February 2006

This page presents a chronology of the events which occurred or which should occur during the month of February 2006 .

Events

Wednesday 2006

  • Palestine: the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, announces that it will accept the formation of a government by the Hamas only if this one recognizes the State of Israel.
  • Following the collision which has occurred yesterday with broad of Cherbourg, the Chimiquier Ece ran at the time of its towing. Containing 10.000 tons of Acid phosphoric, it to lie now by 70 m basic. Traces of irisation are visible on the site. The authorities specify that the position risk “is not null”.
  • musical Topicality : following its operation of last week (see article of the January 23rd, 2006), the health condition of the Percussionniste Ray Barretto worsened. These complications resulted in placing it in unit of Intensive care.
  • France, Written press, Islam: following the publication in the columns of France Soir of the caricatures of the prophet Mahomet previously appeared in newspapers Danish and Norwegian, the owner of the daily newspaper, the business man free-Egyptian Raymond Lakah, dismisses the director of the newspaper, Jacques Lefranc, qualifying his decision of “strong signal of respect of the beliefs and the intimate convictions of each individual”. He however is highly criticized by Anne Hidalgo, national secretary of the Socialist party in charge with the culture and the media (and in addition first associated with the mayor of Paris), which estimates that nobody should be “entitled either to dictate the press his policy”.
  • France: Andre Giresse, former magistrate, is deceased at the 83 years age. After having chaired the Court of Appeal of Paris, it was, of 1975 to 1985, president of the Court of Assizes of Paris and, for this reason, had pronounced, the October 28th 1980, the last death sentence wanted by a jury of sat in France, at the end of the lawsuit of Philippe Maurice, found guilty of the murder of a police officer, and who escaped the guillotine after being grâcié by the president François Mitterrand the May 25th 1981, a few days after its taking up the duties. On the political plan, after having left the Socialist party, where it had militated during about fifteen years and after having, in the same movement, left the magistrature in 1985, André Giresse had approached the National front and, for this reason, had given its support for the successive candidatures of Jean-Marie Le Pen to the presidency of the Republic, in 1988,1995 and 2002.
  • Brésil/Argentine: After almost three years of negotiations, Argentina and Brazil sign an agreement which must make it possible to protect the manufacturing sectors which could be too hard affected by the competition of the adjoining country. The Adaptation mechanism competitive (MAC) makes it possible to once fix customs duties on the “too competitive” product of the adjoining country for three years, renewable.

Thursday February 2nd 2006

  • Chile: the government of Michelle Bachelet will be composed of ten women and ten men.
  • the United States: Donald Rumsfeld, secretary with Defense, compared Hugo Chávez with Hitler, in front of the National Close Club in Washington, by stressing that they had both summer elected legally before consolidating their capacity. It addition that the rise of the populist leaders in the last elections in Latin America was “worrying”.
  • Malta, Euro: a little less than two years before putting into circulation of the European currency, scheduled for January 2008, the under-secretary of State to Finances, Tonio Fenech, announces that the national face of the euros struck in its country will represent the baptism of the Christ, according to a statue preserved in the Midsummer's Day cathedral of Valetta, work of the sculptor Giuseppe Mazzuoli. The government made this choice after having collected the opinions of 17.000 people, by telephone and texto.

Friday February 3rd 2006

  • Óscar Arias Sánchez is favorite for the presidential election which will proceed Sunday with the Costa Rica. If he is elected, that will do nothing but confirm the left turn with of the Latin America.
  • the business of the Caricatures of Mahomet of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten involves more and more reactions in the Muslim community and in Occident.
    Wednesday, the newspaper France Soir published these caricatures what at once involved the Limogeage of the publication director by the owners of the journal.
    On the other hand, other press agencies like Libération and Charlie Hebdo , as well as British BBC, announced that they went, in their turn, the publier.
    Des threats were uttered by groups Palestinian S against the Denmark and France, and a demonstration with take place with Gaza, during which two grenade S were launched without making to blessés.
    Le Prime Minister Danish, which must meet today the whole of the diplomatic corps with Copenhagen to evoke the crisis of the caricatures of the Mahomet prophet, will not present its excuses, announced the Danish Minister for the Foreign affairs quoted in the press. On France information, the members of questioned French religious organizations include/understand the indignation of the Moslems but regret violences whereas appeals to justice are possible when a newspaper exceeds the limits of its right to freedom of expression.
  • a Egyptian ferry , the Al-Salam Boccaccio 98 having on board 1.400 people, in particular Egyptian pilgrims returning from Mecque, made shipwreck on Thursday night in Red Sea, off Egypt, announced the authorities égyptiennes.
    Il undoubtedly acts of one of the worst shipwrecks of the maritime history égyptienne.
    Le number of the survivors rises with 385 people (Sunday, February 5).

