ICELAND: The ashes of the volcano eruption threatens Scotland

Icelandic volcanic ash Grímsvötn could reach the north of Scotland on Tuesday mid-day and part of Great Britain, France and Spain by Thursday or Friday if the eruption continues at the same rate, according to a notice sent Sunday to the airlines.

This warning is based on weather forecasts to five days should be viewed with caution because of changes which might occur between now and then on air currents, officials said European Meteorology.

Sunday, the air traffic control agency Eurocontrol reported in mid-day it did not anticipate any impact on European and transatlantic flights for the next 24 hours at least.

The Grímsvötn, beneath a glacier in southeast Iceland, erupted on Saturday, leaving out a huge plume of white smoke reached an altitude of 20,000 meters.

Its eruption has forced the management of the Icelandic Civil Aviation to order the closure of the main island's airport, Keflavik, located about forty miles from the capital,
Reykjavik.

COTE D'IVOIRE: President Ouattara request an investigation by the ICC

The Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara has asked the prosecutor to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate "the most serious crimes" committed in Côte d'Ivoire since November 28, 2010, in a letter dated May 3, published on Wednesday the site of the Court.

"By this I mean I wish to confirm that your office leads in Côte d'Ivoire independent and impartial investigations on the most serious crimes committed since 28 November 2010 on the entire Ivorian territory," saysOuattara's letter.

He wants the prosecutor's office "should ensure that those who bear the greatest criminal responsibility for serious crimes are identified, prosecuted and brought before the International Criminal Court."

The Ivorian Minister of Justice has already "taken steps to shed light on a number of offenses," saysOuattara, but he adds, "the Ivorian justice is, to date, not best placed to handle the most serious crimes committed in recent months."

The Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara, in power since the April 11 arrest of Laurent Gbagbo, had said in mid-April that he would ask the ICC to "initiate investigations" into the massacres that occurred in Western countries.

The ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for his part said on May 3 in New York that his services were preparing an application to open a judicial investigation in Côte d'Ivoire on the massacres.

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.

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.

EGYPT: Washington believes that the Egyptian government's efforts are insufficient

The tone rose Wednesday between Washington and Cairo, the White House saying that the changes incurred by the Egyptian government remained inadequate, while the Egyptian foreign minister accused the Americans of wanting to "impose" their will on his country.

In the sixteenth day of unprecedented revolt against the regime of Hosni Mubarak's ally, Washington has had to defend itself from any interference in the affairs of Egypt, but again claiming the reforms that meet the protestors in Tahrir Square.

"Clearly, what the government has put on the table so far has not completed the minimum threshold of what is required by the Egyptians," he observed to the press spokesman of the White House Robert Gibbs.

Mr.Gibbs attacked particularly the Vice-President of Egypt Omar Suleiman, appointed by Mr. Mubarak to negotiate a political transition with the opposition.

"The transition process does not seem to expect the Egyptians," added the spokesperson for Barack Obama, warning against a new outbreak of protest in Egypt if the power does not give enough ground.

A senior State Department, Jake Sullivan, for his part stressed that "the United States has never said that Vice-President Suleiman was the appropriate person (to lead the transition) or delivered for trial who should be in control. "

"We are not interested persons (...) but concrete results," he said during a media teleconference.

The Egyptian regime has previously hinted his temper against pressure from Washington.

"When you talk about quick and immediate change to a great country like Egypt, with which you have always maintained the best relationships, you impose your will", denounced the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in a Service in the U.S. television network PBS.

"We are already changing," shouted Mr. Gheit, referring to discussions with the protesters.

Mr.Gheit also warned that "the army would intervene in case of chaos to take things in hand," according to comments reported by the official MENA news agency.

Asked about the statements, the spokesman for the State Department, Philip Crowley, urged the Egyptian army to "continue to exercise the same moderation that in recent days."

On Tuesday, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called Mr. Suleiman for him to claim an immediate end to the state of emergency in force for nearly 30 years.

On PBS, Mr. Gheit said he was "truly astonished" by this request: "As we speak, there are 17,000 prisoners loose in the streets because the prisons were destroyed.How can you ask me to abolish the state of emergency while I'm in trouble? "

Mr. Gheit told he had been "often angry, angry" face to the American response in the initial events in Cairo, although the relationship has since subsided.

Asked about the Egyptian minister, Mr. Crowley has assured that Washington was not seeking "to dictate anything." He defended the call to immediately lift the state of emergency is an "interference" and stressed that the solution to the crisis should be found by the Egyptians themselves.

Tony Blair believes it was right to topple Saddam Hussein

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has delivered Friday to a new exercise of self-justification for its second appearance in a year before the commission to shed light on British entry into the war in Iraq in 2003, alongside the Americans.

The chairman of the inquiry, Sir John Chilcot, had sent more than a hundred additional written questions to the former Labour leader. It opened in early morning discussions expected to last 4 to 5 hours, explaining that the second call was to "clarify" the answers provided so far by Mr.Blair.

Midway through the hearing broadcast by news channels continuously, the tone of the five investigators appeared a little less polished and the responses of Mr Blair were a little less abrasive, compared to the controversial meeting in January 2010.

However, the British prime minister from 1997 to 2007 did not change his argument on the merits, convinced of the rightness of his decision to go to war, and did not immediately brought new elements.

And so much that he refused - to the dismay of Sir Chilcot - to authorize the publication of his correspondence "very private" with former U.S. President George W.Bush, on the period when the two leaders have decided to "regime change" in Iraq during a meeting in Mr. Bush's Texas ranch in April 2002, eleven months before the invasion.

As in January 2010, Friday's debate revolved around three key issues: the war was legal in the absence of explicit UN resolution? Mr Blair said he deliberately manipulated public opinion to never proved the presence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Iraq, which justified going to war? What was the reality of the alignment of Tony Blair - then called "Bush's poodle" by its detractors - the American neoconservatives?

A year ago, Mr.Blair had defended "no regrets" his "right decision" to overthrow "the monster Saddam." "Saddam's regime was brutal, it was a repressive military dictatorship. It was a source of instability and danger to the region," he said Friday.

The war was legal? The Attorney General, Senior Counsel for the Government, which this week again said he was "uncomfortable" about the absence of a UN resolution, has finally sided with the supporters of the invasion, assured Mr Blair."Otherwise, the United Kingdom could not, and did not participate in the decision to oust Saddam."

The reason for maintaining the secrecy of his correspondence with U.S. President? "Notes (addressed) to President Bush were very private. They were written when I wanted to get a change or adjustment of policy. It should be confidential," said Tony Blair. And these notes "are essentially in agreement with what I have expressed in public".

Asked about the front that were loaned, M.Blair has denied having said or written "George, whatever your decision, I will follow you."

In January 2010, a lawyer by profession and outstanding speaker had borrowed a backdoor to escape protesters and journalists. This time he entered through the main issue by asking a few seconds for photographers, while a score of demonstrators coalition Stop the War "chanted" Bliar ", a pun combining" Liar (liar) the surname of the former leader.

Among the demonstrators, Peter Brierley, whose son was killed in Iraq, called the trial of Tony Blair "war criminal".