Every day, find bbc. en the synthesis of the day's events in the Arab world. Palestinian factions in Cairo seal their reconciliation Palestinian factions, including rival Fatah and Hamas were sealed on Tuesday, their reconciliation in Cairo, ending the division between the West Bank and Gaza. The agreement provides for the formation of a government of independents to prepare simultaneous presidential and legislative elections within a year.
Representatives of thirteen groups and independent personalities have signed the agreement after talks with Egyptian officials including intelligence chief, Mourad Mouafi. Talks between President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah and the Islamist Hamas movement leader Khaled Meshaal, are expected in the evening.
They will participate Wednesday in a ceremony attended by the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, the Egyptian foreign minister, Nabil Al-Arabi, and Mr. Mouafi. The agreement, reached after a year and a half of negotiations, is strongly criticized by Israel, which sees a strengthening of the Islamist movement Hamas, which it considers a terrorist organization.
"The agreement between Hamas, which calls for destruction of the State of Israel, and Fatah should worry all Israelis, but also those who aspire to peace between us and our Palestinian neighbors, "said Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli Prime Minister intends to put forward this agreement to deter the international community to recognize a Palestinian state without prior settlement with Israel.
Financial assistance to the rebels Libyan discussion in Rome Thursday Contact Group on Libya, which meets Thursday in Rome, will try to find a way to financially assist the rebellion and seek a political solution that gets stuck and leads to serious problems in humanitarian terms. Up for discussion on this conflict, which has claimed more than ten thousand deaths, according to the rebels included the possible provision of arms to opponents of Muammar Qaddafi, and especially the financing of their movement through the purchase of oil from east of the country under their control.
Libya had accused the rebels earlier in the day that their economy could collapse by June if France, Italy and the United States does not grant them a credit of 3 billion dollars, secured by funds frozen Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. On the occasion of the conference in Rome, Italy "will explore with international organizations like NATO and with allies to secure an end" military operations in Libya in line to vote yesterday at the Chamber of Deputies of a motion to that effect, said Tuesday, the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
Vice Admiral Rinaldo Veri Italian, Naval Component Commander for NATO operations in Libya, has assured that the war was not deadlocked and that the alliance was able to slow its objectives: the forces of Muammar Gaddafi back to their barracks and cease threatening civilians. For its part, France will propose "in the coming weeks" to organize a "Conference of Friends of Libya" to prepare the political transition in the country, says the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, in an interview published Wednesday in the weekly L'Express.
Moreover, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Istanbul Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, to leave "immediately" the power and Libya to put an end to the bloodshed in his country. For its part, the Algerian interior minister, Dahou Ould Kablia, said he expected relations "very tense" between his country and Libya if the Libyan rebels and the NLC came to power.
Switzerland announced on Monday, dozens have frozen millions of Swiss francs of assets belonging to former presidents of Egypt and Tunisia Zine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak and the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. According to the Swiss Foreign Ministry, 360 million Swiss francs (280 million) of assets related to potentially illegal Libyan number 1 and his entourage were found.
Investigators of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have evidence that the forces of Muammar Gaddafi have committed crimes against humanity, said Monday night the ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. The ICC was mandated in February by the Security Council of the United Nations to investigate possible war crimes, and the Argentine judge said he would recommend the issuance of arrest warrants at the chamber's preliminary the ICC.
France and Britain called for sanctions against Syria, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, said, in an interview published Wednesday in The Express, which France does not intend to intervene in Syria. It is "not necessary, in different political realities, to act every time the same way." "For Syria, we will act to adopt the most severe sanctions.
This will be effective," he recommends. In the absence of agreement in the Security Council of UN, Paris wants a decision at the Twenty-Seven against the violent repression of popular protest movement in Syria since mid-March, said Tuesday the minister Foreign Alain Juppe. The latter is scheduled to meet again in the evening with the Foreign Secretary, William Hague.
Monday evening, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, said that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, is doomed to disappear because of the "brutality" with which he punishes dissenters. Asked about Israel's response, the Minister of Defence has responded cautiously to the Channel 10 Israeli television: "I do not think Israel could have any influence on what happens in Syria.
It is therefore better that we remain somewhat out of it. " In addition, several nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have denounced again on Tuesday, the Syrian regime's practices, while more than three thousand people demonstrating in Banias demand the lifting of the siege of this town northwest of Syria and Deraa than in the South.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Tuesday, the Syrian authorities a right of access to people injured in the anti-Assad, especially Deraa, as well as activists and protesters arrested in connection with repression. The security services have transformed Syria, where over a thousand people have been arrested over the last two days, "a big prison", said Tuesday the National Organization for Human Rights (ONDH).
