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[ "Asie", "Moyen-Orient", "Syrie", "Attentat", "État islamique" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Syrie: 29 morts dans un attentat suicide près d'Al-Bab", "text": "Publié le Vendredi 24 Février 2017 à 09h11\nActualité L'info en continu\nSyrie: 29 morts dans un attentat suicide près d'Al-Bab internet@lesoir.be (Avec les rédactions du Soir en ligne, du Soir, d’AFP, d’AP et de Belga)\nAu moins 29 personnes, en majorité des rebelles syriens, ont péri lorsqu’un kamikaze a fait exploser sa voiture piégée au nord-est d’Al-Bab, fief du groupe Etat islamique (EI) repris la veille par les insurgés, a rapporté une ONG. « Moins de 24 heures après la défaite de l’EI, un kamikaze a visé deux sièges des rebelles dans la localité de Soussiane, au nord-est » d’Al-Bab située dans le nord de la Syrie, a indiqué à l’AFP Rami Abdel Rahmane, directeur de l’Observatoire syrien des droits de l’Homme (OSDH).", "url": "http://www.sudinfo.be/1795482/article/2017-02-24/syrie-29-morts-dans-un-attentat-suicide-pres-d-al-bab", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171007145532/http://www.sudinfo.be/1795482/article/2017-02-24/syrie-29-morts-dans-un-attentat-suicide-pres-d-al-bab" } ]

[ "Politics and conflicts", "North Korea", "United States", "Asia", "North America", "Nuclear proliferation", "Korean Peninsula" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "North Korea agrees to nuclear disarmament", "text": "North Korea agrees to nuclear disarmament\nby Army Sgt. Sara Wood\nAmerican Forces Press Service\n2/14/2007 --- North Korea has agreed to shut down nuclear operations and allow international inspectors into the country, President Bush announced Feb. 14 here, hailing it as an important step toward a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.At six-party talks in Beijing, North Korea said that within 60 days it will shut down and seal all operations at the primary nuclear facilities it has used to produce weapons-grade plutonium.North Korea also agreed to allow international inspectors to verify and monitor this progress and to disclose all of its nuclear programs as an initial step toward abandoning them.In exchange for North Korea's commitments, the five other parties at the table -- China, Russia, Japan, South Korea and the United States -- made commitments to provide economic, humanitarian and energy assistance to the people of North Korea.\"This is a unique deal. First of all, unlike any other agreement, it brings together all of North Korea's neighbors in the region, as well as the United States,\" President Bush said at a White House news conference.The president said the agreement is backed by a United Nations Security Council resolution.The breakthrough came at the six-party talks because other countries joined the U.S. in condemning North Korea's nuclear programs, President Bush said. The North Koreans have to prove themselves by actually following through on the deal, he said, but if they do, the people will benefit greatly.The first aid that will arrive in North Korea will be 50,000 tons of fuel from South Korea as soon as the main weapons manufacturing facility is shut down and all the nuclear programs are declared halted, President Bush said. If the North Koreans disable and abandon all their nuclear facilities, other countries will step in with additional fuel, food and economic assistance, he said.\"That's not going to happen until there's some verifiable measures that have been taken,\" he said.\"This is good progress; it is a good first step,\" President Bush said. \"There's a lot of work to be done to make sure that the commitment is made and this agreement becomes a reality. But I believe it's an important step in the right direction.\" Comment on this story (comments may be published on Air Force Link)", "url": "http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123041136", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070219023346/http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123041136" } ]

[ "Disasters and accidents", "Costa Rica", "Nicaragua", "Earthquakes", "Tsunamis", "Central America" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "UPDATE: Tsunami Warnings Canceled After Quake In Costa Rica", "text": "The Pacific coasts of Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua are no longer the focus of tsunami warnings, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center announced just after 1 p.m ET.\nAs we've been reporting, there was a strong — 7.6 magnitude — earthquake in Costa Rica this morning. At first, there were concerns about possible tsunamis from Mexico south to Chile. As the day continued, however, authorities gradually reduced their warnings.\nThere still isn't much word about the extent of any damage in Costa Rica or whether there were any deaths or injuries. Reuters says the temblor \"rocked Costa Rica ... rattling buildings, cutting power in areas of the capital and triggering a tsunami warning, though there were no immediate reports of casualties.\"\nUpdate at 2:45 p.m. ET. Two Deaths Reported:\nTwo deaths have been connected to the earthquake, Reuters reports. Red Cross spokesman Freddy Roman tells the wire service that one person suffered a fatal heart attack. It adds that local news outlets say another person was crushed under debris.\nUpdate at 1:45 p.m. ET. Some Reports Of Damage:\n\"There are reports of some damage in Nicoya, on Costa Rica's northern Pacific coast,\" NPR's Larry Abramson emails from Costa Rica, where he has been vacationing. He has not heard of any \"serious damage or injuries.\"\nOur original post and earlier updates:\nAn estimated 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Costa Rica this morning briefly triggered tsunami warnings for the Pacific coasts of Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru.\nA warning means \"a tsunami is imminent and that coastal locations in the warned area should prepare for flooding,\" according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\nA slightly less ominous \"tsunami watch\" has been issued for Chile.\nAccording to NOAA's Tsunami.gov website, \"an evaluation of the Pacific-wide tsunami threat is underway and there is a possibility that Hawaii could be elevated to a watch or warning status.\"\nThere's no word yet on the situation in Costa Rica.\nUpdate at 12:30 p.m. ET. Warnings For Three Nations Still In Effect:\nSaying there are no changes from its previous bulletin, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center just repeated that there are now tsunami warnings for the Pacific coasts of Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua.\nMeanwhile, the BBC says that \"Douglas Salgado of the National Commission of Risk Prevention and Emergency Attention told the Associated Press news agency that there were no initial reports of damage or deaths in the earthquake zone. He said officials were having problems reaching people in the area nearest the epicenter.\"\nUpdate at 11:50 a.m. ET. Shaking Was \"Quite Significant\":\n\"The earthquake this morning was quite significant,\" says NPR's Larry Abramson, who is in Costa Rica on vacation. \"It's one of those experiences where you feel like the wind is blowing very hard and then you realize that basically the entire house is shaking.\"\nLarry adds that it was \"pretty intense\" for about 30 seconds. Where he is, in the mountains near San Jose, there does not seem to be extensive damage.\nUpdate at 11:45 a.m. ET. Tsunami Warning Area Reduced:\nThe Pacific Tsunami Warning Center now says it has canceled tsunami warnings for El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru. That leaves three countries still in the \"warning\" zone: Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua.\nUpdate at 11:25 a.m. ET: The earthquake struck at 8:24 a.m. local time (10:25 a.m. ET).", "url": "http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/05/160604317/earthquake-triggers-pacific-tsunami-warnings-for-central-south-america", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120906142025/http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/05/160604317/earthquake-triggers-pacific-tsunami-warnings-for-central-south-america" } ]

[ "Bruksela", "Świat", "Unia Europejska" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "\"Ta groźba nie dotyczy Polski\"", "text": "17:38, 15.07.2009 /TVN24\nSZEF CHADEKÓW: NIE MA PODPISU, NIE MA KOMISARZA\n– Tu nie chodzi o Polskę – uspokaja Bogusław Sonik z PO. Europoseł odniósł się w ten sposób do groźby lidera chadeków, największej frakcji w PE, który powiedział, że kraj, którego prezydent nie podpisze ratyfikacji traktatu z Lizbony, zostanie pozbawiony unijnego komisarza. Słowa te zdenerwowały posła PiS Tadeusza Cymańskiego, który oświadczył, że \"nie można uginać się przed językiem szantażu\".\nTadeusz Cymański o \"szantażu\"\nNie będzie podpisu, nie będzie komisarza Kraj, którego prezydent nie podpisze ratyfikacji Traktatu z Lizbony,... czytaj więcej » Kraj, którego prezydent nie podpisze ratyfikacji Traktatu z Lizbony,...\n- Nie powinno się używać takiego języka i takich warunków – powiedział TVN24 Tadeusz Cymański z PiS. Zdaniem europosła, „troska o właściwy dobór komisarzy, leży w interesie Unii Europejskiej i nie powinna być łączona z taką czy inną postawą, decyzją bądź jej brakiem”. - To jest kwestia dyktatu warunków. Znamy to z historii, ale wydaje mi się, że Unia Europejska zbudowana jest na całkiem innych zasadach – dodał poseł.Słowa Joseph Daula, lidera chadeckiej Europejskiej Partii Ludowej, uznane zostały za dość mocne, bo – jak oceniają komentatorzy – w Unii Europejskiej panuje zwyczaj, że się dyskutuje i przekonuje, a nie grozi.Sonik dodał też, że jest spokojny o podpisanie Traktatu Lizbońskiego przez polskiego prezydenta. Powołał się tu na słowa Lecha Kaczyńskiego, który obiecał, że podpisze dokument w momencie, kiedy zrobi to Irlandia i ratyfikują Niemcy.Niemiecki Federalny Trybunał Konstytucyjny w Karlsruhe uznał pod koniec czerwca, że Traktat Lizboński reformujący UE jest zgodny z niemiecką konstytucją. Jednocześnie jednak Trybunał uzależnił jego ratyfikację przez prezydenta Niemiec od prawnego wzmocnienia wpływu parlamentu narodowego na wdrażanie unijnych przepisów. Specjalną ustawą kompetencyjną mają zająć się teraz niemieccy deputowani.Z przyjęciem traktatu zwleka też czeski prezydent Vaclav Klaus. Swoje wahanie prezydent uzasadnia faktem, że Traktatu Lizbońskiego nie przyjęli jeszcze w referendum Irlandczycy i nie ratyfikował go polski prezydent Lech Kaczyński. Czeski prezydent czeka też na orzeczenie Sądu Konstytucyjnego odnośnie zapowiedzianej skargi części senatorów o niezgodności Traktatu Lizbońskiego z konstytucją.tka/ola", "url": "http://www.tvn24.pl/-1,1609929,0,1,ta-grozba-nie-dotyczy-polski,wiadomosc.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090716152553/http://www.tvn24.pl/-1,1609929,0,1,ta-grozba-nie-dotyczy-polski,wiadomosc.html" } ]

[ "Middle East", "Saudi Arabia", "Politics and conflicts", "Shia Islam", "Yemen" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Yemen rebels say Saudi air raids kill 54", "text": "SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni Shi'ite Muslim rebels said Saudi air attacks on northern Yemen killed 54 people on Sunday, many of them women and children.\nWorld\nThe rebels, who often report attacks by Yemeni and Saudi fighter planes, said on their website that the strikes destroyed five houses in the town of Razeh, in mountainous Saada province where they are based.\nThe report could not be verified as aid workers and media have limited access to the conflict zones, and there was no immediate Saudi comment. Yemeni officials have previously denied that Saudi planes had carried out attacks on Yemen's territory.\nLast Sunday, the rebels said at least 70 people were killed in a Saudi air raid on a market in Razeh. That attack could not be confirmed either.\nSaudi Arabia, a U.S. ally and the world's largest oil exporter, fears the growing instability in neighboring Yemen could turn into a major security threat for the kingdom by allowing al Qaeda to gain a stronger foothold in the impoverished country.\nSaudi Arabia began attacking Yemen's Shi'ite Muslim rebels, known as the Houthis, in early November after the rebels staged a cross-border incursion and killed two Saudi border guards.\nThe rebels, who launched a rebellion against the Yemeni government in 2004, belong to the minority Zaidi sect of Shi'ism, and complain of social, economic and religious marginalization. Both the rebels and the government deny their aims are sectarian.\nA state-run website said rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi was seriously wounded in a government attack which also killed a rebel military commander.\nThe rebels did not directly comment on the report, but cautioned on their website against believing \"imaginary victories which the regime's media (report) from time to time.\"\nBesides fighting Shi'ite rebels in the north, Yemen faces increasing unrest and separatist sentiment in the south and growing activity by al Qaeda's regional wing.\n(Writing by Firouz Sedarat in Dubai, editing by Tim Pearce)", "url": "http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BJ1NO20091220", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100122102556/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BJ1NO20091220" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Houthi rebels say 54 killed in north Yemen air strike", "text": "Rebels in northern Yemen say at least 54 people have been killed in an airstrike by Saudi Arabian planes.\nReports of the attack on Sunday came from a rebel spokesman and could not be verified immediately.\nLast week the rebels accused Saudi Arabia of killing 70 civilians in an airstrike on the border area between the two countries.\nYemeni government and Saudi Arabian forces have been fighting the rebels, known as Houthis, since August.\n\"The town of al-Nadeer was targeted by air-strikes and 54 civilians, including women and children, were killed,\" a spokesman for the rebels told news agency Agence France Presse.\nThe rebels also posted the details on their website.\nBut independent media and aid agency access to the northern region of Saada, where the bombings are said to have taken place, is restricted.\nSuppression\nThe rebels regularly accuse Saudi Arabia of carrying out air raids on Yemeni territory, a claim both governments deny.\nSaudi forces have been fighting rebels in the border area with Yemen\nBut Saudi forces have fought several skirmishes against rebels, who crossed over the border into Saudi Arabia in November, and shelled border areas.\nThe Houthis, named after their leader's family, say the Saudis are helping the Yemeni government suppress their demand for greater local autonomy.\nThe Houthis say they are trying to reverse the political, economic and religious marginalisation of the Zaydi Shia community in Yemen.\nThe Zaydi community are a minority in Yemen, but make up the majority in the north of the country.\nThe insurgents have been fighting the government since 2004.\nThe government launched a fresh offensive in August 2009, which precipitated a new wave of intense fighting.\nIt accuses the Houthis of wanting to re-establish Zaydi clerical rule, which ended in 1962.\nAid agencies say tens of thousands of people have been displaced.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8425069.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091222052335/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8425069.stm" } ]

[ "Union européenne", "France", "Indonésie", "Transports", "Aviation civile", "Économie", "Aéronautique", "Airbus", "Airbus A320" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Airbus plane sur un nuage de commandes", "text": "aéronautique Le constructeur européen a enregistré une commande record de 234 avions\nSemaine de tous les superlatifs pour Airbus. En moins de cinq jours, l'avionneur européen a vu son carnet de commandes grimper de 451 appareils de la famille A320, dont celle, record de 234 avions, signée lundi à l'Elysée par la compagnie indonésienne Lion Air. «Cela nous permet de voir l'avenir sereinement. On a eu des moments difficiles en 2008, aujourd'hui on se dit que sans ces efforts on n'en serait peut-être pas là», reconnaît David Marcellin, employé depuis dix ans sur la chaîne A320.\n5\n000 emplois confortés\nLe best-seller d'Airbus atteint, depuis sa mise en service en 1988, les 9 390 commandes. Et sa version plus économique, l'A320Neo, en affiche désormais 2 052 au compteur. «Cela prouve que c'est un bon produit. Il devrait être en fin de vie, mais le fait d'avoir rajouté de l'innovation, comme les sharklets (ailerons), a été une bonne initiative», souligne Karine Cochet, salariée au service logistique de l'A320. Pour répondre à la forte demande, l'avionneur a dû augmenter en fin d'année dernière ses cadences de production. Désormais, 42 appareils sortent chaque mois des trois chaînes d'assemblage : 16 à Toulouse, 22 à Hambourg et quatre en Chine. «Les avions commandés vont être fabriqués sur les chaînes française et allemande, cela va permettre de sécuriser 5 000 emplois», explique Christopher Buckley, vice-président d'Airbus pour l'Europe, l'Asie et le Pacifique. En attendant l'ouverture d'une nouvelle chaîne aux Etats-Unis, le groupe réfléchit à l'augmentation de ses cadences. Mais avant, il va devoir régler les problèmes d'approvisionnement en amont. Lors des précédentes montées en puissance, certains sous-traitants ont eu du mal à suivre, en partie à cause de leurs difficultés de recrutement. «C'est un nouveau challenge pour nos fournisseurs», reconnaît Christopher Buckley. Au sein même des usines, on attend aussi des embauches. «Nous sommes en pleine croissance. En début d'année, la direction avait indiqué qu'elle recruterait 3 000 personnes en 2013. Il y en aura peut-être plus, comme ce fut le cas en 2012», espère Françoise Vallin, de la CFE-CGC.\nLire aussi p. 12\nBéatrice colin", "url": "http://www.20minutes.fr/toulouse/1120937-airbus-plane-nuage-commandes", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130322073348/http://www.20minutes.fr/toulouse/1120937-airbus-plane-nuage-commandes" } ]

[ "03.02.2005", "Berlin", "Mannheim", "Leipzig", "Essen", "Hamburg", "Hochschulpolitik", "Friedliche Demonstration", "Studiengebühr", "Deutsche Landespolitik", "Bundesverfassungsgericht" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Tausende Studenten protestieren gegen Studiengebühren", "text": "Erste bundesweit koordinierte Proteste\nKnapp 20 000 Studenten haben in mehreren deutschen Städten gegen geplante Studiengebühren protestiert. Die größten Demonstrationen gab es in Hamburg und Leipzig.\nRund 6700 Studenten aus 21 nord- und ostdeutschen Hochschulen demonstrieren in Hamburg gegen Studiengebühren. Foto: dpa\nHB BERLIN. Es waren die ersten bundesweit koordinierten Proteste, nachdem das Bundesverfassungsgericht vergangene Woche das bundesweite Studiengebührenverbot der rot-grünen Regierungskoalition aufgehoben hatte. Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder (SPD) mahnte unterdessen die Länder, „mehr an die Chancengleichheit der Jugendlichen“ zu denken. Es dürfe nicht zugelassen werden, dass „das Kind eines Chefarztes immer noch mehr Chancen auf Bildung hat als das einer Putzfrau“, sagte Schröder bei einer Wahlkampf-Veranstaltung in Husum. An die Länder-Ministerpräsidenten gerichtet, sagte der Kanzler weiter: „Überlegt Euch das gründlich“. Die CDU/CSU-geführten Bundesländer Bayern, Baden-Württemberg und Hamburg wollen bis 2006 Gebühren auch für das Grundstudium einführen.\nIn Leipzig protestierten nach Polizei-Angaben 8000 Studenten aus Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen gegen diese Pläne. In Hamburg demonstrierten 7000 Studenten aus nord- und ostdeutschen Hochschulen unter dem Motto „Studiengebühren stoppen, Bildung ist keine Ware“. In Mannheim versammelten sich knapp 3000 Studenten, in Essen 1000. Zum Teil kamen blieben die Teilnehmerzahlen aber weit unter den Erwartungen der Veranstalter. In Berlin demonstrierten nur einige hundert Studenten.\nNach Worten des Präsidenten des Deutschen Studentenwerks, Hans- Dieter Rinkens, ist das Karlsruher Urteil kein Freibrief für die Bundesländer, „nach Belieben“ Studiengebühren einzuführen. Mit dem Urteil werde vielmehr den Ländern der klare Auftrag erteilt, „die Chancengerechtigkeit beim Hochschulzugang sicherzustellen“. Wer Gebühren wolle, müsse zunächst für ihre soziale Abfederung sorgen.", "url": "http://www.handelsblatt.com/pshb/fn/relhbi/sfn/buildhbi/cn/GoArt!200013,200050,855153/SH/0/depot/0/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090327204257/http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/tausende-studenten-protestieren-gegen-studiengebuehren;855153" }, { "language": "de", "title": "freier zusammenschluss von student*innenschaften", "text": "studentisch – überparteilich – bundesweit\nDer freie zusammenschluss von student*innenschaften (fzs) e.V. ist der überparteiliche Dachverband von Studierendenvertretungen in Deutschland. Mit rund 90 Mitgliedern vertritt der fzs rund eine Million Studierende in Deutschland.\nDer fzs vertritt bundesweit die sozialen, kulturellen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Interessen von Studierenden gegenüber Hochschulen, Politik und Öffentlichkeit.\nWas wir wollen\nDer fzs erarbeitet Positionen zu verschiedenen hochschulpolitischen Themen mit dem Ziel diese in die politischen Diskussions- und Entscheidungsprozesse einzubringen. Der fzs setzt sich ein für:\neine gesetzlich und finanziell abgesicherte studentische Vertretung an Hochschulen\neine studentische Beteiligung an allen hochschulpolitischen Entscheidungen in Hochschule, auf Landes- und Bundesebene\nden freien Zugang zu Bildung\neine bedarfsdeckende Absicherung von Studierenden unabhängig vom Einkommen der Eltern\nden Abbau von Diskriminierung in Bildungssystem und Gesellschaft\neine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft\nstudentische Solidaritätsarbeit und internationale Vernetzung von Studierenden\nWeitere Informationen und gute Gründe, sich als Mitglied beim fzs e.V. zu engagieren, findet ihr in unserem Flyer „Was ist der fzs?“ (download siehe unten). Den Flyer könnt ihr auch kostenfrei hier bestellen.", "url": "http://www.fzs-online.org/article/1434/de/?PHPSESSID=201a9aadfafa8aaa3ea98f6a3e4579b4", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200514025143/https://www.fzs.de/" } ]

[ "Themenportal Politik", "Themenportal Deutschland", "Themenportal Afghanistan", "Politik in Deutschland", "Deutsche Bundespolitik", "Militär allg.", "Bundeswehr", "Militäreinsatz", "NATO", "ISAF", "Franz Josef Jung" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Startseite BMVg.de", "text": "Ministerin von der Leyen in Mali: Das Missionsgebiet von EUTM Mali soll ausgeweitet werden. (Quelle: Bundeswehr )\nBamako/Koulikoro, 07.04.2016.\nDie europäische Ausbildungsmission EUTM soll auch auf den Norden Malis ausgedehnt werden. Das kündigte Verteidigungsministerin Ursula von der Leyen am 6. April bei einem Besuch in der Hauptstadt Bamako an. Die von der EU angestrebte Erweiterung wird in der kommenden Woche im Kabinett beraten und muss noch vom Bundestag gebilligt werden. Voraussetzung ist ein stabiler Frieden im unsicheren Norden des Landes.\nZum Beitrag\nRussland setzt auf Desinformation als Mittel der hybiden Kriegsführung. (Quelle: dpa/Forman )\nBerlin, 04.04.2016.\nDie Worte des litauischen Außenministers Linas Linkevicus in Berlin waren deutlich: „Dies ist ein Informationskrieg. Und wir sind dabei, diesen zu verlieren, während wir ihn eigentlich gewinnen sollten“ , sagte der Minister bei einer Veranstaltung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP) im März vor Vertretern von EU, NATO und des Auswärtigen Amtes. Thema der Veranstaltung: Die Medien- und Propaganda- Politik Russlands im europäischen Informationsraum.\nZum Beitrag\nAus dem Ministerium\nDie Ministerin\nSie ist höchste Vorgesetzte aller Soldatinnen und Soldaten und gleichzeitig deren oberste Disziplinarvorgesetzte. Sie steht ferner an der Spitze der Bundeswehrverwaltung und ist damit auch Vorgesetzte aller zivilen Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Bundeswehr und des Ministeriums.\nSonderseite: Das Weißbuch 2016 entsteht Zehn Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung des letzten Grundsatzdokuments wird ein neues „Weißbuch zur Sicherheitspolitik und zur Zukunft der Bundeswehr“ erarbeitet. Ein Weißbuch bietet die Möglichkeit, Regierungshandeln auf dem Feld der Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik national wie international transparent zu machen. In diesem Grundsatzdokument werden die sicherheitspolitischen Leitlinien für die kommenden Jahre formuliert.\nNeuigkeiten für die Presse", "url": "http://www.bmvg.de/portal/a/bmvg/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4k3cQsESUGY5vqRMLGglFR9b31fj_zcVP0A_YLciHJHR0VFAFBC9EY!/delta/base64xml/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS80SVVFLzZfRF80SjU!?yw_contentURL=%2FC1256F1200608B1B%2FW27F9MZK714INFODE%2Fcontent.jsp", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160408232330/http://www.bmvg.de/portal/a/bmvg/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gnC58QHyNLI6MQb08LA08zc49gN0dnQw8fI_2CbEdFAHTayh8!/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Jung verabschiedet schnelle Eingreiftruppe nach Afghanistan", "text": "Jung verabschiedet schnelle Eingreiftruppe nach Afghanistan\n(AFP) – 03.06.2008\nBerlin (AFP) —\nBundesverteidigungsminister Franz Josef Jung (CDU) hat den\nGroßteil der rund 200 Mann starken schnellen\nEingreiftruppe nach Afghanistan verabschiedet. An dem\nfeierlichen öffentlichen Appell in Lemgo nahmen\ninsgesamt mehr als 1200 Soldaten teil. 150 von ihnen sollen\nab dem 1. Juli der im nordafghanischen Masar-i-Scharif\nstationierten sogenannten Quick Reaction Force (QRF)\nangehören, die Anschläge verhindern und kritische\nSituationen beruhigen soll. Bislang stellte Norwegen im\nAuftrag der NATO die Truppe. Missionen außerhalb der\nNord-Region sind möglich, müssen aber von Jung\npersönlich genehmigt werden.\nMit dem feierlichen Appell mit dem Generalinspekteur der\nBundeswehr, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, wird auch der 250.000.\nBundeswehrsoldat in einen Auslandseinsatz geschickt.\nCopyright © 2013 AFP. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Weitere Urheberrechtshinweise", "url": "http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ivcILtqHVNp3abJkhIi4GUyBsWKg", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130930095557/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ivcILtqHVNp3abJkhIi4GUyBsWKg?hl=de" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Augen geradeaus!", "text": "Leser-Kommentare (5)\nPositroll (3.Juni 2008 - 13:27) Einsatz ist nicht gleich Einsatz. Die Bundeswehr ist auch immer noch in Bosnien - seit dem Mandat von 1996 (12 Jahre!) hat sich an der Art des Einsatzes, am Ausmaß und den damit verbundenen Risiken jedoch einiges geändert. Über kurz oder lang wird der Bosnieneinsatz zu Ende gehen und auch der im Kosovo zahlenmäßig stark reduziert werden und so Kräfte freimachen. Im übrigen sind Afghanistan und WW II absolut nicht vergleichbar. Wie es die Amis so schön ausdrücken: \"The Army / Marine Corps is at war; America is at the mall.\"\nF. Baum (3.Juni 2008 - 13:54) Lieber Herr Wiegold, selbst Minister Struck wollte die Bw bestimmt nicht die nächsten 18.000 Jahre in AFG lassen.\nNa ja, immerhin ein Tippfehler mit einer gewissen satirischen Qualität. Ansonsten: Weiter so!\nAlexander F. (3.Juni 2008 - 14:29) 10-15 Jahre dürfte auch noch sehr optimistisch sein, dann wird man wohl man im besten Fall vielleicht anfangen können die Truppenzahl langsam zu reduzieren, wenn sich die Sicherheitslage verbessert.\nWachtmeister (3.Juni 2008 - 14:53) Die Zahl 10-15 Jahre ist eine Schätzung für die gesamte Dauer des mußmaßlich noch erforderlichen Engagements, bis die afghanische Regierung alle Sicherheitsaufgaben selbst übernehmen kann. In der letzten Phase wird diese Unterstützung wahrscheinlich jedoch weitaus weniger westliche Kräfte erfordern, als es gegenwärtig der Fall ist. Der Bedarf an der Präsenz westlicher Kräfte in der Fläche, mit starkem Profil u.a. im Bereich Infanterie, wird vermutlich nicht über die nächsten drei bis fünf Jahre hinausgehen. Allerdings mangelt es zur Zeit eindeutig an Kräften für \"kinetische\" Aufgaben. Noch eine Anmerkung an die \"Gewalt-ist-keine-Lösung\" Fraktion: Im Süden sind die Aufständischen gerade auf der Flucht. Ihre groß angekündigte \"Frühjahrsoffensive\" ist unter den Schlägen von ISAF, ANA und OEF im Keim erstickt worden, und die überlebenden Kämpfer in Helmand versuchen gerade, sich nach Pakistan in Sicherheit zu bringen. Andere versuchen, dem langen Arm der Briten und Amerikaner zu entkommen, indem sie Richtung Westen fliehen, wo weniger robuste Teile von ISAF das Sagen haben.", "url": "http://blog.focus.de/wiegold/?p=431", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080613183635/http://blog.focus.de/wiegold/?p=431" }, { "language": "de", "title": "PR-inside.com kostenloses PR und Pressemitteilungen", "text": "- 21.06.2013 17:48\nMit dem Adidas Brazuca Ball zur WM 2014\nWenn es bei der WM 2014 zum ersten Spiel kommt dann ist der Adidas Brazuca im Einsatz. Bereits heute gibt es mit dem Adidas Brazuca einen der ersten Sportartikel für das WM Turnier in Brasilien. Anders als noch in den Jahren zuvor ist hat der WM Ball für das Turnier in Brasilien bereits frühzeitig .. [ Mehr ]", "url": "http://www.pr-inside.com/de/stichwort-quick-reaction-force-r622255.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130623071455/http://www.pr-inside.com/de/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "PR-inside.com kostenloses PR und Pressemitteilungen", "text": "- 21.06.2013 17:48\nMit dem Adidas Brazuca Ball zur WM 2014\nWenn es bei der WM 2014 zum ersten Spiel kommt dann ist der Adidas Brazuca im Einsatz. Bereits heute gibt es mit dem Adidas Brazuca einen der ersten Sportartikel für das WM Turnier in Brasilien. Anders als noch in den Jahren zuvor ist hat der WM Ball für das Turnier in Brasilien bereits frühzeitig .. [ Mehr ]", "url": "http://www.pr-inside.com/de/stichwort-quick-reaction-force-r622255.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130623071455/http://www.pr-inside.com/de/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Business & Financial News, U.S & International Breaking News", "text": "Biden sends unofficial delegation to Taiwan in 'personal signal'\nWASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Senator Chris Dodd and former Deputy Secretaries of State Richard Armitage and James Steinberg headed to Taiwan on Tuesday at President Joe Biden's request, in what a White House official called a \"personal signal\" of the president's commitment to the Chinese-claimed island and its democracy.", "url": "http://de.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idDEBUC34168920080603", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210414034454/https://www.reuters.com/?edition-redirect=de" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Startseite BMVg.de", "text": "Ministerin von der Leyen in Mali: Das Missionsgebiet von EUTM Mali soll ausgeweitet werden. (Quelle: Bundeswehr )\nBamako/Koulikoro, 07.04.2016.\nDie europäische Ausbildungsmission EUTM soll auch auf den Norden Malis ausgedehnt werden. Das kündigte Verteidigungsministerin Ursula von der Leyen am 6. April bei einem Besuch in der Hauptstadt Bamako an. Die von der EU angestrebte Erweiterung wird in der kommenden Woche im Kabinett beraten und muss noch vom Bundestag gebilligt werden. Voraussetzung ist ein stabiler Frieden im unsicheren Norden des Landes.\nZum Beitrag\nRussland setzt auf Desinformation als Mittel der hybiden Kriegsführung. (Quelle: dpa/Forman )\nBerlin, 04.04.2016.\nDie Worte des litauischen Außenministers Linas Linkevicus in Berlin waren deutlich: „Dies ist ein Informationskrieg. Und wir sind dabei, diesen zu verlieren, während wir ihn eigentlich gewinnen sollten“ , sagte der Minister bei einer Veranstaltung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP) im März vor Vertretern von EU, NATO und des Auswärtigen Amtes. Thema der Veranstaltung: Die Medien- und Propaganda- Politik Russlands im europäischen Informationsraum.\nZum Beitrag\nAus dem Ministerium\nDie Ministerin\nSie ist höchste Vorgesetzte aller Soldatinnen und Soldaten und gleichzeitig deren oberste Disziplinarvorgesetzte. Sie steht ferner an der Spitze der Bundeswehrverwaltung und ist damit auch Vorgesetzte aller zivilen Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Bundeswehr und des Ministeriums.\nSonderseite: Das Weißbuch 2016 entsteht Zehn Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung des letzten Grundsatzdokuments wird ein neues „Weißbuch zur Sicherheitspolitik und zur Zukunft der Bundeswehr“ erarbeitet. Ein Weißbuch bietet die Möglichkeit, Regierungshandeln auf dem Feld der Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik national wie international transparent zu machen. In diesem Grundsatzdokument werden die sicherheitspolitischen Leitlinien für die kommenden Jahre formuliert.\nNeuigkeiten für die Presse", "url": "http://www.bmvg.de/portal/a/bmvg/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLd4k3cQsESUGY5vqRMLGglFR9b31fj_zcVP0A_YLciHJHR0VFAFBC9EY!/delta/base64xml/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS80SVVFLzZfRF80S1Q!?yw_contentURL=%2FC1256F1200608B1B%2FW27F9D73816INFODE%2Fcontent.jsp", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160408232330/http://www.bmvg.de/portal/a/bmvg/!ut/p/c4/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gnC58QHyNLI6MQb08LA08zc49gN0dnQw8fI_2CbEdFAHTayh8!/" } ]

[ "Culture and entertainment", "Sports", "Swimming", "Australia", "Oceania" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Swimming star Thorpe misses Games", "text": "Thorpe was planning to compete in five events\n\"It's very frustrating, it's very disappointing,\" said the 23-year-old, who has not competed at international level since the 2004 Athens Olympics.\nThorpe won four gold medals at the 1998 Commonwealths in Kuala Lumpur then a record six at Manchester in 2002.\nHe planned to compete in five events at the 2006 Games, which begin next week.\nThe disciplines included the 100m and 200m freestyle and three relays.\nThorpe has been suffering from his illness for the past month but was unable to take any drugs that could have cleared up the problem because the medication is on the banned list.\n\"It was difficult coming to the decision to not compete,\" added the swimmer.\n\"But it wouldn't have been a good performance by me if I did compete. I would have been of little, if any, benefit to the team.\n\"I would have done more damage than good if I had competed.\"\nCraig Stevens will replace Thorpe in the Australia swimming team, which was already without long-distance specialist Grant Hackett.\n\"This is a huge loss to the team,\" added Thompson.\nApart from winning 10 Commonwealth golds, Thorpe has also collected 11 world titles, including six in 2001 in Japan, and five Olympic golds.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/commonwealth_games/4735080.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060427003950/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/commonwealth_games/4735080.stm" } ]

[ "Mars", "Science and technology", "Morocco", "Africa", "Chemistry", "Geology", "Space" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Rocks from Mars land on Earth", "text": "Rocks from Mars land on Earth\nThis handout photo provided by Darryl Pitt of the Macovich Collection shows a view of the internal structure of the first Martian meteorite (specimens of the planet Mars) known to have struck Earth in 49 years. Recovered in December 2011 near Foumzgit, Morocco following a meteorite shower believed to have occurred in July 2011. Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars _ meteorite chunks that fell from the red planet over Morocco last summer. Meteorites from Mars are more than 1 million times rarer than gold. And this is only the fifth time experts have chemically confirmed fresh Martian rocks fell to Earth. The last time was in 1962. Scientists believe this meteorite fell last July because there were sightings of it. (AP Photo/Darryl Pitt of the Macovich Collection)\nstoryidforme: 24343757\ntmspicid: 8941037\nfileheaderid: 4051296\nWASHINGTON — Scientists are confirming that 15 pounds of rock collected recently in Morocco fell to Earth from Mars during a meteorite shower last July.\nThis is only the fifth time in history scientists have chemically confirmed Martian meteorites that people witnessed falling.\nThe rocks are fetching big bucks because they are among the rarest things on Earth. Meteorite dealer Darryl Pitt said he is charging $11,000 to $22,500 an ounce and has sold most of his supply already. At that price, the Martian rock costs about 10 times as much as gold.\nAstronomers think millions of years ago something big smashed into Mars and sent rocks hurtling through the solar system. After a long journey through space, one of those rocks plunged through Earth’s atmosphere.\nAP", "url": "http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/10072267-423/rocks-from-mars-land-on-earth.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120122120044/http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/10072267-423/rocks-from-mars-land-on-earth.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Rocks Found in Morocco Came From Mars", "text": "Scientists pining for a sample return from Mars have a consolation prize -- rocks recently found in Morocco are freshly arrived bits from our neighbor planet.\nThe rocks not only are rare because they came from Mars -- of the roughly 24,000 meteorites that have been discovered on Earth, only about 34 hail from the red planet, NASA says -- they also just arrived.\nANALYSIS: Forget Space Beer, Order Meteorite Wine Instead\nScientists believe they plummented to Earth in a meteorite shower last July. They were recovered in Morocco in December.\nThe biggest of the 15 rocks weighs more than 2 pounds. They're worth 10 times the price of gold.\nImage: Arizona State University snagged a 349-gram sample of the newly found Mars meteorite, called Tissint. Photo: Laurence Garvie/ASU", "url": "http://news.discovery.com/space/rocks-found-in-morocco-came-from-mars-120118.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120120013333/http://news.discovery.com/space/rocks-found-in-morocco-came-from-mars-120118.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Meteorites in Morocco confirmed to be Martian in origin", "text": "The meteorites fell in the Moroccan desert in July and were recovered a few months later.\nA hail of Martian meteorites crashed to Earth last July, and collectors and scientists around the world are snapping up the ultra-rare rocks for display and study.\nThe meteorites fell in the Moroccan desert in July and were recovered a few months later. Scientists confirmed today (Jan. 17) that the rocks are Martian, presumably blasted off the Red Planet by an asteroid strike.\nThe rocks are a rare treat for researchers, allowing them to investigate relatively pristine chunks of Martian material. Such freshly delivered pieces of the Red Planet have been found on only four other occasions, the last time in 1962.\nAs a result of their scarcity and scientific value, the rocks are selling for incredibly high prices — 10 times the price of gold or more. News of the meteorites' Martian origin was first reported by the Associated Press.\n\"In the world of meteoritics, a fall is as good as it gets,\" said Carl Agee, director of the Institute of Meteoritics and meteorite curator at the University of New Mexico. \"We know that everything we're looking at is Martian, and that there's nothing in there that is confusing matters.\" [7 Biggest Mysteries of Mars]\nMartian debris rains down\nMartian material is exceedingly hard to come by on Earth. Just 220 pounds (100 kilograms) of Mars rocks are known to exist on our planet, according to Darryl Pitt, curator of the Macovich Collection of meteorites in New York City.\nThe newfound Martian meteorites — which are called Tissint, after the shower that dropped them to Earth — represent a significant percentage of this material.\n\"There's at least 11 kilos [24 pounds],\" Pitt told SPACE.com.\nPitt said he had acquired more than 4.4 pounds (2 kg) of Tissint meteorites. He has been trading and selling pieces to collectors, museums and researchers around the globe, at prices ranging from $8,500 per ounce to $28,350 per ounce ($300 to $1,000 per gram), depending on the sample.\nAs of Tuesday, gold was selling for about $1,650 per ounce ($58 per gram).\n\"It's pristine material,\" Pitt said. \"Five hundred dollars and $600 a gram for a freshly fallen chunk of the planet Mars? I'd say that's a deal.\"\nLearning about Mars\nThe other four fresh Martian meteorite falls occurred in 1815, 1865, 1911 and 1962. Scientists get excited by the chance to study such rocks because they haven't been contaminated much by Earth organisms and weather.\nThe Tissint samples, and others like them, thus represent the next best thing to a Martian sample-return mission, something many scientists long for but remains perhaps a decade away in the best-case scenario.\nResearchers can glean a surprising amount of information about Mars from a small piece of the planet, said Agee, who acquired several Tissint samples for his institution.\nFor example, pristine Mars meteorites can reveal a great deal about the Red Planet's atmosphere and climate, along with its potential to host life. Some scientists will doubtless pore over Tissint specimens for signs of organic compounds, the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it, Agee said.\n\"Because it's so fresh, if you find organics in this sample, you can be pretty sure those organics are Martian,\" he told SPACE.com.\nThere's also the chance that Martian organisms — if they ever existed — may have left a mark in the meteorite samples. Some researchers, for example, claimed to have found fossil evidence of ancient Martian life in a meteorite called ALH84001, which was discovered in Antarctica in 1984. (Most scientists regard the claim as unconvincing.)\nResearchers don't yet know how old the Tissint samples are — when they formed, and when they were blasted off the Red Planet. But that should be determined in the next few months, Agee said.\nThe large size of the newfound fall is also a blessing, ensuring that Martian rocks are studied and seen by many people around the world, he added.\n\"Everybody has access at this point,\" Agee said. \"It will be widely distributed, so everybody will get a chance to study it, enjoy it and appreciate it.\"\nYou can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter: @michaeldwall. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.", "url": "http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0118/Meteorites-in-Morocco-confirmed-to-be-Martian-in-origin", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120119110613/http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0118/Meteorites-in-Morocco-confirmed-to-be-Martian-in-origin" } ]

[ "Europe", "United Kingdom", "Hampshire", "Wackynews" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Drivers shocked by rain of cash", "text": "Only �500 out of an estimated �11,000 was recovered, police say Motorists on the M3 were shocked to find themselves driving through a sudden shower of �20 notes. About �11,000 billowed out of the rucksack of a motorcycle passenger heading south near Winchester services in Hampshire last Tuesday night. Several motorists pulled over to try and help the motorcyclists find the cash, but only �500 was recovered. Police said they are making inquiries as to why the pair were carrying so much cash. It was a windy night and that would not have helped\nHampshire Police spokeswoman Hampshire Police say they had been concerned about safety as a number of cars screeched to a halt at the side of the motorway in a dash to get the cash. \"We are not saying that other drivers took it because it was a windy night and that would not have helped. It was over both carriageways,\" she said. The motorcyclists, from the Isle of Wight, told police they were going to buy a car with the money. \"This raised our suspicions and we are making checks as to where the money came from at the moment but it's not an offence to carry money,\" the spokeswoman added. The motorcycle broke down two junctions further down the motorway.\nE-mail this to a friend Printable version", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/4102758.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110912083045/http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/atk/start?atk_url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fuk_news%2Fengland%2Fhampshire%2F4102758.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Motorcyclists blow cool £10,500 in M3 spill", "text": "Motorcyclists blow cool £10,500 in M3 spill\nOne motorist said it was like driving into a cloud of money. But for the two unlucky motorcyclists who lost £10,500 in cash when their rucksack burst open on a motorway, there was no silver lining.\nDrivers on the busy stretch of the M3 near Winchester could scarcely believe it when £20 notes began blowing out of a rucksack being carried by the bike's pillion passenger. Several motorists stopped on the hard shoulder to help gather them, but strong winds quickly blew the notes across both carriageways.\nThe distraught motorcyclists and several drivers tried frantically to collect the cash. But when a count was done only £500 of the £11,000 had been recovered.\nJudy Mizen, who was driving in a car behind the motorbike with her husband when the bag burst open at about 7.30pm on Tuesday night, said: \"It started off as a few notes, but the bag quickly started spewing huge chunks of money. At first we thought it was just paper, but then I said, 'Oh my God, it's money!' It was like we had hit a wall of money.\"\nThings only got worse for the motorcyclists, who were from the Isle of Wight. Realising they were unlikely to recover any more cash they continued on their way, but their Kawasaki broke down two junctions along the M3.\nThey have also attracted the suspicion of police. \"The fact they had that much money on them did cause suspicion,\" a spokeswoman for the road policing unit said yesterday. \"As a result various checks are taking place into the backgrounds of the individuals. Their excuse was that they were going to buy a car, but we're checking out all the possible options.\"\nMs Mizen and her husband, Chris, did not stop to help collect the money as they felt it was \"a bit dangerous\". But she said she saw at least four cars pull over.\n\"It's that dilemma, isn't it?\" she said. \"People we have mentioned it to either say, 'You couldn't possibly take any' or, 'I would have grabbed some'. But the bottom line is that it isn't your money.\"\nPolice do not know whether the missing cash will be recovered. \"There seems to be £10,500 unaccounted for and we don't know where it is,\" the spokeswoman said. \"The money was blowing all over both carriageways of the motorway and could have gone anywhere.\"", "url": "http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1508499,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080222062919/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jun/17/richardjinman" } ]

