Monday, May 30, 2011

FRANCE - François Mitterrand, a disappointment African

Africa commemorates its way thirty years from the accession to power of François Mitterrand. Indeed, context is marked by intense elections on the continent. As he had recommended in his famous and now historic speech in La Baule in 1990, secured the support of democracy. But today, what else does it effect Mitterrand? Can we venture to say that the continent has advanced in terms of democracy? Without doubt the passage of Mitterrand he scored the world.

China detains 74 suspects in factories contaminated with lead batteries with the blood of hundreds of people

Beijing, May 30 .- The authorities of the eastern province of Zhejiang on Monday reported the arrest of 74 suspects and hundreds of factories closing in connection with the 172 affected blood lead environmental infractions battery producers. In a statement, the government Luqiao district, belonging to the jurisdiction of Taizhou City, reported the arrest of 74 suspects, after registering 148 complaints on environmental pollution and order cutting off water and electricity to 652 companies.

Mladic's capture is supported by your lack of money to pay for bodyguards

The lack of money to finance the long flight from war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic serboboniso was the crucial factor that led to his arrest last Thursday, according to Serbian media says. According to the newspaper 'Blic', in the last three years, the former general had been left without financial means to pay the salaries of his guards in the past allegedly protected him day and night.

"Money was not the only reason. Mladic knew she could not rely 100% on any of his men. With them at all times was in danger," said a source familiar with the background of the catch. "I had no money, and (Mladic) assumed that being alone would be safer if no one knew where he is," he said.

SPAIN - Small earthquake, major damage: ground fault

"Lorca, Murcia and Granada are located on lands composed of alluvial sediment and unfortunately this greatly facilitates the spread of certain seismic waves. In addition, the epicenter of the first earthquake (with a capacity of 4.5 on Richter scale) was 10 kilometers deep, and the second one (a power of 5.1), barely a mile, "said a geologist in Spanish El Pais.

"It explains that with the amount of energy after all the damage are not great as terrible." The Spanish newspaper said that the tremors were received into the upper floors of buildings in Madrid! The Murcia region is known for its seismic risk and its many previous earthquakes. In 2010, Grenada had experienced a power of 6.1 on the Richter scale with an epicenter happily over 600 kilometers in depth and very little damage, in 2002 to 50 km of Lorca, the City of Bullas had also suffered a magnitude 4.6.

Loud explosions in a military arsenal forced to evacuate again a Russian village

Moscow .- Several hundred people were evacuated again Monday in a village in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, about 1,000 kilometers southeast of Moscow, resumed after explosions at a military arsenal artillery shells. "With the explosion of artillery shells have taken the decision to evacuate people," said a police source told Interfax Bashkiria.

He added that, initially, more than half Urman thousand residents will be moved to the outskirts of this small town, which was evacuated on Thursday for the same reason. "There have been several explosions and a fire is declared. The blasts are not very intense, like a week ago, but flying bullets and that is a threat to people," he said.

Sweden criticized the German decision to advance the nuclear outage to 2022

The Swedish Minister of Environment Andreas Carlgren centrist, has criticized the German decision to advance the nuclear blackout in that country in 2022, an initiative that believes the solution is not ideal. In his view, the Germanic decision will harm efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. "Focus on what year both nuclear energy should be eliminated makes you run the risk of losing the essential, that is, how can we solve the dual challenge of reducing nuclear energy and greenhouse gas emissions," said the station Carlgren Public Radio of Sweden.

UNITED STATES - The Galleon founder guilty of insider trading

May 12, Raj Rajaratnam, head of investment fund Galleon, was convicted of fourteen insider trading which he was charged. The verdict, after a sensational trial, made headlines of the daily Wall Street. "This sentence will serve in some quarters to prove that the U.S. financial system is rigged," he laments in an editorial.

The newspaper said the case shows foremost that existing laws make it possible to pinpoint the unscrupulous individuals responsible for illegal transactions.