September 2005
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Thursday the 1st er September 2005
- Argentinian, Environment: at the time of the inauguration of the Argentinian Funds of Carbon (FAC), purse of resale of the right to pollute, the president Nestor Kirchner exhorts the rich countries “to pay their environmental debt”.
- Swiss: publication of the black list of the airline companies prohibited in Switzerland which counts two companies: Flash Airlines (Egypt) and Air-Van Airlines (Arménie). According to the federal Office of the civil aviation these companies are prohibited of landing in Switzerland “because of systematic security issues”.
- Vietnam: the Avian flu made an additional victim, carrying the assessment with 62 dead. Man a 58 years old originating in Hanoï was allowed in a hospital of the city where he died the very same day.
- Spain: a building of the ministry for Finances was briefly evacuated with Madrid for a bomb scare. The police force excavates imposing it building located in the center which belongs to the service of the taxes during 90 minutes but does not discover any explosive. The threat was received by an anonymous call since a cell phone.
- Estonia: the country officially fixes at the beginning 2007 the adoption of the Euro.
- Albania: resignation of the Prime Minister Fatos Nano after the defeat of its party to legislative of July.
- China, Arme lies: one week before the visit of Hu Jintao to Washington, China invites some with moderation as regards nuclear tests, and known as to preach “the Politique and the Diplomatie” in the fight against nuclear proliferation. The Popular republic affirms herself more and more on the world political scene, accommodating the multi-party negotiations on the Nucléaire North-Korean, and undertaking certain relations with the Iran within the triangle Teheran - Moscow - Beijing.
- France, Industry: the French last Gauloises will be rolled this morning, before the owner group of the mark, Altadis, does not close the factory inhabitant of Lille definitively, established in 1910, to center its production with Alicante, in Spain. Less and less smoking French brown cigarettes, it is, according to The Guardian, “small something” of the French identity which from goes away.
- Swiss: an automatic stop of the engine occurred with the nuclear plant of Leibstadt in the north of the country. The origin of the incident is for the time being unknown. After five months of consecutive interruption to a breakdown, the nuclear plant had received the authorization of start-up Saturday August 27th.
- Al-Qaïda would assert on a video diffused on the chain Al-Jazira, the Attentats of July 7th, 2005 in London.
- the United States: died of R.L. Burnside, one of the large last Singer S of Blues of the the Mississippi, at the hospital St Francis with Memphis in the Tennessee. It was 78 years old.
Friday September 2nd 2005
- France: the president Jacques Chirac, 72 years old, was hospitalized with the military hospital of the Valley-of-Grace, for an vascular accident having involved a slight trouble of the vision which should disappear in a few days. There must remain hospitalized there one week.
- France: a Cameroun ease 41 years, which wanted to go to the Canada, was seen notifying a prohibition to leave the French territory, following legal actions in its opposition for complicity to swindle. It committed suicide while being immolant by fire. The drama took place this morning towards 11:30 in a room of the secretariat of the examining magistrates, on the third floor of the Law courts of Rouen. Dissatisfied part, this woman returned to the Law courts with a can of 5 liters gasoline, it in aspergea a secretary then itself before putting fire. Seriously burned, the 55 years old secretary, was evacuated by the Samu around 1 p.m. at the Cochin hospital of Paris, whereas the Cameroun ease died on the spot. Lawyer, Me Frederic Caulier, which heard howls whereas it was on the first floor, is assembled to discover the secretary on fire on the stage. It then covered it with its lawyer dress to choke the flames, undoubtedly saving the life to him. It could say to him that “somebody put fire to him”. According to the firemen, fire destroyed a partition but was not propagated with the building. The Prefect of Seine-Maritime, Daniel Cadoux, and the mayor UDF of Rouen, Pierre Albertini, went on the spot. The Minister for Justice Pascal Clément arrived on the spot around 2 p.m. to meet the magistrates and civils servant of the court and to give a progress report on safety following this drama. The minister evoked work on the digicode of the main door of the cabinet of the examining magistrates to explain the facility with which the woman had had access to this protected zone.
- Isere: a wolf of thirty-five kilograms, suspecté to have killed ten young bovines, was killed this morning between 2 a.m. and 3 hours.
- Japan: a “extremely powerful” typhoon moves towards the south of the country.
- Europe, epidemic: the epidemic of the Mad cow would find its origin in Southeast Asia.
- Quebec, Oil: the organization “the Gasoline at fair price” addresses itself to the Prime Ministers Paul Martin and Jean Charest so that they take measures in order to slow down the blaze of the prices of the gasoline. The spokesperson Frederic Quintal refers to a provincial law on the oil products which would make it possible the Québécois government to act to control the prices.
- France: the police force carries out the evacuation of a squat, Rue of Fall-Issoire to Paris in the 14 {{E}} district.
- Germany: collision between two buses on the highway Munich - Berlin, 48 slightly injureds.
- Iraq: a person in charge of the government announced that the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein will begin the October 19th, after the Référendum on the new Iraqi constitution.
- France: one week after the fire of a residential building of the XIII {{E}} Parisian district which because death of 17 people of African origin, including 14 children, the investigators privileges criminal lead henceforth.
- Brazil: a person died and five others were wounded by a Cyclone which struck the south of the country. Some five height meters waves struck the coasts of the country, and the cyclone, whose winds blew up to 110 km/h in the States of the Rio Grande C Sul and Santa Catarina, also caused power cuts and the closing of several airports. The cyclone, formed in-outside tropical zone, was actually a hurricane according to many meteorologists, because of its winds unusually violent one. This denomination is however disputed, because the hurricanes are not supposed to be formed in the south of the Atlantic Ocean.
- the United States: died of the American actor Bob Denver at the 70 years age, in an hospital of North Carolina, following a long fight against a cancer.
Saturday September 3rd 2005
- France: following the hospitalization of the president Jacques Chirac, the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin will chair the Council of Ministers Wednesday September 7th. The meeting envisaged with the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder which would have to take place on September 6th with Rheinsberg in Germany has also being cancelled.
- Russia: thousands of people paid homage to the 331 victims of the taken of hostage of the school of Beslan one year ago.
- China: the Typhon Talim which passed on the east of China made at least 42 died and 27 people are reported missing.
- Egypt: the Egyptian security services identified using tests DNA the three authors of the suicide bombings of July 23rd, 2005 at Charm el-Cheikh which had made 64 died.
- Iraq: seventeen police officers and military Iraqi were killed at the time of three distinct attacks close to Bakouba, a locality mainly Sunnite.
- Japan: the national agency weather announced that the Typhon Nabi, of category 5, should touch Okinawa and the islands of Ryukyu Sunday, and perhaps Kyushu Monday.
- Nepal: the separatists Mao ïstes announced three months a unilateral cease-fire to encourage the negotiations with the Nepalese political parties. Their chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal declared that it “would not launch any offensive” during the truce.
- the United States of America: died of William Rehnquist, president of the Supreme court of the United States of America, the continuations of a cancer of the Thyroid in its residence of Arlington in Virginia. It was 80 years old.
Sunday September 4th 2005
- France: a fire supposed criminal in a residential building made eighteen died and fourteen wounded including five low registers with the Haÿ-the-Pinks in the the Valley-of-Marne. Fire burst in the hall of a building of eighteen floors towards 1 hour of the morning, the first call was recorded to 1:11, and was extinct very easily, but the victims were touched by the propagation of toxic smoke. It is about a tower of Housing public sector (HLM) of 110 residences builds at the beginning of the Années 1970, which was recently renovated. The red plan was started with 2:5, and two hundred firemen approximately went on the spot. An advanced medical post and an clinical psychology unit dealt with 21 people who do not suffer from physical wounds near the tower, and other victims were evacuated towards the hospitals of the area. The mayor of the Haÿ-the-Pinks Patrick Sap, and the sub-prefect Didier Montchamp went to the site. According to the first elements of the investigation, three young girls would be blamed in the fire.
- Mexico: the explosion of a building where fires of artifices were stored and where sold illegally gasoline made approximately 15 died and at least 20 wounded in the village of Tlacotepec, located in the mountains of the State of Guerrero, with 120 kilometers of Acapulco. But the assessment could worsen, because certain victims are still under the remains of the building. The majority of the victims are children who attended the building the weekend, because it also sheltered machines of video games.
- China: landslides make at least 19 dead in the province of Anhui in the east of the country.
- Spain: the pilot of a Avion bomber of water fire protection dies in the crash landing of his apparatus.
Monday September 5th 2005
- Egypt: at least 29 people died and 37 others were wounded in a fire which destroyed a theater towards 23:45 local, at the time of a representation with Beni Souef, to a hundred kilometers in the south of the Cairo.
- International business: the Commercial Minister Chinese Bo Xilai and the European police chief with the trade Peter Mandelson managed an agreement on the question of the Asian clothing blocked in customs. The half of the 80 million parts will be authorized to enter without license, while the 40 remaining million will be deducted on the quotas of the year 2006, defined by the Accord of Shanghai.
- Germany, Merkel-Schröder duel: Angela Merkel always precedes Gerhard Schröder, but the televised duel which joined together nearly 20 million Germans in front of their station could influence the choice of the center right or the great coalition.
- Indonesia, Flight 091 Mandala Airlines: a Boeing 737 -200 of the company private Indonesia Mandala Airlines with 112 passengers, including three children, and five team members, was crushed with 9:40 local (2. 40 GMT) in an inhabited street of the town of Medan, in the west of the country, making at least 137 dead.
- Austria: the fall of a concrete block of a helicopter on a cable car made at least nine died and projected tens of people out of the cabins fixed on the cable, in the ski station of Solden, with forty kilometers in the west of In.
- Democratic republic of Congo: a Antonov -26 was crushed this morning close to the town of Isiro, in the east of the country, making seven dead including three Russian team members .
- the United States: the president George W. Bush announced to have indicated John Roberts like his candidate to assume the chairmanship of the Supreme court. It is tomorrow with Washington that will have to be held in front of the Senate hearings of confirmation for the nomination of John Roberts at the station of Sandra Day O'Connor which had announced its resignation on July 1st.
- Kosovo : the president Ibrahim Rugova confirmed that it had a Cancer Poumon but which it would not leave his station whereas the province approaches one period of crucial negotiations for its future. Weak and fragile, he declared that he would continue to work for the objective of his life, namely independence of Kosovo compared to the Serbia.