Saturday February 4th 2006

  • Iran: The Council of the governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) decides to transmit the file Iranian Nucléaire to the Safety advice of UNO, taking into account suspicion surrounding his nuclear activities.
  • Brazil: in Sao Paulo, three people died and 38 are wounded during a meeting of autographs of Mexican group RDB.
  • Quebec: assembled in congress lasting this weekend with Montreal, the members of the Union of the forces progressists and Option citizen supplement the process of fusion started 24 months ago. interdependent Quebec was born from this fusion.
  • Town of Quebec: opening ceremony of the Carnival of Quebec .
  • Filipino: a scuffle at the entry of a football stadium , with Manila, killed 73 people among the Foule come to attend the Jeu televised Wowowee, diffused on ABS-CBN.
  • the French bank BNP Paribas is on the point of launching a purchase offer on the sixth bank Italy Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.
  • Syria: several months after the publication of the caricatures of Mahomet in the Jyllands-Posten (September 30th, 2005), the anger of certain organization Arab extremists of Pays develops against the newspapers which published or republished these drawings in support for the Danish daily newspaper and against countries considered commes related to these newspapers. The embassies of the Denmark and Norway in Syria were burnt.

Sunday February 5th 2006

  • Belgium: with Brussels, four thousand young Moslems expressed station of midday to the seat of national television. The call to be expressed, of unknown origin, was transmitted by SMS.

Monday February 6th 2006

  • France: lightning strike of the air-traffic controllers of the Airport of Orly.
  • Japan: the Japanese manufacturer Hitachi presented the smallest electronic chip to the world. This Integrated circuit (IC) can be introduced into paper documents accompanying by the parcels, thus allowing them Traçabilité by simple readers without contacts. Associated with a numerical key of 128 bit, this chip also makes it possible to authenticate documents.
  • France: the Ministère of the Culture makes public the discovery of a new cave decorated Paléolithique, the Grotte of Vilhonneur (Charente).
  • Canada: five Québécois ministers are named in the new federal government directed by Stephen Harper, which takes up duty today. Official statement of the Government of Canada

Tuesday February 7th 2006

  • France: demonstrations took place in several towns of France against the project of CPE. These demonstrations did not have success discounted, which made say to the Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, with the platform of the National Assembly: “ Obviously, I listen to those which express but I listen to also those which do not express. ”
    De its side, the left affirms that it was only one first stage. “ the government would be wrong to think that it is finished by it ”, explained, Tuesday evening, on France 2, François Holland.

Wednesday February 8th 2006

  • France: the Examining magistrate Fabrice Burgaud was presented today in front of the parliamentary board of inquiry on the business known as of Outreau. The adopted resolution on December 7th, 2005 by the National Assembly provides that the board of inquiry, if it is “charged to seek the causes of the dysfunctions of the Justice in the business known as of Outreau”, has moreover the role “of formulating proposals to avoid their renewal”. This Audition was retransmise by TF1, France 2, France 3 and several cabled chains of which the Parliamentary chain, which retransmet entirety of hearings since the beginning. The two magistrates' main labor unions (the Syndicat of the magistrature, famous “of left”, and the European Public Service Union of the magistrates of “moderate” sensitivity) deplored the duration (7 hours) and the conditions of the hearing of Burgaud judge, estimating both that the board of inquiry should devote itself in priority with the reform of the French legal system.
  • Haiti: The shortly after the elections in Haiti, the collective “Kolektif Solidarite Idantite ak Libete” (KSL) publishes a proclamation entitled “ Nan inite istorik all pèp, year nou repran chemen liberasyon louse nou konstwi nasyon year ” (the historical unit of the people will enable us to take again the way of the release to build us a nation) in which it develops its point of view on the theoretical question and the practical solution of (Re) the foundation of the Haitian nation and recommends “the historical unit of the people” as solution. This reveals that the domination Coloniale and neo-colonial would be the fundamental cause of the social problems of the island.

