Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entertainment. Show all posts

Thursday, April 14, 2011

At least 126 bodies found in mass graves in the north-east

AFP - Ten more corpses arrived Wednesday at the mortuary of Matamoros from mass graves in the town of San Fernando, north-eastern Mexico, bringing the total to 126 temporary body unearthed since April 1, announced the Justice the State of Tamaulipas.

According to Pedro Efrain Gonzalez, Tamaulipas prosecutors, some of the bodies found were buried for over a year.

The Mexican government awarded Tuesday the responsibility for the crimes and mass graves discovered Zetas cartel.

Another source of prosecutors who requested anonymity, it is likely that the number of bodies found continues to increase as and when research.

"Do not be surprised, we can come to exceed the figure of 180 bodies as research continues and new discoveries are possible," said the source told AFP.

According to the same charge, mass graves, often located several kilometers from each other in the large town of San Fernando, correspond to different cases of violence, not one.

Monday, April 11, 2011

AUTOMOTIVE: The audit report reveals a "serious failings" in Renault

AFP - The audit report made by Renault after the incredible false espionage case that shook the band edge of "serious failings" in the management and appoints officials, said Monday the ministers of Economy and Industry waiting for "lessons" are drawn.

"The reports show there were obvious shortcomings, which include two things: the review of governance rules and sanctions," said Christine Lagarde on France Inter.

"I have instructed state officials to the Board of Directors of Renault support the recommendations of the audit committee," she said.

The French manufacturer, 15% of capital in the hands of the state is holding on Monday its board of governors who must review the audit report on the genesis of this false espionage.

According to the Minister of Industry, Eric Besson, "the audit report said 'there were serious shortcomings that must learn +, and we actually believe that we must learn from these serious malfunctions".

He said on LCI that those responsible for this fiasco in the group "are listed in the audit report," while refusing to reveal their identity.

About the possible resignation of CEO of Renault, Carlos Ghosn, Mr. Besson said he was returning to the board of directors of the group "to learn".For its part, the group's number two Patrick Pelata had offered his resignation which was refused by Mr. Ghosn.

"There will be a board, and I understand that the president of Renault wants to learn from this case by proposing a number of initiatives and reorganizations within its management," he said.

The case "shows a management system and a way to govern who can no longer be perpetuated," he firmly told.

According to the Journal du Dimanche, two other officials of Renault, Christian Husson, legal director, Jean-Yves Coudriou, Chief executives are also on trial.

Mr.Besson, however, refused to comment on the amount of compensation claimed by the three group executives falsely accused of espionage before being dismissed, and according to the weekly Marianne totaled over 11 million euros in total .

"I do not know. It is the Board of Directors today I think the talk", said only Mr. Besson.

He however felt that it was the company to pay these claims, even if "it would be logical" that its leaders are contributing, "he added, recalling that Mr.Ghosn pledged to give up a part of his remuneration as a result of this case.

But according to Minister of Industry, "it can not be astronomical sums that are damaging to the company itself," even if we consider the "moral damage" in this case.

According to Marianne, Michel Balthazar, Rochette and Bertrand Matthieu Tenenbaum demand respectively 3.2 million, 3.4 million and 2.4 million euros in damages for pain and suffering.

These amounts, together with the various redundancy, would climb the addition of over 11 million euros, according to calculations of the weekly.

Monday, April 4, 2011

PAKISTAN: Taliban claim deadly attack twice in a Sufi shrine

AFP - Two suicide bombers killed Sunday at least 41 people by detonating bombs at the entrance of a Sufi shrine in central Pakistan, a country gripped by a wave of deadly attacks extremely Taliban allied with al-Qaeda police said.

The attack targeted the pilgrims who came to pray at the tomb of Sultan Ahmed, a Sufi saint of the 13th century, more known as Sakhi Sarwar in Dera Ghazi Khan district where the Taliban and other groups their allies are relatively active.

"Two suicide bombers blew up the bombs they were carrying when police tried to prevent them from entering," he told AFP Zahid Hussain Shah, a police officer contacted by phone on the scene.

"For now, we counted 41 dead," he said, adding that more than 70 people were injured.The victims are mostly pilgrims and people from, like every Sunday in many holy shrines of Islam in Pakistan, spend a day with family.

It was the fifth suicide attack in five days in Pakistan.

"Holy War" against Islamabad and Washington

Nearly 4,200 people were killed in three and a half years throughout Pakistan by a wave of more than 450 attacks - suicide for the most part - mostly perpetrated by the Taliban allied with al-Qaeda.

In the summer of 2007, they said - in unison with Osama bin Laden himself - jihad, "holy war" to Islamabad for its support since 2001 to end the "war against terrorism" in Washington .

