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Neda, martyre de la contestation et icône du web

Neda, protest martyr and web icon

Samuel Laurent (lefigaro.fr)

06/21/2009 | Updated 17:04 |

The death of the young woman gave face to the repression of the opposition in Iran.

The Twitter community erected this young Iranian woman as an icon, whose death by gunfire was filmed Saturday during demonstrations. Neda gave face to the repression of Ahmadinejad’s opponents.

She was called Neda, probably Neda Sotani. This twenty year old or less (some say 16 years old) woman was among dozens of anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrators victimized by repression on Saturday in Teheran. Shot by distant gunfire, she collapsed in the middle of a panic before dying despite assistance by passers-by.

Like several other victims on Saturday, her death was filmed by a demonstrator and broadcast on the Internet. The video uploaded on Youtube and Facebook was spread by Twitter, the microblogging site which became one of the information channels covering the situation in Iran. The videos quickly attracted thousands of viewers.

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Golden retirement announced for BNP-Parisbas managers

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Golden retirement announced for BNP-Parisbas managers
LEMONDE.FR | 02.04.09 |

Société Générale is not the only one planning major pensions for managers (33 million of euros for six company managers.) BNP-Parisbas similarly provided in 2008 28.6 million euros in pensions for “ defined benefits” to President Michel Pébereau, CEO Beaudoin Prot and Associate CEO George Chodron de Courcel, reports France Info on Thursday, April 2, citing a bank document on the Internet.


The same provision was raised to 30.5 million euros in 2007, according to the text. The pensions for the three retired managers ”will be calculated based on their time with the firm at retirement, on the basis of variable and fixed payments in 1999 and 2000, without the possibility of exercising rights later.”

BNP-Paribas was among banks in which the government took a stake in recent months to support them in the crisis. After the scandal of a major stock-options distribution at Société Générale, a government decree appearing Tuesday in the official Bulletin, to supervise variable payments to top business managers aided by the government. But it does not mention these supplementary pensions.

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Rumored lover of Raul Reyes reveals deals with the United States

Rumored lover of Raul Reyes reveals deals with the United States

Por GERARDO REYES
El Nuevo Herald
04/02/09

A Colombian journalist identified by intelligence services as Raul Reyes’ lover, the deceased FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia in Spanish) broke her silence Wednesday and told El Nuevo Herald that her relationship with the guerrilla commander was only professional and she used it to help the US government.

Olga Cecilia Vega Cubillos, a former Colombian television reporter, said she collaborated with FBI and CIA agents in her efforts to get proof of the lives of three American contractors kidnapped by the FARC, but later the relationship soured because the agents wanted to use her to kill Reyes.

Vega said the kidnapped contractors were actually CIA agents.

“I wasn’t Raul’s lover,” Vega said. “I appreciated him because he treated me humanely unlike anyone else. Independent of his catastrophic errors as a guerrilla, he respected me.” “His death pained me like the hundred of soldiers and police that have died indiscriminately.”

Reyes, second in command of the FARC, died in March last year during a Colombian army attack in a camp bordering Ecuador and Colombia.
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Alfonsin, the president who consolidated democracy, died

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Alfonsin, the president who consolidated democracy, died

He suffered from lung cancer and in his final days agonizing in his apartment on avenida Santa Fe in the city of Buenos Aires. He was 82 years old and was the first democratic president after the fall of the military dictatorship.

FAREWELL A crowd mourned Alfonsin’s death.

His body, with scars of decades of political commotion, no longer could endure lung cancer that had worsened in the final hours with pneumonia. Raul Alfonsin at 82 years old, the man who led the country’s return to democracy after the last dictatorship, died last night.

The former leader died at 8:30 pm with the official confirmation a few minutes after 9:00 pm. Dr. Alberto Sadler gave the news with some details.

“Regrettably at 8:30 pm Dr. Raul Alfonsin had died peacefully in his home accompanied by his family. He was sleeping with sensory deterioration and breathing very peacefully. At this time it can be said it occurred peacefully and accompanied by his family as he always wanted to happen” was the brief word by Sadler to reporters.

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Obama, superstar européenne qui ne connaît pas l'Europe

Obama, European superstar who doesn’t know Europe

Laure Mandeville, Washington correspondent

Barak Obama’s election (his inauguration watched live by Paris’ mayor) created a sensation in Europe. Nearly 92% of the French overwhelming approve the American president’s role on the international scene.

Adored by the Old Continent, where he arrived on Tuesday night, the American president has a theoretically distinct link to European culture distinguishing him from his predecessors.

Many presidents who inspire Barack Obama today have had a strong, almost founding relation, with Europe. From a large Irish family, John F. Kennedy was steeped in European political culture, a continent where he spent his childhood, before studying in the London School of Economics and later writing his final paper on the British role in Munich accords. Bill Clinton had studied two years at Oxford University.

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