- France: strong rains and storms are awaited as from this evening and until Wednesday morning in Languedoc-Roussillon and in the the Cevennes. Ten departments were placed in “orange alert”. The departments concerned with this pluvio-stormy episode are those of the Languedoc-Roussillon, as well as the Allier, the Aveyron, the Cantal, the Puy-de-Dôme and the Tarn.
Tuesday September 6th 2005
- France: Weather-France emitted today a bulletin of “red vigilance” starting from 11 hour S on the departments of the Gard and the Herault. News and strong stormy precipitations are awaited in the course of the day. A new rainy episode will cross the Herault, in particular the area of Béziers in evening then the remainder of the department in the night. The school bus service will be advanced and the circulation limited as from 6 p.m. (ministry for the Interior).
- Japan: powerful the Typhon Nabi fell down Tuesday on the island of Kyushu, in the south of the archipelago Japan board, with winds reaching 144 km/h and of the pouring rain. For the time being, one deplores a death, 15 wounded and eight missings whereas tens of thousands of inhabitants were constrained to evacuate their houses.
- Political France, : the political adviser of the UMP and former minister, Patrick Devedjian affirms that the president Jacques Chirac for representing itself with the presidential election of 2007.
- El Salvador: at least seven people perished in mud flows caused by torrential rains. Castings occurred before the rising of the day in several sectors around San Salvador.
- Agriculture: a thousand of hectares of Maïs LT (GMO) is cultivated this year in the south-west of the France.
- Political France, : in twenty month of the presidential election 2007, the socialist president of the area Poitou-Charentes Ségolène Royal formally does not exclude to be presented, even if it estimates that the advertisement of its candidature would be “premature”.
Wednesday September 7th 2005
- China, Media: Reporters without borders (RSF) shows Yahoo!, allured by the width of the local market, to have helped the Chinese government to locate the journalist Shi Tao, to have condemned in April 2005 to ten years of prison for “disclosure of secrecy of State”. It had diffused on Internet a governmental note enjoignant the newspapers of the unintermitting not to comment on the fifteenth birthday of the Manifestations of the place Tiananmen. (Source: Reporters without borders and Daily Telegraph)
- China, Astronomy: China announces the construction of new a space center with Shanghai, for an investment of more than 125 million euros; the inauguration is planned for 2010.
- Russia: Vladimir Poutine, president of the Federation of Russia since May 2000, affirms that he will not be candidate for his D election in 2008. (Source: Checklist Le Monde.)
- Palestine: several tens of armed men took by storm early this morning the residence of the general Moussa Arafat, 69 years, adviser for the businesses of safety of the president Mahmoud Abbas and cousin of the late president Yasser Arafat. They assassinated it and kidnapped his/her oldest son, Nimhel, old officer of the safety of about thirty years. Following this assassination, Mahmoud Abbas convened an emergency meeting with the persons in charge of safety and the Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei. The “popular resistance committees” assert the assassination.
- Turkey: thirteen people, whose child, were killed and twenty-five others wounded in an accident of because in the North-West of the country.
- Political France, : according to the Appointed of the Green of the Gironde, No5el Mamère, the candidate of the Verts to the presidential of 2007 will be indicated the April 15th 2006.
- France: Jacques Roland, president of the the Council about the Doctors, affirms in a maintenance appearing today in the Cross that the medical bulletins of the president Jacques Chirac do not emanate from its doctors, but are written by its advisers. “For me, these official statements do not emanate from the doctors who look after the Head of the State”, he in maintenance declares. “These official statements, presented like medical, are in fact of the texts developped at the point by the patient, his close relations, its advisers. ”.
- France, Weather: strong rains fell down yesterday at the end of the day, then in the night on the Gard and the Herault. The helps do not deplore any casualty. In spite of the lull of precipitations on Tuesday night, Météo France envisages a pluvio-stormy renewal of activity but brought back alarm at the “orange” level (level 3 out of 4) in the departments of the Gard and the Herault. The Aude and the Corsica remain in alarm of “orange level”. These alarms are valid until midday tomorrow.
- Qatar, Television: After being itself equipped with a sporting chain and “Al-Jazira Live” (retransmission of conference without comment), the chain of Arab information qatari of language Al-Jazira should launch the next September 9th to Doha a chain for child. “The chain for children is intended for the rising Arab generations and will be founded on the expensive principles with Al-Jazira, namely the spirit of dialog, the diversity of opinions and the human rights” with declared with the AFP the director of Al-Jazira, Waddah Khanfar. (Source: AFP)
- Political Egypt, : first multi-party presidential election. The presence of local ONG is finally accepted two hours before the opening of the polls. The votes are completed at 10 p.m. UTC (source: AFP)
- Germany: the older brother of the pope Benoit XVI, Georg Ratzinger, 81 years, was again hospitalized with Ratisbon in Bavaria in the south of the country, where it resides. The doctors indicated that he suffered from cardiac arrhythmia, which however does not threaten its life. An infarction is excluded. In a few days, it will be able to surely leave the hospital.
- Venezuela: The country signs, with twelve countries of the Caricom, l´accord Petrocaribe offering preferential conditions d´achat to the signatories for their purchases of Pétrole.
Thursday September 8th 2005
- France: the five principal trade-union organizations confirmed the organization of a common Manifestation for Tuesday October 4th. The call was joined by the FSU, CUS and the UNSA to defend the Purchasing power, by a rise of the Salaire S, and employment while protesting in particular against the precariousness reinforced by the Contrat news engages.
- Ukraine: the Ukrainian president Viktor Iouchtchenko dismissed the totality of his government, justifying his gesture by the lack of team spirit of his cabinet and his collaborators. This massive dismissal occurs whereas this government which did not have that seven months were taken in a crisis growing on bottom of charge of Corruption. Iouchtchenko indicated Iouri Iekhanourov as a Prime Minister by interim. He however asked popular the Ioulia Timochenko, chief of the outgoing government, and with Petro Poroshenko, the head of the Safety advice and of defense, to remain within the new team.
- Burma: the military Junte with the capacity with Rangoun is blamed in a report/ratio of Amnesty International, for non-observance of the Human rights. To ensure the subsistence of the army, of tens of thousands of peasants resulting from Ethnie S minority are forced to work; others succeed in escaping towards the close Thailand, and testify. (Source: AFP on LeMonde.fr)
- Russia: the former Russian president Boris Ieltsine, which broke the Fémur Wednesday after a fall at the time of a stay in a villa of Oporto Rotondo in Sardinia, was operated Thursday in a hospital of Moscow. According to the head doctor of the hospital, the operation proceeded well. 74 years old, Boris Ieltsine, first president elected after the collapse of the the USSR in 1991, remained discrete since its resignation the December 31st 1999.
- the United States: after Katrina, strong winds and violent rains touched Wednesday the coasts of Florida which prepare in the passing of the Ophelia tropical storm, causing the evacuation of the tourists towards the interior of the grounds. Always on the open sea, Ophelia tropical depression was reinforced in tropical storm early Wednesday and could threaten the center and north of Florida in the next days. The meteorologists also supervised closely the hurricanes Nate and Maria, also in the Atlantique. Nate threatened Bermuda and Maria was always on the open sea but the two storms should save the United States.
- Palestinian Authority: the president of the Palestinian Autorité Mahmoud Abbas cancelled yesterday his visit at the General meeting of the the United Nations, this month, during which it was to meet Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He decided not to go to New York because of the Israeli withdrawal of the establishments of Gaza and the situation in terms of safety. In addition, Manhal Arafat, the son of the cousin of Yasser Arafat which was assassinated Wednesday morning was released by its kidnappers, one learned from Palestinian official sources. After its release, it met the president Mahmoud Abbas with whom it discussed. Before returning at his place.
- France: a seism magnitude 4,5 on scale of Richter took place with 13:27 around Chamonix in Haute-Savoie. A woman was wounded by a crumbling.
- France: the strong precipitations announced by Météo France were with go. For this Thursday, a good part of South-east (the VAr, the Herault, the Gard, the Vaucluse, the Rhone delta, the the Alpes-Maritimes and the Corsica ) had been placed in “orange” vigilance, warning which will remain valid this Friday. Gard and Herault right now were particularly touched: Thursday in the afternoon, a correspondent of LCI on the spot gave a report on 20 to 40 cm of water in the streets of Nimes. Flood also in the streets of the town of Milhaud. Several villages would be insulated. In the communes of Vauvert and Aubord, two camp-sites were evacuated. The stormy episode which strikes the Gard would be stronger than during precipitations of the beginning of the week. In the Herault, nearly 160 mm of water fell in less than two hours on Montpellier. Sad coincidence, Montpellier, Vauvert and Aubord, communes struck by this new bad weather, required today their classification in zone of natural disaster. The majority of the schools of the affected areas were closed and the pupils received for instructions to return on their premises, or were taken charges some by emergency structures. The rail and road traffic was strongly disturbed: in the afternoon, around 4 p.m., the circulation of the trains was blocked between Nimes and Lunel (Herault) because of the strong rains which covered the ways with the height with Gallargues-le-Montueux (Gard). The highways A8, A9 and A54 were closed.
Friday September 9th 2005
- Mozambique: WFP prevents that approximately 430.000 people are threatened by the Faim, with less than one food aid of the International community estimated at 19 million dollars.
- New Guinea-News Guinea: an important seism a magnitude of 7,3 on the scale of Richter was recorded with 7:26 GMT, with 96 kilometers in basement in the area of New Ireland with 870 kilometers in the North-East of the capital. One is unaware of still if there are victims and the authorities declared that there was no risk of Tsunami.
- France: the president of the republic Jacques Chirac left the hospital of the Val de Grâce to 12:30. Obviously in the fine shape, he declared near the many journalist presents “that he was particularly happy to return at his place”. He added that its doctors advise to him to remain reasonable on its activities of the week to come. The hospital announced at the beginning of afternoon that it could not take the plane during the six next weeks. Its voyage to New York, with the seat of UNO, envisaged 13 with the September 15th, should thus be cancelled.
- the United States: located at a hundred kilometers of the coasts of the Florida, the Tropical storm Ophelia was reinforced yesterday evening in hurricane, with winds blowing to approximately 120 km/h. The forecasts of the National center of hurricanes (NHC) remain however undecided on the direction which Ophelia will take. Ophelia should move away from the grounds in the next hours, taking a northern or north-eastern direction. Hurricane force 1 could however threaten the Florida or the Georgia at the beginning of next week.