Thursday February 9th 2006

  • Nigeria: the virus H5N1 was discovered in Africa for the first time.
  • France: the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin decided to use the Article 49-3 at the time of the debate on the Contrat for employment with the National Assembly. He estimated that the debates did not advance because of obstruction of the Socialist party, which for its part decided to deposit a Motion of censure.
  • Business of the caricatures of Mahomet: The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten was excused near the Musulman S in a letter addressed to the press Algérie.

Friday February 10th 2006

  • Greece: the telephones of the Greek government would be under listening since one year.
  • Italy: opening of the XXe Winter Olympics to Turin.
  • Egypt: archeologists discovered a tomb, KV63, in the Vallée of the Kings in Egypt. The last one falls discovered, KV62 was that of Toutankhamon in 1922 by the archeologist Howard Carter.
  • Haiti: Rene Préval would be at the head of the presidential election.
  • Kosovo : Fatmir Sejdiu, 54 years, law professor, old right-hand man of the president Ibrahim Rugova, deceased on January 21st, is elected the Kosovan Parliament, the 3rd ballot, chair Serb province Albanian majority aspiring to the independence and currently under administration of UNO.
  • Afghanistan: The Assistant general secretary with the operations of maintenance of the peace of UNO, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, draws up, with the Safety advice, an positive assessment of the Conférence of London for the consolidation of peace in Afghanistan , during which a “Pact” with the international community was launched which makes following the “ process of Bonn ”.

Saturday February 11th 2006

  • Iran: thousands of Iranians expressed, with Teheran, their support for the president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who implicitly threatened to withdraw Traité nuclear non-proliferation if the Westerners tried “to deprive” Iran of its right to develop a civil nuclear program.
  • the United States: the vice-president Dick Cheney made an accident of Chasse while drawing by error on one from his/her companion from hunting. The victim, Harry Whittington, 78 years, had to turn over to the intensive care Monday, February 13 in the morning following an mild heart attack, a lead being placed in its heart.

Sunday February 12th 2006

  • Iraq: the the United Kingdom opened, Sunday, February 12, a “urgent investigation” in connection with maltreatment supposed made by its soldiers against civilians in Iraq. These ill treatments were revealed by the British weekly magazine News off the World. The weekly magazine published images extracted from a videotape filmed in 2004 afterwards of the riots in the streets of a not identified city of the south of Iraq
  • the United States: Heavy snowfalls in 14 states of the North-East of the the United States: 68 cm of Neige fell into Central Park (New York) in the only day from Sunday '' The NewYork Times ''.

Monday February 13rd 2006

  • India: the Indian Supreme court ordered a new expertise to determine if old the Porte-avions French the Clemenceau must be désamianté in India. While waiting, the old war building, which left Toulon the December 31st, will not be able to enter Indian territorial water. To Paris, the police chief with the government of the Council of State recommended the suspension of the decision to transfer the Clemenceau in India until the administrative court of Paris rules on the bottom. The decision of the Council of State is awaited in the week.
  • Iraq: Turbulent opening of the eleventh audience of the court, judging Saddam Hussein and seven dignitaries of the old mode. The former dictator and the others marked were declared forced to appear. While entering the room, Saddam Hussein, vêtu of a dishdasha (male dress) exclaimed: “Has the traitors low. In low Bush. Live the oumma (Muslim nation)”.

Tuesday February 14th 2006

  • Kampuchea: Preparations of the lawsuit of the Khmer Rouge accused of genocides, among which Your Mok (known as the Butcher ) imprisoned since 1999, accelerate. It should begin in 2007, indicated the the United Nations at the time of the visit to Kampuchea of Michelle Lee, high ranking official of UNO charged to manage the process, while the Kampuchean Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong excluded that the audiences cause disorders in the country.
  • France: died at the 80 years age of the actor Darry Cowl.
  • France (2): A demonstration in Strasbourg with the call of the European Confédération of the trade unions gathers 50  000 people against the Directive Bolkestein. Source: TF1.
  • Belgium: inauguration of the Atomium coldly renovated. Built for the World Fair of Brussels, it was to be dismounted after 6 months. 48 years later, it has just undergone a cure of youth. Its engineer, Andre Waterkeyn, died out during the restoration in October 2005.
  • Wikipédia : yesterday, an important breakdown blocked the whole of the contributors of the Wikimedia projects.

