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Sénégal. Au bord de l'implosion - Monde - Le Télégramme
Sénégal. Au bord de l'implosion La décision du Conseil constitutionnel de confirmer la candidature contestée du président AbdoulayeWade, 85 ans, à la présidentielle de février, risque de faire basculer dans la tourmente le Sénégal , jusque-là considéré comme un modèle de démocratie en Afrique . Elu en 2000, réélu en 2007, Wade se présente pour la troisième fois après plusieurs modifications de la Constitution. Sa volonté de rester au pouvoir coûte que coûte alimente les tensions dans son pays où des violences politiques avaient déjà fait en décembre au moins un mort. «Coup d'État constitutionnel»NIGERIA
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Gay law repeal hypocritical: activists
Voters will view Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman as a hypocrite if he moves to repeal laws allowing same-sex civil unions, a gay rights campaigner says. Queensland's Deputy Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls says the LNP may repeal the laws, passed in parliament on Wednesday night, if it wins government next year. Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays spokeswoman Shelley Argent said the LNP leader had given his ostensible support to the gay community by saying he personally believed in same-sex unions. "If Campbell Newman becomes premier and is part of the repeal, you would wonder what kind of person would do that," Ms Argent told AAP on Friday.IRAN
After nearly nine years of war, the US military has formally marked the end of its combat operations in Iraq with a ceremony in Baghdad. President Barack Obama, who came to office pledging to bring troops home, said the US left behind a "sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq".
BBC News - Week in pictures: 10-16 December 2011
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Travel - The glittering goldfields of southeastern Australia : History, Australia
Three visitors try their luck at gold panning in the creek at Sovereign Hill, in Ballarat. (Richard Sowersby/BBC) The discovery of gold in the early 1850s sparked pandemonium in Victoria, Australia, then an unremarkable colonial frontier full of sheep farmers. Thousands of prospectors from Europe, North America and China flocked to southeastern Australia with the hope of becoming the most profitable fortune hunter. The optimism and hardship that dominated the goldfields during that time reverberates throughout present-day Victoria. “You can still see areas where they [the prospectors] redirected the creeks, where they used to pan for gold, the chimneys and foundations of little colonies right across the goldfields,” said Rod Thomson, the chairman of Goldfields Tourism .
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Les talibans veulent le transfert des prisonniers de Guantanamo au Qatar - LeMonde.fr
Les talibans ont demandé le transfert des prisonniers de Guantanamo vers le Qatar , lors de négociations bilatérales menées avec les Etats-Unis , a affirmé vendredi 6 janvier à l'AFP un porte-parole du président afghan, Hamid Karza ï. Une vingtaine de prisonniers venus d' Afghanistan , un pays attaqué par les Etats-Unis après le 11 septembre 2001, sont arrivés il y a dix ans sur la base navale américaine de Guantanamo, louée à Cuba . Jusqu'à sept cent soixante-dix-huit détenus, capturés sur plusieurs territoires, se sont entassés dans cette prison, que le président américain Barack Obama a affirmé vouloir fermer . Cent soixante et onze hommes y étaient encore détenus au 10 novembre. Parmi ceux-ci, une vingtaine d'Afghans, dont cinq cadres de l'ancien régime taliban (1996-2001), selon M. Faizi, qui font désormais l'objet de toutes les attentions.
KHARTOUM | Mon Jan 2, 2012 11:08am EST KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Up to 50,000 people have fled violence in a remote border area of South Sudan, the United Nations said on Monday, after days of clashes between two tribes. South Sudan became independent in July last year under a 2005 peace deal with Khartoum to end decades of civil war.
Up to 50,000 flee South Sudan tribal turmoil: U.N. | Reuters
New 'parallel revolution' against corruption - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
London, UK - As the year of revolution draws to a close, a new "parallel revolution" against corruption is emerging in Yemen. Over the past two weeks strikes have spread across the country and are proving effective, leading to the hope that this Yemeni uprising of 2011 can truly bring change to the Arab world’s poorest country. The chant of "Irhal, Irhal" - "Leave, Leave" - is now being directed at corrupt figures of authority throughout the country. Unlike some of the other Arab revolutions, especially the Libyan and Syrian ones, the Yemeni revolution was mainly not one of the politically oppressed, but the economically oppressed. The extent of the atmospheric levels of corruption can be seen in the places where protests and strikes have been called. One of the first strikes was by Yemenia Airways workers; the airline, practically bankrupt, has been destroyed by corruption.