[ "Filipiny", "Świat", "Terroryzm" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Filipińska armia kontra porywacze wysłanników Czerwonego Krzyża", "text": "Co najmniej 9 ludzi zginęło na południu Filipin w czasie starcia armii filipińskiej z porywaczami trzech wysłanników Międzynarodowego Komitetu Czerwonego Krzyża (MKCK) - Włocha, Szwajcara i Filipińczyka - podano w Manili.\nWśród zabitych jest trzech żołnierzy sił rządowych i sześciu rebeliantów. W starciu rannych zostało też 19 żołnierzy.\nCelem operacji armii na południowofilipińskiej wyspie Jolo było doprowadzenie do uwolnienia wysłanników MKCK, przetrzymywanych przez miejscowych rebeliantów islamskich od 15 stycznia.\nREKLAMA\nEkipa MKCK została uprowadzona gdy przeprowadzała inspekcję szpitala i więzienia na Jolo - jednym z głównych ośrodków działających na południu Filipin islamskich separatystów. Według przedstawicieli armii, to właśnie bojówka islamska odpowiada za porwanie.\nWyspa Jolo uważana jest za bastion ugrupowania Abu Sajefa - znanej z brutalnych działań, szczególnie wobec cudzoziemców, organizacji islamistów, mających silne powiązania z Al-Kaidą Osamy bin Ladena.\nND, PAP\nBLOG: WIADOMOŚĆ W BUTELCE - Terroryści z Langwedocji", "url": "http://www.wprost.pl/ar/156257/Filipinska-armia-kontra-porywacze-wyslannikow-Czerwonego-Krzyza/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160307014411/http://www.wprost.pl/ar/156257/Filipinska-armia-kontra-porywacze-wyslannikow-Czerwonego-Krzyza/" } ]

[ "Religião", "Saúde", "Sociedade", "América do Sul", "Brasil" ]

[ { "language": "pt", "title": "Bento XVI fratura o pulso direito após escorregar e cair", "text": "(Atualiza com novas informações sobre a fratura).\nCidade do Vaticano, 17 jul (EFE).- O papa Bento XVI fraturou hoje o pulso direito depois de escorregar e cair na casa em que descansa por alguns dias na localidade italiana de Les Combes, confirmou o porta-voz vaticano, Federico Lombardi.\n\"Após uma queda esta noite em seu quarto, o Santo Padre sofreu uma leve fratura no pulso direito\", informou Lombardi em comunicado no qual explica que, apesar da lesão, Bento XVI celebrou hoje a missa matinal e depois tomou café da manhã.\nO papa foi levado ao Hospital de Aosta, não muito distante de Les Combes, onde a fratura foi diagnosticada e seu pulso direito foi imobilizado, contou Lombardi.\nO pontífice, de 82 anos, foi submetido a um check-up completo. Segundo fontes de saúde citadas pela imprensa local, nada mais foi detectado.\nLogo após a divulgação da queda do papa, o porta-voz vaticano, Federico Lombardi, disse à Agência Efe que \"não se trata de algo grave\" e insistiu em que \"não é necessário se preocupar\".\nSegundo as fontes, o papa entrou no hospital andando sozinho.\nO pontífice se encontra na localidade de Les Combes, no Vale de Aosta, desde a segunda-feira passada, onde deve descansar até o dia 29, quando seguirá para a residência de verão de Castelgandolfo, a cerca de 30 quilômetros ao sul de Roma. EFE", "url": "http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Mundo/0,,MUL1233107-5602,00-BENTO+XVI+FRATURA+O+PULSO+DIREITO+APOS+ESCORREGAR+E+CAIR.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130708204705/http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Mundo/0,,MUL1233107-5602,00-BENTO+XVI+FRATURA+O+PULSO+DIREITO+APOS+ESCORREGAR+E+CAIR.html" } ]

[ "France", "Europe", "Droit en France", "Droit", "Justice", "Droit civil", "Droit commercial", "Cour de cassation (France)", "Responsabilité civile" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Cour de cassation", "text": "Contenu de la page : Accueil > Jurisprudence > Chambre commerciale, financière et économique > Arrêt n° 367 du 23 mars 2010 (09-10.791) - Cour de cassation - Chambre commerciale, financière et économique Contenu: Arrêt n° 367 du 23 mars 2010 (09-10.791) - Cour de cassation - Chambre commerciale, financière et économique Irrecevabilité et rejet Demandeur(s) : La société Logex Centre Loire ; M. P...X... Défendeur(s) : M. F...Y... ; et autres Statuant tant sur le pourvoi incident relevé par la société KPMG, et sur le pourvoi provoqué de la société Logex Centre Loire et de M. X..., que sur le pourvoi principal formé par ces derniers ; Attendu, selon l’arrêt attaqué (Orléans, 24 novembre 2008), que la société Chaboisson, qui avait pour activité l’achat et la revente de céréales, d’engrais et de produits phytosanitaires, a été mise en redressement judiciaire par jugement du 29 janvier 2002 ; qu’un plan de cession des actifs de la société Chaboisson a été adopté le 9 avril 2002 ; que reprochant tant à la société d’expertise comptable KPMG, chargée d’une mission de présentation des comptes annuels de la société Chaboisson, qu’à la société anonyme Logex Centre Loire (société Logex), commissaire aux comptes de cette dernière, et à M. X..., commissaire aux comptes associé de la société Logex, signataire des rapports émanant de cette dernière, d’avoir commis des fautes à l’origine de l’insuffisance d’actif, MM. Z... et Y..., agissant en leurs qualités respectives de représentant des créanciers et de commissaire à l’exécution du plan, les ont assignés en paiement de dommages intérêts ; que M. Z..., dont la mission avait pris fin, a été mis hors de cause ; Sur la recevabilité du pourvoi provoqué, contestée par la défense : Vu les articles 549 et 614 du code de procédure civile ; Attendu que le pourvoi provoqué ne peut émaner du demandeur principal que lorsqu’il découle du pourvoi incident formé par le défendeur ; que tel n’est pas le cas du pourvoi provoqué formé par la société Logex et par M. X..., qui critique les chefs de l’arrêt déjà visés par leur pourvoi principal ; qu’il s’ensuit que ces parties ne sont pas recevables en leur pourvoi provoqué ; Sur le premier moyen du pourvoi principal : Attendu que M. X... fait grief à l’arrêt d’avoir déclaré recevable la demande le visant à titre personnel, alors, selon le moyen, que les dispositions du décret du 12 août 1969, de nature seulement réglementaire, ne peuvent déroger au principe selon lequel nul n’est responsable que de son propre fait et de celui des personnes dont il doit répondre et à instituer une responsabilité personnelle des associés et des dirigeants d’une société de commissaire aux comptes, au titre des actes qu’ils ont accomplis au nom et pour le compte de la société, seule détentrice du mandat confié par la personne morale dont elle a reçu mission de contrôler les comptes ; qu’en écartant la fin de non-recevoir soulevée par M. X..., associé de la société Logex, motif pris de l’interprétation des dispositions de ce décret, et en condamnant M. X... personnellement, la cour d’appel a violé ce texte par fausse interprétation, ensemble les articles 1382 du code civil, L. 225-218 et L. 225-241 du code de commerce, devenus L. 822-9 et L. 822-17 du même code ; Mais attendu que le commissaire aux comptes agissant en qualité d’associé, d’actionnaire ou de dirigeant d’une société titulaire d’un mandat de commissaire aux comptes répond personnellement des actes professionnels qu’il accomplit au nom de cette société, quelle qu’en soit la forme ; qu’il s’ensuit que, loin de violer les textes visés au moyen, la cour d’appel en a fait l’exacte application ; que le moyen n’est pas fondé ; Sur le moyen unique du pourvoi incident : Attendu que la société KPMG fait grief à l’arrêt de l’avoir condamnée à payer des dommages intérêts à M. Y..., ès qualités, alors, selon le moyen, que la responsabilité d’un expert comptable est subordonnée à l’existence d’un lien de causalité entre la faute alléguée et le dommage invoqué ; qu’en affirmant que la présentation fallacieuse de comptes annuels de la société Chaboisson aurait permis une poursuite des relations commerciales de la société avec ses partenaires, durant laquelle son insuffisance d’actif s’est aggravée, de sorte que la société d’expertise comptable KPMG devait répondre de cette aggravation, sans rechercher si les partenaires de la société Chaboisson s’étaient effectivement fiés aux comptes annuels pour décider de poursuivre leurs relations commerciales, la cour d’appel, qui n’a pas caractérisé l’existence d’un lien de causalité entre la faute imputée à la société à la société d’expertise comptable KPMG et l’aggravation de l’insuffisance d’actif de la société Chaboisson, a privé sa décision de base légale au regard de l’article 1382 du code civil ; Mais attendu que l’arrêt relève que les fautes de la société KPMG sont à l’origine directe de la présentation fallacieuse des comptes de la société Chaboisson qui a induit en erreur les créanciers de la société ainsi que les banques qui ont continué à accorder leur crédit et la société de caution des négociants en céréales qui avalisait les effets sur des stocks inexacts ; qu’il ajoute que ces fautes ont entraîné la poursuite de l’exploitation avec des moyens ruineux et l’accroissement final du passif ; que la cour d’appel a ainsi caractérisé l’existence d’un lien de causalité entre les fautes imputées à la société KPMG et le préjudice subi par les créanciers de la société Chaboisson ; que le moyen n’est pas fondé ; Et attendu que les deuxième et troisième moyens du pourvoi principal ne seraient pas de nature à permettre l’admission de ce pourvoi ; PAR CES MOTIFS : DECLARE IRRECEVABLE le pourvoi provoqué de la société Logex Centre Loire et de M. X... ; REJETTE les pourvois principal et incident ; Président : Mme Favre Rapporteur : M. Le Dauphin, conseiller Avocat général : M. Mollard, avocat général référendaire Avocat(s) : SCP Nicolaÿ, de Lanouvelle et Hannotin ; SCP Boré et Salve de Bruneton ; SCP Richard Haut de page", "url": "http://www.courdecassation.fr/jurisprudence_2/chambre_commerciale_financiere_economique_574/367_23_15705.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100327144708/http://www.courdecassation.fr/jurisprudence_2/chambre_commerciale_financiere_economique_574/367_23_15705.html" } ]

[ "América", "América do Sul", "Brasil", "Corrupção", "Crime, Direito e Justiça", "Petrobras" ]

[ { "language": "pt", "title": "Dilma recusa credencial de embaixador da Indonésia para atuar no Brasil", "text": "A presidente Dilma Rousseff entrega credenciais a novos embaixadores que atuarão no Brasil(Elza Fiúza/Agência Brasil)Elza Fiúza/Agência Brasil\nA presidenta Dilma Rousseff não recebeu hoje (20) a carta credencial do novo embaixador da Indonésia no Brasil, Toto Riyanto. Com isso, ele não poderá representar a Indonésia em audiências ou solenidades oficiais no Brasil. Toto Riyanto esteve no Palácio do Planalto para repassar ao governo brasileiro a carta credencial, assim como os novos embaixadores da Venezuela, de El Salvador, do Panamá, do Senegal e da Grécia. A cerimônia foi encerrada sem a participação do indonésio.\n“Achamos que é importante que haja uma evolução na situação para que a gente tenha clareza em que condições estão as relações da Indonésia com o Brasil. O que nós fizemos foi atrasar um pouco o recebimento de credenciais, nada mais que isso”, explicou a presidenta em entrevista após a cerimônia. Foi a primeira vez que ela conversou com jornalistas desde o fim de dezembro, antes de tomar posse do segundo mandato.\nNo dia 17 de janeiro, o brasileiro Marco Archer foi fuzilado na Indonésia, em cumprimento à pena de morte por tráfico de drogas. Após a execução, Dilma convocou o embaixador brasileiro na Indonésia, um ato diplomático que demonstrou a insatisfação do Brasil. Outro brasileiro condenado à pena de morte no país, Rodrigo Gularte, aguarda execução.\nDe acordo com o Ministério das Relações Exteriores, um embaixador assume o posto depois de entregar suas credenciais ou comunicar a sua chegada e apresentar as cópias de suas credenciais ao governo do país onde irá atuar. Toto Ryanto apresentou as cópias ao Itamaraty no dia 26 de novembro de 2014 e, desde então, é o embaixador da Indonésia no Brasil. A cerimônia de hoje formalizaria a entrega das credenciais, o que aumenta as prerrogativas do embaixador como representante de seu país.\nEm geral, as cerimônias de entrega de credenciais são feitas em conjunto. Antes do evento de hoje, a última vez que Dilma havia recebido cartas credenciais de embaixadores foi em novembro, quando participaram representantes de 32 países.\n*Matéria alterada às 16h04 do dia 20/02/2015 para acréscimo de informações", "url": "http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/politica/noticia/2015-02/dilma-recusa-credencial-de-embaixador-da-indonesia", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150222130910/http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/politica/noticia/2015-02/dilma-recusa-credencial-de-embaixador-da-indonesia" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Brasil no recibe credenciales del nuevo embajador indonesio", "text": "Rousseff habla con periodistas tras entregar las cartas credenciales a los nuevos embajadores que trabajarán en Brasil Elza Fiúza/Agência Brasil\nVea También Brasil e Indonesia: relaciones en crisis debido a ejecución de brasileño\nLa presidenta Dilma Rousseff no ha recibido este viernes (20) las cartas credenciales del nuevo embajador indonesio en Brasil, Toto Riyanto. Por lo tanto, él no puede representar a Indonesia en audiencias o ceremonias oficiales en el país. Riyanto estuvo en el palacio presidencial para entregar al gobierno brasileño sus cartas credenciales, así como los nuevos embajadores de Venezuela, El Salvador, Panamá, Senegal y Grecia, pero la ceremonia se terminó sin la participación del diplomático indonesio.\n“Lo que hicimos fue retrasar un poco la recepción de las credenciales, nada más que eso. Creemos que es importante que haya una evolución en la situación, para que tengamos claras las condiciones de la relación entre Indonesia y Brasil”, explicó la presidenta Rousseff en una entrevista luego de la solemnidad.\nEl pasado 17 de enero, el brasileño Marco Archer fue fusilado en Indonesia en cumplimiento de la pena de muerte por tráfico de drogas. Tras la ejecución, Rousseff llamó al embajador brasileño en Indonesia, un acto diplomático que demostró el descontento de Brasil. Otro brasileño condenado a muerte en el país, Rodrigo Gularte, aún espera la ejecución.\nTraducción: Leonardo Vieira", "url": "http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/es/politica/noticia/2015-02/brasil-no-recibe-credenciales-del-nuevo-embajador-indonesio", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170109205116/http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/es/politica/noticia/2015-02/brasil-no-recibe-credenciales-del-nuevo-embajador-indonesio" } ]

[ "Middle East", "Israel", "Palestine", "Gaza Strip", "Politics and conflicts", "United Nations", "Israel/Palestine Conflict", "Hamas" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "UN chief visits Gaza as Israeli withdrawal continues", "text": "GAZA: As Israeli forces continued to pull out of Gaza on Tuesday, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, became the highest-ranking international official to visit the war-battered coastal strip since Israel and Hamas declared separate cease-fires last weekend.\nAs the Israelis have withdrawn, Hamas has reasserted control over the rubble-filled streets while tens of thousands of Palestinians seek to cope with destroyed homes and traumatized lives. Ban had no plans to meet with Hamas, according to Reuters, which quoted a United Nations spokesman as saying his mission was to \"express solidarity with Palestinian suffering.\"\n\"I have seen only a fraction of the destruction. This is shocking an alarming,\" Ban told a news conference, calling for an inquiry into Israeli shelling of a United Nations warehouse during the fighting, Reuters reported.\nHe also planned to balance his visit to Gaza with a trip to places in southern Israel struck by Hamas rockets, reporters traveling with him said.\nAn Israeli military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said Israel forces were \"gradually\" pulling out but declined to give details of their progress. On Monday, Israel accelerated its withdrawal in an apparent effort to complete it by the time Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States later on Tuesday.\nIn Kuwait City, meanwhile, the Arab world remained divided on Tuesday over its response to the Gaza war. After a two-day Arab League summit, the Iraqi foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, said Arab leaders had been unable to reach agreement on the wording of a unified declaration \"because some are entrenched in their positions,\" according to The Associated Press.\nThe Arab division over Gaza pits conservative and pro-Western states against those demanding fiercer Arab action against Israel.\nIn Gaza, decomposing bodies continued to be uncovered on Monday in the worst-hit areas, with the death toll for the 23-day conflict that ended on Sunday passing 1,300, according to health officials here. Policemen took up positions directing traffic and a few bulldozers began the enormous task of clearing the ruins. Garbage was everywhere, devastation rampant.\nHamas held its first news conference on Monday since the war began on Dec. 27, with two government spokesmen standing in front of a destroyed compound that had housed a number of ministries and asserting that their movement had been victorious.\n\"Israel has succeeded in killing everything except the will of the people,\" said Taher al-Nunu, the main government spokesman. \"They said they were going to dismantle the resistance and demolish the rockets, but after this historic victory, the government is steadfast, we are working and they were not able to stop the rockets.\"\nHe said 5,000 homes had been destroyed and 20,000 damaged. Mosques and government buildings were also hit in the military campaign that Israel carried out, with the aim of ending years of rocket fire on Israeli civilians. Israel suffered 13 deaths during the conflict, 3 of them civilian, according to military officials.\nIn Israel, a sense of justice and triumph prevailed with radio stations playing classic Zionist songs and President Shimon Peres asserting on a visit to wounded soldiers that the army had achieved both a military and a moral victory. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Israel Radio: \"We had achievements that for a long time Israel did not have. And therefore, you also have to know when to make the decision to stop and look. If Hamas got the message that we sent so harshly, then we can stop. If Hamas tries to continue to shoot, then we will continue.\"\nA senior Israeli official said that if Hamas continued to hold its rocket fire, it would be better if the troops were out of Gaza by the time Obama took office as president, so he could concentrate on Gaza's rebuilding and supporting a more moderate Palestinian leadership rather than on pressing Israel to withdraw. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the matter.\nDespite competing claims of victory and the deep misery felt here, the halt in fighting has opened the way for intensified international efforts to build a more durable peace. The central issues are how to stop arms smuggling into Gaza from the Egyptian Sinai and how to rebuild the economy here through a reopening of border crossings closed by Israel and Egypt after Hamas, which won a 2006 election, pushed out its secular rival Fatah in 2007.\nAdded to those concerns are internal Palestinian divisions, tensions between Israel and the rest of the region, and the question of whether a Palestinian state can be created in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.", "url": "http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/20/mideast/20mideast-cnd13h37-411975.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090124214045/http://iht.com/articles/2009/01/20/mideast/20mideast-cnd13h37-411975.php" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Ban demands probe into Gaza attacks", "text": "Ban said he was 'appalled' after witnessing the aftermath of the attack on the UN complex [EPA]\nBan said he was 'appalled' after witnessing the aftermath of the attack on the UN complex [EPA]\nSpeaking during an official visit to the devastated territory on Tuesday, he condemned the attack on the UN complex as \"outrageous\" and \"totally unacceptable\".\nBan Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, has demanded a \"full investigation\" into Israel's bombing of a UN compound in Gaza City.\n\"It is particularly significant for a secretary-general of the UN to stand in front of this bomb site of the UN compound,\" he said.\n\"I am just appalled and not able to describe how I am feeling having seen this ... it's an outrageous and totally unacceptable attack against the UN. I have protested many times, and I protest again in the strongest terms.\"\nBan called for a \"full investigation\" into the incident to make those responsible for the attack \"accountable\".\nHe also announced he was sending a high-level delegation to oversee humanitarian support for Gazans and assist with the rebuilding effort following Israel's three-week offensive.\nBan is the highest-ranking official to visit Gaza since Israel and Hamas declared separate, unilateral ceasefires on Sunday.\n'Shocking' devastation\nBan stressed \"the UN and the international community will support and help you [Gazans] to overcome\" the devastation, which he described as \"shocking and alarming\".\nWhile Ban reiterated his condemnation of Israel's \"excessive use of force\", he was careful to underline that he believes rocket attacks on Israel by Gazan fighters are also \"unacceptable\".\nIsrael had said the aim of its operations in Gaza was to cripple Hamas's ability to launch rockets into the south of the country.\nBan urged Palestinians factions to unite to allow the international community, including the UN, to help broker a lasting peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.\nHowever, while offering to do \"all [he] can as secretary-general of the UN to help in this time of need\", Ban is not expected to meet Hamas officials during this visit.\nAyman Mohyeldin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, said because much of the international community, including the US and the European Union, regard Hamas as a \"terrorist organisation\", it would be political difficult for the UN chief to hold direct talks with Hamas officials.\nHamas won parliamentary elections in 2006 which were internationally recognised as being both fair and free.\nRebuilding Gaza's devastated infrastructure is expected to cost billions of US dollars.\nWithout supplies\nJohn Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, says hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid supplies will be needed for the people of Gaza.\nAlthough water supplies were restored to many Gazan homes as of Sunday, 400,000 were still without running water, Holmes said.\nGAZA TOLL\nAt least 1,300 people killed, including more than 400 children and more than 100 women At least 5,300 Palestinians injured, including nearly 1,900 children and 800 women\nAt least 100,000 people forced from their homes\nAt least 13 Israelis killed, including three civilians\nElectricity in Gaza is available for less than half the day and around 100,000 people have been left homeless by the war.\nScores of bodies have been discovered in the rubble of destroyed buildings since both sides declared unilateral ceasefires on Sunday.\nPalestinians returning to their neighbourhoods have begun to unearth the true scale of destruction.\nMohyeldin reported that the World Health Organisation had issued a warning of an outbreak of disease as weeks-old bodies remain unburied and sewage continues to flow in many areas because of the destruction of Gaza's infrastructure.\nThe deposed Hamas-led government in Gaza estimates that more than 5,000 buildings were completely destroyed and another 20,000 damaged or partially destroyed in the fighting.\nDespite the three-week Israeli onslaught that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians and destroyed thousands of buildings, Hamas and other Palestinian factions have claimed victory in the fighting.\nFollowing his visit to Gaza, the UN chief also visited the southern Israeli town of Sderot - one of the main targets for Palestinian rocket-launching squads based in Gaza.\nBan said he was \"totally committed to Israel securing its rightful place as a nation within secure and recognised borders\" and called for the current ceasefires to be turned into a durable truce \"respected fully by all parties concerned\".", "url": "http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200912013138315261.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090121030509/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/200912013138315261.html" } ]

[ "Tempodivalse (Wikinewsie)", "Writing Contests/May 2010", "Economy and business", "Stock market", "United States", "North America", "Mark Warner" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "US markets plunge on continuing Greek debt concerns", "text": "US stockmarkets have plunged in New York as concerns about high levels of European government debt continued to shake investor confidence.\nStocks fell steeply over Greece's debt problems, and falls may have been made worse by computer-driven trade.\nAt one point the Dow Jones was down by more than 9%, its worst fall since 1987, before starting to recover.\nAt close in New York the Dow Jones was down about 3.20%, the S&P down 3.24%, and Nasdaq 3.44%.\nThe BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston said the market panic had been precipitated by \"fear of a knock-on from Greece and other European countries on the global financial system\".\nMeanwhile, there were rumours in the financial world that the drop may have been caused by an erroneous \"fat finger\" trade being made at a big Wall Street bank.\nJobs report\nThe tech-based Nasdaq index said it was scrutinising trades made between 2pm and 3pm.\nShares in consulting firm Accenture fell to 4 cents after it had closed at $42.17 on Wednesday. It later rebounded and closed at $41.09, down just over $1.\nContinue reading the main story There's been a growing trend over the past few days of investors becoming much more nervous Robert Peston BBC Business Editor Read more from Robert's blog here\nThe NYSE said the fall had not been caused by a problem with the exchange's trading systems, and the Nasdaq said it was reviewing its trades with other trading networks.\nAnd Procter & Gamble was investigating the fall in its stock at one stage by 37%.\nAs well as shares falling, bond prices increased and the dollar fell by 6% against the yen.\nOil prices also fell, to levels not seen since February, with benchmark crude losing $2.86 to settle at $77.11 a barrel in New York.\nThere will be close attention paid now to Friday's US employment report, showing payroll levels for April, and whether this will calm the markets.\n'Panic sell'\nThere are market worries that Greece may default on its debt and that trouble there could spread to other parts of Europe, including Spain or Portugal.\nInvestors were disappointed that earlier today the European Central Bank did not take fresh measures, such as buying Greek bonds, to help stop the Greek debt crisis.\n\"Right now you just have a panic sell,\" said Keith Springer, president of Capital Financial Advisory Services in Sacramento, California.\n\"It could be a long-term negative for stock market because it could mean the long-term high is in place. It's very likely we've seen the highs for this cycle.\"\nHowever, others said the stock volatility could have been exacerbated by electronic trading issues rather than worries about Greece.\n'Machines took over'\n\"This is an electronic market where bids can be cancelled at the flick of a button, and everyone cancelled at the same time,\" said Joe Saluzzi, of Themis Trading in New Jersey.\n\"We should be down big today, but not 1,000 points. This is an equity market structure issue, there's no major problem going on.\"\nComputer trading is thought to have cranked up the losses, as programmes designed to sell stocks at a specified level came into action when the market started falling.\n\"I think the machines just took over,\" said Charlie Smith, chief investment officer at Fort Pitt Capital Group.\n\"There's not a lot of human interaction. We've known that automated trading can run away from you, and I think that's what we saw happen today.\"", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10101581.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100508185111/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10101581.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Stocks plunge; Dow has record drop, then recovers", "text": "Stocks plunge; Dow has record drop, then recovers\nNEW YORK — The stock market had one of its most turbulent days in history as the Dow Jones industrials fell to a loss of almost 1,000 points in less than half an hour on fears that Greece's debt problems could halt the global economic recovery.\nThe market's plunge came less than 90 minutes before the end of trading. The Dow's drop was its largest loss ever during the course of a trading day, but it recovered to a loss of 347 at the close. All the major indexes lost more than 3 percent.\nThere were reports that the sudden drop was caused by a trader who mistyped an order to sell a large block of stock. The drop in that stock's price was enough to trigger \"sell\" orders across the market.\nStill, the Dow was already down more than 200 points as traders watched protests in the streets of Athens on TV. Protestors raged against austerity measures passed by the Greek parliament. But traders were not comforted by the fact that Greece seemed to be working towards a resolution of its debt problems. Instead, they focused on the possibility that other European countries would also run into trouble, and that the damage to their economies could spread to the U.S.\nThe Dow has lost 631 points, or 5.7 percent, in three days amid worries about Greece. That is its largest three-day percentage drop since March 2009, when the stock market was nearing its bottom following the financial crisis.\n\"The market is now realizing that Greece is going to go through a depression over the next couple of years,\" said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak. \"Europe is a major trading partner of ours, and this threatens the entire global growth story.\"\nThe stock market has had periodic bouts of anxiety about the European economies during the past few months. They have intensified over the past week even as Greece appeared to be moving closer to getting a bailout package from some of its neighbors.\nComputer trading intensified the losses as programs designed to sell stocks at a specified level kicked in. Traders use those programs to try to limit their losses when the market is falling. And the selling only led to more selling as prices fell.\nThe selling was furious:\nAt 2:20 p.m. EDT, the Dow was at 10,460, a loss of 400 points.\nIt then tumbled 600 points in seven minutes to its low of the day of 9,869, a drop of 9.2 percent.\nBy 3:09 p.m., the Dow had regained 700 points. It then fluctuated sharply until the close.\n\"I think the machines just took over. There's not a lot of human interaction,\" said Charlie Smith, chief investment officer at Fort Pitt Capital Group. \"We've known that automated trading can run away from you, and I think that's what we saw happen today.\"\nOn the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, stone-faced traders huddled around electronic boards and televisions, silently watching and waiting. Traders' screens were flashing numbers non-stop, with losses shown in solid blocks of red numbers.\nJack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago, said the selling brought back memories of the 1987 crash.\n\"I've been watching the markets since 1982 and, believe me, I froze at the screen in '87,\" Ablin said. \"But today ... caused me to fall out of my chair at one point. It felt like we lost control.\"\nThe impact on some stocks was enormous although brief. Stock in the consulting firm Accenture fell to 4 cents after closing at $42.17 on Wednesday. It closed at $41.09, down just over $1.\nNYSE spokesman Raymond Pellecchia said the plunge wasn't caused by a problem with the exchange's trading systems. The Nasdaq Stock Market said it was reviewing its trades with other trading networks.\nNYSE chief operating officer Larry Leibowitz said all the major stock exchanges were holding a conference call with the Securities and Exchange Commission to discuss what happened. It was not immediately known if there would be a statement issued after the call to explain the day's events.\nThe Dow fell 998.50 points in its largest point drop ever, eclipsing the 780.87 it lost during the course of trading on Oct. 15, 2008, during the height of the financial crisis. The Dow closed that day down 733.08, the biggest closing loss it has ever suffered.\nThe Dow recovered two-thirds of its loss Thursday. It closed down 347.80, or 3.2 percent, at 10,520. That was its biggest point loss since February 2009.\nThe Standard & Poor's 500 index, the index most closely watched by market pros, fell 37.75, or 3.2 percent, to 1,128.15. The Nasdaq composite index lost 82.65, or 3.4 percent, and closed at 2,319.64.\nAt the market's lows, all three indexes were showing losses for the year. The Dow now shows a gain of 0.9 percent for 2010, while the S&P; is up 1.2 percent and the Nasdaq is up 2.2 percent.\nAt the close, losses were so widespread that just 173 stocks rose on the NYSE, compared to 3,008 that fell. The major indexes were all down more than 3 percent.\nMeanwhile, interest rates on Treasurys soared as traders sought the safety of U.S. government debt. The yield on the benchmark 10-year note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.4 percent from late Wednesday's 3.54 percent.\nCopyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.", "url": "http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jmT59dgLTTziX4p9X9MRBRpWZGdQD9FHJQB80", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100509163620/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jmT59dgLTTziX4p9X9MRBRpWZGdQD9FHJQB80" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Stock plunge raises alarm on algo trading", "text": "NEW YORK (Reuters) - A spine-chilling slide of nearly 1,000 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its biggest intraday points drop ever, led to heightened calls for a crackdown on computer-driven high-frequency trading.\nThe slide, which in one 10-minute stretch knocked the index down nearly 700 points, may have been triggered by a trading error. Major stock indexes eventually recovered from their 9 percent drops to close down a little more than 3 percent.\nBut the follow-through selling that pushed stocks of some highly regarded companies into tailspins exacerbated concerns that regulators can quickly lose control of the markets in a world of algorithmic trading.\n\"The potential for giant high-speed computers to generate false trades and create market chaos reared its head again today,\" Senator Edward Kaufman said in a statement.\n\"The battle of the algorithms -- not understood by nor even remotely transparent to the Securities and Exchange Commission -- simply must be carefully reviewed and placed within a meaningful regulatory framework soon.\"\nKaufman and Senator Mark Warner -- both Democrats -- said Congress needs to investigate the causes of the market plunge, which at its deepest point wiped nearly $1 trillion off equity values.\nCitigroup Inc (C.N) said it was investigating a rumor that one of its traders entered the trade, a spokesman for the bank said on Thursday. Citigroup, the third-largest U.S. bank, currently has no evidence that an erroneous trade has been made, the spokesman said.\n'SCREWED UP'\nEarlier, sources told Reuters that the plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial average may have been caused by an erroneous trade entered by a person at a big Wall Street bank.\nMarket sources said the erroneous trade may have involved E-Mini contracts -- stock market index futures contracts that trade on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's Globex trading platform. The composition of the E-Mini is similar to the stocks in the S&P 500.\n\"I can confirm that our markets operated properly and there were no problems,\" a CME Group (CME.O) spokesman said.\nOther market sources said the erroneous trading involved the IWD exchange-traded fund or the S&P 500 Mini. A person close to BlackRock (BLK.N), which manages the IWD, said there was no unusual trading in the iShares product.\nDuring the sell-off, Procter & Gamble shares plummeted nearly 37 percent to $39.37 at 2:47 p.m. ET (1847 GMT), prompting the company to investigate whether any erroneous trades had occurred. The shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, but the significantly lower share price was recorded on a different electronic trading venue.\n\"We don't know what caused it,\" said Procter & Gamble spokeswoman Jennifer Chelune. \"We know that that was an electronic trade ... and we're looking into it with Nasdaq and the other major electronic exchanges.\"\nA different P&G spokesman had said earlier the company contacted the Securities and Exchange Commission, but Chelune said that he spoke in error.\nOne NYSE employee leaving the Big Board's headquarters in lower Manhattan said the P&G share plunge lay at the center of whatever happened.\n\"I'll give you a tip,\" the employee said, speaking on condition of anonymity. \"P&G. Check out the low sale of the day. Something screwed up with the system. It traded down $30 at one point.\"\nWIDE SWINGS\nNasdaq said it was working with other major markets to review the market activity that occurred between 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m., when the market plunge happened.\nThe exchange later said it was investigating potentially erroneous transactions involving multiple securities executed between 2:40 and 3:00 p.m.\nNasdaq also said participants should review their trading activity for potentially erroneous trades.\nNYSE Euronext CEO Duncan Niederauer seized on the problems in an interview with CNBC to stress that the exchange was a safer place to trade because it deliberately slowed down market making when it realized there was something extraordinary happening.\nThe exchange has been in a battle over recent years with a series of upstart trading venues, many of which advertise either lower prices or faster transaction speeds.\nThe market plunge and especially wide swings in some individual stocks reignited some wider criticism of high-frequency trading, a strategy using lightning-fast computer programs to track market trends.\n\"We did not know what a stock was worth today, and that is a serious problem,\" said Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading in New Jersey, a frequent critic of computer-driven high frequency trading.\nInvestors had already been on edge throughout the trading day after the European Central Bank did not discuss the outright purchase of European sovereign debt as some hoped they would to calm markets.\n(Additional reporting by Dan Wilchins, Roberta Rampton, Ann Saphir, Deepa Seetharaman and Maria Aspan; Editing by Gary Hill)", "url": "http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE6455ZG20100506", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100509095957/http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE6455ZG20100506" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Nasdaq to Cancel All Trades of Stocks Moving More Than 60%", "text": "Nasdaq to Cancel All Trades of Stocks Moving More Than 60%\nNasdaq OMX Group Inc. said it will cancel all trades of stocks at prices that were 60 percent above or below the last price at 2:40 p.m. or immediately prior.\nThe exchange operator said in a statement it will cancel all trades \"greater than or less than 60 percent away from the consolidated last print in that security at 14:40:00 or immediately prior.\"\nNasdaq said it coordinated the decision with all other exchanges.", "url": "http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ai9CehsZxjqA&pos=1", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120128204026/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-06/nasdaq-to-cancel-all-trades-of-stocks-moving-more-than-60-in-market-swing.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Theories abound about how the 1,000 point Dow drop occurred", "text": "Theories abound about how the 1,000 point Dow drop occurred\nAwash in red indicating falling stock prices, computer screens Thursday on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange highlighted that afternoon’s sudden drop in stocks. The chart depicted the S&P; 500 Index. Video | Stocks falter after wild day, European woes linger More News\nWhat the heck happened Thursday when the stock market plummeted nearly 1,000 points and snapped almost as far back in the space of an hour?\nOn Friday, federal regulators were investigating.\nThe leading theory seems to be that New York Stock Exchange specialists fighting an imbalance in buy and sell orders slowed trading and that computerized stock platforms off the exchange drove prices down. The specialists needed the momentary delay to bring buyers and sellers together and get prices in line.\nIt’s not clear what caused the order imbalance. At this point it doesn’t appear to have been human error in entering a trade or a rogue computer program.\nThe specialists, who instead of computers use the NYSE’s human-run auction system to make trades, have the authority to call time outs. Years ago when the exchange dominated trading, that worked well at stabilizing prices.\nBut now what is known as high-frequency trading — rapid computerized buying and selling run by private companies — accounts for 50 to 75 percent of daily trading volume\n“The rest of the markets are free to trade around us,” said NYSE CEO Duncan Niederauer, “and that’s what they did.”\nNiederauer said that about 4,000 trades were nullified on Thursday after being identified as clearly erroneous.\nNasdaq OMX Group Inc. said it canceled transactions in almost 300 stocks.\nThursday’s sell-off erased $700 billion from U.S. markets in just eight minutes because the NYSE slowdown increased volatility on other platforms, said Joe Ratterman, chief executive officer of the five-year-old alternative exchange Bats Global Markets Inc.\nBats is based in Lenexa and has become one of the largest computerized trading platforms. It had to cancel 540 trades.\n“There are times when differences in behavior are not good for the market or the investors,” said Ratterman, who recommended trading be halted across networks when investors are panicking. “This Thursday may have been one of those times.”\nRatterman said officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission called him at his office late Thursday and again Friday seeking information on what might have gone wrong. He said the SEC has called a meeting of all exchanges Monday in Washington.\nThe Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Friday that when prices are falling brokers must ensure they don’t overwhelm markets with orders on as many as 50 U.S. equity venues.\nThe SEC is seeking to determine if market participants accidentally or maliciously derailed trading, according to a Bloomberg News report.\nIn Washington, Democratic Sens. Ted Kaufman of Delaware and Mark Warner of Virginia began working with Senate Banking Committee members to use the financial regulation bill to address the market’s brief drop.\nKaufman questioned whether markets that increasingly rely on computer algorithms triggered false trades.\nThe House has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday.\n“This is unacceptable,” said Rep Paul Kanjorski, a Pennsylvania Democrat who leads a House Financial Services subcommittee. “We cannot allow a technological error to spook the markets and cause panic.”\nPresident Barack Obama said Friday that regulators are evaluating the “unusual market activity” with an eye toward preventing a recurrence. He said regulators would make their findings and recommendations public.\nThe computer role\nOn Thursday, the NYSE said, order imbalances hit at least five Dow stocks, including 3M and Procter & Gamble, and numerous other listed stocks. NYSE specialists slowed trading for a minute or two at about 1:40 p.m Central.\nBut the off-exchange computers hit the best bids still standing, which in many cases were far below the prior price.\nIn some instances, the computers found no bids at all. When they see a zero bid, they offer a penny higher to capture the trade and collect a commission. That’s why trades of just 1 cent hit several stocks, including Accenture.\nMore than 29.4 billion shares changed hands in U.S. markets Thursday, the most since October 2008.\nBut just 2.6 billion shares traded on the NYSE, the lowest level relative to overall volume in three years, data compiled by Bloomberg show.\nAlmost 1.3 billion shares traded on U.S. markets in a 10-minute span starting at 1:40, six times the average.\n“Computers are looking for the best bids. The real best bids shut themselves down,” one trader told CNNMoney.com.\n“You had penny prints. The bid was zero. The algorithms were designed to penny the bids,” said another trader.\nThe NYSE defended its specialists, saying they could ensure market stability.\n“Yesterday’s experience clearly demonstrates the value of retaining an element of human judgment in the market,” said an NYSE spokesman.\nIn addition to the Dow, the S&P; 500 and the Nasdaq also suffered steep declines.\nWhile the first half of the plunge probably reflected concern that Greece’s credit crisis would spread, the sell-off snowballed because of orders sent to venues with no investors willing to match them, said NYSE Euronext Chief Operating Officer Larry Leibowitz.\n“If you look at the charts you can see fairly clearly where the trades came in. It’s that V-shaped drop where it came down and snapped right back up. You had some very high-cap stocks trading down 50 percent or large percentages in a split-instant because there really was no liquidity in electronic markets.”\nCircuit breakers\nNYSE rivals Bats in Lenexa and Direct Edge Holdings LLC in Jersey City, N.J., handled millions of trades.\nBATS CEO Ratterman said exchange systems “easily” handled the torrent, but he added that marketwide circuit breaker levels ought to be reconsidered.\n“If it had been triggered, the behavior (across exchanges) would’ve been consistent,” he said of the NYSE’s slowdown.\nRatterman said differences in exchange models need to be addressed by regulators, who are already under pressure to rethink market rules in an age of split-second trading.\n“Clearly, there are going to be a lot of voices out there that are unhappy already and on one side of the debate about how much regulatory (overhaul) there needs to be,” he said.\nRatterman said current triggers for marketwide circuit-breakers are “nearly out of reach,” and that even Thursday’s nearly 1,000-point plunge didn’t activate the trigger.\nDirect Edge CEO William O’Brien called for regulators to install a marketwide system of circuit breakers for individual stocks while also saying it shouldn’t be possible for one exchange to shut down while the others are still operate.\n“A common set of stock-by-stock circuit breakers is probably the right way to go, combined with some other measures,” O’Brien said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires.\nWhile most big computerized traders remained in the market, other big shops pulled out.\nKansas City-based Tradebot Systems Inc. told The Wall Street Journal it shut down its trading operations when the Dow Jones dropped by 500 points, as the firm sought not to contribute to the volatility.\nA down day, a down week\nStocks had another volatile day Friday, swinging widely before closing sharply lower.\nThe Dow— off about 280 points early Friday — closed down 139.89, at 10,380.43.\nThe Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 17.27 to 1,110.88, while the Nasdaq composite fell 54.00 to 2,265.64.\nThe market looked past a surprisingly strong report on the U.S. jobs market and focused instead on the harrowing plunge the day before and the latest moves in Europe’s spreading debt crisis.\nTechnology stocks were particularly hard hit following reports that Nokia Corp. was broadening its legal fight against rival cell phone maker Apple Inc. to include the iPad, Apple’s new hit product. Apple shares fell 4.2 percent in heavy trading.\nAmong regional stocks, Waddell & Reed fell $1.89, Kansas City Southern lost $1.77, Kansas City Life fell $1.16, and Layne Christensen lost $1.05.\nFriday’s trading left the Dow down 5.7 percent for the week and erased its gains for the year. The S&P; fell about 6.4 percent, while the Nasdaq was off 7.9 percent for the week. The S&P; and Nasdaq also went into the red for 2010.\nThe Star’s Keith Chrostowski compiled this report from Bloomberg News, CNNMoney.com, The New York Times and The Associated Press.", "url": "http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/07/1932140/theories-abound-about-how-the.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100510060437/http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/07/1932140/theories-abound-about-how-the.html" } ]

