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[ { "language": "en", "title": "Who ordered that?", "text": "CMS/CERN\nPhysicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the giant particle-physics experiment near Geneva, Switzerland, have searched for many possible subatomic particles and novel phenomena. They have tried to recreate dark matter, reveal extra dimensions of and collapse matter into microscopic black holes.\nBut the possibility of an electrically neutral particle that is four times heavier than the top quark — the current heaviest — and that could decay into pairs of photons has apparently never crossed anybody’s mind. No theorist has ever predicted that such a particle should exist. No experiment has ever been designed to look for one.\nSo when, on 15 December last year, two separate teams at the LHC independently reported hints of such a particle (see Nature http://doi.org/bc4t; 2015), the reaction of many experts was similar to that of US physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi when the muon, a heavier relative of the electron, was discovered in 1936: “Who ordered that?”\nIf the particle exists, the implications would be enormous. Precisely because it is so unexpected, it could be the most important discovery in particle physics since quarks — the elementary constituents of protons and neutrons — were confirmed to exist in the 1970s. Perhaps it would be the biggest deal since the muon itself.\nThe evidence so far is scant, however. It amounts to a few too many pairs of γ-ray photons produced with combined energies of 750 giga­electronvolts when the LHC smashes protons together. The fact that two separate detectors spotted it at almost exactly the same energies gives some hope, but anomalous signals such as this often show up in experiments only to later vanish back into the noisy background.\nStill, people at CERN, the European particle-physics lab that hosts the LHC, have scarcely talked about anything else since. And theoretical physicists around the world have gone into overdrive: more than 200 papers have been posted online with theories that could explain the particle. One possibility is that it could be a heavier cousin of the Higgs boson; another, even more tantalizing one, is that it is a type of graviton, the particle hypothesized to carry the force of gravity. If so, it could point to the existence of extra dimensions of space beyond the familiar three.\nSome have discounted the outburst of preprint articles as merely an attempt by authors to rake up citations. One physicist has even done a quantitative comparison of this spike in activity with other fads that have come and gone in the past (see M. Backović Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01204; 2016), charting theorists’ initially exploding, then fading, interest. But describing theorists’ interest as ‘ambulance chasing’ is a bit unfair. To paraphrase Albert Einstein, if people knew what they should be looking for, it wouldn’t be called research.\n“The LHC is now providing the opportunity of a lifetime to break entirely new ground.”\nAnd particle physicists’ excitement is understandable, if tempered by caution. For decades, their field has been finding evidence for the standard model of particle physics, a collection of theories that was put together in the 1970s and has been more successful than anyone expected. The current generation of young physicists was not even born when particle accelerators produced their last genuinely surprising results. Meanwhile, searches for physics beyond the standard model have so far come up empty — at accelerators such as the LHC but also in many tabletop experiments and at detectors built underground or sent into space to look for dark matter. The most notable exception to the standard model’s standard fare has been the discovery, beginning in 1998, that the elementary particles called neutrinos spontaneously oscillate between their three known types, or flavours — something that the original version of the standard model had not predicted. That breakthrough earned two physicists a well-deserved Nobel Prize last year.\nThe LHC is now providing the opportunity of a lifetime to break entirely new ground. In 2015, it restarted after a long shutdown that brought the energies of its collisions to a record 13 teraelectronvolts, from 8 TeV. This has put much more massive particles in reach — if any exist — but it will be the last substantial jump in collider energies in a generation. More-powerful machines, if they ever see the light of the day, will take decades to plan, develop and build.\nThe good news is that whether the new particle exists or the data bump is a statistical anomaly is not a question that will leave us hanging for long. The LHC experiments had time to observe only relatively few collisions in their first 13 TeV run last year, before the experiment shut down for its winter recess.\nAt a meeting in the Italian Alps that starts on 12 March, LHC researchers might present fresh analyses of those data that could provide more clues. And the machine will begin to collect vastly more data in April. If the bump seen last year was an anomaly, it should go away by the summer. If not, stay tuned for some interesting announcements at the next round of conferences.", "url": "http://www.nature.com/news/who-ordered-that-1.19514?WT.mc_id=FBK_SB_NNews_0216", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200606162207/http://www.nature.com/news/who-ordered-that-1.19514?WT.mc_id=FBK_SB_NNews_0216" } ]

[ "Cuba", "Disasters and accidents", "Transport", "Rail transport" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Bus in deadly collision with train in Cuba, state TV reports", "text": "HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- A bus collided with a train in eastern Cuba, killing at least 28 people and injuring another 73, including 15 in critical condition, state media reported Sunday.\nThe train dragged the bus onto and over a bridge, the Communist Youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde reported.\nAuthorities were still investigating the cause of the crash, which occurred around midday Saturday in the province of Granma, about 500 miles east of Havana, according to a statement read on state television.\nCuba's State media, which typically shy away from reporting extensively about any kind of bloodshed, provided only sketchy details and not even Granma Province's digital newspaper, La Demajagua, carried news of the accident.\nThe Communist Youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde had only a short story Sunday reporting that the collision took place at a railroad crossing near a bridge in the small town of Veguita, in Yara municipality.\nIt said a train traveling from the eastern city of Santiago to the coastal city of Manzanillo collided with a bus traveling from Bayamo to the coastal community of Campechuela. The train dragged the bus to the bridge, where the bus fell.\nBuses are scarce and often overloaded with passengers in rural Cuba, where large trucks are also often commonly used as public transportation. In June a truck transporting passengers in the same region flipped over, killing 11.\nRailroad crossings in rural areas commonly suffer from visibility problems, are often marked only with a small sign and do not have automated gates and signals.\nState media said dozens of local residents assisted with rescue efforts or donated blood for the injured. E-mail to a friend\nCopyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.\nAll About Cuba", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/10/07/cuba.train.accident.ap/index.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071011005020/http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/10/07/cuba.train.accident.ap/index.html" } ]

[ "Themenportal Sport", "Themenportal Deutschland", "Veröffentlicht" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Top-Duell und Hessen-Derby im DFB-Pokal", "text": "Top-Duell und Hessen-Derby im DFB-Pokal\nOliver Bierhoff hat Kickers Offenbach Glück gebracht und dem letzten Zweitligisten im DFB-Pokalwettbewerb das Viertelfinal-Wunschlos beschert.\nBerlin und Stuttgart trennten sich im Oktober in der Bundesliga 2:2 Unentschieden.\nNach der vom Nationalteam-Manager in der ZDF-Reportage vorgenommenen Auslosung erwarten die Kickers den letztjährigen Pokalfinalisten aus Frankfurt am 27./28. Februar am heimischen Bieberer Berg zum Hessen-Derby. «Das ist absolut perfekt», jubelte Trainer Wolfgang Frank. «Auch noch zu Hause zu spielen, ist eine Riesen-Motivation.» Es werde «ein Fest für alle Fans», betonte Eintracht-Vorstandschef Heribert Bruchhagen. Außerdem kommt es zu drei Bundesliga-Duellen: Zur Top- Begegnung VfB Stuttgart - Hertha BSC sowie den Spielen 1. FC Nürnberg - Hannover 96 und VfL Wolfsburg - Alemannia Aachen.\n«Das sind sehr interessante Partien, in der nun die beiden Top-Teams aufeinander treffen. Und es ist eine gerechte Verteilung, dass der letzte Zweitligist Heimrecht genießt», meinte Bierhoff zufrieden. Auch die Stuttgarter, nach dem Scheitern von Cupverteidiger FC Bayern sowie der Bundesliga-Topteams Werder Bremen und Schalke 04 in die Rolle des Geheimfavoriten gerückt, waren einverstanden. «Endlich mal wieder ein Heimspiel. Dass wir gegen Hertha spielen, ist sicher keine leichte Aufgabe. Aber wir wollen ins Finale nach Berlin, und dieser Weg kann uns nun über Berlin führen», sagte Teammanager Horst Heldt.\nWeniger glücklich reagierten die Verantwortlichen in Berlin, Hannover und Aachen auf die bevorstehenden Gastspiele. «Die Auslosung hat nichts Neues erbracht: Wir haben einfach kein Losglück und dann auch noch den schwersten Brocken auswärts erwischt», meinte Hertha-Coach Falko Götz enttäuscht. «Aber wir wollen ins Finale. Und wenn wir uns gewaltig steigern, sehe ich für uns auch Chancen.»\n96-Trainer Dieter Hecking meinte zum Auswärts-Los Nürnberg: «Ein Heimspiel wäre schön gewesen, aber wenn man nach Berlin will, muss man gegen jeden gewinnen.» Und sein Aachener Kollege Michael Frontzeck, der mit der Alemannia am Tivoli kurz vor Weihnachten die Bayern ausgeschaltet hatte, stieß ins gleiche Horn: «Ein Heimspiel wäre natürlich von Vorteil gewesen, aber wir nehmen es, wie es kommt und werden alles für den Einzug ins Halbfinale tun.»\nGespielt werden die Viertelfinals am 27. und 28. Februar, die exakten Ansetzungen sind auch abhängig von etwaigen TV-Übertragungen. Die Halbfinals stehen am 17./18. April an. Und das Pokal-Endspiel findet am 26. Mai traditionell im Berliner Olympiastadion statt.", "url": "http://www.ftd.de/sport/fussball/dfbpokal/news/148001.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070110201616/http://www.ftd.de/sport/fussball/dfbpokal/news/148001.html" } ]

[ "Europe", "Italy", "Crime and law", "Human rights", "Health", "Politics and conflicts", "Euthanasia", "Italian Parliament" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Login", "text": "Registered Users\nEnter your details below to login:\nEmail\nPassword\nKeep me logged in information Keeps you logged in for a rolling 15 days or until you logout.\nForgot your password?", "url": "http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5697099.ece", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20121021185413/https://acs.thetimes.co.uk/?gotoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Ftto%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Italian woman at heart of euthanasia debate dies", "text": "Italian woman at heart of euthanasia debate dies\nEluana Englaro, seen in this undated photo, fell into a vegetative state following a car accident in 1992. (Englaro family/Associated Press) Eluana Englaro, seen in this undated photo, fell into a vegetative state following a car accident in 1992. (Englaro family/Associated Press)\nThe Italian woman at the centre of a high-profile euthanasia debate has died, media agencies reported Monday.\nEluana Englaro, who had been in a vegetative state for 17 years, died in a clinic in the northeastern city of Udine, the ANSA and Apcom news agencies said.\n\"Yes, she has left us,\" her father, Beppino Englaro, told ANSA. \"But I don't want to say anything, I just want to be alone.\"\nEnglaro's case has pitted right-to-die activists against the anti-euthanasia movement.\nLate last year, her father won an intense 10-year legal battle to allow her feeding tubes to be removed, saying that was her wish. The court accepted that before the accident, Englaro had expressed a preference for dying over being kept alive artificially.\nIn line with the high court ruling, medical workers on Friday began gradually suspending food and water for Englaro.\nBut on Monday, Italian senators were frantically discussing a bill designed to keep Englaro alive. The bill — supported by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, his centre-right government and the Vatican — was expected to win quick approval. The bill could still affect future right-to-die cases.\nBerlusconi's government had passed an emergency decree Friday to prevent Englaro from having her tube disconnected, but the move led to a rare institutional crisis as the country's president, Giorgio Napolitano, rejected it on the grounds it defied court rulings.\nItaly does not allow euthanasia. Patients have a right to refuse treatment, but they are barred from giving advance directions on what treatment they wish to receive if they become unconscious.\nWith files from the Associated Press", "url": "http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/09/italy-euthanasia.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090211133036/http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/09/italy-euthanasia.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Inspectors visit clinic in Italy right-to-die case", "text": "ROME Inspectors on Monday visited an Italian clinic that has stopped feeding a comatose woman to check whether it is qualified to allow her to die in line with a court ruling.\nThe government had raised objections to the use of the facility as a place for 38-year-old Eluana Englaro, in a vegetative state since a car crash in 1992, to end her life.\nDoctors at the clinic in the northern city of Udine stopped feeding her on Friday, in line with a ruling by Italy's top court that she could be allowed to die.\nPrime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government, backed by the Vatican, has been trying to block the implementation of the ruling, arguing that not feeding the patient amounts to euthanasia, which is illegal in Italy.\nHealth Minister Maurizio Sacconi, who wants her kept alive, said an inspection at the weekend had reported \"irregularities.\" He said the clinic did not meet the requirements of the court ruling which called for Englaro to be allowed to die in a hospice, rather than a clinic.\nRegional authorities sent their own inspectors on Monday to establish if Sacconi's objections warranted halting the suspension of food to the woman. The clinic's deputy director, Luciano Cattivello, told reporters it fulfilled all legal requirements.\nThe case has split the mainly Catholic country and led to a constitutional crisis between Berlusconi and the head of state. It also sparked a debate about whether, by siding openly with Berlusconi, the Vatican was unduly interfering.\nIt has been compared to that of Terri Schiavo, an American woman in a vegetative state who was allowed to die in 2005 after a long legal battle.\nBerlusconi issued an emergency decree of Friday ordering doctors to resume feeding Englaro but the decree was rejected by President Giorgio Napolitano who said it was unconstitutional because it overruled the country's most senior judges.\nThe center-right prime minister is pushing through parliament, where he has a large majority, a law that would ban suspending food to patients who can no longer feed themselves.\nThe Senate should discuss the law on Monday. It then goes to the lower house which is unlikely to vote before Wednesday.\nEnglaro's doctor, Carlo Alberto Defanti, said that besides the irreversible damage to her brain, her physical condition was good and it could take two weeks from the suspension of food before her heart stopped.\n(Editing by Andrew Dobbie)", "url": "http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5183TO20090209", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160322171231/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-euthanasia-idUSTRE5183TO20090209" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Italy govt. tries new tactic in right-to-die case", "text": "Udinese midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah of Ghana, right, is chased by Bologna midfielder Francesco Valiani during a Serie A soccer match between Udinese and Bologna in Udine, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Franco Debernardi)\nItaly govt. tries new tactic in right-to-die case\nROME (AP) — Italy's health minister declared Sunday there were problems with the clinic hosting a woman in a hotly debated right-to-die case, as the government appeared to be trying a new tactic to keep her alive.\nMinister Maurizio Sacconi also said the \"La Quiete\" clinic in Udine isn't the hospice or hospital facility called for by the Milan appeals court, which has ruled that Eluana Englaro's feeding tubes can be removed.\nEnglaro, 38, has been in a vegetative state since she was in a car accident 17 years ago. Her doctors have said her condition is irreversible. Her father won a decade-long court battle to remove her feeding tubes, saying it was her wish.\nBut Italy's center-right government, backed by the Vatican, has been trying to keep her alive and hopes to pass legislation this week forbidding food and water from being suspended for patients who depend on them.\nEnglaro's plight has convulsed Italy, which has seen daily demonstrations and sit-ins by both those who favor letting her die and those who say that's tantamount to homicide.\n\"The Milan appeals court spoke of a hospice or a sanitary structure, while here all we have are rooms on loan,\" Sacconi said. \"It's an irregular situation.\"\nSacconi has sent investigators to the clinic to make sure it is following a protocol outlining how Eluana should be cared for in preparation for the tubes to be removed. In addition, carabinieri officers visited the clinic Saturday and reported some \"administrative anomalies,\" the ANSA and Apcom news agencies reported.\nIt wasn't known, however, if the technical issues raised by the inspections or Sacconi's comments would be enough to halt the gradual suspension of food and water for Englaro that began Friday.\nThe head of the clinic, Ines Domenicali, said the only anomaly was that volunteers were caring for Englaro, but said everything concerning her care was correct, ANSA reported.\nOn Sunday, Englaro's neurologist, Dr. Carlo Alberto Defanti, said her condition was \"stable, and we are proceeding with the total suspension of artificial nutrition,\" ANSA said.\nEnglaro's case has prompted a rare institutional clash between the Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano, and the government of Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has backed the Vatican's line that Englaro should be kept alive.\nNapolitano refused to sign an emergency decree passed Friday by the Cabinet forbidding food and water from being suspended, arguing that it defied the Milan court ruling.\nOn Sunday, the Vatican said its No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, had a \"polite\" phone call with Napolitano to discuss the Englaro case. The statement added the Vatican appreciated Parliament's efforts to quickly pass the new bill.\nFor the second day in a row, Pope Benedict XVI made indirect reference to the case.\n\"Let us pray for all the sick, especially those most seriously ill, who cannot in any way provide for themselves, but are totally dependent on the care of others,\" Benedict said in his Sunday noon blessing. \"Let each of them experience, in the care of those who are near them, the power of God's love and the wealth of his saving grace.\"\nEnglaro's father, Beppino Englaro, was quoted Sunday as decrying the intrusion of the church in the affair, saying that while he respects the Vatican's opinion, it has \"nothing to do with this case.\"\n\"The church can say what it likes, I won't argue with that, but these events are beyond its control,\" he said, according to Spain's El Pais daily.\nThe father has issued only a handful of statements in recent weeks and has kept his daughter out of the public eye for years.\nBut in an abrupt change, he invited both Berlusconi and Napolitano to visit her at the clinic in Udine \"to see how she truly is.\" That followed Berlusconi's comments about how Englaro could still recover and could theoretically even bear a child since she still menstruates.\nThe father has said Eluana visited a comatose friend in a hospital before her own accident and said she never wanted to be kept alive that way.\nThe Englaro case has drawn comparisons with that of Terri Schiavo, the American woman who died in 2005 after an fierce right-to-die debate.\nSchiavo's feeding tube was removed in March 2005. Congress passed a bill to allow a federal court to review the Florida woman's case, and then-President George W. Bush returned from his Texas ranch to sign the bill into law. A federal judge refused to order the tube reinserted, a decision upheld by a federal appeals court and the Supreme Court.", "url": "http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i7WFCpCuOQQ8_Tu4VjQgq5fuIy3AD967I4A80", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090212094918/http://google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i7WFCpCuOQQ8_Tu4VjQgq5fuIy3AD967I4A80" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Italy's PM seeks law to keep comatose woman alive", "text": "By Silvia Aloisi\nItaly's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is pushing a law through parliament to force doctors to resume feeding a comatose woman in a right-to-die case that has plunged the country into a constitutional crisis.\nBerlusconi says he is in a race against time to save Eluana Englaro, who has been in a coma for 17 years and has not been fed since Friday in line with a high court ruling that she should be allowed to die.\nParliament -- where Berlusconi has a large majority -- could pass the law this week, reversing the court ruling and circumventing the head of state, who blocked Berlusconi's previous attempt to order the resumption of feeding by decree.\n\"I still believe that saving Eluana is possible,\" Maurizio Sacconi, Berlusconi's health minister, told Corriere della Sera newspaper on Sunday.\nEnglaro, 38, has been in a vegetative state since a car crash in 1992.\nHer father, who says that before the accident she had stated her wish not to be kept alive artificially, has fought a 10-year legal battle in the mainly Catholic country to have her feeding tube disconnected.\nLast November, the top court ruled in his favour and doctors at a clinic in the northern city of Udine implemented that ruling on Friday.\nBut Berlusconi, backed by the Vatican, issued an emergency decree on the same day stating that food and water cannot be suspended from patients who are not self-sufficient -- only to see it rejected by the head of state.\nVATICAN SIDES WITH BERLUSCONI\nIn an unprecedented clash with the head of state Berlusconi said he could not allow the \"killing\" of Englaro, adding she could \"in theory have a baby\" and that not feeding her amounted to euthanasia, which is illegal in Italy.\nPresident Giorgio Napolitano, a former communist, said his decree was unconstitutional because it overruled top judges.\nThe Vatican, which remains highly influential in Italy, has openly sided with Berlusconi and criticised the president.\nCardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the pope's secretary of state, spoke about the case with Napolitano by phone, the Vatican said on Sunday, adding it welcomed the decision to put Berlusconi's draft law on a fast-track.\nMedical experts say it could take more than two weeks for Englaro's heart to stop, but that the suspension of food and water will have irreversible effects on her weakened body in a matter of days.\nAnalysts say that Berlusconi is using the highly charged case to concentrate power in the executive, weakening the president and the courts.\n\"Berlusconi has chosen the Englaro case as the chance to alter in his favour the balance of power between his office and the presidency,\" said a Corriere della Sera editorial.\nBerlusconi defended his stance on Sunday.\n\"I can guarantee on my honour and that of my ministers, that our decision was based on moral principles and there was never a plan to attack anybody,\" he said.\nEnglaro's father has invited him to visit his daughter to see for himself her condition.\n(Editing by Matthew Jones)", "url": "http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2009/02/08/europe/OUKWD-UK-ITALY-EUTHANASIA.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090211123321/http://iht.com/articles/reuters/2009/02/08/europe/OUKWD-UK-ITALY-EUTHANASIA.php" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Italy faces constitutional crisis over coma woman", "text": "The Italian government has been plunged into a constitutional crisis over the fate of a 38-year-old woman who has been in a coma for the past 17 years. Eluana Englaro was left in a vegetative state after a car crash in 1992. After a decade-long court battle, doctors reduced her nutrition on Friday in preparation for removing her feeding tubes, which her father claims would be in accordance with her wishes.\nBut in an extraordinary turn of events, the country's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, after consultation with the Vatican, has issued an emergency decree stating that food and water cannot be suspended for any patient depending upon them, reversing the earlier court ruling. On issuing the emergency decree, Berlusconi declared: \"This is murder. I would be failing to rescue her. I'm not a Pontius Pilate.\"\nJustifying his campaign to save Englaro's life, the prime minister added that, physically at least, she was \"in the condition to have babies\", a remark described by La Stampa newspaper as \"shocking\". Giorgio Napolitano, Italy's president, has refused to sign the decree, but if it is ratified by the Italian parliament doctors may be obliged to resume the feeding of Eluana early this week.\nBut, in a moving interview with the Observer, Eluana's father Beppino said last week that the doctors were carrying out his daughter's wishes by allowing her to die. \"If she couldn't be what she was (before the accident in 1992) then she would not have wanted to live\".\nThe case has deeply divided Italian society and raised concerns over the influence of the Vatican. Yesterday Pope Benedict indirectly referred to Englaro in a message delivered to mark the World Day of the Sick, stating that society had a duty to defend \"the absolute and supreme dignity of every human being\" even when \"weak and shrouded in the mystery of suffering\". But even some of Berlusconi's political allies, including the president of the lower house of parliament, Gianfranco Fini, have stated that the supreme court ruling should be obeyed and Englaro should be allowed to die.\nOpposition leader Walter Veltroni, of the centre-left Democratic party, said the government should leave the Englaro family in peace and warned that Berlusconi's intervention \"could cause a very dangerous constitutional crisis\". Last night demonstrations in support of Eluana's right to die and the supreme court ruling were taking place across Italy.\nMeanwhile, doctors are continuing to act according to the original supreme court ruling. On Friday morning in the La Quiete clinic in Udine, northern Italy, they began reducing the amount of food in Eluana Englaro's feeding tube, according to a precise medical protocol that will see nutrition gradually replaced with sedative and anti-convulsant medication. Experts say that within four to five days her condition may have deteriorated to an irreversible extent, though it might be two weeks or more before her heart stops. The process means the Englaro family and their doctors are now in a race against time as they try to end Eluana's life before the Berlusconi government and its backers in the Vatican halt the process.\nBeppino, 67, was last night in the family home in Lecco, 30 miles north of Milan, caring for his wife and Eluana's mother, Saturna, who is gravely ill with cancer. After a long, agonising fight to allow his daughter to die, he described the government's last-ditch attempts as \"a grotesque attack on my family\".\nPrior to issuing the decree, Berlusconi was involved in frantic telephone exchanges with the Vatican head of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who implored the prime minister to prevent Eluana's death. The cardinal reportedly told Berlusconi: \"We have to stop this crime against humanity.\"\nDoctors have confirmed that, after 17 years and with such catastrophic brain damage, Eluana will never regain consciousness or awareness. The anaesthetist caring for her, Professor Antonio de Monte, said: \"Eluana died 17 years ago.\"\nRight-to-die cases\nTony Bland\nDuring the 1989 Hillsborough disaster Bland, from Keighley, Yorkshire, suffered two punctured lungs, blocking oxygen flow to his brain and was left in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). After campaigns on both sides, the House of Lords ruled in 1993 that withdrawing treatment, as advised by a doctor and approved by Bland's parents, was lawful.\nSue Rodriguez\nDiagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1991, Rodriguez began a campaign against Canada's law forbidding medically assisted suicides. Her two-year legal battle ended with the Canadian supreme court ruling against her. Rodriguez eventually found a physician willing to assist in her death in 1994.\nTerri Schiavo\nRespiratory and cardiac arrest in 1990 caused Schiavo massive brain damage leading to PVS. After eight years, her husband Michael Schiavo petitioned the Florida courts to have her life support removed. Terri's family appealed, leading to a seven-year legal battle. Her feeding tube was finally removed in 2005.\nDaniel James\nThe former England youth rugby player, 23, was left paralysed when a scrum collapsed. In need of 24-hour care, he applied to the Dignitas suicide clinic and travelled with his parents to Switzerland last September. James's parents were caught up in a tabloid frenzy on their return.\nCraig Ewert\nEwert's assisted death caused headlines when he allowed it to be filmed for a Sky documentary, Right to Die, screened in December 2008. The former university professor, from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, was suffering from motor neurone disease and was filmed at Dignitas's clinic kissing his wife goodbye and then drinking a lethal mixture.\nRichard Rogers", "url": "http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/08/englaro-italy-vatican", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090209080732/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/08/englaro-italy-vatican" } ]

[ "France" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Un Mirage 2000 s'écrase dans la Creuse", "text": "SUR LE MÊME SUJET\nLe Mirage 2 000 qui avait disparu des radars mardi soir vers 21 h 20 alors qu'il survolait le secteur d'Aubusson, dans le département de la Creuse s'est écrasé sur la commune de Saint-Oradoux-près-Crocq (Creuse), selon le site de La Montagne. Ce dernier précise que l'appareil a été retrouvé vers 8 heures ce mercredi matin.Mardi soir, peu après la disparition du Mirage des radars, des recherches avaient été lancées mais avaient du s'interrompre rapidement à cause de la nuit et du mauvais temps. Les gendarmes sont toujours à la recherche des deux hommes qui étaient à bord, le pilote et son assistant de vol.", "url": "http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-mirage-2000-s-ecrase-dans-la-creuse-02-03-2011-1339252.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110305031054/http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-mirage-2000-s-ecrase-dans-la-creuse-02-03-2011-1339252.php" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Un Mirage 2000 porté disparu dans la Creuse", "text": "SUR LE MÊME SUJET\nUn Mirage 2000 est porté disparu depuis mardi soir. Il a disparu des radars peu avant 22 heures, alors qu'il survolait le secteur d'Aubusson, dans le département de la Creuse. Contrairement à ce qu'indiquait le site de La Montagne , le Sirpa Air (Serice d'information de l'armée de l'air) précise que l'épave de l'avion n'a pas encore été retrouvée.Mardi soir, peu après que le Mirage ait disparu des radars, des recherches avaient été lancées mais avaient du être rapidement interrompues à cause de la nuit et du mauvais temps. Elles ont repris ce mercredi matin. Une centaine de gendarmes et de sauveteurs, selon France Info, sont toujours à la recherche de l'épave et des deux hommes qui étaient à bord, le pilote et le co-pilote.", "url": "http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-mirage-2000-porte-disparu-dans-la-creuse-02-03-2011-1339252.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110305025136/http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/un-mirage-2000-porte-disparu-dans-la-creuse-02-03-2011-1339252.php" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Creuse. Des fragments humains trouvés près de l'épave du Mirage", "text": "Creuse . Des fragments humains trouvés près de l'épave du Mirage\n2 mars 2011\nUn Mirage 2000 de la (Haute-Saône) avec, à son bord, un pilote et un navigateur, a disparu des radars vers 21 h 20 dans le secteur d'Aubusson, au sud de la Creuse. L'épave a été retrouvée. Des \"fragments humains\" ont également été trouvés près du cratère formé par le crash.\nL'épave du Mirage 2000 de la base aérienne 116 de Luxeuil-les-Bains (Haute-Saône) disparu depuis hier soir des radars au-dessus de la Creuse, a été retrouvée ce matin, à l'est du département. L'appareil est tombé près d'un étang et, \"en heurtant le sol, a fait un énorme cratère qui s'est rempli d'eau\", compliquant les recherches près de l'appareil.\nLe pilote et le navigateur de l'appareil sont portés disparus. Toutefois, le procureur de la République de Guéret a indiqué ce soir que des fragments humains ont été retrouvés aux abords du cratère formé par le crash.\nLe secteur quadrillé\n\"Les recherches sont en cours\", avait indiqué ce matin le commandant Eric Trihoreau, chef du département médias du Sirpa (service d'informations et de relations publiques des armées) Air, ajoutant que les conditions météorologiques étaient \"très défavorables\" en raison d'un \"très fort brouillard\". Un hélicoptère de l'armée de l'air chargé des recherches a dû se poser.\nSelon France Bleu Creuse, les recherches, qui avaient été interrompues à 05H30 pour reprendre à 07H00, se sont concentrées près du village de Saint-Avit-de-Tardes, à une soixantaine de km au sud-est de Guéret, dans une zone boisée et escarpée.", "url": "http://www.letelegramme.com/ig/generales/france-monde/france/creuse-un-mirage-2000-disparait-des-radars-02-03-2011-1223805.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110305083217/http://www.letelegramme.com/ig/generales/france-monde/france/creuse-un-mirage-2000-disparait-des-radars-02-03-2011-1223805.php" } ]

[ "Asia", "Crime and law", "Politics and conflicts", "Russia", "Human Rights Watch", "Europe", "Dmitry Medvedev", "Vladimir Putin", "Uzbekistan" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Kyrgyz leader asks Russia to restore order in Osh", "text": "Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement\nKyrgyzstan's interim government has asked Russia to help end ethnic clashes in the southern city of Osh, in which 77 people have been killed.\n\"We need the entry of outside armed forces to calm the situation down,\" interim leader Roza Otunbayeva said.\nBut Russia said for the time being it would not send troops to Kyrgyzstan.\nThousands of ethnic Uzbeks have massed at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border as they try to escape fighting between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks that has raged for two days.\nOne child was crushed to death at the border.\nKYRGYZ-UZBEK TENSIONS Continue reading the main story Kyrgyz make up nearly 70% of the population, Uzbeks account for about 15% and are concentrated in the Ferghana Valley in the south\nOsh, the country's second city, is home to a large ethnic Uzbek community\nThere has been tension in the south between the two ethnic groups over land and housing\nIn 1990, hundreds were killed in Osh in clashes between Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks\nIn a televised address, Ms Otunbayeva said she had sent a letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev asking him to send military reinforcements.\nShe described the situation in Osh as \"out of control\".\nRussia was not prepared to send troops to Kyrgyzstan under the current circumstances, but would send humanitarian aid to the violence-hit region, a spokeswoman for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.\n\"It is an internal conflict and for now Russia does not see the conditions for taking part in its resolution,\" Natalya Timakova, Mr Medvedev's spokeswoman, was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.\nMr Medvedev would consult with other members of the regional security grouping, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, about a response to the crisis, Ms Timakova said.\nThe 150 Russian soldiers based near the Kyrgyz capital had been given no instruction to intervene, Russian media quoted an unnamed senior military source as saying.\nA plane carrying medical supplies has been sent to Kyrgyzstan to evacuate some of the badly-injured people for treatment in Russia, officials in Moscow said.\nThe violence is the worst to hit the Central Asian country since President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was overthrown in April.\nNearly people have been hurt, health ministry officials said, adding that there was a shortage of food and care for the injured.\n'Streets ablaze'\nThe BBC's Rayhan Demytrie, who is at the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, says guards have been letting people through one by one.\nThe refugees say their houses were burned down and they have nowhere to go.\nPeople at the border say that hundreds of other Uzbeks are stranded in their neighbourhoods in Osh.\nThey claim that people are being shot at from armoured personnel carriers, which are making way for armed gangs of ethnic Kyrgyz.\nEyewitnesses told the BBC that many people had been shot dead but it was impossible to retrieve the bodies.\n\"The situation is very bad. There is no sign of it stopping. Homes have been set ablaze... Entire streets are on fire,\" said Interior Ministry spokesman Rakhmatillo Akhmedov.\nMachine-gun fire can be heard as troops try to regain control of the streets, the Associated Press reports.\nThe interim government has denied security personnel are shooting at people and says its forces are preventing others from entering Osh to join the fighting.\nA state of emergency was declared in a second southern city, Jalalabad, as \"the area of ethnic instability is expanding\", an official with the interim government said.\nEthnic tensions\nKyrgyz TV reported that the country's borders with Tajikistan and China have been closed because of the unrest.\nAccording to local reports, the violence broke out between rival gangs and developed into gun battles late on Thursday.\nRiots and looting followed.\nThe unrest comes ahead of a referendum on the constitution, scheduled for 27 June.\nMs Otunbayeva has blamed supporters of Mr Bakiyev for inciting the violence to destabilise the country ahead of the referendum.\nThe leaders of Russia and China - which borders Kyrgyzstan - have appealed for calm.\nThe political crisis has raised fears of a civil war in the country, where both Russia and the US have military bases.\nWashington uses the base about 300km (190 miles) from Osh for US operations in Afghanistan.\nMr Bakiyev fled with his family to Belarus after violent clashes between government forces and protesters on 7 April.\nAre you in Osh? Have you witnessed anything? What is the situation now? Send us your accounts using the form below.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10300348.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100612184907/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10300348.stm" } ]

[ "Themenportal Kultur", "Themenportal Medien", "Themenportal Österreich", "Römisch-Katholische Kirche", "Panik" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Katholischer Nachrichtendienst", "text": "Washington D.C. (kath.net)\nDie Kirche hat ein Homosexuellen-Problem, kein Pädophilie-Problem. Diese These vertritt Bill Donohue, Präsident der US-amerikanischen Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, in einem Gastkommentar in der “Washington Post”.\nDie Beweise würden seine These unterstützen, schreibt Donohue, politische Rücksichtnahme verhindere aber die richtigen Schlussfolgerungen. In der Folge zitiert Donohue eine Reihe von Untersuchungen. Alfred Kinsey habe bereits 1948 festgestellt, dass 37 Prozent der männlichen Homosexuellen Sex mit Kindern und Jugendlichen unter 17 Jahren gehabt hätten. Aktuelle Untersuchungen, die in einschlägigen Fachmagazinen wie dem „Journal of Sex Research“, dem „Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy and Pediatrics“ veröffentlicht worden seien, zeigten eine Überrepräsentation von Homosexuellen unter jenen, die Kinder missbrauchen.\nIm selben Atemzug warnt Donohue vor schnellen Schlussfolgerungen. Korrelation und Ursache seien zu unterscheiden. Eine Korrelation zwischen Homosexualität und Kindesmissbrauch dürfe nicht dazu verleiten, in jedem Homosexuellen einen Kinderschänder zu sehen. Die meisten homosexuellen Priester würden keine Kinder mißbrauchen, doch gelte umgekehrt, dass die meisten Kinderschänder homosexuell seien. Dieser Zusammenhang dürfe nicht ignoriert werden.\nWerbung\nDie Untersuchungen anläßlich der Missbrauchsskandale in den USA hätten den besagten Zusammenhang bestätigt, schreibt Donohue. Er zitiert den Vorsitzenden des Untersuchungsausschusses, Robert Bennett: „Ohne Zweifel gibt es viele ausgezeichnete Priester mit homosexueller Orientierung, die keusch und zölibatär leben, aber eine Auswertung der Ursachen und Zusammenhänge der gegenwärtigen Krise muss die Tatsache zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass mehr als 80 Prozent der Missbrauchsfälle homosexueller Natur waren.“\nDer Anwalt, der die Klage von Missbrauchsopfern gegen die Erzdiözese Boston vorangetrieben hatte, wird von Donohue mit folgenden Angaben zitiert: 90 Prozent der fast 400 Missbrauchsopfer waren männlich, drei Viertel von ihnen nach der Pubertät. Auch hier sei Homosexualität das Thema, nicht Pädophilie, folgert Donohue.\nDas werde durch die John Jay Studie bestätigt, die Missbrauchsfälle in den Jahren 1950 bis 2002 untersucht hat, schreibt Donohue. Auch diese Studie komme zu dem Ergebnis, dass drei Viertel der Opfer postpubertäre männliche Jugendliche waren. Deren Missbrauch falle nicht unter die klinische Definition von Pädophilie.\nDonohue sieht seine Ansicht auch durch die Erkenntnisse des Psychiaters Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons bestätigt, der seit vielen Jahren Priester behandelt, die Kinder und Jugendliche sexuell missbraucht haben. Viele Psychologen und Psychiater hätten gezeigt, dass es keinen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Zölibat und Pädophilie gebe. Was sie gefunden hätten, sei ein Zusammenhang zwischen Homosexualität und Pädophilie, zitiert Donohue den Psychiater. Jeder Priester, den Fitzgibbons wegen sexueller Kontakte mit Kindern behandelt habe, habe vorher homosexuelle Verhältnisse mit Erwachsenen gehabt, sagt Fitzgibbons. Kath.net hat über die Ergebnisse von Dr. Fitzgibbons berichtet.\nEr sei dagegen, Homosexuelle vollständig von der Priesterweihe auszuschließen, schreibt Donohue. Es sei aber falsch, Männer, die das Priestertum anstreben, nicht genauer hinsichtlich homosexueller Aktivitäten unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Er selbst werde nicht aufhören, auf den Zusammenhang von Homosexualität und dem Missbrauch Minderjähriger hinzuweisen, schreibt Donohue abschließend.", "url": "http://kath.net/detail.php?id=27635", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100820003411/http://kath.net/detail.php?id=27635" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Salzburgs Weihbischof beleidigt Opfer der Love Parade", "text": "ZEUGEN IM WORTLAUT\nWo haben die Sicherungssysteme versagt? Was passierte im Tunnel? Die Ursachensuche beginnt - SPIEGEL ONLINE dokumentiert Zeugenaussagen aus verschiedenen Quellen. Die Angaben konnten nicht verifiziert werden. Klicken Sie auf die Überschriften...\nGespräch mit der Nachrichtenagentur dpa: \"Wir standen mittendrin. Es hatten immer mehr Menschen noch versucht, zum Gelände zu kommen. (...) Wir waren schon durch den Tunnel durch und standen auf dem kurzen Stück vor dem Eingang. Dort ging es aber nicht weiter.\" Einige seien über Zäune und über eine Leiter geklettert oder über eine enge Treppe am Tunnelende. \"Wir sind danach durch den Tunnel zurück. Meine Freundin und ich haben schon kaum mehr Luft mehr bekommen und haben die Ellbogen ausgefahren, um noch wegzukommen. (...) Anschließend haben wir die Polizei alarmiert und gesagt, dass es im Tunnel gleich zur Massenpanik kommen wird.\" Passiert sei erst einmal nichts. \"Das war etwa eine Dreiviertelstunde vor dem Unglück gewesen. Da waren aber schon Leute reihenweise zusammengeklappt.\"\nn-tv-Kameramann und Augenzeuge: \"Da lagen schon einige Menschen am Boden, andere kletterten die Wände hoch und versuchten, über die Seiten auf das Gelände zu kommen. Und die Menschenmenge, die nachrückte, die liefen einfach über die am Boden liegenden drüber. Also eine richtige Massenpanik. (...) Die Polizei hat versucht, hineinzugehen in die Menge und die am Boden liegenden Menschen herauszuziehen. Es war aber zu voll, die Polizei hat die Menschen nicht herausbekommen, es war nichts zu machen. (...) Überall lagen Menschen auf dem Boden herum. So stelle ich mir Krieg vor.\" Die Veranstalter seien vermutlich nicht richtig auf die Menschenmassen vorbereitet gewesen. \"Das war programmiertes Chaos.\" Zunächst seien keine Rettungskräfte dort gewesen: \"Hilfskräfte waren erst mal gar nicht vorhanden, vielleicht drei, vier vom Malteser Hilfsdienst. Die konnten aber in der Masse der Menschen auch nichts machen. Man kann nicht mit einer Million Menschen planen und dann ein Gelände für 350.000 Menschen bereitstellen.\"\nGespräch mit der Nachrichtenagentur AP: \"Alle wollten noch auf das Gelände. Damit es schneller geht, sind einige auf die Treppe ausgewichen.\" Diese führt von der Unterführung direkt zum Güterbahnhof, doch \"von hinten drückten immer mehr nach\". Es habe 40 Minuten nur Panik gegeben, erst dann habe eine Rettungsgasse gebildet werden können. Für viele kam die Hilfe zu spät. Dustin: \"Neben mir ist ein Mädchen gestorben.\" Es sei einfach erdrückt worden. Ein weiteres Mädchen habe neben ihm gelegen und sei schon blau angelaufen gewesen. Mit Mund-zu-Mund-Beatmung habe er sie wiederbeleben können. \"Auf mir lagen noch zwei Menschen.\" Teilweise seien fünf bis sechs Personen übereinandergeschoben worden. Schließlich hätten ihn Rettungssanitäter herausgezogen. Es sei so eng gewesen, dass seine Schuhe zwischen den Menschen steckenblieben: \"Ich hatte schon mit dem Leben abgeschlossen. Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass ich noch Luft bekomme.\"\nMann im WDR-Interview: \"Es hat sich alles wie in einem Hexenkessel gestaut. Es kamen immer weiter Leute von hinten. Und irgendwann fangen die Leute dann an, umzukippen. Ein paar sind die Treppe hochgegangen, ein paar den Mast hochgeklettert.\" Gemeint sind eine Nottreppe und ein Lautsprechergerüst, die von unten auf das Gelände führen. \"Ich hab nur gesehen, dass ich mit meiner Freundin oben bleibe, weil ich wusste: Wenn ich einmal am Boden liege, dann werden die Leute über uns drübertrampeln. Dann sind wir alle umgefallen, ich halb mit runter, meine Beine waren beide eingequetscht.\" Zum Glück habe ihm jemand hochgeholfen, \"dann sind wir wie durch Glück aus der Masse rausgetrieben worden. (...) Dann hab ich allen gesagt: Geht wieder zurück, die Leute sterben da vorne.\" Als er die Polizisten gewarnt habe, habe er gehört: \"Willst Du das hier organisieren?\" Jetzt bewege er sich von seinem sicheren Ort nicht weg, sitze da, eine halbe Stunde, eine Stunde, vielleicht länger, und wolle nicht mehr weitergehen. Er fürchte, dass so etwas wieder passiere.\nGespräch mit der Nachrichtenagentur dpa: \"Als die Polizei das Gelände abriegeln wollte, wurden wir brutal nach vorne gedrückt, die Leute vorne bekamen keine Luft mehr.\" Die Stimmung sei zunächst gar nicht aggressiv gewesen. \"Die wollten doch alle nur Spaß. (...) Dann haben alle geweint, ich habe geweint. Ich habe noch nie gesehen, wie ein Mensch gestorben ist.\"\nStimmen auf dem Internet-Portal DerWesten - Mario: \"Es waren Tausende Menschen im Tunnel. Viel zu viele auf jeden Fall. Die Leute sind reihenweise umgefallen. Und die Polizei hat von beiden Seiten immer mehr Leute in den Tunnel geschickt\". Stefan: \"Wer umgefallen ist, wurde direkt niedergetrampelt.\" Die Sanitäter seien erst nicht durchgekommen. Rebecca: \"Dann ist ein Rettungswagen durch die Menge gefahren, aber dadurch wurden alle noch mehr zusammengedrängt. Alle waren total hysterisch.\"\nForumseintrag auf einslive.de: \"Wir sind etwa eine halbe Stunde vor der Panik durch diesen Tunnel gelaufen. Es war tierisch voll. Die einen wollten rein, die anderen raus. Also Gegenverkehr und großes Geschubse. Das war das große Problem. Die Polizei stand dabei und hat nur geschaut. (...) Nun, es hört sich jetzt vielleicht klugscheißerisch an, aber irgendwie konnte man es doch vorhersehen. Nur ein Eingang zum Gelände. Und es passten nicht alle drauf, die auch gerne wollten.\"\nForumseintrag auf einslive.de: \"Ich war in dem Tunnel. Plötzlich kam eine Frau zu uns und sagte wir sollen gehen, vorne fingen Massenschlägereien an. Die Menschen wurden über Traversen auf die Brücke geschleust, über Container hochgeschoben, bevor alles passiert ist. (...) Uns kamen auf den Rückweg noch mindestens tausend Menschen entgegen. Warum haben die Veranstalter nur einen Eingang gehabt?\"", "url": "http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,710758,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100815113327/http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,710758,00.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "\"Ein Aufstand gegen die Schöpfung\"", "text": "Der Salzburger Weihbischof Andreas Laun verhöhnt die Opfer der Katastrophe von Duisburg - als er in einem Internet-Kommentar die theologische Frage nach einem \"strafenden Gott\" behandelt. Heftige Reaktionen folgten prompt.\nManche Vergleiche gehen immer schief. Eine dieser Fallgruben ist das Dritte Reich. Und obwohl schon jeder C-Promi von seinem Medienberater beigebracht bekommt, nie, nie, nie etwas oder jemanden mit Hitler zu vergleichen - von Justizministerinnen bis hin zu Fußballmoderatorinnen plumpsen öffentliche Figuren gleich serienmäßig in die Falle.\nBild vergrößern Wollte einiges klarstellen, sorgte aber eher für Missverständnisse: Der Salzburger Weihbischof Andreas Laun. (© Getty Images)\nSeit der Massenpanik auf der Loveparade gibt es ein weiteres heikles Gleichnis: Die Ruhrpott-Stadt Duisburg wird in die Nähe der alttestamentarischen Städte Sodom und Gomhorra gerückt, die tragische Katastrophe mit einer Strafe Gottes übersetzt. Die erste Lautsprecherin, die in diese Falle tappte, war die Ex-Tagesschau-Moderatorin Eva Herman. Sie schrieb im Zusammenhang mit den Loveparade-Opfern: \"Eventuell haben hier ja auch ganz andere Mächte mit eingegriffen, um dem schamlosen Treiben endlich ein Ende zu setzen.\"\n\"Abstoßendes Erscheinungsbild\"\nANZEIGE\nNun der nächste Fall. Der Salzburger Weihbischof Andreas Laun schreibt eine regelmäßige Kolumne für das Internetportal Kath.net , sie trägt den Titel \"Klartext\". Sein Text vom Freitag sollte das Thema des \"strafenden Gottes\" behandeln. Laun hängte seine theologische Betrachtung an der Loveparade auf, was zu zu Missverständnissen einlud. \"Das Mitleid mit den Opfern ist eine Sache\", schrieb der Weihbischof. Eine andere sei die Feststellung, dass die Loveparade und die Teilnahme an ihr \"abgesehen vom abstoßenden Erscheinungsbild objektiv eine Art Aufstand gegen die Schöpfung und gegen die Ordnung Gottes\" sind, ja gar \"Sünde und Einladung zur Sünde!\"\nDass Gott die Katastrophe schickte, um die Teilnehmer zu bestrafen, meinte der Weihbischof ausdrücklich nicht, wie er später klarstellte. Der Satz \"Man weigert sich anzuerkennen, dass die Loveparade (...) auch mit Sünde zu tun haben könnte und darum, folgerichtig, auch mit dem richtenden und strafenden Gott\" deutete einen Kausalzusammenhang zwischen der Lebensführung der Loveparade-Teilnehmer und der Katastrophe zumindest an.\nDie Reaktionen waren heftig. Ein User erkannte ganz richtig, dass \"im Internet-Zeitalter ein Text, der in einem katholischen Nachrichtenportal veröffentlicht wird, in Sekundenschnelle um die ganze Welt gehen kann\". Und so fragten einige, weshalb Gott die Loveparade-Teilnehmer bestraft hat: \"Wofür? Für die Skandale der katholischen Kirche in der letzten Zeit?\". Andere gingen ins theologische Detail und wiesen darauf hin, dass \"Gottes Gericht erst am Jüngsten Tage, nicht auf einer Loveparade\" kommt.\nDie Klarstellung der Klarstellung\nSo sah sich Laun gezwungen, Samstagnacht eine \"Klarstellung zur Klarstellung\" hinterher zu schieben. Es stehe \"keinem Menschen zu, über die Toten zu urteilen und darüber hinaus zu behaupten, ihr Tod sei eine - natürlich gerechte - 'Strafe Gottes' für die Sündigkeit der Love-Parade\", so Laun. Die Opfer verhöhnte er dennoch: Ihr Erscheinungsbild sei \"krankhaft\", die Parade \"dürfe nicht schöngeredet werden als 'harmloses Feiern' netter junger Menschen!\"\nBildstrecke zum Thema\nAußerdem schickte Laun noch eine Warnung an seine Kritiker: \"Seid vorsichtig\", so schloss der Weihbischoff sein Traktat, \"euer Spott könnte auch die Muslime treffen\". Die glauben zwar anders, aber auch an einen strafenden Gott, so Laun - und könnten \"auf Euren Angriff vielleicht anders reagieren als ich es tue!\". Auch dies ein recht unklarer Teil des \"Klartextes\". Und auch dies ein Vergleich, der leicht schiefgehen kann.\n(mob)", "url": "http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/loveparade-katastrophe-salzburger-weihbischof-verhoehnt-loveparade-opfer-1.985708", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100818053905/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/loveparade-katastrophe-salzburger-weihbischof-verhoehnt-loveparade-opfer-1.985708" } ]

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[ { "language": "en", "title": "Eclipses During 2010", "text": "Eclipses During 2010\nFred Espenak\nTo Be Published in Observer's Handbook 2010, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada\nDuring the year 2010, two solar and two lunar eclipses occur as follows:\nPredictions for the eclipses are summarized in Figures 1 through 4. World maps show the regions of visibility for each eclipse. The lunar eclipse diagrams also include the path of the Moon through Earth's shadows. Contact times for each principal phase are tabulated along with the magnitudes and geocentric coordinates of the Sun and Moon at greatest eclipse.\nAll times and dates used in this publication are in Universal Time or UT. This astronomically derived time system is colloquially referred to as Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. To learn more about UT and how to convert UT to your own local time, see Time Zones and Universal Time.\nUnder Construction", "url": "http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2010.html#LE2010Dec21T", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080323034540/http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2010.html#LE2010Dec21T" } ]

[ "Themenportal Politik", "Themenportal Europäische Union", "Themenportal Malta", "Themenportal Zypern", "Politik in der Europäischen Union", "Geldpolitik", "Euro" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "EU-Gipfel: Malta und Zypern kommen 2008 in die Euro-Zone", "text": "NACHRICHTEN\nEU-Gipfel: Malta und Zypern kommen 2008 in die Euro-Zone\nDie EU-Staats- und Regierungschefs haben der Euro-Einführung in Malta und Zypern zum Januar 2008 zugestimmt. Die Teilnehmer des Gipfeltreffens in Brüssel beglückwünschten die beiden Mittelmeerinseln zur Erfüllung der Maastrichter Stabilitätskriterien. Die EU-Finanzminister müssen nun im Juli die endgültigen Umtauschkurse für das zyprische Pfund und die maltesische Lira festlegen. Angesichts des anhaltenden Streits über die Reform des Verfassungsvertrages hatte die amtierende Ratspräsidentin, Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, zu Beginn der Konferenz noch einmal an die Kompromissbereitschaft der 27 Staats- und Regierungschefs appelliert. Die Bevölkerung in Europa erwarte, dass alles dran gesetzt werde, um in Brüssel zu einer Einigung zu kommen. Im Vorfeld legten sowohl die Kritiker als auch die Befürworter noch einmal ihre Positionen dar. Polen verlangt weiter einen Abstimmungsmodus, der den kleineren Mitgliedsländern mehr Gewicht verleiht. Großbritannien hat Vorbehalte gegen die Grundrechte-Charta und einen EU-Außenminister. Die Niederlande wollen die nationalen Parlamente aufgewertet sehen. Vertreter der 18 Länder, die den alten Verfassungsentwurf gebilligt hatten, forderten, dass die neue Vorlage nicht zu sehr aufgeweicht werden dürfe.", "url": "http://www.dradio.de/nachrichten/2007062119/1/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080220234310/http://www.dradio.de/nachrichten/2007062119/1/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Währungsunion: Malta und Zypern erhalten den Euro", "text": "21. Juni 2007\nAuf der Mittelmeerinsel Malta und im Südteil Zyperns ist vom 1. Januar 2008 der Euro die offizielle Währung. Die Staats- und Regierungschefs der Europäischen Union machten am Donnerstag beim Gipfeltreffen in Brüssel den Weg für den Beitritt der beiden EU-Staaten zur Europäischen Währungsunion frei, wie der deutsche EU-Vorsitz bestätigte.\nMit Malta und Zypern haben dann 15 der 27 EU-Staaten die Gemeinschaftswährung. Als erstes der zehn EU-Staaten, die 2004 der Gemeinschaft beigetreten waren, hatte Slowenien zum Jahreswechsel 2006/07 den Euro eingeführt. In Malta ersetzt der Euro die Lira, in Zypern das Pfund. Nach Ansicht der Staats- und Regierungschefs erfüllen beide Staaten die Kriterien zur Euro-Einführung. Dazu zählen unter anderem Obergrenzen für das Haushaltsdefizit und niedrige Inflationsraten.\nGegen Malta hatten die europäischen Finanzminister erst vor gut zwei Wochen ein Defizitverfahren eingestellt. Die europäischen Finanzminister müssen den Beschluss der Staats- und Regierungschefs noch am 10. Juli formal bestätigen. Dann werden auch die Umstellungskurse festgelegt.", "url": "http://www.faz.net/s/Rub050436A85B3A4C64819D7E1B05B60928/Doc~E6E3A9F070D4F43CD92626E2905C9AB90~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070826131546/http://www.faz.net/s/Rub050436A85B3A4C64819D7E1B05B60928/Doc~E6E3A9F070D4F43CD92626E2905C9AB90~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html" } ]

[ "Copa Mundial de Rugby 2007", "Rugby", "Deportes", "Francia", "Unión Europea", "Georgia", "Europa", "Asia" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "El cuadro definitivo de los cuartos de final", "text": "El cuadro definitivo de los cuartos de final (Rugby News Service) Domingo 30 de septiembre de 2007\nPor Karen Bond\nImprimir Enviar\nClement Poitrenaud sigue en la pelea por el premio más buscado: la Copa Webb Ellis\nPARÍS, 30 de septiembre – Solo quedan ocho equipos en la lista de los candidatos a levantar la Copa William Webb Ellis tras los cruces ya definidos este domingo para los cuartos de final de esta IRB Copa Mundial de Rugby.\nLos ex campeones Sudáfrica, Australia y Nueva Zelanda ya tenían confirmada su plaza como primeros de las Zonas A, B y C cuando todavía le faltaba a cada uno disputar un encuentro.\nAustralia, la única nación bicampeona del mundo, se enfrentará al segundo de la Zona A que resultó ser Inglaterra, en el primer enfrentamiento a jugar en El Velódromo de Marsella el próximo sábado, 6 de octubre a las 15:00h (hora francesa). Este cruce de cuartos de final se definió tras el triunfo conseguido por el XV de la Rosa ante Tonga por 36-20 en París.\nLos Springboks, campeones en Sudáfrica en 1995, tendrán que disputar su cuarto de final en tierra no conocida para ellos hasta ahora. En Marsella, el domingo 7 jugarán ante la selección de Fiji, contra quienes nunca se enfrentaron en RWC.\nLa única confrontación de esta segunda fase que tendrá lugar fuera de Francia, será la que verá a ésta enfrentarse con los ganadores de la zona C, Nueva Zelanda, que siempre llegó como mínimo en semifinales en cada RWC. Será en Gales, en el Millennium Stadium de Cardiff el sábado 6 de octubre.\nFrancia esperaba ganar su zona, pero se les complicó tras el primer paso en falso ante Los Pumas en el partido inaugural de la RWC 2007. Y a pesar de vencer en los tres encuentros siguientes, se perdieron el lujo de jugar en su propia casa la eliminatoria de cuartos de final.\nEl último encuentro tendrá lugar en el Stade de France de Saint-Denis donde los vencedores de la zona D, Argentina, enfrentarán a Escocia, los segundos de la zona C, a las 21:00h (hora francesa) del 7 de septiembre.\nLos Pumas, imbatidos en esta RWC 2007, se medirán con Escocia por primera vez en la historia de la RWC. Después de la ajustada victoria ante los Azzurri ayer sábado por 18-16, los escoceses consiguieron mantener su récord de alcanzar siempre el pasaje de primera fase en RWC.\nTonga, Gales e Italia al igual que a Irlanda, se pierden los cuartos de final pero al menos les queda el consuelo de haber clasificado automáticamente para la siguiente RWC 2011 de Nueva Zelanda (por terminar terceros de grupo).\nRNS kb/gs/agf/dgr", "url": "http://es.rugbyworldcup.com/home/news/newsid=2014947.html#el+cuadro+definitivo+cuartos+final", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071019045538/http://es.rugbyworldcup.com/home/news/newsid=2014947.html#el+cuadro+definitivo+cuartos+final" } ]

[ "Społeczeństwo", "Świat" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Słynna dziennikarka i laureat World Press Photo zabici w Hims", "text": "\"Nieustraszona\" Colvin, \"wielka strata\"\nHims pod ostrzałem reżimu\nW tym samym ataku rannych zostało jeszcze kilkanaście innych osób, w tym troje lub czworo dziennikarzy. - Pociski spadły na prowizoryczną bazę zajmowaną przez zachodnich korespondentów - podaje brytyjski \"Daily Telegraph\".W sieci pojawiło się już kilka drastycznych nagrań z miejsca tragedii. Widać na nich ruiny budynku i leżące wśród gruzów ciała.Zarówno syryjscy obrońcy praw człowieka jak i zagraniczni komentatorzy i eksperci uważają, że atak sił reżimu na prowizoryczne centrum prasowe dziennikarzy był zamierzonym działaniem. Rząd syryjski tymczasem utrzymuje, że to nieprawda - jeden z jego przedstawicieli oświadczył, że rząd nie wiedział nawet, że jacyś zachodni dziennikarze przekroczyli granicę Syrii.I Colvin i Ochlik byli weteranami na Bliskim Wschodzie. 28-letni Remi Ochlik - znany francuski fotoreporter - aktualnie współpracował z \"New York Timesem\". Był laureatem ostatniego World Press Photo za zdjęcia libijskich rewolucjonistów.55-letnia Marie Colvin była doświadczoną amerykańską dziennikarką, która pracowała jako korespondentka wojenna m.in. dla brytyjskiego tygodnika \"Sunday Times\". Reuters opisuje ją jako \"nieustraszoną reporterkę\". I przypomina, jak straciła oko w 2001 roku, kiedy na Sri Lance trafił ją odłamek ze szrapnela. Colvin nie przerwała wtedy pracy , pojawiała się publicznie z czarną opaską na twarzy. Ostatnia nadana przez nią relacja pochodzi zaledwie z wczoraj. Colvin nagrała ją właśnie z Hims dla BBC: \"Widziałam dziś, jak ginie dziecko\". Jej reportaż połączony jest ze wstrząsającymi zdjęciami z prowizorycznych punktów medycznych, w których z powodu fatalnych warunków sanitarnych i braku odpowiedniego sprzętu umierają mieszkańcy miasta.Światowe media piszą o wielkiej stracie dla dziennikarskiego świata. Zewsząd płyną kondolencje. Brak Colvin i Ochlika ma być odczuwalny tym bardziej, że w ostatni czwartek w Syrii zmarł inny uznany korespondent z regionu - Anthony Shadid. Shadid był również pracownikiem \"New York Timesa\" i dwukrotnym laureatem nagrody Pulitzera (przyczyną jego śmierci był atak astmy).Właśnie na Hims, trzecim co do wielkości mieście kraju, koncentrują się w ostatnich tygodniach ataki sił rządowych. 3 lutego wojsko wierne prezydentowi Baszarowi el-Asadowi rozpoczęło ofensywę na miasto.Syryjskie Obserwatorium Praw Człowieka alarmuje, że od wybuchu antyreżimowej rewolty w marcu 2011 roku zginęło w Syrii ponad 7,6 tys. ludzi. Wśród nich jest około 5540 cywilów, prawie 1700 żołnierzy i członków służb bezpieczeństwa i blisko 400 dezerterów.", "url": "http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114881,11204699,Syria__dwojka_zagranicznych_korespondentow_zginela.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120223174144/http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114881,11204699,Syria__dwojka_zagranicznych_korespondentow_zginela.html" }, { "language": "pl", "title": "Remi Ochlik i Marie Colvin zginęli od ostrzału artyleryjskiego w Hims", "text": "Dwoje zachodnich dziennikarzy zginęło w środę w mieście Hims, na zachodzie Syrii, gdzie ataki sił rządowych dosięgły centrum prasowego przeciwników reżimu w dzielnicy Baba Amro - poinformowali syryjscy działacze praw człowieka. Według agencji Reutera, która powołuje się na syryjskie źródła opozycyjne, zabici dziennikarze to Amerykanka Marie Colvin, pracująca dla brytyjskiego \"Sunday Timesa\" i francuski fotoreporter Remi Ochlik. Oboje byli doświadczonymi korespondentami wojennymi.\nPonadto trzech albo czterech innych zagranicznych dziennikarzy zostało rannych. Właśnie na Hims, trzecim co do wielkości mieście kraju, koncentrują się w ostatnich tygodniach ataki sił rządowych. 3 lutego wojsko wierne prezydentowi Baszarowi el-Asadowi rozpoczęło ofensywę na miasto, w wyniku której zginęło kilkaset osób.\nPonadto obrońcy praw człowieka poinformowali, że żołnierze i członkowie milicji lojalnych wobec Asada schwytali, a następnie zastrzelili 27 młodych mężczyzn w trzech wioskach na północy Syrii. Mężczyźni, wyłącznie cywile, zginęli we wtorek wieczorem od strzałów w głowę lub klatkę piersiową we własnych domach lub na ulicach. Do ataków doszło we wsiach Idita, Iblin i Balszon w prowincji Idlib, graniczącej z Turcją.\nOrganizacja Syryjska Sieć na rzecz Praw Człowieka podała w oświadczeniu, że siły Asada tropiły cywilów w tych wioskach, po czym ich aresztowały i bez wahania zabijały. Zabijany był każdy, kto nie zdołał uciec - poinformowano. Obrońcy praw człowieka podali, że tylko jeden młody mężczyzna przeżył masakrę, za którą odpowiedzialność ponosi zwierzchnik sił zbrojnych Baszar el-Asad.\nW środę Syryjskie Obserwatorium Praw Człowieka poinformowało, że od wybuchu antyreżimowej rewolty w marcu 2011 roku zginęło w Syrii ponad 7,6 tys. ludzi. Wśród nich jest około 5540 cywilów, prawie 1700 żołnierzy i członków służb bezpieczeństwa i blisko 400 dezerterów - sprecyzował szef Obserwatorium, Rami Abdel Rahman.", "url": "http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/swiat/artykuly/380345,remi-ochlik-i-marie-colvin-zgineli-od-ostrzalu-artyleryjskiego-w-hims.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120302055839/http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/swiat/artykuly/380345,remi-ochlik-i-marie-colvin-zgineli-od-ostrzalu-artyleryjskiego-w-hims.html" }, { "language": "pl", "title": "Paryż potwierdza śmierć dziennikarzy w Syrii", "text": "Zniszczony dom w dzielnicy Baba Amr Foto: Fot. PAP/EPA/LOCAL COORDINATION COMMITTES\nCo najmniej 21 osób zginęło, a około 340 zostało rannych w wyniku ostrzału artyleryjskiego dzielnicy Baba Amro w zbuntowanym mieście Hims, na zachodzie Syrii - poinformowali obrońcy praw człowieka.\nPoprzedni bilans mówił o 12 zabitych i około 100 rannych.\nDzielnica znajduje się pod kontrolą opozycji walczącej z reżimem Baszara el-Asada. Według świadków opozycyjna Wolna Armia Syryjska broni tej części miasta przed wojskiem.\n- Rano armia (prezydenta Baszara el-Asada - PAP) odpowiedziała ostrzałem z dział kalibru 130 mm - powiedział jeden z obrońców praw człowieka Nader al-Husejni.\nOdnaleziono 21 ciał; wiele wydobywano spod gruzów. - Inne nadal są pogrzebane - poinformował inny działacz, cytowany przez agencję Reutera.\nMasowe ucieczki\nSyryjskie Obserwatorium Praw Człowieka poinformowało, że na Baba Amro od wtorkowego poranka spadło co najmniej 250 pocisków i rakiet.\nOcenia się, że z Baba Amro uciekło 60 proc. ze 100 tysięcy mieszkańców dzielnicy. Obserwatorium poinformowało, że pod ostrzałem znalazły się też dwie inne dzielnice miasta, Chalidija i Karm el-Zejtun.\nWłaśnie na Hims, trzecim co do wielkości mieście kraju, koncentrują się w ostatnich dwóch tygodniach ataki sił rządowych. 3 lutego wojsko wierne Asadowi rozpoczęło ofensywę na miasto, w wyniku której zginęło kilkaset osób. Źródła w opozycji twierdzą, że czołgi znajdują się już w sąsiadującej z Baba Amro dzielnicy Inszaat. Według Obserwatorium ponad 50 pojazdów opancerzonych kieruje się z Damaszku do Hims.\nZobacz galerię: DZIEŃ NA ZDJĘCIACH >>>\nMija blisko rok, od kiedy w Syrii rozpoczęły się demonstracje przeciwko reżimowi prezydenta Asada. Początkowo pokojowe wystąpienia, brutalnie tłumione przez władze, przerodziły się w opór zbrojny. Przeciwko Asadowi zwrócili się dezerterzy z armii, którzy utworzyli Wolną Armię Syryjską, walczącą z siłami rządowymi.\nWedług obrońców praw człowieka konflikt pochłonął już około 7 tys. ofiar.\nOdpowiedzialność za rozlew krwi większość światowej opinii publicznej przypisuje głównie władzom w Damaszku. Ostatni styczniowy bilans ONZ mówił o 5,4 tys. zabitych. Od tego czasu ONZ nie aktualizuje liczby ofiar, ponieważ trudno jest zweryfikować nadchodzące doniesienia o zabitych.\nWładze syryjskie twierdzą z kolei, że \"terroryści\" chcą podzielić kraj. Rząd twierdzi, iż zbuntowana ludność i wspierający ją żołnierze są świetnie uzbrojeni i posiadają m.in. broń izraelską.\nsg, mr", "url": "http://www.polskieradio.pl/5/3/Artykul/545508,Laureat-World-Press-Photo-i-dziennikarka-ST-zabici-w-Syrii", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160311103510/http://www.polskieradio.pl/5/3/Artykul/545508,Laureat-World-Press-Photo-i-dziennikarka-ST-zabici-w-Syrii" } ]

[ "Themenportal Recht", "Themenportal Deutschland", "Recht in Berlin", "Ermittlungsverfahren", "Straftat allg.", "Mord", "Drogenmissbrauch", "Leichenfund" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Toter Tätowierer über Berlin verteilt: Zerstückelte Leiche identifiziert", "text": "Panorama\nToter Tätowierer über Berlin verteilt: Zerstückelte Leiche identifiziert\nDer Fund einer zerstückelten Leiche an verschiedenen Orten in Berlin beschäftigt seit Tagen die Polizei. Ein paar Tage, nachdem Teile einer tätowierten männlichen Leiche in der Spree auftauchten, fanden Spaziergänger in einer Parkanlage auch den abgetrennten Kopf des Mannes. Der Kopf befand sich in einem Müllsack, wie der Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft sagte.\nDie Identität des Mannes steht inzwischen fest. Ein österreichischer Freund erkannte ihn anhand eines Tattoos. Laut Staatsanwalt war der Getötete ein 31 Jahre alter Tätowierer und stammte aus Österreich.\nWährend der Kopf am Dienstag im Stadtteil Reinickendorf gefunden wurde, war der Rumpf der zerstückelten Leiche am vergangenen Donnerstag im weit entfernten Stadtteil Schöneweide entdeckt worden. Teile der Leiche, die am Sonntag entdeckt worden waren, befanden sich in schwarzen Rollkoffern. Wahrscheinlich wurde der 31-Jährige, der ein halbes Jahr in Berlin-Pankow lebte, Anfang vergangener Woche ermordet. Wie und warum der Mann zerstückelt wurde, ist unklar.\ndpa", "url": "http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Zerstueckelte-Leiche-identifiziert-article3802201.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110715001118/http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Zerstueckelte-Leiche-identifiziert-article3802201.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Berlin: Rätselhafter Kriminalfall – Kopf von Mordopfer im Park entdeckt", "text": "Die ersten Leichenteile wurden in der vergangenen Woche aus der Spree geborgen - jetzt hat die Berliner Polizei einen weiteren grausigen Fund gemacht: In eine Mülltüte gewickelt lag der Kopf des mutmaßlichen Mordopfers in einem Park.\nDer Fund einer zerstückelten Leiche an verschiedenen Orten in Berlin beschäftigt derzeit die Polizei. Ein paar Tage, nachdem Leichenteile einer wohl ermordeten männlichen Person in der Spree aufgetaucht waren, haben Spaziergänger nun in einer Parkanlage auch den abgetrennten Kopf des Mannes gefunden, wie ein Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft mitteilte.\nBei dem mutmaßlichen Mordopfer soll es sich um einen Tätowierer aus Österreich handeln. (© dpa)\nAm Montag war der Tote identifiziert worden. Ein Freund hatte den Mann anhand eines Tattoos erkannt. Laut Staatsanwalt handelt es sich um den 31-jährigen Raoul S. aus Österreich. Der Tätowierer hatte das letzte halbe Jahr in Pankow gelebt - und wurde wahrscheinlich vor etwa zehn Tagen getötet.\n\"Eindeutige Hinweise auf ein Gewaltverbrechen\"\nZunächst war am vergangenen Donnerstag in Schöneweide in Höhe der Tabbertstraße aus der Spree der Rumpf einer zerstückelten Leiche geborgen worden. Weitere Körperteile tauchten am Sonntag an gleicher Stelle auf. Sie waren jeweils in schwarzen Rollkoffern verpackt.\nAm Dienstag fanden dann zwei Frauen den Kopf des 31-Jährigen in einer Reinickendorfer Parkanlage. Er war in eine Mülltüte gewickelt. Der jüngste Fundort ist etwa 15 Kilometer von den anderen Fundstellen entfernt.\n\"Es gibt eindeutige Hinweise auf ein Gewaltverbrechen\", sagte ein Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft. Das habe die Obduktion ergeben. Wie und warum der Mann zerstückelt wurde, ist bislang noch unklar: Es werde unter anderem in der Tattoo-Szene und im privaten Umfeld ermittelt, teilte der Sprecher mit.\nMedienberichten zufolge arbeitete S. als Tätowierer in mehreren Berliner Studios. Zeugen beschrieben ihn gegenüber der Zeitung B.Z. als nett, ruhig, aber ein bisschen seltsam. Auch von Alkohol- und Drogenproblemen ist in dem Bericht die Rede.\nBei den Ermittlungen hofft die Polizei auch auf Hinweise aus der Bevölkerung. Zwölf Hinweise waren bis Mittwochmittag bei der Polizei eingegangen. \"Bislang gibt es keine heiße Spur\", hieß es von Seiten der Staatsanwaltschaft.\n(dpa/dapd/jobr/gal)", "url": "http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/berlin-raetselhafter-kriminalfall-kopf-von-mordopfer-im-park-entdeckt-1.1119779", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110716070409/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/berlin-raetselhafter-kriminalfall-kopf-von-mordopfer-im-park-entdeckt-1.1119779" } ]

[ "Europe", "European Union", "Austria", "Belgium", "Bulgaria", "France", "Italy", "Romania", "United Kingdom", "Politics and conflicts", "Elections", "European Parliament", "Martin Schulz", "Romani people" ]

[ { "language": "nl", "title": "De Standaard Online", "text": "Uiterst rechtse fractie in Europees Parlement ontbonden\nBRUSSEL - De uiterst rechtse fractie in het Europese Parlement bestaat niet meer. Dat heeft de leiding van het halfrond woensdagmiddag officieel bekendgemaakt. De fractie, waartoe de drie leden van het Vlaams Belang behoorden, beschikte na het vertrek van de vijf verkozenen van de partij Groot Roemenië niet langer over voldoende leden.\nDe vijf Roemeense Europarlementsleden verlieten de groep als gevolg van de 'anti-Roemeense' uitlatingen van hun fractiegenote Alessandra Mussolini. Daardoor telt de groep nog slechts 18 verkozenen. Het reglement van het Europese Parlement bepaalt dat een fractie minstens 20 leden moet tellen.De fractie Identiteit, Traditie, Soevereniteit werd begin dit jaar op de been gebracht. Ook voordien waren er aan uiterst rechtse zijde van het Europese halfrond reeds pogingen tot frontvorming geweest, maar de doorbraak kwam er pas na de toetreding van Bulgarije en Roemenië tot de Europese Unie.Elf maanden later zijn het uitgerekend de Roemenen die de fractie ten grave dragen. De concrete aanleiding voor hun vertrek was een tirade van Mussolini, de kleindochter van de fascistische leider Benito Mussolini. In de nasleep van de moord op een Italiaanse vrouw in Rome opperde ze in een Roemeens blad dat Roemenen 'van de wet overtreden een levenswijze hebben gemaakt'.De fractie ging echter sowieso onzekere tijden tegemoet. Later deze maand vinden in Roemenië Europese verkiezingen plaats en Groter Roemenië, dat reeds een herpositionering in het politieke landschap overwoog, deed het niet al te best in de peilingen.Tot de groep behoorden, naast het Vlaams Belang, ook het Franse Front National, het Roemeense Groter Roemenië, het Bulgaarse Ataka, het Oostenrijkse FPO en enkele Britse en Italiaanse leden. Deze Europarlementsleden worden opnieuw 'niet-ingeschreven' leden.Dat betekent in concreto dat ze veel minder aanspraak kunnen maken op spreektijd, geen amendementen meer kunnen indienen in de plenaire vergaderingen en voor het onderlinge overleg geen beroep meer kunnen doen op de tolkdiensten. Ook de financiële werkingstoelages vanwege het parlement worden gekortwiekt en de groep kan niet langer aanspraak maken op fondsen van het parlement om bijeenkomsten buiten Brussel en Straatsburg te organiseren.\ndsl\nNIEUWSOVERZICHT", "url": "http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF14112007_063", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071115113419/http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=DMF14112007_063" }, { "language": "en", "title": "EUobserver.com", "text": "To access premium content in the EUobserver you need to purchase Pay Per View credits. If you have purchased credits before, please click here to login.\nYou pay 1 credit = 0.5 euro to view one normal news article. Credits can be stored for later use.\nSpecial reports provided on the EUobserver.com site may cost more. The exact price is specified on the report.\nMEPs welcome fall of far-right group is 1 credit.\nPlease enter the amount of Pay Per View credits you want to buy.\ncredit(s)\nYou will now be directed to our payment partner Worldpay.com's secure server to fill in your credit card details.\nIf you require an invoice and would like to pay by cheque or bank transaction, please contact: sales@euobs.com\nIf you want to read our privacy policy click here.\nRefunds will be made at the discretion of the EUobserver.com ASBL management.", "url": "http://euobserver.com/9/25148", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071228152821/http://euobserver.com/9/25148" }, { "language": "en", "title": "European far-right bloc collapses", "text": "Remarks by Ms Mussolini angered the Romanian delegation\nItalian MEP Alessandra Mussolini, the grand-daughter of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, reportedly described Romanians as \"habitual law-breakers\".\nItaly recently expelled 20 Romanians following a spate of violent crimes.\nThe resignations take the bloc's membership below the minimum required for a grouping in the parliament.\nThe European parliament only grants official status to political groups that can claim a minimum of 20 members from at least five countries.\nThe withdrawal of the Romanian MEPs leaves the far-right bloc - known as Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) - with 18 members, effectively disqualifying it.\nITS was created in January, after the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU boosted the number of far-right MEPs in the European parliament.\nAnti-Roma platform\nThe row erupted last week when the Greater Romania party MEPs accused Ms Mussolini of insulting Romanians, citing a newspaper interview she had given in which she said \"breaking the law has become a way of life for Romanians\".\nThe ITS group united far-right MEPs from across Europe\nA statement from the Greater Romania party MEPs, circulated by e-mail in the European parliament shortly after, said the party could have no further dealings with Ms Mussolini.\nThe Greater Romania party has itself campaigned on a fiercely nationalistic, anti-Roma platform.\nThe main groups in the European parliament have largely refused to co-operate with the ITS.\nThe announcement of the group's demise was reportedly greeted with applause when it was announced at the assembly in Strasbourg.\n\"This collection of unsavoury European politicians were united only by hatred - be it of other races, nationalities, sexualities or, ironically, the EU,\" British Green MEP Jean Lambert was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.\n\"It was only a matter of time before they succumbed to a hatred of each other as well.\"", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7094861.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160308010126/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7094861.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "European far-right group dissolved after \"xenophobic\" row", "text": "Brussels - The most right-wing group in the European Parliament was dissolved Wednesday after five Romanian legislators confirmed that they had quit in protest at remarks made by a fellow party member from Italy.\nThe Identity-Tradition-Sovereignty (ITS) group was formed in January, when the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU brought several new far-right MEPs into the parliament.\nThe departure of the MEPs from the Greater Romania party left ITS with just 18 members, two less than the minimum needed for an official presence in the parliament.\nThe five Romanians first announced that they would quit ITS on November 8, after Italian MEP Alessandra Mussolini - granddaughter of the Fascist dictator - accused Romanians in Italy of making 'lawbreaking a way of life.'\nHer words came amidst a heated debate in Italy over the alleged crimes committed by Romanian migrants - a debate sparked by the murder of an Italian woman, allegedly by a Romanian.\nITS was widely regarded as the most xenophobic and anti-EU group in the European parliament, uniting far-right parties such as France's National Front and Belgium's Vlaams Belang. Its dissolution deprives them of a voice as well as EU funds.\n© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur", "url": "http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1373687.php/European_far-right_group_dissolved_after_&quotxenophobic", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071119021915/http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1373687.php/European_far-right_group_dissolved_after_&quotxenophobic" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Far-right EU Parliament group dissolves", "text": "Far-right EU Parliament group dissolves\nBRUSSELS: A group of extreme-right members of the European Parliament was dissolved Wednesday after its outraged Romanian contingent walked out in an argument over racism.\nTen months after it was created amid much publicity, the group calling itself Identity, Tradition and Sovereignty was disbanded and stripped of the public financing provided by the European Parliament.\nThe collapse of the group was initiated by a bitter fight between the Romanian members of Parliament and Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the Italian Fascist leader of World War II and a member of the bloc.\nThe Greater Romania Party withdrew from the bloc to protest Mussolini's comments after the arrest of a Romanian suspected in the murder of the wife of an Italian naval officer. The crime led to an anti-Romanian outcry in Italy and calls for deportations.\nMussolini told the Romanian newspaper Cotidianul on Nov. 2 that law-breaking had become \"a way of life for Romanians going to Italy who cannot make a living by honest work.\" The crimes, she continued, were not petty infringements \"but abhorrent murders that chill the blood.\"\nDuring a vitriolic series of exchanges, the leader of the Romanian deputies in the European Parliament, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, said his party was unable to have any relationship with someone \"who dares to make such a sacrilege toward our people.\"\nAlluding to her grandfather, the Greater Romania party said that, while no one should be punished for the sins of their ancestors, Mussolini's behavior brought to mind the Romanian proverb: \"Those born of a cat eat mice.\"\nMussolini then accused the Romanians of insulting her family and declared that she could no longer sit with the group.\nAfter days of feuding it was announced Wednesday, to applause in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, that the group had dissolved because it no longer met the threshold for numbers of Parliament members. That followed a decision by Daniela Buruiana-Aprodu and Cristian Stanescu to follow the lead of three Romanian colleagues who had already announced that they were leaving the group.\nIdentity, Tradition and Sovereignty only became a reality after Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union on Jan. 1, 2007, and the five Romanian deputies signed up, as well as one Bulgarian member of Parliament.\nIts ranks included seven members of the French National Front, including its president Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter Marine, along with the five Romanian deputies, three Flemish nationalists from Belgium and two Italians.\nGraham Watson, leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, said the extreme-right group had become a \"casualty of their own philosophy which paints all foreigners into a single mold and encourages xenophobic and racist comments.\"\n\"The irony of a Mussolini destroying the coherence of a far-right group will not be lost on Europeans from Bucharest to Brindisi,\" Watson said.\nThe leader of the Socialist Group, Martin Schulz, said it was good news that the far right could no longer use \"the money of the European taxpayer to support its xenophobia and neofascism.\"\nUnder EU rules, at least 20 deputies from at least five European Union member states are needed to form a party grouping that provides access to official funds and greater speaking rights.\nThe spat has cost the extreme right a considerable sum of money. The grouping was expected to draw about €1.3 million, or $1.9 million, a year from the public purse.\nBut the group may have been doomed anyway because the Romanians, who face elections on Nov. 20, could lose all their seats unless they perform better than opinion polls suggest.\n\"It was well known that, if the Romanian far right loses the elections, the group would cease to exist,\" said Oana Popescu, foreign editor of Cotidianul. \"They may have tried to pre-empt that outcome in a more dignified way.\"\nEven at its inception, the far-right group in the European Parliament was in trouble after one of its members was force to disown a colleague for attacking the \"Jewish establishment\" and for accusing Roma parents of selling their daughters into prostitution.\nInternational Herald Tribune", "url": "http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/14/europe/union.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080216232404/http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/14/europe/union.php" } ]

