety.
Health: the managing director of WHO, Lee Jong Wook noted that the 8 development objectives of the millenium fixed by the the United Nations in 2000, in particular envisaging a fall of half of large the Pauvreté between 1995 and 2015, will not be achieved from here at 2015 if the current trends continue. Between 1990 and 2002, the number of underfed people increased of 34 million to sub-Saharan Africa and 15 million to South Asia, then the proportion of old children underfed of less than five years in South Asia, of South-east, and from the East passed from 6% to 9%. An Asiatique young person on three is in a state of “absolute poverty”.
Italy: a seism magnitude 4,5 on the scale of Richter was felt in the center of Rome, where no casualty was announced in the immediate future. The earthquake occurred shortly after 14 hours (12 hours GMT), its epicentre was located at broad of the port of Anzio, located at 57 kilometers in the south of Rome. With Nettuno, with 60 kilometers in the south of the capital, a building was damaged.
Russia: an explosion resounded close to a hospital of Nazran, in Ingouchie, in the south of the country, making at least a death and three wounded. The deflagration occurred around 4 p.m. (12 hours GMT) to about fifty meters of the hospital. The victims all were apparently of the passers by. According to the spokesperson of the regional ministry of the Interior, the explosion would have been caused by an explosive device deposited close to a gas pipeline.
the United Kingdom: “Piano Man”, this young amnesic, pianist of good level, which discovered had been soaked on a beach of the south of the England the April 7th, and which was walled in silence, finally spoke last week, revealing with the personnel of the hospital where it was treated that it was German and had gained the Great Britain after having lost his work with Paris. 20 years old, residing in Bavaria, it left London Saturday to regain its residence.
Gaza: all the colonists were evacuated according to the spokesperson of the Israeli police force .
the United States: the coastguards California NS inquire into the disappearance of the Caméraman Patrick Kim McDermott, companion of the Actrice Olivia Newton-John, which did not give signs of life since a fishing party night to broad of the California seven weeks ago. Old 48 years, it had started from San Pedro, with 32 kilometers in the south of Los Angeles, the June 30th, for a fishing party at sea. He was seen for the last time on this boat and its personal businesses were found on board.
France: 18 companies answered the invitation to tender of the government for the Privatization of the companies of highway. Members of Parliament of all edges to denounce the bad operation of the State between what would report the sale (13 billion euros) and the dividends of the companies (30 to 40).
France: died of the Novelist, Journalist, editor and Scenario writer French, Daniel Riche. It is deceased in the night with Paris of the continuations of a cancer. It was 55 years old.
France: died of the actor and Singer French Henri Genes with Paris at the 86 years age.
Political France, : Jean-Luc Mélenchon estimates that there are only two " présidentiables" within the PS, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius, behind which the senator of the the Essonne lines up “by the force of the things”.
Zimbabwe: a Météorite of four kilos was crushed in the village of Chaworeka (150 kilometers in the north of Harare) producing a noise similar to that of a helicopter causing stupor among villagers. The celestial body, which would be primarily made up of Nickel and Fer. It was sent in a laboratory of the police force for analysis and will be conveyed later in a museum.

