Toshiba wants to dismantle the plant in Fukushima in ten years

Japan's Minister of Industry was to go on Saturday April 9 at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. This is the first member of the center-left to visit the north-east of the archipelago devastated by the terrible earthquake and the giant tsunami of 11 March. The balance sheet, still provisional, the national police stood Saturday at 12 876 confirmed dead and 14,865 missing, whose bodies were probably swept out to sea by the tsunami.

Israel responded to the continued firing from the Gaza Strip

Thirty projectiles fired from the Gaza Strip were killed, Saturday, April 9, in southern Israel without causing casualties or damage on the third day of confrontation with Hamas, Israeli military radio reported. Twenty mortar shells exploded in Israel, while a dozen rockets Grad hit areas near the cities of Ashdod, Be'er Sheva and Kiryat Gat, the radio said.

According to public radio, the new missile defense system Iron Dome ("Iron Dome") has intercepted five rockets of this type since Friday night. Public radio also said that the majority of the 700 000 inhabitants in southern Israel spent the night of Friday to Saturday in shelters or parts "protected" from their homes, designed to withstand explosions.

Gaza Strip: Many killed in Israeli retaliatory attacks

Israeli reprisal raids in Gaza have cost more lives. Since Friday died in Palestinian territory more than a dozen Hamas fighters and civilians. Hamas has a state of emergency proclaimed Jerusalem - The Middle East is no end to the violence in sight. Israeli attacks from the air and on the ground on Saturday cost the Gaza Strip four lives.

Three Hamas fighters were killed in an air strike, another man died in a tank shelling killed. Hamas then called a state of emergency. The security forces should be in use around the clock, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Saturday in Gaza. This also applies to the members of the civil protection and health services.

Egypt: Demonstrators call for swift end to the Mubarak era

The revolution in Egypt is far from over. Hundreds of thousands of people huddled in Cairo with the Tahrir Square, waving Egyptian flags - and accused the ruling military council, too slow to act against the corruption of the era of Mubarak. The mass demonstration on Tahrir Square, the political observers by surprise: hundreds of thousands of people on Friday require a faster adjudication of the resigned President Hosni Mubarak, his sons, Gamal and Alaa and the hated first lady Suzanne Mubarak.

Shooting into the crowd at Dara, 26 deaths yesterday Assad: "country on the path of reform"

 - It 's budget of 26 people killed in clashes yesterday in Dara, in the south of Syria, when the police fired on demonstrators to disperse them. Another two people are dead in Homs, during a peaceful demonstration. This was revealed today a campaigner for human rights belonging to a network of NGOs and Syrian Kurds: "The police used in the different provinces of Syria excessive and unjustified violence by firing on the crowd." On Saturday afternoon, the police opened fire on people who had gathered near the mosque of Omar in Dara, south of the city became the epicenter of the protests against President Bashar al-Assad had just concluded the funeral mass of several protesters were killed the day before, when, according to two witnesses, the officers began to take on a target group that sang songs and slogans against the regime.

Incidents and demonstrators opposed to military Tahrir Square, Cairo

Clashes erupted in the night from Friday to Saturday on Tahrir Square in Cairo where the Egyptian army intervened to disperse demonstrators. Tens of thousands of people gathered yesterday on the square became the symbol of the Egyptian revolution demand a lawsuit against Hosni Mubarak criticized the military authorities, who took the reins of the country, their slowness in the fight against corruption.

The gbagbistes regain ground in Abidjan

Laurent Gbagbo'm holed up in his residence in Abidjan, the outgoing president of Côte d'Ivoire did more than resist the combined pressure of his rival Alassane Ouattara, the UN and France. French soldiers of the Licorne force has been under fire during an attempted evacuation of embassy staff in Abidjan on the night of Friday to Saturday and responded by destroying an armored vehicle of the pro-Gbagbo said on Saturday the staff of the armies in Paris.