- Egypt: the outgoing president Hosni Mubarak was re-elected for a fifth mandate with 88,57% of the voices according to partial results published the governmental press. The participation in the poll however was weak, 23% and ONG noted irregularities during the course of the votes. The candidate of the opposition, Ayman Nour, of the party Al-Ghad, for its part gained 7,3% of the voices. The other adversary of the outgoing president, Noamane Gomaa, of the Néo-Wafd, collected 2,8%. Seven other candidates were in string.
- Netherlands: the country records the terrorist level of alarm in the trains.
- France: Jacques Chirac called Kofi Annan it to inform personally that it could not go the next week to New York for the world summit of the the United Nations and that the French delegation will be led by the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
- France: died of the actor French Andre Pousse. André Pousse died early this morning in his residence of the Guard-Freinet in the Var, of the continuations of an car accident which has occurred last week. He was 85 years old.
- Spain: a collision in the subway of Valence made Friday 35 wounded including four low registers. The collision, which has occurred towards 10:15 (8. 15 GMT), caused the derailment of three oars, in the suburbs of Valence, on an air section of the subway. An investigation is in hand to determine its exact circumstances.
- Germany: the older brother of the pope Benoit XVI, Georg Ratzinger, left the hospital of Ratisbon in the south of the country, where it had been allowed Wednesday for a cardiac arrhythmia. Old 81 years, it had not been placed in a unit of intensive care because its state did not inspire by concern.
- Ukraine: Ioulia Timochenko joined “the opposition”. Old the Prime Minister Ukrainian highly denounced the decision of the president Viktor Iouchtchenko to dismiss his government. The Head of the State dismissed Thursday the totality of his government, justifying his gesture by the lack of team spirit of his cabinet and his collaborators. The government, which had only seven months of existence, was taken in a crisis growing on bottom of accusation of corruption. This decision constitutes a serious reverse for the president. For many Ukrainians, it is Ioulia Timochenko, with its impetuous speeches and its elegant style, which symbolizes best the ideals of the “orange revolution”.
- France, bad weather: a death found in a river of the Herault. The body of an inhabitant of Octon, close to Lodève, reported missing for Tuesday, day of the first strong rains, has been found in the bed of a river by plungers.
- France: the president Jacques Chirac discussed in end of the afternoon with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak to inform it of the carryforward of his visit envisaged the 28 and September 29th.
- the United States: the management of the file Katrina was withdrawn with Michael Brown, the director of the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), the agency charged to supervise the emergencies in the United States. The director of the FEMA will be replaced by his number two, the vice-admiral Thad W. Allen. This last supervised aid operations with La Nouvelle-Orléans. This decision should be announced officially by the secretary with the Internal security, Michael Chertoff. Less than one hour before it is discharged from its responsibilities, the spokesperson of the White House Scott McClellan had affirmed that a resignation of Brown was not with the day order.
Saturday September 10th 2005
- Democratic republic of Congo: a private Antonov 26 of the company Air Kasaï was crushed with 50 kilometers in the north of Brazzaville making thirteen died among the passengers and the crew. The first-aid workers found thirteen bodies, including those of the four Ukrainian members of the crew.
- the United States: the Ophelia tropical storm found the power of a hurricane and could threaten the Florida and the south of the east coast American. The Center advised with the residents of the north of the Florida and Carolines of the Southern and the Northern to be attentive with the evolution of the storm in the next days. Yesterday at 9 p.m. GMT, Ophélia had the power of an hurricane force 1 with winds of almost 120 km/h, and was located at 280 km with the east-north-east of Daytona Beach, in Florida, and to 350 km in the south-south-east of Charleston, in South Carolina.
- Political France, : The Fête of the Humanity, which opened yesterday with Courneuve, knew an multitude record. The Communist daily newspaper , in strong financial problems, nevertheless announced sales in rise of 5%. The PS Laurent Fabius was confronted with the hostility of some individuals for his first arrival with Courneuve. Marie-George Buffet had to intervene with the platform to make it possible the exchange to be held. With his exit, Laurent Fabius declared “it is not because you have three ninnies who are there because they do not want absolutely which the left gathers that” should be panicked.
- France: died of the trade unionist Jean-Luc Cazettes, president of the CFE-CGC, the continuations of a Cancer at the 61 years age.
- France: In Paris, several thousands of people took part in the 8th Techno parades, in spite of the rain.
- the United States: died of the Singer and American multi-instrumentalist Clarence Brown with Orange, the city texane where it had grown. It was 81 years old. Clarence Brown resided at Slidell, a city close to La Nouvelle-Orléans, before fleeing the arrival of the Ouragan Katrina and finding refuge in his/her brother. This exodus was undoubtedly fatal to the musician who suffered from serious health issues, a cardiac lung cancer and several alarms.
Sunday September 11th 2005
- the United States: information on the Hurricane Ophelia.
- Political France, : the president of the Movement for France (MPF), Philippe de Villiers, officially announced, his candidature for the presidential election of 2007, at the time of the closing speech of his summer school to Grasse in the the Alpes-Maritimes.
- Portugal: an accident of coach in the center of the country made at least a death and several casualties.
- Japan: according to surveys carried out at the exit of the ballot boxes, it is a historical victory for the Parti liberal-democrat (PLD) the Prime Minister Jun' ichirō Koizumi, who dominated the legislative elections securing the absolute majority easily. In parallel, the principal party of opposition, the Democratic party of Japan (PDJ), left rolled poll. This result especially seems a personal triumph for Jun' ichirō Koizumi, a populist liberal who had made of this poll true a Référendum on his policy of reforms, in particular the privatization of the tentacular postal services. If the official results confirm these estimates, it will be the first time since fifteen years with the Japan which a party will be able to control without needing to pass from alliances with other formations to the Parliament.
- Al-Qaïda: in margin of the commemorations of the September 11th, 2001, a video discovered with the Pakistan watch a masked individual, who seems to be the islamist American Adam Gadahn, threatening of terrorist acts the towns of Los Angeles (E. - U.) and of Melbourne (Australia).
- Morocco: died of the politician Morocco Ain Abdallah Ibrahim. Its death makes lose in Morocco one of the last historical figures of the National movement, the political current which incarnated the independence of the kingdom. It was 87 years old.
Monday September 12th 2005
- Colombia: a father in wheel chair and his son armed with grenades diverted a HK 4030 of the company Colombia Aires which had taken off this morning of Florencia, in the south of the country, and went to Neiva, with 20 passengers on board and 5 team members. They went at the end of five hours after having released all the passengers and the crew. It had landed with 13:5 local (18. 5 GMT) in the military zone of the airport El Dorado of Bogota. According to television channel RCN they would be two war veterans of an armed group having profited from the legislation on demobilized. A member of Parliament, Shine Antonio Serrano Morales, a civil servant of the Congress and a person in charge of the Aires company was among the passengers.
- Norway: victory of the coalition “Green-Reds” (88 seats) at the time of the legislative elections preceding the list preserving - party progressist of the current Prime Minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik (81 seats). The president of the left work, Jens Stoltenberg, is had a presentiment of to become the new first minister in charge to form the new government.
- Palestine: total evacuation of the Gaza Strip by the army Israeli and taking possession by thousands of inhabitants of Gaza in jubilation of the occupied territories by the Israeli colonists since 39 years. The 27 Synagog S which the Israeli government refused to shave were immediately destroyed. Israel keeps the control of the sky, maritime control and the terrestrial control of Gaza, zone which it encloses of north in the south by filtering the frontier passages.
- Europe, Hewlett-Packard: after having published a rise record of the Bénéfice S (+46% at the time of the 1st quarter 2005) the computer maker announces that the quarter of manpower of the American company will be removed in France, that is to say 1.240 people. The other European countries are also aimed by this reorganization since it concerns in all 6.000 employment.
- the United States of America: the American giant of the sale to the Enchère S in line EBay announces to have bought the company Skype S.A for an amount of 4,1 billion Euro S.
- China: opening of HongKong Disneyland a partnership between Disney and the government hongkongais. It is the first attempt at Disney to conquer the markets of the China and the South-East Asia.
- France: died of the Journalist, draftsman and scenario writer of cartoon, Raymond Maric at the 78 years age.
Tuesday September 13rd 2005
- Germany: the German police force stopped a man who threatened to make jump the Olympic Tour of Munich. More than 160 people had been evacuated tower, of a swimming pool close and a subway station after the man had threatened to make jump the building from the restaurant close to the top of the tower. The police officers initially negotiated with the suspect before managing to control it. One is unaware of in the immediate future so explosives were discovered after his arrest. The tower of 290 meters important fact part of the complex built to accommodate the Olympic Games of Munich in 1972.
- the United Kingdom: in an interview with the Guardian , the British minister of Defense, John Reid, affirms that the Great Britain is the subject of one long-term nuclear threat.
- the United Kingdom: two people were killed in the evening at the time of a shooting in the department store Harvey Nichols of London. The London police force specified that shootings had been heard in this store located in the crested district of Knightsbridge towards 19:45 local times (18. 45 GMT). A man and a woman, old out of about thirty years were killed and the police force tried to identify them. One in the immediate future does not have further details.
Wednesday September 14th 2005
- Political France, : four deputies will dispute the nomination of the UMP to try to beat the socialist Bertrand Delanoë of the Mairie of Paris in 2008, and will be decided between by the vote of the militants of the party the February 25th and March 4th 2006. The candidates are: the president of the group UMP with the council of Paris, Claude Goasguen, the president of the parliamentary Parliament of NATO, Pierre Lellouche, the mayor of the 17th district of Paris, Francoise de Panafieu and the mayor of the Ve district of Paris, Jean Tiberi.
- Political France, : the socialist former minister Claude Allègre estimated on RTL which if the left wants to gain the elections of 2007, it will have to call upon Lionel Jospin.
- China: a truck transporting 18 tons of chemicals exploded in a city of the Comté of Mile, in the province of the Yunnan in south-west of the country, killing 11 people and by wounding 43 others. According to the first elements of the investigation, the driver of the truck parked the vehicle close to at his place Monday instead of delivering the loading in a chemical warehouse as envisaged.
- France: 300 people were evacuated Hôtel Lutetia with Paris following a bomb scare.
- France: died of the Journalist and writer Christian Charrière with Paris at the 64 years age.