Tuesday August 23rd 2005

Peru, Flight TANS 204: a Boeing 737 -200 of the Peruvian company TANS transporting 92 passengers whose eighteen foreigners, eleven American, a Australia N, a Spanish , four Italy NS and a Colombia and 6 team members was crushed in the Amazonian jungle. The accident occurred towards 16:20 (21. 20 GMT) with approximately 9 kilometers of the airport of the town of Pucallpa, with 490 kilometers in the North-East of the capital, Lima. According to the radio, it would have been taken in head winds at the time of the landing. He at least 39 died including 35 passengers, three American, Australian, Colombian a 37 year old and Spanish 27 years and four team members, and 58 survivors, including 2 children of one and 4 years, all hospitalized.
America: the American televangelist Pat Robertson, former candidate with the nomination of the Republican party invited his country to assassinate the president Venezuelan Hugo Chavez. “You know, I do not know anything on this theory assassination, but if he believes that we try to kill it, I think that we should go there and to do it. That would be much less expensive than to start a war… and I do not think that the deliveries of Pétrole will cease”.
Swiss: the assessment of the bad weather of these last days was weighed down to six died and two missings. Several lakes exceeded their dimension of alarm of Crue S. the president of the Confederation Samuel Schmid left for Lucerne.
France: the bad weather also touched the north of the French Alps. To Villard-Bonnot, a Flow mud crossed the city and the railway connection Grenoble - Chambéry is always cut.
the United States: several thousands of people gathered close to the Ranch of George W. Bush to the Texas to protest against the war in Iraq. The movement was initiated by a mother, Cindy Sheehan, whose the 24 year old son was killed the year only spent five days only after his arrival with Baghdad. They received the support of the singer folk Joan Baez, committed in the past against the Guerre of Vietnam.
Swiss: reacting to the publication of the results of the Census 2000, the Minister for health Pascal Couchepin expressed himself on the files of the retirements “the demographic problems at the horizon 2015 exist indeed, unless the statistics mislead us. And it will be necessary to choose: new receipts, reduction in the revenues or increase in the retirement age”. The mission of the policy “is not to let believe that we live in Switzerland which does not exist any more” has T there declared.
Ivory Coast: already in conflict with the rebels of North, the president Laurent Gbagbo is now confronted with the former general Mathias Doué, former chief of staff of the forces loyal supporters, is dismissed by the president here several months. He declared with the radio RFI that he intended to obtain the departure of president Gbagbo by all the means if the international community did not take the initiative.
Palestine: last phase of the plan Sharon, the evacuation of four colonies of the West Bank started. More than 5.000 soldiers and police officers the Jewish colonies of Sanour and Homesh invested simultaneously. The two other colonies of Ganim and Kadim had already been evacuated of full liking by the colonists.
Lebanon: a bomb exploded in the Christian northern sector of Beirut, making four wounded and of important property damages.
Swiss: at least three people died in the accident of a Avion of tourism.
Algeria: strong bad weather in the east Algérie N made a death and five wounded.
Cycling: the newspaper the Team affirms that Lance Armstrong is doped at the time of the Tour de France 1999 with EPO. It is following experiments of control of Urine, preserved since the time, that scientists established that certain samples were positive with the EPO. The newspaper arrived, by stepping with the statements carried out by the international Union cyclist, to establish that 6 of the positively controlled samples belonged to Lance Armstrong.
Romania: pouring rain made 18 died during the past week.
the United States: died of the American Actor Brock Peters, at the 78 years age to Los Angeles, of a Cancer.
the United States: Google announced Tuesday evening (midnight hour of New York) the launching of its own instant messaging baptized “Google Talk”. “Google Talk” will be gradually deployed in the remainder of the world. This new service makes it possible the group to pursue its strategy of diversification and to directly compete with the MSN Messenger of Microsoft and Yahoo! Messenger of Yahoo!.
Lebanon: an attack made some casualties and of the property damages in the Christian quarters of Zalka (northern suburbs of Beirut), in the night. The load was estimated between 20 and 30 kilos of TNT.