[ "Themenportal Sport", "Schach" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Aktuelle Nachrichten online", "text": "E-Mail-Adresse des Empfängers\n(Mehrere Adressen durch Kommas trennen)\nIhre E-Mail Adresse\nIhr Name (optional)\nIhre Nachricht (optional)\nSicherheitscode\nUm einen neuen Sicherheitscode zu erzeugen, klicken Sie bitte auf das Bild.\nBitte geben Sie hier den oben gezeigten Sicherheitscode ein.", "url": "http://www.faz.net/s/RubF93BAF252378450DADCE25B27265B3C6/Doc~E9CDBA62C20CB484CBAE0EFEDD6DF8CA0~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html?rss_googlefeed", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210414031706/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Kramnik stoppt seine Pleitenserie gegen Anand", "text": "Wladimir Kramnik hat seine Niederlagenserie gegen Viswanthan Anand aus Indien bei der Schach-WM in Bonn gestoppt. Mit den schwarzen Figuren erkämpfte der russische Herausforderer nach 37 Zügen ein Remis gegen den Weltmeister. In der Gesamtwertung liegt Anand aber weiterhin klar mit 5:2-Punkten in Führung.\nOhne viel Risiko ist Schach-Weltmeister Viswanathan Anand der erfolgreichen Titelverteidigung bei der WM in Bonn wieder ein Stück nähergekommen.\nNach einem Remis in der siebten Partie führt der Inder gegen seinen russischen Herausforderer Wladimir Kramnik nun mit 5:2 und liegt bei dem mit 1,5 Millionen Euro dotierten Duell in der Bundeskunsthalle klar auf Siegkurs. Der Spieler, der zuerst 6,5 Punkte erreicht, ist Weltmeister. Bei einem 6:6-Gleichstand wird am 2. November in einem Tie-Break der Sieger ermittelt.\n„Ich stand zum Schluss etwas besser und hätte mehr riskieren können, aber ich wählte die Remisvariante“, sagte Anand nach der unspektakulären Partie. Sein Gegenüber, erneut mit Schwarz am Zug, war dagegen nach 36 Zügen und drei Stunden wenig zufrieden: „Die Farbreihenfolge ist völlig egal, wenn man schlecht spielt.“ Anand hatte erneut mit 1.d4 eröffnet, Kramnik die solide offene Slawische Verteidigung gewählt.\nzurück\nweiter 1 Top Ten: Die größten Schach-Duelle\nDie achte Partie wird am Freitag ausgespielt und von Bundesfinanzminister Peer Steinbrück symbolisch eröffnet.\n7. Partie (Damengambit)\nWeiß: Viswanathan Anand (Indien) – Schwarz: Wladimir Kramnik (Russland) 0,5:0,5\n1.d4 d5; 2.c4 c6; 3.Sf3 Sf6; 4.Sc3 dxc4; 5.a4 Lf5; 6.e3 e6; 7.Lxc4 Lb4; 8.00 Sbd7; 9.De2 ;Lg6 10.e4 00; 11.Ld3 Lh5; 12.e5 Sd5; 13.Sxd5 cxd5; 14.De3 Te8; 15.Se1 Lg6; 16.Lxg6 hxg6; 17.Sd3 Db6; 18.Sxb4 Dxb4; 19.b3 Tac8; 20.La3 Dc3; 21.Tac1 Dxe3; 22.fxe3 f6; 23.Ld6 g5; 24.h3 Kf7; 25.Kf2 Kg6; 26.Ke2 fxe5; 27.dxe5 b6; 28.b4 Tc4; 29.Txc4 dxc4; 30.Tc1 Tc8; 31.g4 a5; 32.b5 c3; 33.Tc2 Kf7; 34.Kd3 Sc5+; 35.Lxc5 Txc5; 36.Txc3 Txc3+\nStand: Anand – Kramnik 5,0:2,0\nsid/fb", "url": "http://www.welt.de/sport/article2617124/Kramnik-stoppt-seine-Pleitenserie-gegen-Anand.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081024192720/http://www.welt.de/sport/article2617124/Kramnik-stoppt-seine-Pleitenserie-gegen-Anand.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "The Hindu : Sport", "text": "News:\nAdvts:\nSport - Chess\nDrugs in chess a ridiculous thought, says Anand\nBONN: Drug testing in chess is new to those outside the sport who feel that performance enhancers are only for disciplines where speed, strength and stamina play a big role.\nA more skill-oriented sport like chess has dope testing at the highest level and evidence of this was available at the Art and Exhibition Hall here on Tuesday.\nAfter Viswanathan Anand tamed Vladimir Kramnik for a third time in six games, the players were taken for dope testing. Indications were that two of the ‘seconds’ from both camps were also tested.\nAs a result, instead of the customary joint press conference, the players came by turns to answer questions from the media. Kramnik was first and Anand followed much later.\nPointless\nWhen asked about the possibility of performance-enhancing drugs for chess players, Anand said, “It is completely pointless, of course.”\nGiving an analogy, Anand said, “I mean, in cycling, if you could add a little piece of metal (to your bike) that could boost your performance by 20 times, they would not test you for drugs. They would make sure that the bike did not have that piece of metal.\n“In chess, when you have computers and use them for preparation, taking time off to figure out what medicines to take is itself ridiculous. I understand that in order to be an Olympic sport, you have this (testing).”\nHuge benefits\nExpressing his desire to be part of the Olympic Games, Anand said, “At some point, it should be nice. That will bring huge benefits to chess in every country. Being part of the Olympic movement automatically brings some privileges.”\nPrinter friendly page\nSend this article to Friends by E-Mail\nSport", "url": "http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/23/stories/2008102356311900.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081026124726/http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/23/stories/2008102356311900.htm" }, { "language": "de", "title": "„Schach ist kein Sport“", "text": "Artikel-Services\nGroßmeister Hübner\n„Schach ist kein Sport“\nVon Robert Hübner\n23. Oktober 2008 Am 14. Oktober hat der zurzeit laufende Weltmeisterschaftskampf im Schach zwischen Anand und dem Herausforderer Kramnik begonnen. Er wird in der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bonner „Museumsmeile“ ausgetragen. Es ist das erste Mal, dass man ein Museumsgebäude für den Rahmen einer solchen Veranstaltung hält. Im Museum werden Gegenstände aus der Vergangenheit aufbewahrt, die man für erhaltenswert erachtet. Gehört der Zweikampf um die Weltmeisterschaft im Schach zu diesen Dingen?\nZweikämpfe zwischen den anerkannt stärksten Schachspielern der Zeit gibt es seit Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Aber zunächst schmückte man sie nicht mit der Bezeichnung „Weltmeisterschaft“. Der Titel „Weltmeister“ wurde von Wilhelm Steinitz (1836–1900) eingeführt, der sich jahrzehntelang als der stärkste aller lebenden Schachmeister behaupten konnte. Er erblickte in Prag das Licht der Welt, lebte später lange in England und ließ sich schließlich in den Vereinigten Staaten nieder. Es wird niemanden verblüffen, dass ihm der Gedanke, diesem Wort offizielle Kraft zu verleihen, gerade im Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten kam.\nChaos ersetzte die klaren Regeln\nDer Titel war damals Privatbesitz; man konnte den Weltmeister nur vom Thron stoßen, indem man ihn zu einem Wettkampf herausforderte und ihn besiegte. Er verwaltete den Titel nach Belieben und konnte dem Herausforderer alle Wettkampfbedingungen vorschreiben; nur der Druck der öffentlichen Meinung setzte seiner Willkür Schranken. Dies empfand man als unbefriedigend; daher übernahm der 1924 gegründete Weltschachbund nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Organisation der Weltmeisterschaft.\nDer Herausforderer wurde in einem fest geregelten, klar durchschaubaren Qualifikationszyklus ermittelt; alle drei Jahre fand ein Titelkampf statt, der über 24 Partien ging. Dieses bewährte System blieb mit kleinen Änderungen und gelegentlichen Abweichungen bis Mitte der neunziger Jahre in Kraft. Danach ersetzte der Weltschachbund die klaren Regelungen durch ein Chaos. Die Qualifikationsstrukturen wurden zerschlagen, und es wurde mit stets anderen Formen zur Ermittlung des Weltmeisters Versuche angestellt.\nVerfahren für geringe Aufmerksamkeitsspanne\nBesonders neuartig und ungewöhnlich war folgendes Verfahren. Ein vielen Spielern zugängliches Turnier wurde ausgeschrieben, in dem nach einem Ausscheidungsverfahren in ganz kurzen Zweikämpfen auf einen Gewinner hingearbeitet wurde; wer schließlich übrigblieb, durfte sich Weltmeister nennen. Viele Spitzenspieler meinten, dass diese Regelung dem Paarungszufall und einzelnen zufälligen Ausrutschern zu viel Gewicht verleihe, und hielten sich von diesen Veranstaltungen fern.\nDie Namen der Sieger haben im Gedächtnis derjenigen, die sich für Schachgeschichte interessieren, keine tiefen Wurzeln schlagen können, während früher die Person des Weltmeisters stets über längere Zeit allgemeine Bekanntheit genoss und besondere Beachtung fand.\nGeschichte ist nur als Ordnung verständlich\nVielleicht ist diese Entwicklung kennzeichnend für eine Zeit, in der das Gedächtnis und die Aufmerksamkeitsspanne der Menschen besonders kurz geworden sind, in der jedes Bild in Blitzesschnelle von einem anderen verdrängt, keiner Erscheinung einige Dauer gewährt wird. Es ist ja keineswegs nötig, dass jeder einen festen Begriff davon hat, wer nun gerade Schachweltmeister ist.\nDennoch sucht der Weltschachbund jetzt wieder an die Tradition der Zweikämpfe anzuknüpfen. Es fehlt jedoch an klaren Qualifikationsstrukturen zur Ermittlung des Herausforderers. Wenn auch Kramnik sicher ein würdiger Gegner für den Weltmeister ist, so weiß doch niemand genau, wieso eigentlich er und nicht ein anderer der ungefähr ebenbürtigen Spitzenspieler an diese Stelle gerückt ist.\nDer Versuch des Weltschachbundes kann nicht glücken. Geschichte ist nur als Ordnung verständlich; Geschichtsbetrachtung setzt Ordnungsbewusstsein voraus. Daran fehlt es in den Kreisen, die für die Organisation des Schachbetriebs zuständig sind; daher gehören langwierige Zweikämpfe um die Weltmeisterschaft in eine vergangene Zeit. Die Veranstaltung ist also anscheinend im Museum gut aufgehoben.\nDas Schachbrett ist der Mittelpunkt\nDie Partien werden in einem kleinen Theatersaal gespielt, der zur Einrichtung des Ausstellungsgeländes gehört. Den eintretenden Besucher empfängt stimmungsvoller Dämmer. Niederwärts steigende Sitzreihen laufen auf eine Bühne am Grunde zu, auf der die beiden Spieler einander gegenübersitzen.\nSie sind in gleißendes Licht getaucht; sie erscheinen winzig, in unwirkliche Ferne gerückt, so als hielte man sein Opernglas umgekehrt vor die Augen. Über ihren Köpfen beherrscht ein riesiges elektronisches Schaubrett die Wand. Auf ihm ist in großer Übersichtlichkeit dargestellt, wie es steht, wer am Zuge ist, wie viel Bedenkzeit jeder der beiden Spieler verbraucht hat und welche Züge bisher ausgeführt worden sind. Das Geschehen auf dem Schachbrett ist in den Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit gerückt.\nNicht jede Art von Aufmerksamkeit ist werthaltig\nBei dem letzten Weltspitzenturnier, das in Bilbao stattfand, verfuhr man anders. Man stellte die Spieler in einem Glaskasten auf dem am stärksten belebten Platz der Stadt zur Schau. Nicht die Züge auf dem Schachbrett wurden als das Wichtigste erachtet, sondern die Gesichtszüge der Kämpfenden. Die Verzerrungen und Verrenkungen, welche die mit dem Spielen verbundene Gedanken- und Gefühlsarbeit hervorruft, sollten den Neugierigen so weit wie möglich zur Betrachtung bloßgelegt werden. Die Begründung, welche für diese Vorgehensweise vorgebracht wird, ist diese: Man wolle das Spiel auch Regelunkundigen nahebringen. Es bleibt aber zu überlegen, ob zu diesem Zwecke alle Mittel recht sind.\nNachdem die altrömischen Gladiatorenkämpfe ihres sakralen Charakters entkleidet waren, dienten sie der Unterhaltung der Volksmengen, die sich an den Qualen der Opfer ergötzen konnten. In vielen Kulturkreisen haben zu verschiedenen Zeiten öffentliche Züchtigung und Hinrichtung von Verurteilten ähnliche Gefühlsschichten angesprochen. Sicher ist es um einiges harmloser, wenn man die Qualen der schaffenden Schachspieler der gaffenden Menge schmackhaft machen will; erstrebenswert ist es dennoch nicht. Das Ziel, auf jede mögliche Art Aufmerksamkeit zu erregen, ist zweifelhafter Natur, denn nicht jede Art von Aufmerksamkeit ist werthaltig.\nSchach gehört in den etwas unbestimmten Bereich der Kulturgüter\nBei allen Sportarten ist der körperliche Einsatz wesentlicher Bestandteil der sportlichen Tätigkeit. Es mag hier anregend sein, den Bewegungen des Körpers zu folgen. Schach ist jedoch kein Sport. Das erhellt bereits daraus, dass viele glänzende Partien von schwerkranken Spielern geschaffen worden sind. Das Wesentliche des Schachspielens besteht im Erkennen von abstrakten Kräfteverhältnissen und im Auffinden von geeigneten Lösungen zu ihrer Verwaltung. Dazu braucht man einen einsatzfähigen Kopf; verhältnismäßig nebensächlich ist jedoch die Aufgabe des Gehirns, Befehle zur Ausführung von Tätigkeiten möglichst schnell an die Gliedmaßen zu übermitteln, welche bei jedem Sport eine Hauptrolle spielt.\nEs sind also die Anstrengungen verfehlt, dem Schach einen Platz im Interessenbereich derjenigen sichern zu wollen, welche nur schaulustig sind. Das Spiel hat dem nichts zu bieten, der nicht über elementare Regelkenntnisse verfügt. Das Schach kann so wenig einen bleibenden Platz im Kreise der echten Sportarten erwerben wie ein Entlein dauernde Aufnahme in einer Schwanenfamilie. Es gehört in den etwas unbestimmten Bereich der Kulturgüter. Sein Wert und seine Bedeutung bestehen unter anderem darin, dass es die Möglichkeit gewährt, inhaltlichen Fragen ohne aufgeregtes Hetzen und ohne Eigenbelang in fröhlichem Forschen nachzuspüren.\nEs ist sehr erfreulich, dass dieser Gesichtspunkt wieder einmal ins öffentliche Bewusstsein gerückt wurde, indem die Austragung der Weltmeisterschaft ins Museum gelegt und das Hauptaugenmerk auf die Vermittlung des Geschehens auf dem Schachbrett gerichtet wurde, nicht auf die Besprechung der Geschehnisse neben dem Brett. Es ist zu wünschen, dass dieser Ansatz Schule macht.\nDer Autor ist promovierter Papyrologe und Schachgroßmeister. Er spielte von 1970 bis 1990 viermal bei Kandidaten-Turnieren um die Schach-Weltmeisterschaft und gilt als bester deutscher Schachspieler seit Emanuel Lasker. Seine beste historische Elo-Zahl betrug 2732 (April 1973), 1980 lag er auf Platz 3 der Weltrangliste.\nText: F.A.Z.\nBildmaterial: picture-alliance / dpa, REUTERS", "url": "http://www.faz.net/s/RubF93BAF252378450DADCE25B27265B3C6/Doc~E36CBB1ACEB83471DB54AF458C0B3F99D~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081026091636/http://www.faz.net/s/RubF93BAF252378450DADCE25B27265B3C6/Doc~E36CBB1ACEB83471DB54AF458C0B3F99D~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html" } ]

[ "Themenportal Politik", "Themenportal Griechenland", "Politik in Griechenland", "Euro" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Griechische Übergangsregierung vereidigt", "text": "Griechische Übergangsregierung vereidigt\nVor Neuwahlen am 17. Juni\nGriechische Übergangsregierung vereidigt\nEine Übergangsregierung unter dem höchsten Richter des Verwaltungsgerichtshofes, Panagiotis Pikramenos, wird Griechenland bis zu den Neuwahlen führen, die am 17. Juni stattfinden sollen. Sein neues Kabinett zählt 16 Minister, die am Morgen ihren Amtseid geleistet haben.\nDas wichtige Ressort der Finanzen übernimmt der Wirtschaftsexperte Georgios Zannias, ein hoher Beamter aus dem Finanzministerium. Er hat eng mit allen bisherigen Finanzministern zusammengearbeitet und Griechenland in den vergangenen Jahren bei allen wichtigen Treffen in der EU vertreten. Das Außenministerium übernimmt der 83-jährige Diplomat Petros Molyviatis, der dieses Amt bereits von 2004 bis 2006 inne hatte. Neuer Verteidigungsminister wird der ehemalige Generalstabschef Frangos Frangoulis.\nInzwischen ist das am 6. Mai gewählte Parlament zu seiner ersten Sitzung zusammengekkommen. Es bestimmt einen neuen Präsidenten des Abgeordnetenhauses, der das Parlament in den kommenden Tagen wieder auflösen wird, um den Weg für Neuwahlen freizumachen. Die Parteien haben sich geeinigt, dass alle 300 Abgeordneten für diese kurze Amtszeit komplett auf Abgeordnetendiäten verzichten.\nViel Macht hat Pikramenos laut Verfassung bis dahin nicht: Der Chef der Übergangsregierung soll vor allem für die einwandfreie Durchführung der Wahlen sorgen, nur in Notfällen kann er den Staatsapparat mobilisieren. Neue Gesetze können während seiner Regierungszeit nicht verabschiedet werden. \"Ich hoffe, nach mir kommen bessere Zeiten für unser Land\", sagte Pikramenos.\nEr wolle seinem Namen alle Ehre machen und der letzte Regierungschef einer bitteren Ära für sein Land sein - Pikrammenos bedeutet auf Griechisch \"bitter\".\nAudio: Übergangsregierung tritt einmonatige Amtszeit an Hinweis: Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript um diese Audiodatei abzuspielen. Alternativ können Sie das Audio herunterladen. Thomas Bormann, ARD-Hörfunkstudio Istanbul 17.05.2012 12:16 | 2'18 Download der Audiodatei: mp3-Format Audio:\n64kbps, Mono Ogg Vorbis Audio:\n64kbps, Mono Technische Details einblenden Wir bieten dieses Audio in folgenden Formaten zum Download an:\nKeine Einigung auf Regierung\nDie Versuche des Staatspräsidenten, eine stabile Regierung zu bilden, waren zuvor endgültig gescheitert. Die Gegner des bisherigen Sparkurses hatten sich beharrlich geweigert, einer Koalition zur Fortführung der Sparmaßnahmen beizutreten. Der Sparkurs ist aber die geforderte Gegenleistung der Rettungspakete der Euro-Partner und des Internationalen Währungsfonds für das hoch verschuldete Land. Ohne diese Unterstützung droht Griechenland bereits im Juni der Staatsbankrott.\nSorge der Partner wächst\nUnter den europäischen Partnern und an den Finanzmärkten wachsen die Befürchtungen, dass bei den Neuwahlen die Kritiker und Gegner des Sparkurses die Oberhand gewinnen. Dies könnte auch den Austritt Griechenlands aus der Eurozone zur Folge habe. Dagegen gehen viele Griechen weiter davon aus, dass das Land seine Vereinbarungen aufkündigen und trotzdem im Währungsraum bleiben kann. Das verspricht insbesondere das radikale Linksbündnis Syriza, das nach seinem Überraschungserfolg bei den Wahlen Anfang des Monats in Meinungsumfragen vorne liegt.\nDer Syriza-Vorsitzende, Alexis Tsipras, griff die Europäische Union und Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel derweil scharf an. \"Wenn die Krankheit des Sparens Griechenland zerstört, wird sie sich auf ganz Europa ausbreiten\", sagte er der BBC. Die Banken verdienten Geld zulasten der Bürger. \"Daher müssen die europäische Führung und besonders Frau Merkel aufhören, mit dem Leben der Menschen Poker zu spielen\", sagte Tsipras.\nDie EU-Kommission forderte wie zuvor die Eurogruppe den Verbleib Griechenlands in der Eurozone. \"Griechenland ist ein Teil unserer Familie\", sagte EU-Kommissionspräsident José Manuel Barroso. Die Entscheidung, in der Eurozone zu bleiben, müsse jedoch auch von der griechischen Bevölkerung selbst kommen, sagte Barroso mit Blick auf die Neuwahlen. Auch der Präsident der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB), Mario Draghi, wünscht sich den Verbleib Griechenlands in der Eurozone. Es sei die \"starke Präferenz\" der EZB, dass Griechenland Mitglied der Eurozone bleibe, sagte er.\nSparer heben große Summen ab\nDie Finanzkrise und der drohende Austritt des Landes aus der Eurozone versetzen offenbar auch die Bürger des Landes zunehmend in Angst. Viele Sparer hoben Geld bei den Banken ab. Allein am Montag sollen es bis zu 800 Millionen Euro gewesen sein. Das geht aus Protokollen der Verhandlungen hervor, die Präsident Papoulias mit den Vorsitzenden der Parteien im Zuge der Suche nach einer neuen Regierung geführt hatte.\n[Bildunterschrift: Griechenlands Notenbank-Chef Provopoulos berichtete von massiven Abhebungen bei den Banken des Landes. ]\nPapoulias berief sich dabei auf Aussagen des Notenbank-Chefs Giorgos Provopoulos. Dieser habe bis zum Montagnachmittag Geldabflüsse von 700 Millionen Euro registriert. Für den gesamten Montag gehe der Notenbank-Chef \"von Abflüssen in Höhe von rund 800 Millionen Euro aus\", erklärte Papoulias demnach. \"Herr Provopoulos sagte mir, es gebe keine Panik, aber es gebe eine große Angst, die sich zu einer Panik entwickeln könne.\" Aus zwei griechischen Banken verlautete, die Abflüsse am Dienstag hätten in etwa dasselbe Niveau wie am Montag erreicht.\nDie Griechen ziehen bereits seit Monaten kontinuierlich Geld aus den Kreditinstituten ab. Nach Notenbank-Daten summierten sich die Bankeinlagen von Firmen und Verbrauchern Ende März auf 165 Milliarden Euro. Das sind 72 Milliarden Euro weniger als im Januar 2010. Schlangen vor den Bankschaltern in Athen waren bislang aber nicht zu sehen. Auch in dieser Woche sei die Lage in den Filialen ruhig, berichtete ARD-Korrespondent Peter Dalheimer. Von Panik sei nichts zu spüren, wohl aber von Sorgen. Dalheimer verwies zudem darauf, dass auch die Einkommensverluste infolge der Krise dazu führen, dass viele Griechen auf Teile ihrer Ersparnisse aufbrauchen müssen, um ihren Lebensunterhalt zu finanzieren.\nWeitere Unterstützung für griechische Banken\nZur Unterstützung der griechischen Banken seien 18 Milliarden Euro auf ein Sonderkonto der Zentralbank in Athen überwiesen worden, teilte die Regierung laut einem Bericht des staatlichen Fernsehens mit. Diese Geld stamme aus dem zweiten Rettungspaket der Euro-Partner in Höhe von insgesamt 130 Milliarden Euro, das über den Euro-Rettungsschirm EFSF in mehreren Tranchen ausgezahlt werden soll.\nAuch ein Sprecher der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) stellte den griechischen Banken weitere Unterstützung in Aussicht. Er widersprach damit einem Bericht der niederländischen Zeitung \"Het Financieele Dagblad\". Darin hieß es, die EZB sei zu der Überzeugung gekommen, dass die Institute in einem zu schlechten Zustand seien, um weiterhin Geld der EZB zu bekommen.\nStand: 17.05.2012 11:31 Uhr", "url": "http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/griechenland2288.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120517183034/http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/griechenland2288.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Griechenlands höchster Richter soll Interimsregierung leiten", "text": "Staatskrise Griechenlands höchster Richter soll Interimsregierung leiten\nNach der gescheiterten Regierungsbildung werden die Griechen am 17. Juni erneut wählen. Die Regierung soll der höchste Richter des Verwaltungsgerichtshofes führen.\n© Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/GettyImages\nIn Griechenland wird es am 17. Juni Neuwahlen geben. Das beschlossen der griechische Staatspräsident Karolos Papoulias und die Vorsitzenden der wichtigsten griechischen Parteien am Mittwoch, wie der Sprecher der Präsidentschaft, Konstantinos Bitsios, bestätigte. Die Übergangsregierung soll nach Informationen des Staatsfernsehens der höchste Richter des griechischen Verwaltungsgerichtshofes, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, führen.\nViel Macht hat Pikrammenos laut Verfassung bis zur Neuwahl am 17. Juni nicht: Der Übergangs-Regierungschef soll vor allem für die einwandfreie Durchführung der Wahlen sorgen, nur in Notfällen kann er den Staatsapparat mobilisieren. Neue Gesetze können nicht verabschiedet werden.\nAnzeige\nPikrammenos wurde 1945 in Athen geboren und hat die Deutsche Schule in der griechischen Hauptstadt besucht. Danach studierte er Jura in Athen und arbeitete in London. Später setzte er sein Studium in Paris fort, er gilt als Experte im Seefahrtsrecht. Seit 1976 arbeitet Pikrammenos im griechischen Verwaltungsgerichtshof, dem er seit 2009 auch vorsitzt.\nErneute Berufung von Papademos gescheitert\nDer Vorschlag von Papoulias, erneut den noch amtierenden Finanzexperten Lucas Papademos zu berufen, scheiterte am Widerstand der kleineren Parteien. Papoulias traf sich am Mittwochmittag mit den Vorsitzenden der wichtigsten Parteien in Athen, um das weitere Vorgehen festzulegen.\nDie Versuche des Staatspräsidenten, doch noch eine stabile Regierung zu bilden, waren am Dienstag gescheitert. Formell muss nun an diesem Donnerstag das am 6. Mai gewählte Parlament zusammenkommen. Es wird nach der Vereidigung der Abgeordneten aber wahrscheinlich bereits am Freitag oder Samstag wieder aufgelöst.\nDie zweite Parlamentswahl innerhalb weniger Wochen dürfte darüber entscheiden, ob Griechenland in der Eurozone bleibt. Falls radikale Parteien, die das Sparpaket der bisherigen Regierung ablehnen, bei der Neuwahl weiter zulegen, droht dem Land ein Stopp der internationalen Hilfen und damit auch der Staatsbankrott.\n\"Griechen müssen Entscheidung treffen\"\nAus der Abstimmung am 6. Mai war die linksradikale Syriza von Alexis Tsipras als zweitstärkste Partei hervorgegangen. Er beharrt darauf, das Sparprogramm zu kippen. Staatspräsident Papoulias hatte gewarnt, der Juni könne zu einem \"Monat der Tragödie\" werden. Ohne internationale Hilfen ist das Land Ende Juni pleite.\nBundesfinanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) schloss Neuverhandlungen mit Griechenland über das europäische Hilfspaket aus. \"Es wird durch Wiederholung nicht besser\", sagte der CDU-Politiker. Wenn das Land in der Eurozone bleiben wolle, müsse in Athen eine handlungsfähige Regierung sitzen, die den eingeschlagenen Weg mitgehe. \"Jetzt muss Griechenland selber die Entscheidung treffen.\"\nEU-Kommissionspräsident José Manuel Barroso bekräftigte, dass Griechenland in der Eurozone bleiben solle. \"Griechenland ist ein Teil unserer Familie\", sagte er. Die Entscheidung zum Verbleib im gemeinsamen Währungsraum müsse jedoch auch von der griechischen Bevölkerung selbst kommen.", "url": "http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2012-05/griechenland-neuwahl-juni", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120519054248/http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2012-05/griechenland-neuwahl-juni" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Neuwahlen: Griechen entscheiden am 17. Juni über den Euro", "text": "Unter den europäischen Partnern und den internationalen Geldgebern wachsen die Befürchtungen, dass bei der Wahl am 17. Juni die Sparkurskritiker in Athen die Oberhand gewinnen und das Land in die Staatspleite und zum Euro-Austritt führen.\nIn Griechenland sehen sich die Kritiker der Sparauflagen von EU, EZB und IWF bestätigt durch die lauter werdenden Proteste in anderen Euro-Ländern gegen die dortige Kürzungspolitik. Rückenwind erhalten diese durch die Wahl des Sozialisten François Hollande zum neuen Präsidenten Frankreichs, der sich für mehr Wachstumsimpulse stark macht.\nDie sozialdemokratische Pasok und die konservative Neue Demokratie, die als einzige Parteien das mit Europäischer Union und Internationalem Währungsfonds ausgehandelte Sparprogramm mittragen, hatten bei der Wahl am 6. Mai die absolute Mehrheit knapp verfehlt. Alle anderen im Parlament vertretenen Parteien lehnen das Programm ab.\nNach Meinungsumfragen kann das radikale Linksbündnis Syriza damit rechnen, stärkste Kraft im Parlament zu werden. Ihm winken als Wahlsieger dadurch automatisch 50 zusätzliche Sitze in der Volksvertretung. Syriza will die Sparzusagen an die internationalen Geldgeber nicht einhalten, da sie aus Sicht der Partei der heimischen Wirtschaft den Garaus machen. \"Die Zeit ist gekommen, eine Linksregierung mit breiter Unterstützung zu bilden und der Politik ein Ende zu bereiten, die dieses Land zerstört\", sagte Syriza-Chef Alexis Tsipras. Griechenland befindet sich seit Jahren in der Rezession. Im ersten Quartal schrumpfte die Wirtschaft im Jahresvergleich um 6,2 Prozent. Viele Griechen sehen schwarz für die Zukunft.", "url": "http://www.ftd.de/politik/europa/:neuwahlen-griechen-entscheiden-am-17-juni-ueber-den-euro/70037968.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120519020122/http://www.ftd.de/politik/europa/:neuwahlen-griechen-entscheiden-am-17-juni-ueber-den-euro/70037968.html" } ]

[ "Themenportal Recht", "Themenportal Deutschland", "Themenportal Nordrhein-Westfalen", "Recht in Deutschland", "Recht in Nordrhein-Westfalen", "Straftat allg.", "Unerlaubter Waffenbesitz", "Amoklauf", "Polizeieinsatz", "Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule Emsdetten", "Veröffentlicht" ]

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Dieses Gesetz, das seit dem 1.6.2009 in Kraft ist, schreibt uns unter anderem vor, unsere Inhalte nur noch zeitlich begrenzt anzubieten und sie danach ganz aus dem Netz zu nehmen. In diesen Fällen erhalten Sie also eine Fehlerseite.\nWenn Sie genauer wissen wollen, warum Sie diese Fehlerseite statt des gewünschten Inhalts sehen, dann schreiben Sie uns bitte eine Mail an warumweg@wdr.de mit einer möglichst konkreten Information darüber, welche Seite oder welchen Inhalt Sie gesucht haben.", "url": "http://www.wdr.de/themen/homepages/homepage.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210411233448/https://www1.wdr.de/wdr/404/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Amokläufer an Realschule in Emsdetten", "text": "Überfall auf Schule: Sprengstoffgürtel-Amokläufer tot\nDer Amoklauf in einer Realschule in Emsdetten war offenbar die Tat eines Waffennarrs und Einzelgängers. Der frühere Schüler, der am Montag mindestens 27 Personen verletzte und sich dann selbst tötete, habe zwei Internetseiten mit einer Art Abschiedsbrief hinterlassen, sagte der Münsteraner Staatsanwalt Wolfgang Schweer auf einer Pressekonferenz. Der 18 Jahre alte Täter habe sich zweifelsfrei selbst getötet - ob durch Schüsse oder Sprengstoff - sei noch unklar. Die Polizei habe nach ersten Erkenntnissen aber keine Schüsse abgegeben.\nDer maskierte Schütze war mit Gewehren und einem Messer bewaffnet. Am Körper trug er Sprengfallen. Da diese zunächst entschärft werden müssten, lag die Leiche auch am Nachmittag noch im Schulgebäude. Auch werde noch untersucht, ob sich im Täterfahrzeug vor der Schule Sprengstoff befinde. Überdies hatte der 18-Jährige mehrere Rauchgasbomben der Bundeswehr in einem Flur gezündet. Als Motiv für die Tat habe er im Internet «allgemeinen Lebensfrust» angeführt.\nAuch im Elternhaus Sprengstoff entdeckt\nDer Täter war nach ersten Erkenntnissen gegen 9.30 Uhr mit zwei abgesägten Langwaffen und einem Messer in die Schule eingedrungen und hatte wahllos um sich geschossen. Dabei habe er eine schwarze Sturmhaube und schwarze Handschuhe getragen.\nBei seinem Amoklauf wurden mindestens 27 Personen verletzt, fünf Personen erlitten Schussverletzungen. Darunter seien der Hausmeister und vier Schüler zwischen 12 und 16 Jahren. Zwar sei keiner der Verletzten in Lebensgefahr. «Allerdings sind mindestens zwei Schüler sehr schwer verletzt», sagte Polizeiführer Hans Volkmann.\nNach seinen Worten wurden 16 Polizeibeamte von Rauchgasbomben verletzt, die der Täter in der Schule gezündet hatte. Das Rauchgas stamme aus Beständen der Bundeswehr. Wegen der starken Rauchentwicklung in der Schule waren die Ermittler zunächst von einem großen Feuer ausgegangen.\nNach dem Tod des Amokläufers wurde auch in der Garage seines Elternhauses Sprengstoff entdeckt . Angefordert wurden Spezialkräfte der Polizei, um die Sprengkörper unschädlich zu machen. Als der Vater des 18-Jährigen von der Tat erfuhr, brach er zusammen und wurde auf eine Intensivstation gebracht. Wie die Polizei weiter mitteilte, habe auch die Mutter einen schweren Schock erlitten. Der Täter hat zwei jüngere Geschwister.\nNähe zum Satanskult\nEine Begegnung zwischen dem Täter und einem Schüler vor Tat sowie sein Bekennerbrief im Internet ließ die Ermittler auf die Identität des Täters schließen. «Er hat im Internet sehr martialisch posiert», sagte Oberstaatsanwalt Schweer. Er gehe derzeit nicht von einem staatsschutzrelevanten Hintergrund aus.\nDer 18-Jährige war nach ersten Erkenntnissen ein Einzeltäter, sagte Schweer weiter. Bereits vor dem Amoklauf sei er auffällig geworden - so lief gegen ihn ein Verfahren wegen des Verstoßes gegen das Waffengesetz, weil er mit einer scharfen Waffen angetroffen worden sei. Die Hauptverhandlung vor dem Jugendgericht in Rheine deswegen hätte an diesem Dienstag stattfinden sollen. Mitschüler und Lehrer bescheinigen dem ehemaligen Schüler eine Nähe zum Satanskult.\n\"Ich verabscheue Menschen\"\nBei dem Überfall auf die Realschule handelt es sich offensichtlich um einen Racheakt. Ein Abschiedsbrief des Amokläufers im Internet ist nach ersten Erkenntnissen der Polizei authentisch. «Das einzigste, was ich intensiv in der Schule beigebracht bekommen habe, war, dass ich ein Verlierer bin», heißt es in dem Text, in dem auch die Geschwister-Scholl-Schule mit der Abkürzung GSS genannt wird. Das Einzige, was ihm in der Schule beigebracht worden sei, sei, dass man Geld und die neusten Klamotten haben müsse, um beachtet zu werden. «Ich hasse euch und eure Art! Ihr müsst alle Sterben», hieß es weiter.\n«Ich habe mir Rache geschworen! Diese Rache wird so brutal und rücksichtlos ausgeführt werden, dass euch das Blut in den Adern gefriert. Bevor ich gehe, werde ich euch einen Denkzettel verpassen, damit mich nie wieder ein Mensch vergisst!», hieß es auf der inzwischen gesperrten Seite, die nach Angaben von Mitschülern dem Täter gehörte.\nZwar hätten die meisten Schüler, die ihn gedemütigt hätten, die Realschule bereits verlassen, erklärte der mutmaßliche Täter. Doch keiner auf der Schule sei unschuldig. Denn in den Köpfen der nachrückenden Jahrgänge laufe das gleiche Programm ab. «Ich bin der Virus der diese Programme zerstören will, es ist völlig irrelewand wo ich da anfange.» Außerdem werde sich ein Großteil der Rache auf das Lehrpersonal richten. «Denn das sind die Menschen die gegen meinen willen in mein Leben eingegriffen haben, und geholfen haben mich dahin zu stellen, wo ich jetzt stehe; auf dem Schlachtfeld!» Mit seiner Erklärung auf dem Internet habe er verhindern wollen, dass seine Gedanken nicht veröffentlicht würden.\n«Ich verabscheue Menschen», heißt es auf der Internetseite. Dort posiert der junge Mann auf Fotos mit Waffen, darunter auch eine Maschinenpistole. Der Brief schließt mit den Worten: «Ich bin weg...».\n\"Lehrer werden noch was erleben\"\nNach Angaben von Schülern ist der 18-Jährige in Emsdetten für seine Aggressivität bekannt gewesen. «Er war ein absoluter Einzelgänger», erzählte eine 17-Jährige und fügt hinzu: «Sein Hobby waren Waffen.» Der junge Mann sei immer in einem schwarzen Mantel mit einer schwarzen Kapuze herumgelaufen.\nEine 15-jährige berichtete, die Tat habe er möglicherweise schon lange geplant: «Ich hab mit ihm am 9. Juni die Abschlussfeier gefeiert, und da hat er gesagt: 'Die Lehrer werden schon noch was erleben.'» In der Abschlusszeitung habe er als Berufsperspektive die Bundeswehr angegeben. Der Amokläufer sei leidenschaftlicher Spieler des oft als gewaltverherrlichend kritisierten Computerspiels «Counterstrike» gewesen und habe für das Spiel den Grundriss der Schule nachgebaut. (N24.de, AP, dpa)", "url": "http://www.n24.de/news_stories/article.php?articleId=84029&teaserId=84413", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070525214239/http://www.n24.de/news_stories/article.php?articleId=84029&teaserId=84413" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Amoklauf in der Schule", "text": "ZDFmediathek\nWarum diese Seite?\nSie haben die ZDFmediathek durch Eingabe der Adresse mediathek.zdf.de in die Browser-Adresszeile aufgerufen.\nDie ZDFmediathek ist als Pop-up-Fenster konzipiert. Diese Seite dient zum Aufruf des ZDFmediathek Pop-up-Fensters, um das Layout der ZDFmediathek optimal darzustellen.", "url": "http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/17/0,4070,4077777-6-wm_1500,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071215091728/http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/Amoklauf_in_der_Schule/29810" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Emsdettener Amoklauf: Tat war lange geplant", "text": "Panorama Sie befinden sich hier: WDR.de Panorama ...\nEmsdetten: Amoklauf war lange geplant Ex-Schüler hatte vier Gewehre und 13 Sprengkörper dabei Der Amokläufer von Emsdetten soll seine Tat schon vor längerer Zeit im Internet angekündigt haben. Der 18-Jährige war am Montagmorgen (20.11.06) in seine ehemalige Realschule gestürmt und hatte fünf Menschen durch Schüsse verletzt, bevor er sich selbst tötete. Am Dienstag soll seine Leiche obduziert werden.\nSpezialeinsatzkräfte an der Geschwister-Scholl-Schule\nAuf einer Pressekonferenz von Staatsanwaltschaft und Polizei teilten die Ermittler am Montagnachmittag mit, dass der Amokläufer sich selbst getötet habe. Als Spezialeinsatzkräfte die Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule stürmten, sei der Täter bereits tot gewesen. Weil an seinem Körper drei Rohrbomben befestigt waren, konnte die Leiche erst nach Stunden geborgen werden. Fünf Sprengkörper habe man in einem Rucksack in der Nähe der Leiche gefunden, vier weitere im Auto des Täters, teilte Oberstaatsanwalt Wolfgang Schweer am Montagabend mit. Eine der Rohrbomben sei in der Nähe des Täters im zweiten Obergeschoss der Realschule explodiert. Die Leiche des jungen Mannes wird am Dienstag obduziert.\nTexte, Audios, Videos Alle Beiträge zum Amoklauf in Emsdetten\nOffenbar hatte der an seiner Schule als Sonderling bekannte junge Mann seine Tat lange geplant und auch im Internet angekündigt. Zudem soll er ein Anhänger Gewalt darstellender Computerspiele gewesen sein. Das hat unter Politikern eine Debatte ausgelöst: Brandenburgs Innenminister Jörg Schönbohm (CDU) forderte, konsequent gegen Spiele vorzugehen, die Gewalt verherrlichen. Die Grünen dagegen sagten, jetzt müsse man mehr darüber reden, Medienkompetenz und eine sinnvolle Computernutzung zu fördern.\nAbschiedbrief: \"Ihr habt Euch über mich lustig gemacht\"\nBesorgte Eltern vor der Schule\nBei seinem Überfall habe der 18-Jährige vier Gewehre bei sich getragen. Gegen den jungen Mann lief nach Angaben der Staatsanwaltschaft ein Verfahren wegen unerlaubten Waffenbesitzes. Für Dienstag hatte ihn deshalb das Jugendgericht Rheine vorgeladen.\nDer stets in schwarz gekleidete Ex-Schüler brachte auf mehreren Internetseiten seinen Hass gegenüber der Schule zum Ausdruck. Den Lehrern warf er vor, in sein Leben eingegriffen und ihn auf einem \"Schlachtfeld\" zurückgelassen zu haben. Außerdem kündigte er Vergeltung an: \"Ich will Rache\" schrieb er und: \"Ihr müsst alle sterben\". Den ebenfalls gefundenen Abschiedsbrief hält Staatsanwalt Schweer für authentisch. Darin heißt es: \"Ihr habt Euch über mich lustig gemacht, dasselbe habe ich nun mit euch getan, ich hatte nur einen ganz anderen Humor.\" Der Brief schließt mit den Worten: \"Ich bin weg...\"\nKein Opfer in Lebensgefahr\nNach Darstellung der Polizei war der Täter am Montagmorgen gegen 9.30 Uhr auf das Gelände der Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule in Emsdetten eingedrungen, habe eine Waffe gezogen und auf mehrere Personen geschossen. Drei Jungen, ein Mädchen und ein Hausmeister hätten teils schwere Schussverletzungen erlitten, schwebten aber nicht in Lebensgefahr. 16 Polizeibeamte wurden von Rauchgasbomben verletzt, die der Täter an mehreren Stellen in der Schule gezündet hatte. Insgesamt mussten 37 Menschen behandelt werden, die meisten von ihnen wegen Schock oder Rauchvergiftungen. Auch die Eltern des Täters wurden wegen Schockzuständen in ein Krankenhaus eingeliefert.\nFür die Betroffenen hat die Stadt Emsdetten eine Hotline eingerichtet:\n02551/69 28 88\n0800/30 40 30 3\nStand: 21.11.2006, 06:48 Uhr", "url": "http://www.wdr.de/themen/panorama/21/schule_emsdetten/index.jhtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20061206131640/http://www.wdr.de/themen/panorama/21/schule_emsdetten/index.jhtml" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Nach Amoklauf: Leiche", "text": "\"Abschluss einer Fehlentwicklung\"\nAmokläufer inszenieren Experten zufolge ihre Gewalttat regelrecht und nehmen dabei den eigenen Tod in Kauf. Die Täter, zumeist Männer, handeln nicht im Affekt. Die Tat ist vielmehr der Abschluss einer oft jahrelangen Fehlentwicklung und unbewältigter psychischer Konflikte. Amokläufer haben meist eine aggressionsgehemmte Persönlichkeit und sind konfliktunfähig, keinesfalls aber geistesgestört. Typisch ist eine allmähliche Entwicklung gewalttätiger Gedanken und Fantasien.\nDie Aggressionen stauen sich über längere Zeit auf. Ereignisse wie Arbeitslosigkeit oder eine unglückliche Liebe sind demnach nicht die Ursache für einen Amoklauf, sondern nur der Auslöser. Den Tätern fehlt häufig eine familiäre und damit auch emotionale Unterstützung. Ihre sozialen Fähigkeiten und die Fähigkeit, Ärger und Stress zu verarbeiten, sind nur gering entwickelt. Negative Ereignisse empfinden sie schnell als persönliche Kränkungen. Häufig treten sie im Alltag scheinbar angepasst und zurückhaltend auf.\nWährend des Amoklaufs sind die Täter laut Psychologen in einem \"Zustand der inneren Leere\", die Steuerung der Impulse ist ausgeschaltet. Häufig endet der Amoklauf mit dem Selbstmord des Täters.", "url": "http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/31/0,3672,4077727,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20061125070626/http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/31/0,3672,4077727,00.html" } ]