[ "Guayaquil", "Sudamérica", "Política", "Rafael Correa" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Marchas a favor y en contra del Régimen marcan el Día del Trabajador en Ecuador", "text": "El Día del Trabajador en Ecuador transcurre en medio de marchas de simpatizantes del Gobierno, así como de grupos que se oponen a las políticas laborales. La capital centró la atención, pero las concentraciones también se realizaron en Guayaquil, Machala, Cuenca, Riobamba, Ambato, entre otros puntos del país.\nRafael Correa encabezó la concentración oficialista en Quito. El presidente se subió a una tarima en la Plaza de Santo Domingo, en el Centro Histórico, después de caminar junto a simpatizantes en una marcha organizada por el Régimen.\nEl mandatario bailó y cantó con artistas mientras esperaba que más seguidores arriben a ese punto.\nLea también: Marcha del Gobierno con miles de partidarios que llegaron de varias provincias\nPasadas las 11:40 Correa realizó una intervención para conmemorar la fecha. \"Somos el Gobierno de los trabajadores. Somos la revolución del trabajo\", dijo el mandatario, para luego recordar la matanza de los trabajadores en Chicago (EE.UU.) en 1886, así como de la matanza de los obreros en Guayaquil en 1922.\n\"La supremacía del ser humano sobre el capital, es lo que identifica a la revolución (...) El trabajo humano tiene un valor ético, no es objeto sino sujeto\", indicó Correa en su intervención.\n\"Aquí [en la marcha] están los servidores públicos con la ley más moderna y justa de la región (...) están nuestros deportistas que ya ven defendidos sus derechos (...) están nuestros artistas que saben cuánto hemos hecho por defender y rescatar nuestra cultura\", agregó el mandatario, mientras simpatizantes gritaban ‘reelección, reelección’.\nCorrea también aseguró que ahora el país tiene la tasa más baja de desempleo en su historia y que \"redujimos los porcentajes del trabajo infantil y nos acercamos a su erradicación\".\nAdemás, calificó de ‘absurdo’ el subsidio del Gobierno al Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS). \"No existe deuda con el IESS, compañeros\", dijo.\nInicio de la marchas\nLa marcha oficialista inició hacia las 09:00 en la av. Rodrigo de Chávez, en el sector de la Villaflora, punto en donde se congregaron desde temprano simpatizantes de Correa. La zona de concentración final fue la Plaza de Santo Domingo.\nEn contraparte, casi a la misma hora el Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (FUT) y sus centrales sindicales, la Unión Nacional de Educadores (UNE), Federación Unitaria del Seguro Social Campesino (Feunassc), gremios de jubilados, la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas (Conaie) y otras agrupaciones se reunieron en la Caja del Seguro para iniciar su marcha.\nLea también: Marcha de sindicatos congregó a familias con niños y mascotas, estudiantes e indígenas\nEstos grupos rechazan la nueva Ley para la Justicia Laboral que, según ellos, afecta sus derechos. El punto final de esta marcha es la Plaza San Francisco.\nEstas fueron las dos más grandes concentraciones que se realizaron en el país por el Día del Trabajo. La Policía Nacional destinó ocho mil agentes para vigilar la seguridad en las movilizaciones; dos mil en Quito. La circulación en el Centro Histórico fue restringida. (I)", "url": "http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827641/rafael-correa-baila-tarima-mientras-trabajadores-marchan", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150503214351/http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827641/rafael-correa-baila-tarima-mientras-trabajadores-marchan" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Oficialismo se concentró en la plataforma del MAAC en Guayaquil", "text": "En Guayaquil también se realizaron movilizaciones por el Dia del Trabajador. Simpatizantes de Alianza PAIS se reunieron desde las 09:00 en los bajos de su sede, en Gómez Rendón y Esmeraldas, para emprender una marcha que terminó en la plataforma del MAAC.\nPara esta concentración llegaron simpatizantes del régimen en buses traídos desde cantones vecinos, como Durán, Milagro y Yaguachi. En esta movilización se observó al Gobernador del Guayas, Rolando Panchana, así como al prefecto Jimmy Jairala, de Centro Democrático (CD).\nLos participantes llegaron al MAAC casi a las 11:00. En el sitio los esperaba un show musical con la presentación de artistas como Máximo Escaleras y Fabián Fariña.\nAdemás, Marcela Aguiñaga, vicepresidenta de la Asamblea Nacional y directora de AP Guayas, felicitó a los trabajadores y defendió la Ley Laboral.\nEn el lugar se instaló una pantalla para ver la intervención de Rafael Correa desde Quito.\nLa Comisión de Tránsito del Ecuador (CTE) utilizó un dron para registrar la movilización. Mientras que policías se ubicaron la av. 9 de Octubre, desde Pedro Carbo hasta Malecón, para evitar posibles enfrentamientos con grupos que marcharon contra las políticas laborales del régimen. (I)", "url": "http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827846/oficialismo-se-concentro-plataforma-maac-guayaquil", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150504040747/http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827846/oficialismo-se-concentro-plataforma-maac-guayaquil" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Marcha del Gobierno con miles de partidarios que llegaron de varias provincias", "text": "​Se congregaron desde las primeras horas de la mañana en el estadio de Chimbacalle, al sur de Quito mientras llegaban de diferentes provincias del país para participar en la marcha organizada por el Gobierno el presidente Rafael Correa.\nLos buses interprovinciales se ordenaron a los dos costados fuera de este centro deportivo; en su interior, les entregaban refrigerios y las respectivas banderas del Ecuador y del movimiento de Gobierno y listas 35.\nTodo estaba ordenado. Quienes recibían su refrigerio, de inmediato caminaban hasta el punto de concentración de la marcha, en la avenida Rodrigo de Chávez. Eran simpatizantes de diferentes sectores del país: El Carmen, Chone, San Vicente, en Manabí; también de Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, del Carchi; de Imbabura, de Esmeraldas.\nUnos no conocían la ruta y preguntaban más de una vez ¿dónde queda la plaza de Santo Domingo? Otros solo se guiaban por la marcha que decidió avanzar ante el anuncio de que el presidente Rafael Correa se unirá al recorrido en la calle Pedro de Alfaro, a pocos metros de la avenida Maldonado que fue la ruta aprobada por el Municipio de Quito.\nEl mandatario llegó a las 09:15 y junto con su vicepresidente Jorge Glas; la presidenta de la Asamblea Gabriela Rivadeneria; y, el ministro de Trabajo, Carlos Marx Carrasco, avanzaron en el recorrido que fue seguido por un helicóptero de la policía y varios drones que grababan videos desde el sector de La Colina.\n\"Somos del Seguro Social Campesino y venimos a apoyar a nuestro presidente\", señaló una mujer que con la bandera de Alianza PAIS, gritaba consignas a favor del régimen.\nTrabajadores del sector público también se unieron a esta manifestación. La más vistosa fue la de la Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones cuyos empleados portaron camisetas color celeste y globos.\nOtras organizaciones como la Junta Nacional del Artesano, de las trabajadoras sexuales, de la Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, marcharon pacíficamente hasta Santo Domingo, en donde el mandatario, sobre la tarima volvía a desacreditar a supuestos grupos de derecha y a la prensa nacional de intentar desestabilizar a su Gobierno.\nSu discurso por el día del trabajador estuvo cargado de anuncios electorales: \"Lo único que une a los eternos dirigentes laborales, indígenas sindicales, banqueros y Gutiérrez con la derecha reaccionaria es derrotar a la Revolución Ciudadana. Mejor estén unidos para derrotarlos nuevamente\", dijo.\nY ante los gritos de la multitud que coreaba reelección, el mandatario respondió: \"En lo personal lo que menos me interesa es la reelección solo me presentaría en caso extremo\". (I)", "url": "http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827831/marcha-gobierno-miles-partidarios-que-llegaron-varias-provincias", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150504110119/http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827831/marcha-gobierno-miles-partidarios-que-llegaron-varias-provincias" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Loja se dividió entre marchas de apoyo y oposición al Gobierno", "text": "Militantes de PAIS, cientos de empleados y funcionarios públicos, y simpatizantes del gobierno actual, desfilaron por las calles del centro de Loja gritando consignas a favor del régimen. Llegaron hasta la plaza de San Sebastián a escuchar los discursos de las autoridades locales y del presidente Rafael Correa, a quien se lo vió por medio de pantallas gigantes ubicadas en los extremos de la glorieta del lugar.\nEn ese escenario se escuchó a la gobernadora Johanna Ortíz, quien luego bailó junto a un grupo juvenil arrancando el aplauso de los presentes.\nLos alrededores de la plaza y las instituciones públicas fueron blindadas por decenas de policías que portaban equipo antimotines en prevención de posibles desmanes y para evitar el ingreso de manifestantes de otra marcha que a pocas cuadras desfilaba también por el centro de la urbe lojana.\nManifestantes opuestos al oficialismo portaron carteles y un monigote que representaba al presidente Rafael Correa. Ellos coparon alrededor de 15 cuadras en el trayecto programado por los organizadores, hasta llegar a la plaza central. Allí, frente a la gobernación de la provincia, quemaron el monigote y escucharon los discursos de los dirigentes indígenas y de varias organizaciones.\nA diferencia de la concentración de los oficialistas, cerca a la gonbernación, los discursos fluyeron de los dirigentes subidos en el balde de una camioneta de propiedad de la UNE de esta ciudad.\nEn esta marcha fue evidente la presencia de exgobernadores como Nilo Córdova (gobernador a inicios del régimen de Correa), y Leonardo Carrión (gobernador a inicios del régimen de Gustavo Noboa).\n\"Nos tomamos las calles de Loja. Si querían medir fuerzas, son evidentes los resultados. Contra el pueblo nada. La represión que quiere imponer el gobierno no va a pasar. El pueblo está cansado\" dijo Córdova.\nNívea Vélez, viceprefecta de la provincia, denunció un exagerado operativos de policías y militares para evitar que la marcha de los trabajadores ingrese a la plaza de San Sebastián.\n\"Le hemos dado 10 a 1 al gobierno. Hemos desfilado con el apoyo de la ciudadanía y no hemos contado con empleados contratados como el gobierno. La gente en las calles se ha ido sumando en rechazo al gobierno\" dijo.\nY es que a pocas cuadras de la plaza de San Sebastián, alrededor de 6 buses esperaban a moradores del cantón Chaguarpamba, para devolverlos a su lugar de origen. Ellos llegaron muy temprano en la mañana y fueron citados en los exteriores del estadio \"Reina de El Cisne\" para llevarlos a sus casas.\nDirigentes de los trabajadores calificaron como \"un triunfo\", la marcha y concentración que terminó pasado el mediodía. (I)", "url": "http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827811/loja-se-dividio-marchas-apoyo-oposicion-gobierno", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150506061747/http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827811/loja-se-dividio-marchas-apoyo-oposicion-gobierno" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Desfile del trabajador en Ambato se desarrolló sin inconvenientes", "text": "Unas 10.000 personas estuvieron en el desfile conmemorativo del Día del Trabajador, que recorrió desde las 09:30 de este viernes las principales calles del centro de la urbe ambateña.\nGritos y consignas como: “queremos medicinas, no sabatinas”, “somos viejos, pero no pendejos”, “esto no es pagado, es pueblo organizado”, se escucharon en la marcha que finalizó en el parque Cevallos. Algunas personas se ubicaron en las aceras e incluso se lanzaron flores desde los balcones.\nOlimpo Velasteguí, presidente del Frente Unitario de los Trabajadores (FUT) en Tungurahua, señaló que el 1 de mayo se conmemoró la lucha no solo de los obreros sino del pueblo en general.\nMientras que Celso Aguirre, presidente del Frente Popular de Tungurahua, dijo que el pueblo se ha movilizado para reclamar contra los derechos conculcados y que con la participación masiva de diferentes sectores se le demuestra al Gobierno que el pueblo está debidamente organizado.\nPor su parte, el coronel Pedro Jijón, comandante de la subzona 18 de la Policía Nacional en Tungurahua, dijo que aproximadamente 600 efectivos estuvieron a lo largo de la marcha con el fin de resguardar para que se realice con normalidad.\nEn esta ciudad no se realizó una marcha del movimiento Alianza PAIS, porque la gobernadora de Tungurahua, Lira Villalva, hizo el anuncio de que se desplazaban a Quito para apoyar la convocatoria del presidente Rafael Correa. (I)", "url": "http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827791/desfile-trabajador-ambato-se-desarrollo-inconvenientes", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150503153257/http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827791/desfile-trabajador-ambato-se-desarrollo-inconvenientes" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Marcha de sindicatos congregó a familias con niños y mascotas, estudiantes e indígenas", "text": "La marcha sindical de este 1 de mayo se transformó en una manifestación multitudinaria de familias, niños, jubilados, estudiantes secundarios, universitarios, indígenas e incluso mascotas que recorrieron la avenida 10 de agosto desde la Caja del Seguro, hasta la Plaza de San Francisco, en el centro histórico de la capital.\nLos políticos de oposición también se unieron a la marcha pero unos con sus familias y otros entre la multitud, como los asambleístas Lourdes Tibán (PK) Ramiro Aguilar (Ind.), y otros como Fernando Balda, exlegislador de SP y profesores universitarios como Enrique Ayala Mora. Además del empresario Blasco Peñaherrera.\nCoreando \"Fuera Correa Fuera\", los marchantes con carteles en mano mostraron su molestia por el régimen del presidente Rafael Correa por sus políticas económicas y políticas.\nEl tema de la eliminación del 40% del aporte estatal al Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS) para las pensiones fue el principal en las consignas y en los carteles; además de las críticas al techo a las utilidades del sector privado.\nLos alrededores de Carondelet estuvieron completamente blindados por miembros de la Policía para evitar el ingreso de posibles manifestantes y también se apostaron en la ruta asignada por el Municipio de Quito.\nNo obstante fue modificada a última hora luego de llegar a un acuerdo con los uniformados para recorrer por la calle Guayaquil y subir a la Plaza de San Francisco donde se instaló una tarima para los discursos.\nLo que preocupaba a la Policía es la cercanía de las dos marchas, pero en la intersección de la Guayaquil y Sucre no se registró ningún incidente.\nLos dirigentes Nelson Erazo del Frente Popular en un duro discurso contra el régimen y el presidente Rafael Correa, dijo que \"usted no tiene la capacidad para dirigir este país, tampoco para decirnos a los trabajadores los cambios que necesita el país, los grandes cambios de la sociedad no se alcanzaron ni de rodillas ni claudicando\".\nAdemás hizo un llamado para un paro nacional.\nMientras Carlos Pérez Guartambel, presidente de la Ecuarunari destacó la presencia masiva y espontánea de la población en las calles y envió un mensaje al primer mandatario: \"Correa ya no te tenemos miedo\".\nEl presidente de la Conaie, Jorge Herrera, resaltó la movilización de Quito, la presencia de 25 mil concentrados en Cuenca, 30mil en Guayaquil, el levantamiento en la amazonía y la toma de las calles en el Cañar.\nDijo que la manifestación de ayer es una muestra de unidad para decir que el gobierno no ha acertado con sus políticas, ya no da más con su proyecto de la revolución ciudadana. (I)", "url": "http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827801/marcha-sindicatos-congrego-familias-ninos-mascotas-estudiantes-e", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150504040420/http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827801/marcha-sindicatos-congrego-familias-ninos-mascotas-estudiantes-e" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Marcha de sindicatos congregó a familias con niños y mascotas, estudiantes e indígenas", "text": "La marcha sindical de este 1 de mayo se transformó en una manifestación multitudinaria de familias, niños, jubilados, estudiantes secundarios, universitarios, indígenas e incluso mascotas que recorrieron la avenida 10 de agosto desde la Caja del Seguro, hasta la Plaza de San Francisco, en el centro histórico de la capital.\nLos políticos de oposición también se unieron a la marcha pero unos con sus familias y otros entre la multitud, como los asambleístas Lourdes Tibán (PK) Ramiro Aguilar (Ind.), y otros como Fernando Balda, exlegislador de SP y profesores universitarios como Enrique Ayala Mora. Además del empresario Blasco Peñaherrera.\nCoreando \"Fuera Correa Fuera\", los marchantes con carteles en mano mostraron su molestia por el régimen del presidente Rafael Correa por sus políticas económicas y políticas.\nEl tema de la eliminación del 40% del aporte estatal al Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS) para las pensiones fue el principal en las consignas y en los carteles; además de las críticas al techo a las utilidades del sector privado.\nLos alrededores de Carondelet estuvieron completamente blindados por miembros de la Policía para evitar el ingreso de posibles manifestantes y también se apostaron en la ruta asignada por el Municipio de Quito.\nNo obstante fue modificada a última hora luego de llegar a un acuerdo con los uniformados para recorrer por la calle Guayaquil y subir a la Plaza de San Francisco donde se instaló una tarima para los discursos.\nLo que preocupaba a la Policía es la cercanía de las dos marchas, pero en la intersección de la Guayaquil y Sucre no se registró ningún incidente.\nLos dirigentes Nelson Erazo del Frente Popular en un duro discurso contra el régimen y el presidente Rafael Correa, dijo que \"usted no tiene la capacidad para dirigir este país, tampoco para decirnos a los trabajadores los cambios que necesita el país, los grandes cambios de la sociedad no se alcanzaron ni de rodillas ni claudicando\".\nAdemás hizo un llamado para un paro nacional.\nMientras Carlos Pérez Guartambel, presidente de la Ecuarunari destacó la presencia masiva y espontánea de la población en las calles y envió un mensaje al primer mandatario: \"Correa ya no te tenemos miedo\".\nEl presidente de la Conaie, Jorge Herrera, resaltó la movilización de Quito, la presencia de 25 mil concentrados en Cuenca, 30mil en Guayaquil, el levantamiento en la amazonía y la toma de las calles en el Cañar.\nDijo que la manifestación de ayer es una muestra de unidad para decir que el gobierno no ha acertado con sus políticas, ya no da más con su proyecto de la revolución ciudadana. (I)", "url": "http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827801/marcha-sindicatos-congrego-familias-ninos-mascotas-estudiantes-e", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150504040420/http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/05/01/nota/4827801/marcha-sindicatos-congrego-familias-ninos-mascotas-estudiantes-e" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Marcha oficialista tintó de naranja y verde las calles de Guayaquil", "text": "Esta concentración también reunió simpatizantes de otros cantones, entre ellos Durán, Milagro y Yaguachi. (Foto twitter Mónica Becerra)\nMarcha oficialista tintó de naranja y verde las calles de Guayaquil\nLos colores verde y naranja resaltaban en las calles de la urbe porteña, además de otros colores, de instituciones privadas y públicas donde laboran algunos trabajadores que se auto convocaron a marchar en honor a su día.\nGUAYAQUIL. El movimiento Centro Democrático de Jimmy Jairala, caracterizado por vestir de naranja, se unió a la marcha oficialista por el día del trabajo en Guayaquil. Junto con el Gobernador de Guayaquil, Rolando Panchana, el prefecto encabezó la marcha convocada en por el Gobierno en Guayaquil.\nLos colores verde y naranja resaltaban en las calles de la urbe porteña, además de otros colores, de instituciones privadas y públicas donde laboran algunos trabajadores que se auto convocaron a marchar en honor a su día.\n“Aquí está el respaldo a la revolución ciudadana de la clase trabajadora, no en otro lado”, resaltaba el Gobernador del Guayas.\nMientras que el prefecto Jairala centró su atención en los objetivos de la marcha oficialista y prefirió no hacer comparaciones con la marcha opositora. “La otra marcha más allá de cuantos sean, lo importante es preguntar, ¿qué es lo que aspiran?, ¿qué es lo que plantean?”\nPrevaleciendo las banderas verdes y naranjas además de las consignas a favor del régimen, la multitud recorrió la calle Eloy Alfaro, para salir por la calle Malecón y culminar en la explanada \"Simón Bolívar\" del MAAC.\n“Aquí no hay sanduchitos, aquí son expresiones espontaneas de cariño de respaldo a la revolución ciudadana”, advertía la vicepresidenta de la Asamblea Nacional, Marcela Aguiñaga, a los micrófonos de Teleamazonas.\nEsta concentración también reunió simpatizantes de otros cantones, entre ellos Durán, Milagro y Yaguachi.\nCerca de las 11:00 culminó la caminata, e inició en la explanada del MACC un show musical preparado para los simpatizantes, que contó con la presentación de artistas como Máximo Escaleras y Fabián Fariña. Pero inicialmente se rindió un minuto de silencio para rendirle tributo a la fallecida asambleísta Kerly Torres\nEl lugar contó con una pantalla, conectada con la presentación del presidente Rafael Correa, en Quito. (VBF/La Nación)", "url": "http://lanacion.com.ec/?p=27383", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222159/http://lanacion.com.ec/?p=27383" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Marcha oficialista tintó de naranja y verde las calles de Guayaquil", "text": "Esta concentración también reunió simpatizantes de otros cantones, entre ellos Durán, Milagro y Yaguachi. (Foto twitter Mónica Becerra)\nMarcha oficialista tintó de naranja y verde las calles de Guayaquil\nLos colores verde y naranja resaltaban en las calles de la urbe porteña, además de otros colores, de instituciones privadas y públicas donde laboran algunos trabajadores que se auto convocaron a marchar en honor a su día.\nGUAYAQUIL. El movimiento Centro Democrático de Jimmy Jairala, caracterizado por vestir de naranja, se unió a la marcha oficialista por el día del trabajo en Guayaquil. Junto con el Gobernador de Guayaquil, Rolando Panchana, el prefecto encabezó la marcha convocada en por el Gobierno en Guayaquil.\nLos colores verde y naranja resaltaban en las calles de la urbe porteña, además de otros colores, de instituciones privadas y públicas donde laboran algunos trabajadores que se auto convocaron a marchar en honor a su día.\n“Aquí está el respaldo a la revolución ciudadana de la clase trabajadora, no en otro lado”, resaltaba el Gobernador del Guayas.\nMientras que el prefecto Jairala centró su atención en los objetivos de la marcha oficialista y prefirió no hacer comparaciones con la marcha opositora. “La otra marcha más allá de cuantos sean, lo importante es preguntar, ¿qué es lo que aspiran?, ¿qué es lo que plantean?”\nPrevaleciendo las banderas verdes y naranjas además de las consignas a favor del régimen, la multitud recorrió la calle Eloy Alfaro, para salir por la calle Malecón y culminar en la explanada \"Simón Bolívar\" del MAAC.\n“Aquí no hay sanduchitos, aquí son expresiones espontaneas de cariño de respaldo a la revolución ciudadana”, advertía la vicepresidenta de la Asamblea Nacional, Marcela Aguiñaga, a los micrófonos de Teleamazonas.\nEsta concentración también reunió simpatizantes de otros cantones, entre ellos Durán, Milagro y Yaguachi.\nCerca de las 11:00 culminó la caminata, e inició en la explanada del MACC un show musical preparado para los simpatizantes, que contó con la presentación de artistas como Máximo Escaleras y Fabián Fariña. Pero inicialmente se rindió un minuto de silencio para rendirle tributo a la fallecida asambleísta Kerly Torres\nEl lugar contó con una pantalla, conectada con la presentación del presidente Rafael Correa, en Quito. (VBF/La Nación)", "url": "http://lanacion.com.ec/?p=27383", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222159/http://lanacion.com.ec/?p=27383" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Expreso", "text": "La movilización convocada por la Central Única de los Trabajadores (CUT), tuvo un ingrediente diferente: la participación del presidente de la República, Rafael Correa.\nEl jefe de Estado encabezó la caminata. Él llegó pasadas las 09:00 hasta la avenida Maldonado, en el sur de la ciudad. El inusual movimiento de la seguridad advirtió su llegada.\n\"Mi solidaridad con la familia de Kerly. Esta marcha es en homenaje a ella\", fueron las primeras palabras del mandatario. Se refería a la asambleísta Kerly Torres quien falleció la madrugada de ayer en un accidente de tránsito.\nPara recibir al presidente estuvieron la presidenta de la Asamblea, Gabriela Rivadeneira; el ministro del Trabajo, Carlos Marx Carrasco; la secretaria de PAIS, Doris Soliz. Ellos y sus simpatizantes. Algunos llegaron en buses desde las provincias cercanas.\nEl vicepresidente de la República, Jorge Glas, no estuvo en el arranque de la marcha, a pesar de que se anunció su presencia. Él se unió a medio camino en la ruta hacia la plaza de Santo Domingo.\nDurante el recorrido, de un poco más de cinco kilómetros, muchos se aglomeraron en los costados de la calle. Se llevaron como recuerdo las fotos que captaron del presidente. Consuelo Zapata, salió acompañada por su familia para ver al jefe de Estado: \"Nunca había visto que un presidente desfilara con los trabajadores\", dijo.\nLos organizadores no descuidaron ningún detalle. Desde el sector de La Recoleta, a la altura del Ministerio de Defensa, colocaron escenarios con pantallas gigantes. Transmitían en vivo las imágenes de la marcha en favor del Gobierno.\nEn la plaza de Santo Domingo, el presidente también fue el protagonista. En un discurso de cerca de 50 minutos, reiteró que \"este es el Gobierno de los trabajadores. Somos la revolución del trabajo\". Llamó a sus seguidores a estar unidos y no dejarse confundir por \"los que quieren regresar al pasado\". El mandatario reconoció, sin embargo, que falta mucho por hacer. Anunció, por ejemplo, que en los próximos días los transportistas serán afiliados a la Seguridad Social.\nEl ministro del Trabajo, Carlos Marx Carrasco, coincidió en el discurso. \"Mientras nos mantengamos organizados, unidos, mantendremos a esta revolución\", dijo.\nY Oswaldo Chica, presidente de la CUT, aseveró que \"ha quedado demostrado que la Revolución Ciudadana está incólume. Atrás quedaron los vende patrias\", sentenció.\nTodos los discursos fueron recibidos con aplausos por los simpatizantes del oficialismo. Ellos llenaron la plaza. Estuvieron con banderas y pitos. También gritaron en favor de la reelección del jefe de Estado.\nÉl se pronunció: \"en lo personal no he tenido un interés en la reelección, solo me presentaría nuevamente en caso extremo\", dijo. Fue interrumpido por los manifestantes, que con gritos le pedían que sea, otra vez, su candidato.\nLa concentración de PAIS terminó con una persona herida tras la caída de una de las torres que sostenían las pantallas gigantes. RRG", "url": "http://expreso.ec/expreso/plantillas/nota.aspx?idart=7871092&idcat=38269&tipo=2", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150507003908/http://expreso.ec/expreso/plantillas/nota.aspx?idart=7871092&idcat=38269&tipo=2" } ]

[ "Europe", "France", "Économie", "Suez Environnement" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Suez Environnement vise un retour à la croissance en 2010", "text": "Suez Environnement a publié des résultats 2009 en baisse en raison de ses activités dans les déchets mais a indiqué qu'il tablait sur un retour de la croissance en 2010.\nLe numéro deux mondial des services à l'environnement a également annoncé un nouveau programme de réduction de coûts pour la période 2010-2012, dont il attend un gain net d'Ebitda (résultat brut d'exploitation, RBE) de 250 millions d'euros en cumulé sur trois ans par rapport à 2009.\nPour l'exercice en cours, dans l'hypothèse d'une croissance du PIB estimée à 1% pour la zone euro et d'une prise de contrôle de l'espagnol Agbar prévue pour mi-2010, le groupe vise une croissance de son chiffre d'affaires d'au moins 5% et une progression de son RBE d'au moins 8% par rapport à 2009, à taux de change constants.\nIl estime également que son cash flow libre devrait être d'au moins 0,7 milliard d'euros en 2010 et ses investissements d'un maximum de 1,3 milliard, avec 0,6 milliard supplémentaire lié à l'opération Agbar.\nPrié de dire si la prévision de RBE du groupe n'était pas trop prudente, son directeur général Jean-Louis Chaussade a déclaré lors d'une conférence: \"Les activités de Suez Environnement, en général, évoluent à une vitesse qui est de l'ordre du PIB plus 2% à 3% (...). Supposer que nous allons croître de 3% à peu près dans un environnement extrêmement difficile avec une visibilité faible, c'est raisonnable.\"\n\"Par ailleurs, mathématiquement, si l'opération se fait bien aux dates prévues, la consolidation d'Agbar en totalité nous apportera sur l'année une centaine de millions, ce qui représente à peu près 5%.\"\nLe groupe a enregistré en 2009 un résultat net part du groupe de 403 millions d'euros (-24,4%), un résultat opérationnel courant de 926 millions (-12,1% hors changes), un RBE de 2.060 millions (-1,2% à changes constants) et un chiffre d'affaires de 12.296 millions (+0,6% à changes constants).\nBAISSE DE COÛTS PLUS RAPIDES QUE PRÉVU\nSelon le consensus réalisé par la rédaction de Reuters, les analystes attendaient en moyenne un résultat net de 379 millions d'euros, un RBE de 2.057 millions et un chiffre d'affaires de 12.248 millions.\nSuez Environnement propose un dividende stable de 0,65 euro par action au titre de 2009. Jean-Louis Chaussade a précisé que la société comptait mener une politique \"attractive\" en la matière, sans prendre d'engagement précis pour 2010.\nA 11h20, le titre perdait 0,56% à 16,025 euros pendant que le CAC 40 gagnait 0,17%. Un analyste basé à Londres a estimé que la prévision était inférieure aux attentes mais que le nouveau programme de réduction de coûts constituait un élément positif.\nL'activité Propreté Europe a reculé de 5% à changes constants à 5.319 millions d'euros (-7,5% en organique) en 2009, pour un RBE en baisse de 12,1% à changes constants (-15,5% en organique) à 798 millions.\nLe RBE de la division Eau Europe s'établit à 866 millions, en hausse de 7,2% à changes constants (+5,6% en organique), tandis que celui de l'International ressort à 468 millions (+11,3% à changes constants, +10,7% en organique).\nLe plan de réduction de coûts de Suez Environnement, lancé en 2008, s'est traduit par 190 millions d'euros d'économies au niveau du RBE sur deux ans, dépassant avec un an d'avance l'objectif de 180 millions fixé pour fin 2010.\nLa dette nette du groupe a atteint 6.282 millions d'euros à fin 2009, pour un ratio dette nette/RBE de 3,05, contre 5.971 millions et un ratio de 2,84 à fin 2008. Le groupe vise un ratio de l'ordre de 3 à l'horizon 2012, grâce notamment à la mise en oeuvre de son plan d'économies et à \"une forte sélectivité en matière d'investissements\".\nJean-Louis Chaussade a souligné que le groupe atteindrait cet objectif par ses \"propres moyens\", avec éventuellement des \"petites rotations d'actifs\".\nLe groupe indique en outre qu'il n'y a pas d'indications, à ce stade, qu'il doive céder des actifs dans le cadre de la prise de contrôle d'Agbar.\nEdité par Dominique Rodriguez", "url": "http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-economie/2010-02-25/suez-environnement-vise-un-retour-a-la-croissance-en-2010/916/0/427675", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100227002039/http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-economie/2010-02-25/suez-environnement-vise-un-retour-a-la-croissance-en-2010/916/0/427675" } ]

[ "Polityka", "Polska", "Unia Polityki Realnej", "Wybory parlamentarne w Polsce 2007" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Janusz Korwin-Mikke pobije Tuska ?", "text": "- Korwin-Mikke to prawdziwy liberał z krwi i kości, a Tusk to podróbka liberała - reklamował w piątek w Gdańsku Korwina-Mikke Roman Giertych, lider Ligi Polskich Rodzin. Unia Polityki Realnej, której honorowym prezesem jest Korwin-Mikke, idzie do wyborów razem z LPR i Prawicą Rzeczpospolitej Marka Jurka. Giertych przyznał, że między Ligą a liberalną UPR istnieją różnice programowe, ale obie partie w sumie więcej łączy niż dzieli. Korwin-Mikke powiedział w Gdańsku, że opowiada się za legalizacją marihuany. - Proszę nie łączyć osobistych, bardzo oryginalnych poglądów pana Korwina-Mikke z programem UPR czy Ligi, to są różne sprawy - zastrzegł od razu Giertych i dodał: - To my dzisiaj razem jesteśmy prawdziwą prawicą w Polsce, PiS i PO to są tylko podróbki.\nGiertych przypomniał też, że w 1993 r. startował do Sejmu właśnie z list UPR. Korwin-Mikke tłumaczył natomiast, że związał się z LPR, ponieważ zawiódł się na PO i PiS. - Pierwsza nie wprowadziła prawdziwie wolnego rynku, a druga prawa i sprawiedliwości - powiedział Korwin-Mikke. Twórca UPR dodał, że tak naprawdę jest mu obojętne, skąd kandyduje. - Nie chcę być posłem, który zabiega o interes tego czy innego regionu, ale całej Polski - stwierdził. Giertych liczy, że w skali kraju LPR zdobędzie ponad 10 proc. głosów, a w okręgu gdańskim, aż 35 proc. - Sam Korwin-Mikke zgarnie 25 proc. plus 10 proc. cała lista - zapewniał lider LPR.\nŹródło: Gazeta Wyborcza Trójmiasto", "url": "http://miasta.gazeta.pl/trojmiasto/1,35634,4490746.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071026104816/http://miasta.gazeta.pl/trojmiasto/1,35634,4490746.html" } ]

[ "Europe", "France", "Politique", "Politique et conflits", "Politique française", "Gouvernement français", "Juillet 2013 en France|03" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Canfin menace d'un départ des ministres verts", "text": "Le ministre délégué au Développement, Pascal Canfin (EELV), a menacé mercredi d'un départ des ministres verts du gouvernement, au lendemain du limogeage de Delphine Batho, si des \"actes\" n'étaient pas rapidement posés pour faire \"la transition écologique\".\n\"Nous considérons qu'il faut maintenant davantage d'actes posés par ce gouvernement pour faire que la transition écologique soit réellement une priorité de la France et du gouvernement. Il y a devant nous des rendez-vous qui sont déterminants et si ces rendez-vous étaient ratés, à ce moment là (...) bien évidemment nous en tirerons toutes les conséquences\", a expliqué le ministre écologiste sur France Info.", "url": "http://www.europe1.fr/Politique/Canfin-menace-d-un-depart-des-ministres-verts-1571941/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130706150842/http://www.europe1.fr/Politique/Canfin-menace-d-un-depart-des-ministres-verts-1571941/" } ]

[ "Política e conflitos", "Portugal", "Presidenciais Portuguesas 2006", "Publicado" ]

[ { "language": "pt", "title": "Cavaco volta a descer e Jerónimo passa Louçã", "text": "Cavaco volta a descer e Jerónimo passa Louçã\ncandidato Cavaco Silva desce hoje mais 1,4% nas intenções de voto dos inquiridos na sondagem diária da Marktest para o DN e TSF. Regista agora 53,2%, menos 7,8% do que obteve no início da campanha. Mantém-se contudo acima dos 50% necessários para garantir uma vitória à primeira volta.\nÀ esquerda, Manuel Alegre volta a subir, depois da queda do dia anterior. Tem agora 19% (cresceu seis décimas), voltando a aumentar a distância em relação a Mário Soares. Este apenas recupera duas décimas, ficando nos 13,4%.\nJerónimo passa Louçã\nA grande mudança à esquerda é a ultrapassagem de Francisco Louçã por Jerónimo de Sousa. O comunista teria agora 7,2% dos votos, face a 6,3% do bloquista. Garcia Pereira aumenta uma décima em relação a ontem e está nos 0,9%. Registou 0,2% no primeiro dia da sondagem.\nApesar da descida, Cavaco é o candidato que continua a apresentar maior fidelização de eleitorado, com 92,5% (o mesmo número que ontem) a afirmar que já não alteram o seu sentido de voto. Mantém-se também estável o número de eleitores convencidos de que as eleições se resolvem à primeira volta são 63,5% a acreditar que assim é.\nSegunda volta\nSe admitirmos o cenário de uma segunda volta, os resultados apontam ainda para uma vitória de Cavaco Silva, embora mais folgada contra Soares do que contra Alegre. O ex-primeiro-ministro consegue uns expressivos 67,1% contra o ex-Presidente, que se ficaria com menos de metade dos seus votos, 32,9%. Já contra Alegre, Cavaco teria um desempenho pior 55,7% contra 44,3% do poeta. A percepção de que Alegre seria o melhor adversário para a esquerda defrontar Cavaco na segunda volta é também patente nos dados que indicam que 52% dos eleitores pensam que ela seria entre Cavaco e Alegre, e apenas 35,1% acreditam que ela teria lugar entre o professor de Economia e Mário Soares. Estes resultados foram obtidos com 1016 entrevistas. A dimensão da amostra cresceu na segunda semana de campanha.", "url": "http://dn.sapo.pt/2006/01/18/tema/cavaco_volta_a_descer_e_jeronimo_pas.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071017160628/http://dn.sapo.pt/2006/01/18/tema/cavaco_volta_a_descer_e_jeronimo_pas.html" } ]

[ "Pmlineditor (WWC2010)", "Writing contest 2010", "Politics and conflicts", "Disasters and accidents", "Middle East", "Shia Islam", "Iraq" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Deadly Iraq car bomb near Shia shrine in Najaf", "text": "A car bomb in Iraq's holy city of Najaf has killed at least three people and wounded 50 on the eve of tense parliamentary elections, officials say. The blast struck near the Imam Ali shrine, popular with Shia pilgrims from Iraq and Iran. It came despite security being ramped up nationwide ahead of Sunday's polls. Dozens have died as sectarian tensions mounted ahead of the elections, the second parliamentary poll since Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003. Friday was the last day of campaigning across the country. The BBC's John Simpson in Baghdad says many people are nervous that Iraqi authorities are solely responsible for security ahead of the polls. With 3,000 people a year being murdered in Baghdad alone, some say the security situation was better when it was under US-led control. Early voting On Thursday, 14 people were killed in bomb attacks at two polling stations, where early voting was taking place. IRAQI GENERAL ELECTION Voting for candidates in a 325-seat parliament About 19 million eligible voters out of 28 million Some 200,000 security personnel on duty in Baghdad on voting day Key issues: Security, services and disqualification of alleged Baathists\nIraq: Key facts and figures Groups competing in Iraqi polls Q&A: Iraqi parliamentary polls Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi expatriates have been voting ahead of Sunday's main polling day. The United Nations refugee agency estimates around two million Iraqis live abroad - predominantly in neighbouring Syria and Jordan - the bulk having left after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Iraqi election commission says there are polling stations in nearly 60 cities worldwide and voting is staggered over three days. Expatriate votes cast in Jordan and Syria could play a deciding role in a tight election race, counting for around 10 seats in the 325-member parliament, which will form the next government. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki looks likely to retain power, with his Shia-led coalition. The key will be whether Mr Maliki can bring Iraq's embittered Sunni minority into his government and make them feel they have a stake in Iraq's political future again.\nBookmark with: Delicious\nDigg\nreddit\nFacebook\nStumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8553122.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100307053444/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8553122.stm" } ]

[ "North America", "United States", "Texas", "Disasters and accidents", "Aviation", "Crime and law", "Cocoaguy (Wikinewsie)", "Suicide attacks", "Aviation accidents and incidents" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Remains of 2 found after Austin plane crash", "text": "(CNN) -- The remains of two people have been found in an Austin, Texas, building where a man crashed a small plane, authorities said.\nThe identities of the two dead people have not been confirmed, the Austin Fire Department said in a statement. Two other people who were injured in the incident were taken to a hospital, and 11 others were treated for minor injuries, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said.\nAuthorities said Andrew Joseph Stack III, 53, an Austin resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service, set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a Piper Cherokee PA-28 into the building, which houses an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, federal officials said.\n\"This appears to be an intentional act by a sole individual,\" Acevedo said at a news conference.\nA fire created by the crash had been put out, save for some small areas, officials said. Fire crews were expected to continue to work through the night.\nPilot: 'I have just had enough'\nClues about what led to Thursday incident were few, but attention was directed at a message on a Web site registered to Stack appears to be a suicide note.\n\"If you're reading this, you're no doubt asking yourself, 'Why did this have to happen?' \" the message says. \"The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time.\"\nIn the lengthy, rambling message, the writer rails against the government and, particularly, the IRS.\nSee text of the note (PDF)\nThe building into which the airplane crashed is a federal IRS center with 199 employees.\n\"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different,\" the online message says. \"I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.\"\nAn IRS spokesman said the agency is prohibited by federal law from releasing or talking about any interactions or transactions they have had with Stack.\nTwo people, both males, were taken to University Medical Center Brackenridge, according to Matilda Sanchez, a spokeswoman for Seton Family of Hospitals, which runs the medical center.\nOne patient was treated and released later Thursday, Sanchez said. The other was transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. The transferred patient suffered burns on 20 to 25 percent of his body, mostly on his back, she said. He is in serious and stable condition.\nAustin Mayor Lee Leffingwell tried to calm any concerns residents could have about the crash and the huge fire, which he said was mostly contained.\n\"It is an isolated incident,\" the mayor said. \"The people of Austin, the people of the nation, are in no danger whatsoever.\"\n\"There is evidence that the gas tank was just about full. ... That amount of gasoline ... can do a lot of damage,\" he said.\nWitnesses said nearby buildings shook. Fire and smoke could be seen billowing into the sky.\nSee iReport photos and videos from the scene\n\"I just saw smoke and flames,\" said CNN iReporter Mike Ernest. \"I could not believe what I was seeing. It was just smoke and flames everywhere.\"\nThe crash occurred around 10 a.m.\nFirefighters used two ladder trucks and other equipment to hose down the blaze at the Echelon office building, which police said is in the 9400 block of Research Boulevard.\nThe flames seemed mostly extinguished about 75 minutes later.\nThe FAA said preliminary information indicated the plane departed Georgetown Municipal Airport north of Austin about 9:40 a.m.\nInitial indications are that the flight originated there but there were conflicting reports, said Jack Lillis, an attendant at Georgetown airport.\nThe pilot evidently did not file a flight plan, the FAAsaid. No flight plan was required because flights Thursday morning were under visual flight rules, or VFR, because of clear weather.\nTwo F-16 fighter jets were sent from Houston as a precaution, but federal authorities said preliminary information did not indicate any terrorist connection.\n\"We do not yet know the cause of the plane crash,\" the Department of Homeland Security said in a release. \"At this time, we have no reason to believe there is a nexus to terrorist activity. We continue to gather more information, and are aware there is additional information about the pilot's history.\"\nCNN's Jeanne Meserve and Mallory Simon contributed to this report.", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/18/texas.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=T1", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100220085122/http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/18/texas.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=T1" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Officials: Texas plane crash targeted feds", "text": "View and discuss the pictures and issues that caught our eyes.\nAn Olympic victory, a painful homecoming, combat in Afghanistan and more striking images from around the world.\nFeb. 18: An eyewitness describes the airplane that hit an office building in Austin, Tx., appeared to be going full throttle before it hit between the first and second floor, leaving a gaping hole in the building.\nmsnbc.com staff and news service reports\nAUSTIN, Texas - \"If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, 'Why did this have to happen?' The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time.\"\nSo began a lengthy, rambling anti-government Web message believed posted by a Texas man suspected of crashing his small plane into an office building housing IRS employees.\nThe man, identified by federal law enforcement officials as Joseph Stack, 53, was a software engineer who had a long-running grudge with the Internal Revenue Service, whom he referred to in the screed as \"thugs and plunderers.\"\nThe Web message was dated Thursday and signed \"Joe Stack (1956-2010).\"\nHours after posting it, Stack set fire to his home, drove to a municipal airport, got into his single-engine Piper Cherokee and deliberately crashed it into a multistory office building, authorities said.\nStack was presumed to have died in the crash, federal law enforcement officials said.\nThe Fire Department Thursday night said in a statement that it “has concluded its search of the building and located the remains of two victims. Identities have not been confirmed. AFD will have ongoing operations at the site throughout the night, putting out hot spots and watching for any fire flare-ups.”\nAt least two people were seriously injured and a third person — a federal employee who worked in the building — was unaccounted for, fire officials said.\nThe crash caused a raging fire that sent black smoke billowing from the seven-story Echelon Building. The fire was extinguished hours later.\nAt an afternoon news conference, Austin police Chief Art Acevedo said the crash \"appears to be an intentional act.\"\n\"It would appear to be by a sole individual, and it appears this individual was targeting federal offices inside that building,\" Acevedo said.\nRep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, said in a statement that the crash was \"a cowardly act of domestic terrorism.\" The police chief, however, said he preferred to describe it as \"a criminal act by a lone individual.\"\nThe FBI was taking over the investigation.\nAbout 190 IRS employees work in the building, and IRS spokesman Richard C. Sanford the agency was trying to account for all of its workers.\nViolence 'the only answer'\nThe pilot, listed in FAA and property records as Andrew Joseph Stack III of Austin and identified by law enforcement sources as Joseph Stack, apparently had a long-running dispute with the IRS.\nAP In a statement posted on the Web early Thursday morning, Joseph Stack appeared to blame the IRS for the loss of tens of thousands in savings and retirement money over the years.\nA long message posted on a Web site registered to Stack outlined a litany of problems with the IRS and said violence \"is the only answer.\"\nThe Web site was taken offline Thursday afternoon by the hosting company at the request of the FBI.\nVideo Joe Stack's final act\nFeb. 18: As investigators and journalists raced to piece together a picture of the suspected pilot who crashed into a Texas building early Thursday, a story of growing frustration and rage emerged. NBC's Pete Williams reports. Nightly News\nA senior law enforcement official told NBC the saga began Thursday morning, when police received a domestic disturbance call at Stack's house, about six miles from the crash site. When they responded, they discovered that the man had lit a fire in his house and fled. They said he went to the Georgetown Municipal Airport, got into his small plane and took off.\nA short time later, the plane crashed into the office building about 30 miles away. Federal authorities said they did not know whether the man crashed the plane intentionally, though they said it was a distinct possibility, the official told NBC.\nHouse fire\nElbert Hutchins, who lives one house away from Stack's home in a quiet, tree-lined middle-class neighborhood, said the house caught fire about 9:15 a.m. He said a woman and her teenage daughter drove up before firefighters arrived.\n\"They both were very, very distraught,\" said Hutchins, a retiree who said he didn't know the family well. \"'That's our house!' they cried 'That's our house!' \"\nRed Cross spokeswoman Marty McKellips said the agency was treating two people who live in the house and that the family had no comment Thursday. McKellips said the family would “give information and answer questions” on Friday.\nThe pilot of the plane belonging to Stack which took off from the airport in Georgetown didn't file a flight plan, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said.\nThe Echelon Building is next to a major highway in north Austin, and the crash started fires on several floors of the hulking black building. Dozens of windows were blown out and vehicles traveling on a nearby highway paused to look.\nThirteen people were treated at the scene and two people were taken to a hospital with serious injuries, Austin fire officials said. Their condition wasn't immediately known.\nThao Nguyen / AP Authorities say Joseph Stack set fire to his home before crashing his plane.\nPilot's background\nAccording to California Secretary of State records, Stack had a troubled business history, twice starting software companies that ultimately were suspended by the state's Franchise Tax Board.\nHe started Software Systems Service Corp. in Lincoln, Calif., but that business license was suspended in 2004 for nonpayment of back taxes totaling $1,153, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported. Another company, Prowless Engineering Inc. was suspended in 2000 for failure to file a 1994 tax return, according to KCRA.\nStack listed himself as chief executive officer of both companies.\nAccording to records, Stack apparently moved to the Austin area around 2003 and ran Embedded Art, a small, independent software firm specializing in \"process control and automation\" and \"complex software engineering development tasks.\"\nIn his 3,200-word statement posted on the company's Web site early Thursday morning and later taken down, Stack appeared to blame the IRS for the loss of tens of thousands in savings and retirement money over the years.\nAdministrative records show the Web site was registered to Joe Stack of San Marcos, Texas, in 2006.\n'Unthinkable atrocities'\nStack said his \"nightmare\" with the federal government dated to the early 1980s.\nIn one passage, Stack writes: “That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their 'freedom' … and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.”\nHe also wrote: \"Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it's time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours?\nToward the end, he wrote, “I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.”\nThe IRS, CIA and FBI all have offices in the complex where the building that was struck is located, though it was not clear if they are all in the building that was hit.\nThe IRS Web site said an office of its EP Team Audit Program is located in the building where the plane crashed. The group, known as EPTA, examines employee benefit plans with 2,500 or more participants, according to the Web site.\nThe FBI said its office was not in the building.\nIn Washington, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama was briefed on the crash. The Homeland Security Department was investigating all angles but the case does not appear to involve international terrorism, Gibbs said.", "url": "http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35460268/ns/us_news-life/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100220080555/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35460268/ns/us_news-life/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Small Plane Crashes Into Building In Austin, Texas; Joseph Stack Apparently Left Suicide Note", "text": "Print Share + 2nd Body Found In Plane-Crashed Texas IRS Building Lengthy Anti-Tax Diatribe On Alleged Pilot's Web Site May Give Authorities Clues Into Frame of Mind\nAUSTIN, Texas (CBS News) ―\n1 of 2 Smoke billows from a building that houses IRS offices after a small plane crashed into it Feb. 18, 2010 in Austin, Texas. According to reports, the pilot, identified as Joseph A. Stack III, was killed in the crash. Jana Birchum/Getty Images 2 of 2 Smoke billows from a building that houses IRS offices after a small plane crashed into it Feb. 18, 2010 in Austin, Texas. According to reports, the pilot, identified as Joseph A. Stack III, was killed in the crash. Jana Birchum/Getty Images Close\nnumSlides of totalImages Related Links CBS News Interactive: Eye On Air Safety\nEmergency crews have found a second body in the wreckage where a small plane smashed into an Austin office building.Austin Fire Department Battalion Chief Palmer Buck said late Thursday that authorities \"have now accounted for everybody,\" but declined to discuss the identities of those found.Authorities said earlier that the pilot who crashed into the building was presumed dead and that one worker in the building had been missing.Authorities say Joseph A. Stack, a software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service, launched a suicide attack on the agency by crashing his small plane into the building that contains nearly 200 IRS employees.The crash set off a raging fire that sent workers running for their lives.Evidence of an intentional attack may be found in an apparent suicide note he left on his Web site - a lengthy diatribe that railed against taxes and the government and said violence \"is the only answer.\" Authorities believe the note is real.Closing the note, Stack writes: \"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.\"The note, dated February 18, 2010, is signed: \"Joe Stack (1956-2010).\"Despite the grim diary, Stack was even-tempered and unflappable, according to the manager of a band in which he used to play.A senior law enforcement official told CBS News that Stack died in the crash.While Department of Homeland Security official Matt Chandler told CBS News there was \"no reason to believe\" the crash was related to terrorist activity, the potential targeting of a government building bears at least passing resemblance to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma City in 1995.Before the incident, Stack is believed to have set fire to his home, a senior law enforcement official told CBS News. Austin Police also responded to reports of a domestic disturbance at Stack's residence earlier Thursday morning, involving an alleged fight with his wife.Stack later took off from Georgetown Municipal airport in a Piper Cherokee PA-28 at 9:40 a.m., a Federal Aviation Administration official told CBS News. He didn't file a flight plan, the official said.According to CBS affiliate KEYE in Austin, the Georgetown airport has since been evacuated and a bomb squad is on the scene.At least one person who worked in the building was unaccounted for and two people were hospitalized, said Austin Fire Department Division Chief Dawn Clopton. She did not have any information about the pilot. About 190 IRS employees work in the building, and IRS spokesman Richard C. Sanford the agency is trying to account for all employees.After the low-flying plane crashed into the building, flames shot out, windows exploded and workers scrambled to safety. Thick smoke billowed out of the second and third stories hours later as fire crews battled the blaze.\"It felt like a bomb blew off,\" said Peggy Walker, an IRS revenue officer who was sitting at her desk in the building when the plane crashed. \"The ceiling caved in and windows blew in. We got up and ran.\"IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the agency is working with law enforcement agencies to investigate the events that led up to the crash.\"My thoughts and prayers go out to the dedicated employees of the IRS who work in the Austin building,\" Shulman said. \"We will immediately begin doing whatever we can to help them during this difficult time.\"In a neighborhood about six miles from the crash site, a home listed as belonging to Stack was on fire earlier Thursday. Two law enforcement officials said Stack had apparently set fire to his home before the suicidal plane flight.Elbert Hutchins, who lives one house away from the house on a quiet, tree-lined middle class neighborhood, said the house caught fire about 9:15 a.m. He said a woman and her teenage daughter drove up to the house before firefighters arrived.\"They both were very, very distraught,\" said Hutchins, a retiree who said he didn't know the family well. \"'That's our house!' they cried 'That's our house!' \"Gerry Cullen, 66, was eating breakfast a restaurant across the street when the plane struck the building.\"The airplane hit and vanished in a fireball,\" said Cullen, a former flight instructor.Matt Farney, 39, who was in the parking lot of a nearby Home Depot, said he saw a low-flying small plane near some apartments and the office building just before it crashed.\"I figured he was going to buzz the apartments or he was showing off,\" Farney said. \"It was insane. ... It didn't look like he was out of control or anything.\"Sitting at her desk in another building about a half-mile from the crash, Michelle Santibanez said she felt vibrations after the crash. She and her co-workers ran to the windows, where they saw a scene that reminded them of the Sept. 11, 2001 U.S. terror attacks, she said.\"It was the same kind of scenario with window panels falling out and desks falling out and paperwork flying,\" said Santibanez, an accountant.National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson said an investigator from the board's Dallas office has been dispatched to the scene of the accident to start an investigation. The FAA and NTSB officials said they had no information on whether the crash was intentional. The White House also said President Barack Obama was briefed about the crash.As a precaution, the Colorado-based North American Aerospace Defense Command launched two F-16 aircraft from Houston's Ellington Field, and is conducting an air patrol over the crash area.According to California Secretary of State records, Stack had a troubled business history, twice starting software companies in California that ultimately were suspended by the state's Franchise Tax Board.In 1985, he incorporated Prowess Engineering Inc. in Corona. It was suspended two years later. He started Software Systems Service Corp. in Lincoln in 1995 and that entity was suspended in 2001. Stack listed himself as chief executive officer of both companies.\n(© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)", "url": "http://wcbstv.com/national/austin.plane.crash.2.1503067.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100221212149/http://wcbstv.com/national/austin.plane.crash.2.1503067.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "In Austin plane crash, an echo of terrorism", "text": "A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service plowed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees after setting his home on fire Thursday, officials said.\nEnlarge By Jay Janner, AP Smoke billows from a seven-story building after a small private plane crashed into the building Thursday in Austin. AUSTIN — As it dove out of the sky toward an IRS field office Thursday morning, Joseph Stack's small single-engine Piper Dakota became a screaming 3,000-pound missile. \"It was low, straight and fast,\" said Stuart Newberg, who was stopped at a traffic light when Stack's plane whizzed past before slamming into the offices that housed 190 IRS employees. Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer apparently enraged over tax issues, plowed the plane into the side of the building, triggering a massive fireball that engulfed the offices. He is presumed dead, and one other person in the building is believed to have been killed; 13 others were injured, two critically. Emergency crews recovered two bodies. Austin Fire Department Battalion Chief Palmer Buck declined to discuss the identities of those found, but said authorities had now \"accounted for everybody.\" The FBI said Stack is believed to have acted alone. But the plumes of black smoke triggered vivid memories of the 9/11 suicide hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001, and renewed fears that even a small plane can cause horrific damage in the wrong hands. \"It's a vulnerability, a weakness we hope terrorists don't exploit,\" said Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican from Austin who is on the House Homeland Security Committee. A rambling letter that was part screed against the government and part suicide note appeared Thursday on a website registered to Stack. In the note, signed \"Joe Stack (1956-2010),\" he said he slowly came to the conclusion that \"violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer.\" Three federal law enforcement sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is pending, said evidence authorities had gathered indicated that Stack had written the 3,000-word \"manifesto.\" The writer of the letter complains that he is being unfairly targeted by the IRS and rages at accountants who prepared his taxes. \"I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at 'big brother' while he strips my carcass,\" the letter says. \"I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won't continue; I have just had enough.\" No warning at airport Stack, in recent years active as a bass guitarist with a honky-tonk Austin rock band, gave no indication that he was about to launch a deadly attack, according to many who knew him. Police said Thursday that something appeared to have set him off. Stack set fire to his family home Thursday morning, then headed to a small airport nearby. R.L. Quinn, owner of Awesome Aviation & Pilot Shop, said he saw Stack's distinctly painted plane around 9 a.m. yesterday morning as it left the area near his hangar. Quinn was driving a golf cart across the airport to drop off a letter. Aircraft normally have the right-of-way, but the pilot waited to let Quinn pass, he said. \"I waved at him to say thank you,\" said Quinn, who knew Stack from seeing him occasionally around the airport. \"He waved back.\" Twelve minutes later, the plane smashed into the Echelon I office building, near a busy highway intersection in northwest Austin and in sight of dozens of motorists. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo credited a fast response by rescue workers with saving the lives of several people in the building. Acevedo also said the low-flying plane may have been spotted by some of the office workers in the moments before impact. \"Some folks might have seen this aircraft coming and yelled out some warnings,\" Acevedo said. 'A reasonable guy' Billy Eli, 47, an Austin singer and songwriter, said Stack played bass in his band from about 2005-08 and that he gave no indication of being violent. Stack was part of the band, described on its website as \"gritty Texan bar-room country,\" for an album called Amped Out. Stack appears on the album cover wearing a cowboy hat and jeans. Eli described Stack as \"a reasonable guy who liked quality musical instruments. He wasn't a quiet guy, but he was not boisterous. A middle-of-the-road guy. He knew a lot of stuff about a lot of different things. He liked electronics.\" Eli said he last spoke with Stack just before Christmas. \"Today was the first I knew he was having any IRS issues,\" Eli said. Jim Hemphill, 49, an Austin attorney who played guitar in the band, said he also was shocked. \"I never saw anything like this in Joe,\" Hemphill said. \"But we weren't the kind of friends who would talk about personal or political things. We just played music together.\" Hemphill said he saw Stack for the last time about a month ago when he had dinner at Stack's home, along with his wife and stepdaughter. The 33-paragraph manifesto that the FBI believes Stack wrote is typed neatly with near-perfect grammar. It drips with cynicism, paranoia and narcissism. In it, the writer rails on greedy corporations, corrupt politicians and, as an apparent last straw, a self-serving accountant who allegedly botched Stack's tax returns and got him in trouble with the IRS. California tax records seem to parallel the letter. Two of Stack's businesses were suspended by state authorities in California for tax problems. The state's Franchise Tax Board suspended the license of Software System Service in 2004 because of $1,153 in unpaid corporate income taxes from 1996 and 2002. Four years earlier, it suspended Prowess Engineering because the company failed to file a 1994 tax return, board spokeswoman Denise Azini said. Although the targets of Stack's apparent rage vary in his final letter, the gripe is consistent: No one cared about him. The manifesto begins with an indictment of politicians who are \"not the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say,\" and goes on to say that he had discovered that his accountant \"was representing himself and not me.\" Stack harks back to financiers in the Great Depression who leaped from Wall Street skyscrapers after losing everything. \"Now,\" he wrote, \"the poor get to die for the mistakes. \"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different,\" the letter says. \"I am finally ready to stop this insanity. \"Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.\" Small plane, big damage Even though Stack's plane — with a total weight of 3,000 pounds and a top speed of about 200 mph — is tiny compared with the large jets used by radical Islamic terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, it was capable of creating a significant explosion and fire, according to aviation accident investigators. The Dakota carries up to 77 gallons of fuel, according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) fact sheet on the plane. \"That's enough for an enormous fire,\" said Steve Wallace, the former head of the FAA's accident investigation office. \"And particularly if the pilot was deliberately trying to drive the plane into the building.\" McCaul, the area's congressman, agrees. \"This little Piper caused devastating damage — it almost brought the entire building down,\" he said. McCaul added that he fears terrorists will see the damage Stack caused and plan copycat attacks. \"I think it's been on the radar of al-Qaeda and others,\" he said of using private planes in terror attacks. \"This just re-emphasizes the fact that it can be done, and they may attempt to do the same thing.\" When the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) proposed the first security regulations for private airplanes in late 2008, it exempted 150,000 small airplanes that it did not consider to be threats. The regulations, which are being revised, targeted 15,000 business jets that the TSA said could cause significant damage if terrorists were to pack one with explosives and fly it into a building. These jets \"could be used effectively to commit a terrorist act,\" the TSA said in proposing background checks for people boarding private jets. That assertion was challenged last year by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general. Private aviation \"does not present a serious homeland security vulnerability requiring TSA to increase regulatory oversight,\" Inspector General Richard Skinner said in a report. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano disputed the conclusion. Levin and Frank reported from Washington; Jayson from Austin. Contributing: Kevin Johnson in Vancouver, Brad Heath and Donna Leinwand in Washington. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the \"Report Abuse\" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the \"Report Abuse\" button to make a difference. Read more", "url": "http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-18-plane-crash-building_N.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100221081742/http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-18-plane-crash-building_N.htm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Pilot's online suicide note blasts IRS", "text": "A\nHave more to add? News tip? Tell us\nAUSTIN -- In a rambling, obscenity-laced suicide note posted online, the pilot accused of flying his plane into an Austin office building Thursday takes aim at the IRS, religion, big business and even former President George W. Bush.\nA man identified as Joe Stack, 53, of Austin flew his small, single-engine airplane from a Georgetown airport to Austin about 25 miles away without filing a flight plan and crashed it into a seven-story office complex in northwest Austin, reports said. Officials also believe he set his own house ablaze.\nTwo bodies were recovered in the debris, Austin fire officials said late Thursday.\n\"I remember reading about the stock market crash before the 'great' depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything,” according to the online note, dated Feb. 18, 2010, and signed “Joe Stack, (1956-2010).\"\n“Isn't it ironic how far we've come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn't have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it's 'business-as-usual.'\n\"Now when the wealthy f--- up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn't that a clever, tidy solution.\"\nStack, who is presumed dead, described himself in the note as a software engineer and blamed the government, the IRS and accountants for his business problems.\nViolence, he wrote, \"not only is the answer, it is the only answer.\"\nFlames poured out of windows and terrified workers fled the building after the crash. Emergency crews found a body in the building early Thursday night, but Police Chief Art Acevedo declined to say whether it was the pilot. Later Thursday, a second body was found in the wreckage.\nAt least 13 people were injured, with two reported in critical condition.\nFire Department Battalion Chief Palmer Buck said late Thursday that authorities \"have now accounted for everybody,\" but declined to discuss the identities of those found.\nAuthorities said earlier that the pilot who crashed into the building was presumed dead and that one worker in the building had been missing.\nThick black and gray smoke was billowing out of the second and third stories of the building Thursday as fire crews using ladder trucks and hoses battled the fire. Dozens of windows were blown out of the hulking black building, and vehicles traveling on a nearby highway paused to look.\nQuoting a federal official, CNN reported that the pilot had torched his home before taking off in the plane. Public records show the home was located in the 1800 block of Dapplegrey Lane.\nThe airplane involved is a Piper PA-28-236 that is registered to Stack.\nThe office building, described as the Echelon building, is in the 9400 block of Research Boulevard, according to Austin fire officials. The site, about six miles southwest of Stack's home in northwest Austin, is near U.S. 183 and MoPac. The crash occurred about 10 a.m.\nA federal official said two F-16 fighter jets were launched as a precaution after the crash, though a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said there is no reason to believe that terrorism was involved. President Obama was briefed on the crash.\nInitial reports were that the Austin field offices of the San Antonio FBI were in the building, but it was later learned that the FBI offices are in a nearby building. The building does contain offices of the Internal Revenue Service where about 190 people work, according to reports.\nIn the online note, Stack says he lived in southern California, worked as a “contract software engineer,” and had been divorced and remarried. He says that he moved to Austin to try his luck but ended up finding no work. He even blames the FAA for costing him business by grounding air traffic after 9/11, preventing him from calling on clients.\nThe note ends: \"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.\"\nFirefighters received the crash report at about 9:56 a.m. and arrived on the scene within four minutes, authorities said.\nAbout 60 firefighters battled the blaze after the crash, said Buck, the Austin fire battalion chief.\nCrews were later pulled out of the building, Buck said.\n\"It’s a pretty dangerous mission,\" he said.\nBuck said the building would be closed for quite awhile.\nAn access road in front of the building also remained closed, Buck said.\nThe building, in a heavily congested section of Austin, was still smoldering six hours later, with the worst of the damage on the second and third floors.\nThe entire outside of the second floor was gone on the side of the building where the plane hit. Support beams were bent inward. Venetian blinds dangled from blown-out windows, and large sections of the exterior were blackened with soot. It was not immediately clear if any tax records were destroyed.\nPolice Chief Acevedo said the person who was unaccounted for earlier was scheduled to be at work Thursday, but he had no other information. He noted, however, that initial reports that the pilot had stolen the plane were incorrect and he confirmed that the man owned it.\nPeggy Walker, an IRS revenue officer who works in the Echelon building, said she was sitting at her desk when the plane crashed.\n\"It felt like a bomb blew off. The ceiling caved in and windows blew in. We got up and ran,\" she said.\nMatt Farney, 39, who was in the parking lot of a nearby Home Depot, said he saw a low-flying private plane near some apartments and the office building just before it crashed.\n\"I figured he was going to buzz the apartments or he was showing off,\" Farney said, adding that the plane dipped down. \"It was a ball of flames that was high or higher than the apartments. It was surreal. It was insane. ... It didn't look like he was out of control or anything.\"\nMichelle Santibanez was sitting at her desk about a half-mile from the crash when she felt vibrations. She and her co-workers ran to the windows, where they saw a scene that reminded them of the 2001 terrorist attacks, she said.\n\"It was the same kind of scenario with window panels falling out and desks falling out and paperwork flying,\" said Santibanez, an accountant.\nFederal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the agency was investigating but had no immediate information on the type of plane or how many people were on board.\nNational Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson told The Associated Press that an investigator from the board's Dallas office has been dispatched to the scene of the accident to start an investigation.\nThe FAA and NTSB officials said they had no information on whether the crash was intentional.", "url": "http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1978260.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20101231053531/http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/18/1978260/small-plane-crashes-in-austin.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Texas pilot air attack on US tax office", "text": "Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement The pilot of a plane which crashed into an office block in Austin, Texas, left a note expressing his anger at federal tax authorities, police say. Police are linking the apparent suicide note left online to Joseph Andrew Stack, the man named as the pilot. The note criticised the Internal Revenue Service - based inside the office block and declared: \"Violence is the only answer.\" Firefighters continue to search for one person who is still unaccounted for. 'Leaping flames' The single-engined Piper Cherokee plane hit the second floor of the seven-storey building at 0956 local time (1556GMT). It had taken off from nearby Georgetown airport in Texas, and did not file a flight plan, Lynn Lunsford of the Federal Aviation Administration said. Twisted metal and debris seemed to be the only thing left on some floors Heather Wills, from Austin, told the BBC that she was driving past when she saw the huge cloud of black smoke. \"As I got nearer I could see flames leaping out of the building - the flames were two storeys high. I could hear the glass windows shattering from the heat. \"My first thought was that it was a fire. The traffic was backed up all along the freeway.\" Around 190 IRS employees work in the office complex and some were forced to climb out of windows after the plane burst into flames. Two people were taken to hospital, but it is not clear if they were seriously injured. There has been no official statement on the status of the pilot. Grievance Police are also investigating whether Mr Stack set fire to his house before crashing the plane. The message on the website apparently registered to and signed by Mr Stack speaks of having problems with the IRS. \"Well, Mr Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well,\" the note reads. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said there was no cause for concern and assured residents that it was an isolated incident. The White House said the crash did not appear to be an act of terrorism. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama had been briefed about the incident. The Department of Homeland Security was investigating the crash, he added. As a precaution, the North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled two F-16 fighter jets from Houston, Texas, to patrol the area.\nBookmark with: Delicious\nDigg\nreddit\nFacebook\nStumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8522746.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100221162058/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8522746.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "24 Hour Local News", "text": "2 dead after plane crashes into North Austin building\nUpdated: 2/18/2010 9:04 PM\nBy: Anna M. Gonzalez\nTimeline 9:18 a.m. - AFD receives call about a house fire on in the 1800 block of Dapplegrey Lane.\n9:24 a.m.\n9:40 a.m. - Plane departs Georgetown Airport\n9:55 a.m. - Witnesses report seeing low-flying aircraft\n9:56 a.m. – The same aircraft crashes and caused damage to 7 story structure A federal employee died when a plane crashed into a building in North Austin Thursday, police say. According to federal officials, the pilot of the plane started a house fire in North Austin before heading to the Georgetown Municipal Airport, getting into his plane and flying it into the Echelon Building 1 in the 9400 block of Research Blvd. The building houses 200 employees of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, including that agency’s criminal investigations division. The pilot is also presumed dead. EMS officials say 13 people were treated on the scene, suffering from heat-related injuries. Of those, two were critically injured and transported to the hospital. One person suffered second-degree burns across 25 percent of his back. He was transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. The other suffered non-life threatening injuries due to smoke inhalation. Witness reports The FBI is asking all witnesses to share your account of what happened: 210-650-6196 (6197/6198/6199 or 6200) Meanwhile, witnesses at the house fire in the 1800 block of Dapplegrey Lane told News 8 Austin they feared the fire was intentionally set. Investigators have confirmed the house was owned by 53-year-old software engineer Andrew Joseph Stack. WATCH THE VIDEO Damage report\nAFD Battalion Chief Palmer Buck talks about the damage on the scene.\nLatest from the scene\nOfficials delivered the latest news at a press conference at 4:45 p.m. Thursday.\nRecap of events\nNews 8’s Bob Robuck reports from the scene.\nStack's family was at home at the time of the fire and were able to escape unharmed. They are not commenting on the incident. Stack's family was at home at the time of the fire and were able to escape unharmed. They are not commenting on the incident. Authorities also found an anti-IRS note on EmbeddedArt.com, a site Stack owns. The note has since been removed. The site’s archive indicates Embedded Art was “a small independent software house, specializing in process control and automation.\" The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane, a Piper Cherokee PA28, departed from Georgetown airport, about 20 miles north of Austin at about 9:40 a.m. The crash occurred about 30 minutes later and ignited a two-alarm fire. TxDOT cameras in the area showed fire and smoke coming from the building. Fire officials on the scene of the crash were worried the building would collapse as metal beams were reportedly breaking. Crews on the scene reported still seeing debris fly off the building an hour after the crash, and the fire was still burning on the inside of the building. The debris is believed to be from firefighters breaking glass windows to vent the building. News 8 crews in the field said debris from the crash hit a Lexus, shattering the car’s windshield. There is no word on injuries to the vehicle occupants. As of Thursday at 1 p.m., police have reopened the northbound lanes of U.S. Highway 183. The southbound frontage road of 183 was still closed at 5 p.m. The St. Edwards University Professional Education Center is housed nearby the crash, according to Mischelle Diaz, information officer at St. Edwards University. Everyone was evacuated from the building after the crash. Initially it was reported the Austin Resident Agency Office of the FBI was housed in the building. However, the FBI’s offices are adjacent to the building. “It hit the building next door. All FBI personnel are safe. We are helping local police departments and fire to determine what happened. Nothing indicates we were targeted,” Erik Vasys with FBI in San Antonio said. The plane crash re-opened a wound for Austinites and awakened memories of 9/11. Click here for the story. Related Stories 2/18/10 Georgetown Municipal Airport reopens after scare 2/18/10 Neighbors of alleged pilot shocked, saddened Officials react to tragedy Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell: Today we suffered a tragic event in Austin. Our public safety first responders reacted quickly and efficiently and contained the fire as well as the incident. From the site of the crash it was apparent to me that the event could have resulted greater numbers of injured people. And, while we are lucky that the injury count is low, the thoughts and prayers of our community go out to the families involved. This incident is now fully contained. This is apparently an isolated incident and Austinites should feel safe to go about their daily lives. Gov. Rick Perry today issued the following statement regarding the plane crash in Austin: “In true Texas form, first responders and everyday citizens responded to today’s plane crash with selfless acts of heroism, securing the area, evacuating the building and controlling the fire, and are to be commended. My office continues to communicate with local, state and federal officials on this incident, which is currently an open criminal investigation. With details still emerging, it is important to refrain from speculation and let the law enforcement experts determine what exactly unfolded.”\nIRS Commissioner Doug Shulman: Like most Americans, I am shocked by the tragic events that took place in Austin this morning. This incident is of deep concern to me. We are working with law-enforcement agencies to fully investigate the events that led up to this plane crash. My thoughts and prayers go out to the dedicated employees of the IRS who work in the Austin building. We will immediately begin doing whatever we can to help them during this difficult time. While this appears to be an isolated incident, the safety of our employees is my highest priority. We will continue to do whatever is needed to ensure our employees are safe.\nEmail this Story to a Friend Printer Friendly Version Search TOP STORIES", "url": "http://news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=267318", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100221080821/http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=267318" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Officials investigating plane crash as a crime", "text": "by The Associated Press\nPosted on February 18, 2010 at 12:14 PM\nAUSTIN -- Investigators want to know if today's fiery crash of a small plane into an Austin building that houses the IRS -- was intentional.\nThe Associated Press reports authorities are trying to determine if the pilot targeted the tax agency.\nAssistant Austin Fire Chief Harry Evans says one person is missing and two people were taken to a hospital. Their conditions and identities weren't immediately known.\nThe crash sent workers fleeing as ceilings crumbled, windows shattered and flames shot out of the building.\nThick black and gray smoke was billowing out of the second and third stories.\nFederal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford says the pilot didn't file a flight plan.\nIRS worker Peggy Walker was at her desk when the plane crashed.", "url": "http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Officials-investigating-plane-crash-as-a-crime-84714402.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100220072006/http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Officials-investigating-plane-crash-as-a-crime-84714402.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Austin news, sports, weather, Longhorns, business", "text": "If you use an RSS reader, here is feed for The Blotter: XML . Learn more about RSS.\nHome > The Blotter > Archives > 2010 > February > 18 > Entry\nA small plane crashed into a Northwest Austin building that houses federal offices about 10 this morning, injuring several people and sparking a fire that sent plumes of smoke into the air that could be seen for miles.\nAustin Police Chief Art Acevedo said the crash, at the Echelon 1 building in the 9400 block of Research Boulevard, “appears to be an intentional act, appears to be by a sole individual, and it appears this individual was targeting federal offices inside that building.”\nThe plane, a single-engine Piper Cherokee PA-28-236 Dakota, took off from a Georgetown airport at 9:40 a.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said.\nA federal official confirmed for the Statesman that its tail number is registered to a plane owned by Andrew Joseph Stack, a private plane pilot whose nearby home was on fire at roughly the same time.\nThe North Austin home was destroyed, but officials have not confirmed that the two incidents are connected.\nIt is unclear who was piloting the plane when it crashed into the building, but an FBI agent said all indications are that Stack was piloting the plane.\nA note posted on a Web site registered to Stack suggested that Stack was disgruntled with the U.S. tax system.\nThe Georgetown airport had been shut down and evacuated about 12:30 p.m., Georgetown police Lt. Todd Turbush said, though he did not have details on why. A dispatcher with the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office said emergency officials were investigating Stack’s car, which he had left at the airport.\nFlights there were to resume about about 5:15 p.m., said an official with the Austin-Travis County Emergency Operations Center who did not wish to be named.\nAustin Fire Department Division Chief Dawn Clopton said that the FBI would be taking over the investigation. An FBI agent who declined to identify himself said the agency is investigating the incident as an assault on a federal officer.\nOfficials said 13 people were treated at the scene, mostly with burns and heat-related injuries. Two were critically injured and transported to area hospitals.\nAn IRS revenue collection agent who worked on the building’s second floor is missing, said Mark Menn, a 59-year-old field revenue agent who worked in the building. Menn declined to give the man’s name.\nMatilda Sanchez, spokeswoman for the Seton Family of Hospitals, said an injured man was admitted to University Medical Center Brackenridge in good condition with minor injuries and smoke inhalation. The man was later discharged.\nSanchez said a second man was admitted in serious condition with burns, then transported to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.\nA second hospitalized patient was identified by the Texas Comptroller’s office one of its employees, 38-year-old Shane Hill. The comptroller’s office said Hill was at the Echelon building for work, but did not elaborate.\n“The thoughts and prayers of Texas Comptroller Susan Combs and her agency are with Shane Hill and his family,” the office said in a written statement.\nTo see more on the condition of the patients, click here.\nAuthorities have been unable to reach the crash impact site and do not yet know the condition of the pilot, Clopton said.\n“That is part of the building that is unstable,” she said. Battalion Chief Palmer Buck said that part of building has collapsed and some steel beams are bowed down.\nThe pilot did not file a flight plan or, as far as FAA officials know at this time, have any other contact with the agency.\nFederal investigators said two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled from Houston as a precaution, but were returned after initial details showed no terrorist connection to the crash.\n“At this time, we have no reason to believe there is a nexus to terrorist activity. We continue to gather more information, and are aware there is additional information about the pilot’s history,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.\nThe Internal Revenue Service has offices in the Echelon building, including its civil enforcement and criminal investigations divisions, said Special Agent Michael Lemoine, a spokesman for the criminal investigations division.\nHe said that some IRS offices are on the first floor, which Lemoine said was hit by the plane.\nWilliam Winnie, an Internal Revenue Service agent, said he was in a training session on the third floor of the building when he saw a light-colored, single-engine plane coming at the building.\n“It looked like it was coming right in my window,” Winnie said. He said the plane veered down and to the left and crashed into the floors below. “I didn’t lose my footing, but it was enough to knock people who were sitting to the floor.”\nTo read more witness accounts, click here.\nMischelle Diaz, a spokeswoman for St. Edward’s University, said the plane hit next to a building where the university’s Professional Education Center provides software training and teaches some graduate students. She said the education center has been evacuated and that university officials were trying to confirm that students and instructors all got out safely.\n“We’re just desperately trying to get some information,” Diaz said.\nThe American Red Cross of Central Texas will be providing food and water to the firefighters and investigators at the crash site, said spokeswoman Marty McKellips.\nPhotos: Plane crashes into North Austin building\nPhotos: Crews respond to North Austin house fire\nVideo: Scene from the North Austin plane crash\nPhoto: Claudia Grisales/American-Statesman a\nGet the latest crime reports in your neighborhood with the Statesman's Crime Tracker.\nPermalink |", "url": "http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2010/02/18/austin_police_say_a_plane.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100221053009/http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2010/02/18/austin_police_say_a_plane.html" } ]

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[ { "language": "en", "title": "A Bumpy Road Ahead For Yahoo Search?", "text": "During Yahoo's Q4 earnings call, CEO Carol Bartz talked up the quality of the company's search offering?noting that consumer usage had \"stabilized,\" and reminding naysayers that Microsoft's Live Search was a distant second in terms of query volume and market share. But there are signs that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is facing strong headwinds when it comes to paid search: ?While Q4 search revenues were up 11 percent year-over-year, they were down $2 million sequentially?Recent vendor reports found that Yahoo's lead over Microsoft in terms of advertiser share had narrowed to just 3 percent, an indication that Microsoft is picking up new advertisers and greater percentages of their budgets at a faster pace\nAnd according to Search Engine Land's Danny Sullivan, Yahoo has been making changes to advertisers' campaigns?including adjusting the keywords they bid on and creating ad copy?without the marketers' express consent. Some outspoken search pros say they've shut down their YSM accounts completely as a result, and others say they've shifted their budget to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT).\nSullivan says the main problem is that the campaign optimizations are opt-out?not opt-in?and the changes are driving up advertisers' costs without delivering a solid ROI. Yahoo posted an official response, arguing that the changes have only affected a small percentage of accounts, and that they're designed to benefit small-to-medium-sized advertisers that can't afford SEM support, in particular. Still, with Yahoo trying to revitalize its brand under Bartz, and fend off Microsoft as paid search competition, Sullivan notes the obvious: \"Yahoo can't afford to alienate advertisers right now.\"\nRelated\nSearch Ad Update: Q4 A Mixed Bag In Terms Of Spending\nWith Bartz On Board, Next Wave Of Speculation Rolls In", "url": "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/02/AR2009020200046.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110216084332/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/02/AR2009020200046.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Yahoo Ceding Leadership in Display Advertising to Google", "text": "Google Closes in on Yahoo's Leadership in Display Advertising\nMeanwhile, Marketers Don't Think the No. 2 Online Player Has Made Strides in Search, According to Poll\nNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Yahoo's business didn't crater in the fourth quarter -- good news for new CEO Carol Bartz. But the bad news: The No. 2 online player predicts first-quarter revenue will be down 10% as the recession starts to hit online-display-ad budgets in a bigger way. What's more, the display-ad advantage it commanded over its closest competitor, Google, is less formidable than it used to be.\nYahoo CEO Carol Bartz\nResearch firm Advertiser Perceptions shared with Advertising Age the results of its latest Advertiser Intelligence Report, a poll of 1,212 executives at agencies and marketers involved in online advertising. The results won't leave anyone at Yahoo sleeping well at night: Google is making inroads on the display-ad side and is now perceived to be Yahoo's equal in many key metrics -- yet Yahoo hasn't made commensurate gains in search.\n\"Perceptions of Yahoo are strong and are improving, but what's surprising is how well Google's display efforts have succeeded in creating equally strong perceptions on Yahoo's turf,\" said Advertising Perceptions CEO Ken Pearl. \"Since positive perceptions lead to increasing ad revenue, it will be interesting to see how the online-display market plays out over the next several months.\"\nYahoo declined to comment on the poll.\nThe data break down like this: Advertisers give Yahoo very high marks for the results of their ad campaigns and for the marketing services Yahoo provides. But in a survey conducted in November, Google bested Yahoo when it came to results advertisers felt they were getting from campaigns: Advertisers rated Yahoo 29% better than the average of the 150 online media companies in the survey, but Google rated 43% better.\nCustomer service vs. user experience\nOn marketing services, Yahoo is still preferred, rating 42% better than average, compared with 7% better than average for Google. But in terms of audience, advertisers perceive virtually no difference between display ads on Google and display ads on Yahoo. And in customer service, Google is beating Yahoo handily: Google rates 19% above the industry average compared with 9% above average for Yahoo, a sign that some of Google's hard work wooing agencies and marketers is paying off.\nSome perspective: For all its effort thus far, Google is still a nonplayer in display, and earns 99% of its revenue from search, while Yahoo dominates 33% of the $7.1 billion U.S. online-display market, according to eMarketer. It will take more than matching Yahoo in advertiser perception to close that gap.\nAlso troubling for Yahoo: It is losing ground in search in the eyes of marketers. Google accounted for 73% of the revenue in the larger and faster-growing search-ad marketplace, compared with Yahoo's 13%, according to eMarketer.\nYahoo's dominance in display is due in part to its scale and to its skill in providing marketing solutions to Madison Avenue. But Yahoo's year of turmoil, including a revolving door of ad execs in key verticals, came at just the time Google was putting the pedal through the floor.\n\"[Yahoo's] lack of focus internally bled out and diminished their ability to solve their client's marketing problems,\" said Steve Kerho, VP-analytics at Omnicom interactive shop Organic.\nKeeping search\nIronically, Mr. Kerho said he believes the best way for Yahoo to protect its display-ad business is to find a way to succeed in search. \"When you look at how people consume media online, it's search and display. Their ability to give end-to-end solutions is hampered if they have to outsource part of that,\" he said.\nWhile it's early to know how Ms. Bartz intends to approach search, she indicated last week she's not inclined to part with it. \"Search is a very valuable part of our business,\" she said. \"Understanding the intent and goals of our users as they seek information online is extremely useful to our franchise in many ways.\"\nMs. Bartz said she was eager to get to know Yahoo's sales force and \"have a beer with them.\" Better make that a double, because 2009 could be the toughest they've had to face.", "url": "http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=134211", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090205104720/http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=134211" }, { "language": "en", "title": "by : Yahoo! Tech", "text": "- Yahoo's Briefcase online storage service, which soldiered on for almost 10 years with a distinctly Web 1.0 capacity of 30MB, is finally being shut down.\nUsers of the free service, which lets people upload files as big as 5MB and organize them in folders, are being greeted by a message that says they have to download or delete their files by March 30. After that, the accounts will be closed and files deleted.\nYahoo is discontinuing Briefcase because users outgrew it, Yahoo said in a statement. Other services, such as Yahoo Mail and Flickr, offer far greater storage capacity, and the use of Briefcase has fallen in recent years, the company said. The move will help it to focus on services that are more widely used, according to Yahoo.\nAs it battles Google and Microsoft in the search arena and struggles to bring in more revenue from its array of other services, Yahoo is being driven toward tighter focus. The company announced layoffs last year and has seen its stock price plunge since a proposed acquisition by Microsoft fell apart in May 2008.\nTime may have passed Briefcase by, but the idea of Internet-based file storage is alive and well. Microsoft last year announced Live Mesh, a service now in beta testing that lets users store files online, keep them synchronized across mobile devices and PCs, and access them on the road. The free DropBox application offers similar capabilities. And Google is rumored to be near introducing an online storage service called GDrive.", "url": "http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090131/tc_pcworld/yahoosbriefcasetoclosemarch30", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090203170019/http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/20090131/tc_pcworld/yahoosbriefcasetoclosemarch30" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Tech Ticker", "text": "Yahoo\nShutting Briefcase\nYahoo will close an online storage service called Briefcase as the company sheds some operations. Briefcase, introduced almost 10 years ago, will shut March 30 and users must download or delete files by then, the company said on its Web site. Yahoo customers were already shifting to other services, such as its e-mail program or the Flickr photo site, to store files online, the company said. \"Usage has been significantly declining over the years as users outgrew the need for Yahoo Briefcase and turned to offerings with much more storage and enhanced sharing capabilities,\" spokeswoman Kim Rubey said in an e-mailed statement. \"Discontinuing the service will allow us to focus our efforts on more broadly used products.\"\n— Bloomberg News\nAdobe\nIPhone Flash elusive\nAdobe Systems faces a challenge in creating a version of its Flash video software for Apple's iPhone, CEO Shantanu Narayen said. \"It's a hard technical challenge, and that's part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,\" Narayen said Friday in a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. \"The onus is on us to deliver.\" Adobe's Flash, used to view online video and animation, is installed on 98 percent of the world's personal computers. While the software is on more than 800 million handsets, it isn't available on the iPhone. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said last March that Flash runs too slowly for the iPhone.\nAdvertisement\n— Bloomberg News\nTessera\nWins patent review\nTessera Technologies won a patent-infringement ruling in its bid to strike licensing agreements with Qualcomm and other chip makers for wireless devices. The U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday agreed to review a decision by one of its judges that Tessera's patents weren't infringed by the chip makers. The review will be completed by April. The case against Qualcomm, Motorola and four other companies was the first of three to be heard by the commission, which has the power to block imports of products that violate U.S. patents. San Jose-based Tessera's patents cover a way of making packaging to surround the chips so they are protected from damage and yet can be made smaller and faster.\n— Bloomberg News", "url": "http://www.mercurynews.com/businessheadlines/ci_11595384", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190947/http://www.mercurynews.com/businessheadlines/ci_11595384" } ]

[ "Terrorismo", "Política", "Israel", "Palestina", "Oriente Medio", "Ehud Ólmert", "Mahmoud Abbas", "Hamás", "Asia" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "As Troops Surround Gaza City, Death Toll Passes 500; U.N. Head Calls For End To Operation; Europe Pledges Aid", "text": "Search CBS News The Web •\n» Israeli Forces Bisect Gaza Strip As Troops Surround Gaza City, Death Toll Passes 500; U.N. Head Calls For End To Operation; Europe Pledges Aid E-Mail Story\nPrint Story\nSphere\nShare\nA A Text Size: A\nContinued 1 | 2\nThousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships pushed deeper into Gaza Sunday, fighting militants at close range and surrounding the coastal territory's largest city in the first full day of an overwhelming ground offensive.Israel said it has inflicted a heavy blow against Hamas as it expands a weeklong offensive meant to stop rocket fire on southern Israel. But spiraling civilian casualties fueled an intensifying international outcry.Israel's ground forces moved in after nightfall Saturday following hours of intense, fiery artillery shelling to clear the way. Gaza will be Israel's graveyard, Hamas warned, but Israel said it lost just one soldier in the first day of ground combat, reports\"Israeli soldiers are currently in combat operations in Gaza and we know that we will take casualties,\" said government spokesman Mark Regev. \"We didn't enter this operation because we wanted to.\"They did it because they had to, said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at a cabinet meeting, to stop the barrage of Hamas rockets raining down on Israeli communities. But the rockets haven't stopped,reports. More than thirty fell on Israel on Sunday.Israeli soldiers continued to fight primarily in open areas in the launching zones used by Gaza's militants to send rockets raining down on Israeli cities. As the troops in three brigade-size formations moved in, residents of those Israeli cities began emerging from bomb shelters in hopes that the rocket fire would taper off.Backing up the troops, mobile artillery units fired shells that exploded in heavy veils of white smoke over Gaza's urban skyline. Tanks pushed south of Gaza City as deep as the abandoned Israeli settlement of Netzarim, which Israel left along with other Israeli communities when it pulled out of Gaza in 2005.That effectively cut off Gaza City, the territory's largest population center with some 400,000 residents, from the rest of Gaza to the south.Israel's military chief said Hamas fighters were trying to draw soldiers deeper into Gaza's sprawling, densely packed urban areas, where the military said Hamas was seeking protection behind civilians.Israeli forces have not yet entered urban areas, said Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu, the chief army spokesman. He warned, however, that the operation was not a \"school trip\" and would be long and demanding.The ground invasion presents Israel with the risk of being sucked into intense urban combat, with house-to-house fighting, sniper fire and booby-traps. Hamas is believed to have some 20,000 gunmen and has had time to prepare.To guard against hidden explosives, Israel's ground forces moved through fields and orchards with bomb-sniffing dogs.Since the ground assault began, 64 Palestinian civilians have been killed, said Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, a Health Ministry official.At one hospital, in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, medics carrying three injured children in their arms rushed them to treatment. One of the children had a blood-soaked bandage wrapped around his head and covering his eyes.An Israeli shell also struck an ambulance in the town, killing one paramedic, said Marwan Abu Ras, a hospital administrator. The relief organization Oxfam, which said the ambulance belonged to a partner organization, al-Awda Hospital, confirmed the incident.An airstrike hit another ambulance belonging to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza City, killing three other paramedics, said medic Jamal Hawajiri. That ambulance crew was driving to a Hamas training site where there were reports of wounded.\n© MMIX, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.", "url": "http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/04/world/main4697321.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_4697321", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090214070909/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/04/world/main4697321.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_4697321" }, { "language": "es", "title": "La Fuerza Aérea israelí bombardea 130 objetivos en la Franja de Gaza", "text": "AGENCIAS / VÍDEOS: ATLAS. 05.01.2009 - 08:42h\nEl ataque por tierra y aire de las fuerzas militares de Israel continúa en Gaza. Durante la madrugada de este lunes, los aviones hebreos han combardeado 130 objetivos en la franja de Gaza, según han confirmado el propio Ejército.\nEntre los objetivos se encuentra una mezquita, casas donde se almacenaba armamento y vehículos que transportaban armas y combatientes.\nAtaques contra mezquitas\nCinco personas murieron y diez resultaron heridas en un nuevo ataque contra una mezquita en Yebalia, en el norte de Gaza, poco después de que el Ejercito israelí admitiera su primera baja mortal, que se registró en la misma área.\nSegún testigos, fuerzas aéreas israelíes lanzaron varias cargas explosivas contra el templo musulmán, el segundo de esa localidad que sufre un bombardeo tras el que se produjo ayer en otra mezquita, que dejó once muertos.\nUna madre palestina y sus cuatro hijos han muerto en un bombardeo\nAdemás, una madre palestina y sus cuatro hijos han muerto en otro bombardeo aéreo israelí en en el marco de la invasión de la franja que ha dejado ya más de cuarenta palestinos muertos y unos 150 heridos, informaron fuentes médicas.\nEl ataque tuvo lugar en el este de la ciudad de Gaza, donde las calles están desiertas, con decenas de edificios destruidos por los bombardeos, como la sede del Parlamento.\nLa Franja dividida en dos\nLas fuerzas israelíes han cortado virtualmente la franja en dos, lo que impide el paso entre el norte y el sur de ese territorio, en el que viven al millón y medio de personas. La táctica de dividir el territorio, -de cuarenta kilómetros de largo por quince de ancho y donde viven millón y medio de personas-, tiene como finalidad cerrar las vías de comunicación y de aprovisionamiento de Hamás y otros grupos armados.\nGran parte de los fallecidos por el ataque son civiles, \"porque Israel está disparando contra las casas y los mercados\", dijo a Efe en conversación telefónica desde Gaza Hasan Yalaf, viceministro de Sanidad de Hamás y director general del Hospital de Shifa. En la ciudad de Gaza sólo se oyen los aviones israelíes y el fuego de explosiones y disparos de artillería.\nLa anunciada incursión comenzó el sábado. Una columna de tanques, acompañados de miles de soldados y helicópteros de combate, penetraron por el norte de la Franja de Gaza, cobrándose la vida de cincuenta milicianos de Hamás, según informan medios locales, y dejando heridos a 100 soldados israelíes, dos de ellos de gravedad.\nAdemás, según la cadena qatarí Al Yazira, dos soldados de Israel han sido capturados por sus milicianos y uno de ellos ha muerto, según ha confirmado Israel. Los habitantes del norte de Gaza huyeron despavoridos tras entrar esta noche en el área tanques israelíes según relata un testigo de la franja que contactó por teléfono desde Jerusalén.\nLos habitantes del norte Gaza huyeron despavoridos\n\"En el antiguo asentamiento de Duvit han entrado tanques acompañados de bulldozer y han provocado que muchas personas se fueran de sus casas\", explicó Alberto Arce, activista español que se encuentra en el campo de refugiados de Yabalia.\nSegún Arce, la gente corrió hacia la avenida de Salahedin (la principal del campo), \"cargada con mantas y bolsas de plástico\". Esta misma tarde, testimonios en Gaza denunciaron disparos de artillería y fuertes explosiones. Se trata del primer ataque de estas características por primera vez desde el comienzo de la ofensiva contra Hamas el pasado 27 de diciembre.\nVarios días\nLa incursión ha sido confirmada por Avital Leibovitch, portavoz militar israelí, que ha asegurado que el objetivo es tomar zonas desde las que se lanzan cohetes contra Israel. Fuentes del Ministerio de Defensa israelí citadas por el diario Haaretz indicaron previamente que unos 10.000 militares estaban preparados para cruzar la frontera e iniciar la invasión.\nEl Gobierno israelí ha dicho que la operación durará varios días. De acuerdo con fuentes militares israelíes citadas por medios locales, la incursión será corta y masiva para cumplir pronto los objetivos y evitar un alto número de bajas.\nEn una nota del Ejercito señala que \"los residentes de Gaza no son el objetivo de la operación. Aquellos que usan a los civiles, los ancianos, las mujeres y los niños como escudos humanos son responsables de todos los daños a la población civil\". Pero advierte que \"cualquiera que esconda armas o a un terrorista en su casa será considerado un terrorista\".\nEl mayor daño a Israel\nPor su parte Hamás ha emitido un comunicado donde dice que Israel \"pagará cara la invasión\". En declaraciones a la televisión Al Arabiya, Mohammad Nazzal, portavoz de Hamás, ha asegurado que milicianos de Hamás han matado a varios soldados israelíes.\nPor otro lado, el jefe del Hizbulá, jeque Hassan Nasralá, instó a la resistencia palestina a causar el mayor mal posible a Israel. \"Nuestros hermanos de la resistencia palestina saben como causar el mayor daño posible al enemigo israelí durante la confrontación terrestre, que les permitirá ganar la batalla\", afirmó Nasralá, a través de una vídeoconferencia ante miles de sus seguidores.\nNuevos ataques aéreos\n\"Desde la frontera israelí que divisa la franja de Gaza hemos podido escuchar varios estruendos similares a los de un cañonazo. Han sido al menos tres\". Según los testigos, los disparos de artillería han comenzado a registrarse a las 16.30 horas (15.30 hora española), y se han sentido en Beit Hanoun, Jabaliya, en el norte de la franja de Gaza, y en el sector de Jan Yunis, en el sur.\nAl menos once personas han muerto y decenas han resultado heridas al bombardear helicópteros Apache israelíes una mezquita en la localidad de Beit Lahiya, en el norte de Gaza, según informaron fuentes médicas palestinas. Con estas muertes el cómputo de víctimas de la ofensiva israelí supera los 500 fallecidos y 2.500 heridos.\nEste nuevo ataque se produce después de que el líder de Hamás en el exilio Jaled Meshal advirtiera a Israel de que el movimiento islámico está listo para resistir una hipotética invasión terrestre del Ejército israelí en Gaza.\nAdemás, ha dicho que la agresión podría provocar el secuestro de más soldados israelíes, según informa el periódico israelí Haaretz en su página web. \"Si cometéis el acto estúpido de entrar en Gaza, quién sabe, podríamos tener un segundo o un tercer Shalit,\" ha dicho Meshal en referencia al soldado hebreo Gilad Shalit, quien fue secuestrado por milicianos en Gaza hace más de dos años.\nHospitales a oscuras y ambulancias sin heridos\nSegún Hasan Yalaf, director general del hospital Al Shifa y viceministro de Sanidad de Hamás, \"Israel ha cortado el suministro eléctrico en toda la franja y Gaza entera está en completa oscuridad\", lo que dificulta enormemente el funcionamiento de los hospitales - en su mayor parte desabastecidos- y la atención a los heridos.\n\"Muchas de las ambulancias que salían a hacer servicios empezaron a regresar de vacío porque no podían llegar a los lugares donde tenían que atender a los heridos, ya que los impactos de los misiles han hecho agujeros inmensos en las calles que no les permiten avanzar\", relató Yalaf.\nLas ambulancias no podían llegar a recoger a los heridos por el impacto de misiles en las calles\nPor su parte, el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR) denunció que, por segundo día consecutivo, el Gobierno de Israel impidió la entrada a Gaza de uno de sus equipos médicos, pese a que había informado con anticipación de su llegada.\nEl personal médico, dirigido por un cirujano de guerra, espera desde el pasado viernes la autorización para entrar a la Franja, que lleva una semana sometida a los bombardeos aéreos de Israel. La organización humanitaria señaló que el cruce de frontera de Erez entre Gaza e Israel fue abierto para otros trabajadores humanitarios y personas extranjeras que deseaban abandonar el territorio palestino.\nEl equipo médico del CICR debe colaborar en el hospital de Shifa con operaciones quirúrgicas complejas a heridos por los bombardeos. El CICR, que ha permanecido en Gaza desde el inicio de las hostilidades, informó también de que los hospitales siguen reportando la llegada de nuevas víctimas, \"incluidos niños\".", "url": "http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/440631/0/israel/tanques/gaza/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090125011526/http://20minutos.es/noticia/440631/0/israel/tanques/gaza" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Gaza civilians suffer as Israel troops tighten grip", "text": "By Nidal al-Mughrabi\nGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops and tanks split the Gaza Strip and ringed its main city on Sunday in an offensive against Hamas that has killed 500 Palestinians, including a growing number of civilians.\nIsraeli tanks poured shells and machinegun-fire into suspected militant positions and war planes struck as Hamas fighters fought back with mortars and rockets.\nHamas kept up rocket attacks against southern Israel, defying efforts by the Middle East's most powerful army to achieve Israeli leaders' declared aim of removing the threat of cross-border salvoes.\nIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a phone call that Israel would continue to allow in aid supplies to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Sarkozy arrives in Jerusalem on Monday to push for a truce.\nEuropean Union foreign policy chiefs launched a mission to seek a ceasefire in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip but acknowledged they faced a difficult task.\nIsraeli President Shimon Peres rejected the possibility of a ceasefire but said Israel did not intend to occupy Gaza.\n\"We shall not accept the idea that Hamas will continue to fire and we shall declare a ceasefire. It does not make any sense,\" Peres told U.S. broadcaster ABC.\nAt least 42 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed on Sunday as Israeli shells slammed into houses and Gaza's main shopping district, medical sources said.\nIsrael has accused Hamas of using civilians in the Gaza Strip as \"human shields,\" saying the Islamist group has been firing rockets at Israel from densely populated areas and storing weapons in homes and mosques.\nA foreign Red Crescent doctor said: \"Civilians are being killed ... shells are severing people's legs, shrapnel is going into people's bodies and into people's homes, a lot of people are being cut down. Everyone is terrified.\"\nMedics said three Palestinian rescue workers were killed by Israeli fire on Sunday, raising to seven the total number of medical staff who have died in nine days of bloodshed.\nThe Saturday night invasion of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip followed a week of Israeli bombardments from land, sea and air -- the most serious Israeli-Palestinian fighting in decades.\nPalestinians said soldiers moved deep into Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip and asked residents to leave their homes to avoid being hurt in the fighting. Some families sought refuge in U.N.-run schools in neighboring Beit Hanoun.\nGaza medical officials said the total Palestinian death toll in Israel's \"Operation Cast Lead\" rose to 512. A U.N. agency said at least a quarter of the dead were civilians. A Palestinian human rights group put the figure at 40 percent.\nOne Israeli soldier was killed and 32 were wounded in the ground offensive, Israel said. Four Israelis have been killed by the Hamas rocket strikes since December 27. Continued...", "url": "http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLS69391620090104", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090106015605/http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLS69391620090104" } ]

[ "COVID-19", "Pesquisa", "Saúde" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Coronavirus antibody prevalence falling in England, REACT study shows", "text": "Tests on more than 365,000 people in England have shown that the antibody response to the virus that causes COVID-19 wanes over time.\nLed by Imperial College London, analysis of finger-prick tests carried out at home between 20 June and 28 September found that the number of people testing positive dropped by 26.5% across the study period, from almost 6% to 4.4%.\nOur study shows that over time there is a reduction in the proportion of people testing positive for antibodies. It remains unclear what level of immunity antibodies provide, or for how long this immunity lasts. Prof Paul Elliott study author, Imperial College London\nThe downward trend was observed in all areas of the country and age groups, but not in health workers, which could indicate repeated or higher initial exposure to the virus, the authors suggest. The decline was largest in people aged 75 and above compared to younger people, and also in people with suspected rather than confirmed infection, indicating that the antibody response varies by age and with the severity of illness.\nPeople in London had the highest proportion of positive tests across the country, at around twice the national average. Health and care workers, ethnic minority groups, and those living in deprived areas and large households also had the greatest burden of past infection.\nThese findings suggest that there may be a decline in the level of immunity in the population in the months following the first wave of the epidemic.\nThese findings from the Real Time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) study are available in a pre-print report and will be submitted for peer-review.\nProfessor Paul Elliott, director of the programme at Imperial, said: “Our study shows that over time there is a reduction in the proportion of people testing positive for antibodies. Testing positive for antibodies does not mean you are immune to COVID-19. It remains unclear what level of immunity antibodies provide, or for how long this immunity lasts. If someone tests positive for antibodies, they still need to follow national guidelines including social distancing measures, getting a swab test if they have symptoms and wearing face coverings where required.”\nImplications for immunity\nThe REACT study is using finger-prick testing to detect coronavirus antibodies in the blood. When present these indicate that a person has been previously infected with the virus. The testing kits, called Lateral Flow Tests, detect antibodies above a particular concentration in the blood, and do not measure the amount of antibodies in a particular person.\nThe tests are sent out to randomly-selected adult volunteers across the country to carry out at home.\nThis very large study has shown that the proportion of people with detectable antibodies is falling over time. But we don’t yet know whether this will leave these people at risk of reinfection with the virus that causes COVID-19. Prof Helen Ward study author, Imperial College London\nThe latest report includes findings from three rounds of testing carried out over a three-month period. There were 17,576 positive results across all three rounds, around 30% of whom did not report any COVID-19 symptoms. After accounting for the accuracy of the test, confirmed by laboratory evaluation, and the country’s population characteristics, the study found that antibody prevalence declined from 6.0% to 4.8% and then 4.4% over the three months.\nThis was found across all ages but the smallest drop was found in the youngest age group, aged 18-24, falling from 7.9% to 6.7% (14.9%), while the largest was found in the oldest group, aged 75 and above, declining from 3.3% to 2.0% (39%).\nProfessor Helen Ward, one of the lead authors of the report said: “This very large study has shown that the proportion of people with detectable antibodies is falling over time. We don’t yet know whether this will leave these people at risk of reinfection with the virus that causes COVID-19, but it is essential that everyone continues to follow guidance to reduce the risk to themselves and others.”\nPrevalence across England\nAll parts of the country showed a fall in prevalence, except the West Midlands which increased in round two and then declined in round three. London has maintained the highest prevalence of antibodies across the different rounds, with 9% testing positive in round three, compared with the South West which consistently had the smallest proportion.\nWe rely on this kind of important research to inform our continued response to the disease, so we can continue to take the right action at the right time. Lord Bethell Health Minister\nThe decline was largest in people who didn’t report a history of COVID-19, dropping by almost two-thirds (64.0%) between rounds one and three, compared to a decrease of 22.3% in people who had an infection confirmed by lab testing.\nHealth Minister Lord Bethell said: “This study led by Imperial and Ipsos MORI is a critical piece of research, helping us to understand the nature of COVID-19 antibodies over time, and improve our understanding about the virus itself. We rely on this kind of important research to inform our continued response to the disease, so we can continue to take the right action at the right time.\n“It is also important that everyone knows what this means for them – this study will help in our fight against the virus, but testing positive for antibodies does not mean you are immune to COVID-19.\n“Regardless of the result of an antibody test, everyone must continue to comply with government guidelines including social distancing, self-isolating and getting a test if you have symptoms and always remember Hands, Face, Space.”\nMonitoring the coronavirus epidemic\nA separate arm of the REACT study is using at-home swab tests to monitor levels of current infection, involving more than 150,000 people each month.\nREACT has been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care, and is being carried out in partnership with Imperial College London, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Ipsos MORI.\nKelly Beaver, Managing Director of Public Affairs at Ipsos MORI said: “Over 365,000 members of the public have volunteered to take part in this at home antibody study which involves a small fingerprick test. I’d like to thank all of those that took the time to participate in the study which provides another piece of information to help the Government manage the pandemic for us all.”", "url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/207333/coronavirus-antibody-prevalence-falling-england-react/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201027091246/https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/207333/coronavirus-antibody-prevalence-falling-england-react/" } ]