Wednesday August 24th 2005

Fort-de-France, Martinique: 35.000 people like Jacques Chirac and Hugo Chavez paid homage to the victims of the air crash landing of August 16th, 2005 in Venezuela.
the United States: The televangelist Pat Robertson, which had called Monday with the assassination of the president Venezuelan Hugo Chavez presented her excuses.
Iraq: one of the vice-ministers Iraq iens of Justice, Awshoo Ibrahim, has escaped with an attempted murder when armed men opened fire on its procession killing four of its bodyguards and by wounding five others. Tuesday, it had escaped with a first attack in the same sector and four of its bodyguards had been wounded.
Austria: strong floods made at least 4 died or disappeared in three days.
France: François Holland announces that it would cease being the first secretary of the Socialist party after the presidential of 2007. He announces, that he will be candidate for his own succession with the congress of Mans, mid-November, he estimates that there would not be nobler reward than to pass the witness, while hoping to have then satisfaction to again see one as of his at the top of the State.
Russia: Moustafa Batdiyev, president of the Russian Republic of Karatchaiévo-Tcherkessie, in the south of the country, declared that the authorities had thwarted there is one month an terrorist attack aiming at a school of Karachaïevsk. Russian news agencies quoting of the persons in charge of the regional government of Batdiyev affirm that the attack aimed another city of the area, Tcherkessk, and that the plot was discovered four months ago. The six alleged terrorists, including two young women, were encircled in an apartment with Tcherkessk and were killed with the mid- May. According to a dispatch of the agency ITAR-Heap, the investigators concluded with a plot aiming at a school from Tcherkessk or city close to Oust-Djegout.
Burma: it is in prey with rumors of Coup d'etat within the military junta with the capacity. Its chief, the general Than Shwe, would have been reversed by a group of soldiers and is replaced by the number two of the mode, the general Maung Aye. The government officially did not contradict this rumor, even if a source close to a soldier of high ranking, being expressed under cover of anonymity, said that the news was absolutely false.
the United States: a score of European personalities , whose scenario writers Spanish Pedro Almodovar and German Wim Wenders, writers German Fatty Günter, French Bernard-Henri Levy, Pascal Bruckner and Marek Halter, journalists, British Kate Adie, French Christine Ockrent, Belgian Colette Braeckman and the Swiss Jean-Jacques Roth (directing of the Swiss daily newspaper Time ) and former minister Polish of the Foreign affairs Bronislaw Geremek, called with the release of journalist Judith Miller, in prison since the July 6th to have refused to reveal its sources. See the call article=14753
the United States: died of the American Actor , Brock Peters at 78 years, of the continuations of a cancer of the Pancreas.

Thursday August 25th 2005

the United States: a Airbus A320 of the American company Northwest Airlines wheel of Mineapolis to Bozeman was diverted on the town of Billings because of a hydraulics problem. The plane, transporting 136 passengers, landed without problems with the airport of Billings after passengers heard unusual noises half an hour approximately before the landing. The problem is not related to the strike of the mechanics and the workmen of maintenance which began Saturday.
France: the trade unions CFDT, CFTC and CFE-CGC joined the CGT and FO in their dispute in front of the Council of State of the ordinance S creating the Contrat news engages and excluding less than 26 years of the calculation of manpower of the Entreprise S.
France, policy: in an televised interview on TF1, the leader of UDF Francois Bayrou was ready to accommodate socialist in rupture with their party like Bernard Kouchner.
Algeria: in a speech with crowd pronounced with Sétif, the Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika requested from France the recognition massacres of the May 8th 1945.
France, Air transport: the Minister for Tranports Dominique Perben announces that the France will publish Monday August 29th on Internet site of DGAC, a black list of the airline companies prohibited on his territory for safety reasons.
Russia: two powerful explosions occurred with Nazran in the south of the country, making 1 died and five wounded, of which the Prime Minister of Ingouchie, Ibragim Malsagov. Nazran is the principal city of Ingouchie, an area which often knows tensions and explosions of violence since the Chetchnia close as well as attacks to activists ingouches.
Portugal: nearly 2.000 firemen succeeded in the morning extinguishing four important fires in the areas of Santarem, Viseu, Vila Real and Viana C Castelo. But seven new disasters burst in the districts of Santarem, Vila Real, Castelo Branco and Braga. On the whole, 839 firemen, supported by 234 machines of help, 9 planes and 600 soldiers patrol the country to supervise the situation and to make sure that very new fire can quickly be extinct. In spite of a retreat of the temperatures, the meteorology services envisage up to 34 degrees in certain areas. This year, the fires made 15 died, including eleven firemen.
France: Jose Bove would wish to be candidate of union to the presidential election of 2007.
Quebec: the Minister for Health Philippe Couillard opened the door for a return to the exemption from payment of the drugs for “the assisted social ones”. The deputy of Borduas Jean-Pierre Charbonneau recognized that their suppression here eight years was an error of the Parti Québécois.
Romania: the torrential rains and floods have made 31 died for nine days. The Minister of Interior Department Vasile Blaga specified that 31 people had died since the August 14th, including 13 in the only area of Harghita. Three people are always reported missing in the area, of which a four year old young girl. On the whole, the bad weather made 41 died these last days in the center of the Europe, of which the Suisse, the Austria, the Bulgaria and the Germany.
Peru: several hundreds of plunderers flowed on the site of the fall of the Boeing 737 -200 of the company TANS which was crushed in Peruvian Amazonia, in the search of valuable articles to recover, thus being likely to negatively affect the work of the investigators who did not arrive yet on the spot.
Turkey: a fire with the unknown origin was declared on board their ship, Ufuk-1, in international water of the Black Sea with 78 miles nautical with broad of Trabzon, main city Turkish door of the North-East of the country whereas it travelled towards the Russian port of Sotchi. The thirty-three passengers and the 20 team members, were repatriated in the evening. Only one of the passengers who suffers from pains to the chest was hospitalized.

