The Tunisian people have spoken and, significantly, the Arab people listen, "says the analyst Lamis Andoni on Al Jazeera, which sees the popular uprising that brought down Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali a" warning all leaders, whether supported by international or regional powers, they are no longer immune to outbursts of popular anger."While the shock wave Tunisia began to spread to other countries the region, some bloggers were also quick to compare events in Tunisia in the fall of the Berlin Wall, says the Lebanese daily L'Orient-Le Jour. "ingredients found in Tunisia are also present elsewhere, "from Morocco to Algeria, Egypt to Jordan, whether unemployment, police repression or obstacles to democracy," said Amr Hamzawi, the Center for Middle East American Carnegie Foundation in L'Orient-Le Jour.
Consultations to name a new prime minister in Lebanon after the fall of the government of Saad Hariri, have been postponed by one week. These consultations between President Suleiman and the parliamentary groups were originally scheduled to begin on Monday, following the collapse January 12 of the coalition government, caused by the resignation of ministers of the powerful Shiite party Hezbollah and its allies.
In the case of the original to death by stoning condemned Iranian Sakine Mohammadi Aschtiani There seems to hope: One of Iran's parliament, according to the death penalty was suspended - Aschtiani threaten therefore now ten years in prison Tehran - Iran's judicial authorities are still silent, the President said nothing - but yet there are increasing signs that the country has suspended the death penalty against Sakine Mohammadi Aschtiani.
Raul Castro's government has received as a fact, "positive" but "insufficient" the final steps of the administration of Barack Obama to ease some restrictions on travel to Cuba from the United States and send money to Cubans, announced last week Washington. According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) of Cuba, the measures are generally positive but "have a very limited scope and not change the policy against Cuba," so that "fall far short" of the claims Havana to put an end to U.S.
A heavy silence accompanied, among Member States of the Arab League, the sharp reversal of Zine El-Ali AbidineBen, January 14. "It's a real shock," says one Arab ambassador posted in Paris, because the Tunisian regime was regarded as far more robust in the region. This revolution illustrates a crisis of the Arab state that can no longer be concealed.
A former Swiss banker has provided the Wikileaks page Julian Assange data on hundreds of overseas bank accounts of clients suspected of tax evasion. It has done so publicly in a press conference in London which was attended by both the founder of Wikileaks as the banker, Rudolf Elmer, who on Wednesday will be tried in Switzerland for breaking the rules of banking secrecy.
French diplomacy has made a major shift in the Tunisian case, forced to adapt to a chain of events that has expired and is set to false. After the flight of President Ben Ali, France has used for the first time the word "democracy" in describing the aspirations of the Tunisian demonstrators in recent weeks.
The consultations provided Monday, January 17 for appointment of a new prime minister after the fall of the government of Saad Hariri - caused by the resignation of the ministers of Hezbollah and its allies - have been postponed to January 24, said a statement from the President . "After evaluating the positions of different parties in Lebanon (...), President Michel Suleiman has decided to postpone the parliamentary consultations on Monday, January 24 and Tuesday, January 25, 2011," according to a statement from the president.
The example of Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself on fire in Tunis to protest the economic situation and became the wick of protests that have come to overthrow the dictator Ben Ali, continues to spread in Arab countries. If yesterday was an Algerian who was burned to the Bonze, today has happened in Egypt and Mauritania.
LONDON - Rudolf Elmer, the Swiss banker who is now delivered to the site of Julian Assange the names of thousands of potential major tax evaders, takes "Wikileaks my last hope. I tried to approach the authorities and the media in my battle against the banks. There 'was nothing to do. " Elmer holds a press conference today at the Frontline Club in London along with Assange and John Christianson organization Tax Justice Network, according to which 20 trillion are hidden offshore.
Tunis, Special Envoy - A girl stands in front of the tank and installation, the smile left, the time that his mother take a picture. The armored military and its lattice, stationed at the mall The Zephyr, became the darling of the neighborhood of La Marsa, north of Tunis. Everyone comes here to take a picture khaki background.