"The mass arrests carried out by the Syrian authorities continue in the governorates including Deraa (South), in the province of Damascus and Idleb (North West)," said a communique Syrian. The Algerian journalist Khaled Sid Mohand, arrested April 9 at Damascus, meanwhile, was released Tuesday, said a diplomat from the Embassy of Algeria in the Syrian capital.
This freelance journalist who works for the radio station France Culture and the daily Le Monde, "was presented this morning at 10 am (7:00 GMT) at the Embassy of Algeria," said the diplomat, in the guise of anonymity. According leComité martyrs of 15 March, close to the protesters, five hundred and ninety to nine people have been killed since the beginning of the movement, there is one and a half months.
The anti-government activists have called for permanent sit-in from Tuesday night in the cities of Syria. "The situation in Syria is approaching a point of no return (...). To avoid this, the regime must halt immediately the security forces take serious measures against those responsible for the violence and engage in a real national dialogue, "he said Tuesday, the International Crisis Group (ICG).
President Bouteflika announced reforms, some two hundred journalists held Tuesday at the invitation of the Algerian National Initiative for the dignity of the journalist, a sit-in outside the Maison de la Presse, Algiers, to mark the Day freedom of the press. According to them, "the profession is in a total mess" with the lack of status, card press, fair wages, training.
On Monday, the cabinet has taken a series of measures to help journalists and abolish the press offense came into force in 2001 and which allowed the imprisonment of journalists. In a message Tuesday to journalists from Algeria, the Head of State committed to a "revision of the Organic Law on the Code of information" and the establishment of "ordinary laws for a legal framework "in consultation with the profession and society.
Moreover, it was also decided on Monday by the Cabinet, a 25% increase in public spending and the abolition of import taxes on basic commodities in order to defuse a possible social unrest. Additional expenditure will be used primarily to increase the salaries of civil servants to meet the state subsidies on flour, milk, oil and sugar to create jobs for young people and build new homes.
President Bouteflika on Monday also appointed chairman of the Senate, Abdelkader Bensalah, for consultations with political parties and personalities to achieve the "deep" reforms he has promised the country April 15. The Head of State promised a constitutional amendment of 1996 and a revision of the electoral law, the law on political parties and the information code.
The transition Tunisian agenda of the G8 in Tunisia too, media professionals had called for a rally Tuesday at the Municipal Theater in Tunis. They demand "inclusion in the preamble of the Constitution the right to inform", and the drafting of a code of ethics and the proliferation of independent newspapers.
Tunisia will be the transition agenda of the G8 summit in Deauville in late May. Tunisia was with Egypt, invited to participate for the eight most highly industrialized powers adopt "action plans" for them and make a successful transition, said on Tuesday French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe.
The bodies of eight victims of the attack of French repatriates Marrakech The plane carrying the bodies of eight victims of the French attack in Marrakesh, which killed six persons on April 28, landed shortly before 4:00 p.m. Tuesday at the airport Paris Orly. At a ceremony, Nicolas Sarkozy said that France would not let the "crime" of the attack in Marrakesh "unpunished" and pledged that the terrorists "will have no respite, nowhere, never." A Casablanca court refused Tuesday to grant provisional release to Rachid Nini, director of the Arabic newspaper Al Massae pursued including "disinformation" against the security services, officials said a judicial source.
Nini was taken into custody Thursday, accused by prosecutors for writings critical of "the march of the security services and some public figures accused of violating the law," particularly in the fight against terrorism. A second association proréformes dissolved in the UAE The UAE unisont dissolved the elected Teachers Association, suspected of supporting democratic reforms in the Gulf country, lamented Tuesday Human Rights Watch (HRW).
This occurred as Monday follows the dissolution, April 21, the Association of Jurists. These two associations, as other NGOs, in March signed a petition calling for democratic reforms, saying they had been accused of involvement in political activities and have affected the security of the state.
"This attack against civil society is further proof that the Emirati authorities are in favor of reforms in each easy prey," said Joe Stork, deputy director of HRW's Middle East. The authorities held five militants, arrested for "non-compliance" and "incitement to actions likely to affect the security of the state." Some of them have signed a petition calling for political reforms, inspired by the claims of change in other Arab countries.
Members of the Yemenite Jewish community show support for President Saleh Dozens of Yemeni Jews held on Tuesday in Sana'a an expression of support for President Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose departure is demanded by a broad popular protest movement since January. "The members of the Jewish community in Yemen support President Saleh and constitutional legitimacy," reads one of the banners brandished by demonstrators chanting "The people want Ali Abdullah Saleh." Of the sixty thousand Jews that Yemen had at the time of creation of the State of Israel in 1948, there were only four hundred still living in the country, particularly in the region of Amran, north Sanaa. 
