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Le Figaro:
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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España llena sus cárceles con 20 nuevos presos al día

España llena sus cárceles con 20 nuevos presos al día

Spain fills prisons with 20 new inmates daily

The overcrowding of prisons worsens with a population totaling 74, 861; 35% are foreigners.

Spain fills prisons with 20 new inmates daily

Interior of Moron de la Frontera Prison (Seville) opened in July 2008.

José María Olmo

The Minister of Interior says the crime rate is stable, but the prison population is exploding at historic highs and its growth is far from slowing. According to the Department of Penitentiary Institutions, Spanish prisons held 74,861 inmates as of March 13. In 2009, 1,380 people have entered prison, an average of 19.16 inmates per day, compared to six inmates on average in the period 2004-2007.

The 2009 figures – drawn from the national and Catalan systems, the only available by the State – are set to surpass easily the 2008 ratios, already considered alarming.

In the past year which closed with 73,481 inmates, 6,381 people were jailed, a number greater than the 2006 and 2007 totaled. In the coming months, the 7,000 figure could be eclipsed and 2009 could be another record.

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Chávez espera una estabilización del petróleo

Chavez hopes for a stabilization of oil

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said OPEC’s actions have halted oil’s slide and will arrive at a “just” price at $80 per barrel.

by Reuters

Caracas Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said OPEC’s actions have halted oil’s slide and will continue to stabilize around a “just” price, he said, at $80 per barrel.

International oil prices lost more than 100 dollars after reaching a historic high in mid-2008, pressured by the fall in demand caused by the global economic crisis, despite a recovery in recent weeks.

In an official press release Monday night, the leader said that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had avoided a “catastrophic scenario” with cuts in production.

“The price will continue stabilizing and oil prices will continue to rise until reaching a just price. “That just price I consider now should be around 80 dollars, “Chavez said in Qatar attending a summit of Latin American and Arab leaders.

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