[ "Crime and law", "Politics and conflicts", "Yemen", "Al-Qaeda", "Middle East", "Cocoaguy (Wikinewsie)" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Al-Qaida leader killed in Yemen as security operations intensify", "text": "Yemeni security forces have killed a regional al-Qaida leader during intensifying operations against the organisation in the wake of its failed Christmas Day bombing of a US airliner over Detroit, the government said today.\nAli Hassan al-Ahmadi, governor of Shabwa province, said Abdullah Mehdar was killed overnight after being besieged in a house where he had been hiding.\nMehdar was reportedly the leader of an al-Qaida cell in the al-Houta region, 600km east of Sana'a, the capital. Four men were detained but several others escaped into the nearby hills. Another senior al-Qaida commander was captured last week.\nYemen insists it is capable of fighting al-Qaida on its own but needs more financial help, equipment and cooperation.\n\"Our security agencies are capable of tackling terrorist threats,\" the foreign minister, Abu-Bakr al-Qirbi, told Reuters news agency, adding that anti-terrorism and coastguard units needed outside support in training, equipment and exchange of intelligence.\n\"However, a security or military solution is not sufficient. So the international community has to pay more attention to the economic and development needs of Yemen,\" he added.\nLater this month the impoverished country in the Arabian peninsular and its many problems — poverty, rapid population growth and natural resource depletion — will be the subject of a one-day international conference in London, called by Gordon Brown in the aftermath of the attempt by the Nigerian student Omar Farouk Abumutallab to blow up a US airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day.\nPresident Barack Obama has ruled out sending in US troops but there is nervousness in Yemen that it is being identified in the west as a new front in the struggle against jihadi terror.\nOver the past few weeks the Yemeni government has sent reinforcements to some eastern provinces as it intensified its fight against al-Qaida, said by the Sana'a authorities to number some 200 to 300 members in the country.\nThe US and Britain say they fear Yemen, a failing if not a failed state, is in danger of becoming a safe haven for the organisation after its virtual defeat in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, and as it faces increasing pressure in Afghanistan and Pakistan.\nEarlier, Yemen's interior ministry said that at least 15 Houthi rebels had been killed in clashes with tribesmen loyal to the government and in operations by security forces, as violence increased in the Sa'ada region, north of the capital.\nSaudi Arabia, fighting the Houthis in support of the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, claimed this week to have killed hundreds of them. The rebels have fought the government sporadically since 2004, complaining of social, economic and religious marginalisation.\nIran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile attacked Riyadh for its support for the Yemeni government. \"We were expecting that Saudi Arabian officials would act like a mentor and make peace between brothers, not enter the war and use bombs ... and machine guns against Muslims.\n\"If only a small part of the weapons of Saudi Arabia were used on behalf of Gaza and against the Zionist regime (Israel), today there would be no sign of the Zionist regime in the region,\" Ahmadinejad said on state television.\nYemen in turn has repeatedly accused Iran of backing the Houthis.", "url": "http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/13/al-qaida-yemen", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100116133348/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/13/al-qaida-yemen" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Local al-Qaida Leader Killed in Yemen", "text": "Local al-Qaida Leader Killed in Yemen\nPhoto: AP\nThe alleged leader of an al-Qaida cell was killed in the Yemeni province of Shabwa, after security forces raided the house he was hiding in, according to the provincial governor. Yemen recently began cracking down on al-Qaida operations in several eastern provinces.\nThe governor of Yemen's eastern Shabwa province announced Wednesday that government security forces had killed a man they describe as the leader of a local al-Qaida cell, amid ongoing and intensive counter-terrorism operations.\nGovernor Ali Hassan al-Ahmadi told journalists that Abdullah Mehdar was killed by government security forces after they laid siege to a house where he was hiding.\nYemeni government TV reported that four alleged al-Qaida members were also arrested in the raid, which began Tuesday. The report said one security officer was killed when \"al-Qaida tried to create a diversion, attacking security forces in another place.\"\nEditor-in-chief Hakim Almasmari of the Yemen Post newspaper says that the latest success by the Yemeni government is part of a series of ongoing attacks on al-Qaida targets.\n\"Around 12 raids have happened in Sana'a on al-Qaida suspects over the last two days. In Shabwa, Abdallah Mehdar was killed because he did not surrender. He's not one of the top al-Qaida leaders but he is a member of al-Qaida. The good thing is that there were no civilian casualties reported for the attack,\" he said.\nAlmasmari says that Yemeni security forces were given special anti-terrorism training by the United States and are experienced in such operations.\n\"The national security army was trained by the U.S. for terrorist combating, so they were well trained. They attacked [Abdallah Mehdar's] house and he refused to surrender, but other al-Qaida members usually surrender to the government,\" he added.\nThe French press agency, quoting local sources, indicated that 18 al-Qaida suspects escaped the government dragnet and fled to a nearby mountain.\nYemeni TV, quoting military sources, warned local residents not to help al Qaida terrorists, but to help security forces in capturing them.\nShabwa province governor al-Ahmadi told reporters Sunday that dozens of foreign al-Qaida fighters, including Egyptians and Saudis who have fled from Afghanistan are hiding in the mountains of Shabwa district.\nYemen analysts say that Nasser al-Waheshi, leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, his deputy Saeed Ali al-Shehri, and Yemeni American Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki may be hiding in Shabwa.", "url": "http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Yemen-Al-Qaida-Leader-81312742.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100113230208/http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Yemen-Al-Qaida-Leader-81312742.html" } ]

[ "Judicial", "Obituario", "Política", "Sociedad", "São Paulo", "Sudamérica" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Selección de suscripción", "text": "Hasta 25 noticias al mes, acceso a portada, portadas de sección, vídeos, envivos y servicios como el tiempo, traductor, cartelera......\nLa newsletter y las alertas.\nParticipación sin límite en la Comunidad de lectores de EL MUNDO.\nPromociones y sorteos exclusivos.\nAcceso ilimitado a la aplicación de estadísticas deportivas.\nAcceso ilimitado a los contenidos de El MUNDO, sus revistas y suplementos en la Web.\nAcceso ilimitado a blogs, especiales y otros contenidos exclusivos de la Web.\nAcceso ilimitado a la hemeroteca digital.\nAcceso ilimitado a las aplicaciones de móviles y tabletas de El MUNDO incluidos la réplica digital (Orbyt) y la edición vespertina.\nAcceso ilimitado a los contenidos informativos adicionales de Orbyt a través de la Web.\nAcceso ilimitado a la hemeroteca de la edición impresa.\nCatálogo de 800 películas y las mejores series infantiles de televisión.\nÓpera y conciertos en directo y videoteca.", "url": "http://www.elmundo.es/america/2014/09/20/541cbf01ca474172788b4571.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140920133047/https://seguro.elmundo.es/compras/quiosco?r=w" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Un policía de Sao Paulo mata a un vendedor ambulante durante una redada", "text": "El jueves pasado, un policía militar de Sao Paulo, que integraba una redada contra vendedores de productos falsificados y DVD pirata mató de un disparo en la cabeza a Carlos Augusto Braga, un vendedor ambulante de 30 años y padre de cuatro hijos. La víctima trató de arrancar de las manos del policía un spray de pimienta mientras los agentes reducían a otro vendedor. El oficial, ya con el dedo el gatillo, simplemente, le descerrajó un tiro. Braga, herido de muerte, dio una decena de pasos y se desplomó en el suelo ante su mujer, su hermana y una multitud de curiosos.\nLa escena puede describirse con detalle porque varias personas la filmaron con un teléfono móvil. Es así como los ciudadanos han aprendido a defenderse de la brutalidad e impunidad policial, un problema, hasta hace poco oculto, que se repite en Sao Paulo y en el resto Brasil. Si no hubiese sido por las imágenes grabadas, se habría impuesto la primera versión oficial, que las autoridades mantuvieron durante horas: hubo un enfrentamiento entre los vendedores y los agentes, el tiro fue accidental y el policía, acorralado, también resultó herido de bala. En realidad, apenas sufrió unos arañazos. Con el vídeo incendiando todas las redes sociales, la policía cambió de versión y envió a prisión al agente, acusado de la muerte hace unos meses de un mendigo.\nLos vendedores ambulantes del barrio, tras la muerte de su colega, denunciaron ante las cámaras los abusos que sufren desde hace años por parte de la policía militar y bloquearon las calles con barricadas en llamas. En plena hora punta, los agentes reaccionaron con amenazas y bombas de gas lacrimógeno en una zona conocida por su comercio.\nEl alcalde de la ciudad, Fernando Haddad, del Partido de los Trabajadores de Dilma Rousseff, calificó la muerte del vendedor ambulante como un “episodio aislado”. Pero la violencia gratuita de la policía es habitual. Los especialistas y el sector más progresista de la población critican el comportamiento de una policía que aún conserva prácticas de la dictadura (1964-1985) y que no está entrenada para lidiar con situaciones cotidianas de tensión en la calle, como ha demostrado durante las protestas que agitan el país desde junio de 2013. Entre 2005 y 2009, la policía de Sao Paulo mató más de una persona por día, 2.045 víctimas, según un informe de la propia corporación.\nNingún vendedor ambulante trabajó al día siguiente en la zona del incidente en señal de luto. Durante el velatorio, en una humilde sala muy lejos de los barrios de imponentes rascacielos de la ciudad, la viuda, Claudine da Silva de 31 años, lamentaba no haber tenido tiempo para cambiar de vida: “La policía me había golpeado varias veces, incluso embarazada. La noche anterior a la muerte de mi amor nos prometimos que en diciembre dejaríamos las calle para poder parar de correr”.", "url": "http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/09/20/actualidad/1411249875_054103.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20191226195322/https://elpais.com/internacional/2014/09/20/actualidad/1411249875_054103.html" } ]

[ "Europe", "Science and technology", "Environment", "Climate change", "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" ]

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However, this will NOT affect your current purchase.", "url": "http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/Dynapage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v432/n7017/full/nature03089_fs.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050309064618/http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v432/n7017/full/nature03089_fs.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "SciDev.Net", "text": "2002 Satellite image of swollen Jamuna river flooding Bangladesh Catherine Brahic\n3 December 2004\nSource: SciDev.Net\nThis week's issue of Nature features the first study to demonstrate a link between greenhouse gas emissions and an extreme weather event — in this case, the unusually high temperatures in Europe during the summer of 2003 that led to 14,000 deaths more than the seasonal average in France alone. In their paper, Peter Stott of the UK Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, and colleagues say they \"estimate that it is very likely that human influence has at least doubled the risk\" of extreme weather events, such as the European heat wave. While it is impossible to attribute a single meteorological event, such as a heat wave or a flood, to changes in the atmosphere, it is possible, using available computer models, to estimate whether human activities increase the risk of such events taking place. Stott and colleagues did just that. They used a computer model to compare the likelihood of the 2003 heat wave taking place with and without human activities, which in the model included greenhouse gas emissions. The researchers conclude that human activities at least doubled the chance of the heat wave taking place, and say they are 90 per cent sure this statement is accurate. Previously, other scientists had made similar but unquantified estimates. In a SciDev.Net editorial earlier this year, Saleemul Huq, director of the Climate Change Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, wrote, \"It may be impossible to attribute [the 2004 floods in Bangladesh] to climate change\". \"But what can be said with certainty is that such events will occur with increasing frequency in the future, due to changes in the global climate system caused by greenhouse gas emissions attributable to human activities.\" Scientists are a long way from being able to determine exactly how far human activities were responsible for increasing the risk of severe floods in Bangladesh in 2004. However, says Stott, in theory the same methods that he and his colleagues used in their study could be applied to any weather event, anywhere in the world. PRECIS, a climate model based on the Hadley Centre's one, but able to be run on a personal computer, is just one of tools already being used in countries including Bhutan, Brazil and India to gain a better understanding of regional climate systems. Eventually, such information could lead to risk studies of regional weather events, like the one done by Stott and his colleagues. In accompanying article in Nature, Myles Allen, who supervised Stott's study, and UK lawyer Richard Lord write about the legal implications of the team's findings. \"Although these ideas may seem far-fetched now,\" they write, \"we could one day see Californian farmers suing member states of the European Union for authorising emissions that threatened the security of their water supplies.\" Stott agrees that following the same reasoning, farmers in Egypt might also one day sue European states for increasing the salinity of the water they use to water their crops. In fact, a group of environmental lawyers is already urging UNESCO to investigate the effects of climate change on three World Heritage Sites: the Belize Barrier Reef, and two national parks, one in the Andean and the other in the Himalayan mountain ranges. Pro Public, the environmental group leading the Himalayan campaign points out that in Nepal, it is not only the park that is endangered, but also the communities living beneath the swelling glacier lakes (see Melting glaciers threaten communities in South Asia). \"The Nepalese are not responsible for what's happening there,\" said Prakash Sharma, executive director of Pro Public in an interview with BBC Online. \"We might be a little bit responsible but I think [it is] the global phenomenon of climate change.\" Link to paper in Nature by Stott et al Link to article by Allen and Lord in Nature\nLink to BBC Online news story References: Nature 432, 551 (2004) / Nature 432, 610 (2004)\nRelated SciDev.Net articles:\nThreat of devastating floods 'will double' by 2050\nHaiti's lessons for managing the global environment\nBangladesh floods: rich nations 'must share the blame'\nRelated links:\nPRECIS\nHadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research\nPhoto Credit: NASA NASA\nDossiers:\nClimate Change", "url": "http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1784&language=1", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20041204214617/http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=1784&language=1" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Brief Analysis 396, Limitations of Climate Models as Predictors of Climate Change", "text": "an incomplete understanding of the climate system,\nan imperfect ability to transform our knowledge into accurate mathematical equations,\nthe limited power of computers,\nthe models' inability to reproduce important atmospheric phenomena, and\ninaccurate representations of the complex natural interconnections.\nThese weaknesses combine to make GCM-based predictions too uncertain to be used as the bases for public policy responses related to future climate changes.\nThe Limits of Human Knowledge.\nThe world's best scientists have only an incomplete understanding of how the various atmospheric, land surface, oceanic and ice components interact. Even if their understanding of the climate system were perfect, scientists would still face challenges. Consider that while scientists do have a general idea of the complex interrelationships of the atmosphere and the oceans, expressing this knowledge mathematically is very difficult.\nThe Limits of Computing Power.\nGCMs are limited in important ways. Global climate is produced through a variety of processes and interactions that operate on a wide range of scales, including molecular, regional, continental and global. Changes in climate occur from physical interactions that take place on any or all of these scales. The changes, and the resulting weather patterns, can occur nearly instantaneously or they can take decades or millenia to develop. Unfortunately, the computers and programs that run the GCMs are limited to gross representations of the geographic, geologic and atmospheric details that they use to run climate simulations. Thus, many small-scale features, such as a temporary but significant shift in the prevailing winds or unusually dry surface conditions due to increased evaporation from forest fires and high winds cannot be represented, even though they may significantly impact the local, regional, or even global climate.\nIndeed, GCMs can at best represent only a thumbnail sketch of the real world, with spatial resolutions no finer than regional areas a thousand miles square. Many topographical, geological, atmospheric and biological variations can occur within any contiguous thousand square miles. For instance, GCM's might average rainfall amounts and wind velocity over large diverse land surfaces which could include arid mountain plateaus, low-land deserts and temperate coastal rainforests. But, even modest topographic changes - for instance, a new housing development that paves over farmland and drains a wetland area - could render a model of land-surface interactions inaccurate.\nResulting Model Breakdowns.\nGiven the limitations noted, GCMs simply cannot reliably reproduce climate systems. Commonplace events like precipitation and the passage of typical weather fronts are difficult enough to depict; truly complex phenomena, such as, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and tornadoes may be represented so poorly that they simply cannot be relied upon. El Niņo, La Niņa and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation are examples of complex climate patterns that are inadequately reproduced or completely absent in GCMs.\nIn addition, global average temperature is measured by three different instruments - ground-based thermometers, weather balloons and global satellite observations - with each system covering a slightly different range of the earth's atmosphere. The data they provide is conflicting. Whereas, both the global satellite network and weather balloon observations show a modest cooling trend during the past 25 years, the ground-based thermometers show a modest warming of approximately 0.13 degrees Celsius per decade.\nThe GCMs display two flaws related to measured global temperatures. First, they show global temperatures rising across all levels of the atmosphere, a finding not reflected in reality. [See figure.] Second, the lowest predicted global temperature measurement of the GCMs is nearly three times more than the temperature rise measured by ground-based thermometers. Thus, the GCMs do not reflect the temperature differences or the direction of temperature change within various levels of the atmosphere, nor do they show the actual amount of temperature change.\nFinally, GCMs ignore the interconnected nature of climate processes and how an inaccurate simulation of one introduces errors into every other related process. A simple model for precipitation involves scores of variables. But a single error, say in representing atmospheric moisture or deciding what mechanism is causing precipitation, will make the simulation \"wrong.\" For example, precipitation requires moisture in the atmosphere and a mechanism to force it to condense (i.e., by forcing the air to rise over mountains, by surface heating, as a result of weather fronts or by cyclonic rotation). Any errors in representing either the atmospheric moisture content or the precipitation-causing mechanisms will produce an erroneous simulation. Thus, GCM simulations of precipitation will be affected by limitations in the representation and simulation of topography.\nInaccuracies in simulating precipitation will, in turn, adversely affect the simulation of virtually every other climate variable. Condensation releases heat to the atmosphere and forms clouds, which reflect energy from the sun and trap heat from the earth's surface - and both sources of heat affect air temperature. This in turn affects winds, atmospheric pressure and atmospheric circulation. Since winds drive the upper currents of the ocean, the simulation of ocean circulation also is adversely affected. Additionally, inadequate simulations of precipitation lead to inaccurate assessments of soil moisture. Since vegetation also responds to precipitation, the entire representation of the biosphere becomes open to question. This is not to say that climate scientists lack skill or dedication; it is to reiterate the extraordinary difficulty of producing accurate climate models.\nMore than just long-term average and seasonal variations go into estimating the extent of climate change. Climate change is likely to manifest itself in small regional fluctuations. Moreover, year-to-year variability is important. Much of the character of the earth's climate is in how it varies over time. GCMs that simulate essentially the same conditions year after year, as virtually all climate models do, miss an important aspect of the earth's climate. Thus GCMs' predictive powers must be evaluated in light of each model's ability to represent the global climate's holistic and variable nature.\nAlthough GCMs are not weather prediction models, climate is nevertheless an ensemble of weather events. The utility of a climate model is not in predicting whether it will rain in northern Florida on a certain afternoon. What is of interest is to determine the long-term probability that future precipitation will be significantly different - in frequency and/or intensity - from what it is today. Will the winter of 2048 be warmer or colder, wetter or drier than present conditions, and if so, by how much? If climate models cannot simulate processes known to drive daily weather patterns, to what degree can GCM's climate predictions be believed?\nConclusion.\nClimate is to some degree a representation of the average of weather events that occur. If the frequency and locations of weather events are simulated inaccurately or not at all, the reliability of climate change prognostications is undermined. While GCMs cannot be expected to simulate future weather, they should be able to accurately depict the earth's present climate and vitality. Since they cannot, GCM predictions of climate change are statistical exercises with little bearing on reality.\nWorld leaders are making critical decisions based upon predictions of General Circulation Models or Global Climate Models (GCMs) that humans are causing global climate change or global warming. Global climate models attempt to describe the earth's climate and are used in variety of applications. These include the investigation of the possible causes of climate change and the simulation of past and future climates. But these models are limited in important ways, including:", "url": "http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba396/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20020527010205/http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba396/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Science -- Oreskes 306 (5702): 1686", "text": "Also see the archival list of the Essays on Science and Society.\nBEYOND THE IVORY TOWER:\nThe Scientific Consensus on Climate Change\nPolicy-makers and the media, particularly in the United States, frequently assert that climate science is highly uncertain. Some have used this as an argument against adopting strong measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For example, while discussing a major U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report on the risks of climate change, then-EPA administrator Christine Whitman argued, \"As [the report] went through review, there was less consensus on the science and conclusions on climate change\" (1). Some corporations whose revenues might be adversely affected by controls on carbon dioxide emissions have also alleged major uncertainties in the science (2). Such statements suggest that there might be substantive disagreement in the scientific community about the reality of anthropogenic climate change. This is not the case.\nThe scientific consensus is clearly expressed in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Programme, IPCC's purpose is to evaluate the state of climate science as a basis for informed policy action, primarily on the basis of peer-reviewed and published scientific literature (3). In its most recent assessment, IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities: \"Human activities ... are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents ... that absorb or scatter radiant energy. ... [M]ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations\" [p. 21 in (4)].\nIPCC is not alone in its conclusions. In recent years, all major scientific bodies in the United States whose members' expertise bears directly on the matter have issued similar statements. For example, the National Academy of Sciences report, Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions, begins: \"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise\" [p. 1 in (5)]. The report explicitly asks whether the IPCC assessment is a fair summary of professional scientific thinking, and answers yes: \"The IPCC's conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue\" [p. 3 in (5)].\nOthers agree. The American Meteorological Society (6), the American Geophysical Union (7), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) all have issued statements in recent years concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling (8).\nThe drafting of such reports and statements involves many opportunities for comment, criticism, and revision, and it is not likely that they would diverge greatly from the opinions of the societies' members. Nevertheless, they might downplay legitimate dissenting opinions. That hypothesis was tested by analyzing 928 abstracts, published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and listed in the ISI database with the keywords \"climate change\" (9).\nThe 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.\nAdmittedly, authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change might believe that current climate change is natural. However, none of these papers argued that point.\nThis analysis shows that scientists publishing in the peer-reviewed literature agree with IPCC, the National Academy of Sciences, and the public statements of their professional societies. Politicians, economists, journalists, and others may have the impression of confusion, disagreement, or discord among climate scientists, but that impression is incorrect.\nThe scientific consensus might, of course, be wrong. If the history of science teaches anything, it is humility, and no one can be faulted for failing to act on what is not known. But our grandchildren will surely blame us if they find that we understood the reality of anthropogenic climate change and failed to do anything about it.\nMany details about climate interactions are not well understood, and there are ample grounds for continued research to provide a better basis for understanding climate dynamics. The question of what to do about climate change is also still open. But there is a scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change. Climate scientists have repeatedly tried to make this clear. It is time for the rest of us to listen.\nReferences and Notes", "url": "http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20041204132358/http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686" } ]

[ "Oregon", "United States", "North America", "Missing persons" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Mount Hood searchers give up", "text": "Story Highlights • Autopsy says one climber died of hypothermia\n• Sheriff acknowledges there's little hope of finding two other climbers alive\n• Family, friends take \"farewell flight\" over mountain\n• Another storm, packing freezing rain, moving into area\nAdjust font size:\nHOOD RIVER, Oregon (CNN) -- The effort to save two climbers still missing on Oregon's Mount Hood ended Wednesday, the search leaders glumly acknowledging that the mountain and the weather were too much to overcome.\n\"Incidents on the mountain are very unforgiving,\" said Hood River County Sheriff Joe Wampler, one of the chief coordinators of the search. \"This time of year, Mount Hood is a dangerous place to be, based on the weather conditions.\"\n\"Right now we're going to let everyone go home for Christmas,\" he added. (Watch Wampler explain why the search was ending )\nThe missing men, Brian Hall, 37, and Jerry \"Nikko\" Cooke, 36, started up the 11,293-foot mountain December 8 with a third man, Kelly James, 48, whose body was found in a snow cave on Sunday.\nAn autopsy performed Wednesday on James' body showed that he died of hypothermia resulting from exposure to cold, according to the Oregon State Medical Examiner's office. Dehydration may also have played a role, the office reported.\n\"There were no disabling injuries\" to James found in the autopsy or by X-ray, the medical examiner's statement said. Authorities have said they believed James may have dislocated his shoulder; it was unclear whether that would have been considered a \"disabling injury.\"\nBy the time James' body was found Sunday, he had been dead for several days, the medical examiner said.\nThe National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for Mount Hood and Hood River Valley until 2 a.m. Thursday, predicting mostly freezing rain around 6,000 feet and below, several feet of snow above that, high winds and low visibility. (Watch weather update )\nHeavy snowfall, 100-mph winds and extreme cold thwarted searchers for several days after the men were reported missing during a snowstorm on December 11.\n\"I know that these guys have put in 110 percent to find these climbers,\" said Deputy Sheriff Chris Guertin, who led the teams on the mountain. \"They gave it everything they had.\"\n\"I do feel that we did an excellent job with the resources we had and the information we had.\"\nGuertin said that while there was no longer any realistic hope of finding Hall and Cooke alive, he and his team would continue to watch the mountain for evidence.\n\"We're going to be looking for any little clues we can find,\" Guertin said.\nEarlier in the day, Wampler had made one last search flight over the mountain in a Piper Cub, but bad weather forced him to return. He said the men's family members had been gracious and cooperative, and most realized the weather was too rough and agreed with the decision to call off the search.\n\"They understand, they know,\" Wampler said. \"These people are all outdoorsmen, so they know. ...\n\"They weren't all ready to do this,\" he added, \"but that's where we have to be the responsible ones for everyone else, and that's what we did.\"\n\"Bottom line was they didn't want us putting any more people in harm's way,\" Wampler said.\nThe Associated Press reported that a few friends and family members of the missing climbers had taken a \"farewell flight\" over the mountain Wednesday.\nAlthough he said the climbers \"did everything right,\" Wampler cautioned those planning to scale a mountain -- or even to drive through a remote area -- to plan well.\n\"Time of year has a lot to do with that,\" he said. \"Never, ever, go anywhere and just plan on going someplace and not be prepared to spend some time out there, because you might get caught and you might have to stay there.\"\nCNN's Dan Simon, Sumi Das and Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report.", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/20/missing.climbers/index.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20061221194205/http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/20/missing.climbers/index.html" } ]

[ "Amérique", "Amérique du Nord", "Canada", "Afrique", "Moyen-Orient", "Égypte", "Politique", "Politique canadienne", "Diplomatie", "Manifestation" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Le Canada ferme son ambassade en Égypte", "text": "Le gouvernement du Canada annonce la fermeture pour une période indéterminée de son ambassade en Égypte, au Caire, en invoquant des raisons de sécurité.\nDepuis plusieurs jours, d'importantes foules d'opposants au président islamiste Mohamed Morsi manifestent dans les rues des grandes villes égyptiennes, alors que des partisans du président lui apportent leur soutien dans d'autres manifestations.\nLundi, l'armée égyptienne a lancé au président Morsi un ultimatum de 48 heures, lui demandant de respecter les demandes du peuple, sinon, elle interviendrait pour mettre de l'avant une feuille de route politique et en assurer le respect.\nCette prise de position fait toutefois craindre que l'armée ne décide de prendre le pouvoir, ce qui pourrait provoquer des affrontements violents avec les partisans armés des Frères musulmans qui appuient le président Morsi.", "url": "http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique-canadienne/201307/02/01-4666762-le-canada-ferme-son-ambassade-en-egypte.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200606202448/https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/politique-canadienne/201307/02/01-4666762-le-canada-ferme-son-ambassade-en-egypte.php" } ]

[ "Europa", "Kościół katolicki", "Ochrona praw człowieka", "Prawo i przestępczość", "Religia", "Społeczeństwo", "Włochy" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Strasburg nakazał Włochom wypłacić odszkodowanie za krzyż w klasie", "text": "Ponadto trybunał nakazał państwu włoskiemu wypłatę kobiecie odszkodowania w wysokości 5 tysięcy euro za \"straty moralne\".\nDecyzja Trybunału w Strasburgu wywołała falę oburzenia większości polityków we Włoszech i ostrą reakcję minister oświaty, która przypomniała, że krzyż jest \"symbolem tradycji\" narodowej.\nBatalia mieszkającej koło Padwy Finki Soile Lautsi Albertin przeciwko obecności krzyży w szkole w miejscowości Abano Terme, gdzie chodziły jej dzieci, rozpoczęła się w 2002 roku. Poprosiła ona dyrekcję placówki oświatowej o zdjęcie krzyży w klasach. Następnie bez rezultatu usiłowała uzyskać taki nakaz we włoskich sądach. Po 7 latach rację przyznał jej trybunał w Strasburgu.\nReprezentant włoskiego rządu przed trybunałem Nicola Lettieri zapowiedział odwołanie się od tego orzeczenia.", "url": "http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80277,7216188,Strasburg_nakazal_Wlochom_wyplacic_odszkodowanie_za.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091106135348/http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80277,7216188,Strasburg_nakazal_Wlochom_wyplacic_odszkodowanie_za.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Italy school crucifixes 'barred'", "text": "Catholicism stopped being the state religion in Italy in 1984 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy. It said the practice violated the right of parents to educate their children as they saw fit, and ran counter to the child's right to freedom of religion. The case was brought by an Italian mother, Soile Lautsi, who wants to give her children a secular education. The Vatican said it was shocked by the ruling, calling it \"wrong and myopic\" to exclude the crucifix from education. The ruling has sparked anger in the largely Catholic country, with one politician calling the move \"shameful\". The Strasbourg court found that: \"The compulsory display of a symbol of a given confession in premises used by the public authorities... restricted the right of parents to educate their children in conformity with their convictions.\" It also restricted the \"right of children to believe or not to believe\", the seven judges ruling on the case said in a statement quoted by AFP news agency. European identity Mrs Lautsi complained to the European court that her children had to attend a public school in northern Italy that had crucifixes in every room. She was awarded 5,000 euros ($7,400; £4,500) in damages. Vatican spokesman the Rev Federico Lombardi said the European court had no right intervening in such a profoundly Italian matter, the Associated Press reported. The compulsory display of a symbol of a given confession in premises used by the public authorities... restricted the right of parents to educate their children in conformity with their convictions.\nCourt ruling\nRead your views on the ruling \"It seems as if the court wanted to ignore the role of Christianity in forming Europe's identity, which was and remains essential.\" He told Italian TV: \"The crucifix has always been a sign of God's love, unity and hospitality to all humanity. \"It is unpleasant that it is considered a sign of division, exclusion or a restriction of freedom.\" 'Italian tradition' Many politicians in Italy have reacted angrily. Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini said the crucifix was a \"symbol of our tradition\", and not a mark of Catholicism. One government minister called the ruling \"shameful\", while another said that Europe was forgetting its Christian heritage. The government says it will appeal against the decision. The BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Rome says that it is customary in Italy to see crucifixes in public buildings, including schools, despite the constitution saying that there should be a separation of church and state. The law requiring crucifixes to be hung in schools dates back to the 1920s. Although a revised accord between the Vatican and the Italian government ended Catholicism's position as the state religion in 1984, the crucifix law has never been repealed. Some conservatives have already complained about schools dropping nativity plays to avoid upsetting Muslim children.\nBookmark with: Delicious\nDigg\nreddit\nFacebook\nStumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8340411.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091104222517/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8340411.stm" } ]

[ "Thailand", "Politics and conflicts", "Thaksin Shinawatra", "Somchai Wongsawat", "Brian McNeil (Wikinewsie)", "Constitution of Thailand" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Thai protesters in 'final battle'", "text": "Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement Thousands of protesters have gathered in the Thai capital Bangkok for what they call a \"final battle\" in a six-month campaign to oust the government. A similar protest in October left two people dead and nearly 500 wounded. Demonstrators gathered at Government House, where protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) have set up camp since late August. They say the government of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat is too close to ousted former PM Thaksin Shinawatra. \"I am confident in the strength of the people. We will definitely go to parliament,\" said anti-government leader Chamlong Srimuang. Local media said the march was set to go ahead early on Monday, ahead of a planned parliament meeting. Troops ready The last march aimed at preventing a parliament session on 7 October erupted into the worst street violence Bangkok had seen in 16 years, as police fired tear gas and clashed with rowdy PAD protesters. A spokesman for Mr Somchai said police had been ordered not to use tear gas or weapons this time, but insisted that the parliament meeting would go ahead as planned. The PAD group launched their anti-government campaign in May Officials said nearly 2,000 soldiers were on stand-by if the police needed help. The PAD is calling the march its \"final battle\" to oust the government, which it blames for a grenade attack last week that killed one person and wounded 23. Another grenade blast near their protest site wounded eight PAD security guards on Saturday. Mr Somchai has denied the government or its supporters are behind the blasts. Police have made no arrests so far. As anti-government supporters gathered for the demonstration, police said about 10,000 pro-Thaksin supporters had descended on a Buddhist temple just outside Bangkok to support the government. Leaders of that gathering said they had no intention of confronting the PAD. The PAD wants to replace Thailand's one-man, one-vote system with one in which some representatives are chosen by professions and social groups rather than the general electorate. The new government says it wants to start negotiations with the PAD. But it is also pushing ahead with controversial plans to amend the constitution - a key grievance of the protesters who see it as part of a plan to rehabilitate former PM Thaksin. Mr Thaksin, Mr Somchai's brother-in-law, was forced from office in a military coup in 2006 and remains in exile overseas.\nBookmark with: Delicious\nDigg\nreddit\nFacebook\nStumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7744460.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081124010414/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7744460.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Political upheaval feared today", "text": "Political upheaval feared today\nThe fate of the country hangs in the balance today in the face of another political upheaval that could lead to a bloodbath after the People's Alliance for Democracy vowed to launch an all-out effort to bring down the government of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat and prevent charter amendment by laying siege to Parliament today in its \"biggest and final\" rally yet.\nThe PAD announced its plan to move its protest from Government House to Parliament at a press conference yesterday after a three-hour meeting of its five core leaders at Ban Phra Arthit.\nMeanwhile, appointed Senator Ruangkrai Leekijwattana said Parlia-ment had put the Constitution amendment draft presented by Dr Weng Tochirakarn, a leader of the pro-government Democratic Alliance against Dictatorship, at the top of its agenda to be discussed from tomorrow despite House Speaker Chai Chidchob insisting last week that this wouldn't be so.\nHe said the draft included clauses reducing the power of privy councillors, removing some independent agencies, whitewashing parties facing dissolution and giving amnesty to 111 former Thai Rak Thai Party executives.\nPAD leader Maj-General Chamlong Srimuang yesterday showed members of the press that Constitution amendment had been marked urgent on Parliament's agenda for today.\nPipop Thongchai said the PAD intended to stop Parliament working in support of the Somchai government.\nHe said both Parliament and the government had lost any mandate to run the country because they refused to take responsibility for the bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters on October 7.\nHe accused the government of continuing to use violence through a series of deadly bomb attacks to deter people from joining the PAD protest. \"If the people are afraid, the government will be able to prevent peaceful protests in the long run, and we will not be able to protect our country and the monarchy,'' he said.\nSondhi Limthongkul said the latest bomb attack early yesterday that killed one person showed that the government was using undisciplined military officers to do its dirty work. \"This is pressuring a peaceful gathering to use weapons in self-defence. Thai society will see a bloodbath. It is sad that military officers and police have taken part in this,'' he said.\nThe five leaders refused to reveal how they planned to break into the Parliament compound.\nChamlong insisted that the PAD must move on Parliament to ensure there was no charter amendment even after reporters told him that House Speaker Chai Chidchob had guaranteed that charter amendment would not be on the House agenda.", "url": "http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/11/23/politics/politics_30089117.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120511161631/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/11/23/politics/politics_30089117.php" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Thaksin's phone-in \"banned,\" for today", "text": "COUNTRY ON BRINK AGAIN Thaksin's phone-in \"banned,\" for today\nHow will Thailand emerge from week of biggest tension? Army chief Anupong will be key\nThreats of political violence decreased a little on Sunday with cancellation of an expected phone-in by ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra to his supporters at Suan Kaew Temple and the government mulling postponing tomorrow's parliamentary session to avoid confrontation with the People's Alliance for Democracy.\nWith Army chief Gen Anupong Paochinda appointed to lead a special task force to monitor the PAD's activities, there is also hope there will not be a repeat of the October 7 violence that saw many PAD protesters killed and seriously injured by tear gas explosions.\nAnupong came out strongly against the police use of force after the incident, but the government of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat ignored his implicit call for its resignation.\nThe pro-Thaksin gathering at the Suan Kaew Temple is expected to disperse in the evening, after abbot Phra Payom Kallayano vowed to \"cut the power\" if the \"Truth Today\" forum involved a satellite address by the former leader.\nThe PAD, which aims to create its \"final and decisive\" rally in the wake of a bomb attack inside Government House last week that killed a protester, remains committed to besieging Parliament tomorrow.\nExactly when the protesters inside Government House, joined by big numbers of their provincial allies today, will march to Parliament is not known, although PAD leader Chamlong Srimuang said the march would take place tomorrow.\nIf the PAD manages to surround Parliament, the siege may last a few days. How the country can avoid violence, therefore, relies much on Anupong, whose advice on which action the government should take will be crucial.\nSpeaking from Peru, Prime Minister Somchai said he appointed Army Commander in Chief Gen Anupong to monitor the situation which became tense as anti-government protesters planned to march to the Parliament on Monday.\nSomchai was attending a summit meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Lima, Peru.\nSomchai said, \"Gen Anupong's committee will be in charge of monitoring the situation and give suggestions to authorities concerned on how to deal with the protesters.\"\nThe panel was not assigned to crack down on the protesters, Somchai reiterated.\nAnupong's panel has duties to monitor the situation involving the protesters who vowed to conduct a mass rally on Sunday and march to block the Parliament on Monday. Since Anupong condemned the use of force on October 7, it's unlikely he would suggest drastic measures to deal with the PAD, observers believe.\nThe PAD said it wanted to besiege Parliament to block any attempt to amend the Constitution to pave the way for Thaksin and his banned political associates to return to power.\nSomchai reiterated that the joint session between MPs and senators on Monday will not discuss the constitution amendment. The sessions will instead discuss laws concerning international trades and Asean which required the Parliament's ratification.\nHowever, calls are growing today for the government to postpone the parliamentary session, or at least change the venue of the meeting. The calls were backed by some government MPs.", "url": "http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/11/23/headlines/headlines_30089136.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111016200403/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/11/23/headlines/headlines_30089136.php" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Medical teams, hospitals stand by to assist wounded protesters", "text": "BANGKOK, Nov 22 (TNA) -- More than 30 medical teams and 11 government hospitals in the Thai capital are on standby to provide emergency treatment to any wounded protesters of the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) as the group will rally at Parliament on Sunday and Monday to express opposition to any consideration of constitutional amendments by the House.\nPublic Health Minister Pol. Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung said he had ordered permanent secretary of Public Health Dr. Praj Boonyawongvirot to prepare some 30 emergency medical teams, comprising over 100 personnel, to be stationed at the rally site from early Saturday.\nAlso, 11 government hospitals in Bangkok must be well prepared, having physicians, medical staff and patient beds available round-the-clock, Mr. Chalerm said.\nThe urgent order was made out of concern that violence might occur -- like the October 7 incidents in which two persons were killed and nearly 500 others wounded when police fired teargas into the PAD protesters at Parliament.\nDr. Praj, meanwhile, said he had instructed the officials of two emergency relief centres to coordinate with the assigned hospitals to delegate work if violence breaks out.\nInitially, officials of the emergency relief centres will work from Saturday morning through Monday. (TNA)\nGeneral News : Last Update : 16:27:17 22 November 2008 (GMT+7:00)", "url": "http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=7380", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100104225216/http://enews.mcot.net/view.php?id=7380" } ]

[ "Themenportal Kultur", "Kultur in den Vereinigten Staaten", "Verstorben 2012", "Whitney Houston" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Popdiva stirbt mit 48 Jahren: Whitney Houston tot aufgefunden", "text": "Ein Weltstar ist von uns gegangen: Whitney Houston ist tot. Eine Sprecherin bestätigte den Tod der Sängerin mit den Worten: \"Es ist unglücklicherweise wahr.\" Über die genauen Todesumstände machte sie zunächst keine Angaben. Inzwischen wurde jedoch bekannt, dass Houston tot in einem Hotel in Los Angeles aufgefunden wurde. Die Polizei hat Ermittlungen eingeleitet.\nNach bisherigen Informationen ist die sechsfache Grammy-Preisträgerin am Samstagnachmittag (Ortszeit) leblos in einem Zimmer des Hotels \"Beverly Hilton\" im Stadtteil Beverly Hills aufgefunden worden. Der Nachrichtensender CNN meldet, sie sei von ihrem Leibwächter gefunden worden. Das Promiportal \"TMZ\" meldet unter Berufung auf Hotelangestellte, Houston habe in der Badewanne gelegen. Obwohl die verständigten Rettungskräfte sofort Wiederbelebungsmaßnahmen eingeleitet hätten, konnte nur nuch ihr Tod festgestellt werden, sagte ein Polizeisprecher. Der Todeszeitpunkt wird mit 15.55 Uhr Ortszeit angeben. Demnach starb die Sängerin kurz vor ein Uhr nachts deutscher Zeit.\nSpekulationen über Todesursache dauern an\nÜber die Todesursache wird derzeit spekuliert. Hinweise auf ein Gewaltverbrechen gibt es aber nicht. \"Wir untersuchen noch, aber offenkundige Hinweise auf Gewalteinwirkung gibt es nicht\", teilte die Polizei mit. Ob die Sängerin möglicherweise durch eine Überdosis Drogen gestorben ist, bleibt vorerst unklar. \"Wir konnten im ersten Moment keine Hinweise finden, wir stehen aber noch ganz am Anfang unserer Untersuchung\", sagte ein Sprecher.\nHouston machte in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder durch ihren Rauschgift- und Alkoholmissbrauch Schlagzeilen. Am vergangenen Donnerstagabend hatte sie in Los Angeles eine Party im Club \"Tru Hollywood\" besucht. Auf Fotos ist die Sängerin mit glasigen Augen und trübem Blick zu sehen. Augenzeugenberichten zufolge soll Houston aber kurz zum Mikrofon gegriffen und gesungen haben. Ein Video davon war kurzzeitig im Internet zu sehen, wurde aber inzwischen gelöscht.\nAm Samstagagabend sollte Houston an einer Vorveranstaltung zur 54. Grammy-Verleihung in Los Angeles teilnehmen. Ihr langjähriger Produzent Clive Davis hatte die Diva zu einer Gala eingeladen. Die Party, an der Stars wie Tony Bennett, Gladys Knight, Adam Lambert und Britney Spears teilnahmen, fand trotz der Todesnachricht von Houston wie geplant statt. Für die eigentliche Grammy-Veranstaltung, die heute Abend live im US-Fernsehen übertragen wird, gehen Insider von diversen Änderungen aus. Die Show solle zur Gedenkfeier für Houston umfunktioniert werden, heißt es. Jennifer Hudson wird ihr musikalisch die Ehre erweisen.\nPlante Houston erneut ein Comeback?\nNach etlichen Entziehungskuren stand Houston zuletzt wieder für Dreharbeiten vor der Kamera. Das Remake zum Film \"Sparkle\" soll im August in den USA in den Kinos erscheinen. Darin spielt Houston eine Nebenrolle - ihr erstes Engagement seit dem Film \"Rendezvous mit einem Engel\" im Jahr 1996. Außerdem gab es Gerüchte, Houston solle Paula Abdul als Jurorin in der US-Castingshow \"The X-Faktor\" ersetzen. Ein Comeback als Sängerin hatte Houston im vergangenen Jahr vergeblich versucht. Bei ihrem Konzert in Berlin wurde sie von den Zuschauern ausgebuht.\nTrauer und Bestürzung weltweit\nTrotz ihrer Drogeneskapaden und etlichen gescheiterten Comebacks ist Houston unvergessen. Menschen in aller Welt reagierten bestürzt auf den Tod der Popdiva. Vor dem Hotel in Beverly Hills legten mehrere Fans spontan Blumen nieder. Auf sozialen Netzwerken wie \"Facebook\" und \"Twitter\" ließen sie ihrer Trauer freien Lauf. Die häufigste Botschaft, die dort in Anspielung an Houstons größten Hit \"I will always love you\" aus dem Film Bodyguard zu lesen war, lautete: \"We will always love you\".\nProminente Kolleginnen und Kollegen haben sich nach der Todesnachricht ebenfalls zu Wort gemeldet. Popsängerin Mariah Carey sagte via Twitter. \"Mein Herz ist gebrochen und ich weine nach dem schockierenden Tod meiner Freundin, der unvergleichlichen Ms. Whitney Houston.\" Komponist und Musikproduzent Quincy Jones würdigte Houston als einzigartige Sängerin. \"Sie war ein echtes Original\", sagte er CNN. Dolly Parton, die Houston größten Erfolgssong \"I will always love you\" geschrieben hat, sagte: \"Mein Herz ist nur eines von Millionen, das durch den Tod von Whitney Houston gebrochen wurde. Ich kann aus tiefstem Herzen sagen: I will always love you.\"", "url": "http://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/popdiva-wurde-nur-48-jahre-whitney-houston-ist-tot-1785416.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120214211100/http://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/popdiva-stirbt-mit-48-jahren-whitney-houston-tot-aufgefunden-1785416.html" } ]

[ "United States", "North America", "Sex crimes", "FBI", "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention", "Cocoaguy (Wikinewsie)", "Crime and law" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Rape more common than smoking in the US", "text": "Rape more common than smoking in the US\nAuthor: Stephanie Kovalchik\nThe United States is experiencing an epidemic of sexual violence. New findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), a study launched by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010, report that nearly 1 in 5 women are estimated to have been the victims of rape, defined as unwanted completed or attempted sexual penetration, including victims who did not have the capacity to give consent (owing to intoxication, for example). In almost all cases, the perpetrator was someone the victim knew (91.9%) and more than half of the time was their own partner. Young adulthood was the period of highest risk for first sexual victimization. For 80% of female victims, first rape occurred before age 25; for 42%, before age 18.\nAlthough the lifetime prevalence of stalking was surprisingly less than the prevalence of non-consensual sexual contact, incidence estimates for the past year suggest that this trend could be changing as new communication technologies introduce new opportunities for sexual harassment. In 2010, the study estimates that 1.27 million American woman were raped--equivalent to one woman every 29 seconds--and 5.1 million were stalked--equivalent to one woman every 7 seconds.\nThese are a few of the key findings from the first annual report of what will be an ongoing, nationally representative survey of sexual violence in the US. The NISVS will be a great resource to public health researchers. Using the data collected by the NISVS, investigators will be able to monitor national and state-specific trends in the prevalence of sexual violence and stalking for the first time, to characterize the type of individuals who are at the highest risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of a sexual crime (whether physical or psychological), and to investigate the health consequences of sexual victimization.\nThe first NISVS report has already made national headlines because of the high prevalence of forced sex that was found. To give some perspective, the study's figures, if true, indicate that number of American women who have been raped is greater than the number who are current smokers. Skeptics might question whether such statistics could be for real. After all, some surveys have been made famous for getting it wrong, like the 1948 polls that were made the laughingstock of newly elected President Harry S. Truman after they predicted that Thomas E. Dewey would win the election. A survey that makes predictions risks being ridiculed (often very publicly) but it benefits from the opportunity of self-correction. Surveys that only intend to provide a snapshot of a population never get such feedback. As a consequence, the study designers can never know whether they have managed to avoid distortion.\nFor survey research, coverage and response are the most important ingredients to getting an accurate picture of the population of interest. Surveys with good coverage give every member of the target population a chance to participate. Convenience samples, like polls conducted at shopping malls, are notoriously poor at coverage. When random digit dialing was introduced in the 1970s, it was a breakthrough for survey research because it largely solved the coverage problem. At that time, 90% of the US population had a landline telephone. So, with RDD and phone interviews, the question was no longer how to get a sample with good coverage for almost any region of the States but how to do it in a cost-effective way.\nWith the increasing popularity of new communication technologies in the 21st centruy, there is a growing number of Americans who will never be reached through a landline. The challenge that cell phone use in particular poses for survey research has been a focus of the work of Paul J. Lavrakas, former Chief Research Methodologist for Nielsen and contributing author to Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology. In a Public Opinion Quarterly article summarizing the outcomes of several gatherings of expert panels between 2003 and 2008, Larakas and colleagues conclude that \"...surveying persons reached on cell phone numbers in the United States currently is a very complex undertaking if one wants to do it 'right,' i.e. to do it legally, ethically, and in ways that optimally allocate one's finite resources to gather the highest quality data, and to analyze and interpret those data accurately.'' Though daunting, to avoid non-coverage bias, it is an undertaking that has to be faced. The Pew Research Center estimates that for 25% of current households the only phone service used is a mobile phone.\nThe 2010 NISVS was a telephone survey. A strength of the design is that both landline and cell phones were included. Of the 16,507 completed interviews, 9,046 of the participants were on a cell phone and 7,461 were on a landline.\nResponse is the more concerning piece of the NISVS methodology. Using the American Association for Public Opinion Research Response Rate 4 formula, response rate is defined as the number of fully and partially completed interviews over all eligible cases, which is the sum total of cases with completed interviews, refusals, non-contacts, other spoken language than that used for the survey, and a correction factor for cases of unknown eligibility. The NISVS response rate was an underwhelming 27.5%. The majority of non-response was due to non-contacts. Although this rate is actually better than average for national telephone surveys, it still raises that question of whether the experience of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence is different among those Americans in the 72.5% of the sample who were either away from their phone or who looked at the unknown number coming in and chose not to answer.\nIf non-participation were a random event (a doubtful but much hoped for circumstance for survey researchers), then the NISVS participants would still provide a nationally representative sample of Americans. However, there is evidence that chance was not entirely indiscriminate when selecting the 27.5% of responders when one compares the NISVS sample and the US population on several socio-economic characteristics. In contrast to the US population, participants in the NISVS were more likely to have a college or advanced degree (36.4% versus 29.6%), more likely to be divorced (12.9% versus 10.3%), more likely to never have been married (30.2% and 26.1%), and more likely to have an annual household income that was below the federal poverty level (19.6% versus 12.1%).\nThe NISVS has an important public health message but it is unclear to which public it applies.", "url": "http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1424839/Rape-more-common-than-smoking-in-the-US.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120111041735/http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1424839/Rape-more-common-than-smoking-in-the-US.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Rape more common than smoking in the US", "text": "Rape more common than smoking in the US\nAuthor: Stephanie Kovalchik\nThe United States is experiencing an epidemic of sexual violence. New findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), a study launched by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010, report that nearly 1 in 5 women are estimated to have been the victims of rape, defined as unwanted completed or attempted sexual penetration, including victims who did not have the capacity to give consent (owing to intoxication, for example). In almost all cases, the perpetrator was someone the victim knew (91.9%) and more than half of the time was their own partner. Young adulthood was the period of highest risk for first sexual victimization. For 80% of female victims, first rape occurred before age 25; for 42%, before age 18.\nAlthough the lifetime prevalence of stalking was surprisingly less than the prevalence of non-consensual sexual contact, incidence estimates for the past year suggest that this trend could be changing as new communication technologies introduce new opportunities for sexual harassment. In 2010, the study estimates that 1.27 million American woman were raped--equivalent to one woman every 29 seconds--and 5.1 million were stalked--equivalent to one woman every 7 seconds.\nThese are a few of the key findings from the first annual report of what will be an ongoing, nationally representative survey of sexual violence in the US. The NISVS will be a great resource to public health researchers. Using the data collected by the NISVS, investigators will be able to monitor national and state-specific trends in the prevalence of sexual violence and stalking for the first time, to characterize the type of individuals who are at the highest risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of a sexual crime (whether physical or psychological), and to investigate the health consequences of sexual victimization.\nThe first NISVS report has already made national headlines because of the high prevalence of forced sex that was found. To give some perspective, the study's figures, if true, indicate that number of American women who have been raped is greater than the number who are current smokers. Skeptics might question whether such statistics could be for real. After all, some surveys have been made famous for getting it wrong, like the 1948 polls that were made the laughingstock of newly elected President Harry S. Truman after they predicted that Thomas E. Dewey would win the election. A survey that makes predictions risks being ridiculed (often very publicly) but it benefits from the opportunity of self-correction. Surveys that only intend to provide a snapshot of a population never get such feedback. As a consequence, the study designers can never know whether they have managed to avoid distortion.\nFor survey research, coverage and response are the most important ingredients to getting an accurate picture of the population of interest. Surveys with good coverage give every member of the target population a chance to participate. Convenience samples, like polls conducted at shopping malls, are notoriously poor at coverage. When random digit dialing was introduced in the 1970s, it was a breakthrough for survey research because it largely solved the coverage problem. At that time, 90% of the US population had a landline telephone. So, with RDD and phone interviews, the question was no longer how to get a sample with good coverage for almost any region of the States but how to do it in a cost-effective way.\nWith the increasing popularity of new communication technologies in the 21st centruy, there is a growing number of Americans who will never be reached through a landline. The challenge that cell phone use in particular poses for survey research has been a focus of the work of Paul J. Lavrakas, former Chief Research Methodologist for Nielsen and contributing author to Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology. In a Public Opinion Quarterly article summarizing the outcomes of several gatherings of expert panels between 2003 and 2008, Larakas and colleagues conclude that \"...surveying persons reached on cell phone numbers in the United States currently is a very complex undertaking if one wants to do it 'right,' i.e. to do it legally, ethically, and in ways that optimally allocate one's finite resources to gather the highest quality data, and to analyze and interpret those data accurately.'' Though daunting, to avoid non-coverage bias, it is an undertaking that has to be faced. The Pew Research Center estimates that for 25% of current households the only phone service used is a mobile phone.\nThe 2010 NISVS was a telephone survey. A strength of the design is that both landline and cell phones were included. Of the 16,507 completed interviews, 9,046 of the participants were on a cell phone and 7,461 were on a landline.\nResponse is the more concerning piece of the NISVS methodology. Using the American Association for Public Opinion Research Response Rate 4 formula, response rate is defined as the number of fully and partially completed interviews over all eligible cases, which is the sum total of cases with completed interviews, refusals, non-contacts, other spoken language than that used for the survey, and a correction factor for cases of unknown eligibility. The NISVS response rate was an underwhelming 27.5%. The majority of non-response was due to non-contacts. Although this rate is actually better than average for national telephone surveys, it still raises that question of whether the experience of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence is different among those Americans in the 72.5% of the sample who were either away from their phone or who looked at the unknown number coming in and chose not to answer.\nIf non-participation were a random event (a doubtful but much hoped for circumstance for survey researchers), then the NISVS participants would still provide a nationally representative sample of Americans. However, there is evidence that chance was not entirely indiscriminate when selecting the 27.5% of responders when one compares the NISVS sample and the US population on several socio-economic characteristics. In contrast to the US population, participants in the NISVS were more likely to have a college or advanced degree (36.4% versus 29.6%), more likely to be divorced (12.9% versus 10.3%), more likely to never have been married (30.2% and 26.1%), and more likely to have an annual household income that was below the federal poverty level (19.6% versus 12.1%).\nThe NISVS has an important public health message but it is unclear to which public it applies.", "url": "http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1424839/Rape-more-common-than-smoking-in-the-US.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120111041735/http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/1424839/Rape-more-common-than-smoking-in-the-US.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "FBI scraps long-standing definition of rape to include men as victims", "text": "FBI scraps long-standing definition of rape to include men as victims Advocates hail move, could impact Jerry Sandusky case\nMen can now be victims of rape in the eye of the law.\nIn a landmark decision that advocates say has been long overdue, the FBI has changed its definition of rape to include males.\n“This long-awaited change to the definition of rape is a victory for women and men across the country whose suffering has gone unaccounted for over 80 years,” said Vice President Joseph Biden in a statement Thursday.\nThe new definition, as it appears on the FBI website, is: “Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”\nAnother important change: the removal of the word ‘forcibly’ from the bureau’s definition, which had been in place since 1927.\nAdvocates for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence long decried the old standard as exclusionary and limited by its definition of “carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.”\nDistrict attorneys will now have clearer avenues to prosecute those accused with forcing anal sex and/or oral sex upon another person or rape with an object.\nThe issue of consent is addressed for the first time, since drug and alcohol intoxication are often present at the scene of reported crimes.\nThe issue of men and rape has been thrown into the spotlight recently after former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was accused of sex abuse of boys.\nSandusky’s accusers would not be considered rape victims under the FBI’s old definition.\nAttorney General Eric Holder said that the new definition will lead to a clearer picture of sexual assault in America and rectify what advocates believe are woefully underreported statistics.\nThe Criminal Justice Information Services Assistant Director David Cuthbertson said in a statement on the FBI website that the new definition “reflects the vast majority of state rape statutes,” and that the FBI “is confident that the number of victims of this heinous crime will be more accurately reflected in national crime statistics.”", "url": "http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/fbi-scraps-long-standing-definition-rape-include-men-victims-article-1.1001900?localLinksEnabled=false", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120108000528/http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/fbi-scraps-long-standing-definition-rape-include-men-victims-article-1.1001900?localLinksEnabled=false" }, { "language": "en", "title": "US redefines rape; adds men, others as victims", "text": "US redefines rape; adds men, others as victims\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Friday expanded the FBI's more than eight-decade-old definition of rape to count men as victims for the first time and to drop the requirement that victims must have physically resisted their attackers.\nThe new definition will increase the number of people counted as rape victims in FBI statistics, but it will not change federal or state laws or alter charges or prosecutions. It's an important shift because lawmakers and policymakers use crime statistics to allocate money and other resources for prevention and victim assistance.\nThe White House said the change was not motivated by the recent Penn State child sex-abuse scandal. Indeed, the expanded definition has been long awaited as many states and research groups made similar changes in their definitions of rape over recent decades.\nSenior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett called the change a \"very, very important step.\" The issue got top-level White House attention starting last July, when Vice President Joe Biden raised it at a Cabinet meeting.\nBiden, author of the Violence Against Women Act when he was in the Senate, said the new definition is a victory for women and men \"whose suffering has gone unaccounted for over 80 years.\" Calling rape a \"devastating crime,\" the vice president said, \"We can't solve it unless we know the full extent of it.\"\nSince 1929, the FBI has defined rape as the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will. The revised definition covers any gender of victim or attacker and includes instances in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of the influence of drugs or alcohol or because of age. Physical resistance is not required. The Justice Department said the new definition mirrors the majority of state rape statutes now on the books.\nSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said all rape victims \"should have access to the comprehensive services that will help them rebuild their lives.\"\nIn November, Leahy introduced legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and provide an increased emphasis on efforts to stop sexual assault.\n\"We've always had a broad definition of who is eligible for services, and the change could result in additional resources being made available for survivors of rape,\" said Linda McFarlane, deputy executive director of Just Detention International. The nonprofit human rights organization works to eliminate sexual abuse in prisons and other detention settings.\nCongress approved $592 million this year to address violence against women, including sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking, under the Violence Against Women Act and Family Violence Prevention and Services Act. Of that amount, $23 million goes to a sexual assault services program and $39 million to a rape prevention and education program administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Obama administration had sought $777 million to combat violence against women.\nThe change likely will result in big increases in the number of reported rapes, but it was not immediately clear how big. To take just one example of how the FBI totals will change, Chicago didn't report any rapes to the FBI for 2010 because its broad definition of the crime didn't match the FBI's narrow definition.\nThe change has been sought by women's groups for more than a decade.\nThe Women's Law Project, on behalf of more than 80 sexual assault coalitions and national organizations concerned about violence against women, wrote FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2001 that the narrow definition was based on gender-based stereotypes and requested it be changed then.\nUsing the old definition, a total of 84,767 rapes were reported nationwide in 2010, according to the FBI's uniform crime report based on data from 18,000 law enforcement agencies.\nNearly 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men in the U.S. have been raped at some time in their lives, according to a 2010 survey by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which used a broader definition.\nThose figures were what framed much of the discussion, said Lynn Rosenthal, the White House adviser on violence against women.\nRosenthal said discussions were under way long before the Penn State child sex-abuse scandal became public and that the scandal did not drive the policy change. Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is charged with more than 50 counts of child sex abuse; Sandusky says he is innocent.\nTrust between police and the public is a vital ingredient in lower crime rates, and undercounting a crime like rape can undermine that trust, said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit group that represents police departments across the country.\nThe revised FBI definition says that rape is \"the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object,\" without the consent of the victim. Also constituting rape under the new definition is \"oral penetration by a sex organ of another person\" without consent.\nCopyright © 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.", "url": "http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iTq2tt6CmlRxo_IuvqWbr1X7MJLQ?docId=2c421ac98e544c82a7595fd31c381651", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120109013658/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iTq2tt6CmlRxo_IuvqWbr1X7MJLQ?docId=2c421ac98e544c82a7595fd31c381651" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Revisions to the Uniform Crime Report’s Definition of Rape", "text": "WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder today announced revisions to the Uniform Crime Report’s (UCR) definition of rape, which will lead to a more comprehensive statistical reporting of rape nationwide. The new definition is more inclusive, better reflects state criminal codes and focuses on the various forms of sexual penetration understood to be rape. The new definition of rape is: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” The definition is used by the FBI to collect information from local law enforcement agencies about reported rapes.\n“Rape is a devastating crime and we can’t solve it unless we know the full extent of it,” said Vice President Biden, a leader in the effort to end violence against women for over 20 years and author of the landmark Violence Against Women Act. “This long-awaited change to the definition of rape is a victory for women and men across the country whose suffering has gone unaccounted for over 80 years.”\n“These long overdue updates to the definition of rape will help ensure justice for those whose lives have been devastated by sexual violence and reflect the Department of Justice’s commitment to standing with rape victims,” Attorney General Holder said. “This new, more inclusive definition will provide us with a more accurate understanding of the scope and volume of these crimes.”\n“The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Advisory Policy Board recently recommended the adoption of a revised definition of rape within the Summary Reporting System of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program,” said David Cuthbertson, FBI Assistant Director, CJIS Division. “This definitional change was recently approved by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller. This change will give law enforcement the ability to report more complete rape offense data, as the new definition reflects the vast majority of state rape statutes. As we implement this change, the FBI is confident that the number of victims of this heinous crime will be more accurately reflected in national crime statistics.”\nThe revised definition includes any gender of victim or perpetrator, and includes instances in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity, including due to the influence of drugs or alcohol or because of age. The ability of the victim to give consent must be determined in accordance with state statute. Physical resistance from the victim is not required to demonstrate lack of consent. The new definition does not change federal or state criminal codes or impact charging and prosecution on the local level.\n“The revised definition of rape sends an important message to the broad range of rape victims that they are supported and to perpetrators that they will be held accountable,” said Justice Department Director of the Office on Violence Against Women Susan B. Carbon. “We are grateful for the dedicated work of all those involved in making and implementing the changes that reflect more accurately the devastating crime of rape.”\nThe longstanding, narrow definition of forcible rape, first established in 1927, is “the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.” It thus included only forcible male penile penetration of a female vagina and excluded oral and anal penetration; rape of males; penetration of the vagina and anus with an object or body part other than the penis; rape of females by females; and non-forcible rape.\nPolice departments submit data on reported crimes and arrests to the UCR. The UCR data are reported nationally and used to measure and understand crime trends. In addition, the UCR program will also collect data based on the historical definition of rape, enabling law enforcement to track consistent trend data until the statistical differences between the old and new definitions are more fully understood.\nThe revised definition of rape is within FBI’s UCR Summary Reporting System Program. The new definition is supported by leading law enforcement agencies and advocates and reflects the work of the FBI’s CJIS Advisory Policy Board.\nClick here to read a blog post from Director Carbon on the importance of the new definition of rape to our nation’s law enforcement, and for survivors of rape and their advocates. Click here to listen to the FBI’s podcast.", "url": "http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/attorney-general-eric-holder-announces-revisions-to-the-uniform-crime-reports-definition-of-rape", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120108070033/http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/attorney-general-eric-holder-announces-revisions-to-the-uniform-crime-reports-definition-of-rape" } ]

[ "Sport", "Football", "France", "Europe", "Madrid" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Le collectif de l'OL domine les individualités du Real", "text": "ompus, eux aussi, aux techniques de communication, les entraîneurs des équipes de football ont tendance à jouer à cache-cache avec la presse. La veille de la rencontre entre l'Olympique lyonnais (OL) et le Real Madrid, comptant pour la 1re phase de la Ligue des champions (groupe F), Vanderlei Luxemburgo, l'entraîneur de Madrid, expliquait que Lyon était le favori. Dans le camp adverse, Gérard Houllier refusait de se prononcer, tout en laissant penser que les Madrilènes avaient, sur le papier, une prime à l'ancienneté. Il n'a pas semblé trop contrarié d'avoir eu tort : mardi 13 septembre, l'OL a battu le Real trois buts à zéro. ompus, eux aussi, aux techniques de communication, les entraîneurs des équipes de football ont tendance à jouer à cache-cache avec la presse. La veille de la rencontre entre l'Olympique lyonnais (OL) et le Real Madrid, comptant pour la 1phase de la Ligue des champions (groupe F), Vanderlei Luxemburgo, l'entraîneur de Madrid, expliquait que Lyon était le favori. Dans le camp adverse, Gérard Houllier refusait de se prononcer, tout en laissant penser que les Madrilènes avaient, sur le papier, une prime à l'ancienneté. Il n'a pas semblé trop contrarié d'avoir eu tort : mardi 13 septembre, l'OL a battu le Real trois buts à zéro. Bon début du tenant du titre, Liverpool L'équipe anglaise du FC Liverpool s'est s'imposée en Espagne sur le terrain du Betis Séville (2-1), mardi 13 septembre, lors de la 1re journée de la 1re phase de la Ligue des champions (groupe G). L'attaquant français de Liverpool, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, a ouvert le score dès la 2e minute. Il a été imité peu de temps après par l'Espagnol Luis Garcia (14e). L'équipe du Betis Séville, qualifiée en Ligue des champions grâce à sa victoire sur l'AS Monaco au 3e tour préliminaire (1-0, 2-2), a ensuite réduit le score en seconde période, d'un but d'Arturo Arzu (51e). Cette victoire permet à Liverpool de prendre la tête du groupe G, à égalité avec les Anglais de Chelsea, vainqueurs des Belges d'Anderlecht (1-0). [-] fermer LIGUE DES CHAMPIONS 1re phase, 1re journée Groupe E : Milan AC (Ita)-Fenerbahçe (Tur)3-1 Buts : Kakà (Milan AC, 18e et 87e), Alex (Fenerbahçe, 63e), Chevtchenko (Milan AC, 89e) PSV Eindhoven (Pbs)-Shalke 04 (All) 1-0 But : Vennegoor of Hesselink (33e) Groupe F : Lyon-Real Madrid (Esp)3-0 Buts : Carew (21e), Juninho (26e), Wiltord (31e) Olympiakos (Gre)-Rosenborg (Nor) 1-3 Buts : Lago (Rosenborg, c.s.c., 19e), Skjelbred (42e), Mavrogenidis (Olympiakos, c.s.c., 48e), Storflor (Rosenborg, 90e + 4) Groupe G : Chelsea (Ang)-Anderlecht (Bel)1-0 But : Lampard (19e) Betis Séville (Esp)-Liverpool (Ang) 1-2 Buts : Sinama-Pongolle (Liverpool, 2e), Luis Garcia (Liverpool, 14e), Arzu (Betis Séville, 51e) Groupe H : Glasgow Rangers (Eco)-FC Porto (Por) 3-2 Buts : Lovenkrands (Glasgow Rangers, 35e), Pepe (FC Porto, 47e, 72e), Prso (Glasgow Rangers, 59e), Kyrgiakos (Glasgow Rangers, 85e) Artmedia Bratislava (Slq)-Inter Milan (Ita) 0-1 But : Cruz (17e) [-] fermer\nCes jeux de dupe reflètent aussi une forme de prudence. Ces deux entraîneurs chevronnés savent qu'à ce niveau de la compétition tout est possible, que les vieilles réputations peuvent s'écrouler comme un château de cartes, et les nouvelles se briser en un rien de temps. Parfois un match ne tient qu'à un fil, et le premier qui le coupera gagnera. Ces jeux de dupe reflètent aussi une forme de prudence. Ces deux entraîneurs chevronnés savent qu'à ce niveau de la compétition tout est possible, que les vieilles réputations peuvent s'écrouler comme un château de cartes, et les nouvelles se briser en un rien de temps. Parfois un match ne tient qu'à un fil, et le premier qui le coupera gagnera. Il en a été ainsi entre Lyon et Madrid. Le premier quart d'heure fut une guerre de positions, tendue, âpre, rugueuse, chaque équipe cherchant à marquer son territoire et les mollets de l'adversaire. Très vite, à la 4e et à la 8e minute de la partie, le Real eut l'occasion d'ouvrir le score, par deux coups francs tirés à la limite de la surface de réparation : les deux fois le ballon a fusé de peu à côté du poteau gauche de Grégory Coupet. Plus tard, Lyon a eu le sien : frappe de Juninho, tête de Carew, but (21e). Cinq minutes après, nouveau coup franc pour l'OL, à 35 mètres de la cage défendue par Iker Casillas. Juninho adore cette distance, le public de Gerland aussi, et les gardiens beaucoup moins : deux à zéro. \"Nous avons raté nos deux coups francs, a constaté sobrement Vanderlei Luxemburgo, et les Lyonnais ont réussi les leurs.\" Tout est dit, ou presque. Le troisième but a ressemblé au jeu que l'OL développe depuis quelques années, une alternance de passes courtes et de subites accélérations : montée rapide d'Anthony Réveillère sur le côté gauche, centre impeccable pour Sylvain Wiltord, qui reprend de volée (31e). Les Galactiques sont à la rue. Peu avant la pause, ils concèdent un penalty. Mais Juninho le rate (40e). Au coup de sifflet marquant la fin de la première mi-temps, le même Juninho échange son maillot avec son jeune compatriote brésilien et désormais Madrilène Robinho, comme si la partie était terminée. Dans la tribune, un journaliste espagnol commence son article par \"vulgar\" (commun), un mot qui définit, selon lui, le jeu du Real. Pour lui aussi, le sort en est jeté. Le Real a-t-il été trop faible ou l'OL plus fort ? \" Moi, a expliqué Gérard Houllier, j'ai vu une très bonne partie de football. Or, pour qu'une partie soit bonne, il faut deux bonnes équipes.\" \" Les Lyonnais ont su faire preuve d'efficacité \", a quant à lui commenté Vanderlei Luxemburgo. La seconde mi-temps a surtout montré deux dynamiques, deux styles, deux philosophies. Lyon s'attendait à souffrir et a su résister, collectivement, sûrement au détriment du beau jeu. Mais Gérard Houllier le répète : \" Les équipes qui ont gagné la Ligue des champions ne sont pas celles qui ont eu le monopole du ballon.\" Au cours de cette seconde période, Lyon a montré une force collective, une solidarité à toute épreuve, et son gardien un savoir-faire. Dans les airs ou à ras de terre, Grégory Coupet a fait étalage de son talent, de son assurance, de sa chance aussi. Une démonstration qui n'a pas dû échapper au sélectionneur de l'équipe de France, Raymond Domenech, à quelques semaines de la fin de la suspension de Fabien Barthez. \" Nous avons su reproduire sur le terrain les consignes du tableau noir de notre entraîneur\" , se félicitait Grégory Coupet. Dans ces quarante-cinq dernières minutes, l'équipe a montré du \"talent\" , selon le mot de Gérard Houllier. En face, le Real n'en manquait pas. Mais le déficit au tableau d'affichage a renvoyé ses individualités à leurs travers : les frappes lointaines et désespérées de Roberto Carlos, les magnifiques transversales de David Beckham butant sur la défense lyonnaise, les dribbles chaloupés inutiles d'un Robinho isolé, n'ont abouti à rien, sauf à provoquer nombre gestes de dépit ou d'énervement chez les Galactiques. A l'issue de cette rencontre au score sans appel, aucun des protagonistes n'a souhaité pourtant tirer des conclusions définitives. Les Madrilènes n'ont pas semblé atteints et les Lyonnais sont restés sereins. Ce n'était qu'un premier match et la Ligue des champions est une épreuve de longue haleine. En attendant, les 40 309 spectateurs du stade de Gerland redemandent des parties comme celle-là. Bruno Caussé Article paru dans l'édition du 15.09.05\n'); --> '); -->", "url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3242,36-688929@51-627737,0.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20051030101233/http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3242,36-688929@51-627737,0.html" } ]

[ "Eleições nos Estados Unidos para o Senado 2020" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Understanding the election", "text": "AP is committed to reporting extensively on how the 2020 presidential election will work, explaining why results may be delayed and what it all means. We will be transparent in our coverage about what is happening before, during and after Election Day. With political reporters based in key states around the country – and reporters on the ground in all 50 states – AP is also looking hard at whether the pandemic, the economic crisis and the national reckoning over race has changed what people want from their government. Election coverage is offered in text, photos, video and live video.", "url": "https://www.ap.org/media-center/understanding-the-election", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200820082038/https://www.ap.org/media-center/understanding-the-election" } ]

[ "Deportes", "México", "Canadá", "Ontario", "Toronto", "Colombia", "Perú", "Norteamérica", "Sudamérica" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Toronto ganó sede 2015, rajada Bogotá", "text": "Obtener únicamente siete votos a favor, contra 33 de Toronto, 11 de Lima y uno nulo, privaron a Bogotá de ser sede de los Juegos Panamericanos de 2015. Los votos que estaban fijos en un comienzo se cambiaron al final y, para muchos, el dinero fue el que mandó en la elección.\nLa incredulidad en la delegación colombiana fue total. Nadie esperaba terminar últimos en la elección y, mucho menos, con tan pocos puntos a favor. Los votos alcanzados indican que, aparte de Colombia que tenía doble voto, únicamente cinco países apoyaron su iniciativa.\nAl momento de entrar a hacer balances hay mucho para hablar. Primero, la gran influencia que Toronto y, por ende, Canadá, que tenía con las islas. Varias de ellas son de habla inglesa y en varios periodos de su historia se han visto influenciadas por los canadienses.\nSegundo, la altura. Empezando por los isleños, había muchos países que le temían a los más de 2.800 metros de Bogotá.\nPero quizás lo más importante fue lo económico. Mientras Toronto, casi de inmediato, está lista para organizar las competencias, Bogotá ni siquiera ha empezado a expropiar los terrenos donde se construiría la Villa Panamericana.\nIgualmente, es bien sabido por todos, la Organización Panamericana tenía cierto nerviosismo, ya que no quiere repetir lo que hace pocos días sucedió con Guadalajara cuando los Juegos se vieron en peligro ante la imposibilidad de cumplir con el complejo habitacional.\nAsí muchos no lo quieran admitir, las prebendas igualmente jugaron en contra de Bogotá. Desde antes de la elección se sabía que los canadienses estaban ofreciendo regalos a los presidentes de los demás Comités Olímpicos del área y, no cualquier dádiva, sino elementos electrónicos de alta tecnología, como los blackberry que recibieron de los canadienses, mientras que los colombianos solo dieron copias de Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez. Toronto, con plata e influencias, arrolló a todos. Y tiene Juegos.", "url": "http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/T/toronto_gano_sede_2015_rajada_bogota/toronto_gano_sede_2015_rajada_bogota.asp", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210420225231/https://www.elcolombiano.com/historico/toronto_gano_sede_2015_rajada_bogota-BLEC_66520" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Toronto, elegida sede de los Panamericanos de 2015", "text": "Juan Carlos G. Partida\nCorresponsal\nPeriódico La Jornada\nSábado 7 de noviembre de 2009, p. a18\nGuadalajara, Jal., 6 de noviembre. La ciudad canadiense de Toronto fue seleccionada sede de los Juegos Panamericanos 2015, por encima de lugares como Lima, Perú, y Bogotá, Colombia, que también se postulaban para obtener la justa deportiva continental que en 2011 se organizará en Guadalajara.\nLa decisión que tomaron los delegados de los 42 países miembros de la Organización Deportiva Panamericana (Odepa) fue abrumadora en favor de Toronto, que se llevó 33 de los 52 votos disponibles –los países que han sido sede panamericana tienen voto doble–, mientras Lima sumó 11 votos y Bogotá siete. Hubo también uno nulo.", "url": "http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/11/07/index.php?section=deportes&article=a18n2dep", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091111001035/http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/11/07/index.php?section=deportes&article=a18n2dep" } ]

[ "Santiago de Chile", "Flugzwischenfall", "Flugverkehr", "Airbus", "Iberia (Fluggesellschaft)" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Basler Zeitung Online", "text": "Bombay. AP/baz. Die Anschläge auf voll besetzte Pendlerzüge in der indischen Wirtschaftsmetropole Bombay haben 190 Menschen das Leben ... Jerusalem/Beirut. AP/baz. An der Grenze zwischen Israel und dem Libanon sind am Mittwoch zwei israelische Soldaten von der Hisbollah-Miliz ... Frankfurt/Main. AP/baz. Der bisherige Assistenztrainer Joachim Löw wird Nachfolger des zurückgetretenen Fussball-Bundestrainers Jürgen ... Gossau-Ottikon. AP/baz. Ein Frontal-Crash zweier Autos hat am Dienstagnachmittag zum Horrorunfall auf der Forch-Autostrasse geführt. ... Zürich. Si/baz. Die guten Leistungen der Schweizer Nationalmannschaft drücken sich nun auch in der neuen FIFA-Weltrangliste aus. Das ... Bern. SDA/baz. Im Schweizer Luftraum ist es im vergangenen Jahr zu 75 Annäherungen von Flugzeugen gekommen. Die Zahl der so genannten ... Sion. SDA/baz. Ein 75-jähriger Belgier ist auf einer Wanderung in der Nähe der Staumauer Grande-Dixence tödlich verunglückt. Er wurde ... Köln. DPA/baz. Der japanische Autobauer Toyota ruft weltweit mehr als 380 000 Fahrzeuge der Luxus-Modelle Lexus RX in die Werkstätten ...", "url": "http://www.baz.ch/news/index.cfm?ObjectID=9111CC3E-60CF-2062-F401F2D4212E8B6B", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060712100437/http://www.baz.ch/news/index.cfm?ObjectID=9111CC3E-60CF-2062-F401F2D4212E8B6B" } ]

[ "Rugby à XV", "Championnat de Premiership de Rugby à XV", "Championnat de Premiership 2012-2013 de Rugby à XV|18", "Angleterre", "Europe", "Sport", "Résultats sportifs", "Tableau sportif" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Official Aviva Premiership Website : Aviva Premiership Rugby", "text": "League Rules\nIn the case of equality at any stage of the Season, positions at that stage of the season shall be determined firstly by the number of wins achieved and then on the basis of match points differential. A Club with a larger number of wins shall be placed higher than a Club with the same number of league points but fewer wins.\nIf Clubs have equal league points and equal number of wins then a Club with a larger difference between match points \"for\" and match points \"against\" shall be placed higher in the Premiership League than a Club with a smaller difference between match points \"for\" and match points \"against\".\nShould two Clubs have the same number of league points and the same match points difference, the Club having scored more match points \"for\" shall be placed higher in the Premiership League than the Club having the lesser number of match points \"for\".\nIf the above does not establish different Premiership League positions then the Club in the higher position shall be the Club that has achieved the higher aggregate match points scored by it in the same season against the other Club.\nIf this still does not establish the position then the Club who has won the most matches, excluding its first Premiership League match of the season, then its second Premiership League match and so on, until it can be established which the higher placed Club is.", "url": "http://www.premiershiprugby.com/matchcentre/tables/aviva_premiership_table.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120828052149/http://www.premiershiprugby.com/matchcentre/tables/aviva_premiership_table.php" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Official Aviva Premiership Website : Fixtures", "text": "Click here to download this fixture list Time Competition Home\nAway Venue TV / Att\nRound 1 14:00 PR London Wasps v Harlequins Twickenham ESPN Preview 15:00 PR Exeter Chiefs v Sale Sharks Sandy Park\nPreview 15:00 PR Gloucester Rugby v Northampton Saints Kingsholm\nPreview 15:00 PR Worcester Warriors v Bath Rugby Sixways\nPreview 16:30 PR Saracens v London Irish Twickenham ESPN Preview 14:00 PR London Welsh v Leicester Tigers Kassam Stadium Sky Preview Round 2 19:45 PR Harlequins v London Welsh Twickenham Stoop\nMore 14:15 PR Bath Rugby v London Wasps Recreation Ground ESPN More 15:00 PR Leicester Tigers v Worcester Warriors Welford Road\nMore 15:00 PR London Irish v Gloucester Rugby Madejski Stadium\nMore 16:30 PR Sale Sharks v Saracens Salford City Stadium ESPN More 15:00 PR Northampton Saints v Exeter Chiefs Franklin's Gardens Sky More Round 3 19:45 PR Bath Rugby v Northampton Saints Recreation Ground ESPN More 13:30 PR Worcester Warriors v Gloucester Rugby Sixways ESPN More 15:00 PR Harlequins v Sale Sharks Twickenham Stoop\nMore 15:00 PR London Wasps v London Irish Adams Park\nMore 15:30 PR Saracens v Leicester Tigers Wembley Stadium Sky More 15:00 PR London Welsh v Exeter Chiefs Kassam Stadium\nMore Round 4 20:00 PR Sale Sharks v London Welsh Salford City Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR London Irish v Bath Rugby Madejski Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR Northampton Saints v Worcester Warriors Franklin's Gardens\nMore 15:15 PR Gloucester Rugby v London Wasps Kingsholm Sky More 17:30 PR Leicester Tigers v Harlequins Welford Road ESPN More 14:15 PR Exeter Chiefs v Saracens Sandy Park ESPN More Round 5 19:45 PR Northampton Saints v London Wasps Franklin's Gardens ESPN More 20:00 PR Worcester Warriors v London Irish Sixways\nMore 14:15 PR Bath Rugby v Sale Sharks Recreation Ground\nMore 14:15 PR Leicester Tigers v Exeter Chiefs Welford Road ESPN More 14:00 PR Harlequins v Saracens Twickenham Stoop Sky More 15:00 PR London Welsh v Gloucester Rugby Kassam Stadium\nMore Round 6 20:00 PR Sale Sharks v Leicester Tigers Salford City Stadium Sky More 14:15 PR Gloucester Rugby v Bath Rugby Kingsholm ESPN More 15:00 PR Exeter Chiefs v Harlequins Sandy Park\nMore 15:00 PR London Irish v Northampton Saints Madejski Stadium\nMore 14:15 PR London Welsh v Saracens Kassam Stadium ESPN More 15:00 PR London Wasps v Worcester Warriors Adams Park\nMore Round 7 20:00 PR Worcester Warriors v Sale Sharks Sixways\nMore 14:30 PR Bath Rugby v Exeter Chiefs Recreation Ground Sky More 15:00 PR Northampton Saints v Saracens Franklin's Gardens\nMore 16:45 PR Gloucester Rugby v Leicester Tigers Kingsholm Sky More 14:15 PR London Irish v Harlequins Madejski Stadium ESPN More 15:00 PR London Wasps v London Welsh Adams Park\nMore Round 8 20:00 PR Sale Sharks v London Irish Salford City Stadium\nMore 14:15 PR Leicester Tigers v Northampton Saints Welford Road ESPN More 15:00 PR Exeter Chiefs v Worcester Warriors Sandy Park\nMore 17:15 PR Harlequins v Gloucester Rugby Twickenham Stoop Sky More 14:15 PR Saracens v London Wasps Vicarage Road ESPN More 15:00 PR London Welsh v Bath Rugby Kassam Stadium\nMore Round 9 20:00 PR Worcester Warriors v Saracens Sixways\nMore 13:00 PR Northampton Saints v London Welsh Franklin's Gardens\nMore 14:15 PR Bath Rugby v Harlequins Recreation Ground\nMore 15:00 PR Gloucester Rugby v Sale Sharks Kingsholm\nMore 15:00 PR London Irish v Exeter Chiefs Madejski Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR London Wasps v Leicester Tigers Adams Park\nMore Round 10 19:45 PR Harlequins v Worcester Warriors Twickenham Stoop\nMore 20:00 PR Sale Sharks v Northampton Saints Salford City Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR Exeter Chiefs v London Wasps Sandy Park\nMore 15:00 PR Leicester Tigers v Bath Rugby Welford Road\nMore 15:00 PR London Welsh v London Irish Kassam Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR Saracens v Gloucester Rugby Vicarage Road\nMore Round 11 20:00 PR Worcester Warriors v London Welsh Sixways\nMore 14:15 PR Bath Rugby v Saracens Recreation Ground\nMore 15:00 PR Gloucester Rugby v Exeter Chiefs Kingsholm\nMore 15:00 PR London Irish v Leicester Tigers Madejski Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR Northampton Saints v Harlequins Franklin's Gardens\nMore 15:00 PR London Wasps v Sale Sharks Adams Park\nMore Round 12 20:00 PR Sale Sharks v Worcester Warriors Salford City Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR Exeter Chiefs v Bath Rugby Sandy Park\nMore 15:00 PR Harlequins v London Irish Twickenham\nMore 15:00 PR Leicester Tigers v Gloucester Rugby Welford Road\nMore 15:00 PR London Welsh v London Wasps Kassam Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR Saracens v Northampton Saints stadiummk\nMore Round 13 15:00 PR Exeter Chiefs v Northampton Saints Sandy Park\nMore 15:00 PR Gloucester Rugby v London Irish Kingsholm\nMore 15:00 PR Worcester Warriors v Leicester Tigers Sixways\nMore 15:00 PR London Wasps v Bath Rugby Adams Park\nMore 15:00 PR London Welsh v Harlequins Kassam Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR Saracens v Sale Sharks Vicarage Road\nMore Round 14 20:00 PR Sale Sharks v Exeter Chiefs Salford City Stadium\nMore 14:15 PR Bath Rugby v Worcester Warriors Recreation Ground\nMore 15:00 PR Harlequins v London Wasps Twickenham Stoop\nMore 15:00 PR Leicester Tigers v London Welsh Welford Road\nMore 15:00 PR London Irish v Saracens Madejski Stadium\nMore 15:00 PR Northampton Saints v Gloucester Rugby Franklin's Gardens\nMore Round 15 14:15 PR Bath Rugby v London Irish Recreation Ground\nMore 15:00 PR Harlequins v Leicester Tigers Twickenham Stoop\nMore 15:00 PR Saracens v Exeter Chiefs Allianz Park\nMore 15:00 PR 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[ "Themenportal Recht", "Recht in den Vereinigten Staaten", "Sexueller Missbrauch" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "U.S. cracks down on female teachers who sexually abuse students", "text": "A combination image of booking photos show teachers convicted of sexual assaults (L-R) Nicole Dufault, Kathryn Ronk and Erica Ann Ginnetti in Essex County Department of Corrections, Michigan Department of Corrections, and Pennsylvania State Police photos respectively.\nNEW YORK (Reuters) - A \"Saturday Night Live\" skit about a male student having sex with his female high school teacher painted the relationship as every teen boy's dream, but drew a firestorm of criticism on social media.\nThe reaction to the comedy sketch reflected a growing view among law enforcement and victims' advocacy groups that it is no laughing matter when a woman educator preys on her male students.\nIn U.S. schools last year, almost 800 school employees were prosecuted for sexual assault, nearly a third of them women. The proportion of women facing charges seems to be higher than in years past, when female teachers often got a pass, said Terry Abbott, a former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Education, who tracked the cases.\nThis year's numbers are already slightly ahead of last year with 26 cases of female school employees accused of inappropriate relationships with male students in January compared to 19 cases the previous January.\nFemale educators who sexually abuse their students are facing tougher prosecution in part because there are more women police officers. There is also a greater awareness among prosecutors, judges and the general public that students who are victimized by an authority figure, regardless of gender, experience trauma with life-long consequences.\n\"Law enforcement is increasingly feminized, and women are much less prone to the old attitude: 'Oh, this is just some kid who got lucky,'\" said David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center. \"They recognize the issues involved and they go after women who violate the statutes.\"\nDepression, low-self esteem and difficulty maintaining future relationships are among the long-term consequences that male victims face, according to experts. Those problems are sometimes compounded by confusion and guilt over whether they are actually victims since their adolescent bodies involuntarily respond to physical contact.\n'SEISMIC SHIFTS'\nChild abuse experts agree it appears female teachers are being prosecuted more vigorously than in the past.\nThe crackdown is the result of \"two seismic shifts,\" said Christopher Anderson, executive director of Male Survivor, the largest U.S. advocacy organization for male sex-crime victims.\n\"One is a recognition that it does not matter who the perpetrator is or what the circumstances are. A teacher has absolutely no business engaging in sexual contact with a student,\" Anderson said. \"The second is a shift in the culture where boys and their parents are feeling empowered to come forward to say that something has been done.\"\nIn recent weeks, a Stamford, Connecticut high school English teacher, Danielle Watkins, 32, whose case was prosecuted by a female state's attorney, was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for having sex with an underage male student.\nIn Michigan, a female judge sentenced Madison High Spanish teacher Kathryn Ronk, 30, to up to 15 years in prison for having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy, saying \"the law does not recognize a double standard.\"\nIn New Jersey, a female prosecutor said the most lenient plea deal she would offer Nicole Dufault, 35, a Columbia High School English teacher accused of sexual relationships with six teenage boys, was 15 years in prison.\nThere are contrary examples, such as Pennsylvania's Erica Ann Ginnetti, 35, the Lower Moreland High School math teacher who had sex with a 17-year-old student and was sentenced to 30 days in jail by a male judge who said, \"What young man would not jump on that candy?\"\nThat was after a female prosecutor reportedly said in court that the victim's senior year became a nightmare, his grades plunged and he still struggles with social interactions.\nBut the Twitter furor ignited by the April \"SNL\" skit in which a male judge fist-bumps a boy who had sex with his \"hot\" teacher indicates how attitudes are changing.\n\"Appalled by the #SNL sketch glorifying sexual abuse of a male student by female teacher. Sends the worst message &minimizes; real experiences,\" tweeted Heather Timmis @hnt108.\nAn SNL spokesperson declined to comment.\nThere is no central U.S. reporting system for tracking female teachers who prey on male students, according to federal education officials, but Abbott has been charting the crimes from news coverage. His research showed that female teachers far more often than male teachers use social media to lure students, creating an electronic \"paper trail\" that may aid prosecutions.\nSchool districts are increasingly moving to ban private social media contact between teachers and students, sometimes in an effort to prevent inappropriate relationships.\n\"Social media enables the behavior to start,\" Abbott said. \"There is no way that a teacher is going to walk up to a kid in the hallway and say, 'Hey, would you like to see a naked picture of me?' They won't do it. But they will do that on social media. It's like it erases what used to be that barrier.\"\n(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Scott Malone and Andrew Hay)", "url": "http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/21/us-usa-crime-teachers-idUSKBN0NC14H20150421", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150421123718/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/21/us-usa-crime-teachers-idUSKBN0NC14H20150421" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Immer wieder Skandale mit Sex-Lehrerinnen: Was ist nur an Amerikas Schulen los?", "text": "Ihr wird sexueller Missbrauch Minderjähriger vorgeworfen – und dennoch erschien Lehrerin Brianne Altice (35) vor wenigen Tagen aufgedonnert wie eine Femme Fatale vor Gericht in Salt Lake City (US-Bundesstaat Utah): Knallrote Bluse, enger, schwarzer Rock, High-Heels. Mit vier Schülern soll sie mehrere Male Sex gehabt haben.\nWashington – Der Fall Brianne Altice zeigt: Das Klischee des mäßig attraktiven, männlichen Lehrers in den mittleren Jahren, der seinen Schülerinnen nachstellt, weil er bei Frauen nicht landen kann, entspricht nicht der Wirklichkeit.\nIn den USA häufen sich die Fälle, in denen Sex-Beziehungen zwischen hübschen, jungen Lehrerinnen und ihren zumeist minderjährigen Schülern an die Öffentlichkeit gelangen.\nAber warum vergreifen sich Frauen, nicht selten verheiratet und Mütter, an ihren Schutzbefohlenen?\nSie missbrauchte einen Schüler – und wurde rückfällig! Ihr droht lebenslänglich Ihre Tattoos sollen die Sex-Lehrerin überführen Der Fall der Lehrerin Brianne Altice (35) erregt die Gemüter: Sie soll drei minderjährige Jungen verführt haben. Verraten sie ihre Tattoos?\nProzess in Utah Sex-Lehrerin half Opfer bei den Hausaufgaben Schlechte Noten und Stress zu Hause: So erklärt ein Schüler (heute 18) die Affäre mit seiner ehemaligen Lehrerin Brianne Altice (35).\nSie war auf Kaution frei Sex-Lehrerin (35) wird rückfällig Brianne Altice (35) wurde wegen einer Schüler-Affäre inhaftiert. Sie zahlte Kaution, kam frei – und suchte sich ihr nächstes Opfer.\nExperten wie dem New Yorker Psychotherapeut Richard Gartner zufolge, der das Buch „Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse“ geschrieben hat, würden drei Faktoren eine Rolle spielen, wenn Lehrerinnen sich ihren Schülern näherten:\n► niedriges Selbstbewusstsein\n► Machtphantasien\n► die Chance, sich ein zweites Mal im Leben wie ein Highschool-Mädchen zu fühlen\n„Oft waren die Frauen nicht besonders beliebt in der Schule. Vielleicht sind einige von ihnen in diesem Entwicklungsstadium stehengeblieben“, sagte Gartner dem „Democrat & Chronicle“.\nDie amerikanische Psychotherapeutin und Beziehungsexpertin Wendy Walsh ist überzeugt, dass straffällige Lehrerinnen – oftmals selbst noch in ihren 20ern oder frühen 30ern – sich in der Schule tatsächlich wieder wie Teenager fühlten.\n„Damit soll das Verhalten dieser Frauen nicht entschuldigt werden. Aber sich den ganzen Tag in der Schule aufzuhalten, zwischen den verrückt spielenden Hormonen der Heranwachsenden – das hat einen Effekt“, sagte Walsh.\nStark geschminkt, auffälliges Outfit: So trat Brianne Altice am 15. Januar in Utah vor Gericht auf. Zu den Vorwürfen, sie habe Sex mit mehreren Schülern gehabt, ließ sie sich bislang nicht ein Foto: AP/dpa\nUnd: „Bei vielen Jungen im Teenageralter dreht sich alles um Sex. Dieser Umstand dient vielen der Frauen dazu, das Verbrechen vor sich selbst zu rechtfertigen. Es sei ja alles nicht so schlimm. In ihren Augen ist es oft sogar eine Art Geschenk für die Jungen. Auch deshalb kommt es oft zu Oralsex.“\nDer Fall Sarah O'Neill (35): Die Lehrerin an einem christlichen Jungen-Internat im US-Bundesstaat Pennsylvania begann im Januar 2014 eine Affäre mit einem ihrer Schüler (16). Mindestens vier Mal kam es zu Oralsex – in zwei Hotels, im Auto der Lehrerin, in einem Park. Das Verhältnis flog auf, weil O'Neill die Liebesbriefe des Teenagers auf dem Drucker vergaß.\nAuch Liebe – oder das, was die Lehrerinnen für Liebe halten – spielt eine Rolle!\nDr. James M. Pedigo ist Direktor des Joseph J. Peters Institute in Philadelphia und behandelt sowohl Sex-Täter als auch ihre Opfer. Er sagte „Philly.com“: „Die Frauen glauben, dass sie sich um die Jungen kümmern, mit denen sie Sex haben. Für sie ist es Liebe. Diesen Frauen kann man nur ganz schwer klarmachen, dass sie etwas Falsches tun. Sie wollen es einfach nicht enden lassen.“\nDer Fall Mary Kay LeTourneau: 1996 überraschten Polizeibeamte in Kalifornien die Lehrerin (damals 34) und ihren Schüler Vili Fualaau (12) beim Sex in einem Auto. LeTourneau musste drei Monate ins Gefängnis, bekam in dieser Zeit eine Tochter von Fualaau. Danach trafen sich die beiden weiter, wieder wurde LeTourneau schwanger – und musste schließlich für siebeneinhalb Jahre in Haft. Nach ihrer Entlassung 2004 heirateten LeTourneau (damals 43) und Fualaau (damals 22).\nAus der Lehrerin und ihrem ehemaligen Schüler wurde ein Ehepaar mit zwei Kindern: Mary Kay Letourneau und Villi Fualaau 2005 in ihrem Haus in Seattle Foto: AP\n„Jungen glauben oft, Sex mit der Lehrerin sei etwas Gutes“\nAnders als Mädchen könnten Jungen oftmals nicht verstehen, dass sie spätestens nach dem Geschlechtsverkehr Opfer eines Verbrechens geworden sind, weiß Dr. James M. Pedigo. „Sie glauben, dass ihnen etwas Gutes widerfahren ist.“\nPedigo weiter: „Sie selbst und ihre Freunde halten die sexuelle Erfahrung mit einem Lehrkörper nicht selten für einen Erfolg. Ein zwölfjähriges Mädchen, das Sex mit einem Lehrer hat, sieht das hingegen ganz anders.“\nWerden immer mehr US-Lehrerinnen zu einer Gefahr für ihre Schüler?\nUS-Experten bezweifeln das. Dr. James M. Pedigo: „Erst seit ein paar Jahren spricht unsere Gesellschaft von sexuellem Missbrauch, wenn eine ältere Frau einen Jungen verführt. Früher sah das anders aus.“\nDafür sprechen Erhebungen des Justizministeriums der Vereinigten Staaten. Laut einer Studie waren 1994 lediglich ein Prozent aller Sex-Täter weiblich – weniger als 800 Personen. 1997 waren es bereits acht Prozent (6292 Frauen). 2004 stellte das FBI fest, dass Frauen für zehn Prozent aller in den USA begangenen Sex-Verbrechen verantwortlich sind.\n► Dennoch: Lediglich zwei von 100 Sexualstraftätern seien Frauen, sagt Dr. Fred Berlin, Gründer eines Instituts an der John Hopkins Universität in Baltimore, die sexuelle Störungen erforscht. „In meiner Laufbahn habe ich mit mehreren Tausend Männern zu tun gehabt – aber weniger als 15 Frauen.“\nAber: Offizielle Zahlen für die gesamten USA liegen nicht vor!\nWer sich über die Ausmaße sexueller Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehungen in Nordamerika informieren will, muss intensive Eigenrecherche betreiben – oder auf inoffizielle Statistiken zurückgreifen.\n2006 sichteten Reporter der Nachrichtenagentur „AP“ sieben Monate lang Strafakten in allen 51 US-Bundesstaaten. Das Ergebnis: Im Zeitraum von 2001 bis 2005 wurden 2570 Lehrer, Direktoren und Schulpsychologen für sexuelle Vergehen bestraft – 80 Prozent ihrer Opfer sollen demnach Schüler gewesen sein!\nSie lauern ihren Opfern im Klassenzimmer auf Schul-Skandale Die schlimmsten Sex-Lehrerinnen Immer wieder kommt es in den USA zu Sex-Skandalen zwischen Lehrerinnen und Schülern. Die schlimmsten Fälle lesen Sie hier.\nWelche Rolle spielen Smartphones und soziale Medien?\n„Wenn ein Lehrer früher mit einem Schüler außerhalb des Schulgeländes reden wollte, musste sie oder er das Kind zu Hause anrufen – und hatte dort meist ein Elternteil am Hörer. Dank der technologischen Neuerungen hat sich das komplett geändert. Jetzt sind Schüler rund um die Uhr persönlich erreichbar“, sagte Shane Crosby, ehemaliger Mitarbeiter des US-Bildungsministeriums, zum Nachrichten-Portal „PennLive.com“.\nIn rund 30 Prozent aller Fälle, in denen es 2014 zu sexuellen Übergriffen auf Schüler durch Lehrer kam, sollen per Smartphone oder auf Facebook verschickte Nachrichten und Bilder eine Rolle gespielt haben, sagt Terry Abbott, ehemaliger Chef des US-Bildungsministeriums.\nDer Fall Lauren Harrington-Cooper (32): 2013 kam es zwischen der Englisch-Lehrerin aus Plymouth (US-Bundesstaat Massachusetts) und einem Schüler (damals 18) zu Oralsex und Geschlechtsverkehr. Zuvor hatte Harrington-Cooper der Schwester des Teenagers ihre Nummer zugesteckt, damit sie diese weiterreicht. Wie die „Daily Mail“ berichtete, soll sie ihrem Bruder ausgerichtet haben: „Sie sagte, sie findet dich heiß“. Das Verhältnis flog auf, nachdem die Eltern des Opfers die Sex-Texte entdeckt hatten. Harrington-Cooper kam ins Gefängnis, darf nie wieder unterrichten.\nZwei neue Sex-Lehrer-Fälle in Alabama – jeden Monat!\nZweifelhafter Ruhm für den US-Bundesstaat Alabama: Laut einer aktuellen Studie wurden dort 2014 – unter Berücksichtigung der Gesamtbevölkerung – die meisten strafbaren Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehungen gemeldet. In insgesamt 25 Fällen wurden Pädagogen des sexuellen Missbrauchs von Schülern beschuldigt oder sogar dafür verurteilt. Auf den weiteren Plätzen folgen Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi und Vermont.\nTerry Abbott und sein PR-Team sammelten über Monate Berichte aus allen verfügbaren Nachrichtenmedien und stellten schließlich eine Liste mit insgesamt 781 Vergehen in den USA zusammen.\nWas allerdings berücksichtig werden muss: Jeder US-Bundesstaat hat seine eigenen Gesetze – und die unterscheiden sich zum Teil enorm!\nIn Alabama sind Beziehungen verboten, wenn der Schüler oder die Schülerin jünger als 19 ist. In Wyoming hingegen sind solche Verhältnisse erlaubt, wenn der Schüler oder die Schülerin älter als 16 ist und die Beziehung aus eigenem Antrieb heraus führt. Ein absolutes Verbot hingegen herrscht in Michigan: Dort sind alle Lehrer-Schüler-Verhältnisse untersagt, unabhängig vom Alter der Beteiligten.\nPS: Sind Sie bei Facebook? Werden Sie Fan von BILD.de-News!", "url": "http://www.bild.de/news/ausland/sexueller-missbrauch/skandale-mit-sex-lehrerinnen-was-ist-an-amerikas-schulen-los-39399824.bild.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170126232327/http://www.bild.de/news/ausland/sexueller-missbrauch/skandale-mit-sex-lehrerinnen-was-ist-an-amerikas-schulen-los-39399824.bild.html" } ]