[ "United States", "North America", "Politics and conflicts", "Baghdad" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "First Iraq Medal of Honor Recipient Honored at Arlington", "text": "WASHINGTON, April 6, 2005 – At the foot of a hill crowned by trees and dappled by bright sunlight, the family of a certified hero unveiled a gold-lettered memorial headstone April 5 in Arlington National Cemetery.\nA soldier stands watch at the Arlington National Cemetery site of a memorial headstone for Operation Iraqi Freedom Medal of Honor recipient Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith. Smith’s widow and children unveiled the headstone in an April 5 ceremony. Photo by Terri Lukach The day before, the young widow and her two children accepted the hero’s Medal of Honor from the president. Just before they came to the cemetery, they’d seen him enshrined in the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes. Now, the family of Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith -- his widow, Birgit, and their two children, Jessica and David -- unveiled his memorial stone before a small company of family and friends. Smith was killed in a firefight with Saddam Hussein’s forces at Baghdad International Airport on April 4, 2003, while saving the lives of more than 100 fellow soldiers. His Medal of Honor – the nation’s highest award for valor in combat -- is the first awarded for service in Operation Iraqi Freedom and the global war on terror. Soldiers from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, who were part of the mission in which Smith gave his life, also were present at the ceremony. Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston called Smith’s memorial an important reminder to soldiers past and present and to the more than 4 million people who visit Arlington each year that “freedom is not free.” He also called Smith a dedicated soldier who “solidified the very core of our Army.” “On that day, 100 American soldiers witnessed and learned leadership of extraordinary proportions -- leadership that changed and influenced their lives forever,” Preston said. “Those 100 men will in turn lead hundreds of soldiers, who will benefit from the leadership gained from serving with Sergeant 1st Class Smith. That process will continue to be shared across the entire Army from one unit to another.” Preston said that with the permanent memorial at Arlington, Smith has “become a part of the history of our country.” “For as long as our flag stands,” he said, “these 200 hundred acres of sacred ground will cradle our heroes and the memory of Paul’s commitment.” The memorial erected for Smith is one of only six such markers scattered throughout Arlington. Below the hilltop on which the ceremony took place, a sloping sea of weathered white headstones falls away as far as the eye can see. As the group was gathered, the haunting sound of “Taps” could be heard rising up from another service far below. Following Preston’s remarks, Birgit, Jessica and David Smith approached the memorial draped in blue fabric. As the shroud was removed, Smith’s widow knelt, caressed the stone, and wiped away a tear as she kissed the marker. A lone bugler sounded “Taps,” this time for Smith, after Birgit placed a red, white and blue wreath at the site.", "url": "http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2005/20050406_505.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050408185905/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2005/20050406_505.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "President Presents First Medal of Honor for Terror War Gallantry", "text": "WASHINGTON, April 4, 2005 – Two years to the day after his father died saving more than 100 fellow soldiers in the battle for Baghdad’s airport, the young son of an Army noncommissioned officer accepted his father’s Medal of Honor from President Bush at a White House ceremony today. The president presented the nation’s highest award for combat gallantry to 11-year-old David Anthony Smith, son of Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith. Alongside the president and the boy were Smith’s widow, Birgit, and the couple’s 18-year-old daughter, Jessica. This is the first time the Medal of Honor has been awarded for action in Operation Iraqi Freedom and the global war on terror. Smith was part of the 3rd Infantry Division’s buildup for Operation Iraqi Freedom, and among the first wave of soldiers that crossed the Kuwait border into Iraq on March 19, 2003, the first day of the war. He died saving the lives of at least 100 soldiers who were badly outnumbered by enemy forces. In presenting the award, Bush described Smith as “a soldier whose service illustrates the highest ideals of leadership and love of our country.” Bush recalled Smith’s early life and career in the Army and described the battle that took his life. Smith’s mission, as the 3rd Infantry Division moved in to seize what is now known as Baghdad International Airport, was to build a holding area for enemy prisoners of war. “Sergeant Smith was leading about three dozen men,” Bush said, “when they were surprised by about 100 of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard. “With complete disregard for his own life, and under constant enemy fire, Sergeant Smith rallied his men and led a counterattack. Seeing that his wounded men were in danger of being overrun, Sergeant Smith manned a .50-caliber machine gun atop a damaged armored vehicle. “From a completely exposed position, he killed as many as 50 enemy soldiers as he protected his men.” Bush said. “Sergeant Smith’s leadership saved the men in the courtyard, and he prevented an enemy attack on the aid station just up the road.” Bush said Smith continued to fire until he “took a fatal round to the head. His actions in that courtyard saved the lives of more than 100 American soldiers.” Soldiers who served with Smith described him as a stern disciplinarian who demanded much of the men under his command, Bush said. Yet Smith also demonstrated incredible concern, going out of his way to make life easier for his soldiers and their families, he added. In a letter he wrote to his parents from Iraq, but never mailed, Bush said, the sergeant called it a “privilege to be given 25 of the finest Americans we call soldiers to lead into war.” Smith said he was prepared to give “all that I am to ensure that my boys make it home.” In addition to being the global war on terror’s first Medal of Honor recipient, Smith is the first to earn a Medal of Honor flag, authorized by Congress in 2002. “We count ourselves blessed to have soldiers like Sergeant Smith, who put their lives on the line to advance the cause of freedom and protect the American people,” the president said. “Like every one of the men and women in uniform who have served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sergeant Paul Smith was a volunteer. “We thank his family for the father, husband and son and brother who can never be replaced,” Bush continued. “We recall with appreciation the fellow soldiers whose lives he saved and the many more he inspired. And we express our gratitude for a new generation of Americans every bit as selfless and dedicated to liberty as any that has gone on before, a dedication exemplified by the sacrifice and valor of Sergeant 1st Class Paul Ray Smith.” Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Joint Chiefs Chairman Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Marine Gen. Peter Pace, Army Secretary Francis Harvey and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Pete Schoomaker were on hand at the White House for the ceremony. Also present were soldiers from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, Smith’s unit in Iraq. Ceremonies in Smith’s honor are planned April 5 at the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes and at Arlington National Cemetery.", "url": "http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2005/20050404_482.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050406001635/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2005/20050404_482.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "President Presents Medal of Honor to Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith", "text": "Home > News & Policies\nFor Immediate Release\nOffice of the Press Secretary\nApril 4, 2005 President Presents Medal of Honor to Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith\nThe East Room\nPresident's Remarks\nview 3:07 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon and welcome to the White House. Today is a special occasion: We are here to pay tribute to a soldier whose service illustrates the highest ideals of leadership and love of our country. Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith, of Florida, gave his life for these ideals in a deadly battle outside Baghdad. It is my great privilege to recognize his extraordinary sacrifice by awarding Sergeant Smith the Medal of Honor. I appreciate Secretary Don Rumsfeld joining us today; Secretary Jim Nicholson, of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Senator Carl Levin, Senator Bill Nelson, Senator Mel Martinez, Senator Johnny Isakson and Congressman Ike Skelton. Thank you all for joining us. I appreciate Secretary Francis Harvey, Secretary of the Army; General Dick Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; General Pete Pace, Vice Chairman; General Pete Schoomaker, Chief of the Army. I want to thank the Medal of Honor recipients who have joined us today: John Baker, Barney Barnum, Bernie Fisher, Al Rascon and Brian Thacker. Honored you all are here. I appreciate the family members who have joined us today. Thank you all for coming: Birgit Smith, his wife; Jessica Smith; David Smith; Janice Pvirre, the mom; Donald Pvirre, stepfather, and all the other family members who have joined us. Welcome. I appreciate Chaplain David Hicks, for his invocation. I want to thank Lieutenant Colonel Tom Smith, for joining us, who was Paul Smith's commander. I particularly want to welcome soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division, Paul's unit in Iraq. The Medal of Honor is the highest award for bravery a President can bestow. It is given for gallantry above and beyond the call of duty in the face of enemy attack. Since World War II, more than half of those have been awarded this medal gave their lives in the action that earned it. Sergeant Paul Smith belongs to this select group. The story of Paul Smith is a story of a boy transformed into a man and a leader. His friends and family will tell you that he joined the Army in 1989, after finishing high school. When he joined the Army, he was a typical young American. He liked sports, he liked fast cars, and he liked to stay out late with his friends -- pursuits that occasionally earned him what the Army calls \"extra duty.\" (Laughter.) Scrubbing floors. Two things would change Paul's life and lead him to the selfless heroism we honor today. The first would come when he was stationed in Germany and fell for a woman named Birgit Bacher. It turns out that Paul had a romantic streak in him: On the first night he met her, Paul appeared outside Birgit's window singing \"You've Lost That Loving Feeling.\" (Laughter.) In 1992, the two married, and soon, a young soldier became a devoted family man who played T-ball with his son and taught his daughter how to change the oil in his Jeep Cherokee. Second great change in Paul's life would come when he shipped off to Saudi Arabia to fight in the first Gulf War. There the young combat engineer learned that his training had a purpose and could save lives on the battlefield. Paul returned from that war determined that other soldiers would benefit from the lessons he had learned. Paul earned his sergeant's stripes and became known as a stickler for detail. Sergeant Smith's seriousness wasn't always appreciated by the greener troops under his direction. Those greener troops oftentimes found themselves to do tasks over and over again, until they got it right. Specialist Michael Seaman, who is with us today, says, \"He was hard in training because he knew we had to be hard in battle.\" Specialist Seaman will also tell you that he and others are alive today because of Sergeant Smith's discipline. That discipline would be put to the task in a small courtyard less than a mile from the Baghdad airport. Sergeant Smith was leading about three dozen men who were using a courtyard next to a watchtower to build a temporary jail for captured enemy prisoners. As they were cleaning the courtyard, they were surprised by about a hundred of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard. With complete disregard for his own life and under constant enemy fire, Sergeant Smith rallied his men and led a counterattack. Seeing that his wounded men were in danger of being overrun, and that enemy fire from the watchtower had pinned them down, Sergeant Smith manned a 50-caliber machine gun atop a damaged armor vehicle. From a completely exposed position, he killed as many as 50 enemy soldiers as he protected his men. Sergeant Smith's leadership saved the men in the courtyard, and he prevented an enemy attack on the aid station just up the road. Sergeant Smith continued to fire and took a -- until he took a fatal round to the head. His actions in that courtyard saved the lives of more than 100 American soldiers. Scripture tells us, as the General said, that a man has no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. And that is exactly the responsibility Paul Smith believed the Sergeant stripes on his sleeve had given him. In a letter he wrote to his parents but never mailed, he said that he was prepared to \"give all that I am to ensure that all my boys make it home.\" On this day two years ago, Sergeant Smith gave his all for his men. Five days later, Baghdad fell, and the Iraqi people were liberated. And today, we bestow upon Sergeant Smith the first Medal of Honor in the war on terror. He's also the first to be awarded this new Medal of Honor flag, authorized by the United States Congress. We count ourselves blessed to have soldiers like Sergeant Smith, who put their lives on the line to advance the cause of freedom and protect the American people. Like every one of the men and women in uniform who have served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sergeant Paul Smith was a volunteer. We thank his family for the father, husband and son and brother who can never be replaced. We recall with appreciation the fellow soldiers whose lives he saved, and the many more he inspired. And we express our gratitude for a new generation of Americans, every bit as selfless and dedicated to liberty as any that has gone on before -- a dedication exemplified by the sacrifice and valor of Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith. And now if his family would join me, please. Lieutenant Commander, please read the citation. (The citation is read and the medal is presented.) (Applause.) END 3:17 P.M. EDT", "url": "http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050404-5.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050406003737/http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050404-5.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "First Medal of Honor flag to be presented", "text": "First Medal of Honor flag to be presented By Eric W Cramer\nThe new Medal of Honor flag will be presented to the Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith's family. It's field replicates the pattern of stars found on the Medal of Honor.\nPrinter-friendly version\nE-mail this article\nE-mail Alerts\nRSS Feed The new Medal of Honor flag will be presented to the Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith's family. It's field replicates the pattern of stars found on the Medal of Honor.\nThe flag consists of a field of blue, with 13 stars arranged in the same formation that the stars appear on the Medal of Honor ribbon. It is fringed with gold.\nThe design was the brainchild of Sarah LeClerc of the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry. A panel of eight members made of representatives from each Service (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard), one Office of Secretary Defense staff, one historian and one representative from the Medal of Honor Society was formed to review and evaluate all designs submitted and make a final recommendation to the Principal Deputy to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.\n“Several of us in the Creative Section worked on the design,” LeClerc said. “I wanted to the simplicity of the 13 stars on a blue field.”\nLeClerc said her initial design also contained a canton, similar to the canton containing the stars on the U.S. national flag. On her original design, the canton of red and white stripes, contained the word “valor” as it appears on the Medal of Honor. The committee asked if the canton could be removed.\n“They felt the design was better without the canton. We said that as it is an Army design, we can change it however you want, and so we removed it,” said Pam Madigan an industrial specialist with the Institute of Heraldry.\nA law created in October 2002, called for the creation of the flag, and the institute solicited designs via an announcement in the Federal Registry, Madigan said.\n“It didn’t take long for the committee to make a selection. The meeting only lasted four hours, and they asked me if we could remove the canton. They decided to go with Sarah’s ribbon design, with gold fringe,” Madigan said.\nFor more information on Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith and his Medal of Honor, see\nWASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 29, 2005) -- When Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith’s family receives his Medal of Honor, they will receive a new item that will be given to all future recipients of the medal – a Medal of Honor flag.The flag consists of a field of blue, with 13 stars arranged in the same formation that the stars appear on the Medal of Honor ribbon. It is fringed with gold.The design was the brainchild of Sarah LeClerc of the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry. A panel of eight members made of representatives from each Service (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard), one Office of Secretary Defense staff, one historian and one representative from the Medal of Honor Society was formed to review and evaluate all designs submitted and make a final recommendation to the Principal Deputy to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.“Several of us in the Creative Section worked on the design,” LeClerc said. “I wanted to the simplicity of the 13 stars on a blue field.”LeClerc said her initial design also contained a canton, similar to the canton containing the stars on the U.S. national flag. On her original design, the canton of red and white stripes, contained the word “valor” as it appears on the Medal of Honor. The committee asked if the canton could be removed.“They felt the design was better without the canton. We said that as it is an Army design, we can change it however you want, and so we removed it,” said Pam Madigan an industrial specialist with the Institute of Heraldry.A law created in October 2002, called for the creation of the flag, and the institute solicited designs via an announcement in the Federal Registry, Madigan said.“It didn’t take long for the committee to make a selection. The meeting only lasted four hours, and they asked me if we could remove the canton. They decided to go with Sarah’s ribbon design, with gold fringe,” Madigan said.For more information on Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith and his Medal of Honor, see http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/", "url": "http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7085", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050401005622/http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7085" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith", "text": "Citation Narrative Official Citation (available on 4 April 2005) Army News\nThe official citation will be made available after the White House Presentation on 4 April 2005.", "url": "http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/citation/printable.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050401063214/http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/citation/printable.html" } ]

[ "Vermischtes", "Themenportal Wissenschaft", "Themenportal Deutschland", "Vogelgrippe", "Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Bauern beginnen mit dem Keulen", "text": "Das Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut auf der Insel Riems bestätigte das Auftauchen des für Menschen gefährlichen Typs H5N1 auf dem Festland Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns. Sprecherin Elke Reinking teilte mit, dass bei zwei der fünf Proben von Wildvögeln aus Ostvorpommern und Nordvorpommern eine Infektion mit dem hoch pathogenen H5N1-Virus festgestellt worden sei. Es handelt sich um einen Bussard und eine Silbermöwe.\nKatastrophenfall ausgerufen\nLandrätin Kerstin Kassner (Linkspartei) hat am Sonntagabend den Katastrophenfall für Rügen ausgerufen. \"Der Landkreis ist nicht mehr in der Lage, mit seinen eigenen Kräften die toten Wildvögel zu beseitigen. Die Anzahl erhöht sich stündlich. Wir hoffen, dass wir mit Unterstützung von Bund und Land die schwierige Situation meistern\", sagte Kassner zur Begründung", "url": "http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/31/0,3672,3900063,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060220150921/http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/31/0%2C3672%2C3900063%2C00.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "FLI: Startseite", "text": "Aktuelles\nStellungnahme zur Impfung gegen Blauzungenkrankheit Stand Mai 2011 Das FLI empfiehlt in seiner aktuellen Stellungnahme, die Impfung gegen Blauzungenkrankheit in Deutschland im Jahr 2011 auf freiwilliger Basis weiterzuführen. Falls nur Teilpopulationen geimpft werden können, sollten vorzugsweise nicht geimpfte Jungtiere immunisiert werden. Da Schafe besonders unter der BTV -8-Infektion leiden, wird deren Impfung besonders empfohlen. zum Artikel\n36th International Herpesvirus Workshop 24. – 28. Juli 2011, Gdansk, Polen Ausgerichtet von Krystyna Bieńkowska-Szewczyk (Professorin für Molekulare Virologie an der Universität Danzig) und Thomas C. Mettenleiter (Präsident des Friedrich-Loeffler-Instituts) findet der “International Herpesvirus Workshop” zum ersten Mal in seiner 36-jährigen Geschichte in einem osteuropäischen Mitgliedsstaat der EU statt. zum Artikel\nSchnuppertag am FLI Forschen für die Tiergesundheit Am 14. April fanden bundesweit der Girls’ und Boys’ Day bzw. der Zukunftstag statt, an dem Schülerinnen und Schüler für sie interessante Berufsbilder kennen lernen konnten.\nDas Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit ( FLI ), beteiligte sich an den Standorten Braunschweig, Celle, Mariensee und auf der Insel Riems mit verschiedenen Angeboten.\nzum Artikel\nNeues zu Rotz Die Publikationen \"Amtliche Methodensammlung\" und \"Falldefinitionen\" liegen in neuer Fassung vor: Es sind die Kapitel zur anzeigepflichtigen Tierseuche Rotz (Infektion mit Burkholderia mallei) im März 2011 aktualisiert worden. Berechtigte Nutzer können die Methodensammlung auch im html-Format unter https://tsn.fli.bund.de einsehen. zum Artikel\n5th Annual Meeting EPIZONE Vom 11. bis 14. April findet das 5. Jahrestreffen von EPIZONE (Network of Excellence for Epizootic Disease Diagnosis and Control) unter dem Motto “Science on alert” in Arnhem, Niederlande statt. Das Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut gehört zu den Gründungsmitgliedern von EPIZONE und gestaltet die Tagung maßgeblich mit. Es werden 300 Teilnehmer aus 25 Ländern erwartet. zum Artikel\nZeit für Zecken? XI International Jena Symposium on Tick-borne Diseases in Weimar Wissenschaftler aus rund 30 Ländern stellen auf dem XI International Jena Symposium on Tick-borne Diseases vom 24. - 26. März in Weimar aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zu durch Zecken übertragene Krankheiten und zur Zecke selbst vor. Die Themen reichen von der Struktur der verschiedenen Borrelien, Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis ( FSME )-Viren und weiteren Erregern über ihre Möglichkeiten, Mensch und Tier krank zu machen bis zu neuen Erkenntnissen zur molekularen Struktur und zum Verhalten der Zecken. zum Artikel\nNewcastle Disease Kolloquium 6. April 2011, 10 -16 Uhr in der Sächsischen Landestierärztekammer Dresden Das Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, die Sächsische Tierseuchenkasse und die Sächsische Landestierärztekammer bieten am 6. April 2011 eine gemeinsame Fortbildungsveranstaltung zum Thema Newcastle Disease an.\nDas Kolloquium richtet sich an Geflügeltierärzte, Diagnostiker sowie amtliche Tierärzte in den Veterinärbehörden. Es bietet die Möglichkeit, sich über Daten eines serologischen Monitorings der Newcastle Disease-Impfung auszutauschen. ... zum Artikel\nExpertentreffen zur Afrikanischen Schweinepest Unter Federführung des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz ( BMELV ) fanden zwei Expertentreffen mit Vertretern aus Russland, der Ukraine, Italien (auf Sardinien kommt ASP seit 1978 vor), Spanien, von der FAO, OIE , des EU Referenzlabors für ASP und Wissenschaftlern des FLI statt. zum Artikel\nZur aviären Influenza 2011 Februar 2011: Bewertung des Risikos zur neuerlichen Einschleppung sowie zum Auftreten von hochpathogenem aviären Influenzavirus ( HPAIV H5N1) in Hausgeflügelbestände in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zum Artikel", "url": "http://www.fli.bund.de/News-Einzelansicht.253.0.html?&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=197&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=2&cHash=df7c63141e", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110511062748/http://www.fli.bund.de/News-Einzelansicht.253.0.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=197&tx_ttnews[backPid]=2&cHash=df7c63141e" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Vogelgrippe erreicht Festland", "text": "Vogelgrippe erreicht Festland\n19. Feb 2006 18:55, ergänzt 22:58\nFoto: dpa Die Vogelgrippe hat in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern auch das Festland erreicht. Das bestätigte das Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut auf der Insel Riems. Der betroffene Landkreis rief den Katastrophenfall aus.\nDie Vogelgrippe hat sich in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern über die Insel Rügen hinaus ausgebreitet. In Ostvorpommern, in Nordvorpommern und in der Umgebung von Rostock wurden fünf Vogelgrippe-Verdachtsfälle gefunden. Das Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut auf der Insel Riems bestätigte, dass es sich bei zwei davon um den gefährlichen Viren-Typus H5N1 handelt.\nKampf gegen H5N1: Keulungen auf Rügen 19. Feb 2006 11:28, ergänzt 18:44 Internationale Maßnahmen gegen Vogelgrippe 19. Feb 2006 17:14 Vogelgrippe-Virus in Frankreich entdeckt 18. Feb 2006 21:28, ergänzt 22:08 Bundeswehr soll Vogelgrippe eindämmen helfen 18. Feb 2006 12:51, ergänzt 21:57 Vogelgrippe in Indien entdeckt 18. Feb 2006 19:30 Insgesamt seien fünf verendete Vögel entdeckt worden, teilte ein Sprecher des Krisenstabs der Landesregierung von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin mit. Die Tierkadaver wurden in das Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit auf der Insel Riems gebracht. Bei den mit H5N1 infizierten Vögeln handelt sich um einen Bussard aus Ostvorpommern und eine Silbermöwe aus Nordvorpommern. «Damit ist das eingetreten, was zu befürchten war», äußerte der Präsident des Friedrich-Loeffler-Instituts, Thomas Mettenleiter. Wichtig sei nun die strikte Einhaltung der Stallpflicht, um ein Eindringen der Vogelgrippe in die Nutzgeflügel-Population zu verhindern.\nSchutzzone auf Rügen Bei zwei Blesshühnern aus Rostock und Nordvorpommern und einem Höckerschwan, der ebenfalls in Nordvorpommern gefunden wurde, wurde dagegen kein H5N1-Virus nachgewiesen. Weitere elf Proben aus dem Raum Greifswald waren ebenfalls negativ. Landkreis ruft Katastrophenfall aus Die Zahl der positiv getesteten Wildvögel beläuft sich inzwischen auf 81 Tiere, davon sind 79 auf der Insel Rügen gefunden worden. Landrätin Kerstin Kassner (Linkspartei) rief am Abend den Katastrophenfall auf der Insel aus. «Der Landkreis ist nicht mehr in der Lage, mit seinen eigenen Kräften die toten Wildvögel zu beseitigen. Die Anzahl erhöht sich stündlich. Wir hoffen, dass wir mit Unterstützung von Bund und Land die schwierige Situation meistern», sagte Kassner zur Begründung. Bislang seien 275 Helfer im Einsatz, um tote Vögel zu sichten und zu bergen sowie Absperrungen zu errichten. Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns Agrarminister Till Backhaus (SPD) kritisierte den späten Entschluss, den Katastrophenfall auszurufen. «Ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass die Landräten das früher gemacht hätte - und wenn ich es gewesen wäre, ich hätte es gemacht», sagte er in der ARD. Merkel bietet Hilfe an Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) hatte bei ihrem Besuch auf Rügen zuvor Hilfe des Bundes beim Kampf gegen die Vogelgrippe angeboten. Der ARD zufolge treffen an diesem Montag Einheiten der Bundeswehr auf Rügen ein, um beim Einsammeln der Tierkadaver zu helfen. Bereits jetzt desinfizieren Soldaten der ABC-Abwehr-Truppe der Bundeswehr auf dem Rügendamm und an der Wittower Fähre alle Fahrzeuge, welche die Insel verlassen wollen. Die Soldaten wurden aus den Standorten Prenzlau in Brandenburg und Albersdorf in Schleswig-Holstein nach Rügen abkommandiert. Schmidt rät Ländern zum Medikament-Kauf Bundesgesundheitsministerin Ulla Schmidt (SPD) forderte die Bundesländer dazu auf, größere Medikamentenvorräte zum Schutz vor einer Pandemie anzulegen. Sie sagte in der ARD: «Ich bin schon sehr dafür, dass wir darüber nachdenken, dass wirklich auch für 20 Prozent de Bevölkerung eine Bevorratung da ist». Es gebe keine anderen wirksamen Stoffe als Tamiflu oder Relenza. Die Empfehlung des Robert-Koch-Instituts, für 20 Prozent der Bevölkerung Medikamente vorzuhalten, wird nur von Nordrhein-Westfalen eingehalten und mit 30 Prozent sogar übertroffen. In anderen Bundesländern wie Berlin, Brandenburg und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern liegt die Rate dagegen unter zehn Prozent. (nz)", "url": "http://www.netzeitung.de/vermischtes/vogelgrippe/383330.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060515012237/http://www.netzeitung.de/vermischtes/vogelgrippe/383330.html" } ]

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[ { "language": "en", "title": "World Crises", "text": "Aristide party threatents to boycott Haiti poll By Joseph Guyler Delva\nPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The party of ousted Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide said on Monday it would boycott elections later this year if a parish priest it views as its likely presidential candidate is not released from jail.\nGerald Gilles, a leader of a moderate faction of Haiti's leading opposition party, the Lavalas Family, said Father Gerard Jean-Juste was the most popular figure in the party. Jean-Juste was jailed a month ago by the interim Haitian government in connection with the murder of a journalist.\n\"After several consultations, the masses that we represent and the base of the party claim Father Jean-Juste as their presidential candidate. So he will be our candidate,\" Gilles told Reuters.\n\"We say loud and clear (that) we'll boycott the elections if Jean-Juste, and many other political prisoners that are potential candidates for our party, are not released.\"\nJean-Juste, a fiery orator who has also lived in the United States and is well known in Miami for defending Haitian immigrants' rights, has not indicated if he would run in the elections scheduled for later this year to restore democracy to the poor Caribbean country.\nThe priest has instead insisted that Aristide be allowed to return before Lavalas take part in the elections. Aristide, himself a former priest, was ousted in February 2004 after an armed revolt and amid accusations of corruption and despotism.\nHaiti has been torn by continuing political and criminal violence since Aristide's ouster, despite the presence of more than 7,000 Brazilian-led U.N. troops and international police.\nJean-Juste was arrested on July 21 on allegations he had played a role in the kidnapping and the killing on July 14 of journalist Jacques Roche.\nThe priest has rejected the accusations and said he was in Miami when the crime was committed. Like other senior Lavalas figures who have been put in prison by the interim government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, Jean-Juste says the accusations are politically motivated.\nGilles and other leaders of a moderate wing of Lavalas angered many party supporters when they registered Lavalas for the elections, scheduled for November.\nBut party officials said they had made an effort to unify Lavalas and the decision by moderates to designate Jean-Juste as their likely presidential candidate was welcomed by more radical members. The United Nations has also urged Lavalas to participate in the election.\n© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.", "url": "http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N22502674", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060302072931/http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N22502674" } ]

[ "Política e conflitos", "Oriente Médio", "Ásia", "Iraque", "Publicado" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Bomber kills Iraqi police chief as he visits blast scene", "text": "Iraqis search for wounded people amid the rubble at the site of an explosion in Mosul\nBomber kills Iraqi police chief as he visits blast scene\nMOSUL, Iraq (AFP) — A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman killed a top Iraqi police chief in the volatile northern city of Mosul Thursday as he toured the scene of a bomb blast in which 34 people died, police said.\nBrigadier General Salah al-Juburi, chief of police of Nineveh province, was killed along with two other officers as they inspected the mangled wreckage from Wednesday's bombing, which obliterated a three-storey apartment block and damaged about 100 adjoining houses, officials said.\nIn other violence on Thursday, a leading Shiite cleric survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, 100 kilometres (70 miles) south of Baghdad, that killed two of his bodyguards, officials said.\nSheikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai was slightly wounded in the blast and was treated in hospital and then discharged, security and medical officials said. Another four bodyguards were also wounded.\nKarbalai is the Karbala representative of Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and often leads Friday prayers in the Imam Hussein mosque, one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines.\nPrime Minister Nuri al-Maliki issued an angry statement saying that those behind the Mosul attacks would be hunted down and brought to justice.\n\"This crime exposes the moral bankruptcy of the terrorists after a string of defeats at the hands of our armed forces,\" he said.\nThe attacks have been blamed on Al-Qaeda, which US commanders say has deep roots in the ethnically diverse city 370 kilometres (225 miles) north of Baghdad.\n\"We have 34 people killed and 217 wounded in Wednesday's bombing,\" said Hisham al-Hamdani, head of the provincial council of Nineveh, of which Mosul is the capital.\n\"Whole families have vanished. There are still people trapped under the rubble. The casualty toll may increase,\" he told AFP.\nThe US military said three Iraqi soldiers were among the dead.\nWednesday's blast, the largest heard in the restive city for several years, occurred \"as Iraqi army units were conducting a raid of a weapons cache in western Mosul,\" said Major General Mark Hertling, commanding general of US forces in northern Iraq.\n\"This is a stark example of Al-Qaeda's disregard for the citizens of Iraq. It also highlights their willingness to risk the lives of innocent civilians by storing weapons in civilian homes,\" Hertling said in a statement.\nThe full extent of the damage caused by the powerful blast became evident on Thursday. Only a water-filled crater about 25 metres (yards) in diameter could be seen where the apartment block had stood, while surrounding houses were a mangle of buckled concrete and twisted steel pipes, a scene reminiscent of an earthquake.\nAn Iraqi security official said the building was being readied by the Iraqi army for use as a snipers' position to stop Al-Qaeda fighters using a nearby bridge to hang victims of their kidnappings -- one of their favoured execution spots.\nThe US military blamed Al-Qaeda for Thursday's \"cowardly\" attack on the police chief, which it said had been carried out by a bomber disguised as a policeman.\n\"A suicide bomber detonated a vest bomb at the site of yesterday's bombing in Mosul,\" a military statement said.\n\"The Iraqi army and coalition forces have determined that the suicide bomber was an imposter wearing an Iraqi police uniform,\" it said.\nThe attack prompted the authorities in Mosul to impose an immediate and indefinite ban on vehicle traffic.\nUS intelligence experts warn that Mosul remains a dangerous \"strategic centre of gravity for Al-Qaeda\" due to its road links to the Syrian border, which most foreign fighters coming into Iraq use as their springboard.\nThe jihadists, they say, can easily blend in with the local population.\nThree weeks ago, US and Iraqi forces launched a fresh assault against Al-Qaeda operatives, blamed for much of the violence in Iraq.", "url": "http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVMCHb2x9iUCGRmiG5ceCjqVbzqQ", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080131113339/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVMCHb2x9iUCGRmiG5ceCjqVbzqQ" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Provincial Police Chief Killed in Mosul", "text": "Iraqis tour the site where an explosion on Wednesday collapsed a three-story apartment building and ravaged adjacent houses just minutes after the Iraqi army arrived to investigate tips about a weapons cache in Mosul, Iraq Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. Police on Thursday raised the casualty toll from that blast to at least 18 killed and 146 wounded.(AP Photo)\nProvincial Police Chief Killed in Mosul\nBAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber killed an Iraqi police chief and two other officers Thursday after they toured the site of the wreckage of a blast a day earlier that devastated a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in the volatile northern city of Mosul.\nThe casualty toll from Wednesday explosion rose to at least 34 dead and 224 injured, said Hisham al-Hamdani, the head of the Ninevah provincial council. The blast collapsed a three-story apartment building and ravaged adjacent houses just minutes after the Iraqi army arrived to investigate tips about a weapons cache.\nThe bomber on Thursday was wearing an explosives vest under an Iraqi police uniform when he struck, killing Brig. Gen. Salah Mohammed al-Jubouri, the director of police for Ninevah province, the U.S. military said. Two other policemen died and a U.S. soldier, three Iraqi police and an Iraqi soldier were wounded, the military said.\nPolice spokesman Brig. Gen. Saeed al-Jubouri said the police chief was attacked after gunmen ambushed the blast site, sparking clashes that lasted for about 15 minutes. The bomber moved toward Hassan's car as it was preparing to flee the area, al-Jubouri said.\nThe U.S. military said initial reports indicated al-Qaida in Iraq was behind Thursday's attack. Wednesday's explosion remained under investigation.\nA bulldozer worked through the night to clear the debris, with vehicles providing light as dozens of people watched on the rim of a massive crater that was left by Wednesday's blast, footage from the local Mosuliyah TV station showed.\nThe TV footage showed one woman looking stunned as she held a bandage to her face in an emergency room and doctors rushed to treat a man whose face was bloodied.\nThe explosion came after the army received calls that insurgents were using the vacant building as a shelter and a bomb-making factory, police said.\nDuraid Kashmola, the governor of Ninevah province, of which Mosul is the capital, imposed an indefinite curfew in the city's downtown following the clashes.\nHe said a preliminary investigation showed al-Qaida in Iraq was behind Wednesday's explosion in a bid \"to terrorize Mosul residents.\"\nAmerican and Iraqi forces have been on the offensive against militants in and around Baghdad. But Mosul — Iraq's third-largest city some 225 miles northwest of the capital — continues to be a center of gravity for al-Qaida in Iraq and other insurgents, the U.S. military says.\nThe blast in Mosul was the latest in a series of bombings across Iraq, including in some areas that have seen a relative calm recently with the security gains from U.S.-Iraqi operations and a Sunni revolt against al-Qaida in Iraq.\nA roadside bomb also struck a police patrol Thursday in central Baghdad, killing two officers and injuring two, along with three civilians, police said. The explosion occurred about 8 a.m. in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Karradah.\nMosul, a major transportation hub with highways leading west to Syria and south to Baghdad, is considered a crucial conduit in the flow of money and foreign fighters to support the insurgency. The military said earlier this week that it was the last urban center where al-Qaida in Iraq still has a strong presence.\nAttacks have persisted in recent months in northern Iraq even as violence has declined in Baghdad and other areas.\n___\nAssociated Press writer Sinan Salaheddin contributed to this report.\n(This version CORRECTS ADDS details on attack, governor and military comments on al-Qaida, photos; corrects style on police chief's name)", "url": "http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD8UC8OSG2", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080203131250/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD8UC8OSG2" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Mosul Police Chief Killed in Suicide Blast in Northern Iraq", "text": "Iraqi authorities say the police chief of the northern city of Mosul has been killed in a suicide bomb attack as he was touring the site of Wednesday's massive explosion that killed at least 18 people.\nOfficials say the attacker in a police uniform walked up to the police chief Brig. Gen. Falih Mohammed Hassan and then detonated his explosives vest. The police chief was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he later died.\nAt least two policemen were killed and several other people were wounded in the blast.\nMeanwhile, rescue teams and police in Mosul are continuing to search for victims in the rubble of buildings and houses flattened by Wednesdays' blast, which occurred after police were tipped off about a weapons cache inside a vacant building. It is not clear what triggered the explosion.\nSeparately, two Iraqi policemen were killed when a roadside bomb blast hit their patrol in central Baghdad Thursday.\nSome information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.", "url": "http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-24-voa11.cfm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080125093559/http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-24-voa11.cfm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Iraqi police chief dies in ambush", "text": "Local people came to inspect the damage before renewed violence\nEnlarge Image\nBrig Gen Saleh Mohammed Hassan was fleeing the area after gunmen opened fire on his convoy, reports say.\nThe convoy was hit by an explosion that also killed two other police officers. The cause of the blast is unconfirmed.\nMore than 200 bystanders were hurt on Wednesday in a huge blast as troops were surrounding a block of flats.\nProvincial officials increased the confirmed death toll from 20 on Thursday and said it may rise further.\n\"Whole families have vanished, there are still people trapped under the rubble,\" said council chief Hisham al-Hamdani.\nThe ethnically mixed city of Mosul has seen an upsurge in violence in the past year.\nCorrespondents say the increased violence appears to be a consequence of the offensive by US-led forces in and around Baghdad, with Sunni Arab insurgents believed to have transferred their operations further north.\nSearching for survivors\nThe BBC's Jonny Dymond in Baghdad says that, all of a sudden, the largest and most divided city in the north appears to be on the edge.\nIraqi and American military forces had been clearing away the rubble from Wednesday's blast searching for bodies or survivors.\nBrig Gen Hassan, the director of police for Ninevah province, was touring the area when it was ambushed by gunmen.\nDozens of buildings were damaged or destroyed in the earlier explosion when what was thought to be an arms cache levelled a three-storey apartment block in one of the poorer areas of western Mosul.\nThe explosion came as Iraqi troops surrounded the building following a tip-off about a suspected arms cache inside.\nSeparately on Thursday, a roadside bomb struck a police patrol in central Baghdad, killing two officers. Two other policemen and three civilians were wounded.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7206391.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080127160531/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7206391.stm" } ]

[ "Wikinews:Kurzartikel", "Veröffentlicht" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Salzburger Nachrichten", "text": "mehr anzeigen Zwischen Ennstal und Altenmarkt im Pongau in beiden Richtungen Fahrbahnverengung, Baustelle, Dauer: 06.04.2021 bis 31.10.2021 19:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung - km 0,00-0,04\nA10 Ofenauer Tunnel Salzburg Richtung Villach mehr anzeigen gesperrt, Behinderungen durch verlorenes Ladegut - Sperre wegen mehreren Teilen auf der Fahrbahn zwischen Ofenauer und Hieflertunnel\nA10 Tauern Autobahn Salzburg Richtung Villach mehr anzeigen gesperrt, Dauer: 13.04.2021 13:55 Uhr bis 14:05 Uhr Ein defekter Lkw wird rückwärts rausbegleitet\nA10 Reittunnel Salzburg - Villach mehr anzeigen in beiden Richtungen Verkehr wird über die Gegenfahrbahn geleitet, Es ist nur ein Fahrstreifen frei, Baustelle, Höchstgeschwindigkeit: 60 km/h bis 03.06.2021 20:00 Uhr [Verkehr wird über die Gegenfahrbahn geleitet]\nA10 Tauern Autobahn Salzburg - Villach mehr anzeigen Zwischen A10, Werfen und Pongau in beiden Richtungen Verkehr wird über die Gegenfahrbahn geleitet, Veränderte Verkehrsführung, Baustelle bis 25.06.2021 12:00 Uhr\nB155 Münchner Bundesstraße Freilassing (D) Richtung Zentrum mehr anzeigen Zwischen B155 und Salzburg Stau zu erwarten Verzögerung Einreise - COVID: derzeit keine Verzögerungen\nB158 Brunn Salzburg - St. Gilgen mehr anzeigen Zwischen Baderluck und Brunn in beiden Richtungen Fahrbahnverengung, Baustelle, Dauer: 08.03.2021 bis 30.04.2021 19:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung Errichtung eines Geh- und Radweges - km 18,40-19,30\nB158 Gschwendt St. Gilgen - Bad Ischl mehr anzeigen Zwischen Abersee und Gschwendt in beiden Richtungen vorübergehende Regelung mit provisorischen Ampeln, Baustelle, Dauer: 06.04.2021 bis 09.07.2021 19:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung - km 34,17-34,37\nB159 Salzachtal Bundesstraße Golling - Bischofshofen mehr anzeigen Zwischen A10 - Paß Lueg und Bundesstraße in beiden Richtungen vorübergehende Regelung mit provisorischen Ampeln, Baustelle, Dauer: 15.03.2021 bis 17.12.2021 19:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung - km 31,30-31,80\nB166 Pass Gschütt Bundesstraße Niedernfritz - Pass Gschütt mehr anzeigen Zwischen Lindental - B166 und Gseng in beiden Richtungen vorübergehende Regelung mit provisorischen Ampeln, Baustelle, Dauer: 14.09.2020 bis 25.06.2021 19:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung - km 28,08-28,20\nB166 Pass Gschütt Bundesstraße Niedernfritz - Pass Gschütt mehr anzeigen Zwischen Annaberg im Lammertal und Lindenthal in beiden Richtungen vorübergehende Regelung mit provisorischen Ampeln, Baustelle, Dauer: 12.03.2021 bis 30.06.2021 19:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung - km 16,64-16,83\nB168 Zeller Straße Schüttdorf - Mittersill mehr anzeigen Zwischen Stuhlfelden und Burk in beiden Richtungen vorübergehende Regelung mit provisorischen Ampeln, Baustelle, Dauer: 12.04.2021 07:00 Uhr bis 09.07.2021 17:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung keine Umleitungsmöglichkeit, wenn möglich PInzgauer Lokalbahn benutzen - km 22,90-23,70\nB311 Pinzgauer Bundesstraße Bischofshofen - Zell am See mehr anzeigen Schwarzach-West in beiden Richtungen Verkehrsbehinderung, Baustelle, Dauer: 18.08.2020 08:00 Uhr bis 25.06.2021 17:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung teilw. einstreifige Verkehrsführung m. händischer Regelung - km 16,05-16,90\nGroßglockner Hochalpenstraße Bruck - Heiligenblut mehr anzeigen Zwischen Kassastelle Ferleiten und Heiligenblut am Großglockner in beiden Richtungen gesperrt bis 08.05.2021 23:59 Uhr, Wintersperre\nKleinarl L214, Dorf Wagrain - Jägersee mehr anzeigen Zwischen Palfenweg und Ployergasse in beiden Richtungen es ist mit Verzögerung zu rechnen, Baustelle, Dauer: 06.04.2021 bis 28.05.2021 19:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung - km 6,60-7,35\nL108 Gaisberg Gaisberg - Salzburg mehr anzeigen Guggenthal in beiden Richtungen Schneeglätte, Schneekettenpflicht ab der Zistel\nL206 Köstendorfer Landesstraße Neumarkt-Nord - Mattsee mehr anzeigen Zwischen Spanswag und Schleedorf in beiden Richtungen vorübergehende Regelung mit provisorischen Ampeln, Baustelle, Dauer: 22.03.2021 bis 30.06.2021 19:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung - km 4,56-5,20\nL208 Angern mehr anzeigen Haslau in beiden Richtungen Für beide Richtungen nur ein Fahrstreifen abwechselnd frei, Baustelle, vorübergehende Regelung mit provisorischen Ampeln, Dauer: 22.03.2021 08:00 Uhr bis 04.06.2021 20:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung - km 5,80-5,86 [halbseitig gesperrt]\nObertrum am See L101, Salzburger Straße Lengfelden - Oberösterreich mehr anzeigen Zwischen Obertrum am See und Obertrum am See in beiden Richtungen vorübergehende Regelung mit provisorischen Ampeln, Baustelle, Dauer: 29.03.2021 bis 30.06.2021 19:00 Uhr, eine örtliche Umleitung ist eingerichtet beschilderte Umleitung über das Ortsgebiet Obertrum möglich - km 10,53-0,00\nRadstadt B99, Katschberg Bundesstraße Radstadt - Mauterndorf mehr anzeigen Zwischen B320 und Tauernstraße in beiden Richtungen Fahrbahnverengung, Baustelle, Dauer: 06.04.2021 bis 31.10.2021 19:00 Uhr, keine Umleitungsempfehlung - km 23,76-24,10\nSchüttdorf Brucker Bundesstraße Schüttdorf - Lofer mehr anzeigen Zwischen Schüttdorf Süd und Unterreit in beiden Richtungen gesperrt, Baustelle, Dauer: 12.04.2021 03:00 Uhr bis 16.04.2021 13:00 Uhr, Ortskundige Autofahrer werden gebeten, das Gebiet weiträumig zu umfahren Tunnelwartungsarbeiten, Umleitung durch das Stadtgebiet von Zell am See, großräumige Umfahrung über die L247 wird empfohlen - km 44,40-49,10\nSchüttdorf B311, Schmittentunnel Zell am See - Lofer mehr anzeigen Zwischen Schüttdorf und B311 in beiden Richtungen gesperrt, Instandhaltungsarbeiten, Dauer: 12.04.2021 03:00 Uhr bis 16.04.2021 13:00 Uhr [Reinigungsarbeiten]", "url": "http://salzburg.com/sn/archiv_artikel.php?xm=2221234&res=0", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210413134112/https://www.sn.at/" } ]