Wednesday February 15th 2006

Thursday February 16th 2006

  • Swiss: the Public ministry gives up the charge in the business of the bridge of the Aubonne.
  • Palestinian Authority: the Hamas named Ismaël Haniyeh to become next the Prime Minister for the Palestinian Authority.
  • Bangladesh: While Clemenceau travels towards Brest, the cruising ship Norway ex steamer France, whose hull was repurchased for 60 million euros would be likely to return to France, to be there also désamianté (3000 tons). Then it will turn over to be made dismount under acceptable security conditions taking into consideration standard of the European Union.

Friday February 17th 2006

  • Avian flu: Three wild ducks were found died in the Ain, which one would be carrying the Virus.
    Si this news is confirmed, it would be the first case known in France (source: newspaper of information on a Parisian radio, confirmed by a dépèche of France Info Topicality of 17/02-France Information). The Ministry for Agriculture has just specified that additional examinations are envisaged in order to control if it is about virus H5N1 what should still take some jours.
    Une protection zone of a radius of 3 km was installed around the place where the bird was found, as well as a surveillance zone of a radius of 10 km.
  • 3,5 million people is threatened by the famine in Kenya according to Caritas Internationalis.
  • Ray Barretto, which had been hospitalized the January 23rd, 2006 for a heavy surgical operation, and for which complications had required to place it in unit of intensive care on February first, is deceased Friday, February 17 at the university Medical center of Hackensack (New Jersey). This complete musician leaves us a work in which mix and are supplemented traditional Jazz and Salsa.
  • Italy: Silvio Berlusconi, president of the Council, candidate for his own succession for the legislative elections of the April 9th and 10th 2006, makes an electoral agreement with Alessandra Mussolini, president of the social Alternative, political coalition of extreme right-hand side (or national line) joining together Azione Soziale , movement of Mrs. Mussolini, Forza Nuova , left carried out by Roberto Fiore, and Fronte Sociale Nazionale , left directed by Adriano Tilgher. Mrs. Mussolini and her two combined within the social Alternative however decided not to be presented personally to the legislative elections.

Saturday February 18th 2006

  • France: The ministry for Agriculture confirms that the duck found dead in the Ain was quite carrying the virus of the Avian flu. It is the first confirmed case of avian flu in France.
  • France: According to the newspaper Release, the Chikungunya virus would have made between 4 and 52 victims, since the beginning of the epidemic.
  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A million and half of people on the famous beach Copacabana for the free concert of the Rolling Stones.
  • Italy: Roberto Calderoli, Minister for the Constitutional reforms, member of the League of North, is constrained with the resignation after declarations discussed on the business of the caricatures of Mahomet as to have publicly raised a tee-shirt on which was reproduced one of the controversial caricatures, which had led, the day before, with a demonstration close to the consulate-general of Italy to Benghazi (Libya), during which 11 people had been killed and 37 others wounded, during confrontations with the Libyan police force, after the fire of the first stage of the consulate.

Sunday February 19th 2006

Monday February 20th 2006

Tuesday February 21st 2006

  • Canada: Paul Bernardo, killer and rapist, currently imprisoned, acknowledges to have made ten other rapes in addition to those already known.
  • France: The meeting of the questions to the government with the National Assembly was adjourned following a question deploring the absence of action of the government, vis-a-vis the effects of the Chikungunya, and with the agitation which was followed from there. During this meeting was also evoked the Meurtre of Ilan Halimi.
  • the United States: At the time of an auction of 35 historical photographs of the Metropolitan Museum off Art of New York, at Sotheby, in New York. a photograph of underwood taken in 1904 by Edward Steichen, a famous American photographer born with the Luxembourg in 1879 and died in New York in 1973, reached the Pharaonic sum of 2.458.314 euros exactly. Never a photograph had reached such a considerable sum. They is three times more than the highest estimate! The entire amount of the sale of these photographs, among which appeared of works of Alfred Stieglitz, Margrethe Mather, Paul Outerbridge Jr, Margaret Bourke-White… reached the impressive sum of 9,6 million euros.
  • Haiti: In an open letter with the new president d' Haïti Rene Préval published in Montreal, Camille Loty Malebranche estimates that “To want to direct Haiti must raise of an act of priesthood”. * Liberia: The new bast president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf inaugurates a Commission truth and reconciliation (TRC), charged to inquire into the atrocities made for the period 1979 - 2003 in Liberia. For the authors of exactions having recognized their acts and fact proof of total contrition, the commission will have the possibility of recommending an amnesty, with the agreement of the victims.

