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fr | Sept personnes ont été tuées dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi dans la collision d'un taxi collectif avec un semi-remorque au lieu-dit Fontaine des Gazelles sur la Rn 3, dans la wilaya de Biskra. (lire)
Le président de la république M. Abdelaziz Bouteflika a présidé mardi soir à Djemaa El Kebir une cérémonie en l'honneur des lauréats du concours national de récitation et de psalmodie du Coran et du concours culturel du mois de ramadhan et ce à l'occasion de la célébration de Leilat El Qadr.(lire) | fr | Ahmed Ouyahia
Le président du Rassemblement National Démocratique, Ahmed Ouyahia, vient d'être nommé Premier Ministre par le Président de la République algérienne, Abdelaziz Bouteflika en remplacement d'Abdelaziz Belkhadem.
C'est la troisième fois qu'Ahmed Ouyahia est nommé Premier Ministre, et c'est le huitième gouvernement qu'il dirige (2 de 1995 à 1998 et 5 de 2003 à 2006).
L'ancien premier ministre, Abdelaziz Belkhadem est nommé ministre d'État et représentant personnel du président de la République.
Le décret présidentiel porte nomination de 5 nouveaux ministres et d'une ministre déléguée. Les ministères des Transports, de la Santé et de l'Agriculture changent de titulaires mais pas celui, stratégique, de l'Énergie et des mines dont l'actuel responsable, Chakib Khelil, assume actuellement la présidence tournante de l'Opep. |
fr | Ouyahia, qui dirige le Rassemblement national pour la Démocratie (RND), prend ainsi pour la troisième fois le poste de Premier ministre.
Belkhadem a, pour sa part, été nommé ministre d'Etat, a ajouté l'APS en citant un communiqué de la présidence.
Les ministères des Transports, de la Santé et de l'Agriculture changent également de titulaires mais pas apparemment celui, stratégique, de l'Energie et des mines dont l'actuel responsable, Chakib Khelil, assume actuellement la présidence tournante de l'Opep.
Ouyahia, qui a dirigé le gouvernement de 1995 à 1999, puis de 2003 à 2006, est un fervent partisan de Bouteflika, qu'il a représenté à l'étranger ces derniers mois à titre d'émissaire personnel. C'est un diplomate de carrière réputé pour ses qualités de gestionnaire.
Belkhadem, qui avait succédé à Ouyahia lors du remaniement de 2006, préside le Front de libération nationale (FLN, ancien parti unique issu de la guerre d'indépendance).
Pour un analyste, ce remaniement pourrait permettre à Belkhadem, lui aussi fervent partisan de Bouteflika, de préparer le terrain à une réélection de ce dernier au cas ou la Constitution était amendée pour l'autoriser à briguer un troisième mandat présidentiel consécutif.
Hamid Ould Ahmed, version française Nicole Dupont et Jean-Loup Fiévet | fr | Ahmed Ouyahia
Le président du Rassemblement National Démocratique, Ahmed Ouyahia, vient d'être nommé Premier Ministre par le Président de la République algérienne, Abdelaziz Bouteflika en remplacement d'Abdelaziz Belkhadem.
C'est la troisième fois qu'Ahmed Ouyahia est nommé Premier Ministre, et c'est le huitième gouvernement qu'il dirige (2 de 1995 à 1998 et 5 de 2003 à 2006).
L'ancien premier ministre, Abdelaziz Belkhadem est nommé ministre d'État et représentant personnel du président de la République.
Le décret présidentiel porte nomination de 5 nouveaux ministres et d'une ministre déléguée. Les ministères des Transports, de la Santé et de l'Agriculture changent de titulaires mais pas celui, stratégique, de l'Énergie et des mines dont l'actuel responsable, Chakib Khelil, assume actuellement la présidence tournante de l'Opep. |
en | On 31 January, Bavarian authorities reported two additional confirmed cases. The sixth case is the child of a previously reported case. The seventh case is another employee of the same company in Bavaria where previous cases were reported. Testing of 143 contacts were negative for 122 persons, with the results for others still pending. | pt | Imagem meramente ilustrativa
Um dia depois de assumir o 5º lugar no ranking de mortes do “Mapa do Coronavírus” da JHU, deixando para trás a Espanha, então com 27.121 óbitos, o Brasil ultrapassou hoje também a França, que contabiliza 28.774 mortes durante a , e assumiu o 4º lugar na lista.
Com 28.834 casos fatais, os prognósticos não são bons para o país da América, pois com uma média de 1.056 mortes nos últimos dois dias (29 e 30), o Brasil deve ocupar nos próximos dias também o lugar da Itália, atualmente em 3º.
'''Por que o Brasil não consegue conter a mortalidade?'''
Se países como a Itália e Espanha trabalharam arduamente para conter novas infecções obrigando as pessoas a praticarem o isolamento social, no Brasil as medidas de isolamento e distanciamento não só foram implantadas de modo pouco coeso, como não tiveram a adesão esperada.
Segundo a ''Inloco'', empresa de tecnologia que fornece inteligência a partir de dados de localização, a taxa de isolamento durante o mês de maio no Brasil foi de 49,7% no dia 1º, 42,5% no dia 15 e 42,6% hoje, dia 30. Em comparação, na Espanha, por exemplo, durante as semanas de mais casos de infecção e mortes este isolamento chegou a uma taxa de 80%.
A média mínima ideal é uma taxa de isolamento de 70%.
'''O índice de isolamento social em alguns estados'''
O ''Mapa Brasileiro da COVID-19'' da ''Inloco'' hoje, dia 30, indica que:
* O Amapá é o que tem a maior índice de isolamento: 50,47%;
* No Pará, estado mais atingido na Região Norte, a média do isolamento é de 45,22%;
* São Paulo, o estado mais atingido pela COVID no Brasil, tem uma taxa de isolamento de apenas 42,68%;
* Goiás apresenta o menor nível de isolamento no Brasil: 37,93%. |
pt | O Índice de Isolamento Social foi desenvolvido pela In Loco para auxiliar no combate à pandemia da COVID-19. O mapa mostra o percentual da população que está respeitando a recomendação de isolamento. Ele existe para auxiliar as autoridades a direcionarem os recursos de segurança pública, comunicação e saúde.
Use o mapa para avaliar o percentual de isolamento em cada estado e o ranking nacional de estados mais isolados. | pt | Imagem meramente ilustrativa
Um dia depois de assumir o 5º lugar no ranking de mortes do “Mapa do Coronavírus” da JHU, deixando para trás a Espanha, então com 27.121 óbitos, o Brasil ultrapassou hoje também a França, que contabiliza 28.774 mortes durante a , e assumiu o 4º lugar na lista.
Com 28.834 casos fatais, os prognósticos não são bons para o país da América, pois com uma média de 1.056 mortes nos últimos dois dias (29 e 30), o Brasil deve ocupar nos próximos dias também o lugar da Itália, atualmente em 3º.
'''Por que o Brasil não consegue conter a mortalidade?'''
Se países como a Itália e Espanha trabalharam arduamente para conter novas infecções obrigando as pessoas a praticarem o isolamento social, no Brasil as medidas de isolamento e distanciamento não só foram implantadas de modo pouco coeso, como não tiveram a adesão esperada.
Segundo a ''Inloco'', empresa de tecnologia que fornece inteligência a partir de dados de localização, a taxa de isolamento durante o mês de maio no Brasil foi de 49,7% no dia 1º, 42,5% no dia 15 e 42,6% hoje, dia 30. Em comparação, na Espanha, por exemplo, durante as semanas de mais casos de infecção e mortes este isolamento chegou a uma taxa de 80%.
A média mínima ideal é uma taxa de isolamento de 70%.
'''O índice de isolamento social em alguns estados'''
O ''Mapa Brasileiro da COVID-19'' da ''Inloco'' hoje, dia 30, indica que:
* O Amapá é o que tem a maior índice de isolamento: 50,47%;
* No Pará, estado mais atingido na Região Norte, a média do isolamento é de 45,22%;
* São Paulo, o estado mais atingido pela COVID no Brasil, tem uma taxa de isolamento de apenas 42,68%;
* Goiás apresenta o menor nível de isolamento no Brasil: 37,93%. |
pt | O isolamento social está em queda no Brasil. O monitor do isolamento do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo feito com base em dados da Inloco, empresa de tecnologia que fornece inteligência a partir de dados de localização, mostra que a média no país está em 43,4%. Especialistas apontam para a necessidade de no mínimo ser de 70% e nenhum estado chega a 51%.
Nos últimos dias, o número de pessoas que evitou sair às ruas ficou em patamar próximo aos da primeira quinzena de março, quando os casos de covid-19 ainda eram reduzidos no país. O afrouxamento da quarentena por parte da população coincide com o momento em que o sistema público de saúde começa a entrar em colapso. O monitor permite verificar o indicador de isolamento do país e também separado por estados, além de gráficos com o histórico das taxas. A Inloco tem sede no Recife e escritórios em São Paulo, Palo Alto (Vale do Silício) e Nova York.
Detalhamento
São Paulo, epicentro da doença no país, ocupa apenas o 13.º lugar em isolamento. Nem o rodízio de veículos mais rigoroso na capital melhorou os números gerais. Ontem, o monitoramento apontou uma taxa de isolamento social de 43,03% Os números são mais baixos do que os índices do governo estadual, por causa da metodologia. Enquanto os dados oficiais utilizam informações de telefonia móvel de cidades com mais de 70 mil habitantes, os analisados pelo Monitor Estadão/Inloco partem de dados captados com uma tecnologia que considera, além dos sinais de GPS, a localização também por sensores presentes no Wi-Fi e Bluetooth. Trata-se de modelo premiado por órgãos reconhecidos em computação, como ACM - Conference on Economics and Computation e o Instituto de Engenheiros Eletricistas e Eletrônicos (IEEE), nos Estados Unidos.
A crescente falta de leitos não tem sido suficiente para convencer a população a seguir as orientações de afastamento. O Amazonas - que nos últimos dias bateu recordes diários de infecção, está com seu serviço público de saúde saturado e enfrentou alta demanda por urnas funerárias - tem menos da metade de seus habitantes em isolamento. Ainda assim, o número consegue ser melhor do que no Centro-Oeste, cuja população menos tem ficado em casa. Os três piores índices ficam na região. A população de Goiás é a menos afeita ao distanciamento - apenas 36,9%. Tocantins (37,5%) e Mato Grosso (39%) vêm na sequência.
O monitoramento tem atualização diária e os dados mais recentes demonstram pouca eficácia no "lockdown" decretado em Pará e Maranhão. O número de pessoas que têm evitado ir às ruas ainda é baixo naqueles estados. Enquanto o Pará registrou 55% de isolamento no fim de semana, essa curva voltou a cair e, na quarta, era de 49,5%. No Maranhão, chegou a 50% no Dia das Mães, mas dois dias depois caiu para 48,7%.
Os dois estados enfrentam uma grave crise em seu sistema de saúde, por causa da pandemia de covid-19. O Pará está com a taxa de ocupação de seus leitos acima de 90% há pelo menos três semanas, mesmo com a inauguração de novos hospitais de campanha no período. O Estado contava com 152 respiradores vindos da China para ampliar o atendimento aos pacientes graves de covid-19, mas todos chegaram com defeito. No Maranhão, a pandemia é agravada pelos baixos índices econômicos e sociais, e o isolamento se torna particularmente difícil pela grande quantidade de trabalhadores informais.
O Monitor Estadão/Inloco também permite observar a evolução do isolamento no país desde o fim de janeiro - e isso evidencia um afrouxamento por parte da população após meados de março, justamente quando a pandemia começou a ganhar força. O pico de isolamento no Brasil foi registrado no dia 22 daquele mês, quando 62,6% da população ficou em casa. Depois disso, as curvas de isolamento têm apresentado tendência de queda - o inverso das de contaminação e mortes.
O Ceará, que na quarta-feira se tornou o segundo estado com mais infectados, atualmente apresenta o melhor índice de quarentena -50,9% da população tem evitado ir às ruas. Em terceiro no ranking de infectados por covid-19, o Rio tem taxa de isolamento social em queda diária, e atualmente é de 46,7%. No auge, superou os 64%. Parte da piora pode ser creditada à população da capital fluminense, que nas últimas semanas relaxou à quarentena. Esta semana, Niterói, São Gonçalo e Rio apresentaram medidas de "lockdown" parcial.
No Rio Grande do Sul, o governador Eduardo Leite (PSDB) estabeleceu um plano de "distanciamento controlado", que passou a vigorar na segunda-feira. A medida prevê diferentes níveis de isolamento no estado. O plano ainda deverá ter impacto no índice de isolamento social do Estado, que já é baixo - segundo o Monitor Estadão/Inloco, na casa dos 42%.
Reprodução menor do vírus
Estudo divulgado na última sexta-feira (8) pelo Imperial College de Londres revela que as intervenções de isolamento social foram capazes de derrubar em 54% o número de reprodução do coronavírus (aquele que indica quantas pessoas um doente é capaz de infectar) no país. Mesmo assim, mostra o trabalho, a epidemia "continua em expansão", explicou o médico Ricardo Schnekenberg, da Universidade de Oxford, co-autor do relatório. "Sem uma mudança significativa, a tendência é que o número de casos continue crescendo."
Para que a epidemia comece a decrescer esse número de reprodução tem de ser menor que um. Ou seja, uma pessoa doente não transmite o vírus nem para mais um. Para que isso seja possível, o porcentual de população isolada deve ser de pelo menos 70%. No Brasil, mesmo nas primeiras semanas do isolamento, esse porcentual não passou de 65%. Apenas em feriados chegou-se a 70%. Em média, as taxas de isolamento nacionais ficam em 50%. Por isso, a taxa de reprodução da doença continua acima de 1 e a epidemia se mantém em expansão. As informações são do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo. | pt | Imagem meramente ilustrativa
Um dia depois de assumir o 5º lugar no ranking de mortes do “Mapa do Coronavírus” da JHU, deixando para trás a Espanha, então com 27.121 óbitos, o Brasil ultrapassou hoje também a França, que contabiliza 28.774 mortes durante a , e assumiu o 4º lugar na lista.
Com 28.834 casos fatais, os prognósticos não são bons para o país da América, pois com uma média de 1.056 mortes nos últimos dois dias (29 e 30), o Brasil deve ocupar nos próximos dias também o lugar da Itália, atualmente em 3º.
'''Por que o Brasil não consegue conter a mortalidade?'''
Se países como a Itália e Espanha trabalharam arduamente para conter novas infecções obrigando as pessoas a praticarem o isolamento social, no Brasil as medidas de isolamento e distanciamento não só foram implantadas de modo pouco coeso, como não tiveram a adesão esperada.
Segundo a ''Inloco'', empresa de tecnologia que fornece inteligência a partir de dados de localização, a taxa de isolamento durante o mês de maio no Brasil foi de 49,7% no dia 1º, 42,5% no dia 15 e 42,6% hoje, dia 30. Em comparação, na Espanha, por exemplo, durante as semanas de mais casos de infecção e mortes este isolamento chegou a uma taxa de 80%.
A média mínima ideal é uma taxa de isolamento de 70%.
'''O índice de isolamento social em alguns estados'''
O ''Mapa Brasileiro da COVID-19'' da ''Inloco'' hoje, dia 30, indica que:
* O Amapá é o que tem a maior índice de isolamento: 50,47%;
* No Pará, estado mais atingido na Região Norte, a média do isolamento é de 45,22%;
* São Paulo, o estado mais atingido pela COVID no Brasil, tem uma taxa de isolamento de apenas 42,68%;
* Goiás apresenta o menor nível de isolamento no Brasil: 37,93%. |
es | Crédito:
El final oficial del largometraje sobre el hundimiento del barco más famoso de la historia es con Rose (Winslet) colgada en el borde de la popa de la nave, en donde se queda luego de contar su historia.
En un momento, la mujer abre su mano y deja caer "el corazón del océano" en las heladas aguas del Atlántico y, tras esto, concluye la película. Pero ése no era el único final que Cameron tenía pensado exhibir al público.
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El cierre alternativo, que figura como un bonus track de cinco minutos dentro del DVD del film, muestra a Bill Paxton, el roba tesoros, aprendiendo una lección de vida, tras una especie de monólogo. "Lo que importa es que es terrible. Simplemente terrible", aseguró el sitio web E! Online.
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"Tiene el mismo resultado -la joya es arrojada al agua-, pero hay unas lecciones de vidas tan obvias y empalagosas que arruinarían hasta el peor episodio de un crossover entre Winnie the Pooh y una película de Katherine Heigl", agrega la mencionada página web de espectáculos.
Sin embargo, E! Online concluye: "Si por algún motivo quieren ver a Bill Paxton aprendiendo una lección de vida, monólogos rídiculamente dramáticos y metáforas sobre la vida y tesoros, entonces hagan clic en reproducir".
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El hecho fue revelado en el DVD del film que posee un '''' que posee las escenas finales según lo que había pensado en una primera instancia. Aunque la separación de los protagonistas se produce, donde Jack Dawson (DiCaprio) muere de hipotermia en el océano, la escena presenta a la Rose del presente () en la cubierta del barco buscador de tesoros momentos antes de lanzar el Corazón del Mar al océano, pero antes de hacerlo, el cazador de tesoros () se da cuenta e intenta detenerla, pero Rose le da un discurso acerca de lo que significó en su vida y le da una lección de vida. Tras esto, bota el collar al mar y se respeta el final original.
Para tranquilidad de los fanáticos de la historia, el director, James Cameron, decidió que lanzar la piedra al mar era lo mejor para la trama, así que el destino de la joya ya estaba sellado en ambos finales.
'''' se basó en el , cuando más de 3 mil personas fallecieron tras que el barco chocó con iceberg y se hundió en el océano Atlántico. La película, estrenada en 1997, fue la película con mayores ganancias y logró . |
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Sin embargo en este nuevo corte, su nieta y el capitán del barco, la ven y, para llevarse una gran sorpresa al llegar junto a la mujer. Una vez que están cerca ella les muestra la joya que tanto buscaban:En ese momento y pese al ruego del capitán del barco y su tripulación, "Rose", interpretada en su vejez por la actriz, arroja la joya al mar, lo que provoca la ira de parte de la tripulación, y las sorpresivasdel capitán.En el final que quedó y que todos conocemos,, final que Cameron decidió era mucho mejor para la historia de los personajes de | es | La famosa película protagonizada por y fue filmada con un final alternativo.
El hecho fue revelado en el DVD del film que posee un '''' que posee las escenas finales según lo que había pensado en una primera instancia. Aunque la separación de los protagonistas se produce, donde Jack Dawson (DiCaprio) muere de hipotermia en el océano, la escena presenta a la Rose del presente () en la cubierta del barco buscador de tesoros momentos antes de lanzar el Corazón del Mar al océano, pero antes de hacerlo, el cazador de tesoros () se da cuenta e intenta detenerla, pero Rose le da un discurso acerca de lo que significó en su vida y le da una lección de vida. Tras esto, bota el collar al mar y se respeta el final original.
Para tranquilidad de los fanáticos de la historia, el director, James Cameron, decidió que lanzar la piedra al mar era lo mejor para la trama, así que el destino de la joya ya estaba sellado en ambos finales.
'''' se basó en el , cuando más de 3 mil personas fallecieron tras que el barco chocó con iceberg y se hundió en el océano Atlántico. La película, estrenada en 1997, fue la película con mayores ganancias y logró . |
pl | 08:50, 26.05.2009 /PAP
PHENIAN POTĘPIONY, SEUL NIE BOI SIĘ WOJNY
Phenian wystrzelił kolejne rakiety krótkiego zasięgu - informuje południowokoreańska agencja Yonhap. W poniedziałek, po wielkiej próbie atomowej, Korea Północna wystrzeliła dwie takie rakiety.
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Typ Zasięg Rok produkcji Ilość KN-1 110 km ? 2006 ? 0 KN-2 110 km ? 2006 ? 0 Scud-B 300 km 1981 ? 100 Hwasong-5 330 km 1984 ? 150 Hwasong-6 500 km 1989 ? 300 Scud-ER 750-800 km 2003 ? No-dong-1, 2 1,300 km 1999 ~100 No-dong-B 2750 - 4000 km 2004 ~10 Taep’o-dong-1 2000 - 2900 km ? ? 0 Taep’o-dong-2 3750 - 15,000 km ?? 2006 ??
Według południowokoreańskiego agencji Yonhap, testowane były dwa pociski o zasięgu 130 kilometrów: pocisk ziemia-powietrze oraz pocisk ziemia-morze. Oba zostały wystrzelone z bazy na wschodnim wybrzeżu Korei Północnej w kierunku Morza Japońskiego.Wcześniej północnokoreańskie władze zakazały statkom wpływania w dniach 25-27 majaPoniedziałkowa demonstracja siły Phenianiu oburzyła świat. Rada Bezpieczeństwa ONZ, jak rzadko kiedy, zdobyła się na jednogłośne potępienie Phenianu. Swoje oburzenie wyrazili również ministrowie spraw zagranicznych i delegacje 45 krajów Azji i Europy,obradujący w Hanoi w ramach konferencji Spotkania Azja-Europa (Asia-Europe Meeting - ASEM).Dokonaną przez Phenian próbę określili jako "jawne naruszenie rezolucji ONZ"Polskę w Hanoi reprezentuje minister spraw zagranicznych Radosław Sikorski.Największy niepokój północnokoreańska próba atomowa wzbudziła, co zrozumiałe, w Korei Południowej. Jej mieszkańcy masowo wyszli na ulice, by wyrazić swój gniew wobec sąsiada z północy.Spłonęły dziesiątki flag komunistycznej Korei i podobizn Kim Dzong Ila, przywódcy północy.Na próbę zareagował również rząd. Po oburzeniu i proteście wyrażonym w poniedziałek, we wtorek MSZ w Seulu poinformowało, że Korea Południowa zamierza w pełni zaangażować się w zainicjowaną przez USA w 2003 r.Celem inicjatywy, której powołanie ogłosił 31 maja 2003 r. w Krakowie były prezydent USA George W. Bush, jest zapobieganie przekazywaniu drogą morską, lądową bądź powietrzną broni masowego rażenia oraz środków służących do jej produkcji i transportu.PSI przewiduje m.in. zatrzymywanie statków podejrzanych o przewożenie takich materiałów. Program nie opiera się na żadnych traktatach, a uczestnictwo w nim jest dobrowolne. W inicjatywę zaangażowało się blisko 100 państw, w tym Polska.Choć Korea Południowa od początku popierała cele inicjatywy, dotąd była w nią zaangażowana jedynie częściowo. Phenian ostrzegał bowiem, że całkowite włączenie się Seulu w ten projekt potraktuje jako deklarację wojny.Pełne zaangażowanie się w PSI Korea Południowa rozważała już na początku kwietnia, w odpowiedzi na przeprowadzoną przez Phenian próbę rakiety balistycznej dalekiego zasięgu.Odłożyła jednak te plany, gdy północnokoreański reżim niespodziewanie wysunął propozycję przeprowadzenia pierwszych od ponad roku rozmów przedstawicieli obu państw. Poniedziałkowa próba przeważyła szalę.mtom/tr | pl | '''Korea Południowa zamierza w pełni zaangażować się w zainicjowaną przez USA w 2003 r. Inicjatywę przeciwko Proliferacji Broni Masowego Rażenia (PSI) - informuje MSZ w Seulu.'''
"Koreańska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna z sukcesem przeprowadziła 25 maja kolejną podziemną próbę nuklearną jako środek wzmacniający jądrową samoobronę" - donosi oficjalna agencja Joseon Jungangtongsin. Jednak południowi sąsiedzi Korei Północnej mają odmienne poglądy na ten temat. Planują zaangażować się w projekt przeciwko Proliferacji Broni Masowego Rażenia (PSI). Ta sytuacja doprowadziła do frustracji Korei Północnej, która wysunęła ostrzeżenie o prawdopodobieństwie wojny między dwoma krajami.
Być może Korea Północna w najbliższych dniach ponownie wystrzeli rakiety w celu próby. Może o tym świadczyć fakt, iż tamtejsze władze zakazały statkom wpływania w dniach 25-27 maja na wody u wybrzeży Korei Północnej. |
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"Koreańska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna z sukcesem przeprowadziła 25 maja kolejną podziemną próbę nuklearną jako środek wzmacniający jądrową samoobronę" - donosi oficjalna agencja Joseon Jungangtongsin. Jednak południowi sąsiedzi Korei Północnej mają odmienne poglądy na ten temat. Planują zaangażować się w projekt przeciwko Proliferacji Broni Masowego Rażenia (PSI). Ta sytuacja doprowadziła do frustracji Korei Północnej, która wysunęła ostrzeżenie o prawdopodobieństwie wojny między dwoma krajami.
Być może Korea Północna w najbliższych dniach ponownie wystrzeli rakiety w celu próby. Może o tym świadczyć fakt, iż tamtejsze władze zakazały statkom wpływania w dniach 25-27 maja na wody u wybrzeży Korei Północnej. |
fr | Le Monde | 29.05.2015 à 17h26 • Mis à jour le 30.05.2015 à 10h43
Le département d’Etat américain a annoncé vendredi 29 mai le retrait de Cuba de la liste des pays soutenant le terrorisme. Il prend effet immédiatement. Cette mesure, qui s’inscrit dans le cadre du rapprochement entre La Havane et Washington, était souhaitée par le président Barack Obama.
Sa proposition avait été soumise aux élus américains le 14 avril. Ces derniers disposaient de quarante-cinq jours, soit jusqu’à ce vendredi, pour manifester leur éventuelle opposition. A La Havane, le gouvernement de Raul Castro avait posé cette condition comme préalable au rétablissement des relations diplomatiques entre les deux pays, rompues depuis 1961.
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Cuba figurait depuis 1982 sur le document, au côté de la Syrie, du Soudan et de l’Iran. L’administration Reagan l’y avait placée pour son soutien aux séparatistes basques d’Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA) et aux rebelles des Forces armées révolutionnaires de Colombie (FARC).
« L'abrogation (...) est le reflet de notre analyse selon laquelle Cuba remplit les critères statutaires », a déclaré, vendredi, le département d'Etat, tout en prenant soin de souligner que les Etats-Unis avaient « d'importants désaccords et de nombreux sujets d'inquiétude concernant un large éventail d'actions et de politiques » menées dans le pays.
Vers une levée de l’embargo
Grâce à ce retrait, l’île pourra à nouveau prétendre à des financements d’organismes internationaux, à l’ouverture d’une ambassade aux Etats-Unis, ou encore à l’accès au système bancaire américain. Les deux pays ont amorcé le 17 décembre un rapprochement historique, après la libération par le régime castriste de l'Américain Alan Gross, écroué en 2009 pour espionnage.
La détente s’était fait sentir dès octobre quand, à l'occasion de l’épidémie d’Ebola en Afrique de l’Ouest et de la coopération internationale sur cette question de santé publique, Washington et La Havane avaient multiplié les échanges d'amabilités.
Barack Obama avait aussi assoupli les règles qui s'appliquent aux voyages vers l'île, tout en maintenant une ligne dure face à ce petit pays, distant de seulement 150 kilomètres des côtes de la Floride.
A terme, le dégel entre les deux nations devrait mener à une normalisation complète de leurs relations et à une levée de l'embargo économique imposé à l’île caribéenne depuis 1962. Une mesure que seul le Congrès américain peut acter. M. Obama a demandé à ce dernier, dont les deux chambres sont contrôlées par ses adversaires républicains, de travailler sur cette question. Mais l'issue des discussions en cours est incertaine, et le processus législatif s'annonce long. | fr | Parade pro-cubaine au
Alors qu'un rapprochement spectaculaire avait eu lieu en décembre, cette décision fait suite à l'annonce de en avril, où il a laissé une période de 45 jours au pendant laquelle il a pu examiner l'initiative de la .
Raúl Castro, le président cubain, avait clairement indiqué il y a deux semaines que des ambassadeurs pourraient désormais être nommés dans les deux capitales. L’ avait placée le pays sur la liste noire en 1982, aux côtés de la , le et de l’ pour son soutien aux séparatistes basques de l’ETA et aux rebelles des FARC en .
Raúl Castro
Selon le président de la , , l'administration Obama . a pour sa part dénoncé
John Boehner
La Maison-blanche n'a pas annoncé l'ouverture d'une ambassade dans les deux capitales, mais a une nouvelle fois évoqué un possible voyage du président Obama sur l’île communiste. Le porte-parole de M. Obama, , souligne que et que les diplomates américains en poste à Cuba pourraient se voir imposer des limites. du pouvoir, a-t-il dit.
Alors que le rétablissement des relations diplomatiques semble à portée de main, M. Obama solicitera le congrès des États-Unis dans le but d'abolir l'embargo économique décrété en 1962 et sévèrement renforcé par la de 1996. |
fr | Du verre partout, un grand nuage de fumée, des blessés très graves et des cadavres: les images diffusées par la télévision après l'explosion à la bombe dans le centre d'Oslo ont immédiatement montré les effets d'une violente explosion. Elle a fait au moins sept morts et onze blessés graves.
Selon les médias, il pourrait s'agir d'une voiture piégée qui a explosé devant le bâtiment gouvernemental où se trouvent entre autres les bureaux du premier ministre Jens Stoltenberg. Celui-ci ne se trouvait pas dans son bureau et n'a pas été blessé. S'exprimant à la télé norvégienne, il a fait part de son inquiétude: «La situation est grave».«Même si on est bien préparé, c'est toujours assez dramatique quand cela se produit», a-t-il ajouté.
» INFOGRAPHIE : Le lieu de l'explosion avant-après
Beaucoup de personnes, selon les témoins, ont été atteintes par les débris et le verre qui a explosé. Toutes les fenêtres des bâtiments proches ont été soufflées par l'explosion.
Benyamin Cutmore, un journaliste qui travaille au journal VG, le plus grand tabloïd norvégien, se trouvait juste en face du bâtiment du gouvernement quand l'explosion a eu lieu. Il raconte au Figaro ce qu'il a vu: «Il y a des gens qui ont sauté du bâtiment, il y avait au moins quarante personnes qui gisaient sur le sol», ajoute-t-il. Selon lui, l'explosion a été ressentie à 25 kilomètres: «Un ami m'a dit que son bâtiment, à 20 miles du centre-ville, a été secoué».
«Je vois que des fenêtres du bâtiment de VG et du siège du gouvernement ont éclaté. Des personnes gisent en sang dans la rue», a déclaré une autre journaliste présente sur place. Les ambulances, la police et des militaires sont sur place.
Plusieurs morts lors d'un rassemblement en banlieue d'Oslo
Au même moment a eu lieu une fusillade lors d'une réunion de jeunes du parti travailliste qui a fait au moins «9 ou 10 morts» selon la police. Les médias norvégiens parlent même de 20 ou 25 personnes décédées. Le premier ministre devait initialement se rendre samedi à ce rassemblement, un week-end de camping où se trouvait 560 jeunes, âgés de 14 à 18 ans. Le tireur, un Norvégien grand et massif, a été arrêté. «Il portait un pullover bleu avec un emblème de la police», a expliqué le porte-parole de la police d'Oslo Are Fsrykohlm, interrogé par la télévision CNN. Cette personne serait lié à l'attentat à la bombe, a-t-il confirmé.
La police norvégienne a confirmé qu'il s'agit d'attaques concertées, même si les motifs et les commanditaires ne sont pas connus. Le président américain BarackObama a présenté ses condoléances en appelant à la lutte anti-terroriste, alors que le président français Nicolas Sarkozy condamnait «un acte odieux et inacceptable».
Toutes les rues du centre-ville ont été bloquées par l'armée. Le premier ministre a appelé la population «à ne pas se cloîtrer dans la peur des attaques», mais le pays est sous le choc. La Norvège, membre de l'Otan, a été par le passé la cible de menaces islamistes, notamment à cause de son engagement en Afghanistan et en Libye. | fr | Localisation d'Oslo sur une carte de la Norvège.
Aux alentours de 15 h 30 (heure locale, 14 h 30 UTC), une bombe a explosé dans la capitale norvégienne, Oslo, à proximité des bureaux du quotidien national ''Verdens Gang'' et du siège du gouvernement. L'explosion aurait été ressentie dans un périmètre de 25 km. Les dernières estimations de la police indiquent sept morts et plusieurs dizaines de blessés, principalement à cause des projections de verre dues à la déflagration.
L'attentat n'ayant pas été revendiqué, l'hypothèse d'une attaque islamiste a quelques temps été envisagée par les autorités locales, dans la mesure où la Norvège aurait par le passé déjà été menacée par Al-Qaida, qui lui reprochait son rôle dans la guerre en Afghanistan.
== Une fusillade éclate après l'explosion ==
Peu de temps après l’événement, les autorités norvégiennes ont rapporté une fusillade lors d'un meeting du Parti travailliste à Utoeya, une île proche de la capitale. Anders Behring Breivik, un citoyen norvégien déguisé en policier, a ouvert le feu sur la foule, provoquant la mort de 85 personnes. Deux heures après le début de la fusillade, l'homme est maîtrisé par les autorités.
Selon l'enquête des équipes norvégiennes, Anders Behring Breivik aurait déposé une bombe artisanale (il aurait acheté 6 kg d'engrais peu de temps auparavant) dans sa voiture au centre d'Oslo. Après l'explosion, l'homme se serait immédiatement rendu sur l'île d'Utoeya où il se serait servi de son déguisement pour rassembler des personnes présentes au meeting. La fusillade a provoqué la mort directe de plusieurs dizaines de personnes, tandis que d'autres auraient péri par noyade en tentant de s'échapper de l'île. Le nombre de disparus est encore inconnu. |
en | Koizumi's LDP wins big
Party on track for 300 seats; DPJ gets drubbing
Compiled from Kyodo, staff, AP reports
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party cruised to victory Sunday, handily winning a majority in the 480-seat House of Representatives and giving him a mandate to push ahead with postal privatization. In contrast, the Democratic Party of Japan, the main opposition force, was battered in the election. It was expected to fall short of the 177 seats it held going into the race, and its leader, Katsuya Okada, indicated later in the evening that he would step down. "The general public determined that postal privatization was a just argument," Koizumi, who is also LDP president, said Sunday night in declaring victory. "The results were just as I had expected." Okada meanwhile bluntly said, "It is only natural that the leader bear responsibility" for an election loss. "I apologize for not being able to bring about a change of government." As of 1:15 a.m. Monday, the LDP had won 290 seats, while the DPJ had secured 107. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi places a paper rose above the name of a successful Liberal Democratic Party candidate at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. Together with its coalition partner, New Komeito, which had won 30 seats, the ruling coalition easily cleared the 241 seats needed to hold a majority in the Lower House. By 1:15 a.m., 13 postal rebels had won back their seats. By single-handedly securing more than 269 seats -- the number needed to ensure smooth Diet sailing -- the LDP will have a majority in all Lower House committees even after it takes all chairman posts. The last time the LDP won a single-handed majority in the Lower House was in the February 1990 election. It had never won a majority of the seats since the current electoral system centering on single-seat districts was introduced in 1996. The LDP was winning big in urban areas, including Tokyo and Chiba and Kangawa prefectures -- areas the DPJ had had relatively strong showings in the past. The Japanese Communist Party had secured seven seats as of 1:15 a.m. The Social Democratic Party meanwhile had won five. Katsuya Okada, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, listens to unfavorable election results at a Tokyo hotel Sunday evening. Kokumin Shinto (People's New Party) won three seats, while New Party Nippon had yet to win one. Both parties were formed after the Lower House was dissolved and mainly consist of former LDP members who oppose privatizing the postal system. DPJ Secretary General Tatsuo Kawabata hinted to reporters in the evening he would step down over the dismal showing, saying he felt "a grave responsibility" as a member of the party leadership. Meanwhile, Takenori Kanzaki, head of New Komeito, told reporters at party headquarters in Tokyo that he was satisfied with the results. "Our objective in this election was to secure a majority with the LDP and New Komeito combined, and in that sense I think (these results) were favorable," he said. At the same time, Kanzaki expressed confidence that the LDP's stellar victory would not adversely affect the two-party alliance. "Without New Komeito, the LDP does not have a majority in the House of Councilors," he noted. The LDP held 249 seats in the chamber when it was dissolved Aug. 8, but the number fell to 212 when the election officially kicked off because it refused to put party lawmakers who voted against the government's postal privatization bills on its ticket and made the issue the centerpiece of the campaign. New Komeito had 34 seats going into the race, while the JCP had nine and the SDP five. Kokumin Shinto held four seats and New Party Nippon three. Voter turnout was up from the previous Lower House election, held in November 2003. Preliminary calculations put turnout at 67.51 percent, up 7.65 percentage points from the 2003 rate of 59.86 percent, which was the second-lowest since 1947. The number of absentee ballots cast by Saturday hit a record 8.96 million, or more than 8 percent of the 103.4 million eligible voters. The high public interest was fueled in part by a dramatic campaign that broke new ground with the emergence of media-driven image politics and a sharper focus on policy. Koizumi, the longest-serving prime minister in a decade since taking office in April 2001, has made breaking apart and selling Japan Post's sprawling savings and insurance businesses a centerpiece promise for his LDP, while the DPJ appealed to voters with a pension reform blueprint. The rivals also diverged on security relations with the United States. The campaign issues resonated with a public at a time when the country's aging populace sparks worries about paying for future retirees and a fragile economic comeback needs a boost by streamlining wasteful branches of the government bureaucracy. Okada has urged the country to focus on concerns other than the postal service. New Komeito told voters that reforms would not proceed as swiftly if the LDP were in a position of single-party dominance, and stressed the merits of it being in the coalition. The JCP focused its campaign on telling voters that they needed a "true opposition party," given the recent focus on the LDP-DPJ rivalry. The SDP spoke of the need to prevent any revision to the Constitution's war-renouncing Article 9. The Japan Times: Sept. 12, 2005
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Los resultados preliminares de las elecciones legislativas en Japón confirman la aplastante victoria del Partido Liberal Democrático, del actual Primer Ministro Jun'ichirō Koizumi, que hasta el momento asegura 296 de los 480 escaños de la cámara baja del Parlamento. El PLD ostentaba 210 escaños en la anterior legislatura.
Por el contrario, el opositor Partido Democrático de Japón (PDJ) fue el gran perdedor, pues su participación parlamentaria, que era de 177 escaños, cayó a 113. Su líder, Katsuya Okada, anunció su renuncia. El Nuevo Komeito, aliado del PLD, obtuvo 31 escaños, 3 menos que en las elecciones pasadas. Sin embargo, la coalición ha superado la cantidad de 241 escaños necesaria para obtener una mayoría en la cámara baja.
El sondeo que daba menos ventaja a los liberales era el de la cadena de televisión pública NHK, que estimaba en una encuesta realizada a la salida de las urnas que el PLD obtendría entre 285 y 325 escaños. Se estima que la participación fue de alrededor del 65% de los electores, en alza sobre la de las anteriores elecciones legislativas que tuvieron lugar en 2003.
El primer ministro disolvió la cámara baja el pasado 8 de agosto después de que su proyecto de privatización de los servicios postales fuera rechazado por la cámara alta. |
fr | « Il va foncer » : comment Macron se prépare déjà à la présidentielle
Emmanuel Macron a un objectif : se succéder à lui-même. Malgré la crise sanitaire, son entourage se mobilise déjà et dessine un … | es | Archivo:Japan general election, 2005 es.png|thumb|200px|right|Distribución de la cámara baja de la Dieta japonesa tras los resultados de las elecciones del 11 de septiembre (círculo externo, PLD en naranja, PDJ en azul). El círculo interno muestra la distribución de las fuerzas políticas antes de la disolución de la cámara baja el 8 de agosto.
Los resultados preliminares de las elecciones legislativas en Japón confirman la aplastante victoria del Partido Liberal Democrático, del actual Primer Ministro Jun'ichirō Koizumi, que hasta el momento asegura 296 de los 480 escaños de la cámara baja del Parlamento. El PLD ostentaba 210 escaños en la anterior legislatura.
Por el contrario, el opositor Partido Democrático de Japón (PDJ) fue el gran perdedor, pues su participación parlamentaria, que era de 177 escaños, cayó a 113. Su líder, Katsuya Okada, anunció su renuncia. El Nuevo Komeito, aliado del PLD, obtuvo 31 escaños, 3 menos que en las elecciones pasadas. Sin embargo, la coalición ha superado la cantidad de 241 escaños necesaria para obtener una mayoría en la cámara baja.
El sondeo que daba menos ventaja a los liberales era el de la cadena de televisión pública NHK, que estimaba en una encuesta realizada a la salida de las urnas que el PLD obtendría entre 285 y 325 escaños. Se estima que la participación fue de alrededor del 65% de los electores, en alza sobre la de las anteriores elecciones legislativas que tuvieron lugar en 2003.
El primer ministro disolvió la cámara baja el pasado 8 de agosto después de que su proyecto de privatización de los servicios postales fuera rechazado por la cámara alta. |
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New Delhi: A severe earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale rocked Sikkim on Sunday evening resulting in at least 20 deaths and injuries to several others. The epicentre of the quake was 64 km from Gangtok in Sikkim, causing major damages in the area. The area of Mangan in North Sikkim, the epicentre, was said to be the worst hit.
Seven people have been killed in Sikkim and five people are reported dead in Nepal. Two persons were reportedly killed in Nalanda and Darbhanga districts of Bihar, out of which one died in a stampede following the tremors. Four persons were also reported dead in Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri and Siliguri in West Bengal. Two Army personnel were also killed in the earthquake. Officials say that at least 33 people are reported to have been injured.
Two to three army vehicles including one bus with army personnel was missing. There has been substantial damage to Army buildings in the area around Sikkim.
The casualty figures are expected to rise as reports from the smaller villages and towns of Sikkim pour in.
Army sources confirmed four landslides after a night vision recce. The Centre rushed teams of the national disaster response forces. About 400 personnel and equipment were being flown in to Bagdogra and will proceed on to Gangtok by road.
The earthquake struck on Sunday at 6:10 PM and tremors were felt in many parts of Bihar including the state capital, Patna, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh also. Mild tremors were also felt in Delhi and other parts of North India.
Aftershocks measuring 6.1 and 5.3 on the Richter Scale were also felt around Sikkim 20 minutes after the earthquake.
Speaking to CNN-IBN, the DGP of Sikkim said that many buildings were damaged. He also said that roads were blocked and people were stranded on roads. He said that Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling has called for an emergency meeting.
Arvind Kumar, Principal Resident Commissioner of Sikkim, said that there was excessive damage in the northern parts of Sikkim. He also said that the rescue operations had started in the area.
There were also reports of landslides following the earthquake in areas around Sikkim and also Darjeeling. Two major landslides have been reported from Sikkim's capital, Gangtok cutting off the Naitonal Highway. Several buildings have also been damaged in Gangtok.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also spoke to the Sikkim Chief Minister and offered all help. The Prime Minister also directed Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth to call for an emergency meeting.
There were reports of damages from Bihar and West Bengal too. Two buildings collapsed in Katihar in Bihar. The NTPC power plant in Kahalgaon in Bihar has also been shut down because of the earthquake following which North Bihar was under power crisis.
Mobile connectivity has also been affected in the quake-hit areas.
Severe damage is expected in areas of Nepal adjoining Sikkim. Parts of the wall of the British Embassy in Nepal have collapsed due to the earthquake in Sikkim.
Two Indian Air Force aircraft have been sent from Hindon to Bagdogra while one aircraft has been sent from Palam. One aircraft from Kolkata has left for Bagdogra with personnel of National Disaster Rescue Force along with all equipment. They will be taken from Bagdogra to Gangtok by road which is being facilitated by BSF and West Bengal Government.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police has launched search and rescue operations in Pegong area of north Sikkim which has been "badly affected" with two ITBP buildings also collapsing after the state was rocked by the earthquake. The 9th NDRF battalion based in Bihta, Bihar has been requisitioned for relief work in Sikkim.
The helpline number for West Bengal is 033-22143230.
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Un fuerte sismo de 6,9 grados en la escala sismológica de momento remeció la zona montañosa norte de la India, específicamente la región de Sikkim donde se reportan siete derrumbes de tierra. Unas 11 personas fallecieron y 33 se encuentran heridas a lo largo del país
El movimiento sísmico ocurrió a las 06:10:48 PM hora local (12:40:48 UTC), con una profundidad de 19,7 km y a 68 km al Noroeste de Gangtok, Sikkim, India.
Fuerza del sismo en escala de mercalli.
Reportes de los ciudadanos al Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos (USGS por sus siglas en inglés) informaron que el sismo se sintió con mucha fuerza y superando el grado VII en la escala de Mercalii.
Medios de comunicación en la India reportaron 1 muerto en Bhagalpur, distrito de Bihar tras una estampida humana, así como un niño herido en Sikkim, epicentro del sismo además de numerosos derrumbes en la zona epicentral. Cinco personas murieron tras colapsar un muro de la embajada británica en Nepal. En total, 5 personas murieron en Nepal, 4 en Sikkim y dos en Bihar.
Varías réplicas sacudieron la misma zona tras el sismo, una de ellas superó los 6,1 grados y otra de 5,3 grados, así como otras de 4,8 y 4,6 grados según el USGS, estas ocurrieron 20 minutos después del movimiento principal.
Según reportes de ministro al norte de Bengal, Siliguri, Jalpaiguri y Cooch Behar presentan cortes de energía eléctrica, la telefonía tanto móvil como fija están saturadas.
La planta de energia eléctrica en Kahalgaon cerró tras el terremoto afectando sistema de energía para esta noche. |
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Tectonic Summary
The September 18, 2011 India-Nepal border region earthquake occurred near the boundary between the India and Eurasia plates, in the mountainous region of northeast India near the Nepalese boarder. Initial analyses suggest the earthquake was complex, likely a result of two events occurring close together in time at depths of approximately 20 km beneath the Earth's surface. At the latitude of the September 18 earthquake, the India plate converges with Eurasia at a rate of approximately 46 mm/yr towards the north-northeast. The broad convergence between these two plates has resulted in the uplift of the Himalayas, the world's tallest mountain range. The preliminary focal mechanism of the earthquake suggests strike slip faulting, and thus an intraplate source within the upper Eurasian plate or the underlying India plate, rather than occurring on the thrust interface plate boundary between the two.
This region has experienced relatively moderate seismicity in the past, with 18 earthquakes of M 5 or greater over the past 35 years within 100 km of the epicenter of the September 18 event. The largest of these was a M 6.1 earthquake in November of 1980, 75 km to the southeast.
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Earthquake Information for India | es | Reportes de los ciudadanos sobre intensidad del terremoto.