[ "Themenportal Politik", "Themenportal Deutschland", "Politik in Deutschland", "FDP", "Guido Westerwelle", "Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger", "Birgit Homburger", "Christian Lindner" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Ruf nach Rücktritt Westerwelles", "text": "31. März 2011, Neue Zürcher Zeitung\nRuf nach Rücktritt Westerwelles\nKritische Stimmen in der FDP\n(Reuters) ⋅ In der deutschen FDP mehren sich nach dem Wahldebakel vom Wochenende die Forderungen nach Konsequenzen für den Parteichef Guido Westerwelle. Das Vorstandsmitglied Jorgo Chatzimarkakis forderte Westerwelle auf, vor dem Parteitag im Mai seinen Rückzug anzukündigen. «Wer als Parteivorsitzender Schicksalswahlen verliert, muss als Parteivorsitzender die Konsequenzen ziehen», sagte Chatzimarkakis. Westerwelle habe die Doppelbelastung als Aussenminister und Parteichef nicht überzeugend bewältigt. Der Bundestagsabgeordnete Lars Friedrich Lindemann sagte gegenüber der Agentur Reuters: «Die Führungsfrage stellt sich ganz klar an der Spitze der Partei. Guido Westerwelle muss sich seiner Verantwortung jetzt stellen.» Justizministerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger schloss einen Rückzug Westerwelles vom Amt des FDP-Bundesvorsitzenden nicht aus.\nAnzeige:\nIn der FDP mehren sich zudem die Vorbehalte gegen den Kurswechsel der Parteispitze in der Atompolitik. Der technologiepolitische Sprecher, Martin Lindner, verlangte, zunächst die Beratungen im Zuge des dreimonatigen Moratoriums abzuwarten. Dass man jetzt schon wisse, wie der Denkprozess enden werde, sei nicht glaubwürdig.\nCopyright © Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG\nAlle Rechte vorbehalten. Eine Weiterverarbeitung, Wiederveröffentlichung oder dauerhafte Speicherung zu gewerblichen oder anderen Zwecken ohne vorherige ausdrückliche Erlaubnis von NZZ Online ist nicht gestattet.", "url": "http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/international/ruf_nach_ruecktritt_westerwelles_1.10090566.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110408022407/http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/international/ruf_nach_ruecktritt_westerwelles_1.10090566.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Westerwelle als Bauernopfer", "text": "1. April 2011, 12:26, NZZ Online\nWesterwelle als Bauernopfer\nFührende Liberale in Deutschland fordern eine personelle Erneuerung der eigenen Partei\nFür den Chef der deutschen Liberalen, Aussenminister Westerwelle, wächst der Druck, sich von seinem Parteiamt zurückzuziehen. Führende FDP-Politiker fordern seit Tagen vor allem personelle Konsequenzen aus dem jüngsten Wahldebakel. Angeblich will die Partei schon am Montag über die künftige Führungsmannschaft entscheiden.\nsrs./(Reuters/ddp) Wer nach den Wahlen in Baden-Württemberg und Rheinland-Pfalz von einer Diskussion um CDU-Chefin und Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel in Deutschland ausgegangen war, sieht sich momentan noch enttäuscht.\nZunächst flammt bei den Liberalen die Führungsdebatte, vor allem um Parteichef Guido Westerwelle, in aller Schärfe wieder auf. Der deutsche Aussenminister ist derzeit auf China-Besuch in Peking und will sich zur Lage seiner Partei vorerst nicht äussern.\nWeitere personelle Konsequenzen gefordert\nDie FDP hatte in beiden Bundesländern schwere Wahlschlappen erlitten. In Baden-Württemberg halbierte sie ihr Ergebnis und schafft mit 5,3 Prozent äusserst knapp den Wiedereinzug in den Landtag. In benachbarten Rheinland-Pfalz sind die Liberalen nun überhaupt nicht mehr im Mainzer Parlament vertreten.\nAnzeige:\nWesterwelle hatte auf das Ergebnis in Baden-Württemberg mit den Worten reagiert, die Wahl sei eine Abstimmung über die Zukunft der Atomkraft gewesen. Man habe dies verstanden.\nOb das auch für Westerwelle selbst gilt, bezweifelt so mancher in der Partei. Nach dem Rückzug seiner Stellvertreterin Cornelia Pieper fordern führende Liberale weitere personelle Konsequenzen aus dem Wahldebakel. Pieper hatte angekündigt, nicht mehr zur Wahl als stellvertretende Bundesvorsitzende anzutreten.\nJustizministerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger sagte dem «Münchner Merkur»: «Keiner sollte an seinem Posten kleben.» In der Partei herrsche eine grosse Unzufriedenheit, es gebe «ein erhebliches Grummeln an der Basis», sagte die bayrische FDP-Chefin weiter. Mit einem Rücktritt allein sei das Problem nicht gelöst. «Wir machen es uns zu leicht, wenn wir einen Sündenbock oder ein Bauernopfer suchen, dem man alles zuschiebt», erklärte sie.\n«Wir müssen alles auf den Prüfstand stellen»\nAuch die führende Liberale Birgit Homburger ging auf Distanz zum Parteichef. «In der Tat können wir nicht so weiter machen wie bisher. Wir müssen alles auf den Prüfstand stellen, sowohl inhaltlich wie personell», sagte Homburger der Düsseldorfer «Rheinischen Post». Wenn sie von «alles» spreche, meine sie damit selbstverständlich auch den Parteivorsitzenden. Homburger selbst ist ebenfalls umstritten. Sie sagte weiter, weder als FDP-Landeschefin in Baden-Württemberg noch als FDP-Fraktionsvorsitzende im Bundestag stehe sie als «Bauernopfer» für einen Verbleib Westerwelles an der Parteispitze zur Verfügung.\nDagegen sprach sich der sächsische FDP-Landeschef Holger Zastrow gegen einen Wechsel an der Spitze der Bundespartei aus. Er habe weiterhin Vertrauen in Westerwelle, sagte Zastrow im Deutschlandfunk. Der Parteichef habe das richtige Gespür für Themen und die Partei erst gross gemacht. Man könne ihm aber ein Team zur Seite stellen, um die Liberalen breiter aufzustellen.\nParteispitze entscheidet womöglich schneller\nDie FDP-Spitze erwägt angeblich, bereits am Montag über die künftige Führungsmannschaft zu entscheiden. Es sei denkbar, dass das Parteipräsidium schon am 4. April und nicht, wie bislang geplant, am 11. April über eine inhaltliche und personelle Neuaufstellung berate, berichtet die «Süddeutsche Zeitung» unter Berufung auf Parteikreise.\nWeiter hiess es, Westerwelle sei bereit, sein Vorsitzendenamt auf dem Bundesparteitag in Rostock im Mai abzugeben, wenn sich ein geeigneter Nachfolger fände. Er wolle aber auf alle Fälle Aussenminister bleiben.\nCopyright © Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG\nAlle Rechte vorbehalten. Eine Weiterverarbeitung, Wiederveröffentlichung oder dauerhafte Speicherung zu gewerblichen oder anderen Zwecken ohne vorherige ausdrückliche Erlaubnis von NZZ Online ist nicht gestattet.", "url": "http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/international/deutschland_westerwelle_fdp_1.10105466.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110404222016/http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/politik/international/deutschland_westerwelle_fdp_1.10105466.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Entscheidungen möglicherweise Montag", "text": "München (dpa) - In der FDP-Führungsdebatte stehen nach Angaben von Bundesjustizministerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger am kommenden Montag Entscheidungen an.\nDann werde im Parteipräsidium darüber gesprochen, wie es mit der Bundes-FDP personell und inhaltlich weitergeht, sagte die bayerische FDP-Landesvorsitzende am Freitag in München. Und dann werde die Partei nach der Debatte in dieser Woche die Chance haben, zu «ersten Lösungen» zu kommen.\nLeutheusser-Schnarrenberger erhöhte noch einmal den Druck auf Parteichef Guido Westerwelle. Sie halte nichts von Ideen, «mit ein, zwei Sündenböcken» sei ein «Weiter so» gut möglich. Nötig sei die Bereitschaft, über alle Funktionen und Posten im Präsidium zu sprechen. Dem «Münchner Merkur» (Freitag) hatte Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger gesagt: «Keiner sollte an seinem Posten kleben.»\nAn konkreten Personalspekulationen, wer möglicherweise neuer Parteichef werden könnte, wollte sich Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger nicht beteiligen. Sie sagte auch auf mehrfache Nachfrage nicht, ob sie für die Übernahme des Parteivorsitzes zur Verfügung stünde.", "url": "http://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/brennpunkte_nt/article13037083/Entscheidungen-moeglicherweise-Montag.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110404001908/http://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/brennpunkte_nt/article13037083/Entscheidungen-moeglicherweise-Montag.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "News & Schlagzeilen auf SZ.de", "text": "\"Am meisten Mühe habe ich mir mit seinem Lächeln gegeben\"\nDer 17-jährige Johannes Häfele imitiert Bundeskanzler Sebastian Kurz - und ist damit in ganz Österreich bekannt geworden. Er erklärt, worauf es bei seiner Parodie ankommt und warum sie sogar für ÖVP-Wähler annehmbar ist.", "url": "http://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/1134976", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210413200755/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/news" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Fraktionschefin rückt von Westerwelle ab", "text": "Personaldebatte in der FDP\nFraktionschefin rückt von Westerwelle ab\nDPA FDP-Chef Westerwelle: Parteifreunde gehen auf Distanz zum Vorsitzenden\nEs wird einsam um Guido Westerwelle: Immer mehr Mitglieder der Parteiführung distanzieren sich von ihrem Vorsitzenden. Die FDP könne \"nicht so weitermachen wie bisher\", sagte jetzt auch Fraktionschefin Homburger. Baden-Württembergs Liberale drängen den Parteichef ebenfalls zum Rückzug.\nPeking/Berlin - Es war ein beschaulicher Termin für Guido Westerwelle an diesem Freitag: Der Außenminister hat in Chinas Hauptstadt Peking die bisher umfangreichste Schau deutscher Museen im Ausland eröffnet. Die Ausstellung mit dem Titel \"Die Kunst der Aufklärung\" wird von den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden und den Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen München präsentiert. Rund 500 Werke werden gezeigt, darunter Gemälde von Caspar David Friedrich, Goya, Piranesi und Gainsborough.\nWesterwelle könnte sich also entspannen - wenn da nicht dieser Personalstreit in seiner FDP wäre, der in der Heimat tobt und in dem es vor allem um seine Zukunft geht. Immer mehr Parteifreunde wünschen sich offenbar, dass Westerwelle den Posten des Parteichefs räumt.\nBundestagsfraktionschefin Birgit Homburger formulierte ihre Bedenken so: \"In der Tat können wir nicht so weitermachen wie bisher: Wir müssen alles auf den Prüfstand stellen, sowohl inhaltlich wie personell\", sagte Homburger der \"Rheinischen Post\". Wenn sie von \"alles\" spreche, meine sie damit selbstverständlich auch den Parteivorsitzenden.\n\"Keiner sollte an seinem Posten kleben\"\nSie selbst werde weitermachen - auch in ihrer Funktion als FDP-Landesvorsitzende in Baden-Württemberg. \"Ich wurde massiv gebeten, jetzt nicht von Bord zu gehen\", sagte Homburger. Weder als FDP-Landeschefin noch als Fraktionsvorsitzende in Berlin stehe sie als \"Bauernopfer\" für einen Verbleib Westerwelles an der Parteispitze zur Verfügung.\nDie baden-württembergische FDP rief Westerwelle indirekt zum Rückzug auf. \"Ich gehe davon aus, dass Guido Westerwelle am Montag in der Präsidiumssitzung die richtigen Schlussfolgerungen aus der Gesamtsituation zieht\", sagte Landtagsfraktionschef Hans-Ulrich Rülke. Rülke hatte Westerwelle Anfang der Woche davor gewarnt, Homburger für das Wahldebakel verantwortlich zu machen. Die Südwest-FDP war bei der Wahl am Sonntag von 10,7 auf 5,3 Prozent abgestürzt und muss nun in die Opposition.\nZuvor hatte in der FDP-Führungsdebatte Bundesjustizministerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger den Druck auf Westerwelle erhöht. \"Keiner sollte an seinem Posten kleben\", sagte die bayerische FDP-Vorsitzende dem \"Münchner Merkur\". Westerwelle habe ein gutes Gespür für die Lage der Partei. \"Da gibt es ein erhebliches Grummeln an der Basis.\" Auf die Frage, ob Westerwelle auch als Außenminister in Frage stehe, sagte sie: \"Nein, wir reden jetzt nur über die Erneuerung der Parteispitze.\"\nSuding: \"Hervorragender Job\"\nEs meldeten sich aber auch Unterstützer Westerwelles zu Wort. Der frühere Parteivize Walter Döring sagte in einem SPIEGEL-ONLINE-Interview, dass Westerwelle als einziger die Statur habe, \"den Laden noch halbwegs zusammenzuhalten\". Mögliche Herausforderer des Parteichefs hätten sich als unfähig erwiesen, \"weil sie nicht den Mumm in den Knochen haben, ihren Hut in den Ring zu werfen\". Dörings Kritik gilt offenbar den liberalen Jungpolitikern Christian Lindner, Philipp Rösler und Daniel Bahr. Das Trio wagt bislang keinen offenen Aufstand gegen den Parteichef.\nDie Hamburger FDP-Fraktionschefin Katja Suding räumte ein, es könne \"nach diesen Niederlagen kein Weiter-So geben\". Westerwelle mache aber aus ihrer Sicht einen \"hervorragenden Job als Parteichef. Er ist unter anderem dafür verantwortlich, dass über 90 liberale Abgeordnete im Bundestag sitzen.\"\nAuch der sächsische FDP-Vorsitzende Holger Zastrow signalisierte Rückendeckung für Westerwelle. \"Ich vertraue auf Guido Westerwelle\", sagte Zastrow im Deutschlandfunk. Dieser habe in den vergangenen Jahren immer das richtige Gespür entwickelt und die FDP \"vom Mief\" einer Klientelpartei befreit. \"Gerade wir in Ostdeutschland haben sehr von ihm profitiert\", sagte Zastrow.\nFällt Montag die Entscheidung über Westerwelles Zukunft?\nLaut einem Bericht der \"Süddeutschen Zeitung\" erwägt die FDP-Spitze, die Entscheidung über ihre Führungsmannschaft und damit das Schicksal von Westerwelle bereits am kommenden Montag zu fällen. Es sei denkbar, dass das Parteipräsidium schon am 4. und nicht erst am 11. April über eine inhaltliche und personelle Neuaufstellung berate, berichtet die Zeitung unter Berufung auf Parteikreise. Westerwelle sei bereit, sein Vorsitzendenamt auf dem Bundesparteitag in Rostock im Mai abzugeben, wenn sich ein geeigneter Nachfolger fände. Er wolle aber auf alle Fälle Außenminister bleiben.\nLeutheusser-Schnarrenberger nährte diese Spekulationen am Nachmittag in München: Möglicherweise werde man am kommenden Montag schon zu \"ersten Lösungen\" kommen, wie die Partei personell und inhaltlich besser aufgestellt werden könne, sagte sie. Ob sie sich selbst als Bundesvorsitzende bewerben werde, wollte die FDP-Politikerin nicht beantworten. \"Es kann auch sein, dass wir das Präsidium nur mit jungen Leuten besetzen werden.\"\nWesterwelle wird einer Umfrage zufolge auch in der Bevölkerung zunehmend kritisch gesehen: Nach Auffassung der meisten Bürger trägt der Parteichef die Hauptverantwortung für die Krise der Freidemokraten. 65 Prozent aller Befragten nannten den Vizekanzler in einer Forsa-Erhebung im Auftrag des \"Handelsblatts\" als Hauptschuldigen. Nur 21 Prozent weisen die Verantwortung Wirtschaftsminister Rainer Brüderle zu. 17 Prozent nennen Gesundheitsminister Philipp Rösler.\nhen/dpa/Reuters/dapd/AFP\nDiesen Artikel... Drucken\nSenden\nFeedback\nMerken\nAuf anderen Social Networks posten:\nNews verfolgen HilfeLassen Sie sich mit kostenlosen Diensten auf dem Laufenden halten: alles aus der Rubrik Politik | RSS alles aus der Rubrik Deutschland RSS alles zum Thema FDP RSS", "url": "http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,754442,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110403031608/http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,754442,00.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "FDP-Chef Westerwelle angeblich zu Rücktritt bereit", "text": "Immer mehr Politiker der deutschen Liberalen fordern offen den Rücktritt ihres Parteichefs. Einem Zeitungsbericht zufolge will Westerwelle auf jeden Fall Außenminister bleiben, den Parteivorsitz könnte er aber abgeben.\nNach der Schlappe der deutschen FDP bei den jüngsten Landtagswahlen steigt der Druck auf Parteichef Guido Westerwelle weiter an. Am Donnerstag forderten zahlreiche Landespolitiker seinen Rücktritt. Es reiche nicht, \"nur ein paar Stellvertreter auszutauschen\", sagte etwa die stellvertretende FDP-Vorsitzende in Bayern, Renate Will.\nWesterwelle ist angeblich bereit, den Parteivorsitz aufzugeben, wenn sich ein geeigneter Nachfolger findet. Das berichtete die \"Süddeutsche Zeitung\"am Freitag. Er wolle aber auf jeden Fall Außenminister bleiben.\nAm 11. April will das FDP-Präsidium Personalfragen diskutieren. Mitte Mai muss der Parteitag ohnehin eine neue Parteispitze wählen. Möglicherweise fielen aber schon auf der Präsidiumssitzung am 4. April erste Entscheidungen, hieß es in der FDP.\n(Ag./Red.)", "url": "http://diepresse.com/home/politik/aussenpolitik/646687/FDPChef-Westerwelle-angeblich-zu-Ruecktritt-bereit?_vl_backlink=/home/politik/aussenpolitik/index.do", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200514012441/https://www.diepresse.com/646687/fdp-chef-westerwelle-angeblich-zu-rucktritt-bereit?_vl_backlink=%2Fhome%2Fpolitik%2Faussenpolitik%2Findex.do" } ]

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[ { "language": "de", "title": "Spieltag/Tabelle", "text": "Jansen und Atouba scheiden mit Verletzungen aus\nPetric beendet schwarze HSV-Serie\nDurch ein Last-Minute-Tor des Kroaten Petric fuhr der HSV das erste Mal überhaupt bei Energie Cottbus drei Punkte ein und behauptete mit dem knappen Sieg die Tabellenführung. Nach einer ereignislosen ersten Hälfte gingen die Gäste zunächst in Front. Energie wachte erst spät auf, kam noch zum Ausgleich, wurde aber für allzulange Passivität dann doch bestraft.\nHart bewacht: HSV-Stürmer Guerrero wird von Kukielka bedrängt, Angelov ist auch zur Stelle. © dpa\nEnergie Cottbus trat nach dem 1:0-Sieg in Berlin auf einer Position neu aufgestellt an. Coach Bojan Prasnikar musste auf Skela (Grippe) verzichten, dafür lief Vasiljevic auf. Auch beim HSV gab es nach dem 2:0 bei Unirea Urziceni im UEFA-Cup eine Änderung. Trainer Martin Jol verzichtete zunächst auf die Dienste von Jansen und brachte Olic von Beginn an.\nDas Spiel begann mit einer Hiobsbotschaft für die Hanseaten. Atouba verletzte sich ohne Fremdeinwirkung nach wenigen Minuten (Verdacht auf Muskelfaserriss), so kam Jansen schnell in die Partie und verteidigte nun fortan für den Kameruner links hinten in der Viererkette (8.).\nCottbus stand meist dichtgestaffelt in der eigenen Hälfte und wartete die Angriffe der Jol-Elf ab, nur Stürmer Jelic lauerte in der Spitze auf den langen Ball. Die Lausitzer machten konsequent die Räume eng, agierten auch mit der nötigen Härte und hinterließen mit dieser Spielweise weithin ratlose Hamburger. Deren erste nennenswerte Offensivszene datierte aus der 22. Minute. Guerrero und Trochowski verschafften sich da einmal den nötigen Raum und wirbelten den Lausitzer Abwehrverband ordentlich durcheinander, doch ohne das nötige Glück im Abschluss.\nDie Angriffsbemühungen der Hausherren waren im ganzen Verlauf der ersten Hälfte mehr als überschaubar. Nur einmal blitzte so etwas wie Spielkultur auf Seiten der Ostdeutschen auf, ein direkt gespielter Angriff landete schließlich bei Rost, der aber mit einem unplatzierten Fernschuss abschloss (28.).\nDer 7. Spieltag\nHamburg schaffte es einfach nicht, mit schnellem und direktem Spiel das Energie-Bollwerk zu knacken. Zu selten wurden die Flügelstürmer eingesetzt, meist ging es durch die Mitte, und da war Cottbus einfach nicht auszuhebeln. Guerreros Volleyschuss, der knapp über die Querlatte strich, sollte bis zur Pause die gefährlichste HSV-Aktion bleiben (38.) – denn auch die Standardsituationen der Gäste, meist trat Trochowski die ruhenden Bälle, verpufften wirkungslos.\nNach dem Seitenwechsel boten die Hamburger, bei denen jetzt Jansen ebenfalls mit Verdacht auf Muskelfaserriss für Boateng Platz machen musste (48.), ein gänzlich anderes Bild. Mit dem ersten Versuch gelang ihnen das, was zuvor 45 Minuten lang verwehrt blieb: Der Torerfolg. Olic brach mit einem Abstauber das Eis, Guerrero hatte sich zuvor erstmals von Pavicevic gelöst und Tremmel geprüft, der das Spielgerät nur zur Seite ablenken konnte. Dort stand der Kroate frei und bedankte sich (54.).\nJetzt spielte nur noch der HSV. Von der Führung beflügelt, setzte die Jol-Elf nach und verpasste mehrmals nur knapp. Boateng vergab freistehend fahrlässig (58.), Olic köpfte knapp vorbei (62.), und Landsmann Petric donnerte den Ball nur an den Innenpfosten (63.).\nMatchwinner Petric jubelt erleichtert nach dem Schlusspfiff. De Jong (li.) und Jarolim (re.) sind mit dabei. © dpa\nMit der Einwechslung von Angreifer Jula (68.) sendete Bojan Prasnikar an sein Team das deutliche Zeichen, die Defensivtaktik aufzugeben. Tatsächlich wachten die Hausherren aus ihrer Tiefschlafphase etwas auf und wagten sich über Angelov (71.) und Jula (72.) nach sehr langer Zeit wieder mit Schüssen vor das Tor von Rost. Gleich der dritte Streich brachte dann den überraschenden Ausgleich. Mitreski, aus der Innenverteidigung mit aufgerückt, flankte gefühlvoll in den Rücken der HSV-Abwehr. Jelic stahl sich allen davon und brachte die Kugel aus wenigen Metern im Tor unter (74.).\nIn einer hitzigen Schlussphase, in der beide Teams alle taktischen Fesseln über Bord warfen, hatte dann Energie sogar noch die Siegchance durch Jula und Kukielka (83.), den Matchball verwandelte dann aber Torgarant Petric für die Norddeutschen in der letzten Minute. Nach einer Ecke von Trochowski köpfte der Kroate in das lange Eck und sicherte seinem Team den ersten Erfolg überhaupt im Stadion der Freundschaft.\nNach der Länderspielpause tritt Cottbus am Samstag in Köln an. Der HSV ist im einzigen Sonntagsspiel gegen Schalke gefordert.", "url": "http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/spieltag/spielpaarungsbericht/object/863474/saison/2008-09/naviindex/1", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081006083127/http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/spieltag/spielpaarungsbericht/object/863474/saison/2008-09/naviindex/1" } ]

[ "Themenportal Recht", "Recht in Deutschland", "Mord", "Raub", "Straftat allg.", "Landgericht Stade" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Nachrichten aus Hamburg und der Welt", "text": "Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser,\nleider können wir aus technischen Gründen dieses PDF-Archiv seit dem 01.08.2019 nicht mehr befüllen.\nMöchten Sie sich Ihr eigenes Archiv zusammenstellen?\nSie können sich hier die Ihnen wichtigen Ausgaben herunterladen. Weiterhin sind alle aktuellen Ausgaben in unserem LesePortal (WebReader) vorhanden und Sie können diese dort herunterladen und auf Ihrem PC/Laptop speichern.\nWir wünschen Ihnen weiter viel Lesespaß.\nIhr Hamburger Abendblatt", "url": "http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/12/21/829631.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200513174709/https://www.abendblatt.de/archiv/nachrichten-vom-21-12-2007.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Justiz: Mordprozess von Sittensen geplatzt", "text": "Der Prozess um den siebenfachen Mord von Sittensen muss neu aufgerollt werden. Notwendig wurde dies, weil eine Richterin schwer erkrankt ist.\nDurch deren Ausfall könne das Verfahren nicht in der ursprünglichen Besetzung fortgeführt werden, sondern müsse von Neuem beginnen. Dies habe die Schurgerichtskammer mit Beschluss vom Mittwoch angeordnet, teilte das Landgericht Stade am Donnerstag mit. Auftakt des neuen Prozesses ist am 9. Januar. Weitere Termine sind zunächst bis zum Juni 2008 angesetzt.Der Prozess hatte Ende August vor dem Landgericht Stade begonnen. Wegen der Bluttat in einem China-Restaurant in Sittensen müssen sich fünf Asiaten verantworten. In der Nacht zum 5. Februar waren das Gastronomenehepaar und fünf Angestellte erschossen worden. Die sieben Opfer waren zum Teil gefesselt, misshandelt und schließlich getötet worden. Die Staatsanwaltschaft stützt ihre Anklage vor allem auf Indizien, aber auch auf Aussagen von Beteiligten.Die Verteidigung hatte kritisiert, dass das Verfahren überhastet begonnen worden sei. Gleich zu Beginn der Verhandlung hatte die Verteidigung das Gericht mit einer Flut von Anträgen konfrontiert. Insbesondere der Vorwurf der Rechtsanwälte, das Gericht habe ihnen trotz mehrmaliger Aufforderung keine vollständige Einsicht in die rund 12 000 Seiten starke Akte gewährt, hatte für Wirbel gesorgt.", "url": "http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/justiz_aid_230367.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130618235416/http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/justiz_aid_230367.html" } ]

[ "Fires", "Zoological Society of London", "London", "United Kingdom", "Europe", "England", "Disasters and accidents" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "London Zoo closed after 70 firefighters sent to battle blaze", "text": "London Zoo has been shut until further notice following a blaze tackled by more than 70 firefighters.\nFlames ripped through the zoo's Animal Adventure section just after 6am on Saturday, spreading to a cafe that included a petting zoo, and a gift shop near a penguin pool at the back of the site.\nFire crews from @LondonFire are at @zsllondonzoo tackling a large fire in the camel enclosure. pic.twitter.com/rsU0D0OqaD — Paul Wood (@PaulWood1961) December 23, 2017\nA zoo spokesperson told Sky News staff had been treated for smoke inhalation and shock.\nLondon Ambulance said paramedics treated eight people at the scene - six for smoke inhalation and two for minor injuries, with one of those treated taken to hospital.\nA nine-year-old aardvark called Misha died in the blaze, the zoo confirmed, and four meerkats remain unaccounted for.\nLondon Zoo latest: A cafe and shop at #London Zoo is alight. Part of the roof is also alight https://t.co/VqBLKK6gMj Pic: @PaulWood1961 pic.twitter.com/x0BDlJ8GRj — London Fire Brigade (@LondonFire) December 23, 2017\nPictures showed the brightly coloured Adventure Cafe with blackened walls and smoke pouring out of its windows.\nFirefighters were also seen climbing ladders with hoses to douse the roof.\nThey will stay on the scene \"throughout the morning\" to \"damp down\" the fire, London Fire Brigade (LFB) said.\nWe continue to damp down the fire which damaged a cafe and shop at #LondonZoo this morning. The zoo is closed until further notice today while their staff assess the situation. Follow @zsllondonzoo for updates. Our latest statement is here https://t.co/VqBLKK6gMj pic.twitter.com/Yq3E5oBN0e — London Fire Brigade (@LondonFire) December 23, 2017\nLondon Zoo confirmed that it will remain shut until further notice.\nIt said: \"Duty staff that live on site at the zoo were on the scene immediately, and started moving animals to safety.\n\"The London Fire Brigade were on the scene within minutes and the fire was brought under control by 9:16am.\nVideo: Fire hits London Zoo cafe\n\"A number of zoo staff have been treated at the scene for smoke inhalation and shock.\n\"Our staff are now in the process of assessing the situation in difficult conditions. At present one aardvark is currently unaccounted for.\n\"We are immensely grateful to the fire brigade, who reacted quickly to the situation to bring the fire under control.\n\"The zoo will remain closed until further notice, and we will work closely with fire investigators to determine the cause of the incident.\"\nImage: Dozens of firefighters tackled the blaze. Pic: LFB\nEarlier, LFB confirmed 10 fire engines and 72 firefighters and officers were dispatched to the scene.\nA statement said: \"Fire crews from Kentish Town, Paddington, Euston, West Hampstead and other surrounding fire stations are at the scene.\n\"The cause of the fire is not known at this stage.\"", "url": "https://news.sky.com/story/london-zoo-fire-70-firefighters-tackle-cafe-blaze-11181845", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171223132457/https://news.sky.com/story/london-zoo-fire-70-firefighters-tackle-cafe-blaze-11181845" }, { "language": "en", "title": "London Zoo fire: Aardvark dead and four meerkats missing in blaze", "text": "LONDON — One aardvark has died and four meerkats are missing after a fire broke out at a zoo in central London early Saturday.\nA number of staff at the ZSL London Zoo were also treated for smoke inhalation and shock after the blaze tore through the Animal Adventure area, a children's petting zone, zoo officials said in a statement published on its website.\n\"Sadly our vets have confirmed the death of our nine-year-old aardvark, Misha,\" the zoo said. \"There are also four meerkats unaccounted for at this stage, and we have limited access to site to confirm this.\"\nPlay Facebook\nTwitter\nEmbed London Zoo fire leaves aardvark dead and four meerkats missing 0:51 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog\nThe zoo said the other animals were being closely monitored by its vets but appeared to not have been affected by the blaze, which broke out around 6 a.m. local time (1 a.m. ET) and was under control some three hours later.\nSecurity guards, along with zoo keepers who live on site, first responded to the fire, alerting authorities and moving the animals to safe locations within their enclosures, the zoo said.\nTen fire engines and 72 firefighters attended the blaze which mainly affected the Animal Adventure café and shop before spreading to a nearby animal petting area, the London Fire Brigade said. According to a map of the zoo, the café is adjacent to the meerkat enclosure.\nI am told by London Zoo it is Mischa the Aardvark who is missing following the fire. #LondonZoo #BBCNews #BREAKING pic.twitter.com/ezKnYqKhSy — Frankie McCamley (@Frankie_Mack) December 23, 2017\n\"When they arrived our crews were faced with a very well developed fire. They worked incredibly hard in arduous conditions to bring it under control as quickly as possible and to stop it from spreading to neighbouring animal enclosures,” Station Manager David George said.\nThe fire was brought under control at about 9:16 a.m. local time (4:16 a.m. ET) and an investigation remained underway into its cause, the fire brigade said.\nThe zoo will be closed Saturday.", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/london-zoo-fire-aardvark-dead-four-meerkats-missing-blaze-n832321", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171223210503/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/london-zoo-fire-aardvark-dead-four-meerkats-missing-blaze-n832321" }, { "language": "en", "title": "London Zoo fire kills aardvark 'and meerkats'", "text": "Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption London Zoo 'devastated' by aardvark fire death\nStaff have been injured and an aardvark and possibly four meerkats killed in a fire at London Zoo.\nAbout 70 firefighters tackled the blaze at its height in the Animal Adventure section that spread to a shop.\nOne person was taken to hospital and eight were treated at the scene.\nThe zoo said an aardvark called Misha died in the fire and four meerkats were still unaccounted for, presumed dead. The zoo was shut on Saturday but said it would reopen on Sunday.\nThe cause of the fire is not yet known.\nImage copyright Brendan Cooney/Reuters Image caption Photographs posted on social media showed orange flames rising from the building\nTen fire engines went to the zoo, which sits in the capital's Regent's Park, shortly after 06:00 GMT and the fire was brought under control about three hours later.\nSix people were given help at the scene for the effects of smoke inhalation and two for minor injuries, London Ambulance Service said.\nOne person was taken to a north-west London hospital, the service said.\nImage copyright London Fire Brigade\nImage copyright Charlie Bard\nDuty staff who live on site were on the scene \"immediately\" and started moving animals to safety, the zoo said.\nIn a statement the zoo said it was \"devastated\" about what had happened.\nIt said: \"Sadly our vets have confirmed the death of our nine-year-old aardvark, Misha. There are also four meerkats still unaccounted for, but we are now presuming these have also died.\n\"All other animals in the vicinity are being monitored closely by our vets, but early signs suggest they have not been affected. We will continue to monitor them over the coming days.\n\"We are all naturally devastated by this, but are immensely grateful to the fire brigade, who reacted quickly to the situation to bring the fire under control. \"\nYou might also be interested in:\nAdnan Abdul Husein said he saw the blaze from a nearby park when he was out walking his dog, and alerted zoo security.\n\"It didn't look like smoke just coming out of a chimney - it was quite heavy\", he said.\n\"As I got closer to the zoo I could see that it was actually inside the zoo so I went over to the security and told them, 'there's flames or there's smoke coming from inside there, do you know anything about it?'. And they obviously didn't have a clue.\"\nImage copyright Getty Images\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) station manager Clive Robinson, who was at the scene, said three-quarters of the cafe and shop had been affected by the fire and half of the roof.\nHe said: \"Firefighters worked hard to bring the fire under control as quickly as possible and to stop it from spreading to neighbouring animal enclosures.\"\nImage copyright @PaulWood1961\nImage copyright London Fire Brigade Image caption The cause of the fire is not yet known, London Fire Brigade said", "url": "http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-42465094", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20171224050538/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-42465094" } ]

[ "North America", "United States", "Economy and business", "Illinois", "Wal-Mart" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Kmart Acquires Sears in $11 Billion Deal", "text": "'); //--> Associated Press\nUpdate 12: Kmart Acquires Sears in $11 Billion Deal\nA resurgent Kmart, home of the blue light special, is buying the once-dominant Sears department store chain in a surprising $11 billion gamble it is counting on to help both better compete with Wal-Mart and other big-box retailers.\nLed by Kmart Holding Corp. chairman Edward Lampert, the new Sears Holdings Corp. would be the nation's third largest retailer. Both chains would survive, but several hundred stand-alone Kmarts throughout the country are expected to be transformed into Sears stores. The goal: A quick kick-start to sales away from Sears traditional base of shopping malls.\nLampert and Sears chairman and CEO Alan Lacy, in announcing the deal on Wednesday, promised up to $500 million a year in savings within three years from store conversions, back-office job cuts, more efficient buying of goods and possible store closings.\nShares of both Kmart and Sears, Roebuck and Co. surged on the news, but some analysts are skeptical that it amounts to a home run.\n\"Both have been broken in some sense,\" said Dan Hess, president and chief executive of Merchant Forecast, a New York-based independent research company. \"Kmart has to learn to survive in a Wal-Mart world and Sears needs to learn to survive in a world of Home Depot and Lowe's.\"\nLampert, 42, was as an assistant to Robert Rubin at Goldman Sachs & Co. before leaving to form a hedge fund at the age of 25. He orchestrated the deal and will lead a new board that will be dominated by Kmart directors.\n\"We need to have a low-cost structure to compete with bigger retailers,\" said Lampert, whose Greenwich, Conn.-based investment firm controls Kmart and is Sears largest individual shareholder, with a 15.8 percent stake.\nFor Sears, the merger allows the company to move more quickly to where it believes its strongest base of customers are. \"Off mall is where we need to move very aggressively,\" said Lacy, who will become vice chairman and chief executive of Sears Holding.\nLacy said he and Lampert have known each other for four years. The idea for a combined company first arose when they were in talks about Sears' purchase of 50 Kmart stores earlier this year, he said.\nThe new company is expected to have $55 billion in annual revenues and 3,500 outlets. That will mean it will trail only Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot Inc. among the biggest U.S. retailers.\nIt will be headquartered in the northwestern Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates, where Sears has its headquarters, but will maintain a \"significant presence\" in Troy, Mich., where Kmart is based.\nThe deal marks a remarkable comeback for Kmart, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early 2002, leading to the closing of about 600 stores, termination of 57,000 Kmart employees and cancellation of company stock.\nLampert gained control of Kmart when the retailer emerged from bankruptcy in May 2003 through the conversion of his debt holdings into equity. In March, Kmart posted its first profitable quarter in three years.\nWhile same-store sales have continued to decline, Lampert has maximized cash flow in part by selling off some of the stores to Sears and Home Depot.\nOn Wednesday, Kmart said it earned $553 million, or $5.45 per share, in the third quarter ended Oct. 27, compared with a loss of $23 million, or 26 cents per share, for the same period a year ago. Its stock price has risen more than sevenfold from $15 a share when it emerged from bankruptcy.\nSears' roots date to the late 1800s when it offered merchandise by mail order to farmers, opened its first retail store in 1925 and eventually became the nation's biggest department store operator.\nMired in a retail slump, Sears had long fallen out of favor on Wall Street after losing ground to competitors and enduring sluggish sales for years. The company last fall introduced its Sears Grand stores, which offer grocery and convenience items besides traditional Sears fare such as clothing, home appliances and tools. The concept had delivered promising results for the retailer at its first three stores in metropolitan Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and in the Chicago suburb of Gurnee.\nLampert said the goal for the combined company is to achieve a 10 percent operating profit margin, a level that's generated by such retailers as Gap Inc. and Target Inc. But he noted that in the meantime, the financial operations will be \"lumpy\" as it digests the two companies.\nA key part of increasing productivity at the stores will be in the cross selling of the brands, though company officials declined to be specific on which they would overlap. Besides Craftsman tools and Kenmore appliances, Sears' exclusive brands include Lands' End clothing. Kmart's brands include Martha Stewart, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer. Lampert said that Sears could also benefit from Kmart's expertise in its pharmaceutical department and health and beauty products.\nLampert said that it is unlikely any Sears stores would be converted to Kmarts and that store closings are a possibility. \"I think we'll probably end up over time opening more stores than we close, but obviously if we don't operate the stores well, it might be the other way around,\" he said.\nHe also would not provide any details on possible layoffs, except to say, \"There will be some head count changes that come out of this.\"\nSears shares soared $7.70, or 17 percent, to $52,90 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange and Kmart shares climbed $7.33, or 7 percent, to $108.55 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.\nShares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. also rose 6 percent on the belief among investors that the deal could bring a larger-scale merchandising agreement with Sears. Currently, Martha Stewart Everyday brand is sold exclusively at Kmart in the United States, and at Sears Canada.\nUnder Wednesday's agreement, which was unanimously approved by both companies' boards of directors, Kmart shareholders would receive one share of new Sears Holdings stock for each Kmart share. Sears shareholders can choose $50 in cash or half a share of Sears Holdings stock. That portion of the deal values Sears shares at $11 billion, a 10.6 percent premium over its value at Tuesday's close.\nThe merger, expected to close by the end of March 2005, is subject to approval by Kmart and Sears shareholders, regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.\nSears Holding also created the office of the chairmanship, which consists of Lampert, Lacy and Aylwin B. Lewis, who was named president of Sears Holding Corp., CEO of Sears Retail. Last month, Lewis, formerly an executive at restaurant operator Yum Brands Inc., was named chief executive and president of Kmart.\n'); //--> Loading Top Headlines...\nSubscriptions >", "url": "http://www.forbes.com/business/services/feeds/ap/2004/11/17/ap1662284.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20041119063644/http://www.forbes.com/business/services/feeds/ap/2004/11/17/ap1662284.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Top News Article", "text": "advertisement\nKmart Buying Sears in $11.5 Billion Deal\nNEW YORK (Reuters) - Discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. (KMRT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will buy department store operator Sears, Roebuck & Co. (S.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in a $11.5 billion deal unveiled on Wednesday that will create the third-largest U.S. retailer.\nThe new company, Sears Holdings, will have $55 billion in annual revenue and nearly 3,500 retail stores. Both company names will be used on stores, but some Kmart stores will be converted to the more well regarded Sears nameplate.\nThe companies, both of which have been struggling, said in a joint statement the merger, expected to be finalized by next March, would generate significant cost savings and could trigger sales of \"nonstrategic real estate assets.\nThe deal came after investor Edward Lampert built up his position in Sears. Lampert's hedge fund ESL Investment Inc. is the largest shareholder in both Kmart and Sears.\nShares of both companies soared at the start of stock market trading, with Sears up 22 percent and Kmart ahead 15 percent.\nAnalysts were divided over the motives behind the deal.\nSome said it should protect the retailers by giving them greater strength in the marketplace and enable them to swap or sell sites to suit needs as Sears moves away from malls.\n\"It looms good for both businesses overall, but in the short-term it will cost jobs,\" said Gary Ruffing, head of retail services at management consulting group BBK Ltd.\n\"I think this will trigger a lot of activity in the retail sector, with toys and possibly home furnishing companies coming together to become stronger,\" he added.\nOther observers were more skeptical.\n\"This entire deal is designed to pile up cash, and Lampert will then liquidate his position or buy something else and do the same thing all over,\" said Erik Gordon, marketing professor at Johns Hopkins University. Continued ...", "url": "http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6842124", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20041118071714/http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6842124" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Sears and Kmart to merge", "text": "The new company, Sears Holdings, will have $55bn in annual revenue and nearly 3,500 retail stores. Both company names will be used on stores, but some Kmart shops will be converted to the more upscale Sears name. Both companies have been struggling against the sector leader, Wal-Mart, and second-placed home improvement retailer Home Depot. In a joint statement, the companies said the merger would lead to significant cost savings and could trigger sales of property assets.\nThe deal marks a comeback of sorts for Kmart, which had scaled back operations after seeking bankruptcy protection in 2002. Sears's roots date to the late 1800s when it sold merchandise by mail order to farmers, the precursor to the famous Sears catalogue. Sears opened its first retail store in 1925 and eventually became America's biggest retailer.\nSome analysts were sceptical that the two could do jointly what they could not achieve alone.\nDarrell Rigby, head of the retail practice at Bain & Company, said, \"The problem is, they are missing a key ingredient: sales growth. They haven't been able to solve their sales problems separately. Can they solve them jointly?\"\nKmart has annual sales of about $23bn and more than 1,400 locations across the US. It carries brands such as Martha Stewart Everyday - the brand owned by homemaking celebrity Martha Stewart who is currently serving a jail sentence for obstruction of justice.\nSears, with annual revenue of about $41bn, has more than 2,300 Sears-branded and affiliated stores. The deal has already received unanimous approval from both companies' boards of directors. The companies said they expected annual cost savings of $500m within three years of the merger.", "url": "http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1353466,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20041121011834/http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1353466,00.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Kmart, Sears to merge in $11B deal", "text": "NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Kmart is buying Sears, Roebuck & Co. for $11 billion in a deal that will marry two of the nation's oldest retailers that had trouble keeping up with the changes in American culture around them. QUICK VOTE What do you expect from the Kmart-Sears merger?\nLower prices\nMore Martha Stewart, Lands' End stuff\nLots of store closings\nNothing, Wal-Mart rules!\nView results The deal, announced Wednesday morning, will create the third-largest retailer in the country. The new company, known as Sears Holdings, will be based at Sears headquarters outside Chicago. While the new company will operate both Sears and Kmart stores, \"several hundred\" Kmarts will be converted to Sears, Sears Chairman Alan Lacy said at a news conference. The companies currently operate about 3,500 stores combined. \"Sears has had a very different problem from Kmart,\" Lacy said. \"Our service and products are as good as our competitors but they're not where our customers are. This now gives us the opportunity to grow off-mall locations closer to the customer.\" Kmart, founded as S.S. Kresge in Detroit in 1899, has long been strong in clothing and home accessories, and in recent years has added brands such as Thalia Sodi, Jaclyn Smith, Joe Boxer and Martha Stewart Everyday products. Sears, which started selling watches through catalogs in 1886, later became best known for its Craftsman tools and Kenmore appliances. And while it's struggled in clothing and other soft lines, it bought Lands' End and developed youth-oriented Apostrophe brand to try to fill those holes. For consumers, the deal means being able to get appliances and other hard goods at Kmart and more clothing at Sears -- and could mean lower prices as the two chains try to compete. \"Imagine going into Kmart and buying a Sears Craftsman tool set, or buying Kmart's Martha Stewart home products at Sears,\" said Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst with market research firm NPD Group. \"To Kmart shoppers, Lands' End may not mean anything, but now it will.\" \"We don't want two separate cultures but to blend it into one great culture.\" Kmart Chairman Edward Lampert said Thursday. \"The idea is to make the stores more competitive while staying focused on the customer.\" From meager beginnings, Kmart and Sears both grew quickly to dominate the retail landscape after World War II. Then along came Wal-Mart and other big discounters like Target, newer chains that changed the face of retailing in America. Andy Serwer takes a closer look at the $11 billion merger of two American retail icons.\nPlay video\n(Real or Windows Media) Ali Velshi reports on what the deal means for investors.\nPlay video\n(Real or Windows Media) \"It's not so much that Sears and Kmart did anything wrong, it's just that they didn't change while the rest of the industry was changing around them,\" said Barbara Kahn, professor of marketing at the Wharton School. \"Sears and Kmart did not differentiate themselves from the competition. Wal-Mart came along with its great service and low-prices, other retailers started to innovate more with products and service. Sears and Kmart simply trudged along and thought that was good enough,\" she said. Retail analyst Kurt Barnard said Kmart's low prices and Sears reputation for service should make a good fit. But he and other analysts said the combined company will still face stiff competition, and that store closings were likely. \"One [name] will probably fade out of existence,\" Barnard said, adding, \"Don't be so sure that Sears is the one that survives. Kmart is a discount store name and perhaps more able to compete with Wal-Mart on that basis than Sears.\" The merger should help the new company compete against Wal-Mart (Research), the world's largest retailer, as well as Home Depot (Research), the home improvement chain, and Target (Research), which will lose its place as No. 3 to the combined Sears-Kmart. On Wall Street, investors applauded the deal, sending Sears (up $7.79 to $52.99, Research) stock up 22 percent while Kmart jumped 16 percent in afternoon trading. (Click here to read more about the man behind the deal) The complex cash-and-stock deal is worth about $11 billion, the companies said. (For more on what the deal means to investors, click here.) The companies said they expect cost savings and additional sales of $500 million a year after the merger is completed. It's subject to approval by shareholders and regulators. (For key facts about the deal, click here.) Moving too slowly? Sears has been too slow to expand away from mall locations, industry analysts said. \"If there are indeed hundreds of Kmart conversions into Sears, the company will dramatically accelerate its off-mall presence, a category which has been its downfall,\" said Lois Huff, retail analyst with Retail Forward. Sears opened a new store concept, Sears Grand, last year in a bid to battle back against Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy, which have moved rapidly into free-standing stores in cities and suburbia. \"The benefits to Sears consumers is more product choice and shopping convenience. Kmart's apparel brands like Joe Boxer and Thalia Sodi have lower starting price points, so consumers could see some downward movement in prices in the apparel category.\" said Huff. \"The Kmart stores that continue to exist will be the ones that Sears passed on,\" she said, adding, \"If the company keeps them, they could be converted into value stores in the same category as Dollar General.\" Industry consultant George Whalin went a step further, saying the merger could signal the end of the Kmart name. \"This is more a real estate deal than anything else. I would be very surprised if Kmart doesn't completely go away in the two to three years, or become something completely different,\" he said. -- With CNN/Money Senior Writer Chris Isidore", "url": "http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/17/news/fortune500/sears_kmart/index.htm?cnn=yes", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20041210024031/http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/17/news/fortune500/sears_kmart/index.htm?cnn=yes" } ]