Chile rising - Fault Lines - Al Jazeera English
Chilean students have taken over schools and city streets in the largest protests the country has seen in decades. The students are demanding free education, and an end to the privatisation of their schools and universities. The free-market based approach to education was implemented by the military dictator Augusto Pinochet in his last days in power. The protests are causing a political crisis for Sebastian Pinera, the country's president. But what are the underlying issues driving the anger? As the demonstrations in Chile coincide with protests erupting globally, Fault Lines follows the Chilean student movement during their fight in a country plagued by economic inequality.
Les unes de journaux turcs le 23 décembre 2011. Il y a des années qu'Israël hésite quant à la question de la reconnaissance du génocide arménien, d'une part au nom de l'intérêt de l'Etat hébreu dans ses relations avec la Turquie, d'autre part par crainte de voir se diluer le concept de l'Holocauste en tant que "propriété" exclusivement juive. La nécessité morale ou l'identification avec l'holocauste arménien ont été traitées de manière accessoire, ne trouvant que rarement leur place dans le débat public. Aujourd'hui encore, le cabinet du Premier ministre est intervenu à ce sujet dans les travaux de la commission sur l'Enseignement, la Culture et les Sports de la Knesset [le Parlement], sous prétexte du risque du résultat des délibérations de saborder les relations israélo-turques.
ARMÉNIE • Israël doit reconnaître "l'autre holocauste" | Courrier international
Some villages have been entirely washed away by the flash flooding Visiting the area, Mr Aquino reassured survivors the government would be there to help but reportedly acknowledged mistakes might have been made. Some authorities have begun mass burials, but they are opposed by some relatives of the dead. Disaster agencies are attempting to provide food, water, medicine and body bags, but damaged roads are hampering efforts to reach survivors in remote villages.
BBC News - Philippine floods: President declares national calamity
Although the water in the ditch was not deep, it still claimed 15 young lives Only on Sunday, the government issued draft measures to guarantee children's safety, including compulsory checks on buses and their drivers. "The water was not very deep, probably more than a metre (yard) or so - up to an adult's waist - but it was deep enough to drown some of the children," Zhang, the wife of the factory owner, told the Associated Press. They have been keen to draw a distinction between a crash in Gansu province last month in which 19 kindergarten children died, the BBC's Michael Bristow in Beijing reports. Monday also saw another crash involving a school bus, this time in southern Guangdong province. Some 37 pupils were injured after the bus carrying 59 children was hit by a heavy-duty truck, Xinhua news agency reports.
BBC News - Children suffocate in China school-bus crash in Jiangsu
Joseph Kabila gained most of his support in eastern areas The Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has rejected claims that he won elections through widespread rigging. The Carter Center observer group said the results "lack credibility", while the Catholic archbishop of Kinshasa said they did not reflect "the truth". He pointed to his own disappointing scores in the eastern provinces as proof that the election process had been transparent and said these elections were "far better" than those in 2006, when he was first elected. Mr Kabila said he was not surprised by Mr Tshisekedi's declaration of himself as president, but he would press ahead with the task of governing DR Congo and was confident that the economy would achieve double-digit growth in the next two or three years.
BBC News - Joseph Kabila defends DR Congo election
L'opposant Boris Nemtsov interpellé lors d'une manifestation à Moscou - LeMonde.fr
Lors d'un nouveau rassemblement organisé à Moscou, mardi 6 décembre, pour protester contre la victoire aux élections législatives de dimanche du parti du premier ministre, Vladimir Poutine, la police a interpellé près de deux cent cinquante militants de l'opposition, a annoncé un porte-parole de la police moscovite. Parmi eux figure le leader de l'opposition Boris Nemtsov , a indiqué la porte-parole de cet ancien vice-premier ministre du président Boris Eltsine , Olga Chorina . La police n'intervenait pas en revanche contre des militants favorables au pouvoir qui organisaient une contre-manifestation - autorisée celle-ci - de l'autre côté de la place.TEHRAN - Iranian Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani said Sunday that his country's oil export cuts to the European Union (EU) is an idea which still needs to be discussed, the local Fars news agency reported. In the past weeks, Iranian lawmakers said that they were discussing the issue of oil export cuts to EU with officials from the Oil Ministry. EU leaders endorsed last week the latest restrictive sanction measures on Iran's oil exports adopted by the bloc's foreign ministers on Jan 23. On Saturday, Iran's Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said that Tehran will definitely stop its oil exports to certain European countries. Qasemi called on the EU states to review their decision on the oil embargo on Iran, saying that EU states' oil imports from the Islamic republic "just" comprises 18 percent of its total oil exports. Late in January, Qasemi said that "less than 20 percent of Iran 's oil exports are destined for Europe" and the EU sanctions will take a heavy toll on the European people.