Their targets are the institutions and security forces but Sunni insurgents multiplied in recent times, attacks against civilians, especially minorities, including Shiites (20% of the population), and symbols of Sufism, two schools of thought in Islam they see as impious and heretical.

Many attacks that targeted Shiites and Sufis (a mystical doctrine which are both followers of Sunni and Shia) have been in recent months by the Taliban or allied groups.

Sunday, two suicide bombers failed to enter the mausoleum, where the crowd is usually very compact every Sunday, prevented by the police now keep all places Sufi saints in the country, confirmed Ahmed Mubarak The police chief in the region.

A senior local official of the security forces told AFP on condition of anonymity, that those responsible for the sanctuary had received threats from militant fundamentalists.

Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab province, is located not far from some tribal areas of north-west frontier with Afghanistan, a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban, the main sanctuary of Al Qaeda worldwide and a rear base for Afghan Taliban .

Pakistani Taliban and their allies claim generally those attacks that target security forces in retaliation, they say, the Pakistani army offensives and the regular shooting of missiles from unmanned drones American CIA to executives of Al-Qaeda and Taliban Pakistani and Afghan tribal areas.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Libya: The leader of the Arab League supports the no-fly zone

AFP - UN Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, called for a no-fly zone in Libya and the Arab League hopes that "role" in its implementation, in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel released before publication on Saturday.

"I do not know how or will impose this area, we will see that. The Arab League may also play a role, that's what I would advocate," said Amr Moussa in the interview to be published Monday.

"I speak of humanitarian action. It is with a no-fly zone, to support the Libyan people in their struggle for freedom and against a regime increasingly disdainful," Moussa said.

As to who should assume the leadership of such a zone, Mr.Moussa believes that "it depends on the decision of the Security Council (UN).The UN, the Arab League, African Union, Europeans - everybody should participate. "

The Arab foreign ministers would hold an emergency meeting in Cairo on Saturday on the subject.

The Arab League said it was opposed to military action against Libya but could support the establishment of a no-fly zone.

Establishing an air exclusion zone amounts to a ban on aerial survey of a specific area in order to prevent the Libyan planes to suppress civilians.

Friday, EU leaders have increased the pressure on the Libyan regime by agreeing to talk with the opposition and the military option cautiously referring to protect civilians, which does however not unanimous.

They decided at a meeting in Brussels that "security of the population (Libya) must be guaranteed by all means necessary" and that we must consider "all options" available, in an allusion to a possible military intervention but specifying that it should be "a demonstrated need, a clear legal basis and support of the region" - which means primarily the Arab League.

Germany, in particular, fears that Europe embarks on "a war" interminable.France and Britain pushing it the other way and try to obtain the agreement of the Security Council of the UN.

Amr Moussa, "Gaddafi lacks awareness that President Ben Ali in Tunisia and Egyptian ruler Mubarak demonstrated by resigning."

Moussa believes in a "domino effect" in the Arab world and the fall of other autocratic rulers: "It is only the beginning," he said, including finding "extremely tense" situation in Yemen.

"The region (Middle East) is about to change radically in a short time. What we live is the discovery by the Arab world of true democracy," Mr. Moussa held, "c is a unique opportunity. "

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

CAMBODIA: New clashes on the border between Thailand and Cambodia

AFP - New clashes erupted Sunday near a disputed temple on the border between Cambodia and Thailand, the day after a cease-fire between the two countries, said a Cambodian military commander at the AFP.

"We're beating us at this time, they started shooting at us," the official said, referring to the Thai soldiers.

The new clashes broke out around 6:35 p.m. local time (11:35 GMT).

After fighting with heavy weapons Friday for about two hours, firefights had occurred again at dawn on Saturday for about thirty minutes.Before the two neighbors herald a cease-fire.

During the fighting, the most violent since 2008, at least five people were killed: a soldier and a villager Thai and two Cambodian soldiers and one civilian.

The border between the two countries has never been fully demarcated.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

HAITI: Mirlande Manigat and Michel Martelly the second round of presidential

Reuters - The second round of presidential elections in Haiti will oppose Mirlande Manigat Michel Martelly March 20, according to members of the Provisional Council election which partially reversed the provisional results of the first round.

Organized as the country is still recovering from the earthquake a year ago, the first round was held in the utmost confusion on Nov. 28 last. Charges of fraud and street protests following the consultation.

According to preliminary results, the second round should oppose the government candidate, Jude Celestin, the former first lady, Mirlande Manigat.

But these results were criticized by the international community, and an expert mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) had held that Jude Celestin had to be discarded in favor of the second round of Michel Martelly, popular singer originally given in third place with less than 7,000 votes behind the candidate backed by outgoing President, Rene Preval.