[ "Brazil", "London", "England", "United Kingdom", "Europe", "South America", "Crime and law", "London Underground", "Independent Police Complaints Commission" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Brazilian's visa expired in 2003", "text": "Mr Menezes was fleeing officers when he was shot eight times\nA passport stamp apparently giving him indefinite leave to remain \"was not in use\" on that date, added officials.\nMr Menezes, 27, was shot at Stockwell Tube station by officers wrongly suspecting him of being linked to the London bombings.\nHis body has been returned to Brazil to be buried in his home town of Gonzaga in the south-east.\nHome Office officials said they wished to end speculation over his immigration status but added it was not intended to influence any investigations.\nScotland Yard has admitted he was not connected to the attacks and Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair has apologised to Mr Menezes' family.\nBurial planned\nOn Thursday the Home Office said it wished to repeat the government's \"deep regret at his tragic death\".\nThe department's statement said Mr Menezes arrived in the UK on 13 March 2002 and was granted entry for six months as a visitor.\nHe applied for leave to remain as a student, which was approved and he was granted leave to remain until 30 June 2003.\n\"We have no record of any further application or correspondence from Mr Menezes.\n\"We have seen a copy of Mr Menezes' passport containing a stamp apparently giving him indefinite leave to remain in the UK.\nProtests in Brazil have included one in Mr Menezes' home town\n\"On investigation, this stamp was not one that was in use by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate on the date given.\"\nThe statement added: \"This information is not intended in any way to prejudice or influence the independent investigation into the circumstances of Mr De Menezes' death, or any possible future proceedings.\"\nOfficials said the information has been passed to the Brazilian government so his family could be informed.\nMr Menezes will be buried on Friday.\nManhunt continues\nMeanwhile a major police operation is under way on the UK's transport system, with officers on a precautionary high alert to reassure the public and deter would-be attackers.\nIn other developments, nine men have been held by anti-terror police in Tooting, south London, following raids on two addresses on Thursday.\nIt is not thought that any of the suspected bombers is among them.\nOn Wednesday night three women were held in Stockwell, a few miles away, on suspicion of harbouring offenders.\nPolice are continuing to question 21 July suspect Yasin Hassan Omar following his arrest in Birmingham, as the search for the other three suspects goes on.\nThe 24-year-old who is suspected of the attempted bombing of a Victoria Line train, near Warren Street, is being questioned at London's high-security Paddington Green police station.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4725659.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060629023632/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4725659.stm" } ]

[ "Sociedad", "Política", "Colombia", "Sudamérica", "Judicial" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Así fue la votación a favor y en contra del matrimonio igualitario", "text": "El uso de este sitio web implica la aceptación de los Términos y Condiciones de COMUNICAN S.A. Todos los Derechos Reservados D.R.A. Prohibida su reproducción total o parcial,así como su traducción a cualquier idioma sin autorización escrita de su titular. Reproduction in whole or in part, or translation without written permission is prohibited. All rights reserved 2013", "url": "http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/politica/articulo-418215-asi-fue-votacion-favor-y-contra-del-matrimonio-igualitario", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130427233426/http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/politica/articulo-418215-asi-fue-votacion-favor-y-contra-del-matrimonio-igualitario" }, { "language": "en", "title": "\"Era una votación esperada, en Colombia 80% somos heterosexuales\": Gerlein", "text": "El uso de este sitio web implica la aceptación de los Términos y Condiciones de COMUNICAN S.A. Todos los Derechos Reservados D.R.A. Prohibida su reproducción total o parcial,así como su traducción a cualquier idioma sin autorización escrita de su titular. Reproduction in whole or in part, or translation without written permission is prohibited. All rights reserved 2013", "url": "http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/politica/articulo-418186-era-una-votacion-esperada-colombia-80-somos-heterosexuales", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130427102314/http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/politica/articulo-418186-era-una-votacion-esperada-colombia-80-somos-heterosexuales" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Gráficos:¿Cómo votó el Senado el hundimiento del proyecto de matrimonio igualitario?", "text": "¿Cómo votó el Senado el hundimiento del proyecto de matrimonio igualitario? Caracol | Abril 24 de 2013\nPublicidad Últimos Gráficos", "url": "http://www.caracol.com.co/multimedia/graficos/como-voto-el-senado-el-hundimiento-del-proyecto-de-matrimonio-igualitario/20130424/recurso/1887543.aspx", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130617004055/http://www.caracol.com.co/multimedia/graficos/como-voto-el-senado-el-hundimiento-del-proyecto-de-matrimonio-igualitario/20130424/recurso/1887543.aspx" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Matrimonio igualitario: Hunden en el Congreso la ley del matrimonio gay", "text": "El Congreso votó negativamente el polémico proyecto que buscaba legalizar en Colombia el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo.\nEl proyecto de ley se hundió en la plenaria del Senado, al ser negado por 51 votos y sólo 17 votos a favor. Luego la presidencia de Senado rápidamente dio continuación a la agenda del día.\nAl cierre de la votación, algunos senadores que llegaron tarde, cerca de las 4:00 de la tarde cuando había sido citada a las dos de la tarde, como el conservador Jorge Hernando Pedraza, protestaron porque no pudieron sufragar.\n\"El congreso es tan tonto, y a veces tan estúpido, que termina quitándose los derechos de legislar para que la Corte vuelva a legislar, porque la Corte sí conoce los postulados constitucionales. El Congreso parece que solo conoce de postulados de la Iglesia católica romana. Esto parece una fachada de catedral pero que en última es como una pesebrera\", afirmó a su salida el senador Armando Benedetti.\nBenedetti aseguró que este hecho demostró que el Senado es “cavernícola”. “Este es un Congreso que ha demostrado que no existe, que no se representa ni así mismo, que es retardatario, que es del tercer mundo, porque mientras el del primer mundo como Francia estaban legislando sobre el tema, aquí nos queríamos parecer al del Congo y al de Uganda”.\nDe opinión diferente fue el senador conservador Roberto Gerleín, quien había criticado duramente el proyecto, y consideró su hundimiento como algo que era esperado.\n“Las cosas permanecen como vienen, no hay esa alteración total del régimen civil, del régimen de derechos en este país, era una votación esperada, en Colombia el 80 por ciento de la población es heterosexual, el Congreso refleja esa situación, como una expresión democrática”, sostuvo.\nEntre tanto el senador y presidente del Partido Conservador, Efraín Cepeda, sostuvo que “la posición del partido fue rodear de garantías a las parejas del mismo sexo pero no aceptar el término matrimonio y el tema de la adopción”.\nEl senador cristiano del movimiento Mira, Carlos Baena, declaró que “lo que hundió el proyecto fue el nombre que le quería dar a la unión, matrimonio, todo el tiempo se insistió en eso y polarizó la discusión”.\nPara el senador de la tendencia del progresismo, Camilo Romero, quien apoyó el proyecto, “aún hay una esperanza, es que nuestro nietos se van a reír de este episodio, por fortuna las sociedades van más avanzadas que este tipo de congresos, creo que ha sido triste, es el reconocimiento a la negación de las minorías”.\nA su turno el senador y entrante presidente de la corporación, Juan Fernando Cristo, sostuvo que lamentaba que se hubiera polarizado esta discusión como pasó.\n“Lo que no me pareció positivo ni para el Congreso ni para el país, es que nosotros que tenemos tanto factores de división, de polarización, de guerra interna, convirtamos esta en un debate sano en una batalla campal, hay que abordarlo con mayor serenidad, en el caso nuestro fuimos derrotados, pero me parece que es absolutamente normal y estaba cantada esta votación”.\nLa lucha de la comunidad gay continúa\nEn estos momentos varios manifestantes a favor del matrimonio igualitario piden a la comunidad gay que acudan a las notarías a exigir el matrimonio entre parejas del mismo sexo.\nMientras los detractores afirman que están felices porque se respaldó \"la familia\" y al \"electorado\", afirman en la plaza.\nCabe recordar que así fracase el proyecto podrá volver a ser presentado, según las leyes. Ahora, los promotores de la iniciativa tendrán que esperar al próximo período del legislativo para presentar de nuevo el proyecto de ley.\nDesde el principio del debate la Procuraduría General, se opuso a los matrimonios igualitarios y el Gobierno, en tanto, se ha alejó de la discusión.\nEl partido Conservador y el partido de La U, acordaron no apoyar el proyecto y por esto la mayoría votó negativamente.\nActualmente las parejas homosexuales en Colombia pueden registrar ante un notario las llamadas \"uniones de hecho\" o \"uniones civiles\", pero sin que ello constituya un matrimonio y disfruten de todos los derechos, incluida la adopción.\nDesde 2007 las parejas del mismo sexo, por decisión de la misma Corte Constitucional, pueden heredarse y afiliarse al sistema de salud y de pensiones.\nEl proyecto fue presentado ante el Congreso porque el 26 de julio del 2011 la Corte Constitucional, dejó en manos de este la decisión de legislar sobre los matrimonios de parejas del mismo sexo.\nAunque no hay cifras oficiales, grupos no gubernamentales como Colombia Diversa, que defiende los derechos de la comunidad de lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transgéneros, calcula que al menos entre 8 por ciento y 10 por ciento de la población del país de unos 46 millones de personas es gay y al menos 300.000 colombianos forman parejas del mismo sexo.", "url": "http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/M/matrimonio_igualitario_hunden_en_el_congreso_la_ley_del_matrimonio_gay/matrimonio_igualitario_hunden_en_el_congreso_la_ley_del_matrimonio_gay.asp", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130425233311/http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/M/matrimonio_igualitario_hunden_en_el_congreso_la_ley_del_matrimonio_gay/matrimonio_igualitario_hunden_en_el_congreso_la_ley_del_matrimonio_gay.asp" } ]

[ "Africa", "Ghana", "Europe", "United Kingdom", "Crime and law", "Transport", "Aviation", "British Airways", "Accra", "Cocaine", "England", "London", "Cyprus", "Nigeria" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "UK girls on Ghana drugs charges", "text": "Drug prevention posters are outside the airport in Accra\nYasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya were stopped as they tried to board a plane at Accra airport on 2 July.\nThe investigating team said the girls had told family they were going on a school trip to France. Instead, they went to Ghana for six days.\nIf found guilty it is thought they could face at least 10 years in jail.\nThe Foreign Office said the pair had appeared in court charged with possessing and attempting to export an illegal substance.\nThe higher the court, the better it gets - there is corruption in the lower courts and police ranks but the government is very determined to fight against corruption\nSabine Zanker\nFair Trials Abroad\nAfrica new front in drug war Have Your Say\nGhanaian Narcotic Control Board officers working as part of Operation Westbridge with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) were said to have found the drugs in laptop bags carried by the girls.\nTwo Ghanaian men apparently paid for their accommodation in Accra. The girls have told police the men gave them the laptop bags.\nFair Trials Abroad (FTA) said one of the girls' family had contacted them and they were looking into the case.\nSabine Zanker, of FTA, said cases such as these were usually dealt with fairly quickly in Ghana, which has a good legal system.\nShe said: \"The higher the court, the better it gets - there is corruption in the lower courts and police ranks but the government is very determined to fight against corruption\".\nShe added that the Ghanaian government was working with the UK on drugs cases.\nOperation Westbridge is designed to stop traffickers getting drugs into the UK and Europe through the West African country.\nBritish and Ghanaian customs officials have intercepted more than 200kg of cocaine between Accra and British airports since November.\nInterpol estimates more than a third of the cocaine arriving in Europe is trafficked through West Africa.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6896435.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070812215539/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6896435.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Myjoyonline.com Ghana News :: Teenagers in cocaine arrest named ::: Breaking News", "text": "The Narcotics Control Board has confirmed the arrest of two British teenage girls at the Kotoka International Airport allegedly carrying £300,000 worth of cocaine in laptop bags.\nThe two 16-year-olds, were arrested on July 2 as they were about to board a British Airways flight to London.\nThey have been named as Yasemin Vatansever, a British citizen of Cypriot descent and Yatunde Diya, also a British citizen with Nigerian descent. The girls face provision charges of possessing narcotics without lawful authority and attempting to export narcotic drugs.\nThey were allegedly found to be carrying 6.5kg of drugs.\nThe Narcotic Board's Deputy Executive Secretary, Mark Ewunpomah told The Telegraph newspaper: \"They were carrying drugs from Ghana to Britain. It was cocaine. It was in laptop bags. The laptops had been removed. They put 3 kg in each bag.\"\nHe said the girls were expected to be formally charged with possessing narcotic drugs and attempting to export drugs, for which the minimum sentence is 10 years.\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said officers from the British Embassy have been supporting the two girls. She said: \"Next of kin have been informed and we are providing full consular assistance.\"\nThe arresting officers were part of Operation Westbridge, a project set up by Britain and Ghana to tackle drug smugglers using Accra airport as a gateway to Britain and the European mainland.\nThe suspects are in police custody. Officials of the Narcotics Board have launched a hunt for two Ghanaian accomplices identified only as Kwame and Emmanuel who are said to be at large.\nAn uncle of one of the girls, who is called Yasmin, told ITV News: \"These girls have apparently had all their clothes taken away from them, and all they have is the set of clothes in which they got arrested.\n\"They've not been given proper food, the British consulate have been helping out by giving them some food, but all they've been getting is water and biscuits. These girls are held with adults, other criminals, who are much older than them.\"", "url": "http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/200707/6555.asp", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070911222010/http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/200707/6555.asp" }, { "language": "en", "title": "British teenagers arrested in Ghana over drugs", "text": "Two 16-year-old British girls who were allegedly carrying cocaine worth £300,000 have been \"provisionally charged\" at a court in Ghana, the Foreign Office confirmed tonight.\nThe girls, from Islington, north London, were arrested 10 days ago at Accra airport by officers from the Ghanaian Narcotic Control Board. They were allegedly carrying 6.5kg of cocaine as they tried to board a British Airways flight.\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said officials from the British embassy had been supporting the two girls.\n\"We are aware of the arrest of two British national minors on July 2 at Accra airport,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\"Next of kin have been informed, and we are providing full consular assistance. We are unable to confirm any personal details due to their age.\"\nAn HM Revenue and Customs spokeswoman told Guardian Unlimited that the girls had apparently been \"recruited\" by drugs smugglers in Britain, and had travelled to the west African country by themselves without their parents' knowledge. The drugs were allegedly found within their luggage.\n\"They were given [bags] to carry and we do not know if they knew what was in them,\" the spokeswoman said. \"They were recruited in Britain and travelled to Ghana.\n\"It is unusual in that they are so young, but it is not unusual for British people to be bringing drugs into the country in this way.\"\nGhana, along with other African countries, has become a key staging route for drugs from South America since authorities cracked down on long-established smuggling ports.\nMore than £10m worth of drugs has been seized by Ghanaian or British officials from people travelling between the two countries in recent months.\nThe girls, who have had an initial court hearing, could face jail sentences of up to 15 years if convicted. It was not clear whether British authorities would ask for leniency due to their age.\nAn uncle of one of the girls said he was worried about them. The uncle, who was not named, told ITV News: \"These girls have apparently had all their clothes taken away from them, and all they have is the set of clothes in which they got arrested.\n\"They've not been given proper food. The British consulate have been helping out by giving them some food, but all they've been getting is water and biscuits. These girls are held with adults, other criminals, who are much older than them.\"\nJustice campaigners Fair Trials Abroad said they intended to take a keen interest in the case.\nThe officials at Accra were taking part in Operation Westbridge, set up by UK customs in conjunction with the Ghanaian authorities to tackle the problem of drug smugglers using the airport as a gateway to the UK and Europe.\nTony Walker, leading the operation for customs, said the alleged use of such young girls as couriers \"vividly illustrates the ruthlessness of the criminal drug gangs involved in this traffic\".\n\"The dedication of UK and Ghanaian drug detection officers has prevented deadly Class A drugs from entering the UK,\" he added.\n\"The Westbridge collaboration between Ghana and the UK is delivering real results in this and other cases by helping to protect both countries from the violence and corruption that always accompanies the trade in illegal drugs.\"\nThe operation - launched last November - sees customs officers providing technical and operational expertise, including training in the use of Foreign Office-funded scanning equipment, to the Ghanaian government.\nIt follows the success of Operation Airbridge, a joint UK and Jamaican initiative to catch drug couriers with internal concealments of Class A drugs before they board planes from Jamaica.\nCustoms officials believe that operation proved the value of working in partnership with local law enforcement agencies, with the number of \"drug swallowers\" detected at UK airports having travelled from Jamaica falling markedly.\nDrug runners are known to target vulnerable people, including women and children, to carry drugs across international borders. Known as mules, they carry the drugs in their luggage, taped to their bodies or concealed in clothing. Drugs can even be dissolved in drinks.\nGhana was the first country in Africa to introduce high-tech scanning machines that are able to detect the faintest traces of cocaine and other substances.\nSending the machines and officers to train and aid Ghanaian authorities in counter smuggling measures costs £250,000 a year, the customs spokeswoman said. The cost is being paid for by the FCO and Home Office.\nCustoms officials are currently in discussion with other countries, including Nigeria, about establishing similar liaison schemes.", "url": "http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2124656,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070714185413/http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2124656,00.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "General News of Thursday, 12 July 2007", "text": "General News of Thursday, 12 July 2007\nBritish teenagers arrested in Ghana over drugs\nTwo 16-year-old girls from London were arrested in Ghana after being discovered with an estimated 300,000 pounds' worth (443,000 euros, 610,000 dollars) of cocaine, customs officials said Thursday.\nHer Majesty's Revenue and Customs said in a statement that the teenagers, both college students, were detained at Accra Airport by Ghanaian Narcotic Control Board officers working on a joint British-Ghanaian project targeting drug smugglers.\nThe head of the Operation Westbridge project, British customs officer Tony Walker, said: \"The use of such young girls as couriers vividly illustrates the ruthlessness of the criminal drug gangs involved in this traffic.\n\"The dedication of UK and Ghanaian drug detection officers has prevented deadly Class A drugs from entering the UK.\"\nThe girls had been in the process of boarding a British Airways flight to London and were allegedly in possession of 6.5 kilos (14 pounds) of cocaine, HMRC said.\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman in London said British embassy officials had been called to support the girls.\n\"We are aware of the arrest of two British national minors on July 2 at Accra airport,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\"Next of kin have been informed and we are providing full consular assistance. We are unable to confirm any personal details due to their age.\"\nOperation Westbridge was launched in November 2006 to curb a rise in cocaine smuggling from Ghana.\nBritain provides technical and operational expertise to counterparts in Ghana, including training and use of scanning equipment.\nThe United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime Annual Drug Report 2006 identified West Africa as a key staging post for drugs mules coming to Britain.", "url": "http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=127094", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070714223255/http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=127094" } ]

[ "Middle East", "Saudi Arabia", "Turkey", "Istanbul", "North America", "United States", "New York", "New York, New York", "Virginia", "Politics and conflicts", "Crime and law", "Human rights", "CIA", "Journalism", "Washington Post", "United Nations", "United Nations General Assembly" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Call for justice in the US one year after Khashoggi's murder", "text": "United Nations, New York - The fiancee of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the United Nations official who investigated his killing made an impassioned plea for justice on Thursday, days before the first anniversary of his death.\nHatice Cengiz, who was preparing to marry Khashoggi when he was killed in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on October 2 last year, complained that \"no concrete action\" had been taken since the incident to identify and prosecute his killers.\n\"What is so sad for me is not seeing the punishment of the perpetrators,\" Cengiz told a small group of reporters through a Turkish interpreter.\n\"Imagine that the entire world remains silent over Jamal's killing. This silence and inertia created huge disappointment on my side.\"\nAt the time of his death, Khashoggi was a legal resident of the United States.\nUN rapporteur Agnes Callamard, who investigated the murder, urged Cengiz and others to be \"patient and resilient\", saying justice would only be won after a \"long haul\" given the current geopolitical climate.\n\"Accountability is not delivered in 12 months, that's summary justice. True justice takes time and I know it's painful, but that's the reality of the world we live in,\" said Callamard.\nCallamard also dismissed a domestic trial of 11 suspects in Saudi Arabia as a sham, adding that \"political, economic and symbolic pathways\" should be pursued to isolate Riyadh diplomatically.\nThe UN rapporteur urged the CIA to declassify its files on the killing, and for the FBI to open a criminal investigation. Meanwhile, she urged the G20 group of rich countries to move their November 2020 meeting, which is set to be in Riyadh.\nHatice Cengiz, the fiancee of Khashoggi, has expressed her frustration over the slow progress of the investigation on the killing in Istanbul in 2018 [File: Yves Herman/Reuters]\nBin Salman's role in the killing\nCallamard added that if passed, the Saudi Arabia Human Rights and Accountability Act, currently being discussed in the US Congress, could also help identify Khashoggi's killers and make it hard for them to obtain US visas.\nCengiz and Callamard spoke on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, hours after revelations in a new documentary that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, had accepted some degree of responsibility for the killing.\nIn a trailer to a PBS documentary set to air next week, MBS said: \"I get all the responsibility because it happened under my watch\". However, Prince Mohammed did not admit to ordering the murder, saying he could not possibly monitor all \"three million government employees\" in the kingdom.\nKhashoggi, a US-based Washington Post columnist, visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get the papers he needed to marry Cengiz.\nHe was allegedly killed while inside the consulate, and his body reportedly dismembered and removed from the building. His remains have not been found.\nThe CIA assessed that MBS had ordered the killing.\nIn June, Callamard issued a report that detailed a \"deliberate, premeditated execution\", and called for MBS and other top Saudi officials to be investigated.\nThe killing sparked a global uproar, further tarnishing the young crown prince's image and undermining ambitious plans to improve the country's abysmal human rights record and diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.\nOfficials in Riyadh, who initially said Khashoggi had left the consulate unharmed, now say the journalist was killed in a rogue operation that did not involve the prince.\nIn an upcoming document, Saudi Arabia's crown prince said he bears some responsibility for the death of Khashoggi, but did not admit to ordering the killing [File: Kazuhiro Nobig/Getty Images]\nAnswering a question from Al Jazeera, Callamard said MBS's comment in the new documentary was \"interesting\" but that she \"cannot take it at face value\".\n\"It does not point to any personal sense of responsibility. He has not apologised to Hatice yet, or the family members,\" said Callamard.\nCengiz said the prince's comments displayed a \"pure political manoeuvre\".\n\"By saying that everything happened under his watch, he's sending the world a message that he's more influential than the king of Saudi Arabia, and is the real head of the country,\" said Cengiz.\n\"He's also distancing himself from the killing of Jamal, saying it happened under his watch but that he was not involved in the crime.\"", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/call-justice-year-khashoggi-murder-190927024447434.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190927173841/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/call-justice-year-khashoggi-murder-190927024447434.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée demands that Saudi Arabia be held accountable for his murder", "text": "Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée demands that Saudi Arabia be held accountable for his murder\n\"It took me a long time to enter into mourning,\" Hatice Cengiz said. \"After a long delay, I experienced this huge shock wave.\"", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/jamal-khashoggi-s-fianc-e-demands-saudi-arabia-be-held-n1059126", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190927011938/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/jamal-khashoggi-s-fianc-e-demands-saudi-arabia-be-held-n1059126" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Khashoggi murder 'happened under my watch,' Saudi crown prince tells PBS", "text": "RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said he bears responsibility for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year by Saudi operatives “because it happened under my watch,” according to a PBS documentary to be broadcast next week.\nSaudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, September 18, 2019. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS\nMohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, has not spoken publicly about the killing inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The CIA and some Western governments have said he ordered it, but Saudi officials say he had no role.\nThe death sparked a global uproar, tarnishing the crown prince’s image and imperiling ambitious plans to diversify the economy of the world’s top oil exporter and open up cloistered Saudi society. He has not since visited the United States or Europe.\n“It happened under my watch. I get all the responsibility, because it happened under my watch,” he told PBS’ Martin Smith, according to a preview of a documentary, “The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,” set to air on Oct. 1, ahead of the one-year anniversary of Khashoggi’s death.\nAfter initial denials, the official Saudi narrative blamed the murder on rogue operatives. The public prosecutor said the then-deputy intelligence chief ordered the repatriation of Khashoggi, a royal insider who became an outspoken critic, but the lead negotiator ordered him killed after discussions for his return failed.\nSaud al-Qahtani, a former top royal adviser whom Reuters reported gave orders over Skype to the killers, briefed the hit team on Khashoggi’s activities before the operation, the prosecutor said.\nAsked how the killing could happen without him knowing about it, Smith quotes Prince Mohammed as saying: “We have 20 million people. We have 3 million government employees.”\nSmith asked whether the killers could have taken private government jets, to which the crown prince responded: “I have officials, ministers to follow things, and they’re responsible. They have the authority to do that.” Smith describes the December exchange, which apparently took place off camera, in the preview of the documentary.\nA senior U.S. administration official told Reuters in June the Trump administration was pressing Riyadh for “tangible progress” toward holding to account those behind the killing ahead.\nEleven Saudi suspects have been put on trial in secretive proceedings but only a few hearings have been held. A U.N. report has called for Prince Mohammed and other senior Saudi officials to be investigated.\nKhashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was last seen at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, where he was to receive papers ahead of his wedding. His body was reportedly dismembered and removed from the building, and his remains have not been found.", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-khashoggi/khashoggi-murder-happened-under-my-watch-saudi-crown-prince-tells-pbs-idUSKBN1WB0HV", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190926054411/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-khashoggi/khashoggi-murder-happened-under-my-watch-saudi-crown-prince-tells-pbs-idUSKBN1WB0HV" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Exclusive: Mohammed bin Salman Speaks About His Role in Khashoggi’s Murder For the First Time", "text": "Nearly one year ago, the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul shocked the world.\nEver since, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been silent about his involvement in the operation, which the CIA concluded he ordered but the Saudis deny.\nNow, in a newly published conversation with FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith, the Saudi leader speaks out for the first time about his role in Khashoggi’s murder — telling Smith that the killing happened on his watch.\n“It happened under my watch,” the Saudi leader told Smith. “I get all the responsibility, because it happened under my watch.”\nBut he insists that it was without his knowledge.\nThe exchange is recounted in The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, FRONTLINE’s upcoming season premiere, which examines the Saudi leader’s rise, his rule, and his ties to the events surrounding Khashoggi’s murder.\nWeeks after Khashoggi’s death in October 2018, Prince Mohammed called the killing “heinous” and promised that it would be investigated. All the while, his government maintained that the leader had no knowledge of the “rogue operation.” Two months later, in December 2018, Smith tracked down the crown prince at an electric car race outside Riyadh. Smith pressed Prince Mohammed on how the murder could have happened without him knowing about it.\n“We have 20 million people. We have 3 million government employees,” Prince Mohammed responded.\n“And they can take one of your planes?” Smith asked, referring to the 15-person team said to have been behind Khashoggi’s death and dismemberment that flew in and out of Istanbul on jets owned by the Saudi government.\n“I have officials, ministers to follow things, and they’re responsible, they have the authority to do that,” Prince Mohammed said.\nThe Saudi royal’s comments to Smith, who has been covering the Middle East for FRONTLINE for nearly two decades, are just one facet of new reporting featured in The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. The documentary, which airs on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Khashoggi’s death, also includes never-before-seen FRONTLINE interview footage with Khashoggi that sheds new light on his transformation from a supporter of MBS to his critic.\n“I don’t want to be a dissident, but in the same time, I don’t want to go back home and be silent again,” the columnist told Smith months before his death.\nThe Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia premieres Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. EST/9 p.m. CST. Tune in or stream on PBS (check local listings), at PBS.org/frontline and on the PBS Video App.", "url": "https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/mohammed-bin-salman-speaks-about-role-khashoggis-murder-first-time/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190927012843/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/mohammed-bin-salman-speaks-about-role-khashoggis-murder-first-time/" } ]

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[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Actualités en direct et info en continu", "text": "EPISODE 7. On a roulé avec un cycliste et un automobiliste dans Paris déconfiné\nPour le retour de Biclou, la série vidéo du « Parisien », dédiée au vélo et dont la diffusion a été interrompue durant le confinement, nous vous proposons un numéro spécial sur la place que prend progressivement le vélo… sur celle de la voiture.", "url": "http://www.leparisien.fr/home/imprimer/article.htm?articleid=296097555", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200606195859/https://www.leparisien.fr/?articleid=296097555" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Scientologie - Une Française séquestrée en Sardaigne", "text": "Scientologie - Une Française séquestrée en Sardaigne Crédit Photo : TF1-LCI Martine Boublil a été détenue plusieurs semaines dans une pièce remplie d'immondices. Elle pourrait être rapatriée en France dès la semaine prochaine. Elle avait été retrouvée demi-nue et dormant sur un matelas infesté de vermine, selon la police locale. - le 01/03/2008 - 16h19\nElle a été détenue dans des conditions d'hygiène déplorables dans une maison de Sardaigne par des membres de l'église de Scientologie. Une Française de 48 ans, libérée fin janvier par la police italienne, va \"être rapidement rapatriée en France\", ont indiqué samedi des sources diplomatiques françaises à Rome. \"Le Consulat de France à Rome suit cette affaire depuis le début en collaboration étroite avec les autorités italiennes et Martine Boublil sera rapidement rapatriée en France\", ont affirmé ces sources.\nLa police de Nuoro (centre-est de la Sardaigne), qui l'avait libéré, a précisé que Martine Boublil \"était toujours hospitalisée mais qu'elle pourrait quitter la Sardaigne la semaine prochaine\". La préfecture de Nuoro avait été alertée par un coup de téléphone faisant état d'appels à l'aide provenant d'une maison de campagne située sur le mont Ortobene, près de Nuoro.\nQuatre Français arrêtés puis libérés\nLes policiers avaient découvert le 21 janvier Martine Boublil, soeur de Claude Boublil, un important membre de l'église de Scientologie en France, enfermée dans une pièce remplie d'immondices. D'abord présentée comme d'origine tunisienne, elle avait été retrouvée demi-nue et dormant sur un matelas infesté de vermine, selon la police locale.\nQuatre Français, une femme et trois hommes, présentés comme des membres de la Scientologie et soupçonnés d'avoir retenu Martine Boublil contre son gré, avaient alors été arrêtés, avait indiqué à l'époque un porte-parole de la préfecture de police locale. Ces quatre personnes ont été libérées il y a dix jours et sont depuis rentrées en France, a-t-on précisé samedi de même source. (D'après agence) Vos réactions sur le sujet (susceptibles d'être publiées) > Réagir à cet article LIENS PUBLICITAIRES", "url": "http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/faits-divers/0,,3729324,00-francaise-sequestree-par-scientologie-bientot-rapatriee-.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080303002417/http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/france/faits-divers/0,,3729324,00-francaise-sequestree-par-scientologie-bientot-rapatriee-.html" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "L'étrange séquestration qui embarrasse la Scientologie", "text": "ImprimerEnvoyer\nSecourue par la police italienne, Martine Boublil, une Française de 48 ans, a été séquestrée durant plusieurs semaines par des scientologues dans une maison isolée, en Sardaigne. Une affaire qui risque de relancer la polémique sur l'Eglise de scientologie\nPour la Scientologie, l'affaire tombe au plus mal. Alors que la problématique sectaire revient au premier plan du débat public en France, et tandis que le ministère de l'Intérieur vient de rappeler aux préfets la plus grande vigilance à l'encontre de toute dérive, un drame vient remettre en cause les pratiques controversées de la Scientologie.\nMartine Boublil, 48 ans, ancienne scientologue et soeur de l'un des plus hauts gradés de la Scientologie en France, Claude Boublil, a été retrouvée fin janvier, en Sardaigne, après un mois et demi de séquestration dans des conditions sanitaires abominables.\nCet enfermement de force, visiblement organisé par son frère, avait, d'après ses déclarations, commencé quatre mois plus tôt, sur le sol français. Hospitalisée depuis sa libération, elle doit être rapatriée en France mardi.\nJean-Pierre Brard, député-maire PC et membre de la commission parlementaire de lutte contre les sectes, a alerté par courrier le ministère des Affaires étrangères il y a dix jours, lui demandant une « protection renforcée » de cette femme. La chancellerie et le ministère de l'Intérieur déclarent être « très attentifs » à l'affaire. Pour l'instant, c'est la justice italienne qui mène l'enquête. Elle a rendu leur liberté aux quatre scientologues après les avoir assignés à résidence sur le sol sarde pendant quelques jours.\nSi elle dépasse sa peur et d'éventuelles pressions, Martine Boublil peut porter plainte dès son retour en France. Si ce n'est pas le cas, la balle resterait dans le camp italien : sans une demande officielle de coopération franco-italienne, les autorités françaises avouent leur impuissance. Ce serait donner raison à la porte-parole de la Scientologie, Danièle Gounord, qui nous affirmait qu'« aucune procédure pénale n'était en cours en France » contre son organisation. Contactée hier, celle-ci nie toute implication de la Scientologie dans cette histoire et rétorque qu'il s'agit d'un « drame familial ».\nPour Roger Gonnet, un ancien scientologue aujourd'hui chef de file de la lutte contre la Scientologie , ces méthodes sont au contraire « coutumières » de cette organisation. Il a rencontré hier, à l'Elysée, Emmanuelle Mignon, la directrice de cabinet de Nicolas Sarkozy, pour s'entretenir de ces questions.\nNUORO (SARDAIGNE), MERCREDI. Martine Boublil a été séquestrée durant un mois et demi au premier étage de cette maison. Elle a pu en sortir grâce à l'intervention de la police locale, prévenue par les voisins. (LP/AURELIE AUDUREAU.)\nRetour haut de page\nImprimerEnvoyer", "url": "http://www.leparisien.fr/home/info/faitsdivers/articles/L-ETRANGE-SEQUESTRATION-QUI-EMBARRASSE-LA-SCIENTOLOGIE_296097555", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080303030249/http://www.leparisien.fr/home/info/faitsdivers/articles/L-ETRANGE-SEQUESTRATION-QUI-EMBARRASSE-LA-SCIENTOLOGIE_296097555" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Scientologie : le programme secret d'isolement des adeptes", "text": "L’Église de scientologie affirme qu’elle n’a rien à voir dans la récente séquestration, en Italie, de la sœur d’un scientologue français de haut niveau. Mais cette détention correspond, point pour point, à un « traitement » de choc prévu par la sciento. « Bakchich » révèle le détail de ces pratiques.\nUn simple « drame familial » dans laquelle l’Église de scientologie n’aurait rien à voir. A en croire la porte parole de la secte, Danièle Gounord, c’est ainsi qu’il faudrait apprécier la séquestration pendant plusieurs semaines, en Sardaigne, de Martine Boublil, par trois scientologues, dont son propre frère Claude Boublil, aidés d’une quatrième comparse. Hélas pour elle, cette explication peut être battue en brèche. Bakchich est en mesure de le révéler, le calvaire enduré par la victime ressemble furieusement à un programme de \"soins\" très particulier que la secte réserve à certains de ses adeptes.\nBaptisé \"Isolation Watch\" - isolement et observation - ce programme est longuement commenté dans une thèse de doctorat en droit rédigée par un ancien fonctionnaire des renseignements généraux, spécialisé dans la lutte antisectes, Arnaud Palisson. Ce vilain juriste dresse une impressionnante liste de chefs d’accusation qui pourraient être retenus contre ceux qui utiliseraient une telle méthode : arrestation arbitraire, séquestration arbitraire… Tiens, on croyait pourtant que les techniques scientologues ne tendaient qu’au bonheur de l’humanité.\nBien que remarqué par la faculté (mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury), ce travail a valu au policier d’être muté dans un autre service à la suite d’une protestation de l’Eglise de scientologie. Voilà ce que c’est que de ne pas comprendre que les disciples de Ron Hubbard, le fondateur de la secte, ne songent qu’à aider leur prochain.\nC’est un détail dans l’entretien que Martine Boublil a accordé à nos confrères du Parisien, samedi dernier, qui a mis Bakchich sur la voie du programme \"Isolation Watch\" La rescapée souligne l’étrange comportement de ses gardiens : « Ils ne m’adressaient pas un mot. Pour dire oui, ils clignaient des yeux, pour non, les laissaient ouverts. »\nAttitude qui n’a aucun sens. Sauf en scientologie. Ce mutisme est en effet au cœur du programme « Isolation Watch qu’un « bulletin technique » de la secte, autrement dit une circulaire interne, en date du 23 janvier 1974, détaille en ces termes : « En présence d’une personne en crise psychotique, isolez totalement cette personne, tous ses congénères étant à son égard complètement muselés (interdiction de lui parler) »\nClaude Boublil, un médecin pionnier de la scientologie en France\nCrise psychotique ! Justement, Martine Boublil confie au Parisien qu’elle a été internée en juin 2007 à la suite d’une dépression sévère. Son frère, Claude Boublil, médecin à la retraite, lui aurait cependant fait quitter l’hôpital pour la conduire en Sardaigne après une escale en Normandie puis le départemet de la Sarthe.\nCe praticien n’est pas n’importe qui dans le petit monde de la scientologie. Claude Boublil est un des pionniers de la secte en France. Il en a d’ailleurs gravi tous les échelons puisqu’il est OT8, le plus haut degré délivré par la secte. Seuls une dizaine de Français ont atteint ce niveau.\nAccessoirement, Claude Boublil est également l’un des vingt scientologues poursuivis dans le cadre d’une instruction ouverte en 1983 à Paris pour escroquerie, extorsion de fonds et exercice illégal de la médecine. En octobre dernier, le juge en charge du dossier a rendu une ordonnance de non-lieu. Celle-ci fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’un appel des parties civiles devant la chambre de l’instruction.\nPourquoi Claude, médecin, aurait-il soustrait sa sœur Martine aux soins dispensés par l’hôpital ? La doctrine de la secte permet, là encore, d’envisager une explication. Les scientologues tiennent les psychiatres pour les pires ennemis de l’humanité. Ils sont convaincus que les techniques de Ron Hubbard sont les seules à pouvoir soulager et guérir les patients souffrant de troubles psychiques. Les quatre personnes arrêtées en Sardaigne ont d’ailleurs déclaré aux policiers qu’elles avaient retenu Martine Boublil pour son bien.\nBref, le bon docteur aura voulu, tout simplement, faire profiter sa chère soeur des pouvoirs thérapeutiques que l’enseignement de Ron Hubbard est censé procurer aux plus chevronnés de ses disciples. Une histoire d’amour, on vous dit.\nLe programme de la scientologie : « Personne ne doit parler à la personne »\nMais de l’amour vache quand même. Car le programme « Isolation Watch » est des plus gratinés. La phase de rétention et de mutisme total prépare un endoctrinement progressif comme le précise une seconde circulaire de Ron Hubbard : « Durant son isolement, on administre à la personne un parfait programme d’introspection, échelonné en sessions de courtes durée, pour lui faire graduellement reprendre confiance. Entre les sessions, la règle du musellement est de rigueur. Personne ne doit parler à la personne ni à sa proximité »(1)\nRassurons-nous, Ron Hubbard reste un grand humaniste. La circulaire prévoit que \"Vient un moment ou le C/S – le « superviseur de cas », autrement dit le chef de l’opération – doit décider de relâcher la personne placée en isolement. » On respire.\nMais, en scientologie, on ne s’en va pas comme ça. « Le C/S doit déterminer le niveau de responsabilité de la personne. Exemple : « Cher Joe, que peux-tu me garantir si on te laisse sortir d’isolation ? » Et il vaut mieux ne pas se tromper dans la réponse. Car « Si la réponse de la personne montre une irresponsabilité continue (…) le C/S doit informer la personne de son maintien en isolement et de la raison de ce maintien. »(1) Des fois que l’adepte penserait qu’on lui en veut…\nEt Ron Hubbard qui, décidément, a pensé à tout, détaille la marche à suivre : « Exemple : « Cher Joe, je suis désolé, mais il n’est pas encore question pour toi de sortir d’isolement. Tes actions ont menacé indirectement des centaines de personnes et directement six familles dont les maisons ont été incendiées. Tu n’as pas conscience des effets que tes actes peuvent avoir et tu ne te sens toujours concerné que par ton propre intérêt. Tu dois quelque peu haïr la race humaine ». (1) Qui a dit que les scientologues n’avaient pas le sens de la mesure ?\nUn député UMP a proposé la création d’une commission d’enquête\nLe député UMP Georges Fenech, a proposé samedi, la création d’une commission d’enquête parlementaire sur la scientologie. Martine Boublil, elle, a annoncé qu’elle entendait porter plainte contre ses ravisseurs dès qu’elle sera de retour à Paris.\nEn France, l’enlèvement et la séquestration sont punis de 20 ans de réclusion criminelle. La justice pourrait être tentée de faire découvrir à certains scientologues les joies du silence et de l’enfermement. Ca ne peut pas faire de mal, d’après ce bon vieux Ron !", "url": "http://www.bakchich.info/article2875.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080305085105/http://www.bakchich.info/article2875.html" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Scientologie: Un député veut une enquête", "text": "Scientologie: Un député veut une enquête\nGeorges Fenech, député UMP du Rhône, a annoncé samedi dans un communiqué, son intention de demander une commission d'enquête parlementaire sur la Scientologie. Cette annonce interbvient après le témoignage d'une ancienne membre de l'organisation dans Le Parisien. Cette Française affirmait avoir été séquestrée pendant plusieurs semaines. Dans un communiqué, le vice-président du groupe parlementaire d'étude sur les sectes et membre du conseil dorientation de la Miviludes indique qu'il \"déposera sur le bureau de l'Assemblée nationale une proposition de résolution tendant à la création d'une commission d'enquête parlementaire pour déterminer la nature réelle des activités de ce mouvement, son mode de fonctionnement, les sources de financement et d'une manière plus générale si l'organisation respecte les lois de la République Française\".", "url": "http://www.lejdd.fr/cmc/scanner/societe/20089/scientologie-un-depute-veut-une-enquete_99453.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080304040154/http://www.lejdd.fr/cmc/scanner/societe/20089/scientologie-un-depute-veut-une-enquete_99453.html" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Une Française séquestrée en Sardaigne", "text": "L'église de Scientologie a été fondée en 1954 par Ron Hubbard (1911-1986), un auteur de science-fiction. Elle revendique des millions de membres dans 159 pays, dont des milliers en France où elle possède plusieurs structures régionales, en Anjou, en Auverge et et Ile-de-France notamment.\nAux Etats-Unis, la Scientologie est considérée comme un religion. En France, elle a été classée dans la liste des mouvements sectaires établie par une commission parlementaire en 1995.\nElle fonde son action sur la \"dianétique\", présentée comme une \"science de la santé mentale\" qui permettrait, selon son théoricien, d'accéder au bonheur en se purifiant des éléments mentaux négatifs.\nEn France, les autorités reprochent à l'église de Scientologie des pratiques de \"déstabilisation mentale\". En 1995, sa première version avait été liquidée pour n'avoir pas payé ses impôts au fisc, qui lui refusait le statut d'Eglise.\nElle règne sur un ensemble d'associations chargées de défendre les droits de l'Homme, les victimes de catastrophes, de réinsérer des toxicomanes, de lutter contre l'exclusion ou de dispenser des cours de soutien scolaire. Ses détracteurs l'accusent de se servir de ces activités pour attirer de nouveaux membres.\nLa formation des membres leur coûte très cher et conduit certains à s'endetter. La justice française a eu plusieurs fois à examiner des affaires liées à ces sommes importantes versées par les adeptes, comme l'affaire, à Lyon, d'un adepte qui s'était suicidé après s'être lourdement endetté.\nEn 1999, cinq scientologues ont été condamnés à Marseille pour escroquerie et en 2002, l'association scientologue d'Ile-de-France a été condamnée, avec son président, pour le fichage illicite d'anciens membres. En octobre 2007, une vingtaine de membres poursuivis à Paris pour \"escroquerie et exercice illégal de la médecine\" ont obtenu un non-lieu, au terme de vingt-cinq années de procédure.", "url": "http://info.france2.fr/europe/40345069-fr.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080302142732/http://info.france2.fr/europe/40345069-fr.php" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Scientologie : Georges Fenech veut une enquête parlementaire", "text": "Le député du Rhône Georges Fenech (UMP) a annoncé samedi 1er mars son intention de déposer une demande de commission d'enquête parlementaire sur la Scientologie après qu'une Française, ex-membre de l'organisation, ait raconté dans \"Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France\" avoir été séquestrée plusieurs semaines par des scientologues.Dans un communiqué, le vice-président du groupe parlementaire d'étude sur les sectes et membre du conseil d'orientation de la MIVILUDES indique qu'il \"déposera sur le bureau de l' Assemblée Nationale une proposition de résolution tendant à la création d'une commission d'enquête parlementaire pour déterminer la nature réelle des activités de ce mouvement, son mode de fonctionnement, les sources de financement et d'une manière plus générale si l'organisation respecte les lois de la République Française\".\"La récente affaire mettant une nouvelle fois en cause l'église de Scientologie dont une victime française, Martine Boublil, vient de dénoncer les faits gravement attentatoires à sa liberté et à son intégrité physique, vient rappeler les dangers réels de cette organisation\", ajoute-t-il.Dans une interview parue samedi, Martine Boublil, 48 ans, raconte comment elle a été retenue enfermée, notamment par l'un de ses frères, l'un des plus hauts gradés de la Scientologie en France, \"en Normandie, dans une maison qui appartient à un scientologue, puis dans la Sarthe et enfin en Sardaigne\", entre le mois d'août 2007 et la mi-janvier. Elle explique y avoir vécu \"l'enfer\", cloîtrée dans une chambre, dormant \"sur une chaise\" sans pouvoir se laver, tandis que les personnes chargées de la surveiller refusaient de lui parler.L'initiative de Georges Fenech suit de quelques jours la polémique déclenchée par les propos de la directrice de cabinet de Nicolas Sarkozy , Emmanuelle Mignon, qui avait affirmé qu'\"en France, les sectes sont un non-problème\" et qu'on pouvait \"s'interroger\" sur la Scientologie. \"Ou bien c'est une dangereuse organisation et on l'interdit, ou alors ils ne représentent pas de menace particulière pour l'ordre public et ils ont le droit d'exister en paix\", avait-elle déclaré dans une interview à l'hebdomadaire \"VSD\". Emmanuelle Mignon avait ensuite démenti avoir tenu ces propos. (avec AP)", "url": "http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/politique/20080302.OBS3044/scientologie__georges_fenech_veut_une_enquete_parlement.html?idfx=RSS_politique", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20151107101211/http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/politique/20080302.OBS3044/scientologie-georges-fenech-veut-une-enquete-parlementaire.html?idfx=RSS_politique" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Séquestration d'une adepte de scientologie", "text": "«J'ai vécu l'enfer ...» Le Parisien - 1 mars 2008 [Texte intégral] MARTINE BOUBLIL, 48 ans, ex-membre de la Scientologie, photos Aurélie Audureau En état de choc après sa libération, Martine Boublil se reconstruit peu à peu. Aujourd'hui, elle attend avec impatience son retour en France, malgré sa peur d'y redevenir la proie de ses geôliers. Êtes-vous membre de l'Eglise de scientologie ? Martine Boublil. Plus depuis longtemps. J'y suis rentrée en 1978, j'avais 18 ans. J'ai toujours beaucoup aimé Claude, l'aîné de mes deux frères. Il a eu beaucoup d'influence sur moi. C'est lui qui m'a incitée à suivre un soi-disant «cours de communication». En fait c'était la scientologie. Sans tout comprendre, j'ai découvert une théorie qui me passionnait à l'époque. Puis je suis devenue superviseur de cours. J'ai appris à me servir de l'élec- tromètre (NDLR : un instrument électronique permettant de «selon les scientologuesde mesure l'état mental des individus ...» ), j'ai grimpé les échelons. Au bout de huit ans, je m'en suis éloignée. Pour quelles raisons ? Je me suis rendu assez vite compte que, derrière la théorie, les gens qui disent la servir ne sont pas honnêtes. Les dirigeants, je les connais bien, ne veulent au fond qu'une chose : l'argent et la puissance. Ils manipulent. Je l'ai dit tout haut, ça a gêné, je me suis plus ou moins fait virer. Mais par la suite, mon frère est devenu l'un des plus importants d'entre eux. Qu'avez-vous fait par la suite ? J'ai vécu en donnant des cours de soutien scolaire tout en gardant des liens avec des amis scientologues. Il y a quelques années, j'ai fait une grave dépression. Claude m'a reprise sous sa coupe. J'ai été hospitalisée une première fois, contre son avis, pendant cinq jours. Il m'en a fait sortir: les scientologues combattent la psychia- trie avec une vigueur absolue. Lorsque ma mère est morte, en juin 2007, mon second frère, Gilbert, qui est médecin lui aussi mais n'est pas scientologue, m'a à nouveau fait interner. En août, Claude, qui cette fois m'a enlevée de l'hôpital, m'a emmenée de force en Normandie, dans une maison qui appartient à un scientologue. Puis dans la Sarthe, et enfin en Sardaigne. C'est à Nuoro, à partir de décembre, que mes conditions de vie ont été les pires. «Au début, je dormais assise sur une caisse» Qu'y avez-vous vécu ? L'enfer... (long silence) C'était bien organisé. Les deux jeunes me surveillaient (NDLR : Julien Q. et Rachid K.), parce que je ne devais pas sortir de ma chambre, au premier étage. Enfin, c'était une pièce dégoûtante, avec seulement un matelas par terre. Au début, je dormais assise sur une caisse. Les autres dormaient en bas, dans le salon. La femme (NDLR : Marie D.) s'occupait de l'intendance. Ils ne m'adressaient pas un mot. Pour dire oui, ils clignaient des yeux, pour non, les laissaient ouverts. Ils m'apportaient de la nourriture, essen- tiellement des «cordons bleus», matin, midi, soir, et des fruits. Pour faire mes besoins, j'avais une bassine. Pour vêtement, un tee-shirt. Je n'ai pas pu me laver non plus. Si je voulais sortir de ma chambre, on m'y repoussait violemment. Comment avez-vous fait pour vous sortir de cette situation ? La maison où j'étais détenue était mitoyenne d'une autre. Mi-janvier, avec un tube de rouge à lèvres qu'on m'avait laissé, j'ai écrit «SOS !» , «Aiuto !» (au secours en italien) sur une boîte vide, sur un vieux bout de journal. J'ai lancé mes messages dans le jardin des voisins, qui ne venaient dans cette maison que le week-end. C'est eux qui ont prévenu la police. Vos geôliers présumés avancent, pour justifier votre séquestration, qu'ils voulaient « vous aider » . Qu'en pensez-vous ? C'est faux! C'est pour mon bien qu'on m'a séquestrée ? Maltraitée au point de n'en plus pouvoir marcher ? Ces gens sont des menteurs, des escrocs. Dès que je rentre à Paris, et que je suis en sécurité, je porte plainte. Je veux que les gens qui m'ont fait du mal soient jugés. Propos recueillis par Anne-Cécile Juillet , pour Le Parisien DANIÈLE GOUNORD, porte-parole de l'Eglise de scientologie C'EST PEU DE DIRE que l'Eglise de scientologie, pourtant d'ordinaire si prompte à communiquer, se montre peu diserte sur cette affaire. Rencontré brièvement hier à son domicile parisien, Claude Boublil, frère aîné de Martine Boublil, n'a pas souhaité s'étendre sur le sujet. Affable, mais néanmoins pressé de mettre un terme à la conver- sation, le scientologue s'est borné à déclarer qu'il n'avait «rien à dire». La porte-parole de l'Eglise de scientologie en France, Danièle Gounord semble quelque peu embarrassée. «Il s'agit d'un drame familial. Cela concerne des individus d'une même famille, c'est un drame familial. Qu'est-ce que l'Eglise de scientologie à avoir avec cela ?» Nous avons pourtant eu accès à des documents attestant l'appartenance des quatre hommes au mouvement. Danièle Gounord admet du bout des lèvres «connaître un peu» l'un des frères. Claude Boublil, 65 ans, est effectivement l'un des pontes du mouvement à Paris. Danièle Gounord n'accorde par ailleurs aucun crédit au témoignage de la victime, «la soeur est démente. Elle perd la boule, m'a-t-on dit, non ? Cette femme est hospitalisée. Et puis vous savez, elle a dit tellement de choses». Et de conclure : «Pour le moment nous n'avons rien à dire. C'est un drame familial. Les deux frères ont essayé de faire au mieux. Ils ont tout fait pour que leur soeur se retrouve dans un environnement calme.» Remarque du Centre info-sectes Une condamnation en France de la scientologie peut mener à son interdiction. Souhaitons à cette victime un entourage qui puisse la protéger des pressions que la secte n'hésitera sans doute pas à exercer sur sa personne ou sur ses proches.", "url": "http://info-sectes.ch/scientologie-sequestration.htm#sequestration", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080328000814/http://www.info-sectes.ch/scientologie-sequestration.htm#sequestration" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Séquestration d'une adepte de scientologie", "text": "«J'ai vécu l'enfer ...» Le Parisien - 1 mars 2008 [Texte intégral] MARTINE BOUBLIL, 48 ans, ex-membre de la Scientologie, photos Aurélie Audureau En état de choc après sa libération, Martine Boublil se reconstruit peu à peu. Aujourd'hui, elle attend avec impatience son retour en France, malgré sa peur d'y redevenir la proie de ses geôliers. Êtes-vous membre de l'Eglise de scientologie ? Martine Boublil. Plus depuis longtemps. J'y suis rentrée en 1978, j'avais 18 ans. J'ai toujours beaucoup aimé Claude, l'aîné de mes deux frères. Il a eu beaucoup d'influence sur moi. C'est lui qui m'a incitée à suivre un soi-disant «cours de communication». En fait c'était la scientologie. Sans tout comprendre, j'ai découvert une théorie qui me passionnait à l'époque. Puis je suis devenue superviseur de cours. J'ai appris à me servir de l'élec- tromètre (NDLR : un instrument électronique permettant de «selon les scientologuesde mesure l'état mental des individus ...» ), j'ai grimpé les échelons. Au bout de huit ans, je m'en suis éloignée. Pour quelles raisons ? Je me suis rendu assez vite compte que, derrière la théorie, les gens qui disent la servir ne sont pas honnêtes. Les dirigeants, je les connais bien, ne veulent au fond qu'une chose : l'argent et la puissance. Ils manipulent. Je l'ai dit tout haut, ça a gêné, je me suis plus ou moins fait virer. Mais par la suite, mon frère est devenu l'un des plus importants d'entre eux. Qu'avez-vous fait par la suite ? J'ai vécu en donnant des cours de soutien scolaire tout en gardant des liens avec des amis scientologues. Il y a quelques années, j'ai fait une grave dépression. Claude m'a reprise sous sa coupe. J'ai été hospitalisée une première fois, contre son avis, pendant cinq jours. Il m'en a fait sortir: les scientologues combattent la psychia- trie avec une vigueur absolue. Lorsque ma mère est morte, en juin 2007, mon second frère, Gilbert, qui est médecin lui aussi mais n'est pas scientologue, m'a à nouveau fait interner. En août, Claude, qui cette fois m'a enlevée de l'hôpital, m'a emmenée de force en Normandie, dans une maison qui appartient à un scientologue. Puis dans la Sarthe, et enfin en Sardaigne. C'est à Nuoro, à partir de décembre, que mes conditions de vie ont été les pires. «Au début, je dormais assise sur une caisse» Qu'y avez-vous vécu ? L'enfer... (long silence) C'était bien organisé. Les deux jeunes me surveillaient (NDLR : Julien Q. et Rachid K.), parce que je ne devais pas sortir de ma chambre, au premier étage. Enfin, c'était une pièce dégoûtante, avec seulement un matelas par terre. Au début, je dormais assise sur une caisse. Les autres dormaient en bas, dans le salon. La femme (NDLR : Marie D.) s'occupait de l'intendance. Ils ne m'adressaient pas un mot. Pour dire oui, ils clignaient des yeux, pour non, les laissaient ouverts. Ils m'apportaient de la nourriture, essen- tiellement des «cordons bleus», matin, midi, soir, et des fruits. Pour faire mes besoins, j'avais une bassine. Pour vêtement, un tee-shirt. Je n'ai pas pu me laver non plus. Si je voulais sortir de ma chambre, on m'y repoussait violemment. Comment avez-vous fait pour vous sortir de cette situation ? La maison où j'étais détenue était mitoyenne d'une autre. Mi-janvier, avec un tube de rouge à lèvres qu'on m'avait laissé, j'ai écrit «SOS !» , «Aiuto !» (au secours en italien) sur une boîte vide, sur un vieux bout de journal. J'ai lancé mes messages dans le jardin des voisins, qui ne venaient dans cette maison que le week-end. C'est eux qui ont prévenu la police. Vos geôliers présumés avancent, pour justifier votre séquestration, qu'ils voulaient « vous aider » . Qu'en pensez-vous ? C'est faux! C'est pour mon bien qu'on m'a séquestrée ? Maltraitée au point de n'en plus pouvoir marcher ? Ces gens sont des menteurs, des escrocs. Dès que je rentre à Paris, et que je suis en sécurité, je porte plainte. Je veux que les gens qui m'ont fait du mal soient jugés. Propos recueillis par Anne-Cécile Juillet , pour Le Parisien DANIÈLE GOUNORD, porte-parole de l'Eglise de scientologie C'EST PEU DE DIRE que l'Eglise de scientologie, pourtant d'ordinaire si prompte à communiquer, se montre peu diserte sur cette affaire. Rencontré brièvement hier à son domicile parisien, Claude Boublil, frère aîné de Martine Boublil, n'a pas souhaité s'étendre sur le sujet. Affable, mais néanmoins pressé de mettre un terme à la conver- sation, le scientologue s'est borné à déclarer qu'il n'avait «rien à dire». La porte-parole de l'Eglise de scientologie en France, Danièle Gounord semble quelque peu embarrassée. «Il s'agit d'un drame familial. Cela concerne des individus d'une même famille, c'est un drame familial. Qu'est-ce que l'Eglise de scientologie à avoir avec cela ?» Nous avons pourtant eu accès à des documents attestant l'appartenance des quatre hommes au mouvement. Danièle Gounord admet du bout des lèvres «connaître un peu» l'un des frères. Claude Boublil, 65 ans, est effectivement l'un des pontes du mouvement à Paris. Danièle Gounord n'accorde par ailleurs aucun crédit au témoignage de la victime, «la soeur est démente. Elle perd la boule, m'a-t-on dit, non ? Cette femme est hospitalisée. Et puis vous savez, elle a dit tellement de choses». Et de conclure : «Pour le moment nous n'avons rien à dire. C'est un drame familial. Les deux frères ont essayé de faire au mieux. Ils ont tout fait pour que leur soeur se retrouve dans un environnement calme.» Remarque du Centre info-sectes Une condamnation en France de la scientologie peut mener à son interdiction. Souhaitons à cette victime un entourage qui puisse la protéger des pressions que la secte n'hésitera sans doute pas à exercer sur sa personne ou sur ses proches.", "url": "http://info-sectes.ch/scientologie-sequestration.htm#Proposition", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080328000814/http://www.info-sectes.ch/scientologie-sequestration.htm#Proposition" } ]

[ "Polityka", "Polska", "Społeczeństwo", "Warszawa" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "nie-różowy obraz rzeczywistości", "text": "15 stycznia (czwartek) w Warszawie odbędzie się debata poświęcona bilansowi dwudziestolecia transformacji ustrojowej w Polsce. Zaproszenie do udziału w dyskusji przyjęli: ceniony ekonomista, dr hab. Ryszard Bugaj , Piotr Ikonowicz z Nowej Lewicy oraz publicysta i pisarz Cezary Michalski . Portal lewicowo.pl objął imprezę swoim patronatem.\nDebata pod hasłem „Od Okrągłego Stołu do kryzysu finansowego. Dwudziestolecie neoliberalizmu w Polsce” odbędzie się w Centrum Prasowym Foksal (ul. Foksal 3/5), w sali A. Rozpoczęcie – o godz. 17.15.\nSpotkanie, które prowadzić będzie zastępca redaktora naczelnego Magazynu „Obywatel”, Michał Sobczyk, stanowić będzie wstęp do szerokiej dyskusji na temat ostatnich dwóch dekad historii Polski, która podjęta zostanie na łamach „Obywatela” nr 1/2009. Wstęp na debatę - wolny. Serdecznie zapraszamy!\nWszelkie dodatkowe informacje o spotkaniu uzyskać można pisząc na adres sobczyk@obywatel.org.pl lub dzwoniąc pod numer 506 707 468.", "url": "http://lewicowo.pl/artykuly/Polityka/Od-Okraglego-Stolu-do-kryzysu-finansowego--debata-w-Warszawie/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090118013136/http://lewicowo.pl/artykuly/Polityka/Od-Okraglego-Stolu-do-kryzysu-finansowego--debata-w-Warszawie/" } ]

[ "Sports", "Rugby", "Rugby World Cup", "Italy", "Portugal", "Europe" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Italy 31-5 Portugal", "text": "By Mark Orlovac\nMasi got Italy off to the perfect with a try after just three minutes\nItaly: (16) 31\nTries: Masi 2, Mauro Bergamasco\nCons: Bortolussi 2\nPens: Bortolussi 4 Portugal: (5) 5\nTry: Penalva\nItaly warmed up for their crunch group game with Scotland with another disjointed victory over a determined and well-organised Portugal in Paris.\nThe Azzurri got off to the perfect start, with Andrea Masi scoring early, but failed to cross again in the first half despite dominating possession.\nPortugal battled back and David Penalva scored a deserved try on 33 minutes.\nItaly slowly regrouped after the break and late tries from Mauro Bergamasco and Masi sealed an unconvincing win.\nPierre Berbizier's side have started the World Cup slowly, with poor displays against New Zealand and Romania, but were expected to roll over minnows Portugal - a team ranked 13 places below Italy who had shipped 164 points in their opening two games.\nPenalva is mobbed after finishing off a fine move on 33 minutes\nAnd the Italians must have been thinking of matching the 83-0 scoreline they recorded against Portugal last year when Masi found a penetrating line to cut through the defence after three minutes.\nBut Portugal were not going to roll over for anyone and played with the passion and grit they showed in their honourable defeats by Scotland and New Zealand.\nItaly's cause was not helped by the sin-binning of skipper Marco Bortolami for punching and despite having all of the territory, they struggled to find the incision to break open Portugal.\nScrum-half Alessandro Troncon, becoming the first Italian to win 100 caps, won a penalty for his side with a charge on 16 minutes and David Bortolussi collected the three points.\nBortolussi added further penalties on 17 and 29 minutes but Portugal started to play some rugby of their own.\nReplacement centre Diogo Gama played in Penalva who finished off a fine move to send the Parc des Princes crowd into raptures.\n606: DEBATE\nBortolussi increased Italy's lead on the stroke of half time but his side continued their error-strewn display after the break.\nThe full-back made the score 19-5 on 63 minutes and the game was only truly safe when Bergamasco was bundled over after a rolling maul with seven minutes to go.\nThe win was completed in the closing moments when Masi touched down after Roland de Marigny's deft chip but Italy may rue their failure to record a bonus point.\n\"I think we are having problems both mentally and physically. We obviously experienced difficulties and the Portuguese team did everything in their power to make it difficult for us.\n\"It's clear that we were not in a position to find the solutions in our attacking play, and that meant we aided the Portuguese defence.\n\"We can see that this team is not in a position to play to its strengths and this is something we have to address.\"\n\"This is the first time this team has played in front of 45,000 people and they are taking great steps forward.\n\"We are learning all the time and now we have to make fewer mistakes against Romania. If we play against them like we have in the last three games, we are capable of winning.\"\nItaly: David Bortolussi; Pablo Canavosio, Gonzalo Canale, Andrea Masi, Matteo Pratichetti; Roland De Marigny, Alessandro Troncon; Andrea Lo Cicero, Leonardo Ghiraldini, Martin Castrogiovanni, Carlo Antonio Del Fava, Marco Bortolami (capt), Sergio Parisse, Mauro Bergamasco, Manoa Vosawai.\nReplacements: Fabio Ongaro, Matias Aguero, Salvatore Perugini, Valerio Bernabo, Silvio Orlando, Paul Griffen, Ezio Galon.\nPortugal: Pedro Cabral; David Mateus, Federico Sousa, Diogo Mateus, Antonio Aguilar; Duarte Cardoso Pinto, Jose Pinto; Rui Cordeiro, Joao Correira, Ruben Spachuck, David Penalva, Goncalo Uva, Tiago Girao, Joao Uva, Vasco Uva (capt).\nReplacements: Juan Manuel More, Andre Silva, Duarte Figueiredo, Paulo Murinello, Luis Pissarra, Diogo Gama, Goncalo Foro.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/7001453.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110209160344/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/7001453.stm" } ]

[ "The wub (WWC2010)", "Writing contest 2010", "Europe", "Economy and business", "Politics and conflicts", "Alistair Darling", "United Kingdom" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Budget 2010: Darling draws election battle lines", "text": "Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement\nChancellor Alistair Darling has set the stage for the general election with a Budget warning to voters not to put the recovery at risk by deserting Labour.\nHe cut stamp duty for first-time home buyers - but unveiled a series of tax increases for the better-off.\nMr Darling said Labour had been \"right about the recovery\" and cut by £11bn this year's forecast £178bn deficit.\nThe Tories said Labour had made a \"complete mess\" of the economy and had \"done nothing to clear it up\".\nTory leader David Cameron accused Mr Darling of stealing Tory policies on stamp duty and an extra tax on strong cider.\nAnd, taunting Gordon Brown, he said: \"The biggest risk to the recovery is five more years of this prime minister.\"\nLib Dem leader Nick Clegg said both the chancellor and David Cameron were \"in denial\" about the scale of spending cuts needed and dismissed the budget as \"a political dodge not an economic plan\".\n\"This isn't the preface to a new government but a footnote to 13 years of failure,\" he added.\nBBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders summed up Mr Darling's message as \"it's bad, but not as bad as we thought - and not nearly as bad as it would have been under the Conservatives\".\nSetting out the battle lines for the forthcoming election campaign, Mr Darling said: \"The choice before the country now is whether to support those whose policies will suffocate our recovery and put our future at risk.\n\"Or support a government which has been right about the recession, right about the recovery, and is right about supporting the people and business of this country to build a prosperous future.\"\nMr Darling said stamp duty on homes sales up to £250,000 would be suspended for two years for first time buyers, paid for by an increase to 5% of the rate on £1m homes.\nThis unfair fuel tax is another example of an uncaring, out of touch government.\nElfin Llwyd\nPlaid Cymru\nCameron: Labour's messed it up Darling in denial - Clegg\nThe chancellor also unveiled a series of other measures aimed at clawing back tax from high earners - likely to go down well with Labour MPs fighting an election next month.\nHe said he was freezing the inheritance tax threshold for another four years, in order to help pay for the costs of care for older people.\nHe also announced the end of some personal tax allowances on those earning more than £150,000 and a cut in tax relief on pensions for those with incomes above £130,000 a year.\nHe confirmed the government would stick to a 2.2% real terms rise on spending this year but warned spending cuts after 2011 would be the \"toughest for decades\".\n'Toughest'\nBut to cut earlier, as the Conservatives were demanding, would be both wrong and \"dangerous\" and would risk derailing the recovery, he said.\n\"The task now is to bring down borrowing in a way which does not damage the recovery or the frontline services on which people depend,\" he said.\n\"The challenge now is how we invest as a country to support the industries of the future and allow the talent of the British people to flourish.\"\nMr Darling provoked roars of approval from Labour MPs when he announced a crackdown on tax evasion through new agreements with the governments of Dominica, Grenada and Belize - home of Tory \"non dom\" donor Lord Ashcroft.\nThe Treasury is insisting all of the new spending measures are fully funded from existing budgets and not paid for by the £11bn less than expected borrowing.\nThe stamp duty cut will cost the Treasury £230m in 2010-11 and £290m in 2011-12 to be funded by the introduction of a new higher stamp duty band of 5% on properties costing more than £1m from April next year.\nMr Darling said he would stagger next month's scheduled increase in fuel duties - with the tax rising by a just a penny in April with another penny in October and the final instalment of 0.76p in January next year.\nBut the most expensive measure in the Budget is a £600m pledge to increase the winter fuel allowance for pensioners for another year.\nDuty on beer, wine and spirits will increase as planned from midnight on Sunday, including 10% on cider, with further increases to come on high strength cider. Alcohol duties will also increase by 2% above inflation for two further years from 2013.\nTobacco duty will increase from today by 1% above inflation and then increase by 2% in real terms each year until 2014.\nIn a series of measures aimed at boosting business, Mr Darling said business rates will be cut for one year from October, meaning a tax reduction for over 500,000 firms in England, and said state-owned banks would be forced to lend more.\nHe extended a six month job or training guarantee for under 24-year-olds to March 2012, and announced a one-off £270m fund to create 20,000 extra university places.\nMr Darling said that stronger than expected tax receipts meant that government borrowing would be £167bn this year - £11bn down on the £178bn he predicted in the pre-Budget report in December.\n'Right calls'\nHe said that the debt would continue to fall faster than previously forecast - dropping to £74bn in 2014-15, down £8bn on his earlier prediction.\nThe chancellor said he was standing by his forecast that the economy would grow by 1 to 1.5% this year although he slightly downgraded his prediction for next year to 3 to 3.5% compared to the 3.5% in the pre-Budget report. His forecast for the following years is unchanged.\nHe also revealed that the £2bn proceeds of a bank bonus tax was more than three times what the Treasury forecast in his pre-Budget report.\nPlease turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.\nAnd he unveiled a guarantee to give everyone a basic bank account, giving up to a million more people access to bank accounts over the next five years.\nSome of the more controversial measures in the Budget may not make it into law before polling day, which could be just six weeks away.\nBut the planned cut in stamp duty would probably stay in place whoever wins the election, as it is similar to existing Tory policy.\nHe also outlined plans to boost future economic growth, with billions invested in digital jobs, broadband for all, high-speed rail and biotech industries, using money from existing budgets.\nCivil servant strike\nIf the Conservatives win the election they will produce an \"emergency Budget\" within 50 days of taking office which could reverse many of Mr Darling's measures.\nThe chancellor did not unveil any new tax increases, with the new 50% top rate of income tax expected to come into force from April and thresholds frozen.\nGiving its reaction to the Budget, the SNP said Mr Darling should have scrapped the fuel duty increase altogether, adding: \"The Labour government have shown they would rather save face with the City than support Scotland's communities.\"\nPlaid Cymru's leader at Westminster, Elfyn Llwyd, said: \"This unfair fuel tax is another example of an uncaring, out of touch government.\"\nBusiness groups broadly welcomed the measures aimed at boosting enterprise.\nCBI director general Richard Lambert said: \"This was a clever, political budget. However, anxiety remains on how the deficit is going to be paid down, and the growth forecasts for 2011 and beyond are still on the optimistic side.\"\nDerek Simpson, joint leader of the Unite trade union, said: \"The last Budget before the election shows leadership and responsibility during difficult times.\"\nLord Pearson, leader of the UK Independence Party, said: \"The three old discredited parties who are debating our economy have once again avoided the elephant in the room, in any discussion about our economy which is of course the cost of our European Union membership.\"\nGreen Party leader Caroline Lucas welcomed Mr Darling's plan for a \"green investment bank\" but said overall the Budget was \"a wasted opportunity to seriously put fairness at the heart of the agenda\".", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8584163.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100325032850/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8584163.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Budget 2010: Alistair Darling rules out 'shortsighted' spending cuts", "text": "Alistair Darling today delivered a cautious pre-election budget, ruling out \"shortsighted\" spending cuts in favour of securing a strong economic recovery.\nIn a sideswipe at the Conservatives, the chancellor told MPs today that immediate cuts to spending would be \"wrong\" since the economic recovery was still in its \"infancy\".\nAnd he delighted Labour backbenchers by using an increase in stamp duty for homes worth more than £1m to fund a rise in the tax threshold for less expensive properties.\nDarling, who had warned prior to the announcement that the budget would be a \"sensible, workmanlike\" package rather than a traditional pre-election giveaway, nonetheless unveiled policies worth a total of £1.4bn.\nAmong the announcements were the following:\n• The stamp duty threshold will be doubled to £250,000, paid for by an increase to 5% for homes worth over £1m.\n• A new green investment bank will be introduced to stimulate billions of pounds of private finance for low-carbon industries such as offshore wind farms.\n• Next month's fuel duty increase will be staged; it will rise by 1p in April, followed by a further 1p rise in October and the remaining 1p in January next year. Plus £100m to repair potholed roads.\n• A guaranteed offer of jobs or training to young people under the age of 24 will be extended by a year to March 2012.\n• A £2.5bn one-off growth package to help small businesses and promote innovation and skills will be introduced.\n• The duty on cider will increase by 10% above inflation from midnight on Sunday.\n• Duty on beer, wine and spirits will increase as planned from midnight on Sunday. Alcohol duty will also increase by 2% above inflation for two further years from 2013.\nDarling told MPs that the decisions taken by the government in the recession had been \"right\" but the country still faced testing times as the recovery was still fragile.\nHe said the budget deficit would not be as bad as expected: £167bn rather than the projected £178bn. But he cut his short-term growth forecasts.\nIn a 58-minute budget statement short on new announcements, the chancellor held back from initiating spending cuts this year, insisting that the economy remained too weak to begin the process.\n\"I know there are some demanding immediate cuts to public spending and I believe that such a policy would be both wrong and dangerous. I believe that to start cutting now risks derailing the recovery, which is already bringing down borrowing more rapidly than was expected.\n\"To go faster in the face of uncertainty would mean taking a huge risk with people's jobs, incomes and our country's future and I'm not prepared to take that risk. We have worked too hard as a country to come through this recession to throw it away now.\"\nOne of the few surprises in today's budget was a doubling of the threshold for stamp duty to £250,000 for first-time home-buyers.\nTo the delight of many Labour backbenchers, Darling told MPs that the measure, which he expects to help nine in 10 first-time buyers, would be funded by increasing stamp duty on properties worth more than £1m.\nOther measures outlined today included ensuring 1 million people would be able to open bank accounts in the next five years, and a four-year freeze on the inheritance tax threshold.\nDarling told MPs that, thanks to stronger-than-expected tax receipts, government borrowing would be £167bn this year – £11bn down on the £178bn he predicted in the pre-budget report in December.\nUK debt would continue to fall faster than previously forecast – dropping to £74bn in 2014-15, down £8bn on his earlier prediction.\nDarling said he still believed the economy would grow by 1% to 1.5% this year. But he lowered his growth prediction for 2011 slightly to between 3% and 3.5%.\nOn banks, Darling said that the Treasury had already received more than £8bn in fees and charges from banks. The one-off 50% tax on bankers' bonuses has raised £2bn, more than twice as much forecast.\nDarling told MPs: \"When faced with the upheaval of the global recession, we made the right choices to support the economy, business and families.\"\nThe setting up of a new green investment bank is a response to calls from the renewable energy industry and environmental campaigners to provide governmental support for private investment in the development of low-carbon industries.\nDarling told colleagues it would control £2bn in assets and \"unlock billions more\" from the private sector for green energy and transport development. Investment would focus in particular towards offshore wind energy, \"where Britain is already the world leader\", he said, with £60m going to develop ports which will be the site of turbine manufacturing.\nHalf the £2bn would be raised from the sale of assets including the Channel Tunnel rail link, while the other half would come from private investment.\nThe Conservative party last year outlined its plans to roll up different sources of government funding for the low-carbon sector into a single green investment bank to leverage private sector finance and fund new green start-up businesses.\nDavid Cameron responded to the budget announcement today by saying that Labour ought to be \"ashamed\" of the state of the nation's finances.\nPointing out that £167bn is more than every Labour government in history added together had borrowed, Cameron said that the country needed a Tory government to \"clean up the mess\".\nHe said that the centrepiece policy of raising the stamp duty threshold to £250,000 was borrowed from the Tories and all Labour could offer was \"debt, waste and taxes\".\n\"This prime minister is going round telling everyone: 'Stick with me; stick with what you know.' That is the whole problem: this country is stuck with him.\"\nHe went on: \"It's like the captain of the Titanic saying, 'Let me command the lifeboats.' It's like Robert Maxwell saying, 'Let me reinvest your pension.' It's like Richard Nixon saying, 'I'm the man to clean up politics.'\n\"Do you really expect the British public to turn round and say: 'Thank you for nearly bankrupting the economy'?\"\nTo Tory cheers, he said it was time for a \"radical change of direction\". \"Britain doesn't need this prime minister and this chancellor; it needs new energy, new leadership and values to get this country going again. That is the argument we will take to the country, the moment this man runs out of time and calls that election.\"\nCameron issued his broadside as a PoliticsHome poll showed that Labour's ratings on the economy had gone up since January. Then only 36% of respondents were willing to give Labour some or a lot of credit for their handling of the economy. Now that figure is up to 41%.\nNick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, accused the government of being in \"denial\" about the scale of cuts needed to put the country's finances back on a sound footing.\n\"The prime minister may have wanted a giveaway budget, what we got was a given-up budget. This isn't the preface to a new government but a footnote to 13 years of failure. We need real change. We needed a budget that gave us honesty on spending and fairness on taxation. We got neither.\"\nHe also attacked the Tories too for waging a \"phoney war\" about when to make cuts and claimed neither they nor the government had the \"courage to come up with the details of the cuts we will need in the years ahead to tackle Britain's deficit\".\nThe TUC hailed a \"measured\" budget with a \"real sense of social justice\" that took no risks with the recovery.\nBrendan Barber, the general secretary of the umbrella union body, welcomed the extra jobs guarantee for young people, support for business and the green investment bank, which he said were important steps in rebalancing the economy away from finance.\nBut he added: \"We welcome the decision to maintain this year's planned increase in spending, but there are real concerns that cuts planned for future years will damage public services. Instead the chancellor should have put more emphasis on raising tax from those who benefitted most from the boom years, through a 'Robin Hood tax' on financial transactions and limits on tax breaks for the rich.\"\nThe budget also received a qualified thumbs-up from the business sector.\nMiles Templeman, the director general of the Institute of Directors, said: \"The chancellor's GDP forecasts are too optimistic and there is still no sign of a credible deficit reduction plan, but we certainly welcome the specific measures to support small and medium-sized businesses.\"", "url": "http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/24/budget-2010-darling-shortsighted-cuts", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100326225733/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/24/budget-2010-darling-shortsighted-cuts" }, { "language": "en", "title": "UK News, World News and Opinion", "text": "David Cameron today challenged his party to take a more optimistic approach to Europe as he vowed to fight to change Britain’s relationship from the inside and praised the “benefits” of EU membership. Hours after 100 Tory MPs demanded he legislate for a referendum because “the cost of membership is too high”, Mr Cameron told his party that greater engagement was important and claimed Britain is already winning key arguments. “For those of us who are practical Eurosceptics, who know there is a real benefit from being engaged but are frustrated by some of the ways the relationship works I see lots of reasons to say the argument is going in our direction,” he told a press conference concluding a two day summit in Brussels. “We know there are benefits from being engaged. I’m an optimist about getting this relationship right.” The remarks mark a sharply different tone and noticeably more gentle style of approach from December, when his failure to secure specific safeguards for the City led him to veto Britain’s participation in the fiscal treaty. Yesterday he rejected out of hand the requests for a referendum commitment from his party. “Some people just want to get out: ‘stop the bus I want to get off’”, he said. “I completely understand that but I don’t share that view, I don’t think that’s the right thing to do. “The problem with an in/out referen", "url": "http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/budget/article7073698.ece", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120629173029/http://www.timesplus.co.uk/tto/news/?login=false&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Ftto%2Fbusiness%2Feconomics%2F" } ]

[ "Internet", "p2P", "Crime and law" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Universal P2P News Source", "text": "For a year now, there have been many rumors why SuprNova.org was taken offline. Some have said that it was because of legal issues, some said it was because I sold out to eXeem project, or because I became a millionaire and did not want to bother with the site anymore, and the rumors go on.\nToday, on the exact day, when SuprNova.org went offline, I decided that it is time for everybody to know the truth and that it is time for me to stop pretending like nothing ever happened.\nOn November 2004, I received a call from my ISP saying that all of my servers had been raided by the police. I received nothing from the police before or after the raid, nobody told me what was going on.\nIn early December, Reuters did an article on me, and many Slovenian newspapers jumped on the story. So I ended up reading about myself in Slovenian newspapers. And right about that time, I had a feeling something was wrong. I do not really know what the feeling was or where it was coming from, but I decided it was time to take SuprNova.org offline.\nAbout a month later, after SuprNova.org had been taken offline, there was a door bell at 6:30 in the morning, saying it's the police. Actually I was not expecting anything anymore, since SuprNova.org had been taken offline long before that. They showed me a court order to search my place and they did so. They took as far as I remember, two of my computers and lots of documents.\nAbout a month or so later, I was called to the police, so that we or actually they, did a list of all the files that were on all of the computers that they took from my home and from the ISP.\nAnother month later, I was called to the police for my hearing. I and my lawyer decided, we wouldnt answer any questions. After this was over, the police told us they will give this to the prosecutor and he will continue the procedure. My lawyer told me, that I should expect a letter from the prosecutor after the summer holidays.\nAnd that was true, nothing happened during the summer holidays and I had quite a wonderful time. Very relaxed.\nAnd just when I was hoping that the prosecutor would forget about my case I received another letter. When I received the paper, that I had to go pick up the envelope at the post, I became completely depressed and sad. But anyway, I went to the post and picked up the document. It was from the prosecutor, saying by the law blah blah and blah blah the denunciation against Andrej Preston has been dropped. And I received all the CD's and computers that they took from me. This happened on 18th October 2005.\nSince then nothing happened, and I hope it stays that way. This has been a huge pressure on me and I think it left some permanent marks on me. I hope none of you will ever have to go through something like this.\nWhat is written above is just a short story of everything that went on during last year. I also do not want to give out too much information, since it wouldn't be wise.\nThanks to all of the friends that knew about this and supported me as much as they could! Its been a hard year for all of us.\nLinks:\nThe last letter that I have received\nDiscuss the article in our forum", "url": "http://www.suprnova.org/?op=showLong&aID=80", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060105003028/http://www.suprnova.org/?op=showLong&aID=80" }, { "language": "en", "title": "One Year Later", "text": "Suprnova.org - One Year Later\nDecember 19, 2005\nThomas Mennecke\nMarking the one year anniversary of Suprnova.org's closure, Snarf-it.org has returned. After escaping the Netherlands due to the copyright enforcement pressures of Brein, Snarf-it.org has released a new version of its indexing site. Not to be outdone however, Suprnova.org's Sloncek, the former administrator of the massive indexing site, has issued an apparent \"tell all\" on the events surrounding December 19, 2004.\nIn late November of 2004, news regarding an effort to decentralize the vulnerable BitTorrent trackers was underway. The effort would become known as eXeem, spearheaded by a name synonymous with BitTorrent - Suprnova.org. The initial excitement surrounding eXeem was impressive. It would marry the decentralized supernode indexing concept with the efficiency of the BitTorrent distribution protocol. With the vulnerabilities of centralized trackers eliminated, it was thought BitTorrent would become invincible.\nUnfortunately, eXeem did not live up to this promise. It was soon learned that eXeem would be shipped with Cydoor, a notorious piece of third party software. Although Cydoor had cleaned up its act considerably since its earlier days, the stigmatism associated with the adware product doomed eXeem before it was ever released. Torn apart by negative press, eXeem slowly disintegrated.\nParalleling the introduction of eXeem was the closure of Suprnova.org. For reasons described as personal, on December 19, 2004, Suprnova.org no longer listed torrent files.\n\"SuprNova.org was more like a hobby that took most of my free time away,\" Sloncek told Slyck.com. \"Now with current situation, there’s too much pressure and I don’t have the time for it.\"\nTwelve days later on December 30, 2004, eXeem was publicly introduced. With the closure of Suprnova.org and the introduction of the adware application eXeem, the combination simply proved too coincidental and Sloncek was publicly labeled many things, perhaps most notably a \"sell-out.\" Many felt he simply gave up on Suprnova.org to make a quick buck with eXeem.\nSloncek remained quiet on the issue for the next year. Even when Suprnova.org was resurrected as a news and information site on September 14, 2005, virtually no mention was given to the events surrounding the demise of Suprnova.org. That is until now.\nOn the anniversary of Suprnova.org’s demise, Sloncek has finally articulated the events surrounding that day. According to Sloncek, in November of 2004, his ISP informed him the Suprnova.org server had been raided by the police. As news began to spread internationally, Sloncek decided to take Suprnova.org offline in December. A month later, the police then proceeded to raid his home, confiscating documents and two computers. Remarkably, Sloncek states that despite the massive effort against him, the prosecution dropped all charges and returned his computers on October 18, 2005.\nWhile it’s refreshing to finally hear Sloncek's side of the story, three major issues remain. Primarily, it strikes many as odd that Sloncek would continue supporting eXeem, touted as “the next Suprnova”, if he was under serious copyright enforcement actions.\n“I knew that being a PR for some international company that dealt with P2P will not be a problem, since I’m not the owner and its not in my country,” Sloncek told Slyck.com. “And at that time, the program seemed promising.\"\nAnother point of contention is his decision to continue working on a P2P project despite the turmoil. The mere suggestion of P2P is often directly associated with copyright infringement, which would appear to conflict with his legal situation.\n“Why work with P2P again? I love P2P and I made sure that being just a PR (not the owner or developer or anything else), will not be considered illegal.”\nLastly, Sloncek cleared one last inconsistency. Although the Suprnova.org servers were raided in November, the site continued to function until December. How is such a feat possible? Directly after the raid, Sloncek purchased several servers in the Netherlands. This kept Suprnova.org operational until that fateful day in December.\nAlthough the loss of Suprnova.org was a blow to the BitTorrent community, it was soon surpassed by the multitude of other indexing sites, most notably ThePirateBay.org.\nA year later, answers for the curious are finally available. Running a high traffic BitTorrent site, one that was almost the very definition of BitTorrent, is no light burden. Considering the magnitude of the situation Sloncek faced, he did what was best for him. No on else from the BitTorrent community was going to help him, and he knew that. Whether he is telling the truth is irrelevant. His site gave millions the ability to share information on an unprecedented scale. To want any more from him would be, as Steve Jobs called the music industry, “greedy.”\nYou can read Sloncek’s statement here.\nYou can discuss this article here - 32 replies", "url": "http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1033", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060103103430/http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1033" } ]