Un fuerte sismo de 6,9 grados en la escala sismológica de momento remeció la zona montañosa norte de la India, específicamente la región de Sikkim donde se reportan siete derrumbes de tierra. Unas 11 personas fallecieron y 33 se encuentran heridas a lo largo del país
El movimiento sísmico ocurrió a las 06:10:48 PM hora local (12:40:48 UTC), con una profundidad de 19,7 km y a 68 km al Noroeste de Gangtok, Sikkim, India.
Fuerza del sismo en escala de mercalli.
Reportes de los ciudadanos al Servicio Geológico de los Estados Unidos (USGS por sus siglas en inglés) informaron que el sismo se sintió con mucha fuerza y superando el grado VII en la escala de Mercalii.
Medios de comunicación en la India reportaron 1 muerto en Bhagalpur, distrito de Bihar tras una estampida humana, así como un niño herido en Sikkim, epicentro del sismo además de numerosos derrumbes en la zona epicentral. Cinco personas murieron tras colapsar un muro de la embajada británica en Nepal. En total, 5 personas murieron en Nepal, 4 en Sikkim y dos en Bihar.
Varías réplicas sacudieron la misma zona tras el sismo, una de ellas superó los 6,1 grados y otra de 5,3 grados, así como otras de 4,8 y 4,6 grados según el USGS, estas ocurrieron 20 minutos después del movimiento principal.
Según reportes de ministro al norte de Bengal, Siliguri, Jalpaiguri y Cooch Behar presentan cortes de energía eléctrica, la telefonía tanto móvil como fija están saturadas.
La planta de energia eléctrica en Kahalgaon cerró tras el terremoto afectando sistema de energía para esta noche. |
en | Fri 6 Oct 2006 Kriss Donald.
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'Boy snatched off street, set alight and murdered for being white'
Evidence given in Kriss Donald murder trial
One of accused apparently sought revenge for previous assault
Kriss Donald may have been targetted simply due to being white
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MURDERED schoolboy Kriss Donald pleaded: "I'm only 15. What did I do?" as he was beaten up and dragged into the back of a car by his abductors, a court heard yesterday.
He was forced face down into the back of a silver Mercedes, threatened with a knife and told there was a gun in the car as he was driven off after being snatched from the street "because he was white".
The High Court in Edinburgh yesterday heard that Kriss was attacked and taken from a street in Pollokshields, Glasgow, because one of the men accused of his murder, Imran Shahid, 29, was angry and sought revenge after claiming he had been attacked with a glass bottle outside a nightclub the night before.
It is alleged that Kriss was later set on fire and murdered. In the days following the discovery of his body, friends and family created an impromptu shrine, featuring photographs and football colours. A witness told the court that one of the gang had said: "He took it quietly."
The witness, Zahid Mohammed, 22, was originally accused of taking part in the murder. He pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow in November 2004 to assault to injury on Kriss and attempting to pervert the course of justice. He was given a five-year jail term and was released on licence on Wednesday after applying for parole, the jurors were told.
The jury also heard that he gave evidence again in November 2004 at the same court in the trial of his co-accused, Daanish Zahid, who is named as an alleged accomplice in the current trial.
Imran Shahid, Mohammed Faisal Mushtaq, 27, and Zeeshan Shahid, 29, deny racially aggravated murder.
All three are on trial in Edinburgh, accused of abducting and killing Kriss by striking him with a knife or knives, then setting him on fire on 15 March, 2004.
Mohammed said that in March 2004 he was subject to a tagging order for motoring offences and possession of a knife. On Monday, 15 March, he went to Mushtaq's home in Pollokshields. The Shahid brothers were there, and Zahid joined them later. Mohammed described Imran Shahid, known as "Baldy", as quite angry and added: "He said he got attacked with a glass bottle the night before, outside a nightclub ... [by] the boys from McCulloch Street [Pollokshields]."
The witness said the "McCulloch Street boys" were white and Imran Shahid had vowed that he was going to take revenge and would "chop them up, take their eyes out, things like that".
It was planned that the group would go out in a car and look in McCulloch Street for "them ... anybody".
Mohammed said Imran Shahid asked for weapons and Mushtaq took a hammer and a screwdriver from a tool box and they were put in a blue carrier bag. Mohammed gave Imran Shahid a knife and helped him to dye his blond hair back to its natural dark colour.
They all got into a silver Mercedes car and drove to McCulloch Street where they saw two boys, now known to be Kriss Donald and a friend, Jamie Wallace, turning into Kenmure Street.
Imran Shahid said to let him out and he began fighting with the boys, especially Kriss. Mohammed agreed with a description of Imran Shahid's build as "massive" and said Kriss was "quite small" and could not fight back. Imran Shahid pushed Kriss into the car while Mushtaq pulled him in from the other side.
The advocate-depute, Mark Stewart, QC, asked how successful Kriss was in resisting and Mohammed replied: "Very little."
Mohammed said he had never met him before the incident. He agreed that nothing would have happened if Kriss and his friend had been Chinese, African-American or Asian. He said they were targeted because they were white.
Mr Stewart asked if Kriss had said anything. Mohammed answered: "Yes, he said, 'I'm only 15. What did I do?' or something like that."
Kriss was "scrunched down" in the footwell at the rear of the car, facing the floor. He was "scared".
Mohammed said that both he and Imran Shahid punched Kriss on the back and Imran Shahid had said: "I'm Baldy. Nobody f***s with me."
Also, Imran Shahid pressed the point of a knife against Kriss's back, and asked if he could feel it. The car went to a flat in the Parkhead area, but no-one was at home. A number of phone calls were made to try to find "a place or a park or something ... to batter Kriss". Imran Shahid threatened Kriss to force him to name the people from were the previous night. Kriss appeared to know what he was talking about and gave a few names.
Mohammed said he was dropped off at Strathclyde Park because he had to be home in time for his tagging curfew.
Next day, he went to Mushtaq's flat and spoke to Zeeshan Shahid, known as Crazy. "I asked what had happened. Crazy said, 'He took it quietly'." Mr Stewart ended by asking Mohammed: "Is the evidence you have given here today, sworn on the holy Koran, the truth?" Mohammed replied: "Yes."
David Burns, QC, for Imran Shahid, said Mohammed had done a deal with the prosecution by which he received a five-year sentence and agreed to give evidence against others. "You knew you would get life imprisonment if convicted of murder, and much less if you pleaded to something less?" asked Mr Burns.
Mohammed said: "Yes."
Donald Findlay, QC, for Mushtaq, accused the witness of being "a liar, pure and simple" and someone who was "cunning and conniving". The witness denied it.
Mr Findlay continued: "Co-incidentally, you were released from prison [in England] the day before you give evidence and got a lift here from the police."
He said on Mohammed's account, he might have supplied the weapon which killed Kriss. "Up to your neck in it is an understatement," suggested Mr Findlay.
Mohammed agreed with Norman Ritchie, QC, for Zeeshan Shahid, that he had been granted parole at the first time of asking and a police agreement that offered him a new home and a new identity when the trial ends.
Related topic | en | The trial of three Scottish Asians began on Monday, October 2 in Edinburgh's High Court. The three men, Imran Shahid, 29, Mohammed Mushtaq, 27, and Zeeshan Shahid, 29 are charged with "racially aggravated murder" over the killing of a 15-year old schoolboy in 2004.
This follows from the conviction of Zahid Mohammed in 2004 of assault in the same incident. Zahid was jailed for 5 years, and was released from jail on license on Wednesday, subsequently giving evidence in this trial. The accused are said to have been involved in the horrific killing of a 15-year old schoolboy in 2004. Kriss Donald was abducted on 16 March, and then stabbed in the lungs, liver and kidney. He was then covered in gasoline and set on fire. The accused, Imran "Baldy" Shahid, Mohammed "Beck" Mushtaq and Zeeshan "Crazy" Shahid had fled to Pakistan after Kriss' murder, and were arrested there in July last year. They were extradited to Britain on exceptional grounds in October 2005. This despite the lack of an extradition treaty between the two countries.
Mohammed said that he had never seen Kriss before, and confirmed that if he had been Chinese, black or "Asian" he would have been left alone. He said that Kriss and his friend had been chosen because they were white.
When asked by advocate-depute Mark Stewart QC if Kriss had said anything, Mohammed said: "Yes - he said 'I'm only 15. What did I do?' or something like that." |
en | Putin's Party Ahead in Russian Elections
Russian PM Vladimir Putin gives an interview to Abkhaz media in Sochi, 12 Aug 2009 Preliminary results from Sunday's local and regional elections in Russia indicate a strong showing for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party -- but the opposition is claiming widespread fraud.
Central Elections Commission official Leonid Ivlev said vote counts Monday show Mr. Putin's United Russia party won nearly 80 percent of the local races. These include elections for mayors and regional and city legislatures.
In Moscow, the pro-Kremlin United Russia has 66 percent of the vote for city council. The opposition Communists are second, with 13 percent. Other parties failed to reach the seven-percent mark needed to secure a seat.
At least one party -- the liberal Yabloko party -- says it will appeal the election results.
Election officials are expected to release final results later this week.
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StumbleUpon | en | Preliminary results from Sunday's local and regional elections in Russia indicate that the United Russia party won a significant majority of votes throughout the country.
Dmitry Medvedev (2007) Central Elections Commission official Leonid Ivlev said vote counts on Monday showed the United Russia party won nearly 80% of the local races. These included elections for mayors, as well as regional and city legislatures.
In Russia's capital of Moscow, the pro-Kremlin United Russia obtained 66% of the vote for city council. The opposition Communist Party came in second, with 13%. Other parties on the ballot failed to reach the required seven-percent needed to secure a seat.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said that the victory indicated "the authority the party has acquired from our people in recent years."
"Only together can we surmount the hardships of the financial crisis," he said in a statement on his party's website. "... The vote obtained by United Russia demonstrates that we are together and this is most important."
Some opposition members, however, have claimed fraud in the elections. They have said that they were not given places on the ballot and were prevented from campaigning. At least one party — the liberal Yabloko party — said it will appeal the election results.
The election authorities are expected to release final, official results later this week. |
en | While Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party claims sweeping victory in regional elections, opposition leaders say the vote was rigged.
According to official results reported Monday, United Russia captured a wide margin in elections which are being widely viewed as a test of Russia's democracy.
Leonid Ivlev, a member of the Central Elections Commission, told reporters that the ruling party had garnered almost 80 percent of seats up for grabs in the 75 regional and local elections held up and down the country on Sunday.
Ivlev said Putin's party picked up 107 of the 135 regional seats and 189 of the 235 seats available in municipal legislatures.
They also emerged victorious in the eagerly-watched race for Moscow's city legislature. With 99 percent of votes in, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported a 66 percent win for United Russia.
Praise from the president
The opposition Communists were the only rivals to score any seats in the high-profile ballot, which only managed to attract a 35 percent voter turnout.
In comments on the United Russia party website, President Dmitry Medvedev told his country, which has been particularly hard hit by the economic downturn, that they had voted for the right party.
"Only together can we surmount the hardships of the financial crisis," he wrote, "and the vote obtained by United Russia demonstrates that we are together and this is most important."
He went on to say that the 30 million-strong electorate clearly knew what it wanted.
"Taking account that elections in the capital are practically federal ones, we can state that in the crisis situation voters have demonstrated they stay together with the ruling party."
Claims of fraud
But the liberal Yabloko party, which came away from the vote completely empty-handed, has made claims of systematic vote rigging.
Yabloko, which failed to reach the 7 percent hurdle in Moscow's local election, has condemned the 17-year-reign of Mayor Yury Luzhkov, accusing him of carrying out "one of the all-time election frauds in Russia's recent history."
On Sunday, while the ballot boxes were still open, Yabloko said it had received a "storm of calls" from the Moscow electorate, complaining that they were unable to cast their vote because someone else had already done so using their name.
"United Russia used so-called carousel voting," said Yabloko spokesman Sergey Mitrohin. "This time, it was busloads of soldiers and police that they took from one polling station to another and had them cast their votes for United Russia over and over. We also have serious reason to believe that the ballot boxes were stuffed with additional ballots."
Yabloko and Communist Party representatives have already said they will contest the results of the municipal poll in court.
"We cannot recognize these elections or consider them normal," Communist Party deputy chairman Vladimir Kashin told RIA-Novosti.
The independent election watchdog Golog has come out behind the opposition parties, and has said it will provide proof of fraud.
Earlier, head of the watchdog, Liliya Shibanova, lamented the lack of political competition in Russia. "Medvedev says we need competition, we need a multi-party system, but election results show the exact opposite," she said.
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Editor: Andreas Illmer | en | Preliminary results from Sunday's local and regional elections in Russia indicate that the United Russia party won a significant majority of votes throughout the country.
Dmitry Medvedev (2007) Central Elections Commission official Leonid Ivlev said vote counts on Monday showed the United Russia party won nearly 80% of the local races. These included elections for mayors, as well as regional and city legislatures.
In Russia's capital of Moscow, the pro-Kremlin United Russia obtained 66% of the vote for city council. The opposition Communist Party came in second, with 13%. Other parties on the ballot failed to reach the required seven-percent needed to secure a seat.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said that the victory indicated "the authority the party has acquired from our people in recent years."
"Only together can we surmount the hardships of the financial crisis," he said in a statement on his party's website. "... The vote obtained by United Russia demonstrates that we are together and this is most important."
Some opposition members, however, have claimed fraud in the elections. They have said that they were not given places on the ballot and were prevented from campaigning. At least one party — the liberal Yabloko party — said it will appeal the election results.
The election authorities are expected to release final, official results later this week. |
es | El gobierno mantendrá la investigación abierta y analizará los restos hallados para saber si corresponden a los jóvenes, dijo el procurador
Viernes, 07 de noviembre de 2014 -- Actualizada a las 19:24
El procurador ofreció una conferencia de prensa luego de reunirse con los padres de los normalistas desaparecidos (PGR/Cortesía).
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (CNNMéxico) — Los 43 normalistas de Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, desaparecidos desde el 26 de septiembre pasado en Iguala presuntamente fueron asesinados y posteriormente quemados por el grupo delictivo Guerreros Unidos, según confesiones de tres presuntos integrantes de la organización dadas a conocer este viernes por la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR).
A raíz de las declaraciones de estos detenidos, quienes afirman haber participado en el asesinato, las autoridades federales hallaron restos humanos calcinados en el municipio de Cocula y analizarán si corresponden o no a los estudiantes, informó en rueda de prensa el procurador Jesús Murillo Karam.
"La investigación queda abierta hasta agotar todas las posibilidades que permitan identificar los restos humanos encontrados", dijo el funcionario.
"Se seguirán considerando como desaparecidos a los estudiantes de Ayotzinapa, para efectos de la investigación", agregó.
A 43 días de la desaparición, Murillo Karam señaló que tres hombres aprehendidos recientemente por fuerzas federales —Patricio Reyes Landa, Jonathan Osorio y Agustín García Reyes— confesaron que la noche del 26 de septiembre recibieron a un grupo de más de 40 personas de parte de policías de Iguala y Cocula, presuntos aliados de Guerreros Unidos.
Según los detenidos, usando camionetas, posteriormente llevaron al grupo a la zona del basurero de Cocula. Al llegar al lugar, algunos de los retenidos ya habían muerto y el resto de las víctimas también fue asesinado.
"(Las confesiones) apuntan muy lamentablemente al homicidio de un amplio número de personas en la zona de Cocula", dijo Murillo Karam.
Tras el asesinato, los presuntos delincuentes acomodaron los cuerpos y les prendieron fuego. Esta hoguera —avivada con diesel, plástico, madera y otros materiales—, se mantuvo desde la medianoche del 27 de septiembre hasta las 14:00 o 15:00 horas (local) de ese día.
A decir de Murillo Karam, los detenidos declararon que un hombre identificado como el Terco les ordenó entonces "fracturar" los restos, meterlos en bolsas negras de basura y arrojarlos en la zona.
Con base en estos dichos, las autoridades federales buscaron en el lugar y encontraron restos humanos calcinados. Al respecto, el procurador señaló que esto es un "indicio" de que en efecto pudiera tratarse de los normalistas, pero aclaró que esto todavía debe verificarse mediante análisis de laboratorio "altamente especializados" en pruebas de ADN, como las que realiza la Universidad de Innsbruck, en Austria.
"Hay muchos indicios que ustedes vieron que nos podrían indicar que son, pero la obligación de la autoridad, que tiene como función la clara identificación de las cosas, nos obliga a mantener (el análisis)", dijo Murillo Karam.
En respuesta, padres de los normalistas desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa dijeron este viernes que mientras no haya pruebas contundentes consideran que sus hijos están vivos.
Lee: "Mientras no haya pruebas, nuestros hijos están vivos"
Murillo Karam dijo que hasta la fecha se ha detenido a 74 personas, entre policías de Iguala y Cocula, presuntos integrantes de Guerreros Unidos, el exalcalde de Iguala, José Luis Abarca, y su esposa, María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa.
Abarca es señalado como operador de Guerreros Unidos y como autor intelectual de la desaparición, puesto que —según la PGR— fue quien ordenó a la policía de Iguala "enfrentar" a los estudiantes para evitar que el 26 de septiembre hicieran una protesta en un evento de Pineda. En cuanto a la orden de asesinarlos, la PGR la atribuye al presunto líder de Guerreros Unidos, Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado.
Las autoridades federales, además, buscan a otras 10 personas vinculadas con el crimen, como el exsecretario de Seguridad Pública de Iguala, Felipe Flores. Al respecto, Murillo Karam indicó que también se investiga si hay otros funcionarios implicados, aunque declinó precisar si esto incluye a Ángel Aguirre, gobernador con licencia de Guerrero.
Al respecto, el presidente Enrique Peña Nieto aseguró que la justicia mexicana detendrá y castigará a todos los involucrados en los “crímenes abominables” cometidos contra los estudiantes.
Murillo Karam también detalló que varios de los detenidos son acusados del delito de desaparición forzada y se les pueden sumar acusaciones por homicidio, y cuestionado sobre las críticas en el sentido de que se trata de un crimen de Estado, rechazó que sea así argumentando que Iguala no es el Estado mexicano.
A raíz de este caso que ha generado protestas en varias ciudades de México y ha captado la atención internacional, las autoridades hallaron a principios de octubre varias fosas con al menos 38 cuerpos.
La PGR ha descartado que se trate de los normalistas y Murillo Karam informó este viernes que cuatro cadáveres ya fueron identificados. Con esto, se determinó que corresponden a mujeres originarias del Estado de México.
El caso de Ayotzinapa, así como el hallazgo de otras víctimas como éstas, es un reflejo de la crisis de derechos humanos que vive México derivada de su estrategia de combate a la delincuencia, según advierten organizaciones como Amnistía Internacional (AI) y Human Rights Watch (HRW). | es | Tres detenidos confesaron haber asesinado a los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos en el pasado 26 de septiembre, informó en rueda de prensa el titular de la , . Asimismo, informó del hallazgo, en el basurero del , de seis bolsas que contenían cenizas y restos humanos. Durante la conferencia, de una hora de duración, el procurador informó a diversos medios y a la sociedad en general los avances de las investigaciones y, aunque no confirmó la muerte de los jóvenes, señaló que "hay muchos indicios" de que los restos son de los normalistas desaparecidos.
* Video de la Conferencia de Prensa del procurador Murillo Karam
De acuerdo a Murillo Karam, tras ser atacados y detenidos por los policías municipales de Iguala, los estudiantes fueron entregados a miembros del grupo criminal "Guerreros Unidos". Fueron estos quienes presuntamente "Los privaron de la vida y los arrojaron en el basurero, quemaron sus restos". No obstante "Algunos se asfixiaron cuando los trasladaron".
El funcionario señaló que los testimonios apuntan a un "homicidio masivo", que presumiblemente sería de los estudiantes, en Cocula, Guerrero. "No tengo dudas de que hubo un homicidio masivo, y es verdad que es un caso típico de desaparición forzada y que hay indicios de que podrían ser ellos los 43 jóvenes desaparecidos los que fueron asesinados y calcinados".
En el basurero de Cocula, los normalistas habrían sido asesinados y calcinados. "El fuego con el que quemaron restos de normalistas duró de la medianoche del 26 de septiembre a las 14:00 horas del día siguiente", fuego que fue constantemente avivado con neumáticos y gasolina. Murillo Karam aclaró que los tres arrestados son Patricio Reyes, ''El Pato'' y Agustín García Reyes, quienes "confesaron haber ejecutado y calcinado a las personas que les fueron entregadas por la policía".
"Los quemaron con todo y ropa y los enterraron con todo y ropa" y después se ordenó "meter a los restos óseos en bolsas y llevarlos al río San Juan". Los investigadores forenses mexicanos y argentinos hallaron las bolsas: "encontraron restos de bolsas en el río con elementos óseos en su interior que por sus características son de restos humanos y cenizas". No obstante, "la extrema calcinación de los restos" complica en extremo su identificación. Para este fin, se realizarán "estudios mitocondriales" para determinar el de los restos en la , .
"Para poder determinar que son los estudiantes necesito acumular las formas de identificación que puedan darse, hay muchos indicios que ustedes vieron que nos podrían indicar que son", aseveró el procurador. Previamente, Murillo Karam se había reunido con los padres de los desaparecidos para informarles del hallazgo de las bolsas y de que se podría tratar de los restos de sus hijos. "Fue una reunión dolorosa, tranquila, muy respetuosa y para mí verdaderamente triste", dijo al respecto el titular de la PGR.
Al respecto, Manuel Martínez, padre de dos de los desaparecidos declaró a '''' "Están jugando con nosotros contándonos pura pendejada. Nos dijeron que encontraron seis bolsas con cenizas y que era una de las líneas de investigación. Tratan de distraernos ante tanta ineptitud". |
es | El fiscal general, Jesús Murillo Karam, ofreció una rueda de prensa en Ciudad de México en relación con el caso Iguala. (Mario Guzmán/EFE)
El fiscal general, Jesús Murillo Karam, ofreció una rueda de prensa en Ciudad de México en relación con el caso Iguala. (Mario Guzmán/EFE)
El titular de la Procuraduría General de la República, Jesús Murillo Karam ha dado una rueda de prensa este viernes sobre el caso Iguala en la que dijo que tres nuevos detenidos confesaron haber "asesinado, quemado y arrojado a un río" a los 43 jóvenes normalistas, a los que, sin embargo, todavía considera como desaparecidos desde la noche del pasado 26 de septiembre y la madrugada del 27.
La hoguera en al que fueron calcinados los restos hallados duró más de 6 horas Así, el procurador no quiso confirmar que los restos humanos hallados hasta ahora sean de los jóvenes. No obstante, ha dicho que "hay muchos indicios" de que podrían ser ellos, pero no se puede confirmar nada sin tener las pruebas genéticas que verifiquen la identidad de los restos óseos, matizó.
El funcionario federal explicó que los testimonios recabados apuntan a un "homicidio masivo", que presumiblemente serían los normalistas de Ayotzinapa, en el Municipio de Cocula, Guerrero.
"Sé el enorme dolor que produce en los familiares la información que hemos obtenido. Los testimonios e informaciones que hemos recabado apuntan lamentablemente al homicidio de un amplio número de personas en el municipio de Cocula", dijo Murillo, cerca del lugar donde se vio a los alumnos normalistas por última vez con vida.
El titular de la PGR pidió esperar a las pruebas de ADN que se realizarán en Austria para asegurar que una serie de restos calcinados y descuartizados hallados hace ocho días en el interior de bolsas de plástico en un río son los de los desaparecidos.
"Homicidio masivo"
La investigación, ha reiterado Murillo en varias ocasiones, sigue abierta. "Estamos buscando desaparecidos". "No tengo dudas de que hubo un homicidio masivo, y es verdad que es un caso típico de desaparición forzada y que hay indicios de que podrían ser ellos los que fueron asesinados y calcinados". El funcionario detalló que la hoguera en al que fueron calcinados los restos hallados duró más de 6 horas.
El titular de la PGR explicó que tres nuevos detenidos en el caso confesaron haber perpetrado un crimen múltiple. Se trata Patricio Reyes, Jonathan Osorio, aprehendidos en el estado de Guerrero. "Estas detenciones derivaron en la localización de una tercera persona en Cocula, Agustín García Reyes, y nos han permitido conocer la última etapa de la cadena delictiva".
Los testimonios y confesiones apuntan al homicidio de un amplio número de personas en la zona de CoculaLos tres son miembros de Guerreros Unidos y "confesaron haber ejecutado y calcinado a las personas que les fueron entregadas por la policía".
Los delincuentes los trasladaron a Cocula, por orden de Sidronio Casarrubias, y los condujeron a un basurero en un barranco, es una barranca, una "brecha en la que apenas cabe un vehículo". "Allí fueron privados de la vida, arrojados a un basurero y quedamos durante horas", indicó Murillo Karam.
"Los quemaron con todo y ropa y los enterraron con todo y ropa". Después otra orden posterior pidió "meter a los restos óseos en bolsas y llevarlos al río".
"Los testimonios y confesiones recabadas apuntan muy lamentablemente al homicidio de un amplio número de personas en la zona de Cocula, pero me ciño a las averiguaciones. Sé el enorme dolor que produce en los familiares los avances de la investigación, un dolor que compartimos solidariamente todos", ha dicho el titular de la PGR.
Las imágenes y videos que se presentan son para que la ciudadanía pueda reconocerlos e identifciarlos. "Nada es concluyente, la investigación continúa su curso".
Hallados restos óseos calcinados
Los investigadores forenses junto a los peritos argentinos "encontraron restos de bolsas en el río con elementos óseos en su interior que por sus características son de restos humanos y cenizas", confirmó. Sin embargo, "no ahorraremos esfuerzos hasta agotar todas las posibilidades científicas, continuaremos trabajando. Los peritos y forenses argentinos continuarán sus trabajos hacia la identificación de los cadáveres".
Los peritos y los forenses seguirán trabajando para la identificación de los restos óseos que será difícil por su extrema calcinación La identificación de los restos será difícil por "la extrema calcinación de los restos", y por tanto no se puede especificar una fecha definida para la entrega de resultados.
Sin embargo, Karam sí dijo que "los restos encontrados en fosas de Pueblo Viejo no corresponden a los normalistas". El líder de la PGR añadió que varios policías de Iguala se encuentran involucrados en homicidio de los 4 cuerpos hallados en primeras fosas.
A día de hoy 74 personas están detenidas, pero "detendremos a todos los involucrados en estos hechos". Se trata de una de las investigaciones criminales "más grandes de las que se tenga memoria", dijo el titular de la PGR.
Karam ha sostenido este viernes una reunión de unos 40 minutos en Chilpancingo con los familiares de los 43 normalistas. "Nos dijeron que encontraron seis bolsas con cenizas y que se trata de una nueva línea de investigación", dijo a The Associated Press Manuel Martínez, padre de dos de los desaparecidos tras el encuentro.
"Están jugando con nosotros contándonos pura pendejada. Nos dijeron que encontraron seis bolsas con cenizas y que era una de las líneas de investigación. Tratan de distraernos ante tanta ineptitud", señaló Martínez. | es | Tres detenidos confesaron haber asesinado a los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos en el pasado 26 de septiembre, informó en rueda de prensa el titular de la , . Asimismo, informó del hallazgo, en el basurero del , de seis bolsas que contenían cenizas y restos humanos. Durante la conferencia, de una hora de duración, el procurador informó a diversos medios y a la sociedad en general los avances de las investigaciones y, aunque no confirmó la muerte de los jóvenes, señaló que "hay muchos indicios" de que los restos son de los normalistas desaparecidos.
* Video de la Conferencia de Prensa del procurador Murillo Karam
De acuerdo a Murillo Karam, tras ser atacados y detenidos por los policías municipales de Iguala, los estudiantes fueron entregados a miembros del grupo criminal "Guerreros Unidos". Fueron estos quienes presuntamente "Los privaron de la vida y los arrojaron en el basurero, quemaron sus restos". No obstante "Algunos se asfixiaron cuando los trasladaron".
El funcionario señaló que los testimonios apuntan a un "homicidio masivo", que presumiblemente sería de los estudiantes, en Cocula, Guerrero. "No tengo dudas de que hubo un homicidio masivo, y es verdad que es un caso típico de desaparición forzada y que hay indicios de que podrían ser ellos los 43 jóvenes desaparecidos los que fueron asesinados y calcinados".
En el basurero de Cocula, los normalistas habrían sido asesinados y calcinados. "El fuego con el que quemaron restos de normalistas duró de la medianoche del 26 de septiembre a las 14:00 horas del día siguiente", fuego que fue constantemente avivado con neumáticos y gasolina. Murillo Karam aclaró que los tres arrestados son Patricio Reyes, ''El Pato'' y Agustín García Reyes, quienes "confesaron haber ejecutado y calcinado a las personas que les fueron entregadas por la policía".
"Los quemaron con todo y ropa y los enterraron con todo y ropa" y después se ordenó "meter a los restos óseos en bolsas y llevarlos al río San Juan". Los investigadores forenses mexicanos y argentinos hallaron las bolsas: "encontraron restos de bolsas en el río con elementos óseos en su interior que por sus características son de restos humanos y cenizas". No obstante, "la extrema calcinación de los restos" complica en extremo su identificación. Para este fin, se realizarán "estudios mitocondriales" para determinar el de los restos en la , .
"Para poder determinar que son los estudiantes necesito acumular las formas de identificación que puedan darse, hay muchos indicios que ustedes vieron que nos podrían indicar que son", aseveró el procurador. Previamente, Murillo Karam se había reunido con los padres de los desaparecidos para informarles del hallazgo de las bolsas y de que se podría tratar de los restos de sus hijos. "Fue una reunión dolorosa, tranquila, muy respetuosa y para mí verdaderamente triste", dijo al respecto el titular de la PGR.
Al respecto, Manuel Martínez, padre de dos de los desaparecidos declaró a '''' "Están jugando con nosotros contándonos pura pendejada. Nos dijeron que encontraron seis bolsas con cenizas y que era una de las líneas de investigación. Tratan de distraernos ante tanta ineptitud". |
de | Es ist die Rede vom "Snowmageddon": Der Osten der USA versinkt im Schnee. 230.000 Haushalte sind ohne Strom, mehrere Staaten haben den Notstand ausgerufen.
Blick auf das Capitol im Schneesturm: In Washington ist bis zu 80 Zentimeter Neuschnee gefallen. Foto: Reuters
Blizzard-Alarm in den USA: Über die US-Ostküste ist am Wochenende einer der heftigsten Schneestürme der vergangenen Jahrzehnte hinweggefegt. Der Verkehr kam vielerorts zum Erliegen. In mehr als 230.000 Haushalten fiel der Strom aus, weil umgestürzte Bäume Strom-Leitungen kappten. In den Bundesstaaten von Virginia bis New Jersey fiel bis zu einem Meter Neuschnee. In der Hauptstadt Washington lag der Schnee bis zu 80 Zentimeter hoch.
Die Behörden riefen dazu auf, auf Autofahrten zu verzichten. Das hinderte Präsident Barack Obama aber nicht daran, das Weiße Haus zu verlassen, um eine Rede auf einer Veranstaltung seiner Demokratischen Partei zu halten. Allerdings kollidierten auf den rutschigen Straßen zwei Autos seines Konvois. Amerikanische Medien bezeichnen das Wetterchaos als "Snowmageddon" oder "Snowcalypse".
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An den drei größten Flughäfen im Raum Washington-Baltimore und am internationalen Flughafen von Philadelphia wurden die meisten Flüge gestrichen. Auf dem Washingtoner Dullas-Flughafen brach das Dach eines Hangars unter den Schneemassen zusammen.
Die U-Bahn in Washington stellte den Betrieb der oberirdischen Strecken ein. Zahlreiche Züge zwischen Washington und New York fielen aus, auch einige Bahnverbindungen von Washington in den Süden wurden gestrichen. Die Bundesstaaten Virginia und Maryland sowie der District of Columbia mit dem Stadtgebiet Washington riefen den Notstand aus, um staatliche Sonderhilfen wie den Einsatz der Nationalgarde zu ermöglichen. In Virginia kamen zwei Menschen ums Leben.
Schneesturm wird schwächer
Bereits am Freitag waren wegen des aufziehenden Schneesturms einige Schulen geschlossen worden. Über den Südosten wie etwa in den Bundesstaaten Georgia sowie in North und in South Carolina zog das gleiche Tiefdruckgebiet mit schweren Regenfällen hinweg.
Vor den Supermärkten kam es am Freitag zu langen Schlangen. Die Einwohner wollten sich vorab für die traditionellen Feiern zum Super Bowl, dem Endspiel um die Football-Meisterschaft, versorgen. Die kalten Temperaturen trieben zudem an der New Yorker Rohstoffbörse den Gaspreis bereits auf einen Winterhöchststand.
"Das Schlimmste ist vorüber", sagte eine Meteorologin am Samstagabend (Ortszeit). Am Sonntag wird weitgehend Sonnenschein in der Region erwartet, Meteorologen sagen aber bereits eine weitere Schlechtwetterfront für Dienstag voraus. Es werde viel kälter sein als üblich, sagte ein Experte.
Schwerer Sturm tobt in Kalifornien
Während Washington im Schnee versinkt, hat ein von heftigen Regenfällen begleiteter Sturm in den Bergen nördlich der kalifornischen Metropole Los Angeles zahlreiche Erdrutsche ausgelöst. Schlammlawinen rissen Dutzende Autos mit sich fort und verwüsteten mehr als 40 Häuser. Viele Menschen waren in der Nacht zum Samstag von den Lawinen aus dem Schlaf gerissen worden und mussten mit ansehen, wie ihre Möbel von den Geröll- und Erdmassen auf die Straßen gespült wurden. Verletzt wurde niemand.
Rund 800 Häuser vor Los Angeles wurden evakuiert. In der Nacht zum Sonntag durften die meisten Bewohner wieder in ihre Häuser zurück, doch die Behörden warnten vor neuen Regenfällen. Die Katastrophe wurde zum Teil durch Waldbrände im Sommer verstärkt: Weil die niedergebrannten Wälder in den betroffenen Bergausläufern die Wassermassen von bis zu zehn Zentimeter Niederschlag binnen 24 Stunden nicht absorbieren konnten, rasten die Lawinen in die Täler.
Die Menschen in La Canada Flintridge beklagten, sie seien nicht rechtzeitig gewarnt worden. "Es war wie ein Donnerschlag", sagte Dave Becica. "Ich sagte mir: ’Hoffentlich kommt der Berg nicht runter!’ Aber es war der Berg." Feuerwehrchef Michael Freeman räumte ein, man sei von den Ausmaßen überrascht worden. Als man die Lawinen registriert habe, sei es für die Betroffenen sicherer gewesen, in ihren Häusern Schutz zu suchen, als Notevakuierungen anzuordnen.
(Reuters/dpa/hai) | de | Datei:DCA Blizzard 02 2010 9139.JPG|miniatur|Eingeschneite Autos in Arlington, Virginia
Ein Blizzard hat den Verkehr an der Ostküste der Vereinigten Staaten in weiten Teilen vollkommen zum Erliegen gebracht. Wie der US-amerikanische Wetterdienst meldete, fielen in Washington D.C. in der Zeit von Donnerstag, dem 4. Februar um 7:00 Uhr bis zum Samstagabend, dem 6. Februar um 21:00 Uhr Ortszeit rund 50 Zentimeter und in Philadelphia rund 70 Zentimeter Schnee. Eine Schneefallmenge von 80 Zentimeter wurde auf dem internationalen Flughafen von Washington registriert. Den meisten Schnee – rund 100 Zentimeter – meldete Colesville in Maryland. Der Blizzard ist der zweite schwere Wintersturm an der Ostküste innerhalb weniger Wochen.
In den Bundesstaaten Maryland und Delaware sowie im District of Columbia wurde der Notstand ausgerufen. Daduch wird die Freigabe von Bundeshilfen und der Einsatz der Nationalgarde ermöglicht. Die Auswirkungen des Nor′easters waren bis nach Mexiko spürbar. Als Schnee und Eisregen ging der Niederschlag noch in Missouri und North Carolina nieder, weiter südlich regnete es stark.
Im Zentrum der Macht: Ski und Rodel gut
Präsident Barack Obama nannte das Schneechaos ein „Snowmageddon“. Mehr als 230.000 Haushalte waren ohne elektrische Energie, weil umstürzende Bäume Versorgungsleitungen herunterrissen. Die meisten Flüge von und nach Washington, Baltimore und Philadelphia mussten gestrichen werden. Unterbrochen waren auch die Eisenbahnverbindungen zwischen der amerikanischen Hauptstadt und New York City sowie Teile des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs von Washington D.C. Schulen und öffentliche Behörden blieben am Freitag geschlossen.
Am anderen Ende der Vereinigten Staaten, im sonst so sonnigen Kalifornien, war das Wetter auch nicht besonders rosig: Starkregen von bis zu 100 l/24 Stunden führte nördlich von Los Angeles zu Erdrutschen und Überflutungen. Das nach den Waldbränden in den letzten Jahren kahle Erdreich konnte das Regenwasser nicht halten. Häuser würden von Schlammlawinen verwüstet und Autos wurden weggespült. |
en | US snowstorm causes power cuts in Washington DC region
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Washington DC and nearby states after a blizzard blanketed the area with record snows. Electricity was cut to at least 300,000 homes as the snow felled trees, and cut power lines. Emergency workers are struggling to restore power. Washington got up to 2ft (61cm) of snow, one of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. The storm disrupted transport from West Virginia to southern New Jersey. A record 3ft (91cm) of snow fell on Maryland. Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland have declared emergencies, allowing them to activate the National Guard to help cope with the wintry onslaught.
US Snow: Your pictures Some 300,000 homes are without electricity in Maryland and neighbouring Virginia - the two states which bore the brunt of the storm. Another 250,000 customers were hit by blackouts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the New York Times reported. Pepco electric company said its workers were scrambling to restore power, but warned it could be a few days before everyone was back up. "We have a lot of scattered outages and the road conditions are not really working with us," spokesman Andre Francis told AFP news agency. Good forecast The massive storm brought the nation's capital to a virtual standstill. All flights were cancelled out of Washington's national airport, along with most flights out of Dulles International in Virginia. The 18in (46cm) recorded at Reagan National Airport was the fourth-highest snow total for the city. While at Dulles, outside Washington, the record was shattered with 32in (81cm). WASHINGTON SNOWSTORMS More than 1ft (12in, 30.5cm) of snow has fallen only 14 times since 1870 Heaviest on record is 28in (71cm) in January 1922 Worst snowfall is believed to have hit in 1772, before records began, with as much as 3ft
In pictures: Snow chaos A weather forecaster at the National Weather Service (NWS) at Dulles airport told the BBC the snowstorms would be reducing in the next few hours. The NWS has cancelled all storm warnings, but said gusty winds could lead to icy conditions, blowing snow, and reduced visibility along the mid-Atlantic coast throughout Sunday. Even President Barack Obama fell victim to "snowmageddon", as locals - including the president - have dubbed it. A tree limb snapped and fell onto a vehicle in Mr Obama's motorcade, but no-one was injured. All across the region, hundreds of car accidents were reported, but only two fatalities - a father and son who died while helping another motorist in Virginia. US national rail service Amtrak cancelled a number of trains between New York and Washington, and also between Washington and some southern destinations. Snowball fight The latest storm comes less than two months after a December storm dumped more than 16in (41cm) of snow in Washington. I'm not going anywhere... The front door of the building I live in is closed shut
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Resident of Baltimore, Maryland The Washington Metro was operating only on underground lines, and bus services were cancelled. The usually traffic-heavy roads of the capital were deserted, and the city's famous sites and monuments were covered with snow. Debi Adkins, who lives just outside the city of Baltimore, told the BBC: "I'm not going anywhere - I couldn't if I wanted to. You just can't get your cars out. The front door of the building I live in is closed shut, so I just can't get out." Some sight-seers ventured out in thigh-deep snow along the famous national mall, or went cross-country skiing down empty boulevards. Others took part in a huge snowball fight at DuPont Circle, a major Washington thoroughfare, organised via Facebook and Twitter. US government offices in the Washington area closed four hours early on Friday, and forecasters warned of a difficult commute on Monday morning. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Are you in the eastern US? How are you coping with the snow storms? Send us your comments using the form below. Send your pictures and videos to [email protected], text them to +44 7725 100 100 or you have a large file you can upload here. Read the terms and conditions At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. A selection of your comments may be published, displaying your name and location unless you state otherwise in the box below. Name
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StumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version | de | Datei:DCA Blizzard 02 2010 9139.JPG|miniatur|Eingeschneite Autos in Arlington, Virginia
Ein Blizzard hat den Verkehr an der Ostküste der Vereinigten Staaten in weiten Teilen vollkommen zum Erliegen gebracht. Wie der US-amerikanische Wetterdienst meldete, fielen in Washington D.C. in der Zeit von Donnerstag, dem 4. Februar um 7:00 Uhr bis zum Samstagabend, dem 6. Februar um 21:00 Uhr Ortszeit rund 50 Zentimeter und in Philadelphia rund 70 Zentimeter Schnee. Eine Schneefallmenge von 80 Zentimeter wurde auf dem internationalen Flughafen von Washington registriert. Den meisten Schnee – rund 100 Zentimeter – meldete Colesville in Maryland. Der Blizzard ist der zweite schwere Wintersturm an der Ostküste innerhalb weniger Wochen.
In den Bundesstaaten Maryland und Delaware sowie im District of Columbia wurde der Notstand ausgerufen. Daduch wird die Freigabe von Bundeshilfen und der Einsatz der Nationalgarde ermöglicht. Die Auswirkungen des Nor′easters waren bis nach Mexiko spürbar. Als Schnee und Eisregen ging der Niederschlag noch in Missouri und North Carolina nieder, weiter südlich regnete es stark.
Im Zentrum der Macht: Ski und Rodel gut
Präsident Barack Obama nannte das Schneechaos ein „Snowmageddon“. Mehr als 230.000 Haushalte waren ohne elektrische Energie, weil umstürzende Bäume Versorgungsleitungen herunterrissen. Die meisten Flüge von und nach Washington, Baltimore und Philadelphia mussten gestrichen werden. Unterbrochen waren auch die Eisenbahnverbindungen zwischen der amerikanischen Hauptstadt und New York City sowie Teile des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs von Washington D.C. Schulen und öffentliche Behörden blieben am Freitag geschlossen.
Am anderen Ende der Vereinigten Staaten, im sonst so sonnigen Kalifornien, war das Wetter auch nicht besonders rosig: Starkregen von bis zu 100 l/24 Stunden führte nördlich von Los Angeles zu Erdrutschen und Überflutungen. Das nach den Waldbränden in den letzten Jahren kahle Erdreich konnte das Regenwasser nicht halten. Häuser würden von Schlammlawinen verwüstet und Autos wurden weggespült. |
pl | Ciężarówka uderzyła w filar budowanego wiaduktu
Foto: TVN24 | Video: TVN24 Ciężarówka uderzyła w nowobudowany wiadukt
Katastrofa na budowie obwodnicy Wyszkowa na drodze nr 8. Samochód ciężarowy, który wyjeżdżał z placu budowy w miejscowości Głuchy (woj. mazowieckie) uderzył w konstrukcję powstającego wiaduktu. Rannego kierowcę przewieziono do szpitala w Wyszkowie. Droga jest zablokowana.
Do zdarzenia doszło ok. godziny 13.00. Kierowca, który wyjeżdżał z placu budowy nie zamknął klapy ładunkowej i to właśnie ona zawadziła o filar. Na samochód spadły fragmenty szalunku i metalowe elementy zbrojenia wiaduktu. Nie wiadomo ma razie jak wielkie są zniszczenia.
Policja zabezpiecza miejsce zawalenia się konstrukcji. - Droga jest zablokowana już od Wyszkowa, policja organizuje objazdy - powiedział na antenie TVN24 Zenon Osowiecki z policji w Wyszkowie.
Wypadek pokrzyżował plany lidera Platformy Obywatelskiej Donalda Tuska, który jechał na konwencję wyborczą w Łomży i spotkanie ze studentami w Białymstoku. Gdy utknął w korku przed Wyszkowem, zdecydował się wrócić do Warszawy. | pl | drodze krajowej nr 8
Na obwodnicy w Wyszkowie w województwie mazowieckim na drodze krajowej nr 8 ok. godziny 13:00 doszło do wypadku. Ciężarówka w miejscowości Głuchy, która wyjeżdżała z placu budowy uderzyła w konstrukcję budowanego wiaduktu.
Przyczyną uszkodzenia wiaduktu była niezamknięta klapa ładunkowa. Zawadziła ona o filar co spowodowało, że na samochód spadły części konstrukcji wiaduktu: szalunek i metalowe elementy zbrojenia.
Kierowca, 53-letni Wiesław Ś. trafił do szpitala w Wyszkowie ze złamaną nogą i żebrami.
Droga w miejscu wypadku była zablokowana przez pięć godzin.
"Czterometrowej wysokości stalowa konstrukcja poruszyła się i groziła zawaleniem. Dlatego ruch został wstrzymany i dźwigi demontują rusztowania" - mówił w dniu zdarzenia Zenon Osowiecki z aspirant sztabowy policji w Wyszkowie.
Komisja budowlana ma stwierdzić czy konieczne będzie rozebranie wiaduktu. "Betonowa konstrukcja stoi już od kilku tygodni. Według moich informacji podczas uderzenia nie została naruszona" - powiedział Andrzej Podemski, zastępca szefa Generalnej Dyrekcji Dróg Krajowych i Autostrad na Mazowszu.
Z powodu zablokowania drogi przed Wyszkowem lider Platformy Obywatelskiej Donald Tusk, nie dojechał na konwencję wyborczą w Łomży oraz na spotkanie ze studentami w Białymstoku. Utknął w korku a następnie zawrócił do Warszawy. |
pl | - Czterometrowej wysokości stalowa konstrukcja poruszyła się i groziła zawaleniem. Dlatego ruch został wstrzymany i dźwigi demontują rusztowania - relacjonował nam po po południu aspirant sztabowy Zenon Osowiecki, rzecznik policji w Wyszkowie.
Część rusztowań zdemontowano po kilku godzinach, reszta miała być zdjęta w nocy z piątku na sobotę. Komisja budowlana zbada, czy nie trzeba rozebrać także fragmentu wiaduktu. Andrzej Podemski, zastępca szefa Generalnej Dyrekcji Dróg Krajowych i Autostrad na Mazowszu twierdzi jednak, że budowla nie jest zagrożona. - Betonowa konstrukcja stoi już od kilku tygodni. Według moich informacji podczas uderzenia nie została naruszona - zapewniał w piątek Podemski.