Representatives of thirteen groups and independent personalities have signed the agreement after talks with Egyptian officials including intelligence chief, Mourad Mouafi. Talks between President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah and the Islamist Hamas movement leader Khaled Meshaal, are expected in the evening.
They will participate Wednesday in a ceremony attended by the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, the Egyptian foreign minister, Nabil Al-Arabi, and Mr. Mouafi. The agreement, reached after a year and a half of negotiations, is strongly criticized by Israel, which sees a strengthening of the Islamist movement Hamas, which it considers a terrorist organization.
"The agreement between Hamas, which calls for destruction of the State of Israel, and Fatah should worry all Israelis, but also those who aspire to peace between us and our Palestinian neighbors, "said Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli Prime Minister intends to put forward this agreement to deter the international community to recognize a Palestinian state without prior settlement with Israel.
Financial assistance to the rebels Libyan discussion in Rome Thursday Contact Group on Libya, which meets Thursday in Rome, will try to find a way to financially assist the rebellion and seek a political solution that gets stuck and leads to serious problems in humanitarian terms. Up for discussion on this conflict, which has claimed more than ten thousand deaths, according to the rebels included the possible provision of arms to opponents of Muammar Qaddafi, and especially the financing of their movement through the purchase of oil from east of the country under their control.
Libya had accused the rebels earlier in the day that their economy could collapse by June if France, Italy and the United States does not grant them a credit of 3 billion dollars, secured by funds frozen Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. On the occasion of the conference in Rome, Italy "will explore with international organizations like NATO and with allies to secure an end" military operations in Libya in line to vote yesterday at the Chamber of Deputies of a motion to that effect, said Tuesday, the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
Vice Admiral Rinaldo Veri Italian, Naval Component Commander for NATO operations in Libya, has assured that the war was not deadlocked and that the alliance was able to slow its objectives: the forces of Muammar Gaddafi back to their barracks and cease threatening civilians. For its part, France will propose "in the coming weeks" to organize a "Conference of Friends of Libya" to prepare the political transition in the country, says the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, in an interview published Wednesday in the weekly L'Express.
Moreover, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Istanbul Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, to leave "immediately" the power and Libya to put an end to the bloodshed in his country. For its part, the Algerian interior minister, Dahou Ould Kablia, said he expected relations "very tense" between his country and Libya if the Libyan rebels and the NLC came to power.
Switzerland announced on Monday, dozens have frozen millions of Swiss francs of assets belonging to former presidents of Egypt and Tunisia Zine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak and the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. According to the Swiss Foreign Ministry, 360 million Swiss francs (280 million) of assets related to potentially illegal Libyan number 1 and his entourage were found.
Investigators of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have evidence that the forces of Muammar Gaddafi have committed crimes against humanity, said Monday night the ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. The ICC was mandated in February by the Security Council of the United Nations to investigate possible war crimes, and the Argentine judge said he would recommend the issuance of arrest warrants at the chamber's preliminary the ICC.
France and Britain called for sanctions against Syria, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, said, in an interview published Wednesday in The Express, which France does not intend to intervene in Syria. It is "not necessary, in different political realities, to act every time the same way." "For Syria, we will act to adopt the most severe sanctions.
This will be effective," he recommends. In the absence of agreement in the Security Council of UN, Paris wants a decision at the Twenty-Seven against the violent repression of popular protest movement in Syria since mid-March, said Tuesday the minister Foreign Alain Juppe. The latter is scheduled to meet again in the evening with the Foreign Secretary, William Hague.
Monday evening, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, said that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, is doomed to disappear because of the "brutality" with which he punishes dissenters. Asked about Israel's response, the Minister of Defence has responded cautiously to the Channel 10 Israeli television: "I do not think Israel could have any influence on what happens in Syria.
It is therefore better that we remain somewhat out of it. " In addition, several nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have denounced again on Tuesday, the Syrian regime's practices, while more than three thousand people demonstrating in Banias demand the lifting of the siege of this town northwest of Syria and Deraa than in the South.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) called on Tuesday, the Syrian authorities a right of access to people injured in the anti-Assad, especially Deraa, as well as activists and protesters arrested in connection with repression. The security services have transformed Syria, where over a thousand people have been arrested over the last two days, "a big prison", said Tuesday the National Organization for Human Rights (ONDH).