Friday August 26th 2005

France: at least 17 people, including 14 children, perished in the night in the fire of a “decayed” building, according to witnesses, occupied by African families in the 13th district of Paris, with the angle of the Boulevard Vincent-Auriol and the street Edmond-Fleming. Nicolas Sarkozy went in the night on the spot of the accident in company of the prefect of police Pierre Mutz. Bertrand Delanoë arrived at 9 a.m. According to an provisional appraisal, 17 dead (including six children among which a baby of a few months) and 30 wounded, including two low registers, had been listed little before 6 a.m. Per same hour, the origin of this disaster had not been given. The prefecture of Paris set up a toll-free number which can give all information on the victims: 0.811.000 675 and also 0.153.713 380.
the United States: the hurricane Katrina carried on its road in the Gulf of Mexico, after having made seven died and of the considerable damage in Florida. A family of five people is reported missing at sea. The winds reached 161 kilometers/hour, and Katrina, become an hurricane force 2, could according to the forecasts be still reinforced from here so that it touches ground again, between the Florida and the Louisiana, at the beginning of the next week, with winds likely to reach the 211 kilometers/hour. The hurricane had touched ground first once Thursday evening, on the county of Miami-Dade, before setting out again towards the sea, moving towards the west according to an erratic trajectory.
Political France, : the summer school of the Socialist party begins today with La Rochelle, on bottom of internal divisions. The war of the chiefs took the top on the opposition to the right-hand side.
China: an accident of mine makes 15 dead.
Japan: following the arrival of the Mawar typhoon a person died and four others were wounded.
France: Al-Qaïda prepares a Attentat against a great financial center in Far East Asian or in Australia to undermine the confidence of the investors in the area, the examining magistrate anti-terrorist French Jean-Louis Bruguiere affirmed, in an interview published by the Financial Times. " We have data elements which make us think that countries of the area, especially the Japan, can be the cible" network Al-Qaïda, declared the magistrate quoting like possible objective of the attacks Tōkyō, Singapore and Sydney. " Any attack against a financial market as the Japan would mechanically have an important economic impact on the confidence of the investors. Other countries in the area, like Singapore and the Australia, are also targets potentielles" , he added.
Iran: a collision between three coaches made at least 22 died.
Finland: the Finnish authorities announced the discovery of a suspect case of avian flu in the north of the country. The ministry for Agriculture explained why this business related to a gull close to the town of Oulu, to approximately 600 kilometers in the north of Helsinki. The final results of the analyzes are not awaited before three weeks. A spokesperson of the ministry, however considered to be not very probable that it is about the stock H5N1 of the Avian flu which prevails in Asia and in the east of the Russia. For the moment, no proven case of the disease was announced in Europe.
Portugal: two new hearths were declared, whereas the firemen had succeeded in controlling all the fires which devastated the country since weeks. A fire in the area of Guarda was propagated on a road, involving a cut of circulation. Approximately 95 firemen, supported by 24 machines of help, fought against the disaster on two faces. The meteorology services predict the continuation of the fall of the temperatures in the days to come, but an increase for the next week.
Venezuela: the president Hugo Chavez prepares with the risk of Assassinat and shows the American president George W. Bush. (AFP '' via '' Yahoo! Current events)
Austria: died of the Playwright and Austrian Realizer Wolfgang Bauer, at the 64 years age of the continuations of a disease with Graz.
Quebec: died of Denis D' Amour, the guitarist of the group Québécois of progressive trash-metal Voïvod, a Cancer of the colon, with Montreal. It was 45 years old.