Wednesday February 22nd 2006

  • Iraq: An attack destroys part of a mausoleum Chiite in the center of Samarra, a city Sunnite located at 125 km in the north of Baghdad. All the right part of the Mausoleum of the Imams Ali Al-Hadi and Hassan Al-Askari, chief of old Islamic work architectural 1.200 years, was devastated by a double explosion. The gold dome was destroyed and the coating in turquoise mosaic was completely puffed up. The attack of one of their holy place the most crowned caused the anger of the Chiites, which are descended in the streets to denounce this criminal act. Three mosques sunnites and a seat of the Islamic party were attacked in the capital shortly after the attack.
  • the Vatican: the pope Benoît XVI named the cardinal first of his pontificate. Among these cardinals, two French, M gr. Jean-Pierre Ricard, archbishop of Bordeaux and chairs Conference of the bishops of France, and the father Jesuit Albert Vanhoye, former vice-chancellor of the pontifical biblical Institute and former secretary of the pontifical biblical commission. The pope also named cardinal, inter alia, the archbishops of HongKong (China), Seoul (South Korea), Manila (Filipino) and Caracas (Venezuela). The new cardinals will be solemnly high with dignity cardinalice at the time of a ceremony which will be held the March 24th in the Vatican, in parallel with the consistory planned for this date.
  • the congress of the South Dakota approved a Décret which, if it is approved by the governor Michael Rounds, will make illegal all forms of Avortement, by including the case of Viol and Inceste. (NewYork Times)

Thursday February 23rd 2006

Friday February 24th 2006

  • the United Kingdom: The Labor mayor of London Ken Livingstone is suspended of his functions for four weeks, starting from March 1st, to have compared a journalist Juif with a guard of concentration camp Nazi.
  • the United States: The federal court of Alexandria (Virginia) completed the preselection of the jury to the lawsuit of Zacarias Moussaoui, only accused in the United States for the Attentats of September 11th, 2001. On the whole 86 candidates, 48 men and 38 women, were retained by the judge Leonie Brinkema, although some were disputed by defense. It is in this group of 86 - one moreover than the necessary figure of 85 - that 12 sworn lawsuit and their six substitutes will be selected the March 6th after a new creaming.
  • China (1): Wang Lujiang, vice-chancellor of the University of the Languages and the Culture of Beijing, sign an agreement with the University Hokuriku of Kanazawa (Japan), according to which the two parts will establish a Institut of Confucius for the culture and language teaching Chinese, on the Japanese territory, which will be 3rd with Japan and the 42e in the world. The institute, financed by the Japanese university, will open its doors in April.
  • China (2): To solve the difficulties of communication within the Chinese army and in the exchanges with the civil populations, because of the use of various dialects by the officers and the soldiers, the popular Armée with release (APL) sets up, within the political Academy of Nanjing, provincial capital of the province of the Jiangsu (is of China), a training center with Chinese Mandarin (Putonghua), the first of the kind in the army.
  • France: the virus of the Avian flu touches a turkey farming with Versailleux, in the Département of Ain.
  • Filipino: the president Gloria Macapagal-Stream issues the state of emergency after a fallen through attempt at Coup d'etat.