[ "Vermischtes", "Themenportal Europa", "Themenportal Österreich", "Themenportal Tirol", "Themenportal Deutschland", "Themenportal Bayern", "Bär", "Jagd", "Hund", "Veröffentlicht" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Aktuelle Nachrichten aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Sport und der Welt. N24.de", "text": "Politik\nIn der Auseinandersetzung um den Verkauf eines Hotels in Delmenhorst hat die Stadt ihr Gebot auf maximal drei Millionen Euro erhöht. Sie will damit verhindern, dass der Neonazi-Anwalt Rieger die Immobilie erwirbt.", "url": "http://www.n24.de/boulevard/nus/?n2006061212313200002", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20061005225845/http://www.n24.de/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "\"JJ1\" ist nicht zu fassen", "text": "Sie befinden sich in:\nNachrichten\nProblembär\n\"JJ1\" ist nicht zu fassen\nVier Bärenfänger-Hunde haben nun 14 Tage Zeit \"Bruno\" zu erwischen. Der Einsatz der Tiere soll rund 25.000 Euro kosten.\n\"JJ1\", alias \"Bruno\", bei einem seiner Streifzüge in Tirol.\nHintergrund Stichwort: Karelischer BärenhundDie finnische Spitz-Rasse wurden speziell für die Jagd von großem Wild gezüchtet.\nWie aus Bruno JJ1 wurdeDer seit Wochen im tirolerisch-bayrischen Grenzgebiet umherstreunende Problembär stammt aus Italien.\nInfografik Braunbären in ÖsterreichDie heimische Bärenpopulation besteht aus rund 20 Tieren.\nAbstimmung Was tun mit dem Bären?Der Braunbär treibt sich seit einigen Tagen wieder in Österreich herum.\nNach rund zwei Dutzend erfolgloser Fangversuche wird sich nun eine finnische Bärenhundestaffel im Auftrag von Tirol und Bayern an die Fersen des Braunbären \"JJ1\", alias \"Bruno\", heften. Das seit Wochen durch Westösterreich und Bayern trottende Tier wurde zuletzt am Freitag zwischen Roppen und Sautens im Bezirk Imst gesichtet, teilte die zuständige Bezirkshauptmannschaft der APA mit.\nEin Spaziergänger habe den Bären gesehen und dies der Polizei gemeldet. Aus etwa 150 Metern Entfernung habe der Mann beobachten können, wie \"Bruno\" einem Wildhasen den Kopf abgebissen hat. Den Hasen habe der Spaziergänger dann zur Polizei gebracht. \"Wir haben den Jagdreferenten und die umliegenden Gemeinden benachrichtigt\", sagte die Polizei in Ötz der APA. Die WWF- Bärenanwälte wollten - vorerst ohne Bärenfalle - die Sichtungsstelle begutachten.\nBärenhunde: Probleme bei Einreise\nDie \"Karelischen Bärenhunde\" sollen laut Angaben des Landes Tirol am Wochenende eintreffen. Die Artenschutzorganisation WWF erklärte der APA, dass es Probleme mit der Einreise der vier Hunde gäbe. Die Tiere hätten laut der Fluggesellschaft schon früher angemeldet werden müssen. Das Eintreffen der hilfreichen Tiere könnte sich daher noch bis Anfang nächster Woche verzögern. Man hoffe aber auf eine baldige Lösung des Problems, sagte die WWF-Sprecherin.\nAus der Abteilung für Landwirtschaftliches Schulwesen, Jagd und Fischerei hieß es, dass die vier Hunde eingesetzt werden können, wenn man ungefähr wisse, wo sich der Bär aufhalte. Nur dann können die Tiere nämlich die Spur des Bären aufnehmen. Die Hunde würden \"Bruno\" dann umkreisen, aber nicht anfallen. Mit einem Narkosegewehr werde man den Bären dann betäuben, so der Plan. Ein Abschuss sei nur in einer Notsituation erlaubt.\nKosten: 25.000 Euro\nDer Einsatz der Hunde werde rund 25.000 Euro kosten, wobei die Kosten von Bayern und Tirol zusammen getragen werden. Die Bärenfänger wurden für einen Zeitraum von 14 Tagen beauftragt. In dieser Zeit hat Bayerns Umweltminister Werner Schnappauf die Abschussfreigabe für die bayerischen Revierinhaber aus Sicherheitsgründen ausgesetzt.\nVor seiner Sichtung im Bezirk Imst war der Bär am Donnerstag in der Nähe von Scharnitz (Bezirk Innsbruck-Land) in einem Talkessel gesehen worden. Nach einer Alarmbenachrichtigung durch die Polizei habe man sich mit Bärenfallen sofort dorthin begeben- doch das Tier war schon wieder über alle Berge. \"So nahe waren wir ihm noch nie!\", hatte die WWF-Sprecherin erklärt.\nArtikel vom 09.06.2006, 16:33 | apa | bib", "url": "http://www.kurier.at/nachrichten/chronik/12528.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060613201311/http://www.kurier.at/nachrichten/chronik/12528.php" } ]

[ "Sudamérica", "Ecuador", "Guayaquil", "Deportes", "Fútbol" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Emelec cayó por 1-0 frente al Deportivo Quito", "text": "Emelec cayó por un 1-0 frente al Deportivo Quito, cerrando su participación en la primera etapa del torneo ecuatoriano, en el encuentro disputado en el estadio Olímpico Atahualpa de Quito.\nCon un total de 46 puntos llegó al encuentro el Ballet Azul, mientras que los Chullas lograron sumar un total de 34 unidades, luego del gol anotado por Geovanny Caicedo a los 44 minutos.\nUn encuentro que no trajo mayores emociones durante su primer tiempo, es lo que se observó de lado y lado, aunque en un principio la iniciativa la pusieron los Chullas, pero no lograban llegar con algo para abrir el marcador.\nDel lado azul se observó que tomaron el encuentro como de puro trámite, ya que no mostraron emoción ni jugadas peligrosas en el área quiteña.\nEl equipo Eléctrico perdió algunas oportunidades, como en la que Carlos Quiñónez aprovechó un error de Geovanny Caicedo, ingresando solo al área pero su remate salió desviado.\nYa en los 44 minutos, las ganas de sumar puntos por parte del equipo Chulla dieron resultado, luego de un tiro libre de Mauricio Donoso que alcanzó a cabecear Geovanny Caicedo para marcar el 1-0 a favor del Deportivo Quito.\nAunque los azules estaban perdiendo en los 45 iniciales, se defendieron bien, pero el error en su defensa logró el marcador en contra pero que no le quitó las ganas a los punteros.\nEn el segundo tiempo, del lado Chulla, ingresó Marco Nazareno por Dixon Arroyo, mientras que en el Ballet no se realizaron cambios.\nEn el complentario nuenvamente se observó la falta de ataques ofensivos, para marcar la paridad eléctrica o superioridad quiteña.\nMauricio Donoso envió un excelente pase para Daniel Solano, pero éste no logró dominar el esférico, que se fue por la línea de fondo.\nEl dominio sobre el balón de los Chullas quiteños fue total, mientras que los Azules se mostraron totalmente tranquilos a pesar de estar perdiendo el encuentro.\nAlineaciones:\n1 Deportivo Quito: Bonard García; Geovanny Caicedo, Luis Checa, Luis Tenorio; Juan Carlos Paredes, Isaac Mina, Dixon Arroyo (Marco Antonio Nazareno 45 min.(TA 77 min.)), Oswaldo Minda, Luis Saritama (TA 23 min.), Mauricio Donoso (TA 33 min.)(TR 76 min.); Daniel Solano (Pedro Esterilla 58 min.).\nDT: Rubén Darío Insúa.\n0 Emelec: Javier Klimowicz; Carlos Quiñónez (Bryan Pedro Carranza 81 min.), Luis Zambrano, Deison Méndez, Mariano Mina; Washington Vélez, Jean de la Rosa, Polo Wila (TA 21 min.)(Luis Antonio Seminario 88 min.), Enner Valencia; Fernando Gaibor (Francisco Hiroito Rendón 68 min. (TR 75 min.)), Silvano Estacio.\nDT: Jorge Sampaoli.\nGoles: Deportivo Quito: Geovanny Caicedo (44 min.)\nÁrbitro: Tomás Alarcón.\nEstadio: Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito.", "url": "http://www.eluniverso.com/2010/07/03/1/1372/emelec-enfrenta-deportivo-quito.html?p=1371&m=100", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160314165246/http://www.eluniverso.com/2010/07/03/1/1372/emelec-enfrenta-deportivo-quito.html?p=1371&m=100" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Goleada torera por 5-1 a la U. Católica", "text": "Barcelona cerró su campaña goleando por 5-1 al equipo Camarata, en el estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha.\nEl Ídolo del Astillero disputó su último encuentro en la presente temporada ante la Universidad Católica, logrando un certero 5-1, en el estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha.\nDel lado Torero se notó la presencia de Ricardo Noir, mientras que también se contó con la presencia de Daniel Viteri, no pudieron participar de este encuentro Jefferson Hurtado y Fernando Hidalgo por suspenciones.\nMientras que el equipo Camarata no contó con la presencia de Cristian Hermosilla, Juan Aguinaga y Miguel Ibarra por lesiones.\nPrimer Tiempo\nEl encuentro inició con la iniciativa del equipo Camarata, ya Walter Iza en los cortos iniciales comenzó a llegar al área Torera, pero sus balonazos eran recibidos por Viteri.\nPublicidad\nEn los 6 minutos, los católicos cobraron su primer tiro libre, desde media cancha, saliendo finalmente desviado, mientras que para Barcelona le llegó su oportunidad al mismo tiempo, errando en el lanzamiento.\nNo se concretaban llegadas de peligro, pero los Camaratas querían su primer tanto, a pesar de que se cerraba la barrera amarilla.\nEn los 15 minutos, Wlater Iza logró acomodarse por la derecha, remató peligrosamente pero su lanzamiento apenas rozó el poste izquierdo de Daniel Viteri.\nYa en los 22 llegó el gol para Barcelona, aunque en un aparente autogol luego del tiro libre de Ricardo Noir, el balón tocó a José Luis Cortéz para finalmente ingresar a las redes.\nDurante los siguentes minutos, los Toreros bajaron la guardia, aunque del otro lado, los jugadores a pesar del gol, no bajaron su nivel.\nY en los 31 minutos, Leandro Lemos llegó por la banda izquierda para lanzar un remate que logró ingresar en las redes amarillas, ubicando la paridad en el cotejo.\nA pesar de la igualdad, el equipo Torero no despertó durante los siguientes minutos del primer tiempo, dejando que ingresen peligrosamente en su área, el equipo Camarata.\nSegundo Tiempo\nEn el complementario, los amarillos lograron cambiar dramáticamente el marcador.\nPublicidad\nEl 2-1 a favor de los toreros llegó luego de un remate de Matías Oyola que llegó a la cabeza de José Luis Perlaza para enviar a 'Jubalini' directo a las redes católicas.\nEl bajo ataque ofensivo de parte de la escuadra Torera, presentado durante la primera etapa quedó en el olvido, al llegar a los 60 minutos el tercer tanto mediante un cabezazo de Juan Anangonó luego de un tiro de esquina.\nUn encuentro que parecía estar del lado de los Camaratas se esfumó, luego del cuarto gol amarillo, mediante un remate de Matias Oyola, al recibir el pase de Luis Bolaños sobre los 72 minutos.\nMientras que para cerrar con broche de oro, y con una certera goleada, en los 91 minutos, Luis Bolaños envió un excelente pase para Juan Anangonó, para que el atacante burlara la portería de Cristhian Mora, logrando el 5-1 final.\nAlineaciones:\n5 Barcelona: Daniel Viteri, Omar de Jesús, José Perlaza, Henry León (TA 22 min.), Geovanny Nazareno, Matías Oyola (TR 88 min:), Denys Quiñónez (TA 40 min.) (Edinson Valdivieso 45 min.), Luis Garcés (Jonathan Montenegro 74 min.(TA 76 min.)), Luis Bolaños, Pablo Palacios (Juan Anangonó 45 min.), Ricardo Noir.\nDT: Juan Manuel Llop.\n1 U. Católica: Cristhian Mora; Juan Triviño, José Luis Cortéz, Leonardo Soledispa (TA 19 min.)(Diego Betancourt ); Luis Lemos (TR 83 min.), Oscar Bagüí, Santiago Morales, Alex Bolaños (TA 58 min.), Hugo Vélez (Jesús Cristobal Alcívar 67 min.); Walter Iza (Jimmy Delgado 71 min.), Bayron Cano.\nDT: Patricio Lara.\nGoles: Barcelona: Ricardo Noir (22 min.), José Perlaza (55 min.), Juan Anangonó (60 min.)(91 min.), Matías Oyola (72 min.); U. Católica: Leandro Lemos (31 min.).\nÁrbitro: José Luis Espinel.\nEstadio: Monumental Banco Pichincha, Guayaquil.", "url": "http://www.eluniverso.com/2010/07/03/1/1372/barcelona-iguala-1-u-catolica-juego.html?p=1371&m=100", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210415175212/http://www.eluniverso.com/2010/07/03/1/1372/barcelona-iguala-1-u-catolica-juego.html?p=1371&m=100" } ]

[ "17.02.2005", "Köln", "Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006", "Datenschutzgesetz", "Deutsche Bundespolitik", "Internethandel", "E-Mail", "Personalausweisgesetz", "Werbeagentur", "Peter Schaar" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "derStandard.at", "text": "Ich stimme der Verwendung von Cookies für die Zwecke der Webanalyse und digitaler Werbemaßnahmen zu. Auch wenn ich diese Website weiter nutze, gilt dies als Zustimmung.\nMeine Einwilligung kann ich hier widerrufen. Weitere Informationen finde ich in der Datenschutzerklärung.\nEs ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Bitte versuchen Sie es später erneut.\nSie haben Cookies deaktiviert. Sie müssen Cookies in Ihrem Browser aktivieren und die Seite neu laden, um zustimmen zu können.", "url": "http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=1953811", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200514003941/https://apps.derstandard.at/privacywall/?url=/?id=1953811" }, { "language": "de", "title": "WM-Tickets: Reserviert für den gläsernen Fan", "text": "+++ Presseerklärung – 24.01.2005 +++\nWM-Tickets: Reserviert für den gläsernen Fan\n„Zu Gast bei Freunden“ – so lautet die Einladung zur Weltmeisterschaft 2006 an Fußballfans in aller Welt. Tatsächlich ist aber nur ein ganz bestimmter Besucher gemeint - der gläserne Fan, stellt das „Bündnis Aktiver Fußball-Fans“ (BAFF) anlässlich der Pressekonferenz zur Ticketvergabe von FIFA und Organisationskomitee fest. Um die begehrten Eintrittskarten für Spiele der WM bestellen zu können, müssen Fans zuerst einen umfangreichen Fragenkatalog beantworten, der weit über das für den Bestellvorgang Nötige hinaus geht. Wem das Losglück schließlich Tickets beschert, wird zusätzlich zum Versuchskaninchen einer neuen Überwachungstechnologie, kritisiert das Fan-Bündnis.\nObwohl bis heute, also rund eine Woche vor Verkaufsstart der Tickets, der genaue Inhalt des Fragebogens noch immer nicht bekannt gegeben wurde, ist dennoch davon auszugehen, dass dieser tief in die Privatsphäre reicht. Dabei gilt: Die Beantwortung der Fragen ist keineswegs freiwillig, denn keine Antworten bedeutet keine Karten! „Warum das schlichte Ersuchen nach Eintrittskarten Fragen zu Geburtsdatum, E-Mail-Adresse, Telefon- und Faxnummer oder gar Vereinszugehörigkeit rechtfertigen soll, will sich uns nicht erschließen“, fragt sich Jörg Höfer von BAFF. Hinzu kommt, dass völlig unklar ist, wer Zugang zu diesen Daten erhält. Das OK? Polizei und Innenministerium? Die FIFA und mit ihr die Werbepartner? Länder mit teilweise nur unzureichenden Datenschutzgesetzen? Man darf den beteiligten Unternehmen, seien es FIFA-Partner oder nationale Förderer, sicherlich ein vitales Interesse an diesen Daten unterstellen, mit denen sich mühelos Kundenprofile erstellen lassen. Nichts weist jedenfalls darauf hin, dass mit den personenbezogenen Daten entsprechend sensibel umgegangen wird. Jörg Höfer: „Wenn Fußballfans also nur die Wahl haben, teilweise sehr persönliche Daten preiszugeben, ohne zu wissen, wer darauf Zugriff hat, oder eben keine Tickets zu bekommen, wird die Verhältnismäßigkeit der Mittel nicht gewahrt und das Grundrecht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung verletzt.“\nZusätzliche Brisanz erhält die Ticket-Problematik nach Ansicht von BAFF dadurch, dass die Eintrittskarten zur WM mit RFID-Chips (Radio Frequency IDentification) ausgestattet werden sollen. Auf diesen können verschiedenste Daten gespeichert und mit Hilfe von speziellen Lesegeräten berührungslos abgerufen werden. Zwar heißt es von Seiten der Veranstalter, dass der Chip nur aus „etwa zehn Zentimetern“ Entfernung zum Lesegerät aufgerufen werden kann und den reibungslosen Zugang zum Stadion ermöglichen soll. Technisch gesehen erlaubt die RFID-Technologie jedoch weitaus mehr: Mit entsprechend ausgestatteten und aufgestellten Lesegeräten lassen sich die Daten an verschiedenen Stellen abrufen und miteinander verknüpfen. „Dies geschieht, ohne dass der Ticketbesitzer etwas davon weiß, denn berührungslos heißt eben auch unbemerkt“, kritisiert BAFF. Auch gibt es keine Garantien, dass auf diesem Wege möglicherweise nicht auch Unbefugte an die auf dem Chip gespeicherten Daten gelangen können. Falls solche Tickets zusätzlich mit einer Zahlungsfunktion versehen werden sollten, wären künftig neben detaillierten Bewegungs- auch umfassende Kundenprofile von Fußballfans möglich. Damit wäre der gläserne und total überwachte Fan endlich Wirklichkeit, fürchtet BAFF.\nDen organisierten Fans will nicht einleuchten, wieso eine potentiell derart weitreichende und gefährliche Technologie unbedingt eingeführt werden soll, um bei der WM den Stadionzugang zu regeln. Die eindeutige Identifizierung der mit RFID-Chips versehenen Eintrittskarten soll die Sicherheit in den WM-Stadien erhöhen. Dabei handelt es sich jedoch um ein sehr umständliches Verfahren, denn ob der Karteninhaber auch tatsächlich der Karteneigentümer und damit zugangsberechtigt ist, muss letztlich doch wieder manuell anhand des Ausweises überprüft werden. Zudem existieren bereits funktionierende, auch elektronische Zugangssysteme, die weit weniger missbrauchsanfällig sind. Volker Stör, ebenfalls bei BAFF aktiv, findet daher: „Die Ankündigung, dass die auf RFID-Technologie beruhenden Systeme über das Turnier hinaus den Stadien erhalten bleiben sollen, klingt wie eine Drohung an die Fans der Bundesliga.“\nDas Fan-Bündnis ist sich mit Daten- und Verbraucherschützern darin einig, dass RFID-Chips nicht eingesetzt werden dürfen, solange die Folgen nicht absehbar sind und der Missbrauch persönlicher Daten nicht ausgeschlossen werden kann: „Fußballfans dürfen nicht zu Versuchskaninchen für die Durchsetzung einer fragwürdigen Überwachungstechnologie werden.“ Wer sich dennoch ab dem 1. Februar um Karten für die Weltmeisterschaft bemühen will, dem ist zu empfehlen, zumindest der Weitergabe persönlicher Daten aus dem Fragebogen zu widersprechen. BAFF fordert das OK nachdrücklich auf, eine solche Widerspruchsmöglichkeit direkt im Bestellformular zu garantieren. Geschieht dies nicht, bliebe den Fans nur der schriftliche Widerspruch per Post.\nDas Bündnis Aktiver Fußball-Fans e.V. (BAFF) ist ein seit 1993 bestehender vereinsübergreifender Zusammenschluss von über 200 Fanclubs, -initiativen, -zeitungen, -projekten sowie Einzelmitgliedern. BAFF setzt sich ein für eine lebendige Fankultur mit sozialem Integrationswert, gegen Rassismus und Kommerzialisierung. – www.aktive-fans.de\nKontakt:\nJohannes Stender, , E-Mail: suedwest@aktive-fans.de\nMatthias Bettag, , E-Mail: matze@egalwie.de\nJörg Höfer, , E-Mail: basf@gmx.de", "url": "http://www.aktive-fans.de/01a9d793eb0025619/502764947d0ebab0a/50146095e90064b01.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050306061558/http://www.aktive-fans.de/01a9d793eb0025619/502764947d0ebab0a/50146095e90064b01.html" } ]

[ "Themenportal Wirtschaft", "Themenportal Vereinigte Staaten", "Unbemannte Raumfahrt", "UP Aerospace", "SpaceLoft XL", "Wikinews:Kurzartikel", "Veröffentlicht" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "SPACE.com -- UP Aerospace Delays Second Suborbital Rocket Launch", "text": "The private launch firm UP Aerospace has postponed the planned launch of its second rocket this month as it roots out the source of an in-flight glitch that doomed a September space shot.\nUP Aerospace officials initially hoped to launch their second unmanned suborbital SpaceLoft XL rocket – dubbed SL-2 – on Oct. 21, but opted to allow more time to completely investigate the failure of the booster’s flight debut last month.\n“The investigation is going very well,” UP Aerospace president Jerry Larson told SPACE.com, adding that the precise cause of the crash is close at hand. “We’re homing in on what I believe is the cause…we want to make sure that we finish the investigation properly and don’t leave any stone unturned.”\nLarson said UP Aerospace is now preparing to launch its next rocket by the end of the year. Like its predecessor, the next SpaceLoft XL rocket will lift off from New Mexico’s state-funded Spaceport America, near Upham – about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Las Cruces – in a remote area known for its low population density.\n“To successfully fly in 2006 is our goal,” Larson said. “We’re all extremely excited that we got the first launch off and it did well, but obviously we would have liked to make space. That was our ultimate goal.”\nLaunch debut\nUP Aerospace’s 20-foot (six-meter) SpaceLoft XL rocket debuted on Sept. 25, when the booster shot from its rail launch pad only to wobble seconds after liftoff and come crashing back to Earth.\nThe rocket – designed to carry 110-pound (50-kilogram) payloads to suborbital altitudes of up to 140 miles (225 kilometers) – reached a maximum height of about 40,000 feet (12,192 meters) before returning to Earth, according to past reports.\nThe Sept. 25 launch marked the first-ever flight staged from Spaceport America.\n“There was no structural damage to the vehicle during the flight at all, nothing broke,” Larson said, adding that initial concerns that the rocket’s fins were damaged in flight proved unfounded once the wreckage was recovered. “The vehicle is strong enough to withstand a Mach 4 corkscrew.”\nIt took UP Aerospace officials about one week to retrieve the SpaceLoft XL wreckage with the help of radar data from monitoring stations at New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range.\n“If we did not have that radar data, it would have taken us much longer, if not made it almost impossible,” Larson said of the recovery effort and subsequent investigation. “They could see the oscillations of the motion and what was physically going on with the body during flight.”\nIn addition to UP Aerospace’s investigation, Spaceport America officials have also formed an Anomaly Investigation Board to review the SpaceLoft XL’s crash.\n“We’ve got to get the Spaceport’s approval, and White Sands’ and the Federal Aviation Authorities,” Larson said, stressing that fixing the anomaly safely is vital for future SpaceLoft XL flights. “So there are a lot of players.”\nA good start\nDespite the Sept. 25 crash, Larson’s said UP Aerospace gained valuable suborbital launch experience that went far beyond that attained during dress rehearsals.\n“The launch crew performed flawlessly,” Larson said, adding that half of the flight’s ground personnel were Spaceport America officials, with the other half staffed by UP Aerospace. “It gives me hope that we’ll be able to launch multiple times in a day because it was so slick.”\nUP Aerospace is not alone in its rocky debut of a new launch vehicle.\nEarlier this year, El Segundo, California-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) launched its first privately-developed Falcon 1 rocket from a South Pacific atoll which failed just after liftoff.\nThe first U.S attempt to orbit a satellite – the Navy’s Vanguard TV3 – failed two seconds after ignition on Dec. 6, 1957.\n“You can’t get into this business expecting things to be perfect,” Larson said. “For some of these launch vehicles and rockets, it’s all or nothing.”\nAs the SpaceLoft XL crash investigation continues, Larson and other UP Aerospace officials plan to attend next week’s Wirefly X Prize Cup spaceflight exhibition in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where they will display video of their first flight and discuss their plans for commercial suborbital spaceflight.\n“The X Prize Cup is certainly on that cutting edge,” Larson said. “I think that’s why it’s exciting to everybody. It’s not the status quo.”", "url": "http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/061011_upaerospace_update.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20061011224623/http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/061011_upaerospace_update.html" } ]

[ "North America", "United States", "Politics and conflicts", "George W. Bush", "John Kerry", "Yale University" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student", "text": "WASHINGTON -- During last year's presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George W. Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences.\nBut newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical grade average at Yale University four decades ago.\nIn 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.\nKerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D's in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.\nThe grade transcript, which Kerry has always declined to release, was included in his Navy record. During the campaign the Globe sought Kerry's naval records, but he refused to waive privacy restrictions for the full file. Late last month, Kerry gave the Navy permission to send the documents to the Globe.\nKerry appeared to be responding to critics who suspected that there might be damaging information in the file about his activities in Vietnam. The military and medical records, however, appear identical to what Kerry has already released. This marks the first time Kerry's grades have been publicly reported.\nThe transcript shows that Kerry's freshman-year average was 71. He scored a 61 in geology, a 63 and 68 in two history classes, and a 69 in political science. His top score was a 79, in another political science course. Another of his strongest efforts, a 77, came in French class.\nUnder Yale's grading system in effect at the time, grades between 90 and 100 equaled an A, 80-89 a B, 70-79 a C, 60 to 69 a D, and anything below that was a failing grade. In addition to Kerry's four D's in his freshman year, he received one D in his sophomore year. He did not fail any courses.\n''I always told my Dad that D stood for distinction,\" Kerry said yesterday in a written response to questions, noting that he has previously acknowledged that he spent a lot of time learning to fly instead of focusing on his studies.\nKerry's weak grades came despite years of education at some of the world's most elite prep schools, ranging from Fessenden School in Massachusetts to St. Paul's School in New Hampshire.\nIt is noteworthy, however, that Kerry received a high honor at Yale despite his mediocre grades: He was chosen to deliver his senior class oration, a testament to his reputation as a public speaker. He delivered a speech questioning the wisdom of the Vietnam War, in which he would soon see combat.", "url": "http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050609021735/http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/yale_grades_portray_kerry_as_a_lackluster_student/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Kerry Makes His Military, Medical File Available", "text": "All through last year’s presidential race, Vietnam-era critics of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) charged that he was trying to hide something by refusing to authorize the public release of his entire military and medical file.\nOn Tuesday, Kerry provided access to his complete records. The long-awaited documents contained no bombshells, and his enemies still were not satisfied.\nThe 180-page sheaf of medal commendations, officer’s fitness reports and medical entries released under federal guidelines by Kerry’s Senate office provided a few new nuggets of information about his 1968 to 1969 stint as a Swift boat commander during the Vietnam War.\nThere was one page from a January 1969 officer evaluation that appeared to back Kerry’s claims that he had been well-rated by his superiors. During the heat of the 2004 campaign, some members of a group of anti-Kerry Navy veterans suggested that the then-missing document might provide a damning assessment of his wartime role.\nAdvertisement\nKerry said in a statement Tuesday that he had provided “unprecedented access” to his military and medical records during the campaign “and now months after it ended.” In releasing the file, he said, “the facts speak for themselves and as these records prove, once again the right wing is wrong.”\nBut Kerry’s reluctance to provide easy access to records that buttressed his war resume remains one of the more puzzling aspects of his campaign strategy.\nPollsters and political scientists who have studied the race said that Kerry might have left himself vulnerable by reacting too slowly to criticism by pro-Bush veterans and their insistent calls for public access to all of his records. Kerry’s move to release the file now, observers said, could inoculate him from similar pressure if he decided to run again in 2008.\n“This would certainly help him keep his options open,” said William Benoit, a communications professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia who has analyzed the repairing of political images.\nAdvertisement\nBut a former Swift boat officer who led the Navy veterans’ bitter public campaign against Kerry demanded more Tuesday, saying that the file was incomplete.\n“We asked him to universally release his entire file, and what we’ve seen instead is a parceling out of incomplete records,” said John O’Neill, a Houston lawyer who was a founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group last year mounted a well-bankrolled advertising campaign to undermine Kerry’s wartime pedigree.\nO’Neill expressed doubt that Kerry’s latest document release included material from the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. But David Wade, a Kerry spokesman, said that the request to Navy Personnel Command to release documents extended to all government record repositories.\nIn a phone interview from Houston, O’Neill said the Swift boat group was pressing for information about three unresolved controversies from the 2004 race: Kerry’s disputed contention that his Swift boat had entered Cambodian waters about December 1968; wording discrepancies among several versions of Kerry’s medal commendations; and a perceived lag between Kerry’s discharge from the Navy in 1970 and a later departure date in 1978.\nAdvertisement\n“If he made a true universal release of his records and not through selective journalists, maybe we could get to the records that would answer some of these questions,” O’Neill said. “If there were orders, for example, that sent him to Cambodia, they should be in his file.”\nNavy archives are sometimes incomplete, and Kerry’s latest document release contained no new information on any of those controversies. But it did include the missing first page of a two-page evaluation from 1969. That document indicated that Kerry would have been selected for “accelerated promotion” and described him as “one of the top few” in his officer group -- the highest rank available.\n“No matter how much these dishonest partisans pretend otherwise, the truth is right there in black and white in fitness reports written by his commanding officers,” Wade said.\nA less flattering portrait of Kerry shows up in other documents in the file. Correspondence from Navy officials reveals that soon after leaving Vietnam, Kerry took pains to make sure that all his wartime commendations were documented in his military file.\nAdvertisement\n“Subject officer advised ... that he has never received the citation or decoration for the Silver Star medal,” a Navy personnel officer wrote in a file notation in December 1969 -- nine months after Kerry had returned from Vietnam.\nKerry’s reluctance last year to give unfettered access to his file may have provided Swift boat critics with a ready-made issue. But his political caution, Benoit said, was understandable.\n“He wanted to release it in the best light possible, and to do that, he has to keep control,” Benoit said. “Even if he had put it all out there for everyone to see, I’m not so sure the Swift boat people would have been any easier on him. By putting all the records out there now, at least he gives them one less argument to use against him next time.”", "url": "http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kerry8jun08,0,3048402.story?coll=la-home-nation", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210314175935/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-08-na-kerry8-story.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "The Wire June 07 2005 : Radar Online", "text": "The Scourge of the Wristband If you’re looking for a way to remember your fondest memories of the Michael Jackson trial, have no fear. In support of the King of Pop, dedicated fans are buying (and selling) ghostly white wristbands engraved with the words “Truth.Justice.Michael.” The band that equates Michael with the principles of honesty and integrity has been so popular that it sold out. Fortunately, for those of you who still Beat It to MJ, a new bracelet has come along. The “MJJ=Innocent” band is a bold way of saying “Hey, I always bet on a dark horse.” Maybe you’re still on the fence about MJ. Luckily, Livestrong-style bracelets are now available for dozens of causes — charitable and otherwise. (See here and here.) For example, let everyone know you’re up on your pop culture with a “That’s Hot” pink band. From a distance you’ll be supporting breast cancer but up close your true devotion to The Simple Life will shine. Or perhaps instead of living strong you’d rather “LIVEPURE,” one in a series of religious bands. Now that trucker hats are out and support bands are in, you can sport a “Jesus is my homie” band, a “100% Catholic” band, or, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing, an “I Love Jesus, Jesus Loves Me” band. From “I Love Fishing” to “I Love Hunting,” there’s a countless number of bands to show your support for virtually everything unimportant. So live strong: let us all know that if it’s between Tsunami relief and “Red Sox Nation,” you’re sticking with Boston. (Paula Lehman)\nThe Perfect Photo Op A couple of weeks ago, Laura Bush spent five days in the Middle East to promote peace and mend relations with our allies in the Arab world. In Alexandria, Egypt, she visited a girls’ school, Om El Kora, along with the wife of Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak. It was the perfect photo op and the First Lady shared hugs and smiles with sweet, Egyptian schoolchildren as she chatted about empowering women and the importance of education. (Some of the many pics from the visit.) Well, it turns out the school didn’t look that way before Laura came to town. A report from an Egyptian blogger: One week before the scheduled visit, the tattered school was painted anew, tidied up, and the sewage system was fixed. The dirty roads around the school were cleaned up and trees were miraculously planted all around the area. A sign in English was written to welcome the 2 first ladies. Oh, yea, one more thing. The kids weren’t quite right either: Nevertheless, the Alexandria education officials didn’t like how the Om el Qura school kids looked like. The girls were poor and wore dirty school uniforms. Instead of cleaning them out and distributing clean clothes that would have definitely drew a huge smile on their faces, the officials decided to replaced the kids with new kids brought from a language school. Oh, yea, one more thing. The kids weren’t quite right either: Problem solved!\nJohn Kerry: Not As Smart As You Thought If we had any doubt that John Kerry has the worst political instincts of the twenty-first century, the delayed release of his Yale transcripts closes the book. It turns out that Kerry’s grades were no better than Bush’s, and ­— depending how you spin it — ­even worse. Kerry’s average was 76, with a whopping four D’s in his freshman year, including two history classes, political science, and the cakewalk, known then as well as now, called geology. The erudite Bush, by contrast, received only one D in his four years. And note how clever the president has been to avoid trumpeting his academic achievements. Kerry, who allegedly looks French, was certainly thinking French when he under-marketed his Bart Simpson report card. Intellectuals are heroes in the land of the pomme frites, but over here in the land of freedom fries, we’re more attracted to Bernard Kerik than Bernard Henri-Levy. Why was he so damn insecure about his poor performance, and why didn’t he have the confidence to be in touch with his inner moron? Did he and his advisors think that he would actually lose votes if we knew that he served with less distinction at Yale than along the Bay Hap River? Imagine how our perception of him would have changed if we only knew. When he fielded those tough debate questions with such sure-footed fluency, we would have been won over by his climb from the bottom of the class. Yes, it’s okay to get smart, but less okay to be born smart ­unless you’re John Kennedy, and leaven it with wit and charm. Or Bill Clinton, who was able to connect on a profoundly emotional level. Think about us. The “For Dummies” series is a money-making machine. We worship at the altar of self-deprecation, particularly in our irony-infused, post-modern culture of coolness. P.T. Barnum famously said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. It’s also true that nobody ever got elected over-estimating it. John Kerry, meet Adlai Stevenson. (Adam Hanft)\nMorning Roundup • British Prime Minister Tony Blair will ask President George Bush today to increase aid to Africa and spend more on the fight against global warming. The White House said it would give $674 million, money that is seen largely as a thank you to Blair for sticking with Bush during the Iraq war. At least the Africans will get something out of the war. [NY Times]\n• Pope Benedict XVI called gay marriage an expression of “anarchic freedom” in a speech in Rome yesterday. He also took swipes at divorce and artificial contraception, which the Pope called the “banalization of the human body.” That sound you hear is American Catholics slamming the church doors behind them. [Boston Globe]\n• General Motors will eliminate 25,000 jobs in the U.S. by 2008. The jobs cuts will save about $2.5 billion for shareholders, and save all those employees from having to go to work. Lucky them! GM did not announce which plants would close, so no one is safe right now. Gives people plenty to talk about on their lunch break. [AP]\n• Women in New York could face shorter restroom lines under a new building code that requires more women’s toilets in new bars, arenas, convention halls and movie theaters. For every one men’s toilet, there must be two women’s toilets. Farewell to the meat market line in crowded bars. This is good government at work people ­— uncross your legs and rejoice! [New York Daily News]\nNew York 2012: No Chance In Hell With New York’s 2012 Olympic bid down the tubes, online bookies responded immediately by downgrading the Big Apple. PinnacleSports.com quickly issued a press release and although Paris remains in first place, New York is now dead last, a 30-1 long shot: Paris: 1/6\nLondon: 13/2\nMadrid: 27/1\nNew York: 30/1\nMoscow: 25/1\nHad New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, not tied the Olympic bid to a Westside stadium — there’s a bit of unused land in Queens and Brooklyn, we hear — perhaps Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s decision wouldn’t have crushed the city’s chances. Now with NYC effectively out the running, millions of New Yorkers will be spared horrific traffic jams on 100-degree summer days — but they also won’t be able to rent out their 250-square-foot apartments for $20,000 a week either. New York’s Olympic stadium plan rejected [CNN]\nStadium Loss Is Win-Win [Forbes]", "url": "http://www.radarmagazine.com/the-wire/2005/06/07/index.php#wire_001051", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060506192725/http://www.radarmagazine.com/the-wire/2005/06/07/index.php#wire_001051" } ]

[ "North America", "Canada", "Ontario", "New Brunswick", "British Columbia", "Crime and law" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Insider key to Hells Angels raids: police", "text": "A full-patch Hells Angels member helped police infiltrate the downtown Toronto chapter and led to the seizure of their \"flagship\" clubhouse in a series of raids Wednesday, police said.\n\"This is the second time the Hells Angels' criminal activity has been exposed by one of their own,\" OPP Det. Insp. Dan Redmond said at a news conference held Thursday in Mississauga, Ont.\nUnder the dark of early morning, nearly 40 locations were raided by police across Ontario, as well as one location each in New Brunswick and British Columbia.\nCo-ordinating the dozens of raids across three time zones was a \"mammoth task,\" said Redmond, with 400 officers involved.\nOf the raids, the most significant is considered the downtown Toronto clubhouse, which police seized and stripped of its signs Wednesday.\nRedmond called it the \"flagship\" of the Hells Angels in Ontario, if not the country.\nNearly 170 charges were laid against 31 people, police said. No list of charges and names was released. Sixteen full-patch members are in custody, with arrest warrants outstanding on two.\nRedmond refused to specify whether any senior members had been arrested, saying only that they were \"affected\" and no longer have their \"home\" — the clubhouse.\nOntario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino called it a \"good day\" for police and warned biker gang members and their associates: \"You can run but you can't hide and we will do all we can to bring you to justice.\"\nSeized were vehicles, drugs, weapons, property and real-estate, though amounts were not specified.\nRepresentatives from all police levels spoke at the news conference, including RCMP, OPP and the Toronto police.\nOntario has 16 Angels chapters, though not all are active, and about 200 full-patch members, police said.", "url": "http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/04/05/hells-angels-police.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070410032629/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2007/04/05/hells-angels-police.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Canada.Com | Homepage | Canada.Com", "text": "Sign-up to receive the weekly top stories, contest and promotion announcements every Tuesday\nThanks for signing up!\nA welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it please check your junk folder.\nThe next issue of Canada.com Newsletter will soon be in your inbox.", "url": "http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=791fcde1-b377-4a7d-a93a-cc9b37511065&k=89014", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210318020848/https://o.canada.com/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Hells Angels suspects appear in court after raid", "text": "Three of the accused in court today.\nSecurity was tight outside the court today as the suspects were transported to the hearing. About $500,000 in vehicles, drugs, weapons and more than $500,000 in cash was seized by police. OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino speaks during a press conference in Toronto on Thursday, April 5, 2007. View larger image Toronto Police remove a sign from the suspected Hells Angels clubhouse on Eastern Avenue in downtown Toronto on Wednesday, April 4, 2007. View larger image A police officer walks out of the Hells Angels clubhouse hours after an early morning raid in Toronto on Wednesday, April 4, 2007. (CP / Aaron Harris)\nHells Angels suspects appear in court after raid\nCTV.ca News Staff\nMore than a dozen alleged members of the Hells Angels appeared in a Toronto court today after a nation-wide raid netted hundreds of arrests on Wednesday.\nHeavily-armed officers stood on guard as the suspects were lead into the courtroom three at a time.\nFamily members wept as they learned many of their relatives would be spending the Easter long weekend in jail awaiting bail hearings.\nHowever, several of the 31 Toronto-area men arrested have been released on bail for medical reasons, including kidney problems and sleep apnea.\nLawyers for the accused were on hand and maintained their clients' innocence.\n\"Well, he's not happy. He's a man who has worked his entire life. He's worked the same job the last 19 years and he would be working if he wasn't in jail today,\" Daniel Kayfetz, defence lawyer for one of the accused, said outside the courtroom on Thursday.\n\"No, he's not guilty and he intends to plead not guilty and the matter will go before the court. Obviously nobody can be happy about being dragged into a large case like this,\" defence lawyer Allan Gold said of his high-profile client Don Peterson.\nIn another twist to the investigation, a Niagara police officer has been charged with breach of trust for allegedly leaking police information to gang members.\nThe officer has since been released on bail with the condition that he refrains from contacting any member of the Hells Angels organization.\nEarlier, a police press conference revealed an informant from within the Hells Angels organization aided police in the investigation.\n\"Project Develop was an 18-month investigation that utilized a full-patch Hells Angels member as a police agent to infiltrate the Toronto downtown chapter of the Hells Angels,\" Ontario Provincial Police Insp. Dan Redmond said Thursday.\n\"Hells Angels criminal activity has been exposed by one of their own.\"\nThe probe, dubbed Project Develop, culminated in a series of raids against the Hells Angels and affiliate gangs on Wednesday.\nThe dramatic pre-dawn operation targeted clubhouses in Ontario, New Brunswick and British Columbia on Wednesday.\nOntario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino told reporters the arrests send a message to bikers.\n\"We are here to shut you down. You can run, but you can't hide. And we will do all that we can, to bring you to justice,\" Fantino said.\nIn Ontario alone, some 32 raids were carried out -- at least a dozen of those in Toronto. In total, 31 arrests were made and 169 charges laid in Ontario.\nPolice said the raids dealt a significant blow to the organization's flagship chapter in Toronto, said to be the largest in the country.\nThe Toronto Hells Angels clubhouse was seized as well as $500,000 in vehicles, drugs, weapons and more than $500,000 in cash.\n\"This clubhouse has been used by the Hells Angels as almost a claim to that area. They've been advertising their presence quite blatantly,\" Toronto Police Deputy Chief Tony Warr said.\n\"We felt it was necessary to send the message to the community that they were no longer there,\" said Warr, referring to the sign that was removed from the suspected clubhouse on Avenue in downtown Toronto on Wednesday.\nRaids were also carried out at clubhouses in Niagara Falls, Waterloo, Barrie, London, Hamilton, as well as Durham, Peel and York regions.\nIn British Columbia and New Brunswick, RCMP spokesmen confirmed that outlaw motorcycle organizations, including the Hells Angels and the Bacchus Motorcycle Club, had been targeted as part of an ongoing investigation.\nA series of simultaneous raids launched by provincial police in September 2006 saw 500 officers involved in arresting 15 members of the Hells Angels.\nIn January 2006, police made a series of arrests focused in Thunder Bay, Ont., in which a total of 27 Hell Angels and associates were charged.\nAbout 175 full-patch Hells Angels members -- of the 460 nationwide -- operate in Ontario.\nThere are 34 chapters in Canada and 16 of them in Ontario.\nThere are also seven chapters in British Columbia, three in Alberta, two in Saskatchewan, one in Manitoba and five in Quebec.\nThe arrests came nearly one year to the day that police found eight bodies of rival Bandidos gang members in a farmer's field in Shedden, Ont., just south of London, Ont.\nEight people, including a former police officer from Winnipeg, were later charged in relation to the Shedden deaths.\nWith a report from CTV's Chris Eby and files from The Canadian Press", "url": "http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070405/hellsangels_folo_070405/20070405?hub=TopStories", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070409055149/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070405/hellsangels_folo_070405/20070405?hub=TopStories" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Agriculture Minister Bob Speller announces kill of 19 million birds in B.C.", "text": "A chicken farm in the hot zone labeled by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in Abbotsford, B.C. (CP/Richard Lam)\nAgriculture Minister Bob Speller announces kill of 19 million birds in B.C.\nOTTAWA (CP) - Agriculture Minister Bob Speller has ordered that 19 million chickens and turkeys be killed in the Fraser Valley of southern British Columbia to fight an outbreak of highly contagious avian flu.\nThe federal governments \"preoccupation is to stop the spread of this disease and to stamp it out,\" Speller said at an Ottawa news conference. It is hoped the cull will eliminate the virus in the province.\nSpeller said the cull, which affects about 80 per cent of B.C. poultry producers, follows a recommendation from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.\nThe agency was under pressure to act after the contagion spread beyond a 10-kilometre hot zone created around the first affected farms in Abbotsford.\nPoultry producers have banded together, and Friday they proposed \"a phased depopulation\" of the entire Fraser Valley commercial flock, an idea backed by B.C. Agriculture Minister John van Dongen.\nAbout 400,000 birds had already been ordered slaughtered.\nTwo workers who dealt with the birds caught mild forms of the H7 avian flu that is not considered a threat to humans. Both have recovered.\nH7 avian flu is not considered a threat to humans.\nFederal Agriculture Minister Bob Speller", "url": "http://www.news1130.com/news/national/article.jsp?content=n040541A", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20040426111735/http://www.news1130.com/news/national/article.jsp?content=n040541A" }, { "language": "en", "title": "page2", "text": "Today's Headlines\nDecember 6th 2004\nDALE BRAZAO AND JOHN DUNCANSON STAFF REPORTERS BOCA RATON, Fla.-A key witness in the Toronto police corruption scandal has left Canada to live here in a luxury home backing on to a private golf course, raising concerns in police circles that he will not return to testify.\nDaniel Contogiannis, a chiropractor and downtown pub owner, recently moved out of his Mississauga mansion and now resides in one of Florida's more affluent gated communities, surrounded by four private golf courses.\nPhoto by DALE BRAZAO/TORONTO STAR\nChiropractor Daniel Contogiannis, a key witness in Toronto’s police corruption scandal, has moved his family to a luxury community in Boca Raton, Fla. He cannot be compelled to return to Canada.\nPolice Corruption Charges May\nDaniel Contogiannis, a chiropractor and downtown pub owner, recently moved out of his Mississauga mansion and now resides in one of Florida's more affluent gated communities, surrounded by four private golf courses.\nContogiannis, who a friend calls \"a victim\" in the scandal, cannot be compelled to return to Canada and testify, legal experts say. Police fear that could compromise the crown's case.\nCourt documents filed by an RCMP-led task force describe Contogiannis as a co-conspirator. Police sources claim he was involved, through his part ownership of Toronto's two Peel Pubs, in a shakedown scheme that targeted bars in the downtown Entertainment District.\nThe heart of the allegations involves police officers demanding money to warn taverns about or protect them from liquor licence inspections. In one case, sources claim, $50,000 was paid out by bar owners to avoid inspections.\nContogiannis, identified only by his initials in court documents, has not been charged with any crime. He is, however, scheduled to be a witness against the very officers to whom he and other bar owners are alleged to have paid protection money\nGo Up in Smoke\nPrime Minister lands in\nThe Prime Minister of Canada was besieged with critism when he arrived in Coquitlim B. C. from Halifax this morning, wearing a huge fox fur hat.\n\"I wore it at the request of the people of Halifax\", the Prime Minister explained.\n\"When I told them i was coming to Coquitlim, everyone I talked to said \"Wear da fox hat\"\nYour Morning Smile\nA drunken man walks into a biker bar, sits down at the bar and orders a drink. Looking around, he sees 3 men sitting at a corner table.He gets up, staggers to the table, leans over, looks the biggest, meanest, biker in the face and says\"I went by your grandma's house today and I saw her in the hallway buck naked. Man, she is one fine looking woman!\"The biker looks at him and doesn't say a word. His buddies are confused, because he is one mean biker and would fight at the drop of a hat.The drunk leans on the table again and says: \"I got it on with your grandma and she is good, the best I ever had!\"The biker's buddies are starting to get really mad but the biker still says nothing.The drunk leans on the table one more time and says, \"I'll tell you something else, boy, your grandma liked it!\"\nAt this point the biker stands up, takes the drunk by the shoulders looks him square in the eyes and says,\"Grandpa,....... Go home, you're drunk.\"\nBiker Violence\nFear Unfounded\nCoquitlim Under Fire\nClick to read more", "url": "http://www.redwhiteclothing.ca/club/page101.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20041207010146/http://www.redwhiteclothing.ca/club/page101.html" } ]

[ "Publicado", "Estados Unidos", "Desastres e acidentes", "Violência", "Crime, Direito e Justiça", "Massacre" ]

[ { "language": "pt", "title": "Atirador que feriu 18 em universidade dos EUA morreu, segundo a polícia", "text": "Publicidade\nUm atirador abriu fogo em uma sala de aula na universidade Northern Illinois (NIU), no Condado de DeKalb na tarde desta quarta-feira, ferindo várias pessoas, segundo a própria instituição. O suposto atirador morreu após o incidente, de acordo com a Polícia do Condado de DeKalb citada pelo jornal local \"Chicago Sun Times\".\nO hospital Kishwaukee Community em DeKalb declarou esperar por até 15 vítimas do tiroteio --incluindo três ou quatro com ferimentos na cabeça. Duas vítimas foram levadas de helicóptero ao hospital Rockford.\nSegundo a rede de TV CNN, 18 pessoas ficaram feridas.\nRoger Scott, xerife do Condado de DeKalb, disse que é possível que o atirador tenha cometido suicídio.\nFuncionários da universidade não deram detalhes sobre a extensão do tiroteio, mas disseram que alunos e professores estão em segurança. As aulas foram canceladas.\n\"Houve um tiroteio no campus\", disse Joe King, porta-voz da NIU. \"Diversas pessoas foram levadas de ambulância. O campus de DeKalb está fechado.\"\nUm alerta no site da universidade afirma que há a possibilidade de um atirador estar no campus. \"Vá a uma área segura e tome precauções até que esteja normalizado\", diz a mensagem, postada às 15h20 (19h20 em Brasília).\nDeKalb fica a cerca de 105 km a oeste de Chicago.\nTiroteios\nUm adolescente de 15 anos baleado na terça-feira (12) por um colega em uma escola da Califórnia (oeste), não resistiu e morreu na quarta, segundo a polícia.\nLawrence King foi baleado em uma sala de informática do centro E.O. Green, onde estudava. Ele foi internado em estado grave no hospital St. John's Regional Medical Center.\nO agressor, um companheiro de turma de 14 anos, foi detido após o incidente. O colégio foi fechado pela polícia.\nEste foi o quinto ataque com arma de fogo nos Estados Unidos em uma semana, dos quais quatro ocorreram em escolas.\nCom Associated Press", "url": "http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/mundo/ult94u372530.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210422164548/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2008/02/372530-atirador-que-feriu-18-em-universidade-dos-eua-morreu-segundo-a-policia.shtml" }, { "language": "pt", "title": "Homem abre fogo em universidade de Illinois, mata ao menos 7 e se suicida", "text": "14/02/2008 - 22h24\nHomem abre fogo em universidade de Illinois, mata ao menos 7 e se suicida da Redação Atualizado às 11h56 de sexta-feira (15)\nUm homem abriu fogo nesta quinta-feira no campus da Northern Illinois University, em DelKab (a cerca de 100 quilômetros de Chicago), matando ao menos sete pessoas. Em seguida, ele cometeu suicídio, segundo informações das agências de notícias.\nQuatro pessoas morreram no local, incluindo o atirador, e outras duas morreram mais tarde no hospital, segundo o reitor da universidade, John Peters. Ele disse ainda que ao menos 22 pessoas foram atingidas. Das vítimas, quatro eram mulheres.\nA página do centro de estudos informou que 17 pessoas haviam sido levadas para o hospital de Kishwaukee, seis delas em estado grave. Um porta-voz do hospital que atendeu os feridos disse que vários foram atingidos na cabeça e no peito.\nA universidade foi isolada e ainda não há previsão para sua reabertura. A identidade do atirador é conhecida, segundo a polícia que, no entanto, não a divulgou. No entanto, foi informado que o homem estava matriculado na universidade no ano passado, mas não era aluno da Northern Illinois atualmente. A polícia afirma que os motivos que o levaram a abrir fogo contra os estudantes ainda são desconhecidos.\nA segurança no campus havia sido reforçada em dezembro, quando uma ameaça foi encontrada na porta de um dos banheiros da universidade. Ela incluía insultos raciais e referências ao atentado ocorrido em abril do ano passado na universidade Virginia Tech, quando um atirador matou 32 alunos e depois cometeu suicídio. A mensagem dizia que um atentado ainda pior iria ocorrer.\nTestemunha\nUm estudante identificado apenas como John disse à emissora de rádio local WBBM que o atirador entrou em um auditório da universidade e começou a atirar com uma espingarda nos mais de 100 alunos que estavam no local.\n\"Ele apontou para o meio da sala... e então foi até o professor\", afirmou John.\nDominique Broxton, 22, contou ao \"Chicago Tribune\" ter visto dois estudantes feridos da janela de seu dormitório.\n\"A ambulância tirou dois alunos do chão do lado de fora do meu dormitório\", disse. \"Eu não os conheço. Eles pareciam ensangüentados. Onde estou agora há um monte de policiais, pelo menos uma dúzia. Há carros da polícia e caminhonetes em todo o lugar\".\nDominique descreveu a cena como caótica. \"Vi muita confusão\", afirmou. \"Os alunos saíram correndo. As pessoas realmente não sabiam o que estava acontecendo. Existe um sistema interno de comunicação no dormitório. Alguém veio e disse que uma pessoa tinha sido presa. Eles disseram que haviam prendido o atirador e que devíamos permanecer calmos e não sair dos quartos. Estou no meu quarto agora\", relatou a estudante. UOL Celular Acompanhe as notícias do UOL no seu celular.\nSaiba como: celular.uol.com.br ÍNDICE DE NOTÍCIAS IMPRIMIR ENVIAR COMUNICAR ERRO\nShopping UOL ComputadoresDuo Core. Encontre aqui a\npartir de apenas R$ 905. Conversor TV DigitalAche aqui e pague em\naté 12x. É imperdível! Motorola A1200iSmartphone com câmera e\nMP3 em até 12x. Compre!", "url": "http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultnot/2008/02/14/ult23u1171.jhtm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080218104202/http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultnot/2008/02/14/ult23u1171.jhtm" } ]

[ "Czechy", "Świat", "Unia Europejska" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Klaus się złamał?", "text": "15:30, 17.10.2009\nCZESKI PREZYDENT PODPISZE TRAKTAT?\nCzy eurosceptyczny prezydent Czech Vaclav Klaus już niedługo podpisze Trakatat z Lizbony? Taka sugestia z jego strony padła w wywiadzie dla gazety \"Lidove noviny\".\nCzesi zgodni z Klausem Czesi stają murem za Vaclavem Klausem. Większość z nich popiera żądanie... czytaj więcej » Czesi stają murem za Vaclavem Klausem. Większość z nich popiera żądanie...\nNie uważam, aby Traktat z Lizbony był rzeczą dobrą dla Europy, dla wolności Europy, dla Republiki Czeskiej. Jednakże pociąg jedzie już tak szybko i tak daleko, że wydaje mi się, iż nie będzie możliwe, aby go zatrzymać czy zawrócić, jakkolwiek bardzo byśmy tego chcieli. Vaclav Klaus Nie uważam, aby Traktat z Lizbony był rzeczą dobrą dla Europy, dla wolności Europy, dla Republiki Czeskiej. Jednakże pociąg jedzie już tak szybko i tak daleko, że wydaje mi się, iż nie będzie możliwe, aby go zatrzymać czy zawrócić, jakkolwiek bardzo byśmy tego chcieli.\nCzechy szukają wyjścia awaryjnego? Możliwe jest wyłączenie Czech z obowiązywania Karty Praw Podstawowych, bez... czytaj więcej » Możliwe jest wyłączenie Czech z obowiązywania Karty Praw Podstawowych, bez...\nDwa zdania? \"Żąda niemożliwego\" Prezydent Czech Vaclav Klaus podpisze Traktat Lizboński, ale najpierw... czytaj więcej » Prezydent Czech Vaclav Klaus podpisze Traktat Lizboński, ale najpierw...\n- Nie uważam, aby Traktat z Lizbony był rzeczą dobrą dla Europy, dla wolności Europy, dla Republiki Czeskiej - powiedział czeskiemu dziennikowi Klaus. Dodał jednak: - Jednakże pociąg jedzie już tak szybko i tak daleko, że wydaje mi się, iż nie będzie możliwe, aby go zatrzymać czy zawrócić, jakkolwiek bardzo byśmy tego chcieli.Czechy to jedyne państwo w Unii Europejskiej, które nie ratyfikowało Traktatu z Lizbony. Dokument został już przyjęty przez tamtejszy parlament jednak brakuje podpisu prezydenta Klausa.A czeski przywódca raczej nie spieszy się z ratyfikacją. Uważa on bowiem, że Traktat z Lizbony stanowi próbę utworzenia europejskiego superpaństwa, które pozbawi poszczególne narody suwerenności.Prezydent Czech czeka obecnie na orzeczenie czeskiego Trybunału Konstytucyjnego w sprawie zgodności Traktatu z Konstytucją. Posiedzenie Trybunału odbędzie się 27 października.Jest jeszcze jeden problem: Klaus chciałby, by w Traktacie znalazły się pewne ustępstwa w stosunku do Czech, tak jak to miało miejsce w stosunku do Polski i Irlandii.Gwarancje dla Irlandii dotyczyły jej neutralności, podatków i prawa aborcyjnego. Z kolei Polska wyegzekwowała przyjęcie dodatkowego protokołu do Karty Praw Podstawowych, integralnej części Traktatu. Chodzi o to, by obywateli nie obejmowały postępowania przed Europejskim Trybunałem Praw Człowieka. Polski rząd uzasadniał taką decyzję tym, że nie chce, by trybunał w jakimkolwiek stopniu ingerował w prawne definicje rodziny, życia poczętego itp.Czeski prezydent chce uzupełnienia Traktatu przypisem, ograniczającym obowiązywanie Karty Praw Podstawowych wobec Republiki Czeskiej. Według Klausa, Karta mogłaby otworzyć drogę do sądowych wniosków o zwrot mienia pozostawionego przez wysiedlonych po wojnie Niemców sudeckich.Taki stan rzeczy budzi obawy, że przyjęcie ustępstw będzie wymagało ponownej ratyfikacji we wszystkich krajach UE.W wywiadzie dla \"Lidovych novin\" Klaus podkreślił jednak, że nie jest to jego celem. - Nigdy nie powiedziałem, że jest niezbędne, aby mój podpis musiał być ratyfikowany przez wszystkie kraje, wraz z całym Traktatem z Lizbony - przekonywał. - Podobnie nigdy nie powiedziałem, że gwarancje podobne do tych, które Komisja Europejska dała Irlandczykom, będą dla mnie niewystarczające - dodał.Pojawiły się też spekulacje, że Klaus z podpisaniem Traktatu czeka na wybory w Wielkiej Brytanii, tak aby będący w opozycji konserwatyści, którzy je prawdopodobnie wygrają, mogli przeprowadzić referendum i unieważnić ratyfikację Traktatu.Jednak w wywiadzie dla czeskiej gazety Klaus zdecydowanie nie zgodził się z tymi podejrzeniami. - Nie będę i nie mogę czekać na brytyjskie wybory. Musieliby je przeprowadzić w najbliższych dniach lub tygodniach - powiedział Klaus.kj/tr", "url": "http://www.tvn24.pl/12691,1624421,0,1,klaus-sie-zlamal,wiadomosc.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091019025824/http://www.tvn24.pl/12691,1624421,0,1,klaus-sie-zlamal,wiadomosc.html" }, { "language": "pl", "title": "Prezydent Czech w końcu podpisze Traktat?", "text": "Prezydent Czech w końcu podpisze Traktat? Autor: Elżbieta Korzeniowska\nVaclav Klaus nie jest już tak zagorzałym eurosceptykiem i wiele wskazuje na to, że wkrótce podpisze Traktat Lizboński.", "url": "http://www.e-polityka.pl/a.16673.d.17.Prezydent_Czech_w_koncu_podpisze_Traktat_.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160317044044/http://www.e-polityka.pl/a.16673.d.17.Prezydent_Czech_w_koncu_podpisze_Traktat_.html" } ]

[ "Europe", "France", "Politique", "Politique française", "Droit", "Mouvement démocrate (France)", "Union pour un mouvement populaire", "Jacques Chirac", "Parti socialiste (France)" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Le Parlement au cœur de la réforme des institutions", "text": "Remanié, amendé, amoindri, le projet de révision constitutionnelle, présenté mercredi 23 avril en conseil des ministres, n'en introduit pas moins des changements dans l'équilibre des pouvoirs. Le Conseil d'Etat ne s'y est pas trompé. Selon nos informations, il aurait contesté, dans son avis, des dispositions du texte qui induisent, selon plusieurs de ses membres, de profonds bouleversements des rapports entre le président, le gouvernement et le Parlement.\nDepuis sa campagne électorale, le président de la République défend cette réforme qui doit redonner du poids politique au Parlement, face à un président renforcé par le quinquennat et la pratique du pouvoir. Si ce texte est adopté, le gouvernement pourrait perdre certaines de ses prérogatives, qui font de la Ve République un régime parlementaire très encadré. Ce n'est plus le projet de loi présenté par le gouvernement mais la version du texte amendée par les commissions parlementaires qui serait examinée en séance publique. Ce n'est plus le gouvernement qui déterminerait à lui seul l'ordre du jour des assemblées. L'article 49-3 de la Constitution, qui permet l'adoption d'un projet de loi sans vote, ne serait plus une arme de dissuasion à usage illimité : seuls les projets de loi de finances, ainsi qu'un projet de loi par session, pourraient à l'avenir être concernés par ce passage en force gouvernemental qui lui permet d'engager sa responsabilité pour vaincre l'obstruction de l'opposition ou les réticences d'une majorité rebelle.\n\"Notre texte va révolutionner la manière de gouverner\", se félicite l'Elysée. \"Cette révision va rendre encore plus difficile le gouvernement de la France et l'engagement des réformes\", réplique un magistrat du Conseil d'Etat.\nDEUX MANDATS PRÉSIDENTIELS\nAutres gages donnés par le président à ce parlementarisme renaissant : la limitation à deux mandats de l'exercice présidentiel, l'encadrement du pouvoir de nomination du président par l'avis d'une commission constituée de membres des deux Assemblées, la garantie donnée aux membres du Parlement de retrouver leur siège en cours de mandat après un passage par des fonctions ministérielles.\nCe projet de révision constitutionnelle, issu pour une part des propositions de la commission Balladur, rendues le 29 octobre, doit être adopté par les deux Assemblées, puis obtenir au Congrès - réunion de l'Assemblée nationale et du Sénat - la majorité des trois-cinquièmes. Pour atteindre ce seuil - que n'atteint pas à elle seule l'actuelle majorité -, il faudra, selon les calculs du gouvernement, convaincre une trentaine d'élus socialistes de s'abstenir sur le texte, seuls les suffrages exprimés étant pris en compte.\nSi le renforcement des pouvoirs du Parlement peut convaincre une partie des membres de l'opposition de s'abstenir, les sénateurs socialistes font de la réforme de leur collège électoral - pour mieux tenir compte de la population dans la représentation au Sénat des collectivités territoriales - un préalable non négociable à la discussion sur la révision. Le PS réclame également l'introduction d'une dose de proportionnelle dans l'élection des députés. Enfin, la possibilité pour le président de la République de prendre la parole devant les Assemblées ou le Congrès - instituée par le projet de révision constitutionnelle - constitue pour beaucoup un casus belli. \"Il n'y a qu'à proposer au président de venir s'exprimer dans la salle des fêtes de l'Assemblée\", suggère le député (UMP) Hervé Mariton, hostile aussi à l'entrée du président dans l'hémicycle.", "url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2008/04/23/le-parlement-au-coeur-de-la-reforme-des-institutions_1037408_823448.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080427122655/http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2008/04/23/le-parlement-au-coeur-de-la-reforme-des-institutions_1037408_823448.html" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Politique : La révision constitutionnelle est sur les rails", "text": "La réforme des institutions, adoptée mercredi matin en Conseil des ministres, a été lancée en juillet 2007 à Épinal par le chef de l'État, qui a affirmé vouloir «moderniser» la Ve République «sans tourner la page», et a souhaité un débat «ouvert à toutes les sensibilités». Cette révision constitutionnelle a pour but d'accroître le rôle et les prérogatives du Parlement, avec l'instauration d'un ordre du jour partagé, la discussion en séance des projets adoptés en commission, ou encore la limitation de l'usage de l'article 49-3, qui permet au gouvernement de faire adopter une loi sans vote. En contrepartie, le chef de l'État pourra s'exprimer devant le Parlement, probablement dans le cadre d'une réunion en Congrès des deux assemblées à Versailles. Résolument hostiles pendant des mois à cette disposition, les dirigeants socialistes sont en train d'évoluer sur la question (voir ci-dessous).\nDans toute révision constitutionnelle, le diable se niche dans les détails. Le premier ministre François Fillon a donc prévu de relancer un cycle de consultations les 6 et 7 mai, avant l'examen du projet en première lecture à l'Assemblée dans la semaine du 19 mai. Bernard Accoyer, le président de l'Assemblée, estime que la réforme constitutionnelle «ne présente que des avantages pour le bon fonctionnement de nos institutions» et qu'«au sein de la majorité, il ne devrait pas y avoir de nombreux problèmes».\nParmi les points délicats, figure la suppression de l'article 88-5, modifié en 2005 sous la présidence de Jacques Chirac pour imposer l'organisation d'un référendum obligatoire avant tout nouvel élargissement de l'Union européenne. Les députés UMP hostiles à l'entrée de la Turquie dans l'UE, dont Richard Mallié et Jacques Myard, craignent que le gouvernement ne soit tenté d'utiliser la voie parlementaire pour supprimer ce frein à l'adhésion de la Turquie. Jacques Myard a aussi «des interrogations» sur l'affaiblissement du rôle du premier ministre ou sur la limitation du 49-3.\nLe bipartisme inquiète le Nouveau Centre\nLes députés du Nouveau Centre, qui ont prévu la semaine prochaine deux réunions de travail avec leurs collègues centristes du Sénat pour «harmoniser leurs positions», disent «oui mais» à la réforme. «Il y a un vrai progrès concernant le rôle du Parlement, mais nous souhaitons avoir des garanties sur le pluralisme», explique François Sauvadet. Le président du groupe NC à l'Assemblée s'inquiète de voir figurer dans la Constitution «les concepts de majorité et d'opposition qui créeraient de fait le bipartisme». Alors que la révision ne concerne pas les modes de scrutin, les députés NC, favorables à une dose de proportionnelle, ont l'intention de demander que «le cadre constitutionnel permette le vote d'une loi organique à venir sur ce sujet». Une revendication qui n'a aucune chance d'aboutir, pas plus que celle qui interdirait à l'État de présenter un budget en déficit. Jean Arthuis, le président centriste de la commission des finances du Sénat, considère, lui, qu'il y a, sur cette révision constitutionnelle, «des questions de réglage mais pas de problème majeur».", "url": "http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/2008/04/23/01002-20080423ARTFIG00005-la-revision-constitutionnelle-est-sur-les-rails.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080424074149/http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/2008/04/23/01002-20080423ARTFIG00005-la-revision-constitutionnelle-est-sur-les-rails.php" } ]

[ "Sudamérica", "Chile", "Democracia y elecciones", "Sociedad" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Consulta en Santiago: cambio de nombre del cerro Santa Lucía debe ser ratificado por concejo municipal", "text": "La consulta preguntará sobre el cambio de nombre al cerro Santa Lucía.\nEl eventual cambio de nombre del cerro Santa Lucía a cerro Welén, debe aser ratificado por el concejo municipal de Santiago, según aclaró la alcaldesa del municipio, Carolina Tohá, esta mañana durante un simulacro de la consulta ciudadana que se realizará entre el 11 y el 19 de octubre y que incluye dentro de sus preguntas esta posibilidad.\nTohá indicó que \"esta ciudad tiene una historia previa a la colonia, que es cuando se le puso Santa Lucía al cerro, esta discusión se ha hecho para que el municipio visibilice su identidad indígena, para que se haga cargo de su historia indígena, que viene mucho antes de la colonia\".\nLa alcaldesa además agregó que este cambio sólo afectaría \"al cerro, no está previsto cambiarle el nombre a la avenida por ejemplo, eso es otra cosa\".\nEn tanto, al referirse a la consulta sobre el cambio de horario de funcionamiento de las botillerías en toda la comuna, hasta las 23.00 horas durante la semana y las 00.00 horas los fines de semana, Tohá dijo que \"la ley le entrega al concejo municipal la facultad para decidir el horario de funcionamiento de las botillerías. El entorno de la compra de alcohol genera mucho conflicto, porque la gente toma en la calle, hay peleas, y eso genera un clima complejo. Se debe buscar un horario que sea el mejor para los vecinos\".\nLAS OTRAS PREGUNTAS\nLa consulta, en total consta de seis preguntas, de las cuales cuatro son para los residentes de la comuna, las que se refieren a los vehículos mal estacionados, horario de cierre de las botillerías, retiro de la basura y reciclaje de los residuos.\nEn tanto, las preguntas que podrán ser respondidas por los usuarios del municipio son sobre el cambio de nombre al cerro Santa Lucía y al uso de bolsas plásticas biodegradables en el comercio.", "url": "http://www.latercera.com/noticia/nacional/2014/10/680-599248-9-consulta-en-santiago-cambio-de-nombre-del-cerro-santa-lucia-debe-ser-ratificado.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20141009104500/http://www.latercera.com/noticia/nacional/2014/10/680-599248-9-consulta-en-santiago-cambio-de-nombre-del-cerro-santa-lucia-debe-ser-ratificado.shtml" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Consulta pública:Apoyan cambio de nombre a Cerro Santa Lucía", "text": "Foto: Reproducción\nEn referencia a la consulta ciudadana que efectuará la Municipalidad de Santiago, entre el 11 y el 19 de octubre, el concejal Ismael Calderón, expresó que entre las propuestas, apoya el cambio de nombre del Cerro Santa Lucía, pero rechaza la restricción horaria de funcionamiento de las botillerías.\nLa consulta a los residentes de la comuna de Santiago, preguntará también aspectos tales como el uso de bolsas plásticas, el manejo de residuos domiciliarios o el retiro de vehículos mal estacionados con grúa.\nCalderón dijo que \"es importante que nuestros vecinos tengan espacios para expresarse e incidir en la elaboración de las políticas públicas comunales. Eso contribuye a mejorar la calidad de las políticas y fortalece nuestra democracia\". Sin embargo, cree que \"la consulta puede ser perfeccionada y considera errada la forma en que se presentan algunas de las preguntas\".\n\"Por ejemplo, en el caso de la pregunta sobre el horario de cierre de las botillerías, sólo se presentan dos posibles respuestas ante un tema que está lleno de matices. Creo que esa pregunta se debió realizar de forma abierta o presentando más alternativas, para recoger de mejor manera las diversas posturas de nuestros vecinos\", expresó el concejal socialista.\nCalderón se manifestó contrario a la restricción horaria de la venta de alcohol en las botillerías, en los términos que plantea la consulta, por considerar que los horarios que se establecen para el cierre de estos locales, específicamente el de los fines de semana y vísperas de festivos, traerán algunos problemas y externalidades negativas para la comuna.\nDe obtener mayoría la opción que restringe el horario de funcionamiento, las botillerías podrán funcionar hasta las 23:00 horas de domingo a jueves, y hasta las 00:00 horas los viernes, sábados y vísperas de festivos, sin excepción en toda la comuna.\nEn este sentido, Calderón expresó que \"esta restricción para las botillerías, sobre todo en los fines de semana, ayudará a que prolifere la venta clandestina de alcohol y los Fono Copete, fuera de toda regulación y control. Además dicha medida impactará en forma negativa a los botilleros y sus familias, quienes en muchos casos son vecinos de nuestra comuna\".\nAgregó que en este caso, \"es mejor buscar un horario de cierre un poco más flexible, como el que actualmente tiene el Barrio Brasil para los fines de semana y vísperas de festivo, ya que de esa forma se logra proteger el trabajo de los botilleros, contener de cierto modo las externalidades negativas que se podrían presentar y se cumple de igual manera con el objetivo de reducir el horario de venta de alcohol\", sentenció el concejal.\nIsmael Calderón se manifestó a favor del cambio de nombre del Cerro Santa Lucía a Cerro Welén, argumentando que \"ese fue el nombre con el que nuestro pueblo originario llamaba al cerro mucho antes que nosotros lo conociéramos y que los mismos españoles llegaran a la ciudad. Volver a llamarlo Cerro Welén sería una forma de reivindicar y reconocer a nuestro pueblo mapuche, sobre todo en el contexto de gran conflicto que hoy vivimos por sus demandas históricas\", expresó el concejal.", "url": "http://noticias.terra.cl/chile/consulta-publicaapoyan-cambio-de-nombre-a-cerro-santa-lucia,889f7fc2960f8410VgnCLD200000b2bf46d0RCRD.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20141010210638/http://noticias.terra.cl/chile/consulta-publicaapoyan-cambio-de-nombre-a-cerro-santa-lucia,889f7fc2960f8410VgnCLD200000b2bf46d0RCRD.html" } ]

[ "Themenportal Politik", "Themenportal Indonesien", "Themenportal Timor-Leste", "Politik in Indonesien", "Politik in Timor-Leste" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Tod eines brutalen Diktators", "text": "Nach außen bezeugte man ihm Respekt, bis zuletzt. Der gegenwärtige Staatschef Indonesiens, Yudhoyono, weilte an Suharto Krankenbett, auch einer seiner Vorgänger, Abdurrahman Wahid. Wohl nicht gerade aus bewegtem Herzen, eher um sich davon zu überzeugen, ob der ehemalige Herrscher des größten Inselstaates der Welt, Hadji Mohammed Suharto, tatsächlich dabei sei, seinen Geist aufzugeben, oder damit fortfahre, sich auf dem Wege des ärztlichen Attests der Justiz zu entziehen, die seiner seit der erzwungenen Resignation vom Mai 1998 habhaft zu werden versucht. Jetzt ist Suharto tot – zumindest auf Erden muss er sich für nichts mehr verantworten.\nWeiterführende links\nDabei hatte Indonesien unentwegt Verfahren gegen Suharto angestrengt. Auf Anweisung des Obersten Gerichtshofs beauftragte die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft bereits vor Jahren zwanzig Ärzte, die Verhandlungsfähigkeit Suhartos gutachtlich zu bewerten.Der Justiz ging es vor allem um zwei Dinge: zum einen die unerhörte Bereicherung der Familie Suharto in der 31-jährigen Amtszeit des Präsidenten seit 1967. Nach grober Rechnung geht es um nicht weniger als 73 Milliarden Dollar – in Form von (ausländischen) Konten, Unternehmensbeteiligungen, Grundbesitz, Preziosen und Kunstgegenständen. Wegen Anteilen daran wurden mehrere Familienmitglieder rechtskräftig verurteilt.Schwerwiegender und international relevant sind die Menschenrechtverletzungen der Armee unter den Generälen Suharto und Nasution gegenüber der chinesischen Minderheit während der Staatskrise von 1965/66 und bei der Eroberung des vormals portugiesischen Ost-Timor 1975/76. Schätzungen zufolge wurden bei den Massakern zwischen 500.000 und 1,2 Millionen Menschen getötet. Die Motive der Pogrome waren verschieden, die Beteiligung an ihnen reichte in alle Bevölkerungsgruppen, die zur Tat ermuntert wurden. Ausländische Berichte sprachen von den „schrecklichsten Massenmorden im 20. Jahrhundert“.", "url": "http://www.welt.de/politik/article1600737/Suharto__Tod_eines_brutalen_Diktators.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080129205030/http://www.welt.de/politik/article1600737/Suharto__Tod_eines_brutalen_Diktators.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)", "text": "Bauernregeln im Mai und Juni\nEisheilige und Schafskälte: Was ist wirklich an ihnen dran?\nVideo Eisheilige und Schafskälte: Was ist wirklich an ihnen dran? abspielen. Laufzeit 01:35 Minuten.", "url": "http://tagesschau.sf.tv/content/view/full/194237", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200513212726/https://www.srf.ch/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Diktator Suharto ist tot", "text": "Jahrzehntelang regierte er Indonesien mit eiserner Hand und führte das Land in die Moderne. Tausende Missliebige und Andersdenkende wurden während seiner Gewaltherrschaft getötet. Heute ist der einstige Diktator Hadji Mohammed Suharto im Alter von 86 Jahren gestorben.\nJakarta - Seit seinem Abtritt von der Macht im Jahr 1998 lebte der \"lächelnde General\", wie ihn westliche Medien gerne nannten, zurückgezogen in seiner Residenz in Jakarta. Während seiner jahrzehntelangen Herrschaft prägte er das Land wie kein anderer Politiker. Doch die Zeit des Aufschwungs wurde von den späteren Jahren seiner rücksichtslosen Herrschaft verdunkelt. Suharto wird als brutaler und korrupter Staatschef in Erinnerung bleiben - auch wenn er sich einer Strafverfolgung immer entziehen konnte.\nREUTERS Ex-Diktator Suharto: Er führte Indonesien mit harter Hand\nSuharto musste in den vergangenen Jahren mehrfach stationär behandelt werden, unter anderem wegen eines Herzleidens. Kritiker hatten jedoch immer wieder darauf hingewiesen, Suharto sei nicht so krank, wie er behaupte, sondern wolle sich nur dem Korruptionsprozess entziehen. Mit einem ärztlichen Attest hatte er im Jahr 2000 erreicht, dass ein Prozess wegen der Veruntreuung von umgerechnet rund 387 Millionen Euro aus öffentlichen Geldern ausgesetzt wurde.\nIm September vergangenen Jahres jedoch wurde ein weiterer Prozess gegen ihn eröffnet. Die Justizbehörden forderten umgerechnet knapp eine Milliarde Euro von ihm zurück, die er als Präsident über dunkle Kanäle beiseite geschafft haben soll. Dieses Geld werden sie nun nicht mehr eintreiben können.\nDer 1921 als Sohn einer Bauernfamilie auf Java geborene Suharto begann seine Karriere in der niederländischen Kolonialarmee in Indonesien. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs kämpfte er gegen die japanische Besatzung, nach der Unabhängigkeit des Landes 1945 stieg er rasch in der Militärhierarchie auf. In den sechziger Jahren wurde er General.\nÜberzeugter Anti-Kommunist\nIns politische Rampenlicht trat Suharto 1965 durch seine maßgebliche Rolle bei der Niederschlagung eines angeblichen Putschversuchs von Kommunisten. In der Folge wurden mehrere Hunderttausend angebliche oder tatsächliche Mitglieder der Kommunistischen Partei hingerichtet. Als Armee-Oberbefehlshaber und Verteidigungsminister verdrängte er mit immer weiterreichenden Befugnissen den kränkelnden Präsidenten Sukarno schrittweise von der Macht.\nNach seinem offiziellen Amtsantritt als Präsident 1967 setzte Suharto stets alles daran, selbst am Schalthebel der Macht in dem riesigen Archipel mit rund 17.000 Inseln zu bleiben. Die Ränge der mächtigen Streitkräfte des Landes besetzte Suharto mit Gefolgsleuten. Über die Grenzen seiner Golkar-Partei hinaus nahm er auf die Führung der oppositionellen Demokratischen Partei Indonesiens (PDI) Einfluss, die Medien wurden strenger Kontrolle unterstellt.\nSympathien im Westen\nMit seiner antikommunistischen Haltung gewann Suharto außenpolitisch die Sympathien der USA. Der zurückhaltend und freundlich auftretende Präsident verschaffte sich auch in anderen Ländern der westlichen Welt Sympathien, in Deutschland gewann er die Freundschaft von Altbundeskanzler Helmut Kohl (CDU). Bei Menschenrechtlern stand Suharto hingegen in der Kritik. Sie warfen ihm im Zusammenhang mit dem Einmarsch in das nach Unabhängigkeit strebende Osttimor im Jahr 1975 Völkermord vor. In dem auf die Besatzung folgenden 25-jährigen Bürgerkrieg starben Schätzungen zufolge 200.000 Menschen.\nUnter Suharto erlebte Indonesien auch einen rasanten Wirtschaftsboom, der dem Präsidenten den Beinamen \"Vater des Aufschwungs\" einbrachte. Er baute die Erdöl- und Gasproduktion sowie die Textilindustrie des landwirtschaftlich geprägten Landes aus. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt pro Kopf stieg von 50 Dollar bei seinem Machtantritt auf etwa tausend Dollar vor Beginn der Asien-Krise 1997. Doch als der Kurs der Landeswährung Rupiah in der Folge ins Bodenlose stürzte, geriet Suharto unter Beschuss. Nach anhaltenden Studentenprotesten musste er am 21. Mai 1998 zurücktreten.\nmik/AFP/dpa/Reuters", "url": "http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,531269,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080128162543/http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,531269,00.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "East Timor 'must forgive Suharto'", "text": "Mr Ramos-Horta asked East Timorese to pray for Suharto\nSuharto, who ordered the invasion of East Timor in 1975, is critically ill in hospital in Jakarta.\nJose Ramos-Horta said he would not go to see Suharto personally but would \"ask the Pope to pray for him\" on an forthcoming visit to the Vatican.\nHe said the former leader contributed \"many positive things\" to Indonesia.\nMr Ramos-Horta credited Suharto with developing Indonesia and its economy, but said he had also \"made many mistakes, such as massacres in Indonesia and East Timor\".\n\"It is impossible for us to forget the past but East Timor should forgive him before he dies,\" said Mr Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.\n\"I ask people to pray for Suharto as the former president of Indonesia.\"\nEast Timor, which is mostly Roman Catholic, gained independence in 1999 - one year after Suharto stepped down amid widespread protests.\nAnalysts believe at least 100,000 East Timorese died in conflict or as a result of preventable diseases during the Indonesian occupation.\nSuharto was taken into hospital in early January and has since suffered a blood infection, pneumonia and organ failure.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7193643.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080120172822/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7193643.stm" } ]

[ "North America", "United States", "Oklahoma", "Economy and business", "Crime and law", "California" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Former trader admits to manipulating natural gas prices during California energy crisis", "text": "Former trader admits to manipulating natural gas prices during California energy crisis\nBy Julia Cheever, Bay City News Service\nJune 10, 2006\nSAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A former trader with Oklahoma-based Williams Power Co. pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco yesterday to participating in a conspiracy to manipulate natural gas prices between 1998 and 2002.\nThe time period of the manipulation admitted to by Daryl Brown, 36, of Oklahoma, includes the era of California's energy crisis in 2000 and 2001.\nU.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan said Brown admitted during the plea that he conspired with others to report fictitious trades to two industry newsletters.\nThe fictitious reports had the effect of manipulating published index prices and thus increasing the profits of Williams Power Co.'s sales.\nRyan said, \"Mr. Brown admitted that approximately 75 percent of the trades he reported to industry newsletters were deliberately fabricated.\nThese false data skewed published prices so the company could illegally profit.\"\nBrown, who agreed to cooperate in an ongoing probe of natural gas price manipulation, will be sentenced by Illston on Sept. 22.\nBrown is the third former Williams trader to plead guilty to similar charges since 2004.\nIn a separate agreement reached with the Justice Department in February, Williams Power Co. promised to pay a $50 million penalty to the U.S. Treasury, took responsibility for its employees' actions and pledged to cooperate in the investigation.\nUnder that pact, known as a deferred prosecution agreement, the Justice Department will not file criminal charges against the company during a 15-month period if Williams complies with the terms of the agreement during that time.\nWilliams Power Co., formerly known as Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Co., is a subsidiary of The Williams Companies, based in Tulsa, Okla.\nRyan said, \"This continuing investigation should send a message to traders and companies that they can be held criminally accountable for illegally manipulating data.\"\nCopyright © 2006 by Bay City News, Inc. -- Republication, Rebroadcast or any other Reuse without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited.\n####", "url": "http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/news_in_brief/gas_prices_manipulated_060610.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060623143259/http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/news_in_brief/gas_prices_manipulated_060610.shtml" } ]

[ "Espace", "Astronomie", "Science et technologie", "Nouvelle du Projet:Cégep de Chicoutimi", "Trou noir" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Get ready for our first image of a black hole", "text": "Astronomers have just brought a telescope online that’s (virtually) the size of Earth. Dubbed the Event Horizon Telescope, it’s aiming to achieve something that’s never been done before: imaging the space around a black hole all the way down to its event horizon.\nOne of its targets is Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* for short. Sgr A* is the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, with a mass of approximately 4 million Suns. Because it’s so massive and so (relatively) close at a distance of 25,600 light-years, it’s the largest black hole visible in our sky. But large is a relative term as well — current estimates place the size of the black hole at 100 Astronomical Units (AU) or less. One AU is the average distance between Earth and the Sun, 93 million miles (150 million kilometers). Some estimates even indicate that the black hole could be as small as the distance between Mercury and the Sun, just 28 million miles (46 million km).\nWhen astronomers “see” black holes, they are actually seeing light from a disk of material around the black hole, which is sitting beyond the event horizon. Anything within the event horizon itself is truly invisible, as that marks the point at which even light cannot travel fast enough to break free of the black hole’s gravity and escape. But currently, astronomical instruments don’t have the resolution to really see the disk closely or image its structure.\nThis is why every “image” ever shown of a black hole in a news article or textbook is an artist’s rendering, rather than an actual picture. But that’s all about to change.\nThe Event Horizon Telescope makes use of a technique called Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) that requires several telescopes observing the same object from different locations to create highly detailed images of very, very small sections of the sky. The farther apart the telescopes are located, the greater the detail they can achieve. The Event Horizon Telescope will link eight radio telescopes around the world, including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory in Hawaii, the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano in Mexico, the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, and other facilities in France and Spain to utilize the longest baselines possible. By creating a truly Earth-sized telescope, the project should be capable of imaging the space around a black hole in exquisite detail.\nThis will allow astronomers to study not only the structure of the disk around the black hole, but also to test general relativity, get a better look at how the black hole actually feeds on material, and maybe even determine how the outflows and jets that are so common among black holes are actually created.\nThe giant telescope came online April 5 and will observe for about a week and a half, gathering data until April 14. In addition to imaging our relatively quiescent Sgr A*, it will also look at the more active supermassive black hole residing in Messier 87, a huge elliptical galaxy in the nearby Virgo Cluster. The amount of information obtained will be so immense that it’s too large to transfer digitally — it will be stored physically and taken to the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and the Haystack Observatory in Massachusetts for processing.\nThat will take time. But in a few months, we may finally have our first picture of the region immediately around a supermassive black hole.", "url": "http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/04/first-image-of-a-black-hole", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170407021504/http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/04/first-image-of-a-black-hole" } ]

[ "Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Bundesliga-Holländer kritisieren Oranje-Helm", "text": "Bundesliga-Holländer kritisieren Oranje-Helm\n12. Jan 14:01\nFoto: dpa 20.000 Exemplare des Oranje-Wehrmachtshelms für WM-Touristen sollen schon verkauft worden sein. «Dieser Helm ist absolute Sch...», findet Herthas Niederländer Ellery Cairo.\n«Jetzt Geht Losssss»! So hatten sich die niederländischen Erfinder ein gutes Geschäft mit der Fußball-WM vorgestellt. Das kämpferische Motto steht auf einer für 4,95 Euro zu erwerbenden Kopfbedeckung für die Fans - im holländischen Orange natürlich, aber ausgerechnet in der Form eines Helms der deutschen Wehrmacht: «Das witzigste Produkt zur WM in Deutschland», heißt es.\nHolländer sollen mit Wehrmachtshelm zur WM 10. Jan 17:59 Angeblich verkauften die geschäftstüchtigen Spaßmacher schon mehr als 20.000 Plastikhelme. Doch die öffentlichen Reaktionen auf den Witz mit der Nazi-Vergangenheit sind alles andere als spaßig. «Dieser Helm ist absolute Sch..., das macht man nicht», sagte der Niederländer Ellery Cairo, der bei Hertha BSC unter Vertrag steht.\nSollte in Holland nicht erlaubt sein Auch der Trainer von Bundesligist Borussia Dortmund, Bert van Marwijk, kann die Witzigkeit des Helmes nicht nachvollziehen. «Jeder weiß, dass ich so etwas überhaupt nicht mag. Ich kann mir gar nicht vorstellen, dass so etwas in Holland erlaubt sein soll», schimpfte der Coach. Kevin Hofland vom VfL Wolfsburg forderte sogar: «Die Fifa sollte sich überlegen, das zu verbieten.» Auch der niederländische Fußballbund ging sofort auf Distanz - mit der Erinnerung an den Krieg spielt man nicht. Die nationalsozialistische Wehrmacht hatte die Niederlande im Mai 1940 überfallen und das Land bis zum Kriegsende besetzt gehalten. Damit hätten doch die meisten Deutschen von heute nichts mehr zu tun, meinen die Erfinder des Helms. Dieser sei nur ein Spaßprodukt ohne politische Bedeutung. Dabei geben Sie auf ihrer eigens für den Helmverkauf eingerichteten Internet-Seite sogar brauchbare Hinweise für Oranje-Fans auf Tour in Feindesland: «Die Deutschen tun sich immer noch schwer mit der Kriegsvergangenheit.» Aber man könne viel offener als früher mit ihnen darüber reden, und: «Schließlich war auch nicht jeder Niederländer im Widerstand.»\nNur ein Helmchen In dieser Offenheit sind nach Ansicht der Helmverkäufer auch derbe Scherze möglich. Der Direktor des renommierten Deutschland-Instituts in Amsterdam, Ton Nijhuis, will davon kein Aufheben machen. Schon die Tatsache, dass die Erfinder nicht von «helm», sondern in der Verkleinerungsform von «helmpje» sprechen, zeige, dass sie nichts Arges im Schilde führten. «Das sind einfach Jungens, die mit der WM etwas verdienen wollen. Na ja, dann muss man nicht über Luxemburg spotten, sondern über Deutschland», sagte Nijhuis der Zeitung «Trouw». Deren Kommentator ist überzeugt davon, dass die Deutschen die Gleichsetzung mit Nazis so leid sind, dass sie derartiges ohnehin von sich abprallen lassen. «Vorsicht mit Witzen!» Das ist auch eine Empfehlung, die die helmpje-Leute ihrer Kundschaft auf den Weg nach Deutschland mitgeben. Der Deutsche lache zwar gerne und viel - aber nicht ganz spontan mit Fremden. Dass sie sich selbst nicht daran halten, beweist vielleicht ihr Vertrauen in diese Erkenntnis: «Deutsche haben - altmodisch gesagt - bessere Manieren und zeigen mehr Respekt als Niederländer.» (nz)", "url": "http://www.netzeitung.de/sport/wm2006/377194.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060114042633/http://www.netzeitung.de/sport/wm2006/377194.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Aktuelle Nachrichten aus Köln und der ganzen Welt", "text": "Reise\nFragen und Antworten : Wie lange gilt die Quarantäne nach Einreise noch?\nWer nach Deutschland reist, muss für zwei Wochen in Quarantäne – wie lange noch?", "url": "http://www.netzeitung.de/sport/wm2006/376899.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200514010717/https://www.ksta.de/" } ]