Do wypadku doszło przed godz. 13. Kierowca wywrotki 53-letni Wiesław Ś. wyrzucił żwir na budowie, nie zaczekał, aż opadnie klapa i ruszył. Z dużą siłą zaczepił o rusztowanie stojące wokół budowanego betonowego wiaduktu. Kierowca trafił do szpitala w Wyszkowie. Siła uderzenia tak mocno odrzuciła go na kierownicę, że złamał nogę i żebra.
Ruchliwa droga łącząca Warszawę z Białymstokiem była całkowicie zablokowana przez pięć godzin. Nie dało się też przedostać drogą przez Wołomin i Tłuszcz, gdzie skręciła część kierowców omijających zamkniętą ósemkę. W korku utknął też lider Platformy Obywatelskiej Donald Tusk, który wybierał się na spotkania wyborcze na Podlasiu. Wypadek pokrzyżował mu plany - Tusk zawrócił do Warszawy.
Źródło: Gazeta Wyborcza Stołeczna | pl | drodze krajowej nr 8
Na obwodnicy w Wyszkowie w województwie mazowieckim na drodze krajowej nr 8 ok. godziny 13:00 doszło do wypadku. Ciężarówka w miejscowości Głuchy, która wyjeżdżała z placu budowy uderzyła w konstrukcję budowanego wiaduktu.
Przyczyną uszkodzenia wiaduktu była niezamknięta klapa ładunkowa. Zawadziła ona o filar co spowodowało, że na samochód spadły części konstrukcji wiaduktu: szalunek i metalowe elementy zbrojenia.
Kierowca, 53-letni Wiesław Ś. trafił do szpitala w Wyszkowie ze złamaną nogą i żebrami.
Droga w miejscu wypadku była zablokowana przez pięć godzin.
"Czterometrowej wysokości stalowa konstrukcja poruszyła się i groziła zawaleniem. Dlatego ruch został wstrzymany i dźwigi demontują rusztowania" - mówił w dniu zdarzenia Zenon Osowiecki z aspirant sztabowy policji w Wyszkowie.
Komisja budowlana ma stwierdzić czy konieczne będzie rozebranie wiaduktu. "Betonowa konstrukcja stoi już od kilku tygodni. Według moich informacji podczas uderzenia nie została naruszona" - powiedział Andrzej Podemski, zastępca szefa Generalnej Dyrekcji Dróg Krajowych i Autostrad na Mazowszu.
Z powodu zablokowania drogi przed Wyszkowem lider Platformy Obywatelskiej Donald Tusk, nie dojechał na konwencję wyborczą w Łomży oraz na spotkanie ze studentami w Białymstoku. Utknął w korku a następnie zawrócił do Warszawy. |
fr | AFP - Lundi 4 août, 09h57
PEKIN (AFP) - A quatre jours du coup d'envoi des jeux Olympiques de Pékin, un attentat contre la police chinoise dans le Xinjiang dans l'ouest musulman du pays a fait 16 morts et 16 blessés lundi.
L'attaque visant un poste de douanes à Kashgar, qui serait de nature "terroriste" selon les autorités chinoises, a été perpétrée par deux assaillants, a indiqué l'agence officielle Chine Nouvelle.
A bord d'un camion rempli d'explosifs, les deux hommes ont foncé sur un groupe de policiers qui faisaient leur jogging matinal et en ont tué quatorze sur le coup, a précisé l'agence officielle. Dans une première version, Chine Nouvelle avait parlé d'attaque à la grenade. Aucune précision n'a été fournie sur les assaillants qui ont été arrêtés.
Interrogé par l'AFP, un porte-parole de la police à Urumqi, la capitale de la région autonome, a affirmé ne pas être au courant. Le porte-parole du Congrès mondial des Ouïghours , basé en Europe, Dilxat Raxit, a confirmé auprès de l'AFP l'attaque, en citant des sources locales.
Les autorités chinoises n'ont pas établi pour l'instant si l'attaque avait un lien avec les jeux Olympiques de Pékin qui s'ouvrent le 8 août, a indiqué à l'AFP un porte-parole du comité d'organisation des JO. "Nous devons vérifier", a déclaré Sun Weide.
Le Comité international olympique (CIO) n'a pas souhaité commenter l'attaque, renouvelant cependant sa confiance à la Chine dans la capacité à assurer la sécurité des jeux de Pékin qui s'ouvrent vendredi. "Je ne peux pas vous donner une réaction immédiate. En ce qui concerne les jeux, nous faisons confiance aux autorités pour faire tout ce qui est humainement possible pour assurer un événement en toute sécurité", a déclaré à l'AFP la porte-parole du CIO, Giselle Davies.
"C'est un incident en Chine, nous ne devrions pas établir automatiquement un lien quelconque avec les jeux", a-t-elle ajouté. Selon Nicholas Bequelin, qui suit la Chine pour l'organisation de défense des droits de l'homme Human Rights Watch, "si les 16 morts sont confirmés, il s'agira du plus lourd bilan jamais enregistré dans une attaque" au Xinjiang.
En 1997, une série d'attentats à la bombe à Urumqi, la capitale régionale, avait fait 9 morts et 74 blessés dans trois autobus. Ces derniers mois, les autorités chinoises ont affirmé faire face à des menaces terroristes visant les jeux Olympiques de Pékin et avaient désigné en particulier le Xinjiang comme un foyer potentiel.
Fin juillet, le Parti islamiste du Turkestan a revendiqué plusieurs attentats, dont des attaques contre des autobus le 21 juillet qui ont fait deux morts dans le Yunnan, et a menacé la Chine de nouvelles attaques durant les JO, selon un groupe de surveillance des menaces terroristes basé à Washington.
D'après des responsables de l'agence privée Stratfor, spécialisée dans le renseignement, le Parti islamique du Turkestan est un autre nom utilisé pour désigner le Parti islamique du Turkestan oriental (ETIM), un groupe séparatiste ouïghour qui cherche à établir un Etat indépendant au Xinjiang.
Vendredi, la Chine s'était dite capable de déjouer tout attentat pendant les JO, aussi bien dans la capitale que dans les régions jugées à risque du Xinjiang et du Tibet. Pour ces jeux, l'armée chinoise a notamment déployé plus de 34.000 soldats, 121 avions et hélicoptères et 33 navires. A la mi-juillet, la Chine avait annoncé l'arrestation de 82 "terroristes" présumés depuis le début de l'année au Xinjiang, assurant qu'ils préparaient des attentats contre les JO.
Il s'agissait de la première fois que des responsables chinois avançaient un chiffre global d'arrestations après avoir annoncé ces derniers mois avoir déjoué plusieurs complots visant les JO (8-24 août).
Des dissidents et des défenseurs des droits de l'homme affirment toutefois que le pouvoir central exagère cette menace pour faire taire toute contestation à la veille des JO.
Recommander cette dépêche | fr | Selon l'agence officielle ''Chine Nouvelle'', deux hommes ont foncé sur un poste de douane de Kashgar dans le Xinjiang, à bord d'un camion rempli d'explosifs. Un groupe de policiers qui faisait un jogging matinal a été directement visé par le camion : quatorze policiers ont été tués sur le coup et deux autres ont succombé à la suite de leurs blessures.
Selon un porte-parole du comité d'organisation des Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008 qui doivent s'ouvrir dans quatre jours à Pékin, il n'a pas été établi de lien entre cette attaque et les jeux. Dans un communiqué, le CIO a renouvelé sa confiance au gouvernement chinois pour assurer la sécurité de l'événement.
Depuis quelques mois, les autorités chinoises ont affirmé faire face à des risques d'attentat visant les jeux, alors que l'armée a déployé plus de soldats, 121 avions et hélicoptères et 33 navires pour assurer la sécurité. Dans ce cadre, 82 personnes avaient été arrêtées à la mi-juillet; la Chine avait alors assuré qu'ils préparaient des attentats contre les Jeux Olympiques. |
fr | Chine: 16 policiers tués dans une attaque au Xinjiang
Deux assaillants ont lancé un camion contre le poste de douanes de Kashgar, au Xinjiang, région musulmane au nord-ouest de la Chine.
AFP
LIBERATION.FR : lundi 4 août 2008
Seize policiers ont été tués et 16 blessés lundi matin lors de l’attaque d’un poste frontalier au Xinjiang, région musulmane du nord-ouest de la Chine, à quatre jours du début des jeux Olympiques de Pékin, selon l’agence Chine Nouvelle.
Deux assaillants ont lancé un camion contre le poste de douanes de Kashgar, dans l’ouest de la région, a indiqué l’agence officielle, faisant exploser deux grenades. Ils ont ensuite été arrêtés, précise Chine Nouvelle. Aucune précision n’a été donné sur les assaillants.
Ces derniers mois, les autorités chinoises ont affirmé faire face à des menaces terroristes visant les jeux Olympiques de Pékin, qui s’ouvrent vendredi, désignant en particulier le Xinjiang comme foyer potentiel.
Vendredi, la Chine s’était dite capable de déjouer tout attentat pendant les JO, aussi bien dans la capitale que dans les régions jugées à risque du Xinjiang et du Tibet.
Pour ces jeux, l’armée chinoise a notamment déployé plus de 34.000 soldats, 121 avions et hélicoptères et 33 navires. | fr | Selon l'agence officielle ''Chine Nouvelle'', deux hommes ont foncé sur un poste de douane de Kashgar dans le Xinjiang, à bord d'un camion rempli d'explosifs. Un groupe de policiers qui faisait un jogging matinal a été directement visé par le camion : quatorze policiers ont été tués sur le coup et deux autres ont succombé à la suite de leurs blessures.
Selon un porte-parole du comité d'organisation des Jeux olympiques d'été de 2008 qui doivent s'ouvrir dans quatre jours à Pékin, il n'a pas été établi de lien entre cette attaque et les jeux. Dans un communiqué, le CIO a renouvelé sa confiance au gouvernement chinois pour assurer la sécurité de l'événement.
Depuis quelques mois, les autorités chinoises ont affirmé faire face à des risques d'attentat visant les jeux, alors que l'armée a déployé plus de soldats, 121 avions et hélicoptères et 33 navires pour assurer la sécurité. Dans ce cadre, 82 personnes avaient été arrêtées à la mi-juillet; la Chine avait alors assuré qu'ils préparaient des attentats contre les Jeux Olympiques. |
es | Embed 1. #Windows10: More than 75 million devices running Windows 10 – and growing every day. 1/10 pic.twitter.com/g0kqGizU0c — Yusuf Mehdi (@yusuf_i_mehdi) August 26, 2015
El ejecutivo afirmó también que"prácticamente cada país del planeta" y aseguró que la asistente digitalcontó más de medio millón de chistes en respuesta a la indicación de los usuarios de "decíme un chiste".La empresa tecnológica ofreció la actualización del sistema operativo de forma gratuita a finales de julio, con el objetivo de lograr 1.000 millones de usuarios de Windows 10 en los próximos tres años.Un total de 14 millones de dispositivosEntre las nuevas funciones de Windows 10 está el nuevo navegador, así como la versión para ordenadores de Cortana, la asistente de voz equivalente a Google Now y a Siri, de Apple.Windows 10a través del que los usuarios pueden acceder a las aplicaciones y funciones que más utilizan y que había desaparecido en la actualización anterior del sistema operativo, el impopular Windows 8. Además, ofrece también la opción de reorganizar y cambiar el tamaño de los iconos.Los usuarios tienen la opción de acceder a sus dispositivos mediante reconocimiento facial, del iris o la huella digital, lo que evita el tener que introducir contraseñas.Microsoft dijo en abril pasado que espera ingresar alrededor de US$15.000 millones este año por la venta de Windows.La empresa cobra tarifas a los fabricantes de ordenadores que instalan Windows en sus nuevos dispositivos, y también obtiene ingresos por la venta de su software a grandes empresas y organizaciones. | es | , el nuevo sistema operativo de lanzado a finales de julio de este año ya ha alcanzado los 75 millones de dispositivos, los cuales han migrado desde y en el último mes, según fuentes de la compañía y estimaciones del mercado.
El nuevo sistema operativo, que sigue la línea visual e integración con la nube de los últimos productos de la compañía, permite la actualización gratuita de todas las personas que usen Windows 7 y 8 en sus equipos. Según datos aportados por Yusuf Medhdi, vicepresidente corporativo de Windows, , el asistente de voz de Microsoft, ya ha contado más de medio millón de chistes ante solicitud de los usuarios.
Esta versión de Windows aporta un asistente de voz integrado, el reemplazo del antiguo por y el botón de inicio que fue eliminado en Windows 8, por lo cual ha sido rápidamente adoptado por los usuarios. Según estimaciones, en el primer día del lanzamiento se realizaron más de 14 millones de actualizaciones. |
pl | 14:55, 19.11.2007 /BBC
PRZED KONFERENCJĄ POKOJOWĄ W ANNAPOLIS IZRAEL ROBI USTĘPSTWA
Premier Izraela Ehud Olmert uzyskał zgodę gabinetu na zwolnienie w więzień 450 Palestyńczyów. To gest dobrej woli przed zbliżającą się konferencją w Annapolis, gdzie będzie dyskutowana przyszłość Palestyny.
Czy jest to gest wystarczający? - tego nie wiadomo. Ostatnio prezydent Autonomii Palestyńskiej Mahmud Abbas prosił o zwolnienie z izraelskich więzień co najmniej 2000 osób. Jednak zwrócił się o to już po tym, jak Olmert przedłożył swoją propozycję gabinetowi.Premier Izraela zapewnił też, że nie będą budowane nowe osiedla na terytoriach palestyńskich. - Bądźmy szczerzy. Poświęciliśmy się - nie będziemy budować nowych osiedli. Nie będzie nowych osiedli ani konfiskaty ziemi - powiedział Olmert. Nie określił jednak jednoznacznie, czy zaprzestane zostaną prace budowlane w tych osiedlach, które już powstały.W izraelskich więzieniach znajduje się obecnie około 11 tys. Palestyńczyków z terytoriów okupowanych. Wielu z nich przetrzymywanych jest bez formalnego postawienia zarzutów. Żydowskie osiedla na ziemiach okupowanych od 1967 roku przez Izrael są uznawane za nielegalne w świetle prawa międzynarodowego, jednak Izrael kwestionuje takie stanowisko.Jeszcze w tym roku na dojść do negocjacji pomiędzy Izraelem a Palestyną w amerykańskim Annapolis. Do tej pory nie udało się jednak osiągnąć porozumienia w sprawie tzw. mapy drogowej, czyli dokumentu, który miałby doprowadzić do pokoju. Z związku z tym szanse na osiągnięcie tam ostatecznego porozumienia będą stać pod znakiem zapytania dopóki nie uda się rozwiązać m.in. spornej kwestii granic i statusu Jerozolimy.jak | pl | Grafika:Ehud Olmert (Sao Paulo 2005).jpg|thumb|Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert, premier Izraela poinformował, że jego gabinet zaakceptował złożoną przezeń propozycję zwolnienia 450 palestyńskich więźniów. W izraelskich więzieniach przebywa około 11 tysięcy Palestyńczyków. Wiele osób nie ma postawionych zarzutów.
Jeszcze w tym roku ma dojść do konferencji w Annapolis (USA), gdzie mają odbyć się negocjacje między Izraelem i Palestyną dotyczące tzw. mapy drogowej.
Ehmud Olmert poinformował również o zaprzestaniu budowy nowych osiedli na terytoriach palestyńskich.
Nie powiedział jednak nic o wstrzymaniu prac na osiedlach, które powstały. "Bądźmy szczerzy. Poświęciliśmy się - nie będziemy budować nowych osiedli. Nie będzie nowych osiedli ani konfiskaty ziemi" - stwierdził Olmert. |
en | Saskatchewan to make federal bid for isotope facility, premier confirms
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall suggested the province could take a leading role in nuclear medicine with the production of medical isotopes. (CBC) Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall suggested the province could take a leading role in nuclear medicine with the production of medical isotopes. (CBC)
Saskatchewan is officially making a qualified bid to produce medical isotopes, Premier Brad Wall confirmed Wednesday, as government and University of Saskatchewan officials worked to finalize a proposal that must be submitted to the federal government by July 31.
Wall repeated his position that the proposal could be short-circuited if current public consultations about uranium development determine there is no support for nuclear reactors in the province. A report on the consultations will not be ready until the fall.
"We're dealing with some circumstances as they present themselves," Wall told reporters Wednesday about the decision to submit a formal proposal on medical isotope production.
The federal government is seeking input on how to deal with a current shortage of medical isotopes, which are radioactive material used in diagnostic tests.
In May, the problem-plagued Chalk River reactor in Ontario, which had supplied one-third of the world's medical isotopes, shut down and will remain closed at least until the end of the year.
"We campaigned on the general notion that we should add some value to uranium [mined in Saskatchewan]," Wall said, defending the decision to move forward on a proposal. "But we've taken this consultation process very seriously."
University studying research reactor
Richard Florizone, a vice-president of the University of Saskatchewan, said Wednesday that the institution had been examining the feasibility of building a research reactor for the past year. Studies have suggested that the production of medical isotopes could be a value-added offshoot of a research facility.
"We're a long ways away from moving ahead with any expenditures," Wall said about the provincial proposal. "We're just seeing if we can't get the federal government's attention as a place that could possibly supply these isotopes."
Wall said he expected the cost of building a reactor would be borne by the federal government and partners from the private sector.
"We can always opt out of the process," Wall said, adding that he believed there was an opportunity for Saskatchewan to take a leading role in nuclear medicine. "I think Saskatchewan should be exploring the opportunity to be a leader, a world leader," he said.
"In 1949 … cobalt-60 treatment was tried for the first time here in Saskatchewan, where it saved a woman battling cervical cancer," Wall said. "Maybe we can lead again in terms of nuclear medicine." | en | The Saskatchewan provincial government alongside the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have come together to establish a CA$500 million, 10 megawatts research nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes.
Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan
"In 1949 … cobalt-60 treatment was tried for the first time here in Saskatchewan, where it saved a woman battling cervical cancer. Maybe we can lead again in terms of nuclear medicine," said Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan, "Governments should be involved in pure research. We're dealing with some circumstances as they present themselves"
"We've had faculty that are interested in this. We have an issue of national importance, We see a reason why the U of S and the province could assist in this national issue. We see how it could help the country. We see how it could build on the university's research strength," said Richard Florizone, U of S vice-president of finance and resources.
The research conducted at the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron on campus would be enhanced by a research reactor.
"In the case of a power reactor, in Saskatchewan we have much better alternatives. In the case of a medical isotopes research reactor, this may be a circumstance where the benefits outweigh the risks," said Peter Prebble, director of energy and water policy for the Saskatchewan Environmental Society.
U of S located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (red star on map)
The nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario in Canada was shut down on Thursday, May 14 by the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) due to a leak of heavy water and will not re-open until late 2009 or spring of 2010.
The repairs of the NRU are complex and challenging. "I've heard it described as . . . trying to change the oil in your car from your living room. We're faced with conducting remote investigations in a radioactive environment with high radiation fields, conducting the examinations and inspections through small openings in the top of the reactor and accessing over great distances," said David Cox, director of the NRU engineering task force.
"The unplanned shutdown of the NRU will result in a significant shortage of medical isotopes in Canada, and in the world, this summer," said Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health and Lisa Raitt, Minister of Natural Resources.
The Petten reactor in the Netherlands is another of the six extant nuclear reactors globally. It must also be shut down between mid July and mid August.
Medical isotopes are used in diagnostic procedures for cancer, heart disease and other medical conditions. When radioactive isotopes are injected into the body, radiologists can view higher radiation via medical imaging, enabling them to make a more accurate diagnosis. |
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We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again | en | The Saskatchewan provincial government alongside the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have come together to establish a CA$500 million, 10 megawatts research nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes.
Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan
"In 1949 … cobalt-60 treatment was tried for the first time here in Saskatchewan, where it saved a woman battling cervical cancer. Maybe we can lead again in terms of nuclear medicine," said Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan, "Governments should be involved in pure research. We're dealing with some circumstances as they present themselves"
"We've had faculty that are interested in this. We have an issue of national importance, We see a reason why the U of S and the province could assist in this national issue. We see how it could help the country. We see how it could build on the university's research strength," said Richard Florizone, U of S vice-president of finance and resources.
The research conducted at the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron on campus would be enhanced by a research reactor.
"In the case of a power reactor, in Saskatchewan we have much better alternatives. In the case of a medical isotopes research reactor, this may be a circumstance where the benefits outweigh the risks," said Peter Prebble, director of energy and water policy for the Saskatchewan Environmental Society.
U of S located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (red star on map)
The nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario in Canada was shut down on Thursday, May 14 by the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) due to a leak of heavy water and will not re-open until late 2009 or spring of 2010.
The repairs of the NRU are complex and challenging. "I've heard it described as . . . trying to change the oil in your car from your living room. We're faced with conducting remote investigations in a radioactive environment with high radiation fields, conducting the examinations and inspections through small openings in the top of the reactor and accessing over great distances," said David Cox, director of the NRU engineering task force.
"The unplanned shutdown of the NRU will result in a significant shortage of medical isotopes in Canada, and in the world, this summer," said Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health and Lisa Raitt, Minister of Natural Resources.
The Petten reactor in the Netherlands is another of the six extant nuclear reactors globally. It must also be shut down between mid July and mid August.
Medical isotopes are used in diagnostic procedures for cancer, heart disease and other medical conditions. When radioactive isotopes are injected into the body, radiologists can view higher radiation via medical imaging, enabling them to make a more accurate diagnosis. |
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We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again | en | The Saskatchewan provincial government alongside the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have come together to establish a CA$500 million, 10 megawatts research nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes.
Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan
"In 1949 … cobalt-60 treatment was tried for the first time here in Saskatchewan, where it saved a woman battling cervical cancer. Maybe we can lead again in terms of nuclear medicine," said Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan, "Governments should be involved in pure research. We're dealing with some circumstances as they present themselves"
"We've had faculty that are interested in this. We have an issue of national importance, We see a reason why the U of S and the province could assist in this national issue. We see how it could help the country. We see how it could build on the university's research strength," said Richard Florizone, U of S vice-president of finance and resources.
The research conducted at the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron on campus would be enhanced by a research reactor.
"In the case of a power reactor, in Saskatchewan we have much better alternatives. In the case of a medical isotopes research reactor, this may be a circumstance where the benefits outweigh the risks," said Peter Prebble, director of energy and water policy for the Saskatchewan Environmental Society.
U of S located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (red star on map)
The nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario in Canada was shut down on Thursday, May 14 by the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) due to a leak of heavy water and will not re-open until late 2009 or spring of 2010.
The repairs of the NRU are complex and challenging. "I've heard it described as . . . trying to change the oil in your car from your living room. We're faced with conducting remote investigations in a radioactive environment with high radiation fields, conducting the examinations and inspections through small openings in the top of the reactor and accessing over great distances," said David Cox, director of the NRU engineering task force.
"The unplanned shutdown of the NRU will result in a significant shortage of medical isotopes in Canada, and in the world, this summer," said Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health and Lisa Raitt, Minister of Natural Resources.
The Petten reactor in the Netherlands is another of the six extant nuclear reactors globally. It must also be shut down between mid July and mid August.
Medical isotopes are used in diagnostic procedures for cancer, heart disease and other medical conditions. When radioactive isotopes are injected into the body, radiologists can view higher radiation via medical imaging, enabling them to make a more accurate diagnosis. |
en | Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says the government and the U of S have inked a deal to pursue a reactor to supply medical isotopes. Photograph by: Roy Antal, Canwest file photo
The provincial government and the University of Saskatchewan have struck a partnership to pursue a nuclear research reactor that will produce medical isotopes in Saskatoon, Premier Brad Wall said Wednesday.
Work continues apace on a proposal that will be submitted by the end of the month deadline to the federal government as it considers how Canada can secure a long-term supply of isotopes, he said outside a meeting of the Saskatchewan Party cabinet at the legislature.
A small reactor focused on nuclear material science and isotope production could cost somewhere in the range of $500 million, said the premier.
"We could just be a world leader in this and again it has to make sense. There are some longer-term funding issues here. We think there is a role for the federal government. We're not rushing into anything but there is an opportunity for our province to lead and I think we should at least explore it aggressively, Wall told reporters.
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. announced Wednesday that its problem-plagued Chalk River reactor — supplier of a third of the world's medical isotopes before being shut down in May — will remain closed at least until the end of the year, causing a significant world-wide shortage of the isotopes used for cancer treatment and diagnosis.
Wall has attracted criticism for his pursuit of a nuclear research reactor before public consultations are completed on the findings of the government-appointed Uranium Development Partnership, which aims to "add value" to Saskatchewan's world-leading supply of uranium.
He said again Wednesday that the government is working against tight federal timelines and it will listen closely if it is found there is strong public opposition to a research reactor.
The research reactor working group formed by the government, the university and the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency is being co-chaired by U of S vice-president of finance and resources Richard Florizone, who chaired the UDP, and Crown Investments Corp. vice-president and long-time Sask. Party insider Iain Harry.
The UDP report said that a medical isotope reactor by itself did not make economic sense for Saskatchewan but recommended the province pursue a broader research reactor that could produce medical isotopes, the tack the province is taking.
Florizone said the university is developing the concept of an interdisciplinary centre of nuclear excellence and sees a research reactor as a potentially good fit.
There is also a strong potential research tie-in with the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron located on campus, he said, noting that facilities such as the one in Grenoble, France, have research reactors and synchrotrons located together.
While that is an attractive option, safety and environmental questions would need to be dealt with, said Florizone. He added that a reactor would not necessarily be located on campus but would be sited somewhere in the Sasktoon area.
"We've had faculty that are interested in this. We have an issue of national importance, We see a reason why the U of S and the province could assist in this national issue. We see how it could help the country. We see how it could build on the university's research strength," he said.
There are also possible industrial research applications for a reactor and the university is investigating potential revenue streams.
Wall acknowledged that the research reactor could be a money-loser for the province for some time but said he believes there would be a long-run economic benefit for the province.
"Governments should be involved in pure research. I think that's one of the ways we can diversify our economy away from relying on commodities," he said.
Saskatoon is already home to a very small 20 kilowatt research reactor located at the Saskatchewan Research Council facility at Innovation Place that tests water, soil, vegetation and animal tissue.
The province is currently embroiled in debate over Saskatchewan's nuclear future, with the UDP recommending the development of an electricity-generating nuclear reactor and Ontario-based Bruce Power contemplating a two-reactor power plant capable of producing 2,000 megawatts.
Peter Prebble, director of energy and water policy for the Saskatchewan Environmental Society, notes that a research reactor would be significantly smaller, likely around 10 megawatts.
But the history of the Chalk River plant, with its most recent shutdown stemming from a radioactive water leak, illustrates that there are issues with research reactors that need to be examined thoroughly before any decision is made, he said.
A research reactor also produces radioactive waste, although on a much smaller scale than a nuclear power plant.
"The issues are the same but the scale is very different," said Prebble.
"In the case of a power reactor, in Saskatchewan we have much better alternatives. In the case of a medical isotopes research reactor, this may be a circumstance where the benefits outweigh the risks. But there would definitely still be risks."
© Copyright (c) The StarPhoenix | en | The Saskatchewan provincial government alongside the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have come together to establish a CA$500 million, 10 megawatts research nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes.
Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan
"In 1949 … cobalt-60 treatment was tried for the first time here in Saskatchewan, where it saved a woman battling cervical cancer. Maybe we can lead again in terms of nuclear medicine," said Brad Wall, the Premier of Saskatchewan, "Governments should be involved in pure research. We're dealing with some circumstances as they present themselves"
"We've had faculty that are interested in this. We have an issue of national importance, We see a reason why the U of S and the province could assist in this national issue. We see how it could help the country. We see how it could build on the university's research strength," said Richard Florizone, U of S vice-president of finance and resources.
The research conducted at the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron on campus would be enhanced by a research reactor.
"In the case of a power reactor, in Saskatchewan we have much better alternatives. In the case of a medical isotopes research reactor, this may be a circumstance where the benefits outweigh the risks," said Peter Prebble, director of energy and water policy for the Saskatchewan Environmental Society.
U of S located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (red star on map)
The nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario in Canada was shut down on Thursday, May 14 by the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) due to a leak of heavy water and will not re-open until late 2009 or spring of 2010.
The repairs of the NRU are complex and challenging. "I've heard it described as . . . trying to change the oil in your car from your living room. We're faced with conducting remote investigations in a radioactive environment with high radiation fields, conducting the examinations and inspections through small openings in the top of the reactor and accessing over great distances," said David Cox, director of the NRU engineering task force.
"The unplanned shutdown of the NRU will result in a significant shortage of medical isotopes in Canada, and in the world, this summer," said Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health and Lisa Raitt, Minister of Natural Resources.
The Petten reactor in the Netherlands is another of the six extant nuclear reactors globally. It must also be shut down between mid July and mid August.
Medical isotopes are used in diagnostic procedures for cancer, heart disease and other medical conditions. When radioactive isotopes are injected into the body, radiologists can view higher radiation via medical imaging, enabling them to make a more accurate diagnosis. |
fr | Le Monde | 25.04.2013 à 17h10 • Mis à jour le 25.04.2013 à 19h21
Par Benoît Vitkine
Une semaine après avoir paraphé un accord normalisant les relations entre son pays et le Kosovo, ancienne province serbe, le président serbe, Tomislav Nikolic, a franchi un nouveau pas, majeur, sur le chemin de la réconciliation régionale et de l'adhésion à l'Union européenne.
Selon les extraits d'un entretien accordé à la télévision bosnienne BHT, dévoilés jeudi 25 avril, deux jours avant sa diffusion en intégralité, M. Nikolic a demandé pardon au peuple bosniaque pour l'exécution par les troupes serbes de Bosnie, en 1995 à Srebrenica, de près de 8 000 Musulmans. "Je m'agenouille et demande que la Serbie soit pardonnée pour le crime commis à Srebrenica", y déclare le président serbe, au pouvoir depuis mai 2012. "Je m'excuse pour les crimes qui ont été commis au nom de notre Etat et de notre peuple par quiconque issu de notre peuple", poursuit M. Nikolic.
Cette déclaration est aussi historique qu'inattendue de la part d'un homme qui a fait l'essentiel de sa carrière politique dans le camp ultranationaliste. Au lendemain de son élection, il avait provoqué une vive émotion dans la région en faisant part de son "rêve impossible" d'une Grande Serbie. Dans la foulée, il avait qualifié la ville croate de Vukovar, où des massacres ont été commis par des Serbes en 1991, de "ville serbe". Et, en juin 2012, en contradiction avec les conclusions du Tribunal pénal international poour l'ex-Yougoslavie et celles la Cour internationale de justice, il avait estimé que le massacre de Srebrenica ne constituait pas un génocide.
"LES CARACTÉRISTIQUES D'UN GÉNOCIDE"
Sur ce point, l'évolution est minime. Répondant à la journaliste bosnienne qui souligne que, selon toute évidence, il y a bien eu un génocide à Srebrenica, le président serbe assure que "tout ce qui s'est passé en ex-Yougoslavie présente les caractéristiques d'un génocide". Tout juste sa langue fourche-t-elle lorsqu'il évoque le "génocide" de Srebrenica, avant de se reprendre rapidement : "le crime de Srebrenica". Son prédecesseur, Boris Tadic, un libéral beaucoup plus en pointe dans le dialogue régional, se refusait lui aussi à parler de "génocide", mais avait demandé pardon à deux reprises aux familles des victimes bosniaques, y compris lors de commémorations à Srebrenica, en 2005 et 2010.
Les autorités de Sarajevo n'ont pas immédiatement réagi aux propos de M. Nikolic. La présidente de la principale association des mères de Srebrenica a quant à elle déclaré à l'AFP ne "pas être convaincue de la sincérité" des déclarations du président serbe. "C'est quoi un 'crime', comme le dit M. Nikolic ? C'est aussi le vol d'un sac à main. Nous avons besoin que la Serbie accepte les jugements de la justice internationale", a affirmé Munira Subasic. "Nous n'avons pas besoin que quelqu'un se mette à genoux pour demander pardon. Nous voulons entendre le président serbe et la Serbie prononcer le mot 'génocide'."
BONNE VOLONTÉ
La volte-face de Tomislav Nikolic semble répondre à deux objectifs. Il s'agit d'abord de contribuer à apaiser les légères tensions survenues dans la région depuis le départ de M. Tadic de la présidence serbe. Le 23 avril, en visite dans la capitale serbe, le membre musulman de la présidence collégiale de Bosnie-Herzégovine, Bakir Izetbegovic, demandait encore à M. Nikolic d'"affronter la vérité".
"Mais plus encore qu'à Sarajevo et au reste de la région, ce nouveau discours s'adresse à l'Union européenne", estime, à Belgrade, le politologue Bosko Kaksic. En signant le 19 avril avec le Kosovo un accord formalisant et normalisant pour la première fois les relations entre les deux voisins, la Serbie a obtenu un satisfecit de Bruxelles, la Commission recommandant immédiatement l'ouverture des négociations d'adhésion de Belgrade. Dès lors, le geste consenti envers Sarajevo constitue une nouvelle démonstration de la bonne volonté de Belgrade à s'engager sur la voie de l'Union européenne. | fr | En juillet 1995, les troupes serbes massacrent plus de musulmans à Srebrenica. Commémoration du massacre en 2006
, président de la Serbie, a franchit jeudi 25 avril un nouveau pas vers la réconciliation dans la région d'ex- et l'adhésion de son pays à l'Union européenne. Après avoir normalisé les relations entre la Serbie et le voisin la semaine dernière, M. Nikolic a présenté, lors d'un entretien à la télévision bosnienne BHT, les excuses de la Serbie pour le massacre perpétré par les troupes serbes à , en juillet 1995 : C'est vers la fin de la guerre inter-communautaire en Bosnie que l'armée serbe massacre pas moins de hommes et adolescents musulmans, constituant la pire tuerie en Europe depuis la fin de la Seconde guerre mondiale.
Au pouvoir en Serbie depuis juin 2012, Tomislav Nikolic était un nationaliste populiste et allié du président yougoslave pendant les guerres successives qui ont amené au démantèlement de ce pays dans les années 1990. Ayant adopté récemment un discours plus modéré, notamment envers l'Union européenne, sa déclaration du 25 avril est qualifiée d'historique ; cependant, le président serbe continue de nier que le massacre a constitué un génocide, contrairement aux conclusions de l'ONU et de la cour pénale internationale, et qualifie cet événement de « crime ». La présidente de l'association des mères de Srebrenica, Munira Subasic, a déclaré à l'AFP ne des propos de M. Nikolic, en ajoutant :
Par ailleurs, ce changement de position de la part du président serbe semble surtout répondre aux objectifs de réduire les tensions dans la région et répondre aux exigences de Bruxelles pour permettre à la Serbie d'entrer dans l'Union. Comme le souligne le politologue Bosko Kaksic : |
en | IWF statement regarding Wikipedia webpage
A Wikipedia webpage was reported through the IWFs online reporting mechanism on 4 December 2008. As with all potentially illegal online child sexual abuse content reports we receive, the image was assessed according to current UK legislation and in accordance with the A Wikipedia webpage was reported through the IWFs online reporting mechanism on 4 December 2008. As with all potentially illegal online child sexual abuse content reports we receive, the image was assessed according to current UK legislation and in accordance with the UK Sentencing Guidelines Council (page 109). The content was considered to be a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18, hosted outside the UK. As such, in accordance with IWF procedures, the specific webpage was added to the IWF list. This list is provided to ISPs and other companies in the online sector to help protect their customers from inadvertent exposure to potentially illegal indecent images of children.
Following representations from Wikipedia, IWF invoked its Appeals Procedure and has given careful consideration to the issues involved in this case. The procedure is now complete and has confirmed that the image in question is potentially in breach of the Protection of Children Act 1978. However, the IWF Board has today (9 December 2008) considered these findings and the contextual issues involved in this specific case and, in light of the length of time the image has existed and its wide availability, the decision has been taken to remove this webpage from our list.
Any further reported instances of this image which are hosted abroad, will not be added to the list. Any further reported instances of this image which are hosted in the UK will be assessed in line with IWF procedures.
IWFs overriding objective is to minimise the availability of indecent images of children on the internet, however, on this occasion our efforts have had the opposite effect. We regret the unintended consequences for Wikipedia and its users. Wikipedia have been informed of the outcome of this procedure and IWF Boards subsequent decision.
Notes
IWF is the UKs internet Hotline for the public and IT professionals to report potentially illegal online content within our remit. We work in partnership with the online industry, law enforcement, government, the education sector, charities, international partners and the public to minimise the availability of this content, specifically, child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK.
We are an independent self-regulatory body, funded by the EU and the wider online industry, including internet service providers, mobile operators and manufacturers, content service providers, filtering companies, search providers, trade associations and the financial sector as well as other organisations that support us for corporate social responsibility reasons.
We help internet service providers and hosting companies to combat abuse of their networks through our national notice and take-down service which alerts them to potentially illegal content within our remit on their systems and we provide unique data to law enforcement partners in the UK and abroad to assist investigations into the distributers of potentially illegal online content. As sexually abusive images of children are primarily hosted abroad, we facilitate the industry-led initiative to protect users from inadvertent exposure to this content by blocking access to it through our provision of a dynamic list of child sexual abuse URLs. As a result of the blocking initiative it is possible to:
Reduce the occasions when innocent internet users might be exposed to traumatic and unlawful images.
Diminish the re-victimisation of children by restricting opportunities to view their sexual abuse.
Disrupt the accessibility and supply of such content to those who may seek out such images.
Created: Tue, December 9th, 2008 | Last Modified: Fri, January 16th, 2009
Back to Top | en | On December 7, ''Wikinews'' first reported that some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom, were filtering access to an image and an article on the popular, free online encyclopedia ''Wikipedia'', amid allegations that they contain child pornography. The filter was brought into play by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which has stated that today they have removed the ban.
Users attempting to access the page on the ''Virgin Killer'' album, or the image itself, have been subjected to it not loading, 404 pages, or messages explaining the block.
The IWF said, in a statement on its website, that "the decision has been taken to remove this webpage from our list." However, the organization does maintain that "the image in question is potentially in breach of the Protection of Children Act 1978."
At approximately 19:45 UTC, the ban was removed for customers of Virgin Media, who were previously unable to access the Virgin Killer article or the associated image.
The image and article in question is that of the 1976 album ''Virgin Killer'', a studio album by the Scorpions, a German rock band. The controversy began after the image of the album's original cover, which depicted a naked prepubescent girl, was reported to the IWF in early December. ''Wikinews'' first discovered the controversial image in May 2008 after there were several attempts to delete it on ''Wikipedia''. The image had been blocked because the IWF considered it to be "potentially illegal". As a result, the IWF have contacted authorities in the United States and in the UK.
British visitors to Wikipedia can now see the full article and the associated image
The measures applied redirect ''Wikipedia''-bound traffic from a significant portion of the UK's Internet population through a small number of servers which can log and filter the content that is available to the end user. A serious side-effect of this is the inability of administrators on Wikimedia sites to block vandals and other troublemakers without potentially impacting hundreds of thousands of innocent contributors who are working on the sites in good faith.
Contributors or individuals attempting to view an affected image or file, depending on their ISP, may get a warning saying, "we have blocked this page because, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), it contains indecent images of children or pointers to them; you could be breaking UK law if you viewed the page.". Other ISPs provide blank pages, 404 errors, or other means of blocking the content. |
en | Britain's internet censor has backtracked on its decision to ban a Wikipedia page for containing a "potentially illegal" image of a naked child.
Over the weekend it emerged that the Internet Watch Foundation, which operates a blacklist to screen out images of child abuse that is used by the majority of British internet providers, had banned the image of a 32-year-old album cover by German rock group The Scorpions.
The decision resulted in a technical glitch which prevented thousands of British web surfers from editing any pages on Wikipedia, as well as confusion over why the image was deemed "potentially illegal" – particularly since the album itself has been on sale in high street shops for more than 30 years.
But after conducting a review of the decision, and amid protests from the Wikimedia organisation on Monday, the IWF today said that it would make the unprecedented decision to reverse its position and remove the image from its blacklist.
In a statement, the IWF said that it had taken a number of factors into account, as well as representations from Wikipedia.
"The IWF board has today considered these findings and the contextual issues involved in this specific case, and – in the light of the length of time the image has existed and its wide availability – the decision has been taken to remove this web page from our list," it said.
Although the organisation "confirmed that the image in question is potentially in breach of the Protection of Children Act, 1978", it also said that further reports concerning the image would be ignored if the files were hosted abroad. However, it said it could be blocked again if they are on UK-based web servers.
The article in question, about the Virgin Killers album from 1976, included an image of the record's controversial cover – which featured a young, naked girl with her genitals obscured only by a crack in the camera lens. Although the cover caused a storm at the time, and was later replaced by a more family-friendly alternative, it was never banned in Britain or the United States.
The IWF acknowledged that its decision to block the image had the opposite affect than intended – resulting in the image being spread further around the internet, instead of removing it.
"IWF's overriding objective is to minimise the availability of indecent images of children on the internet, however, on this occasion our efforts have had the opposite effect. We regret the unintended consequences for Wikipedia and its users," it said.
The ban affected users of some of Britain's biggest ISPs, including Virgin Media and Be internet, and led to criticism of the way the IWF operates. Although not an official censorship body, the Cambridge-based organisation has become the UK's de facto online watchdog, largely focused on preventing images of child abuse from being accessed by British users.
The reversal is a surprising move, because it opens up the possibility that any site which finds itself blocked could appeal against the decision and claim that its content is, contextually, artistic.
It also throws into question the way the banning system – which is carried out by a four-strong team of analysts who work with the police's Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Ceop) unit - is applied. | en | On December 7, ''Wikinews'' first reported that some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom, were filtering access to an image and an article on the popular, free online encyclopedia ''Wikipedia'', amid allegations that they contain child pornography. The filter was brought into play by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which has stated that today they have removed the ban.
Users attempting to access the page on the ''Virgin Killer'' album, or the image itself, have been subjected to it not loading, 404 pages, or messages explaining the block.
The IWF said, in a statement on its website, that "the decision has been taken to remove this webpage from our list." However, the organization does maintain that "the image in question is potentially in breach of the Protection of Children Act 1978."
At approximately 19:45 UTC, the ban was removed for customers of Virgin Media, who were previously unable to access the Virgin Killer article or the associated image.
The image and article in question is that of the 1976 album ''Virgin Killer'', a studio album by the Scorpions, a German rock band. The controversy began after the image of the album's original cover, which depicted a naked prepubescent girl, was reported to the IWF in early December. ''Wikinews'' first discovered the controversial image in May 2008 after there were several attempts to delete it on ''Wikipedia''. The image had been blocked because the IWF considered it to be "potentially illegal". As a result, the IWF have contacted authorities in the United States and in the UK.
British visitors to Wikipedia can now see the full article and the associated image
The measures applied redirect ''Wikipedia''-bound traffic from a significant portion of the UK's Internet population through a small number of servers which can log and filter the content that is available to the end user. A serious side-effect of this is the inability of administrators on Wikimedia sites to block vandals and other troublemakers without potentially impacting hundreds of thousands of innocent contributors who are working on the sites in good faith.
Contributors or individuals attempting to view an affected image or file, depending on their ISP, may get a warning saying, "we have blocked this page because, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), it contains indecent images of children or pointers to them; you could be breaking UK law if you viewed the page.". Other ISPs provide blank pages, 404 errors, or other means of blocking the content. |
en | Censorship in the United Kingdom disenfranchises tens of thousands of Wikipedia editors
Wikimedia Foundation opposes action by internet watchdog group to blacklist encyclopedia article
San Francisco CA, December 7, 2008: As of December 6, 2008, most Internet users in the United Kingdom no longer have full access to Wikipedia. Due to censorship by the UK self-regulatory agency the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), most UK residents can no longer edit the volunteer-written encyclopedia, nor can they access an article in it describing a 32-year-old album by German rock group the Scorpions. Wikipedia visitors in the UK have also reported performance issues accessing the site.
The IWF has confirmed to the Wikimedia Foundation that it has added Wikipedia to its blacklist, which also had the unintended consequence of rendering UK-based internet users unable to edit the encyclopedia, and possibly harming the site's performance inside the UK.
The IWF says its blacklist is used, on a voluntary basis, by 95% of UK-based residential Internet Service Providers. A statement on the IWF website says it added the Wikipedia article to the blacklist after the article was reported by a user, and an IWF assessment found it to be “potentially illegal.”
“We have no reason to believe the article, or the image contained in the article, has been held to be illegal in any jurisdiction anywhere in the world,” said the Wikimedia Foundation's General Counsel, Mike Godwin. “We believe it's worth noting that the image is currently visible on Amazon, where the album can be freely purchased by UK residents. It is available on thousands of websites that are accessible to the UK public.”
“The IWF didn't just block the image; it blocked access to the article itself, which discusses the image in a neutral, encyclopedic fashion,” said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “The IWF says its goal is to protect UK citizens, but I can't see how this action helps to achieve that – and meanwhile, it deprives UK internet users of the ability to access information which should be freely available to everyone. I urge the IWF to remove Wikipedia from its blacklist.”
The Wikimedia Foundation is proud of the work done by its volunteer editors, who have created an encyclopedia which external studies repeatedly validate as equal or better in quality compared with conventional encyclopedias. Wikipedia's editors take care to ensure the quality of the content of the encyclopedia, and to safeguard the core community values of freedom, independence, and neutrality.
The Wikimedia Foundation will continue its discussions with IWF to resolve this matter.
Questions and answers about this issue can be found here.
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Press inquiries | en | On December 7, ''Wikinews'' first reported that some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom, were filtering access to an image and an article on the popular, free online encyclopedia ''Wikipedia'', amid allegations that they contain child pornography. The filter was brought into play by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which has stated that today they have removed the ban.
Users attempting to access the page on the ''Virgin Killer'' album, or the image itself, have been subjected to it not loading, 404 pages, or messages explaining the block.
The IWF said, in a statement on its website, that "the decision has been taken to remove this webpage from our list." However, the organization does maintain that "the image in question is potentially in breach of the Protection of Children Act 1978."
At approximately 19:45 UTC, the ban was removed for customers of Virgin Media, who were previously unable to access the Virgin Killer article or the associated image.
The image and article in question is that of the 1976 album ''Virgin Killer'', a studio album by the Scorpions, a German rock band. The controversy began after the image of the album's original cover, which depicted a naked prepubescent girl, was reported to the IWF in early December. ''Wikinews'' first discovered the controversial image in May 2008 after there were several attempts to delete it on ''Wikipedia''. The image had been blocked because the IWF considered it to be "potentially illegal". As a result, the IWF have contacted authorities in the United States and in the UK.