Saturday February 25th 2006

  • France (1): The ministry for Agriculture confirms that the turkeys found dead in a breeding of the Ain were quite carrying the virus of the Avian flu. It is the first case of avian flu in a breeding of the European Union.
  • France (2): At the time of the primary elections intended to designate the candidate of the UMP to the Town hall of Paris in 2008, the participation of the UMP militants of the federation of Paris at the time of this vote, which partly proceeded on Internet, amounted to 78,38%. Mayor of the XVIIe district and former assistant of Jacques Chirac when he was mayor of the capital, Francoise de Panafieu obtained 40,69% of the votes. She precedes Claude Goasguen, chief of the right-wing opposition to the Conseil of Paris since 2001, which collected 23,43% of the voices, Pierre Lellouche, which obtained 18,95% of the votes, and the former mayor of the capital, Jean Tiberi, which arrives in fourth position with 16,98% of the voices. The second turn will thus oppose the March 4th Francoise de Panafieu to Claude Goasguen.
  • France (3): The film of Jacques Audiard “ to beat my heart stopped ” obtains a true triumph, at the time of the 31e ceremony of the Césars to the Parisian Theater of the Châtelet, by gaining eight rewards: better film, better realizer, better music of Alexandre Desplat, male best supporting role for Niels Arestrup, better most promising young actress for Linh daN Pham, better adaptation, better photo, better assembly… Michel Bouquet obtains César of the best actor for his interpretation of François Mitterrand in “ the Walker of Field-of-March ”, while Nathalie Baye receives that of the best actress for her role of police officer in “ Petit Lieutenant ”.
  • Iraq: In the Holy City Shiite of Kerbala, a car bomb in parking explodes, making eight dead and 26 wounded, according to the ministry for the Iraqi Interior. The holy sanctuaries of the Imam Hussein, grandson of the prophet Mahomet, and his/her half-brother the Imam Abbas, were aimed, but the security measures prevented the terrorists from carrying out their project until the end.
  • Filipino: The day before the twentieth birthday of the inversion of Ferdinand Marcos, the president of Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Stream, issues the state of emergency and takes Draconian security measures after a military Putsch was thwarted.
  • Uganda: According to the official figures of the Electoral commission relating to the examination of 91% of the votes, the outgoing Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni would have gained the presidential election, which proceeded Thursday the 23rd, by collecting 60,80% of the voices compared with only 35,96% for its adversary of the Forum for the democratic change (FDC), Kizza Besigye, 35.96%.
  • Tunisia: Under the terms of a measurement of presidential pardon decided by Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, 1.298 prisoners are released and 359 others profit from the parole. An unspecified number of other prisoners are seen granting reduced sentences.
  • Spain: Between 200.000 and 300.000 people express under the rain with Madrid, in the very smart district inhabitant of Madrid of Salamanca, with the call of the Association of the victims of terrorism (AVT), in the presence of the leaders of the Popular party (PP, right-hand side), to protest against supposed the negotiations between the Socialist Jose Luis Zapatero and the ETA. Since the come to power of Zapatero, in April 2004, it is the third walk in the capital against the antiterrorist policy of the Socialists.

Sunday February 26th 2006

  • the United States: the justice, seized by the Associated Press, constrained the Pentagon to publish the names of the captive of Guantanamo from here the March 3rd.

  • France - Belgium: The Board of directors of the groups Suez and Gaz de France accepts the fusion of the two companies, with an aim of countering hostile tender offer Italian group Enel on Suez.
  • Israel: The day of his birthday (78 years), Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, is always in the coma at the Hadassah hospital of Jerusalem since the serious brain hemorrhage of the last January 4th.
  • Swiss - Bern: A first case of Avian flu was announced in Switzerland. According to the spokesperson of the Federal council Oswald Sigg, there were positive tests in the area of Geneva and with Stein amndt Rhein.
  • Algeria: Forty-two private schools French-speaking S, majority located at Algiers and in Kabylie, which “had been unaware of the law” which requires obligatorily to teach “in Arab Langue in all the disciplines and on all the levels”, were closed, often with the assistance of the police force.

Monday February 27th 2006

  • France: Opening of the lawsuit of Rachid Ramda, a 35 year old Algerian, recently extradited the United Kingdom, presented like the financier supposed of the Attacks of 1995 in France, in front of the Magistrates' court of Paris.