[ "Texas", "Crime and law", "North America", "United States" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "University of Texas Austin Shooter Identified as Colton Tooley", "text": "A 19-year-old math major got dressed in a suit and a ski mask and fired off several rounds from an AK-47 assault rifle today, sending the campus of the University of Texas at Austin into a lockdown before taking his own life in a library, police said.\nColton Tooley was seen running through the campus this morning as classes started. He was wearing a dark business suit, carrying a rifle and shooting rounds into the air.\nPolice told ABCNews.com that the investigation had moved off campus to a \"house associated with the shooting.\"\nTooley was a sophomore math major at UT, concentrating in actuarial sciences, according to the student directory. Public records indicate that Tooley lived in South Austin, about 10 miles away from the university. Calls made to a number at that address went unaswered, but recorded answering machine message identified Tooley as a resident.\nJust before noon, a campus lockdown that had been in effect since around 8 a.m., was lifted, and police ended a search for a possible second suspect.\n\"The armed suspect is dead. No other injuries have been reported,\" UT President Bill Powers wrote in a campus email.\nTooley was found dead on the sixth floor of the library from apparently self inflicted wounds, police said.\nAn email and text alert was sent to students and faculty around 8 a.m., just as the day's first classes were beginning, warning that an \"armed subject was reported last seen at Perry Castaneda Library\" and telling students to remain in place.\n\"I was walking to class, a little late,\" senior Robby Reeb told ABCNews.com. \"I was walking from the business school, and a guy sprinted past me screaming, 'There's a guy with a gun.' I looked up and saw a man in a ski mask, wearing a suit, and carrying an assault rifle. And I called 911.\"\nReeb said he was outside between two buildings and had to choose which one to enter to avoid the shooter.\nStudents reported hearing bursts of gunfire. Police confirmed Tooley was carrying an AK-47, a military-grade combat rifle. Authorities said there were currently two crimes scenes: the library where the gunman was found dead, and an area outside where he fired shots into the air.\nAt a press conference police said they had not yet determined a motive.", "url": "http://abcnews.go.com/US/shots-fired-university-texas-austin-cops-hunt-gunman/story?id=11744405", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20101001113555/http://abcnews.go.com/US/shots-fired-university-texas-austin-cops-hunt-gunman/story?id=11744405" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Shooter at University of Texas was a student", "text": "He killed himself at the library during the incident, police said.\nAustin and University of Texas police were searching Tooley's home in south Austin, CNN affiliate KXAN reported.\nPolice were checking campus buildings for possible explosives left behind, said Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo.\nAuthorities said earlier they were searching for a possible second suspect, but Robert Dahlstrom, chief of staff in the Austin Police Depart, said they now do not believe there is one.\n\"A suspected shooter in PCL library is dead,\" said an alert posted on the university's emergency website at 10:30 a.m. \"If you are off campus, STAY AWAY. If you are on campus, lock doors, do not leave your building. All organized classes for today, September 28, are canceled.\"\nThe campus had been on lockdown since an alert went out, but spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said students were allowed to leave, and shuttle buses were to transport students and staff away from the campus. The university canceled all classes for the day.\nAn ambulance was seen just before 9 a.m. in front of the Perry-Castaneda library, CNN affiliate KXAN reported. SWAT teams, armored vehicles and helicopters surrounded the campus.\n\"I extend my sympathy to the family, friends, and classmates of the young student who took his life,\" said university President Bill Powers, who thanked police for their response to the emergency. \"In the days ahead we will attempt to understand his actions and to learn from this tragedy.\"\nUniversity of Texas professor Randall Wilhite heard gunshots on his way to class and saw students scrambling to safety. He said he saw a man in a dark suit and a ski mask pulled over his face running toward the direction of the library a little after 8 a.m.\nWilhite said the man was carrying what appeared to be an assault rifle and fired it randomly.", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/28/texas.university.shooting/?hpt=T2", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20101001025019/http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-28/justice/texas.university.shooting_1_campus-shooter-assault-rifle-austin-police-department?_s=PM:CRIME" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Man kills self after shooting at UT Austin", "text": "Police: Man kills self after shooting at UT Austin\nAUSTIN, Texas — A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside a University of Texas campus library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said.\nA man fired an automatic weapon on the sixth floor of the Perry-Castaneda Library early Tuesday, UT police spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon said.\n\"He subsequently shot himself. He is deceased,\" she said, adding that no one else was reported injured.\nAustin Police Chief Art Acevedo told a news conference that police also are investigating what he described as a second crime scene outside the library where shots also were fired.\nPolice were patrolling nearby buildings with bomb-sniffing dogs to hunt for the possible second suspect and make sure no explosives had been left behind.\n\"What we're doing right is being methodical to eliminate the second suspect,\" Acevedo said.\nNo shots were fired by law enforcement, Acevedo said.\nSenior Robby Reeb told ABCNews.com he was rushing through the campus late for a class when the shooting happened.\n\"I was walking from the business school, and a guy sprinted past me screaming, 'There's a guy with a gun.' I looked up and saw a man in a ski mask, wearing a suit, and carrying an assault rifle. And I called 911.\"\nPolice and university officials urged students to stay indoors. The university canceled classes for the day.\n\"A suspected shooter in PCL library is dead. Police are searching for possible second shooter. Lock doors, do not leave your building,\" the university said in an e-mail alert to students and staff.\nWeldon said there was no report that the possible second suspect may have been armed, but that police are taking all precautions and keeping the campus locked down.\nInvestigators are trying to determine what led to the gunfire at the UT campus at Austin, which is one of the largest in the country with nearly 50,000 students.\nLaw enforcement from campus police, Austin police and the state Department of Public Safety rushed onto campus at the first reports of the shooting. Tank-like armored vehicles were positioned near the library. A DPS helicopter circled the campus overhead.\n\"It's chaos right now,\" student Micah Geisenberg told CNN.\nThe Perry-Castaneda Library is one of several on the campus and is one of the busiest undergraduate libraries.\n\"The students did their part, they cleared the streets, they cleared the grounds in a very quick manner,\" Acevedo said.\nTuesday's shooting is not the first at the school.\nOn Aug. 1, 1966, Charles Whitman went to the 28th floor observation deck at the UT clock tower in the middle of campus and began shooting at people below. He killed 16 people and wounded nearly three dozen before police killed him about 90 minutes after the siege began.\nCopyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.", "url": "http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iqKYHplFiw9NPeUAs65Ya4kdgHGwD9IH1B402?docId=D9IH1B402", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20101001172838/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iqKYHplFiw9NPeUAs65Ya4kdgHGwD9IH1B402?docId=D9IH1B402" } ]

[ "Iditarod 2015", "Alaska", "Mushing", "Course de chiens de traîneau", "Amérique du Nord", "Compétition sportive", "Sport" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Gwenn Bogart second musher to scratch from Iditarod", "text": "TANANA –\nJason Sear / KTVA\nLast Updated: Thurs. Mar. 12, 2015 at 12:45 PM\nGwenn Bogart became the second musher to scratch from the 2015 Iditarod, citing personal reasons, according to a release from the Iditarod Insider.\nThe 57-year-old Wasilla musher made the decision to leave the race at 11:28 a.m. Thursday. This was the first Iditarod for Bogart.\nZoya DeNure was the first musher to scratch from the 2015 Iditarod.\nAlso citing “personal reasons,” the 38-year-old from Delta Junction made the decision to scratch at the Tanana checkpoint at 11:10 a.m. Wednesday.\nThe Insider states that she had had 14 dogs ready to race when she made the decision to scratch.\nThis marks the fifth time DeNure has run the Iditarod race, having only completed it during her 2008 rookie year.\nThe following was posted on DeNure’s Facebook page Thursday:\nDuring the 2014 Iditarod race, 12 mushers had scratched by day 3.\nCheck back for updates on this story.\nView KTVA’s complete Iditarod coverage", "url": "http://www.ktva.com/zoya-denure-first-musher-to-scratch-from-2015-iditarod-397/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150314002517/http://www.ktva.com/zoya-denure-first-musher-to-scratch-from-2015-iditarod-397/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Zoya Denure: ‘No more 1,000 mile races for this girl’", "text": "0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Filament.io 0 Flares ×\nA day after becoming the first musher to scratch from the 2015 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, musher Zoya DeNure explained why she opted for an early end and hinted at her future plans in a Facebook post.\nThe Delta Junction musher has started five Iditarods, with her only finish in 2008. She said what did her in this year is the seasonably cold minus-40 temperatures, which snapped in from nowhere amid this balmy-for-Alaska winter.\n“I came into the checkpoint with frozen feet and hands after a 60 mile run through -40 temps,” she wrote. “Couldn’t boot the dogs to leave for Ruby. The decision wasn’t easy but you have to do what is best for the dogs (and I) can’t care for them because my hands are swollen and frostbit.”\nThe racer plans to stick with shorter races, and at least in the near future, “no more 1,000 mile races for this girl,” she wrote.", "url": "http://iditarodch2.tv/2015/03/zoya-denure-no-more-1000-mile-races-for-this-girl/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150316002615/http://iditarodch2.tv/2015/03/zoya-denure-no-more-1000-mile-races-for-this-girl" } ]

[ "Crime and law", "United States", "United Kingdom", "Wikinews", "Mozilla Firefox", "Diego Grez (Wikinewsie)" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Trusteer detects new Zeus (Zbot) password stealing Trojan", "text": "Trusteer detects new Zeus (Zbot) password stealing Trojan\nby\nTrusteer, the leading provider of secure browsing services, today announced that a completely new version of the Zeus (Zbot) password stealing Trojan that targets online banking users has already been detected by the Trusteer Rapport service on one in every 3,000 computers it monitors.\nThis is an unprecedented rate of distribution for new financial malware code.\nVersion 1.4 of Zeus, also known as version 2, now targets Firefox as well as Internet Explorer browsers and uses advanced polymorphic techniques to avoid antivirus detection.\nTrusteer used its Flashlight remote fraud investigation and mitigation service to link Zeus 1.4 with fraud committed against both commercial and consumer banking customers in North America and the United Kingdom.\nFlashlight was able to collect new Zeus configurations and code samples from infected computers. This new version of Zeus is completely different than versions 1.2 and 1.3.\nThe Internet’s Leading Banking Trojan\nZeus is considered the most trusted and robust malware platform for online banking fraud, and has been licensed by numerous criminal organizations to launch targeted attacks against a specific banks’ customers.\nThe new version of Zeus targets the growing population of Firefox users, in addition to Internet Explorer.\nPrevious versions were incapable of exploiting Firefox to commit sophisticated online fraud against banks using strong layers of authentication.\nHowever, Zeus 1.4 supports HTML injection and transaction tampering for Firefox, two techniques which are effectively used to bypass strong authentication and transaction signing solutions.\n“We expect this new version of Zeus to significantly increase fraud losses, since nearly 30 percent of internet users bank online with Firefox and the infection rate for this piece of malware is growing faster than we have ever seen before,” said Amit Klein, CTO of Trusteer and head of the company’s research organization.\n“Fortunately, the Trusteer Flashlight and Rapport services have enabled us to detect the rapid distribution of Zeus 1.4 early and alert financial institutions.\n“We are recommending they maintain a layered approach to malware blocking and make sure they have the proper detection, investigation, mitigation, and response tools in place.”\nPoor Antivirus Detection Rates\nZeus, which is also known as Zbot, WSNPOEM, NTOS and PRG, is the most prevalent financial malware on the Internet today.\nIt infects PCs, waits for the user to log onto a list of targeted banks and financial institutions, and then steals their credentials which are sent to a remote server in real time.\nIt can also modify, in a user’s browser, the genuine web pages from a bank’s web servers to ask for personal information such as payment card number and PIN, one time passwords, etc.\nAntivirus detection of Zeus has a poor track record.\nIn a 2009 report based on information gathered from 3 million desktops in North America and the UK Trusteer found that the majority of Zeus infections occur on antivirus protected machines.\nSpecifically, Trusteer found that among Zeus infected machines 55% had up-to-date Antivirus protection installed.\nThe population of machines infected with older versions of Zeus is enormous — one in every 100 computers according to Trusteer research.\nZeus 1.4 was specifically crafted to avoid antivirus detection and uses advanced polymorphic techniques, which make antivirus technologies completely blind to it.\nClick here to discuss this: Security Forums\nRelated posts to \"Trusteer detects new Zeus (Zbot) password stealing Trojan\":\nSpeak Your Mind Tell us what you're thinking...\nand oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!\nPrevious: « StorageCraft upgrades backup & disaster recovery software Next: Cyber-Ark announces tools to stop network snooping Visited 320 times, 5 so far today", "url": "http://www.securitywatch.co.uk/2010/04/22/trusteer-detects-new-zeus-zbot-password-stealing-trojan/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100425031004/http://www.securitywatch.co.uk/2010/04/22/trusteer-detects-new-zeus-zbot-password-stealing-trojan/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "The ZeuS, ZBOT and Kneber Connection", "text": "What is the difference between ZeuS, ZBOT, and Kneber?\nThese names all relate to the ZeuS botnet which is an established crimeware botnet said to be responsible for other known botnets in the wild. The earliest notable use of the ZeuS Trojan was via the notorious Rock Phish gang, which is known for its easy-to-use phishing page kits. The term ZBOT is the Trend Micro detection name for all malware involved in the massive botnet. The Kneber botnet meanwhile, is a recently coined term pertaining to a specific ZBOT/ZeuS compromise.\nHow does this threat get into users' systems?\nThe threat may arrive as a spammed message or it may be unknowingly downloaded by users via compromised websites. Majority of the ZBOT detections have been found to be targeting bank-related websites. However, recent spam runs have shown an increasing diversity in targets. The list of noteworthy ZBOT variants include TROJ_ZBOT.SVR which was used to spam government agencies, TSPY_ZBOT.JF which targeted AIM users and TSPY_ZBOT.CCB which targets social networking site Facebook.\nHow does it trick users into clicking the link?\nSpammed email messages typically purport to be from legitimate companies, and more recently from government agencies. ZBOT variants have likewise been found in a spam run that rides on a popular event such as Michael Jackson’s death.\nWhat is the primary purpose of the ZeuS botnet?\nIt is primarily designed for data theft or to steal account information from various sites, like online banking sites, social networking sites, ecommerce sites, etc.\nHow does this threat make money for its perpetrators?\nIt generates a list of bank-related websites or financial institutions from which it attempts to steal sensitive online banking information, such as user names and passwords. It then monitors the user’s web browser activity (both HTTP and HTTPS), using the browser window title or address bar URL as the trigger for its attack. This routine risks the exposure of the user’s account information, which may then lead to the unauthorized use of the stolen data.\nWho is at risk?\nUsers with ZBOT infections who log in to any of the targeted sites are at risk of losing personal information to cybercriminals.\nWhat does the malware do with the information it gathers?\nIt sends the gathered information via HTTP POST to remote URLs. This information may then be used by cybercriminals in their malicious activities, such as selling them in underground markets.\nWhat makes this malware persistent?\nIn addition to its social engineering tactics and ever-evolving spamming techniques, the ZBOT makes detection difficult because of its rootkit capabilities. Upon installing itself on the affected system, ZBOT creates a folder with attributes set to System and Hidden to prevent users from discovering and removing its components. Furthermore, the ZBOT is capable of disabling the Windows Firewall and injecting itself into processes to become memory-resident. It also terminates itself if certain known firewall processes are found on the system. Also, ZBOT variants figure in daisy-chain downloads involving other malware families such as WALEDAC and FAKEAV.\nSo what can I do to protect my computer from the threat of the ZeuS botnet?\nIt is important that users exercise caution in opening email messages and clicking on URLs. Since the ZBOT malware perpetrators are constantly finding new ways to attack users, users are advised to maintain safe computing practices.\nBe wary of phishing pages that purport to be legitimate websites, as these are primarily designed to fool unwitting users into handing over their personal information. Clicking on links on emails that come from unknown senders is one of the easiest ways to fall prey to ZBOT attacks.\nTSPY_ZBOT variants are currently supported by Trend Micro GeneriClean, a feature found in most Trend Micro products. Users need to manually scan the system to trigger this. Information with regard to GenClean can be found on the following link:\nhttp://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TSC_GENCLEAN\nSolutions supported by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ block the spam used by this botnet to infect users via Email reputation. It can detect and prevent the execution malicious files via File reputation. It also protects users from ZBOT variants by blocking access to malicious sites via Web reputation as well as phone home attempts where an infected computer tries to upload stolen data or download additional malware from Command & Control servers.\nNon-Trend Micro product users can also check their systems using HouseCall, a free tool that identifies and removes all kinds of viruses, Trojans, worms, unwanted browser plug-ins, and other malware from affected systems. They can also use Web Protection Add-On to proactively protect their computer from Web threats and bot-related activity, plus RUBotted can be used to find out if a machine is part of a bot network.\nSome of our heuristic detections for this are: MAL_ZBOT, MAL_ZBOT-2, MAL_ZBOT-3, MAL_ZBOT-4, MAL_ZBOT-5, MAL_ZBOT-6, and MAL_ZBOT-7. Below you may find some of the more recent notable ZBOT variants so far.", "url": "http://threatinfo.trendmicro.com/vinfo/web_attacks/ZeuS_ZBOTandKneberConnection.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100225060317/http://threatinfo.trendmicro.com/vinfo/web_attacks/ZeuS_ZBOTandKneberConnection.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Zeus banking virus is back warns security firm", "text": "Botnets such as Zeus target those using online banking Zeus, a virus that steals online banking details from infected computer users, is more powerful than ever, warns a web security company. Trusteer says it has spotted the Trojan virus in one of every 3,000 of the 5.5m computers it monitors in the US and UK. Zeus 1.6 can infect people using Firefox and Internet Explorer web browsers, the company claims. The malware steals login information by recording keystrokes when the infected user is on a list of target websites. These websites are usually banks and other financial institutions. The user's data is then sent to a remote server to be used and sold on by cyber-criminals. \"We expect this new version of Zeus to significantly increase fraud losses, since nearly 30% of internet users bank online with Firefox and the infection is growing faster than we have ever seen before,\" said Amit Klein, chief technology officer at Trusteer. DIY virus In March 2010, many parts of the command and control (C&C) system for the Zeus botnet were destroyed when the Kazakhstani ISP that was being used to administer it was cut off. However, it does not take long for malware controllers to spring up elsewhere, and toolkits for assembling botnets are readily available on the black market. \"There are plenty of opportunities for people to purchase access to these systems through underground chat rooms,\" said Dr JD Marsters, from the department of electronics and computer science at the University of Southampton. \"It's a game of cat and mouse between anti-virus vendors and botnet developers.\" Computer users should ensure that their anti-virus software and operating systems are kept up to date, he advised.\nBookmark with: Delicious\nDigg\nreddit\nFacebook\nStumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8634356.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100425003117/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8634356.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Web hit by hi-tech crime wave", "text": "Hi-tech thieves trawl social network sites for information about victims Hi-tech criminals are racking up more than 100 attacks a second on the world's computers, a survey suggests. While most of these attacks cause no trouble, the Symantec report suggests that one attack every 4.5 seconds does affect a PC. The wave of attacks was driven by a steep rise in malicious software in circulation, said the annual report. The number of malware (malicious software) samples that Symantec saw in 2009 was 71% higher than in 2008. Crime family This meant, said Symantec, that 51% of all the viruses, trojans and other malicious programs it has ever seen were logged during 2009. In total, Symantec identified almost 2.9 million items of malicious code during that 12 month period. The steep rise in malware was driven largely by the growing popularity of easy to use toolkits that novice cyber criminals are using to turn out their own malware, said Tony Osborn, a technology manager for the public sector at Symantec. Some of the kits were available for free, said Mr Osborn but others cost a lot of money. One, called Zeus, was available for around $700 (£458) and many had become so successful that their creators now offer telephone support for those who cannot get them to work. STAYING SAFE ONLINE Use security software that can tackle viruses and spyware Use a firewall Apply operating system updates as soon as they become available Be suspicious of unsolicited e-mails bearing attachments Keep your browser up to date During 2009, Symantec say more than 90,000 variants of the Zeus kit and it was responsible for the growth of one of the most prolific malware families during the year. Zeus relies on spam to lure people to websites where victims will be tricked into installing malicious code or which sneaks on to a computer via a known vulnerability. Often, said the report, this can help criminals set up botnets - networks of hijacked home PCs that can be used to send spam or plundered for lucrative personal data. In 2009, Symantec saw almost seven million distinct PCs that were members of botnets. There was one very simple reason that novices bought and used the kits, said Mr Osborn. \"It's all about money,\" he said. Established gangs were also showing no signs of holding back in their attempts to steal saleable information. \"Why would they?\" he said. \"It's easy money and it's very hard to catch people.\" \"It's become a day job for a lot of people,\" he said. There was evidence, suggests the report, that professional cyber criminals were tuning their tactics to try and get better results. Many now scour social network pages for details about employees inside companies and craft their spam and other messages to capitalise on the details they can gather. The continuing growth of hi-tech crime meant that many developing nations were starting to suffer significant numbers of attacks. Brazil and India were becoming hot spots of cyber crime, said Mr Osborn. This was because, he said, the infrastructure in those nations was rapidly improving as people move to broadband and use the web for more and more of their daily lives. \"Those are the places where education and understanding about security are taking a while to catch up,\" he said.\nBookmark with: Delicious\nDigg\nreddit\nFacebook\nStumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8630160.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100423081501/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8630160.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Infected XP owners left unpatched", "text": "Only those running Windows XP have been left without a patch Some of the latest security updates for Windows XP will not be installed on machines infected with a rootkit virus. A rootkit is sneaky malware that buries itself deep inside the Windows operating system to avoid detection. Microsoft said it had taken the action because similar updates issued in February made machines infected with the Alureon rootkit crash endlessly. The latest updates can spot if a system is compromised by the Alureon rootkit and halt installation. Find and fix The latest batch of updates for Windows was released on 16 April and some of them fix vulnerabilities in the core, or kernel, of Windows. This is the same place that rootkits try to take up residence. When Alureon is present it monitors net traffic and plucks out user names, passwords and credit card numbers. It also gives attackers a back door into infected machines. The virus first appeared in 2008 and has been spread via discussion forums, hacked websites and bogus pay-per-click affiliate schemes. FREE ANTI-ROOTKIT TOOLS AVG Avira F-Secure - Blacklight McAfee Panda Sophos Trend Micro Notes for the security patch explained which \"abnormal conditions\" would prevent XP users applying the updates. \"These abnormal conditions on a system could be the result of an infection with a computer virus that modifies some operating system files, which renders the infected computer incompatible with the kernel update,\" read the statement. By not applying the patch, Microsoft hopes to avoid a repeat of events in February which left many people struggling to get their computer working again. Microsoft also wants to avoid a situation in which people become wary of updates because they provoke a crash. It is not yet clear how many people have been left without the updates. Microsoft urged those who are infected to ensure their machine is cleaned of the rootkit. It recommended using its malware removal tool or using rootkit detectors from other security companies. Many modern security packages have them built in and will find rootkits when a machine is scanned.\nBookmark with: Delicious\nDigg\nreddit\nFacebook\nStumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8624560.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100418030510/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8624560.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "ZeuS: ‘A Virus Known as Botnet’", "text": "You may also subscribe by email in the sidebar ⇉ Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.You may also subscribe by email in the sidebar ⇉\nAs a journalist who for almost ten years has sought to explain complex computer security topics to a broad audience, it’s sometimes difficult to be picky when major news publications over-hype an important security story or screw up tiny details: For one thing, Internet security so seldom receives more than surface treatment in the media that the increased attention to the issue often seems to excuse the breathlessness with which news organizations cover what may seem like breaking, exclusive stories.\nThe trouble with that line of thinking is that an over-hyped story tends to lack important context that helps frame the piece in ways that make it more relevant, timely, and actionable, as opposed to just sensational.\nI say this because several major media outlets, including The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, on Thursday ran somewhat uncritical stories about a discovery by NetWitness, a security firm in Northern Virginia that has spent some time detailing the breadth of infections by a single botnet made up of PCs infected with ZeuS, a password stealing Trojan that lets criminals control the systems from afar. NetWitness found that this particular variant of the botnet, which it dubbed “Kneber,” had invaded more than 2,500 corporations and 75,000 computers worldwide.\nThe Post’s headline: More than 75,000 Computer Systems Hacked in one of the Largest Cyber Attacks, Security Firm Says.\nFrom the WSJ: Broad New Hacking Attack Detected: Global Offensive Snagged Corporate, Personal Data at Nearly 2,500 Companies: Operation is Still Running.\nYahoo!’s coverage tells us, Scary Global Hacking Offensive Finally Outed.\nAfter a day of dodging countless PR people pitching their experts to pile on to the story, I finally resolved to add my two cents when I heard this gem from the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer: “A major new case of computer hacking has been uncovered. A virus known as botnet invaded the computers and used them to steal data from commercial and government systems. Among other things, the hackers have gained access to e-mail systems and online banking.”\nNot to take anything away from NetWitness, whose network forensics software I have used and admire. Also, the company has a fine stable of security researchers, and is headed up by no less than Amit Yoran, a clueful geek who was formerly the top cyber official at the Department of Homeland Security.\nAnd NetWitness timed its research masterfully, releasing its findings as it did so soon after news that Google and many other large financial, energy, defense, technology and media firms had been compromised by a stealthy computer attack.\nThe Post’s Ellen Nakashima tells us, “..it is significant…in its scale and in its apparent demonstration that the criminal groups’ sophistication in cyberattacks is approaching that of nation states such as China and Russia.”\nSadly, this botnet documented by NetWitness is neither unusual nor new. For the past several years at any given time, the number of distinct ZeuS botnets has hovered in the hundreds. At the moment, there are nearly 700 command-and-control centers online for ZeuS botnets all over the world, according to ZeuStracker, a Web site that keeps tabs on the global threat from ZeuS.\nTrue, not every distinct ZeuS botnet has 75,000 infected machines in its thrall, but that’s actually not all that rare, and some have far more systems under their control. Last summer, I wrote about a ZeuS botnet of roughly 100,000 infected systems whose overlords (or enemies) exercised the “kill operating system” feature built into the botnet code, instructing all of the infected computers to render themselves unbootable and for all purposes unusable by either the bad guys or the rightful owners of the machines.\nTake a peek inside any monster piles of purloined data these botnets turn in each day and chances are you will find similar victims as detailed in the Kneber write-up: Infected computers at dozens of government, military and educational institutions, as well as many of the world’s top corporations.\nBack in 2007, I wrote a story for The Washington Post’s Security Fix blog called Tracking the Password Thieves, in which I pored over the data stolen by a single botnet that had infected some 3,221 U.S. victims. In just that comparatively tiny sample, I found infected machines at U.S. government systems (Department of Energy), financial institutions (Bank of America), and plenty of Fortune 50 companies, including IBM, Amgen and Merck (the latter was found again in the ZeuS botnet dissected by NetWitness).\nIncidentally, the name of the password-stealing malware that I tracked in that story three years ago? “WSNPoem,” a pseudonym for the ZeuS Trojan.\nThe first sign that a story might be over-hyped is usually when it gets downplayed by some of the world’s largest security companies, such as McAfee and Symantec. These are companies that critics often accuse of encouraging hysteria over computer security threats so as to drive up sales of their products and services.\nBut both companies today sought to talk people down off the ledges and assure customers that the threat was – while serious – nothing new.\n“In the world of cybersecurity the ‘kneber’ botnet is, unfortunately, just another botnet. With 75,000 infected machines, Kneber is not even that big, there are much larger botnets,” McAfee said in a written statement. “Kneber is based on the ‘Zeus’ Trojan, malware known to security companies. In our recently released Q4 2009 Threats Report we found that in the last three months of 2009 just under four million newly infected machines joined botnets.”\nSymantec also downplayed the threat:\n“Kneber, in reality, is not a new threat at all, but is simply a pseudonym for the infamous and well-known Zeus Trojan. The name Kneber simply refers to a particular group, or herd, of zombie computers, a.k.a. bots, being controlled by one owner. The actual Trojan itself is the same Trojan.Zbot, which also goes by the name Zeus, which has been being observed, analyzed and protected against for some time now.”\nPerhaps I am a little closer to this particular botnet than most: After all, I have written dozens of stories over the last nine months about the exploits of organized criminals using ZeuS to steal tens of millions of dollars from small- to mid-sized businesses, governments and non-profit organizations.\nThis is just some of the context that would have been nice to see in any of the mainstream press treatment of this research. From where I sit, security stories that lack appropriate context tend to ring hollow, and squander important opportunities to raise awareness on the size, scope and real-world impact of these threats.\nTags: botnet, kneber, netwitness, zeus", "url": "http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/02/zeus-a-virus-known-as-botnet/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100221010419/http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/02/zeus-a-virus-known-as-botnet/" } ]

[ "Polygamie", "Hochzeit", "Mswati III." ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Swazi king waits two weeks for wife No. 12", "text": "Swazi king waits two weeks for wife No. 12\nKing Mswati III speaks at the United Nations in September 2000. YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Swaziland Mswati III Africa or or Create your own Manage alerts | What is this?\nMBABANE, Swaziland (Reuters) -- Swaziland's King Mswati III took an 18-year-old former Miss Teen Swaziland finalist as his 12th wife during the weekend, barely two weeks after marrying his 11th, media in the tiny African kingdom said.\nNothando Dube was selected as Mswati's fiancee after last year's Reed Dance, an event where thousands of maidens dance bare breasted in honor of the Queen Mother and where Mswati has chosen wives in the past.\nThe Times of Swaziland's Sunday edition quoted Mswati's traditional prime minister, Jim Gama, as saying that Dube's nuptials had been concluded Saturday night.\nPalace officials were unavailable for confirmation on Monday, when Mswati was due to leave on an overseas trip.\nIn late May, Mswati married his 11th wife, 20-year-old Nolichwa Ntenesa, who was also selected during a Reed Dance.\nMswati, 37, has drawn criticism for spending money on luxury cars while many of his 1.1 million subjects struggle by on food aid, ravaged by the world's highest rate of HIV/AIDS which affects around two in every five adults.\nMswati early in June said he was not sub-Saharan Africa's only absolute monarch, contending that although political parties were banned in Swaziland, he only made decisions after consulting with the people.\nIn 1973 Mswati's father, Sobhuza, whose authorized biography says he had 45 official wives, tore up the constitution of the former British protectorate, sandwiched between South Africa and Mozambique.\nMswati's officials are drafting a new constitution, which is set to uphold the ban on political parties.", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/13/swazi.wives.reut/index.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050615001235/http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/13/swazi.wives.reut/index.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Swazi king weds 18-year-old - report", "text": "Mbabane - Swaziland's King Mswati III took an 18-year-old former Miss Teen Swaziland finalist as his 12th wife at the weekend, barely two weeks after marrying his 11th, media in the tiny African kingdom said.\nNothando Dube was selected as Mswati's fiancee after last year's Reed Dance, an event where thousands of maidens dance bare breasted in honour of the Queen Mother and where Mswati has chosen wives in the past.\nThe Times of Swaziland's Sunday edition quoted Mswati's traditional prime minister, Jim Gama, as saying that Dube's nuptials had been concluded on Saturday night.\nPalace officials were unavailable for confirmation on Monday, when Mswati was due to leave on an overseas trip.\nContinued Below ↓\nIn late May Mswati married his 11th wife, 20-year-old Nolichwa Ntenesa, who was also selected during a Reed Dance.\nMswati, 37, has drawn criticism for spending money on luxury cars while many of his 1,1 million subjects struggle by on food aid, ravaged by the world's highest rate of HIV and Aids which affects around two in every five adults.\nBut earlier in June Mswati rejected his oft-used label as sub-Saharan Africa's only absolute monarch, saying that although political parties were banned in Swaziland, he only took decisions after consulting with the people.\nIn 1973 Mswati's father Sobhuza, whose authorised biography says he had 45 official wives, tore up the constitution of the former British protectorate, sandwiched between South Africa and Mozambique.\nMswati's officials are drafting a new constitution, which is set to uphold the ban on political parties.", "url": "http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=qw1118658421177B224#jump", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090519084620/http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=qw1118658421177B224#jump" } ]

[ "United States", "Crime and law" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "O.J. Simpson Arrested in Armed Robbery of Las Vegas Hotel Room", "text": "LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson was arrested Sunday and held without bail on charges related to the armed robbery of sports memorabilia in a Las Vegas hotel room, Las Vegas police said Sunday.\nProsecutors were planning to charge Simpson with two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery, burglary with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and coercion, said Clark County District Attorney David Roger.\nA conviction on the most serious charge, robbery with use of a deadly weapon, could bring a sentence of three to 35 years for each count, he said.\n\"He is facing a lot of time,\" Roger said.\nSimpson was transferred to a detention center for booking Sunday evening, said Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Capt. James Dillon.\n\"He was very cooperative, there were no issues,\" Dillon said.\nA judge ordered Simpson to be held without bail, police said Sunday evening.\nAt least one other person has been arrested and police said Sunday that as many as six people could be arrested in connection with the alleged armed robbery that occurred in a room inside the Palace Station casino-hotel on Thursday.\nLead investigator Lt. Clint Nichols said Sunday that Simpson, 60, had played a \"substantial role\" in the incident and that in earlier interviews with the police, Simpson had provided information that \"changed the course of the investigation.\"\nNichols said Simpson was taken into custody at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas hotel where he was staying without incident. Several police officers were seen entering the hotel; a security guard said police took Simpson out a side door shortly after.\nEarlier Sunday, Las Vegas police seized two firearms and arrested another man allegedly involved in the robbery, authorities said Sunday.\nClick here to read the FOX411: Author Says He Was Told O.J. Book Was Confession\nClick here to read Part 2 of today's FOX411: Book Shows How O.J. Killed, or Didn't Kill, Nicole and Ron\nThe man, identified by Las Vegas police as Walter Alexander, 46, of Mesa, Ariz., was arrested Saturday night and charged with two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery and burglary with a deadly weapon.\nLt. Nichols said Sunday that the two guns seized were not registered to Simpson or Alexander and were not in either man's posession when they were seized. The owner of the guns has not been identified. Nichols said police were \"moving in the direction\" of arresting the owner of the guns, who was currently out of town.\n• Click here to watch video.\nSimpson and Alexander are accused of being among a group of people that went to the room of memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station casino-hotel in Las Vegas on Thursday and seized items. Simpson has said the items belonged to him and that no robbery took place.\nOn Saturday, the memorabilia dealer who notified police of the incident, Alfred Beardsley, of Burbank, Calif., indicated that he was not interested in pursuing the case.\n\"I have no desire to fly back and forth to Las Vegas to prosecute this,\" he told The Associated Press. \"How are they going to have a witness who's on O.J.'s side?\"\nBeardsley said he called police only because the items were valuable and if he had not reported them as stolen he would be \"held accountable for all the stuff.\"\nSimspon's arrest comes in the midst of controversy surrounding the publication of the book \"\"If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer,\" in which Simpson hypothetically describes how he would have killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.\nOn Sunday, Goldman's father, Fred Goldman, told Fox News that he hoped these new charges would result in a lengthy prison term for Simpson.\n\"I hope he goes away forever,\" Goldman said. \"I hope he goes to prison for a very long time, where he belongs,\" he said.\nGoldman said Simpson had a \"monstrous personality\" who \"believes he is above the law.\"\n\"I'd like to be there when they find him guilty,\" Goldman said.\nPolice are still sorting out the details of the alleged robbery. That will include unraveling the contorted relationships between the erstwhile athlete and a cadre of collectors that has profited from his infamy since he was found liable in the deaths of Brown Simpson and Goldman.\nAt least one of the men considered Simpson a close friend. One had been his licensing agent. Another had collected Simpson items for years.\nBut times have changed.\nIn a Saturday phone interview with AP, Simpson declared: \"None of these guys are friends of mine.\"\nBeardsley was once a Simpson defender and ally but had recently appeared \"sympathetic\" with the families of people Simpson was accused of killing, an attorney for the family of Ron Goldman said.\nAnother sports collector, Bruce Fromong, once testified for the defense in the civil trial brought by the families of Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. Now Fromong says Simpson robbed him, along with Beardsley, at gunpoint in the room at the Palace Station casino.\nSimpson, 60, said he was just trying to retrieve memorabilia, particularly photos of his wife and children. There were no guns, he told The Associated Press. There was no break-in, he said.\nThe man Simpson accused of stealing the items from him is Mike Gilbert, another one-time associate. As Simpson's licensing agent in the late 1990s, Gilbert admitted snatching Simpson's Heisman Trophy and other items from his client's Brentwood home as payment for money he said was owed to him. He later turned the items over to authorities, save the trophy's nameplate.\nGilbert swore he'd go to jail before turning the nameplate over to the Goldman family, which was trying to collect on the $33.5 million civil judgment won against Simpson. Gilbert later surrendered it under court order.\nHe apparently remained tight with his client through the ordeal.\n\"It has absolutely not affected our relationship at all,\" Gilbert said in October 1997.\nSince then, according to Simpson, their relationship has changed. Simpson told AP he believes Gilbert stole items from a storage locker once held in Simpson's mother's name.\nAttempts to reach Gilbert by phone were unsuccessful.\nSimpson, who lives in Miami, said he expected to find the stolen items when he went to an arranged meeting Thursday.\nThe man who arranged the meeting, according to Simpson, was another man who makes a living on the fringes of the celebrity.\nThomas Riccio, a well-known memorabilia dealer, made headlines when his auction house, Corona, Calif.-based Universal Rarities, handled the eBay auction of Anna Nicole Smith's handwritten diaries.\nSimpson said Riccio called him several weeks ago to inform him that people \"have a lot of your stuff and they don't want anyone to know they are selling it,\" Simpson said.\nAlong with the personal photos, Simpson expected to find one item in particular: the suit he was wearing when he was acquitted of murder charges in 1995.\nIt's not clear where they got the suit, but Beardsley, a former real estate agent and longtime Simpson collector, and Fromong had been trying to sell it for several months. They'd recently tried eBay and the celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com.\nGoldman family attorney David Cook said Beardsley called him several times with the hopes of arranging a deal.\n\"When I spoke with him, my impression was that he was very sympathetic to the Goldmans,\" Cook said.\nThat's not the position Beardsley, who once tried to arrange lucrative autograph signings for Simpson, took in 1999, before a major auction of Simpson's sports collectibles, including his Heisman.\n\"It bothers me that I'm putting money in the Goldman and Brown pockets,\" Beardsley told the AP. \"I believe he's not responsible for this crime, and I think there are a lot of people who believe that.\"\nIt was perhaps such statements that made it hard for Simpson to believe that Beardsley and Fromong were now attempting to profit off his personal items, which he says include the wedding video from Simpson's first marriage.\nIn an interview with TMZ.com, Beardsley noted that during the alleged robbery in the hotel room Simpson appeared surprised the pair were the ones selling the items.\n\"Simpson was saying that 'I liked you, I thought you were a good guy,\"' Beardsley said.\nVery quickly the relationship between the collectors and the celebrity were shifting once again. On Saturday, Beardsley said he had spoken with Simpson since the incident. He called to apologize, Beardsley said.\nAs questions swirled around the curious cast of characters and their tumultuous meeting, media scrutiny and public interest that has dogged the fallen athlete was in full swing.\nBy Saturday afternoon, Simpson's new book, \"If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer,\" was the top seller on Amazon.com.\nNone of the men will profit from the book's sales. After a deal for Simpson to publish it fell through, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded the book's rights to the Goldman family.", "url": "http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296948,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070918193804/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296948,00.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "O.J. Simpson faces charges over Las Vegas robbery", "text": "LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Las Vegas police are questioning football star O.J. Simpson and he is expected to be charged in connection with last week’s alleged armed robbery at a hotel room in the U.S. gambling capital, a top law enforcement official said on Sunday.\nO.J. Simpson talks with reporters as he arrives for the funeral of attorney Johnnie Cochran, Jr. at West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles, in this April 6, 2005 file photo. Las Vegas police arrested former football star O.J. Simpson on Sunday in connection with a hotel room break-in, CNN said. REUTERS/Fred Prouser\n“We’re arresting him for probable cause,” said the official, who asked not to be named.\n“He’s at our detective center right now being questioned,” the official told Reuters. “He’s not yet booked into the Clark County Detention Center at this time.”\nCNN and Fox News reported that Simpson would be arraigned on Monday.\nPolice confirmed that they had arrested another man they believe was with the former star athlete during the alleged break-in. They also said they seized two handguns they believe are related to the incident, which was reported by a sports memorabilia dealer as an armed robbery in his room at the Palace Station Hotel & Casino.\nLas Vegas Police Lt. Clint Nichols said odds are that Simpson will spend the night in jail.\nMeanwhile, police are looking for at least two and as many as four other accomplices, he said.\nRepresentatives for the Palms and Simpson’s attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\n‘DONE NOTHING WRONG’\nO.J. Simpson has previously told police and the media that he did nothing wrong in Las Vegas.\n“I’m not walking around feeling sad or anything. I’ve done nothing wrong,” the former athlete, actor and murder defendant said in an interview published in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday.\nIn 1995, Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend in what was one of the most sensational court dramas in U.S. history.\nSimpson told the paper that “golfing buddies and some of their friends” accompanied him to a meeting at the Palace Station Hotel & Casino to help him retrieve sports memorabilia, personal photos and other items he said had been stolen by a former sports agent.\nSimpson, who is 60 and lives in Miami, Florida, said an auctioneer set up the meeting with the sellers. He said the men in his party were unarmed.\n“I’m O.J. Simpson. How am I going to think that I’m going to rob somebody and get away with it?” he said. “You’ve got to understand, this ain’t somebody going to steal somebody’s drugs or something like that. This is somebody going to get his private (belongings) back. That’s it. That’s not robbery.”\nAfter he was acquitted in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, a civil court jury found Simpson responsible for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages to their families.\nThe former National Football League star, who also appeared in films and commercials, has had other minor brushes with police since 1995. He could not immediately be reached for comment.\nSimpson’s latest legal flap comes as Simpson’s book “If I Did It,” which includes a hypothetical account of his ex-wife’s murder, was hitting store shelves.", "url": "http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN1421498820070916?feedType=RSS&feedName=entertainmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210318032850/https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN1421498820070916?feedType=RSS&amp=" }, { "language": "en", "title": "O.J. Simpson to be charged with robbery, assault, burglary", "text": "LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- O.J. Simpson will be charged with a total of six counts of robbery, assault, burglary and conspiracy, Las Vegas police announced Sunday.\nO.J. Simpson was arrested Sunday in relation to an armed robbery investigation.\nSimpson was arrested at his hotel room at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, where he was staying to attend a friend's wedding, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Capt. James Dillon told reporters.\nHe was expected to be booked Sunday evening on two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count each of armed burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary, Dillon said.\nSimpson requested an attorney and was still at police headquarters late Sunday afternoon, Dillon said.\nOn Saturday, Las Vegas police arrested Walter Alexander and seized two guns in connection with the incident, a source told CNN earlier Sunday.\n\"I don't know why they arrested him,\" Simpson told CNN before his own arrest. \"I've stayed in contact with the police, and the truth will come out.\"\nSimpson already had been questioned during the investigation into several items of sports memorabilia that were taken from collectors in a room at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino. Simpson has said the items belonged to him.\nAlexander was arrested Saturday night and charged with two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, one count of conspiracy to commit robbery with a deadly weapon and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, the source said.\nAlexander, a Nevada resident, was arrested on his way to McCarran International Airport, the source said.\nDuring searches Saturday, police recovered two guns they say were used in the alleged robbery, the source said.\nSimpson, 60, acknowledged that he entered a man's room with a group of friends, one of whom was posing as a potential buyer, after being tipped off that some of his personal items were for sale there.\nAmong the items were things he hadn't seen in years or that had been stolen, he said. They included photographs of his family and himself as a child, and photographs and negatives taken by his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.\nSimpson said friends helped him carry the items from the room, but no guns were involved and the incident was not a robbery. Watch a report on the latest developments in the probe »\nOn Saturday, Simpson said that he and one of the alleged victims, Alfred Beardsley, spoke on the telephone with each other and agreed the incident had been blown out of proportion.\nBeardsley confirmed the conversation to celebrity Web site TMZ.com, saying Simpson apologized to him and told him he regretted the incident. The other alleged victim, Bruce Fromong, a sports memorabilia collector, said that two of the men accompanying Simpson pointed guns at the other occupants of the room in what he described as \"a home invasion-type robbery.\" Watch Fromong talk about what happened\nFromong testified for Simpson's defense in the 1997 wrongful death trial stemming from a lawsuit filed by the family of Ron Goldman, who was killed in 1994 alongside Simpson's ex-wife.\nSimpson was acquitted of the murders in 1995, but the jury in the 1997 civil trial found him liable and awarded the Goldmans $33.5 million for their son's wrongful death.\nFromong testified that prices for Simpson memorabilia had dropped substantially since the 1995 verdict. His testimony was part of the defense's contention that Simpson could not afford to pay the Goldmans. Also on Friday, Thomas Riccio, a former business associate of Simpson, told KVVU television in Las Vegas that he told Simpson about the sale.\nRiccio said someone told him last month that he wanted to auction some of Simpson's possessions by placing them on consignment. Riccio added that when he called Simpson to tell him about the planned sale, the former athlete told him the items had been stolen.\nRiccio said that as he was being shown the items in the hotel room, Simpson entered the room and seized the items. He said there was no break-in and no gun was used.\nSimpson's ex-wife and Goldman -- a waiter who had gone to her Los Angeles, California, home to return a pair of glasses -- were fatally stabbed outside her townhouse June 12, 1994. A jury found Simpson not guilty of the crimes.\nSimpson recently wrote a book originally titled \"If I Did It\" and planned to publish it himself, but a public outcry led to the cancellation of his book deal. A bankruptcy judge subsequently awarded the Goldmans the rights to the book in light of their inability to collect the wrongful death award.\nThey retitled the book \"If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer,\" which is in bookstores. E-mail to a friend\nCNN's Ted Rowlands contributed to this report.\nAll About Nicole Brown Simpson • O.J. Simpson", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/16/oj.simpson/index.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070917000843/http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/16/oj.simpson/index.html" } ]

[ "North America", "Mexico", "Disasters and accidents", "Crime and law", "Central America", "Felipe Calderón", "Barack Obama", "Cocaine", "Ciudad Juárez", "Chihuahua" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Shootouts in Mexico leave at least 11 dead", "text": "Shootouts in Mexico leave at least 11 dead\nPACHUCA, Mexico — Eleven people are dead following a running battle between police and gunmen in the central Mexican city of Pachuca.\nHidalgo state police director Donanciano Millan says the dead include two police officers and nine gunmen. He says three state police officers and one city officer were hospitalized after the attacks late Thursday on the outskirts of Pachuca.\nMillan says police acting on a tip that gunmen were in the area stopped four trucks carrying the assailants, who opened fire and fled. Officers pursued them, and the two groups exchanged gunfire.\nPolice were searching the area for more suspects Friday.\nDrug violence has killed more than 11,000 people since Mexico launched a national crackdown in 2006.\nCopyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.", "url": "http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g1kxKdVNumtUaRoAZB_xf1XzxDfgD99U3JB80", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090813145049/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g1kxKdVNumtUaRoAZB_xf1XzxDfgD99U3JB80" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Shootouts between police, gunmen in central Mexico leave at least a dozen dead", "text": "PACHUCA, Mexico - A running battle between police and gunmen has left 12 people dead in this central Mexican city, officials said Friday.\nThe dead included three police officers and nine gunmen, said Hidalgo state Attorney General Jose Alberto Rodriguez. Two state police officers and one city officer remained hospitalized Friday after suffering gunshot wounds in the attacks late Thursday on the outskirts of Pachuca.\nA state officer, who was also wounded, died Friday at the hospital.\nHidalgo state police director Donanciano Millan said officers were acting on a tip that gunmen were in the area when they stopped four trucks carrying the assailants, who opened fire and fled. Officers pursued them, and the two groups exchanged gunfire.\nAfter the attacks, police seized assault rifles, grenades, federal police uniforms, handcuffs and 3 kilograms (about 7 pounds) of cocaine.\nPolice were searching the area for more suspects Friday.\nElsewhere, gunmen killed a regional police investigator outside his home Thursday night in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, said state police spokesman Arturo Sandoval.\nDrug violence has killed more than 11,000 people since Mexico launched a national crackdown in 2006. The government says most of the victims have been killed in turf battles with rival cartels fighting for control of lucrative drug routes.", "url": "http://www.startribune.com/world/52646287.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBcy7hUiacyKUUr", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090813084707/http://www.startribune.com/world/52646287.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBcy7hUiacyKUUr" }, { "language": "en", "title": "At least 14 killed in Mexico attacks", "text": "MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- A series of attacks and gunbattles between Mexican drug cartel suspects and police left at least 14 people dead and 22 wounded Thursday night, officials and news reports said.\nNine cartel suspects and three police officers died in two ferocious gunbattles in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, federal official Jose Alberto Rodriguez Calderon said.\nAnother four police were wounded, the government-run Notimex news agency said. El Excelsior newspaper put that figure at 10 agents wounded.\nSeparately, grenade and heavy-weapon attacks on law enforcement installations in two cities in Guanajuato state killed a civilian and a police agent and wounded 18 others, news reports said.\nThe Hidalgo shootouts started when state police searching for several federal agents reported missing found them alive and safe near an auto racetrack in the Mineral de la Reforma municipality, Rodriguez Calderon was quoted as saying in Notimex. Almost immediately after police found the agents, drug suspects nearby started shooting.\nA simultaneous shootout occurred in the city of La Calera, also in the Mineral de la Reforma municipality, the news agency said. Police were attacked with hand grenades in that confrontation, leaving two officers dead. A third officer died later in a hospital.\nThe nine drug suspects were killed in La Calera, Rodriguez Calderon said.\nEach firefight lasted 20 minutes.\nAC360: The war next door This week on \"Anderson Cooper 360,\" Michael Ware reports from Mexico on the gruesome tactics used by drug cartels. Friday: The cartels are branching out into other businesses, including smuggling humans.\nFriday, 10 p.m. ET see full schedule »\nOfficials confiscated 1.2 million pesos (more than $92,000), 3 kilograms of cocaine (6.6 pounds), six AK-47 assault rifles, an Uzi submachine gun, two hand grenades, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, four luxury vehicles, 12 cell phones, 11 bullet-proof vests and seven handcuffs, Rodriguez Calderon said.\nNo arrests were made, and one suspect got away, the federal official said.\nIn Guanajuato state, also in central Mexico, gunmen attacked police stations in the cities of Silao and Irapuato, El Correo newspaper reported.\nIn Silao, at least 20 heavily armed hooded men riding in three dark trucks carried out the attacks, the newspaper said. The attackers first launched three grenades against a police station and then fired with AK-47 and R-15 assault rifles, littering the ground with hundreds of spent shells.\nThat attack killed two people.\nTen of the wounded were reported to be gravely injured and were transferred to the nearby city of Léon.\nThe assault also damaged 15 vehicles, five of which caught on fire.\nThursday's attacks on police installations resembled assaults last month in a half-dozen cities in Michoacan state. Those attacks were attributed to La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, which was accused of torturing and killing 12 off-duty federal agents around the same time and dumping their bodies on a remote road.\nFederal police have arrested at least 10 members of La Familia, including some top leaders, since the July 13 killings. The killings and the attacks on police installations were among reprisals by La Familia after the federal police captured one of their top leaders, authorities said.\nAn unprecedented wave of violence has washed over Mexico since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels shortly after coming into office in December 2006. More than 10,000 people have died in that time span, about 1,000 of them police.\nAll About Mexico • Drug Trafficking", "url": "http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/07/mexico.gunbattles/index.html?section=cnn_latest", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090813133310/http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/07/mexico.gunbattles/index.html?section=cnn_latest" } ]

[ "Conflitos" ]

[ { "language": "pt", "title": "Confronto entre Israel e Hamas corre risco de se tornar generalizado", "text": "Soldados israelenses são vistos em veículo armado perto da fronteira entre Israel e a Faixa de Gaza nesta segunda-feira (7) (Foto: Ariel Schalit/AP)\nO confronto entre Israel e Hamas corre o risco de se transformar em um conflito generalizado após a morte de pelo menos sete combatentes palestinos em Gaza, num momento em que aumentam os distúrbios após o assassinato de um adolescente palestino por extremistas judeus.\nQuatro ativistas do braço militar do Hamas, que governa a Faixa de Gaza, morreram em um ataque israelense contra um túnel em Rafah, ao sul do território, segundo várias testemunhas e os serviços de emergência locais. Outros dois membros das brigadas Ezedin al-Qassam desapareceram.\nA imprensa israelense atribuiu o incidente a uma explosão de origem indeterminada. A região tem muitos túneis que servem para o contrabando a partir do Egito, assim como galerias subterrâneas usadas por comandos para se infiltrar por trás das linhas israelenses ou lançar foguetes.\nUm combatente palestino faleceu pelos ferimentos sofridos em outro ataque israelense em um campo de treinamento das brigadas de Al-Qassam em Rafah.\nO exército israelense indicou em um comunicado que havia atacado \"nove posições terroristas e pontos de lançamento de foguetes na Faixa de Gaza\".\nDesde a noite de domingo, ao menos 14 projéteis atingiram o sul de Israel, um dos quais feriu levemente um militar e provocou danos materiais.\nUm dos foguetes atingiu os bairros periféricos da cidade de Beersheva, a capital do deserto de Neguev, a 50 km da Faixa de Gaza, sem deixar vítimas.\nO primeiro-ministro, Benjamin Netanyahu, se comprometeu a \"fazer o necessário para recuperar a paz e a segurança\" no sul de Israel. Mas convocou seu governo a se abster de declarações incendiárias para evitar um confronto generalizado.\n\"A experiência nos demonstrou que, num momento como esse, devemos agir de forma responsável e com a cabeça fria para nos abster de declarações duras e impetuosas\", declarou Netanyahu aos seus ministros.\nEsta linha prudente gerou divergências dentro da coalizão conservadora. O ministro das Relações Exteriores, Avigdor Lieberman, um falcão ultranacionalista, anunciou nesta segunda-feira o fim da aliança com o partido Likud do primeiro-ministro, mas sem abandonar o governo.\nExtremistas judeus confessam assassinato\nTrês dos seis israelenses detidos pelo sequestro e assassinato na semana passada de um adolescente palestino confessaram o crime, indicou nesta segunda-feira uma fonte próxima ao caso.\n\"Três dos seis suspeitos detidos confessaram ter assassinado e queimado Mohamed Abu Khder, e realizaram uma reconstituição do crime\" diante dos policiais, declarou à AFP a fonte, que pediu o anonimato.\nO crime provocou novos episódios de violência durante a noite.\n\"Cerca de 110 pessoas foram detidas durante a noite por perturbar a ordem pública, lançar pedras, destruir mobiliário urbano e atacar as forças de ordem\", indicou à AFP Luba Samri, um porta-voz da polícia.\nA maioria dos incidentes ocorreu no \"Triângulo\", nome da região da Galileia onde se localizam as cidades de maioria árabe.\nEm Nahf e Nazaré, manifestantes encapuzados incendiaram pneus e bloquearam várias ruas.\nAs revoltas se converteram em protestos antirracistas, já que a minoria árabe de Israel, cerca de 160.000 palestinos que permaneceram em suas terras após a criação do Estado hebreu, em 1948, denunciam há décadas discriminações no emprego e na educação.\nTambém ocorreram incidentes deste tipo, com 12 detidos, no sul de Israel e nos arredores de Beersheva, onde vive uma importante comunidade beduína, indicou a polícia.\nEm Hadera (norte de Israel), centenas de pessoas participaram em uma manifestação antirracista na noite de domingo, que se encontrou com um protesto da extrema direita israelense. A polícia dispersou os dois movimentos e deteve 45 pessoas.", "url": "http://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2014/07/confronto-entre-israel-e-hamas-corre-risco-de-se-tornar-generalizado.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140714180508/http://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2014/07/confronto-entre-israel-e-hamas-corre-risco-de-se-tornar-generalizado.html" } ]

[ "World", "Sports", "Rugby", "South Africa", "Cape Town" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "The Times", "text": "Springbok hero Bryan Habana’s safe hands were back in action yesterday, saving the Web Ellis trophy from an overexcited fan who tried to grab it from his grasp.\nTens of thousands of ecstatic supporters turned out to welcome the Springboks to Cape Town at the end of their national victory tour, but one of them took things too far.\nAs the squad made a triumphant victory lap of Newlands rugby stadium, the man vaulted the security fence and leaped for the cup as Habana held it aloft.\nThe Springbok number 11 side- stepped the fan and clutched the trophy tightly as if he was making a trademark sprint for the tryline.\nSecurity guards quickly bundled the man into touch.\nSA Rugby spokesman Rayaan Arendse said only the lid of the cup had hit the turf and it had not been damaged.\nCaptain John Smit formally handed the trophy to SA Rugby president Oregan Hoskins, telling the 40000 baying fans who packed the stadium: “This is unbelievable. From here on everything’s a bonus. The reaction of millions of South Africans to our victory makes this cup 10 times more valuable.”\nThe squad began the day with an official welcome by mayor Helen Zille at the city hall, then drove through the city in an open-topped bus as Cape Town’s notorious wind sent balloons and confetti swirling through the air.\nFans, young and old, ranging from toyi-toying township youths to barefoot boereseuns escorted the bus as it crawled past pavements jam-packed with cheering supporters in green and gold jerseys.\nOne man climbed a lamp post and perched on top of a robot to get a better view.\nSchoolchildren were given the day off to join the celebrations.\nGirls shrieked as if they were at a pop concert as players made their lap of honour around the stadium.", "url": "http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=599868", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071030101327/http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=599868" } ]

[ "Themenportal Recht", "Recht in Deutschland", "Straftat allg.", "Mord", "Kriegsverbrechen", "Landgericht Aachen", "Zweiter Weltkrieg", "Heinrich Boere" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Boere/Demjanjuk: Die letzten großen NS-Prozesse", "text": "Boere/Demjanjuk: Die letzten großen NS-Prozesse Donnerstag, 08.10.2009, 20:21\nDas Bundesverfassungsgericht hat heute entschieden, dass der wegen dreifachen Mordes im Zweiten Weltkrieg angeklagte 88-jährige Heinrich Boere verhandlungsfähig ist. Sein Prozess beginnt am 28. Oktober. Auch der mutmaßliche NS-Verbrecher John Demjanjuk will versuchen, seinen Prozess im November mittels einer Verfassungsbeschwerde zu stoppen.\nDer Weg für einen der wohl letzten großen NS-Prozesse in Deutschland ist frei. Der wegen dreifachen Mordes im Zweiten Weltkrieg angeklagte 88-jährige Heinrich Boere scheiterte am Donnerstag in Karlsruhe mit einer Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen seinen Prozess, der am 28. Oktober vor dem Landgericht Aachen beginnt. Gut einen Monat später, am 30. November, soll der aus den USA ausgewiesene mutmaßliche NS-Verbrecher John Demjanjuk in München vor Gericht kommen. Auch der 89-Jährige will versuchen, den Prozess mit einer Verfassungsbeschwerde zu stoppen.\nSein Verteidiger Ulrich Busch sagte dem Berliner „Tagesspiegel“, er werde bis (zum morgigen) Freitag Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen die Eröffnung der Hauptverhandlung erheben. „Mein Mandant hat in Israel über sieben Jahre Haft verbüßt. Eine höhere Strafe ist jetzt nicht zu erwarten. Weil die israelische Haft angerechnet werden muss, entfällt der staatliche Strafanspruch“, sagte Busch. Per Eilverfahren wolle er Demjanjuks Freilassung erreichen.\nDemjanjuk ist wegen Beihilfe zum Mord an mindestens 27.900 Juden angeklagt. Als bewaffneter Wachmann im Vernichtungslager Sobibor soll der ukrainische Kriegsgefangene im Jahr 1943 Männer, Frauen und Kinder von den Zügen in die Gaskammern getrieben haben. Der Angeklagte bestreitet das.\nBoere macht Verhandlungsunfähigkeit geltend Wie Demjanjuk zuvor in den USA versuchte auch der wegen dreier Morde in den Niederlanden angeklagte mutmaßliche NS-Täter Boere den Prozess wegen Verhandlungsunfähigkeit abzuwenden. Die zuständige Kammer des Bundesverfassungsgerichts nahm seine Beschwerde gegen die Durchführung des Hauptverfahrens in Aachen aber nicht zur Entscheidung an. Der Gesundheitszustand des Angeklagten sei „zumindest stabil“ und stehe einer Hauptverhandlung in überschaubarem Umfang nicht entgegen, erklärten die Karlsruher Richter. Dem 88-Jährigen wird im Gericht ein Arzt zur Seite gestellt.\nBoere soll zwischen Juli und September 1944 in den Niederlanden drei Menschen heimtückisch erschossen haben. Er habe die Taten als Hauptscharführer der „Germanischen SS in den Niederlanden“ im Rahmen völkerrechtswidriger Repressionen an der niederländischen Bevölkerung begangen, heißt es in der Anklage. Die Aktionen wurden unter dem Decknamen „Silbertanne“ durchgeführt.\nIm Januar 2009 hatte das Landgericht Aachen die Eröffnung des Prozesses noch abgelehnt, weil ein Sachverständiger den Angeklagten wegen eines Herzleidens für verhandlungsunfähig erklärt hatte.\nAuf die Beschwerde der Staatsanwaltschaft und eines Nebenklägers eröffnete das Oberlandesgericht (OLG) Köln jedoch das Hauptverfahren, weil sich der Gesundheitszustand des Angeklagten nach Zeugenaussagen zunehmend verbessere. Daraufhin terminierte das Landgericht Aachen den Prozess.", "url": "http://www.focus.de/panorama/vermischtes/boere-demjanjuk-die-letzten-grossen-ns-prozesse_aid_443145.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120311100917/http://www.focus.de/panorama/vermischtes/boere-demjanjuk-die-letzten-grossen-ns-prozesse_aid_443145.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Der SS-Mann und der Sohn des Opfers", "text": "Politik\nNS-Mordprozess\nDer SS-Mann und der Sohn des Opfers\nAachen. Auf diesen Moment hat Tuin de Groot (76) Jahrzehnte gewartet: Er wollte dem Mörder seines Vaters in die Augen blicken. Er wollte den SS-Mann Heinrich Boere sehen, der am frühen Morgen des 3. September 1944 bei der Familie schellte, eine Pistole zog und den Vater erschoss.\nSo muss es sich nach Ermittlungen der Staatsanwaltschaft abgespielt haben. Tuin war erst elf, aber das Bild hat sich eingebrannt: Der erschossene Vater am Boden und der \"schrecklich süßliche Geruch\" des Blutes.\nNach 65 Jahren kam es am Mittwoch im Aachener Landgericht zu dieser Begegnung, bei einem der letzten NS-Kriegsverbrecherprozesse in Deutschland.\nBoere ist angeklagt, als Mitglied des SS- Killerkommandos \"Feldmeijer\" im Juli und September 1944 drei Menschen erschossen zu haben: Den Apotheker Fritz Bicknese, den Fahrradhändler Tuin de Groot und den Prokuristen Frans-Willem Kusters, vermeintliche Männer des Widerstands. Auch die beiden Söhne des Apothekers sind Nebenkläger in dem Verfahren.\nSo muss es sich nach Ermittlungen der Staatsanwaltschaft abgespielt haben. Tuin war erst elf, aber das Bild hat sich eingebrannt: Der erschossene Vater am Boden und der \"schrecklich süßliche Geruch\" des Blutes.Nach 65 Jahren kam es am Mittwoch im Aachener Landgericht zu dieser Begegnung, bei einem der letzten NS-Kriegsverbrecherprozesse in Deutschland.Boere ist angeklagt, als Mitglied des SS- Killerkommandos \"Feldmeijer\" im Juli und September 1944 drei Menschen erschossen zu haben: Den Apotheker Fritz Bicknese, den Fahrradhändler Tuin de Groot und den Prokuristen Frans-Willem Kusters, vermeintliche Männer des Widerstands. Auch die beiden Söhne des Apothekers sind Nebenkläger in dem Verfahren.\n65 Jahre nach der Tat saß de Groot dem Mann gegenüber, der immer nur Phantom für ihn war: Heinrich Boere (88). Ein alter Mann im Rollstuhl, der Blick wach, manchmal verkniffen, die Mundwinkel hängend.\nFrüher Bergmann, heute Rentner in einem Eschweiler Altenheim bei Aachen. In kurzen Verhandlungspausen maß er seinen Blutzucker, ein ständig anwesender Arzt seinen Blutdruck. Und manchmal schaute er fast verschämt oder neugierig zu dem Mann auf der anderen Seite rüber, zu dem Niederländer Tuin de Groot.\nSeine Blicke trafen einen groß gewachsenen, weißhaarigen Mann, der immer freundlich und gefasst wirkte. Den vielen Wünschen nach Interviews kam er geduldig und sanftmütig nach. Nur einmal zeigte er, wie sehr ihn dieser Prozess tatsächlich bewegt.\n\"Er (Boere) hat unsere ganze Familie kaputtgemacht. Wir waren fünf Kinder\", sagte er. Seine Augen füllten sich mit Tränen, er wandte sich ab.\nIn seiner Tasche trug er einen Zettel mit sich. Zu Hause hatte de Groot eine Erklärung geschrieben, die er vor Gericht vorlesen wollte.\nIn dieser Erklärung wollte er Boere die Dimensionen seiner Tat vor Augen führen. \"Er soll merken, was er angerichtet hat\", hatte de Groot noch am Vorabend gesagt. \"Und ich erwarte, dass er eine schwere Strafe bekommt.\" Und die soll er auch absitzen, \"natürlich\".\nDoch gleich am ersten Prozesstag wurde de Groot bitter enttäuscht. In all den Jahren hatte er beobachten müssen, wie Boere der Justiz immer wieder entwischt war. Der Mann war zwar 1945 festgenommen worden, entkam aber kurz danach. Und als die Behörden den früheren SS-Mann in den 80er Jahren wieder ins Visier nahmen, profitierte er vom juristischen Gezerre und lebte weiter in Freiheit.\nBoeres Anwälte stellten in dem Aachener Mordprozess einen Befangenheitsantrag gegen den Chef-Ankläger der nordrhein-westfälischen Schwerpunkt-Staatsanwaltschaft für NS-Verbrechen, Urlich Maaß. Es wurde beraten, Stellung bezogen, noch mal beraten.\nSchließlich entschied das Gericht, den Prozess zu vertagen. Die Anklage wurde nicht verlesen. Die Verhandlung war für den Tag beendet. De Groot war sichtlich enttäuscht. Er fuhr nach Hause - den nicht verlesenen Zettel in der Tasche. Er wird nicht wiederkommen. (dpa)\nLesen Sie auch 65 Jahre danach : Mordprozess gegen SS-Mann\nRechtsanwalt Jürgen Rieger : Das Ende eines Hetzers\n[ document info ]\nCopyright © FR-online.de 2009\nDokument erstellt am 28.10.2009 um 16:32:52 Uhr\nLetzte Änderung am 28.10.2009 um 16:42:18 Uhr\nErscheinungsdatum 28.10.2009", "url": "http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/aktuell/2045246_NS-Mordprozess-Der-SS-Mann-und-der-Sohn-des-Opfers.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091101183128/http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/aktuell/2045246_NS-Mordprozess-Der-SS-Mann-und-der-Sohn-des-Opfers.html" } ]

[ "Sports", "Cricket", "2007 Twenty20 World Championship", "South Africa", "Sri Lanka", "Kenya", "Johannesburg" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "8th Match, Group C: Kenya v Sri Lanka at Johannesburg, Sep 14, 2007", "text": "Full scorecard - Commentary - Wickets - 3D animation - Partnerships - Wagon wheels - Player v player - Over comparison - Over graphs - Career averages - Match home - Bulletin - Article index (4) - Photo index (21) Twenty20 Int. no. 27\n- 8th Match, Group C\nKenya v Sri Lanka 2007/08 season Played at (neutral venue), on 14 September 2007 (20-over match) Result Sri Lanka won by 172 runs Sri Lanka innings (20 overs maximum) R M B 4s 6s SR b Odoyo 10 12 11 1 0 90.90 c sub (AO Suji) b Odhiambo 88 65 44 11 4 200.00 b Kamande 30 27 18 5 0 166.66 lbw b Kamande 65 37 27 9 2 240.74 run out (CO Obuya/ Ouma) 5 6 4 1 0 125.00 b Kamande 3 8 4 0 0 75.00 not out 46 10 13 3 5 353.84 not out 1 8 1 0 0 100.00 Extras (lb 2, w 8, nb 2) 12 Total (6 wickets; 20 overs; 90 mins) 260 (13.00 runs per over) Did not bat , , Fall of wickets Bowling O M R W Econ 3 0 14 1 4.66 (1w) 4 0 53 0 13.25 (1nb) 4 0 57 1 14.25 (2w) 4 0 61 0 15.25 4 0 48 3 12.00 (1w) 1 0 25 0 25.00 (1nb, 1w) Kenya innings (target: 261 runs from 20 overs) R M B 4s 6s SR lbw b Vaas 0 1 3 0 0 0.00 run out (Jayasuriya/Wijekoon) 18 61 33 1 0 54.54 b Vaas 5 11 8 1 0 62.50 st Sangakkara b Jayasuriya 16 27 22 0 1 72.72 c Jayawardene b Malinga 4 2 4 0 0 100.00 c & b Malinga 2 2 3 0 0 66.66 st Sangakkara b Dilshan 21 20 25 2 0 84.00 lbw b Wijekoon 4 10 10 0 0 40.00 not out 4 6 4 0 0 100.00 c Jayawardene b Dilshan 3 3 5 0 0 60.00 absent hurt - Extras (lb 1, w 10) 11 Total (all out; 19.3 overs; 76 mins) 88 (4.51 runs per over) Fall of wickets Bowling O M R W Econ 4 1 15 2 3.75 3 0 23 0 7.66 (5w) 3 0 9 1 3.00 3 0 13 2 4.33 (1w) 2 0 11 0 5.50 3 0 12 1 4.00 1.3 0 4 2 2.66 Toss Kenya, who chose to field first\nPoints\nTwenty20 Int. debuts J Mubarak and G Wijekoon (Sri Lanka)\nPlayer of the match ST Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)\nUmpires (Australia) and (England)\nTV umpire (England)\nMatch referee (England)\nReserve umpire\nMatch notes Sri Lanka innings\nSri Lanka: 50 runs in 5.5 overs (37 balls), Extras 4\n2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 27 balls (ST Jayasuriya 33, KC Sangakkara 18, Ex 1)\nSri Lanka: 100 runs in 9.5 overs (62 balls), Extras 5\nST Jayasuriya: 50 off 30 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)\n3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 19 balls (ST Jayasuriya 27, DPMD Jayawardene 25, Ex 1)\nSri Lanka: 150 runs in 12.4 overs (80 balls), Extras 6\nDPMD Jayawardene: 50 off 21 balls (6 x 4, 2 x 6)\nSri Lanka: 200 runs in 16.2 overs (105 balls), Extras 12\nSri Lanka: 250 runs in 19.2 overs (123 balls), Extras 12\nInnings Break: Sri Lanka - 260/6 in 20.0 overs (J Mubarak 46, G Wijekoon 1) Kenya innings\nKenya: 50 runs in 10.3 overs (69 balls), Extras 10 Search for an international scorecard from the match/series archive:", "url": "http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/twenty20wc/engine/current/match/287860.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070919031438/http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/twenty20wc/engine/current/match/287860.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "International Teams", "text": "One Day International Series: Sri Lanka v Pakistan\n22-03-2006 at Colombo Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 4 wickets Pakistan won the toss and decided to field Sri Lanka Innings 224 all out (49.4 overs) Pakistan Innings 229 for 6 (45.2 overs)\nSri Lanka Innings Runs Balls 4s 6s W U Tharanga c Kamran Akmal b Abdul Razzaq 23 43 2 0 C K Kapugedara run out 50 74 7 0 K C Sangakkara c Kamran Akmal b Shahid Afridi 22 27 2 0 D P M D Jayawardene run out 31 56 1 0 K S Lokuarachchi c Mohammad Yousuf b Shahid Afridi 13 18 1 0 R P Arnold st Kamran Akmal b Shahid Afridi 0 2 0 0 T M Dilshan b Shoaib Malik 44 46 4 0 M F Maharoof c Imran Farhat b Mohammad Asif 19 19 3 0 K T G D Prasad b Naved-ul-Hasan 8 11 0 0 M Muralitharan c Rao Iftikhar b Naved-ul-Hasan 2 3 0 0 S L Malinga not out 0 2 0 0 Extras 1nb 4w 2b 5lb 12 Total all out 224\nBowler O M R W Naved-ul-Hasan 7.4 0 40 2 Mohammad Asif 10.0 0 48 1 Rao Iftikhar 9.0 0 40 0 Abdul Razzaq 10.0 1 35 1 Shahid Afridi 10.0 0 37 3 Shoaib Malik 3.0 0 17 1 Fall of wicket 57 W U Tharanga 93 C K Kapugedara 105 K C Sangakkara 131 K S Lokuarachchi 133 R P Arnold 157 D P M D Jayawardene 193 M F Maharoof 216 T M Dilshan 223 M Muralitharan 224 K T G D Prasad\nBack to top\nPakistan Innings Runs Balls 4s 6s Shoaib Malik c C K Kapugedara b M Muralitharan 46 38 9 0 Imran Farhat st K C Sangakkara b T M Dilshan 46 52 8 0 Younis Khan st K C Sangakkara b M Muralitharan 25 46 2 0 Mohammad Yousuf lbw b M F Maharoof 53 73 6 0 Inzamam-ul-Haq b M Muralitharan 12 22 0 0 Abdul Razzaq not out 23 33 1 1 Shahid Afridi c M Muralitharan b K S Lokuarachchi 1 2 0 0 Kamran Akmal not out 9 7 2 0 Extras 1nb 9w 4b 14 Total for 6 229\nBowler O M R W S L Malinga 7.0 0 34 0 M F Maharoof 7.2 1 33 1 K T G D Prasad 5.0 1 33 0 M Muralitharan 10.0 0 58 3 K S Lokuarachchi 10.0 1 47 1 T M Dilshan 6.0 0 20 1 Fall of wicket 61 Shoaib Malik 117 Imran Farhat 137 Younis Khan 177 Inzamam-ul-Haq 207 Mohammad Yousuf 210 Shahid Afridi\nBack to top\nUmpires: S J Davis, E A R de Silva\nSri Lanka: C K Kapugedara, W U Tharanga, K C Sangakkara, D P M D Jayawardene, R P Arnold, T M Dilshan, M F Maharoof, K S Lokuarachchi, K T G D Prasad, M Muralitharan, S L Malinga\nPakistan: Shoaib Malik, Imran Farhat, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Kamran Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi, Naved-ul-Hasan, Rao Iftikhar, Mohammad Asif", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/sri_lanka/latest_scorecard/default.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060324135126/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/sri_lanka/latest_scorecard/default.stm" } ]

[ "Asia", "China", "Crime and law", "Science and technology", "Apple Inc.", "Mental health", "Shenzhen", "Suicide" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Missing iPhone led to employee's suicide", "text": "Missing iPhone led to employee's suicide\nBy Chen Hong (China Daily)\nUpdated: 2009-07-22 08:11\nSHENZHEN: A 25-year-old employee of a leading Taiwanese electronics manufacturer allegedly committed suicide after he was blamed for the disappearance of a sample iPhone mobile phone.\nSun Danyong was suspected of stealing a model of the popular Apple mobile phone earlier this month.\nSun's company, Foxconn, was licensed to produce the iPhone in one of its factories in Guanlan, Shenzhen, local media reported.\nSun, who graduated from the renowned Harbin Institute of Technology last year, was reportedly responsible for the final packing of a shipment of 16 iPhones at his company.\nOne of the phones was found missing when he handed over the products to their receivers from Apple on July 10.\nSun reported the incident to his supervisor three days later after he could not find the sample phone. Foxconn's environment and safety department subsequently launched an internal investigation into the case.\nOn July 16, Sun jumped to his death from the 12th floor of a residential building, local media reported.\nHe had his last online chat with former university classmates just three hours before, with his final post seen on a popular Chinese Internet forum.\nIn it, Sun wrote that the investigation over the missing iPhone was \"one of the most humiliating experiences\" of his life.\nSun's girlfriend, who came to visit him just three days before his death, said some colleagues at Foxconn searched his home on the afternoon before his suicide, according to a report by Southern Metropolis Daily.\nFoxconn spokesman James Lee expressed sorrow and sympathy over Sun's death and apologized to his family yesterday.\n\"His suicide, for whatever reason, in a way reflects a management defect on the part of Foxconn to some extent especially over the troubles faced by our young employees,\" Lee told China Daily.\nLee said the department head who had allegedly mistreated Sun in his handling of the case has been suspended from his job, pending investigations by the police.\nThe police at Bao'an district, where the Foxconn factory is located, said they could not release any details about the case at this stage.\nLi Jianyong, a lawyer, said the department chief would be subject to criminal charges if his alleged questioning of Sun over the missing phone was found to be violent.\nLiu Feifei, a registered psychologist, said Sun's suicide reflected his fragility in dealing with problems.\n\"He knew the seriousness of the incident and was frightened to take the responsibility, that's why he chose to kill himself,\" she said.\nAccording to a reliable source, Sun was born in a poor family in Qujing, Yunnan province, and had not fully paid back his loan to his university.", "url": "http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/22/content_8456930.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090725223817/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/22/content_8456930.htm" }, { "language": "zh", "title": "富士康25岁员工跳楼自杀 据称遭公司殴打拘禁", "text": "核心提示：富士康科技集团（深圳市宝安区）年仅25岁的员工孙丹勇，从12楼跳下身亡。此前，公司交由其保管邮寄给苹果公司的16部苹果iphone样机少了一部，孙曾接受公司环安课调查。18日，孙丹勇的大学同学指称，孙在接受调查时遭到非法搜查、拘禁和殴打。\n京华时报7月21日报道 7月16日凌晨，富士康科技集团（深圳市宝安区）年仅25岁的员工孙丹勇，从12楼跳下身亡。\n此前，公司交由其保管邮寄给苹果公司的16部苹果iPhone样机少了一部，孙曾接受公司环安课调查。18日，孙丹勇的大学同学指称，孙在接受调查时遭到非法搜查、拘禁和殴打。\n>>同学\n孙遭殴打非法拘禁\n毕业于哈工大的孙丹勇年仅25岁，7月16日凌晨3时33分许，从12楼跳楼自杀。7月18日，一位网友自称是孙的同学，发帖指称孙丹勇的死跟富士康在调查整件事情中非常规的手段有关。>>进入相关网帖>>\n网帖称，孙丹勇主要负责富士康公司苹果iPhone第四代N90的导入，在给苹果公司寄产品时，一共为16台机台，但客户只收到15台，苹果公司因此怀疑富士康可能泄密。这给富士康带来非常大的压力。因为孙丹勇负责邮寄机台，他摆脱不了嫌疑，所以环安课的便拉他去盘问。其间，孙丹勇曾遭殴打、非法搜查、非法拘禁等。\n>>警方\n监控拍下自杀过程\n据悉，富士康集团安全管理处早已对此事展开调查。一份情况呈报叙述了调查经过。\n据富士康提供的孙丹勇自述材料提及，孙丹勇在7月9日从生产线拿到iPhone，清点数量后暂存。7月10日，取机台的人来，孙丹勇打开纸箱让他们确认数量，孙有事不在场，回来后发现少一台，孙怀疑机台丢在产线，但没能找到。随后寻找仍无果，13日下班时上报主管。部门在查找未果后，于15日上报环安课。7月15日，3名富士康员工到孙丹勇租住房屋搜查。\n孙跳楼自杀后，警方在孙丹勇的手机中发现他向多名好友发的信息，称因其管理的N90苹果手机丢失，遭到公司怀疑，并被调查和搜查，心里想不通。\n据观澜福民派出所参与办理此案的李姓民警介绍，监控录像显示，孙丹勇自杀时间为7月16日凌晨3时33分52秒。孙租住楼楼下的监控摄像头拍下了其跳楼自杀的一幕。对于环安课顾姓课长非常规手段的调查细节，警方表示目前尚无定论，但已经介入调查。\n>>富士康\n涉事课长已被停职\n富士康科技集团行政总经理暨商务长李金明接受采访时说，他代表本人及集团，对员工孙丹勇自杀事件的发生表示痛心和惋惜。\n针对网络盛传的富士康某顾姓环保课长在追查产品丢失过程中对孙丹勇采用不适宜手段及做法一事，如搜家、关禁闭等，李金明表示，公司欢迎社会舆论来帮助富士康检讨管理上存在的不足，公司也已开始对大家关注的某些问题展开调查。\n目前，公司已对网络中提及的所谓顾姓环保课长给予停职停薪，并交由公安部门进行调查。李金明表示，富士康会尽力与死者家属一道做好死者善后事宜。 (本文来源：京华时报 )", "url": "http://news.163.com/09/0721/04/5ENICASS000120GR.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090724174517/http://news.163.com/09/0721/04/5ENICASS000120GR.html" } ]

[ "América", "Europa", "Ásia", "América do Norte", "Oriente Médio", "Israel", "Irão", "Reino Unido", "Inglaterra", "Londres", "Ciência e tecnologia", "Crime, Direito e Justiça", "Jornalismo", "Política", "Programa nuclear iraniano", "União Europeia" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Sunday Times: Mossad killed Iran expert", "text": "Sunday Times: Mossad killed Iran expert\nShare | Email | Print\nAhmadi Roshan was killed when a magnetic bomb was attached to his car on January 11, 2012.\nA London-based newspaper says agents of Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, are responsible for the recent targeted attack in Tehran which killed an Iranian nuclear scientist last week.\nThereported on Monday that the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was similar to operations seen in “espionage films” - planned over a period of many months, and included extensive surveillance and intelligence gathering.The daily quoted an unnamed Israeli source as claiming that the killing was a precursor, not an alternative, to a military strike intended to make rebuilding nuclear facilities more difficult for Iran once they are bombed.Based on the report, small groups of Mossad agents had been carefully observing key areas in Tehran which they deemed relevant to the assassination of Roshan.“There is zero tolerance for mistakes. By nature, every failure not only risks the necks of the agents but also risks turning into an international scandal,” said the Israeli source.Thereport claimed that Ahmadi Roshan was monitored from a makeshift control room in a safe house nearby as he was preparing to leave for work.The report added that as Ahmadi Roshan's bodyguard was driving him to the Natanz uranium enrichment site, where he served as deputy marketing manager, a masked person on a motorbike approached the car through traffic, planting on the vehicle, a bomb that was shaped to deliver its full force to the passenger.Following the operation, the United States moved fast to deny any connection with the assassination.Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said, “We were not involved in any way with regards to the assassination that took place there.”The British Foreign Office also said Britain had “no involvement whatsoever” in the attack.Ahmadi Roshan was a Sharif University of Technology chemical engineering graduate and served as the deputy director of marketing at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.The US, Israel and their allies accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program and have repeatedly threatened Tehran with the “option” of a military strike.In November 2011, some of the US presidential hopefuls called for conducting covert operations ranging from assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists to launching a military strike on Iran as well as sabotaging Tehran's nuclear program.The calls for assassinations are not idle threats as a number of Iranian scientists have been assassinated over the past few years.According to reports, Ahmadi Roshan had recently met International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, a fact which indicates that the IAEA has leaked information about Iran's nuclear facilities and scientists.SS/AZ/HGH", "url": "http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221376.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120119063409/http://www.presstv.ir/detail/221376.html" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Diario británico afirma que al científico iraní lo mató el Mossad", "text": "Diario británico afirma que al científico iraní lo mató el Mossad\nVisto: 454\negonzalez\nInternacionales\nUn periódico con sede en Londres dice que los agentes de la agencia de inteligencia israelí, Mossad, son responsables de los recientes ataques en Teherán/ La muerte de Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan es una acción claramente destinada a golpear el programa nuclear del país persa\nEl diario británico Sunday Times señaló este lunes que el asesinato del científico nuclear iraní Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan fue obra del Mossad (servicios secretos isrealíes).\nUn periódico con sede en Londres dice que los agentes de la agencia de inteligencia israelí, Mossad, son responsables de los recientes ataques en Teherán dirigido que mató a científico nuclear iraní semana el año pasado.\nCitando fuentes anónimas israelíes, el Sunday Times señala que pequeños grupos de agentes del Mossad habían estudiado cuidadosamente el lugar y el momento preciso para ejecutar el crímen, incluso que el científico había sido monitoreado por agentes instalados en una casa cercana a la de su habitación.\nEl informe agrega que el agente que ejecutó la acción iba enmascarado a bordo de una motocicleta, se acercó al vehículo del científico en momentos de tráfico e implantó la bomba.\nLa muerte de Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, un académico de 32 años, experto químico y uno de los directores de la instalación de enriquecimiento de uranio de la planta de Natanz, es una acción claramente destinada a golpear el programa nuclear del país persa.\n(RNV)", "url": "http://vtv.gob.ve/index.php/internacionales/75035-diario-britanico-afirma-que-al-cientifico-irani-lo-mato-el-mossad", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120412134437/http://vtv.gob.ve/index.php/internacionales/75035-diario-britanico-afirma-que-al-cientifico-irani-lo-mato-el-mossad" } ]

[ "Europe", "France", "Politique", "Politique française", "Élection présidentielle française de 2017", "Benoît Hamon", "Mars 2017 en France|12" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Trois questions autour de la mise en examen de Benoît Hamon pour \"injure publique\"", "text": "Depuis le début du mois de mars, l'extrême droite dénonce sur les réseaux sociaux le silence des médias au sujet de la mise en examen de Benoît Hamon, en décembre dernier, pour \"injure publique\". Une procédure qui n'a pas fait les grands titres et qui date de décembre 2016, plus d'un mois avant la primaire de la gauche dont il est sorti vainqueur.\nBoum : Benoît Hamon vient d’être mis en examen (évidemment, silence média) https://t.co/FLNfotfEdf — Louis Aliot (@louis_aliot) 6 mars 2017\nPas de flash info, ni émotion ni colère de la presse... ah oui, il est candidat du système. #Hamon https://t.co/JaWCFmL6e7 — Jerome Riviere (@jerome_riviere) 7 mars 2017\nDans le contexte des déboires judiciaires de François Fillon et de Marine Le Pen, Louis Aliot, vice-président du Front national s'émeut du \"silence média\" ; quand Jérôme Rivière, membre du comité stratégique de la campagne de Marine Le Pen, écrit : \"Pas de flash info, ni émotion, ni colère de la presse... Ah oui, il est candidat du système.\" Franceinfo vous explique pourquoi la comparaison de cette affaire avec celles touchant le candidat du parti Les Républicains ou le FN ne tient pas.\nQue reproche-t-on à Benoît Hamon ?\nEn novembre 2015, en pleine campagne pour les régionales, le prétendant à présidence de la République dénonce le soutien de Nicolas Miguet à Valérie Pécresse en Ile-de-France. Il tweete : \"L'escroc Miguet roule pour Pécresse. Votez #AvecBarto.\" A la suite de ce message, Nicolas Miguet, homme d'affaires controversé et président du Rassemblement du contribuable français, porte plainte pour \"injure publique\" contre Benoît Hamon. Le candidat, vainqueur de la primaire de la gauche, est mis en examen pour \"injure publique\" le 7 décembre 2016.\nPourquoi certains s'indignent ?\nContacté par L'Express.fr, Nicolas Miguet s'insurge et n'hésite pas à faire le parallèle avec les affaires qui entachent la campagne présidentielle. \"Même si je n'ai pas la prétention d'être le nombril du monde, je note que, le concernant, la justice va moins vite que dans les dossiers qui concernent Marine Le Pen et François Fillon. Il y a une justice à deux vitesses\", dit-il.\nD'abord relayée par des sites d'informations locaux (Normandie-actu ou Le Réveil normand) en raison des origines normandes de Nicolas Miguet, l'information a été reprise par des sites néo-conservateurs et d'extrême droite : Dreuz.info, Le Salon beige, TVLibertés, Breizh-info...\nPourquoi cette mise en examen est une formalité ?\nC'est une question de procédure : pour les cas d'injure publique ou de diffamation, la mise en examen est systématique. Il suffit d'identifier l'auteur des propos et de vérifier que Benoît Hamon est bien l'auteur des propos incriminés. Ce qui n'est pas difficile dans cette affaire où le tweet est toujours en ligne.\nD'ailleurs, l'avocate de Benoît Hamon précise à Libération que Nicolas Miguet a préféré invoquer l'injure publique plutôt que la diffamation. \"Pour attaquer Hamon en diffamation, la procédure pénale aurait exigé de lui qu’il rapporte la preuve que l’injure à son encontre était fausse\", écrit le quotidien. Or, Nicolas Miguet a été condamné en 2014 par l’Autorité des marchés financiers à 600 000 euros d’amende pour conflits d’intérêts. En clair, la procédure pour injure publique n'entraîne pas de débat sur les véracités des propos dénoncés (en l'occurrence, peut-on qualifier Nicolas Miguet d'escroc ?) et permet une mise en examen automatique.", "url": "http://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/presidentielle/trois-questions-sur-la-mise-en-examen-de-benoit-hamon-qui-affole-l-extreme-droite_2086959.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170308170611/http://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/presidentielle/trois-questions-sur-la-mise-en-examen-de-benoit-hamon-qui-affole-l-extreme-droite_2086959.html" } ]

[ "Amérique", "Amérique du Nord", "Canada", "Alberta", "Edmonton", "Transports", "Uber", "Droit", "Droit au Canada", "Taxis" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Edmonton légalise le service Uber", "text": "À Edmonton, les conducteurs d'Uber qui feront payer leurs passagers pourront écoper d'une amende. Photo : Sergio Perez / Reuters À Edmonton, les conducteurs d'Uber qui feront payer leurs passagers pourront écoper d'une amende. Photo : Sergio Perez / Reuters\nEdmonton est devenue mercredi la première ville canadienne à encadrer le service de transport Uber à la suite d'un vote divisé au conseil municipal.\nNicolas Pelletier Un texte de\nLe règlement adopté par huit membres du conseil contre quatre entrera en vigueur le 1er mars.\nLes enjeux de la discussion ont porté sur la volonté, d'un côté, de laisser les lois du marché réguler l'industrie des transports et de l'autre, d'encadrer les activités d'Uber afin d'éviter les abus. Il a notamment été question de faire évoluer l'industrie du taxi.\nRéglementations\nLes règles entourant le transport de particuliers seront appelées à changer à Edmonton, autant pour les taxis que pour le service Uber.\nAfin de voir son service légalisé, Uber devra remplir certaines obligations, comme par exemple obtenir un permis d'exploitation de 70 000 $ chaque année auprès de la Ville d'Edmonton ainsi que des assurances pour ses conducteurs. Une taxe de 6 cents par course sera également payée par l'utilisateur.\nLes prix des courses de taxis hélés dans la rue ou depuis les bornes devront être prédéfinis, ce qui éliminera le système de compteur pour ces types de courses.\nEn revanche, le fait d'être hélé par un passant continuera d'être le privilège des taxis enregistrés auprès de la Ville d'Edmonton.\nTout autre déplacement effectué à l'aide d'un service de transport - taxi ou Uber - aura un prix plancher de 3,25 $ et utilisera un système de compteur, que ce soit par une application mobile ou directement dans le véhicule.\nRéactions\nRamit Kar, porte-parole d'Uber à Edmonton. Photo : CBC / ICI Radio-Canada Ramit Kar, porte-parole d'Uber à Edmonton. Photo : CBC / ICI Radio-Canada\nLe porte-parole d'Uber à Edmonton, Ramit Kar, a déclaré que les discussions avec les employés de la Ville avaient permis de trouver un accord.\n« Nous sommes toujours contre l'idée d'imposer des frais minimum, mais nous sommes satisfaits en ce qui concerne l'annulation de l'obligation d'enregistrer individuellement tous nos chauffeurs, a-t-il déclaré. Au début, il y avait beaucoup de points litigieux, mais en discutant avec l'administration municipale, nous en sommes arrivés à un cadre qui nous convenait. »\nLe conseiller municipal Michael Oshry s'est au contraire dit déçu qu'un prix plafond n'ait pas été imposé, citant les périodes où la demande plafonne comme lors des tempêtes de neige.\nLe maire Don Iveson a tenu à statuer que « le conseil municipal pourra intervenir si les prix de l'industrie du transport étaient hors de contrôle ».\nLa compagnie Uber, implantée à San Francisco, a mis sur pied en 2009 une application mobile permettant à des clients d'entrer en contact avec des chauffeurs indépendants afin d'obtenir un service de transport. L'application d'Uber fonctionne actuellement dans 68 pays.\nUn vote tenu dans le calme\nAlors que la séance de mardi avait été interrompue par des manifestants opposés au projet, la délibération a repris dans le calme mercredi.\nLe maire Don Iveson a d'ailleurs entamé la rencontre en avertissant l'auditoire qu'il détenait l'autorité pour expulser toute personne au comportement déplacé.\nLe vote s'est tenu en fin d'après-midi dans une salle quasi vide, désertée symboliquement par les chauffeurs de taxi venus protester contre l'adoption du règlement.", "url": "http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/alberta/2016/01/27/010-uber-legalisation-edmonton-taxi-alberta.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160129000728/http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/alberta/2016/01/27/010-uber-legalisation-edmonton-taxi-alberta.shtml" } ]