British visitors to Wikipedia can now see the full article and the associated image
The measures applied redirect ''Wikipedia''-bound traffic from a significant portion of the UK's Internet population through a small number of servers which can log and filter the content that is available to the end user. A serious side-effect of this is the inability of administrators on Wikimedia sites to block vandals and other troublemakers without potentially impacting hundreds of thousands of innocent contributors who are working on the sites in good faith.
Contributors or individuals attempting to view an affected image or file, depending on their ISP, may get a warning saying, "we have blocked this page because, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), it contains indecent images of children or pointers to them; you could be breaking UK law if you viewed the page.". Other ISPs provide blank pages, 404 errors, or other means of blocking the content. |
en | China urges denuclearisation of Korean peninsula
BEIJING - China urged calm and restraint Wednesday after North Korea warned of retaliation over the United States' suspension of much-needed food aid following Pyongyang's recent failed rocket launch.
In a defiant statement late Tuesday, the isolated nation also broke off an agreement with Washington to halt testing of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, raising fears Pyongyang would stage a new atomic test.
"We believe that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is in the interest of all parties ... Dialogue and negotiation is the only correct way out," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told journalists.
"We hope relevant parties will exercise calm and restraint, maintain engagement and dialogue and continue to uphold the denuclearisation process on the Korean peninsula."
The North on Friday went ahead with what it said was a rocket launch to put a peaceful satellite into orbit, drawing condemnation from world leaders who said the exercise was a disguised ballistic missile test.
The launch quickly failed when the rocket exploded over the Yellow Sea, and the United Nations Security Council on Monday issued a condemnation that was also backed by China -- the North's only major ally.
Analysts say they expect the North to now stage a third nuclear weapons test, following previous tests in 2006 and 2009, or launch another long-range missile.
Liu urged the International Atomic Energy Agency to resume contact and dialogue with North Korea in the apparent hope the two could seek a way forward for the UN atomic agency to inspect North Korean nuclear facilities.
But he would not comment on reports that Beijing has suspended a deal with Pyongyang to repatriate North Korean refugees who had fled to China because it was not consulted about the launch.
- AFP/ir | en | The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors Friday and issued tough statements right before North Korea's holiday. North Korea's Unha-3 rocket ready to launch at Tangachai-ri space center on April 8.It was launched April 13.China has joined other members of the United Nations Security Council in openly warning North Korea against future provocations and took several diplomatic measures on Tuesday and Wednesday.
China's foreign ministry released a statement Wednesday that urged a return to talks: "We believe that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is in the interest of all parties ... Dialogue and negotiation is the only correct way out."
The statement came after North Korea's announcement Tuesday that it would no longer honor the testing agreements that have been made with the United States. The United States halted its food aid, which had been part of the agreements, after Friday's failed launch.
Also on Tuesday, China delivered another stern warning to the nation through its party newspaper Global Times. In the statement, China expressed impatience with its neighbor and said China's foreign policy toward North Korea would not be hijacked by North Korea's leaders. Behind the scenes, China has ceased the repatriation of North Korean nationals on Chinese territory.
Diplomatic pressure on North Korea continued this week as the country remained defiant during its celebration Sunday. Kim Jong-un gave his first formal address on Sunday in the aftermath of Friday's failed attempt to launch a multistage rocket into orbit and in honor of the anniversary of 100th birthday. North Korea publicly acknowledged that its rocket broke up in flight and over before ever taking orbit Friday morning.
The United Nations criticized North Korea over the weekend for a satellite launch that member states saw as a "provocative" move, which followed shortly after the country's launch. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the attempt "deplorable" and said it "threatens regional stability." Corinne Momal-Vanian, UN spokesperson, said, "The Secretary-General urges the (North Korean government) not to undertake any further provocative actions that will heighten tension in the region."
The UN Security Council met in a closed session Friday. , who is both the current UN Security Council president and US ambassador to the United Nations, said, "The United States' view of this is quite clear, we have condemned the launch. We view it as a direct violation of resolution 1718 and 1874. We think it’s important that the Council respond credibly and we will be working in that direction."
While China is being openly critical of North Korea, it has a veto right on the UN Security Council that has prevented further sanctions. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China stood with other member nations of the Security Council in penalizing North Korea for future actions.
In a nation where speeches by leaders are rare, the young North Korean leader on Sunday said, "Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolized by imperialists." The public event finished with the display of a new rocket and it further punctuated Kim Jong-un's call for making the military the nation's number one priority. |
en | China has joined other world powers in warning North Korea that they will not tolerate any more provocations after the isolated nation's failed rocket launch last week.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said late Monday in Brasilia that the U.N. Security Council members, including China, are agreed there will be "further consequences" in the event of another provocative act by North Korea. Recent satellite photographs show Pyongyang may be preparing for an underground nuclear test.
China's state-controlled media are also showing signs of frustration with Pyongyang, noting that China took "a clear attitude in condemning" its longtime ally when it backed a U.N. Security Council statement criticizing the rocket launch.
China's Communist Party-controlled Global Times newspaper said Tuesday that Pyongyang should not be misled into thinking it can ignore Beijing's wishes with impunity. The paper said North Korea will "pay the price if it tries to abduct China's North Korea policy."
In its unanimous statement Monday, the Security Council condemned Friday's rocket launch as a "serious violation" of existing U.N. resolutions, and ordered its sanctions committee to tighten measures aimed at preventing North Korea from developing and exporting nuclear and missile technology. The statement said the council will respond accordingly to any further provocations.
Pyongyang had announced the failed launch as an effort to put a weather satellite into orbit, but the United States and other countries condemned it as a covert attempt to test a ballistic missile that could later be used to fire a nuclear warhead. Existing U.N. resolutions bar it from any use of ballistic missile technology.
Japanese media reported Tuesday that Pyongyang has also withdrawn an invitation for International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to visit its facilities in retaliation for the U.S. cancelation of a food aid package.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, who heads the Security Council this month, said in New York Monday that the failed space shot had caused "grave security concerns" across much of East Asia.
"The swift and unanimous adoption of this strong presidential statement shows that the international community is united in sending a clear message to North Korea that such provocations are serious and totally unacceptable. Critically, the Security Council made clear there will be consequences for any further North Korean launch or nuclear test," she said. "If North Korea chooses again to defy the international community, then the Council has expressed its determination to take action accordingly."
Hours later in Brasilia, Clinton stressed China's commitment to punishing any further provocations. China has long been North Korea's most reliable ally and is believed to have more influence over its behavior than any other country.
Several analysts have noted that two previous failed North Korean missile launches were shortly followed by underground nuclear tests. South Korean officials last week made available satellite photos of new activity at North Korea's nuclear test site.
However, Global Times quotes the dean of the Center for Korean Peninsula Studies at Tongji University in Shanghai as saying Pyongyang knows the consequences of another nuclear test would be much graver than in the past.
"The rocket launch has already cost the state roughly $850 million, enough to buy 2.5 million tons of corn," Cui Zhiying told the paper. "Does it have enough money to carry out another nuclear test? I seriously doubt it."
Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP. | en | The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors Friday and issued tough statements right before North Korea's holiday. North Korea's Unha-3 rocket ready to launch at Tangachai-ri space center on April 8.It was launched April 13.China has joined other members of the United Nations Security Council in openly warning North Korea against future provocations and took several diplomatic measures on Tuesday and Wednesday.
China's foreign ministry released a statement Wednesday that urged a return to talks: "We believe that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is in the interest of all parties ... Dialogue and negotiation is the only correct way out."
The statement came after North Korea's announcement Tuesday that it would no longer honor the testing agreements that have been made with the United States. The United States halted its food aid, which had been part of the agreements, after Friday's failed launch.
Also on Tuesday, China delivered another stern warning to the nation through its party newspaper Global Times. In the statement, China expressed impatience with its neighbor and said China's foreign policy toward North Korea would not be hijacked by North Korea's leaders. Behind the scenes, China has ceased the repatriation of North Korean nationals on Chinese territory.
Diplomatic pressure on North Korea continued this week as the country remained defiant during its celebration Sunday. Kim Jong-un gave his first formal address on Sunday in the aftermath of Friday's failed attempt to launch a multistage rocket into orbit and in honor of the anniversary of 100th birthday. North Korea publicly acknowledged that its rocket broke up in flight and over before ever taking orbit Friday morning.
The United Nations criticized North Korea over the weekend for a satellite launch that member states saw as a "provocative" move, which followed shortly after the country's launch. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the attempt "deplorable" and said it "threatens regional stability." Corinne Momal-Vanian, UN spokesperson, said, "The Secretary-General urges the (North Korean government) not to undertake any further provocative actions that will heighten tension in the region."
The UN Security Council met in a closed session Friday. , who is both the current UN Security Council president and US ambassador to the United Nations, said, "The United States' view of this is quite clear, we have condemned the launch. We view it as a direct violation of resolution 1718 and 1874. We think it’s important that the Council respond credibly and we will be working in that direction."
While China is being openly critical of North Korea, it has a veto right on the UN Security Council that has prevented further sanctions. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China stood with other member nations of the Security Council in penalizing North Korea for future actions.
In a nation where speeches by leaders are rare, the young North Korean leader on Sunday said, "Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolized by imperialists." The public event finished with the display of a new rocket and it further punctuated Kim Jong-un's call for making the military the nation's number one priority. |
en | China has joined other world powers in warning North Korea that they will not tolerate any more provocations after the isolated nation's failed rocket launch last week.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said late Monday in Brasilia that the U.N. Security Council members, including China, are agreed there will be "further consequences" in the event of another provocative act by North Korea. Recent satellite photographs show Pyongyang may be preparing for an underground nuclear test.
China's state-controlled media are also showing signs of frustration with Pyongyang, noting that China took "a clear attitude in condemning" its longtime ally when it backed a U.N. Security Council statement criticizing the rocket launch.
China's Communist Party-controlled Global Times newspaper said Tuesday that Pyongyang should not be misled into thinking it can ignore Beijing's wishes with impunity. The paper said North Korea will "pay the price if it tries to abduct China's North Korea policy."
In its unanimous statement Monday, the Security Council condemned Friday's rocket launch as a "serious violation" of existing U.N. resolutions, and ordered its sanctions committee to tighten measures aimed at preventing North Korea from developing and exporting nuclear and missile technology. The statement said the council will respond accordingly to any further provocations.
Pyongyang had announced the failed launch as an effort to put a weather satellite into orbit, but the United States and other countries condemned it as a covert attempt to test a ballistic missile that could later be used to fire a nuclear warhead. Existing U.N. resolutions bar it from any use of ballistic missile technology.
Japanese media reported Tuesday that Pyongyang has also withdrawn an invitation for International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to visit its facilities in retaliation for the U.S. cancelation of a food aid package.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, who heads the Security Council this month, said in New York Monday that the failed space shot had caused "grave security concerns" across much of East Asia.
"The swift and unanimous adoption of this strong presidential statement shows that the international community is united in sending a clear message to North Korea that such provocations are serious and totally unacceptable. Critically, the Security Council made clear there will be consequences for any further North Korean launch or nuclear test," she said. "If North Korea chooses again to defy the international community, then the Council has expressed its determination to take action accordingly."
Hours later in Brasilia, Clinton stressed China's commitment to punishing any further provocations. China has long been North Korea's most reliable ally and is believed to have more influence over its behavior than any other country.
Several analysts have noted that two previous failed North Korean missile launches were shortly followed by underground nuclear tests. South Korean officials last week made available satellite photos of new activity at North Korea's nuclear test site.
However, Global Times quotes the dean of the Center for Korean Peninsula Studies at Tongji University in Shanghai as saying Pyongyang knows the consequences of another nuclear test would be much graver than in the past.
"The rocket launch has already cost the state roughly $850 million, enough to buy 2.5 million tons of corn," Cui Zhiying told the paper. "Does it have enough money to carry out another nuclear test? I seriously doubt it."
Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP. | en | The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors Friday and issued tough statements right before North Korea's holiday. North Korea's Unha-3 rocket ready to launch at Tangachai-ri space center on April 8.It was launched April 13.China has joined other members of the United Nations Security Council in openly warning North Korea against future provocations and took several diplomatic measures on Tuesday and Wednesday.
China's foreign ministry released a statement Wednesday that urged a return to talks: "We believe that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is in the interest of all parties ... Dialogue and negotiation is the only correct way out."
The statement came after North Korea's announcement Tuesday that it would no longer honor the testing agreements that have been made with the United States. The United States halted its food aid, which had been part of the agreements, after Friday's failed launch.
Also on Tuesday, China delivered another stern warning to the nation through its party newspaper Global Times. In the statement, China expressed impatience with its neighbor and said China's foreign policy toward North Korea would not be hijacked by North Korea's leaders. Behind the scenes, China has ceased the repatriation of North Korean nationals on Chinese territory.
Diplomatic pressure on North Korea continued this week as the country remained defiant during its celebration Sunday. Kim Jong-un gave his first formal address on Sunday in the aftermath of Friday's failed attempt to launch a multistage rocket into orbit and in honor of the anniversary of 100th birthday. North Korea publicly acknowledged that its rocket broke up in flight and over before ever taking orbit Friday morning.
The United Nations criticized North Korea over the weekend for a satellite launch that member states saw as a "provocative" move, which followed shortly after the country's launch. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the attempt "deplorable" and said it "threatens regional stability." Corinne Momal-Vanian, UN spokesperson, said, "The Secretary-General urges the (North Korean government) not to undertake any further provocative actions that will heighten tension in the region."
The UN Security Council met in a closed session Friday. , who is both the current UN Security Council president and US ambassador to the United Nations, said, "The United States' view of this is quite clear, we have condemned the launch. We view it as a direct violation of resolution 1718 and 1874. We think it’s important that the Council respond credibly and we will be working in that direction."
While China is being openly critical of North Korea, it has a veto right on the UN Security Council that has prevented further sanctions. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China stood with other member nations of the Security Council in penalizing North Korea for future actions.
In a nation where speeches by leaders are rare, the young North Korean leader on Sunday said, "Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolized by imperialists." The public event finished with the display of a new rocket and it further punctuated Kim Jong-un's call for making the military the nation's number one priority. |
en | April 14, 2012: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left waves as North Korean military officers clap in a stadium in Pyongyang during a mass meeting called by the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling party on Saturday.AP
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un spoke publicly for the first time Sunday, just two days after a failed rocket launch, praising his father Kim Jong Il's "military first" policy during celebrations marking the 100th birthday of the nation's late founder.
Kim, who has been seen but not publicly heard since taking over after Kim Jong Il's death in December, stepped to the podium to speak before tens of thousands of people gathered in Pyongyang's main square for meticulously choreographed festivities meant to glorify his grandfather, North Korea founder Kim Il Sung.
Kim Jong Un said the era when nuclear arms could be used to threaten his country was "forever over." He called for strengthening the country's "military first" policy by placing the "first, second and third" priorities on military might.
He said his country had built a "mighty military" capable of both offense and defense in any type of modern warfare.
"Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolized by imperialists," he said.
Soldiers are more important than rockets and artillery, Kim said, and military officers should treat their troops "like brothers and sisters."
He said he is "heartbroken" that the rival Koreas have been divided for decades, and said North Korea "will cooperate with anyone" who truly wishes for reunification.
North Korea defied the U.S. and others Friday by firing a long-range rocket that space officials said was mounted with an observational satellite despite warnings against pushing ahead with the provocative launch. Washington and others say it was a covert test of long-range missile technology.
Hours after the rocket splintered into pieces over the Yellow Sea, the country made an unusual admission of failure, but Kim did not mention the launch in his remarks Sunday.
Kim Jong Un has since underlined the country's "military first" policy with a budget that allocates a sizable chunk of funding to defense spending.
International condemnation of the rocket firing was swift, including the suspension of U.S. food aid, and there are worries that the North's next move could be an even more provocative nuclear test.
The U.N. Security Council denounced the launch as a violation of resolutions that prohibit North Korea from developing its nuclear and missile programs. The council imposed sanctions on North Korea after its first nuclear test in 2006 and stepped up sanctions after its second in 2009. | en | The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors Friday and issued tough statements right before North Korea's holiday. North Korea's Unha-3 rocket ready to launch at Tangachai-ri space center on April 8.It was launched April 13.China has joined other members of the United Nations Security Council in openly warning North Korea against future provocations and took several diplomatic measures on Tuesday and Wednesday.
China's foreign ministry released a statement Wednesday that urged a return to talks: "We believe that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is in the interest of all parties ... Dialogue and negotiation is the only correct way out."
The statement came after North Korea's announcement Tuesday that it would no longer honor the testing agreements that have been made with the United States. The United States halted its food aid, which had been part of the agreements, after Friday's failed launch.
Also on Tuesday, China delivered another stern warning to the nation through its party newspaper Global Times. In the statement, China expressed impatience with its neighbor and said China's foreign policy toward North Korea would not be hijacked by North Korea's leaders. Behind the scenes, China has ceased the repatriation of North Korean nationals on Chinese territory.
Diplomatic pressure on North Korea continued this week as the country remained defiant during its celebration Sunday. Kim Jong-un gave his first formal address on Sunday in the aftermath of Friday's failed attempt to launch a multistage rocket into orbit and in honor of the anniversary of 100th birthday. North Korea publicly acknowledged that its rocket broke up in flight and over before ever taking orbit Friday morning.
The United Nations criticized North Korea over the weekend for a satellite launch that member states saw as a "provocative" move, which followed shortly after the country's launch. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the attempt "deplorable" and said it "threatens regional stability." Corinne Momal-Vanian, UN spokesperson, said, "The Secretary-General urges the (North Korean government) not to undertake any further provocative actions that will heighten tension in the region."
The UN Security Council met in a closed session Friday. , who is both the current UN Security Council president and US ambassador to the United Nations, said, "The United States' view of this is quite clear, we have condemned the launch. We view it as a direct violation of resolution 1718 and 1874. We think it’s important that the Council respond credibly and we will be working in that direction."
While China is being openly critical of North Korea, it has a veto right on the UN Security Council that has prevented further sanctions. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China stood with other member nations of the Security Council in penalizing North Korea for future actions.
In a nation where speeches by leaders are rare, the young North Korean leader on Sunday said, "Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolized by imperialists." The public event finished with the display of a new rocket and it further punctuated Kim Jong-un's call for making the military the nation's number one priority. |
en | SEOUL |
SEOUL (Reuters) - Smarting from a failed rocket launch, North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has little choice but to stick to his father's playbook of milking an impoverished country to develop weapons and blackmail the international community for aid and recognition.
Far from fearing a coup or instability after Friday's public fiasco, the third of his line to rule North Korea will lead celebrations on Sunday to mark the centenary of the birth of his grandfather, the founder of the world's only Stalinist monarchy, "Eternal President" Kim Il-sung.
The state that Kim inherited in December after the death of his father Kim Jong-il boasts a 1.2 million-strong military, wants to possess a nuclear weapon and to develop the ability to hit the United States with it - the aim, critics say, of the failed rocket launch.
Behind those ambitions are 23 million people, many malnourished, in an economy whose output is worth just $40 billion annually in purchasing power parity terms, according to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, compared with South Korea's $1.5 trillion economy.
The puny size of the economy means development is not the answer, tying Kim into the "military first" policies of his late father Kim Jong-il who oversaw the development of the state's nuclear and missile ambitions.
"For Kim Jong-un, opening North Korea means the end of a system that his grandfather and father fostered," said Virginie Grzelczyk, a North Korea expert at Nottingham Trent University in Britain.
"Kim Jong-un is unlikely to be losing power over the launch, as the elite and the military need his legitimizing and mythical presence in order to pacify the North Korean population."
The small scale of the economy is matched by North Korea's limited diplomatic clout. It has few friends other than China, whose strategic interest is in keeping a buffer between it and South Korea which has U.S. military bases.
Even China sounded increasingly exasperated in the run-up to Friday's rocket launch as Pyongyang ignored its pleas for restraint, despite aid pumped in by Beijing, and its diplomatic protection at bodies like the United Nations.
Without real weight in the international arena, Pyongyang is forced to rely on periodic rocket launches, nuclear tests and attacks on South Korea, such as the one in 2010 when it shelled an island, to remind the world of its existence, analysts say.
That is likely to mean sticking to the same script as in 2009, when North Korea followed a failed attempt to put a satellite into orbit with a nuclear test.
Intelligence satellite images showing a tunnel being dug at the site of two previous tests imply that it either wishes to remind the world of the possibility, so as to prompt a return to aid for disarmament talks, or is actually preparing for one.
"Internationally, now they have to do a nuclear test, preferably using uranium, just in order to show that they should be taken seriously," said Andre Lankov, a North Korea expert at South Korea's Kookmin University.
SOME LIES ARE TOO BIG EVEN FOR PYONGYANG
Pyongyang did depart from its previous practise when it publicly admitted on state television that the Unha-3 rocket had failed to deliver its weather satellite into orbit in time for Kim Il-sung's birthday.
A 2009 launch that the international community said had failed was hailed as a success by North Korea, where the only news available to its people is from the state.
But to read into the announcement signs of new openness is to overstate the issue, most commentators on North Korea say. The presence of so many foreign journalists and the spread of cellphones, of which there are now more than a million, made it too risky.
"For all its habitual lying, the propaganda apparatus shies away from lies it can too easily be caught out on," said Brian Myers, a North Korea expert at Dongseo University in South Korea.
In parallel with the short announcement on the rocket's failure, North Korea continued to churn out reams of propaganda aimed at bolstering the legitimacy of Kim Jong-un and his claim to power based on his bloodline.
"The idea and feats Kim Il-sung performed in the 20th century have been fully carried forward and his glorious history continues uninterruptedly along with prospering Songun (military-first) Korea," state news agency KCNA reported on Friday.
The anniversary of Kim Il-sung's birth was supposed to usher in a "strong and prosperous" nation.
North Korea claimed that industrial output grew 2 percent last year, but according to United Nations data its economy is in fact the same size as it was 20 years ago after being devastated by a famine in the 1990s.
It appears to fund itself through exports of its mineral wealth to China, sales of weapons technology to states such as Syria and Iran as well as a variety of criminal enterprises such as narcotics and faking $100 bills.
Last June it was caught smuggling weapons to Myanmar, an income stream that has been cut off with that country's opening.
Periodically, it confiscates the wealth of its own citizens as it did in a 2009 revaluation of its currency and a crackdown on hoarding of foreign currency, something it may need to do more of as financial sanctions bite and old allies, like Myanmar, halt their purchases.
A defector, surnamed Ryu, who entered South Korea in 2011 and is now living in Seoul, said there was simply no choice but to comply with the forced confiscation.
"There were so many who were beaten," said Ryu, aged in his mid-40s, who declined to give his full name for fear of reprisals.
"People were at each other's throats; there was no telling who would rat on you for having a secret stash of foreign cash."
Chon Hyun-joon, an expert on North Korea at the state-run Korea Institute for National Unification in South Korea, estimates that as much as $2 billion to $3 billion could have been raised, although other experts say the figure was lower.
Whatever the state of the economy, missile and nuclear weapons development will take priority for North Korea, experts say. Figures published in South Korean media suggest that $3 billion has been spent on the nuclear and missile programme over the years.
"Even Kim Jong-il admitted that the first rocket launch required millions of dollars," said Kim Yeon-su, a professor at the National Defense University in Seoul.
"He said at the time the cost would be paid even at the expense of the North Korean people."
(Additional reporting by Ju-min Park and Jeremy Laurence; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Daniel Magnowski) | en | The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors Friday and issued tough statements right before North Korea's holiday. North Korea's Unha-3 rocket ready to launch at Tangachai-ri space center on April 8.It was launched April 13.China has joined other members of the United Nations Security Council in openly warning North Korea against future provocations and took several diplomatic measures on Tuesday and Wednesday.
China's foreign ministry released a statement Wednesday that urged a return to talks: "We believe that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is in the interest of all parties ... Dialogue and negotiation is the only correct way out."
The statement came after North Korea's announcement Tuesday that it would no longer honor the testing agreements that have been made with the United States. The United States halted its food aid, which had been part of the agreements, after Friday's failed launch.
Also on Tuesday, China delivered another stern warning to the nation through its party newspaper Global Times. In the statement, China expressed impatience with its neighbor and said China's foreign policy toward North Korea would not be hijacked by North Korea's leaders. Behind the scenes, China has ceased the repatriation of North Korean nationals on Chinese territory.
Diplomatic pressure on North Korea continued this week as the country remained defiant during its celebration Sunday. Kim Jong-un gave his first formal address on Sunday in the aftermath of Friday's failed attempt to launch a multistage rocket into orbit and in honor of the anniversary of 100th birthday. North Korea publicly acknowledged that its rocket broke up in flight and over before ever taking orbit Friday morning.
The United Nations criticized North Korea over the weekend for a satellite launch that member states saw as a "provocative" move, which followed shortly after the country's launch. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the attempt "deplorable" and said it "threatens regional stability." Corinne Momal-Vanian, UN spokesperson, said, "The Secretary-General urges the (North Korean government) not to undertake any further provocative actions that will heighten tension in the region."
The UN Security Council met in a closed session Friday. , who is both the current UN Security Council president and US ambassador to the United Nations, said, "The United States' view of this is quite clear, we have condemned the launch. We view it as a direct violation of resolution 1718 and 1874. We think it’s important that the Council respond credibly and we will be working in that direction."
While China is being openly critical of North Korea, it has a veto right on the UN Security Council that has prevented further sanctions. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China stood with other member nations of the Security Council in penalizing North Korea for future actions.
In a nation where speeches by leaders are rare, the young North Korean leader on Sunday said, "Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolized by imperialists." The public event finished with the display of a new rocket and it further punctuated Kim Jong-un's call for making the military the nation's number one priority. |
en | Failed launch is setback for NKorea's new leader
In this April 13, 2012 photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from left, points out the sky after the fireworks were set off during an unveiling ceremony for statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
(AP) PYONGYANG, North Korea - North Korea's much-touted satellite launch ended in a nearly $1 billion failure, bringing humiliation to the country's new young leader and condemnation from a host of nations. The United Nations Security Council deplored the launch but stopped short of imposing new penalties in response.
The rocket's disintegration Friday over the Yellow Sea brought a rare public acknowledgment of failure from Pyongyang, which had hailed the launch as a show of strength amid North Korea's persistent economic hardship.
For the 20-something Kim Jong Un it was to have been a highlight of the celebratory events surrounding his ascension to top political power. It was timed to coincide with the country's biggest holiday in decades, the 100th birthday of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, the young leader's grandfather.
The United States and South Korea declared the early morning launch a failure minutes after the rocket shot out from the North's west coast. North Korea acknowledged its demise four hours later in an announcement broadcast on state TV, saying the satellite the rocket was carrying did not enter orbit.
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The launch brought swift international condemnation, including the suspension of U.S. food aid, and raised concerns that the North's next move could be even more provocative a nuclear test, the country's third.
The U.N. Security Council denounced the launch as a violation of two resolutions that prohibit North Korea from developing its nuclear and missile programs, and met behind closed doors to consider a response. U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, the current council president, refused to speculate on what action the council might take. The council imposed sanctions on North Korea after its first nuclear test in 2006 and stepped up sanctions after its second in 2009.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, called the launch "deplorable" and urged North Korea "not to undertake any further provocative actions that will heighten tension in the region," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
Despite Friday's failed launch, Pyongyang pressed ahead with grandiose propaganda in praise of the ruling Kim family.
Hours after the explosion, the young Kim was installed as the new head of the powerful National Defense Commission during a meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang. It was the last of the top military and party posts intended to consolidate his power after the death of his father, longtime leader Kim Jong Il, four months ago.
At a massive gathering later Friday, Kim Jong Un and other senior officials watched the unveiling of an enormous new statue of Kim Jong Il, which stood beside an equally massive one of Kim Il Sung.
On Saturday, the North's official media announced Kim Jong Un has promoted dozens of general-grade officers to mark the centennial of the birth of his grandfather. The military's top political officer, Choe Ryong Hae, was also elected a member of the National Defense Commission in the latest reshuffle meant to tighten Kim's grip on power, the Korean Central News Agency said.
North Korea had trumpeted the launch of its Kwangmyongsong, or Bright Shining Star, satellite as a scientific achievement and a gift for its late founder. It cost the impoverished nation some $850 million, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, which estimated the cost of the rocket and its payload alone at $450 million.
In downtown Pyongyang, university student Kim Kwang Jin was optimistic despite Friday's failure.
"I'm not too disappointed. There was always the chance of failure," he said. "Other nations including China and Russia have had failures while building their space programs so why wouldn't we? I hope that in the future, we're able to build a better satellite."
The rocket's destruction suggests the country has yet to master the technology needed to build long-range missiles that could threaten the United States. Still, worries remain about North Korea's nuclear program amid reports that it may be planning an atomic test soon.
The launch was condemned by the foreign ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized nations meeting in Washington, including Russia, while Washington said it was suspending plans to contribute food aid to the North in exchange for a rollback of its nuclear programs.
North Korea announced weeks ago that it would launch a long-range rocket mounted with an observational satellite, touting it as a major technological achievement to mark the centennial of Kim Il Sung's birth.
The failure "blows a big hole in the birthday party," said Victor Cha, former director for Asia policy in the U.S. National Security Council. "It's terribly embarrassing for the North."
Experts say the Unha-3 carrier was the same type of rocket that would be used to strike the U.S. and other targets with a long-range missile.
The Unha-3's launch was monitored by a host of U.S., Japanese and South Korean military assets, which were expected to capture vital data on North Korea's ballistic missile capabilities.
U.S. Navy minesweepers and other ships in the area were expected to begin scouring the sea for debris from the rocket, which can offer evidence of what went wrong and what rocket technology North Korea has.
At the Pentagon in Washington, officials said it was believed the failure occurred during the second stage of flight, though it was unclear whether there was a controlled separation from the first stage.
"It was an obvious and very quick failure," Pentagon press secretary George Little said.
Asked whether the failure suggests North Korea poses less of a military threat to the U.S. than has been suggested by the Obama administration, Little said, "their recent track record is not good."
But, he added: "We are not discounting the possibility of advancements in North Korean missile technology, notwithstanding their failures."
Greg Thielmann, a former intelligence officer with the U.S. State Department, said it appears the North Koreans haven't mastered the technology they need to control multistage rockets a key capability if the North is to threaten the United States with intercontinental ballistic missiles.
North Korea has tested two atomic devices but is not yet believed to be able to build a nuclear warhead small enough to be mounted on a long-range missile.
Cha, who was an Asia adviser for former President George W. Bush, said the next step would be to watch whether North Korea conducts a third nuclear test, as has been speculated by the South Korean intelligence community.
State media said the satellite was fired from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station in the hamlet of Tongchang-ri but "failed to enter its preset orbit."
"Scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure," the state-run Korean Central News Agency said.
North Korean space officials said the Unha-3, or Galaxy-3, rocket was meant to send a satellite into orbit to study crops and weather patterns its third bid to launch a satellite since 1998.
Officials had brought foreign journalists to the west coast site to see the rocket and satellite Sunday in a bid to show its transparency amid accusations of defiance. But the dozens of foreign journalists invited to cover the launch were not allowed to view the liftoff live.
The acknowledgment of the rocket's failure both to the outside world and to North Koreans was a surprising admission by a government that in the past has kept tight control over information.
"The failure, which was impossible to hide from the North Korean people given the advance publicity and presence of international media, will be a major source of domestic and international embarrassment for the Kim Jong Un regime," said Ralph Cossa, president of Pacific Forum CSIS, a Hawaii-based think tank.
Attempts to put satellites into orbit often pose problems even for developed nations. In 2010, a South Korean rocket carrying a climate observation satellite exploded 137 seconds into its flight. An earlier 2009 attempt, Seoul's first from its own territory, also failed. | en | The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors Friday and issued tough statements right before North Korea's holiday. North Korea's Unha-3 rocket ready to launch at Tangachai-ri space center on April 8.It was launched April 13.China has joined other members of the United Nations Security Council in openly warning North Korea against future provocations and took several diplomatic measures on Tuesday and Wednesday.
China's foreign ministry released a statement Wednesday that urged a return to talks: "We believe that maintaining peace and stability on the Korean peninsula is in the interest of all parties ... Dialogue and negotiation is the only correct way out."
The statement came after North Korea's announcement Tuesday that it would no longer honor the testing agreements that have been made with the United States. The United States halted its food aid, which had been part of the agreements, after Friday's failed launch.
Also on Tuesday, China delivered another stern warning to the nation through its party newspaper Global Times. In the statement, China expressed impatience with its neighbor and said China's foreign policy toward North Korea would not be hijacked by North Korea's leaders. Behind the scenes, China has ceased the repatriation of North Korean nationals on Chinese territory.
Diplomatic pressure on North Korea continued this week as the country remained defiant during its celebration Sunday. Kim Jong-un gave his first formal address on Sunday in the aftermath of Friday's failed attempt to launch a multistage rocket into orbit and in honor of the anniversary of 100th birthday. North Korea publicly acknowledged that its rocket broke up in flight and over before ever taking orbit Friday morning.
The United Nations criticized North Korea over the weekend for a satellite launch that member states saw as a "provocative" move, which followed shortly after the country's launch. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the attempt "deplorable" and said it "threatens regional stability." Corinne Momal-Vanian, UN spokesperson, said, "The Secretary-General urges the (North Korean government) not to undertake any further provocative actions that will heighten tension in the region."
The UN Security Council met in a closed session Friday. , who is both the current UN Security Council president and US ambassador to the United Nations, said, "The United States' view of this is quite clear, we have condemned the launch. We view it as a direct violation of resolution 1718 and 1874. We think it’s important that the Council respond credibly and we will be working in that direction."
While China is being openly critical of North Korea, it has a veto right on the UN Security Council that has prevented further sanctions. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China stood with other member nations of the Security Council in penalizing North Korea for future actions.
In a nation where speeches by leaders are rare, the young North Korean leader on Sunday said, "Superiority in military technology is no longer monopolized by imperialists." The public event finished with the display of a new rocket and it further punctuated Kim Jong-un's call for making the military the nation's number one priority. |
es | Michael Schumacher está "fuera de peligro" después de que fue trasladado desde la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI) a una sala de rehabilitación en el Hospital de la Universidad de Grenoble, donde ha sido tratado por las lesiones cerebrales que amenazan su vida, informa la revista 'Bunte'.
Desde el abril pasado la familia del excampeón del mundo de Fórmula 1 no ha revelado ninguna noticia sobre el estado del expiloto, que se encuentra en situación muy grave desde que en diciembre del 2013 sufrió un traumatismo craneal debido a un accidente ocurrido mientras practicaba esquí. | es | El otrora piloto de Formula 1, Michael Schumacher, ha dejado la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos de la Clínica Universitaria de para iniciar su tratamiento de recuperacón luego de sufrir las secuelas de un traumatismo craneal debido a un accidente de ocurrido el diciembre pasado.
Según reportajes de la prensa alemana, la revista ''Bunte'' y el diario ''Abendzeitung'', Schumacher estaría fuera de peligro pero con esperanzas de recuperación más allá de un plazo corto, por el cual se continuará el tratamiento de masajes y tonificación muscular mientras se planea trasladarlo a un centro de rehabilitación en , a orillas del .
Sabine Kehm, la manager del expiloto, no ha confirmado ni desmentido oficialmente la noticia, pese a que su estado de salud aún es un total misterio generado por la familia Schumacher.
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es | Michael Schumacher ya ha dejado la unidad de cuidados intensivos del servicio de neurología de la Clínica Universitaria de Grenoble, en la que está ingresado desde el pasado 29 de diciembre, cuando sufrió un grave accidente de esquí en la estación alpina de Méribel.
Siempre según el semanario alemán Bunte y el diario muniqués Abendzeitung, 'Schumi' ha sido trasladado a la unidad de rehabilitación del centro hospitalario francés para salir, como parece ser, del coma inducido.
¿Un centro a orillas del Lago Constanza?
Según agrega Bunte, está previsto que el siete veces campeón del mundo de F-1, de 45 años, sea trasladado "en breve" a una clínica especializada, remitiendo a fuentes de la propia Clínica Universitaria de Grénoble.
Por ahora, la mánager de 'Schumi', Sabine Kehm, no ha querido pronunciarse al respecto.
Una emisora de radio, Radio 7, asegura por su parte que podría tratarse de un centro a orillas del Lago Constanza, en concreto en la localidad de Allensbach. | es | El otrora piloto de Formula 1, Michael Schumacher, ha dejado la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos de la Clínica Universitaria de para iniciar su tratamiento de recuperacón luego de sufrir las secuelas de un traumatismo craneal debido a un accidente de ocurrido el diciembre pasado.
Según reportajes de la prensa alemana, la revista ''Bunte'' y el diario ''Abendzeitung'', Schumacher estaría fuera de peligro pero con esperanzas de recuperación más allá de un plazo corto, por el cual se continuará el tratamiento de masajes y tonificación muscular mientras se planea trasladarlo a un centro de rehabilitación en , a orillas del .
Sabine Kehm, la manager del expiloto, no ha confirmado ni desmentido oficialmente la noticia, pese a que su estado de salud aún es un total misterio generado por la familia Schumacher.
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Ópera y conciertos en directo y videoteca. | es | El otrora piloto de Formula 1, Michael Schumacher, ha dejado la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos de la Clínica Universitaria de para iniciar su tratamiento de recuperacón luego de sufrir las secuelas de un traumatismo craneal debido a un accidente de ocurrido el diciembre pasado.
Según reportajes de la prensa alemana, la revista ''Bunte'' y el diario ''Abendzeitung'', Schumacher estaría fuera de peligro pero con esperanzas de recuperación más allá de un plazo corto, por el cual se continuará el tratamiento de masajes y tonificación muscular mientras se planea trasladarlo a un centro de rehabilitación en , a orillas del .
Sabine Kehm, la manager del expiloto, no ha confirmado ni desmentido oficialmente la noticia, pese a que su estado de salud aún es un total misterio generado por la familia Schumacher.
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en | Daily GVRD Turbidity Readings date Monday, August 4, 2003 Watershed Turbidity (in NTUs)* Capilano 0.30 Seymour 0.48 Coquitlam 0.48 * NTUs are nephelometric turbidity units, an industry-wide measure.
Turbidity
Each day, the GVRD tests drinking water for cloudiness, or turbidity. Cloudy water is created when fine particles like sediment or organic matter wind up in the reservoirs through heavy rainfall. Other causes of turbidity can be construction or changing of pipes, high water flows due to a fire or flusher truck filling, or high flows due to hot weather.
Turbidity is measured in units called nephelometric turbidity units (NTUs), and is tested both by a built-in monitoring system in the reservoirs, and daily laboratory tests. Canadian Drinking Water Guidelines prescribe a goal of one NTU, although higher levels are acceptable if water is properly disinfected and doesn't contain coliform bacteria. Testing has shown that during periods of higher turbidity, coliform bacteria counts don't increase in Lower Mainland water.
Fast Facts: | en | On Monday, November 27, 2006 the Medical Health Officers of the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health recommended that the boil water advisory that had been in effect for the City of Vancouver, North Vancouver, and Burnaby could now be lifted. Hospitals, care facilities, schools, food premises and the public are no longer being advised to boil drinking water or to use an alternate drinking water source. The boil water advisory for the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) had been lifted days before but had remained in effect for the listed areas.
Turbidity is on a downward trend but still remains above pre-storm levels. Water may continue to appear cloudy or discoloured for some time. The Medical Health Officers, monitoring and testing the water, at no point found the water un-safe, but felt the boil water advisory was justified as a safety precauction. It has been advised that people with comprised immune systems should continue to boil drinking water or drink filtered water. |
en | Boil Water Advisory Lifted 11:30AM, Monday, November 27, 2006 On the recommendation of the Medical Health Officers of Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health, the boil water advisory that has been in effect for Vancouver, North Shore and Burnaby is now lifted for these areas. Hospitals, care facilities, schools, food premises and the public are no longer being advised to boil drinking water or to use an alternate drinking water source. There is no boil water advisory for any area receiving water from the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD). Turbidity is on a downward trend but still remains above pre-storm levels. Water may continue to appear cloudy or discoloured for some time. Turbidity levels will continue to be posted on the GVRD website at http://www.gvrd.bc.ca/water/default.asp, and in the Vancouver Sun newspaper. Users are asked to open unused taps for three minutes to move stagnant water through the distribution system. While increased turbidity can be associated with increased risk of gastrointestinal illness, our extensive monitoring and testing leads Medical Health Officers to believe the water in the above areas is now safe to drink. Results are consistent with turbidity events in previous years, where bacteriological testing has also been negative. The results provide reassurance that while this event produced much higher levels of turbidity than usual, disinfection has not been compromised. Immune compromised individuals should always boil drinking water or ensure their drinking water has been treated to the same level as boiling. | en | On Monday, November 27, 2006 the Medical Health Officers of the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health recommended that the boil water advisory that had been in effect for the City of Vancouver, North Vancouver, and Burnaby could now be lifted. Hospitals, care facilities, schools, food premises and the public are no longer being advised to boil drinking water or to use an alternate drinking water source. The boil water advisory for the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) had been lifted days before but had remained in effect for the listed areas.
Turbidity is on a downward trend but still remains above pre-storm levels. Water may continue to appear cloudy or discoloured for some time. The Medical Health Officers, monitoring and testing the water, at no point found the water un-safe, but felt the boil water advisory was justified as a safety precauction. It has been advised that people with comprised immune systems should continue to boil drinking water or drink filtered water. |
it | ROMA—�Questo governo � come la torre di Pisa. Pende, pende, ma non cade mai�. Molti dicono che accadr� presto, ministro Clemente Mastella.
�Non prima delle Amministrative. Non voglio darmi arie, ma se Prodi non � caduto sulla fiducia � anche perch� io ho fatto tanto. Ho parlato con Follini, poi con Andreotti... Voleva astenersi, ma ha vinto l’affetto che ha per me�. Tutto merito suo, dunque.
�La mia lealt� a Prodi � forte. Altri si mostrano leali, ma gi� guardano al dopo �. Lei no?
�S�. Ma il mio "dopo" � quando Prodi lascer� il campo. Invece c’� stato chi in questa crisi si muoveva a sostegno di Prodi, ma intanto parlava con tutti�. Nomi e cognomi.
�Non voglio litigare. Per� ho sentito troppi dire che non si poteva andare avanti�. Il grande inciucio?
�L’attacco ai piccoli. Questa crisi ha sventato il tentativo di realizzare, oggi e subito, un governo di larghe intese. Uno comemeche sta in politica da tanti anni sa quando i leader di Margherita, Ds, Forza Italia e An si incontrano o si sentono al telefono�. E Casini?
�In quel progetto, l’Udc doveva entrare o uscire a seconda delle circostanze. Mentre Casini deve capire che bisogna realizzare un centro autentico e la tappa finale sono le Europee. �un principio biblico della nuova stagione politica �. Lei e Casini, senza Follini?
�Con Follini. La nostra spinta � ritrovarsi tutti assieme in un partito del 10 per cento. Senza un centro vitale non c’� governabilit� per una maggioranza che in nove mesi ha visto il suo blocco sociale decomporsi�. Bipolarismo, addio.
�Siamo interessati alla governabilit� o al bipolarismo? Io lavoro perch� Prodi abbia lunga vita, ma nel frattempo devi costruire all’interno al di sotto e accanto una modalit� nuova sul piano politico�. Poi dice che lei non inciucia.
�Guardi, nel ’98 gli attori erano gli stessi di oggi ma non c’ero io e questa rispetto ad allora � l’unica variante. Prodi cadde perch� io non ero alleato con lui. E questa volta i Dico hanno rischiato di innescare una slavina�. Finch� Prodi ha svoltato al centro.
�La svolta al centro c’� di fatto. Diceva mia madre, "fatti il nome e vai a rubare". Nell’opinione pubblica � stata la frana a sinistra a determinare l’ingovernabilit� e ora temo che, passato il santo, passi anche la devozione�. Traduzione?
�Il rischio � che la sinistra ricominci. Sappiano che il programma non � la Bibbia e che la prossima volta che fanno i boy scout della politica io mi tiro da parte. Preoccupato per la riforma elettorale?
�Lo siamo noi dell’Udeur e lo � la Lega. Una legge elettorale che mortificasse i piccoli porterebbe in crisi il governo. Le preferenze, poi. Ci sono ovunque, perch� da noi no?�. Condivide le indicazioni di Prodi sul sistema di voto?
�Prodi pu� guidare il processo, perch� appena dice cosa vuole si indebolisce �. D’Alema ha aperto al modello tedesco che piace all’Udc.
�� giusto che D’Alema parli con Casini, ma non mi pu� scavalcare. Non � che poi mi dici "Clemente, parla con Follini". Io vengo dalla Dc, da una cultura di prestigio e non di subordinazione. Non porto ceri. Tu vuoi farti il giochetto con Casini e gli altri? Fallo,maattraverso di me devi passare�. La Bicamerale?
�Non c’�. Chi la fa? Nessun leader si azzarda a presiederla�. Fassino, forse.
�Non esiste�. Monica Guerzoni 01 marzo 2007 | en | Romano Prodi.
Romano Prodi, prime minister of Italy, won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate, after attempting to resign last week. His victory means that the l'Unione coalition of leftist parties will remain in power. The vote was 162-157.
Justice minister Clemente Mastella reacted in an interview: "This government is like the Tower of Pisa. It leans, leans, but never falls."
The expected vote in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday is expected to be only a formality, since Prodi has a much more comfortable coalition there.
Prodi faced competition from the opposition centre-right Casa delle Libertà coalition, led by former prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. Despite the win, l'Unione's hold on the Senate is weak, due to the narrowness of its majority.
Prodi had tendered his resignation to Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on February 21, but Napolitano rejected the resignation on February 24, leading to a vote of confidence for Prodi in the Italian Senate.
Main contentions between the coalitions include the presence of Italian military units in Iraq and Afghanistan and Italy's relations with the United States. |
en | Story Highlights • NEW: Senate vote ensures survival of Prodi's center-left government
• Prodi still faces vote in the lower house, where he has a comfortable majority
• Prodi left temporarily last week after senate failed to endorse his foreign policy
• Long term stability of Prodi government still doubtful
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ROME, Italy (AP) -- Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday, ensuring the survival of his center-left government.
The vote was 162-157.
Prodi resigned last week after a defeat in the Senate on the government's foreign policy. But the Italian president had asked him to stay on and put his Cabinet to new confidence votes in parliament.