- Italy: a police officer was killed and another casualty in the explosion of a police station of the carabinieri (Italian military police force), with Latina, approximately 70km in the south of Rome. The origin of the explosion which occurred per hour of the lunch is not known in the immediate future but according to Italian news agency ANSA, the investigators a possible parcel bomb suspects.
- France: the Russian writer of origin , Vladimir Volkoff died out this night in its house of the Périgord. It was 72 years old.
- Iraq: at least 169 people perished and 542 were wounded in ten suicide bombings asserted by Al-Qaïda, which presented them like its response to the operation anti-rebels of Tall Afar, in the North-West of the country. This series of attacks, is the worst since the wave of attacks directed against the Shiites the March 2nd 2004 with Kerbala and Baghdad, making at least 181 died and 573 wounded.
- France: the Court of Appeal of Douai refused the application of release old the member of Direct action, Nathalie Ménigon. The continued detention of Jean-Marc Rouillan was necessary.
- Chile: the supreme court raised the immunity of Augusto Pinochet within the framework of the file of the Colombo Operation, opening the way with a lawsuit of the former Chilean dictator in this business relating to the assassination of 119 opponents in 1975.
- NATO: the Prime Minister French Dominique de Villepin invited the Iran to conform to his engagements of nuclear non-proliferation under penalty of seizing the Safety advice.
Thursday September 15th 2005
- Civil aviation: two of the ten principal airline companies in the world, Delta Airlines and Northwest Airlines, filed for bankruptcy their and were placed under the protection of the American Loi on the bankruptcies. These two american companies, operating primarily on their local market, indicated that following the rise of the Oil price, they accumulated insurmountable debts and not to have known to reflect this rise on the price of the plane tickets.
- Serbia: a warrant for arrest was delivered against the wife in exile of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević, Mirjana Marković, which was not presented to its lawsuit for corruption. The judge immediately ordered his arrest. Mirjana Markovic was often shown to hold a capacity slides about it at the time of the autocratic reign of her husband in the years 1990. It left the country before being marked to have illegally given luxurious apartments to the nurse of its grandson and persons in charge of Communist party (JUL). It is also required to be questioned within the framework of the investigation on the assassination in 2000 of the former president Ivan Stambolic.
- the United States: the Gouverneur of California Arnold Schwarzenegger implied that he would request a new mandate in 2006, informant whom his mission was not fulfilled and whom he would make an advertisement on his Friday projects. He insinuates weeks since that an advertisement on a possible candidature for its re-election was imminent. According to its advisers, its decision will be officially communicated Friday, at the time of the republican convention of California.
- the United States: died of the Scenario writer Robert Wise, of one cardiac failure at the hospital of the University of California to Los Angeles, four days after its 91e birthday.
- Mexico: a fire devastated the market of fireworks of Tultepec, most known of the country, starting a series of explosions which destroyed hundreds of stands. According to several witnesses, a customer would have lit and thrown a fireworks in the market local San Pablito towards 13:45 (18. 45 GMT), starting explosions in chain accidentally. This explosion, which made at least 100 wounded including 3 seriously, intervened a few hours before one of the principal occasions during which fireworks are drawn, the festival of the day of Independence, at midnight, marked by fireworks with the four corners of the country.
- UNO: With the general meeting, the major part of the Heads of State call with the fight against the Pauvreté.
- Martinique: died of old the Prime Minister of the island of the Dominique, Eugenia Charles, sometimes called “the Iron Lady of Caribbean”, died with Saint-Pierre at the 86 years age.
Friday September 16th 2005
- Lebanon: a bomb of strong power exploded with Beirut, little before midnight. The bomb estimated at ten kilos made a death and 22 wounded. The explosion took place close to a bank in the Christian quarters of Achrafieh.
- France, economy: did the oil group Total announce that it would triple its investments in the refining over the period 2006 - 2010 compared with 200? - 2005, to produce 4 million additional tons of Gas oil. The same day, justice declared admissible the petition by victims of the explosion of AZF which showed the group of Entrave to the investigation.
- Political France, : two adverse currents in the majority of François Holland, Socialist alternative and Nouveau socialist party announced to deposit a motion common to the Congrès of Mans of the Socialist party.
- France, Environment: the French minister delegated to industry, François Loos, authorized the construction of the first park of 21 wind S at sea of 105 megawatts. Construction will be finished in 2007 in the Manche, to approximately 7 km with broad of Veulettes-sur-Mer (Seine-Maritime), on the Côte of Alabaster.
- France: French the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced the installation of a “universal bank service” to allow “all the people stripped” to have a Bank account at the time of the installation of the national council of fight against exclusion.
- the United States: the governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger will present himself the next year to try to be re-elected in November 2006, announced his spokesperson of countryside Todd Harris. This advertisement coincides with the opening of the Convention of the Republican party of California to Anaheim, where it must speak Saturday. Democratic side, the Treasurer of the State Phil Angelides and the Controller Steve Westly stated that they entered in race for the nomination of the party. One also mentioned the possibility of two Hollywood candidatures, the Réalisateur Rob Reiner and the Acteur Warren Beatty.
- France: the airline company Cameroon Airlines was added to the black list of the companies prohibited in France.
- Political: the top of UNO was concluded without large projection, if not an agreement in principle to create a council of the Human rights to replace the current commission in load of this question which lost its credibility. The debate on the Terrorism and programs it Nucléaire Iran IEN eclipsed the reform projects of the institution and the debate on the Pauvreté in the world.
- Morocco: three French which carried out an excursion in the Massif High-Atlas in the south of the country found death in a snowstorm, whereas a French couple, reported missing, was found healthy and except. The reprocessed victims, all three young people and living the area Lyon is born, belonged to a group of 14 people started from Marrakech to carry out the rise of the mount Koub which does not culminate with 4.068 meters. The group was taken in a snowstorm to 300 meters of the top. The three victims probably died of hypothermia. The eleven survivors, among whom two Moroccan guides and two French guides, were helped by two helicopters of the gendarmerie. Four of them were gone down again in the valley. The three victims (Marie-Therese Galichonn, Maryvonne Lebihan, Anne-Marie Ludier) were old of an about sixty year.
- ? : died of Gordon Gould, one of the fathers of the technology of the Laser which invented the name of laser and gained a long legal battle to be seen some recognizing paternity. He died at the 85 years age of an infection.
- France: died of the Realizer French Jean-Claude Guiguet, of a Cancer with Aubenas in Ardeche. It was 56 years old.
- the United States: died of the American Actress , Constancy Moore, film high-speed motorboat with Hollywood in the years 1930 and 1940. She died of a heart failure in her house of Los Angeles after a long illness. She was 84 years old.
Saturday September 17th 2005
- France: 120 delegated defense collectives and of development of the public services joined together to Angouleme “to fight against the liquidation of the public services” and founded “Convergences to defend and develop the public services” (CPDDSP). This meeting makes following the demonstration of Guéret in June; a national demonstration will take place in Paris the November 19th with Paris.
- Afghanistan: a soldier French died and another casualty after their vehicle ran on a mine in the south of the country. They took part has a patrol aiming at making safe the ground for the legislative elections of the following day, the September 18th 2005.
- France, presidential of 2007: the stake gives place to the one of the first battles. Sponsorships of Jean-Marie Le Pen. The deputy UMP of the Hauts-de-Seine Manuel Aeschlimann, near to Nicolas Sarkozy, made it clear that some of the mayors who had granted their signature to Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2002 could rather give them to Philippe de Villiers or Nicolas Sarkozy because they would incarnate the order best.
- New Zealand: the member of the Labor Party Helen Clark, Prime Minister since 1999, is at the head at the conclusion of the legislative elections of Saturday, without however being able to obtain the majority at the Parliament. After examination of 99% of ballot papers, the Workers party collected 41% of the voices compared with 40% for the national Party of Don Brash, according to the figures of the electoral Office, predicting 50 seats for the Members of the Labor Party and 49 with their adversaries. Don Brash refused to concede the defeat, promising to set up a government directed by its party. Two principal trainings, at the conclusion of the poll of Saturday, thus will start rough negotiations with less important parties to constitute a coalition at the Parliament which counts 120 seats.
- Germany: the day before the German federal elections of 2005, the chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his rival Angela Merkel continue their meeting. A survey gives a light advance to the conservative candidate, but the assumption according to which it would be forced to form a governmental alliance with SPD of Schröder consolidates.
- the United States: a suburban train ran off the line in the south of Chicago (Illinois), killing at least two people and making more than 80 wounded, including 17 low registers. A 22 year old young woman died in the train, and another 30 years old died after its transfer to the hospital. The train on two floors transported 185 passengers and four team members when it ran off the line near houses and of buildings, to 8 kilometers of the downtown area. The causes of the accident are not known in the immediate future.
- France: died of the writer French Jacques Lacarrière, in a hospital Paris IEN of the complications of an operation which it had undergone with the knee at the beginning of week. It was 79 years old. It has share wished elsewhere that its ashes are dispersed in Greece, this country which it affectionnait so much. This humanistic full with humor was married with the actress Egyptian origin Sylvia Lipa.
Sunday September 18th 2005
- Political Germany, : according to the first official results of the German federal elections of 2005 bearing out of 80% of the districts, the CDU - CSU of Angela Merkel obtained 36,5% front SPD of Gerhard Schroder to 34%. The two protagonists must undertake discussions with the other parties to form a majority coalition.
- Political France, : the former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin found his seat of Senator of the Vienna with 56% of the voices to the first turn. Francois Fillon is elected in the the Sarthe, but Serge Lepeltier was beaten in the Cher by a dissident UMP.
- Sport: died of Michael Park, copilot of the Estonia N Markko Märtin on Peugeot 307 WRC, in an accident which has occurred in the 15th special one of the rally of Great Britain, 12th of the 16 tests of the championship of the world. Old of 39 years, married and father of two children, this British was mortally wounded when the car left the road and ran up against a tree. The leader of World, Sebastien Loeb on Citroen Xsara bailed out voluntarily penalty not to be crowned world champion under these conditions, in a confused end of the road.
- Political Afghanistan, : for the first time since 1969, the Afghan are called with the ballot boxes to elect the Wolesi Jirga (House of Commons) of 249 seats and the 34 councils provincial (420 seats). Eight people found the death, of which a French soldier.
