The Coalition of the Syrian opposition announced Saturday, Feb. 23 that it was suspending its participation in several meetings abroad to denounce the “international silence on the crimes” committed by the regime against the population. This announcement comes as the conflict, which has claimed more than 70 000 deaths in the United Nations is about to enter its third year, with no end in sight.

The opposition said in a statement it was suspending its participation in the next meeting of the Friends of the Syrian people, scheduled for February 28 in Rome, as well as his visits to Russia, a faithful ally of the regime of Bashar al-Assad and United States. Judging “shameful” attitude of the international community, the Coalition said it equated “the international silence on the crimes committed daily against our people to participate in the killing” in Syria. “We would especially like the Russian leaders accountable ethically and politically, as they continue to support the regime by force of arms.”

“PROTECT THE SYRIAN A BOUCHER”

The leader of the Coalition, Ahmed Moaz Al-Khatib, was expected in the coming weeks in Moscow. He was also invited to travel to Washington by the Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, in a meeting of the Friends of the Syrian people. This group brings together Western and Arab countries opposed to the regime of Bashar al-Assad, has recognized the Coalition as the “sole legitimate representative” of the Syrian people. “We can not continue to listen to statements that are not accompanied by actions. (…) The world has the responsibility to protect [the Syrians] of a butcher,” said the spokesman for the Coalition Walid al-Bunni, France 24.

The Syrian opposition has on several occasions asked the international community to provide weapons to rebels fighting the regime, but Mr Bunni does not refer clearly to this question during the interview. Gathered since Thursday in Cairo, the opposition has also announced Friday his intention to form a government to manage the rebel-controlled territories. Mr. Bunni said the Coalition would meet on March 2 in Istanbul, Turkey, to decide on the composition of this “interim” cabinet and choose its leader “outside members of the Coalition.” “We need a government of technocrats,” he said at a press conference.

Marielle de Sarnez, Vice President of the Modem Francois Bayrou said Thursday on France 2 that it would be a candidate in municipal elections in Paris in 2014, facing the Socialist Anne Hidalgo and most likely Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the favorite to represent the UMP.

“Yes I am”, said the MEP to the question of whether it would be the third woman candidate for mayor of Paris. “I officially announce in a few weeks because I think we are not now in the time of the election campaign,” she added.

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9% IN 2008

The MEP, who had gathered more than 9% of the vote in municipal elections in 2008, suggested the decision for several weeks. If, at the national level, the party of François Bayrou is moribund, it relies on the personality of Madame de Sarnez to play referee in a Parisian population who vote less right but some of which may want to express some disappointment after the second mandate of Bertrand Delanoë.

Another argument that has convinced the modem the opportunity of an application: the absence of Paris Jean-Louis Borloo. For if the center-right has no strong leader, then, do you think the modem, a free space between the UMP and the PS. A “central” area that intends to occupy the modem.

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Shanghai correspondence.

Hundreds of religious gathered in the Cathedral of Shanghai, Monday, April 29, in memory of the iconic figure of rapprochement between the Vatican and the Chinese Catholic Church linked to the Communist Party (CCP). Bishop Jin Luxian died Saturday afternoon at age 97. French – he made his novitiate in Saône-et-Loire – it was returned to China in 1951 before being sentenced five years later by Mao’s regime. He spent eighteen years in prison and nine labor camp.

After his release in 1982, joined the man despite all the “official” church and implement a pragmatic approximation of underground churches with those authorized by the state. In 2005, Bishop Jin had managed to get ordained an auxiliary bishop of Shanghai approved by both Rome and Beijing authorities, marking the beginning of five years of relative warming between the People’s Republic and the Holy See.

This compromise has been shattered since the Catholic Patriotic Association of China resumed in November 2010 in Chengde (northeast), the ordinations of bishops who have not received papal approval in advance. Members of the clergy loyal to Rome are forcibly removed to the offices by agents of the state security.

ACCELERATING THE NEED ORDINATIONS

Beijing argues the need to accelerate the ordinations in some dioceses without bishops. Catholics them …

“No Trespassing. Protected Area.” In the Paris region, in a building – designed by the architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte and evoking a spaceship – the controllers work of French electricity. Ranked “point of vital importance,” the national control center RTE is as secure as a nuclear plant. Infrared barriers, cameras, three one-person access lock protects the holy of holies: the control room. Six people take turns continuously to ensure “balance between supply and demand of electricity in real time,” says Jean-Paul Roubin, director of the center, from a mezzanine overlooking a room where we s’ expects to see move from one moment to another Mr. Spock as the decor is reminiscent of the Star Trek universe.

In the center, on a huge black synopsis, run the electricity highways, 21,000 km of lines at high voltage (400,000 volts), which serve the French territory and which are connected with our European neighbors. In this table, we can also find out if …

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After the third North Korean nuclear test, Obama reiterated Wednesday the . commitment to protect Japan, including through ” nuclear umbrella “American.

Obama and Abe, Washington expected by the end of the month, “discussed the North Korean nuclear test and the appropriate response they could make to this provocative violation of its international obligations by Korea north, “said a statement from the White House.

Obama “reaffirmed that the United States remained steadfast in their commitment to protect Japan, including through deterrence offered by the . nuclear umbrella,” the statement added. MM. Obama and Abe also “pledged to work closely together to find an adequate response to the Security Council of the United Nations.”

ANXIETY IN SOUTH KOREA

According to an official of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shinzo Abe also met Wednesday with the president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak. Japan and South Korea are two of the closest neighbors of North Korea, and threatened by possible inclinations of the Pyongyang regime. South Korea introduced Thursday a new cruise missile capable of, she says, to reach the offices of the North Korean leadership.

. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta met with his South Korean counterpart, Kim Kwan-jin, an “immediate coordinated action” after the North Korean nuclear test, said Wednesday the spokesman Pentagon, George Little. During the telephone interview, Leon Panetta “reaffirmed the . commitment”, including with regard to the . nuclear umbrella “to defend South Korea against aggression,” said Mr. Little said in a statement.

South Korea and North Korea are still technically at war, only a truce that ended hostilities in the period 1950-1953. The North Korean nuclear test stirs tensions on the Korean peninsula with the approach of the inauguration, scheduled for February 25th, the new South Korean President, Park Geun-hye.

In his speech on the State of the Union Tuesday night, President Barack Obama promised a “strong action” against the “provocation” of North Korea, who had led a few hours before his third nuclear test. . Secretary of State, John Kerry, urged on Wednesday the international community to respond “forcefully” in the third North Korean nuclear test, also in order to send a warning to Iran and its controversial nuclear program .

This test was well above the previous two in 2006 and 2009 power, and led to a chorus of condemnation and a strong UN response. Meeting in an emergency, the Security Council of the UN – whose rotating chaired by South Korea in February – has “strongly condemned” the nuclear test and announced that he would try to take “measures appropriate “through a new resolution.

The effect of surprise, the main Latin American ecclesiastical authorities expressed “respect” and “admiration” at the decision of Benedict XVI. The religious community of the subcontinent, which comprises almost half of the Catholic population in the world, said the gesture was proof of “humility” and a “deep love for the Church and for God” . Many have referred to a “legitimate coherent and understandable,” decision, that of someone who does not want “power for power.”

While most newspapers celebrate in their editions of 11 February, the Carnival celebrations taking place in many countries in the region, all the news sites Latinos spend a lot of space to renunciation of the Pope.

They recall that Benedict has only two trips to Latin America, a region where the number of believers is steadily declining for several decades before the thrust of the evangelical churches.

A REFERENCE PONTIFICATE OF JOHN PAUL II

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Montreal (Canada), correspondence.

Canadian police arrested Monday, April 22, two suspects “linked to Al-Qaeda,” immediately accused of conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack. Raed Jaser, who lived in Toronto, and Chiheb Esseghaier of Montreal intended to derail a passenger train of the Canadian Via Rail from Toronto, said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) during a press conference, attended by Canadian intelligence agencies and the FBI.

It is not yet known whether the attack was a train bound for the . or Canadian destination, or when the two men wanted to carry. They have received support from Al-Qaeda through the “advice and direction” of a branch of the terrorist organization that is located in Iran, said James Malizia, operations manager of the RCMP. Iran, a Shiite country, is not a land of election of Sunni extremist organization and denied responsibility …

The international police organization Interpol announced Friday, April 26 arrest in Colombia Domenico Trimboli, one of Italy’s most wanted mafia. Aged 58, he is believed to be the head of a large network of drug trafficking.

Domenico Trimboli is linked to the ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s largest mafia organization, and operating in the region Natile Careri di Calabria in southern Italy.

“He is suspected of being a leader of a criminal gang, involved in drug trafficking in Italy, involving large amounts of cocaine and hashish,” said Interpol.

A “MODEL OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF THE POLICE”

Trimboli’s arrest is the result of a joint operation by central Interpol offices in Bogota and Rome, in close collaboration with the research unit of people based at Interpol headquarters in Lyon flight.

With the information provided by the Italian police, Colombian police have set up a monitoring Trimboli, which led to its location and arrest, said the international organization of police cooperation.

According to the head of the Italian police, Filippo Dispenza, this arrest is the culmination of a “model of international cooperation of the police.”

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A thousand days of the end of 2015, due to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set in 2000 by the international community to to improve the lot of the poorest inhabitants of the planet, Ban Ki-moon has stepped into the breach. “We have one thousand days to go to the next level,” said the Secretary General of the United Nations in a message to mark the symbolic date of Friday, April 5.

If the goals of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and have no access to drinking water have been achieved since 2010, the progress report published in 2012 by the United Nations recognized that there was off the mark on many issues such as malnutrition, gender equality, maternal mortality, access to decent employment or slums.

Thousand days are not enough to reduce the backlog. The international community has been looking towards a post-2015. “But the process is very confusing, sorry Stephen Hale, the non-governmental organization Oxfam International. One side targets post-2015 are discussed on poverty reduction and other targets …

It is doubtful that Hollande has had the opportunity in recent days, to read Montaigne. It is a luxury columnist. In the essay “about how bad employees to a successful conclusion,” he would have found this, which is no shortage of news:. “In truth, a foreign war is much softer than the civil war hurt I do not believe that God would favor an unfair as that is to do violence to our other business interests. ”

Indeed, we do not suspect the president of the country have engaged in a military intervention in Mali to forget his domestic embarrassment. It was obviously not the master of warlike intentions of Islamist groups threatening Mopti or Bamako. If the French response was as sudden and determined, it is the ability to anticipate the executive, not a possible Machiavellianism.

Similarly, one can not blame Mr. Holland have immediately donned his uniform and took his responsibilities as head of the army. As Fran?ois Mitterrand in 1991 during the first Iraq war, as Jacques Chirac in 1995 Yugoslav quagmire, as Nicolas Sarkozy in Libya in 2011, it was his baptism of fire. He took no apparent hesitation, knowing well the advantage that it can be drawn, at least in the immediate future: sweeping, especially in trials irresolution constantly prepared against him.

From there to think that foreign war will be “a bad b …