The four French detainees were released in Libya

Four suspected French spy on behalf of Muammar Gaddafi were released and returned, Saturday, May 21, Egypt announced the French Foreign Ministry in a statement. They were supported by the French consular authorities. These four employees Secopex, a private security company, were detained following the death of their boss on May 11 in Benghazi.

The rebellion Jamahiriya announced Friday the expulsion of the next four French. "The Libyan justice (rebel) did not intend to judge," had said a Libyan source close to the matter, adding: "We want to expel them and they never come back. The important thing was to prevent harm ". The four men work for Secopex, a private security company based in Carcassonne.

Britain withdraws troops from Iraq

.- The last of the troops in the country came out on Sunday, ending more than eight years of fighting insurgents and training local forces since the invasion in 2003. Eighty-eight Royal Navy sailors given the task of patrolling the waters off the southern port of Um Qasr in the Persian Gulf to Iraq Navy.

that was the last direct mission that British troops were in Iraq since combat forces withdrew from Basra in July 2009. Brigadier General Max Marriner, commander of the British force in Iraq, said a strong improvement in security conditions throughout the country, particularly in the south, which said British troops contributed.

Syria also organized the protest from Paris

From a Parisian apartment, Amru collection and relays video and testimony of protest from the Syrian media. Waiting for the right moment to join the protest against the regime of President Assad in Syria.

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Ouattara solemnly inaugurated president of Côte d'Ivoire

Alassane Ouattara was formally sworn in as President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, Saturday, May 21, in Yamoussoukro, the political capital of the country. After six months of a violent post-election crisis, the great Chancellor of the Order gave the President Ouattara as Grand Master of the Order in the presence of a score of heads of state and African leaders, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The security company is conducting the investigation Guidepost Solutions for lawyers of the accused

An investigator from Guidepost Solutions be gone in Guinea ... The rumor in New York. Now that the first elements of the prosecution case, validated by the grand jury, are accessible to the defense of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, its lawyers may consider their strategy. It will depend largely on what the detectives have unearthed Guidepost during the investigation they conduct discharge.

They are paid to list all elements allowing either to exonerate DSK at trial or to allow his lawyers to negotiate in the best position to force a settlement with the prosecutor to reduce charges against their client . Hence the need to investigate in the country of origin of the young Guinean girl who says she was sexually assaulted by the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Police forcibly dispersed a demonstration in Rabat

Moroccan .- Riot control agents violently dispersed a protest today in Rabat dozens of protesters, who responded to a national call February 20 Movement to ask profound political and social reforms. According to Efe could verify on the spot, the intervention took place at 16, 00 local time (15, 00 GMT), when more than one hundred people gathered near the historic plaza Bab Alhad and shouted slogans like "Out, out , the people have the alternative "or" The people want to overthrow authoritarianism.

Iran claims to have arrested 30 spies working for the U.S.

The Iranian Ministry of Information announced Saturday, May 21 the dismantling of a large network of "spying and sabotage" and the arrest of "30 spies" working for the United States. "In an operation inside and outside the country, a complex web of espionage and sabotage linked to the CIA has been dismantled," said the Intelligence Ministry in a statement read on state television .

"The Intelligence Ministry agents arrested 30 (...) spies working for the United States," he added, without elaborating on the identity of those arrested or the date of their arrest. The statement said officials of U.S. intelligence services "were trying to trap the Iranian citizens by offering visas, residence permits promise [the U.S.], work and study visas.