- the United States: the American forecasters launched an alarm to the hurricane on the islands of the south of the Florida because of a tropical depression which could be reinforced. The depression, born Saturday in the east of the Turkish Islands and Caïques, in the south-west of the the Bahamas, has the potential to become by Monday evening a cyclone with winds blowing with 120km/h uninterrupted. She will be baptized Rita. It is still too early to say exactly where she will strike, noting that the depression has the potential to reach the Gulf of Mexico. If such is the case, attention will really have to be paid. The National center of monitoring of hurricanes (NHC) asked for to the inhabitants south of the Florida of the center and west of Cuba to inform itself on the evolution of the situation weather.
- Political France, : Jean-Michel Baylet, president of the Radical left party, invited the left to agree on the designation of a candidate common to the first tower of the presidential of 2007, “or else the PRG will introduce its own candidate not to be involved in a new programmed defeat. ” I ask formally the ecologists, the movement citizen, all the associative or abstract groups concerned, with all the interested personalities from the left, but above all with the PS to come to a conclusion about a procedure leading to a great national convention of all the forces of progress made up in an equitable way and which would indicate it or the candidate charged (E) to save the joint project, has T it affirmed, at the time of the closing speech of the summer school of its party.
- Political France, : Jack Lang protested, in the unison with many defense associations of the Human rights, against the will of the minister François Baroin to reform the code of nationality by removing the Droit of the ground Outre-mer.
- Australia: a person died and three others were strongly poisoned after having inhaled nitrogen protoxide, more known under the name of “laughing gas”, in a car in the west of Sydney. The Australian police force specified that four people had been found unconscious early this morning in a vehicle in front of a house of Toongabbie in the western suburbs of Sydney. A 38 years old man died, a 23 year old woman was in a serious condition while two other men are in a stable condition. A gas bottle found in the car was sent to the laboratory for examination.
Monday September 19th 2005
- Indonesia: Islamiste S forced the closing of a Christian church in the course of construction with Jakarta, announced the police force indonésienne. It is only the last demonstration of a movement antichrétien which extends in the Archipel.
- North Korea: the government North-Korean gave his agreement at the time of the top of Beijing to give up their research program on the nuclear weapons and to respect again engagements of the Traité nuclear non-proliferation. This agreement results two years of negotiations with the the United States of America, the China, the South Korea, the Japan and the Russia.
- Aviation: the flight Onur Air in direction of Paris was diverted following engineering problems on Istanbul. Many passengers, taken by the fear and following the many incidents which touched this company charter during the summer, refused to go up on board after the repairs carried out in less than one hour.
- the United States: Fernando Ferrer, which passed successfully the test of the democratic primary education, will be the adversary of the outgoing republican Michael Bloomberg with the election of the mayor of New York, the next November 8th. For a majority of New Yorkean, the re-election of Michael Bloomberg is not any doubt. The republican billionaire, who was in the opposing side to his entry in policy in 2001, enjoys a great popularity.
- Germany: considered to be responsible by some for the disappointing result of the German conservatives at the time of the elections of Sunday, Paul Kirchhof, which was presented like the future Minister for Finance of the candidate Christian Democrat Angela Merkel, will turn over to its university career.
- the United States: the authorities ordered the evacuation of 40.000 inhabitants who live in lower part of Marathon until Key West in the south of the Florida, to the approach of the Rita tropical storm. The weather conditions should be degraded with the approach of the first rains of the tropical storm. With 12:00 GMT, Rita was with approximately 380km in the south-east of Nassau, the the Bahamas, and approximately 740km in the south-eastern east/of Key West. It moved towards the west at the speed of 14,5km/h. Rita could become an hurricane force 1 when it reaches Keys in next the 36 hours. A bulletin of monitoring was emitted for the counties of Miami-Dade and Broward and the Gouverneur of Florida Jeb Bush issued the state of emergency.
- the United States: Michael Schiavo, the husband of Terri Schiavo announced that he wrote a book to tell his version of the long legal battle around the Euthanasie which defrayed the chronicle in all the country. The book of 280 pages, heading “Terri: the Truth” (Terri: the truth) should be published little before the first birthday of its death. The publisher Dutton Publishing confirmed that it would leave in bookstore in March 2006.
Tuesday September 20th 2005
- Economy: Siemens announces the suppression of 7000 employment in its sector ISS, gathering its lines of business with industry. For recall, Siemens already removed 6500 employment in its division ICN (equipment for fixed telephony), and 3000 in its division of electronics components for auto industry.
- Austria: died of Simon Wiesenthal, survivor of the Holocaust and which had devoted all its life to hunting for the Nazi S and the fight against the Antisémitisme. He died in his sleep on Monday night in his residence of Vienna. He was 96 years old.
- Ukraine: the Ukrainian Parliament rejected the nomination of the chief of the government by interim Iouri Ekhanourov at the post of Prime Minister. This last collected 223 votes, three less than the necessary minimum to be named. It is a major reverse for the president Viktor Iouchtchenko who had indicated it to replace his allied Orange revolution, Ioulia Timochenko which he dismissed the last September 8th.
- the United States: the Rita tropical storm was reinforced to become a Cyclone of category 2 with constant winds of 160km/h, which currently sweeps the archipelago of the Keys in the south of the Florida with strong rains and strong winds. Thousands of inhabitants and tourists fled Keys before the arrival of Rita which is likely to bring up to 38 cm of rains on certain parts of the archipelago. Rita promises to be reinforced still during its crossing of the Gulf of Mexico before touching ground this weekend, probably with the Texas even if the Louisiana could be found in its trajectory.
- France, Archeology: the preventive archaeological excavations carried out on the site of the law courts of Toulouse in the course of restoration allowed the setting the day of the medieval castle of the counts de Toulouse. Qualified major importance by scientists of an interregional commission, the discovery is compared with that of the medieval part of the Louvre to Paris.
- Germany, elections: the German parties continue the discussions in order to form a new government, the assumption of a great coalition between conservatives and social democrats without Gerhard Schröder nor Angela Merkel is reinforced with the detriment of the other possible scenarios. To believe the popular famous daily newspaper of it Bild , Gerhard Schröder would be ready to yield its place to a conservative leader, if Angela Merkel, had a presentiment of to direct a new government, made some initially in the same way. With the eyes of the Berliner daily newspaper Taz , the only solution, it is that the two applicants with the chancellery end up withdrawing themselves. Gerhard Schröder will then at least have prevented Angela Merkel from being a chancelière and thus triumphed last once.
- Political France, : the president of the National front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, request so that the names of the mayors sponsoring the candidates with the presidential election are confidential.
- Sudan: the first government of national union between the south and the north of the country was formed, eight month after the peace agreement which put an end to more than 20 years of Civil war.
- the United Kingdom: the British Romancier Salman Rushdie invites the “silent majority” of the Musulman S to protest against the radical Islamisme in order to prevent that their culture is not taken as an hostage by extremists.
- Ex- Yugoslavia: according to the prosecutor of the International penal court for ex-Yugoslavia (TPIY), Carla Del Ponte, the Catholic church would hide the Croatian general Ante Gotovina, war criminal in escape. The Pape Benoît XVI would have been unaware of the calls of the international justice which claims it. The spokesperson of the Vatican affirmed not to have received any formal evidence on behalf of the TIPY allowing to affirm that the Gotovina general was lodged in a Croatian monastery.
- the United States: militant pacifist the Cindy Sheehan, symbol of the opposition to the War in Iraq, was slightly wounded at the time of a gathering with New York following the intervention of the police force. She addressed herself to the assistance to Union Public garden when the police force intervened to disperse the meeting, causing a scuffle. Asking the immediate return of the GI the house, it launched out these last weeks in a round of 25 American States, which must culminate by a walk anti-war with Washington Saturday.
- Space: NASA announced its program of Space conquest for the next years, which aims making be posed four astronauts on the Moon in 2018 and at making them reside during one week. 104 billion dollars are designed to arrive to this objective by using the assets of knowledge of the Programme Apollo and the Space shuttle.
Wednesday September 21st 2005
- Brussels: The 25 Member States of the European Union ratified a very firm declaration in connection with the need for the Turkey for recognizing Cyprus before its adhesion.
- the United States: Rita was reinforced to become a hurricane of category 5 on the scale Saffir-Simpson, which swept the archipelago of the Keys in the south of Florida with strong rains and strong winds reaching 185 km/h. Rita accompanied by strong rains and winds of 265 km/h causes concern whereas it carries on its road towards the Gulf of Mexico and the already devastated areas of the Louisiana and the the Mississippi. The American meteorologists feared this reinforcement of Rita whereas its most probable destination from here the weekend is the Texas, although the Louisiana and the north of the Mexico are not excluded. On the whole, a million people received an order of evacuation in the areas threatened by the hurricane by the weekend. With Galveston, with the Texas, patients being in hospitals and private clinics were already evacuated.
- Japan: Jun' ichirō Koizumi was re-elected at the post of Prime Minister by the Parliament Japan board, after crushing the victory of the coalition which it directs at the time of the anticipated general elections of last week. The Lower House of the strong diet of 480 members where the coalition has a majority of two thirds re-elected Koizumi by 340 votes. The Upper House then also quickly re-elected it. The Koizumi cabinet had collectively resigned earlier in the course of the day to allow this re-election. Jun' ichirō Koizumi should take back all the members of its government.
- India: torrential rains caused by monsoon caused the death of at least 36 people and more than 35.000 others were evacuated whereas rivers left their bed in the south-west of the country. The coastal areas of the State of Andhra Pradesh were swept by torrential rains started by a tropical cyclone which struck the area Monday. The principal highways and the railways were flooded following the rising Tuesday of two important rivers with Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh. More than 35.000 inhabitants of villages close to the sea level were evacuated towards campings of helps installed in schools and public buildings.
- Bangladesh: at least 16 fishermen died and 3.000 others have been reported missing for Sunday in a storm in bay from the Bengal. Strong winds caused by a tropical depression in bay of Bengal raised Sunday of the tidal waves on the coast.
- the United States: several tens of stars whose Simon and Garfunkel, Elton John, White beet Midler, Tom Waits, Paul Newman, Lenny Kravitz, Ry Cooder, Buckwheat Zydeco, Cyndi Lauper and even Bill Clinton, was found yesterday evening in Madison Square Garden with New York around figures of the music of La Nouvelle-Orléans for two concerts with the profit of the victims of the Ouragan Katrina.
- DRC: a Antonov of the Congolese private company Panafrican airways was damaged in an mountainous area of the South-Kivu in the east of DRC to a few 40 kilometers in the west of Bukavu. At least two people died. It assured the connection between Kasese, in the Maniema (center-is) and Bukavu, the chief town of the South-Kivu. In the immediate future, the circumstances of the accident are not known.