Saturday August 27th 2005

Political France, : there will be four candidates with the candidature of the Verts for the presidential of 2007 , old the Ministre and Député of Paris, Yves Cochet, sénatrice and old minister Dominique Voynet, the European Député , Alain Lipietz and the deputy of the the Gironde, No5el Mamère.
Political France, : at the time of the summer school of the National front, Jean-Marie Le Pen made a point of specifying that he was candidate for his succession with the head of the party and that he will be candidate with the presidential election of 2007.
Political France, : the Appointed and old Prime Minister, Laurent Fabius and the Appointed of the Val-d'Oise and former minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn confirmed their candidature for the candidature of the PS for the presidential election of 2007. While the mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry revealed that she thought of being candidate with the socialist candidature for the presidential election of 2007. Underlining the tensions within the party inherited the Referendum on the European Constitution, old the Minister for the Use of Lionel Jospin estimated that the women would perhaps do a better work with the head of the PS thanks to a spirit minus fighter and more posed.
the Vatican: the pope Benoît XVI expresses his pain for the victims of the fire which devastated a decrepit building with Paris.
France: the Minister for Transport Dominique Perben announced that the government thinks of a new speed limit on highway which could pass from 130 to 110 kilometers/hour. The deputy secretary with Industry, François Loos had evoked this measurement to face the rise of the oil prices.
Italy: a Croatian national probably died of the continuations of a food poisoning, and ten of other people were hospitalized in north country after having eaten a local grass during a dinner which made following funeral. According to a doctor working with the service of the intensive care of the hospital of Esine Valley Camonica close to Brescia, this grass is similar to a toxic plant which has as a scientific name aconitum napellus (of Latin napus , turnip, because of the shape of the root).
Kosovo : the president Ibrahim Rugova was evacuated by plane towards American military base of Landstuhl in Germany in order to receive medical care there following a degradation of his health condition which has constrained it this week to reduce its activities.
Poland: Stanisław Dziwisz, the private secretary of late the Pope Jean-Paul II, was made Archevêque of Cracow in front of tens of thousands of faithful. The late pope had wished that his/her friend occupy the functions which it itself had filled before being elected with the head of the Catholic church.
Mexico: a Boeing 727 of the company Bolivia Aeroboliviana which was to be posed with Mexico City carried out an emergency landing with Acapulco, in the south of the country, after having announced a problem on an engine. According to the control center of the airport of Acapulco, the pilot of flight 911 coming from the airport of El Alto to La Paz announced a problem to an engine after a stopover with Guayaquil, in Ecuador, and asked for the authorization for an emergency landing. The apparatus was posed without incident.
France: died of old the Appointed (RPR) of the Haut-Rhin of 1967 with 1986, Antoine Gissinger, of one cardiac arrest at the 91 years age.
France: interpellation of 15 people for transgenic corn mowing cultivated by the Limagrain co-operative on behalf of the company Meristem Thérapeutic, this mowing was supported by Attac. The Faucheurs volunteers risk five years of prison and 75.000 euros of fine for destruction of good of others in meeting.
Sciences: according to méta-analyzes published in The Lancet , the Homéopathie would be only as effective as a placebo. This conclusion is rejected by the laboratory Boiron which shows the authors to have chosen the studies in a partial way. Moreover he affirms that this study intervenes whereas a preliminary report/ratio of the the World Health Organization (WHO) on homeopathy would report favorable to homeopathy.

