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Duel between the president and the mayor of the capital
January 29th, 2009The young mayor Andry Rajoelina now openly opposed to the Head of State, whose monarchical abuses are becoming more pronounced. Minutes of the crisis.Lese majesty in Madagascar. Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, has snubbed the invitation of the Head of State Marc Ravalomanana at the presentation ceremony of the wishes of the couple bodies presidential (January 9 at the State Palace Iavoloha.) Read the rest of this entry »
Davos lost the masters of the world
January 28th, 2009
Formerly, the elite of politics and the economy is reflected each year at the World Economic Forum, which opens its doors this January 28 in Switzerland. But the crisis has happened. Many major employers have this time not been invited. Read the rest of this entry »
When gas crisis turns into a political crisis
January 27th, 2009The agreement between Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko has widened the gap between the Prime Minister and President Yushchenko. Tensions between the symbols of the “orange revolution” are at their peak. Read the rest of this entry »
Extremists at home in the Swat Valley
January 26th, 2009
The Pakistani army seems to have suffered a decisive setback in the war that book against extremists. While a large-scale military operation takes place in the Swat valley in the Frontier Province of North-West, since July 2007, the extremists, who now control nearly three quarters of this district , continue to extend their control. Until early 2008, only a quarter of the valley, home to 1.8 million people, was under their control. Today, Islamists have closed dozens of schools, run their own courts applying Sharia and practice almost daily killings in the central square of Mingora [the largest city in the region]. Among their victims is a teacher. Charged with prostitution, she was forced to wear gunghroos (ankle bells), subject to grave humiliation and then killed. Other young women and their families speak of threats and harassment to dissuade them from work or to study. Some parents have received the “visit” of Islamists who asked them to keep their daughters at home. Those who had the courage to speak against the extremists were killed, including the elderly. In most cases, they had been accused of being “spies” from the government. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama wants to end torture on the minority
January 25th, 2009With the decrees issued on Thursday 22 January, President Barack Obama has worked to rehabilitate the reputation of the United States in the treatment of alleged terrorists. However, these are tainted by ambiguity, evidence of the difficulty of untangling the mess created by George W. Bush. Obama’s efforts to close the chapter of the Bush era and its contempt for the right piece to have a decree ordering the closure within one year of the detention center notorious Guantanamo Bay, on the island of Cuba. In the same decree, the new president puts in place a procedure to review the status of detainees still imprisoned at Guantanamo to determine whether they should be transferred to other countries or brought to trial and identify those who represent a threat too serious to be prosecuted or repatriated. Read the rest of this entry »
The islamists are getting too much aggressive
January 24th, 2009Several governments in the region are tightening their laws. They want counter the growing influence of radical movements when local economies are hardest hit by the crisis. The Salafi movement “more and more popular among young well-educated citizens of Tajikistan is now outlawed,” reports the information site Tajik Asiaplus.tj. The country’s authorities took the decision to “defend the constitutional order, strengthen national security and prevent discord interconfessional. The objective of these extremists, suspected of terrorist acts fermented, is to subvert state power.” Interested defend them, claiming not to have a structured organization, and only a simple ideology. Paradoxically, the Attorney General Bobodjone Bobokhonov, quoted by the newspaper online, give them reason. “The Salafists have not broken the law but propaganda undermines our security,” he says. Read the rest of this entry »
RUSSIA has emptied immigrant workers from some cities
January 23rd, 2009Kazan station [one of the major stations of Moscow]. Bags, carts, bales. This is where, three times a week, the train to Dushanbe [capital of Tajikistan]. For thousands of immigrant workers is the cheapest way to go home eleven cars packed full of people who have worked tirelessly and bring with them an incredible bric-a-brac, coverage which warmed in their cabin site to old slippers, through shifts in plastic. Here, it is matter of poverty, but at home they will be very useful items. Read the rest of this entry »
The World’s first wave farm
January 22nd, 2009
There’s power in them thar waves! That’s why Portugal built Agucadoura, the world’s first wave farm off its coast, consisting of three Wave Energy Converters generating a total of 2.25MW.The elongated metal contraptions bob up and down with the waves, while internal pistons, attached to the sea floor, remain stationary and pump hydraulic fluid. This drives electric generators, whose power is brought ashore by underwater electrical cables. The wave farm is now tapping into enough constant, renewable energy to power 1500 homes. Read the rest of this entry »
Duffy and Coldplay are appointed to the 2009 Brit Awards
January 21st, 2009
The Welsh singer will go up against Chris Martin’s band in the best British album and single categories. Singer Adele, Mercury Prize winners Elbow and Scouting For Girls have three nods each while Ting Tings, Radiohead, Girls Aloud and Estelle have two each.The awards, co-presented by Kylie Minogue, James Corden and Mathew Horne, will take place on 18 February. The nominations were announced at a launch party at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London. Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama takes charge with high hopes
January 19th, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama enters the White House on Tuesday with enough foreign goodwill to buy at least a brief global honeymoon as he wades into the crush of international crises awaiting his attention. Read the rest of this entry »