[ "Asie", "Israël", "Palestine", "Égypte", "Syrie", "Gaza", "Proche-Orient", "Politique et conflits", "Politique", "Guerre", "Guerre de Gaza 2008-2009", "Moyen-Orient" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Gaza: les négociations de trêve patinent par la faute d'Israël (Hamas)", "text": "International Gaza: les négociations de trêve patinent par la faute d'Israël (Hamas) 19:27 LE CAIRE, 5 février - RIA Novosti. Le dernier tour des négociations sur une trêve dans la bande de Gaza au Caire a échoué \"en raison de l'obstination d'Israël qui refuse de lever le blocus de l'enclave palestinienne et d'ouvrir les points de passage\" frontaliers, lit-on jeudi dans un communiqué du Hamas. Mercredi dernier, une délégation du Hamas a achevé des négociations avec les médiateurs égyptiens et s'est rendue à Damas pour mener des consultations avec sa direction et d'autres groupes de la résistance palestinienne. Jeudi, l'émissaire israélien Amos Gilad s'est rendu au Caire pour négocier avec le chef des services secrets égyptiens Omar Souleimane, homme-clé des négociations indirectes entre Israël et le Hamas. Le mouvement islamiste se dit favorable à une trêve d'un an à condition que soient ouverts les points de passage entre la bande de Gaza et Israël ainsi que le terminal de Rafah, entre le territoire palestinien et l'Egypte. Selon le porte-parole du Hamas Sami Abu Zuhri, Israël pose des conditions inacceptables et propose des formules vagues qu'il pourrait par la suite interpréter à sa guise. \"Aussi les négociations n'ont-elles abouti à aucun résultat\", a-t-il expliqué. Auparavant, il avait été annoncé qu'une trêve devait entrer en vigueur dès le 5 février. La récente offensive israélienne, qui a duré 22 jours, a fait plus de 1.330 morts palestiniens, selon des sources palestiniennes et dévasté la bande de Gaza. A la mi-janvier, Israël a retiré ses troupes de l'enclave. A l'heure actuelle, Israël et le Hamas ont annoncé à titre unilatéral un cessez-le-feu et mènent des négociations sur une trêve de 18 mois par l'entremise de l'Egypte. Néanmoins, la situation se dégrade périodiquement en raison de tirs de roquettes contre le territoire israéliens et des ripostes d'Israël.\nenvoyez par e-mail retour à la page d'accueil", "url": "http://www.fr.rian.ru/world/20090205/120002899.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090207211244/http://fr.rian.ru/world/20090205/120002899.html" } ]

[ "Afera w Volkswagenie", "Afery", "Gospodarka", "Niemcy", "Prawo i przestępczość", "Przedsiębiorstwa" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Wirtschaftskriminalität: Erste Anklage in VW-Affäre gegen Peter Hartz", "text": "Weitgehend geständig: Peter Hartz\n15. November 2006\nAnderthalb Jahre nach dem Ausbruch der VW-Affäre ist der ehemalige Personalvorstand Peter Harz als erster Beschuldigter angeklagt worden. Die Staatsanwaltschaft Braunschweig wirft dem 65jährigen nach einer Mitteilung von Mittwoch in 44 Fällen Untreue, davon 23 Mal zusätzlich die Begünstigung eines Betriebsrates vor.\nHartz soll an den früheren Betriebsratsvorsitzenden Klaus Volkert fast zwei Millionen Euro an Sonderbonuszahlungen angewiesen haben „ohne daß dies bei VW offengelegt worden ist“, wie Staatsanwalt Klaus Ziehe mitteilte.\nWeitgehend geständig\nDer ehemalige Manager ist nach Presseberichten weitgehend geständig. Er war im Juli 2005 wegen der Vorwürfe zurückgetreten. In der 63 Seiten umfassenden Anklageschrift wird Hartz Untreue in 44 Fällen vorgeworfen, davon in 23 dieser Fälle gleichzeitig auch eine unrechtmäßige Begünstigung eines Mitgliedes des Betriebsrates um seiner Tätigkeit willen“, wie es in den entsprechenden Strafbestimmungen im Betriebsverfassungsgesetz heiß. Damit seien die Zahlungen an Volkert gemeint.\n„Nach Überzeugung der Ermittler wurden Herrn Volkert diese erheblichen Geldleistungen allein im Hinblick auf seine Position als mächtigster Betriebsrat gewährt und standen damit nicht im Einklang mit Gesetz und Recht“, erklärte Ziehe. Die Staatsanwaltschaft gehe davon aus, daß es sich um kompensationslos gewährte Prämien handelte, „die als treuepflichtswidrige Verschwendung des Gesellschaftsvermögens von VW bewertet worden sind“, fügte er hinzu.\nWeitere Vorwürfe umfassen Barzahlungen an eine frühere Geliebte von Volkert, wie die Staatsanwaltschaft erklärte. Es gehe hier um 400.000 Euro. Vorwürfe wegen unzüchtiger Lustbarkeiten auf Firmenkosten sowie wegen eines von Volkswagen bezahlten Liebesnestes in Braunschweig ließ die Staatsanwaltschaft „wegen vergleichsweise geringer Schadenshöhe“ fallen.\nIn der Affäre wird noch weiter gegen 12 andere Beschuldigte ermittelt, darunter der SPD-Bundestagsabgeordneten Hans-Jürgen Uhl, der frühere Betriebsrat Bernd Sudholt, ehemaliger Personalmanager Klaus-Joachim Gebauer, der frühere Skoda-Vorstand Helmut Schuster sowie der ehemalige VW-Konzernbetriebsratschef Klaus Volkert. Ein erstes Verfahren gegen einen früheren VW-Betriebsarzt wurde vor wenigen Wochen gegen Auflagen eingestellt.\nBei den übrigen Beschuldigten geht es vor allem um die mutmaßliche Teilnahme an teuren Partys und anderen Vergnügen auf Firmenkosten, die nichts mit den betrieblichen Tätigkeiten der Beschuldigten zu tun hatten.", "url": "http://www.faz.net/s/RubC8BA5576CDEE4A05AF8DFEC92E288D64/Doc~ECA04C79C316E42D180AC58877D446F6C~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070105012309/http://www.faz.net/s/RubC8BA5576CDEE4A05AF8DFEC92E288D64/Doc~ECA04C79C316E42D180AC58877D446F6C~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Es ist angerichtet", "text": "PETER HARTZ\nDie Anklage gegen den früheren VW-Vorstand Peter Hartz in der Affäre um Korruption und Vergnügungsreisen ist nach einem Medienbericht fertig gestellt. Die Anklageschrift werde noch im November dem Landgericht Braunschweig zugehen. Möglicherweise kommt Hartz mit einer Bewährungsstrafe davon.\nHamburg/Braunschweig - Dem früheren Personalvorstand des Wolfsburger Autobauers würden neben schwerer Untreue nach Paragraf 266 des Strafgesetzbuches auch Verstöße gegen das deutsche Betriebsverfassungsgesetz und das Europäische Betriebsrätegesetz vorgeworfen, schreibt das Nachrichten-Magazin DER SPIEGEL.\n© DDP Großansicht Es wird eng:\nHartz wird unter anderem wegen Untreue angeklagt\n\"Zum Schutz der Beschuldigten will ich zur Tendenz einer Abschlussentscheidung nichts sagen, bevor diese nicht über eine Entscheidung informiert sind\", sagte der Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft Braunschweig Klaus Ziehe zu dem Bericht.\nHartz solle der Anklage zufolge über einen Zeitraum von zehn Jahren insgesamt 2,5 Millionen Euro veruntreut haben, schreibt der SPIEGEL. Diese Summe ergebe sich vor allem aus Sonderbonuszahlungen, die Hartz an den früheren VW-Betriebsratsvorsitzenden Klaus Volkert habe ausschütten lassen.\n\"Es waren insgesamt zwei Millionen Euro, die Hartz entgegen den Konzernregeln ausgegeben hat\", schreibt das Magazin. \"Der gleiche Vorwurf wird gegen Hartz erhoben, weil er der Geliebten des Betriebsratschefs insgesamt 399.000 Euro überweisen ließ, obwohl kein schriftlicher Vertrag mit ihr vorlag.\" Dies erhöhe die Schadenssumme \"ebenso wie Ausgaben für Privatflüge der Geliebten zu dem Treffen mit Volkert\".\nAnklage gegen Volkert und Sudholt\nHartz hatte Mitte Oktober eine \"strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit für Begünstigungen des ehemaligen Betriebsratsvorsitzenden\" eingeräumt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft hatte daraufhin bestätigt, dass die Ermittlungen zügiger als gedacht beendet werden könnten. Ein Prozess könnte frühestens im Frühjahr 2007 beginnen. Hartz' Aussage könnte sich strafmildernd auswirken. Dem SPIEGEL zufolge gehen Juristen davon aus, dass er mit einer Bewährungsstrafe davon kommen könne.\nDie Braunschweiger Behörde ermittelt nach damaligen Angaben gegen insgesamt 13 Beschuldigte wegen Untreue und Betrug beziehungsweise Beihilfe, darunter auch gegen Volkert und dessen früheren Vertreter Bernd Sudholt.\nDie VW-Affäre war im Juni 2005 ins Rollen gekommen. Als Schlüsselfiguren gelten Ex-Skoda-Personalchef Helmuth Schuster und sein enger Mitarbeiter Klaus- Joachim Gebauer. Sie sollen Schmiergeld verlangt und mit Hilfe eines weltweiten Netzes von Tarnfirmen Geld auf eigene Konten umgeleitet haben, das eigentlich VW zugestanden hätte. Gebauer streitet derzeit auch gegen seine fristlose Kündigung.\nNachdem das Arbeitsgericht Braunschweig seine Klage abgewiesen hat, wird sich das Landesarbeitsgericht Hannover am 19. Dezember mit der Kündigungsklage beschäftigen.\nmanager-magazin.de mit Material von dpa", "url": "http://www.manager-magazin.de/koepfe/artikel/0,2828,448086,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070602121313/http://www.manager-magazin.de/koepfe/artikel/0,2828,448086,00.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Hartz wegen 44 Straftaten vor Gericht", "text": "Die Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage gegen den früheren VW-Arbeitsdirektor Peter Hartz erhoben. Dem Manager wird im Zuge der VW-Affäre um Korruption, Lustreisen und Partys für Betriebsräte Untreue in 44 Fällen zur Last gelegt. WELT.de dokumentiert, was Hartz bei seiner Vernehmung sagte.\nAnzeige\nAls Peter Hartz am 9. Oktober dieses Jahres als Hauptbeschuldigter in der VW-Affäre um Korruption, Sexpartys und Sonderzahlungen vernommen wurde, überreichte er der Staatsanwaltschaft Braunschweig gleich zu Beginn ein Schriftstück. Es liegt dem WELT.de vorliegenden Protokoll bei und hat einen staatstragenden Titel: \"Die Mitbestimmung bei Volkswagen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Gesamtbetriebsratsausschusses.\"\nDass bei diesem Modell etwas ganz grundsätzlich im Argen lag, ist nun offenkundig: Der Namensgeber der Arbeitsmarktreformen muss sich demnächst wegen Untreue in 44 Fällen vor Gericht verantworten. Die Ermittlungen gegen die Hauptfigur im größten und spektakulärsten Wirtschaftsstrafverfahren der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte konnten damit zügiger als erwartet abgeschlossen werden. Zunächst war erst zum Jahreswechsel mit der Anklageerhebung gerechnet worden. Noch anhängig sind die Ermittlungen gegen zwölf weitere Beschuldigte, darunter ist der SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete Hans-Jürgen Uhl und der niedersächsische SPD-Landtagsabgeordnete Günter Lenz.\nIn ihrer 63 Seiten umfassenden Anklageschrift werfen die Staatsanwälte Hartz vor, dem früheren VW-Betriebsratschef Klaus Volkert binnen zwölf Jahren bis 2005 fast zwei Mio. Euro Sonderbonuszahlungen zugestanden zu haben, die nicht in Einklang mit dem Gesetz standen. Der Arbeitnehmervertreter verdiente durchaus üppig. So summierten sich im Jahr 2002 Festgehalt, Bonus und Sonderbonus auf fast 693 000 Euro. Damit sollte das IG-Metall-Mitglied nach Überzeugung der Ermittler gefügig gemacht werden.\nAnzeige\nFerner hat Hartz der ehemaligen Geliebten von Volkert, der Brasilianerin Adrina Barros, unrechtmäßig 400 000 Euro gewährt. Dies räumte er auch freimütig bei seiner Vernehmung von Anfang Oktober vor der Staatsanwaltschaft ein. Er habe davon Kenntnis gehabt, \"dass es einen schriftlichen Agenturvertrag mit Frau Barros, der einen definierten Leistungskatalog enthielt, nicht gab.\" Ihm sei es darum gegangen, das gute Verhältnis zu Volkert nicht zu belasten. Deshalb habe es ihn nicht interessiert, ob von Frau Barros eine Gegenleistung erbracht werden sollte. Hartz räumte ein, dass er seine \"Pflichten damals verletzt habe\".\nBei einer Verurteilung muss der Duz-Freund von Altbundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder nun mit bis zu fünf Jahren Haft rechnen. Schröder, der Hartz schon aus seiner Zeit als niedersächsischer Ministerpräsident kennt, hatte den Manager im Jahr 2002 mit einer speziellen Aufgabe betraut. Er sollte das Problem der Massenarbeitslosigkeit lösen.\nAls die Verstrickung von Hartz in die VW-Affäre bekannt wurde, ließ Schröder keine Distanz zu seinem Vertrauten erkennen. Diesem gratulierte der Sozialdemokrat zum 65. Geburtstag am 9. August 2006 in der WELT: \"Deine Reformvorschläge haben mit Althergebrachtem gebrochen und viele Bequemlichkeiten, an die wir uns gewöhnt hatten, überwunden.\"\nAnzeige\n\"Mein Mandant wird sich in der zu erwartenden Hauptverhandlung zur Person und zur Sache umfassend einlassen\", sagte Hartz-Anwalt Egon Müller dieser Zeitung. Der renommierte Strafverteidiger unterstreicht, dass Hartz bereits Mitte Oktober öffentlich \"strafrechtliche Verantwortung für die Begünstigung des Betriebsratsvorsitzenden übernommen hat\". Allerdings hatte Hartz zunächst monatelang zu den gegen ihn erhobenen Vorwürfen geschwiegen. Das Schuldeingeständnis erfolgte erst, nachdem ihn die Ermittler mit erdrückendem Beweismaterial konfrontiert hatten.\nHartz argumentierte von Anfang an, er habe sich stets von der Absicht leiten lassen, im Interesse des Unternehmens zu handeln. Und dazu gehörte für ihn offenbar auch, das gute Verhältnis zum Betriebsrat zu pflegen. So hat er laut Anklageschrift seinen Mitarbeiter Klaus-Joachim Gebauer 1997 auch ausdrücklich angewiesen, den Betriebsratsvorsitzenden Volkert \"großzügig und wertschätzend\" zu behandeln und dabei \"nicht kleinlich\" zu sein.\nDie Staatsanwälte haben dem Landgericht Braunschweig nun umfangreiche Akten vorgelegt. Unter den insgesamt 17 Hauptbänden nebst elf Beweismittelordnern befinden sich pikante Dokumente, die Hartz in Verbindung mit den Rotlicht-Eskapaden bei VW bringen. So soll er nach übereinstimmenden Aussagen zweier Zeugen eine Braunschweiger Wohnung genutzt haben, die ein VW-Personalmanager für Treffen mit Prostituierten angemietet hatte.\nDa dieser Komplex aber aus finanzieller Sicht eher untergeordnete Bedeutung hat und sich nicht strafverschärfend auswirken würde, ist er nicht Bestandteil der Anklage. Im Prozess werden daher von der Staatsanwaltschaft auch keine Prostituierten oder Zuhälter als Zeugen aufgeboten, um gegen Hartz auszusagen.\nMit Spannung wird erwartet, ob Hartz in dem Verfahren andere Konzernspitzen belasten wird. Zu Verfehlungen kam es bereits während der Amtszeit des Vorstandsvorsitzenden Ferdinand Piëch, der inzwischen als Aufsichtsratschef als heimlicher Konzernlenker gilt. Laut der Aussage von Hartz Anfang Oktober hatte er Piëch von einer Beschwerde Volkerts berichtet, der sich im Vergleich zu anderen Führungskräften schlecht bezahlt fühlte.\n\"Wir kamen zu dem übereinstimmenden Ergebnis, dass Herr Volkert einem Topmanager gleichgestellt werden müsste\", sagte Hartz laut Vernehmungsprotokoll. Damit sei gemeint gewesen, \"dass er Vertrauensspesen erhalten sollte, dass er am Bonussystem - ausgenommen dem Sonderbonus - teilnehmen sollte und eine kontinuierliche Anhebung des Grundgehalts erfolgen sollte.\" Weil Hartz aber die Zahlung der strafrechtlich relevanten Sonderboni allein angeordnet haben will, sehen Justizkreise \"keinen Ermittlungsansatz in Richtung Piëch\". Der Volkswagenkonzern lehnte gestern eine Stellungnahme zur Anklageerhebung ab und verwies auf das schwebende Verfahren. Europas größter Automobilhersteller hatte den mutmaßlich von Hartz angerichteten Schaden über eine bei AIG Europe S.A. abgeschlossene Managerhaftpflichtversicherung begleichen lassen. Dies geschah auf Betreiben von Piëch und wurde in Wirtschaftskreisen kritisiert.\nDie jüngste Entwicklung in der VW-Affäre könnte nun Arbeitsminister Franz Müntefering (SPD) vor eine schwere Entscheidung stellen. Dazu hat der frühere BDI-Chef Hans-Olaf Henkel dieser Zeitung im August gesagt: \"Wird Herr Hartz angeklagt oder gar verurteilt, sollte man die Arbeitsmarktreformen umbenennen.\"", "url": "http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article94707/Hartz_wegen_44_Straftaten_vor_Gericht.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190217082339/https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article94707/Hartz-wegen-44-Straftaten-vor-Gericht.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Hartz drohen bis zu fünf Jahre Haft", "text": "mehr zum Thema\nKommentar\nHartz V\nDer Fall Hartz\nEin sonderbarer Beschuldigter\nDie Anklage laute auch auf unrechtmäßige Begünstigung eines Betriebsrates, teilte die Staatsanwaltschaft Braunschweig mit. Gemeint seien damit Sonderbonuszahlungen an den früheren Betriebsratschef Klaus Volkert.\nHaftstrafe möglich Hinzu kämen Zahlungen an Volkerts Geliebte. Insgesamt werden Hartz 44 Straftaten zur Last gelegt. Bei einer Verurteilung wegen Untreue drohen Hartz bis zu fünf Jahren Haft oder Geldstrafe.\nWegen eines Verstoßes gegen Paragraph 119 Betriebsverfassungs-gesetz, der eine Begünstigung von Betriebsräten untersagt, kann eine Haftstrafe von maximal einem Jahr oder Geldstrafe verhängt werden.\nEinem Spiegel-Bericht zufolge soll Hartz laut Anklage insgesamt 2,5 Millionen Euro veruntreut haben. Diese Summe ergebe sich vor allem aus Sonderbonuszahlungen, die Hartz an den früheren VW- Betriebsratsvorsitzenden Klaus Volkert habe ausschütten lassen. \"Es waren insgesamt 2 Millionen Euro, die Hartz entgegen den Konzernregeln ausgegeben hat\", schreibt das Magazin.\n\"Der gleiche Vorwurf wird gegen Hartz erhoben, weil er der Geliebten des Betriebsratschefs insgesamt 399.000 Euro überweisen ließ, obwohl kein schriftlicher Vertrag mit ihr vorlag.\" Dies erhöhe die Schadenssumme \"ebenso wie Ausgaben für Privatflüge der Geliebten zu dem Treffen mit Volkert\".\nProzess-Start im Frühjahr Hartz hatte Mitte Oktober eine \"strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit für Begünstigungen des ehemaligen Betriebsratsvorsitzenden\" eingeräumt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft hatte daraufhin bestätigt, dass die Ermittlungen zügiger als gedacht beendet werden könnten. Ein Prozess könnte frühestens im Frühjahr 2007 beginnen.\nHartz’ Aussage könnte sich strafmildernd auswirken. Dem Spiegel zufolge gehen Juristen davon aus, dass er mit einer Bewährungsstrafe davon kommen könne.\nDie Braunschweiger Behörde ermittelt nach damaligen Angaben gegen insgesamt 13 Beschuldigte wegen Untreue und Betrug beziehungsweise Beihilfe, darunter auch gegen Volkert und dessen früheren Vertreter Bernd Sudholt.\nZahlungen auch an Sudholt Nach einem aktuellen Bericht des Nachrichtenmagazins Focus soll auch Sudholt hohe Bonuszahlungen erhalten haben, beispielsweise \"neben seinem Gehalt im Jahr 2004 einen Bonus in Höhe von 170 000 Euro\".\nGrundlagen dieser Sonderzahlungen sei eine bis heute geltende Vereinbarung von 1991, nach der sich Vorstand und Betriebsrat auf die Einrichtung einer Kommission geeinigt hätten, die \"eine gerechte Ermittlung des Arbeitsentgeltes von Betriebsratsmitgliedern\" regeln solle.\nDie VW-Affäre war im Juni 2005 ins Rollen gekommen. Als Schlüsselfiguren gelten Ex-Skoda- Personalchef Helmuth Schuster und sein enger Mitarbeiter Klaus- Joachim Gebauer. Sie sollen Schmiergeld verlangt und mit Hilfe eines weltweiten Netzes von Tarnfirmen Geld auf eigene Konten umgeleitet haben, das eigentlich VW zugestanden hätte.\nGebauer streitet derzeit auch gegen seine fristlose Kündigung. Nachdem das Arbeitsgericht Braunschweig seine Klage abgewiesen hat, wird sich am 19. Dezember das Landesarbeitsgericht Hannover mit der Kündigungsklage beschäftigen.\n(dpa/AP/sueddeutsche.de)", "url": "http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/artikel/668/91577/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080120022102/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/artikel/668/91577/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Der tiefe Fall des Peter Hartz", "text": "Erstellt 15.11.06, 14:40h, aktualisiert 15.11.06, 21:39h\nDer damalige VW-Personalvorstand Peter Hartz spricht im Jahr 2004 in der Wolfsburger Konzernzentrale auf einer Pressekonferenz. Der damalige VW-Personalvorstand Peter Hartz spricht im Jahr 2004 in der Wolfsburger Konzernzentrale auf einer Pressekonferenz.\nBraunschweig - Die Staatsanwaltschaft Braunschweig hat Anklage gegen den früheren VW-Arbeitsdirektor Peter Hartz erhoben. Dem prominenten Manager wird Untreue in 44 Fällen und unrechtmäßige Begünstigung von Betriebsräten zur Last gelegt, teilte die Behörde am Mittwoch mit.\nAllein Ex-Betriebsratschef Klaus Volkert habe von 1994 bis 2005 von Hartz neben seinem Gehalt sogenannte \"Sonderbonuszahlungen\" von insgesamt fast zwei Millionen Euro erhalten, ohne dass dies bei VW offen gelegt worden sei. Ursprünglich vorgesehene Kontrollmechanismen habe der mächtige Personalvorstand abgeschafft, fanden die Staatsanwälte heraus.\nAuch Volkerts Geliebter, der Brasilianerin Adriana Barros, habe Hartz hohe Summen ohne Gegenleistung zugeschanzt. Sie habe von 2000 bis 2004 insgesamt 400 000 Euro erhalten. Ein mit ihr mündlich geschlossener \"Agenturvertrag\" sei nur vorgespielt gewesen, um die Geldflüsse \"mit dem Schein der Legalität zu schmücken\", heißt es in der Mitteilung der Staatsanwaltschaft. Die Ermittler seien davon überzeugt, dass Hartz dies gewusst und gebilligt habe.\nNach den Ergebnissen der Untersuchungen habe Hartz seinen Mitarbeiter Klaus-Joachim Gebauer 1997 auch generell angewiesen, den Betriebsratsvorsitzenden Volkert \"großzügig und wertschätzend\" zu behandeln und dabei \"nicht kleinlich\" zu sein, heißt es in der 63 Seiten-Anklageschrift.\nHartz hat jetzt bis zum 23. November Zeit, sich zu erklären oder Einwendungen gegen die Eröffnung eines Prozesses vorzubringen. Die von der Staatsanwaltschaft vorgelegten Akten - 17 Hauptbände nebst 11 Beweismittelordnern - müssten nun zuerst gesichtet werden, teilte das Landgericht Braunschweig mit. Mit einer Entscheidung über die Eröffnung des Hauptverfahrens sei daher nicht vor Ende Dezember zu rechnen.\nDer frühere VW-Manager hatte Mitte Oktober eine \"strafrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit für Begünstigungen des ehemaligen Betriebsratsvorsitzenden\" eingeräumt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft hatte daraufhin bestätigt, dass die Ermittlungen zügiger als gedacht beendet werden könnten. Ein Prozess könnte frühestens im Frühjahr 2007 beginnen. Hartz' Aussage könnte sich strafmildernd auswirken. In Medien hatte es geheißen, Juristen hielten es für möglich, dass er mit einer Bewährungsstrafe davon kommen könne.\nDie VW-Affäre war im Juni 2005 ins Rollen gekommen. Als Schlüsselfiguren gelten Ex-Skoda-Personalchef Helmuth Schuster und sein enger Mitarbeiter Klaus-Joachim Gebauer. Sie sollen Schmiergeld verlangt und mit Hilfe eines weltweiten Netzes von Tarnfirmen Geld auf eigene Konten umgeleitet haben, das eigentlich VW zugestanden hätte. Später wurden auch Vergnügungsreisen und Partys bekannt, die etwa über Blankoschecks bei VW abgerechnet wurden. Unter anderem sollten damit Betriebsräte auf Unternehmenslinie gehalten werden. Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt noch gegen 12 weitere Beschuldigte. (dpa)", "url": "http://www.rundschau-online.de/html/artikel/1163571912138.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110611173538/http://www.rundschau-online.de/html/artikel/1163571912138.shtml" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Anklage gegen Peter Hartz", "text": "Beginn des Artikels VW-Affäre\nAnklage gegen Peter Hartz\n© Christian Charisius/Reuters Einen Notausgang aus seiner verzwickten Lage wird Hartz wohl so schnell nicht finden\nDer frühere VW-Personalvorstand Peter Hartz soll sich die Gunst des Ex-Betriebsratschefs mit fast zwei Millionen Euro erkauft haben. Wegen dieser Veruntreuung ist Hartz nun angeklagt worden.\nIn der VW-Korruptionsaffäre hat die Staatsanwaltschaft gegen den früheren Personalvorstand Peter Hartz Anklage wegen Untreue erhoben. Hartz soll dem früheren VW-Betriebsratschef Klaus Volkert binnen zwölf Jahren bis 2005 mehr als 1,9 Millionen Euro als Sonderboni neben seinem Gehalt gezahlt haben, ohne dass dies offen gelegt worden wäre. Das teilte jetzt die Ermittlungsbehörde in Braunschweig mit. Volkerts ehemalige Geliebte soll weitere 400.000 Euro erhalten haben. In der VW-Korruptionsaffäre hat die Staatsanwaltschaft gegen den früheren Personalvorstand Peter Hartz Anklage wegen Untreue erhoben. Hartz soll dem früheren VW-Betriebsratschef Klaus Volkert binnen zwölf Jahren bis 2005 mehr als 1,9 Millionen Euro als Sonderboni neben seinem Gehalt gezahlt haben, ohne dass dies offen gelegt worden wäre. Das teilte jetzt die Ermittlungsbehörde in Braunschweig mit. Volkerts ehemalige Geliebte soll weitere 400.000 Euro erhalten haben.\n\"Nach Überzeugung der Ermittler wurden Herrn Volkert diese erheblichen Geldleistungen allein im Hinblick auf seine Position als mächtigster Betriebsrat gewährt und standen damit nicht im Einklang mit Gesetz und Recht.\" Die Staatsanwälte gingen davon aus, dass es sich um Prämien ohne eine Gegenleistung gehandelt habe, \"die als treuepflichtswidrige Verschwendung des Gesellschaftsvermögens von VW bewertet worden sind\".\nMehr zum Thema\nHartz ist offenbar weitgehend geständig. Er habe \"einen im Wesentlichen geständige Einlassung abgegeben\", sagte der Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft Braunschweig, Joachim Geyer. \"Er hat die Verantwortung für die Vorgänge übernommen\", so der Sprecher weiter. Die Aussage von Hartz sei das Hauptbeweismittel in dem Verfahren.\nInsgesamt werden Hartz 44 Straftaten zur Last gelegt, davon betreffen 23 die unrechtmäßige Begünstigung eines Betriebsrates. Bei einer Verurteilung wegen Untreue drohen Hartz bis zu fünf Jahren Haft. Auf einen Verstoß gegen Betriebsverfassungsgesetz, das die Begünstigung von Betriebsräten untersagt, stehen eine Haftstrafe von maximal einem Jahr oder Geldstrafe. Auf Wunsch Volkerts habe Hartz von 2000 bis 2004 auch dessen damalige Geliebte bezahlt. Dass sie einen mündlich geschlossenen Agenturvertrag gehabt habe, sei nur vorgespiegelt gewesen. Auch gegen Volkert ermittelt die Staatsanwaltschaft.Hartz ist offenbar weitgehend geständig. Er habe \"einen im Wesentlichen geständige Einlassung abgegeben\", sagte der Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft Braunschweig, Joachim Geyer. \"Er hat die Verantwortung für die Vorgänge übernommen\", so der Sprecher weiter. Die Aussage von Hartz sei das Hauptbeweismittel in dem Verfahren.Insgesamt werden Hartz 44 Straftaten zur Last gelegt, davon betreffen 23 die unrechtmäßige Begünstigung eines Betriebsrates. Bei einer Verurteilung wegen Untreue drohen Hartz bis zu fünf Jahren Haft. Auf einen Verstoß gegen Betriebsverfassungsgesetz, das die Begünstigung von Betriebsräten untersagt, stehen eine Haftstrafe von maximal einem Jahr oder Geldstrafe.\nRe\nArtikel vom 15. November 2006\nDiesen Artikel bookmarken bei...\nArtikel-URL: http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/unternehmen/:VW-Aff%E4re-Anklage-Peter-Hartz/576485.html", "url": "http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/unternehmen/:VW-Aff%E4re-Anklage-Peter-Hartz/576485.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080120022045/http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/unternehmen/:VW-Aff%E4re-Anklage-Peter-Hartz/576485.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Peter Hartz: Bitterer Abgang nach steiler Karriere", "text": "HB BRAUNSCHWEIG. Die von ihm maßgeblich entwickelten Arbeitsmarktreformen, die seinen Namen tragen, brachten ihm zwar viel öffentliche Kritik und Häme ein. Aber erst die VW- Affäre um Schmiergelder, Sexpartys und Vergnügungsreisen für Betriebsräte brachte den prominenten Topmanager zu Fall.\nVoraussichtlich im Frühjahr 2007 muss sich Hartz nun vor dem Landgericht Braunschweig verantworten. Untreue in 44 Fällen lautet die Anklage. Hartz soll dem langjährigen Betriebsratsvorsitzenden bei VW, Klaus Volkert, und dessen Geliebter über viele Jahre hinweg hohe Summen zugeschanzt haben. Begünstigung von Betriebsräten wirft die Justiz ihm vor.\nDer einflussreiche VW-Arbeitsdirektor Hartz war 1993 aus der krisengeschüttelten saarländischen Stahlindustrie zu dem Autobauer nach Wolfsburg gekommen. Bei VW ist sein Name untrennbar verbunden mit der Einführung der erst vor kurzem wieder abgeschafften Vier- Tage-Woche, der „atmenden Fabrik“ und dem Tarifmodell „5000 x 5000“. Mit diesen Vereinbarungen mit der IG Metall hatten Massenentlassungen vermieden und Jobs für Lanzeitarbeitslose geschaffen werden können.\nHartz stammt aus St. Ingbert im Saarland, wo er am 9. August 1941 als Sohn eines Hüttenarbeiters geboren wurde. Nach der mittleren Reife machte er eine Ausbildung zum Industriekaufmann. Später holte er das Abitur nach und studierte Betriebswissenschaft. Peter Hartz ist verheiratet und hat einen Sohn. Inzwischen lebt er wieder im Saarland.", "url": "http://www.handelsblatt.com/news/Karriere/Koepfe/_pv/_p/200811/_t/ft/_b/1165092/default.aspx/peter-hartz-bitterer-abgang-nach-steiler-karriere.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080120042855/http://www.handelsblatt.com/news/Karriere/Koepfe/_pv/_p/200811/_t/ft/_b/1165092/default.aspx/peter-hartz-bitterer-abgang-nach-steiler-karriere.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Vom Erlöser zum Buhmann", "text": "Das Leuchten ist matter geworden, da helfen auch die Scheinwerfer oben auf der Bühne nicht. Müde sieht er aus, im Wortsinn: angegriffen. Früher hat er mit diesem Leuchten viele in seinen Bann gezogen: Mitarbeiter, Gegner, auch Journalisten. Evelyn Roll schrieb in der \"Süddeutschen Zeitung\", dass \"dieses Leuchten offenbar und erstaunlicherweise von innen kommt, dass da einer vor lauter Überzeugung und Leidenschaft seine Aura zum Strahlen bringen kann\". So zwingend, dass man nach einer Weile selbst hinausgehen und alle Bedenkenträger überzeugen will, \"endlich anzufangen, wirklich etwas zu tun\" gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit.Das war vor zwei Jahren. Da machten die Republik und ihr Kanzler für einen Sommer Peter Hartz zu ihrem Heilsbringer. Da brachte er mit seinem Leuchten und viel taktischem Geschick eine überaus inhomogene Kommission aus Gewerkschaftern und Arbeitgeberfunktionären und Unternehmensberatern und Politikern und Wissenschaftlern dazu, tatsächlich eine \"Radikal-Kur gegen Arbeitslosigkeit\" (\"Spiegel\") zu verabschieden - einstimmig. Es war sein Verdienst, und das Gremium trug seinen Namen: Hartz-Kommission. Präsentiert wurde deren Ergebnis im Französischen Dom zu Berlin vor 500 Gästen, ein Hochamt.\nMehr zum Thema\nNun, zwei Jahre und den üblichen Streit später, heißen vier Gesetze nach ihm, obwohl er sie nicht geschrieben hat und nur sehr bedingt zu ihnen steht: Hartz I bis Hartz IV. Montags schreien sich die Demonstranten draußen im Land heiser: \"Nieder mit Hartz IV - das Volk sind wir\", und sein Name, ausgerechnet, ist zum Symbol geworden für Abbruch und Kälte und Ungerechtigkeit. \"Bild\" schreibt, wenn der Name Hartz falle, \"spitzen die Hunde die Ohren, fangen die Großmütter an zu weinen, und die Kinder verstecken sich mit ihren Sparschweinchen unter der Bettdecke\".Er sitzt auf der Bühne bei Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, und weil der Kampf ja immer weitergeht, muss er schon wieder schlimme Dinge sagen: dass die Personalkosten bei VW bis 2011 um 30 Prozent fallen müssten, weil anders die 176.544 Arbeitsplätze des Konzerns in Deutschland nicht zu halten seien. Die Kameras starren ihn an, und die Journalisten starren ihn an und fragen sich, wie es ihm wohl geht mit alldem. Wenn sie ihn danach fragen, hebt er müde die Hand, und sein Pressesprecher geht dazwischen: Man habe heute eingeladen, um über die Tarifpolitik bei VW zu sprechen, alles andere müsse draußen bleiben.Später dann, im kleinen Kreis, sagt er dann doch, dass dies ihm alles sehr an die Nieren gehe, aber da werden seine Berater gleich wieder nervös, und zitieren darf man das ohnehin alles nicht. Er knetet seine Hände und fragt, was ihm viel wichtiger zu sein scheint: ob man seinen Sieben-Punkte-Plan zur Rettung der VW-Jobs plausibel finde, ob alles gut verständlich war? Er brauche jetzt Mitstreiter, man müsse das rüberbringen, es ist seine alte Mission: Industriearbeitsplätze wettbewerbsfähig zu halten im Hochlohnland Deutschland. Und da ist es dann auch wieder: ein bisschen vom alten Leuchten.", "url": "http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/maerkte/529203.html?nv=ct_mt", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071221225416/http://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/maerkte/529203.html?nv=ct_mt" } ]

[ "Amérique", "Amérique du Nord", "Canada", "Colombie-Britannique", "Vancouver", "Europe", "Slovaquie", "Allemagne", "France", "Sport", "Biathlon", "Jeux olympiques", "Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2010", "Jeux olympiques d'hiver" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Biathlon : l'Allemande Neuner gagne la poursuite, la Française Brunet en bronze", "text": "AP/Jens Meyer\nMagdalena Neuner.\nLa biathlète allemande Magdalena Neuner est devenue championne olympique de poursuite, alors que la Française Marie-Laure Brunet a remporté la médaille de bronze, mardi à Whistler. Il s'agit de la troisième médaille pour les biathlètes français à Vancouver après le bronze de Marie Dorin et l'or de Vincent Jay, tous deux en sprint. La Slovaque Anastasia Kuzmina, championne olympique du sprint, a pris la deuxième place. Marie Dorin a terminé en 17e position.\nA l'issue des 10 km du parcours effectué sur une neige très humide, Neuner, vice-championne olympique du sprint samedi, a devancé la Slovaque Anastasia Kuzmina, victorieuse samedi, de 12 secondes et Brunet de 28 secondes. Partie 6e de cette poursuite, 28 secondes après Kuzmina, Marie-Laure Brunet, âgée de 21 ans, est l'une des deux seules à avoir réussi un sans-faute au tir lors de quatre passages (2 couché et 2 debout). \"Je suis ravie et vraiment fière. Maintenant que j'ai le bronze, je veux aller chercher l'or. J'ai fait une grosse course. Je n'ai pas de regret à avoir. Il fallait être parfaite au tir (pour réussir un podium). Cette médaille est un peu une récompense\", a expliqué Brunet à l'arrivée.", "url": "http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2010/02/16/biathlon-l-allemande-neuner-gagne-la-poursuite-la-francaise-brunet-en-bronze_1307014_3242.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100218041546/http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2010/02/16/biathlon-l-allemande-neuner-gagne-la-poursuite-la-francaise-brunet-en-bronze_1307014_3242.html" } ]

[ "Iraq", "Oriente Medio", "Sociedad", "Judicial", "Política", "Asia" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Iraq Parliament Purges Hussein Vestiges on Flag", "text": "BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers adopted a modified version of the national flag on Tuesday, removing three stars that symbolized the Baathist ideals of unity, freedom and socialism, and Saddam Hussein’s handwritten calligraphy of the Koranic incantation “Allahu akbar.”\nThe incantation, which means God is great, will remain on the flag, though it will now be written in a different calligraphic style.\nMembers of Parliament voted 110 to 50 for the flag, which was introduced in 2004 and bears the red, white and black stripes of Iraq’s original banner. The design preserves a sense of continuous national identity, while purging the flag of Baathist allusions, supporters say.\nKurdish politicians, many of whom survived the genocidal gas bombings by Hussein forces in the Anfal, or spoils of war, campaign of the 1980s, were among the fiercest critics of the old flag. In 2006, Massoud Barzani, president of the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, refused to fly the flag from government offices, prompting fear of Kurdish separatism.", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/world/middleeast/23iraq.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210318040639/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/world/middleeast/23iraq.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Iraq Settles Flag Dispute", "text": "The phrase Allahu Akbar (God is great) in green Arabic script remains on the new flag.\nThe script was originally in Saddam's handwriting but was changed unofficially in 2004 to Kufic, an early form of Arabic calligraphy that originated in Iraq.\nThe new flag will only last for one year, during which time discussions will continue on what the final flag should look like.\nThe 2004 interim government had previously attempted to change the flag but this was rejected by Iraqis.\nThe debate over a post-Saddam flag was accelerated by a planned pan-Arab meeting of politicians in Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdistan region on March 10.\nKurdish officials said they would refuse to fly the current flag, which is banned in Kurdistan.\nColour debate\nThe Kurds had wanted the colour of the script changed to yellow to symbolise the Kurdish nation, but it was decided this would be too difficult to read on a white background.\n\"We are not trying to create a new flag, but we are moving quickly to create a temporary flag that can be flown at the parliamentary conference in Arbil,\" Mofeed al-Jazarie, head of parliament's culture committee, said.\nKurdistan banned the use of the Iraqi flag on public buildings in 2006, sparking a bitter row with prime minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shia led government.\nKurds associate the flag with Saddam's genocidal Anfal campaign against them in the late 1980s in which tens of thousands of people were bombed, shot and gassed.\nThe new flag will fly at the March 10 pan-Arab gathering in Arbil, the capital of Kurdistan.", "url": "http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4537E276-9D79-43B6-BEB5-331CF20A273B.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080124035203/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4537E276-9D79-43B6-BEB5-331CF20A273B.htm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Iraq parliament approves new flag", "text": "The new flag (top) ditches the stars and script from Saddam's version\nThe three stars that represented Saddam Hussein's Baath Party will be removed, to address the concerns of Iraqi Kurds.\nThey have refused to fly the flag since the fall of Saddam Hussein, saying it is too closely associated with a regime that repressed and killed their people.\nThe flag was also changed in 2004, when a line of script, allegedly in Saddam Hussein's own handwriting, was changed to Kufic script.\nBut the latest change - passed by 110 votes to 50 - is only temporary, as a design for a new flag will be sought after one year.\nAgreement over the flag is another sign that the Iraqi parliament is moving forward on difficult issues, says the BBC's Jonny Dymond in Baghdad.\nA measure that should allow former Baath party members to rejoin the bureaucracy and military was passed 10 days ago.\nHowever, big obstacles to unity remain. The Iraqi parliament said on Tuesday that attempts to pass the 2008 budget had stalled, leading to fears that infrastructure projects would be delayed.\nChanging times\nThe new flag retains the three colours of the old one - red, white and black.\nA 2004 proposal was unpopular with Iraqis and subsequently dropped\nThe Arabic inscription \"Allahu Akbar\" (\"God is great\") in green will be retained. As with the 2004-2008 version, it is written in Kufic script, making clear it is no longer in Saddam Hussein's handwriting.\nKufic is an ancient form of Arabic script that originated in what is now Iraq.\n\"The new flag has no signs of Saddam's regime and is a sign that change has been achieved in the country,\" said Humam Hamoudi, a prominent Shia politician and member of the powerful Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council party.\nIn 2004, Iraq's then US-appointed governing council tried to introduce an entirely new blue-white-and-yellow, flag, but it was withdrawn after protests including the objection that it too closely resembled the flag of Israel.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7203222.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080125012000/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7203222.stm" } ]