The prime minister faced his toughest test in the Senate -- the upper house -- which was almost evenly split between the ruling center-left and the conservative opposition. Any defections could have swung the vote.
On Friday, Prodi faces a confidence vote in the lower house, where he has a comfortable majority.
Prodi asked for the senators' support in a non-confrontational speech Tuesday meant to woo both Christian Democrats and far leftists in his fractious coalition.
Frantic counting of senators over the past days suggested Prodi would survive the test, and the prime minister himself expressed optimism ahead of the vote.
"The coalition has reached a strong, cohesive agreement," Prodi told the Senate shortly before voting began. "We have the firm intention of moving forward."
Coalition allies have put differences aside, at least momentarily, and vowed to support Prodi -- largely to avert a return to power of their archenemy, conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi.
A centrist senator who is a former Berlusconi ally, an independent senator elected abroad and at least four of seven honorary senators appointed for life also assured their support to the government.
If the government had lost the vote of confidence, it would have had to resign -- which might have meant early elections just as opinion polls are showing that the conservatives would likely win.
But even as the government won the vote, its long-term stability is doubtful.
Prodi narrowly defeated Berlusconi in April elections, ousting the conservatives after five years in office. But between the Senate's minimal majority and a divided coalition behind him, Prodi has had a hard time mustering the necessary support for key policies.
Last week, in the parliamentary defeat that led Prodi to resign, the Senate failed to endorse the government's guidelines in foreign policy, including its commitment to keep 1,800 Italian troops in Afghanistan. The defeat was blamed on defections from far leftists, as well as opposition by some life senators.
In a sign of continuing difficulties for Prodi, some coalition senators said that while they supported the government in the confidence vote, they maintained their opposition to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and would vote against an upcoming measure to refinance the mission there.
"Today is the day of hypocrisy," said Renato Schifani, Senate whip for Berlusconi's Forza Italia party. "Some senators who will give their vote of confidence today will vote against the government tomorrow."
Schifani said that with such deep differences, the government was "born dead."
Italians doubt government will survive
A poll published Wednesday in the country's largest daily, Corriere della Sera, said almost 40 percent of Italians thought the government would last only a few more months, even if it won the confidence vote. The poll by the ISPO institute had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
The government's five-year mandate expires in 2011.
Prodi's speech to the Senate on Tuesday reflected the fragility of his leadership. The prime minister acknowledged deep differences within his coalition and stayed away from controversial themes that have created tensions in the past.
"Poor soul, he couldn't do much more than that," said Berlusconi, commenting on the speech.
Earlier, Prodi had boiled down a 281-page electoral program to a 12-point plan he said would be "nonnegotiable" and would serve as the government's new platform.
On Wednesday, Prodi did touch upon a controversial theme -- a government proposal to legally recognize unmarried couples.
Prodi sought to smooth over tensions by saying the government had "exhausted its duty" by proposing the legislation, and that it was now up to parliament to "draft a law on which there can be ample agreement."
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. | en | Romano Prodi.
Romano Prodi, prime minister of Italy, won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate, after attempting to resign last week. His victory means that the l'Unione coalition of leftist parties will remain in power. The vote was 162-157.
Justice minister Clemente Mastella reacted in an interview: "This government is like the Tower of Pisa. It leans, leans, but never falls."
The expected vote in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday is expected to be only a formality, since Prodi has a much more comfortable coalition there.
Prodi faced competition from the opposition centre-right Casa delle Libertà coalition, led by former prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. Despite the win, l'Unione's hold on the Senate is weak, due to the narrowness of its majority.
Prodi had tendered his resignation to Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on February 21, but Napolitano rejected the resignation on February 24, leading to a vote of confidence for Prodi in the Italian Senate.
Main contentions between the coalitions include the presence of Italian military units in Iraq and Afghanistan and Italy's relations with the United States. |
en | Prime Minister Romano Prodi of Italy, second from left in back row, was applauded Wednesday after speaking to the Senate in Rome. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
In Italy, a slim vote of confidence for Prodi
ROME: Italy's political crisis ended, for the moment, on Wednesday night after the Senate narrowly passed a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Romano Prodi's fragile government.
"The government is like the Tower of Pisa — it leans but doesn't fall," Justice Minister Clemente Mastella said after the 162-to-157 vote.
But the voting suggested less a strong and viable government than one aimed at electoral reform, and then a new election before its five year term is over.
In speeches before the vote, even some of Prodi's supporters said that while they would vote for renewing the government, they would not back him on several contentious issues where every vote counts.
Indeed, another crisis may not be far off: a vote on Italy's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan — one of the same issues that temporarily knocked down Prodi's government a week ago — is set for the next two weeks.
In his speech in the Senate, Franco Turigliatto, of the Refounded Communists, one of the senators who provoked the crisis a week ago, said he could not support the peacekeeping measure, or others like a planned high-speed train line in the north and pension reform.
"This is not the mandate we received," Turigliatto told his colleagues.
Still, Prodi said he was relieved that this crisis was over and that he could resume his nine-month-old government — the 61st in Italy since 1945.
"I am very satisfied," he told reporters after the vote. "Now we go to the Chamber."
He was referring to the lower house of Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, where the government faces a second vote of confidence on Friday. The government enjoys a larger majority in that house, and the vote is expected to favor Prodi's government.
The crisis began a week ago after Turigliatto and another far-left senator abstained from a key vote on Prodi's foreign policy, in disagreements over Afghanistan and the government's support of the expansion of an American military base in Vicenza, in Italy's north.
The vote went against Prodi, and he resigned. But on Saturday, the Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano, said there was "no concrete choice" and asked Prodi to try again.
Even though Prodi was able to bolster his support among bickering parties, political leaders and analysts began focusing on the larger, structural problems underlying Italy's politics.
In recent days, Prodi himself pledged to tackle the most pressing of them: an electoral law that virtually guarantees a small majority in the Senate.
In speeches in the Senate on Tuesday, and again just before the vote on Wednesday, he promised immediate changes. But that will prove difficult in itself, because, he noted, it will require support from across the nation's divided political interests.
"The new electoral law must guarantee governability and continuity in politics," he told senators on Wednesday. He added that the solution "must be shared by everyone."
The present law was passed by the government of Silvio Berlusconi, then the prime minister, before last year's elections, despite the opposition by Prodi and his allies. Now even Berlusconi's allies concede that the law was deeply flawed, and they are urging changes, partly because they are eager to go to the polls to try to regain power.
Another weakness underscored in the crisis is the vast ideological distance in Prodi's nine-party center-left coalition, which ranges from moderate Catholics to Communists. Some centrist politicians have been calling for greater cooperation in the middle, and one former ally of Berlusconi's, Marco Follini, supported the vote of confidence for Prodi as the start of a new centrist force.
"Here, at one time, there was a bridge between the left and the moderates," he said in the Senate. "Now there is a wall. It would serve us to build that bridge again." | en | Romano Prodi.
Romano Prodi, prime minister of Italy, won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate, after attempting to resign last week. His victory means that the l'Unione coalition of leftist parties will remain in power. The vote was 162-157.
Justice minister Clemente Mastella reacted in an interview: "This government is like the Tower of Pisa. It leans, leans, but never falls."
The expected vote in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday is expected to be only a formality, since Prodi has a much more comfortable coalition there.
Prodi faced competition from the opposition centre-right Casa delle Libertà coalition, led by former prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. Despite the win, l'Unione's hold on the Senate is weak, due to the narrowness of its majority.
Prodi had tendered his resignation to Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on February 21, but Napolitano rejected the resignation on February 24, leading to a vote of confidence for Prodi in the Italian Senate.
Main contentions between the coalitions include the presence of Italian military units in Iraq and Afghanistan and Italy's relations with the United States. |
en | In his speech in the Senate, Franco Turigliatto, of the Refounded Communists, one of the senators who provoked the crisis a week ago, said he could not support the peacekeeping measure, or others like a planned high-speed train line in the north and pension reform.
“This is not the mandate we received,” Mr. Turigliatto told his colleagues.
Still, Mr. Prodi said he was relieved that this crisis was over and that he could resume his nine-month-old government — the 61st in Italy since 1945.
“I am very satisfied,” he told reporters after the vote. “Now we go to the Chamber.”
He was referring to the lower house of Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, where the government faces a second vote of confidence on Friday. The government enjoys a larger majority in that house, and the vote is expected to favor Mr. Prodi’s government.
The crisis began a week ago after Mr. Turigliatto and another far-left senator abstained from a key vote on Mr. Prodi’s foreign policy, in disagreements over Afghanistan and the government’s support of the expansion of an American military base in Vicenza, in Italy’s north.
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The vote went against Mr. Prodi, and he resigned. But on Saturday, the Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano, said there was “no concrete choice” and asked Mr. Prodi to try again.
Even though Mr. Prodi was able to bolster his support among bickering parties, political leaders and analysts began focusing on the larger, structural problems underlying Italy’s politics.
In recent days, Mr. Prodi himself pledged to tackle the most pressing of them: an electoral law that virtually guarantees a small majority in the Senate.
In speeches in the Senate on Tuesday, and again just before the vote on Wednesday, he promised immediate changes. But that will prove difficult in itself, because, he noted, it will require support from across the nation’s divided political interests.
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“The new electoral law must guarantee governability and continuity in politics,” he told senators on Wednesday. He added that the solution “must be shared by everyone.”
The present law was passed by the government of Silvio Berlusconi, then the prime minister, before last year’s elections, despite the opposition by Mr. Prodi and his allies. Now even Mr. Berlusconi’s allies concede that the law was deeply flawed, and they are urging changes, partly because they are eager to go to the polls to try to regain power.
Another weakness underscored in the crisis is the vast ideological distance in Mr. Prodi’s nine-party center-left coalition, which ranges from moderate Catholics to Communists. Some centrist politicians have been calling for greater cooperation in the middle, and one former ally of Mr. Berlusconi’s, Marco Follini, supported the vote of confidence for Mr. Prodi as the start of a new centrist force.
“Here, at one time, there was a bridge between the left and the moderates,” he said in the Senate. “Now there is a wall. It would serve us to build that bridge again.” | en | Romano Prodi.
Romano Prodi, prime minister of Italy, won a confidence vote in the Italian Senate, after attempting to resign last week. His victory means that the l'Unione coalition of leftist parties will remain in power. The vote was 162-157.
Justice minister Clemente Mastella reacted in an interview: "This government is like the Tower of Pisa. It leans, leans, but never falls."
The expected vote in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday is expected to be only a formality, since Prodi has a much more comfortable coalition there.
Prodi faced competition from the opposition centre-right Casa delle Libertà coalition, led by former prime minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. Despite the win, l'Unione's hold on the Senate is weak, due to the narrowness of its majority.
Prodi had tendered his resignation to Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on February 21, but Napolitano rejected the resignation on February 24, leading to a vote of confidence for Prodi in the Italian Senate.
Main contentions between the coalitions include the presence of Italian military units in Iraq and Afghanistan and Italy's relations with the United States. |
en | Beijing Dispatch
Ideological classes have long been a part of the college curriculum in China. But they are more important than ever to the Communist Party even if many students call them propaganda. | en | The west-end of Gare Saint-Lazare.
Services were slowly restored after an unscheduled strike by SNCF drivers closed one of Paris's six main railway stations.
was closed from 10 am local time on Tuesday morning.
Members of the Sud Rail labour union later voted to return to work, and the station re-opened at 7 pm the same day.
Gare Saint-Lazare is Europe's third busiest station, and its lines serve Paris suburbs, as well as inter-city routes to Normandy in northern France. |
fr | Situation confuse à la gare Saint-Lazare. Le trafic va reprendre quasi normalement, ce soir, mardi 13 janvier, sur la ligne L du Transilien après que l'agression, lundi soir, d'un conducteur du RER A a déclenché une grève massive des agents. L'ensemble du trafic sur les lignes SNCF de banlieue, Corail intercités, et le RER A a été interrompu toute la journée de mardi.
A priori, le mouvement spontané de ce mardi n'avait rien à voir avec les perturbations qui durent depuis le 14 décembre sur la ligne L et qui portent sur la durée du travail des conducteurs. Mais selon le principal syndicat engagé dans cette grève de longue durée, SUD-Rail, les deux mouvements sont liés. Le syndicat va jusqu'à accuser la direction d'avoir "mis le feu aux poudres" par des propos hostiles aux conducteurs et en laissant pourrir le mouvement. "On voyait fleurir sur Internet des menaces en ce genre (...). On a alerté la direction qui a préféré continuer dans la démagogie pour alimenter la haine du conducteur", s'emporte Willy Wesnoker, représentant de SUD-Rail pour la gare Saint-Lazare. La direction préfère condamner un "acte isolé" et fait remarquer que l'agression a eu lieu sur une ligne qui ne connaît pas de perturbations.
LES ORIGINES D'UN MOUVEMENT QUI DURE
Depuis le 14 décembre, la ligne L a vu son trafic diminuer au moins de moitié tous les jours. Les conducteurs en grève dénoncent de nouvelles charges de travail qui ne sont pas compensées par des augmentations de personnel.
Direction et syndicats ont des interprétations différentes : la SNCF tient compte des heures travaillées et du kilométrage, qui n'auraient pas augmentés, SUD-Rail parle de "robustesse" du travail et d'un temps de concentration ininterrompu. Avec moins de pauses, les dangers de la conduite augmentent, assurent les syndicalistes. "Le nombre d'incidents de sécurité a beaucoup augmenté ces derniers temps, tous les voyants sont dans le rouge", indique Willy Wesnoker.
Depuis le passage, le 14 décembre, aux nouveaux horaires et au cadencement, les cheminots ont mis en place une grève tournante de 59 minutes par jour. L'astuce est la suivante : jusqu'à récemment, un conducteur qui manquait sa prise de service n'avait ensuite pas d'autre train à prendre en charge. Moins d'une heure de débrayage faisait donc perdre une journée entière de travail. Depuis la rentrée de janvier, le système a changé, ce qui a fait passer les fréquences à plus de deux trains sur trois. Une grève à moindre coût pour les employés, mais qui perturbe fortement la circulation des trains.
La direction de la SNCF a appelé en renfort des agents d'autres lignes et d'autres régions. Sans l'agression de lundi soir, le trafic serait presque revenu à la normale ce mardi... avant une nouvelle grève totale vendredi appelée par la CGT, SUD-Rail et la Fgaac (conducteurs autonomes).
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Soixante conducteurs devaient êtres formés en 2009 et 29 détachés d'autres régions. Une solution qui ne satisfait pas SUD-Rail. Le syndicat estime que ces nouveaux postes compensent à peine les diminutions des dernières années. Fin décembre, la direction a enrichi sa proposition en passant à 72 nouveaux conducteurs et 52 conducteurs venant de province. La CGT a accepté cette proposition, SUD l'a refusée. La direction dénonce une surenchère à l'approche des élections professionnelles, qui ont lieu en mars.
Concernant les usagers, il est "encore bien trop tôt pour étudier un quelconque dédommagement", estimait fin décembre un porte-parole de la SNCF, sans plus de précisions. "Avec ce mouvement qui s'amplifie à nouveau, ils ne pourront pas y couper", estime de son côté un porte-parole de la Fédération des associations d'usagers des transports. | en | The west-end of Gare Saint-Lazare.
Services were slowly restored after an unscheduled strike by SNCF drivers closed one of Paris's six main railway stations.
was closed from 10 am local time on Tuesday morning.
Members of the Sud Rail labour union later voted to return to work, and the station re-opened at 7 pm the same day.
Gare Saint-Lazare is Europe's third busiest station, and its lines serve Paris suburbs, as well as inter-city routes to Normandy in northern France. |
pt | O Chan Hol é um cenote (cavidade natural) que integra as cavernas To ha, um sistema de cavernas submersas que fica em Quintana Roo, na Península de Iucatã (México). Com aproximadamente 5 mil metros de comprimento, Chan Hol fica a 15 km da comunidade de Tulum e a cerca de 11,5 km do litoral.
O local é conhecido por ser um dos berços de pesquisa dos paleoantropólogos devido à quantidade de esqueletos que os cientistas encontraram ao longo dos anos. À princípio, eles achavam que apenas um grupo de humanos havia cruzado a Ponte Terrestre de Bering, que conectava a Ásia à América do Norte há mais de 12 mil anos. Entretanto, foram escavados das cavernas em Iucatã nove ossadas do período paleolítico, incluindo a de uma adolescente que pertencia aos povos nativos americanos modernos.
Nas profundezas do tempo
(Fonte: Underwater Project/Reprodução)
Entre 2006 e 2009, os cientistas encontraram nas cavernas submersas o Chan Hol I e II, dois fósseis de milhares de anos que foram apelidados de El Joven e La Niña, respectivamente. Apesar de terem significado um grande avanço para a pesquisa paleoantrolopógica, os esqueletos não conseguiram alcançar o mesmo patamar de mistério e relevância de Chan Hol III, mais conhecido como Chan Hol 3.
Descoberto em 2016 pelos mergulhadores Iván Hernández e Vicente Fito, o fóssil estava em um túnel de caverna a 8 metros de profundidade, a cerca de 140 metros de distância de Chan Hol II.
Chan Hol 3, que foi apelidada de Ixchel em homenagem à deusa maia da fertilidade, era uma mulher que viveu na era paleolítica, há cerca de 10 mil anos, em uma época em que o nível do mar era mais baixo e os sistemas de cavernas eram altos e secos antes de serem inundados.
O crânio que grita
(Fonte: Discover Magazine/Reprodução)
Os pesquisadores acreditam que o fóssil tinha por volta de 30 anos quando morreu, e que estava em profunda dor, visto que parte do osso do crânio está deformado em uma expressão de horror. Chan Hol 3 perdeu os dentes antes de morrer, provavelmente devido à uma pancada que teria deslocado ou quebrado sua mandíbula, fazendo-a perder vários dentes.
Ela também tinha muitas cáries, o que é normal entre os esqueletos encontrados em Quintana Roo, visto que em vida eles faziam uma dieta rica em açúcar, frutas e tubérculos silvestres ricos em amido. Além disso, o abuso de mel pode estar entre uma das causas.
(Fonte: The Independent/Reprodução)
Como só 30% do esqueleto foi encontrado, foi feito o possível para tentar determinar como Chan Hol 3 viveu. Acredita-se que ela tinha 1,64 de altura e teve que lidar com duas hérnias de discos e uma degeneração óssea característica da artrite. As marcas que o crânio apresenta podem estar associadas à uma doença treponêmica, sendo a sífilis uma das doenças mais famosas da classe dos treponemas responsáveis por deixar marcas pelo corpo.
Não existem evidências que confirmem que Chan Hol 3 sofria de sífilis, mas, se confirmado, ela seria o fóssil mais antigo das Américas a apresentar uma doença treponêmica, além de ser uma das primeiras habitantes do México. O crânio também apresenta dois ataques não letais que resultaram em traumas em regiões diferentes da cabeça.
(Fonte: Discover Magazine/Reprodução)
Ainda não se sabe como Chan Hol 3 morreu, nem o motivo de a dor tê-la desfigurado. Existe a possibilidade de que ela tenha sido depositada em uma laje de calcário no fundo das cavernas antes de o local ser inundado, um destino muito diferente de a maioria dos fósseis daquela região.
Os pesquisadores afirmam que o resto dos ossos de Chan Hol 3 pode ser a única maneira de explicar como ela morreu. Enquanto eles não forem encontrados, o silêncio é tudo o que resta. | pt | O Chan Hol é um cenote (cavidade natural) que integra as cavernas To ha, um conjunto de cavernas submersas situa-se em , na . Com cerca de 5 mil metros de comprimento, Chan Hol fica a 15 km da comunidade de Tulum e a 11,5 km de distância do litoral. |
pt | Restos mortais achados por acidente tornaram-se extremamente importantes por pertencerem a uma das primeiras habitantes da história do que hoje é conhecido como México
Fabio Previdelli Publicado em 19/11/2020, às 06h00
Em setembro de 2016, os exploradores Vicente Fito e Ivan Hernandez encontraram os restos mortais de uma mulher enquanto mergulhavam na caverna Chan Hol, que fica perto de Tulum, uma cidade no México.
Na época, eles estavam procurando por um antigo esqueleto conhecido como Chan Hol 2, cujo alguns ossos haviam sido roubados por ladrões. Inicialmente, eles pensaram que a ossada realmente pertencesse a Chan Hol 2, afinal, ela foi localizada apenas 140 metros de distância uma da outra.
Porém, uma análise minuciosa logo provou que os restos mortais pertenciam a outra pessoa. Uma comparação dos novos ossos com fotos antigas de Chan Hol 2 mostrou “que os dois devem representar indivíduos diferentes”, afirmou Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, professor de bioestratigrafia e paleoecologia do Instituto de Ciências da Terra da Universidade de Heidelberg, na Alemanha.
A ossada encontrada / Crédito: Divulgação
Apesar da frustração, em um primeiro momento, eles descobriram que o esqueleto, que estava cerca de 30% completo, pertencia a uma mulher que tinha por volta de 1,64 metros de altura e morreu na casa dos 30 anos.
Mas o que mais impressionou é que testes revelaram que ela havia vivido há pelo menos 9.900 anos, tornando-se uma das primeiras habitantes conhecidas no que hoje é o México. Como se isso não fosse o suficiente, foram encontradas diversas deformações em seu crânio, o que gerou ainda mais interesse na descoberta.
O crânio desfigurado
Em sua cabeça, a mulher tinha três lesões de diferentes naturezas, o que indica que algo a atingiu com brutalidade, quebrando os ossos de seu crânio. Além do mais, sua caixa óssea que protege o cérebro tinha deformações semelhantes a crateras, lesões que, segundo um estudo posterior, pareciam ser causadas por um parente bacteriano da sífilis.
"Parece realmente que esta mulher passou por momentos muito difíceis e um final extremamente infeliz de vida", disse Stinnesbeck em entrevista ao Live Science. "Obviamente, isso é especulativo, mas dados os traumas e as deformações patológicas em seu crânio, parece um cenário provável que ela pode ter sido expulsa de seu grupo e foi morta na caverna, ou foi deixada na caverna para morrer lá”, explica.
As explicações para as deformidades
O professor Wolfgang também explica que os três ferimentos sugerem que ela teve um fim violento. "Não há sinais de cicatrização dessas feridas, mas ainda é difícil dizer se ela morreu por causa dessas feridas ou sobreviveu aos golpes [por] algum tempo".
Local onde os restos de Chan Hol 3 foram encontrados / Crédito: Divulgação
Outro ponto que não está muito claro é como a caixa craniana desenvolveu tais amassados e deformidades semelhantes a crateras. Uma das possibilidades é que a mulher tinha peritonite por Treponema que, como já dito, é uma doença bacteriana relacionada à sífilis. Caso isso se confirme, ela se tornaria a pessoa mais antiga que se tem conhecimento a ser portadora da doença nas Américas.
“Ela teria uma área inflamada onde estava a infecção que seria muito dolorida ao toque, com possíveis rupturas na pele", explica Samuel Rennie, co-pesquisador que atua como antropólogo bioológico e forense.
Outra alternativa é que ela tivesse uma inflamação óssea grave, conhecida como periostite, um periósteo inflamado, ou seja, o tecido conjuntivo que envolve o osso. “[É possível que] essas deformações do crânio tenham sido causadas pela erosão do crânio na caverna”, diz Wolfgang.
Essa dúvida só será sanada quando, no futuro, o crânio da mulher for levado para uma tomografia computadorizada, que ajudará a diagnosticar com exatidão as lesões e os traumas encontrado na cabeça dela.
Cáries e distinção de grupos
Assim como os outros esqueletos encontrados em Tulum, Chan Hol 3 também possui um crânio distinto. Uma pesquisa que analisou 452 caixas ósseas que protegem o cérebro, retirados de 10 diferentes populações primitivas americanas, mostrou que os encontrados em Yucatán “tinham crânios que eram diferentes de qualquer um dos outros lugares” que foram comparados.
A mulher com o crânio deformado tinha uma caixa cerebral mais longa e estreita, por exemplo, do que outros povos antigos do México. Havia diferença também em seu rosto, que era um pouco mais estreito. A constatação revela que havia ao menos dois grupos distintos vivendo na região no final da última era glacial.
Pesquisadores analisando os restos de Chan Hol 3 / Crédito: Divulgação
Além disso, os crânios da caverna de Tulun, incluindo a de Chan Hol 3, possuíam cáries nos dentes, o que sugerem que os antigos seguiam uma dieta rica em açúcar que, provavelmente, eram provenientes de tubérculos, frutas, cactos, doces e até mesmo o mel de abelhas nativas sem ferrão. O que contrasta com a dentição das primeiras populações americanas, que tinham os dentes desgastados, mas sem cáries, por se alimentarem com comidas duras e com baixo teor de açúcar.
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de | Zwei Neuinfektionen in Tirol, Regeln für Messen vereinbart
Ab Freitag können die 16 anerkannten Religionsgemeinschaften wieder Messen feiern. Der Misstrauensantrag der Opposition gegen Gesundheitslandesrat Tilg wurde im Landtag abgeschmettert. Die geschlossenen Grenzen zu Deutschland werden am 15. Juni geöffnet. Alle Details und aktuellen Entwicklungen im Live-Blog. | de | Felipe Calderón, (PAN)
Die sieben Richter des mexikanischen Bundeswahlgerichts haben gestern einstimmig Felipe Calderón von der „Partido Acción Nacional de México“ (PAN) in höchster Instanz zum Sieger der Präsidentenwahl vom 2. Juli erklärt. Zuvor hatten die Richter bereits fast alle Beschwerden gegen die Wahl abgelehnt. Damit wird Felipe Calderón am 1. Dezember dieses Jahres die Nachfolge von Vicente Fox (PAN) antreten.
Laut offiziellem Endergebnis gewann der konservative, wirtschaftsliberale Politiker mit einem Vorsprung von 233.831 Stimmen vor Andrés Manuel López Obrador von der linksgerichteten „Partido de la Revolución Democrática“ (PRD) bei insgesamt rund 41 Millionen abgegebenen Stimmen. Dies ist ein Vorsprung von etwa 0,5 Prozent. Nach Bekanntwerden des vorläufigen Endergebnisses hatten Anhänger von López Obrador mit Demonstrationen und Blockadeaktionen in Mexiko-Stadt gegen das Wahlergebnis protestiert. Der offiziell unterlegene Kandidat sprach von einer manipulierten Wahl. Die Richter sagten zur Erklärung ihrer Entscheidung, es habe Probleme bei der Wahl gegeben, aber keinen umfassenden Betrug. „Es gibt keine perfekten Wahlen“, sagte die Richterin Alfonsina Berta Navarro Hidalgo zur Entscheidung des Gerichts.
Andres López Obrador, (PRD)
Bereits Anfang September gab es tumultartige Szenen im mexikanischen Parlament, als Abgeordnete der Linken das Rednerpult stürmten und den noch amtierenden Präsidenten Vicente Fox daran hinderten, seine letzte Rede zur Lage der Nation zu halten. Auf den Spruchbändern der Abgeordneten wurde Fox als „Verräter der Demokratie bezeichnet“. Zuvor hatte die Staatsmacht das Kongressgebäude mit 6.000 Einsatzkräften und Wasserwerfern gegen das Eindringen von Demonstranten geschützt.
Wie die Wochenzeitung „Die Zeit“ in ihrer Onlineausgabe berichtet, will der künftige mexikanische Präsident an seinem Kurs von Liberalisierung, Privatisierung und Globalisierung festhalten. Im Gegensatz dazu hatte López Obrador im Wahlkampf vor allem die Bekämpfung der Armut versprochen. Mit der Ankündigung Obradors für den 16. September, den mexikanischen Unabhängigkeitstag, eine „Regierung des zivilen Widerstandes“ zu bilden, ist ein Ende der politischen Spannungen in Mexiko vorerst nicht zu erwarten. |
en | At last, a victor in Mexico After nine weeks, conservative Felipe Calderón has been declared president. | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
– After two months sifting through allegations of fraud and recounting ballots in a process that echoed the US election in 2000, Tuesday Mexico's top electoral court certified conservative Felipe Calderón as the nation's new president. The decision cannot be appealed. While the postelectoral saga has come to a close, there is no storybook ending to Mexico's closest presidential race in history. A DECISION: The president of Mexico's electoral court, Leonel Castillo Gonzalez, ruled Tuesday.
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del.icio.us What's this? ] digg What's this? ] The challenges for Mr. Calderón, a bespectacled lawyer who has been called a bookworm, remain formidable. Some say his political savvy and a shift in the congressional balance of power might make it easier to push through the energy, labor, and fiscal reforms that eluded President Vicente Fox. But his skills at negotiation and patience, as he seeks to unify a deeply divided country, will be fully tested. Unlike Al Gore in 2000, Mexico's runner-up Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO) has refused to concede defeat. The populist leader - who has slept in a tent with his followers in the middle of Mexico City for more than a month - has vowed to set up a "parallel" government and says that Mexico needs a "revolution." On Friday, legislators from Mr. Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) took the podium where President Fox was supposed to deliver his final state-of-the-nation address. He had to retreat instead, giving his speech via television later in the evening - an event that, fraught with drama, has added to the polarization of the country. "At the end of the day Mexicans are going to have to put postelectoral politics aside and move on and start focusing on issues that have to be addressed if Mexico is going to be successful in the 21st century," says Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, a Mexico scholar with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "Lopez Obrador is going to have an influence, no question, and Felipe Calderón is going to have to try and not get distracted and try to stay on course." On the campaign trail, Calderón said he would focus on jobs, promising to remain a firm US ally and maintain the free trade policies championed by Fox. Yet, in part because of the vocal opposition of Obrador, he will also have to focus on the fact that 50 percent of Mexicans are poor, and of them, many did not benefit from Fox's friendship with the US. The election, in which Calderón garnered 233,831 more votes than Obrador (a margin of victory of just over 0.5 percent), revealed fractures in Mexican society: the industrial north, which has ben- efited from NAFTA, went largely to Calderón, while Mexico City and the poorer, rural south voted for Obrador. WINNER: By a margin of 0.56 percent of the vote.
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Calderón says he wants to entice businesses to provide more young people jobs with tax exemptions, and proposes a lower and flat rate income tax, with none for workers with low salaries. He wants to expand healthcare services and education, especially in poor and rural areas. Such proposals could be easier to realize during this term, because of the gains the National Action Party (PAN), the party of both Calderón and Fox, made in Congress, but also because of the declines of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which fought to block Fox's proposals during the past six years. Calderón's success "will largely depend on whether he is willing to bring in people who are outside his party," says Luis Rubio of the Center of Research for Development in Mexico City, "individuals who understand and are experienced with these kinds of challenges." The PAN won 206 places in the 500-seat Chamber of Deputies, up from 148. The PRD won 126 seats. The PRI fell to third place with 104. Many experts say that alliances will form naturally between the PRI and the PAN. "Both parties have pragmatic reasons to work together to counterbalance the unruly behavior of the PRD," says David Shirk, director of the Trans-border Institute at the University of San Diego. "It's actually a good thing, in terms of coalition-building, made possible by the PRI's weakness, the PAN's slight gains, and the fact that those two parties can identify a common adversary in the PRD." AP
Click here to enlarge the image Experts also expect Calderón, a former energy minister whose father was one of the founders of the PAN, to be a more savvy negotiator than his predecessor. Yet while Fox rode into the presidency with a wave of expectation, as he ended 71 years of PRI rule, Calderón will take office Dec. 1 amid suspicion and anger from a large swath of the population who believes the election was fraudulent and unfair. And whether he has the ability to unite the country is questionable. "Calderón is completely uncharismatic ... and has backing from a very clear sector in the economy and the nation," says Rodolfo O. De la Garza, a professor of political science at Columbia University. "It's not clear that if you need an inspirational leader he is going to provide that." The radicalization of Obrador could work in his favor, though. He has angered thousands of Mexico City residents with his sit-in, which has snarled traffic and caused commuters to take alternative routes. A poll published in Reforma newspaper last month revealed that 30 percent of those surveyed would vote for Obrador today, while 54 percent would vote for Calderón. Some say support is waning even within his party. "One of the major reasons López Obrador will not ultimately be able to shut down Mexico's political system is that a lot of PRD leaders and elected officials who are going into this legislative term are not going to want to make the ultimate sacrifice," says Mr. Shirk. Calderón will face ongoing protests. On Sunday, Obrador told thousands of supporters: "We are going for deep change, root change, because that is what Mexico needs." On Mexico's Independence Day, Sept. 16, the day Obrador has called for the national convention and the day the military usually marches down streets that are now blocked by protesters, confrontations are expected. "It would not be hard to imagine that he gets the demonstrators to stay in place. This produces a clash with military. That will have reverberations that we can't anticipate," says Mr. de la Garza. | de | Felipe Calderón, (PAN)
Die sieben Richter des mexikanischen Bundeswahlgerichts haben gestern einstimmig Felipe Calderón von der „Partido Acción Nacional de México“ (PAN) in höchster Instanz zum Sieger der Präsidentenwahl vom 2. Juli erklärt. Zuvor hatten die Richter bereits fast alle Beschwerden gegen die Wahl abgelehnt. Damit wird Felipe Calderón am 1. Dezember dieses Jahres die Nachfolge von Vicente Fox (PAN) antreten.
Laut offiziellem Endergebnis gewann der konservative, wirtschaftsliberale Politiker mit einem Vorsprung von 233.831 Stimmen vor Andrés Manuel López Obrador von der linksgerichteten „Partido de la Revolución Democrática“ (PRD) bei insgesamt rund 41 Millionen abgegebenen Stimmen. Dies ist ein Vorsprung von etwa 0,5 Prozent. Nach Bekanntwerden des vorläufigen Endergebnisses hatten Anhänger von López Obrador mit Demonstrationen und Blockadeaktionen in Mexiko-Stadt gegen das Wahlergebnis protestiert. Der offiziell unterlegene Kandidat sprach von einer manipulierten Wahl. Die Richter sagten zur Erklärung ihrer Entscheidung, es habe Probleme bei der Wahl gegeben, aber keinen umfassenden Betrug. „Es gibt keine perfekten Wahlen“, sagte die Richterin Alfonsina Berta Navarro Hidalgo zur Entscheidung des Gerichts.
Andres López Obrador, (PRD)
Bereits Anfang September gab es tumultartige Szenen im mexikanischen Parlament, als Abgeordnete der Linken das Rednerpult stürmten und den noch amtierenden Präsidenten Vicente Fox daran hinderten, seine letzte Rede zur Lage der Nation zu halten. Auf den Spruchbändern der Abgeordneten wurde Fox als „Verräter der Demokratie bezeichnet“. Zuvor hatte die Staatsmacht das Kongressgebäude mit 6.000 Einsatzkräften und Wasserwerfern gegen das Eindringen von Demonstranten geschützt.
Wie die Wochenzeitung „Die Zeit“ in ihrer Onlineausgabe berichtet, will der künftige mexikanische Präsident an seinem Kurs von Liberalisierung, Privatisierung und Globalisierung festhalten. Im Gegensatz dazu hatte López Obrador im Wahlkampf vor allem die Bekämpfung der Armut versprochen. Mit der Ankündigung Obradors für den 16. September, den mexikanischen Unabhängigkeitstag, eine „Regierung des zivilen Widerstandes“ zu bilden, ist ein Ende der politischen Spannungen in Mexiko vorerst nicht zu erwarten. |
de | Mexiko: Calderón als Wahlsieger bestätigt
Nach mehr als zweimonatigem Gerangel ist es jetzt amtlich: Felipe Calderón hat die Präsidentenwahl in Mexiko gewonnen - mit hauchdünnem Vorsprung.
Mexiko-Stadt - Das Wahlgericht teilte in Mexiko-Stadt mit, Calderón habe zweifellos die meisten Stimmen auf sich vereinigt. Die Entscheidung des Gerichts ist unanfechtbar. Der 44-Jährige liegt mit nur 0,56 Prozentpunkten vor seinem linksgerichteten Rivalen Manuel López Obrador, der die Wahl angefochten sowie Unregelmäßigkeiten im Wahlkampf angeprangert hatte. Neun Prozent der abgegebenen Stimmen wurden neu ausgezählt. Calderón tritt am 1. Dezember die Nachfolge von Vicente Fox an, der gemäß der Verfassung nicht mehr kandidieren durfte.
Der konservative künftige Präsident Mexikos will am Kurs von Liberalisierung, Privatisierung und Globalisierung festhalten, den sein Vorgänger Fox eingeschlagen hat. Damit setzte er sich schon im Wahlkampf klar von López Obrador ab, der sich die Bekämpfung der Armut auf die Fahnen geschrieben hatte. Für López Obrador war Calderón der Kandidat der Reichen und der Eliten. Der strenggläubige Katholik Calderón schaffte das Kunststück, in den Wochen vor den Wahlen einen großen Rückstand in den Umfragen auf López Obrador wettzumachen. "Ich bin wie ein gutes Pferd. Je höher die Hindernisse, desto höher springe ich, und ich schaffe sie alle", sagte der Vollblutpolitiker von sich.
Calderón muss ein gespaltenes Land einen
Zum Schluss wurde es ein Nervenkrieg mit Straßenprotesten der Linken und einer sich wochenlang hinziehenden Entscheidung des Wahlgerichts in Mexiko-Stadt. Jetzt muss Calderón das Kunststück vollbringen, das gespaltene Land zu einen. Die von seinem Rivalen angezettelten Straßenproteste in der Hauptstadt, die nach Angaben von Geschäftsleuten der mexikanischen Wirtschaft schon jetzt Millionenverluste eintrugen, sind da ein erster Vorgeschmack. López Obrador hat die Bildung einer "Regierung des zivilen Widerstandes" angekündigt und für den 16. September zu einem "nationalen demokratischen Konvent" aufgerufen.
Der dreifache Vater fand früh seinen Weg in die Politik. Schon mit acht Jahren verfasste und verteilte er politische Traktate. Mit 18 Jahren trat er in die von seinem Vater mitbegründete Partei der Nationalen Aktion (PAN) ein, um gegen die seit 1929 autoritär regierende PRI Politik zu machen. 33-jährig stieg Calderón zum PAN-Generalsekretär auf, drei Jahre später wurde er Parteivorsitzender (1996-1999). Ein Studien-Intermezzo in Harvard folgte.
"Unfolgsames Kind"
Seine Erfolge erkämpfte sich Calderón oft aus wenig aussichtsreicher Position oder gegen den Willen der Vorderen. In seiner Partei trägt er daher den Spitznahmen "unfolgsames Kind". PAN-Chef Carlos Castillo Peraza wollte 1996 einen anderen als Nachfolger. Es wurde Calderón. Präsident Fox hatte eigentlich seinen Innenminister Santiago Creel als Thronfolger auserkoren. Wieder setzte sich Calderón durch und brachte bei der Nominierung zum Präsidentschaftskandidaten die Delegierten hinter sich.
Im Wahlkampf warb Calderón mit seinem Image als Saubermann, das in einem Land, wo Korruption immer noch an der Tagesordnung ist, viele Wähler überzeugte. "Ich glaube an die ethischen Werte, das Prinzip der Ehrenhaftigkeit. Und ich möchte, dass diese Prinzipien und Werte in der Regierung herrschen, um dem Volke zu dienen", kündigte er an. Ob er die hehren Worte auch umsetzen kann, wird sich in den nächsten sechs Jahren seiner Präsidentschaft zeigen.
(Von Patrick Moser, AFP)
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Die sieben Richter des mexikanischen Bundeswahlgerichts haben gestern einstimmig Felipe Calderón von der „Partido Acción Nacional de México“ (PAN) in höchster Instanz zum Sieger der Präsidentenwahl vom 2. Juli erklärt. Zuvor hatten die Richter bereits fast alle Beschwerden gegen die Wahl abgelehnt. Damit wird Felipe Calderón am 1. Dezember dieses Jahres die Nachfolge von Vicente Fox (PAN) antreten.
Laut offiziellem Endergebnis gewann der konservative, wirtschaftsliberale Politiker mit einem Vorsprung von 233.831 Stimmen vor Andrés Manuel López Obrador von der linksgerichteten „Partido de la Revolución Democrática“ (PRD) bei insgesamt rund 41 Millionen abgegebenen Stimmen. Dies ist ein Vorsprung von etwa 0,5 Prozent. Nach Bekanntwerden des vorläufigen Endergebnisses hatten Anhänger von López Obrador mit Demonstrationen und Blockadeaktionen in Mexiko-Stadt gegen das Wahlergebnis protestiert. Der offiziell unterlegene Kandidat sprach von einer manipulierten Wahl. Die Richter sagten zur Erklärung ihrer Entscheidung, es habe Probleme bei der Wahl gegeben, aber keinen umfassenden Betrug. „Es gibt keine perfekten Wahlen“, sagte die Richterin Alfonsina Berta Navarro Hidalgo zur Entscheidung des Gerichts.
Andres López Obrador, (PRD)
Bereits Anfang September gab es tumultartige Szenen im mexikanischen Parlament, als Abgeordnete der Linken das Rednerpult stürmten und den noch amtierenden Präsidenten Vicente Fox daran hinderten, seine letzte Rede zur Lage der Nation zu halten. Auf den Spruchbändern der Abgeordneten wurde Fox als „Verräter der Demokratie bezeichnet“. Zuvor hatte die Staatsmacht das Kongressgebäude mit 6.000 Einsatzkräften und Wasserwerfern gegen das Eindringen von Demonstranten geschützt.
Wie die Wochenzeitung „Die Zeit“ in ihrer Onlineausgabe berichtet, will der künftige mexikanische Präsident an seinem Kurs von Liberalisierung, Privatisierung und Globalisierung festhalten. Im Gegensatz dazu hatte López Obrador im Wahlkampf vor allem die Bekämpfung der Armut versprochen. Mit der Ankündigung Obradors für den 16. September, den mexikanischen Unabhängigkeitstag, eine „Regierung des zivilen Widerstandes“ zu bilden, ist ein Ende der politischen Spannungen in Mexiko vorerst nicht zu erwarten. |
de | Mexiko Linke verhindern Rede von Präsident Fox
Tumult im mexikanischen Parlament: Proteste linker Abgeordneter haben Staatspräsident Fox daran gehindert, die letzte Rede zur Lage der Nation seiner Amtszeit zu halten. Die Abgeordneten besetzten das Podium und nannten ihn einen Verräter der Demokratie. | de | Felipe Calderón, (PAN)
Die sieben Richter des mexikanischen Bundeswahlgerichts haben gestern einstimmig Felipe Calderón von der „Partido Acción Nacional de México“ (PAN) in höchster Instanz zum Sieger der Präsidentenwahl vom 2. Juli erklärt. Zuvor hatten die Richter bereits fast alle Beschwerden gegen die Wahl abgelehnt. Damit wird Felipe Calderón am 1. Dezember dieses Jahres die Nachfolge von Vicente Fox (PAN) antreten.
Laut offiziellem Endergebnis gewann der konservative, wirtschaftsliberale Politiker mit einem Vorsprung von 233.831 Stimmen vor Andrés Manuel López Obrador von der linksgerichteten „Partido de la Revolución Democrática“ (PRD) bei insgesamt rund 41 Millionen abgegebenen Stimmen. Dies ist ein Vorsprung von etwa 0,5 Prozent. Nach Bekanntwerden des vorläufigen Endergebnisses hatten Anhänger von López Obrador mit Demonstrationen und Blockadeaktionen in Mexiko-Stadt gegen das Wahlergebnis protestiert. Der offiziell unterlegene Kandidat sprach von einer manipulierten Wahl. Die Richter sagten zur Erklärung ihrer Entscheidung, es habe Probleme bei der Wahl gegeben, aber keinen umfassenden Betrug. „Es gibt keine perfekten Wahlen“, sagte die Richterin Alfonsina Berta Navarro Hidalgo zur Entscheidung des Gerichts.
Andres López Obrador, (PRD)
Bereits Anfang September gab es tumultartige Szenen im mexikanischen Parlament, als Abgeordnete der Linken das Rednerpult stürmten und den noch amtierenden Präsidenten Vicente Fox daran hinderten, seine letzte Rede zur Lage der Nation zu halten. Auf den Spruchbändern der Abgeordneten wurde Fox als „Verräter der Demokratie bezeichnet“. Zuvor hatte die Staatsmacht das Kongressgebäude mit 6.000 Einsatzkräften und Wasserwerfern gegen das Eindringen von Demonstranten geschützt.
Wie die Wochenzeitung „Die Zeit“ in ihrer Onlineausgabe berichtet, will der künftige mexikanische Präsident an seinem Kurs von Liberalisierung, Privatisierung und Globalisierung festhalten. Im Gegensatz dazu hatte López Obrador im Wahlkampf vor allem die Bekämpfung der Armut versprochen. Mit der Ankündigung Obradors für den 16. September, den mexikanischen Unabhängigkeitstag, eine „Regierung des zivilen Widerstandes“ zu bilden, ist ein Ende der politischen Spannungen in Mexiko vorerst nicht zu erwarten. |
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es | Miércoles, 02 de Agosto de 2006 El petróleo erosiona el embargo norteamericano a Cuba La necesidad de asegurar nuevas fuentes de suministro de crudo y los nuevos descubrimientos del combustible en costas cubanas reabrieron el debate interno sobre los costos de los 45 años de embargo. La eventual sucesión de Fidel Castro, potencia las voces en contra? El vocero de la Casa Blanca, Tony Snow, aseguró ayer que si la enfermedad del líder cubano conduce a una transición democrática, el gobierno está listo para apoyarla con ayuda económica y humanitaria. Pero todavía mantienen posicion es cautelosas sobre el futuro político en la isla. Antes de la delegación del poder de Castro a su hermano, el embargo entró en debate.
El embargo comercial de Estados Unidos a Cuba ha sido política nacional desde 1961. Pero cada vez más expertos afirman Estados Unidos pagará un precio por mantener su embargo comercial de 45 años, un precio estratégico y económico que tendrá repercusiones negativas para el país en las próximas décadas.
El hecho que cambió esta situación son los recientes descubrimientos en la Cuenca del Norte de Cuba, yacimientos en aguas profundas que ya han atraído el interés de empresas de China, India, Noruega, España y Canadá, además de Venezuela y Brasil.
Y se reavivó el debate en el Congreso norteamericano y en la comunidad cubanoestadounidense sobre terminar con el embargo dada la necesidad norteamericana de más fuentes de petróleo en momentos de crecientes aumentos de precios, mayor demanda mundial y conflictos crecientes en el Medio Oriente.
Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, un experto en cuestiones energéticas cubanas y profesor de ciencias políticas en la Universidad de Nebraska en Omaha, señala que la avidez estadounidense de petróleo obligará pronto a un cambio fundamental en las relaciones de Washington con La Habana.