Sunday August 28th 2005

Iraq: in spite of the difficulty in making emerge a consensus, the Constitution Iraq ienne is from now on ready to be subjected to the Référendum at October. (AFP via Yahoo! Current events)
Venezuela: at the time of a demonstration organized with Caracas by the opposition in order to reform the Electoral code before the legislative elections of December, of the confrontations between partisans and adversaries of Hugo Chavez, the president of the country, took place. (Reuters via Yahoo! Current events)
the United States: the sulfurous American rappor Marion Knight was wounded by bullets with a leg in the night at the time of one evening organized by the artist hip-hop Kanye West with Miami Beach in Florida. According to the police force, he was hospitalized in a satisfactory state taking into account his mishap.
Filipino: an handmade bomb which was not intended to kill exploded on board a ferry in the south of the country, making at least 30 wounded including nine children, whereas the boat took on board passengers bound for the town of Zamboanga. At least six people, whose soldier, were seriously burned in the explosion which occurred towards 7:30 local time (23. 30 GMT) on a quay with Lamitan in the island of Basilan.
Aeronautical: a Airbus A300 transporting 160 passengers bound for Antalya in Turkey and chartered by the Turkish company Fly Air was immobilized with the airport of Roissy by the Head office of the civil aviation (DGAC). Papers of the plane were not in rule and a tire of the apparatus was defective, noted the DGAC during its control.
the United States: the mayor of the New-Orleans ordered the immediate evacuation of all the city, which counts 485.000 inhabitants, to the approach of the Katrina hurricane. The governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco specified at the time of a press conference that the president George W. Bush had personally called with the mandatory evacuation of the city. The Katrina hurricane was still reinforced to pass of category 5 with winds blowing to 257 kilometers/hour whereas many inhabitants of the south of the Louisiana took the road to flee its arrival. An hurricane force 5, more the high degree on the scale Saffir Simpson can cause catastrophic damage. Only three hurricane forces 5 touched the country since the authorities store the information. Persons in charge worried owing to the fact that many people sufficiently did not take this monstrous disturbance with the serious one.
Aeronautical: a Boeing 737 charter of Hola Airlines, chartered by the Belgian company TNT Airways, which was on the point of taking off the island of Corfou bound for Brussels, had to remain on the ground after having struck birds on the track. The pilot of the apparatus, with 149 passengers on board, decided not to continue the flight, envisaged with 10:45 local (9. 45 HB), after one of the engines of the apparatus was damaged by the birds.
islamist the Jordan N Abou Moussab Al-Zarqaoui, which directs the branch Iraq ienne of the network Al-Qaïda, would prepare an action of scale in Europe. It is what affirms the American weekly magazine Time in its number has to appear Monday. The magazine, which is based on the information received from European intelligence services, writes that Zarqaoui supervises preparations carried out by agents very trained for an attack of broad scale in Europe.
France: died of Jacques Dufilho, actor of theater and cinema rewarded by several César and Molière. He was 91 years old.

