Giant portraits of ordinary Tunisians plastered on symbolic places of power of Ben Ali, two months after the start of the despot, an artistic revolution is on. Story in pictures with JR, the photographer who conceived this project.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
At least three killed in Afghanistan in protest against the burning of the Koran
.- Three people were killed and dozens wounded in Afghanistan on the third day of protests against the burning of a Quran in a U.S. church, which cost more than a dozen lives since Friday. Between three and four thousand people took to the streets in the provinces of Nangarhar (east), Kapisa (center), Kandahar (south), Badakhshan (northeastern) and Parwan (north), Efe said spokesman Afghan Interior Ministry Zemarai Bashary.
Training reveal United States and Egypt Libyan rebels
Opponents .- Libyans are receiving training from U.S. special forces and Egypt in a secret location in eastern Libya, as well as weapons, today unveiled the news network Al Jazeera. Speaking to the Qatari news, carried out in Benghazi, a bastion of insurgency against the regime of Muammar Gadhafi, a rebel who requested anonymity said Egyptian and U.S.
forces train the fighters. The rebel narrated receiving military training in a "secret facility" in eastern Libya, which was sent to fire a Katyusha rocket. He also indicated that last Thursday night, a new shipment of this type of artillery came to the east of Libya from Egypt, but said he was unaware whether the origin of this shipment was that country or if it was only used as a transit route.
forces train the fighters. The rebel narrated receiving military training in a "secret facility" in eastern Libya, which was sent to fire a Katyusha rocket. He also indicated that last Thursday night, a new shipment of this type of artillery came to the east of Libya from Egypt, but said he was unaware whether the origin of this shipment was that country or if it was only used as a transit route.
30 years ago in Le Monde: Reagan and Kennedy syndrome
On March 30, 1981, sixty-nine days after his inaugural address, President Ronald Reagan was the victim of a bombing outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington. The author of six shots that aim is a deranged John Hinckley, who committed this act to attract attention to himself with a young actress, Jodie Foster, moving prostitute in Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese.
In a letter found at his hotel in Washington, he wrote: "I will prove my love by a historic act." A few days after the tragedy, the press revealed that John Hinckley had bought two 22-caliber revolver in a store in Dallas (Texas), close to where John Kennedy fell. This information recovery time debate on gun legislation, quickly smothered by the powerful lobby of their supporters, the National Rifle Association, which does not hesitate to wield the constitutional amendments, to speak of tradition, freedom of expression.
In a letter found at his hotel in Washington, he wrote: "I will prove my love by a historic act." A few days after the tragedy, the press revealed that John Hinckley had bought two 22-caliber revolver in a store in Dallas (Texas), close to where John Kennedy fell. This information recovery time debate on gun legislation, quickly smothered by the powerful lobby of their supporters, the National Rifle Association, which does not hesitate to wield the constitutional amendments, to speak of tradition, freedom of expression.
Fury from the burning of the Koran leaves the balance of 10 deaths
At least 10 people were killed and 83 wounded in the city of Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, on the second day of violent protests following the burning of a Quran at the hands of a fundamentalist Christian in America. A suicide bomber also struck a NATO military base in the capital Kabul, a day after protesters razed a UN-led mission in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, killing seven foreign officials in the worst attack on UN in Afghanistan.
Caritas amounts to a thousand dead and missing in Ivory Coast
.- Caritas Internationalis has raised today about a thousand the number of dead or missing last Tuesday in a suburb of the city of Duekoue in western Ivory Coast, because of the violence wracking the country since the presidential election year past. In a statement on its website indicated that the data were developed by NGO staff in Ivory Coast who visited the city on 30 March.
The "slaughter" was held, added the note, in a neighborhood of the city controlled by forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the international community considered the winner of the 2010 presidential election. Caritas said they know who is responsible for the killings, but stressed that it is necessary to conduct an investigation to clarify what happened.
The "slaughter" was held, added the note, in a neighborhood of the city controlled by forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the international community considered the winner of the 2010 presidential election. Caritas said they know who is responsible for the killings, but stressed that it is necessary to conduct an investigation to clarify what happened.
French troops take control of the airport Abiyn
Desplages French troops in Ivory Coast have taken control of the airport in Abidjan, the economic capital, this morning, as reported by the French Army General Staff. On Thursday, France added 300 troops to deploy in Abidjan MIIT has, in coordination with the United Nations mission, where they patrol their neighborhoods expatriates.
The military provided no details on when the takeover of the airport, or on the units of origin nor the place that started the new teachers that reinforce the current presence of 900 French soldiers in the country. A few hours later, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered reunification "without delay" of all French citizens living in Abidjan "to ensure their protection." "Do not expose to French aconvertirse Enrea or indirect victims of the confrontation between the two forces," said Defence Minister, Gerard Longuet, in connection with the fighting between loyalists to the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, and the winner of the last election, Alassane Ouattara.
The military provided no details on when the takeover of the airport, or on the units of origin nor the place that started the new teachers that reinforce the current presence of 900 French soldiers in the country. A few hours later, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered reunification "without delay" of all French citizens living in Abidjan "to ensure their protection." "Do not expose to French aconvertirse Enrea or indirect victims of the confrontation between the two forces," said Defence Minister, Gerard Longuet, in connection with the fighting between loyalists to the outgoing president, Laurent Gbagbo, and the winner of the last election, Alassane Ouattara.
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