JAPAN - FUKUSHIMA: The building of a reactor explored for the first time since the accident

Workers entered Thursday in the reactor building number 1 on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (northeast) for the first time since the explosion occurred in the aftermath of the tsunami of March 11, announced the Japanese operator of the plant .

Two workers, equipped with protective suits and oxygen tanks, entered the building, as part of an operation to set up a ventilation system to reduce the level of radioactivity.

"This is the first time that our employees enter the reactor building since the explosion," said Satoshi Watanabe, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO).

Japanese power company said it intended to send at least 12 workers in the day to start up the ventilation system which should facilitate subsequent repairs to the cooling.

"We send the workers in small groups for a maximum of ten minutes to limit the duration of radiation exposure," added the spokesman.

The legal limit of radiation allowed for men working in the nuclear crisis time was increased to 250 mSv per year since the accident in Fukushima, as against 100 before.

TEPCO has been trying for nearly two months to restore the cooling circuits of the four engines damaged by the tsunami.

The operator estimates that it will take three months to begin to reduce the radioactivity and nine months for cooling the reactors.

Located along the Pacific Ocean, Fukushima Daiichi is one of the oldest plants in Japan, its first reactor was built in the early 1970s.

The earthquake and tsunami of March 11 devastated the Pacific coast north-east of Tokyo, killing nearly 26,000 people dead or missing, according to the latest official toll.

Football - COUPE DE FRANCE: PSG, who won at Los Angeles, will defend his title against Lille

AFP - Paris SG, defending champion and leading scholar of the event, qualified without opposition for another Cup final in France, breaking with the dream of authority Wednesday Angers (3-1), never tremble at the last resident of League 2.

Seriously and implemented, the specialist has struck again and Paris St Germain has offered the right to contest its sixth final on the last nine editions and join Lille at the Stade de France for the big event of May 14

Incidentally, Parisians have probably ensured at the same time a European qualification, the Europa League a minimum account the classification of Lille in the league.And their place in the finals is far from being misused.

Antoine Kombouare had yet clearly displayed color, by deciding to rest Ludovic Giuly and Claude Makelele, to the point of not even to appear on the scoresheet.

Dominating the early minutes of the game, his players have benefited the most from lack of aggressiveness and inhibition of Angevin players to establish their dominance.

Because the passion and commitment Scoïstes + + were not the same as those displayed during their remarkable skills against Valenciennes (2-1 aet) and Bordeaux (1-0), both residents of the elite fell to stadium Jean-Bouin in previous rounds.

Mathieu Bodmer has come from the show the 22nd minute with a subtle exterior of the right beyond the reach of Malicki (1-0, 22).And while many thought Charbonnier had put both teams tied after the break, it's Nene who drove the nail in the best time (2-0, 51).

The energy of despair, the SCO has led a moment, allowing him to save the honor by Renouard (2-1, 56), Hoarau put out the incipient fire five minutes later (3-1, 62).

Powerful and inspired, Paris SG has benefited mainly from the semi-finals of the Coupe de France to confirm his return to form net.After the success against Caen and Lyon who were placed back in the race for Champions League, the capital club looks up at the right time.

And with eight victories in eleven finals played since 1982 (date of first success), the capital club will discuss new confidence in the next final against Lille.

In Angers, the newspaper of the L2 will now resume his duties. "Our Cup France is already successful, and we have nice things to play in the league," recalled his coach Jean-Louis Garcia this week. Seventh five-point L2 of the podium, he will soon forget, however this disillusionment if he hoped to play the rise until the end.

The Conservatives narrowly won the Nationalists are making inroads

AFP - The Conservative members of the alliance outgoing government won a narrow victory in Sunday's parliamentary Finland, where nationalists have achieved a historic breakthrough by becoming the third political force.

Of the 200 parliamentary seats, the Election Commission has granted 44 to the National Coalition (Conservative), 42 Social Democratic party (SDP) which was in opposition and 39 to right-wing nationalist True Finns who are much better though what they had been led to expect the polls.

In terms of votes, the National Coalition won 20.4%, 19.1% before the SDP and the True Finns 19.0%, according to the electoral commission has registered a high turnout of 70.4% against 67.9 % during the 2007 legislative elections.

The fourth largest party, the Center led by outgoing Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi, won 35 seats with 15.8% of votes.

