Hamas refuses to Prime Minister Fayyad is a Palestinian unity government

Gaza. .- The Islamist movement Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, Wednesday rejected to accept the current prime minister, Salam Fayad, as the next head of government of national unity to be formed soon with the nationalist Fatah. "We will not accept Salam Fayad, who chairs the illegal government in Ramallah, as Executive technocrat prime minister.

Do not accept even as a minister in the unity government", declared the capital of the Palestinian Gaza Hamas leader Salah to Bardawil. Fayad was appointed at a meeting in Ramallah last night as a candidate for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to lead the next cabinet unit, whose next training should end four years of political division between the main Palestinian factions.

VENEZUELA - Caracas denounced U.S. sanctions against the oil company PDVSA

The United States has imposed on May 24 for new sanctions against seven "foreign entities" as part of their effort to contain the nuclear program of Iran and deter companies from around the world to do business with Tehran. Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is part of the companies mentioned. For Nicolás Maduro, Foreign Minister of Venezuela, these sanctions are "unilateral" and "unfair." He said that his country was studying how to report them to the United Nations.

• US Imposes Sanctions Against National Oil Company, PDVSA - Statement from the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (25/05/2011)
• Venezuela: Relations with US are 'frozen' (05/06/2011)
• Chavez Condemns U.S. Sanctions (01/06/2011)
• Venezuela: Relations with US are 'frozen' (05/06/2011)
• Venezuela: Relations with US are 'frozen' (05/06/2011)

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VIETNAM - A high-risk street trading

In Kim Lien, a village near the city of Danang [750 km south of Hanoi], no one remembers when these acrobatics began. But in spite of fatal accidents, one thing remains certain: jump on the train is the only way that these women have found to make a living. Tran Thi Cuc, an old woman with a face tanned by the sun and covered with scars starts by boarding trains for the last twenty-five years.

EU-USA - With Obama, love is blind

In his book The Audacity of Hope (Presses de la Cité, 2008), Barack Obama describes himself as a Rorschach test, this well-known psychological experiment where we present a series of inkblots to subjects who should say what they see. There is no right answer. Every answer to his particular way, is supposed to reveal the obsessions and anxieties of the patient.

"I'm the screen on which people of many political tendencies entirely different project their own ideas," he said. As such, I can only disappoint some, if not all. "But one of the most curious things , about those who support Obama, they are not disappointed - considering they had placed great hopes in him was inevitable - but they still devote his fervent devotion despite these disappointments.

MUSIC - Dylan had the chance to see the birth of rock'n roll

Bob Dylan May 23 celebrates the 70 years and still does not allow her to hang up his guitar and harmonica. The pioneer of the protest song has this year launched a world tour for his 50 year career which has notably led by China and Vietnam. In the columns of The New York Times music critic David Hajdu is also to wish a happy birthday this iconic singer.

But he recalls that Dylan was part of an exceptional generation of artists born around 1940 who all had the same snap music: "They had 14 years in 1955 or 1956, when rock 'n' roll made its appearance "Hajdu writes, recalling that the first songs of Elvis Presley were beginning to be disseminated.

CAUCASUS - Tbilisi recognizes the genocide of Circassians

On 20 May, the Georgian parliament has unanimously recognized the genocide of Circassians, mountain people of North Caucasus, the Russian Empire between 1763 and 1864 during the Russo-Caucasian. At the request of the Circassian diaspora [installed in Turkey, Syria, Jordan], and after a "scientific and historical analysis," Georgian MPs have held that "forced displacement and the physical extermination of 90% of the Circassians" constituted an act genocidal.

CHILE - Salvador Allende, a death that remains to be explained

Both funerals of former President Salvador Allende [died September 11, 1973] and the various steps taken so far towards the identification of the bodies were not made in the rules. On September 11, 1973, military coup leaders ordered in haste to report to the Brigada de Homicidios [Criminal Police] on the death of Allende and a necropsy was performed at the Military Hospital.

The relevant documents have several inconsistencies. The exhumation of the remains of Allende, May 23, aims to address gaps and highlight the direct cause of death: single suicide? assisted suicide? strafing? In the afternoon of September 11, 1973, three soldiers and several firefighters were outside the Palacio de la Moneda [the seat of the presidency], carrying a bundle wrapped in a blanket with stripes, the undersigned Alina Morales had offered to Allende for his last birthday.