- Mexico: a helicopter transporting 9 people, whose Mexican minister of Public safety, was crushed in the mountains in the west of Mexico City, killing the totality of the passengers. On board apparatus, were the minister Ramon Martin Huerta, the chief of the preventive federal police, five other passengers and two team members. The helicopter moved towards the prison of Palma, to 55 km in the west of Mexico City, when it was lost sight of the fact in thick clouds. After several hours of research, the helps found the carcass burned of the apparatus in an wooded area and mountainous in the west of the capital.
Thursday September 22nd 2005
- Israel: the country dismantled its last military base, Dotan, in the sector of the north of the the West Bank where it evacuated four small colonies, which marks the completion of its retirement scheme.
- the United Kingdom: one of the presumed authors of the Attack S missed by the July 21st to London, Hamdi Issac, was stopped by Scotland Yard after being extradited of Italy towards Great Britain.
- Serbia: the country agrees to extradite towards the Spain Abdelmadjid Bouchar, one of the presumed authors of the Attentat S with the bomb which made 191 died with Madrid in March 2004.
- European Union: the pressure increases on the the United Kingdom so that it makes concessions on its budgetary “rebate” in order to make it possible the European Union to leave the current crisis thanks to an agreement on its future financing. Tony Blair had last June refused the maintenance of the British rebate until in 2013 on its current level of 5,5 billion Euro S, whereas with the widening of the EU this amount would have mechanically increased to 7 billion per annum.
- Ukraine: the Ukrainian president Viktor Iouchtchenko managed to obtain Parliament which it approves finally its Prime Minister Iouri Ekhanourov, putting an end to two weeks of political crisis at the price of a compromise with its rival Viktor Ianoukovitch, the man that it had defied at the time of the Orange revolution.
- the United States: the Cyclone Rita, which passed by again of category 4, should strike the coasts texanes in the night of Friday, September 23 or Saturday morning September 24th early. 1,3 million people were already evacuated with the Texas and in Louisiana in preparation for a new catastrophe. According to the National center of hurricanes (NHC) based with Miami, the Rita cyclone could be potentially catastrophic.
- France: at the conclusion of a 16 days visit of the French prisons , Alvaro Gil-Robles, the police chief with the Human rights of the the Council of Europe, considered that the retention center for foreigners of Paris was the worst than he ever saw, comparing it with certain prisons Moldavie. He also regretted that the Minister of Interior Department, Nicolas Sarkozy, cancelled their go.
- Asia: according to data collected in 2000, about 10.000 people die because of factors caused by the evolution of the climate each year. It is what with the Associated Press the doctor Hisashi Ogawa affirmed, regional environmental adviser of WHO, at the time of a conference. According to preliminary research, the temperatures in rise would have caused an increase in the climatic phenomena in the area, in particular the cyclones, the typhoons, the drynesses and the floods.
- Italy: the minister Italy N of the Economy Domenico Siniscalco resigned. A resignation which increases a severe blow to the president of the Council Silvio Berlusconi to less than one year of the general elections. According to the Italian media, Domenico Siniscalco resigned after having failed in its attempt at évincer the governor of the Bank of Italy Antonio Fazio. According to the daily newspaper Repubblica , Siniscalco would have considered to be the government too “motionless” in the treatment of the scandal surrounding marked Fazio to have underprivileged a bank Dutchwoman in a business of repurchase.
- the United States: a Airbus A320 of the American company JetBlue, whose nose gear wheels were blocked of through compared to the direction of the track, landed without damage with the international airport of Los Angeles after having carried out rotations in the area during three hours to exhaust its fuel. The pilot made a success of the emergency operation balances some on the aft wheels of the landing gear. By touching the track, the nose gear wheels made spout out sheaves of flames before the tires burst, letting the metal part rub the ground for the last meters. A few minutes later, the 140 passengers could go down normally with luggage on the track where buses waited. No casualty was brought back among the passengers nor among the six team members. The National office of safety of transport announced an investigation into the incident. The pilots realized that the nose gear wheels plane had been blocked of through whereas they tried to return the landing gear shortly after the takeoff of the airport of Burbank for New York.
- Brazil: Severino Cavalcanti, the president of the House of Commons of the Brazil, shown exaction of bribes near a head of undertaking, announced its resignation Wednesday while reaffirming its innocence. While thus acting, it avoided an impeachment which would make it automatically ineligible for any public office during 8 years.
- European Union: joined together with Brussels, doctors and veterinary surgeons come from the 25 countries of the EU invited the European governments to prepare for a propagation of the epidemic of the Avian flu, Asia towards the Occident.
- France: Dominique de Villepin announced new measurements in favor of the Natalité, in particular by increasing the amount of the Parental leave to 750 euros per month during one year for the 3rd child.
Friday September 23rd 2005
- Puerto Rico: Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, chief of the favorable group armed with independence of the island, in escape for several years, has been killed at the time of the seat of the house of Hormigueros where it hid by FBI. The circumstances of its death remain dubious, the FBI and the wife of Ojeda Rìos which was present in the house by presenting radically different versions. The control of the operation by the FBI was highly criticized by many personalities of the island.
- the United Nations: the Ministre delegated to the European Businesses Catherine Colonna announced in the United Nations that the France wished that the Lebanese militia, whose Hezbollah, are disarmed.
- Gaza Strip: at least 15 Palestinian S were killed and more than 80 wounded in the Explosion of a car at the time of a military parade of the radical movement Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip. The Fatah of the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas showed the Hamas radical movement to be responsible for the explosion. Twenties of the 80 wounded ones are in serious” or “critical” state a “.
- the Vatican: the most dangerous competitor of the cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to become the successor of the Pape Jean-Paul II would have been the Argentin Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and not the Italy N Carlo Maria Martini, according to the secrecies of conclave revealed in the Italian press by an anonymous cardinal. The majority of the echoes of the Conclave implied that the cardinal Italy N Carlo Maria Martini, 78 years, had been the principal challenger of Ratzinger, and that a cardinal of the “Third world” had never been really in race. If Bergoglio, a Jesuit, forever threatened the advance of Ratzinger and that, according to the extracts of the newspaper, he said that he did not want to become pope, its second position could mean that the next conclave will privilege the election of a pope of Latin America, where is half of the billion catholics the world, according to experts.
- Political France, : the former minister Francois Fillon, near to Nicolas Sarkozy, estimates that there is relatively little hope for the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to be a good candidate with the presidential of 2007.
- Israel: the funeral of Simon Wiesenthal was celebrated today in the presence of hundreds of foreign dignitaries, survivors of the Holocauste and admirors.
- Greece: three people at least were trapped after the collapse of a roof on the archeological site of Akrotiri, on the island of Santorin.
- Morocco: the Prosecutor of El Ayoun, chief town of the the Western Sahara, ordered a judicial enquiry into photographs of prisoners sahraouis diffused on Internet. In El Ayoun, Casablanca and Has Melloul (southern), about thirty prisoners sahraouis observes since the August 8th a Grève of the Faim.
- France: one week after the declarations of the Minister of Overseas the François Baroin on the Reform of the Right of the ground in DOM-TOM, the Maire PS of Mulhouse Jean-Marie Bockel is declared ready to open the Débat and decides for “a selected Immigration”.
- Swiss: the country drove back a Prédicateur Egyptian Islamiste which went to the annual convention of the League Musulman S of Switzerland (LMS). The Imam Wagdy Ghoneim was expelled shortly after its arrival with the airport of Geneva.
- Turkey: a court of Istanbul decided to delay the opening of a conference on the fate reserved for the Armenian S during the First World War. The court suspended the conference while claiming to both Université S accommodating the debates of the additional details on the university course of the various speakers and on the financing of this demonstration. “It was cancelled because they did not know which was going to say what”, writes the Quotidien Sabah . The European commission criticized the decision of the Turkish court, describing it as “provocation”.
- Germany: a majority of German would prefer to see Angela Merkel directing the next government rather than the outgoing Chancelier Gerhard Schröder, watch a survey. This study carried out by the institute Emnid watch that 47% of German want the leader of the preserving for chancellor, against 44% which wish to preserve Gerhard Schröder.
- the United Kingdom: the widow of the one of the Kamikaze S of the July 7th in public transport London shows the preachers of the radical Mosquée S in Great Britain “to have poisoned” the spirit of her husband. Samantha Lewthwaite, wife of Germaine Lindsay, affirms that this last was made embrigader by extremists met fine 2004.
- Iraq: the Shiite spiritual leader of the community , the very influential large Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, invited to vote in favor of the Constitution at the time of the Référendum of the October 15th.
- South Korea: the country estimates at 15 billion dollars (12,27 billion euros) the cost of the energy assistance claimed by the North Korea in exchange of the abandonment of its nuclear programs.
- Israel: the Israeli forces killed three militants armed with the Islamic Jihad early Friday in the West Bank, a few hours after the evacuation of an Israeli military base.
- Australia: the prohibition of the sale of the roquefort was officially raised, after two years of administrative battle carried out following a request of the Gouvernement French.
- Canada: the group Total plans to build a power station Nucléaire in Canada to extract from the heavy Pétrole.
- France: researchers French and laboratories Européen S which studied the impact of the Sécheresse observed during the summer 2003 estimate that this type of event could modify in the long run the operation of the terrestrial ecosystem S in Europe, underlines a study published in the review Nature .
- the United Kingdom: Andrew Rowe, 34 years, British converted with the Islam, which had been stopped in 2003 in the Tunnel under the Manche, was condemned to 15 years of Prison for possession of goods likely to be used for activities Terroriste S.
- Palestine: at least ten Palestinian S were killed and more than 80 others wounded Friday in the Explosion of a car which took part in a military parade of the radical movement Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip.
- the United States: the candidature of the conservative judge John Roberts, presented to the presidency of the Supreme court of the United States by George W. Bush, was approved by the legal commission of the Senate in spite of the opposition of five of its members. After this stage, Roberts judge should obtain without difficulty the downstream of the Senate and govern life more the legal high authority of the country. Three democrats joined the ten republicans of the commission to endorse the candidature, whereas five democrats voted against.
- Political France, : the Minister for Transport and candidate UMP proclaimed with the town hall of Lyon, Dominique Perben, indicated that it wished to show “audacity”, even if it means being “disturbing”, to beat the mayor outgoing PS Gerard Collomb, at the time of the local elections of 2008.