"The mass arrests carried out by the Syrian authorities continue in the governorates including Deraa (South), in the province of Damascus and Idleb (North West)," said a communique Syrian. The Algerian journalist Khaled Sid Mohand, arrested April 9 at Damascus, meanwhile, was released Tuesday, said a diplomat from the Embassy of Algeria in the Syrian capital.
This freelance journalist who works for the radio station France Culture and the daily Le Monde, "was presented this morning at 10 am (7:00 GMT) at the Embassy of Algeria," said the diplomat, in the guise of anonymity. According leComité martyrs of 15 March, close to the protesters, five hundred and ninety to nine people have been killed since the beginning of the movement, there is one and a half months.
The anti-government activists have called for permanent sit-in from Tuesday night in the cities of Syria. "The situation in Syria is approaching a point of no return (...). To avoid this, the regime must halt immediately the security forces take serious measures against those responsible for the violence and engage in a real national dialogue, "he said Tuesday, the International Crisis Group (ICG).
President Bouteflika announced reforms, some two hundred journalists held Tuesday at the invitation of the Algerian National Initiative for the dignity of the journalist, a sit-in outside the Maison de la Presse, Algiers, to mark the Day freedom of the press. According to them, "the profession is in a total mess" with the lack of status, card press, fair wages, training.
On Monday, the cabinet has taken a series of measures to help journalists and abolish the press offense came into force in 2001 and which allowed the imprisonment of journalists. In a message Tuesday to journalists from Algeria, the Head of State committed to a "revision of the Organic Law on the Code of information" and the establishment of "ordinary laws for a legal framework "in consultation with the profession and society.
Moreover, it was also decided on Monday by the Cabinet, a 25% increase in public spending and the abolition of import taxes on basic commodities in order to defuse a possible social unrest. Additional expenditure will be used primarily to increase the salaries of civil servants to meet the state subsidies on flour, milk, oil and sugar to create jobs for young people and build new homes.
President Bouteflika on Monday also appointed chairman of the Senate, Abdelkader Bensalah, for consultations with political parties and personalities to achieve the "deep" reforms he has promised the country April 15. The Head of State promised a constitutional amendment of 1996 and a revision of the electoral law, the law on political parties and the information code.
The transition Tunisian agenda of the G8 in Tunisia too, media professionals had called for a rally Tuesday at the Municipal Theater in Tunis. They demand "inclusion in the preamble of the Constitution the right to inform", and the drafting of a code of ethics and the proliferation of independent newspapers.
Tunisia will be the transition agenda of the G8 summit in Deauville in late May. Tunisia was with Egypt, invited to participate for the eight most highly industrialized powers adopt "action plans" for them and make a successful transition, said on Tuesday French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe.
The bodies of eight victims of the attack of French repatriates Marrakech The plane carrying the bodies of eight victims of the French attack in Marrakesh, which killed six persons on April 28, landed shortly before 4:00 p.m. Tuesday at the airport Paris Orly. At a ceremony, Nicolas Sarkozy said that France would not let the "crime" of the attack in Marrakesh "unpunished" and pledged that the terrorists "will have no respite, nowhere, never." A Casablanca court refused Tuesday to grant provisional release to Rachid Nini, director of the Arabic newspaper Al Massae pursued including "disinformation" against the security services, officials said a judicial source.
Nini was taken into custody Thursday, accused by prosecutors for writings critical of "the march of the security services and some public figures accused of violating the law," particularly in the fight against terrorism. A second association proréformes dissolved in the UAE The UAE unisont dissolved the elected Teachers Association, suspected of supporting democratic reforms in the Gulf country, lamented Tuesday Human Rights Watch (HRW).
This occurred as Monday follows the dissolution, April 21, the Association of Jurists. These two associations, as other NGOs, in March signed a petition calling for democratic reforms, saying they had been accused of involvement in political activities and have affected the security of the state.
"This attack against civil society is further proof that the Emirati authorities are in favor of reforms in each easy prey," said Joe Stork, deputy director of HRW's Middle East. The authorities held five militants, arrested for "non-compliance" and "incitement to actions likely to affect the security of the state." Some of them have signed a petition calling for political reforms, inspired by the claims of change in other Arab countries.
Members of the Yemenite Jewish community show support for President Saleh Dozens of Yemeni Jews held on Tuesday in Sana'a an expression of support for President Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose departure is demanded by a broad popular protest movement since January. "The members of the Jewish community in Yemen support President Saleh and constitutional legitimacy," reads one of the banners brandished by demonstrators chanting "The people want Ali Abdullah Saleh." Of the sixty thousand Jews that Yemen had at the time of creation of the State of Israel in 1948, there were only four hundred still living in the country, particularly in the region of Amran, north Sanaa.
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