  • European Union: Meeting with Brussels of the Council of the General Affairs of the European Union, gathering the Foreign Ministers of the 25 Convention countries, to discuss assistances to bring to current the Palestinian Authority, in charge of the go concern. The observers estimate that the Council should resolve several tens of million euros for this urgent, but to defer to later the delicate question of the later assistance at an administration directed by the Hamas.
  • Taiwan: The Taiwanese president Chen Shuibian announces that it will put an end to operation “ Conseil for the national Unification ” of Taiwan and will give up the application of the Principes on the national Unification , with the risk to cause tensions between the continental China and the separatist island and to threaten regional peace and stability.
  • Saudi Arabia: A commando of five men tries to tackle the oil complex of Abqaid, close to Riyadh, the Saoudi capital. The attack failed, and the five terrorists are killed during a confrontation with the Saoudi security forces. Among them appeared the chief of Al-Qaïda in Saudi Arabia, Fahd Ben Faraj Al-Joweir.
  • Spain: The militant nationalist Basque of the ETA, Igor Angulo, 32 years, condemned to a sorrow of thirty-four years of prison, and imprisoned since 1996, hangs himself in his cell, of the prison of Cuenca, in Castille it Manche.

Tuesday February 28th 2006

  • Mexico: The 65 minors blocked at the bottom of the coal mine of San Juan Sabinas, in the Northern of Mexico died. The minors were reported missing since the night from Saturday to Sunday, towards 02:00 of the morning (08h00 GMT), without water, nor food and the taking away in the mine revealed that the air was " completely irrespirable".
  • the United States: The town of La Nouvelle-Orléans, devastated at the end of the month of August 2005 by the Hurricane Katrina, celebrates the fatty Tuesday by organizing its traditional Carnaval like each year. The message that the authorities of the city and the Louisiana wanted to make pass while deciding to maintain the carnival is that, in spite of the difficulties, the martyrdom city is again able to have fun the festival. But this decision was disputed by part of the population, which thinks that sends in fact a bad message: to show a city which recovers upright whereas it is always ploughed up.
  • China (1): The Office of State of Statistics (BES) Chinese announces that the Chinese population increased by 7,68 million people in 2005, that is to say a natural growth of 5,89 per thousand, against 5,87 per thousand in 2004. With the December 31st 2005, the Chinese population reached 1.307.560 000 people, including 562 million people living downtown and 745 million people in the rural regions. On this total figure, one counts 674 million men (either 51,5%) and 634 million women (or 48,5%). In 2005, China recorded more than 16 million births and approximately 8,49 million death.
  • China (2): The Chinese Parliament, at the time of the 20th session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Assembly of China, joined together with Beijing, ratifies International convention against the financing of the Terrorisme.
  • Germany: discovered of a Cat died of the continuations of H5N1 on the island of Rügen. The Chasse of the cats near the dwellings was authorized.
  • France: The International Conference Financements innovating of the development joins together approximately 100 countries. The purpose of it is to found a Taxe of solidarity on the plane tickets in order to be redistributed with the Developing country to make it possible in particular to finance the wages of Instituteur S and the purchase of Médicament S.
  • Ivory Coast: After a 24 hours carryforward, the extraordinary summit of the protagonists of the crisis of the Ivory Coast begins with Yamoussoukro, the official capital of the Ivory Coast, in the presence of the President of the Republic, Laurent Gbagbo, of the Prime Minister, Charles Konan Banny and of the chief of the rebels, Guillaume Soro. The leaders of the two principal parties of opposition - the ex-First minister Alassane Ouattara and the former Head of the State Henri Konan Bédié - also take part in this first ground meeting of the Ivory Coast of the main leaders since the beginning of the civil war, in September 2002.
  • Iraq: Violences redouble in Iraq, where multiple attacks occurred with Baghdad:
    • In evening, a car bomb exploded close to a mosque Chiite in the district of Hourriyah of Baghdad, making 10 died and 50 wounded, according to a first assessment of the ministry for the Interior.
    • earlier, three attacks, two with the car bomb and one carried out by a kamikaze who exploded his explosive load, shook almost simultaneously Shiite districts mixed and sunnites in Baghdad, killing at least 30 Iraqis and wounding 130, according to police sources and hospital. The attacks aimed at a market, a post office and a queue for the purchase of the domestic oil.
    • Always in Baghdad, an attack aimed at the general Daham Radi Al-Assal, adviser of the Iraqi Minister for the Defense, which left there unscathed, but five of its bodyguards were killed and seven wounded in the explosion of a bomb to the passage of its convoy.
All these attacks carry the assessment to nearly 400 died in one week in Iraq, since the dynamiting of the mausoleum Chiite of Samarra.

See too

  • Choice of another month of current events
  • the éphéméride
  • February 2006 in Africa
  • February 2006 in Canada
  • February 2006 in France

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