Eclabousse by accusations of corruption, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday, July 30, he would leave his post after the appointment of his successor to head the Kadima party planned on September 17. “I have decided not to participate in the primary within the Kadima movement and not interfere in these elections,” said Ehud Olmert since his official residence in Jerusalem.
“When the new president (Kadima) will be chosen, I resign the post of prime minister to enable him to train effectively and quickly a government,” he added. The centrist Kadima party had announced the previous day that it would organize on September 17 an internal consultation to elect a new leader. In the absence of a winner, a second round should be held a week later. Read the rest of this entry »
The French press strongly condemns, Thursday, July 31, the decision of China not to provide foreign journalists accredited for the Beijing Olympics a censored version of the Internet. “China has not kept its promises.Those who have made the promises of seven years ago for cash were wrong. This decline is obviously likely to spoil the party ahead” Judge Le Monde.
“Beijing does not play the game of the Games. It censors the Internet, continues to muzzle the opposition and betonne everything. Read the rest of this entry »
In Beijing, the last 250 000 tickets for the Olympic Games have been sold. The organizing committee BOCOG announced on Monday in a brief note on its website, all tickets were awarded. The Beijing police took 26 people meanwhile, which according to a report by the state news agency Xinhua black market in tickets accused.
The tickets were “hotter than the weather,” says the message the organizers. Read the rest of this entry »
The euphoria was tinged with disbelief in the Spanish media who welcomed the victory of Carlos Sastre in the Tour de France, a feat last date of a Spanish sport to full height. “Year magical,” “ecstasy”, “golden summer”, phrases resonate powerfully in a country that trusts that the time is over where its champions, small and poorly fed, were only isolated phenomena. Spain is moving towards the Beijing Olympics flower rifle, the military triumphs of the recent global basketball, motorcycles, Formula 1, gold medals in synchronized swimming… The victory reds in football at the Euro 2008 at the end of June and that of Rafael Nadal on grass at Wimbledon a week later, respectively, have also put an end to forty years of failures at the gates of glory. The team also spent Monday morning in its coverage “Spain in the summer of grace.” Read the rest of this entry »
The association Right to Housing (DAL) asked, Monday, July 28, the “withdrawal” of the draft law presented by the Minister of Housing, Christine Boutin. The DAL believes that “number of measures presented are unfavorable to the victims of the housing crisis.” Read the rest of this entry »
A Turkish daily says Monday, July 28 that police arrested three teenagers in connection with two bombings Sunday evening on a crowded Istanbul which have resulted in at least 17 dead and 154 wounded. According to Milliyet, “the three teenagers aged between 16 and 17 years were arrested in the basement of an apartment located near the site of the explosions. The three youths were arrested on information from the neighborhood. Read the rest of this entry »
As a goalkeeper he embodied megalomania and fighting spirit, now he also profiled as an author. Oliver Kahn “I threaten, the most successful manager-adviser of the year – and quite rightly so.
Now he also still. As if it is not enough athletes there, which is as an advertising medium, Unicef ambassador or eco-activists to a substantive ideelles Zubrot would earn! And even Oliver Kahn, goalkeeper worldwide than three awards, was not only on the football field for sporting excellence staff, but also as an advertising medium of many companies and Boulevard as a fixed size, while his rival Jens Lehmann mainly as a good family man made a name. “Lehmann may perhaps the better goalie, but Kahn is simply more interesting, “says Volker Nickel by the Central Association of German advertising industry. Read the rest of this entry »
A small Islamist group, unknown until last May, claimed on Saturday, July 26, the attacks that left at least 45 dead and over 160 injured in western India Saturday, according to the television channel CNN – IBN.Up to 30 people were arrested in Ahmedabad, according to CNN-IBN, which cited government sources. Regarding the claim, CNN-IBN claimed to have received, as several other news channels, e-mails little detailed Moudjaidines India. This group became known in May claiming a series of attacks in Jaipur, also in the west, who had 61 dead. The email address for wearing a Yahoo! French whose password was provided in the text of the message threatening further attacks. Read the rest of this entry »
The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, second-seeded host this Sunday, against German Nicolas Kiefer in the Masters Series in Toronto, its ninth final of this season. The player Mallorcan, who this week cut differences with the Swiss Roger Federer in their struggle to reach number one in the world thanks to the early elimination of Swiss in Toronto, has qualified for the finals of the tournament after eliminating the Canadian Scots Andy Murray, eighth favorite. Read the rest of this entry »
The ‘command Vizcaya’ ETA carried out details for attacking Senator Alava by the PP and former Deputy General Alava, Ramon Rabanera, and three seats of this training and the Basque Socialist Party (PSE-EE). This follows from the indictment issued today by the National High Court judge Baltasar Garzon, who has sent to prison for seven alleged members and supporters of the so-called ‘complex Vizcaya’, the group most active and dangerous since the end of ceasefire de la banda terrorista. The indictment reveals that the alleged ‘liberated’ Arkaitz Goikoetxea, arrested in this operation, ordered Inigo Gutierrez, also imprisoned by Garzon, who carried out details about Ramon Rabanera, several related companies to high-speed train (TGV), the barracks of the Civil Guard of Burgos and the Military Museum of this city. By the same token, also a member of ‘complex’ Aitor COTAN collected data on the Houses of People’s PSE-EE in the towns of Vizcaya and Sopelana Leioa, the headquarters of the PP in Getxo, the stations in the Autonomous Basque Police in Bermeo, and Plencia Santurce (Biscay) and the Courts of Balmaseda (Biscay). Read the rest of this entry »