"Siempre sostuve que debíamos mantener el embargo hasta llegar al momento en que empezara a costarnos algo", afirmó a AP. Pero agregó que hoy "ya casi estamos allí".
Phil Peters, vicepresidente del Instituto Lexington -un grupo de estudio en Arlington, Virginia, que apoya el libre comercio- y experto en Cuba, comentó que "si Cuba descubre mucho petróleo y se convierte en exportador petrolero, el embargo prácticamente será un absurdo".
Kirby Jones, fundador y presidente de la Asociación de Comercio Estados Unidos-Cuba en Washington DC, que desde hace tiempo busca el fin del embargo comercial, afirma que la realidad de Cuba como productor petrolero hace del embargo una política muy costosa de mantener.
"Nuestra alternativa es: ¿Vamos a dejar que esos otros países se lleven todo ese petróleo? ¿O vamos a proteger nuestros intereses estratégicos y reconocer que muy cerca de nuestras costas hay una cantidad sustancial de petróleo que va a ser explotada?"
Nuevos descubrimientos en Cuba
Durante décadas Cuba ha estado buscando petróleo, no siempre con éxito. Con ayuda soviética, descubrió el yacimiento petrolífero de Varadero en 1971. A 8 kilómetros de la costa norte de la isla, ese yacimiento rinde hoy el 40% de la producción total cubana, unos 75.000 barriles diarios de petróleo pesado de baja calidad.
Pero en julio del 2004 la empresa petrolera española Repsol-YPF, en sociedad con la compañía petrolera estatal cubana CUPET, identificó cinco yacimientos que clasificó como de "alta calidad" en las aguas profundas de los Estrechos de la Florida, a 32 kilómetros al nordeste de La Habana.
Siete meses después, un informe de la Inspección Geológica Estadounidense lo confirmó: la Cuenca del Norte de Cuba contiene una cantidad sustancial de petróleo: de 4.600 a 9.300 millones de barriles de crudo y de 9,8 a 21,8 billones de pies cúbicos de gas natural.
Cuba no perdió tiempo y dividió el área de 120.000 kilómetros cuadrados en 59 bloques de explotación, y luego ofreció a empresas petroleras extranjeras acuerdos de producción compartida.
Empresas petroleras de China y Canadá, que ya estaban explorando en las costas cubanas, iniciaron conversaciones con las autoridades cubanas acerca de posibles inversiones en operaciones de aguas profundas.
Luego, en mayo, Repsol-YPF anunció que se asociaba con las firmas Oil and Natural Gas Corp. de India y Norsk Hydro ASA de Noruega para explorar en busca de petróleo y gas en seis de los 59 bloques en las costas marítimas cubanas. Sherritt International Corp., la empresa petrolera canadiense, ha adquirido derechos de explotación en cuatro de los bloques.
Esto llamó la atención de muchos ejecutivos petroleros, dice Jorge Piñón, ex ejecutivo de Amoco Oil e investigador adjunto en el Instituto de Estudios Cubanos y Cubano-Estadounidenses en la Universidad de Miami.
Norsk y ONGC se encuentran entre un grupo selecto de compañías con conocimiento y tecnología para la exploración en aguas profundas, de modo que cuando se asociaron con los españoles, "todos los demás dijeron 'Mejor le damos un vistazo a Cuba de nuevo'".
Es lo que ocurrió en el Congreso de Estados Unidos. En mayo, los representantes republicanos Jeff Flake y Larry Craig presentaron proyectos de ley gemelos ante las dos cámaras del Congreso que exceptuarían del embargo a los negocios petroleros.
Antes de presentar su proyecto, Craig afirmó que "la prohibición de comerciar con Cuba no ha logrado prácticamente nada". Y agregó que "China, mientras hablamos, tiene un equipo de perforación frente a las costas de Cuba".
Los proyectos de ley representan la mejor oportunidad hasta ahora de "hacerle un gran agujero al embargo", comentó Johannes Werner, director de Cuba Trade & Investment News, que se publica en Sarasota, Florida.
El lobby cubano
Este panorama pone nervioso al conservador y sumamente influyente bloque cubano-estadounidense en el sur de la Florida. Alfredo Mesa, director ejecutivo de la Fundación Nacional Cubano-Americana en Miami, dice que "quienes promueven que las compañías estadounidenses hagan perforaciones frente a Cuba no advierten que eso perjudicaría nuestra capacidad para presionar al gobierno cubano en otras cuestiones, como los derechos humanos".
Los ambientalistas también se oponen rotundamente al acceso de la industria petrolera a Cuba, aunque por motivos distintos. Las filtraciones de petróleo -aun las emanaciones tóxicas rutinarias de las perforaciones- podrían contaminar los Everglades y las playas de mayor importancia económica para la Florida, dicen, y arruinar el turismo.
El senador Bill Nelson y el representante Jim Davis, ambos demócratas presentaron proyectos gemelos que denegarían visas a los ejecutivos de empresas extranjeras que perforen en busca de petróleo en las aguas cubanas.
El proyecto de Nelson revocaría un acuerdo de límites marítimos de 1977 entre los países que bisecan los Estrechos de la Florida y permite a Cuba desarrollar actividades comerciales cerca de los cayos de la Florida.
No está claro cómo esto podría impedir a los cubanos explotar las aguas más cercanas a sus costas que a las de Estados Unidos. Una respuesta semioficial de Cuba, en un editorial de la agencia noticiosa estatal Prensa Latina, calificó las medidas de "extraterritoriales".
El futuro en el Congreso
"Si la industria petrolera sigue sin definirse como hasta ahora, no es muy probable, especialmente con este gobierno y Congreso", dice Werner, director de la carta comercial sobre Cuba. "Pero hay elecciones en noviembre, lo que podría cambiar toda la ecuación".
Peters, del Instituto Lexington, coincide. "Pienso que si (a las compañías petroleras) las llamas y les preguntas '¿Cuál es su posición sobre esto?', te responderían que sí, que apoyan una exención al embargo. Pero no estoy seguro de que quieran apoyarla abiertamente todavía".
En respuesta a la consulta de AP, el Instituto Estadounidense del Petróleo (API) en Washington DC, respondió con la siguiente declaración: "No podemos hablar sobre los intereses individuales en Cuba, pero podemos decir que los miembros del API están más concentrados en expandir el acceso a la porción estadounidense de la plataforma continental, que está mucho más próxima a la red existente de ductos y donde tienen más información sobre reservas de petróleo y gas natural".
Todo esto es todavía algo prematuro, opina Piñón, el ex ejecutivo petrolero e investigador adjunto. "Todavía estamos de tres a cinco años antes de que se comercialice nada de estas reservas cubanas".
Agrega que hay una demora de por lo menos 18 meses en la licitación de las plataformas de aguas profundas, y "el petróleo crudo no vale nada si no se puede mover o procesar. Aunque encuentren el petróleo, ¿qué van a hacer con él?"
Benjamin-Alvarado, visitante frecuente de Cuba que ha estudiado durante quince años el desarrollo energético de la isla, está de acuerdo. Dice que Cuba necesita mejorar sus puertos, refinerías y equipo de mantenimiento.
Sin embargo el monopolio petrolero estatal venezolano, PDVSA, ha firmado un acuerdo por 100 millones de dólares para modernizar la refinería cubana de Cienfuegos, reliquia de la Guerra Fría, y aumentar la capacidad de almacenamiento en el puerto de Matanzas.
"Cada día que Estados Unidos dilata el acercamiento a Cuba, esa ventana de oportunidad se va cerrando un poquito más", dice Benjamin-Alvarado. Una vez que Cuba alcance la etapa de perforación en aguas profundas, dice, "los estadounidenses se van a quedar afuera". Apple presentó la segunda generación de iPod: el iPod Shuffle El calentamiento global amenaza el futuro del vino Argentina: Desde hoy rige el salario mínimo de 800 pesos Nicaragua: para ganar votos derogan ley de más de 100 años Google compró la empresa de software en Internet JotSpot Inicio Volver Enviar a un amigo Imprimir nota | es | Analistas económicos y políticos internacionales afirman que el petróleo cubano podría afectar la política norteamericana de embargo económico hacia la isla que ha practicado desde 1961.
La razón detrás de esta afirmación es el descubrimiento de yacimientos petroleros en las aguas territoriales cubanas llamadas normalmente Cuenca del Norte de Cuba. Las existencias han atraído la atención de empresas petroleras de Argentina, Brasil, Canadá, China, España, India, Noruega, Venezuela, entre otras.
Dos aspectos importantes preocupan a los estadounidenses, si Cuba llegara a convertirse en exportador de petróleo el embargo no tendría ningún efecto económico para Cuba. Por el contrario, los Estados Unidos perderían la oportunidad de participar en la explotación de los yacimientos debido a que las leyes de embargo prohíben a las empresas norteamericanas la realización de contratos con Cuba.
Ya se debate en Estados Unidos la sensatez de continuar un embargo que es costoso y que además les daría más oportunidades de negocios a otros países. Como dice Kirby Jones, el fundador y presidente de la Asociación de Comercio Estados Unidos-Cuba, “''¿Vamos a dejar que otros países se lleven todo ese petróleo? ¿O vamos a proteger nuestros intereses estratégicos y reconocer que muy cerca de nuestras costas hay una cantidad sustancial de petróleo que va a ser explotada?''” |
es | 01.12.2008
Las intensas lluvias comenzaron pasadas las 17 y afectaron a Barracas, La Boca, San Telmo, Once, Palermo, Barrio Norte, Almagro, Recoleta, Balvanera y San Cristóbal. (DyN)
El temporal de lluvia y granizo que azotó a casi todo el país durante el fin de semana, terminó con seis muertos por accidentes de tránsito, crecidas imprevistas de ríos y electrocuciones en distintas provincias del interior. En San Juan, al menos 120 familias fueron evacuadas de los alrededores de su capital, mientras que la ciudad de Buenos Aires no registró víctimas fatales, pero experimentó la caída de diecisiete árboles y, al igual que los principales conglomerados urbanos del resto del país, padeció el anegamiento de una gran cantidad de sus calles, además del caos vehicular ocasionado por la inundación.
En Buenos Aires hubo dos accidentes de tránsito por el asfalto resbaladizo. Ambos dejaron tres muertos y al menos ocho heridos. El primero se produjo luego de las 6.30, en el kilómetro 357 de la ruta 11, a la altura de La Lucila del Mar. Allí dos autos con 5 y 4 ocupantes cada uno chocaron de frente. A causa del impacto, sus dos conductores murieron en el acto, mientras que el resto de los pasajeros fue trasladado al hospital de Mar de Ajó. La policía indicó que la causa del accidente fue la cinta asfáltica resbaladiza y la inestabilidad de los vehículos.
Media hora más tarde, una mujer murió y otras dos personas resultaron heridas en un choque múltiple ocurrido en la autopista La Plata-Buenos Aires, a la altura del partido bonaerense de Quilmes, distrito en el que la modelo brasileña Jacqueline Dutrá resultó con heridas leves, luego de que la camioneta que conducía chocó contra una valla de contención.
En Córdoba, una brigada de 65 policías y bomberos hallaron los cadáveres de una pareja que había desaparecido el sábado, cuando fueron arrastrados por la corriente del río San Antonio, mientras andaban en moto.
En Capital, los barrios inundados fueron Núñez, Belgrano, Palermo, Boedo, Constitución, Barracas, Caballito, Flores y La Boca. Los anegamientos superaron los 10 centímetros y el agua pasó de vereda a vereda. Cada barrio fue asistido por agentes de Defensa Civil y de la Guardia de Auxilio que acudieron en ayuda de los vecinos.
Polémica por los milímetros caídos. Las consecuencias del temporal dieron para todo, pero sobre todo para un discusión inédita. Es la primera vez que el gobierno porteño polemiza con el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional respecto de la cantidad de agua caída. Mientras que el Observatorio Central de ese organismo, ubicado en Villa Ortúzar, midió 12,7 milímetros de lluvia entre las 17 y las 19.30, la comuna indicó que en pocos minutos cayeron alrededor de 60 milímetros. El propio ministro de Seguridad, Guillermo Montenegro, había anticipado que eran más de 50 los milímetros caídos durante el pico de la tormenta.
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tano 55 años | Vivo en Villa Luro, hay cuadras que desde el miércoles están sin luz, ayer vino una cuadrilla y comenzó a intentar primero localizar el desperfecto, como único medio para ver donde había fuga de electricidad, era una varilla con un martillo que clavaban en la vereda y luego olían. Luego de una hora consiguieron que llegara una camioneta con todos los elementos apropiados y en 5 minutos detectaron el desperfecto, lo solucionar, pero igual hay en la misma vereda de la calle Pizarro casas sin luz. Es una verguenza buscar un desperfecto de esa manera. Las inversiones que prometieron dónde están, los aumentos sí. Por algo todavía mantienen las chapas en los blindex. Miedo quizá.
alguien sabe 0 años | Alguien sabe si hubo inundaciones en capital o zonas anegadas en éste distrito? Se estará trabajandobien por fin......
Maldicion TutanKK 0 años | La analfabeta Kretina nos trajo todas las malarias, en una semana perdimos una Davis imperdible contra nadie. Se murieron de calor, vacas, peces y ancianos. Ahora se mueren 6 por lluvias torrenciales. Abrace fuerte a sus hijos esta semana esta en blanco...
Anibal Ibarra 48 años | Exijo un juicio politico para Macri.......él es el máximo responsable de la falta de agua y electricidad de muchos barrios porteños....él deberia haberles exigido a Edenor y Edesur que reestablezcan de inmediato los servicios.....se tiene que ir!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (les suena?...) | es | Varias esquinas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires se encuentran inundadas por una fuerte lluvia que se desató desde las 17.00 (hora local). Tras tres días de calor que llegaron a 40 °C de sensación térmica, el diluvio también provocó la interrupción de tres de las seis líneas de subte (metro), aunque una de ellas volvió a funcionar.
El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) emitió esta tarde un alerta meteorológico por "tormentas fuertes y probable caída de granizo" para la capital y las provincias de Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Entre Ríos y Santa Fe. Asimismo, el comunicado del SMN pronosticó granizo y ráfagas de viento para la tarde y noche y se extenderá hasta el domingo.
Los barrios más afectados por la lluvia son Palermo, Once (Balvanera) y Almagro. Por su parte, las líneas C y D de subte están interrumpidas y la línea E funciona con servicio reducido.
Se generaron interrupciones en el tránsito por las inundaciones en los barrios de Núñez, Belgrano, Constitución y La Boca. En éste último, se estaba jugando el partido entre Huracán y San Lorenzo, que se suspendió por el temporal. "En La Boca, hay calles con 40 centímetros de agua pero no hay evacuados", declaró el director de Defensa Civil (DC) de la Ciudad, Daniel Russo.
Durante la semana, se registraron las temperaturas más altas en lo que va del año. Esto provocó varios cortes de luz por el incremento del uso de energía que afectaron a 40 mil usuarios. |
es | 18:38 › INFORME DEL SERVICIO METEOROLOGICO
El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) emitió pasadas las 17 de hoy un "alerta" por "tormentas fuertes y probable caída de granizo" para la Capital Federal, el norte de Buenos Aires, sudeste de Córdoba, Entre Ríos, centro y sur de Santa Fe, y el Río de la Plata. También están interrumpidas las líneas C, D y H de subtes.
Sobre una masa de aire cálido, húmedo y muy inestable que prevalece sobre el área de cobertura, han comenzado a desarrollarse chaparrones y tormentas que en forma aislada producen abundante caída de agua", reportó el SMN.
Según el organismo dependiente del Ministerio de Defensa, "se prevé que las condiciones tenderán a persistir e intensificarse entre lo que resta de la tarde de hoy y la mañana del domingo". "No se descarta la probable caída de granizo y la ocurrencia de ráfagas de viento", completó la información oficial.
En tanto, las líneas C, la D y la H permanecen interrumpidas mientras que la B realizaba un recorrido reducido, producto de la copiosa lluvia que cae en la región metropolitana. Voceros de Metrovías confirmaron que la salida del servicio comenzó a las 17.45 y que aún no hay horario de restablecimiento del servicio.
En el caso de la línea B, el servicio se presta entre la cabecera Los Incas y la estación Medrano, consignaron los voceros consultados por esta agencia. | es | Varias esquinas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires se encuentran inundadas por una fuerte lluvia que se desató desde las 17.00 (hora local). Tras tres días de calor que llegaron a 40 °C de sensación térmica, el diluvio también provocó la interrupción de tres de las seis líneas de subte (metro), aunque una de ellas volvió a funcionar.
El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) emitió esta tarde un alerta meteorológico por "tormentas fuertes y probable caída de granizo" para la capital y las provincias de Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Entre Ríos y Santa Fe. Asimismo, el comunicado del SMN pronosticó granizo y ráfagas de viento para la tarde y noche y se extenderá hasta el domingo.
Los barrios más afectados por la lluvia son Palermo, Once (Balvanera) y Almagro. Por su parte, las líneas C y D de subte están interrumpidas y la línea E funciona con servicio reducido.
Se generaron interrupciones en el tránsito por las inundaciones en los barrios de Núñez, Belgrano, Constitución y La Boca. En éste último, se estaba jugando el partido entre Huracán y San Lorenzo, que se suspendió por el temporal. "En La Boca, hay calles con 40 centímetros de agua pero no hay evacuados", declaró el director de Defensa Civil (DC) de la Ciudad, Daniel Russo.
Durante la semana, se registraron las temperaturas más altas en lo que va del año. Esto provocó varios cortes de luz por el incremento del uso de energía que afectaron a 40 mil usuarios. |
en | Africa
TRIPOLI, Wednesday
Libya signed an agreement with Britain today to allow the transfer of prisoners between the two countries, a senior Libyan official said.
The agreement signed in Tripoli removes an obstacle to any future deal to repatriate Libyan Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in 2001 for the 1988 bombing of a U.S. airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.
All 259 people on board the Pan Am Boeing 747 en route from London to New York died, along with 11 people on the ground as a result of falling debris. Libya agreed in 2003 to pay compensation to families of the victims. | es | Libia y el Reino Unido firmaron un acuerdo sobre extradición entre ambos países, lo que abre la puerta para extraditar a Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, aprisionado en el Reino Unido como responsable del Atentado de Lockerbie de 1988. Además, ambos países contribuirán al mutuo desarrollo comercial, civil y penal.
En cumplimiento del acuerdo, Al-Megrahi, que terminaría de cumplir su sentencia en 2026 en la prisión de Greenock, cerca a Glasgow, podrá ser trasladado a Trípoli. Al-Megrahi, que siempre ha negado su participación en el atentado donde murieron 270 personas, solicitó la apelación de su sentencia, pues se le descubrió cáncer de próstata y le queda poco tiempo de vida. |
en | The Lockerbie bombing in 1988 killed 270 people
The UK has signed a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya, the Foreign Office has confirmed.
The agreement will allow the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing to apply to serve the rest of his sentence in a Libyan jail.
Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi, 57, who has prostate cancer, is currently being held in Greenock prison in Scotland.
He has begun a second appeal against his conviction for the 1988 attack on Pan AM Flight 103.
The BBC's North Africa correspondent, Rana Jawad, said the package treaty encompasses four agreements, including prisoner transfer, extradition, mutual legal assistance, and civil and commercial law.
Any possible transfer to a Libyan prison would depend on Megrahi dropping his current appeal, which is expected to last a year.
And any transfer would have to be decided by Scottish ministers, who would have the final say.
There has been no comment from Megrahi's legal team about whether they are to apply for him to be transferred to a Libyan jail.
Megrahi's second appeal is being heard by five judges in Edinburgh, headed by Scotland's senior judge, the Lord Justice General, Lord Hamilton.
He has already lost one appeal against his conviction for the 1988 atrocity in which 270 people died.
Since then he has been in prison in Scotland, and must remain in jail until at least 2026. | es | Libia y el Reino Unido firmaron un acuerdo sobre extradición entre ambos países, lo que abre la puerta para extraditar a Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, aprisionado en el Reino Unido como responsable del Atentado de Lockerbie de 1988. Además, ambos países contribuirán al mutuo desarrollo comercial, civil y penal.
En cumplimiento del acuerdo, Al-Megrahi, que terminaría de cumplir su sentencia en 2026 en la prisión de Greenock, cerca a Glasgow, podrá ser trasladado a Trípoli. Al-Megrahi, que siempre ha negado su participación en el atentado donde murieron 270 personas, solicitó la apelación de su sentencia, pues se le descubrió cáncer de próstata y le queda poco tiempo de vida. |
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Condenado libio apela sentencia por el atentado de Lockerbie
afrol News, 29 de Abril
El ciudadano libio, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, que fue condenado por el atentado de 1988 contra un avión sobre Lockerbie, Escocia, ha comenzado una apelación de su condena en un tribunal escocés. Megrahi fue encarcelado en 2001 por su papel en el ataque que mató a 270 personas.
El recurso presentado ante el Tribunal de Apelación de Edimburgo se espera que dure un mes, según han confirmado funcionarios del tribunal.
El caso ha llegado al tribunal de apelación en Edimburgo casi dos años después de que fuese remitido por la Comisión Escocesa de Revisión de Casos Criminales. La comisión ha planteado importantes dudas sobre la fiabilidad del testigo clave en el caso contra Megrahi.
En todo momento, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi ha negado por su parte cualquier implicación en el atentado.
El pasado mes de noviembre los jueces rechazaron una solicitud de Megrahi de ser puesto en libertad bajo fianza después de que se le hubiese diagnosticado un cáncer de próstata y un equipo de expertos médicos determinase que le queda poco tiempo de vida.
Un tribunal escocés en 2003 dictaminó que Megrahi debe cumplir al menos 27 años de su condena antes de tener derecho a la libertad condicional.
Libia ha aceptado oficialmente la responsabilidad por el atentado, aunque el líder libio Muammar Gaddafi posteriormente haya negado cualquier tipo de culpabilidad. El gobierno libio también ha acordado pagar 1.500 millones de dólares como indemnización a las víctimas del atentado.
Distintos analistas consideran que con ello, Libia ha superado el último obstáculo en la normalización plena de las relaciones entre Washington y Trípoli.
Estados Unidos y Libia restablecieron relaciones a comienzos de 2004 tras más de dos décadas, después de que Gadafi anunciase que Trípoli renunciaba a los esfuerzos para adquirir armas de destrucción en masa.
En 2006, EEUU anunció una plena normalización de relaciones, eliminando a Libia de la lista de estados terroristas y aumentando las relaciones diplomáticas a nivel de embajadores.
Por staff writer
© afrol News | es | Libia y el Reino Unido firmaron un acuerdo sobre extradición entre ambos países, lo que abre la puerta para extraditar a Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi, aprisionado en el Reino Unido como responsable del Atentado de Lockerbie de 1988. Además, ambos países contribuirán al mutuo desarrollo comercial, civil y penal.
En cumplimiento del acuerdo, Al-Megrahi, que terminaría de cumplir su sentencia en 2026 en la prisión de Greenock, cerca a Glasgow, podrá ser trasladado a Trípoli. Al-Megrahi, que siempre ha negado su participación en el atentado donde murieron 270 personas, solicitó la apelación de su sentencia, pues se le descubrió cáncer de próstata y le queda poco tiempo de vida. |
en | World to cool slightly in 2008: British experts
LONDON (AFP) — World temperatures will cool slightly in 2008, but it will remain among the top 10 hottest years on record, British weather experts predicted Thursday.
The impact of a strong La Nina climate pattern over the Pacific will help keep temperatures down, according to the annual forecast by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia.
Overall the global temperature is expected to be 0.37 degree Celsius above the long-term average of 14.0 degree, making it the coolest year since 2000 when the value was 0.24 degree C above the average.
"Phenomena such as El Nino and La Nina have a significant influence on global surface temperature and the current strong La Nina will act to limit temperatures in 2008," said Professor Chris Folland of the Met Office.
"However mean temperature is still expected to be significantly warmer than in 2000 ... Sharply renewed warming is likely once La Nina declines," he added.
The forecasts take into account El Nino and La Nina, ballooning greenhouse gas levels as well as solar effect and natural variations in the world's oceans.
The cooling comes against the background of an underlying warming trend, said Professor Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.
"The fact that 2008 is forecast to be cooler than any of the last seven years -- and that 2007 did not break the record warmth set on 1998 -- does not mean that global warming has gone away," he said.
"What matters is the underlying rate of warming -- the period 2001-2007 with an average of 0.44 degree Celsius above the 1961-90 average was 0.21 degree Celsius warmer than corresponding values for the period 1991-2000."
La Nina, effectively a drop in sea surface temperatures off the western coast of South America, can cause havoc with weather patterns in many parts of the globe.
El Nino, a warming of Pacific sea surface temperatures, was blamed for a lengthy drought in Australia, flooding in the Horn of Africa and Bolivia, and more severe winter monsoons in South Asia in 2006-2007. | es | El impacto climático del frío causado por "La Niña"
Meteorólogos británicos dijeron que las temperaturas globales serán ligeramente más frías este año, pero que 2008 será uno de los años más calurosos de la historia.
Expertos de la Oficina MET del Reino Unido y de la Universidad de Anglia Oriental pronosticaron este jueves que la temperatura de la superficie del planeta subirá 0,37 grados Celsius, el incremento más pequeño desde 2000.
Sin embargo, los expertos señalaron que este no es un signo de calentamiento global. Manifestaron además que 2008 será uno de los 10 años más calientes desde 1850, cuando que se comenzaron a guardar registros.
Los pronosticadores indicaron que el fenómeno del tiempo conocido como "La Niña", un descenso en las temperaturas de la superficie marítima, cerca de la Océano Pacífico sudamericano, será responsable del ligero enfriamiento de este año.
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pt | Um comandante de alto escalão da Guarda Revolucionária Islâmica do Irã foi morto em um ataque aéreo realizado pelos Estados Unidos em Bagdá, capital do Iraque.
A mídia estatal do Iraque relatou hoje (3) que o general Qassem Soleimani estava entre as vítimas do ataque, que teve como alvo o seu comboio, nas proximidades do Aeroporto de Bagdá.
O Departamento de Defesa dos EUA divulgou uma declaração na quinta-feira (2) informando que "sob o comando do presidente, as forças armadas dos EUA agiram defensivamente de forma decisiva, matando Qassem Soleimani para proteger os indivíduos americanos no exterior".
Soleimani era o comandante da unidade de elite Força Quds, uma brigada de forças especiais responsável por operações militares extraterritoriais do Irã que faz parte da Guarda Revolucionária Islâmica.
O líder supremo do Irã, o aiatolá Ali Khamenei, sugeriu medidas retaliatórias contra os Estados Unidos.
Khamenei disse que o assassinato do general Soleimani iria dobrar as motivações da resistência contra os Estados Unidos. Ele também disse que "uma retaliação severa espera aqueles que mataram Soleimani". | pt | O comandante da Guarda Revolucionária Islâmica no foi morto pelos durante um ataque aéreo na capital iraquiana de .
Hoje (3), a mídia oficial iraquiana informou que o general foi uma das vítimas do ataque, e o alvo do ataque era seu comboio perto do aeroporto de Bagdá.
O Departamento de Defesa dos EUA afirmou que "sob o comando do presidente, as forças armadas dos EUA agiram defensivamente de forma decisiva, matando Qassem Soleimani para proteger os indivíduos americanos no exterior".
O líder supremo do Irã, o aiatolá , fez críticas aos Estados Unidos e afirmou que "uma retaliação severa espera aqueles que mataram Soleimani". |
fr | VIDÉO - Alors qu'un cortège défilait samedi en hommage aux victimes de l'effondrement d'immeubles survenu lundi rue d'Aubagne, causant la mort de huit personnes, un morceau de balcon est tombé à quelques mètres de la foule.
Un morceau de balcon est tombé samedi après-midi à Marseille, alors que plusieurs milliers de personnes défilaient au même moment en hommage aux victimes de l'effondrement de deux immeubles vétustes du centre-ville. Trois personnes ont été blessées selon les informations de l'AFP.
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Deux personnes, une femme de 59 ans et un garçon de 7 ans, sont tombés du premier étage après l'effondrement d'environ 1 m2 de ce balcon, ont précisé les marins-pompiers, assurant que leur état de santé n'inspirait aucune inquiétude. Une femme de 24 ans a aussi été légèrement touchée en recevant un bloc de pierre sur le pied.
Par précaution, l'ensemble du bâtiment - apparemment en bon état général - a été évacué, même s'il est jugé satisfaisant, ont encore ajouté les marins-pompiers.
Plusieurs témoins ont décrit à l'AFP l'effondrement de cette partie de balcon d'un immeuble du boulevard Garibaldi, dont des images ont été largement partagées sur les réseaux sociaux.
L'état de nombreux immeubles à Marseille est au coeur des polémiques et des critiques depuis l'effondrement lundi de deux bâtiments vétustes du centre-ville, qui a fait 8 morts. Tout au long de la semaine, les critiques à l'égard de la gestion de Jean-Claude Gaudin (LR), aux manettes de la ville depuis plus de 20 ans, n'ont cessé de croître, à l'instar de Jean-Luc Mélenchon, député LFI des Bouches-du-Rhône, qui a dénoncé une forme d'«indifférence aux pauvres».
Plusieurs milliers de personnes ont défilé samedi à Marseille. CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP
Les manifestants ont exprimé leur colère contre le maire de Marseille Jean-Claude Gaudin, aux manettes de la ville depuis 23 ans. CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP
Samedi, les secours ont déclaré avoir la «certitude, avec le procureur» qu'il n'y a «aucune autre victime» dans les décombres des immeubles de la rue d'Aubagne. «Nous avons terminé les opérations de secours et de recherche», a précisé le vice-amiral Charles-Henri Garié, ajoutant qu'une soixantaine de marins-pompiers allaient rester sur place «pour aider les pauvres habitants évacués». | fr | Le mardi 5 novembre, au matin, dans le (quartier ), en France, deux immeubles comptant respectivement quatre et cinq étages situés au 63 et 65 se sont effondrés. Dans la soirée, un troisième immeuble (situé au 67) s'est partiellement effondré, et ce pendant que les secours intervenaient.
Le bilan s'élève à huit morts. Le nombre exact de personnes qui se trouvaient dans les bâtiments au moment du drame demeure inconnu. Jeudi 8, les opérations de recherche ont été suspendues pour la journée, parce qu'il était nécessaire de démolir deux autres bâtiments fragilisés par l'effondrement des immeubles voisins.
Pendant la marche blanche le samedi 10, un autre balcon s'est effondré partiellement, blessant plusieurs personnes. |
fr | Les recherches pour trouver d’autres victimes sous les décombres des immeubles qui se sont effondrés lundi à Marseille ont été suspendues provisoirement, pour des raisons de sécurité. Deux bâtiments voisins menacent de s’écrouler à leur tour, dans un effet dominos. Il faut donc les démolir avant de pouvoir reprendre les recherches, a annoncé Pierre Dartout, préfet de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, mercredi soir.
Six corps découverts
Les corps de quatre hommes et deux femmes ont déjà été retirés des décombres. Parmi ces victimes, trois ont été identifiées comme étant des locataires du 65 rue d’Aubagne, le seul des trois immeubles écroulés qui était officiellement habité au moment de la catastrophe, précise Franceinfo qui cite le procureur. Deux personnes pourraient encore se trouver sous les gravats.
Il reste très peu d’espoir de retrouver des survivants, 48 heures après la catastrophe.
Municipalité critiquée
Mercredi soir, une centaine de militants associatifs ont scandé "Gaudin, Fructus, assassins" - visant le maire et son adjointe au logement, Arlette Fructus -, en haut de la rue d'Aubagne. A quelques mètres, l'appel à participer à une réunion publique "des habitant.es et associations de Noailles" pour exiger "un toit digne pour toutes et tous" a aussi fait salle comble, a constaté un journaliste de l'AFP.
Plus généralement depuis lundi, de nombreux habitants du quartier - et des opposants politiques - critiquent l'action de la municipalité, qui a de son côté mis en avant les fortes pluies des derniers jours pour expliquer le drame, et aussi rappelé "l'énorme travail" réalisé pour l'éradication de l'habitat indigne. | fr | Le mardi 5 novembre, au matin, dans le (quartier ), en France, deux immeubles comptant respectivement quatre et cinq étages situés au 63 et 65 se sont effondrés. Dans la soirée, un troisième immeuble (situé au 67) s'est partiellement effondré, et ce pendant que les secours intervenaient.
Le bilan s'élève à huit morts. Le nombre exact de personnes qui se trouvaient dans les bâtiments au moment du drame demeure inconnu. Jeudi 8, les opérations de recherche ont été suspendues pour la journée, parce qu'il était nécessaire de démolir deux autres bâtiments fragilisés par l'effondrement des immeubles voisins.
Pendant la marche blanche le samedi 10, un autre balcon s'est effondré partiellement, blessant plusieurs personnes. |
fr | Deux passants, légèrement blessés, ont été transportés à l'hôpital, lundi. Des recherches sont en cours pour retrouver d'éventuelles victimes.
Deux immeubles d'habitation se sont effondrés, lundi 5 novembre, dans le centre-ville de Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). Deux passants ont été légèrement blessés et les marins-pompiers recherchent d'éventuelles victimes dans les décombres.
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Que s'est-il passé ?
Deux bâtiments de quatre et cinq étages, situés au 63 et 65 rue d'Aubagne, se sont effondrés, dans le quartier de Noailles, dans le 1er arrondissement, à Marseille, vers 9 heures, lundi matin. "J'habite juste à côté, je regardais la télé quand j'ai entendu un grand bruit, mais pas d'explosion, puis un nuage de fumée", raconte Antonio Dias, 30 ans, à l'AFP.
Une autre voisine, Sofia Benameur, a elle aussi entendu un bruit "qui faisait 'badaboum, badaboum' comme des pierres". "L'immeuble s'est effondré d'un bloc en quelques secondes. Je n'ai pas entendu le bruit d'une explosion", témoigne Djaffar Nour, qui faisait ses courses à quelques dizaines de mètres des bâtiments effondrés.
Y a-t-il des victimes ?
Deux passants, légèrement blessés, ont été transportés à l'hôpital. Des recherches sont en cours pour retrouver d'éventuelles victimes dans les décombres. En fin de matinée, plusieurs dizaines de marins-pompiers étaient mobilisés, "avec une équipe spécialisée sauvetage et déblaiement".
Les immeubles étaient-ils vétustes ?
Selon l'adjoint au maire de Marseille Julien Ruas, responsable du bataillon de marins-pompiers, l'un des deux immeubles faisait l'objet d'un arrêté de péril depuis "une dizaine de jours", en raison d'une "difficulté sur une cloison au 1er étage".
L'un des deux immeubles, le numéro 63, était "fermé", a assuré à la presse Julien Ruas. Mais "on doit voir s'il y a des gens sous les décombres du 65 rue d'Aubagne", a-t-il ajouté. "Dans le quartier, on dit qu'il y avait peut-être des squats", rapporte Guylaine Idoux, une riveraine contactée par franceinfo.
Un propriétaire d'un appartement au premier étage du numéro 65, Alexis Bonetto, a quant à lui affirmé à l'AFP que "des travaux étaient prévus cette semaine" : "Nous étions inquiets depuis deux-trois jours. Il y a eu un petit mouvement de terrain dans le week-end et du coup la porte d'entrée avait du mal à fermer". "C'était un immeuble ancien, construit il y a 200 ans, mais pas insalubre. Il avait été remis aux normes", a-t-il aussi assuré.
D'autres immeubles risquent-ils de s'écrouler ?
Deux autres bâtiments ont pu être fragilisés par l'effondrement de ces deux immeubles. Les autorités ont évacué "les quelque dizaines de personnes habitant dans les deux immeubles voisins", a aussi indiqué à l'AFP Philippe Bianchi, porte-parole de la police. "Structurellement, les immeubles à Marseille se tiennent les uns avec les autres donc on ne veut pas prendre de risque et on fait évacuer cet îlot", a expliqué Julien Ruas. "Nous sommes en train de mettre en place un diagnostic sur les immeubles voisins pour éviter ce qu'on appelle un effet domino lié aux effondrements", a précisé le ministre de l'Intérieur Christophe Castaner. | fr | Le mardi 5 novembre, au matin, dans le (quartier ), en France, deux immeubles comptant respectivement quatre et cinq étages situés au 63 et 65 se sont effondrés. Dans la soirée, un troisième immeuble (situé au 67) s'est partiellement effondré, et ce pendant que les secours intervenaient.
Le bilan s'élève à huit morts. Le nombre exact de personnes qui se trouvaient dans les bâtiments au moment du drame demeure inconnu. Jeudi 8, les opérations de recherche ont été suspendues pour la journée, parce qu'il était nécessaire de démolir deux autres bâtiments fragilisés par l'effondrement des immeubles voisins.
Pendant la marche blanche le samedi 10, un autre balcon s'est effondré partiellement, blessant plusieurs personnes. |
fr | Crédit Image : GERARD JULIEN / AFP | Crédit Média : RTL | Durée : 01:11 | Date : 05/11/2018
Marseille : deux immeubles se sont effondrés en plein centre-ville
publié le 05/11/2018 à 10:26
Effondrement d'immeuble à Marseille. La préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône et la police indiquent qu'un immeuble s'est effondré rue d'Aubagne, sans que l'on sache si d'éventuelles victimes se trouvaient à l'intérieur. Ensuite, l'AFP annonçait que deux immeubles mitoyens s'étaient effondrés, faisant deux blessés légers.
Sur les coups de 10h, les marins-pompiers ont déployé 40 hommes sur place ainsi que 18 véhicules afin de venir en aide aux éventuelles victimes. Pour le moment ce sont donc deux passants qui ont été légèrement touchés.
Les deux bâtiments de 4 et 5 étages ont été réduits en un tas de gravats, et selon les marins-pompiers, un troisième immeuble menaçait aussi de s'effondrer en suivant. Les constructions faisaient l'objet d'un arrêté en péril, a indiqué la municipalité.
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11h42 - Les recherches se poursuivent avec l'intervention des chiens des pompiers de Marseille
11h15 - Samia Ghali, sénatrice des Bouches-du-Rhône a réagi via son compte Twitter
¿ Effroi en centre ville de @marseille , où un immeuble vient de s’effondrer. Je prie pour qu’il n’y ait pas de blessés. Derrière la carte postale idyllique on mesure une fois de trop les échecs de la politique de l’habitat et du centre ville. ¿¿aux annonces place à l’action. pic.twitter.com/dv9nVDvsWP — Samia GHALI (@SamiaGhali) 5 novembre 2018
10h50 - Les secours ont indiqué à l'AFP que selon leurs informations, 12 personnes pourraient potentiellement vivre à ces adresses.
[intervention] 85 @MarinsPompiers @marseille dont équipe spécialisée #Usar / cyno engagés. 2 immeubles supplémentaires fragilisés. Cour Lieutaud fermé. 2 blessés légers pris en charge. Merci d'éviter le secteur. ¿¿ pic.twitter.com/RdimLTWahk — Marins-Pompiers (@MarinsPompiers) 5 novembre 2018
10h40 - Selon les marins-pompiers, un troisième immeuble mitoyen menaçait aussi de s'effondrer, indique l'AFP.
#Marseille Immeuble effondré
Coordination des secours Marins-pompiers et Police
Secteur saturé.
Cours Lieutaud fermé à circulation.
Évitez le secteur.
PRIORITÉ SECOURS pic.twitter.com/POrwGjCdWW — Police nationale 13 (@PoliceNat13) 5 novembre 2018
10h30 - L'AFP confirme que deux immeubles mitoyens se sont effondrés, faisant deux victimes légères parmi les passants.
10h15 - Plusiuers médias indiquent que ce sont deux immeubles qui se sont effondrés rue d'Aubagne.
10h05 - Un immeuble s'est effondré en plein centre-ville de Marseille, indique la préfecture des Bouches-du-Rhône
¿ URGENT - Effondrement d'un immeuble rue d'Aubagne à #Marseille. Aucune information sur de potentielles victimes. @Prefet13 ouvre immédiatement une cellule de suivi à la préfecture avec @prefpolice13 et @MarinsPompiers
Évitez le secteur ! Priorité aux secours ! pic.twitter.com/lllhHWStJM — Préfet de la région PACA et des Bouches-du-Rhône (@Prefet13) 5 novembre 2018 | fr | Le mardi 5 novembre, au matin, dans le (quartier ), en France, deux immeubles comptant respectivement quatre et cinq étages situés au 63 et 65 se sont effondrés. Dans la soirée, un troisième immeuble (situé au 67) s'est partiellement effondré, et ce pendant que les secours intervenaient.
Le bilan s'élève à huit morts. Le nombre exact de personnes qui se trouvaient dans les bâtiments au moment du drame demeure inconnu. Jeudi 8, les opérations de recherche ont été suspendues pour la journée, parce qu'il était nécessaire de démolir deux autres bâtiments fragilisés par l'effondrement des immeubles voisins.
Pendant la marche blanche le samedi 10, un autre balcon s'est effondré partiellement, blessant plusieurs personnes. |
fr | FAITS DIVERS Deux immeubles se sont entièrement effondrés ce lundi matin dans le centre-ville de Marseille, rue d'Aubagne..
Deux immeubles se sont effondrés rue d'Aubagne — J. Saint-Marc / 20 Minutes
Deux immeubles se sont écroulés ce lundi matin vers 9 h 10 dans le 1er arrondissement de Marseille, a appris 20 Minutes de source policière.
Les immeubles en question occupent la rue d'Aubagne, plus précisément du numéro 63 au 65, dans le quartier populaire de Noailles. D’après les marins-pompiers, citant le syndic de ces bâtiments, ces immeubles pourraient abriter jusqu'à douze personnes. Un troisième immeuble menace de s’effondrer. La rue d’Aubagne est totalement coupée afin de permettre l’intervention des secours.
Le drame a fait au moins deux blessés légers, selon l’AFP. Quarante marins-pompiers et 18 véhicules sont sur place. Des chiens de recherches ont été également mobilisés pour fouiller les décombres. La mairie avait signé il y a dix jours un arrêté de péril pour le 65 pour un problème de cloison, indique une source municipale à 20 Minutes.
| fr | Le mardi 5 novembre, au matin, dans le (quartier ), en France, deux immeubles comptant respectivement quatre et cinq étages situés au 63 et 65 se sont effondrés. Dans la soirée, un troisième immeuble (situé au 67) s'est partiellement effondré, et ce pendant que les secours intervenaient.
Le bilan s'élève à huit morts. Le nombre exact de personnes qui se trouvaient dans les bâtiments au moment du drame demeure inconnu. Jeudi 8, les opérations de recherche ont été suspendues pour la journée, parce qu'il était nécessaire de démolir deux autres bâtiments fragilisés par l'effondrement des immeubles voisins.
Pendant la marche blanche le samedi 10, un autre balcon s'est effondré partiellement, blessant plusieurs personnes. |
de | DeMarcus Cousins hat in der NBA zum wiederholten Mal für Negativschlagzeilen gesorgt. Der Center der Sacramento Kings wurde für eine Partie gesperrt, weil er seinen Gegenspieler Patrick Beverley von den Houston Rockets in die Magengegend geschlagen und anschließend auch noch den Schiedsrichter beleidigt hatte. Außerdem er nach seiner Hinausstellung nicht schnell genug das Feld. "Ich bin selbst davon enttäuscht, wie ich mich heute verhalten habe. Ich möchte mich bei den Fans und beim Team entschuldigen, weil ich sie im Stich gelassen habe", schrieb Cousins, der auch 20.000 Dollar Strafe zahlen muss. | de | Wie ein FDP-Sprecher bestätigte hat die Düsseldorfer Substantia AG eine Spende an die „Freien Demokraten“ in Höhe von 1,1 Millionen Euro geleistet. Die Spende wurde während der Jahre 2008 und 2009 in drei Raten gestückelt. Miteigentümer der Substantia AG ist August Baron von Finck, einer der reichsten Männer Deutschlands und Mitbesitzer der Mövenpick-Gruppe, die in Deutschland 14 Hotels betreibt. Die Spende ist eine der höchsten Einzelspenden an eine politische Partei in Deutschland.
Die Oppositionsparteien im Deutschen Bundestag sehen einen Zusammenhang zu dem besonderen politischen Einsatz der FDP für eine Senkung des Mehrwertsteuersatzes auf Hotel-Übernachtungen von 19 auf 7 Prozent, die die FDP in den Koalitionsverhandlungen mit der CDU und CSU durchgesetzt hatte. Die Steuersenkung für Hotels wurde dann im Rahmen des sogenannten Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetzes vom Bundestag beschlossen. Es trat am 1. Januar 2010 in Kraft. SPD und Grüne werfen der FDP in diesem Zusammenhang Lobbyismus und Klientelpolitik vor. Die Fraktionsvorsitzende der Grünen im Deutschen Bundestag, Renate Künast, sagte: „Auf der einen Seite wird die Mehrwertsteuer für Hotels reduziert, auf der anderen Seite erhält die FDP eine Millionenspende aus der Branche.“ Ähnlich äußerte sich der stellvertretende SPD-Fraktionsvorsitzende Joachim Poß: Die FDP betreibe „Politik für bestimmte Wählergruppen, um deren Spenden abzugreifen“. Die FDP wies einen solchen politischen Zusammenhang zurück. |
de | SPD und Grüne empört über Großspende an FDP aus Hotelbranche
Berlin — SPD und Grüne haben sich empört über eine millionenschwere Unternehmensspende an die FDP aus der Hotelbranche geäußert. Politiker beider Parteien brachten dies in Zusammenhang mit den von Union und FDP zum Jahresbeginn durchgesetzten Steuersenkungen für Hoteliers. Zuvor war bekannt geworden, dass die FDP zwischen 2008 und 2009 insgesamt 1,1 Millionen Euro von der Düsseldorfer Substantia AG bekommen hatte.
Ein FDP-Sprecher bestätigte die Summe, die in mehreren Teilen gezahlt worden sei. Nach einem Bericht des "Spiegel" ist es eine der höchsten Parteispenden in der FDP-Geschichte. Die Substantia AG gehört nach "Spiegel"-Informationen zum Imperium von August Baron von Finck. Die Familie Finck ist Miteigentümerin der Mövenpick Gruppe, die in Deutschland 14 Hotels betreibt.
"Jetzt ist die FDP eine käufliche Partei", sagte SPD-Parlamentsgeschäfsführer Thomas Oppermann am Rande einer Klausurtagung seiner Partei in Berlin. Er stellte damit einen direkten Zusammenhang zu dem am 1. Januar auch auf Betreiben der FDP in Kraft getretenen Gesetz über eine reduzierte Mehrwertsteuer für das Hotelgewerbe her.