[ "Boston, Massachusetts", "Massachusetts", "United States", "Politics and conflicts", "North America", "Elections" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "‘Urban mechanic’ Menino wins fifth term as Boston mayor", "text": "“The headlines may read that today we were elected to a fifth, historic term,” Menino declared to cheers. \"Let’s be clear: We haven’t made history with this election, but we will, with what we create of it.\"\nMenino claimed victory in a jubiliant speech before hundreds of supporters gathered tonight at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel. Some in the crowd wore white T-shirts emblazoned with the words \"History Made\" and the number 5 on the sleeves.\nMore than 110,000 voters went to the polls, the highest number in a mayoral election since 1993.\nSixteen years after he rose to power as an unassuming master of street-level minutiae, Thomas Michael Menino cemented his place as a singular force in urban American politics today, withstanding his fiercest challenge yet to capture an unprecedented fifth term in office and extend what is already the longest mayoral reign in Boston history.\nFlaherty, a 40-year-old lawyer from South Boston who was first elected to the City Council in 1999, appeared somber at his post-election reception at Venezia, an Italian restaurant in Dorchester, where supporters shouted \"Never Give Up\" and \"Keep Fighting, Mike.\"\n\"Although the outcome of this election was not what any of us had hoped for, we have had some important conversations over the last year and we've also raised the expectations of Bostonians throughout every single neighborhood,” Flaherty said. \"We've given a voice to many people in this city who have not been heard for years.”\nThe win puts Menino in a league with a handful of legendary urban titans who have towered over their cities for years, including Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago, who has been in office since 1989.\nMenino's victory demonstrated once again the degree to which Bostonians have embraced this unlikely leader, a self-styled urban mechanic who freely acknowledges, \"I’m not good looking, I can’t speak well, I’m not smart. I’m driven,'' while presiding over a city that is known as a center of learning, finance and culture.\nVoters interviewed across the city described the race as a referendum on the incumbent and his 16 years in power. Those who believed the city was headed in the right direction opted to give Menino four more years in office while those who voted for Flaherty spoke of a desire for change more than a preference for the long-time city councilor.\n\"He's done so much for the city in 16 years,\" Claudette Desmond, a 53-year-old from Roxbury, said after voting for Menino at the Boys and Girls Club near Dudley Square. \"He's one of the best mayors we've ever had … Housing, parks and recreation, there's so much to say.\"\nBut David Wilhelmi, a 59-year-old financial officer at Children’s Hospital, echoed the sentiments of Flaherty voters across Boston after he voted in Jamaica Plain.\n“The mayor has been in office too long,” he said “I like him. He’s helped us, but we need some new blood.”\nThis year's mayoral race was more competitive than any Menino has faced since he took office in 1993. Three challengers, including two at-large city councilors with wide bases of support among city voters, jumped into the race early, and repeatedly criticized Menino's lengthy tenure, his aversion to technology, his oversight of development, and his governing style, which Flaherty characterized as dictatorial and secretive.\nMenino, although famously thin-skinned, largely ignored the attacks, spending his time attending a series of ribbon-cuttings, city-sponsored luncheons, and corporate announcements. Menino's unrelenting focus on the city's neighborhoods has paid clear political dividends: an astonishing 60 percent of the city's residents say they have met the mayor, according to a Globe poll last month.\nMenino also had a huge fundraising advantage -- he spent $2 million to Flaherty's $1.3 million this year -- which meant Menino had ads on television, and Flaherty did not.\nMenino won just over half the vote in the Sept. 22 preliminary election, but, in a bold move widely hailed as a potential game-changer, Flaherty, the second-place finisher, forged a surprise alliance with the third place finisher, Councilor at Large Sam Yoon, hoping that their combined forces would enable them to defeat the entrenched incumbent.\nThe pair, dubbed \"Floon,\" crisscrossed the city attacking the mayor's record on crime, education and job creation. They tried to persuade voters that it was time for a change, and described themselves as the next generation of Boston leadership.\nBut some political observers say that was a tough case to make.\n\"Michael Flaherty's challenge to sell himself as a candidate of change -- given that he has been in government for 10 years, he's from South Boston, and that he was supported by the firefighters and superior police officers -- was an insurmountable challenge,\" said Lawrence S. DiCara, a former city councilor and longtime observer of Boston politics.\nHe said the mayor, on the other hand, stuck to a simple message: that the city has improved under his leadership, and he wants to keep \"moving Boston forward,'' in the words of his campaign slogan. Menino's steadiness and focus on basics have endeared him to voters; the mayor first arrived in office after a period in which the city had been riven by strife over school busing, public housing integration, and urban renewal projects that resulted in the destruction of the city's West End.\n\"Against that background, Menino comes in and he becomes -- he epitomizes -- security, solidarity, no surprises,\" said Thomas H. O'Connor, a Boston College historian who writes about the city's political history.\n\"To a people who are by this time shell-shocked by the 50-year period that went before, this guy comes in and this is Mr. Solidarity,'' O'Connor said. \"What he promises now are basic things the people need, and above all, no changes.\"\nBut, the Flaherty campaign raised larger issues that Menino may face pressure to address in his next term, such as the number of jobs available for city residents at construction sites, the state of the city's schools, and the role of the Boston Redevelopment Authority.\n\"There are a number of things that Flaherty and Yoon put on the table that I think are helpful, that I think the mayor would do well to improve,\" said Joyce Ferriabough-Bolling, a political strategist. \"My hope is that he will take some of the constructive criticisms that were lodged and turn those things around to build a legacy.\"\nMenino will be sworn in for his fifth, four-year term in January, but already the challenges are clear and enormous.\nThe city faces a financial crisis caused by a sharp drop in tax revenues during the recession. Menino has already cut the city workforce by 4 percent, negotiated wage freezes with 22 city unions, and temporarily closed firehouses.\nGoing forward, the mayor faces more grim choices: Cutting social services, permanently shuttering firehouses, or laying off teachers or police officers, said Samuel R. Tyler, president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau.\n“The fiscal challenge is going to dominate what the next mayor of Boston is going to have to confront over the next two or three years,” said Samuel R. Tyler, president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau. “Hard choices are going to have to be made.”\nDavid Abel, Noah Bierman, Maria Cramer, Brian MacQuarrie, Eric Moskowitz, Andrew Ryan and James Vaznis of the Globe staff and Globe correspondents Jack Nicas and Abbie E Ruzicka contributed to this report. Donovan Slack can be reached at dslack@globe.com. Michael Levenson can be reached at mlevenson@globe.com.", "url": "http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/11/moment_of_truth_1.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091107061313/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/11/moment_of_truth_1.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Mayor Menino clinches historic fifth term", "text": "Mayor Thomas M. Menino has again made history, extending his streak as the city’s longest serving mayor by winning an unprecedented fifth consecutive term, deflecting scathing campaign trail criticism and decisively rolling over challenger Michael Flaherty.\n“To my campaign leadership, all the staff, hundreds of volunteers, thank you for spreading our positive message and for turning Beantown into greentown,” Menino said last night, referring to his green campaign signs.\nMenino, 66, was the first to win four terms and has now won a record fifth four-year term that will keep him in office until 2013.\nA former city councilor who began his political career as a driver for former state Sen. Joe Timilty, Menino downplayed the historic nature of his victory, saying, “We haven’t made history with this election, but we will with what we create of it.”\nMenino garnered roughly 57 percent of the 109,000 votes to Flaherty’s 42 percent, according to unofficial numbers posted by the city last night.\nFlaherty called the mayor and conceded defeat at 9:15 p.m. At Venezia restaurant in Dorchester, Flaherty, 40, hinted at a rematch, saying he told the mayor during his concession call, “Let’s do this again in four years.”\nAt the Fairmont Copley hotel, smiling Menino supporters slipped on long-sleeved white shirts that read “Mayor Menino ’09” on the back and “History Made” on the front in green lettering with the word “Five” down the sleeve, in honor of his fifth term.\n“I wanted to deliver one for you so badly today,” Flaherty told disappointed backers. He added, “This is not the end. What we’ve learned tonight is that change takes time.”\nThe loss leaves Flaherty, a South Boston lawyer and former prosecutor, out of Boston politics for the first time in a decade. Flaherty had been groomed for a mayoral run for years and defeated upstart Councilor Sam Yoon, a favorite among progressives, in the preliminary. In a bid to bolster his campaign and court the progressive vote, Flaherty cut a deal with Yoon to join his team in exchange for being deputy mayor in a Flaherty administration.\nFormer councilor and Menino challenger Peggy Davis-Mullen said, “Clearly the people of this city are very comfortable with the mayor. As long as he’s been in there he’s made people feel secure.”\nMenino has evaded major scandal throughout his 16-year reign, including sidestepping a campaign trail flap over e-mails illegally deleted from his top aide’s City Hall computer, some of which may be tied to the bribery probe of ex-state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson.\nMenino said the race with Flaherty has “energized” him, but he wouldn’t speculate on seeking a sixth term. He also dismissed opponents’ calls for mayoral term limits, noting that legislation to cap the mayor’s service has lingered on City Hall desks for months.\nWith the economy still sputtering, Menino pledged to keep property taxes down and search for new revenue. He touted new hotel and meals taxes he implemented, saying the new funds have shifted some of the city’s financial burden off homeowners and onto visitors.\n“It’s important to have an administration that knows how to handle these difficult times,” he said. “People thought 2009 was difficult, but I think 2010 will be difficult, too, if not more difficult.”\nSunny, mild weather, combined with a heated mayoral race and a strong field of eight at-large council candidates, contributed to the highest Hub turnout since 1993.\nFlaherty waged a fierce street battle against the entrenched incumbent, hammering Menino on schools, the Fire Department’s aging fleet of trucks, heavy-handed city planning and development and crime.", "url": "http://bostonherald.com/news/mayoral_race/view/20091103mayor_menino_takes_early_lead_in_polls", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091105090144/http://bostonherald.com/news/mayoral_race/view/20091103mayor_menino_takes_early_lead_in_polls/" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Warren defeats Balser to become Newton mayor", "text": "Setti Warren, a former aide to US Senator John Kerry, surged to victory over state Representative Ruth Balser in Tuesday's elections to become the first African-American mayor in Newton’s history.\nWarren, who said during the campaign that he was the only candidate who could bring a “fresh perspective” to the city, defeated Balser by a vote of 11,210 to 10,747 in unofficial results\nSurrounded by more than 100 raucous supporters at Union Street restaurant in Newton Centre, Warren reflected on arriving in Iraq two years ago as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve, an experience he rarely spoke about in his campaign.\n“I saw some of the worst of what humanity can do and the worst of what humanity can be,’’ he said. Warren contrasted that experience with Newton, which he said represents the best of what humanity can be.\n“I stand before you humbly as the new leader of this remarkable community.”\nWarren replaces outgoing mayor David Cohen, who lost popularity in the city as the cost of the new Newton North High School project ballooned to nearly $200 million.\nThe results were a reversal from the city’s Sept. 15 preliminary election, when Warren finished second behind Balser.\nIn her conession speech, Balser thanked her supporters and \"all the elected officials who stood with me.'' She said she had telephoned Warren and congratulated him, adding, \"We are commited to be partners, to continue working for the best of the people of Newton.\"\n“I think basically it was just a very, very close race,” Balser said later in an interview. “There were two campaigns that were very well organized and had tremendous support, and the voters decided.”\nBoth contenders said they expect to have a good working relationship with Balser in the State House and Warren in the mayor’s chair.\n“I’m deeply committed to Newton, and I will continue to do all I can for the community that I love,” Balser said.\nWarren said he plans addres the city’s financial issues by budgeting from scratch each year and implementing a performance management system for the city’s employees. “The absolute first thing is making sure we have the right team in place,” Warren said.\nAbout 41 percent of the city's 55,454 registered voters cast ballots in the races for mayor, Board of Aldermen, and School Committee, election officials said.\nWarren captured 50.5 percent of the total, while Balser received 48.4 percent. Another 240 votes were write-in ballots, election officials said. Businessman William Heck ran a write-in campaign after losing in the preliminary election.\nWarren entered the race well over a year ago with scant name recognition, but he knocked on over 10,000 doors across the city and won endorsements from eight of the city’s aldermen and four members of the School Committee.\nIf voters were seeking change in the mayor’s race, the sentiment didn’t carry over to the city’s down-ballot races. Voters returned all three challenged members of the School Committee to their seats, and only one challenged member of the Board of Alderman lost his seat.\nOn the School Committee, Reenie Murphy, Claire Sokoloff, and Jonathan Yeo were all reelected. The board will see three new members, plus the mayor, as Margie Ross Decter, Matt Hills, and Susan Rosenbaum all won open seats.\nWard 6 Alderman George Mansfield lost his seat to challenger Richard Blazar. Ward 5 Alderman William Brandel, who gave up that seat to run for an at-large Ward 5 seat, lost to incumbent Brian Yates and newcomer Deborah Crossley.\nOther new faces on the Board of Alderman will include Ruthanne Fuller, who won an open at-large seat in Ward 7, and John B. Rice, who won the open Ward 5 seat that formerly belonged to Brandel.\nCalvin Hennick can be reached at calvinhennick@yahoo.com.", "url": "http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/newton/2009/11/warren_defeats_balser_to_becom.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091107061716/http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/newton/2009/11/warren_defeats_balser_to_becom.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Lynn mayor ousted by Judith Flanagan Kennedy", "text": "Kennedy, a 10-year councilor at large, received 49.94 percent of the vote, while Clancy received 49.78 percent of the vote, according to election results.\nLynn City Councilor Judith Flanagan Kennedy upset incumbent Mayor Edward J. Clancy Jr. by 27 votes to win the Lynn mayor's race, squeaking by with a tally of 8,043 to 8,016 votes.\nClancy, an eight year incumbent, could not be reached for comment last night. Kennedy, a 10-year councilor-at-large, claimed a cautious victory, saying she expects a recount.\n\"A win is a win,\" Kennedy said by telephone from her election night party at the Franco American Hall. \"With a race this close, we're probably in recount territory. We will take 27 votes and see what happens.\"\nKennedy will be the first woman mayor elected in Lynn, the state's 9th largest city with almost 90,000 residents. She upset Clancy in the primary by winning as a write-in candidate by 211 votes. A rancorous campaign ensued, with Clancy touting his long service as a Democrat, having served as a state senator and state representative from the city.\nKennedy, 47, a lawyer who works part-time as a driver for the MBTA Ride program, is a Republican. She drew strong support from city unions, particularly firefighters who publicly sparred with Clancy. The two publicly sparred over issues of taxes and residency laws. The campaign grew heated in recent weeks, with Kennedy alleging Clancy violated state election laws when he sent a flier to Lynn voters with a copy of her signature attached, indicating she supported raising property taxes. The Essex District Attorney's office yesterday ruled there was no violation.\nKennedy's campaign manager, Dennis M. Liberge, was forced to resign, after Kennedy became aware of his conviction on drug charges 17 years ago in Maine. But Kennedy still credited her victory to the work of her campaign staff. \"I had the best group of people around me,\" she said.\nA total of 16,104 votes were cast, or 33.1 percent of the city's registered voters, according to election results.", "url": "http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/11/lynn_mayor_oust.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091107091027/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/11/lynn_mayor_oust.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Lawrence elects state's first Latino mayor", "text": "The Newton results were a reversal from the city’s Sept. 15 preliminary election, when Warren finished second behind Balser.\nWarren said during the campaign that he was the only candidate who could bring a “fresh perspective” to the city. He succeeds incumbent David Cohen, who had become increasingly unpopular in recent years.\nNewton voters, meanwhile, choose Setti Warren, a former aide to US Sen. John F. Kerry, over longtime state Representative Ruth Balser. With all precincts reporting, Warren defeated Balser 11,210 votes to 10,747. Balser conceded shortly before 9 p.m., according to Warren's campaign.\nIn Lawrence, State Representative William Lantigua captured 53 percent of the vote, besting City Councilor David C. Abdoo to lead the place that bills itself as \"Immigrant City.''\nVoters in Lawrence today elected the state's first Latino mayor, voters in Newton elected that city's first African-American mayor, and voters in North Adams, Woburn and Brockton ousted incumbent mayors in a day of surprising shakeups.\nElsewhere, the longest-serving mayor in the state, John Barrett III of North Adams, lost re-election. His challenger in the western Massachusetts community, Dick Alcombright, won 58 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results.\nVoters in Brockton ousted incumbent James E. Harrington and elected that city's first woman mayor, City Councilor Linda M. Balzotti.\nIn Woburn, two-term Mayor Thomas L. McLaughlin was unseated, losing to Ward 3 Alderman Scott D. Galvin. A local attorney, Galvin collected 5,399 votes to 4,677 for McLaughlin.\n\"I feel great,\" said Galvin, who is in his eighth term on the City Council. \"We had a great group of people. We got our message out and we never stopped working.\"\n\"The people spoke. They want to see someone who has got a better vision for the city,\" Galvin said, adding, \"Tom (McLaughlin) is a very good guy but we need a different person with the financial times that we will be coming up on over the next couple of years.\"\nIn Methuen, two-term Mayor William M. Manzi, III was re-elected in a tight race with challenger Al DiNuccio. Manzi picked up 4,447 votes, to 3,954 for DiNuccio, a former member of the city’s Community Development Board.\nIn Lawrence, even before unofficial returns had been released, hundreds gathered at city hall to celebrate the apparent election of Lantigua. Chanting 'Si se pudo,' or 'Yes, we did,' a crowd of hundreds -- some dancing and crying -- gathered in the city hall lobby.\nThe Dominican-born Lantigua will succeed Mayor Michael J. Sullivan, who was unable to run for re-election due to term limits.\nBefore now, no Massachusetts city has ever elected a Latino mayor. In 2001, Dominican-born Marcos Devers was appointed interim mayor of Lawrence following the resignation of Patricia Dowling, but he lost his election bid in 2005 to Sullivan.\nVoters in more than 50 communities outside Boston went to the polls today to choose mayors, aldermen, school committee members and decide a handful of ballot questions.\nRaces to watch in the region included the mayoral contests in Lawrence, Newton and Quincy and a question in Revere on whether to distribute contraceptives in high school. In Lowell, voters were deciding decide on a referendum that would scrap Lowell’s at-large system and replace it with proportional voting.\nAround the region, here are the higher profile contests:\nSouth of Boston, Quincy voters will see a rematch of the 2007 mayor's race, with incumbent Thomas P. Koch and challenger William J. Phelan concluding one of Quincy’s most rancorous mayoral elections in decades. They also have accused each other of favoritism and deceptive campaigning.\nBallot questions also are generating heat, including in Revere, where voters will decide whether to stop allowing high school students to obtain contraceptives at a school-based health clinic; in Malden, where a proposal to eliminate the city’s pay-as-you-throw trash program is on the ballot; and in Saugus, where voters will consider whether to change the town’s form of government.\nCurrently in Revere, students enrolled in the clinic can request contraceptives with the consent of their parents. The ballot question calls for suspending that policy and establishing an advisory council to evaluate the health risks and benefits of contraception and abstinence.\nThe group Malden Taxpayers For Accountability launched a successful citizens’ petition to put a repeal of the city’s year-old trash fee on Tuesday’s ballot. Proponents of the fee, including Mayor Richard C. Howard, said the revenue has allowed the city to avoid making cuts in other services and personnel.\n\"I do believe that erasing this program will cause this council and my office to make some extremely difficult budget cuts,’’ Howard said recently.\nIn Saugus, the charter plan would replace a 50-member town meeting with a 27-member town assembly while maintaining the Board of Selectmen - to be known as the Select Board - and the town manager.\nElection officials in communities featuring high-profile contests and ballot questions are predicting lively turnouts.\n“I think it’s going to be a little higher than usual for our local elections,’’ said Joanne Rappa, Saugus town clerk. “There seems an awful lot of interest in the charter question.’’\nRappa said town elections in Saugus typically draw 30 percent of eligible voters, but she predicted this year’s turnout will be 35 percent to 40 percent.\nElsewhere, the Lynn and Woburn races have commanded attention because the incumbents finished second in September preliminaries.\nIn Lynn, City Clerk Mary Audley expects about a 30 percent turnout - which she said is high for a municipal election - sparked by the challenge to Mayor Edward J. Clancy Jr.\n“I think there’s quite a bit of interest,’’ she said of the mayor’s race, which pits Clancy against City Councilor Judith Flanagan Kennedy. “There’s a lot of talk going around, a lot of phone calls to the office asking about it. There seems to be a little bump in absentee ballot requests.’’\nKennedy outpaced Clancy by 207 votes in Lynn’s preliminary, despite running as a write-in candidate. In Woburn, Galvin emerged seven votes ahead of McLaughlin.\nIn Marlborough, Mayor Nancy Stevens is campaigning for a third term against challenger Joseph Collins.\nTwo well-known contenders, City Councilors Donna D. Holaday and James E. Shanley, are vying to become mayor of Newburyport, where John F. Moak chose not to run for reelection.\nIn other local mayoral races, Beverly incumbent William F. Scanlon Jr. is opposed by City Councilor John J. Burke, while Haverhill Mayor James J. Fiorentini faces former city councilor John A. Michitson.\nAmesbury incumbent Thatcher W. Kezer is competing with former municipal councilor Alison M. Lindstrom, who unsuccessfully challenged him in 2007.\nPeabody Mayor Michael J. Bonfanti is facing Russell P. Donovan, who has run unsuccessfully for city councilor on two occasions. In Salem, Mayor Kimberley L. Driscoll is being challenged by Kenneth A. Sawicki, who has run unsuccessfully for mayor twice.\nGloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk is facing Daniel Ruberti, who is mounting a write-in campaign after finishing third in the preliminary. The second-place finisher in the preliminary, City Councilor Sharon George, dropped out of the race.\nThree local mayors are unopposed in their reelection bids: Carlo DeMaria Jr. of Everett, Michael J. McGlynn of Medford, and Joseph A. Curtatone of Somerville.\nWinthrop is featuring a three-way race for the open seat of Town Council president. Contending are former selectwoman Susan R. Bolster; Barbara A. Survilas, an unsuccessful candidate for council president in 2005; and Jeffrey R. Turco, a first-time candidate for municipal office.\nIn another ballot question, Everett will vote on whether to create a charter commission.\nGlobe Correspondents Matt Rocheleau, John Laidler, Robert Preer, James O'Brien and Calvin Hennick contributed to this report.", "url": "http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/11/_voters_in_more.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091107090957/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/11/_voters_in_more.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Incumbent holds off ex-mayor in Quincy, Mass.", "text": "QUINCY, Mass.—Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch (KOKE') has defeated former Mayor William Phelan (FAY'-lan) in a bitter rematch of their race from two years ago.\nUnofficial returns from the city of 92,000 residents just south of Boston showed Koch with 54 percent of the vote, to 46 for Phelan.\nThe campaign mirrored the 2007 race in which Koch ousted Phelan, then a three-term incumbent.\n------\nInformation from: The Patriot Ledger, http://www.patriotledger.com\n© Copyright 2009 Associated Press. 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[ { "language": "de", "title": "Drei Polizisten durch Stiche verletzt", "text": "Aus aller Welt\nAngriff\nSchüsse in Oberhausen - Drei Polizisten durch Stiche verletzt\n06.10.2011, 16:08 Uhr 06.10.2011, 16:08 Uhr\nEin randalierender Mann hat sich in Oberhausen einen Schusswechsel mit der Polizei geliefert und bei seiner Festnahme drei Polizisten verletzt.\nOberhausen. Ein 30-jähriger Mann hat in Oberhausen mit einer Gaspistole um sich geschossen und dann mit einem Messer drei Polizisten verletzt. Der Mann wurde selbst von zwei Polizeikugeln getroffen. Ein Polizist kam mit einem Einstich im Bauch schwer verletzt ins Krankenhaus, berichteten Staatsanwaltschaft und Polizei am Donnerstag. Die zwei weiteren Beamte wurden leicht verletzt. Die Ermittler haben Hinweise auf psychische Probleme des Mannes.\nDie Messerattacke von Oberhausen sei der zweite „gezielte Mordversuch“ an einem Polizisten binnen weniger Wochen im Ruhrgebiet, sagte der Landesvorsitzende der Gewerkschaft der Polizei, Frank Richter. Der Attentäter müsse mit aller Härte des Gesetzes bestraft werden. „Ein versuchter Mord muss als versuchter Mord geahndet werden“, so Richter laut Mitteilung.\nDer 30-Jährige hatte den Ermittlern zufolge mit einer Gaspistole zunächst vor einer Trinkhalle und in einem Taxi um sich geschossen und dann auf ein vorbeifahrendes Auto gezielt, berichteten die Ermittler. Als er von einer Polizeistreife gestellt wurde, habe der Mann das Feuer auf die Beamten eröffnet. Die Polizisten hätten zurückgeschossen und ihn in Rumpf und ein Bein getroffen.\nAls die Polizisten den Mann, der sich hinter einer Litfaßsäule versteckt habe, festnehmen wollten, habe er sie mit einem Messer attackiert. Die von der Taxizentrale alarmierte Polizei war mit sechs Beamten zum Tatort geeilt. Wer wie oft geschossen habe, müsse noch geklärt werden. Am Tatort seien insgesamt neun Patronenhülsen gefunden worden.\nDer 30-Jährige war bereits wegen verschiedener Taten, zuletzt auch wegen eines Waffendeliktes, aufgefallen. Er wurde im Krankenhaus in ein künstliches Koma versetzt und konnte deswegen nicht vernommen werden.\nAuch in Aachen wurde ein Polizist im Dienst von einem Gewalttäter verletzt. Ein 21-Jähriger habe dem Beamten einen Fausthieb ins Gesicht verpasst, berichtete die Polizei am Donnerstag. Der 41-Jährige musste sich im Krankenhaus ambulant behandeln lassen und war zunächst dienstunfähig.\nIn den vergangenen Monaten hatten in Nordrhein-Westfalen mehrere Gewaltexzesse gegen Polizisten für Aufsehen gesorgt. Im August hatte ein 21-Jähriger zwei Beamte in Gelsenkirchen mit Messerstichen schwer verletzt. (dpa/abendblatt.de)", "url": "http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article2051100/Schuesse-in-Oberhausen-Drei-Polizisten-durch-Stiche-verletzt.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111008214941/http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article2051100/Schuesse-in-Oberhausen-Drei-Polizisten-durch-Stiche-verletzt.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Oberhausen: Amokläufer verletzt drei Polizisten", "text": "Polizisten haben sich im Oberhausener Rotlichtviertel eine wilde Schießerei mit einem 30-Jährigen geliefert. Dabei wurde der Schütze angeschossen und lebensgefährlich verletzt. Drei Beamte erlitten bei der Festnahme Stichwunden. Der Täter ist möglicherweise geistig verwirrt. Von Christian Schwerdtfeger und Jürgen Stock\nDas Oberhausener Rotlichtviertel gestern um 1.15 Uhr. Ein bewaffneter Mann hat sich hinter einer Litfaßsäule verschanzt, zehn Meter weiter richten vier Polizisten ihre Pistolen auf den 30-Jährigen, zwei weitere Beamte haben sich hinter einem Streifenwagen in Deckung gebracht. Mehrfach fordern sie den Mann auf, die Waffe wegzuwerfen. Als der das Feuer eröffnet, schießen die Polizisten zurück. Von Kugeln in die Beine getroffen sackt der Täter zusammen. \"Es war die Hölle, plötzlich krachte es ohne Ende\", sagt Augenzeuge Michael R. (28), der etwa 20 Meter weit wegstand und die Schießerei mit seinem Handy filmte.\nAls die Beamten auf den Verletzten zugehen, kommt es erneut zu einem Schusswechsel – ein Steckschuss trifft den Mann im Unterleib. Dennoch kann er bei der Festnahme noch ein Messer aus der Jackentasche ziehen und auf die Polizisten einstechen – die Klinge trifft einen 32-jährigen Beamten in die Schulter, sein 38-jähriger Kollege wird in der Magengegend getroffen, eine Polizistin wird leicht verletzt. \"Erst dann konnte der Schütze von mehreren Polizisten überwältigt werden\", so Markus Bergmann, Leiter der Mordkommission auf der gestrigen Pressekonferenz im Oberhausener Polizeipräsidium. \"Wir fanden bei ihm zwei Gaspistolen und ein zweites Messer.\"\nEin Beamter liegt noch im Krankenhaus. Der 30-jährige Täter, bei dem es sich um einen polizeibekannten türkischen Staatsbürger handelt, ist wegen seiner schweren Schussverletzungen in ein künstliches Koma versetzt worden, sein Zustand sei kritisch, so die Polizei.\nErst nach der Schießerei stellt sich heraus, dass der Mann mit einer Gaspistole auf die Polizisten schoss, die laut Polizei von einer scharfen Waffe nicht zu unterscheiden sei. Die Spurensicherung fand \"neun bis zehn Hülsen\", die aus den Waffen der Beamten stammen, so ein Polizeisprecher. \" Die haben aber bestimmt 30-mal geschossen\", meint Augenzeuge Michael R.\nDer Täter war zunächst mit einem Taxi gegen Mitternacht zur Oberhausener Rotlichtmeile \"Flaßhofstraße\" gefahren. Dort randalierte er nach Zeugenaussagen und stieg dann wieder in das Taxi. Er forderte den Fahrer auf, ihn nach Emmerich zu fahren. Als der sich weigerte, schoss er. Der Taxifahrer konnte unverletzt flüchten. Anschließend stürmte der Täter in einen Kiosk, kaufte eine Flasche Wodka und schoss auf den Besitzer, der ebenfalls unverletzt blieb. Dann soll er noch mehrfach auf fahrende Autos gefeuert haben, ehe die Polizei eintraf.\nDas Motiv für den Amoklauf des 30-Jährigen ist noch unklar. Ein Zeuge will gehört haben, dass der Mann geäußert haben soll, er wolle sich von der Polizei erschießen lassen. \"Wir wissen, dass der Mann psychisch labil ist – und deswegen unberechenbar\", sagt Bergmann, \"außerdem stand er unter Drogen.\" Auch Wilfried Albishausen, Landesvorsitzender des Bundes Deutscher Kriminalbeamter, sieht im Tathergang Anzeichen für einen \"Suicide by Cop\" (Selbstmord durch Polizisten). Er fordert eine harte Bestrafung: \"Eine Erhebung des Innenministeriums hat belegt, dass es eine zunehmende Gewalt gegenüber Polizisten gibt. Da muss ein Zeichen gesetzt werden, dass der Staat so etwas nicht duldet.\"\nFrank Richter, Landesvorsitzender der Polizeigewerkschaft GdP, erinnert an die Attacke auf zwei Gelsenkirchener Polizeibeamte, die von einem 21-Jährigen in einen Hinterhalt gelockt und niedergestochen worden waren, ehe sie den Täter mit Schüssen außer Gefecht setzen konnten: \"Oberhausen ist bereits der zweite Fall innerhalb weniger Wochen, in der Kriminelle in NRW versucht haben, Polizisten zu ermorden. Auch in der Vergangenheit hat es Angriffe auf Polizisten gegeben. Aber die Brutalität und Kaltschnäuzigkeit der Gewalttaten ist neu\", sagt Richter. \"Die zunehmende Bereitschaft von Teilen der Gesellschaft zur Anwendung selbst brutalster Gewalt trifft nicht nur die Polizei, sondern sie kann jeden treffen. Deshalb brauchen wir eine gesellschaftliche Ächtung von Gewalt.\" Alleine in NRW seien im vergangenen Jahr 1734 Polizistinnen und Polizisten während ihres Dienstes durch Angriffe verletzt worden, 13 von ihnen schwer. Das seien doppelt so viele, wie noch vor zehn Jahren.\nNoch keine neuen Erkenntnisse gibt es in dem Fall eines 31-jährigen Autodiebs, der vor kurzem in Mönchengladbach mit einer Gaspistole auf Polizisten gefeuert hatte und daraufhin von den Beamten erschossen wurde.\nQuelle: RP", "url": "http://nachrichten.rp-online.de/panorama/amoklaeufer-verletzt-drei-polizisten-1.2269056", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160804145704/http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/amoklaeufer-verletzt-drei-polizisten-aid-1.2269056" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Drei Polizisten bei Schießerei verletzt", "text": "Video Video\n--\nVideo Die Auswirkungen des Todes von Apple-Gründer Steve Jobs für sein Unternehmen sind noch schwer abzusehen. Viele Kunde und Apple-Fans machen sich aber offenbar wenig Sorgen über die Zukunft der Firma.", "url": "http://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/1215018", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111010001631/http://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/1215018" } ]

[ "Themenportal Wissenschaft", "Themenportal China", "Raumfahrt allg.", "Unbemannte Raumfahrt", "Chinesische Raumfahrt", "Langer Marsch", "Shijian-7" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "China Successfully Orbits Experimental Science Satellite", "text": "Search All Our Sites at SpaceBank\nGet Our Free Newsletters Via Email\nChina Successfully Orbits Experimental Science Satellite\nThe Long March carrier rocket was sent off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in western China. This is the 85th rocket in the Long March series and China's 43rd successful launch since 1996. Photo: Xinhua.\nBeijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2005\nChina on Wednesday launched another experimental science satellite into a preset orbit, atop a Long March 2D carrier rocket from a launching center in northwest China's Gansu Province.\nOfficials at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center said the Shijian-7 (SJ-7) satellite was rocketed at 6:40 a.m. and started orbiting normally 12 minutes later.\nThe SJ-7 Satellite was designed to monitor space environment and conduct other spacial scientific and technological experiments with a three-year life span, according to the Center.\nThe launch is the 85th mission taken by the Long March carrier rockets since 1970 and the 43rd consecutive successful one since October 1996.\nThe first SJ Satellite was launched in 1971 and the technological standards of the satellite detectors have since kept improving.\nSource: Xinhua News Agency", "url": "http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-05zzzzc.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090429132355/http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-05zzzzc.html" } ]

[ "Europe", "United Kingdom", "Crime and law", "Wackynews" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Expedia.co.uk > Currency Converter", "text": "Calculate and compare currencies Simply type in the amount you would like to convert, select the currency you’re converting from and to, then click the link for results. 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[ "Ossétie du Sud", "Abkhazie", "Europe", "Caucase", "Amérique du Sud", "Équateur", "Politique et conflits", "Politique internationale" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Abkhazie/Ossétie: l'Equateur prêt à examiner les demandes de reconnaissance (Correa)", "text": "MOSCOU, 30 octobre - RIA Novosti. L'Equateur est prêt à examiner la question de la reconnaissance de l'Abkhazie et de l'Ossétie du Sud, si une telle requête lui parvient, a déclaré vendredi le président équatorien Rafael Correa lors d'une conférence de presse à Moscou.\n\"Pour ce qui est de l'Ossétie du Sud et de l'Abkhazie, nous n'en avons pas parlé lors de cette visite. Mais si ces deux régions adressent à l'Equateur une demande officielle de reconnaissance, nous étudierons le plus sérieusement une telle demande\", a indiqué M.Correa.\nLa Russie a reconnu l'Abkhazie et l'Ossétie du Sud après une offensive de Tbilissi en août 2008 contre l'Ossétie du Sud, l'armée géorgienne ayant détruit Tskhinvali, la capitale, et tué des centaines de civils et des soldats de la paix russes déployés dans cette république autoproclamée.\nLa Russie a opposé une riposte militaire de grande envergure destinée à contraindre la Géorgie à la paix avant de reconnaître le 26 août l'indépendance de l'Ossétie du Sud et de l'Abkhazie. Son exemple a par la suite été suivi par le Nicaragua et le Venezuela.", "url": "http://fr.rian.ru/world/20091030/123779249.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120204050245/http://fr.rian.ru/world/20091030/123779249.html" } ]

[ "Nelson Mandela", "Africa", "Health", "Politics and conflicts", "Ryan Peteranna (Wikinewsie)", "South Africa" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Former President Mandela hospitalised", "text": "World Tubercolosis Day Commemorations Deputy President Motlanthe addressed the World Tubercolosis Day Commemorations held at Pollsmoor Correctional Facility in the Western Cape.\nPresident Zuma receives the President of the People's Republic of China President Jacob Zuma received the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping during the state visit at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.\n5th BRICS Summit President Jacob Zuma with President Putin signed declaration of the strategic partnership between the Republic of South Africa and the Russian Federation in Durban ICC.", "url": "http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/pebble.asp?relid=15131", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130331014359/http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/pebble.asp?relid=15131" }, { "language": "en", "title": "South Africa's Mandela returns to hospital", "text": "Mandela was hospitalised for nearly three weeks in December, when he was also treated for a lung infection [AFP]\nFormer South African President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to a hospital with a recurring lung infection, South Africa's government has said. Mandela, 94, has become increasingly frail in recent years and has been admitted to hospital several times since last year, mostly recently earlier this month when he received what a presidential spokesman described as a \"successful\" medical test. Mandela was admitted to a hospital just before midnight on Wednesday \"due to the recurrence of his lung infection,\" the office of President Jacob Zuma said in a statement.\n\"Doctors are attending to him, ensuring that he has the best possible expert medical treatment and comfort,\" the statement said. It appealed \"for understanding and privacy in order to allow space to the doctors to do their work\". Zuma wished Mandela a speedy recovery, referring to him affectionately by his clan name, \"Madiba\". \"We appeal to the people of South Africa and the world to pray for our beloved Madiba and his family and to keep them in their thoughts. We have full confidence in the medical team and know that they will do everything possible to ensure recovery,\" the presidential statement quoted Zuma as saying. Infection recurrence Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting from Johannesburg, said many South Africans were very concerned about Mandela's health. \"There is a lot activity on social media - Facebook and Twitter. Many people wishing him well, hoping that he will soon be discharged,\" Mutasa said. \"Most South African understand the fact that he is an old man, and that he will go in and out of hospital more often than not. There isn't a sense of panic right now,\" she added. Mandela spent a night in a hospital and was released on March 10 following a medical test. At that time, presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said Mandela was \"well\". In December, Mandela spent three weeks in a hospital, where he was treated for a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones. A year ago, Mandela was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection. He was discharged days later. He also had surgery for an enlarged prostate gland in 1985. Under South Africa's white-minority apartheid regime, Mandela served 27 years in prison, where he contracted tuberculosis, before being released in 1990. He later became the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 under the banner of the African National Congress, helping to negotiate a relatively peaceful end to apartheid despite fears of much greater bloodshed. He served one five-year term as president before retiring. Perceived successes during Mandela's tenure include the introduction of a constitution with robust protections for individual rights and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a panel that heard testimony about apartheid-era violations of human rights as a kind of national therapy session. South Africa still struggles with crime, economic inequality and other social ills. Mandela last made a public appearance on a major stage when South Africa hosted the 2010 World Cup football tournament. 526", "url": "http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/03/2013328789342960.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130328123922/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/03/2013328789342960.html" } ]

[ "Política", "Democracia y elecciones", "Egipto", "África", "Hosni Mubarak" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Reuters.co.ca", "text": "Egypt rights group doubts fair election\nPrinter Friendly (Page 1 of 2)\nCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's leading non-governmental rights group said on Monday it did not expect the country's first multi-candidate presidential vote to be fair because of inadequate independent supervision and a lack of transparency.\nThe concerns of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) echo criticism by other groups which also complain about the make-up of the election oversight committee and its decision to bar access to polling stations for independent observers.\nPresident Hosni Mubarak, 77, in power for 24 years, is widely expected to win the September 7 election against nine other contestants. But he has pledged a fair fight.\n\"I don't expect we will reach a fair or true result because steps until now by the (election) committee have shown a lot of arbitrariness and a lack of transparency,\" EOHR Secretary-General Hafez Abu Seada said.\nEOHR and other rights groups want to monitor the poll to ensure there is no repeat of the violence and reports of harassment that marred the 2000 parliamentary elections which Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP) won. But they complain that the committee has ignored their requests.\nThe election oversight committee says only judges and candidates' representatives will be allowed in polling stations. The government says it sees no need for foreign monitors.\nAlthough EOHR and other groups want judges to monitor the election, they say the state's definition includes low-ranking judiciary employees, who may be unable to challenge abuses.\nEOHR has trained about 600 monitors and planned to train more, Abu Seada said. They would watch for abuses outside polling stations and could at least enter to vote, which would give them a chance to check for signs of malpractice, he added.\n\"It is not possible to describe any elections as democratic or impartial without an observer presence,\" EOHR said in a report about the election process so far.\nOther groups have announced similar monitoring plans.\n\"DAILY PROPAGANDA\" Continued ...\n© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.", "url": "http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-29T170040Z_01_FLE961234_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-EGYPT-ELECTIONS-C-COL.XML", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050917092947/http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-29T170040Z_01_FLE961234_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-EGYPT-ELECTIONS-C-COL.XML" }, { "language": "es", "title": "HOSNI MUBARAK ES FAVORITO DE LAS PRÓXIMAS ELECCIONES PRESIDENCIALES EN EGIPTO", "text": "Últimas noticias HOSNI MUBARAK ES FAVORITO DE LAS PRÓXIMAS ELECCIONES PRESIDENCIALES EN EGIPTO 12:13 El Cairo, 17 de agosto – RIA Novosti. Hosni Mubarak, de 77 años, actual presidente de Egipto, promovido para cumplir el quinto mandato de 6 años por el gobernante partido nacional demócrata (PND), es indudable favorito de las primeras elecciones alternativas en la historia del país, fijadas para el 7 de septiembre. En total, diez candidatos a la presidencia de Egipto empiezan este miércoles su carrera electoral, que va a durar 19 días. El comité electoral supremo de Egipto seleccionó a estos diez candidatos, que reúnen los requisitos establecidos por la Ley, de casi 200 pretendientes que fueron registrados del 29 de julio al 4 de agosto. Según analistas locales, también tienen probabilidades de reunir un considerable número de votos Nuaman Gumaa, presidente del partido “Nuevo Wafd”, y Aiman Nur, líder del partido liberal “Mañana”, quien el 25 de septiembre tendrá que presentarse en el tribunal, pues lo acusan de haber falsificado unos documentos durante la inscripción de su partido en el registro. Van a jugar un importante papel los votos de los partidarios del grupo prohibido “Los hermanos musulmanes”, así como de los cristianos coptos que son unos ocho millones en Egipto, pero no están representados por su candidato. Nur ha sostenido conversaciones con el preceptor supremo de “Los hermanos”, Muhammed Akef, pero éste no se apresura a declarar a cuál de los candidatos va a apoyar su grupo. En opinión de la mayoría de los analista locales, lo más probable es que “Los hermanos” apoyen a Mubarak. A otros siete candidatos que representan a partidos pequeños, el periódico egipcio “Al Ahram” los califica de “decorativos”, mientras que el pueblo llama tales agrupaciones políticas “partidos de probeta”. A iniciativa del presidente Mubarak, en febrero en la Constitución del país fueron introducidas unas enmiendas, por las que el procedimiento anterior de elección del Jefe de Estado (por medio de celebrar referéndum en torno a un candidato seleccionado por el parlamento) fue sustituido por elecciones alternativas directas. Según la nueva ley, un día antes de celebrarse las elecciones el Gobierno dimite, y el presidente electo forma su Gabinete. Paralelamente con las elecciones presidenciales se elegirá una tercera parte de los diputados de ambas cámaras del parlamento, en el que actualmente un 80 por ciento de los escaños están ocupados por miembros del PND. Hosni Mubarak se encuentra al timón de Egipto a partir de finales de 1981, desde que unos islamistas radicales mataron 6 de octubre durante un desfile militar al presidente Anvar Sadat, a quien no habían perdonado la concentración de convenios de Camp David con Israel y la “traición de los intereses de la nación árabe”.\nenviar por e-mail volver a la página principal", "url": "http://sp.rian.ru/onlinenews/20050817/41170046.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070313181604/http://sp.rian.ru/onlinenews/20050817/41170046.html" } ]