[ "Themenportal Politik", "Themenportal Recht", "Themenportal Russland", "Politik in Russland", "Recht in Russland", "Urteil", "Geldwäsche", "Unterschlagung", "Straftat allg.", "Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte", "Michail Chodorkowski" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Chodorkowski zu weiteren sechs Jahren Haft verurteilt", "text": "ZUR PERSON\nMichail Chodorkowski war während der wilden Jelzin-Jahre das Gesicht des jungen postsowjetischen Kapitalismus, die vergangenen sieben Jahre verbrachte er in einem sibirischen Arbeitslager und in Moskauer Gefängnissen. Chodorkowski wurde 1963 als Sohn eines jüdischen Vaters in Moskau geboren, er ist verheiratet und hat vier Kinder. 1987, während der Zeit von Gorbatschows Reformen, nutzte er als Funktionär des Jugendverbands Komsomol seine Verbindungen, um eine erste Privatfirma zu gründen: Sie handelte mit Computern und Alkohol. Die Gewinne investierte er in den Aufbau einer der ersten Privatbanken Russlands, bald darauf erwarb er 78 Prozent der Aktien der Ölfirma Jukos.\nDen Konzern entwickelte Chodorkowski zu einem Imperium mit 100.000 Mitarbeitern - 2002 machte Jukos über elf Milliarden Dollar Umsatz. Das US-Wirtschaftsmagazin \"Forbes\" führte ihn 2003 mit einem Privatvermögen von acht Milliarden Dollar auf Platz 26 der reichsten Männer der Welt. Chodorkowski nutzte seinen Bekanntheitsgrad, um öffentlich Präsident Putin zu kritisieren - obwohl dieser die Oligarchen bei seinem Amtsantritt zu politischer Zurückhaltung aufgefordert hatte.\nAm 25. Oktober 2003 verhaftete der Geheimdienst Chodorkowski auf dem Flughafen in Nowosibirsk; wegen Steuerhinterziehung und Betrugs wurde er zu acht Jahren Arbeitslager verurteilt. Selbst Putin-Berater räumten ein, an Chodorkowski werde \"ein Exempel\" statuiert. In dem zweiten Prozess gegen den Kreml-Kritiker begann am 27.12.2010 die Urteilsverkündung. Chodorkowski wurde wegen Betrugs und Geldwäsche schuldig gesprochen. Ihm wird vorgeworfen, 1999 bis 2003 insgesamt 218 Millionen Tonnen Öl unterschlagen und gesetzwidrige Einkünfte \"gewaschen\" zu haben. Die Staatsanwaltschaft forderte sechs weitere Jahre Haft für Chodorkowski.", "url": "http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,737203,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20101231103721/http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,737203,00.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Putins Erzfeind: Berlin empört über verlängerte Haft für Chodorkowski", "text": "Ministerpräsident Wladimir Putin hatte kürzlich im Staatsfernsehen eine Verurteilung Chodorkowskis gefordert. Unmittelbar nach dem Urteil lehnte Putins Sprecher Dmitri Peskow eine Stellungnahme ab. Der Ministerpräsident und ehemalige Staatspräsident gilt als Erzfeind des früheren Yukos-Chefs und als treibende Kraft hinter dem Prozess.\nChodorkowski hatte seit den 90er-Jahren verschiedene Oppositionsparteien finanziert. Während einer Diskussion mit dem damaligen Präsidenten Putin warf er dem Kreml im Jahr 2003 vor laufenden Kameras Korruption vor. Noch im selben Jahr wurde Chodorkowski wegen angeblicher Steuerhinterziehung und Unterschlagung festgenommen. Beobachter vermuten, dass Putin erneut zur Präsidentenwahl 2012 antreten will und Chodorkowski mindestens so lange im Gefängnis bleiben soll.\n\"Vertrauen in rechtsstaatliche Modernisierung erschüttert\"\nNeben Deutschland kritisierten auch die USA sowie die Europäische Union die Verurteilung scharf. \"Schockiert und zutiefst persönlich betroffen\" zeigte sich der Menschenrechtsbeauftragte der Bundesregierung, Markus Löning (FDP). Er sagte, das Verfahren, der Schuldspruch und die Höhe des Urteils \"erschüttern das Vertrauen in die rechtsstaatliche Modernisierung Russlands\". Weiter sagte er: \"Nun müssen wir in Europa überlegen, wie wir die russische Zivilgesellschaft, die Leute, die für Bürgerrechte, Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit kämpfen, in Zukunft besser unterstützen können.\" Grünen-Chefin Claudia Roth sagte, Chodorkowski und sein ebenfalls zu 14 Jahren Haft verurteilter Ex-Geschäftspartner Platon Lebedew sollten wohl \"nach dem Willen der russischen Machthaber für immer hinter Gittern verschwinden\".\nAuch in Russland wurde Kritik geäußert: \"Dieses ungerechte und sinnlose Urteil ist eine Schande für Russland\", sagte die Menschenrechtlerin Ljudmila Alexejewa der Staatsagentur Ria Nowosti. Der frühere Vize-Regierungschef und heutige Kremlkritiker Boris Nemzow nannte das Urteil \"Putins 'Vendetta'\" (Rache) für Chodorkowskis Unterstützung der Opposition. Putin leide an einer \"besonders perversen Form von 'Chodorophobie'\". Zum Zeitpunkt von Chodorkowskis Verhaftung 2003 war Putin Präsident.", "url": "http://www.ftd.de/politik/international/:putin-kritiker-chodorkowski-muss-bis-2017-ins-gefaengnis/50210188.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110102012754/http://www.ftd.de/politik/international/:putins-erzfeind-berlin-empoert-ueber-verlaengerte-haft-fuer-chodorkowski/50210188.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Aktuelle Nachrichten, Hintergründe und Kommentare", "text": "\"Am meisten Mühe habe ich mir mit seinem Lächeln gegeben\"\nDer 17-jährige Johannes Häfele imitiert Bundeskanzler Sebastian Kurz - und ist damit in ganz Österreich bekannt geworden. Er erklärt, worauf es bei seiner Parodie ankommt und warum sie sogar für ÖVP-Wähler annehmbar ist.", "url": "http://www.sueddeutsche.de/o5D38f/3809520/Empoerung-ueber-Chodorkowskij-Urteil.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210414035124/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/" } ]

[ "Pennsylvania", "New Hampshire", "Rick Perry", "Republican Party (United States)" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "State Sen. Greenleaf Files For New Hampshire Ballot.", "text": "By John Micek\nOK ...\n... they told him his district is staying in Montgomery County, right?\nNonetheless, state Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, a veteran Republican from suburban Philly, has filed to run in the New Hampshire primary.\nIn a statement, Greenleaf, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, says his Quixotic bid (which really does a disservice to Quixotic bids everywhere) is less about a candidacy than making a statement.\nWow ... first Kim Kardashian divorces. Now this. Can the day get any more strange?\nStu Greenleaf, candidacy papers", "url": "http://blogs.mcall.com/capitol_ideas/2011/10/state-sen-greenleaf-files-for-new-hampshire-ballot.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160305102452/http://blogs.mcall.com/capitol_ideas/2011/10/state-sen-greenleaf-files-for-new-hampshire-ballot.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Greenleaf on presidential ballot", "text": "Posted: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 5:55 am |\nWhat does state Sen. Stewart J. Greenleaf have in common with Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney?\nHe’s on the ballot in New Hampshire seeking the Republican nomination for president.\nGreenleaf, whose 12th District represents parts of Bucks and Montgomery counties, is among 44 candidates on the ballot for president in the New Hampshire primary.\nIn a press release Monday, Greenleaf said he placed his name on the New Hampshire ballot not to run for president or make the White House his home, but to put forth ideas to help America find innovative solutions for a brighter future.\n“Every four years, New Hampshire voters listen, they process, they seek out the best ideas and they elevate those ideas into the national debate,” Greenleaf stated. “We must resolve our national debt not only so our nation survives, but so that we as Americans thrive and prosper once again.”\nGreenleaf hopes to add to the debate and “stimulate a robust discussion on eliminating our national debt” and making it unconstitutional for any future president or future Congress to pass unbalanced budgets.\n“My goal is national solvency now and for the future, so that American workers and American businesses can get back to expanding, innovating and prospering again,” he stated in his press release. “I want our still competitive industries to have the chance to compete and I want to ensure that our advanced technologies and new products are not stolen and counterfeited. I want the American worker to have every possible opportunity for employment in this country.”\nIn his four-page plan, Greenleaf estimates America has $127 trillion in assets, such as mineral and timber rights. He said “backing the dollar with the value of federal assets would allow us to print $15 trillion to pay off our debt to foreign creditors and to the Federal Reserve.”\nHe distinguishes that plan from recent monetary printing, which he called “ ‘Monopoly’ money because it isn’t backed by anything of actual value.”\nGreenleaf’s plan requires a balanced budget amendment, because “we must ensure that (the debt) can never be run up again.”\nBesides a “debt-free USA,” Greenleaf is calling for:\nTariff tweaking: protecting American industries so they can compete with foreign businesses\nIntellectual property protection: protecting copyrights and patents from piracy and counterfeiting by foreign competitors\nRelaxed, responsible credit requirements: a careful process designed to free up the large cash reserves banks and industries are sitting on\nAmerican Citizen Employment Act: require the use of E-Verify to ensure every new hire is a U.S. citizen\nGreenleaf, 72, is chairman of the state Senate Judiciary Committee and has been the district’s senator since 1979.\n“Stewart is a very smart guy,” said Terry Madonna, a Pennsylvania political expert and director of the Franklin & Marshall College Poll. “He’s been judicial chairman of the Senate since before the fall of the Roman Empire. He’s a hands-on senator with a good reputation in Harrisburg.”\nBut, Madonna added, “He’s certainly not even on the radar of anyone for the presidency and is clearly not going to be the nominee.”\nGreenleaf also is vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Operations Committee and a member of Appropriations, Banking and Insurance and Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure committees.\nTwo weeks ago, the state Senate passed Greenleaf’s S.B. 100 legislation, which contains provisions to address prison overcrowding, recidivism and to reduce the high costs of incarceration.\nAccording to The Associated Press, it’s relatively cheap and easy to get on the presidential ballot for the New Hampshire primary compared with other states. Candidates must meet basic requirements to be president, fill out a one-page form and pay a $1,000 filing fee. In contrast, there’s a $35,000 filing fee for South Carolina’s Republican ballot.\nNew Hampshire is expected to set a date for its primary on Wednesday. The 44 candidates come from 26 states.\nThe number of candidates on the ballot has fluctuated over the years, depending on whether an incumbent president was running. In 1980, there were 12 candidates, seven Republicans and five Democrats. The all-time high was 1992, when 36 Democrats and 25 Republicans were on the ballot. In 2008, there were 30 candidates, 21 Republicans and nine Democrats.\nThe Associated Press\ncontributed to this story.\nGary Weckselblatt: 215-345-3169; email, gweckselblatt@phillyBurbs.com; Twitter, @gweckselblatt", "url": "http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/the_intelligencer_news/greenleaf-on-presidential-ballot/article_820a5efb-d687-547a-a8a2-678cb368c146.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111101114430/http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/the_intelligencer_news/greenleaf-on-presidential-ballot/article_820a5efb-d687-547a-a8a2-678cb368c146.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "The long, long New Hampshire ballot", "text": "The New Hampshire primary ballot will feature more names than ever this year, and a source sends over a list of all the many candidates – only some of them whom readers will recognize – who had filed as of 4 p.m. today:\nREPUBLICAN CANDIDATES\nRon Paul, Lake Jackson, Texas (mail: 8000 Forbes Place, Ste. 200, Springfield, VA 22151)-filed by representative\nFred Karger (155 McAulay Place, Laguna Beach, CA 92651) - filed in person\nAndy Martin, Chicago, IL (mail: PO Box 1851, New York, NY 10150-1851) - filed by mail\nJon Huntsman, Salt Lake City, UT (mail: 1850 Elm St. #2, Manchester, NH 03104) - filed in person\nBuddy Roemer, Baton Rouge, LA (66 Hanover Street, Manchester, NH) - filed in person\nHerman Cain, McDonough, GA (PO Box 2158, Stockbridge, GA 30281) - filed by representative\nVern Wuensche, Houston, Texas (PO Box 941171, Houston TX 77094-7519) — filed in person\nRick Santorum, Great Falls, VA (PO Box 609, Great Falls, VA 22066) - filed in person\nMark Callahan, Eugene, OR (P.O. Box 71424, Springfield OR 97475) - filed by mail\nMitt Romney, Belmont, MA (585 Commercial Street, Boston, MA 02109) -filed in person\nHugh Cort, Birmingham, AL (3461 Spring Valley Court, Birmingham AL35223) - filed by mail\nL. John Davis, Jr., Grand Junction CO (PO Box 4920, Grand Junction CO 81502-4920 - filed by mail\nJoe Story, Jacksonville, FL (12012 Flynn Road, Jacksonville FL, 32223) - filed by mail\nLinden Swift, Plainfield IN (PO Box 203, Plainfield IN 46168) - filed by mail\nJames A. Vestermark, Taylor Mill KY (3157 Taylor Creek Drive, Taylor Mill KY 41015) - filed by mail\nJeff Lawman, Derry, NH (35 Manchester Road, 11A-243, Derry NH 03038) - filed in person\nJoe Robinson, Newton, MA (227 California Street, Newton, MA 02458) - filed in person\nKeith Drummond, Katy, TX (PO Box 5669, Katy, TX 77491) - filed in person\nNewt Gingrich, McLean, VA (7410 Windy Hill Court, McLean VA 22102) - filed in person\nRandy Crow, Kelly, NC (PO Box 11, Kelly NC 28448) - filed in person\nMichele Bachmann, Stillwater, MN (2550 M Street, NW, Washington DC 20037) - filed by mail\nMichael J. Meehan, St. Louis, MO (3065 Armona Drive, St. Louis MO 63120) - filed by mail\nBenjamin Linn, Milford, NH (15 North Street, Milford NH 03055) - filed by mail\nChristopher V. Hill, Prospect, KY (9462 Brownsboro Rd #164, Louisville KY 40241) - filed in person\n*Friday, October 28, 2011 - all filings in person\nStewart J. Greenleaf, Huntingdon Valley, PA (1555 Terwood Road, Huntingdon Valley PA 19006)\nGary Johnson, Canoncito, NM (PO Box 1858, El Prado NM 87529)\nRick Perry, Austin TX (PO Box 1708, Austin TX 78767-1708)\nTimothy Brewer, Dayton, OH (3670 Charlotte Mill, Dayton OH 45418)\nKevin Rubash, Wilmette IL (PO Box 142, Kenilworth IL 60043-0142)\nBear Betzler, Philadelphia PA (PO Box 0537, Valley Forge PA 19481-0537)\nDEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES\nBarack Obama, Chicago, IL (PO Box 8102, Chicago, IL 60680) filed by VP\nDarcy G. Richardson, Jacksonville, FL (7810 Fox Tail Lane, Jacksonville, FL 32219)—- filed by mail\nAldous C. Tyler, Madison, WI (PO Box 45568, Madison, WI 53744) - filed by mail\nRobert B. Jordan, Garden Grove, CA (PO Box 1419, Garden Grove, CA 92842) - filed by mail\nJohn D. Haywood, Durham, NC (PO Box 61419, Durham, NC) - filed by mail\nBob Greene, Mountain View, CA (433 Sylvan Avenue #1, Mountain View, CA 94041) - filed by mail\nCraig Freis, Lake Elsinore, California (16519 Badalona Street, Lake Elsinore CA 92530) - filed by mail\nJohn Wolfe, Jr., Chattanooga, TN (707 Georgia Ave., Ste. 401, Chattanooga TN 37402) - filed by mail\nRandall Terry, Purgitsville, WV (101 Cantwell Court, Purgitsville WV 26852) - filed by mail\nEd Cowan, Moretown, VT (1151 Stevens Brook Road, Waterbury VT 05676) -filed in person\nCornelius Edward O'Connor, West Palm Beach, FL (PO Box 967, Palm Beach FL 33480) - filed by mail\nBob Ely, Lake Forest, IL (PO Box 652, Lake Forest, IL 60045) - filed by mail\n*Friday, October 28, 2011 - all filings in person\nEdward T. O'Donnell, Jr., Wilmington, DE (2005 Chestnut Street,\nVermin Supreme, Rockport, MA (PO Box 2384, Rockport MA 01966)", "url": "http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67115.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111030202335/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67115.html" } ]

[ "Themenportal Wissenschaft", "Botanik (allgemein)", "Genetik", "Baumwolle", "Kartoffel", "Reis", "Raps", "Mais", "Veröffentlicht" ]

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Dabei könne es sich ebenso um Schädlingsepidemien wie um eine Nuklearkatastrophe handeln. \"Falls der schlimmste Fall eintritt, könnten Menschen die Landwirtschaft auf dem Planeten Erde wieder neu aufbauen.\" Der Bunker wird von einer einen Meter dicken Betonmauer umschlossen sein. Aufgrund seiner arktischen Lage in der Nähe des 80. nördlichen Breitengrades würden Permafrost und lange Winter auf der Inselgruppe den Betrieb auch dann sicher stellen, wenn es zu einem Stromausfall käme. Derzeit befinden sich wichtige Genbanken in tropischen Breitengraden, so etwa die Reisgenbank des International Reisforschungszentrums auf den Philippinen, die rund 107.000 Reissorten umfasst und mit beträchtlichem Energieaufwand gekühlt werden muss. Die Baukosten werden auf drei Millionen US-Dollar veranschlagt, die die norwegische Regierung trägt. An den Betriebskosten werden sich neben dem Global Crop Diversity Trust auch die multinationalen Agrarkonzerne Dupont und Syngenta beteiligen – deren gentechnisch manipuliertes Saatgut von Kritikern selbst als Bedrohung natürlicher landwirtschaftlicher Pflanzensorten betrachtet wird. Die Konsultativgruppe für internationale Agrarforschung CGIAR hatte 2004 in einem Bericht gewarnt, dass in den kommenden Jahren Mais und Raps sowie mit geringerer Wahrscheinlichkeit Reis und Baumwolle durch transgene Pflanzen kontaminiert werden könnten. Das Projekt, das schon seit längerem diskutiert worden ist, wird zu einem Zeitpunkt begonnen, da verbreitete Pflanzensorten bedroht sind. Seit 1999 in Uganda ein so genannter Rostpilz 55 Prozent der dortigen Weizenernte vernichtete, hat sich der Pilz über Kenia und Äthiopien inzwischen bis nach Südasien verbreitet. Bei Kartoffeln ist es sowohl in Alaska als auch in Bangladesch zuletzt durch die Kartoffelfäule zu drastischen Ernteausfällen gekommen. Aktuelle Untersuchungen zu den Auswirkungen eines globalen Klimawandels haben außerdem gezeigt, dass wichtige landwirtschaftliche Pflanzensorten in einer dann veränderten Umwelt gefährdet wären. (nbo-tr/Technology Review)\nVersion zum Drucken | Per E-Mail versenden << Vorige | Nächste >> Kommentare lesen (156 Beiträge)\nAnzeige Ask.com Beta-Challenge\nTesten Sie im Rahmen der Beta-Challenge die Beta-Version\nvon Ask.com, der neuen Suchmaschine und geben Sie\nIhr qualifiziertes Feedback. Es winkt unter anderem\nein Treffen mit dem Chefentwickler von Ask.com.\nMehr >> Testen Sie im Rahmen der Beta-Challenge die Beta-Versionvon Ask.com, der neuen Suchmaschine und geben SieIhr qualifiziertes Feedback. Es winkt unter anderemein Treffen mit dem Chefentwickler von Ask.com.", "url": "http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/74423", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060621213413/http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/74423" }, { "language": "en", "title": "'Doomsday' seed bank to be built", "text": "Rice is one of the world's most important crops\nThe Norwegian government will hollow out a cave on the ice-bound island of Spitsbergen to hold the seed bank.\nIt will be designed to withstand global catastrophes like nuclear war or natural disasters that would destroy the planet's sources of food.\nSeed collection is being organised by the Global Crop Diversity Trust.\n\"What will go into the cave is a copy of all the material that is currently in collections [spread] all around the world,\" Geoff Hawtin of the Trust told the BBC's Today programme.\nMr Hawtin said there were currently about 1,400 seed banks around the world, but a large number of these were located in countries that were either politically unstable or that faced threats from the natural environment.\n\"What we're trying to do is build a back-up to these, so that a sample of all the material in these gene banks can be kept in the gene bank in Spitsbergen,\" Mr Hawtin added.\nThe Norwegian government is due to start work on the seed vault next year, when it will drill into a sandstone mountain on Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago, about 966km (600 miles) from the North Pole.\nPermafrost will keep the vault below freezing point and the seeds will further be protected by metre-thick walls of reinforced concrete, two airlocks and high security blast-proof doors.\nThe number of seeds and types of plants in the bank would be determined by the countries wishing to use it.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4605398.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060116034520/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4605398.stm" } ]

[ "Antarktyda", "Ciekawostki", "Nauka", "Świat" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Świat pod lodem", "text": "Kuzyni pod lodem\nZiemia śnieżka\nPozaziemska śnieżka\nKiedy w 1996 r. zdjęcia satelitarne potwierdziły, że pod rosyjską stacją naukową Wostok położoną we wschodniej Antarktydzie znajduje się zbiornik pełen słodkiej wody i wielki jak jezioro Ontario, badacze od razu zaczęli kombinować, jakby tu się do niego dostać. Pierwszą \"dziurę\" zrobili już dwa lata później. Ekipa uczonych z Rosji, USA i Francji wywierciła rdzeń lodowy o długości 3623 m, zatrzymując się ok. 150 m nad powierzchnią jeziora. Dlaczego naukowcy w ostatniej chwili zrezygnowali?Słynny rdzeń spod stacji Wostok przysłużył się potem do badań pradawnego klimatu. Naukowcy odczytali z niego wahania temperatury w ciągu ostatnich 420 tys. lat, znajdując cztery cykle zlodowaceń i interglacjałów. Udowodnili też, że zmiany temperatury wiązały się z wahaniami stężenia dwutlenku węgla w powietrzu.W lodzie, aż do głębokości blisko 2,5 km badacze znajdowali też mikroorganizmy - przetrwalnikowe formy bakterii, grzyby, glony. Na samym dnie odwiertu natknęli się na coś, czego nie potrafili zidentyfikować. Czy to możliwe, żeby w wodach podlodowego jeziora (nazwanego tak jak rosyjska stacja - Wostok) odciętego od świata zewnętrznego i atmosfery przez, jak sądzą uczeni, od miliona do 35 mln lat tliło się życie?Bardzo możliwe. Naukowcy szacują, że woda w jeziorze poddana olbrzymiemu ciśnieniu przez przetaczający się nad nią lodowiec jest przechłodzona do minus 3 st. C. W takiej temperaturze mikroorganizmy mogą nie tylko przetrwać, ale też się rozmnażać. Rozmnażać, a więc mutować i ewoluować. W jeziorze Wostok możemy się natknąć na organizmy, których na powierzchni Ziemi nie znamy. A ponieważ jego woda nie może zawierać wielu składników odżywczych, ewentualne wostokowe życie musi być bardzo rozproszone, nieliczne.Trzeba więc będzie bardzo uważać, żeby dowiercając się do tego dziewiczego jeziora, przy okazji go nie zanieczyścić. I nie chodzi tylko o zanieczyszczenia chemiczne związane z samym odwiertem. Katastrofą byłoby, gdyby ze źle wysterylizowanego sprzętu do Wostoku dostały się organizmy żyjące na powierzchni Ziemi.To dlatego w 1998 r. naukowcy w ostatniej chwili się zatrzymali. Bali się, że przez ich nieuwagę już nigdy możemy się nie dowiedzieć, czy gdzieś tam w dole żyją nasi pradawni kuzyni.Innym niebezpieczeństwem związanym z odwiertami jest bardzo duże stężenie gazów - w tym tlenu - w podlodowym jeziorze. Chwila nieuwagi i woda z jeziora może wytrysnąć na powierzchnię niczym gwałtownie odkorkowany szampan. Dla naukowców na górze byłaby to katastrofa - nie tylko Wostok uległby skażeniu, ale podlodowy gejzer zagroziłby ich życiu.Bardziej ostrożne wiercenia podjęto aż dziesięć lat później. Niestety, awaria sprzętu uniemożliwiła dotarcie do jeziora. Jak zapowiedzieli Rosjanie podczas odbywającego się kilkanaście dni temu spotkania Amerykańskiej Unii Geofizycznej w Baltimore, ponowną próbę podejmą w lutym przyszłego roku, w środku antarktycznego lata. Najpierw pobiorą próbkę z powierzchni jeziora i pozwolą wywierconej dziurze zamarznąć. Dopiero za kolejnym podejściem dotrą do osadów na dnie zbiornika.Wostok to największe ze 145 znanych naukowcom jezior ukrytych pod grubym lodem Antarktydy - długie na 250 km, szerokie na 50 km i głębokie na prawie 700 m. Odwierty do mniejszych zbiorników - w zachodniej części kontynentu - zapowiedzieli na najbliższe lata Amerykanie i Brytyjczycy. Pierwsi chcą dokopać się do jeziora Whillans znajdującego się blisko Lodowca Szelfowego Rossa, a drudzy planują dowiercenie się do położonego u nasady Półwyspu Antarktycznego jeziora Ellsworth.Naukowcy spekulują, że warunki panujące w jeziorach Antarktydy przypominają te, które dawno temu panowały w podlodowym oceanie Ziemi-śnieżki. Uważa się, że jedno z pięciu wielkich zlodowaceń, które nawiedziły naszą planetę w ciągu 4,5 mld lat jej życia skuło lodem całą planetę.W jednym z ostatnich wydań \"Science\" zespół naukowców pod kierownictwem prof. Francisa Macdonalda z Harvardu udowadnia, że Ziemia przypominała śnieżkę 720-700 mln lat temu.- Skamieniałości pokazują, że prawie wszystkie żyjące dziś na Ziemi organizmy eukariotyczne [takie, których komórki - w przeciwieństwie do bakterii - zawierają jądra], może z wyjątkiem zwierząt, istniały już przed tym potężnym zlodowaceniem - mówi prof. Macdonald. - Pojawia się więc pytanie, w jaki sposób przetrwały kilka lub kilkanaście milionów lat pod lodem. Czy ten dramatyczny okres przyczynił się do ewolucji zwierząt?Koncepcja Ziemi-śnieżki rodzi też inne pytanie. W jaki sposób zlodowaciała planeta zdołała w końcu odmarznąć? Co ją podgrzało? Biały śnieg odbija przecież aż 90 proc. promieniowania słonecznego.Hipotezę odpowiadającą na to pytanie zaproponował w latach 90. Joe Kirschvink z amerykańskiego Caltechu. Zamarznięta ziemia - utrzymuje Kirschvink - doprowadziła do niezwykle wysokiego stężenia dwutlenku węgla w powietrzu. Jak to możliwe? CO2 ciągle dostarczały do atmosfery wulkany. A ponieważ lód \"wykończył\" większość organizmów, które za pomocą fotosyntezy pozyskiwały z atmosfery dwutlenek węgla, stężenie tego gazu cieplarnianego musiało raptownie wzrosnąć. Tak więc klimat się w końcu ocieplił, lody puściły, ciemna woda zaczęła pochłaniać prawie całe promieniowanie słoneczne, ocieplenie przyspieszyło, oceany zaczęły parować i zasilać atmosferę w cieplarnianą parę wodną, ocieplenie jeszcze przyspieszyło, a życie wróciło na powierzchnię.Życie świetnie radzi sobie w ekstremalnych warunkach, to już dzisiaj wiemy na pewno. Dlatego astrobiolodzy, czyli naukowcy zajmujący się poszukiwaniem życia pozaziemskiego i wyjaśnieniem, jak narodziło się to ziemskie, z uwagą przyglądają się Europie i Enceladusowi. Podejrzewają, że te skute lodem księżyce - Jowisza i Saturna - pod swymi zmrożonymi skorupami kryją oceany płynnej wody. A jeśli tylko jest w tych oceanach jakieś źródło energii, np. podwodne kominy geotermalne, to przyjemną niszę mogłyby tam sobie znaleźć mikroorganizmy.", "url": "http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80355,7716973,Swiat_pod_lodem.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100404005002/http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80355,7716973,Swiat_pod_lodem.html" } ]

[ "Sudamérica", "Bolivia", "Evo Morales", "Economía y Negocios", "Sociedad", "Política", "Petróleo" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Violentas manifestaciones contra el \"gasolinazo\" en Bolivia", "text": "Juntas vecinales, pequeños comerciantes, transportistas y maestros participaron en las marchas que en las ciudades de La Paz y El Alto fueron multitudinarias este jueves, según constató Efe.\nSon organizaciones que tradicionalmente apoyaban a Morales, pero que hoy recriminaron la subida de los combustibles entre el 57 y 82% para las gasolinas y el diesel, de consumo masivo.\nLos mayores actos de violencia ocurrieron en El Alto donde los manifestantes incendiaron y saquearon las oficinas estatales del cobro de peaje en la autopista a La Paz, después de apedrear sedes vecinales, municipales y sindicales oficialistas.\nLa policía fue desbordada completamente en el lugar del peaje donde apareció una persona encapuchada y armada con un rifle que dijo ser de origen indígena y pidió a Morales que anule la subida de los carburantes.\nEl alcalde paceño, el opositor Luis Revilla, convocante de una protesta vespertina, alentó la movilización cuando pasó a las puertas del municipio, pero explicó que no la encabezaría para que preserve su esencia \"ciudadana\".\n\"Esta es una movilización ciudadana, no es política partidaria.\nQue no se confunda y el Gobierno que no trate de deslegitimar esta movilización\", declaró Revilla, dirigente del Movimiento Sin Miedo (MSM), una fuerza izquierdista, ex aliada de Morales.\nLos miles de manifestantes ocuparon el centro paceño e intentaron entrar en la Plaza Murillo, donde están los palacios del Ejecutivo y del Legislativo, pero fueron repelidos con gases lacrimógenos y golpeados por la policía.\nLos transportistas y las juntas vecinales corearon estribillos para pedir la renuncia de Morales, al que acusan de tomar el mismo tipo de medidas \"neoliberales\" que él criticaba y de favorecer a las petroleras con el aumento de los combustibles.\nEl ex alcalde paceño Juan Del Granado, jefe del MSM, a quien el oficialismo acusa de promover las protestas, dijo hoy que Morales debe cumplir su mandato hasta enero del 2015, pero también pidió un referendo para ver si la población aprueba o no el \"gasolinazo\".\nEl mandatario ha defendido personalmente la decisión de la subida con el argumento de que el Estado tenía una sangría de 150 millones de dólares anuales hacia los países vecinos por el contrabando de los combustibles, subvencionados cada año con 380 millones.\nPara aumentar la producción de carburantes líquidos en el país, el Ejecutivo también ha decidido pagar más a las empresas por el barril de petróleo y además crear un fondo de incentivos para las operaciones del sector, aunque aún no se conocen sus detalles.\nTambién hubo protestas en Oruro (este), Tarija (sur) y en Cochabamba (centro), donde miles de manifestantes también chocaron durante varias horas con los agentes de la policía y camioneros usaron sus vehículos para cortar el paso.\nEn una evaluación de las protestas realizada por el Ejecutivo antes del mediodía, el ministro de Gobierno (Interior), Sacha Llorenti, minimizó las protestas y sostuvo que la mayoría de las capitales regionales vivían \"una relativa normalidad\".\nEl descontento con el \"gasolinazo\" alcanzó a los productores de coca del Chapare, donde está la base social de Morales, sector que hoy bloqueó durante horas una de las carreteras troncales del país, informó a radio Erbol el dirigente cocalero Eulogio Franco.\nFranco dijo que el vicepresidente del país, Álvaro García Linera, viajará mañana a Chapare para explicar por qué se tomó la decisión de subir el coste de los combustibles.\nLos afiliados a la Confederación de Chóferes de Bolivia también protagonizaron hoy un paro que tuvo un seguimiento parcial, aunque el sector ya ha transferido a sus tarifas el costo del \"gasolinazo\".\nLas protestas no fueron aplacadas por el aumento salarial del 20% para la Policías, las Fuerzas Armadas, los maestros y médicos que fue anunciado el miércoles por Morales para compensar los problemas causados en la economía familiar.\nEsta mañana, Morales aseguró que en caso de que él fuera dirigente sindical rechazaría también el denominado \"gasolinazo\", aunque como mandatario debía cuidar la economía del país.", "url": "http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=640811", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160316213156/http://agencias.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=640811" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Furiosas protestas en Bolivia contra el aumento de la nafta", "text": "“Después de cinco años de contarnos que estamos en el país de las maravillas nos lanzan este hachazo por la espalda”, gritaba Carmen, comerciante, en la manifestación de ayer en La Paz, una de las tantas que hubo en varias partes del país con la misma consigna: que Evo derogue el gasolinazo o que se vaya .\nJuntas de vecinos, vendedores informales y transportistas marcharon por La Paz gritando contra el brusco corte de subsidios a las naftas, que subió los precios hasta un 83%. “El FMI debe tener las manos rojas de tanto aplaudir”, decía una periodista de radio y un cartel en las protestas combinaba el rostro de la ex primer ministra británica ultraliberal Margaret Thatcher con el del vicepresidente Álvaro García Linera. De hecho, se popularizó el término “gasolinerazo”, en referencia al apellido del vice, que anunció el ajuste, y la gasolina que se fue a las nubes.\nPor primera vez, “cholas” paceñas –bastión del partido Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) de Evo– gritaban: “¡Que renuncie, carajo!” .\nHubo también protestas masivas en el Norte de Potosí, donde los mineros dieron un plazo de tres días para que Evo derogue el decreto, y en El Alto y Cochabamba, donde fueron atacadas oficinas estatales, y hubo dos policías heridos y varios detenidos.\nAsí, diversos sectores respondieron al discurso del miércoles en la noche del presidente Evo Morales, cuando decretó un aumento del 20% en el salario mínimo y en los sueldos de policías, militares, maestros y trabajadores de la salud, junto a un paquete de medidas compensatorias como un seguro agrícola y doble aguinaldo para estatales. En cambio, a los del sector privado los dejó a merced de las negociaciones entre las empresas y los representantes de los trabajadores.\nA tal punto el discurso de Evo careció de convicción que lo complementó con una conferencia de prensa ayer en la mañana para anunciar más medidas como el aumento del bono escolar Juancito Pinto. Incluso informó que los conscriptos fabricarán pan en los cuarteles del Ejército , que será vendido al precio actual, mientras varios productos escasean o aumentaron de precios.\n“Es difícil para mí... Quiero que el pueblo de Bolivia sepa que con esta medida no cuido mi imagen sino la economía nacional”, se mantuvo Evo en sus trece ante las críticas.\nEl gasolinazo busca acabar con el contrabando hacia los países vecinos, invertir los casi 400 millones de dólares anuales de subsidios en otras áreas e incentivar la producción interna de petróleo.\nPero el anuncio fue brutal .\n“Lo llevamos al poder para que gobierne a favor del pueblo, no para que tome medidas neoliberales”, decía otra señora de pollera, mientras la policía lanzaba gases para dispersar a grupos que buscaban ingresar a la céntrica plaza Murillo de La Paz. Un cabildo en Oruro resolvió marchar desde el lunes hacia La Paz e igual actitud podría tomarse en Potosí.\nMilitantes del Movimiento sin Miedo (MSM) –la izquierda crítica– que gobierna la ciudad de La Paz y está enfrentado con el gobierno nutrieron las filas de las protestas, a la que se sumaron federaciones vecinales.\nFrente a las protestas, grupos de extrema izquierda se entusiasmaban con echar al gobierno “que defiende a las petroleras”, lo que parece bastante lejano.\nEl presidente Evo Morales es mucho más fuerte que sus predecesores: “Hay bronca pero la gente aún espera rectificación”, decía un historiador que observaba la protesta.\nCon todo, el Ministro de Gobierno Sacha Llorenti descalificó las marchas como expresiones de grupos minoritarios. Son “ provocaciones de pequeños grupos que bloquean e interrumpen el tráfico... nosotros no vamos a caer en las provocaciones. Las ciudades están poco a poco retomando a la tranquilidad”, aseveró el funcionario.", "url": "http://www.clarin.com/mundo/Furiosas-protestas-Bolivia-aumento-nafta_0_400160073.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110101015552/http://www.clarin.com/mundo/Furiosas-protestas-Bolivia-aumento-nafta_0_400160073.html" } ]

[ "Centroamérica", "Guatemala", "Judicial", "Política", "Sociedad" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "El Congreso de Guatemala rechaza antejuicio al presidente Jimmy Morales", "text": "Derechos de autor de la imagen Johan Ordóñez/AFP Image caption El presidente Jimmy Morales fue acusado de presunto financiamiento electoral ilícito.\nEl presidente de Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, no será sometido al antejuicio solicitado por la Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) de ese país.\nTras una polémica sesión, este lunes el Congreso acordó mantener la inmunidad del mandatario, acusado de presunto financiamiento electoral ilícito durante su campaña de 2015.\nLa decisión contradice el informe de la Comisión Pesquisidora del mismo Congreso, que la noche del domingo recomendó cancelar la inmunidad al presidente.\nSólo 25 de los 158 diputados avalaron el documento, que en cambio fue rechazado por 104 legisladores.\nLa votación causó polémica. Afuera del Congreso cientos de personas demandaron el antejuicio al presidente, mientras que dentro del recinto decenas de sus simpatizantes cantaron el himno nacional al concluir el conteo de votos.\nUno de los inconformes fue el diputado Amílcar de Jesús Pop. \"Esta decisión bloquea la verdad. Nos ganó la negociación espuria\", dijo.\nInforme polémico\nLa FGR junto con la Comisión internacional contra la impunidad en Guatemala (Cicig), acusaron al presidente de permitir el ingreso irregular de unos US$800.000 a los fondos de campaña cuando Morales era secretario general del ahora gobernante Frente de Convergencia Nacional-Nación (FCN-Nación).\nSon recursos aportados por empresarios que no se reportaron al Tribunal Supremo Electoral.\nEl 4 de septiembre la Corte Suprema de Justicia estableció que había indicios suficientes para juzgar al presidente. Y en eso coincidió la Comisión Pesquisidora.\n\"El señor Jimmy Ernesto Morales Cabrera en su calidad de presidente de la República debe ser puesto a disposición de la justicia común, en virtud de la probable participación en los hechos\", señala el documento.\nDerechos de autor de la imagen Johan Ordóñez/AFP Image caption La mayoría en el Congreso de Guatemala rechazó cancelar la inmunidad al presidente Jimmy Morales.\nSin embargo, la Comisión también señaló que la petición de la FGR y la Cicig para retirar la inmunidad al presidente \"se pudo haber promovido por razones políticas\".\nY es que el caso se promovió en los días en que Jimmy Morales declaró persona non grata al comisionado de la Cicig, Iván Velásquez, a quien pretendió expulsar del país.\nEn Guatemala muchos afirmaron que se trató de una respuesta al juicio que enfrentan el hijo y un hermano mayor del presidente.\nLa determinación fue cancelada definitivamente por la Corte de Constitucionalidad.\nPero en su informe la Comisión Pesquisidora dejó en manos del pleno del Congreso “evaluar si existen elementos políticos que hubieran podido condicionar la presentación de la solicitud de antejuicio”.", "url": "http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-41235780", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190319093405/https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-41235780" }, { "language": "es", "title": "El Congreso evita que el presidente de Guatemala Jimmy Morales sea investigado por corrupción", "text": "El Congreso de Guatemala evitó que el presidente Jimmy Morales sea investigado por la fiscalía y un órgano de la ONU por supuestas irregularidades en las finanzas del partido que lo llevó al poder en 2015, al rechazar este lunes que se le retire su inmunidad.\n\"Se declara sin lugar el antejuicio (levantar los fueros) en contra del presidente de la República, Jimmy Morales\", dijo tras la votación el diputado oficialista Marco Pineda, integrante de la directiva del Congreso.\nLa medida requería el respaldo de 105 de los 158 congresistas. Pero, de los legisladores presentes en el acto, sólo 25 votaron a favor mientras que 104 lo hicieron en contra.\nMorales de su lado celebró la resolución del Congreso y por medio de un comunicado la calificó como una muestra de \"madurez democrática\", a la vez que llamó a \"mantener la paz, la unidad y a que se fortalezca la institucionalidad\".\nEl pasado 25 de agosto, la fiscalía y la Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala (Cicig) -un ente adscrito a la ONU- pidieron retirar la inmunidad a Morales para investigarlo por presunto financiamiento electoral ilícito cuando fungió como secretario general del derechista FCN-Nación, que lo llevó al poder hace dos años.\nEl Ministerio Público dijo en un escueto pronunciamiento que \"la Fiscalía de Delitos Electorales realizará un análisis de lo resuelto por el Congreso de la República\".\nAntes de la decisión legislativa, una comisión especial de cinco congresistas opositores había recomendado quitar el blindaje a Morales, aunque no logró comprobar que el mandatario tuviera \"responsabilidad directa y personal\" en la administración de los fondos de campaña.\nLa comisión fue conformada luego de que la Corte Suprema de Justicia conociera el expediente y pasara el tema al Congreso el pasado 4 de septiembre.\nRespiro presidencial\nDurante la votación, varias organizaciones sociales y personas con tambores intentaban presionar al Congreso para quitar el privilegio a Morales, mientras otros grupos derechista respaldaban al presidente.\n\"¡Jimmy Morales, a los tribunales!\", coreaban los manifestantes opositores frente al Congreso.\nLa decisión del Congreso da un respiro al presidente por la crisis política que provocó su intento fallido de expulsar del país al titular de la Cicig, el ex magistrado colombiano Iván Velásquez, a quien acusa de injerencia en asuntos internos del Estado.\nLa orden de expulsión, que fue frenada por la corte constitucional, provocó protestas callejeras y el rechazo internacional, debido a que el jurista colombiano encabeza con la fiscalía una inédita lucha contra la corrupción en Guatemala desde 2015.\nPrevio a la votación, el vocero presidencial, Heinz Heimman, se valió de un extracto del informe de la comisión pesquisidora para afirmar que el proceso contra el presidente se movió presuntamente por \"razones políticas\".\nLa petición para retirar la inmunidad se hizo el mismo día que Morales se reunía en Nueva York con el secretario general de la ONU, Antonio Guterres, en medio de rumores de que pediría la remoción de Velásquez como jefe de la Cicig.\n\"Esa debería ser la prueba reina que el honorable Congreso debería considerar\", señaló Heimman.\nEl sábado, un emisario del presidente rechazó ante la comisión legislativa los cargos contra Morales y descargó la culpa por los errores financieros contra la ex contadora del partido, quien fue despedida el año pasado y denunciada ante la fiscalía.\nBlindaje al sistema\nLa bancada oficial estalló en júbilo al mantenerse la inmunidad a Morales, incluso ondeando banderas de Guatemala en el interior del Congreso.\nLos congresistas que estaban a favor de retirársela calificaron la decisión como un \"mensaje de impunidad\" a la población, que esperaba, según ellos, que Morales enfrentara a la justicia ordinaria.\n\"El Congreso queda mal parado. Estamos mandando un mensaje de impunidad\", dijo a periodistas el diputado opositor Mario Taracena, miembro de la Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (socialdemócrata) y ex presidente del Parlamento en 2016.\nEl analista y ex ministro del Interior, Carlos Menocal, indicó a la AFP que mantener la inmunidad al presidente se traduce en una protección del sistema de partidos políticos para evitar investigaciones por financiamiento ilegal, uno de los principales focos de corrupción, según la Cicig.\n\"El sistema político en general se blindó a sí mismo\", afirmó Menocal.\nMorales, de 48 años, ganó la presidencia en 2015 en medio de una convulsión política por la renuncia del gobernante Otto Pérez, tras ser acusado por la fiscalía y la Cicig de encabezar una red de defraudación fiscal en la aduanas.\nEl mandatario era popular por su trayectoria como comediante en la televisión y su ascenso electoral se debió al rechazo popular a los políticos tradicionales.\nAhora enfrenta una baja aprobación al no cumplir su promesa de accionar duramente contra la corrupción.", "url": "http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2017/09/12/59b7a157e5fdead60d8b45fc.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170912090610/http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2017/09/12/59b7a157e5fdead60d8b45fc.html" }, { "language": "es", "title": "El Congreso de Guatemala blinda a Jimmy Morales al impedir que sea investigado", "text": "Con únicamente 25 votos a favor de despojarlo de su inmunidad, el presidente de Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, ha logrado este lunes una victoria pírrica después de que el Congreso impidiera la investigación por su presunta vinculación con delitos relacionados con la financiación ilegal de la campaña que lo llevó al poder en las elecciones generales de 2015, según a la acusación del Ministerio Público (fiscalía) y el Tribunal Supremo Electoral.\nDe acuerdo con la ley, para que un funcionario aforado pueda perder su inmunidad, hace falta que al menos 105 de los 158 diputados voten a favor de la medida. En la sesión solo participaron 129 legisladores. La norma es específica en cuanto a que el desafuero no implica la culpabilidad del encausado, extremo que solo corresponde dictar a un juez del ramo penal. Solo abre las puertas para que la investigación en su contra pueda profundizarse sin las vallas que lo protegen por su investidura.\nFue, en buena medida, una decisión cantada con antelación. Ya la Comisión Pesquisidora formada por cinco diputados, en su informe al Congreso, dejaba las puertas abiertas para que el retiro de la inmunidad se viera entorpecido. Entre las argumentaciones de los investigadores, llamó la atención de que si bien sus integrantes encontraron \"hechos que ameritan ser conocidos por un juez del ramo penal\", puntualizaban que no encontraron indicios suficientes sobre la participación directa de Morales en los hechos punibles, a pesar de que en su calidad de secretario general de su partido era su responsabilidad directa.\nEl mandatario también cuenta con el grupo mayoritario en el Congreso: 37 escaños, así como partidos satélites como el Movimiento Reformador (20 escaños) y Alianza Ciudadana (13), suficientes para impedir una decisión en un sentido u otro. A esto se suma que el mayor partido de la oposición, Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE, con 32 escaños), decidió dejar en libertad a sus diputados para \"votar en conciencia\". Esto, pocos días después de que tanto la Fiscalía y la Comisión Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala (Cicig) pidieran que el jefe de ese grupo parlamentario, Orlando Blanco, fuera igualmente desaforado.\nA esto se añade la investigación en marcha contra un número no revelado de diputados por haber recibido sobornos de la brasileña Odebrecht, suficientes para diezmar la legislatura. Por lo que se entiende que los diputados hicieran piña en contra de una medida destinada a desterrar la impunidad. Resulta revelador que entre los argumentos más recurrentes de quienes ampararon a Morales esté la \"soberanía\" de Guatemala, así como tachar de \"comunistas\" a quienes apoyan la labor de la Cicig y la Fiscalía.\n\"Puede que Jimmy Morales se sienta envalentonado con este resultado, pero tanto su figura, como la del Legislativo continuarán deteriorándose. La gente lo verá como un 'hoy por ti, mañana por mí\", ha dicho a EL PAÍS el analista Luis Linares, de la Asociación para la Investigación y Estudios Sociales (Asíes, independiente) en alusión a la investigación en marcha sobre el escándalo Odebrecht. Añadió que, lo más grave, es el desgaste de la imagen de Guatemala en el exterior.\n\"Quienes votaron a favor de mantener la inmunidad del presidente son parte del sistema. No cabía esperar que fueran a hacerse un haraquiri político\", comenta a este periódico el director del Instituto de problemas Nacionales de la Universidad de San Carlos, Edgar Celada. Lo indudable es que el Gobierno queda muy debilitado, porque las fuentes de la crisis política e institucional se mantienen, añade. \"No hay señales de que desde el Ejecutivo haya capacidad para administrar la cosa pública como se esperaría\".\nJimmy Morales ha alcanzado una victoria pírrica. Si bien logró impedir que se le investigue por corrupción, su figura ha sufrido un desgaste mayúsculo, mientras el guatemalteco de a pie empieza a sufrir el impacto de la decisión de Morales de declarar non grato al comisionado de la Cicig, Iván Velásquez, y pedir su expulsión inmediata del país. Medios como The New York Times, The Washington Post y la revista británica The Economist calificaron a Guatemala como un país que, lejos de combatir la corrupción, la consiente y, en consecuencia, no es un lugar digno de confianza. La reacción fue inmediata y varias inversiones que se esperaban emigraron a otros países, según reconoció públicamente Antonio Malouf, uno de los altos dirigentes la iniciativa privada guatemalteca, hace ahora aliada de Morales.", "url": "https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/09/12/america/1505173980_211200.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170912035307/https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/09/12/america/1505173980_211200.html" } ]

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[ { "language": "en", "title": "Real Madrid extends Marcelo's contract until 2022", "text": "Real Madrid's Marcelo, right, is shown a red card by referee Hernandez Hernandez during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Levante at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017. The match ended in a 1-1 draw. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) (Photo: The Associated Press)\nMADRID (AP) — Real Madrid says it has extended the contract of veteran left back Marcelo until June 2022.\nThe Brazilian's current contract was valid until June 2020.\nThe 29-year-old Marcelo has been with the Spanish club since the 2006-07 season. He has won 17 titles with Madrid, including three Champions Leagues and four Spanish leagues.\nThe Brazil international received a two-match suspension following a red card for a hard foul at the end of the league game against Levante on Saturday. Marcelo will miss Sunday's match at Real Sociedad and Wednesday's game against Real Betis.\nMadrid is seventh in the league standings after three matches, four points behind leaders Barcelona and Real Sociedad.\nCopyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.", "url": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2017/09/13/real-madrid-extends-marcelos-contract-until-2022/105561002/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170913133743/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2017/09/13/real-madrid-extends-marcelos-contract-until-2022/105561002/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Marcelo: Brazil international full-back extends Real Madrid contract to 2022", "text": "Last updated on .From the section European Football\nMarcelo (right) is currently suspended for Real Madrid after being sent off against Levante\nMarcelo has agreed a contract extension with Real Madrid until the end of the 2021-22 season.\nThe 29-year-old full-back has been at Madrid since 2006, having joined the Spanish club from Fluminese.\nA Brazil international, he has made 406 appearances for Madrid, scoring 28 goals.\nDuring his time with the club, he has won the Champions League three times, La Liga four times and the Copa del Rey and Fifa Club World Cup twice.\nHe is suspended for Madrid's next two La Liga games after his ban for being sent off for a kick at Jefferson Lerma in Saturday's 1-1 draw at home to Levante was confirmed on Wednesday.\nThe left-back will be absent for Sunday's trip to Real Sociedad and the visit of Real Betis on 20 September.", "url": "http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41257795", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210125122614/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41257795" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Real Madrid extend Marcelo's contract to 2022", "text": "Real Madrid Signs up for an extra two years\nMarcelo has extended his Real Madrid contract, with the expiry date now moved from 2020 to 2022.\nLos Blancos have announced that the signing of this new deal will take place this Thursday, making this new agreement official.\nThe left-back was just 18 years old when he arrived at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in 2007 and he has gone on to become a vice-captain and to feature in 415 matches.\nWith this extension, Marcelo now has his sights set on his predecessor and idol Roberto Carlos's record for a foreigner of 527 appearances with Real Madrid.", "url": "http://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2017/09/13/59b92bcce5fdea4c298b4612.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170913192757/http://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2017/09/13/59b92bcce5fdea4c298b4612.html" } ]

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[ { "language": "de", "title": "Wahlen in Hessen und Niedersachsen", "text": "Artikel-Services\nWahlen in Hessen und Niedersachsen\nBis zur letzten Minute\n26. Januar 2008 Vor den Landtagswahlen in Hessen und Niedersachsen haben die Parteien mit Auftritten von Bundespolitikern die Endphase des Wahlkampfs begonnen. Bundeskanzlerin Merkel warf auf der Abschlußkundgebung der hessischen CDU in Frankfurt der SPD-Spitzenkandidatin Andrea Ypsilanti eine „unverantwortliche“ Politik vor. Die Wahl am 27. Januar, für die in Hessen ein knapper Ausgang erwartet wird, sei eine „existentielle“ Frage für das Bundesland. Hessens Ministerpräsident Roland Koch (CDU) sprach von einer „Richtungsentscheidung“, die Bedeutung für ganz Deutschland habe.\n„Die versammelte Linke“ versuche in Hessen, eine bürgerliche durch eine „linke Mehrheit“ abzulösen. Koch zeigte sich davon überzeugt, dass der Vorsprung der CDU vor der SPD am Wahlabend deutlicher ausfalle als erwartet. Kochs Regierungssprecher Dirk Metz wies die Kritik des stellvertretenden SPD-Vorsitzenden und Vizekanzlers Steinmeier an Kochs Kampagne gegen Gewaltkriminalität junger Ausländer als „dreistes Bubenstück“ zurück.\nKoch will nicht nach Berlin wechseln\nDer SPD-Vorsitzende Beck beschuldigte derweil die hessische CDU und ihren Spitzenkandidaten Koch, mit einem Wahlplakat, auf dem die ausländisch klingenden Namen der Spitzenkandidaten von SPD und Grünen genannt werden, „am rechten Rand zu fischen“. Frau Ypsilanti warf Koch und der CDU vor, mit ihrer Wahlkampagne das Land zu spalten. Sie bekräftigte am Freitag abermals ihre Absicht, nicht mit der Linkspartei zusammenzuarbeiten.\nMinisterpräsident Koch kündigte derweil an, im Fall einer Wahlniederlage nicht nach Berlin zu wechseln. In der jüngsten Umfrage des Meinungsforschungsinstituts Forsa liegt die CDU wieder knapp vor der SPD und hätte zusammen mit der FDP eine Mehrheit. Die CDU liegt danach bei 38 bis 39 Prozent, während die SPD auf 37 bis 38 Prozent kommt. Die FDP erreicht zwischen neun und zehn Prozent, für die Grünen wurden sechs bis sieben Prozent ermittelt. Unsicher ist, ob die Linkspartei den Einzug in den Landtag schafft.\nJugendkriminalität als bestimmendes Thema\nDer Ausgang der Wahl in Niedersachsen scheint dagegen sicher. Umfragen sagen für die CDU 45 bis 46 Prozent voraus und für die SPD 33 Prozent. FDP und Grüne kämpfen danach mit je sieben Prozent um die Rolle als drittstärkste Partei. Ob die Linkspartei als fünfte Partei in den Landtag kommt, hängt auch von der Wahlbeteiligung im zweitgrößten Flächenland Deutschlands ab.\nIn Hessen sind etwa 4,37 Millionen Bürger wahlberechtigt. Um die 110 Sitze im Landtag in Wiesbaden bewerben sich 17 Parteien und Gruppierungen. Die bestimmenden Themen im Wahlkampf waren neben der von Koch nach dem Münchner U-Bahn-Überfall angesprochenen Jugendkriminalität insbesondere die Schulpolitik. Vor allem Kultusministerin Karin Wolff (CDU) stand im Mittelpunkt der Kritik. SPD, Grüne, aber auch die FDP machten sie für Schwierigkeiten bei der Verwirklichung der Schulzeitverkürzung an den Gymnasien verantwortlich.\nEnergiepolitik ist stark umstritten\nAuch der Streit über das richtige Schulsystem bestimmte den Wahlkampf. Während die SPD eine Gemeinschaftsschule anstrebt, in dem alle Schüler bis zur zehnten Klasse gemeinsam unterrichtet werden soll, wollen die CDU und FDP am dreigegliederten Schulsystem festhalten. Die SPD setzte im Wahlkampf auch stark auf das Thema soziale Gerechtigkeit und startete eine Unterschriftenaktion zur Einführung von Mindestlöhnen. Stark umstritten war auch die Energiepolitik, in der die SPD auf erneuerbare Energien setzte. Auch der Ausbau des Flughafens Frankfurt war ein großes Thema.\nIn Niedersachsen bewerben sich insgesamt vierzehn Parteien und 746 Kandidaten um Stimmen. Die bisherigen Briefwahlstimmen, die geringe Polarisierung im Wahlkampf und das erwartete schlechte Wetter deuten darauf, dass die Wahlbeteiligung der 6,1 Millionen Wahlberechtigten noch deutlich unter den 67 Prozent bei der Wahl 2003 liegen kann. Nicht gesichert ist auch, wie sich die Verkleinerung des Landtages von 155 auf 135 Sitze und damit der umfassende Neuzuschnitt von Wahlkreisen auswirkt - 2003 hatte es zudem 28 Überhang- und Ausgleichsmandate gegeben. Im alten Landtag hatte die CDU mit 48,3 Prozent und 91 Abgeordneten die absolute Mehrheit nur knapp verfehlt.\nText: holl./vL./F.A.Z.\nBildmaterial: AP, F.A.Z., picture-alliance/ dpa", "url": "http://www.faz.net/s/RubEA30294A29CF46D0B1B242376754BC09/Doc~E23E3B2E64F1F4E7A9408AE66F3B7E961~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080127232723/http://www.faz.net/s/RubEA30294A29CF46D0B1B242376754BC09/Doc~E23E3B2E64F1F4E7A9408AE66F3B7E961~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "CDU Landesverband Hessen", "text": "03.01.2008\nRoland Koch:\nLieber 3 Tage Gefängnis als lebenslänglich kriminell!\nRoland Koch, hessischer Ministerpräsident Roland Koch, hessischer Ministerpräsident\nGanz Deutschland diskutiert über den brutalen Überfall zweier ausländischer Jugendlicher auf einen alten Mann in der U-Bahn in München. Eine Debatte, die jetzt ins Grundsätzliche geht: Was zählen Recht und Ordnung noch bei uns? Wie wichtig sind uns Tugenden wie Fleiß und Pünktlichkeit? Hessen Ministerpräsident Roland Koch stellt in BILD seine Thesen vor\nGanz Deutschland diskutiert über den brutalen Überfall zweier ausländischer Jugendlicher auf einen alten Mann in der U-Bahn in München. Eine Debatte, die jetzt ins Grundsätzliche geht: Was zählen Recht und Ordnung noch bei uns? Wie wichtig sind uns Tugenden wie Fleiß und Pünktlichkeit? Hessen Ministerpräsident Roland Koch stellt in BILD seine Thesen vor:\nTerrorgefahr, Bahnstreik, Energiekosten – jeden Tag werden die aktuellen Themen breit in Zeitung, Funk und Fernsehen diskutiert. Es gibt aber auch viele alltägliche Dinge, die den Menschen im Land unter den Nägeln brennen. Wie viele Bürger ärgern sich über verschmutzte Straßen und Wohnblocks, über lautes Rumpöbeln in Bussen und Bahnen oder unmögliches Benehmen gegenüber Älteren? Viele Menschen verspüren dann Angst, fühlen sich fremd und alleingelassen, sind hilflos. Mit Gesetzen allein ist es nicht getan! In unserem Land muss einfach Selbstverständliches auch wieder selbstverständlich werden:\n1. Respekt vor der älteren Generation!\nDer Anteil der älteren Generation in unserer Gesellschaft nimmt zu. Das erfordert einen respektvollen Umgang von Jung und Alt. Die Achtung vor dem Alter muss eine gelebte Tugend sein. Dem Älteren den Platz im Bus anzubieten, den Sitzplatz an der Bushaltestelle einer Älteren frei zu machen oder beim Tragen der Einkaufstasche behilflich zu sein – all das muss selbstverständlich sein!\n2. Höflichkeit muss „in“ werden\nAuch die kleinen „Signale des Alltags“ bestimmen den Zusammenhalt einer Gesellschaft. Höflichkeit gehört dazu. Muss es nicht normal sein, dem Nächsten die Tür im Supermarkt aufzuhalten oder auch ordentlich zu grüßen? Wir sprechen oft darüber, wie uns dieser oder jener neue Fernsehfilm gefallen hat. Sollten wir nicht auch öfter mal über Höflichkeit und eigentlich selbstverständliche Anstands- und Umgangsformen reden?\n3. Tugenden und Traditionen\n„Alles will gelernt sein“, „Ordnung ist das halbe Leben“, „Übung macht den Meister“ – für manche Zeitgenossen passen diese angeblich altbackenen Sprüche nicht mehr in unsere Welt. Aber haben diese altbewährten Redensarten nicht gerade in einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt einen einfachen, tiefgründigen Sinn? Gerade zum Miteinander der Generationen sollten wir diese Weisheiten nicht unter den Teppich kehren, sondern neu aufleben lassen. Ohne Fleiß kein Preis!\n4. Mut zur Erziehung\nSchon das Grundgesetz sagt: „Pflege und Erziehung der Kinder sind das natürliche Recht der Eltern und die zuvörderst ihnen obliegende Pflicht“. Der Staat hat durchaus ein Wörtchen mitzureden – deshalb brauchen wir bundesweit verpflichtende Vorsorgeuntersuchungen für Kinder. Aber der Staat kann und darf nicht die Familie ersetzen. Leistungsbereitschaft und Neugierde wecken, Grenzen aufzeigen und Ordnung vorleben – das müssen in erster Linie die Eltern. Verantwortungs- und Pflichtgefühl müssen in der und durch die Familie erlernt werden. Die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf – das ist auch Konsens zwischen den Parteien – muss verbessert werden, u. a. durch Ganztagsangebote. Aber mit Wahlfreiheit der Eltern und ohne staatlichen Zwang. Das böse Wort der „Lufthoheit über die Kinderbetten“ des Staates darf nicht Realität werden.\n5. Integration ist keine Einbahnstraße\nWir sind offen für andere Kulturen, keine Frage. Und nehmen diejenigen, die zu uns kommen, mit offenen Armen auf. Aber deren Integration in unsere Gesellschaft kann keine Einbahnstraße sein, deshalb muss es klare Regeln für das Zusammenleben in unserem Land geben. In Wohnvierteln mit hohen Zuwandereranteil muss es klare „Spielregeln“ geben, deren Beachtung für das Miteinander zwingend einzuhalten sind und deren Nichtbeachtung selbstverständlich Konsequenzen haben muss. Unsere Sitten und Gebräuche können und sollen nicht „mir nichts, dir nichts“ über Bord geworfen werden. Respekt und Toleranz müssen beide Seiten vorleben. Deshalb nur als Beispiel: Die Sprache im Miteinander muss Deutsch sein, das Schlachten in der Wohnküche oder in unserem Land ungewohnte Vorstellungen zur Müllentsorgung gehören nicht zu unserer Hausordnung.\n6. Grenzen und Disziplin\nDas Gewaltmonopol des Staates dient dazu, die Freiheit seiner Bürger zu sichern. Deshalb: konsequente Verbrecherjagd, Opferschutz statt Täterschutz. Nur: Den Zusammenhalt einer Gesellschaft kann der Staat auch nicht verordnen. Nicht nur für junge Menschen gilt beispielsweise: Grenzen aufzeigen, Disziplin gehört auch zum Zusammenleben dazu. Lieber drei Tage Gefängnis als Warnschuss für einen jungen Gewalttäter am Anfang als eine lebenslange kriminelle Karriere! Besonders wichtig ist, dass wir nicht wegschauen, wo menschliches Zusammenleben in Gefahr zu geraten droht: Wenn eine junge Frau an der U-Bahn angegriffen wird, eine ältere Frau kaum stehen kann, aber keiner ihr einen Sitzplatz anbietet, ein Rentner im Dunkeln respektlos angegangen wird oder ein Schwarzafrikaner Opfer einer Jugendbande wird, dann darf nicht weggeschaut werden. Dann muss eingegriffen und alarmiert werden.\nDiese Probleme müssen offen und deutlich angesprochen werden. Wer dazu nicht den Mut hat, kennt die Probleme nicht. Oder verschweigt sie einfach und lässt alles so weiterlaufen.\nFakt ist: Jeden Tag sprechen die Menschen darüber, in der Frühstückspause, beim Kaffeeklatsch, im Verein, am Tresen. Eine ganze Generation hat nach den Schrecken des Krieges aus Trümmern ein Wirtschaftswunderland gemacht. Diese Leistung setzt sich bis heute fort: Hoch qualifizierte Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer, mutige Firmenchefs und Unternehmenspersönlichkeiten sind ein Garant für die Stärke unseres Landes. „Made in Germany“ ist gestern wie heute ein Qualitätssiegel.\nAber wir brauchen auch wieder mehr selbstverständlichen Anstand, mehr Rücksicht und Zivilcourage. Konrad Adenauer hat bis heute recht: Das Wichtigste ist der Mut! Dafür ist es nie zu spät.", "url": "http://www.cduhessen.de/home/details.cfm?nr=6366", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080107042218/http://www.cduhessen.de/home/details.cfm?nr=6366" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Nancy Faeser (SPD): Koch plant weitere „Nullnummern-Gesetze\"", "text": "Meldung:\nWiesbaden, 08. Januar 2008\nNancy Faeser (SPD): Koch plant weitere „Nullnummern-Gesetze\"\nIm Bereich der Heranwachsenden im Alter von 18 bis 21 Jahre würde eine Verschärfung ebenfalls keine Wirkung zeigen, hier verbüßten in Hessen nur viert verurteilte Täter eine Jugendhöchststrafe. „Die Forderung nach einer Verschärfung des Jugendstrafrechts ist nichts weiter als Rechtspopulismus. Kein Täter würde dadurch härter bestraft, kein Opfer geschützt\", so Faeser.\nDie Justizpolitikerin verwies darauf, dass Koch „Wiederholungstäter\" sei: Im Dezember hatte er ein Burka-Verbot an Schulen gefordert, obwohl es überhaupt keine Burka-tragenden Mädchen in hessischen Schulen gäbe. „Das war die erste rechtspopulistische Wahlkampf-Nullnummer \", so Faeser.\nSie gehe davon aus, dass auch der Vorschlag zum Warnschussarrest ein ebensolches Nullnummern-Gesetz werde: Da die Koch-CDU bereits im Jahr 2000 eine von zwei Jugendarrestanstalten in Hessen geschlossen habe, widerspreche auch hier die Ankündigungspolitik der Realität. Dadurch gebe es heute - anders als vor 1999 unter Rot-Grün - viel zu wenige Arrestplätze in Hessen, so dass Jugendliche, die zu einem Arrest verurteilt werden, häufig einfach nach Hause geschickt werden müssten: „Roland Koch fordert Warnschussarrest und schickt in der Realität die Straftäter wieder nach Hause. Das ist schlimmer als eine Nullnummer\", urteilte Faeser.", "url": "http://www.spd-hessen.de/.net//meldungen/11801/51346.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185949/http://www.spd-hessen.de/.net//meldungen/11801/51346.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "rp-online.de", "text": "Weiter mit Werbung\nLesen Sie den frei verfügbaren Teil von RP ONLINE wie gewohnt mit Werbung und Tracking. Durch die Nutzung der Webseite erklären Sie sich mit den Nutzungsbedingungen einverstanden.\nWeitere Informationen zum Trackingverfahren finden Sie in der Datenschutzerklärung.", "url": "http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/aktuelles/politik/deutschland/525232", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210414034526/https://rp-online.de/info/consent/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Nachrichten - Startseite - heute-Nachrichten", "text": "Leverkusens Shootingstar Julian Brandt hegt keine großen Hoffnungen auf die Teilnahme an der EM im Sommer. \"Ich plane nicht damit\", sagte der 19-Jährige nach seiner erneut überragenden Leistung beim 2:0 gegen Köln: \"Es kommt alles relativ schnell. Es läuft in letzter Zeit besser als erwartet. Aber ich lasse die Kirche im Dorf.\" Brandt, der in den vergangenen drei Spielen jeweils das 1:0 für Bayer erzielte, hofft dagegen auf eine Teilnahme am olympischen Fußball-Turnier. \"Da- rauf hätte ich Bock\", sagte er: \"Ich habe noch keinen Anruf vom Trainer, (...). Aber das wäre eine geile Sache.\"", "url": "http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/21/0,3672,7151445,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160410202423/http://www.heute.de/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Niedersachsenwahl: Wer hat am Ende die Nase vorn?", "text": "Wenn man den Umfragen der Wahlforschungsinstitute Glauben schenken darf, dann ist das Ergebnis der Wahl in Niedersachsen, dem flächenmäßig zweitgrößten Land der Bundesrepublik, jetzt schon entschieden.\nLaut Umfrageergebnissen liegt CDU vorn\nSo veröffentlichte die Berliner Gesellschaft für Trend- und Wahlforschung, Infratest dimap, Mitte Januar Zahlen, wonach die CDU mit 44 Prozent deutlich vorne liegt. Zusammen mit der FDP (7 Prozent) würde sich eine Neuauflage der bisherigen Koalition ergeben, weil die SPD-Opposition nur 34 Prozent der Stimmen erhielt. Eine Regierungsbildung zusammen mit den Grünen (7 Prozent) wäre für die SPD demnach nicht möglich.\nDen Trend bestätigte auch die Mannheimer Forschungsgruppe Wahlen kurz darauf: CDU 46 Prozent, SPD 33 Prozent, FDP und Grüne jeweils sieben Prozent. Außerdem sollte man die Linke nicht außer Acht lassen: Sie könnte laut jüngsten Umfragen über die Fünf-Prozent-Hürde in den Landtag einziehen.\nKlare Sache für Wulff?\nAussichtslos scheint nach einer Umfrage des Mannheimer Forschungsinstitutes die Kandidatur von SPD-Herausforderer Wolfgang Jüttner für das Amt des Ministerpräsidenten zu sein. Wenn es eine Direktwahl gäbe, würden sich demnach bloß 23 Prozent der niedersächsischen Bevölkerung für den selbst ernannten Parteisoldaten entscheiden, für Ministerpräsident Christian Wulff (CDU) hingegen stolze 57 Prozent.\n\"Die Popularität für Wulff ist ganz einfach da. Er hat seinen Job als Ministerpräsident nach Meinung der Menschen gut gemacht und hat sich um das Land gekümmert. Sein Erfolg ist aber nicht objektiv feststellbar, die Umfragewerte beruhen eher auf Sympathie und Wertschätzung\", erklärt Matthias Jung, Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Wahlen.\nWulff ist - im Gegensatz zu seinem Pendant in Hessen, Roland Koch, - gänzlich ohne polarisierende Themen im Wahlkampf ausgekommen, dennoch oder vielleicht deshalb wird er trotzdem von den Menschen des Landes hoch geschätzt. Der Jurist habe das auch gar nicht nötig, sagt der Politikwissenschaftler Oscar Gabriel von der Universität Stuttgart.\nParteisoldat versus Schwiegersohn\n\"Wulff haftet das Etikett des populären Schwiegersohnes an. Auch wenn er ein schwaches Profil im Wahlkampf abgeliefert hat, profitiert er von seinem großen Amtsbonus. Die Erwartungshaltung in der Bevölkerung ist doch so, wenn er in seiner Amtszeit keine größeren Fehler gemacht hat und skandalfrei geblieben ist, dann ist das für alle in Ordnung\", sagt Gabriel.\nAls typisches Phänomen bezeichnet Gabriel Wulffs Status als Landesvater: \"Er muss sich nicht über bestimmte Themen definieren, sondern überzeugt mit seiner Führungsqualität und Persönlichkeit. So ist es für Jüttner ausgesprochen schwierig, etwas dagegenzusetzen.\"\nDem Image des 48-jährigen Wulff begegnete Gegenkandidat Jüttner mit seiner ganz eigenen Weise - nämlich der Taktik der lauten Worte. Jüttner kritisierte die Trennung Wulffs von seiner Ehefrau Christiane und den privaten Neubeginn mit seiner Partnerin, mit der er ein Kind erwartet. Von einer \"Schmutzkampagne\" sprach die CDU, von einem \"Eigentor\" des Kandidaten der hannoversche Kommunikationsprofessor Helmut Scherer. Denn Jüttners Kritik ziele auf eine eher konservative Klientel, bei der er ohnehin nichts gewinnen könne, sagte Scherer.\n\"Schlammschlacht\" hilft Jüttner auch nicht weiter\nAuch der Politikwissenschaftler Gabriel vertritt die Meinung, dass diese Schlagzeilen Wulff nicht geschadet haben. Ganz im Gegenteil: \"Diese Aktion von Jüttner ist bei der Bevölkerung nicht gut angekommen. Zudem spielen in Deutschland die persönlichen Lebensverhältnisse gar nicht so eine große Rolle - anders als in den USA.\"\nUnd so darf sich Wulff, der nach drei Anläufen 2003 Ministerpräsident für die CDU geworden ist, große Hoffnungen machen, noch fünf weitere Jahre Regierungschefs zu bleiben. Jüttner dagegen bleibt wohl weiterhin nur die zweite Reihe der Landespolitik. Es sei denn, die SPD in Niedersachsen kann unentschlossene Bürger noch für sich Lager mobilisieren. Die Anhänger der großen Parteien jedenfalls haben sich laut Infratest-Institut im Schnitt bisher zu 85 Prozent für eine Partie entschieden.", "url": "http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3087415,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080128115718/http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3087415,00.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Wahlumfragen Hamburg", "text": "Institut Quelle Befragte Datum CDU SPD G AL FDP Schill Sonstige\nInfratest DER SPIEGEL 23.08.2003 40 % 37 % 11 % 4 % 5 % 3 %\nPsephos Hamburger\nAbendblatt 731 23.08.2003 40 % 36 % 10 % 5 % 6 % 3 %\nEmnid Die Welt 1.002\n20.8. 21.08.2003 38 % 35 % 13 % 5 % 6 % 3 %\nEmnid Die Welt 1.000\n4.2.-5.2. 09.02.2003 42 % 26 % 13 % 5 % 12 % 2 %\nPsephos Hamburger\nAbendblatt 25.10.2002 34 % 36 % 13 % 5 % 8 % 4 %\nEmnid Die Welt 1.008\n2.9.-4.9. 09.09.2002 32 % 40 % 11 % 4 % 10 % 3 %\nEmnid BILD 07.02.2002 32 % 37 % 9 % 6 % 12 % 4 %\nPsephos Hamburger\nAbendblatt 02.02.2002 32 % 36 % 9 % 5 % 14 % 4 %\nForsa Die Welt 25.01.2002 31 % 35 % 10 % 4 % 15 % 5 %\nBürgerschaftswahl am 23.09.2001 26,2 % 36,5 % 8,6 % 5,1 % 19,4 % Regenb. 1,7 %\nDVU 0,7 %\nSonst. 1,8 %\nForsa Die Welt 20.09.2001 28 % 36 % 11 % 5 % 14 % Regenb. 3 %\nDVU 1 %\nSonst. 2 %\nInfratest-\ndimap Hamburger Abendblatt 13.09.2001 28 % 35 % 9 % 5 % 16 % Regenb. 2 %\nSonst. 5 %\nEmnid BILD 12.09.2001 30 % 34 % 10 % 6 % 14 % 6 %\nForsch'gr. Wahlen Süddeutsche Zeitung 08.09.2001 27 % 36 % 12 % 7 % 14 % Regenb. 2 %\nSonst. 2 %\nInfratest-\ndimap Hamburger Abendblatt 06.09.2001 28 % 35 % 10 % 7 % 14 % Regenb. 2 %\nRechte 2 %\nSonst. 2 %\nForsa Die Welt 29.08.2001 28 % 34 % 10 % 5 % 15 % Regenb. 3 %\nDVU 3 %\nSonst. 2 %\nInfratest-\ndimap Hamburger Abendblatt 16.08.2001 30 % 35 % 10 % 7 % 12 % Regenb. 1 %\nRechte 2 %\nSonst. 3 %\nInfratest-\ndimap Hamburger Abendblatt 12.07.2001 29 % 35 % 11 % 8 % 10 % Regenb. 1 %\nRechte 3 %\nSonst. 2 %\nForsa Die Welt 05.07.2001 31 % 37 % 9 % 5 % 9 % PDS 3 %\nSonst. 6 %\nInfratest-\ndimap Hamburger Abendblatt 14.06.2001 31 % 35 % 11 % 6 % 9 % 5 %\nForsa Die Welt 11.05.2001 33 % 34 % 12 % 5 % 8 % Regenb. 1 %\nSTATT 1 %\nSonst. 6 %\nForsa Die Welt 30.03.2001 31 % 36 % 13 % 4 % 8 % Regenb. 2 %\nSTATT 1 %\nSonst. 5 %\nPsephos Hamburger\nAbendblatt 06.02.2001 32 % 36 % 13 % 3 % 9 % Rechte 2 %\nSTATT 1 %\nSonst. 4 %\nInfratest-\ndimap Die Welt 01.12.2000 30 % 37 % 12 % 5 % 6 % Rechte 3 %\nSonst. 7 %\nPsephos Hamburger\nAbendblatt 1.004\n24.5.-25.5. 27.05.2000 33 % 38 % 11 % 6 % 3 % STATT 2 %", "url": "http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/landtage/hamburg.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20030823154154/http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/landtage/hamburg.htm" } ]

[ "Crime and law", "Florida", "United States", "Miami, Florida" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Chicago news, sports, weather, entertainment", "text": "St. Patrick’s Day is often celebrated with corned beef and cabbage, soda bread and Irish beef stew and then wash it all down with a tall pint of Guinness. Those tried and true recipes are a tradition. But for those of you who really enjoy the green foods, gimmicky cocktails and desserts decorated with four leaf clovers and pots of gold, these are the recipes for you. Fulfill your Pinterest goals with these Instagram-worthy St. Patrick’s Day recipes.", "url": "http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0601100121jan10,1,2318977.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210317172419/https://www.chicagotribune.com/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "FBI: FIU couple spied for Cuba", "text": "ESPIONAGE CASE\nFBI: FIU couple spied for Cuba\nThe U.S. government uncovered what it said was a husband-and-wife spy team at Florida International University. The two allegedly spied for Cuba for decades.\nBY JAY WEAVER AND NOAH BIERMAN\nA Florida International University professor and his wife, an FIU counselor, were accused Monday of operating as covert agents for Cuba's communist government for decades, using shortwave radios, numerical-code language and computer-encrypted files to send information about Miami's exile community to top Castro intelligence commanders.\nU.S. Magistrate Judge Andrea Simonton expressed such dismay over the alleged espionage-related history of Carlos M. Alvarez, 61, and his wife, Elsa, 55, that she denied them bond before trial on a charge of failing to register with the federal government as foreign agents.\nSimonton said she believed that the gravity of the charges -- admitted by the couple last summer to the FBI -- their past academic trips to Cuba and their contacts in Fidel Castro's government made them a flight risk if allowed to return to their South Miami home.\n''As a practical matter, these are people who admitted they were spying,'' Simonton said. ``They would indeed return to Cuba, rather than face the consequences of their actions here.''\nAttorney Steven Chaykin, representing Carlos Alvarez, and lawyer Norman Moscowitz, representing Elsa, said their clients had strong ties to their family and community. The lawyers stressed that the two did not leave the country after admitting their alleged espionage work for the Cuban government months ago.\n''There is not a scintilla of evidence . . . that they contemplated leaving'' for Cuba, Moscowitz said, noting that his client is in poor health and has to care for her 12-year-old daughter and elderly parents.\nChaykin said neither gave information to Castro intelligence officials that ``in any way endangers the U.S. government or military.''\nThe indictment, which included no mention of top-secret U.S. government information being disclosed, came months after the couple's confessions because of additional investigative work in the case, interim U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said.\nThe case of the longtime FIU employees marks the biggest Miami spy-related case since 1998, when five men were charged with infiltrating the exile community and laying the groundwork for the shootdown of four Brothers to the Rescue pilots by the Cuban Air Force in 1996.\nJAN. 19 ARRAIGNMENT\nIf convicted of one count of not registering as foreign agents, the Alvarezes could face prison sentences of seven to 10 years. An arraignment is set for Jan. 19. They are being detained at the Miami Federal Detention Center.\nFBI agents arrested Alvarez and his wife Friday at their home, valued at about $750,000, which they had hoped to use for bond. An indictment, returned in late December, was unsealed at their two-hour court hearing Monday, which was attended by the couple's four adult children, FIU President Mitch Maidique, a Catholic priest close to the defendants and numerous reporters.\nAccording to an FBI agent and federal prosecutors, the couple transmitted information about Miami's exile community -- including leading groups such as the Cuban American National Foundation and Brothers to the Rescue. They did not send any military or classified information, but they did provide Cuban officials with the identity of an FBI employee who had once been an FIU student of Carlos Alvarez.\nCarlos Alvarez is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies at FIU who also does psychological screenings of police cadets for the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County police departments.\nElsa Alvarez is a psychological counselor at FIU.\n''They used their academic positions as covert covers to spy for the Cuban government,'' said Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Frazier. ``They were living a lie.''\nFrazier said Carlos Alvarez had spied for Cuba since 1977 and Elsa Alvarez since 1982. He said that Elsa, Alvarez's second wife, had been independently spying for the Cuban government before she teamed up with her husband.\nIt was unclear what motivated the two to act as alleged spies for so many years. They were not paid for information they gathered, but Cuba covered their expenses such as travel, lodging and meals, authorities said.\nThanks to a tip, the FBI had been monitoring the couple -- Carlos Alvarez used the alias ''David'' and his wife used ''Deborah'' -- for months before each gave separate confessions in June and July to agents about their alleged spying activities. The FBI was assisted by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.\nTHE METHODS\nFrazier said they admitted to using high- and low-tech methods to communicate with Cuba's Directorate of Intelligence and several of its ``handlers.''\nAmong them: an antenna in their backyard, a shortwave radio, a five-digit code, encrypted computer disks and local post office boxes.\nSince the early 1990s, the couple traveled to Cuba several times on U.S.-authorized educational trips, bringing along FIU students, Frazier said. He called the trips a ``pretext to do other things.''\nThe couple also shared information with Cuban intelligence agents in Mexico, South America and the United States, Frazier said.\nFrazier said the two were so good at their work that the Cuban government gave them commendations in the 1990s.\nThe couple's arrests on Friday came as a federal appellate court in Atlanta plans to hear arguments next month in an unrelated Cuban spy case in which five men were convicted of espionage charges. The entire 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will determine whether pretrial publicity tainted the jury pool.\nIn October, the appellate court threw out a ruling by a three-judge panel that had overturned the 2001 convictions for the so-called Cuban Five on espionage charges.\nThe decision pleased relatives of four Miami exile pilots fatally shot down over international waters in 1996 by the Cuban Air Force in an alleged plot linked to the spy case.", "url": "http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13588460.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060308073545/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13588460.htm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Academic couple spied for Cuba, US alleges", "text": "By John-Thor Dahlburg in Miami\nJanuary 11, 2006\nUS AUTHORITIES have accused a Florida university professor and his wife of working as Cuban spies for more than 20 years - sending Fidel Castro's intelligence agency encrypted reports about American officials, FBI agents and anti-Castro groups, and attempting to recruit Cuban-Americans as agents.\nCarlos Alvarez, 61, and Elsa Alvarez, 55, were charged on Monday with acting as agents of a foreign power without registering with the US Government, as is required by law. If convicted, each could be sentenced to 10 years' jail and fined $US250,000 ($334,000).\nA federal court judge, Andrea Simonton, ordered the pair, who both work at the Florida International University, held without bond. Prosecutors warned that they might try to flee to Cuba, their birthplace, if released. Neither defendant entered a plea, and they are due back in court on Thursday week.\nThe Alvarezes were not charged with the more serious offence of espionage. FBI agents said there was no evidence that the couple provided classified or defence-related information to Cuba.\nBut \"whenever information is transmitted by spies to the Government of Cuba, that clearly endangers the United States\", said an assistant US attorney, Alexander Acosta.\nFederal prosecutors said the Alvarezes, arrested on Friday at their South Miami home, used the code names David and Deborah to communicate with Cuba's Directorate of Intelligence.\nProsecutors said the couple sent information via shortwave radio, using an encryption system furnished by their spymasters. They also allegedly carried messages to and from Cuba.\nIn statements prosecutors said were tantamount to confessions, Alvarez reportedly admitted working for the Cubans since 1977, and his wife since 1982. They began their alleged spying activities separately, before they married, said an assistant US attorney, Brian Frazier.\nAlvarez holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He is identified on the university's website as a specialist in conflict resolution and the construction of ethnic identities.\nHis wife, a social worker, is a part-time co-ordinator of Florida International University's social work training program.\nMany of the pair's colleagues said on Monday that word of the charges left them stunned. The university president, Modesto Maidique, considered Alvarez a longtime friend, said a spokesman, Mark Riordan.\nLos Angeles Times", "url": "http://smh.com.au/news/world/academic-couple-spied-for-cuba-us-alleges/2006/01/10/1136863239522.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060112043611/http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/academic-couple-spied-for-cuba-us-alleges/2006/01/10/1136863239522.html" } ]

[ "Ameryka Północna", "Nekrologi 2006|Ford", "USA" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "US ex-President Gerald Ford dies", "text": "Gerald Ford served as president for more than two years\nLast month he became the longest-living US president when he reached 93 years and 122 days, passing the record held by Ronald Reagan.\nMr Ford was never elected president. He took office after Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal in 1974 but lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976.\nPresident George W Bush paid tribute to Mr Ford, a fellow Republican, praising his \"integrity and common sense\".\nGerald Ford was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and lived with Betty, 88, at Rancho Mirage, about 130 miles (210km) east of Los Angeles in southern California.\nThe former president suffered ill health this year and he was taken to hospital four times for tests and angioplasty. He suffered a stroke in 2000.\nHis life was filled with love of God, his family and his country\nBetty Ford\nGerald Ford: Obituary Life in pictures\nA statement from Betty Ford said: \"My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, has passed away at 93 years of age.\"\nThe statement did not give the cause of death.\nIn a message from the White House, President George W Bush said he was \"greatly saddened\" at the news.\n\"With his quiet integrity, commonsense and kind instincts, President Ford helped heal our land and restore public confidence in the presidency,\" Mr Bush said.\n\"Our 38th president will always have a special place in our nation's memory.\"\nPresident Reagan's wife Nancy also paid tribute to a \"dear friend and close political ally\".\n\"His accomplishments and devotion to our country are vast, and even long after he left the presidency he made it a point to speak out on issues important to us all.\"\nVietnam War\nGerald Ford was the only US president never to win a national election.\nHe was chosen as Richard Nixon's vice-president in 1973, when Spiro Agnew resigned amid corruption charges.\nFord succeeded Nixon and brought honesty to the White House\nMr Ford then succeeded to the top office when Nixon became embroiled in Watergate - the scandal over a break-in at the offices of the rival Democratic party in Washington in 1972.\nThe attempted bugging of the building was linked to officials in the Nixon White House, and the cover-up went all the way to the top.\nOn taking office Mr Ford declared the \"national nightmare\" of the Nixon scandal over but soon after he revived the debate by controversially granting his former boss a pardon for any crimes committed as president.\nAnalysts believe in the short term it may have cost him the 1976 election, but in the long term the decision has been seen as astute.\nMr Ford was in office as the US accepted its defeat in the Vietnam War, with the fall of Saigon in April 1975.\nHe said it was time to \"bind up the nation's wounds\".\nThe opposite of Nixon, Gerald Ford was praised for his openness, sunny disposition and most important, his honesty.\nWife Betty became a national figure in her own right, crusading against drug and alcohol addiction.\nFollowing his stroke, Gerald Ford slipped further from the limelight.\nHowever, he did join Jimmy Carter, George Bush Snr and Bill Clinton at a memorial shortly after the 11 September attacks in 2001.\nHe was also at the funeral of Ronald Reagan in June 2004.\nIf you have any comments on the legacy of Gerald Ford, please use the form below\nName\nYour E-mail address\nTown & Country\nComments", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6211407.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070105205709/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6211407.stm" } ]

[ "Monde", "Europe", "France", "Belgique", "Crise financière", "Crise économique", "Crise des CDS", "Économie", "Finance", "Bourse", "Politique belge" ]

[ { "language": "nl", "title": "Dexia-top flirt met Franse postbank", "text": "De top van Dexia voert aftastende gesprekken over een strategische samenwerking met de Franse postbank. Een financieel-technische deal lijkt voorlopig het meest haalbaar.\nVan onze redacteurVoorlopig beperken de strategische contacten over een mogelijke samenwerking met de Franse postbank zich tot het hoogste niveau. De besprekingen met de Fransen lopen al een paar weken, en onlangs werd beslist om de gesprekken voort te zetten. Vorige vrijdag bezocht de top van Dexia nog toezichthouder CBFA. En hoewel officieel wordt benadrukt dat het dossier niet op de agenda stond, werd er wel degelijk over de Franse postbank gesproken.De topman van Dexia, Pierre Mariani, en voorzitter Jean-Luc Dehaene proberen via de strategische toenadering met de Franse postbank een duurzame oplossing te vinden voor de financieringsproblemen van hun Franse dochter Dexia Crédit Local (DCL). Met name topman Mariani zou keihard aan het dossier werken.De Franse poot van Dexia blijft immers problemen hebben om voldoende betaalbare kredieten los te weken op de verschrompelde internationale geldmarkt. De Franse postbank, die beschikt over een enorme depositobasis van 92miljard euro, biedt daarvoor een oplossing. Er zijn dan ook al langer geruchten over een toenadering (). Maar Dexia zelf houdt de boot af. 'Er zijn geen contacten of onderhandelingen geweest met de Franse post of met de Franse postbank', klonk het gisteren het formeel.Maar tal van bronnen wuiven dit weg. Toegegeven, omdat de Dexia-top voorlopig op eigen houtje handelt en er nog niet werd gerapporteerd aan de aandeelhouders -de raad van bestuur van Dexia komt pas op 30januari bijeen- is er van formele onderhandelingen (nog) geen sprake. Maar dat belet niet dat het denkspoor van de Franse postbank actief door topman Mariani wordt bewandeld. Al houdt Dexia ook nog alternatieven achter de hand.Of dit denkspoor kans op slagen heeft, is nog onduidelijk. CDC, de grootste Franse aandeelhouder van Dexia, pleitte vorige week voor een afsplitsing van de Franse Dexia-poot, zodat die daarna kan worden samengevoegd met de 'Banque postale'. Maar de topman van de Franse postbank, Patrick Werner, is volgens het Franse weekbladniet enthousiast. Wellicht beseft ook hij dat een louter Franse afsplitsing vandaag moeilijk te onderhandelen is. Want wat gebeurt er dan met de geldverslindende buitenlandse dochters van de Franse Dexia-poot, waarvan de meeste actief zijn op de markt voor lokale besturen? Niemand wil deze filialen voorlopig. 'Voor de buitenlandse dochters van de Franse Dexia-poot moeten eveneens lokale deposito's gezocht worden, zo niet moeten ze afgebouwd en opgedoekt worden', zegt een goedgeplaatste bron daarover. Ook daar zou Mariani volop aan werken. Pas na het afronden van die interne herstructurering -officieel nog altijd dé topprioriteit- wordt een splitsing een stuk gemakkelijker.Maar het is niet zeker dat Dexia zolang kan wachten. Een mogelijk alternatief scenario is daarom een instap van de Franse postbank in het kapitaal van Dexia, waardoor het belang van Frankrijk verder zou stijgen tot mogelijk 50procent. Maar dan dreigt verdere verwatering voor de bestaande aandeelhouders van Dexia, die daarvoor geen vragende partij zijn. Daarom wordt er nu vooral gepraat over mogelijke tussenoplossingen. Zoals bijvoorbeeld een financieel-technisch samenwerkingsakkoord waarbij Dexia tegen een marktconforme vergoeding toegang krijgt tot een deel van de deposito's van de Franse postbank -10 tot 20miljard euro zou ruim volstaan- zonder dat beide groepen in elkaars aandeelhoudersschap stappen.", "url": "http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=A124R46I&kanaalid=53", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200606142015/https://www.standaard.be/cnt/a124r46i?kanaalid=53" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "sudinfo.be", "text": "Dexia alliée à la Banque de la Poste?\nUne alliance entre Dexia et La Poste? E.G. Une alliance entre Dexia et La Poste? E.G.\nUne alliance entre Dexia et la Banque de la Poste française fait partie des scénarios envisagés pour l'avenir du groupe franco-belge, selon des sources proches du dossier dont fait état mercredi La Libre Belgique.\nRédaction en ligne\nUne telle alliance permettrait de résoudre un des problèmes fondamentaux de Dexia, à savoir un financement fortement dépendant du marché interbancaire qui s'est totalement asséché en raison de la crise des \"subprimes\".\nOn n'en est toutefois qu'au stade des réflexions préliminaires, qui n'ont pas été examinées par le conseil d'administration. Les Français y verraient pas mal d'avantages, étant donné que le Crédit local de France, qui constitue avec Dexia Belgique (ex-Crédit communal) un des piliers historiques de Dexia, manque d'une base de dépôts solide.\nL'idée serait donc de trouver une formule où l'épargne abondante récoltée par la Banque de la Poste pourrait être allouée au financement des municipalités et autres institutions publiques.", "url": "http://www.lameuse.be/actualite/belgique/2008-12-24/dexia-alliee-banque-poste-672957.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210319155619/https://www.sudinfo.be/gps?path=actualite/belgique/2008-12-24/672957.shtml" } ]