"My dear friends, we wrote the story!" Ignited the head of the National Coalition Jyrki Katainen, which should become the next prime minister.

The True Finns won them 34 seats compared to the outgoing Parliament. From the smallest parliamentary party, they become the third largest.

This result is a personal victory for their charismatic leader Timo Soini has proposed a populist, eurosceptic who has managed the controversial debate on immigration.

"Sometimes it pays to keep his conviction, even if it runs into an obstacle and if it is mocked," he told Mr.Soini his supporters.

"The True Finns have now a deputy in every riding!", He was welcomed.

The True Finns are the only party to have improved over the last legislative elections.

The decline most cooking is the center becomes the fourth political force in the new Parliament, losing 16 seats.

"Of course it's a disappointment, but people have told us what they wanted and we must listen," said Ms Kiviniemi."The conclusion is obvious, with such results, we find ourselves in the opposition," she lamented on air on national television YLE.

She will probably leave the head of government to his Minister of Finance Jyrki Katainen because "traditionally, training agree that the leader of the party best represented in terms of seats forms the government," he told AFP political analyst Ilkka Ruostetsaari , University of Tampere.

The National Coalition has been at the helm of several governments in Finland, but until then she has never represented the first force in Parliament.

Mr.Katainen focused during the campaign a very pro-European, particularly on financial aid to members of the EU hit by the crisis. However, the True Finns have made this topic an impassable barrier, insisting that "everything else was negotiable," but not this.

If he becomes Prime Minister, Mr Katainen must therefore be a coalition government, including the SDP would be for business.

For the Socialist leader Jutta Urpilainen, which was so disparaged because of a lack of image and difficulty to appear natural and sincere in public, this result also constitutes a victory.She had been instructed to straighten a party losing ground after he slipped into opposition in 2007.

"I am pleased that our message on employment and justice has been heard by the voters," she said.

"Let's all have fun tonight because tomorrow we go back to work, Finland needs of the Social Democrats!", She proposed to his followers.

The new government should be formed before the end of May.

The Parliament elects a young policewoman at the head of the country

AFP - The Kosovo parliament has elected a woman Thursday, police general, Atifete Jahjaga, as President of Kosovo, thus ending a political crisis.

"Based on voting (...) I see qu'Atifete Jahjaga was elected president of Kosovo," said the president before members of the Electoral Commission, Berat Buzhala during an emergency session of the parliament.

A week ago, the Constitutional Court had declared unconstitutional the election of construction magnate Behgjet Pacolli as president, which sparked a political crisis in Kosovo.

The ruling coalition and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the main opposition party, had reached agreement Wednesday on the nomination of Ms. Jahjaga, who was until recently an unknown on the political scene of Kosovo.

Ms. Jahjaga, 36, was elected with 80 votes of 100 deputies present. The other candidate, Suzana Novoberdaliu Alliance for New Kosovo (AKR) Mr. Pacolli, received 10 votes.The Kosovo parliament has 120 seats.

The 16 members of the opposition party boycotted the vote self-determination, accusing the authorities have rushed to organize in order to retain power.

"Until yesterday, I do not even think of taking a high political position, but I was ready to serve my country," said the new president of Kosovo after being sworn in by members.

"The ideal of all Kosovo's accession to the European Union (EU) and a permanent friendship with the United States.I am sure that our dreams will come true, "she added.

The new president of Kosovo is a member of any political party, as his responsibilities within the police forbade it.

AUTOMOTIVE: The scrapping benefits still to French carmakers

AFP - New car registrations in France jumped 8.9% in the first quarter, taking advantage of the latest effects of scrapping, but new orders began to decline in March, said Friday the Committee of French Automobile (CCFA).

"We have generally done better than expected first quarter, welcomed the President of the CCFA Patrick Blain at a press conference.

In the single month of March, new car registrations rose 6.1% unadjusted.

French carmakers have seen this month on very different trajectories.PSA Peugeot Citroen has reported a 13.5% jump in registrations, especially from his Citroen, while the Renault group fell 12.4% due to supply problems on models of its brand low-cost Dacia.

In the first quarter, registrations yet benefited from the boost from the scrapping. Initially set at 1,000 euros and then gradually reduced to 500 euros last July, this premium ended December 31, but manufacturers had until March to deliver the ordered vehicles.

The market has also benefited from "the good performance of orders" in January and February, "said Blain, but started to weaken in March.