Monday August 29th 2005

Meteorology: information on the Hurricane Katrina.
Health: 24 a giant million campaign Vaccin ations against the polio was launched in Indonesia.
France: the Head office of the Civil aviation published the black list airline companies prohibited in French space because of the danger which they could represent for lack of conformity to the international standards. Five companies appear in it: the North-Korean Air Koryo, prohibited since April 2001, the American Air Saint-Thomas, prohibited since the March 19th 2004, the bast International Air Services, prohibited since April 1st 2004, the Mozambican Lineas of Mozambique (LAM) and the conveyer Transairways chartered by LAM, prohibited since the December 3rd 2004 and the inhabitant of Thailand Phuket Airlines, prohibited since the June 4th 2005. The DGAC stresses that this list is not final and that when a conveyer of the table above brings the technical elements necessary allowing to guarantee the conformity of his conditions of operating and maintenance to the international standards, it could be withdrawn about it.
Indonesia: the embassy of Great Britain was briefly evacuated after having received a suspect parcel which proved to be inoffensive. The package contained simply crackers with shrimps, a walkman and a pair of enclosures. This package had been sent to a police officer in charge of the safety of the embassy by a member of its family. This false alarm occurs whereas the president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced the imminence of terrorist attacks and gave the order to the security services to reinforce their monitoring.
Japan: the airport of Sendai, a city located at 300 kilometers in the north of Tōkyō, closed at least a track after an anonymous interlocutor called it by affirming to have put a bomb on a flight of the morning of the Japan Airlines with 49 passengers and five team members on board carrying out the connection Sendaï - Sapporo, on the septentrional island of Hokkaidō. The flight was cancelled and the police officers excavate the apparatus but no explosive device was still found.
Religion: the spokesperson of the the Vatican Joaquin Navarro-Valls announced that the pope had joined again the dialog with the integrist ones of the Fraternité Holy-Magpie X and had received Mgr Bernard Fellay in his residence of summer to Castelgandolfo.
France: died of the Journalist and writer French Philippe Revil, collaborator of the newspapers Le Monde , the Duck connected , the Point and the Alps Leisures . It was found died with the foot of a rock bar in Savoy, victim of a fall of several meters. Philippe Revil, old 50 years, married and father of two children, had left Saturday to make an excursion and had parked his car with Bellecombe-in-Wallows. He had not returned the evening and its family had given alarm. He was found died this morning to 1.519 m of altitude to the localities Bufs.
Argentinian: an Argentinian team medical examiners identified the remainders of the French nun , Léonie Duquet, disappeared during the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976 - 83).
France, Paris: a violent one sets fire to made seven died including four children and fourteen wounded including three in a serious condition in the IIIe district of Paris. The disaster was declared on the first floor of a building with 8 rue du Roi gilded squat t-piece by large families of the Ivory Coast of which the half were foreigners in irregular situation. A hundred firemen and 30 vehicles were mobilized to control fire.
UNO: Vladimir Poutine and Silvio Berlusconi posts their divergences on the reform of UNO, the first supports the Germany, the second the Italy, so that they become members permanant of the Safety advice.
the United States: George W. Bush plans to draw from the strategic Oil reserve to mitigate the shortness of provisions of the Raffinerie S due to the hurricane Katrina.
Afghanistan: the culture of the Opium dropped by 21% in 2005 thanks to various measurements taken, announces an U.N. person in charge .
France: Dominique Strauss-Kahn implied on LCI, which it did not plan to withdraw its candidature for the nomination of the Socialists for the presidential of 2007 if Lionel Jospin were itself candidate with the candidature.
France: the Office of investigations and analyzes (BEA) opened an investigation following the landing animated of a ATR 42 ensuring the connection Auxerre - Lyon, with on its board 23 passengers, of the players of the Olympique Lyonese (L1 of football). ATR 42-500 suffered damage with the principal landing gear which has occurred around 01 hours of the morning.

