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Actualités à la Une Iraq Fractures Deepen as Kurds Take an Oil Town ERBIL, Iraq — Iraq’s fracturing deepened on Thursday as Kurdish forces poured into the strategic northern oil city of Kirkuk after government troops fled, while emboldened Sunni militants who seized two other important northern cities this week moved closer to Baghdad and issued threats about advancing into the heavily Shiite south and destroying the shrines there, the holiest in Shiism. The rapidly unfolding developments came as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s entreaties for emergency powers stalled because of inaction by Parliament, which seemed paralyzed over the worst crisis to confront the country since it was convulsed by sectarian mayhem at the height of the American-led invasion nearly a decade ago. The inability or unwillingness of Mr. The American government’s apparent rejection of Mr. Continue reading the main story OPEN Map Map: Where ISIS Is Gaining Control in Iraq and Syria Photo At a meeting of Arab and European foreign ministers in Athens, Mr. Correction: June 12, 2014

Le Point : actualité internationale, économie, actualité Françai Incumbents Fear Cantor’s Loss Will Fill Tea Party’s Sails Photo WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans thought they had found an answer for the conservative insurgencies that had toppled unsuspecting incumbents in recent years: Be prepared, be aggressive and be conservative. The approach had been working pretty well as senior Republicans in the Senate and the House beat back challenges from the right in the primaries. They hoped to shut out Tea Party-allied groups entirely and deter them from similar disruptive efforts in the future. Then Senator Thad Cochran was forced into a runoff in Mississippi that opened the door to the possibility of a high-profile Tea Party upset later this month. Now, Representative Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat has battered the door down altogether, giving conservative activists a political scalp of the first magnitude and showing that a populist movement some saw as flagging still has the power to rattle the establishment. But Mr. Tea Party challengers themselves were more than ready to predict victories ahead. Mr.

Le Monde diplomatique EL MUNDO - Diario online líder de información en español Map History / History of Cartography - WWW-Virtual Library Tabla de Precios saads En esta página están descritos los costos correspondiente a las cuotas iniciales y de renovación de los distintos conceptos asignación de recursos Internet y categorías de miembros. Para obtener la asignación del recurso Internet solicitado, es necesario haber realizado el pago de la cuota inicial y haber firmado el contrato de Servicio de Registro. Posteriormente, una vez al año y en la fecha de aniversario de la asignación, LACNIC cobrará una cuota de renovación equivalente a la categoría de la organización tal cual indicada a continuación. La factura será enviada por LACNIC con 2 meses de anticipación y si el pago se realiza dentro de ese plazo (entre la fecha de envío de la factura y la fecha de aniversario), el monto de la misma tendrá una bonificación del 10%. Esta bonificación se aplicará solamente a renovaciones de bloques de direcciones IP distribuidos a miembros ISPs. Toda organización que reciba dirección IP de LACNIC es considerada miembro. Miembros ISP Miembros Usuario Final

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