[ "Sports", "Football (American)", "National Football League", "North America", "United States", "Minnesota", "Wisconsin" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Quotes From Around The League On Favre And The NFL Touchdown Record", "text": "News / Press Releases / September 30, 2007 Quotes From Around The League On Favre And The NFL Touchdown Record\nPackers-Vikings Game Center Packers Authentic Jersey-#4 Favre Home Starting At $179.95 posted 09/30/2007\nDan Marino's videotaped message to Favre after touchdown pass 421\n\"Hey Brett, it's Dan Marino. I'd like to take a minute to congratulate you on breaking one of the great records in sports. I loved holding the touchdown record for the past 13 years, but if someone was going to break it, I'm glad it was someone like you, who has always competed at the highest level and always played only to win. Over the past 17 years, you've been a credit to the Packers, and to the National Football League and to the sport that we all love so much. Brett, congratulations on touchdown 421!\"\n**\nCommissioner Roger Goodell\n\" Brett Favre is one of the greatest players in NFL history. He's so much fun to watch not only because of his talent but also because of his competitive spirit. He is the only player to win three MVP awards and his consecutive games streak at quarterback is a tribute to his toughness and passion for the game. Brett has been a leader on the field and in the community and his long list of accomplishments is truly remarkable. We have been fortunate to be able to watch him play this long and we all look forward to seeing him set many more records.\"\n**\nBart Starr\n\"It's a remarkable accomplishment and richly deserved. Brett is a fabulous competitor and personifies leadership by example. I've never seen a more enthusiastic player and leader.\"\n**\nMike Holmgren\n\"As proud and amazed as I am of what Brett is and has accomplished on the playing field, the thing that impresses me the most is what kind of a man and leader he has become off the field. I have taken great joy in watching him develop as a person and father over his career.\"\n**\nJoe Montana\n\"I honestly thought Danny's records might never be broken. What Brett has done is a tremendous accomplishment. Congratulations you old fart!!!\"\n**\nTerry Bradshaw\n\" Brett Favre is the best I have ever seen. And I've never said that about anybody. He's simply the best. He's got the strongest arm, athleticism, field presence, leadership, poise and tenaciousness. He plays hurt, he's fun, he's infectious. He has everything I want to see, including the game-time decisions, the strengths, and all the intangibles.\"\n**\nSteve Young\n\"If you haven't played quarterback in the NFL you truly don't understand just how difficult it is, let alone to be great at it. Throwing one touchdown is hard but to do what Brett has done, come on. You can't give that record enough respect. Couple that with the consecutive games streak and what he has accomplished is beyond imagination. To have one of those records is astronomical and he's got them all. It was an honor to compete against him and an honor to be his friend.\"", "url": "http://www.packers.com/news/releases/2007/09/30/3/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071011082229/http://packers.com/news/releases/2007/09/30/3/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Brett Favre sets record for wins by a QB in rout of Giants", "text": "EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Brett Favre picked a near-perfect way to become the winningest quarterback in NFL history.\nFavre completed his first 14 passes of the second half and threw three touchdown passes to rally the Green Bay Packers to a 35-13 victory over Eli Manning and the New York Giants on Sunday.\nThe victory was the 149th of Favre's 17-year career and gave him one more than Hall of Famer John Elway.\nFAVRE TRACKER: Track the Packers QB's pursuit of major records\nIt also gave the Packers their first 2-0 start since they won their first three in 2001.\nBOX SCORE: Packers 35, Giants 13\nThe loss was the second straight for the undisciplined and error-prone Giants, something that hasn't happened at the start of a season since 1996 — the year Dan Reeves got fired.\nTom Coughlin, who came into the season under pressure to do more than make the playoffs, may now be really under the gun.\nFavre threw a go-ahead 2-yard touchdown pass to Bubba Franks on the Packers' opening series of the second half. The eight-time Pro Bowl quarterback added TD tosses of 3-yards to Donald Lee and 10 yards to Donald Driver after New York rookie Ahmad Bradshaw fumbled the ensuing kickoff.\nFavre finished 29-of-38 for 286 yards, including 18-of-21 for 147 yards in the second half as he constantly exposed the Giants' suspect defense with short passes.\nRookie DeShawn Wynn added touchdown runs of 6 and 38 yards for Green Bay.\nManning, whose playing status was uncertain all week because of a sprained shoulder, played well, leading New York to scores on three consecutive series bridging the second and third quarters. He threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress and helped set up field goals of 48 and 32 yards by Lawrence Tynes, who also missed a 34-yarder on the opening series of the game.\nManning finished 16-of-29 for 211 yards. He threw a costly interception to defensive tackle Corey Williams with 6:35 to play. Backup Jared Lorenzen replaced Manning after Wynn's long touchdown run gave Green Bay a 35-13 lead.\nDown 10-7 at the half, Favre dominated the second half despite getting little help from his rushing attack.\nA 42-yard kickoff return by Tramon Williams gave the Packers the ball at their own 49. Favre needed 10 plays to go the 51 yards. He hit fullback Korey Hall for two 10-yard dumpoffs early in the drive and a 17-yarder James Jones before finding the burly Franks for the go-ahead touchdown. Favre completed all five passes on the drive.\nAfter Tynes' 32-yard field goal cut the gap to 14-13, Favre engineered an 80-yard drive on which he hit all nine of his passes. None was longer than 19 yards and six were less than 10 yards, including the 3-yarder to Lee on a pass to the right corner of the end zone.\nFavre iced the game after Bradshaw's fumble on the kickoff was recovered by Tracy White at the New York 22. Five plays later, he found Driver in the back of the end zone for a 28-13 lead.\nThe Giants, who gave up 45 points in a season-opening loss to Dallas, were defenseless in the second half. While Manning played well on offense, New York made a lot of dumb plays.\nPro Bowl tight end Jeremy Shockey was called for a delay penalty after a first-down catch at the Packers 16 late in the first half with the score tied at 7. He later dropped a potential first-down pass at the Green Bay 3 just seconds later, forcing Tynes to make a 48-yard field goal and give the Giants a 10-7 lead.\nVeteran Amani Toomer also had an embarrassing mistake in the third quarter. He was called for a taunting penalty at the Green Bay 8 a couple of plays before New York had to settle for Tynes' second field goal, cutting the Packers lead to 14-13 with 4:22 left in the third quarter.\nInstead of a third-and-goal at the Green Bay 8, New York was pushed back to the 23.\nCopyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.", "url": "http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-09-16-packers-giants_N.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20121025010704/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2007-09-16-packers-giants_N.htm" } ]

[ "Crime and law", "United States", "North America", "Serial killers", "Obituaries", "San Francisco, California", "Mike Smith (Wikinewsie)", "California" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "'Zebra Killer' J.C.X. Simon Found Dead in Prison Cell", "text": "California inmate J.C.X. Simon was found dead in his prison cell at San Quentin prison late Thursday night, prison officials said Friday.\nSimon, 69, was one of four men known as the \"Zebra Killers\" for a string of racially motivated killings that took place in San Francisco. The four black men were convicted of targeting white victims during a 6-month spree between October 1973 to April 1974 that killed 14 people and wounded seven more.\nSimon was found unresponsive in his single cell and pronounced dead just before midnight at the prison where he was serving a life sentence. His cause of death is unknown and an autopsy will be performed, according to a release from the prison.\nSimon was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon. The three other men convicted in the killings are serving life sentences at separate California prisons.\nSOCIAL\n— Jillian Sederholm\nFirst published March 13 2015, 11:36 PM", "url": "http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/zebra-killer-j-c-x-simon-found-dead-prison-cell-n323401", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150314070115/http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/zebra-killer-j-c-x-simon-found-dead-prison-cell-n323401" }, { "language": "en", "title": "'Zebra Killer' J.C.X. Simon found dead in San Quentin prison cell", "text": "J.C.X. Simon -- one of the so-called \"Zebra Killers\" convicted of multiple murders of white San Franciscans in the 1970s -- has died, prison officials said Friday.\nSimon, 69, was pronounced dead at San Quentin prison at 11:59 p.m. Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said. The cause of death is unknown pending the results of an autopsy.\nSimon entered the prison system on March 30, 1976, to serve a life sentence with the possibility of parole. He was convicted in San Francisco County of two counts of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon.\nHe and three other men -- who were also sentenced to life terms -- were convicted after what was described at the time as \"San Francisco's longest criminal trial,\" with 174 witnesses testifying.\nIn all, 14 people were killed and at least seven were wounded.\nThe suspects were all black and young, and the search for perpetrators unleashed a dragnet that pulled in many innocent men for questioning. U.S. District Judge Alfonso Zirpoli halted the wholesale questioning of African Americans in the racial slayings.\nIn a case brought by the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union, Zirpoli ruled that although the stops might be \"logical and practical,\" they constituted illegal \"deprivation of another's constitutional rights.\"\nThe random killings of whites occurred between 1973 and 1976. The suspects were named for the police radio channel used to try to identify and capture them.\nThe trial relied on testimony from Anthony C. Harris, who allegedly participated in the \"hunts\" for white victims and turned against the others. Harris testified that the men were an offshoot of the Fruit of Islam called the Death Angels. The Fruit of Islam was the security arm of the Nation of Islam.\nAccording to a December 1975 Los Angeles Times report, the Death Angels had a plan to \"run all the whites out of San Francisco\" and establish the city as the Death Angels headquarters.\nThe victims ranged in age from 15 to 87. They did not know one another, nor did those who were wounded.\nStill serving life sentences with the possibility of parole are: Larry Green, 63, incarcerated at California State Prison-Solano in Vacaville; Manuel Moore, 70, at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe; and Jessie Lee Cooks, 70, at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.\nTwitter: @leeromney", "url": "http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-zebra-killer-jcx-simon-dead-20150313-story.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150314035355/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-zebra-killer-jcx-simon-dead-20150313-story.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "'Zebra killer' inmate JCX Simon found dead in San Quentin prison cell", "text": "J.C.X. Simon, 2012 (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- One of the four men convicted of participating in a string of racially motivated attacks in the mid-1970s that killed 14 people and injured seven in San Francisco was found dead in his San Quentin prison cell, California prison officials said Friday.\nThe body of J.C.X. Simon, 69, was found in his one-man cell shortly before midnight Thursday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. The cause of death is unknown, and an autopsy is planned.\nSimon was convicted of two first-degree murder charges in 1976 and was serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole, the maximum sentence allowed In California at the time.\nSimon and three other black men were convicted of participating in a six-month murder spree that targeted white victims in San Francisco. Between October 1976 and April 1974, 14 people were murdered and seven wounded -- including Art Agnos, who would go on to serve as San Francisco's mayor. The killing spree was dubbed the \"zebra murders\" because of the racial motivations.\nThen-Mayor Joe Alioto ordered a city-wide dragnet to catch the killers. Police stopped and questioned nearly every young black man they encountered between the ages of 20 and 30 who were six-feet tall or few inches shorter.\nThose questioned and cleared were given a card to show other officers who detained them.\nAdvertisement\nThe three other men convicted of participating in the killings are all serving life sentences with the possibility of parole at separate California prisons", "url": "http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_27707926/zebra-killer-inmate-jcx-simon-found-dead-san", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150706182559/http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_27707926/zebra-killer-inmate-jcx-simon-found-dead-san" } ]

[ "España", "Europa", "Arte, cultura y entretenimiento", "Música" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Locomía regresa a los escenarios", "text": "EL UNIVERSAL miércoles 23 de febrero de 2011 11:37 AM\nMadrid.- Los integrantes originales de Loco Mía, Manuel Arjona y Luis Font, regresarán a los escenarios para recordar sus años dorados con un concierto en Madrid, la primera estación de su gira por España, América Latina y Estados Unidos.\nDespués de acumular varios discos de oro y platino durante los noventa, el grupo español presentará este sábado, al filo de la medianoche, su espectáculo \"Back to the Glam\", para deleitar a los nostálgicos con su principales éxitos y entre grandes abanicos, reseña EuropaPress.\nDe la mano de su creador, Xavier Font, Loco Mía pretende reverdecer laureles recordando sus grandes 'hits', entre los que destacan Loco Mía, Samba Mambo, Loco Vox, Magia Negra, Fiesta Latina, Taiyo Niña, Fiesta Latina, Rumba y África.\nLos integrantes originarios Manuel Arjona y Luis Font, junto con los nuevos talentos Ferry Frias y Ricky Arenas, iniciarán de forma inminente una gira que les llevará por otras ciudades de España y por países como Argentina, México, Perú, Chile, Paraguay, Venezuela y Argentina, donde ya tienen fechas en abril y mayo.", "url": "http://politica.eluniversal.com/2011/02/23/locomia-regresa-a-los-escenarios.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110226041138/http://politica.eluniversal.com/2011/02/23/locomia-regresa-a-los-escenarios.shtml" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Loco Mía anuncia su regreso", "text": "El uso de este sitio web implica la aceptación de los Términos y Condiciones de COMUNICAN S.A. Todos los Derechos Reservados D.R.A. Prohibida su reproducción total o parcial,así como su traducción a cualquier idioma sin autorización escrita de su titular. Reproduction in whole or in part, or translation without written permission is prohibited. All rights reserved 2011", "url": "http://www.elespectador.com/entretenimiento/agenda/musica/articulo-252942-loco-mia-anuncia-su-regreso", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110226083011/http://www.elespectador.com/entretenimiento/agenda/musica/articulo-252942-loco-mia-anuncia-su-regreso" } ]

[ "Afryka", "Kamerun", "Katastrofy i klęski żywiołowe", "Kenia", "Wypadki lotnicze" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Kamerun: wrak Boeinga 737 odnaleziono 10 km od lotniska", "text": "Przedstawiciel kameruńskiego rządu powiedział, że nie ma informacji, aby ktokolwiek ocalał z katastrofy kenijskiego Boeinga. \"Teraz nie możemy powiedzieć, czy ktokolwiek przeżył. Dostęp do miejsca (katastrofy) jest bardzo trudny\" - powiedział dziennikarzom kameruński minister stanu ds. administracji lokalnej i decentralizacji Marafa Hamidou Yaya. \"Rozpoczynamy nową bolesną fazę. Nasze zadanie będzie teraz cięższe, zadanie wydobywania ciał\" - wyjaśnił.\nWrak samolotu odnaleziono w odległości ok. 10 km od Duali, skąd wystartował samolot - poinformował Thomas Sobakam, szef stacji metereologicznej lotniska w Douala. Obecnie prowadzone są poszukiwania, czy wśród ofiar znajdują się jakieś żywe osoby. Na pokładzie samolotu było 105 pasażerów i 9 członków załogi. Samolot stracił łączność radiową z wieżą lotów około 11 do 13 minut po starcie.\nPoszukiwania początkowo ogniskowały się niedaleko miasta Lolodorf, około 140 km od Douali. Akcję, gdzie spodziewano się odnaleźć wrak, utrudniał teren, porośnięty gęstym, niedostępnym lasem oraz silne opady i mgła. Po otrzymaniu informacji od rybaków mieszkających niedaleko lotniska Douala o odgłosach katastrofy w momencie, kiedy samolot miał awarię, sprawdzono te informacje i natrafiono na szczątki poszukiwanego od dwóch dni samolotu. - Na miejsce katastrofy naprowadzili nas rybacy - powiedział Sobakam. To było tak blisko, że gdyby z samolotu unosił się dym lub pojawiły się płomienie, moglibyśmy dostrzec wrak z lotniska - mówił.\nSamolot ze 114 osobami na pokładzie rozbił się w nocy z piątku na sobotę krótko po starcie z lotniska w Duali, w Kamerunie. Maszyna leciała do stolicy Kenii, Nairobi.\nRadio, które kilka godzin temu informowało o znalezieniu wraku, co następnie dementowało, powołało się na grupę kryzysową powołaną przez premiera Kamerunu.", "url": "http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,53600,4109482.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070508104223/http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,53600,4109482.html" } ]

[ "Katowice", "Polska", "Śląsk" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "polskieradio.pl", "text": "Gdy zaczyna się mieszkać w Meksyku, to czasami ma się wrażenie jakby chwyciło się Pana Boga za nogi. Zjawiskowe kaskady, skute lodem czubki wulkanów, rajskie plaże, lazurowe i ciepłe wody oceanów z obu stron wybrzeża, tropikalne dżungle i wszystko o czym można marzyć, a czego ludzka wyobraźnia nie zdoła wymyślić. Piękno przyrody, kultury i tradycji w czystej postaci. Tak myślałam, póki nie odwiedziłam kilku hacjend. Wówczas otwiera się przed nami nowy, jeszcze wspanialszy świat.", "url": "http://www.polskieradio.pl/iar/wiadomosci/artykul90064.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160313145251/http://www.polskieradio.pl/78,iar" } ]

[ "Vermischtes", "Notlandung", "Flugverkehr", "Sokol", "Waldbrand", "Feuerwehr" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Löschhubschrauber notgelandet", "text": "Schwankungen im Öldruck Löschhubschrauber notgelandet Notlandung in Wössingen (Foto: Thomas Reiff) Walzbachtal - Einen unfreiwilligen Zwischenstopp musste die Besatzung eines polnischen Hubschraubers bei Walzbachtal machen. Pilot und Bordmechaniker, die vom französischen Epinal in Richtung Heimat unterwegs waren und im tschechischen Karlsbad zwischenlanden wollten, bemerkten gegen 18 Uhr kurz nach Baden-Baden Schwankungen im Öldruck der Maschine vom Typ \"Sokol\". Sie entschieden sich daher für eine Notlandung und gingen mit dem Helikopter in der Nähe des Goldplatzes beim Ortsteil Wössingen nieder. Die Abteilung Wössingen der Feuerwehr Walszbachtal rückte mit einem Löschfahrzeug aus und stellte den Brandschutz sicher. Daneben mussten die Einsatzkräfte minimale Mengen Öl, die aus dem Triebwerk austraten, aufnehmen. Die neun Feuerwehrleute konnten bereits nach knapp einer Stunde wieder abrücken, während die Polizei zur Unfallaufnahme weiter vor Ort blieb. Ob die beiden Flieger mit ihrem Hubschrauber nach einer Reparatur weiterfliegen können, hängt von der Entscheidung des Luftfahrtbundesamts ab. Bei den Polen handelte es sich quasi um Kollegen der Feuerwehrleute aus Walzbachtal, sie befanden sich auf dem Rückweg von einem mehrmonatigen Löscheinsatz in den spanischen Waldbrandgebieten, wo sie mit ihrem Hubschrauber die Brandbekämpfung unterstützt hatten. (ps/pkl)\nMeldung vom Freitag, 7. Oktober 2005 © ka-news 2005\nHinweis an die Redaktion Artikel versenden Druckversion Leserforum", "url": "http://www.ka-news.de/karlsruhe/news.php4?show=pkl2005107-104H", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20061114165947/http://www.ka-news.de/karlsruhe/news.php4?show=pkl2005107-104H" } ]

[ "Europe", "United Kingdom", "England", "Hampshire", "Crime and law", "Metropolitan Police", "Southampton", "HSBC" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Two men killed during 'bank raid'", "text": "Eyewitnesses said they heard the sound of gunshots\nOfficers from the Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad were lying in wait outside an HSBC branch in Bournemouth Road, Chandler's Ford near Southampton.\nOne man died at the scene, the other died later in hospital. It is thought a gang was targeting a Securicor security van outside the bank.\nA man was later arrested in the Raynes Park area of south-west London.\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission is conducting an inquiry into the deaths.\nDeborah Glass, from the commission, said a loaded firearm had been recovered from the scene of the shooting.\n\"[The loaded firearm] will be subject to forensic tests that will take some time but that is certainly some indication of what the police were dealing with.\n\"I understand that three shots were fired - from the information so far - all the shots were fired by police officers.\"\nI looked out the window and saw blood everywhere on the floor\nMelanie Chase, eyewitness\nWitnesses speak of fatal raid\nA statement from the Metropolitan Police said: \"The object of the operation was to prevent and apprehend those believed to be involved in an attempted armed robbery of a premises in Chandler's Ford.\n\"At approx 1005 [BST] shots were fired and two men were shot.\n\"One was pronounced dead at the scene, the other was taken to a local hospital but died at approximately midday. No officers were injured in the incident.\"\nNo bystanders were injured either, said Hampshire police.\nThird person mystery\nMeanwhile, Scotland Yard refused to comment on witness claims that a third robber made a getaway from the scene of the shooting.\nHowever, a spokeswoman from South Central Ambulance Service said three patients had been treated.\nThe raid is thought to have involved a Securicor van\n\"We were called around 10am to reports of two people having been shot in Chandler's Ford,\" she said.\n\"We treated three patients - one died at the scene, one was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and we treated a third patient who suffered minor injuries and did not require hospital treatment.\"\nEarlier, one eyewitness called Juliet said: \"I heard three shots.\n\"As I looked over the balcony edge I could see an unmarked police car and there were four police officers that got out of the car.\"\n'Sound of bullets\nEmployees at Mann & Co estate agents, just yards from where the shooting happened, rushed out from the back of their offices when they heard the shooting.\nOne said: \"I knew it was the sound of bullets immediately.\n\"Everyone just ran to get as far away as possible.\n\"The police must have been tipped off.\n\"One customer told us they saw police officers running out of the public toilets just near to the bank and then they heard the shots.\n\"This is out of the ordinary for sleepy Chandler's Ford so we are all a bit shaken.\"\nA spokesman for HSBC, who confirmed no customers or staff were hurt in the incident, said: \"We are obviously very grateful because this violent incident appears to have had the potential to have been much worse.\"", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6992936.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081006142259/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6992936.stm" } ]

[ "Afrique", "Afrique de l'Ouest", "Cameroun", "France", "Catholicisme", "Prise d'otages", "Boko Haram" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Libéré, le père Vandenbeusch rentre en France mercredi matin", "text": "Le Monde | 31.12.2013 à 10h39 • Mis à jour le 01.01.2014 à 01h18\nLe prêtre français Georges Vandenbeush, 42 ans, enlevé dans la nuit du 13 au 14 novembre au Cameroun, dans sa paroisse de Nguetchewe, par la secte islamiste nigériane Boko Haram, est arrivé à la résidence de France à Yaoundé, la capitale du Cameroun, mardi 31 décembre. Plus tôt, le président François Hollande avait annoncé sa libération.\nLire la note de blog : Enlèvement au Cameroun : la « radicalité » des religieux face aux consignes de sécurité\nLe père Vandenbeush est attendu mercredi à 6 h 40 sur la base aérienne de Villacoublay, où il sera accueilli par ses proches et par François Hollande, a indiqué l'Elysée. Il voyagera à bord d'un avion gouvernemental, en compagnie du ministre des affaires étrangères, Laurent Fabius, qui est arrivé mardi soir à Yaoundé.\nLe prêtre français s'est dit en « pleine forme » et « extrêmement reconnaissant » envers le président camerounais Paul Biya, a annoncé la radio d'Etat. De son côté, François Hollande a remercié « tous ceux qui ont travaillé sans relâche à cette issue, notamment les autorités du Cameroun et du Nigeria » et « particulièrement le président Paul Biya pour son implication personnelle ».\n« PAS DE RANÇON »\nSelon une source diplomatique française, le père Vandenbeusch « a été libéré aux premières heures de la matinée dans le nord du Cameroun ». D'après Laurent Fabius, pour obtenir cette libération, « il y a eu des discussions » mais « pas de rançon ». « Le président Biya a été extrêmement utile et efficace dans ces discussions qui portent sur des aspects judiciaires surtout », , a-t-il assuré mardi soir à la résidence de l'ambassadrice de France à Yaoundé, où l'ex-otage a été conduit après sa libération.\n« Je ne vais pas entrer dans les détails pour les raisons que chacun comprend. C'est un domaine dans lequel il faut être efficace et l'efficacité passe par la discrétion : discrétion avant, discrétion après », a ajouté le chef de la diplomatie française. « Cette libération est le plus beau cadeau de fin d'année. (...) Ça n'a pas été facile. Ce n'est jamais facile. Mais nous allons pouvoir ramener le père Georges en France », a-t-il expliqué.\nLa famille du père Vandenbeusch, le diocèse de Nanterre, auquel il est rattaché, ainsi que la conférence des évêques de France, ont de leur côté exprimé leur « joie » à l'annonce de sa libération et remercié « tous ceux qui ont contribué à cette issue heureuse ». « En ce moment de bonheur, nous n'oublions pas les autres otages français, et adressons toutes nos pensées à leurs familles », ont-ils ajouté. Sa libération porte à six le nombre de Français retenus en otage dans le monde.\nLire le portrait : De Sceaux au Cameroun, l'itinéraire du père Vandenbeusch", "url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/12/31/francois-hollande-annonce-la-liberation-du-pere-vandenbeusch-enleve-au-cameroun_4341555_3212.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140101012400/http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/12/31/francois-hollande-annonce-la-liberation-du-pere-vandenbeusch-enleve-au-cameroun_4341555_3212.html" } ]

[ "América do Sul", "Política no Brasil", "Dilma Rousseff", "Marina Silva", "Aécio Neves", "Eleições no Brasil em 2014" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Au Brésil, la challengeuse Marina Silva inquiète Dilma Rousseff avant la présidentielle", "text": "Le Monde | 27.08.2014 à 11h06 • Mis à jour le 27.08.2014 à 14h19\nA quarante jours du premier tour de l'élection présidentielle au Brésil, une candidate semble pouvoir faire douter Dilma Rousseff, qui se présente pour un second mandat. Mardi 26 août, Marina Silva a tenu tête à la présidente en exercice lors du premier débat télévisé de la campagne entre les sept candidats.\nLa candidate du Parti socialiste brésilien (PSB) a affirmé vouloir mettre en place une « nouvelle politique » conciliant stabilité économique et justice sociale. Cette femme métisse de 56 ans, écologiste et chrétienne évangélique hostile à l'avortement, pourrait inquiéter les deux formations qui dirigent le Brésil depuis vingt ans, le Parti des travailleurs de Dilma Rousseff et le Parti social-démocrate brésilien du candidat Aecio Neves.\nLire l'analyse (édition abonnés) : Au Brésil, la candidature de Marina Silva relance la campagne présidentielle\nLors du débat télévisé, elle a accusé la présidente de minimiser l'ampleur des carences du Brésil en matière de santé, d'éducation et de transports publics. Ces thèmes étaient d'ailleurs au cœur des revendications des manifestants lors de la fronde sociale historique de juin 2013.\nLire (édition abonnés) : La crise des transports provoque un début de fronde sociale au Brésil\nMarina Silva a aussi reproché à Dilma Rousseff d'avoir commis des « erreurs évidentes » sur le plan économique, qui ont contribué à la hausse de l'inflation et à un fort ralentissement de la croissance, après le boom économique des années Lula. Sur la défensive, la présidente du Brésil a protégé son bilan économico-social, soulignant que le chômage n'avait jamais été aussi bas dans le pays, avec un chiffre proche de 5 %.\nCONFORTÉE PAR LES SONDAGES\nPlus tôt, un sondage était venu conforter Marina Silva dans ses ambitions présidentielles, la donnant victorieuse au second tour, avec neuf points d'avance sur Dilma Rousseff (45 % contre 36 % des intentions de vote). C'est le deuxième sondage qui la voit gagner les prochaines élections depuis qu'elle a été investie candidate du PSB, quelques jours après la mort dans un accident d'avion le 13 août de son premier candidat, Eduardo Campos.\nSa forte progression dans les sondages n'est pas totalement surprenante. Ancienne sénatrice et ministre de l'environnement du président Lula, de 2003 à 2010, elle avait terminé troisième de l'élection de 2010, avec 20 % des voix, après avoir rejoint l'opposition à la tête d'un petit parti écologiste.\nLire le portrait (édition abonnés) : Au Brésil, Marina Silva se veut la « gardienne des utopies »", "url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2014/08/27/au-bresil-la-challengeuse-marina-silva-inquiete-dilma-rousseff-avant-la-presidentielle_4477319_3222.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140828134308/http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2014/08/27/au-bresil-la-challengeuse-marina-silva-inquiete-dilma-rousseff-avant-la-presidentielle_4477319_3222.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Brazil holds TV presidential election debate", "text": "Brazil holds TV presidential election debate\nThe televised debate - the first of several - had been eagerly anticipated\nContinue reading the main story Related Stories\nCandidates in Brazil's presidential election have taken part in the first televised debate of the campaign.\nIncumbent President Dilma Rousseff went head to head with main rivals Marina Silva of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) and Aecio Neves of the PSDB.\nThe BBC's Gary Duffy in Sao Paulo said there were some individually strong moments but no knock-out blows.\nMs Rousseff is ahead in the polls for the 5 October election but analysts predict it will go to a second round.\nNarrowing lead\nMs Silva has replaced the former PSB candidate Eduardo Campos, who died in a plane crash earlier this month.\nContinue reading the main story “ Start Quote There was no clear winner and while the next post-debate polls are eagerly awaited, this is clearly a much closer race than it once appeared ” End Quote Wyre Davies Rio de Janeiro correspondent\nIn the much-anticipated debate, President Rousseff defended her government's popular social programmes but blamed the international economic crisis for the the country's slowing economy.\nMarina Silva spoke passionately about the need for widespread political reform and to remove power from the hands of traditional elites.\nThe latest opinion polls in Brazilian media on Tuesday showed Ms Silva had narrowed President Rousseff's lead to 34%, down from 38% in early August.\nIt gave Ms Silva 29% of voter support and Mr Neves 19%.\nThe poll, published by O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper, has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.\nTuesday's televised debate also includes candidates Eduardo Jorge (PV), Levy Fidelix (PRTB), Luciana Genro (PSOL) and Pastor Everaldo (PSC).\nPresident Rousseff is seeking re-election with the Workers' Party (PT).\nMs Silva used to be a member of the PT during the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but has since become a stern critic.\nMarina Silva is a renowned environmental campaigner and former environment minister\nAecio Neves, a current senator, will represent the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB)\nA former environment minister, she ran for president in 2010 for the tiny Green Party and secured 19 million votes, but was knocked out in the first round.\nShe decided to run for vice-president alongside Mr Campos after the Electoral Court in October 2013 refused to register her political movement, Rede Sustentabilidade (The Sustainability Network).\nHowever, she was appointed as the PSB's main candidate after his sudden death.\nMr Campos's private jet crashed in bad weather in the port city of Santos, Sao Paulo state, while travelling from Rio de Janeiro to the seaside resort of Guaruja.\nAn investigation into the crash, which also killed six others, is under way.\nThe election will go to a second round later in October if no candidate gets more than 50% of the votes.", "url": "http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28947924", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140827135651/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28947924" } ]

[ "Google", "Italy", "European Union", "United States", "Internet", "Crime and law", "Computing", "Europe", "North America", "Human rights", "Science and technology", "Free speech" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Group's executives are found guilty over Italy video", "text": "Google will appeal against an Italian court verdict that found two senior executives and a former employee guilty of breach of privacy in a case involving a video of a disabled boy.\nDavid Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, and Peter Fleischer, its global privacy counsel, were yesterday given six-month suspended prison sentences after being found guilty of violating the Italian privacy code. George Reyes, a for-mer executive, was convic-ted on the same charge and given the same sentence.", "url": "http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/90698b1a-21ae-11df-acf4-00144feab49a.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100228172600/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/90698b1a-21ae-11df-acf4-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F90698b1a-21ae-11df-acf4-00144feab49a.html&_i_referer=" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Italian court convicts Google execs over video", "text": "In a case that could have broad implications for Internet use around the world, an Italian court convicted three Google Inc. executives Wednesday of criminal charges for failing to quickly remove an uploaded video.\nOfficials at the Mountain View company pledged to appeal, saying if the verdict is allowed to stand, \"the Web as we know it will cease to exist.\"\nLegal experts agreed the case raises troubling questions for all U.S. Internet companies that do business globally.\n\"It absolutely is a threat,\" said Danny O'Brien, international outreach coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation of San Francisco.\n\"If intermediaries like Google or the person who hosts your Web site can be thrown in jail in any country for the acts of other people and suddenly have a legal obligation to prescreen everything anyone says on their Web site before putting it online, the tools for free speech that everyone uses on the Net would grind to a halt.\"\nJudge Oscar Magi found three of Google's executives - global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer, chief legal officer David Drummond and retired Chief Financial Officer George Reyes - guilty of violating Italian privacy laws.\nIn absentia, the executives were handed six-month suspended sentences, although the judge also cleared them, along with a fourth executive, of defamation charges.\nThe case revolves around a video uploaded to Google Video in 2006 showing an autistic boy in Turin being pummeled and insulted by teenage bullies at school. The video was uploaded before Google bought the more popular YouTube.\nThe video drew 5,500 views in the two months before Google Italy pulled it down two hours after being notified by police. The boy's father and an advocacy group for people with Down syndrome complained the video violated privacy protection laws.\nProsecutor Alfredo Robledo told the Associated Press the verdict upheld privacy principles and put the rights of individuals ahead of those of businesses. He said the case will force Google and other firms to be held accountable for screening videos hosted on their sites.\n\"This is the big principal affirmed by this verdict,\" Robledo said. \"It is fundamental, because identity is a primary good. If we give that up, anything can happen, and that is not OK.\"\nInternet principles\nIn a company blog post, Google vice president and deputy general counsel Matt Sucherman called the ruling \"astonishing\" because \"none of the four Googlers charged had anything to do with this video.\"\nThe verdict \"attacks the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built,\" he wrote.\nThe benefits of the Web could disappear if \"sites like Blogger, YouTube and indeed every social network and any community bulletin board are held responsible for every single piece of content that is uploaded to them,\" he said.\nSupport for Google\nA host of U.S. technology associations jumped to Google's defense.\n\"Most troubling, what happens in Italy is unlikely to stay in Italy,\" said Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology. \"The Italian court's actions today will surely embolden authoritarian regimes and be used to justify their own efforts to suppress Internet freedom.\"\nEd Black, chief executive of the Computer and Communications Industry, said he believes the ruling will be found inconsistent with European Union laws governing Internet content.\nBut, he added, \"this is an example of a bird in the tunnel telling us how easily it could get way out of control. This is not the only instance of countries or governments lashing out rather clumsily with blunt instruments about things they don't like on the Internet.\"\nLocal distinctions\nIndeed, firms large enough to have an Internet presence in other countries have faced numerous skirmishes over local distinctions of laws such as copyright and intellectual property. Recently, Google has become embroiled in a dispute with China, saying it will stop censoring search results in that country after attacks on the Gmail accounts of human rights advocates there.\nFor those firms, there are no easy answers, said James Burger, an intellectual property attorney with the Washington, D.C., law firm Dow Lohnes.\n\"I could see Italy arguing we should adopt their law in this instance,\" Burger said. \"There is a larger problem, which is: How do we deal with U.S. companies being slammed abroad for acts that are legal in the United States?\"\nPressure on Italy\nJason Schultz, director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley, said it's unclear whether Italian officials will try to apply the ruling more broadly.\n\"There will be a lot of pressure on the Italian government to rethink this shortsighted approach once the Italian citizenry realizes how limiting it will be to only have access to government-approved media,\" Schultz said.\nThis article appeared on page DC - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle", "url": "http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/24/BUHC1C6KIQ.DTL", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100228162649/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/24/BUHC1C6KIQ.DTL" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Google staff convicted in privacy case", "text": "MILAN - Three Google executives were convicted yesterday of violating Italian privacy laws in a ruling that the company denounced as an “astonishing’’ attack on freedom of expression on the Internet.\nThe case involves online videos showing an autistic boy being bullied by classmates in Turin, which were posted in 2006 on Google Video, an online video-sharing service that Google ran before its acquisition of YouTube.\nProsecutors said the videos violated Italian personal privacy protections. They said the clips were removed only after complaints from Vivi Down, a group representing people with Down syndrome, whose name was mentioned in the videos.\nGoogle said it will appeal, warning that the verdicts raised questions about the viability of user-generated content platforms like YouTube in Italy and potentially elsewhere in Europe.\nVideo-sharing services generally rely on users to notify them of potentially problematic content, which is then taken down if it violates the terms of service. Screening or editing the contents of user-generated video sites in advance, they say, is impossible because of the volume of material that is posted.\nGoogle insists that under European Union law, video-sharing sites are protected from liability for the content of material posted.\n© Copyright 2010 Globe Newspaper Company.", "url": "http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/02/25/google_staff_convicted_in_privacy_case/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100228190003/http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2010/02/25/google_staff_convicted_in_privacy_case" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Serious threat to the web in Italy", "text": "In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police. We also worked with the local police to help identify the person responsible for uploading it and she was subsequently sentenced to 10 months community service by a court in Turin, as were several other classmates who were also involved. In these rare but unpleasant cases, that's where our involvement would normally end.But in this instance, a public prosecutor in Milan decided to indict four Google employees —David Drummond, Arvind Desikan, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes (who left the company in 2008). The charges brought against them were criminal defamation and a failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. To be clear, none of the four Googlers charged had anything to do with this video. They did not appear in it, film it, upload it or review it. None of them know the people involved or were even aware of the video's existence until after it was removed.Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. All 4 were found not guilty of criminal defamation. In essence this ruling means that employees of hosting platforms like Google Video are criminally responsible for content that users upload. We will appeal this astonishing decision because the Google employees on trial had nothing to do with the video in question. Throughout this long process, they have displayed admirable grace and fortitude. It is outrageous that they have been subjected to a trial at all.But we are deeply troubled by this conviction for another equally important reason. It attacks the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built. Common sense dictates that only the person who films and uploads a video to a hosting platform could take the steps necessary to protect the privacy and obtain the consent of the people they are filming. European Union law was drafted specifically to give hosting providers a safe harbor from liability so long as they remove illegal content once they are notified of its existence. The belief, rightly in our opinion, was that a notice and take down regime of this kind would help creativity flourish and support free speech while protecting personal privacy. If that principle is swept aside and sites like Blogger, YouTube and indeed every social network and any community bulletin board, are held responsible for vetting every single piece of content that is uploaded to them — every piece of text, every photo, every file, every video — then the Web as we know it will cease to exist, and many of the economic, social, political and technological benefits it brings could disappear.These are important points of principle, which is why we and our employees will vigorously appeal this decision.", "url": "http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/serious-threat-to-web-in-italy.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100226182522/http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/serious-threat-to-web-in-italy.html" } ]

[ "Australia i Oceania", "Polonia", "Świat" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Puls Polonii", "text": "Ojciec polityki wielokuturowości w Australii, członek Pontyfikalnej Akademii Nauk Społecznych, najwybitniejszy Polak XX wieku mieszkający na Antypodach zmarł wczoraj w Kanberze w wieku 89 lat. Były premier Malcolm Frazer przypomniał wczoraj w swoim wspomnieniu o zmarłym, że Zubrzycki wierzył z wielkim przekonaniem, iż każdy człowiek powinien być traktowany równo, a bycie dobrym Australijczykiem nie musi oznaczać zerwania więzów z krajem swojego pochodzenia. Nigdy nie miałem okazji spotkać się z profesorem, o którym tak dużo słyszałem, którego tylu wywiadów i wypowiedzi radiowych słuchałem, a dzieki któremu stworzono takie warunki emigracyjne, że wielu z nas mogło znaleźć wygodną przystań na ziemii australijskiej. Niewątpliwie, każdy z nas ma w stosunku do Niego pewien dług wdzięczności. Zamiast przeniesionego z Kanady słowa \"multiculturalism\", Zubrzycki zaproponował używanie zwrotu \"our developing nationhood\", jako bardziej odpowiedniego dla tutejszych warunków. I to dzieki tej intelektualnej postawie zmarłego profesora my Polacy możemy czuć się tu, a przynajmniej powinniśmy czuć się jako pełnowartościowi twórcy młodego narodu australijskiego, a nie jako jedna z ponad 100 niewygodnych dla Anglosasów grup etnicznych. Śmierć prof. Zubrzyckiego została zauważona w australijskich mediach. Większą część dzisiejszego programu polskiej sekcji Radia SBS poświęcono wspomnieniom o Jerzym Zubrzyckim. Oto linki do niektórych artykułów o zmarłym wczoraj profesorze i archiwalnych wywiadów z nim: The Australian: Death of a leader of cultural revolution Jerzy Zubrzycki Radio National: The Wisdom Interview onet.pl: chat z prof. Jerzym Zubrzyckim Świat Polonii: Ad moltus annos Gazeta Wyborcza: Kościół za mało służebny", "url": "http://www.zrobtosam.com/PulsPol/Puls3/index.php?sekcja=1&arty_id=7313", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090529003040/http://www.zrobtosam.com/PulsPol/Puls3/index.php?sekcja=1&arty_id=7313" } ]

[ "Ciencia y tecnología", "Economía y Negocios", "Derechos humanos", "Diplomacia", "Angela Merkel", "Juan Manuel Santos", "Sudamérica", "Colombia", "Unión Europea", "Alemania", "Europa" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Santos en Alemania: TLC con la UE, ley de víctimas y restitución de tierras", "text": "Santos en Alemania: TLC con la UE, ley de víctimas y restitución de tierras\nEl presidente Juan Manuel Santos fue recibido este miércoles con honores militares en el Palacio de Bellevue por su homólogo alemán, Christian Wulff, al comienzo de su visita oficial de un día a Berlín.\nEl mal tiempo y la lluvia empañaron la ceremonia de recepción de Santos en la sede de la Presidencia de Alemania, donde posteriormente firmó en su libro de oro y se entrevistó con el máximo mandatario germano.\nEl presidente de Colombia fue recibido posteriormente en la Cancillería Federal con la jefa del gobierno germano, Ángela Merkel, con quien celebró un almuerzo de trabajo para luego comparecer juntos ante la prensa.\nSantos y Merkel abordaron cuestiones bilaterales, la situación actual en Colombia en derechos humanos y los esfuerzos del gobierno de Bogotá en la lucha contra el terrorismo y el narcotráfico.\nLa canciller expresó al mandatario la disposición de Alemania en apoyar el ingreso de Colombia a la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE) y la firma del tratado de libre comercio con la Unión Europea, mientras haya respeto a los derechos humanos.\nMerkel calificó la ley de víctimas y la restitución de tierras como dos proyectos que encaminarán a Colombia hacia su respeto a los derechos humanos.\nDe acuerdo con Santos, Colombia ha dado un paso adelante frente al respeto de los derechos humanos: \"Colombia tiene un enorme progreso para defender sus derechos humanos: derecho a la vida, a la libertad, a vivir sin miedo, así lo reconoció (Hillary) Clinton en su informe mundial sobre derechos humanos\".\nSantos aseguró que las personas que tienen una imagen negativa del país deben visitarlo: \"Yo le pediría a esos parlamentarios de la Unión Europea que están aferrados al pasado que ojalá visiten Colombia\".\nFrente a los avances sobre la ley de víctimas, el Presidente aseguró que \"lo que indican las votaciones es que va a ser aprobada por el Congreso, es la ley que necesitamos los colombianos para mirar el futuro con más optimismo y más entuasiasmo por los cambios de desarrollo que hemos puesto en marcha\", explicó.\nSantos y Merkel también hablaron sobre educación al destacar el número de estudiantes colombianos que residen en ese país, y se propuso afianzar un programa de intercambio estudiantil entre alemanes y colombianos.\nFinalmente, en el encuentro entre el mandatario y la canciller, Merkel prometió que buscará todas las mayorías para que se firme el acuerdo de libre comercio: \"vamos a avanzar con mucho optimismo\".\nEl presidente Santos finalizará la jornada y su visita oficial a Alemania con un encuentro con empresarios alemanes en la sede de una gran aseguradora ante la Puerta de Brandeburgo, donde animará a los industriales de este país a incrementar sus inversiones en Colombia.\nSantos visita por segunda vez Alemania en menos de un año, ya que el pasado septiembre acudió a Berlín en su condición de presidente electo tras su triunfo electoral y se entrevistó igualmente con la canciller alemana y otros destacados políticos locales.\nSantos llegó a Berlín procedente de Madrid, donde recibió el respaldo del rey Juan Carlos y del jefe del Ejecutivo español, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a la política desplegada en sus primeros meses de Gobierno, así como el interés por incrementar la cooperación económica.\nCon información de EFE.", "url": "http://www.semana.com/noticias-nacion/santos-alemania-tlc-ue-ley-victimas-restitucion-tierras/155038.aspx", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110414234408/http://www.semana.com/noticias-nacion/santos-alemania-tlc-ue-ley-victimas-restitucion-tierras/155038.aspx" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Alemania y Colombia: relaciones más allá del conflicto", "text": "El presidente colombiano, Juan Manuel Santos, cerró su visita oficial a Alemania con un encuentro con más de 150 empresarios alemanes. Ésta es una “amplísima oportunidad” para los inversionistas”, dijo Santos. El presidente colombiano aseguró que desbloqueará el acuerdo de protección a las inversiones entre ambos países “lo más pronto posible”.\nInversiones, por buen camino\nEn el encuentro con empresarios alemanes, el presidente Santos dijo que para atraer la inversión es necesario aumentar la confianza en Colombia, otorgar unas reglas de juego estables, así como brindarle garantías a las compañías. En este sentido, se refería al acuerdo de protección a las inversiones que aún no ha podido materializarse entre ambos países.\nAl encuentro con el presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, asistieron más de 150 empresas alemanas interesadas en invertir en Colombia.\n“Con la Canciller Merkel quedamos los dos en que vamos a averiguar este tema, y desbloquearlo lo más pronto posible. Vamos a mirar con el ministro de Hacienda dónde está el obstáculo, porque los alemanes dicen que está en Colombia, y los colombianos dicen que está en Alemania”, dijo a Deutsche Welle el presidente colombiano, Juan Manuel Santos, al terminar su presentación.\nSectores de interés para empresas alemanas\nSobre los sectores en los que podrían invertir las empresas alemanas en Colombia, Santos dijo a este medio que le “interesan sobre todo inversiones que traigan tecnología, en energías renovables, como la eólica y solar. También nos interesa muchísimo la biotecnología; en este sector hay un tremendo potencial”.\nEnergía eólica y solar, dos oportunidades para inversionistas alemanes.\nEl mandatario colombiano agregó que el país también está interesado en proyectos de infraestructura. “Los alemanes son muy buenos para construir obras de infraestructura importantes. Nosotros necesitamos eso. Aquí hay unas áreas muy promisorias”, agregó.\nLas otras oportunidades de inversión o “locomotoras” para lograr el crecimiento del 5,5 por ciento planeado para el 2011 en el país latinoamericano son el fomento a la construcción de viviendas, la industria agraria para aumentar la producción de biocombustibles y alimentos, así como la innovación en tecnología.\n“Relaciones van por buen camino”\nEn la mañana, la Canciller Merkel ya había calificado de “excelentes” las relaciones bilaterales entre ambos países, pero también dijo que es necesario intensificarlas. “Vamos a mantener una comunicación fluida para poder coordinar -en la medida de lo posible- las posiciones comunes”, dijo al respecto el mandatario colombiano.\n“Con esta visita oficial, queda claro que las relaciones bilaterales se han ampliado. Ya no se enfocan solamente a temas de conflicto o asuntos militares, como en el pasado”, dijo a Deutsche Welle Carsten Wieland, ex director de la fundación Konrad Adenauer en Bogotá, y experto en temas sobre Colombia. “Es muy importante ampliar las relaciones en ámbitos que el mismo presidente Santos subrayó, como la ciencia, economía, infraestructura y comercio. Creo que están en muy buen camino de lograrlo”, dijo Wieland.\nAdemás del encuentro con empresarios e inversionistas alemanes y con la Canciller Angela Merkel, Santos fue recibido este miércoles (13.04) con honores militares por el jefe de Estado de Alemania, Christian Wulff, en el palacio presidencial de Bellevue. Su agenda incluyó también varias reuniones conlos jefes de las fracciones parlamentarias y con el presidente del Bundestag, Norbert Lammert.\nAutora: Cristina Mendoza Weber\nEditora: Emilia Rojas Sasse", "url": "http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14988310,00.html?maca=spa-rss-sp-all-1122-rdf", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210416111432/https://www.dw.com/es/alemania-y-colombia-relaciones-m%C3%A1s-all%C3%A1-del-conflicto/a-14988310" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Santos recibe elogios de Merkel en Berlín", "text": "Colombia necesita inversión y tecnología alemanas. Ese fue el principal mensaje de Juan Manuel Santos durante su visita a Alemania, última escala de su viaje por Europa. A cambio, el país sudamericano ofrece condiciones sumamente atractivas: la economía de Colombia creció entre un 5,5 y un 6 por ciento en el primer trimestre, con respecto a igual lapso del año pasado, según cifras que dio a conocer el Ministerio de Hacienda.\nDurante una conferencia de prensa conjunta, la canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, hizo hincapié en el “exitoso balance de las relaciones comerciales” entre ambos países. Entre 2005 y 2010, el comercio germano-colombiano aumentó en un 74 por ciento, dijo Merkel, quien añadió que espera importantes impulsos adicionales del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Colombia y la Unión Europea. “El acuerdo entrará en vigor a más tardar en 2012”, se mostró optimista la jefa del ejecutivo alemán. El TLC prevé, entre otros aspectos, la reducción de aranceles y cuotas de importación para productos agropecuarios como plátanos, azúcar, carne y leche.\nCríticas al TLC\nLos sindicatos alemanes y europeos vienen manifestando su rechazo al tratado de libre comercio desde que se lanzaron las negociaciones en la cumbre entre la UE y América Latina hace tres años en Madrid. Colombia, dicen, es el país más peligroso del mundo para sindicalistas. El año pasado fueron asesinados más de 50 activistas laborales, denunció recientemente la federación de sindicatos alemanes, DGB, en una nota de protesta contra las negociaciones entre la UE y Colombia. Los sindicalistas alemanes temen que con el TLC se pueda volver aún más peligrosa la situación para los sindicalistas, así como aumentar la presión sobre la población rural. Colombia es el país con el mayor número de desplazados internos en el mundo: se estima en 5,5 millones la cifra de personas que se han visto forzados a abadonar sus tierras debido a la violencia. En parte se trata de tierras ricas en materias primas, que luego son explotadas por grandes empresas nacionales y transnacionales.\nTanto en el Parlamento Europeo, que tiene que aprobar el acuerdo con Colombia, como también entre los diputados de los partidos Verde y La Izquierda en el parlamento alemán, se cuestiona la compatibilidad del acuerdo comercial con el respeto por los derechos humanos. Consultado al respecto, el presidente Santos respondió: “El hecho de que algunos parlamentarios sigan con la percepción de que Colombia es un país donde se violan los derechos humanos de forma habitual y sistemática, es algo que tenemos que seguir combatiendo con la realidad.” Santos enfatizó que “Colombia ha hecho un enorme progreso en sus políticas para defender los derechos humanos. Así lo reconocen hasta nuestros más ácidos críticos. El viernes pasado, Hillary Clinton, en su informe sobre derechos humanos, reconoció el progreso tan importante que Colombia ha hecho en ese frente. Y yo pediría a esos parlamentarios que todavía están aferrados al pasado que ojalá visiten Colombia y vean con sus propios ojos cómo hemos prograsado en ese frente.”\nAlemania apoya proceso de paz\nEn el parlamento colombiano se está debatiendo actualmente la Ley de reparación de víctimas y la restitución de tierras. Alemania, dijo al respecto la canciller Merkel, quiere hacer “un aporte para que el proceso de reconciliación y justicia sea pacífico.” En el 2008, en una visita de Estado a Colombia, Angela Merkel había entregado a la fiscalía de Bogotá seis unidades móviles, que permiten el acceso de las víctimas de violaciones de los derechos humanos a las confesiones de los ex combatientes. “Podemos contribuir a hacer justicia en el lugar de los hechos”, dijo al respecto la canciller alemana en Berlín, “podemos aportar nuestra experiencia en materia de superación del pasado y contribuir así a la reconciliación en el marco de la legislación colombiana.”\nÉxitos en la lucha contra el narcotráfico\nEl gobierno colombiano se adjudica importantes éxitos en la lucha contra el narcotráfico. Sin embargo, en conversación con la prensa en Berlín, Juan Manuel Santos reconoció también que ello “ha significado problemas crecientes en Centroamérica, en México y en el Caribe. Estamos más que dispuestos a colaborar con la experiencia que hemos acumulado.” Es hora, insistió el mandatario sudamericano, “de usar a Colombia como parte de la solución y no del problema.”\nAutora: Mirjam Gehrke\nEditora: Emilia Rojas", "url": "http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14987157,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110724232925/http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14987157,00.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Kolumbien: Präsident Santos in Deutschland - Pressestatement", "text": "Kolumbien: Präsident Santos in Deutschland – Pressestatement\nKooperation im Bereich von Wissenschaft und Forschung\nDer kolumbianische Präasident hat die Bundesrepublik Deutschland besucht und ist dabei von Bundespräsident Christian Wulff und Bundeskanzlerin Merkel empfangen worden. Santos und Merkel traten danach gemeinsam vor die Presse.\nKANZLERIN MERKEL: Meine Damen und Herren, ich freue mich, heute den Staatspräsidenten von Kolumbien, Herrn Juan Manuel Santos, bei uns willkommen zu heißen. Wir sind uns zwar schon begegnet, aber heute ist er zum ersten Mal offiziell in Berlin. Wir sind sehr froh darüber.\nWir haben während des Mittagessens ein sehr intensives, freundschaftliches Gespräch geführt, das noch einmal deutlich gemacht hat, das die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Kolumbien sehr eng zusammenarbeiten und exzellente bilaterale Beziehungen haben. Aber wir haben natürlich auch darüber gesprochen, wie wir diese Zusammenarbeit noch intensivieren können.\nEs gibt eine gute, erfolgreiche Bilanz der Entwicklung unserer Wirtschaftsbeziehungen. Von 2005 bis 2010 hat der Handel zwischen unseren beiden Ländern nämlich um 74 Prozent zugenommen. Aber wir haben auch darüber gesprochen, wie wir noch mehr und breiter kooperieren können. Hierbei ist wichtig, dass die Verhandlungen über ein Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der Europäischen Union und Kolumbien abgeschlossen sind, dass dieses Abkommen auch spätestens Anfang 2012 in Kraft treten wird und dass wir uns von diesem Abkommen natürlich auch eine Bereicherung der bilateralen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen erhoffen.\nWir haben über die Kooperation im Bereich von Wissenschaft und Forschung gesprochen. Der Präsident wird heute ein langes Gespräch mit der Forschungsministerin und den Vertretern der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen führen. Es gibt bereits eine gute Zusammenarbeit. Eines der Forschungszentren Deutschlands im Bereich der maritimen Forschung ist in Kolumbien angesiedelt, nämlich an der Universität in Santa Marta. Das ist ein wichtiger Ausgangspunkt einer vielleicht noch erweiterten Zusammenarbeit im Bereich von Wissenschaft und Forschung.\nEs gibt 1.600 Studenten aus Kolumbien hier in Deutschland. Das freut uns. Das ist die drittgrößte Gruppe von Studenten aus Lateinamerika. Wir können die Dinge auch bezüglich dieses Punktes noch ausbauen.\nWir pflegen auch bei der Aufarbeitung von Fragen der Verbrechen, die begangen wurden, eine sehr enge Zusammenarbeit mit Kolumbien. Deutschland hat bei der Aufklärung, bei der juristischen Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit immer Hilfe geleistet und wird das auch weiterhin tun.\nWir arbeiten auch bei der Bekämpfung des Drogenschmuggels zusammen, also in Bezug auf wichtige Themen.\nWir haben uns darauf verständigt, dass wir unsere Zusammenarbeit nicht nur im Hinblick auf die bilateralen Beziehungen, sondern auch im Hinblick auf die internationale Zusammenarbeit verstärken wollen. Das betrifft auf der einen Seite die Zusammenarbeit in der Gruppe der G20, zu der Kolumbien ja nicht direkt gehört, aber in der man bestimmte Dinge miteinander besprechen kann, und natürlich auf der anderen Seite die Zusammenarbeit im UN-Sicherheitsrat; denn Deutschland und Kolumbien sind im Moment nichtständige Mitglieder im UN-Sicherheitsrat. Wir haben besprochen, dass wir gerade auch, was die Reform des Sicherheitsrates anbelangt, sehr eng miteinander zusammenarbeiten wollen.\nIch glaube, dass man sagen kann, dass die Zusammenarbeit mit Präsident Juan Manuel Santos genauso intensiv und genauso freundschaftlich ist, wie es mit seinem Vorgänger, Präsident Uribe, der Fall gewesen ist. Deutschland und Kolumbien sind auf einem sehr engen Pfad, und dieser Besuch wird dazu beitragen, dass dieser auch weiter gekräftigt und weiterentwickelt wird. Noch einmal herzlich willkommen!\nPRÄSIDENT SANTOS: Recht herzlichen Dank, Frau Bundeskanzlerin Merkel! Ich möchte zuerst meinen persönlichen Dank, den Dank der Regierung Kolumbiens und den Dank des Volkes Kolumbiens aussprechen. Wir möchten Dank für die Großzügigkeit sagen, mit der Sie, Ihre Regierung und Ihr Land uns bei diesem ersten offiziellen Besuch als Präsident Kolumbiens empfangen haben. Wir bedanken uns bei Ihnen für die Unterstützung, die Deutschland Kolumbien immer gewährt hat und die jetzt auch noch zugenommen hat, weil die Beziehungen zwischen unseren beiden Ländern wirklich sehr fruchtbare Beziehungen sind.\nIch möchte Ihnen auch für Ihre Unterstützung für den Abschluss des Freihandelsabkommens mit der Europäischen Union danken. Es ist ein Abkommen, das heute von unserem Handelsminister unterschrieben werden wird. Das heißt, er wird seine Initialen unter die offizielle Version des Textes setzen. Er wird das in Brüssel tun. Dann wird diese Version in die verschiedenen Sprachen übersetzt werden, damit das Abkommen dann später dem Europaparlament vorgelegt werden kann. Wir hoffen, dass wir ausreichend Unterstützung erhalten werden, damit das Abkommen auch angenommen werden wird und so bald wie möglich in Kraft treten kann.\nIch möchte hier unterstreichen, dass die Agenda zwischen Kolumbien und Deutschland größer geworden ist. Hier wurden Themen aufgenommen, die von gegenseitigem Interesse sind und die anders als die traditionellen Themen sind. Es handelt sich dabei um solche Themen wie Wissenschaft und Technologie. Es handelt sich um Themen wie Bildung, wie es Bundeskanzlerin Merkel gerade angesprochen hat. Es wird heute Nachmittag noch ein gesondertes Treffen mit der Bildungs- und Forschungsministerin geben. Es sind solche Themen wie Umweltfragen und erneuerbare Energien in die Agenda aufgenommen worden.\nWir haben mit Bundeskanzlerin Merkel auch über die Reformen gesprochen, die gegenwärtig in Kolumbien angenommen und umgesetzt werden. Es gibt bei uns ein besonderes Interesse an der Reform hinsichtlich der Wiedergutmachung für die Opfer und der Rückgabe von Ländereien. Durch die Unterstützung von und die Zusammenarbeit mit Deutschland ist das möglich. Aber diese Unterstützung ist auch weiterhin herzlich willkommen. Wir werden also noch große Unterstützung in institutioneller Hinsicht benötigen.\nEs gibt auch sehr große Gemeinsamkeiten in der Art und Weise, in der wir die Wirtschaftspolitik betrachten. Gestern wurde in unserem Kongress in Kolumbien eine Verfassungsreform angenommen. Danach werden bestimmte Restriktionen festgelegt, um die Haushaltsverantwortung festzuschreiben. Das ist eine Reform, die wir doch in einer gewissen Art und Weise von den deutschen Modellen übernommen haben, eben auch ausgehend von der traditionellen Verantwortung, die Deutschland in ökonomischen Fragen immer übernommen hat.\nWie die Bundeskanzlerin sagte, gibt es weitere Themen, bezüglich derer wir eine gemeinsame Sicht haben, zum Beispiel im Zusammenhang mit den G20. Das ist eine Frage, an der wir als Kolumbien sehr interessiert sind, weil jede Entscheidung Auswirkungen auf uns hat. Diesbezüglich können wir in Zukunft also auch eine bessere Kommunikation haben und gemeinsame Interessen verteidigen. Das Gleiche trifft auch auf den Sicherheitsrat zu. Beide Länder sind gegenwärtig Mitglieder des Sicherheitsrats der Vereinten Nationen. Wir haben ebenfalls beschlossen, dass unsere Botschafter eine flüssige Kommunikation unterhalten sollen, damit wir unsere Positionen so gut wie möglich koordinieren können.\nWir haben auch die Bedeutung unterstrichen, die für Kolumbien und für Deutschland in einer Zunahme des Handels und der Investitionen liegt. In diesem Sinne haben wir beschlossen, auf das Gaspedal zu treten und den Abschluss des Abkommens für Investitionsschutz zu beschleunigen, damit deutsche Unternehmen mehr in Kolumbien investieren. Gegenwärtig bieten sich wegen der Programme, die wir jetzt gestartet haben, wirklich große Chancen für Investitionen in Kolumbien. Dafür ist es erforderlich, dass wir Technologien bekommen und dass es Investitionen gibt. Die deutschen Investitionen sind dafür gerade die geeignetsten.\nWie Bundeskanzlerin Frau Merkel es hier angesprochen hat, sind nicht nur die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Kolumbien, sondern auch die Beziehungen zwischen Lateinamerika und Europa Beziehungen, die wir weiter unterstützen und fördern möchten. Wir sind zwei Regionen der Welt und glauben, dass wir uns im Rahmen unserer Möglichkeiten in die gleiche Richtung engagieren können. Sicherlich wird das also noch zusätzliche Ergebnisse zeitigen.\nWir haben auch unsere Absicht bekundet, unsere Anstrengungen im gemeinsamen Kampf gegen den Drogenhandel und gegen den Terrorismus noch weiter zu verstärken sowie im Bereich der Sicherheit zusammenzuarbeiten, wenn es darum geht, das organisierte, transnationale Verbrechen zu bekämpfen, das die ganze Welt in gleichem Maße trifft.\nIn diesem Sinne glaube ich, dass dieser Besuch wirklich sehr fruchtbringend war. Er ist ja noch nicht zu Ende. Es gibt noch eine ganze Reihe von Einzeltreffen mit Vertretern verschiedener Bereiche der Regierung sowie heute Abend und morgen Früh ebenfalls noch mit Unternehmern.\nNoch einmal, Frau Bundeskanzlerin, recht herzlichen Dank für Ihre Gastfreundschaft! Sie wissen um die Wertschätzung, die das kolumbianische Volk für Sie und für Ihr Land empfindet, und deswegen möchte ich diese Gefühle hier noch einmal bekräftigen. Ich möchte Ihnen sagen, dass wir wirklich sehr, sehr dankbar aus Ihrem großen Land zurückreisen werden.\nDie Ausschrift des fremdsprachlichen Teils erfolgte anhand der Simultanübersetzung\nBildquelle: presidencia.gov.co", "url": "http://latina-press.com/news/83830-kolumbien-praesident-santos-in-deutschland-pressestatement/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110417033200/http://latina-press.com/news/83830-kolumbien-praesident-santos-in-deutschland-pressestatement/" } ]

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[ { "language": "de", "title": "Fußball-EM in Ukraine: Gabriel fordert Boykott", "text": "SPD-Chef Sigmar Gabriel hat alle Politiker dazu aufgerufen, die in der Ukraine stattfindenden Spiele der kommenden Fußball-Europameisterschaft zu boykottieren. \"Politiker müssen aufpassen, dass sie nicht zu Claqueuren des Regimes werden\", sagte Gabriel der Zeitung \"Bild am Sonntag\". \"Denn sie sitzen in den Stadien möglicherweise neben Gefängnisdirektoren und Geheimpolizisten. Im Zweifelsfall sollte man da nicht hinfahren\", fügte Gabriel hinzu.\nDer SPD-Chef sieht angesichts der politischen Verhältnisse in der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik zudem das Assoziierungsabkommen zwischen der Ukraine und der Europäischen Union in Gefahr. \"Solange in der Ukraine Menschen aus politischen Gründen in Haft gehalten und misshandelt werden, kann es keinen normalen Umgang mit dem Land geben\", sagte Gabriel der \"BamS\". Unter diesen Umständen könne auch das Assoziierungsabkommen mit der EU nicht ratifiziert werden.\nDer Präsident des Europäischen Parlaments, Martin Schulz (SPD), sagte der \"Bild am Sonntag\", der Konflikt um die inhaftierte erkrankte Ex-Ministerpräsidentin Julia Timoschenko gefährde auch \"das Abkommen mit der EU über wirtschaftliche und politische Zusammenarbeit\". \"Die EU ist eine Werte- und Rechtsgemeinschaft und erwartet von Ländern, mit denen wir solche Assoziierungsabkommen schließen, dass sie sich an diese Werte halten\", warnte er. Über Timoschenko verhandelt Schulz nach eigenen Angaben selbst mit der ukrainischen Regierung. Ziel sei eine \"Lösung des Problems, die es allen Beteiligten ermöglicht, ihr Gesicht zu wahren\", sagte er.\nBundesinnenminister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) rief die Ukraine auf, Timoschenko ausreisen zu lassen, um ihr eine ärztliche Behandlung zu ermöglichen. Friedrich sagte der Tageszeitung \"Die Welt\": \"Die Ukraine hat mit der EM die Chance, sich positiv darzustellen, und ich hoffe, sie nimmt diese Chance wahr. Sie nimmt diese Chance aber nur wahr, wenn sie Frau Timoschenko nach den Regeln der Menschenwürde behandelt.\"\nAuch Kanzleramtsminister Ronald Pofalla (CDU) übte scharfe Kritik an der Regierung in Kiew. Er appelliere an Präsident Viktor Janukowitsch, \"endlich ein Einsehen zu haben und die Opfer der Willkürjustiz freizulassen\", sagte Pofalla der \"Bild\"-Zeitung. Die Menschenrechtslage in der Ukraine erfülle ihn mit \"großer Sorge\". \"Das autoritäre Regime\" Janukowitschs gehe \"systematisch\" gegen \"Timoschenko und zahlreiche Mitglieder ihrer alten Regierung vor\", sagte Pofalla.\nDie Berliner Klinik Charité hatte am Freitag große Sorge um Timoschenkos Gesundheitszustand geäußert. Diese wirft den Behörden vor, sie unlängst unter Gewaltanwendung aus dem Gefängnis ins Krankenhaus verlegt zu haben. Timoschenko, die an Bandscheibenproblemen leidet, verbüßt eine siebenjährige Haftstrafe wegen Amtsmissbrauchs. Sechs Wochen vor der Fußball-Europameisterschaft war die Heimatstadt Timoschenkos am Freitag zudem Schauplatz einer Serie von Bombenexplosionen. Nach Behördenangaben detonierten in Dnjepropetrowsk im Osten des Landes vier Sprengsätze, die mindestens 27 Menschen verletzten.\nUnterdessen wurde eine für heute angesetzte Verhandlung im Prozess gegen Timoschenko verschoben. Die Fortsetzung des Prozesses könne nicht in Abwesenheit der Politikerin erfolgen, begründete Richter Kostjantin Sadowski die Entscheidung. Der Prozess in der Stadt Charkiw im Osten der Ukraine, wo Timoschenko im Gefängnis sitzt, werde deshalb auf den 21. Mai verschoben. Vor dem Gericht demonstrierten rund tausend Anhänger Timoschenkos.", "url": "http://www.stern.de/news2/aktuell/gabriel-fordert-zu-boykott-von-fussball-em-in-ukraine-auf-1819856.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130602184525/http://www.stern.de/news2/aktuell/fussball-em-in-ukraine-gabriel-fordert-boykott-1819856.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Deutsche Politiker kritisieren ukrainische Regierung", "text": "Fall Timoschenko Deutsche Politiker kritisieren ukrainische Regierung\nSPD-Chef Gabriel ruft Politiker auf, die Spiele der Fußball-EM in der Ukraine zu boykottieren. Innenminister Friedrich forderte die Ausreise der inhaftierten Timoschenko.\n© Thomas Peter/dpa\nSPD-Chef Sigmar Gabriel hat alle Politiker dazu aufgerufen, die in der Ukraine stattfindenden Spiele der kommenden Fußball-Europameisterschaft zu boykottieren. \"Politiker müssen aufpassen, dass sie nicht zu Claqueuren des Regimes werden\", sagte Gabriel der Zeitung Bild am Sonntag. \"Denn sie sitzen in den Stadien möglicherweise neben Gefängnisdirektoren und Geheimpolizisten. Im Zweifelsfall sollte man da nicht hinfahren\", fügte Gabriel hinzu.\nIn diesem Zusammenhang lobte Gabriel auch, dass Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck wegen des Umgangs mit der inhaftierten Ex-Ministerpräsidentin Julija Timoschenko seinen Besuch in der Ukraine abgesagt hatte. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel ließ es am Freitag offen, ob sie zur Europameisterschaft reisen werde. In die Entscheidung werde aber natürlich die Entwicklung in der Ukraine und der Fall Timoschenko einfließen, sagte Regierungssprecher Steffen Seibert.\nAnzeige\nDer SPD-Chef sieht angesichts der politischen Verhältnisse in der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik zudem das Assoziierungsabkommen zwischen der Ukraine und der Europäischen Union in Gefahr. \"Solange in der Ukraine Menschen aus politischen Gründen in Haft gehalten und misshandelt werden, kann es keinen normalen Umgang mit dem Land geben\", sagte Gabriel der Zeitung. Unter diesen Umständen könne auch das Assoziierungsabkommen mit der EU nicht ratifiziert werden.\nZu diesem Schluss kam auch der Präsident des Europäischen Parlaments, Martin Schulz: \"Die EU ist eine Werte- und Rechtsgemeinschaft und erwartet von Ländern, mit denen wir solche Assoziierungsabkommen schließen, dass sie sich an diese Werte halten.\" Über Timoschenko verhandelt Schulz nach eigenen Angaben selbst mit der ukrainischen Regierung. Ziel sei eine \"Lösung des Problems, die es allen Beteiligten ermöglicht, ihr Gesicht zu wahren\", sagte er.\nTimoschenko musste im vergangenen Jahr eine siebenjährige Haftstrafe antreten. Ihr wird Amtsmissbrauch während ihrer Regierungszeit vorgeworfen. Die 51-Jährige hat jüngst über Misshandlungen im Gefängnis geklagt und einen Hungerstreik begonnen. Die Verfahren gegen sie und andere Mitglieder der früheren Regierung bezeichnet sie als Schauprozesse, um die Opposition mundtot zu machen.\nKanzleramtsminister Ronald Pofalla (CDU) übte deswegen scharfe Kritik an der Regierung in Kiew. Er appelliere an Präsident Viktor Janukowitsch, \"endlich ein Einsehen zu haben und die Opfer der Willkürjustiz freizulassen\", sagte er der Bild-Zeitung. Die Menschenrechtslage in der Ukraine erfülle ihn mit \"großer Sorge\". \"Das autoritäre Regime\" Janukowitschs gehe \"systematisch\" gegen \"Timoschenko und zahlreiche Mitglieder ihrer alten Regierung vor\", sagte Pofalla.\nFriedrich fordert Ausreise Timoschenkos\nDie Bundesregierung bemüht sich um eine Ausreisegenehmigung, damit die unter einem Bandscheibenvorfall leidende Timoschenko in Deutschland behandelt werden kann. Bundesinnenminister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) sagte: \"Die Ukraine hat mit der EM die Chance, sich positiv darzustellen, und ich hoffe, sie nimmt diese Chance wahr. Sie nimmt diese Chance aber nur wahr, wenn sie Frau Timoschenko nach den Regeln der Menschenwürde behandelt.\" Die Berliner Klinik Charité hatte am Freitag große Sorge um Timoschenkos Gesundheitszustand geäußert.\nDer Vorsitzende des Innenausschusses im Bundestag, Wolfgang Bosbach, forderte, dass Europa dem Regime in der Ukraine entschlossen und geschlossen entgegentritt. \"Es muss klargemacht werden, dass die Zustände nicht nur für die eigene Bevölkerung unzumutbar sind, sondern für Europa als Staaten- und Wertegemeinschaft\", sagte der CDU-Politiker der Welt. Weiter forderte er die ukrainische Regierung auf, die Sicherheit für Spieler und Fans bei der bevorstehenden Fußball-Europameisterschaft zu gewährleisten. \"Die Anschläge (in Dnjepropetrowsk) sind aber kein Grund, an der Fußball-EM nicht teilzunehmen\", sagte er weiter.", "url": "http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2012-04/gabriel-ukraine-boykott", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120430220157/http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2012-04/gabriel-ukraine-boykott" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Kritik an der Ukraine - Gabriel empfiehlt Politikern Boykott der EM", "text": "Der Druck auf Kiew wächst: Politiker aus Union und SPD verknüpfen das Wohl der inhaftierten Oppositionspolitikern Timoschenko mit dem Besuch der EM - und dem Wunsch der Ukraine nach Annäherung an die EU. Die Tochter Timoschenkos äußert unterdessen tiefe Besorgnis über den Gesundheitszustand ihrer Mutter. Der Prozess gegen die ehemalige Regierungschefin wurde vertagt.\nIm Fall der erkrankten ehemaligen Regierungschefin Julia Timoschenko erhöhen Spitzenpolitiker aus Union und SPD den Druck auf Kiew. SPD-Chef Sigmar Gabriel rief das politische Personal zu einem Boykott der Fußball-EM-Spiele in der Ukraine auf. \"Im Zweifelsfall sollte man da nicht hinfahren\", sagte Gabriel der Bild am Sonntag laut Vorabbericht. Man müsse aufpassen, dass man nicht zu Claqueuren des Regimes werde. Denn möglicherweise sitze man in den Stadien neben Gefängnisdirektoren und Geheimpolizisten.\nAnzeige\nWegen der politischen Verhältnisse in der Ukraine sieht Gabriel das Assoziierungsabkommen mit der EU in Gefahr: \"Solange in der Ukraine Menschen aus politischen Gründen in Haft gehalten und misshandelt werden, kann es keinen normalen Umgang mit dem Land geben. Unter diesen Umständen kann auch das Assoziierungsabkommen mit der EU nicht ratifiziert werden\", sagte der Vorsitzende der SPD.\nAuch Unionsaußenexperte Philipp Mißfelder verknüpfte das Schicksal der inhaftierten Oppositionspolitikerin mit dem Wunsch der Ukraine nach Annäherung an die EU: \"Der Umgang mit Frau Timoschenko wird Konsequenzen haben für den Umgang der EU mit Visa-Erleichterungen für Ukrainer\", sagte der CDU-Politiker der Rheinischen Post. Mit ihrem Vorgehen entferne sich die Ukraine immer weiter von Europa.\nEin deutliches Signal Europas forderte der Vorsitzende des Innenausschusses im Bundestag, Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU). Europa müsse dem Regime in der Ukraine jetzt entschlossen entgegentreten. \"Es muss klargemacht werden, dass die Zustände nicht nur für die eigene Bevölkerung unzumutbar sind, sondern für Europa als Staaten- und Wertegemeinschaft,\" sagte Bosbach der Tageszeitung Die Welt.\nDer CSU-Innenexperte Hans-Peter Uhl forderte nach der Absage des Ukraine-Besuchs von Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck weitere Gesten der Missbilligung durch deutsche Regierungsvertreter.\nTochter Timoschenkos besorgt über Gesundheitszustand der Mutter\nDie Kritik aus Europa bleibt in der Ukraine nicht unbemerkt. Timoschenkos Tochter äußerte die Überzeugung, ihre Mutter wäre ohne den internationalen Druck auf die Regierung in Kiew bereits tot. \"Ich bin sicher, wenn der Druck aus Europa nicht wäre, wäre meine Mutter heute nicht mehr am Leben\", sagte Eugenia Timoschenko der Bild am Sonntag.\nDie Absage der Reise des Bundespräsidenten in die Ukraine nannte Timoschenko \"ein sehr starkes Signal der Unterstützung und Solidarität\". Sie appellierte an andere europäische Spitzenpolitiker, es dem Bundespräsidenten gleich zu tun: Kein europäischer Staatsmann mit Selbstrespekt könne sich neben den ukrainischen Präsidenten Viktor Janukowitsch stellen. \"Er sollte boykottiert werden.\" Eine Absage der Fußball-Europameisterschaft in der Ukraine hält Eugenia Timoschenko dagegen für falsch.\nBesorgt zeigte sich Timoschenko über den Gesundheitszustand ihrer inhaftierten Mutter. \"Sie trinkt nur Wasser. Ihre Rückenschmerzen sind sehr viel schlimmer geworden, seitdem sie gegen ihren Willen mit Gewalt ins Krankenhaus gebracht wurde. Sie ist sehr schwach.\" Die inhaftierte ehemalige Regierungschefin Julia Timoschenko befindet sich im Hungerstreik, seit sie vor einer Woche in einer Geheimaktion in das Eisenbahnerkrankenhaus der ostukrainischen Stadt Charkow gebracht wurde. Die Oppositionsführerin hatte wiederholt erklärt, sie misstraue einheimischen Ärzten. Ihr Anwalt sagte, sie sei gegen ihren Willen verlegt worden.\nRichter vertagen Prozess gegen Timoschenko\nDer Prozess, der vergangene Woche gegen Timoschenko eröffnet worden war, wurde von den Richtern in Kiew auf den 21. Mai vertagt. Timoschenkos Anwälte erklärten, ihre Mandantin, die wegen eines Wirbelbruchs nur noch liegen kann, sei prozessunfähig und müsse wie von Ärzten der Berliner Charité empfohlen im Ausland behandelt werden. Vor dem Gerichtsgebäude in Kiew versammelten sich an diesem Samstagmorgen Anhänger und Gegner Timoschenkos zu lautstarken Protesten.\nLeser empfehlen Abhängigkeit von fossilen Rohstoffen — Zehn Vorschläge zum Ölsparen 53 Artikel wurden auf Facebook und Twitter empfohlen\nLesetipp aus der aktuellen SZ: Die Kathedrale des Sozialstaats Die Kathedrale des Sozialstaats Einst war die Bundesagentur für Arbeit Gerhard Schröders \"größte Baustelle“. 60 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung ist sie eine der modernsten Behörden Deutschlands. Ein Besuch in der Nürnberger Zentrale. Jetzt lesen ...\n(Süddeutsche.de/dapd/dpa/afp/feko/mikö)", "url": "http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/kritik-an-der-ukraine-gabriel-empfiehlt-politikern-boykott-der-em-1.1344232", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120501042535/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/kritik-an-der-ukraine-gabriel-empfiehlt-politikern-boykott-der-em-1.1344232" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Ukraine: Gabriel fordert Politiker zum EM-Boykott auf", "text": "Der Fall der inhafitierten Timoschenko sorgt für internationale Proteste\nDer SPD-Chef sieht angesichts der politischen Verhältnisse in der ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik das Assoziierungsabkommen zwischen der Ukraine und der Europäischen Union in Gefahr: \"Solange in der Ukraine Menschen aus politischen Gründen in Haft gehalten und misshandelt werden, kann es keinen normalen Umgang mit dem Land geben. Unter diesen Umständen kann auch das Assoziierungsabkommen mit der EU nicht ratifiziert werden.\"\nGabriel lobt Gauck\nLobend äußerte sich Gabriel über Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck, der wegen des Umgangs mit Timoschenko seinen Besuch in der Ukraine abgesagt hatte. \"Über diese Entscheidung des Bundespräsidenten habe ich mich sehr gefreut.\" Gaucks Freiheitsideal sei brandaktuell.\nBundesinnenminister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) appellierte an die Führung in Kiew, Timoschenko ausreisen zu lassen, um ihr eine ärztliche Behandlung zu ermöglichen. \"Die Ukraine hat mit der EM die Chance, sich positiv darzustellen, und ich hoffe, sie nimmt diese Chance wahr\", sagte er der \"Welt\".", "url": "http://www.ftd.de/politik/international/:prozess-gegen-timoschenko-gabriel-fordert-politiker-zum-em-boykott-auf/70029072.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120501101035/http://www.ftd.de/politik/international/:ukraine-gabriel-fordert-politiker-zum-em-boykott-auf/70029072.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Bundespräsident Gauck erhöht den Druck auf die Ukraine", "text": "Politik\nFall Timoschenko\nBundespräsident Gauck erhöht den Druck auf die Ukraine\n27.04.2012, 19:39 Uhr 27.04.2012, 19:39 Uhr\nSechs Wochen vor dem Beginn der Fußball-Europameisterschaft gibt es Sicherheitsbedenken nach Anschlagserie. UEFA mit Vertrauen in Behörden.\nBerlin/München. Es war ein politischer Paukenschlag, den Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck am Donnerstag ertönen ließ - mit einem womöglich heftigen Nachbeben für die Fußball-EM in Polen und der Ukraine (8. Juni bis 1. Juli). Das deutsche Staatsoberhaupt verzichtet aus Protest gegen den Umgang mit der in der Ukraine inhaftierten und schwer erkrankten Ex-Premierministerin Julia Timoschenko auf die Reise zu einem Treffen der zentraleuropäischen Staatsoberhäupter in Jalta.\nDie diplomatische Ohrfeige für den ukrainischen Präsidenten Wiktor Janukowitsch sei, wie ein Sprecher Gaucks in der Süddeutschen Zeitung betonte, „im engen Benehmen mit der Bundesregierung“ erfolgt. Berlin erhöht damit den Druck auf Janukowitsch, der den immer schärfer werdenden Sturm der Entrüstung aus dem In- und Ausland bislang mit bemerkenswerter Untätigkeit ignoriert. „Was sollen wir machen?“, fragte unterdessen UEFA-Präsident Michel Platini in der Zeitung Die Welt.\nAm Freitag erreichten die innerukrainischen Spannungen einen weiteren traurigen Höhepunkt, als in Timoschenkos Geburtsstadt Dnjepropetrowsk bei Sprengstoffanschlägen mindestens 27 Menschen verletzt wurden, darunter neun Kinder. Besonders bei der jungen Generation ist Janukowitsch längst nicht mehr unumstritten. Die vier Explosionen in der Industriestadt erhärten die Sicherheitsbedenken rund um die Ausrichtung der EM.\nDie UEFA reagierte in einer ersten Stellungnahme zurückhaltend und kündigte an, die Ergebnisse der Untersuchungen abwarten zu wollen. „Diese Ereignisse beeinträchtigen in keiner Weise das Vertrauen der UEFA in die von den ukrainischen Behörden geplanten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, die ein heiteres Turnier ohne Zwischenfälle gewährleisten werden“, teilte die Europäische Fußball-Union mit. Die Gedanken der UEFA seien bei den Verletzten.\n+++ Bombenanschläge und Timoschenkos Inhaftierung überschatten die EM +++\n+++ Explosionen in Ukraine - Charité will Timoschenko behandeln +++\nOb die Entscheidung Gaucks Einfluss auf den eigentlich obligatorischen Besuch von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel bei den deutschen Spielen in Lwiw und Charkow haben wird, ist nicht abzusehen. Offiziell gebe es keine Reisepläne, sagte Regierungssprecher Steffen Seibert. Der Fall Timoschenko werde aber „in die Überlegungen“ einbezogen. Dass die bekennende Fußballanhängerin Merkel lächelnd und jubelnd und womöglich sogar neben Janukowitsch auf der Tribüne sitzen könnte, wirkt angesichts der Lage wie Hohn.\n„Ich sehe für mich persönlich ein Problem, in einem Fußballstadion zu sitzen, dort ein Spiel zu sehen, vielleicht zu jubeln und zu wissen, dass wenige Kilometer entfernt jemand nicht nach den Regeln behandelt wird, die wir uns gemeinsam gegeben haben in der zivilisierten Staatenwelt“, sagte Bundesinnenminister Hans-Peter Friedrich. Einen Boykott der EM hatte der für den Sport zuständige CSU-Politiker aber bereits am Mittwoch als grundsätzlich nicht geeignet erklärt, weil Sport ja eigentlich für das „Völkerverbindende und den fairen Wettbewerb der Jugend“ stehe.\n+++ Diskussion über Boykott der EM in der Ukraine entbrannt +++\nFriedrich will die EM dennoch nutzen, um sich ein persönliches Bild davon zu machen, ob sich die Verhältnisse in der Ukraine verbessert haben. Der Rheinischen Post sagte der Minister, er plane den Besuch der Partie Deutschland gegen die Niederlande am 13. Juni in Charkow, und er bekräftigte: „Sollte Frau Timoschenko bis dahin noch in Haft sein, möchte ich mit ihr sprechen.“ Claudia Roth, Bundesvorsitzende der Grünen, forderte drastisch: „Kein Bundestagsabgeordneter sollte in dieser Situation EM-Spiele in der Ukraine besuchen.“\n+++ Fanfest zur Fußball-EM auf dem Heiligengeistfeld ist jetzt gesichert +++\nGaucks Entscheidung, nicht ans Schwarze Meer auf die Halbinsel Krim zu reisen, findet im Bundestag breite Zustimmung. „Ich finde, dass der Bundespräsident eine richtige Entscheidung getroffen hat“, sagte Außenminister Guido Westerwelle: „Die Bundesregierung unterstützt das gemeinsame, klare Eintreten für eine angemessen medizinische Behandlung von Julia Timoschenko.“ Seit Wochen übt das Kabinett in Berlin drastische Kritik an den rechtsstaatlichen Zuständen in dem EM-Ausrichterland.\nTimoschenko, die wegen Amtsmissbrauchs in einer Strafkolonie in Charkow eine siebenjährige Haftstrafe verbüßt, war aus Protest gegen ihre Haftbedingungen am Freitag vergangener Woche in den Hungerstreik getreten. Wie mehrere Medien berichten, sei die 51-Jährige bei der Verlegung aus der Haftanstalt in ein Krankenhaus geschlagen und misshandelt worden. Westerwelle sagte, die Bundesregierung sei in „tiefer Sorge“ um den Gesundheitszustand Timoschenkos. Wegen des öffentlichen Interesses sei die EM „eine gute Gelegenheit, genau hinzuschauen, wie es um die Rechtsstaatlichkeit in der Ukraine bestellt ist“.\nIn die gleiche Kerbe schlägt Box-Weltmeister Witali Klitschko, prominentester Sportler der Ukraine und Mitglied der Oppositionspartei Ukrainische Demokratische Allianz (Udar). „Ich möchte alle Fans bitten, zur EM in die Ukraine zu reisen und ihr Team zu unterstützen - trotz der traurigen Lage von Julia Timoschenko“, schrieb Klitschko in der Bild-Zeitung. Die Menschen in der Ukraine hätten es „nicht verdient“, international isoliert zu werden. Schuld an der Entwicklung hätten allein die regierenden Politiker um Präsident Janukowitsch. „Gebt diesen Leuten speziell auch während der EM keine mediale Plattform“, forderte der 40-Jährige.\n+++ ARD plant Fußball-EM ohne Monica Lierhaus +++\nDer neue DFB-Präsident Wolfgang Niersbach zeigte sich in einem Interview auf der Internetseite des Deutschen Fußball-Bundes (dfb.de) solidarisch: „Die Haltung der Bundesregierung unterstützen wir ohne Wenn und Aber. Auch aus Sicht des Sports ist es mehr als nur eine Geste der Humanität, dass mit Frau Timoschenko anständig umgegangen wird und sie eine angemessene medizinische Behandlung bekommen kann. Ich glaube, die ganze Weltöffentlichkeit wartet auf ein solches Signal.“ (sid)", "url": "http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/article2260427/Bundespraesident-Gauck-erhoeht-den-Druck-auf-die-Ukraine.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120430074336/http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/article2260427/Bundespraesident-Gauck-erhoeht-den-Druck-auf-die-Ukraine.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Vier Bomben erschüttern die Ukraine und schüren Sorgen um die EM", "text": "Artikel versenden\nBitte geben Sie eine gültige Empfänger-E-Mail-Adresse ein.\nBitte geben Sie Ihre gültige E-Mail-Adresse ein.\nBitte geben Sie den Sicherheits-Code ein.\nDer Code kann nicht bestätigt werden! Bitte geben Sie den Code erneut ein.\nDer Artikel konnte aus technischen Gründen nicht versendet werden. 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[ { "language": "pt", "title": "AOL colocará browser Netscape Navigator no \"limbo\"", "text": "AOL colocará browser Netscape Navigator no \"limbo\"\nda Associated Press, em Nova York\nO primeiro browser comercial da Web e um dos responsáveis pela explosão da internet, o Netscape Navigator, vai ser praticamente retirado de cena no dia 1º de fevereiro de 2008, após 13 anos de funcionamento.\nA atual proprietária do browser, a AOL, do grupo Time Warner Inc., decidiu suspender futuros desenvolvimentos e suporte técnico para o browser.\nO uso do Netscape foi abalado com a entrada da Microsoft no setor de browser e o Netscape ficou de lado com o aparecimento de seu \"primo\", o Firefox.\n\"Enquanto grupos internos investiram um muito tempo e energia em tentar reviver o Netscape Navigator, estes esforços não foram bem-sucedidos em ganhar fatia de mercado do Internet Explorer, da Microsoft\", disse Tom Drapeau, diretor do Netscape.\nEm anos recentes, o Netscape tem sido pouco mais do que uma versão com outro design do Firefox, mais popular.\nO Firefox possui cerca de 10% do mercado de browser da internet, enquanto que o restante fica praticamente sob o domínio do Internet Explorer.\nAs pessoas poderão continuar a usar e baixar o Netscape indefinidamente, mas a AOL irá parar de lançar atualizações de segurança e outras modificações a partir da data anunciada. Drapeau recomenda que os usuários do Netscape baixem o Firefox. A primeira versão do Netscape veio em 1994.", "url": "http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u358921.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071231232808/http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u358921.shtml" }, { "language": "en", "title": "AOL kills Netscape", "text": "Jobless levels in the USA reached their highest point for twenty years this week, and the mother lode of the \"Long Boom\", San Francisco, has just been declared the fastest-shrinking city in the nation.\nNow AOL-Time Warner has added to the pyre by making most of its Netscape browser division redundant. Netscape's public flotation in 1995 marked the start of the Internet frenzy. But in the blink of an accountant's eye, the great emblem of California's vitality as an engine for technology-led prosperity has disappeared, and contractors were seen peeling the logo off the corporate buildings early yesterday afternoon.\nThis isn't all necessarily the end of the world. Along with Netscape's 1998 fire sale to AOL, the company chose to make the browser code open source, and agreed to fund the Mozilla project with the understanding that the Mozilla project would release killer code with which to whup Microsoft's ass, and thereby redress the structural and economic advantages that Microsoft, which controlled the underlying platform, enjoyed.\nBut it didn't happen. The finger-pointing may carry on for many years, but the responsibility for this debacle depends on which side of this piviotal dot.com divide you choose to sit on.\nOn the one hand, the corrupt suits at AOL failed to appreciate the majesty of the Mozilla code, pulled features (such as blocking pop-up windows which AOL's advertisers loved, but users hated), forked willy-nilly, threw in adware where they could, and generally betrayed the Great Noble Project.\nOn the other hand, when a killer app was needed in haste, the Mozilla team wandered off into Lotus-eating land and spent four years creating esoteric frameworks and note-perfect bug tracking systems that only a nerd could appreciate.\nBoth these points of view are caricatures, of course.\nBut techno-utopians tend to get lost in their fabulous daydreams, sometimes. They forget that these browser things are just tools, and browsers are just windows onto the web, so a graceful XUL framework means diddly-squat to the innocent punter. Creating a neat C++ framework when what the world really needs a non-Microsoft browser is nothing but a deriliction of duty: a piece of vanity code. What we Brits call pointless \"willy waving\".\nWhen AOL bought Netscape, the browser that created the revolution had market share parity with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. When AOL pulled the plug, it was being counted in fractions of a percentage point.\nSo it's more than a mere accident that Opera, with its relentless focus on the Human Interface - and looking after the needs of users like your grandmother - stands set to reap the rewards. Instead of investigating the nerd-options, Opera invested in smartphones and embedded appliances. But the Opera browser has emerged from the most unlikely of places, a tiny oil-rich Scandinavian country which honors an altogether more civilized mode of business than the Hegelian, Wild-West, suggesting that the marketing/technical narrative we're likely to hear is too limited to explain what really took place.\nWhile the Mozilla project may surely prosper, as a kind of ham radio for refuseniks, the great experiment has failed. AOL owned a mass market: now it has decided that the code simply isn't good enough for the mass market.\nNetscape's death will provoke a thousand arguments, but none will be so useful as utility. Well, maybe and perhaps, browsers don't really matter too much. But the fact that Microsoft's miserable excuse for a web browser - a sorry piece of code that has been untouched by human hand for many years, now - speaks volumes about indulging the wrong kind of people with big responsibilities. In the end, it was these coders who failed us. ®\nRelated Stories\nBrowser wars suit ends with death knell for Netscape\nBrowser innovation is dead - Andreessen", "url": "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/16/aol_kills_netscape", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20040426034511/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/16/aol_kills_netscape/" } ]