Tuesday August 30th 2005

Terrorism, Attack of Lockerbie: a former high ranking official of the Scottish police force wishing to remain anonymous, having taken part in the investigation, affirms that the CIA would have “ written the scenario ” showing the Libya. He affirms that the decisive Incriminating evidence, a fragment of integrated circuit of the Détonateur, was “ manufactured ” and “ planted ” by agents of the CIA which inquired into the tragedy.
Netherlands: the holder of the world records of longevity, the Dutchwoman Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, died at the 115 years age. The cause of the death is not yet known but she died quietly during her sleep.
Pakistan: a bus runs up against an electric cable, 12 dead.
Israel: the former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that he is candidate with the direction of the party Likoud openly launching the challenge with the current owner of the party, the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Czech Republic: the country confirms its adhesion with the Euro area in 2010.
France: according to a study IFOP , the Député and old Ministre Jack Lang is the best candidate to represent the Socialist party and that which incarnates best the values of left for the presidential election of 2007. It is followed of very near by the Député and old Ministre Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Wednesday August 31st 2005

France: a fire was declared towards 20:23 on the level of an old cinema, Royal Rivoli, reconverted in hangar of toys located at the bottom of building 78 of the street of Rivoli very close to the town hall into the IVe district of Paris. The hangar which contained primarily toys out of plastic caused a cloud a smoke visible with several kilometers with the round. 22 vehicles and a hundred firemen were mobilized. It has was controlled around 10 p.m. This fire will have required the evacuation of the first four floors of the directly touched building. It would not have made a victim but two firemen were slightly wounded. One is still unaware of in which circumstances the disaster was declared. This violent one fire is the third in two weeks in Paris.
Avian flu: the virus of the avian flu, which prevails in several countries of Asia, could be propagated by wild birds with the the Middle East, in Europe, South Asia and in Africa, the United Nations for the food and agriculture (FAO) warned. The birds coming from Siberia, where virus H5N1 was recently detected, could, in the long term, transport the virus towards the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. These areas, as well as the countries of Balkans could offer to the virus a main door towards the Central Europe. The migratory ways also pass by the Azerbaïdjan, the Iran, the Iraq, the Georgia, the Ukraine and some Mediterranean countries where blazes of avian flu are not to draw aside. The India and the Bangladesh, currently not infected, are also threatened. These two countries, located along the migratory main roads, could be transformed into a vast zone where the avian flu would be endemic.
Iraq: a rumor on the presence of two kamikazes relating of the belts of explosives to a bridge of the capital Iraq ienne caused a movement of panic lasting a Shiite mourning. The provisional appraisal of 965 died and 815 wounded. The majority of the victims are women and children, indicated the ministry for the Interior. Many pilgrims fell into the Tigre, the others were trampled or crushed on the bridge. It is about the most fatal event which has occurred in the country since the invasion of the country in March 2003. The Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari issued three days of mourning national in the country.
Australia: evacuation of the purse of Sydney after a bomb scare.
China: the country will suspend the production in 7.000 coal mines, which is equivalent to the third of the mines of the country, to proceed to the improvement of safety. The small mines and slightly equipped for the majority and whose closing is announced will have imperatively to improve their safety and will not be authorized to reopen before they are put at the standards. This advertisement occurs two days after the confirmation of died of 123 minors.
El Salvador: the authorities issued yellow alarm vis-a-vis the risk of eruption of the volcano Santa Anna, located at an about sixty kilometers of San Salvador. The national service of the territorial studies (SNET) noted between Saturday and Monday an abnormal increase in the seismic activity near the volcano, signs precursory of a possible eruption. The authorities which prohibited the tourist or teaching excursions in the neighborhoods of Santa Anna, however did not consider necessary in the immediate future the evacuation of approximately 20.000 people living to the feet of the volcano.
Portugal: the Socialist Mario Soares, president of Portugal twice between 1986 and 1996, announced his candidature for the presidential election of January 2006.
the United Kingdom: died of the British Actor Michael Sheard, in her residence of the island of Wight in the south of the England of a Cancer. It was 65 years old.
France: died of Gabrielle Pourchet, president of the free Republic of Saugeais, at the hospital of Pontarlier in the Doubs where it had been allowed a few days ago. She was 99 years old.
France: died of Andre Debry, one of “hairy” the last nine of the First World War. André Debry died in Nickle silver-on-Hollow at the 107 years age.

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