UNITED KINGDOM: A suspected accomplice of the terrorist attacks of Stockholm arrested in Scotland

Reuters - The Scottish police announced Tuesday the arrest in Glasgow of a foreign national aged 30, in connection with the investigation into the suicide bombing last December 11 in Stockholm.

Taymour Abdoulwahab, a Swede of Middle Eastern background, had been killed by the explosion of the explosive belt he was wearing. The man apparently tried to commit an attack in a busy public place - the central station or department store Ahlens - but his bomb exploded prematurely.

The man arrested in Glasgow is suspected of having provided assistance to terrorist activities outside of Scotland, said a spokesman for the police.His identity was not revealed, nor his nationality.

In January, the director of Iraqi terrorism had claimed qu'Abdoulwahab, which was installed in Sweden in the 1990s before going to study some time in Britain, had received explosives training in Mosul, in northern Iraq.

December 11, a first explosion occurred in a car at 17:00 (16:00 GMT), while the crowd was at its height in central Stockholm. A second explosion took place a quarter of an hour later, 300 meters from the first.This is where the body of the suicide bomber was discovered and two wounded slightly affected.

These explosions were preceded by sending a threatening letter about the Swedish presence in Afghanistan and a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in a Swedish designer.

Taymour Abdoulwahab had settled in Sweden in 1992 and had acquired Swedish citizenship six years later.

The University of Bedfordshire, Luton, said it had registered in 2001 and had won three years later a diploma in sports therapy. The English university is attended by many Muslims, according to the American organization that tracks SITE Islamist activists on the Internet.

BAHRAIN: Important deployment of security forces in the capital Manama

The Bahrain Police dismantled by force during the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a camp of protesters demanding political change in the kingdom, during an operation that killed two people, witnesses and opposition.

The Ministry of Interior wrote on Twitter that security forces had "emptied the place of the Pearl" in Manama and a grand avenue of the capital was partially closed.

Fifty armored vehicles were sighted Thursday morning trying to move towards the Place de la Perle.

More than a dozen tanks, military vehicles and army ambulances were seen in central Manama.

Inspired by revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, thousands of Bahrainis, mainly from the Shiite majority, protested since Monday to demand political and social reforms in the kingdom ruled by a Sunni family.

Hundreds of them had begun to camp on the Place de la Perle, hoping to transform it into a rallying point of protest to the image of what the Egyptians did on Tahrir Square in Cairo until the fall of "Hosni Mubarak.

"They are killing us"

"The police are to intervene, she launched tear gas," said one demonstrator reached by telephone in the night by Reuters.

Another said: "I am wounded, I bleed.They are killing us. "

One protester said he evacuated two wounded by car by rubber bullets.

"I was there (...) The men fled but women and children could not run as fast," said Ibrahim Mattar, a member of Wefaq, the main Shiite opposition.

"Two people are dead, it's confirmed," he added. "Others are in serious condition."

About 200 people gathered in a major city hospitals.

Place de la Perle, on which lay a strong smell of tear gas, seemed deserted in the early hours of Thursday.Abandoned tents, blankets and trash littered the ground.

Two ambulances were seen trying to leave suddenly in the night.

Poverty and unemployment

"There was no any warning. We had the impression of an offensive against the enemy. People were sleeping quietly, "said a protester who requested anonymity.

The Wefaq, which suspended its parliamentary activities, Wednesday called for adopting a new constitution more democratic.

"We do not want to establish a religious state.We want a civil democracy (...) in which the people are the source of power, and for this we need a new constitution, "said party secretary general, Sheikh Ali Salman, during a press conference.

The protesters' main demand is the resignation of Prime Minister, Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, who ruled the country since its independence in 1971. Uncle of King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, he is seen as a symbol of wealth the ruling family.

The demonstrators also denounced poverty and unemployment.They were also concerned about the benefits accorded to foreign Sunni from settling in the small kingdom (citizenship, employment in the security forces, housing) that tend to alter the demographic balance.

In the 1990s, Bahrain has already been the scene of unrest.The adoption in 2002 of a new constitution and organize elections had helped restore calm, but the opposition considers these reforms now insufficient.

The angry demonstrators had been pronounced dead Wednesday by two of them on Monday and Tuesday in clashes with security forces.

"The people calling the fall of the regime," shouted protesters Wednesday, beating his chest, a gesture of mourning for Shiites.