Saturday September 24th 2005
- Iran: the Council of the governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted in the majority (and not by consensus as with accustomed) a resolution, presented by the European Union, calling the transfer, with an unspecified date, file Iranian Nucléaire in front of the Safety advice of the United Nations.
- Political France, : the Minister for Defense Michele Alliot-Marie declares with the Sunday newspaper which it is an obviousness that it will take part in the presidential debate. She even affirms to intend to play a leading role there. A candidature of its share is thus not excluded.
- Political France, : according to a Ifop survey carried out for the Sunday newspaper , near 965 people, Jack Lang would be the best candidate of the PS for the presidential of 2007, with 24%, right in front of Ségolène Royal, with 23%, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 22% and Laurent Fabius, 17%. In the socialist sympathizers, Jack Lang arrives also at the head with 24%, in front of Ségolène Royal and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at equality with 22%.
- France, Politique: the former ministers Patrick Devedjian and Marie-Anne Montchamp, should find their seat of deputy of the Hauts-de-Seine and the the Valley-of-Marne. Two partial legislative elections will be organized Sunday September 25th.
- the United States: died of the American Actor , Tommy Jump. The former child star, is deceased complications due to cardiac problems. He was 79 years old.
Sunday September 25th 2005
- Swiss: the Suisse S approved to 56% the extension of freedom of movement of the people to the ten new Member States of the European Union.
- Political France, : the Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy does not exclude a priori a candidature from Dominique de Villepin for the presidential election of 2007.
- Lebanon: a bomb placed under the car of the journalist May Chidiac, presenter of Lebanese private television LBC exploded close to the town of Jounieh, located at the North-East of Beirut. The journalist was seriously wounded and was transported to the hospital.
- France: flight AF4521 of the Airbus A320 coming from Figari in Corse-du-Sud bound for Paris made an emergency landing with the airport of Ajaccio following engineering problems of the system of closing of the landing gear, which has occurred shortly after takeoff. The apparatus carried out a series of rotations above Ajaccio to lighten itself of the 9.000 liters fuel contained in the tanks. All the passengers are healthy and safe. Among them were several personalities of television such as Laurent Boyer, Stephan Collaro, Nathalie Marquay, Vincent Mc Doom or Bernard Montiel. All returned from the festival Mosaïcales of the laughter which was held until Sunday evening with Porto-Vecchio. They should re-embark soon for Paris.
- Peru: a violent one Earthquake a preliminary magnitude of 7 made at least 8 died in the north of the country and deprived of current and telephone most of the area of Lima.
- France: died of the Pianist of Jazz, Georges Arvanitas in the Paris region at the 74 years age.
- the United States: died of George Archer, victorious of the Masters in 1969 and considered as one of best the putters of the world during its professional long career. He died of the continuations of a Lymphome of Burkitt in his residence of Incline Village. He was 65 years old.
- Canada: the news general gouverneure of Canada, Michaëlle Jean gives up his French citizenship following criticisms of some radical monarchists which saw there a lack of honesty towards Canada.
- the United States: died of the American Actor Gift Adams, at the hospital of the Cedars-Sinai of Los Angeles. He succumbed to a Infection of the Poumon S at the 82 years age.
Monday September 26th 2005
- France: an islamist cell, gathered around a man condemned for his logistical support for the attacks of 1995, was dismantled by the police force, which suspects it of having planned to perpetrate terrorist attacks in the country. Last nine people were challenged with Trappes in the Yvelines and with Évreux in the the Eure, in two sensitive cities, and by the computers were seized, but neither arms nor explosive. Other arrests in same Islamic mobility took place simultaneously in Italy. These actions aim at the Groupe salafist for preaching and the combat (GSPC), connects radical Islamism armed in Algérie, suspected of bonds with Al-Qaida.
- France: following UFR of sciences, in strike since the September 12th, the re-entry of the UFR of letters of the university of Rouen was disturbed by claims for additional means. In 1995, a similar conflict had launched the strike movement, had continued by the dispute of the plane Juppe.
- the United States: militant and the activist American Cindy Sheehan was challenged by the police force at the time of a demonstration anti-war in front of the White House.
- the United States: the president George W. Bush made it clear that the next judge named with the Supreme court, to replace the centrist Sandra Day O'Connor, who takes his retirement, would be a woman or a person resulting from an ethnic minority.
- the United States: the Ouragan Rita made to date of more than 30 dead. Five additional people were found died asphyxiated by pollutant gases of a generator in an apartment of Beaumont (Texas).
- Iraq: Abou Azzam, right-hand man of Abou Moussab Zarkaoui, was killed by the forces américano-Iraqi with Baghdad, confirms the American Armée. The number two of the Iraqi branch of Al-Qaida perished whereas it had been cut off in an apartment from a building from the capital.
- the United States: the American soldate Lynndie England, in the center of the scandal of the Iraqi prison of Abou Ghraib in 2003, was recognized guilty by the martial court of Strong Hood (Texas) of six counts of indictment on seven for ill treatments on Iraqis. Remained quiet at the time of the verdict, it incurs a Peine going up to ten years of Prison.
- Poland: the Right party and justice (Worse, preserving) gain the legislative election S in Poland, and precede the formation Libérale of the civic platform (PO), according to the final results of the poll of Sunday, assure to Tuesday the Electoral commission. Once all the stripped bulletins, Worse is allocated nearly 27% of the voices (26,99%), PO 24,14%. The outgoing majority of the Alliance of the democratic left (SLD) falls to 11,31%.
Tuesday September 27th 2005
- France: died of the abstract Sculptor French of Belgian origin pol. Bury at the 83 years age to the Hospital Georges-Pompidou of Paris.
- Political France, : the socialist party denounces Nicolas Sarkozy for her media operation yesterday morning concerning the arrest of the 9 islamist ones supposed, day of diffusion of “Incriminating evidences”, a television program on the Terrorisme, and of which it was the high-speed motorboat. This emission had been recorded the September 21st 2005 and Nicolas Sarkozy declared there in particular that “at the minute when I speak to you, of the arrests took place, they are preventative arrests, but those whom one went to seek know why one went to seek them”. The Socialists wonder about the utility of such a media declaration one week before these arrests and suspect the Minister of Interior Department of having planned and organized arrests mediatized having for goal to illustrate its political action.
- Turkey: a Turkish Journaliste continued for separatist propaganda Kurdish made condemn the country for attack to the Freedom of expression by the European Cour of the human rights of Strasbourg. Asli Günes was editor association of the political review Hedef ( the target ) when it had cosigné in March 1992 an article in which it criticized military operations against the Kurdish separatists. The article invited “to refuse to fight within the Turkish troops which will obscure the future of the Kurds”.
- Spain: a African half-thousand of S.A. tempted to illegally cross the border between the Morocco and Melilla, Spanish Enclave on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, at the time of more immense operation of this kind led this year by candidates to the clandestine Immigration, announces the Spanish authorities.
- Egypt: re-elected with 89% of the voices three weeks ago at the time of the pluralist first election presidential of the Egyptian history, Hosni Mubarak starts, at 77 years, its fifth six years mandate to the head of its country, more populated Arab world .
- France: the members of the cell Islamiste organized around Safé Bourrada dismantled yesterday are suspected of having considered Attentat S in the Métro, against a Parisian Aéroport and the seat of the Direction of the monitoring of the territory (DST), one learned from sources close to the investigation. This suspicion of the investigators, whose state Parisian the and Le Figaro made, finds his source in information come from Algérie and telephone monitorings. The Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy affirmed yesterday evening that at present, “there is ten young people French who are in Iraq, ready to make the Kamikaze S”, while other French is “with the Pakistan in religious schools. It is not normal only one individual who lives in our districts leaves suddenly four months in Afghanistan, three months in Syria”, it declared.
- Algeria: Madani Mezrag, old directing armed wing of the Islamic ex-Face of the Hello, prevents that the Référendum on the charter “for peace and the national reconciliation” will not make give up the islamist ones their objective to found a Islamic Republic in Algeria.
- Lebanon: country for requesting France and the United States a help in Logistic formation and for its forces of Safety in order to stop the multiplication of the Attack S made since the assassination mid-February of the former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
- Israel: Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon beat with the snatch yesterday evening his rival within the Likoud, Benjamin Netanyahu, by obtaining the support of the central committee for his request to maintain the primary educations in 2006. The Israeli Armée stopped 82 activists Palestinian S members of the Hamas and of Islamic Jihad, the two main movements Islamiste S, during the night from Monday to Tuesday in the West Bank, announced a military spokesman.
- the United Kingdom: the Northern Ireland crossed a new step towards the Paix with the official announcement of the complete dismantling of the Arsenal of the Irish Republican Army (WILL GO). “The destroyed weapons represent the totality of the arsenal of WILL GO”, announced with Belfast the Canadian general John de Chastelain, who chairs the charged commission of the disarmament of the paramilitaries.
- Political France, : the Country trade unionist , Jose Bove would make, according to 27% of French, a good candidate with the presidential of 2007. 62% are of an opposite opinion.
- Poland: the catholic conservative party Right and Justice, left victorious the legislative elections of Sunday, finally proposed to the surprised nomination of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz at the station of Prime Minister, and not that awaited from its leader Jarosław Kaczyński. This advertisement means that the Droit party and Justice (Worse) decided to throw from now on all its forces in the presidential battle of the next month for which it will present the candidature of Lech Kaczyński, mayor of Warsaw and twin brother of Jarosław Kaczyński. However, on the assumption that Lech Kaczyński would be elected president of Poland the October 9th, Jarosław Kaczyński had promised to give up directing the government to avoid in Poland having with the head of its executive two leaders difficult to distinguish one from the other.
- Vietnam: the Typhon Damrey, whose winds exceed 100 km/h and who made nine died on the Chinese island of Haïnan, approached the north of Vietnam, blowing roofs, reversing trees and electric poles. The authorities did not announce victims.
Wednesday September 28th 2005
- Political France, : the Député UMP of the Hauts-de-Seine Manuel Aeschlimann proposed in an official statement that the list of all the elected officials who sponsor a candidate with the presidential election is made public and appears in the envelope containing the professions of faith and ballot papers addressed to the voters.
- the United States: the chief of the police force of La Nouvelle-Orléans Eddie Compass resigned at the end one month of internal crisis started by the passage of the Ouragan Katrina.