Der rheinland-pfälzische Ministerpräsident Kurt Beck äußerte sich "erschrocken" über den Vorgang. Er nannte es eine "neue Qualität" und ein "Warnzeichen", wenn der Eindruck entstehe, "dass diejenigen, die an bestimmten politischen Entscheidungen interessiert sind, dieses Wohlverhalten belohnen mit Parteispenden". SPD-Fraktionsvize Joachim Poß erklärte, die FDP mache "Politik nur für bestimmte Wählergruppen, um deren Spenden abzugreifen".
Auch Grünen-Fraktionschefin Renate Künast warf der FDP Lobbyismus und Klientelpolitik vor. "Auf der einen Seite wird die Mehrwertsteuer für Hotels reduziert, auf der anderen Seite erhält die FDP eine Millionenspende aus der Branche", kritisierte die Grünen-Politikerin.
Der FDP-Sprecher wies dagegen einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Spende und der Mehrwertsteuer-Entscheidung zurück. Er betonte, die Spende sei Bundestagspräsident Norbert Lammert (CDU) ordnungsgemäß angezeigt worden.
Copyright © 2010 AFP. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Mehr » | de | Wie ein FDP-Sprecher bestätigte hat die Düsseldorfer Substantia AG eine Spende an die „Freien Demokraten“ in Höhe von 1,1 Millionen Euro geleistet. Die Spende wurde während der Jahre 2008 und 2009 in drei Raten gestückelt. Miteigentümer der Substantia AG ist August Baron von Finck, einer der reichsten Männer Deutschlands und Mitbesitzer der Mövenpick-Gruppe, die in Deutschland 14 Hotels betreibt. Die Spende ist eine der höchsten Einzelspenden an eine politische Partei in Deutschland.
Die Oppositionsparteien im Deutschen Bundestag sehen einen Zusammenhang zu dem besonderen politischen Einsatz der FDP für eine Senkung des Mehrwertsteuersatzes auf Hotel-Übernachtungen von 19 auf 7 Prozent, die die FDP in den Koalitionsverhandlungen mit der CDU und CSU durchgesetzt hatte. Die Steuersenkung für Hotels wurde dann im Rahmen des sogenannten Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetzes vom Bundestag beschlossen. Es trat am 1. Januar 2010 in Kraft. SPD und Grüne werfen der FDP in diesem Zusammenhang Lobbyismus und Klientelpolitik vor. Die Fraktionsvorsitzende der Grünen im Deutschen Bundestag, Renate Künast, sagte: „Auf der einen Seite wird die Mehrwertsteuer für Hotels reduziert, auf der anderen Seite erhält die FDP eine Millionenspende aus der Branche.“ Ähnlich äußerte sich der stellvertretende SPD-Fraktionsvorsitzende Joachim Poß: Die FDP betreibe „Politik für bestimmte Wählergruppen, um deren Spenden abzugreifen“. Die FDP wies einen solchen politischen Zusammenhang zurück. |
de | Berlin (Reuters) - Nach dem Bekanntwerden einer Millionenspende an die FDP haben die Sozialdemokraten eine Obergrenze für Zuwendungen an Parteien gefordert.
SPD-Vizefraktionschef Joachim Poß warf den Liberalen am Sonntag vor, sie machten "Politik für bestimmte Wählergruppen, um deren Spenden abzugreifen". Ebenso habe die CSU bei der Absenkung der Erbschaftsteuer in den Koalitionsverhandlungen des schwarz-gelben Bündnisses nur die Interessen der Erben von hohen Millionenvermögen verfolgt. "CSU und FDP sind in den vergangenen Jahren offensichtlich zu reinen Lobbyistenvereinen degeneriert", erklärte Poß. Notwendig sei eine umfassende Debatte über die Parteienfinanzierung. "Dazu gehört auch die Begrenzung der Höhe von Parteispenden."
Der SPD-Finanzexperte reagierte damit auf einen Bericht des Magazins der "Spiegel", dass die Düsseldorfer Substantia AG der FDP zwischen Oktober 2008 und Oktober 2009 Spenden in Höhe von 1,1 Millionen Euro überwiesen habe. Die Firma gehöre zur Unternehmensgruppe von August Baron von Finck, dessen Familie Miteigentümer der Mövenpick-Gruppe mit 14 Hotels in Deutschland sei. In dem Bericht wurde dies mit dem Hinweis verbunden, dass die FDP in den Koalitionsverhandlungen durchgesetzt hatte, den Mehrwertsteuersatz für Hotelübernachtungen mit Beginn dieses Jahres von 19 auf sieben Prozent zu senken.
Ein FDP-Sprecher bestätigte die Summe der Spenden. Diese stünden aber in keinem Zusammenhang mit dem Hotelbonus. "Einen Zusammenhang mit diesem Bestandteil des Entlastungsgesetzes muss ich zurückweisen", sagte FDP-Sprecher Wulf Oehme.
Bei "Spiegel-Online" hieß es, auch die CSU, die sich ebenfalls für die Mehrwertsteuersenkung starkgemacht hatte, habe Spenden von der Milliardärsfamilie erhalten. Nach früheren Recherchen der "Süddeutschen Zeitung" habe die Familie Finck kurz vor der bayerischen Landtagswahl 2008 an die CSU zwei Spenden von 430.000 Euro und 390.000 Euro überwiesen. | de | Wie ein FDP-Sprecher bestätigte hat die Düsseldorfer Substantia AG eine Spende an die „Freien Demokraten“ in Höhe von 1,1 Millionen Euro geleistet. Die Spende wurde während der Jahre 2008 und 2009 in drei Raten gestückelt. Miteigentümer der Substantia AG ist August Baron von Finck, einer der reichsten Männer Deutschlands und Mitbesitzer der Mövenpick-Gruppe, die in Deutschland 14 Hotels betreibt. Die Spende ist eine der höchsten Einzelspenden an eine politische Partei in Deutschland.
Die Oppositionsparteien im Deutschen Bundestag sehen einen Zusammenhang zu dem besonderen politischen Einsatz der FDP für eine Senkung des Mehrwertsteuersatzes auf Hotel-Übernachtungen von 19 auf 7 Prozent, die die FDP in den Koalitionsverhandlungen mit der CDU und CSU durchgesetzt hatte. Die Steuersenkung für Hotels wurde dann im Rahmen des sogenannten Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetzes vom Bundestag beschlossen. Es trat am 1. Januar 2010 in Kraft. SPD und Grüne werfen der FDP in diesem Zusammenhang Lobbyismus und Klientelpolitik vor. Die Fraktionsvorsitzende der Grünen im Deutschen Bundestag, Renate Künast, sagte: „Auf der einen Seite wird die Mehrwertsteuer für Hotels reduziert, auf der anderen Seite erhält die FDP eine Millionenspende aus der Branche.“ Ähnlich äußerte sich der stellvertretende SPD-Fraktionsvorsitzende Joachim Poß: Die FDP betreibe „Politik für bestimmte Wählergruppen, um deren Spenden abzugreifen“. Die FDP wies einen solchen politischen Zusammenhang zurück. |
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Koforidua, GNA - Ghanaians have been re-assured that the Electoral Commission (EC), is working around the clock to meet its statutory obligations of conducting the 2008 Election to avoid any constitutional crisis. | en | The first female Chief Justice of Ghana, Georgina Theodora Wood was among 77 others who received national awards in Accra today. The awards are for distinguished services to Ghana.
Georgina Wood, who became Chief Justice on June 15, 2007, received her award from President John Kufuor. She was given the ''Order of the Star of Ghana'', the nation's highest award. Two others who received this award as well were Dr Paul Acquah, Governor of the Bank of Ghana and the Omanhene (King) of the Juaben Traditional Area, Nana Otuo Serebour II, a former head of Ghana's Statistical Service, for his contribution to industry and public service (traditional category).
President Kufuor is quoted as saying at the award ceremony that "Like the Olympic medalist, we should seek to surpass existing limits to set new records hitherto deemed unattainable. This way, Africa, including Ghana, can excel in the competition and thereby carve a dignified niche for itself in the Global Village."
As Dr. Paul Acquah received the award, the audience shouted "The value is the same" which is the catchphrase for the Ghanaian cedi redenomination in process at present. Nana Otuo Serebour did a short Adowa dance much to the admiration of the audience. The loudest ovation was however reserved for Georgina Wood as she received her award. Professor Atukwei Okai, a writer, poet and educationist, recited a poem which translates as "You are because we are".
Other awards given out were the in the Order of the Volta (Companion), Order of the Volta (Member) and the Grand Medal categories. Among the winners were Paul Victor Obeng, influential member of Jerry Rawlings' military government in the 1990s, Dr G.K. Agama, a former governor of the Bank of Ghana, Ike Quartey, former WBA welterweight champion. Some popular musicians, including Nana Kwame Ampadu, Kofi Ghanaba, Diana Akiwumi, Pat Thomas and Sidiku Buari also received honours. |
en | Ghana's first female Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood and 77 other individuals have been awarded state honours for their distinguished service to the nation.
Chief Justice Wood together with the Omanhene of Juaben Traditional Area, Nana Otuo Serebour II and the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Paul Acquah, received the Order of the Star of Ghana, the highest state honour.
The other awards were in three categories, Order of the Volta (Companion), Order of the Volta (Member) and the Grand Medal.
The recipients cut across all fields of human endeavour, including politics, education, public service, medicine, industry and commerce, religion, social service, arts, music and sports.
President John Agyekum Kufuor called for dedicated and selfless service from all Ghanaians to enhance national productivity.
He said they should accept at all times, to strive to outdo themselves.
"Like the Olympic medallist, we should seek to surpass existing limits to set new records hitherto deemed unattainable. This way, Africa, including Ghana, can excel in the competition and thereby carve a dignified niche for itself in the Global Village."
President Kufuor noted that inherent in the present world of globalisation, were myriads of opportunities, which were not restricted to Ghanaians or Africans alone but open to others around the globe.
The ability to take full advantage of these opportunities, he said, demanded best skills, self-application and innovative thinking.
President Kufuor said Government would continue to acknowledge those who excelled in their fields of endeavour and expressed the hope this would inspire all to do their best in the service to their communities and the nation.
Nana Otuo Serebour said it was their expectation that as a nation "we shall continue to strive towards creating a national environment that nurtures creativity, rewards risks and encourages excellence".
Among the winners were Professor F.O. Kwami, former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Jones Ofori Atta, Economist and Politician, Dr G.K. Agama, Banker, Mr Paul Victor Obeng, Politician, Professor Akilagpa Sawyer, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon, the Reverend Professor E. Addo-Obeng, Vice Chancellor, Cape Coast University, Naa Professor J.S. Nabila, Traditional Ruler and Educationist, and Mr Kwaku Owusu, alias "Kowus", an Industrialist.
The others were Professor S. Ofosu Amaah, Medicine, Professor Holdbrooke-Smith, Orthopaedic Specialist, Dr Edward Atterh Narh, Physician Narh Beta Clinic, Ms Alice Darkoa Asare, President of the Ghana Registered Nurses Association, Mr Smart Y. A. Chigabatia, Civil Servants Association, Professor Atukwei Okai, Writer, Poet and Educationist, Mr Freddie Blay, Politician, Mr K.S.P Juantuah, Politician, Nana Kwame Ampadu, Musician and Ike Quartey, Boxer.
Source: GNA | en | The first female Chief Justice of Ghana, Georgina Theodora Wood was among 77 others who received national awards in Accra today. The awards are for distinguished services to Ghana.
Georgina Wood, who became Chief Justice on June 15, 2007, received her award from President John Kufuor. She was given the ''Order of the Star of Ghana'', the nation's highest award. Two others who received this award as well were Dr Paul Acquah, Governor of the Bank of Ghana and the Omanhene (King) of the Juaben Traditional Area, Nana Otuo Serebour II, a former head of Ghana's Statistical Service, for his contribution to industry and public service (traditional category).
President Kufuor is quoted as saying at the award ceremony that "Like the Olympic medalist, we should seek to surpass existing limits to set new records hitherto deemed unattainable. This way, Africa, including Ghana, can excel in the competition and thereby carve a dignified niche for itself in the Global Village."
As Dr. Paul Acquah received the award, the audience shouted "The value is the same" which is the catchphrase for the Ghanaian cedi redenomination in process at present. Nana Otuo Serebour did a short Adowa dance much to the admiration of the audience. The loudest ovation was however reserved for Georgina Wood as she received her award. Professor Atukwei Okai, a writer, poet and educationist, recited a poem which translates as "You are because we are".
Other awards given out were the in the Order of the Volta (Companion), Order of the Volta (Member) and the Grand Medal categories. Among the winners were Paul Victor Obeng, influential member of Jerry Rawlings' military government in the 1990s, Dr G.K. Agama, a former governor of the Bank of Ghana, Ike Quartey, former WBA welterweight champion. Some popular musicians, including Nana Kwame Ampadu, Kofi Ghanaba, Diana Akiwumi, Pat Thomas and Sidiku Buari also received honours. |
en | General News of Friday, 15 June 2007 Kpegah urges new Chief Justice to unite judges Accra June 15, GNA - Mr. Justice Francis Y. Kpegah, Acting Chief Justice on Friday handed over the Scale of Justice to Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood, the first female Chief Justice of Ghana in Accra to symbolize her authority.
He urged her to endeavour to unite Justices of the Superior and Lower courts.
Mr. Justice Kpegah called for teamwork to enable the courts influence public policy through its judgements.
Handing over the mantle at the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Kpegah said his brief occupancy of seat in the judiciary opened his eyes to a lot of disappointment of a large number of staff who had complained of victimisation in various forms and reasons.
Mrs Justice Wood was appointed to succeed the late Chief Justice George Kingsley Acquah, who died early this year. Mr. Justice Kpegah called for the immediate solutions to all the complaints on victimisation and discrimination and asked judges not to keep their thoughts to themselves.
"It should be possible for one judge to say in his or her judgment that he has read the judgement of another judge and that he or she disagrees on this or that issue and proceed to state his or her own views without any offence to the other colleague.
"This would only go a long way to enrich the development of the law," he said.
Hugging and offering his shoulder for the new Chief Justice to lean on, Mr. Justice Kpegah further suggested the re-introduction of the criminal assizes, which he noted, was one of the ways of combating the current crime wave.
Mr. Justice Kpegah said Mrs. Justice Wood, the 24th Chief Justice and first female Chief Justice was more qualified and experienced to appreciate the demands of her office.
He said her success would depend on how effectively and efficiently she combined her administrative role and judicial functions. "I believe with your qualities, it will not be an unattainable feat..... you have my shoulder to lean on," he added. Mr. Justice Kpegah expressed concern about the gradual surrender of Ghana's values to foreign values, adding, all those were "furiously consuming the morals of the youth, all in the name of freedom." Accepting the mantle, Mrs Justice Wood said leadership was not just about vision and strategies but having relevant persons to join as partners to bring ones dream to reality.
"My earnest prayer therefore, is that we work as a team to achieve the objectives of the judiciary."
Overwhelmed by the support shown over the past weeks, the Chief Justice said it was her prayer that "all these deeds of kindness will be translated into real and concrete work."
Touching on the current disturbing criticisms about the judiciary, Mrs Justice Wood urged all to make integrity their priority in order to redeem the image of the system.
"However big the head, it must stand on the body. I need your support and with God's guidance, I will be able to discharge my duties and responsibilities as Chief Justice of our nation."
She assured the staff that issues pertaining to their welfare, emoluments and promotion would be attended without delay. Mr. Kwame Osei Prempeh, Deputy Minister of Justice and Attorney General expressed government's appreciation to Mr. Justice Kpegah for holding the fort, adding that the days of the Acting Chief Justice were fruitful.
He said Mr. Justice Kpegah had laudable ideas, which needed to be passed on to the new Chief Justice.
He said government was ready to support Mrs Justice Wood in order to build a "judiciary that we can all lean on." Mr. Solomon Kwami Tetteh, President of the Ghana Bar Association congratulated the Chief Justice on her assumption of office and reminded her of the heavy task ahead.
"The seat is hot, but you can count on the bar's support and cooperation, call on us at all time and we will come," he said. In attendance were Justices of the superior and lower courts, members of the General Legal Council, members of the Judicial Council. Others were Mr. Peter Ala Adjetey former Speaker of Parliament and Dr (Nana) S.K.B. Asante, a legal expert.
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Send Your Comment | en | The first female Chief Justice of Ghana, Georgina Theodora Wood was among 77 others who received national awards in Accra today. The awards are for distinguished services to Ghana.
Georgina Wood, who became Chief Justice on June 15, 2007, received her award from President John Kufuor. She was given the ''Order of the Star of Ghana'', the nation's highest award. Two others who received this award as well were Dr Paul Acquah, Governor of the Bank of Ghana and the Omanhene (King) of the Juaben Traditional Area, Nana Otuo Serebour II, a former head of Ghana's Statistical Service, for his contribution to industry and public service (traditional category).
President Kufuor is quoted as saying at the award ceremony that "Like the Olympic medalist, we should seek to surpass existing limits to set new records hitherto deemed unattainable. This way, Africa, including Ghana, can excel in the competition and thereby carve a dignified niche for itself in the Global Village."
As Dr. Paul Acquah received the award, the audience shouted "The value is the same" which is the catchphrase for the Ghanaian cedi redenomination in process at present. Nana Otuo Serebour did a short Adowa dance much to the admiration of the audience. The loudest ovation was however reserved for Georgina Wood as she received her award. Professor Atukwei Okai, a writer, poet and educationist, recited a poem which translates as "You are because we are".
Other awards given out were the in the Order of the Volta (Companion), Order of the Volta (Member) and the Grand Medal categories. Among the winners were Paul Victor Obeng, influential member of Jerry Rawlings' military government in the 1990s, Dr G.K. Agama, a former governor of the Bank of Ghana, Ike Quartey, former WBA welterweight champion. Some popular musicians, including Nana Kwame Ampadu, Kofi Ghanaba, Diana Akiwumi, Pat Thomas and Sidiku Buari also received honours. |
fr | International Génocide en Ossétie du Sud: Kokoïty accuse les Etats-Unis, Israël et l'Ukraine 20:51 MOSCOU, 27 juillet - RIA Novosti. Le président sud-ossète Edouard Kokoïty a qualifié dans un entretien accordé en exclusivité lundi à la chaîne de télévision Russia Today les Etats-Unis, Israël et l'Ukraine de responsables du génocide du peuple sud-ossète car ces pays continuent d'armer la Géorgie. L'Ossétie du Sud est la victime d'une guerre informationnelle menée sur instruction directe de rédactions occidentales, a-t-il encore déclaré. Aujourd'hui, le potentiel militaire de la Géorgie est plus fort qu'en août 2008. La Géorgie est réarmée, des exercices sur son territoire sont très fréquents et c'est un des pays les plus militarisés du monde, a constaté M.Kokoïty. A plusieurs reprises, a poursuivi le président sud-ossète, il a invité les ambassadeurs américain, britannique, italien, allemand accrédités en Géorgie à se rendre en Ossétie du Sud pour leur exprimer sa préoccupation face à la militarisation de la Géorgie. Mais le gouvernement des Etats-Unis a déclaré de son côté que les armes américaines livrées en Géorgie ne seraient jamais utilisées contre l'Ossétie du Sud et l'Abkhazie. Quant aux représentants de l'Union européenne et de l'OSCE, "ils ont quitté lâchement Tskhinval à quelques heures de l'agression (géorgienne)", refusant de prêter l'oreille aux préoccupations sud-ossètes. "Les Etats-Unis, l'Ukraine et Israël assument une immense responsabilité pour le génocide des Ossètes du Sud. Et ils continueront d'être responsables s'ils ne renoncent pas à leur stratégie de réarmement de la Géorgie", a conclu M.Kokoïty.
envoyez par e-mail retour à la page d'accueil | fr | Le président sud-ossète Edouard Kokoïty a qualifié dans un entretien accordé en exclusivité lundi à la chaîne de télévision Russia Today les États-Unis, Israël et l'Ukraine de responsables du génocide du peuple sud-ossète car ces pays continuent d'armer la Géorgie.
, a-t-il encore déclaré.
, a déclaré M. Kokoïty.
À plusieurs reprises, a poursuivi le président sud-ossète, il a invité les ambassadeurs américain, britannique, italien, allemand accrédités en Géorgie à se rendre en Ossétie du Sud pour leur exprimer sa préoccupation face à la militarisation de la Géorgie. Mais le gouvernement des États-Unis a déclaré de son côté que les armes américaines livrées en Géorgie ne seraient jamais utilisées contre l'Ossétie du Sud et l'Abkhazie.
Quant aux représentants de l'Union européenne et de l'OSCE, , refusant de prêter l'oreille aux préoccupations sud-ossètes.
, a conclu M.Kokoïty.
La République d'Ossétie du Sud, et donc la légitimité de son président, n'est actuellement reconnue que par deux pays : la Russie et le Nicaragua. |
pl | Pożegnania, (Japonia 2008) reż. Yôjirô Takita, godz. 21.00, Scena letnia
Zdolny wiolonczelista Daigo Kobayashi traci pracę, gdy rozwiązuje się jego orkiestra. Wraca wraz z żoną do rodzinnego miasteczka, żeby znaleźć inne zajęcie i rozpocząć nowe życie. Odpowiada na ogłoszenie zatytułowane „Okuribito” (ang. „Departures”) sądząc, że chodzi o pracę w agencji turystycznej. Okazuje się, że to praca w domu pogrzebowym i Daigo zostaje tzw. „nokanshi" (osobą, która składa ciało zmarłego do trumny). Choć otoczenie patrzy niechętnie na jego nowe zajęcie, Daigo odnajduje się w nowej roli i uczy się przy tym odkrywać radość i piękno życia.
Wszyscy – wierzący czy nie – bierzemy udział w dziesiątkach rytuałów, które ludziom z innych części świata mogą wydać się co najmniej dziwaczne. Otaczamy nimi tak wiele wydarzeń w naszym życiu: narodziny, śluby, śmierci, dziesiątki świąt świeckich i kościelnych czy nawet zupełnie osobiste rocznice.
Skąd wzięła się w nas potrzeba rytuałów? Czy posiadamy w mózgu jakiś „ośrodek rytuału”, który odpowiadałby za to, że trwonimy czas na dziesiątkach czynności o trudnym do wytłumaczenia znaczeniu? Na pierwszy rzut oka tak właśnie mogłoby się wydawać. Upodobanie do rytuałów bowiem jest cechą niezwykle ludzką. Każda społeczność posiada swoje rytuały i – jak wykazało wielu badaczy – łączy je wiele cech wspólnych. Przed filmem porozmawiamy z prof. Małgorzatą Szpakowską o genezie rytuałów i ich wpływie na kształt naszej kultury.
prof. em. dr hab. Małgorzata Szpakowska - wykładowca w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, członek PEN-Clubu, wieloletni współpracownik miesięcznika „Dialog”. Jej główne pola zainteresowań to historia idei, antropologia ciała oraz historia kultury XX wieku.
Spotkanie poprowadzi Olga Woźniak.
Film „Pożegnania” został nagrodzony w 2009 roku Oscarem dla najlepszego filmu nieanglojęzycznego oraz zdobył 10 Nagród Japońskiej Akademii Filmowej.
Wszystkie seanse kina letniego odbywają się w piątki o godz. 21.00 w Parku Odkrywców. W przypadku złej pogody projekcja filmu zostanie przeniesiona do budynku CNK.
Wstęp na wszystkie seanse jest bezpłatny. | pl | 200px
'''3 sierpnia 2012 o godz. 21:00 w Parku Odkrywców rozpocznie się pokaz filmu Władca much.'''
Projekcja ma być poprzedzona spotkaniem z dr. Marcinem Sińczuchem prowadzonym przez Olgę Woźniak. W przypadku złej pogody pokaz ma zostać przeniesiony do budynku Centrum Nauki Kopernik.
Marcin Sińczuch jest socjologiem z Instytutu Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego pracującym w Ośrodku Badań Młodzieży ISNS UW. Zajmuje się zmianami społecznymi, cyklami życiowymi, europejską polityką młodzieżową, socjologią młodzieży, metodologią, antropologią kulturową, ewolucją i antropologią fizyczną
Jest to piąty z ośmiu filmów jakie mają zostać wyemitowane w ramach kina letniego „Smutek tropików” przez Centrum Nauki Kopernik. W 2011 roku również odbywały się pokazy organizowane przez CNK (Centrum Nauki Kopernik w Warszawie uruchamia kino plenerowe). |
pt | quarta-feira, 1 de julho de 2009, 17:33 | Online
Líder deposto de Honduras adia plano de voltar ao país Zelaya diz que esperará até sábado, quando expira prazo da OEA para retorno dele ao poder.
Da BBC Brasil em Washington - O presidente deposto de Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, disse nesta quarta-feira que adiou seu plano de voltar ao país centro-americano até sábado.
Zelaya, que pretendia viajar para Honduras nesta quinta-feira, afirmou que irá esperar o fim do prazo dado pela Organização de Estados Americanos (OEA), que deu um ultimato de 72 horas para que o governo interino hondurenho reconduza Zelaya ao poder.
Pelos termos do documento divulgado pela OEA nesta quarta-feira, caso o governo interino hondurenho não reconduza Zelaya à Presidência, Honduras poderá ser expulsa da entidade.
A organização, sediada em Washington, realizou uma reunião de emergência na terça-feira, que contou com a presença de Zelaya. Antes de participar do encontro, o líder hondurenho discursou na sede da ONU, em Nova York.
Em Washington, Zelaya se encontrou com representantes do Departamento de Estado americano - o secretário-assistente e para Assuntos do Hemisfério Ocidental, Thomas Shannon, e Dan Restrepo, o principal assessor para a América Latina, do Conselho de Segurança Nacional.
Legitimidade
Zelaya foi afastado do poder no domingo, quando um grupo invadiu o Palácio Presidencial e obrigou o presidente a embarcar em um avião rumo à Costa Rica.
No lugar de Zelaya, os legisladores hondurenhos empossaram como presidente interino o então líder do Congresso, Roberto Micheletti.
A deposição do presidente hondurenho eleito foi condenada por todos os governos latino-americanos, pela ONU e pelos países que integram a OEA, que se recusaram a reconhecer o novo governo interino.
Diversos governos retiraram os seus embaixadores de Honduras. O Itamaraty informou que o representante brasileiro no país, que se encontra em Brasília, não retornará à capital hondurenha, Tegucigalpa.
Os Estados Unidos anunciaram nesta quarta-feira a suspensão dos exercícios militares conjuntos que pretendiam realizar com Honduras.
Apesar disso, o governo americano não retirou o seu embaixador de Tegucigalpa.
O presidente deposto Manuel Zelaya está atualmente no Panamá para a posse do presidente Ricardo Martinelli. BBC Brasil - Todos os direitos reservados. É proibido todo tipo de reprodução sem autorização por escrito da BBC.
Tags: america latina, honduras, manuel zelaya, adia, volta, retorno, tegucigalpa, OEA O que são TAGS? | pt | O presidente deposto por um , , que está exilado na , disse que adiou a sua possível volta para as Honduras. Ele havia afirmado que voltaria nessa quinta-feira, mas justificou o adiamento dizendo que vai esperar o prazo que a (OEA) deu como ultimato para que os golpistas reconduzam Zelaya ao poder. A organização ameaçou o governo hondurenho de expulsar o país da OEA caso o ultimato não seja cumprido.
A decisão da OEA foi tomada numa reunião de emergência realizada na sede da organização, em , nessa terça-feira, que contou com a participação do presidente deposto. Na capital estadunidense, Zelaya se encontrou com representantes do departamento de Estado dos , entre eles , principal assessor para a do governo estadunidense. |
de | Geheimer Code im «Sakrileg»-Urteil versteckt
27. Apr 16:58
Foto: dpa «Sakrileg» lässt grüßen: Kursive Botschaften durchziehen das 71-seitiges Urteil im Plagiatsprozess gegen Dan Brown. Nicht nur Juristen sind begeistert von der Idee des Richters.
Von Jennifer Quinn Anwälte in London und New York schwelgen seit drei Wochen in einem außergewöhnlichen juristischen Zeitvertreib: Der Entschlüsselung des «Smithy Code» in der Urteilsbegründung zum Plagiatsprozess gegen den Bestsellerautor Dan Brown. Der Richter am Hohen Gericht in London, Peter Smith, versah die Abweisung der Klage der Sachbuchautoren Michael Baigent und Richard Leigh mit kursiv gesetzten Botschaften - ganz nach dem Vorbild der beiden Bücher, Browns «Sakrileg» (»The Da Vinci Code») und «Der heilige Gral und seine Erben» der Kläger.
«Smithy Code» gesucht
«Da Vinci Code» als Reiseführer 25. Apr 11:13 Dan Brown lehnt Diskussion mit Vatikan ab 24. Apr 13:40 Dan-Brown-Fans müssen bis 2007 warten 22. Apr 19:13 Erneut Plagiatsvorwürfe gegen Dan Brown 21. Apr 2006 20:04 «Da Vinci Code» nicht geklaut 07. Apr 16:11, ergänzt 16:53 Schon bald nach der Urteilsverkündung am 7. April, mit der Smith die Klage abwies, entdeckten Juristen in der 71-seitigen Urteilsbegründung seltsame Kursivsetzungen im Text. Im ersten der insgesamt 360 Absätze ist das «s» im Wort «claimants» (Kläger) kursiv gesetzt, im nächsten Absatz das «m» im selben Wort. So ergeben sich in den ersten sieben Absätzen die Worte «Smithy Code» – dann wird es deutlich schwieriger, die Kursivsetzungen zu entschlüsseln. Smith setzt die Verschlüsselungsmethode Leonardo da Vincis ein, die in beiden Büchern eine Rolle spielt. «Eine Botschaft in dieser Art zu verschlüsseln, in einem Urteil des Hohen Gerichts? Es ist in der Welt», sagt David Tench von der Londoner Anwaltskanzlei Olswang. «Es ändert nichts an der Gültigkeit des Urteils. Er (Smith) hat sich einfach einen Spaß erlaubt.»
Nicht so schwer... Smith selbst bestätigte in einem Gespräch mit der Nachrichtenagentur AP die verschlüsselte Botschaft indirekt: «Das sieht doch nicht nach Druckfehlern aus, oder?» Es sei nicht schwer, den Code zu entschlüsseln. Vielleicht werde er demjenigen, der die richtige Lösung finde, auch bestätigen, das dem so sei, fügte er hinzu. In beiden Büchern geht es um die von Historikern und Theologen zurückgewiesene These, Jesus habe Maria Magdalena geheiratet und ein Kind mit ihr gehabt. «Sakrileg» wurde weltweit mehr als 40 Millionen mal verkauft, die Verkaufszahlen für das 1982 erschienene Buch vom «Heiligen Gral und seinen Erben» zogen während des Prozesses deutlich an. Das Interesse an der Entschlüsselung der 25 Kursivbuchstaben in den ersten 14 Seiten der Urteilsbegründung erklärt Tench so: «Ich denke, das fasziniert vor allem Amerikaner. Einen britischen, seriösen Richter zu haben, der ein Urteil auf diese Weise verschlüsselt, ist ein toller Spaß.» Mark Stevens ist einer der Juristen, der unbedingt den «Smithy Code» knacken will. «Es ist bekannt, dass Richter hin und wieder sehr raffinierte und unterhaltsame Urteile schreiben», sagt er. «Den Trend gibt es schon länger - ein Richter hat mal ein Urteil in Versen gefällt.» (AP) | de | Von Februar 2006 bis zum 7. April lief in London vor dem obersten Zivilgericht Englands ein Plagiatsprozess gegen den US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller Dan Brown, bei dem der Angeklagte freigesprochen wurde.
Das Urteil zu diesem Prozess hatte ein Richter des Hohen Gerichts verfasst: Peter Smith. Bei der schriftlichen Ausarbeitung hatte Smith in das Schriftstück kursiv gesetzte Botschaften integriert. Ebensolche Schriftarten sind in den Büchern „Sakrileg“ und „Der heilige Gral und seine Erben“ zu finden. Die Verschlüsselungsmethode, die Smith verwendet hat, stammt von Leonardo da Vinci. Die Anwälte, die in New York und London derzeit das 71-seitige Urteil durcharbeiten, müssen sich nun durch diese Botschaften, die mittlerweile „Smithy Code“ genannt werden, kämpfen. Das Urteil besteht aus 360 Absätzen. Smith hat einzelne Buchstaben durch Kursivschrift ersetzt. Die ersten sieben Absätze sind relativ leicht zu entschlüsseln, dann wird es schon schwieriger. Auf jeden Fall ist Smith nicht der einzige Richter, der sich einen Spaß erlaubt hatte. Vor längerer Zeit schon hatte ein anderer Richter ein Urteil verfasst, das aus Versen bestanden hatte. |
de | London - Der Richter am Hohen Gericht in London, Peter Smith, versah die Abweisung der Klage der Sachbuchautoren Michael Baigent und Richard Leigh mit kursiv gesetzten Botschaften - ganz nach dem Vorbild der beiden Bücher, Browns "Sakrileg" ("The Da Vinci Code") und "Der heilige Gral und seine Erben" der Kläger. Schon bald nach der Urteilsverkündung am 7. April, mit der Smith die Klage abwies, entdeckten Juristen in der 71-seitigen Urteilsbegründung seltsame Kursivsetzungen im Text. Im ersten der insgesamt 360 Absätze ist das "s" im Wort "claimants" (Kläger) kursiv gesetzt, im nächsten Absatz das "m" im selben Wort.
AP Richter Smith (Gerichtszeichnung): Code im Urteil versteckt
So ergeben sich in den ersten sieben Absätzen die Worte "Smithy Code" - dann wird es deutlich schwieriger, die Kursivsetzungen zu entschlüsseln. Smith setzt die Verschlüsselungsmethode Leonardo da Vincis ein, die in beiden Büchern eine Rolle spielt. "Eine Botschaft in dieser Art zu verschlüsseln, in einem Urteil des Hohen Gerichts? Es ist in der Welt", sagt David Tench von der Londoner Anwaltskanzlei Olswang. "Es ändert nichts an der Gültigkeit des Urteils. Er (Smith) hat sich einfach einen Spaß erlaubt."
Smith selbst bestätigte gegenüber AP die verschlüsselte Botschaft indirekt: "Das sieht doch nicht nach Druckfehlern aus, oder?" Es sei nicht schwer, den Code zu entschlüsseln. Vielleicht werde er demjenigen, der die richtige Lösung finde, auch bestätigen, dass dem so sei, fügte er hinzu.
In beiden Büchern geht es um die von Historikern und Theologen zurückgewiesene These, Jesus habe Maria Magdalena geheiratet und ein Kind mit ihr gehabt. "Sakrileg" wurde weltweit mehr als 40 Millionen Mal verkauft, die Verkaufszahlen für das 1982 erschienene Buch vom "Heiligen Gral und seinen Erben" zogen während des Prozesses deutlich an. Am 18. Mai startet die Hollywood-Verfilmung mit Tom Hanks und Audrey Tautou in den Kinos.
Das Interesse an der Entschlüsselung der 25 Kursivbuchstaben in den ersten 14 Seiten der Urteilsbegründung erklärt Tench so: "Ich denke, das fasziniert vor allem Amerikaner. Einen britischen, seriösen Richter zu haben, der ein Urteil auf diese Weise verschlüsselt, ist ein toller Spaß." Mark Stevens ist einer der Juristen, der unbedingt den "Smithy Code" knacken will. "Es ist bekannt, dass Richter hin und wieder sehr raffinierte und unterhaltsame Urteile schreiben", sagt er. "Den Trend gibt es schon länger - ein Richter hat mal ein Urteil in Versen gefällt."
Jennifer Quinn, AP | de | Von Februar 2006 bis zum 7. April lief in London vor dem obersten Zivilgericht Englands ein Plagiatsprozess gegen den US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller Dan Brown, bei dem der Angeklagte freigesprochen wurde.
Das Urteil zu diesem Prozess hatte ein Richter des Hohen Gerichts verfasst: Peter Smith. Bei der schriftlichen Ausarbeitung hatte Smith in das Schriftstück kursiv gesetzte Botschaften integriert. Ebensolche Schriftarten sind in den Büchern „Sakrileg“ und „Der heilige Gral und seine Erben“ zu finden. Die Verschlüsselungsmethode, die Smith verwendet hat, stammt von Leonardo da Vinci. Die Anwälte, die in New York und London derzeit das 71-seitige Urteil durcharbeiten, müssen sich nun durch diese Botschaften, die mittlerweile „Smithy Code“ genannt werden, kämpfen. Das Urteil besteht aus 360 Absätzen. Smith hat einzelne Buchstaben durch Kursivschrift ersetzt. Die ersten sieben Absätze sind relativ leicht zu entschlüsseln, dann wird es schon schwieriger. Auf jeden Fall ist Smith nicht der einzige Richter, der sich einen Spaß erlaubt hatte. Vor längerer Zeit schon hatte ein anderer Richter ein Urteil verfasst, das aus Versen bestanden hatte. |
de | Autor Dan Brown (Foto: dpa)
27. April 2006
Geheimer Code im "Sakrileg"-Urteil versteckt
Von Jennifer Quinn
Anwälte in London und New York schwelgen seit drei Wochen in einem außergewöhnlichen juristischen Zeitvertreib: Der Entschlüsselung des "Smithy Code" in der Urteilsbegründung zum Plagiatsprozess gegen den Bestsellerautor Dan Brown. Der Richter am Hohen Gericht in London, Peter Smith, versah die Abweisung der Klage der Sachbuchautoren Michael Baigent und Richard Leigh mit kursiv gesetzten Botschaften - ganz nach dem Vorbild der beiden Bücher, Browns "Sakrileg" ("The Da Vinci Code") und "Der heilige Gral und seine Erben" der Kläger.
"Smithy Code" gesucht
Smith setzt die Verschlüsselungsmethode Leonardo da Vincis ein, die in beiden Büchern eine Rolle spielt. "Eine Botschaft in dieser Art zu verschlüsseln, in einem Urteil des Hohen Gerichts? Es ist in der Welt", sagt David Tench von der Londoner Anwaltskanzlei Olswang. "Es ändert nichts an der Gültigkeit des Urteils. Er (Smith) hat sich einfach einen Spaß erlaubt."
Nicht so schwer...
In beiden Büchern geht es um die von Historikern und Theologen zurückgewiesene These, Jesus habe Maria Magdalena geheiratet und ein Kind mit ihr gehabt. "Sakrileg" wurde weltweit mehr als 40 Millionen mal verkauft, die Verkaufszahlen für das 1982 erschienene Buch vom "Heiligen Gral und seinen Erben" zogen während des Prozesses deutlich an. Das Interesse an der Entschlüsselung der 25 Kursivbuchstaben in den ersten 14 Seiten der Urteilsbegründung erklärt Tench so: "Ich denke, das fasziniert vor allem Amerikaner. Einen britischen, seriösen Richter zu haben, der ein Urteil auf diese Weise verschlüsselt, ist ein toller Spaß."
Mark Stevens ist einer der Juristen, der unbedingt den "Smithy Code" knacken will. "Es ist bekannt, dass Richter hin und wieder sehr raffinierte und unterhaltsame Urteile schreiben", sagt er. "Den Trend gibt es schon länger - ein Richter hat mal ein Urteil in Versen gefällt." (AP)
(N24.de, Netzeitung) | de | Von Februar 2006 bis zum 7. April lief in London vor dem obersten Zivilgericht Englands ein Plagiatsprozess gegen den US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller Dan Brown, bei dem der Angeklagte freigesprochen wurde.
Das Urteil zu diesem Prozess hatte ein Richter des Hohen Gerichts verfasst: Peter Smith. Bei der schriftlichen Ausarbeitung hatte Smith in das Schriftstück kursiv gesetzte Botschaften integriert. Ebensolche Schriftarten sind in den Büchern „Sakrileg“ und „Der heilige Gral und seine Erben“ zu finden. Die Verschlüsselungsmethode, die Smith verwendet hat, stammt von Leonardo da Vinci. Die Anwälte, die in New York und London derzeit das 71-seitige Urteil durcharbeiten, müssen sich nun durch diese Botschaften, die mittlerweile „Smithy Code“ genannt werden, kämpfen. Das Urteil besteht aus 360 Absätzen. Smith hat einzelne Buchstaben durch Kursivschrift ersetzt. Die ersten sieben Absätze sind relativ leicht zu entschlüsseln, dann wird es schon schwieriger. Auf jeden Fall ist Smith nicht der einzige Richter, der sich einen Spaß erlaubt hatte. Vor längerer Zeit schon hatte ein anderer Richter ein Urteil verfasst, das aus Versen bestanden hatte. |
de | London (rpo) . Wie die Bücher, so die Urteilsverkündung: Die Anwälte in London und New York müssen das Urteil im Plagiatsprozess gegen Bestseller-Autor Dan Brown regelrecht entschlüsseln. Der Richter am Hohen Gericht in London, Peter Smith, schreib es im "Smithy Code". Er versah die Abweisung der Klage der Sachbuchautoren Michael Baigent und Richard Leigh mit kursiv gesetzten Botschaften - ganz nach dem Vorbild der beiden Bücher, Browns "Sakrileg" ("The Da Vinci Code") und "Der heilige Gral und seine Erben" der Kläger.
Schon bald nach der Urteilsverkündung am 7. April, mit der Smith die Klage abwies, entdeckten Juristen in der 71-seitigen Urteilsbegründung seltsame Kursivsetzungen im Text. Im ersten der insgesamt 360 Absätze ist das "s" im Wort "claimants" (Kläger) kursiv gesetzt, im nächsten Absatz das "m" im selben Wort. So ergeben sich in den ersten sieben Absätzen die Worte "Smithy Code" - dann wird es deutlich schwieriger, die Kursivsetzungen zu entschlüsseln. Smith setzt die Verschlüsselungsmethode Leonardo da Vincis ein, die in beiden Büchern eine Rolle spielt. "Eine Botschaft in dieser Art zu verschlüsseln, in einem Urteil des Hohen Gerichts? Es ist in der Welt", sagt David Tench von der Londoner Anwaltskanzlei Olswang. "Es ändert nichts an der Gültigkeit des Urteils. Er (Smith) hat sich einfach einen Spaß erlaubt."
Smith selbst bestätigte in einem AP-Gespräch die verschlüsselte Botschaft indirekt: "Das sieht doch nicht nach Druckfehlern aus, oder?" Es sei nicht schwer, den Code zu entschlüsseln. Vielleicht werde er demjenigen, der die richtige Lösung finde, auch bestätigen, das dem so sei, fügte er hinzu.
In beiden Büchern geht es um die von Historikern und Theologen zurückgewiesene These, Jesus habe Maria Magdalena geheiratet und ein Kind mit ihr gehabt. "Sakrileg" wurde weltweit mehr als 40 Millionen mal verkauft, die Verkaufszahlen für das 1982 erschienene Buch vom "Heiligen Gral und seinen Erben" zogen während des Prozesses deutlich an.
Das Interesse an der Entschlüsselung der 25 Kursivbuchstaben in den ersten 14 Seiten der Urteilsbegründung erklärt Tench so: "Ich denke, das fasziniert vor allem Amerikaner. Einen britischen, seriösen Richter zu haben, der ein Urteil auf diese Weise verschlüsselt, ist ein toller Spaß."
Mark Stevens ist einer der Juristen, der unbedingt den "Smithy Code" knacken will. "Es ist bekannt, dass Richter hin und wieder sehr raffinierte und unterhaltsame Urteile schreiben", sagt er. "Den Trend gibt es schon länger - ein Richter hat mal ein Urteil in Versen gefällt." | de | Von Februar 2006 bis zum 7. April lief in London vor dem obersten Zivilgericht Englands ein Plagiatsprozess gegen den US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller Dan Brown, bei dem der Angeklagte freigesprochen wurde.
Das Urteil zu diesem Prozess hatte ein Richter des Hohen Gerichts verfasst: Peter Smith. Bei der schriftlichen Ausarbeitung hatte Smith in das Schriftstück kursiv gesetzte Botschaften integriert. Ebensolche Schriftarten sind in den Büchern „Sakrileg“ und „Der heilige Gral und seine Erben“ zu finden. Die Verschlüsselungsmethode, die Smith verwendet hat, stammt von Leonardo da Vinci. Die Anwälte, die in New York und London derzeit das 71-seitige Urteil durcharbeiten, müssen sich nun durch diese Botschaften, die mittlerweile „Smithy Code“ genannt werden, kämpfen. Das Urteil besteht aus 360 Absätzen. Smith hat einzelne Buchstaben durch Kursivschrift ersetzt. Die ersten sieben Absätze sind relativ leicht zu entschlüsseln, dann wird es schon schwieriger. Auf jeden Fall ist Smith nicht der einzige Richter, der sich einen Spaß erlaubt hatte. Vor längerer Zeit schon hatte ein anderer Richter ein Urteil verfasst, das aus Versen bestanden hatte. |
en | Galileo To Support Global Search And Rescue
Search and rescue transponders on geostationary satellites can constantly view a large, fixed area of the Earth, thereby eliminating the time delay in detecting distress signals. However, they are not able to automatically determine the location of the distress beacon as the low-Earth orbit system does. They have to rely on the beacon to use a navigation system to find its position and include it in the distress call.
by Staff Writers
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 10, 2007
The detection of emergency beacons will be greatly improved by the introduction of Europe's satellite positioning system, Galileo. The Galileo satellites will carry transponders to relay distress signals to search and rescue organisations. In connection with this, representatives of the Galileo project attended the recent 21st annual Joint Committee Meeting of COSPAS-SARSAT, the international programme for satellite-aided search and rescue.
The partners in Galileo are committed to developing the Galileo search and rescue component as an integral part of MEOSAR, the future worldwide search and rescue satellite system.
Galileo joined the meeting in a formal capacity as a major contributor to the MEOSAR programme, following the signature of the 'Declaration of Intent to Cooperate on the Development and Evaluation of MEOSAR'. MEOSAR, which stands for Medium Earth Orbit Search And Rescue, is a programme to equip satellites that operate in medium-Earth orbits with payloads that receive signals from distress beacons on Earth. These signals are then relayed to rescue organisations, giving them the location of the emergency.