Iran has suspended the sentence to be hanged for complicity in murder of her husband against Sakineh Mohammadi. The announcement was made the head of Iran's parliamentary committee for human rights, Zohre Elahian, in a letter to the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff. The sentence of stoning for adultery against Sakineh had been suspended last year after the protests of many governments, but still hung on woman sentenced to be hanged for complicity in the murder of her husband.
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Jerusalem - It is a dramatic step: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak joined the Socialist Labor Party. The former party leader Barak said on Monday in Jerusalem, he would start with four other deputies, a new party named Azmaut (independence). Barak comes with this step, the left wing of the party before, who had campaigned heavily for a withdrawal of the Labour Party from the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Christ the Redeemer of Corocovado, protective symbol of the city of Rio de Janeiro, is drawn today by the Brazilian cartoonists Strip mourning in his arm open. The rains have returned to the disaster region, especially in Petropolis and Nova Friburgo, have produced more death, fear and destruction.
TUNIS - gathered on Central Avenue Bourguiba, and gave new life to a protest, shouting slogans against the inclusion in the new government of representatives of the old regime and against the police, they say, is still working for the old regime. Dozens of Tunisian citizens took to the streets to demonstrate after the fall of President Zine Abidine Ben Ali.
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The example of Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself on fire in Tunis to protest the economic situation and became the wick of protests that have come to overthrow the dictator Ben Ali, continues to spread in Arab countries. If yesterday was an Algerian who was burned to the Bonze, today has happened in Egypt.
A man set himself on fire Monday, January 17, before the People's Assembly in Cairo, said at a parliamentary source, a gesture reminiscent of a young Tunisian who has triggered the riots in his country . The man poured gasoline over his body before setting it on fire, then the police intervened to extinguish the flames, said the source who spoke under condition of anonymity.
Iran opened its uranium enrichment facility at Natanz (Central) ambassadors from several countries, a day after the head of the Iranian nuclear program, Ali Akbar Salehi, says the country continues to "strongly" that enrichment. The representatives of nonaligned countries, the group of 77 Arab League, Venezuela and Syria before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are involved in this visit at the invitation of Tehran, an invitation to Russia, China and European Union declined.
Violent clashes in Tunisia opposed to the Security Forces loyalists to the ousted Head of State Ben Ali, culminating in the assault on the presidential palace in Carthage, a day of announcing the composition of the new government. Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi, warned that the transitional authorities will not show "zero tolerance" to those who sow chaos in the country.
For 25 years he was in exile - now ex-dictator Duvalier, also known as "Baby Doc", returned unexpectedly to violence-ridden Haiti. "I'm here to help," says the man who would be responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. His return could further destabilize the country. Port-au-Prince - Haiti is struggling with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, with a cholera epidemic - there is a political power vacuum.
TEHRAN - Iranian authorities have also suspended the execution of sentence of death by hanging of Sakineh Ashtiani Mohammadi, who was found guilty of adultery and complicity in the killing of her husband. This was announced by the Iranian Parliament's Committee on Human Rights, Zohre Elahian, in a letter to the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff.
Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who eight days ago was shot in the head at a rally in Tucson (Arizona), is no longer in a situation "critical", although his condition remains "serious" as the last medical known this morning. The doctors who treat you in the Hospital of the University of Arizona say that Giffords, 40, "continuous improvement" despite the severity of the injury.
CAIRO - A man set himself on fire outside the Egyptian parliament. The local sources. There are currently no known reason for the gesture even though it could be a rival of the 26-year old Mohamed Bouziz, the Tunisian Jan Palach set himself on fire on December 17 last year triggered the protests that led to the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben.
NEW YORK - What do you do if someone checks your account, Google and Facebook, for an investigation was opened against you? And if you're not even notified of this "electronic searches? The dilemma hangs on Internet users in the United States, which could be - without even knowing it - the notorious National Security Letters, the letters in defense of national security requesting information on people suspected of any crime.