- the United States: the American woman soldier Lynndie England, symbol of the maltreatment on the prisoners with the prison Iraq ienne of Abu Ghraib, was condemned to three years of prison. She incurred a nine years of prison maximum sentence.
- France: Aïssa Dermouche, Prefect resulting from the Immigration whose nomination had been presented by the government like a Symbole of integration, was placed except framework on decision of the the Council of Ministers. That which was prefect of the the Jura since the January 14th 2004 was raised of its functions “to its request”, specifies the official statement of the council. It will be replaced with Lons-the-Salt maker by Christian Rouyer. Kabyle born in Algeria, Aïssa Dermouche became a symbol of integration at the time of its nomination. Aïssa Dermouche had been aimed by three attacks after its nomination. These attacks were never elucidated.
- Iraq: a Attentat Suicide made by a Femme Kamikaze against a recruitment center of the police force in the North-West of the country made five died and 30 wounded, the shortly after the advertisement of died of the supposed number two of the terrorist organization Al-Qaïda in the country. The kamikaze, equipped with a traditional behavior and carrying the Hijab (Islamic veil), was introduced into the rows of recruits of the police force which waited in front of the town hall of Tall Afar, transformed into recruitment center, before starting his belt of Explosif S.
- Pakistan: the chief of the Terrorist group Pakistani Sunnite Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, related to Al-Qaïda and specialized in violences against the Moslem minority Shiite, was stopped.
- France: the the European Parliament decided with Strasbourg for the carryforward of the Ratification of the protocol of Ankara, which envisages the extension of the customs union with the Turkey to the ten new Member States of the European Union. Eurodéputés voted this carryforward by 311 votes against 285 and 65 abstentions, following the refusal of Turkey to recognize the Republic of Cyprus. The European Parliament adopted a nonconstraining Résolution inviting Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide, which made a million died between 1915 and 1923. The members of Parliament estimate in this resolution that the recognition of the genocide must be a condition with the accession of Turkey to the European Union. The Parliament Européen was satisfied to take note of the opening, the next October 3rd, of the negotiations of adhesion with Turkey, by accompanying it by condition precedents which reflect the deep divergences within the hemicycle. In a resolution adopted by 356 votes against 181 and 25 abstentions, it estimated that the suspension of the negotiations “could” be considered fine 2006 if Turkey did not implement by then the entirety of the protocol of Ankara which extends its customs union with the EU to the ten novel members.
- Turkey: the country implied that it could be sulky the talks of adhesion to the European Union planned for the October 3rd if the framework of the Négociation S were in on this side its waitings. “It is clear that we will make our final decision when the framework of the negotiations is completely clarified and that we will have evaluated it”, declared, obviously irritated, the spokesperson of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Namik Tan, with the press.
- Israel: the Intifada Palestinian did not enter its sixth year with new Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip in spite of the advertisement by the Palestinian groups armed with the end of their attacks since this territory evacuated by Israel after 38 years of Occupation.
- the United States: gases with Greenhouse effect, whose especially Carbon dioxide (CO2), increased by 20% of 1990 with 2004 on the Planet, according to a new index published Tuesday by the NOAA, the American federal agency oceanographical and atmospheric.
- France: after the Syndicat of the Travailleur S Corsica S “subtilized” the Pascal Paoli , the largest ship of SNCM and that a criminal procedure was opened by the parquet floor of Marseilles, GIGN and the commandos of the French navy, héliportés, take by storm the ship with broad of Bastia and take again control of it.
- the United States: the Icecap Arctique was strongly reduced this year and this for the fourth consecutive summer, indicated American scientists , according to which this phenomenon, allotted to the warming of the Climat, probably will accelerate. Being given the low level record of the ices this year to the approach of at the end of September, 2005 almost certainly will exceed 2002 for the lowest surface of ice in the Arctic since more Siècle.
- the United States: died of the federal Judge Constancy Motley, one of the figures of the fight of the American blacks for the civic rights, which defended Martin Luther King when it was young lawyer. Constance Motley was the first black woman with becoming federal judge in 1966, in spite of the opposition of conservative judges and politicians of the south of the United States. It was 84 years old.
Thursday September 29th 2005
- the United States: release of the Journalist of the NewYork Times Judith Miller after almost three months of imprisonment, it was released after having agreed to testify within the framework to the investigation into an escape with the White House having made it possible to identify a secret agent of the CIA.
- the United States: died of the Pharmacist of Austrian origin , Leo Sternbach, inventor of a new category of Tranquillizing S, of which the most famous remainder the Valium. He died in his residence of Chapel Hill in North Carolina at the age of 97 years.
- Iraq: at least 85 people were killed, including 22 children and 35 women, and 110 wounded in triple Attentat with the car bomb who struck the city Chiite of Balad, in the north of Baghdad. This attack, one of most fatal against Shiites in Iraq since the fall of the mode of Saddam Hussein in spring 2003, is in the line of the “all-out war” against this issued community the September 14th by the organization of Al-Qaïda in Iraq.
- Sudan: twenty-nine Réfugié S Noir S of the Darfur was killed and ten others seriously wounded at the time of an attack without precedent of their camp by riding Arab S, announces the Office of the High Commission of the United Nations for the refugees (HCR).
- Algeria: according to the official results, the “Charter for peace and the national reconciliation” received the downstream of 97,36% of the voters. At the national level, the participation amounted to 82%. While the opposition denounces a “buffoonery”, the France greets a “democratic” vote.
- France: the projects of Attack S concerning the seat of the DST, the Parisian Subway and the Airport of Orly, evoked beginning September by a suspect stopped in Algeria, were confirmed by at least one of the police custodies challenged Monday in France.
- Belgium: an extraordinary meeting of the Ministre S Europeans of the Foreign affairs will take place Sunday to discuss opening of the negotiations of adhesion with the Turkey envisaged the following day, following objections opposed by the Austria. The Ambassador S of the Twenty-five, joined together Thursday with Brussels, did not manage to agree and transmitted the file to the level of the ministers. Austria estimates indeed that the Européen S must propose a narrow partnership in Turkey but without going however until adhesion as such. Ankara regards as unacceptable this possible alternative.
- Belgium: the country launched a Mandat of international stop against old the President Chad IEN Hissène Habré, taken refuge with the Senegal, for “serious violations of the Droit international Humanitaire”, announced to Thursday the Minister for the Justice, Laurette Onkelinx.
- Spain: two African S lost the life while taking part, with several hundreds of candidates to the Immigration in Europe, with new a Assaut of the fence marking the Frontière between the Morocco and the Spanish Enclave of Ceuta on Wednesday night.
- Vietnam: the assessment of the passage of the typhoon Damrey in Asia of south-east was weighed down with the death of at least 57 people following violent believed and of seven people in the north of the Thailand. The Cyclone Katrina, which struck the south of the the United States at the end of August, made 1.132 died, according to a new provisional appraisal, which counts 11 additional victims in Louisiana.
- India: a coach left a mountain road making at least 22 died and 17 wounded. The coach connected Srinagar, capital of summer of the Indian State of Jammu-and-Cashmere at the town of Sangaldan. It was crushed in the mountain with Tattapani, to approximately 165 km in the north of Jammu, capital of winter of the State.
- Political France, : the president of the communist group to the National Assembly Alain Bocquet estimates that the national secretary of the party Marie-George Buffet would be well placed to represent the colors of the PCF to the presidential election 2007.
- the United States: a fire of undergrowth was quickly propagated on more than 28 kilometers, close to Los Angeles. A house was destroyed and the flames threaten now of the houses cossues of the valley of San Fernando. Several communities of Los Angeles were evacuated. More than 700 firemen the flames fight, but the wind complicates their work. Hardly 5% of the blazing inferno are considered under control by the authorities. Another forest fire was declared in the east of Los Angeles. It already shaved a farm, resulting in the death of thousands of chickens.
- the United States: the preserving Juge John Roberts became the 17th president of the Supreme court of the United States, its nomination by the president George W. Bush having been confirmed with a vast majority with the Senate. The Upper House approved by 78 votes against 22 the candidature of Roberts, a judge of 50 years old call, who succeeds thus William Rehnquist, conservative judge and president of the Supreme court deceased at the beginning of the month. All the republicans and half of the democrats voted in his favor.
- Belgium: the country launched a mandate of international stop against old the president Chad IEN Hissène Habré, showed attempts of Génocide, Meurtre S policies and tortures physics.
Friday September 30th 2005
- Belgium: Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe announced this evening its resignation of the post of minister-president of the Walloon Gouvernement, making following the Scandale of Carolorégienne.
- the United States: more than 3.000 firemen California NS fight since yesterday a fire which already burned more than 6.400 hectares of undergrowth, requiring the evacuation of hundreds of inhabitants. The flames threaten of the residences in the Vallée of San Fernando, to the west of Los Angeles, and progress towards Thousand Oaks, in the Comté of Ventura. The origin of fire could not be established in the immediate future.
- the United Nations: the the United Nations invite the governments of the whole world to take immediate measures against the threat of a pandemia of Grippe which could make between 5 and 150 million victims, according to the expansion of the epidemic of Avian flu in Asia.
- Vietnam: thousands of soldiers are mobilized in the north of the country for aid operations and research after the passage Tuesday of the Typhon Damrey which made at least 60 died or disappeared, according to a new assessment. The typhoon Damrey, most violent to strike Vietnam for 10 years, has caused sudden floods and landslides, destroying dams and rice plantations, releasing from the water torrents, carrying houses and depriving of electricity five million people. The most touched province is that of Yen Bai in the north of the country where the rescue squads already found 39 bodies and where 12 other people are reported missing and probably died.
- Poland: the candidate of the Civic platform (liberal right-hand side), Donald Tusk, confirms his advance in the surveys for the presidential of the October 9th: he is credited with 45% of the voting intentions, against 29% with his principal rival, Lech Kaczyn' ski, of the party Droit and Justice (catholic conservative), mayor of Warsaw.
- Poland: a transporting bus of the high-school pupils Polish for a pilgrimage with the sanctuary of Czestochowa struck a truck before taking fire, making 13 dead. The coach, which transported mainly young ages of 18 and 19 years, had left the town of Bialystok in the North-East of the country. Were an about sixty people aboard the bus when, for a still unspecified reason, it struck full whip the truck, to 35 km only of Bia? ystok. The majority of the victims deceased are high-school pupils of final class. Forty people were hospitalized, including two seriously wounded teachers.
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