FOOTBALL: Champions League: FC Barcelona and Atletico Madrid already qualified
FC Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have qualified Wednesday for the knockout stages of the Champions League, where the Catalans habits unlike Madrid. Against AC Milan, which has lost its luster since the last of his seven European titles in 2007, Barca did not need to play his best every level to win 3-1 at…
Egypt: The trial of Mohamed Morsi adjourned
The first hearing in the trial of Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian president ousted by the army last summer, was suspended Monday, November 4 less than an hour after it opened in the presence of the former state from the Muslim Brotherhood leader. Held incommunicado since his overthrow on July 3, Mohamed Morsi had not appeared…
Espionage: "The NSA has saved thousands of lives across Europe"
A week after the sensational revelations of the "World" on tapping the NSA (National Security Agency U.S.) in France, several U.S. lawmakers have spoken, Sunday, October 27, to defend the activities of the now highly controversial monitoring agency. Asked in the evening on NBC, Rep. Peter King, who chairs the Subcommittee on the House…
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Reports: In Madagascar, the campaign continues pending the results
Saturday, October 26, after the first round of the presidential election in Madagascar, the Independent National Electoral Commission for the transition (Cénit) began its painstaking count vote. The results come in dribs and drabs from 20,001 polling stations in the country. Sunday morning, only 500 polling stations had been counted. Maria Muniz de Urquiza,…
Sentenced to 3828 years in prison, a militant ETA released
The Spanish court decided Tuesday, October 22, to release the militant ETA, the Basque separatist group, Ines Del Rio Prada. She was sentenced to 3 828 years in prison, but a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), would force Spain to release dozens of prisoners. The Court of the National Court…
FRANCE: Case Leonarda: general outcry after the proposal from Holland
Away to silence critics of the proposal Hollande caused a public outcry and reignited the controversy. The President broke Saturday, November 19 a long silence on the matter Leonarda, offering schoolgirl return to France without his family deported to Kosovo, a judgment of Solomon supposed to calm the situation. The expulsion of the Roma teenager…
MEDIA: The journalist behind the Snowden case leaves the "Guardian"
Glenn Greenwald, a journalist by Snowden case that began Tuesday, October 16 announced his departure from the British newspaper "The Guardian", in a statement released by the website Buzzfeed. The American journalist who lives in Brazil, said that his departure from the British newspaper had been "difficult" decision. Trained as a lawyer, Glenn Greenwald…
IRAN: Iran refuses to send its enriched uranium abroad
Iran refuses to send abroad its stock of enriched uranium and will continue enrichment on its soil, said the head of Iran's nuclear negotiators Araqchi quoted Sunday the site of state television. "The red line for Iran in negotiations is uranium enrichment (...) We can discuss the shape, quantity and level of enrichment but…
LEBANON: A fifth member of Hezbollah suspect in the murder of Rafik Hariri
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) confirmed Thursday, October 10 indictment against Habib Hassan Merhi in the trial against the alleged killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The trial is expected to begin January 13, 2014. "Man is, in fact, accused of being involved in the attack of 14 February 2005 in…
HEALTH: A vaccine against malaria could be available soon
A vaccine against malaria could soon be on the market. This is certainly the wish of the British pharmaceutical company GSK has already announced Tuesday, 8 October 2014 that it would seek a scientific opinion from the European Agency EM medication (EMA). This vaccine was developed specifically for children in sub-Saharan Africa, and not to…