The former Gestapo chief of Lyon, Klaus Barbie, have collaborated with the German foreign intelligence service (BND) after the Second World War, says the weekly Der Spiegel Monday, January 17. "The butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life imprisonment in France in 1987 for organizing the deportation of hundreds of Jews, was recruited by the BND early 1966 while living under the alias Klaus Altmann in Bolivia, says the weekly German, citing documents from the BND.
The inhabitants of the Australian state of Victoria today struggle against the floods that ravaged Queensland last week, where it is still looking for 14 people who disappeared in the worst flooding in half a century. so far, 14,000 houses are submerged and 3,500 residents have been evacuated in the southeast, and police asked citizens to stay away if the rivers are overflowing.
TEL AVIV - The Labour Party, led by the Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, is close to a split. The announcement was Barak himself in a press conference. The new party is called Atzmaut, Independence in Hebrew. In the current Knesset, Labour has 13 MPs out of 120. According to the early, Barak intends to take a split in the parliamentary list along with four deputies (Matan Vilnay, Einat Wilf, Orit Noked and Shalom Simchon).
BEIJING - Forty years after the start of realazioni diplomatic ties between China and the United States, President Hu Jintao will land tomorrow in Washington with an agenda unimaginable compared to what Mao Zedong introduced to Richard Nixon. In 1972 the leader of a nation's failure explicitly asked America a plan to save 820 military aid to farmers from starvation.
Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, will announce on Monday morning, he left the Labour Party he founded and led four other MPs with a new political party, announced the Israeli media. Barak will leave the Labour Party with Vice-Minister of Defence Matan Vilnai, Shalom Simhon, Minister of Agriculture and two other members, Einat Wilf and Orit Noked.
The youth shows signs of discomfort increasingly conspicuous. Protests and rebellions alternate with waves of urban violence. In Europe and beyond. He wrote Bernardo Valli in recent days on these pages, to explain the collapse of the regime in Tunisia. "The youth-aimed wrote Valli-are powerful detonators which can impose political change." Even if the tensions expressed by the young people do not reveal common themes expressed by specific components.
The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi defended himself in a video message, Sunday, Jan. 16, to have "never paid for sex with a woman", rejecting outright the investigation of the matter is that Ruby Milan for prostitution of a minor and abuse of office. "This is something that I never arrived, not even once in my life, I would consider degrading my dignity," said Berlusconi, who is suspected of having paid money to a Moroccan girl called Ruby, for intimate relationships as a minor.
NEW YORK - Some 47% of Americans believe that the passing of GDP between China and the United States has already occurred. The result of the authoritative annual survey Pew Research is revealing. In fact in the most optimistic projections, the Chinese economy will not reach the size of the first U.S.
After a weekend marked by clashes in Tunis between supporters of former President Ben Ali and the army, Tunisia should develop a new government Monday, January 17. The Prime Minister, Mohammed Ghannouchi, consulted Sunday representatives of political parties and civil society to begin the transition process.
BRASILIA, 17 The death toll from torrential rains in recent weeks about the state of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, has risen to 633, said Monday the State Department of Health and Civil Defense. In this context, the governor of Rio, Sergio Cabral, has declared a state of emergency in seven cities.
Santo Domingo, correspondent - A quarter century after he was forced into exile by a popular revolt, the former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier returned to Port-au-Prince Sunday, January 16. The surprise return of "Baby Doc", who has long lived in exile on the Riviera, will further complicate the situation in Haiti.
A barrel of West Texas Intermediatecedía two cents at $ 91.52 today and a barrel of Brent North Sea gained five cents to 98.43 U.S. dollars
.- The coalition of political parties that support Alassane Ouattara called to do a "dead country" in Ivory Coast on Tuesday, "to rival" Laurent Gbagbo "acknowledge defeat and leave power" in a statement released on Sunday. The call to cease the work coincides with the visit of African Union mediator, the Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga earlier this week expected in Abidjan to find a peaceful solution to the crisis generated by the presidential election on November 28 .