Existing systems
COSPAS-SARSAT already has systems operating in low-Earth orbit and geostationary orbit. The low-Earth orbit satellites can determine the location of emergency beacons using the Doppler effect as they pass overhead. However, there is a delay in relaying the distress signal because the satellites can only 'see' a part of the Earth's surface at any given time and a beacon is only detected when the satellite passes nearly overhead. Also, the satellites have to store the location of the emergency and transmit it to a ground station once one comes into in range, causing a further delay.
Search and rescue transponders on geostationary satellites can constantly view a large, fixed area of the Earth, thereby eliminating the time delay in detecting distress signals. However, they are not able to automatically determine the location of the distress beacon as the low-Earth orbit system does. They have to rely on the beacon to use a navigation system to find its position and include it in the distress call.
Emergency beacons need to have a direct line-of-sight to the geostationary satellites. There are some situations where this is impossible, such as near the Earth's poles, where the satellites are too low in the sky to be usable, or when an accident happens on the 'wrong' side of a mountain or in a deep valley, and the surrounding terrain obscures the satellite.
Future improvements
To further improve the performance of the overall COSPAS-SARSAT system, plans are now being made to fly search and rescue payloads on future navigation satellites. The various navigation satellite constellations will each have about 20 to 30 satellites in medium-Earth orbit, providing global coverage, including at the Earth's poles, and with multiple viewing angles to the satellites, eliminating terrain blocking.
The Galileo search and rescue component will provide two services. The Forward Link Alert Service, fully backward compatible with the current operational COSPAS-SARSAT components and interoperable with all other planned MEOSAR elements, detects activated distress beacons and notifies the appropriate rescue body. A novel service, known as the Return Link Service, will send a return message to the emergency beacon, notifying the emergency victims that their distress signal has been received and help is on its way.
The Galileo In-Orbit Validation Programme, which will have four satellites fitted with search and rescue transponders, will demonstrate the Galileo MEOSAR services.
Galileo is a joint initiative between ESA and the European Commission. When fully deployed in the early years of the next decade, it will be the first civilian positioning system to offer global coverage. | pl | Europejski system globalnej lokalizacji, Galileo, wesprze działanie przyszłego globalnego systemu poszukiwawczo-ratunkowego MEOSAR. Satelity Galileo, przenosząc specjalny transponder, będą pośredniczyły w przekazywaniu sygnałów ratunkowych i tym samym silnie wspomogą MEOSAR.
W związku z tym, reprezentanci Galileo uczestniczyli w dorocznym 21. wspólnym posiedzeniu komitetów COSPAS-SARSAT, czyli międzynarodowego programu satelitarnego wspomagania poszukiwań i akcji ratunkowych. Partnerzy budujący konstelację Galileo będą odpowiedzialni za integrację układów statków z przyszłym systemem MEOSAR, a Galileo otrzymało status głównego wkładcy do programu MEOSAR.
'''''M'''edium '''E'''arth '''O'''rbit '''S'''earch '''A'''nd '''R'''escue'', to program mający na celu wyposażenie satelitów pracujących na średnich orbitach okołoziemskich, w ładunki umożliwiające odbiór sygnałów z urządzeń alarmowych na Ziemi. Sygnały te są później przesyłane do organizacji i urzędów ratowniczych, pomagając w zlokalizowaniu sytuacji kryzysowej. |
en | Sie wollten die britischen "Superstars" ärgern und haben es geschafft. Weil es Fans von Rage Against The Machine nervte, dass Jahr für Jahr der "X Factor"-Gewinner die Charts dominiert, riefen sie per Facebook dazu auf, den alten Hit "Killing In The Name" herunterzuladen. Jetzt sind RATM Englands Weihnachts-Nr. 1.
Mit ihrem alten Hit "Killing In The Name" auf Platz 1 der Charts: Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine (RATM) mögen offiziell zwar immer noch auf Eis liegen, dennoch haben sie in der vergangenen Woche Musikgeschichte geschrieben: Nachdem eine Facebook-Kampagne aufgerufen hatte "Killing In The Name" (1993) herunterzuladen, um via Downloadverkäufe den "X Factor"-Gewinner Joe McElderly von der historisch wichtigen Weihnachts-Spitzenposition fernzuhalten, konnten RATM nun an diesem Wochenende den Sieg verkünden.
Das Duell hatte in der letzten Woche die Popwelt in England und der Welt auf Trab gehalten, weil die Organisatoren und natürlich Rage Against The Machine die Aktion als Kampf gegen den Formatpop der Talentshow "X Factor" inszeniert hatten. Higlights dieses Medienhypes war dabei sicher, der wegen übermäßigen Fluchens abgebrochene Radioauftritt von RATM bei der BBC und die Titelstory des NME über "X Factor"-Vorzeige-Juror Simon Cowell - die trug den schönen Namen: "The Grinch speaks".
Seit diesem Wochenende ist es nun offiziell: "Killing In The Name" ist auf Platz 1 zur Weihnachtszeit. Jon Morter, der mit der Kampagne "Rage Against The X Factor" das Ganze losgetreten hatte, konnte es nicht glauben: "Fuck me, it's crazy, I can't believe it."
So seine erste Reaktion. Sein Fazit: "Diese Aktion zeigt auch: Wer Social Networking auf richtigem Wege nutzt, kann alles schaffen." Die Kampagne von Morter wurde später von RATM und von Prominenten wie Paul McCartney unterstützt. Sogar Simon Cowell hatte Morter vergangene Woche angerufen, um ihm persönlich Glück zu wünschen.
Vielleicht liegt es an diesem Telefonat, dass Morter auch noch einmal klarstellte: "Ziel der Aktion war es nicht, 'X Factor' zu dissen. Fans dieser Sendung mögen Musik genauso wie wir - ich habe nichts gegen sie. Wir waren es nur satt, dass sie es immer auf die Weihnachts-Nr. 1 schaffen. Wir wollten sie zurück haben."
Rage Against The Machine sehen das freilich ein wenig anders. Zwar gratulierten sie McElderry, der mit einer Miley Cyrus-Coverversion angetreten war, aber sie sahen ihren Sieg als "Sieg gegen das sterile Popmusikmonopol" der Sendung.
"Wir haben gezeigt, das man nicht das Recht auf eine Weihnachts-Nr. 1 hat, nur weil Simon Cowell das sagt - vor allem, wenn man mit einem schlechten Cover antritt." Außerdem ließen RATM verlauten, dass rund 65.000 Pfund aus den Downloadverkäufen der Obdachlosen-Hilfsorganisation Shelter zukommen wird. Was RATM-Fans am meisten freuen dürfte: "Wir werden im nächsten Jahr in England ein Umsonst-Konzert spielen, um mit unseren UK-Fans zu feiern."
Quelle: Rolling Stone Deutschland. Ausführliche Pop-Features, Interviews und Rezensionen finden Sie auf der Website www.rollingstone.de (hier ). | de | Die aus Los Angeles stammende Rockband ''Rage Against The Machine'' hat am vergangenen Wochenende den Wettlauf um Platz 1 in den britischen Charts zu Weihnachten gewonnen. Mit ihrem Lied „Killing in the Name“ schoben die US-amerikanischen Musiker den „X Factor“-Gewinner Joe McElderry auf Platz 2 in einer der größten Schlachten um die Gunst des Musikpublikums in Großbritannien. Mit einer Werbekampagne über das Internetportal Facebook wurden über 900 000 Hörer erreicht. Durch die Medienstrategie des Ehepaars Jon und Tracy Morter wurden innerhalb kurzer Zeit eine halbe Million Singles per Download verkauft. Das Lied „Killing in the Name“ war bereits 1992 veröffentlicht worden.
Rage Against the Machine beim Big Day Out-Festival 2008 in Melbourne
Tom Morello, der Gitarrist von ''Rage Against The Machine'', hatte die Kampagne auf Twitter unterstützt. Mit der Aktion wurde eine Spende zur Unterstützung von Obdachlosen verbunden, die aus den Verkaufserlösen der Musik 70.000 britische Pfund (umgerechnet 78.000 Euro) aufbringen soll. Er kündigte außerdem an, dass die Band ein freies Konzert in Großbritannien geben würde, wenn sie die Nummer eins erreicht.
Das Ergebnis wurde auf BBC Radio 1's Chart Show bekanntgegeben. Der letzte große Musikwettbewerb zu Weihnachten mit einem ähnlichen Ausmaß fand im Jahre 1998 statt, als die Spice Girls mit 380.000 Punkten knapp vor ihrem Rivalen mit 375.000 gewannen. |
es | Los temores de una guerra entre Sudán y su vecino Sudán del Sur se incrementaron hoy ante la negativa del presidente sudanés, Omar al-Bashir, de negociar con el gobierno sursudanés y el hecho de nuevos bombardeos en la frontera común. "No negociaremos con el Gobierno del Sur, porque no entienden nada, sólo por el lenguaje de las armas y municiones", afirmó el mandatario sudanés durante una visita a la disputada ciudad petrolera de Heglig, ocupada hasta el viernes pasado por tropas de Sudán del Sur. En un discurso ante los soldados que lograron liberar la ciudad petrolera de los sursudaneses del frente del Movimiento Popular para la Liberación de Sudán (MPLS), que gobierna en Sudán del Sur, Bashir descartó por completo el diálogo y reiteró su lucha por Heglig. Indicó que en la ciudad, cuya limitación sigue pendiente y no fue incluida en el acuerdo del año pasado que llevó a la independencia de Sudán del Sur, no hay espacio para los dos países, por los que uno debe de irse y ese debe ser Yuba, capital sursudanesa. El presidente al Bachir aseguró que la batalla por Heglig no será la última lección que su país dará a Sudán del Sur, tras exhortar a sus tropas a "resistir” cualquier agresión del Ejército del vecino país y no ceder ni una pulgada del territorio de Heglig. “La alerta debe continuar contra cualquier tentativa de agresión contra nuestro país”, afirmó y aseguró que luchará porque la diputada zona petrolera de la provincia de Kordofán del Sur sea de Sudán del Sur, según un reporte de la agencia Suna. El mandatario sudanés llegó a Heglig acompañado por miembros de su gabinete, altos mandos militares y responsables del sector petrolero, poco después de que aviones de combate de Sudán bombardearon la ciudad de Bentiu, en la frontera con Sudán del Sur. El Gobierno de Yuba denunció que al menos tres persona perdieron la vida, entre ellos un menor, a consecuencia de los bombardeos del ejército de Sudán en Bentiu, capital del estado sursudanés de Unity, aunque Jartum negó los ataques. Un funcionario local aseguró que las ataques se concentraron en un puente clave, que conduce a la frontera y un mercado entre Bentiu y la vecina ciudad de Rubkona, desde donde se observaban grandes columnas de humo, según imágenes de la televisión local. En las últimas semanas, tropas de Sudán y Sudán del Sur han protagonizado cruentos enfrentamientos por el control de las zonas petroleras, los más graves la semana pasada, que según fuentes sudanesas, dejaron más de un millar de muertos del lado sursudanés. El bombardeo fue condenado por la Misión de Mantenimiento de la Paz de ONU en Sudán del Sur y Estados Unidos, que pidieron el fin de la violencia, y la Unión Africana (UA), que convocó a una reunión de emergencia esta semana para examinar la situación. nagn
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Compartir | es | Una serie de ataques fronterizos entre fueras de Sudán y Sudán del Sur han culminado con cerca de mil de muertos tras tensionarse las relaciones entre ambas naciones por el control de la ciudad fronteriza de Heglig y los pozos petrolíferos que poseía el antiguo estado unificado de Sudán.
El presidente de Sudán Omar al-Bashir, rechazó la idea de reunirse con su homólogo para discutir acerca de la posesión de la ciudad de Heglig, la cual no fue incluida en el acuerdo de independencia de Sudán del Sur, por lo cual Sudán exige la desocupación de la ciudad ya que "no caben dos países en la ciudad", según afirmó al-Bashir.
Los enfrentamientos comenzaron por la ocupación de la ciudad de los militares de Sudán del Sur, quienes reclamaron que la ciudad -y sus pozos- pertenecían al nuevo país, y tras 9 días de refriega, el control de la ciudad nuevamente del gobierno de Sudán. Desde entonces se han registrado una serie de enfrentamientos en poblados fronterizos, donde el registro de muertos ya alcanzaría más de 900 personas, según informes de Sudán del Sur.
Diversos organismos internacionales condenaron los hechos de violencia y claman por la paz en la zona. La Unión Africana se reunirá durante la semana para discutir el cómo afrontar la contingencia entre ambas naciones. |
en | NSW is experiencing significant storm and flooding events with widespread destruction affecting several communities.
The NSW Government has issued 34 Natural Disaster Declarations to Local Government Areas to help ensure critical support is available to communities.
Funding packages from the NSW Government are now available. The additional funding will provide:
assistance for eligible people whose homes or belongings have been damaged
support for affected local councils to help the costs of cleaning up and restoring damaged public property
concessional interest rate loans for small businesses, primary producers and non-for-profit organisations
freight subsidies for primary producers
grants to eligible non-for-profit organisations.
Minister for Police and Emergency Services David Elliott said although the disaster is still underway, the NSW Government is already looking ahead to the recovery and ongoing assistance.
“This assistance activates practical and immediate supports for communities, primary producers, small businesses, not-for-profits and councils," Mr Elliott said.
“We will stand side by side with our communities over coming weeks and months as we work through the significant recovery that lays ahead of us.”
Flood safety information
If you have been affected by the storms or flooding, visit storms and floods customer care or call 13 77 88.
For emergency help, call the NSW SES on 132 500.
Stay up to date with official warnings.
Learn how NSW SES plans for floods and storms. | pt | Imagem da enchente em Penrith, NSW
Os serviços de emergência da Austrália devem evacuar milhares de pessoas de áreas inundadas de , na pior enchente que a cidade já viu em 60 anos, com previsão de outro dia de chuva torrencial.
As chuvas dos últimos dias aumentaram o volume dos rios no estado mais populoso da Austrália, Nova Gales do Sul (''New South Wales- NSW''), causando danos generalizados, com alagamentos de casas, fazendas, estradas e pontes. Um alerta de inundação severa foi emitido para grandes partes de NSW, bem como para o estado vizinho de Queensland.
Sydney, por exemplo, teve ontem o dia mais chuvoso do ano, com quase 111mm (4,4 polegadas) de precipitação, enquanto algumas regiões da costa norte de NSW receberam quase 900 mm (35 polegadas) de chuva na última semanas, mais de três vezes a média para o mês de março.
"Estas são tempestades e inundações muito, muito sérias e muito severas (...) e é um momento muito desafiador", disse o primeiro-ministro Scott Morrison hoje.
O governo australiano lançou um pacote econômico de ajuda para quem for afetado pelo desastre.
'''Alerta de tempo severo'''
O Serviço de Meteorologia da Austrália emitiu alertas de tempo severo, o último às 22h56min (em horário local), para a atuação de um forte sistema de alta pressão no sul que está se juntando a um no oeste. Os sistemas deixarão toda área centro-leste do país com chuvas, que serão ainda mais fortes na costa leste de NSW.
A previsão é de que as condições só comecem a melhorar na quarta-feira nos estados mais atingidos. |
en | The Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment is a lump sum payment of $1,000 for eligible adults and $400 for each eligible child under the age of 16.
You can get it if your home has been severely damaged or destroyed or if you’ve been seriously injured as a direct result of the floods.
You can also claim Disaster Recovery Allowance (DRA) if you’ve lost income as a direct result of the floods. If you’re eligible you can get it for up to 13 weeks, starting from the date you lose income.
DRA is taxable. You can ask us to withhold tax deductions from your payments.
You can’t get DRA if you get any of the following payments during your claim period:
You have until 20 September 2021 to make a claim if you're in a Local Government Area for:
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Use our Payment and Service Finder to see what other payments you may be eligible for.
Keep up to date with our office closures.
If you’re a job seeker or participant, you can contact your provider for more information about your requirements. | pt | Imagem da enchente em Penrith, NSW
Os serviços de emergência da Austrália devem evacuar milhares de pessoas de áreas inundadas de , na pior enchente que a cidade já viu em 60 anos, com previsão de outro dia de chuva torrencial.
As chuvas dos últimos dias aumentaram o volume dos rios no estado mais populoso da Austrália, Nova Gales do Sul (''New South Wales- NSW''), causando danos generalizados, com alagamentos de casas, fazendas, estradas e pontes. Um alerta de inundação severa foi emitido para grandes partes de NSW, bem como para o estado vizinho de Queensland.
Sydney, por exemplo, teve ontem o dia mais chuvoso do ano, com quase 111mm (4,4 polegadas) de precipitação, enquanto algumas regiões da costa norte de NSW receberam quase 900 mm (35 polegadas) de chuva na última semanas, mais de três vezes a média para o mês de março.
"Estas são tempestades e inundações muito, muito sérias e muito severas (...) e é um momento muito desafiador", disse o primeiro-ministro Scott Morrison hoje.
O governo australiano lançou um pacote econômico de ajuda para quem for afetado pelo desastre.
'''Alerta de tempo severo'''
O Serviço de Meteorologia da Austrália emitiu alertas de tempo severo, o último às 22h56min (em horário local), para a atuação de um forte sistema de alta pressão no sul que está se juntando a um no oeste. Os sistemas deixarão toda área centro-leste do país com chuvas, que serão ainda mais fortes na costa leste de NSW.
A previsão é de que as condições só comecem a melhorar na quarta-feira nos estados mais atingidos. |
en | SYDNEY - Australian authorities are planning to evacuate thousands of more people Monday from Sydney's flooded western suburbs, in the worst flooding the city has seen in 60 years with another day of drenching rain expected.
Unrelenting rains over the past three days swelled rivers in Australia's most populous state of New South Wales (NSW), causing widespread damage and triggering calls for mass evacuations.
"Flooding is likely to be higher than any floods since Nov 1961," NSW emergency services said in a tweet late Sunday. Authorities expect the wild weather to continue until Wednesday.
The fast-moving flood waters detached houses, swept away vehicles and farm animals, and submerged roads, bridges, houses and farms, television and social media footage showed.
Nearly 2,000 people have been evacuated from low lying areas, NSW emergency services said.
Large parts of the country's east coast will receive more heavy rains from Monday thanks to the combination of a tropical low over northern Western Australia and a coastal trough off NSW, the weather bureau said.
"These two moisture feeds are merging and will create a multistate rain and storm band from Monday," the Bureau of Meteorology said in a statement.
A severe flood warning has been issued for large parts of NSW as well as neighboring Queensland.
"These are very, very serious and very severe storms and floods, and it's a very complex weather system, too. … So, this is a very testing time," Prime Minister Scott Morrison told radio station 2GB on Monday.
Sydney on Sunday recorded the wettest day of the year with almost 111 mm (4.4 inches) of rain, while some regions in NSW's north coast received nearly 900 mm (35 inches) of rain in the last six days, more than three times the March average, government data showed. | pt | Imagem da enchente em Penrith, NSW
Os serviços de emergência da Austrália devem evacuar milhares de pessoas de áreas inundadas de , na pior enchente que a cidade já viu em 60 anos, com previsão de outro dia de chuva torrencial.
As chuvas dos últimos dias aumentaram o volume dos rios no estado mais populoso da Austrália, Nova Gales do Sul (''New South Wales- NSW''), causando danos generalizados, com alagamentos de casas, fazendas, estradas e pontes. Um alerta de inundação severa foi emitido para grandes partes de NSW, bem como para o estado vizinho de Queensland.
Sydney, por exemplo, teve ontem o dia mais chuvoso do ano, com quase 111mm (4,4 polegadas) de precipitação, enquanto algumas regiões da costa norte de NSW receberam quase 900 mm (35 polegadas) de chuva na última semanas, mais de três vezes a média para o mês de março.
"Estas são tempestades e inundações muito, muito sérias e muito severas (...) e é um momento muito desafiador", disse o primeiro-ministro Scott Morrison hoje.
O governo australiano lançou um pacote econômico de ajuda para quem for afetado pelo desastre.
'''Alerta de tempo severo'''
O Serviço de Meteorologia da Austrália emitiu alertas de tempo severo, o último às 22h56min (em horário local), para a atuação de um forte sistema de alta pressão no sul que está se juntando a um no oeste. Os sistemas deixarão toda área centro-leste do país com chuvas, que serão ainda mais fortes na costa leste de NSW.
A previsão é de que as condições só comecem a melhorar na quarta-feira nos estados mais atingidos. |
en | IDN21037
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
New South Wales
TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
Cancellation Severe Weather Warning
For people in Mid North Coast, Hunter, Metropolitan and Illawarra Forecast Districts.
Issued at 10:33 am Sunday, 20 August 2017.
POWERFUL SEAS ALONG THE NSW COAST EASING
A complex low pressure system lies near New Zealand, while a high is centred over southeast Australia. This pattern is generating a broad area of vigorous winds over the Tasman Sea, leading to rough seas and a heavy southerly swell but conditions are easing.
DAMAGING SURF CONDITIONS, with waves exceeding 5 metres in the surf zone between Ulladulla and Port Macquarie are NO LONGER EXPECTED.
A HAZARDOUS SURF WARNING remains current for all NSW coastal waters.
The State Emergency Service advises that people should:
* Keep clear of fallen power lines.
* Don't walk, ride or drive through flood water.
* Keep clear of creeks and storm drains.
* Beware of fallen trees or debris on the road.
No further warnings will be issued for this event.
Warnings are also available through TV and Radio broadcasts, the Bureau's website at www.bom.gov.au or call 1300 659 218. The Bureau and State Emergency Service would appreciate warnings being broadcast regularly. | pt | Imagem da enchente em Penrith, NSW
Os serviços de emergência da Austrália devem evacuar milhares de pessoas de áreas inundadas de , na pior enchente que a cidade já viu em 60 anos, com previsão de outro dia de chuva torrencial.
As chuvas dos últimos dias aumentaram o volume dos rios no estado mais populoso da Austrália, Nova Gales do Sul (''New South Wales- NSW''), causando danos generalizados, com alagamentos de casas, fazendas, estradas e pontes. Um alerta de inundação severa foi emitido para grandes partes de NSW, bem como para o estado vizinho de Queensland.
Sydney, por exemplo, teve ontem o dia mais chuvoso do ano, com quase 111mm (4,4 polegadas) de precipitação, enquanto algumas regiões da costa norte de NSW receberam quase 900 mm (35 polegadas) de chuva na última semanas, mais de três vezes a média para o mês de março.
"Estas são tempestades e inundações muito, muito sérias e muito severas (...) e é um momento muito desafiador", disse o primeiro-ministro Scott Morrison hoje.
O governo australiano lançou um pacote econômico de ajuda para quem for afetado pelo desastre.
'''Alerta de tempo severo'''
O Serviço de Meteorologia da Austrália emitiu alertas de tempo severo, o último às 22h56min (em horário local), para a atuação de um forte sistema de alta pressão no sul que está se juntando a um no oeste. Os sistemas deixarão toda área centro-leste do país com chuvas, que serão ainda mais fortes na costa leste de NSW.
A previsão é de que as condições só comecem a melhorar na quarta-feira nos estados mais atingidos. |
fr | International Ossétie: l'UE reconnaît que la guerre a été déclenchée par la Géorgie (Lavrov) 17:18 SOUKHOUMI, 2 octobre - RIA Novosti. La commission d'enquête européenne dirigée par la diplomate suisse Heidi Tagliavini reconnaît dans son rapport que la guerre d'août 2008 en Ossétie du Sud a été déclenchée par la Géorgie, a déclaré vendredi le ministre russe des Affaires étrangères Sergueï Lavrov, en visite en Abkhazie. "C'est un rapport objectif qui confirme ce que tout le monde savait depuis longtemps - la guerre a été déclenchée par le régime de Saakachvili", a dit le ministre dans la capitale abkhaze, Soukhoumi. Le document indique en outre que la Russie a réagi aux actions géorgiennes en stricte conformité aux normes du droit international et à la Charte de l'ONU puisque ses actions étaient "défensives", a ajouté M.Lavrov. Mercredi, la commission d'experts et de diplomates dirigée par la Suisse Heidi Tagliavini, enquêtant depuis décembre 2008 à la demande de l'Union européenne sur le conflit en Ossétie du Sud, a présenté ses conclusions aux représentants de la Russie, de la Géorgie, de l'UE, de l'OSCE et de l'ONU. La commission a rejeté la responsabilité du conflit sur Tbilissi et reconnu la légitimité de la riposte militaire russe. La commission a qualifié de "sérieux" le risque d'une nouvelle confrontation dans le Caucase.
envoyez par e-mail retour à la page d'accueil | fr | La commission d'enquête européenne dirigée par la diplomate suisse Heidi Tagliavini reconnaît dans son rapport que la guerre d'août 2008 en Ossétie du Sud a été déclenchée par la Géorgie, a déclaré vendredi le ministre russe des Affaires étrangères Sergueï Lavrov, en visite en Abkhazie.
, a notamment déclaré le ministre dans la capitale abkhaze, Soukhoumi.
, a ajouté M. Lavrov.
Mercredi, la commission d'experts et de diplomates dirigée par la Suisse Heidi Tagliavini, enquêtant depuis décembre 2008 à la demande de l'Union européenne sur le conflit en Ossétie du Sud, a présenté ses conclusions aux représentants de la Russie, de la Géorgie, de l'UE, de l'OSCE et de l'ONU. La commission a rejeté la responsabilité du conflit sur Tbilissi et reconnu la légitimité de la riposte militaire russe. La commission a qualifié de le risque d'une nouvelle confrontation dans le Caucase. |
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en | Last updated: 9th October 2007
Rossi: In hot water
Lazio coach Delio Rossi has been charged with attempting to influence the performance of another team, the Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) has confirmed.
The charge relates to an allegation that Rossi asked Lazio president Claudio Lotito to contact Lecce officials and discuss tactics ahead of the clash between the two sides, which took place in April 2006.
The FIGC has confirmed Rossi's pleas were not successful but Lazio, as the responsible club, have also been charged.
"The coach Delio Rossi, has been charged with trying to ask, without success, the Lazio president Lotito to start talks with Lecce directors in a bid to affect the technical performance of the squad ahead of a match on April 30, 2006," a statement on the FIGC website confirmed.
A disciplinary commission will now meet to decide whether Rossi is guilty and if a punishment is deserved.
This latest scandal is likely to rock Italian football to its core, given the adverse publicity attracted by similar cases in the past few years. | en | Italian professional sports club Lazio and their coach Delio Rossi have been accused and charged with trying to influence the performance of Lecce in April 2006.
The Italian Football Federation said that Rossi attempted to ask Lazio president Claudio Lotito to contact Lecce officials and discuss their tactics ahead of the match and how their attempt was unsuccessful. Lazio won the match 1-0. Media reports say that the case started because of phone tap evidence. |
en | ROME, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Lazio coach Delio Rossi has been charged with trying to influence the performance of an opposing team in April 2006, the Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) said on Tuesday. The federation alleged that Rossi, who took over at the Rome club in 2005, attempted to ask club president Claudio Lotito to contact Lecce officials and discuss their tactics ahead of their match, which Lazio won 1-0. FIGC gave few details in a statement but did say that Rossi's attempts had been unsuccessful. 'The coach Delio Rossi, has been charged with trying to ask, without success, the Lazio president Lotito to start talks with Lecce directors in a bid to affect the technical performance of the squad ahead of a match on April 30, 2006,' a statement on the FIGC website said. Lazio, as the responsible club, have also been charged and were not immediately available for comment. A disciplinary commission will now decide if Rossi is guilty and deserves punishment. Media reports said the case had come to light because of phone tap evidence. Lazio finished sixth in the 2005/06 season and in a UEFA Cup spot while Lecce were relegated. However, Lazio were later deducted 30 points and placed in 16th place as punishment for their part in a match-fixing probe, which involved trying to gain favourable referees. Italy has only just recovered from the scandal which led to Juventus being demoted to Serie B and Lazio, AC Milan, Fiorentina and Reggina having points deductions. Juventus were promoted straight back to the top flight in May but criminal proceedings connected to the match-fixing are ongoing.
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Adjust Font Size: | en | Italian professional sports club Lazio and their coach Delio Rossi have been accused and charged with trying to influence the performance of Lecce in April 2006.
The Italian Football Federation said that Rossi attempted to ask Lazio president Claudio Lotito to contact Lecce officials and discuss their tactics ahead of the match and how their attempt was unsuccessful. Lazio won the match 1-0. Media reports say that the case started because of phone tap evidence. |
de | Im April stellt Bahn-Chef Heinz Dürr das Projekt "Stuttgart 21" mit der Tieferlegung des Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhofes vor.
Im Januar bescheinigt eine Studie die technische Machbarkeit von "Stuttgart 21". Umweltschützer und Grüne protestieren.
Im November unterzeichnen Bahn, Bund, Land und Stadt eine Rahmenvereinbarung, in der auch die Finanzierung des auf fünf Milliarden D-Mark veranschlagten Projekts festgelegt wird.
Im November erhält das Düsseldorfer Architektenbüro von Christoph Ingenhoven den Zuschlag für den Umbau in einen Durchgangsbahnhof mit Lichtaugen.
Im Februar erteilt das Eisenbahn-Bundesamt die Baugenehmigung für die Umwandlung des Bahnhofs.
Im April weist das oberste Verwaltungsgericht Baden-Württembergs drei Klagen gegen den geplanten Umbau des Hauptbahnhofs ab.
Im Oktober vertagt der Bund die Entscheidung über seine Beteiligung an dem 2,8 Milliarden Euro teuren Bahnhofsvorhaben.
Im November verlautet aus Bahn-Kreisen, der Umbau des Bahnhofs und dessen Anbindung an die Neubaustrecke nach Ulm könne wegen Baukostenrisiken bis zu eine Milliarde Euro teurer werden.
Im Februar weist der Verwaltungsgerichtshof Baden-Württemberg vier Klagen gegen den Fildertunnel ab.
Am 19. Juli verständigen sich Bund, Bahn, Land und Stadt in Berlin auf die Finanzierung - eine bindende Finanzierungsvereinbarung steht noch aus.
Am 11. November präsentieren Naturschützer, Bürgerinitiativen und Grüne das Ergebnis einer Abstimmung: 67.000 Menschen stimmten für einen Bürgerentscheid über "Stuttgart 21".
Am 20. Dezember lehnt der Stuttgarter Gemeinderat einen Bürgerentscheid über das Milliardenprojekt mit großer Mehrheit ab. Die grundsätzlichen Beschlüsse seien schon vor Jahren gefallen.
Am 19. August räumt die Landesregierung Mehrkosten ein. Das Vorhaben soll nicht wie geplant 2,8 Milliarden Euro kosten, sondern 3,076 Milliarden Euro.
Am 3. November prophezeit der Bundesrechnungshof Mehrkosten von über zwei Milliarden Euro.
Am 28. November macht der Bundestag mit der Verabschiedung des Haushaltes den Weg frei für "Stuttgart 21".
Am 2. April unterzeichnen Bundesverkehrsminister Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD), Ministerpräsident Günther Oettinger (CDU) und Bahn-Vorstand Stefan Garber die Finanzierungsvereinbarung.
Am 7. Juni profitieren die Grünen von ihrem jahrelangen Widerstand gegen "Stuttgart 21" und werden bei der Kommunalwahl die stärkste Fraktion im Rathaus der Landeshauptstadt.
Am 17. Juli entscheidet das Verwaltungsgericht Stuttgart: Der Gemeinderat hat den Bürgerentscheid 2007 zu Recht abgelehnt.
Am 26. Oktober findet die erste Montagsdemonstration gegen den neuen Bahnhof statt - mit vier Teilnehmern. Eine Woche später sind es 20.
Am 8. November räumt Bahn-Chef Rüdiger Grube erstmals ein, dass das Projekt teurer wird als 3,076 Milliarden Euro.
Am 25. November fordern Architekturliebhaber die Aufnahme des Bahnhofsgebäudes in das Unesco-Weltkulturerbe. Beide Seitenflügel des Gebäudes von 1922 sollen den Umbauplänen zum Opfer fallen.
Am 9. Dezember geht Bahn-Chef Rüdiger Grube mit einer Kostenschätzung von 4,1 Milliarden Euro in den Bahn-Aufsichtsrat. Dieser billigt trotz der Kostensteigerung von einer Milliarde Euro das Vorhaben.
Am 10. Dezember stellen nach der Bahn alle anderen Geldgeber die Weichen für das Milliardenvorhaben.
Am 2. Februar beginnen die Bauarbeiten.
Am 20. Mai unterliegt Peter Dübbers, Enkel des Bahnhofsarchitekten Paul Bonatz, vor dem Landgericht Stuttgart im Urheberrechtsstreit gegen die Bauherrin Bahn. Er wehrt sich gegen den Abriss der Seitenflügel des Bahnhofs und geht in Berufung.
Am 7. Juli wird eine bisher nicht veröffentlichte Studie der Züricher Firma SMA bekannt, die Probleme mit dem Regionalverkehr vorhersieht.
Am 27. Juli gibt Bahn-Chef Grube eine Kostensteigerung um 865 Millionen Euro auf 2,9 Milliarden Euro für die Schnellbahntrasse nach Ulm bekannt.
Am 30. Juli werden die Abrissarbeiten am Nordflügel vorbereitet: Ein erster Bagger rollt an, ein Bauzaun wird errichtet.
Am 7. August demonstrieren mehr als 10.000 Menschen und fordern einen Baustopp.
Am 11. August wird ein Gutachten für das Umweltbundesamt bekannt, das eine weitere Kostenexplosion auf bis zu elf Milliarden Euro für "Stuttgart 21" und erhebliche Verkehrsprobleme vorhersagt.
Am 13. August wird das Bahnhofsgebäude erstmals sichtbar beschädigt: Ein Vordach am Nordflügel wird abgerissen. Am Abend bilden 20.000 Menschen eine Kette um Teile des Bahnhofs und fordern einen Baustopp.
Am 14. August berichtet der SPIEGEL, dass die Landesregierung mit einem Großauftrag an die Bahn deren Zustimmung zu "Stuttgart 21" erkauft hat. Das Verkehrsministerium dementiert.
Am 20. August nehmen zwischen 20.000 (Polizeiangaben) und 30.000 (laut Organisatoren) Menschen an einem Protestmarsch teil.
Am 23. August verteidigt Bahnhofsarchitekt Christoph Ingenhoven seinen - in einigen Punkten optimierten - Entwurf. Er weist Aussagen zurück, der Tiefbahnhof könne auch mit Erhalt der Seitenflügel gebaut werden.
Am 25. August stoppen sieben Aktivisten die Baggerarbeiten am Nordflügel. Sie besetzen das Dach für 22 Stunden, ehe ein Spezialkommando der Polizei das Dach räumt.
Am 27. August erwarten die Organisatoren einer Kundgebung und Menschenkette entlang der Bannmeile des Landtags 50.000 Teilnehmer.
Am 6. September lässt das Aktionsbündnis gegen Stuttgart 21 ein Spitzengespräch zu dem Projekt platzen. Zu dem Treffen hatten Ministerpräsident Stefan Mappus (CDU) und der Grünen-Fraktionschef in Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, geladen. Gegner und Befürworter des Projekts sollten diskutieren. Doch das Aktionsbündnis forderte zuvor einen Baustopp - Mappus lehnte ab.
Am 8. September warnt ein neues Gutachten vor einer Kostenexplosion bei Stuttgart 21. Das Münchner Ingenieurbüro Vieregg & Rößler hat im Auftrag der Grünen ausgerechnet, dass sich die Ausgaben für die neue ICE-Trasse nach Ulm auf mindestens 5,3 Milliarden Euro belaufen werden und nicht - wie von der Bahn berechnet - auf 2,9 Milliarden Euro. Im ungünstigsten Fall könne die Strecke sogar zehn Milliarden Euro kosten.
Am 9. September sagt Bahnchef Rüdiger Grube dazu in der "Wirtschaftswoche": "Bei Infrastrukturprojekten kann man nie sagen, was am Ende auf Heller und Pfennig herauskommt."
Am 17. September verteidigt Bundesverkehrsminister Peter Ramsauer (CSU) das umstrittene Bauprojekt: Es gebe keinerlei Zweifel an dessen Legitimation, sagt er im Bundestag. Stuttgart 21 sei "über 15 bis 20 Jahre nach allen Regeln rechtsstaatlicher Kunst" zustande gekommen. Die Bundestagsfraktionen von SPD, Linke und Grüne fordern mit unterschiedlichen Anträgen dagegen einen Baustopp. Die SPD setzt sich für einen Volksentscheid ein.
Am 18. September demonstrieren erneut Zehntausende Stuttgart-21-Gegner im Schlossgarten.
Am 30. September eskaliert die Situation. Die Polizei geht mit Wasserwerfern gegen Demonstranten vor, die Wege im Stuttgarter Schlossgarten blockieren. Dort sollen die ersten von insgesamt 300 teilweise jahrzehntealten Bäume für den Umbau des Hauptbahnhofes gefällt werden. | de | Nachdem der Bundestagsabgeordnete und baden-württembergische CDU-Generalsekretär Thomas Strobl einem prominenten Fürsprecher der Gegner des Infrastrukturprojekts Stuttgart 21, nämlich dem Schauspieler Walter Sittler, die NS-Vergangenheit seines Vaters vorgehalten hatte, hat der parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der SPD-Fraktion im Bundestag Thomas Oppermann seine Eignung und Tragbarkeit als Vorsitzender des Vermittlungsausschusses von Bundestag und Bundesrat angezweifelt und seinen Rücktritt von diesem Posten gefordert.
Strobl hatte in seinem Newsletter „Berlin aktuell“ eine Abbildung Sittlers mit der Bildunterschrift versehen: „Sein Vater war Nazi-Funktionär und arbeitete für Reichspropagandaminister Joseph Goebbels: Walter Sittler, Propagandist der S21-Bewegung“. Er hat dafür bereits gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit und privat gegenüber Walter Sittler um Entschuldigung gebeten.
Thomas Strobl ist mit einer Tochter des Bundesfinanzministers Wolfgang Schäuble verheiratet. |
de | Unter Druck: Thomas Strobl. Quelle: dapd
dne/HB DÜSSELDORF/BERLIN. Der baden-württembergische CDU-Generalsekretär Thomas Strobl gerät wegen seines Angriffs auf den „Stuttgart 21„-Gegner Walter Sittler zunehmend unter Druck. Nach der SPD fordern nun auch die Grünen die Abberufung Strobls aus dem Bundestags-Vermittlungsausschuss. „Mit dem geschichtsvergessenen und beleidigenden Vergleich des legitimen Protests gegen Stuttgart 21 mit dem Mörderregime der Nazis hat sich Strobl politisch disqualifiziert“, sagte der parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der Grünen-Fraktion im Bundestag, Volker Beck, Handelsblatt Online. „Wie bereits Filbinger und Oettinger bewiesen haben, gibt es in der CDU im Ländle scheinbar bei einigen einen größeren Mangel an historischem Bewusstsein.“
Strobl hatte mit einem NS-Vergleich über den „Stuttgart 21“-Gegner Walter Sittler Empörung ausgelöst. Strobl brachte die NS-Vergangenheit von Sittlers Vater in einer Ausgabe seines Newsletters „Berlin Aktuell“ vom 29. Oktober mit dem Engagement des Schauspielers gegen das umstrittene Bahnprojekt in Verbindung. Eine Bildunterschrift unter einem Foto Sittlers lautete: „Sein Vater war Nazi-Funktionär und arbeitete für Reichspropagandaminister Joseph Goebbels: Walter Sittler, Propagandist der S21-Bewegung“. Strobl räumte später Fehler ein und entschuldigte sich bei dem Schauspieler.
Der parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der SPD-Fraktion, Thomas Oppermann betonte in einem Brief an seinen Unions-Kollegen Peter Altmaier (CDU), er halte Strobl nach diesem Vorfall „als Vorsitzenden des Vermittlungsausschuss für völlig ungeeignet und nicht länger tragbar“. Mit seinen Äußerungen stelle Strobl Sittler „in eine Reihe mit Nazi-Propagandisten“. In dem Schreiben, das der Deutschen Presse- Agentur vorliegt, betonte Oppermann, der Vorfall zeige die Dialogunfähigkeit Strobls.
Strobl hatte am Dienstagabend noch erklärt, er sei „in der von beiden Seiten emotional geführten Debatte über Stuttgart 21 über das Ziel hinausgeschossen“. Sittler sieht in den Äußerungen den Beleg dafür, dass den Befürwortern des Milliarden-Bahnprojekts nun endgültig die Argumente ausgehen. Am Dienstag blockierten außerdem 120 Demonstranten den Südflügel des Hauptbahnhofs, um Bauarbeiten für das Grundwassermanagement des geplanten Tiefbahnhofs zu behindern. Die Polizei löste die Aktion auf.
Strobl hatte Sittler in seinem Newsletter „Berlin aktuell“ ein „mangelndes Demokratieverständnis“ vorgeworfen. Dazu stellte er ein Foto des Schauspielers und die Bildzeile: „Sein Vater war Nazi- Funktionär und arbeitete für Reichspropagandaminister Joseph Goebbels: Walter Sittler, Propagandist der S21-Bewegung“. Strobl versicherte nun, er werde diese Aussagen nicht wiederholen. | de | Nachdem der Bundestagsabgeordnete und baden-württembergische CDU-Generalsekretär Thomas Strobl einem prominenten Fürsprecher der Gegner des Infrastrukturprojekts Stuttgart 21, nämlich dem Schauspieler Walter Sittler, die NS-Vergangenheit seines Vaters vorgehalten hatte, hat der parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der SPD-Fraktion im Bundestag Thomas Oppermann seine Eignung und Tragbarkeit als Vorsitzender des Vermittlungsausschusses von Bundestag und Bundesrat angezweifelt und seinen Rücktritt von diesem Posten gefordert.
Strobl hatte in seinem Newsletter „Berlin aktuell“ eine Abbildung Sittlers mit der Bildunterschrift versehen: „Sein Vater war Nazi-Funktionär und arbeitete für Reichspropagandaminister Joseph Goebbels: Walter Sittler, Propagandist der S21-Bewegung“. Er hat dafür bereits gegenüber der Öffentlichkeit und privat gegenüber Walter Sittler um Entschuldigung gebeten.
Thomas Strobl ist mit einer Tochter des Bundesfinanzministers Wolfgang Schäuble verheiratet. |
en | A New York-based anarchist has been arrested by the FBI and charged with hindering prosecution after he allegedly used the social networking site Twitter to help protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh evade the police.
Elliot Madison, 41, from Queens, had his home raided and was put on $30,000 (£19,000) bail after he and Michael Wallschlaeger, 46, were tracked to the Carefree Inn motel in Pittsburgh during the summit on 24 and 25 September.
The pair were found sitting in front of a bank of laptops and emergency frequency radio scanners. They were wearing headphones and microphones and had many maps and contact numbers in the room.
Official police documents allege the two men used Twitter messages to contact protesters at the summit "and to inform the protesters and groups of the movements and actions of law enforcement".
In all, almost 200 protesters were arrested during the two-day summit, which brought world leaders to Pittsburgh to discuss the global economic meltdown and other matters of common financial interest.
About 5,000 protesters were estimated to have taken part in demonstrations in the city.
Twitter has rapidly established itself as an important tool in the armoury of protest groups and demonstrators. During the summit, the police openly monitored Twitter to listen in to the protesters' communications.
The FBI said that as well as the computers and radio scanning equipment discovered at the motel, they also confiscated from Madison's home 11 gas masks, five pairs of goggles and test tubes and beakers. They said they also took away anarchist books and pictures of Marx and Lenin.
Madison is a social worker with a Manhattan-based programme attached to a psychiatric hospital. He is said to be a member of the People's Law Collective, a voluntary group that advises protesters on legal issues arising from actions. Wallschlaeger produces a talk show on radio called This Week in Radical History. | de | Am 24. und 25. September demonstrierten in Pittsburgh mehrere tausend Menschen, teilweise auch unangemeldet, gegen den Gipfel der Gruppe der zwanzig wichtigsten Industrie- und Schwellenländer. Nun wurde bekannt, dass das FBI dabei zwei Menschen festgenommen hat, weil sie per Mobiltelefon und dem Mikrobloggingdienst Twitter Demonstranten dabei geholfen haben sollen, der Polizei auszuweichen. Bereits während des Gipfels waren rund 200 Protestierende verhaftet worden. Vertreter der G-20-Staaten hatten in Pittsburgh über die internationale Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise beraten.
Medienberichten zufolge sollen Elliot Madison, ein Sozialarbeiter aus dem New Yorker Stadtteil Queens, der sich selbst als Anarchist bezeichnet, und Michael Wallschlaeger während des Gipfeltreffens in einem Pittsburgher Motel beobachtet worden sein. Beide seien mit Laptops, Headseats, Karten und Funkscannern ausgestattet gewesen. Die Behörden werfen ihnen vor, Demonstranten über die Polizeiaktivitäten informiert zu haben. Sie hätten die Kommunikation der Sicherheitsbehörden abgehört und wichtige Informationen per Handy und Twitter an die Demonstranten weitergeleitet. Somit hätten sie die Protestaktion gesteuert. Beiden verhafteten Personen droht eine Anklage wegen Behinderung der Strafverfolgungsbehörden. Bei der Durchsuchung von Elliot Madisons Haus in Queens wurden laut FBI-Angaben unter anderem elf Gasmasken und anarchistische Literatur beschlagnahmt. Elliot Madison wurde inzwischen gegen eine Kaution in Höhe von 30.000 US-Dollar freigelassen. Er gab an, ein Freiwilliger zu sein, der die Protestierenden in Rechtsfragen beraten habe. Wallschlaeger sagte, er habe für eine Radio-Talkshow über die Proteste in Pittsburgh berichten wollen.
In einem Artikel der „Süddeutschen Zeitung“ wird darüber spekuliert, ob die Angelegenheit zu einem Präzedenzfall in Sachen Meinungsfreiheit werden könne. Johannes Kuhn, der Autor des Artikels, zitiert Experten, die der Meinung sind, eine Verurteilung der beiden Personen werde kein einfaches Unterfangen. Es sei kaum möglich, Madison und Wallschlaeger nachzuweisen, dass sie tatsächlich die Demonstration gesteuert haben. Außerdem hätte die Polizisten unverschlüsselt kommuniziert, weswegen der Zugriff nach amerikanischem Recht nicht illegal sei, so zumindest die Einschätzung eines Bürgerrechtlers. Nach seiner Verhaftung zeigte sich Madison zuversichtlich. „Sie haben mich für etwas verhaftet, das alle anderen auch getan haben und das absolut legal war“, sagte er zu Journalisten. Mitte Oktober wird es eine Anhörung geben. Danach entscheidet sich, ob die beiden Verhafteten angeklagt werden. |
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