[ "Norteamérica", "Judicial", "Sociedad", "Terrorismo" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Policías de Nueva York atacados con hacha", "text": "Un hombre fue abatido a tiros en Nueva York luego de haber atacado a un grupo de policías con un hacha, hiriendo de gravedad a uno de ellos.\nLos oficiales, recién graduados de la academia policial, posaban para una foto en una calle de Queens cuando el atacante vistiendo una chaqueta con capucha se abalanzó sobre ellos blandiendo el arma.\nUno de los oficiales fue herido en la cabeza y otro en el brazo, según informó el comisionado policial, William J. Bratton.\nEl atacante no fue identificado por nombre de inmediato y tampoco se conoce el móvil del ataque, pero la cadena CNN dijo que la policía investiga una cuenta de la red social Facebook abierta con el nombre de Zale Thompson, del barrio de Queens.\nLa página tiene como imagen de perfil una fotografía en blanco y negro de un miliciano con turbante y la cara cubierta, armado con una espada y con un fusil al hombro.\nDe igual manera, el portal de vídeos YouTube difundió imágenes en las que se puede observar a Thompson armado con un hacha corriendo hacia una de sus víctimas.\nSegún CNN, Thompson tiene antecedentes penales en California y la Marina estadounidense lo expulsó por conducta inapropiada.\nEste ataque sucede días después de ataques similares en Canadá contra militares y el Parlamento candadiense.", "url": "http://www.voanoticias.com/content/nueva-york-hacha-ataque-policias/2494784.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20141029085206/http://www.voanoticias.com/content/nueva-york-hacha-ataque-policias/2494784.html" }, { "language": "es", "title": "El sujeto que atacó a dos policías de Nueva York era un radical islámico", "text": "Las autoridades de Nueva York afirmaron hoy que el sujeto que el jueves atacó con un hacha a dos policías de la ciudad se había convertido al Islam hace varios años y defendía posiciones radicalizadas.\n\"Estoy convencido de que esto se trata de un acto terrorista\", afirmó en una rueda de prensa el comisionado de policía de Nueva York, William Bratton.\nEl atacante, que murió por disparos de la policía poco después de que hiriera con un hacha a dos agentes, fue identificado como Zale Thomson. Había sido arrestado en seis ocasiones en California por distintos cargos.\nCuando las autoridades revisaron su ordenador descubrieron que tenía acceso a sitios vinculados con grupos yihadistas y había hecho comentarios en redes sociales contra el Gobierno, contra Occidente y contra la raza blanca.", "url": "http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2014/10/24/544abd22268e3ea46f8b456b.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20141027020323/http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2014/10/24/544abd22268e3ea46f8b456b.html" } ]

[ "Gospodarka", "Świat", "Europa", "Unia Europejska", "Grecja" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "An amazing mea culpa from the IMF’s chief economist on austerity", "text": "Consider it a mea culpa submerged in a deep pool of calculus and regression analysis: The International Monetary Fund’s top economist today acknowledged that the fund blew its forecasts for Greece and other European economies because it did not fully understand how government austerity efforts would undermine economic growth.\nThe new and highly technical paper looks again at the issue of fiscal multipliers – the impact that a rise or fall in government spending or tax collection has on a country’s economic output.\nThat it comes under the byline of fund economic counselor and research director Olivier Blanchard is significant. Fund research is always published with the caveat that it represents the views of the researcher, not the institution itself. But this paper comes from the top, and attempts to put to rest an issue that has been at the center of debate about how fast countries should move in their efforts to tame large debts and deficits.\nIf fiscal multipliers are small, countries can cut spending faster or raise more in taxes without much short-term damage. If they are large, then the process can become self-defeating, at least in the short run, with each dollar of government spending cuts, for example, costing the economy more than a dollar in lost output and thus actually increasing debt-to-GDP ratios.\nThat is what has been happening with a vengeance in Greece, where fund forecasters, as part of the country’s first bailout program in 2010, predicted that the nation could cut deeply into government spending and pretty quickly bounce back to economic growth and rising employment.\nTwo years later, the Greek economy is still shrinking and unemployment is at 25 percent.\nOf course no two circumstances are alike. Shut out of international bond markets, Greece had little choice but to begin bringing its public finances into line or face a catastrophic default. Financing wasn’t available to sustain prior spending levels. For an economy that has been reeling for several years, however, a billion or two in extra government programs or investment could have kept a few small businesses open and kept a few more families employed and spending.\n“Forecasters significantly underestimated the increase in unemployment and the decline in domestic demand associated with fiscal consolidation,” Blanchard and co-author Daniel Leigh, a fund economist, wrote in the paper.\nThat somewhat dry conclusion sums up what amounts to a tempest in econometric circles. The fund has been accused of intentionally underestimating the effects of austerity in Greece to make its programs palatable, at least on paper; fund officials have argued that it was its European partners, particularly Germany, who insisted on deeper, faster cuts. The evolving research on multipliers may have helped shift the tone of the debate in countries like Spain and Portugal, where a slower pace of deficit control has been advocated.\nBut the paper includes some subtle and potentially troubling insights into how the fund works. Blanchard – effectively the top dog when it comes to economic science at the fund – writes in the paper that he could not actually determine what multipliers economists at the country level were using in their forecasts. The number was implicit in their forecasting models – a background assumption rather than a variable that needed to be fine-tuned based on national circumstances or peculiarities.\nHeading into a crisis that nearly tore the euro zone apart, in other words, neither Blanchard or any one of the fund’s vast army of technicians thought to reexamine whether important assumptions about the region would still hold true in times of crisis.\nThat, it turns out, was a big mistake. Multipliers vary over time: They may be low in a country where the economy is growing, interest rates are normal and the banking system is sound. As this research showed, they get larger if interest rates are low, output is falling and the banking system is creaky – conditions that make everyone, from households to investors, less likely to spend, and thus makes the role of government-generated demand that much more important.\nBlanchard and Leigh deduced that IMF forecasters have been using a uniform multiplier of 0.5, when in fact the circumstances of the European economy made the multiplier as much as 1.5, meaning that a $1 government spending cut would cost $1.50 in lost output.\nWhat are the implications for the future?\nThis paper may not be an official position of the IMF, but coming from the agency’s top economist, it is bound to change how the agency generates forecasts.\nAs for fiscal policy – an issue of interest as the U.S. debate turns towards austerity – Blanchard and Leigh said a better understanding of multipliers does not produce any definitive conclusions.\nMany countries still need to cut their deficits – some faster, some slower, depending on a host of other factors.\n“The results do not imply that fiscal consolidation is undesirable,” the two write. “Virtually all advanced economies face the challenge of fiscal adjustment in response to elevated government debt levels and future pressures on public finances from demographic change. The short-term effects of fiscal policy on economic activity are only one of the many factors that need to be considered in determining the appropriate pace of fiscal consolidation for any single country.”", "url": "http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/03/an-amazing-mea-culpa-from-the-imfs-chief-economist-on-austerity/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130104085530/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/03/an-amazing-mea-culpa-from-the-imfs-chief-economist-on-austerity/" } ]

[ "Themenportal Unfall", "Themenportal Sport", "Themenportal Dänemark", "Fallschirmspringen", "Sportunfall", "Rettungseinsatz (Hubschrauber)" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "28-Jährige Fallschirmspringerin überlebt Sturz aus 1.000 Metern", "text": "Fallschirmspringer mit korrekt geöffnetem Schirm (Symbolbild) – Foto: P. Radosta / Austrian Wings\nWie der dänische Rundfunksender DR berichtet, habe eine 28-jährige Fallschirmspringerin am Samstag einen Absprung aus 1.000 Metern Höhe schwer verletzt überlebt, obwohl sich weder Haupt- noch Reserveschirm öffnen ließen.\nDemnach sprang die junge Frau gemeinsam mit anderen Springern eines Clubs in der Nähe von Viborg, Jütland, in 1.000 Metern Höhe aus der Absetzmaschine. Dabei habe sich die Reißleine des Hauptschirmes verwickelt, und auch der Reserveschirm soll nicht ausgelöst haben.\nLaut dem Bericht war die Frau sogar noch bei Bewusstsein, als die Retter eintrafen. Sie wurde nach der Erstversorung mit dem Rettungshubschrauber ins Krankenhaus nach Aarhus gebracht.\n(red)", "url": "http://www.austrianwings.info/aw/?p=30546", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110831234220/http://www.austrianwings.info/aw/?p=30546" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Der Glücksfall: Dänin überlebt Sturz aus 1000 Metern", "text": "Mit dem Leben hatte sie wahrscheinlich schon abgeschlossen: Eine Fallschirmspringerin aus Dänemark raste 1000 Meter ungebremst in Richtung Erde, weil sich ihre Reißleine verheddert hatte. Sie überlebte – wie, ist noch unklar.\nWie der Rundfunksender DR am Sonntag berichtete, war die 28-Jährige am Vortag in der Nähe von Viborg in Jütland zusammen mit anderen Mitgliedern eines Fallschirmclubs aus einem Flugzeug gesprungen. Weil sich die Reißleine beim Absprung verwickelte, ließ sich der Hauptschirm nicht öffnen. Auch der Reserveschirm blieb zusammengeklappt.Nach Angaben der Polizei war die Frau bei Bewusstsein, als Rettungsmannschaften eintrafen. Sie wurde mit einem Hubschrauber in das Krankenhaus von Aarhus gebracht. Es bestehe keine Lebensgefahr, hieß es. Die Behörden machten keine Angaben über die Verletzungen und darüber, wie die Frau den Absturz überleben konnte.Erst im Frühjahr hatte ein Bergsteiger einen Sturz ebenfalls über 1000 Meter im freien Fall überlebt.", "url": "http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/der-gluecksfall-daenin-ueberlebt-sturz-aus-1000-metern_aid_650961.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130623165241/http://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/der-gluecksfall-daenin-ueberlebt-sturz-aus-1000-metern_aid_650961.html" } ]

[ "Cultura e entretenimento", "Desporto", "Sociedade", "América do Sul", "Brasil", "Paulínia", "São Paulo" ]

[ { "language": "pt", "title": "Renato Rezende surpreende e vence o Desafio Internacional de Bicicross", "text": "Quem foi assistir ao Desafio Internacional de Bicicross, em Paulínia, buscando ver o tricampeonato do argentino Ramiro Marino, ou a atuação do americano Travis \"Dillon\" Ohrazda, acabou comemorando a vitória do brasileiro Renato Rezende, de Minas Gerais na quinta edição da competição. Com uma atuação perfeita na final, Renatinho - como é conhecido - náo deu chance ao argentino e ao americano, e sagrou-se campeão da prova. O segundo lugar ficou com o venezuelano Jonathan Freites, seguido pelos brasileiros Ebert Silva (SP) e Travis \"Dillon\" Ohrazda (EUA).\n- Eu não estou acreditando que venci. Agradeço a Deus e à minha família, que me deu muito apoio - disse Renato Rezende, logo após a vitória.\nDaniel Jorge sente as dores de uma lesão no ombro direito após uma queda em Paulínia\nNo feminino, a vitória foi de Mayara Perez, de Sorocaba, que conquistou o título da prova em 2009. Com apenas 17 anos, a paulista, que treinou na Suíça em 2009, também parecia não acreditar na conquista.\n- Estou muito feliz, treinei muito para essa corrida. Estou feliz demais - disse a campeã, muito cansada.\nCompletaram o pódio feminino as brasileiras Naiara Silva, Priscilla Carnaval e Maria Müller.\nNa fase classificatória, o veterano Daniel Jorge, campeão de 2006, acidentou-se, lesionou o ombro direito e precisou de atendimento médico ainda na pista. O piloto foi levado a um hospital em Paulínia para ser melhor avaliado.", "url": "http://globoesporte.globo.com/Esportes/Noticias/VeraoEspetacular/0,,MUL1499071-16384,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233036/http://globoesporte.globo.com/Esportes/Noticias/VeraoEspetacular/0,,MUL1499071-16384,00.html" } ]

[ "Arte, cultura y entretenimiento", "Música", "Norteamérica", "Estados Unidos" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Revelan que Kurt Cobain habría terminado un disco solista antes de morir", "text": "Kurt Cobain estaba listo para lanzar su carrera como solista, antes de morir en 1994. Al menos, así lo asegura el ex guitarrista de la banda Hole, Eric Erlandson, en una entrevista con la revista Fuse.\n\"Kurt avanzaba en una buena dirección, éste pudo haber sido su White Album\", comentó el artista, comparando el inédito material de Cobain con el trabajo de Los Beatles.\n\"Hacia eso avanzaba, un álbum solista pero trabajando con distintas personas\", añade, \"yo estaba muy entusiasmado por algunas de las cosas en las que estaba trabajando, porque lo había visto tocar frente a mí\".\nEl guitarrista que trabajó con la esposa de Cobain, Courtney Love, agregó que \"espero que algún día sea lanzado para los admiradores\".", "url": "http://www.latercera.com/noticia/entretencion/2012/04/661-454513-9-revelan-que-kurt-cobain-habria-terminado-un-disco-solista-antes-de-morir.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120416192105/http://latercera.com/noticia/entretencion/2012/04/661-454513-9-revelan-que-kurt-cobain-habria-terminado-un-disco-solista-antes-de-morir.shtml" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Kurt Cobain Was Recording Solo \"White Album\" at Death", "text": "I met with former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson last week for lunch at a Japanese restaurant in Manhattan to discuss his new book, Letters to Kurt, and during our 90-minute chat he dropped some bombshells that I just couldn’t wait to tell y’all about. Notably, that Cobain was demoing new songs at the time of his death that transcended anything he’d written so far: “[Kurt] was headed in a direction that was really cool. It would have been his White Album,” Erlandson says, referring to the Beatles' self-titled magnum opus.\nHe adds, “That’s really what he was going towards, a solo album but working with different people. I was really excited about some of the stuff he was working on. I got to see him play it in front of me. That’s why I was really sad [when he died]. I was like, ‘Oh man, not only are you cutting off a life, but a message to the world, a musical path is just left with … Bush and all this other stuff [laughs]. He was cut short. Who knows where the music would have gone.”\nErlandson adds that a demo of Cobain performing a cover of a well-known song exists, but he wouldn’t confess which song it was, exactly.\n“There is one cover… I won’t say what it is. I don't own the stuff,” explains Erlandson. “I just hope that one day it will be released for fans. It’s just so heartbreaking.” I then asked if the song would be considered a surprising selection for Cobain, who loved everything from Creedence Clearwater Revival to Metallica. “No, it’s not surprising. It’s a very sweet, just touching song.”\nHe adds that an album of rough Cobain demos could someday be released. “I heard some talk about somebody putting together some raw, rough acoustic thing … and that would be more intimate than the box set [2004's With the Lights Out], because all those little jams you have to throw out [for that box set release]. They presented some [of the demos] but there is stuff that has not been put out.\"\nI mentioned a favorite of those demos, \"Do Re Mi,\" and Erlandson said the unreleased material was in that vein.\n\"Imagine that,\" he says of an album of rough demos. \"I’m not in control of things. I just wish something would come together. I think the fans would be a lot happier. If nobody ever hears those songs, except for like three people, then … that’s the way it goes.”\nWhat would you do to hear the unreleased Cobain demos? And which song do you think Cobain covered? Listen to \"Do Re Mi\" below, then tell us what you think in the comments.", "url": "http://www.fuse.tv/2012/04/kurt-cobain-was-recording-solo-white-album-at-death", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120414184015/http://www.fuse.tv/2012/04/kurt-cobain-was-recording-solo-white-album-at-death" } ]

[ "América do Norte", "Informática", "Microsoft", "Publicado" ]

[ { "language": "pt", "title": "Bill Gates anuncia início de uma segunda década digital", "text": "Bill Gates anuncia início de uma segunda década digital\nda Folha Online\nO presidente e fundador da Microsoft, Bill Gates, 52, abriu no domingo a CES (Consumer Electronics Show) de Las Vegas confirmando que esta foi sua última aparição no evento e que agora se inicia uma segunda década digital, \"mais focada em conectar pessoas\". (confira galeria de imagens do evento)\n\"Este é meu último discurso de abertura. Em julho deixarei de ser um funcionário em tempo integral da Microsoft para trabalhar totalmente para a Fundação [Bill e Melinda Gates]\", assinalou em seu discurso de abertura da CES 2008.\nPaul Sakuma/AP \"Este é meu último discurso de abertura\", disse Bill Gates, em Las Vegas\nGates já tinha anunciado que em julho deixaria de forma efetiva todos os trabalhos de gestão da Microsoft para concentrar-se em suas tarefas filantrópicas através da Fundação Bill e Melinda Gates.\nDurante seu discurso, o magnata qualificou os últimos 10 anos como a \"primeira década digital\", e disse que o período viveu um grande sucesso tanto no desenvolvimento de aparelhos como em suas aplicações.\n\"Nada vai nos segurar na segunda década digital, que estará mais focada em conectar pessoas e nas necessidades do usuário\", afirmou.\nGates disse que haverá três elementos-chave na nova década digital. O primeiro foi definido por ele como \"experiências em alta definição\", tanto de vídeo como de áudio.\nO segundo elemento citado por Gates foi que todos os aparelhos eletrônicos \"estarão conectados por serviços\", o que permitirá compartilhar a informação entre uma multidão de usuários sem a necessidade de estabelecer pontes entre os aparelhos eletrônicos.\nE o terceiro elemento, que Gates qualificou como \"o mais subestimado\", são as novas formas de interação com computadores, telefones e outros aparelhos eletrônicos.\nImplicações\nOs discursos que Gates pronunciou na CES serviram para que o fundador da Microsoft mostrasse sua visão do futuro para o setor.\nQuando Gates abandonar suas responsabilidades diárias à frente da companhia, para dedicar mais tempo a trabalhos filantrópicos, sua influência na direção do gigante da informática diminuirá de forma significativa.\nA futura ausência de Gates terá implicações positivas e negativas, como muitos analistas do setor já comentaram.\nAlguns dos ousados diagnósticos que Gates fez em edições passadas do CES nunca chegaram a se cumprir, como um mundo dominado pelo Tablet PC (computador pessoal com o formato de um laptop ou prancheta, que pode ser acessado com o toque de uma caneta especial) ou o desaparecimento dos spam em 2006.\nPor outro lado, o fundador da Microsoft teve mais sorte ao anunciar a presença quase onipresente de computadores na vida moderna graças a sua fusão com produtos eletrônicos.\nMas nem sempre os acertos de Gates se traduziram em sucessos para a Microsoft, como no terreno dos videogames, da música digital e dos smartphones, onde outras empresas foram capazes de lucrar mais.\nA ausência de Gates na abertura dos próximos CES abrirá as portas para outros visionários, como Steve Jobs, da Apple, e que triunfou nos campos onde a Microsoft falhou, com o iPod e o iPhone.\nCom ou sem Gates, a CES continuará sendo uma das principais vitrines mundiais da eletrônica de consumo, o lugar eleito por centenas de empresas para antecipar as tendências de 2008.\nFeira\nEmbora com 27 mil produtos na feira, que deve ser visitada por quase 150 mil pessoas dos dias 7 a 10 de janeiro, é difícil afirmar quais \"gadgets\" ganharão o interesse do público nos próximos meses. Algumas tecnologias estão recebendo grandes investimentos de capital e atenção.\nPor exemplo, neste ano há um claro destaque dos telefones de tela sensível ao toque --que seguem a tendência do iPhone--, da televisão de alta definição (HD) com conexão sem fio e das telas gigantes de cristal líquido.\nAlém disso, a combinação de várias destas tecnologias, como a tela sensível ao toque de 52 polegadas que a Philips LG levou para Las Vegas.\nAgora que está claro que a batalha das televisões de alta definição foi vencida pelas telas de cristal líquido, cujas vendas deixaram para trás as TVs de projeção traseira e de plasma, os fabricantes estão se preparando para a tecnologia do futuro, as telas de diodo orgânico emissor de luz.\nA tecnologia também é conhecida como Oled, sigla para Organic Light-Emitting Diode ou diodo orgânico emissor de luz, e proporciona telas mais finas e flexíveis, que por sua vez oferecem uma grande redução do consumo de energia. Mas por enquanto a tela Oled, que estará presente na CES, é pequena e extremamente cara.\nCom agência Efe, em San Francisco", "url": "http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u360755.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080108170038/http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/informatica/ult124u360755.shtml" }, { "language": "pt", "title": "Gates fala em era digital instintiva", "text": "Gates fala em era digital instintiva\n07 de Janeiro de 2008\nO presidente e fundador da Microsoft, Bill Gates, anunciou na noite de domingo o início da segunda década digital, com novas tecnologias totalmente integradas ao nosso cotidiano. De acordo com ele, o uso dos equipamentos digitais nessa nova era será cada vez mais \"natural\", instintivo, e sem necessidade de conhecimento prévio. Para o chefão da Microsoft, o computador estará cada vez mais presente na vida das pessoas, mas será cada vez menos notado.\n\"Tudo estará conectado. Você nem vai se lembrar. Não será preciso ligar os aparelhos entre si e lembrar o que está em cada lugar\", afirmou ele na sua apresentação anual na maior conferência de tecnologia do planeta, o Consumer Electronics Show, em Las Vegas. \"A tendência é claríssima: todos os meios de comunicação e entretenimento serão digitais.\" Segundo ele, \"a primeira década digital foi tremendamente bem-sucedida\", e o futuro seguirá no mesmo caminho.\nFoi a última vez que Gates fez seu tradicional discurso de abertura no evento de Las Vegas -- em julho, ele promete deixar os holofotes e assumir função secundária dentro da Microsoft, empresa que ele criou em 1975, com Paul Allen. Ao contrário do que ocorreu nos anos anteriores, Bill Gates não mostrou novos aparelhos -- como sempre, a platéia esperava novidades da Microsoft --, mas conquistou o público fazendo piadas e até tocando guitarra com o músico Slash.\nGates já previa havia anos a transição para um uso mais instintivo dos aparelhos digitais. Agora, seus prognósticos se confirmam cada vez mais. O sucesso de produtos como o videogame Wii, da Nintendo, e o celular iPhone, da Apple, mostram que o consumidor quer produtos de uso simples, prático e dinâmico. \"Todas essas coisas já estão mostrando que o padrão natural de interação digital deverá, no futuro, nos libertar do teclado e do mouse\", disse Gates.", "url": "http://vejaonline.abril.com.br/notitia/servlet/newstorm.ns.presentation.NavigationServlet?publicationCode=1&pageCode=1&id=135444&textCode=135444&currentDate=1199701440000", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080108040445/http://vejaonline.abril.com.br/notitia/servlet/newstorm.ns.presentation.NavigationServlet?publicationCode=1&pageCode=1&id=135444&textCode=135444&currentDate=1199701440000" } ]

[ "Themenportal Belgien", "Anschlag auf den öffentlichen Nahverkehr" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Terroranschlag Brüssel: Explosionen in Flughafen und Metro - Fragen und Antworten", "text": "Eine Serie von Terroranschlägen hat am Dienstagvormittag die belgische Hauptstadt Brüssel erschüttert. Bei mehreren Explosionen im Flughafen Zaventem und der Brüsseler Metro kamen zahlreiche Menschen ums Leben. Was wir zu den Terrorakten bisher wissen, haben wir hier für Sie im Überblick zusammengefasst.\nWann und wo ereigneten sich die Anschläge?\nDie ersten beiden Explosionen ereigneten sich gegen 8:00 Uhr in der Abflughalle des Flughafens in der Gemeinde Zaventem im Norden Brüssels.\n© 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH/Stepmap\nUm 09:11 Uhr kam es zu einer weiteren Explosion in der Brüsseler Metro-Station Maelbeek im EU-Viertel. Sie wurde in einer gerade eingefahrenen U-Bahn ausgelöst. Bilder vom Tatort zeigten einen völlig zerstörten Wagen.\nNoch am Vormittag machte die Nachricht von einem weiteren Anschlag nahe der Rue de la Loi, ganz in der Nähe der U-Bahnstation Maelbeek, die Runde. Es stellte sich jedoch heraus, dass die Polizei einen verdächtigen Gegenstand gesprengt hatte.\nAlle Infos zu den Terroranschlägen in Brüssel im Live-Ticker\nWie viele Menschen kamen ums Leben?\nNach offiziellen Schätzungen kamen am Flughafen etwa zehn Menschen ums Leben, an der Metrostation ungefähr zwanzig. Die genaue Zahl der Opfer stehe aber noch nicht fest.\nInsgesamt seien etwa 230 Menschen verletzt worden. Das nationale Krisenzentrum veröffentlichte die Zahlen am Dienstag. Etwa 100 Menschen wurden demnach am Flughafen Zaventem verletzt, weitere 130 bei der Explosion in der Metrostation Maelbeek.\nInformationen über Nationalität beziehungsweise Identität der Opfer gibt es bislang nicht.\nWer sind die Täter von Belgien? Diese Personen stehen ganz oben auf der Liste der Verdächtigen. vor 1 Std.\nWer steckt hinter den Anschlägen?\nDer Sender N-TV meldete am Nachmittag, dass sich der sogenannte \"Islamische Staat\" (IS) zu den Anschlägen bekannte.\nAlles deutet auch darauf hin, dass auch diese Terrorserie einen islamistischen Hintergrund hat. Erst am Freitag war in Brüssel einer der mutmaßlichen Drahtzieher der Anschläge von Paris festgenommen worden, Salah Abdeslam.\nSeither rechneten Experten mit neuen Aktionen aus seinem Umfeld. Der Terrorexperte Peter R. Neumann vom Londoner King's College sagte am Wochenende: \"Es gibt keinen Grund zur Entwarnung. Uns stehen wahrscheinlich ähnliche Anschläge noch bevor.\"\nDie Suche nach weiteren Tätern läuft auf Hochtouren. An verschiedenen Orten in Brüssel gibt es wieder Razzien. Belgiens Außenminister Didier Reynders bestätigt: \"Wir fürchten, dass Leute noch auf freiem Fuß sind.\"\nGesucht wird auch nach zwei Komplizen Abdeslams. Die Staatsanwaltschaft äußert sich wegen der laufenden Ermittlungen zurückhaltend.\nBildergalerie starten Anschlag in Brüssel: Explosionen an Flughafen und Metro Mehrere Tote und Verletzte nach Terroranschlägen auf Flughafen und Metro.\nAlles deutet darauf hin, dass die Terrorserie einen islamistischen Hintergrund hat. Erst am Freitag war in Brüssel einer der mutmaßlichen Drahtzieher der Anschläge vom November in Paris festgenommen worden, der 26 Jahre alte Salah Abdeslam. Experten rechneten seither mit Vergeltungsaktionen.\nIn Belgien läuft die Suche nach möglicherweise noch flüchtigen Terroristen auf vollen Touren. In den Medien kursierten Zahlen, wonach bis zu 30 Verdächtige auf freiem Fuß seien.\nWie sieht es an den Terror-Tatorten aus?\nDie ersten Bilder erschienen in den sozialen Netzwerken. Sie zeigten eine völlig zerstörte Flughafen-Fassade und in Panik flüchtende Menschen. \"Keiner wusste, was passiert. Es herrschte totale Verwirrung\", sagte eine Augenzeugin der Nachrichtenagentur AFP. Wer sich noch im Gebäude befand, wurde aufgefordert, dies so schnell wie möglich zu verlassen.\nDie Zufahrtswege zum Flughafen wurden gesperrt, um den Weg für die Rettungskräfte frei zu machen. Züge und Flüge in Richtung des Brüsseler Flughafens wurden gestoppt. Der regionale Katastrophenplan wurde ausgelöst.\nAnschlag in Brüssel: Belgische Hauptstadt liegt lahm Nach mutmaßlichen Anschlägen in der belgischen Hauptstadt mit mehreren Toten haben die Behörden die höchste Sicherheitsstufe ausgerufen, Nah- und Fernverkehr stehen still. © Reuters\nWie ist die Lage in Brüssel?\nDer Zugverkehr in Brüssel soll ab 16:00 Uhr wieder weitgehend normal funktionieren. Das meldete die Nachrichtenagentur Belga unter Berufung auf die Betreibergesellschaft SNCB.\nAusgenommen seien die Bahnhöfe Schuman und Luxemburg im EU-Viertel. Schuman befindet sich nahe der Metrostation Maelbeek, in der sich eine der beiden Explosionen ereignete.\nDer Bahnhof Luxembourg ist unmittelbar am Europaparlament. Auch der Bahnhof am Flughafen Zaventem, wo eine Explosion ebenfalls zu Toten führte, bleibt vorerst geschlossen. Die Brüsseler Autotunnel öffneten derweil wieder, meldete der Sender VRT.\nKrisen-Hotlines nach Terrorakt Auswärtiges Amt und Rotes Kreuz helfen bei Suche nach Angehörigen.\nAuch die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen für Belgiens beide Atomkraftwerke wurden verstärkt Das belgische Krisenzentrum empfahl allen: \"Bleiben Sie, wo sie gerade sind!\" Für ganz Belgien gilt die höchste Terrorwarnstufe.\nSoldaten mit Maschinengewehren patrouillierten am Dienstag wieder in Brüssels Straßen - seit den Anschlägen von Paris gehören sie in der EU-Hauptstadt an öffentlichen Orten, in Einkaufszentren, an Bahnhöfen, am Flughafen, in der Metro zum gewohnten Bild.\nDas Rote Kreuz rief zu Blutspenden auf. Zugleich war man bemüht, eine Massenpanik zu verhindern.\nDamit Überlebende abtransportiert werden können, rief der belgische Taxiverband Febet seine Mitglieder über Twitter dazu auf, Menschen gratis aus den betroffenen Gebieten zu fahren.\nWie groß ist die Gefahr für Deutschland?\nDie Auswahl der Orte spreche dafür, dass \"der terroristische Anschlag nicht nur Belgien galt - sondern unserer Freiheit\", sagte Deutschlands Innenminister Thomas de Maizière am Dienstag.\nAuswirkungen nach Anschlag Das müssen Reisende nach den Explosionen in Brüssel wissen. vor 3 Std.\nDeutschland erhöhe seine Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, besonders in Grenzregionen zu Frankreich und Belgien. Informationen zu einem Deutschlandbezug habe man aber im Moment nicht.\nAuch an den großen Flughäfen und Bahnhöfen wurden die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen wieder verschärft.\nDer Zugverkehr der Deutschen Bahn zwischen Aachen und Brüssel wurde eingestellt, von den Flughäfen Tegel und Schönefeld werden bis auf weiteres keine Maschinen in Richtung belgischer Hauptstadt starten.\nDie Bundespolizei verschärfte zudem ihre Kontrollen am Flughafen in Frankfurt. Man beobachte die Situation sehr genau, sagt Sprecher Christian Altenhofen. Die Bundespolizei überwacht die deutsche Außengrenze am Flughafen mit rund 2.500 Beamten. Auch rechnet man damit, umgeleitete Passagierjets aus Brüssel aufzunehmen.\nWarum immer wieder Brüssel?\nDie belgische Hauptstadt gilt als Zentrum des islamistischen Terrorismus in Europa. Vor allem der Stadtteil Molenbeek mit seinen vielen Einwanderern aus der arabischen Welt hat einen schlechten Ruf.\nVon dort kamen neben Salah Abdeslam noch weitere Islamisten, die an Terrorabschlägen beteiligt waren. Bereits eine Woche nach den Anschlägen in Paris hatte es konkrete Gefahrenhinweise für die Region Brüssel gegeben.\nVerstörende Berichte von Zeugen Explosionen an Flughafen und in Metro: Augenzeugen schildern Chaos. vor 44 Min.\nDas öffentliche Leben kam damals für fünf Tage zum Erliegen, ohne dass etwas geschah.\nWie reagieren die Behörden?\nFür ganz Belgien gilt nun wieder die höchste Terrorwarnstufe - wie zuletzt im November 2015, gleich nach den Anschlägen von Paris. Der Flughafen wird sofort geräumt und dann geschlossen.\nMehr als 1.000 Flüge müssen umgeleitet werden. Alle U-Bahnen, Straßenbahnen, Busse stehen bis zum Abend still. Auch die Hochgeschwindigkeitszüge fahren nicht mehr.\nDer Schutz für die Zentralen von EU und Nato wird nochmals verschärft. Im Atomkraftwerk Tihange werden alle Mitarbeiter, die nicht unbedingt gebraucht werden, nach Hause geschickt.\nDas belgische Krisenzentrum empfiehlt: \"Bleiben Sie, wo sie gerade sind!\" Das Rote Kreuz bittet um Blutspenden. Gebraucht werden vor allem die Blutgruppen A und 0, Rhesusfaktor negativ.\n(af mit Material der dpa)\nMehr Hintergründe zu den Terroranschlägen in Brüssel", "url": "http://web.de/magazine/politik/terror/anschlag-bruessel/terroranschlag-bruessel-wissen-31443178", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160322165037/http://web.de/magazine/politik/terror/anschlag-bruessel/terroranschlag-bruessel-wissen-31443178" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Deadly Explosions Bring Brussels Airport to a Halt", "text": "Photo\nBRUSSELS — Two explosions killed at least one person and forced the evacuation of Brussels Airport around 8 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the authorities and news reports, and another explosion was reported at a metro station in the city.\nThe sources of the blasts were unclear, as was the number of wounded, though a witness told CNN that he had seen people at the airport being taken away on luggage carts, and photographs on social media showed people streaked with blood and soot, looking stunned but conscious.\nOther images posted on social media showed smoke rising from the departure hall, where the windows had been blown out, and people running away from the building. Hundreds were herded outside, and all arrivals and departures from the airport were halted.\n“We are trying to know more about what is going on,” said Anke Fransen, a spokeswoman for the airport. “It is certain there are several victims in our departure hall.”\nThe explosion on the metro network took place at the Maelbeek station in Brussels, which is close to European Union institutions, according to the Belgian broadcaster RTBF. The Brussels transport authority said on Twitter that all metro stations were closing.\nAdvertisement Continue reading the main story\n“For the moment, what we know is that there was at least one, possibly two explosions, we are still investigating,” said Sandra Eyschen, a spokeswoman for the Belgian federal police. “There are several injured, we don’t have any exact numbers, and unfortunately it appears there are some dead, at least one person.”\nBelgium quickly raised its threat level to the maximum, The Associated Press reported, citing the interior minister, Jan Jambon.\nThe roads to the airport were closed, and train service there was suspended. The airport authorities posted a message on Twitter warning people to stay away.\nA number of flights destined for Brussels that were in the air at the time of the blasts were being diverted to other airports, said Kyla Evans, a spokeswoman for Eurocontrol, the agency that coordinates air traffic for the region.\nBelgium has emerged as a focus of counterterrorism investigators after the attacks in Paris in November that left 130 people dead.\nLast week, the authorities in Brussels arrested Salah Abdeslam, the most wanted man in Europe, who is believed to be the sole remaining survivor of the 10 people who were directly involved in the Paris attacks.\nOn Monday, the Belgian authorities asked for the public’s help in finding Najim Laachraoui, 24, who they identified as an accomplice of Mr. Abdeslam.", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe/brussels-airport-explosions.html?_r=0", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160322090909/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe/brussels-airport-explosions.html?_r=1" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Terror in Brüssel: Was wir wissen", "text": "\"Ich wollte einfach nicht für Geld arbeiten\"\nEr hat einen Bestseller über Faulheit geschrieben und führt die Akademie für Müßiggang. Tom Hodgkinson über Effizienz und die Angst, dass seine Kinder Banker werden.", "url": "http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/terror-in-bruessel-was-wir-ueber-die-anschlaege-wissen-und-was-nicht-1.2918546", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160325003744/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/terror-in-bruessel-was-wir-ueber-die-anschlaege-wissen-und-was-nicht-1.2918546" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Berichte über Explosion und Toten", "text": "In der belgischen Hauptstadt Brüssel läuft nach Medienberichten ein neuer Anti-Terror-Einsatz der Polizei. Bei dem Großeinsatz am Freitag im Stadtteil Schaerbeek sei eine Explosion zu hören gewesen, meldete die Nachrichtenagentur Belga. Der öffentlich-rechtliche Sender RTBF berichtet gar von drei Detonationen.\nAus französischen Polizeikreisen hieß es, die Razzia stehe in Zusammenhang mit der Festnahme eines Islamisten bei Paris vom Vortag. Eine offizielle Bestätigung für einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Razzia und den Terroranschlägen in Paris oder Brüssel gab es zunächst nicht.\nDer Bürgermeister von Schaerbeck, Bernard Clerfayt, sagte dem Sender RTBF, dass bei dem Einsatz ein Verdächtiger verletzt und festgenommen worden sei. Er stehe im Zusammenhang mit den Attentaten von Brüssel\nDie Polizei hat Anwohner laut Belga aufgefordert, in den Wohnungen zu bleiben. Die Umgebung sei abgeriegelt worden, schwer bewaffnete und maskierte Kräfte sowie Armeefahrzeuge seien im Einsatz.\nErmittler hatten RTBF zufolge bereits am Freitagmorgen einen weiteren Verdächtigen in der Gemeinde Forest festgenommen. Auch in der Nacht habe es Razzien unter anderem in Schaerbeek gegeben, bei denen insgesamt sechs Verdächtige festgenommen worden seien. Die Razzien sollen in Verbindung mit den Anschlägen am Brüsseler Flughafen sowie in einer Metro gestanden haben, bei denen insgesamt 31 Menschen ums Leben kamen und rund 300 weitere verletzt wurden.\nLaut Staatsanwaltschaft soll im Laufe des Freitags entschieden werden, ob gegen die Verdächtigen Haftbefehl erlassen wird. Über die Identität der Festgenommenen wurde zunächst nichts bekannt.\nNach Informationen des SPIEGEL hat die Polizei auch im Großraum Gießen und in Düsseldorf zwei Männer im Zusammenhang mit den Anschlägen in Brüssel festgenommen.", "url": "http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/belgien-razzia-in-bruessel-berichte-ueber-explosion-und-toten-a-1084183.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160325234212/http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/belgien-razzia-in-bruessel-berichte-ueber-explosion-und-toten-a-1084183.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Terror-Brüder Bakraoui hatten Atomkraftwerk im Visier", "text": "Die Urheber der Brüsseler Terroranschläge vom Dienstag, das Brüderpaar El Bakraoui, hatten laut einem Zeitungsbericht auch belgische Atomkraftwerke als Anschlagsziel. Nach Informationen der Zeitung \"La Derniere Heure\" vom Donnerstag handelt es sich bei den beiden Personen, die einen belgischen Nukleardirektor per versteckter Videokamera filmten, um die Brüder Ibrahim und Khalid El Bakraoui.\nNuklear-Direktor ausspioniert\nBeide sprengten sich am Dienstag bei den Terroranschlägen in Brüssel mit mehr als 30 Toten und 300 Verletzten selbst in die Luft, einer am Flughafen und der andere in der U-Bahn. Die Zeitung nennt in ihrem Bericht keine Quelle. Das Video zeigt heimliche Aufnahmen vor dem Zuhause eines belgischen Nuklearforschungsdirektors. Es sei von den beiden Männern kurz nach den Pariser Anschlägen vom 13. September 2015 aufgenommen worden.\nVideo bei Razzia gefunden\nErmittler hatten bei einer Hausdurchsuchung in der belgischen Hauptstadt nach der Terrorserie in Paris im November 2015 ein verdächtiges Video gefunden. Darauf war der Direktor des Zentrums für Nuklearenergie im belgischen Mol zu sehen. Es umfasste zehn Stunden und dokumentierte den Tagesablauf des Mannes.\nObwohl der Forscher nicht direkt mit einem Atomkraftwerk in Verbindung stehe, sei die Existenz dieses Videos \"ziemlich heftig\", sagte der Sprecher der Atomaufsichtsbehörde AFCN am Mittwoch.", "url": "http://www.oe24.at/welt/Belgien-Terror-Brueder-Bakraoui-hatten-Atomkraftwerk-im-Visier/229154444", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160327113850/http://www.oe24.at/welt/Belgien-Terror-Brueder-Bakraoui-hatten-Atomkraftwerk-im-Visier/229154444" } ]

[ "Política e conflitos", "Oriente Médio", "Israel", "Líbano", "Conflito Israel-Hizbollah em 2006", "Publicado" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Red Cross ambulances destroyed in Israeli air strike on rescue mission", "text": "The ambulance headlamps were on, the blue light overhead was flashing, and another light illuminated the Red Cross flag when the first Israeli missile hit, shearing off the right leg of the man on the stretcher inside. As he lay screaming beneath fire and smoke, patients and ambulance workers scrambled for safety, crawling over glass in the dark. Then another missile hit the second ambulance.\nEven in a war which has turned the roads of south Lebanon into killing zones, Israel's rocket strike on two clearly marked Red Cross ambulances on Sunday night set a deadly new milestone.\nSix ambulance workers were wounded and three generations of the Fawaz family, being transported to hospital from Tibnin with what were originally minor injuries, were left fighting for their lives. Two ambulances were entirely destroyed, their roofs pierced by missiles.\nThe Lebanese Red Cross, whose ambulance service for south Lebanon is run entirely by volunteers, immediately announced it would cease all rescue missions unless Israel guaranteed their safety through the United Nations or the International Red Cross.\nFor the villages below the Litani river, the ambulances were their last link to the outside world. Yesterday, that too was gone, leaving the 100,000 people of Tyre district with no way of reaching hospital other than to take to the roads themselves, under the roar of Israeli war planes.\nThe fateful call to the Red Cross operations room came through at about 10pm - well after dark, a time when almost no Lebanese now dare venture out.\nAt the Red Cross office in Tyre, three volunteer medics dressed in their orange overalls, and got into their ambulance. The plan was to drive halfway, meet the local ambulance, and transfer the three patients to their vehicle to return to Tyre.\nBy Nader Joudi's reckoning, the ambulances had been stopped for barely two minutes. Two patients had been loaded: Ahmed Mustafa Fawaz, who had been hit by shrapnel in the stomach, and his son, Mohammed, 14. The volunteer attendant was just easing Jamila Fawaz, 80, inside and setting up a drip when the missile struck. He managed to get the old woman and the child outside, but there was no way to reach Mr Fawaz. \"It was horrible,\" Mr Joudi said. \"He was screaming, and we couldn't do anything.\"\nOne of the members of the three-man crew from Tibnin radioed for help when another missile plunged through the roof. Ambulance crew and patients retreated to the cellar of a nearby building, then waited to be rescued, trying as best as they could to help the injured. \"Each of us treated ourselves. There was no light,\" said Kassem Shaalan, a medic from Tyre.\nBy the time patients and ambulance crew reached Tyre, Mr Fawaz was unconscious after losing one leg, and suffering severe fractures to the other. His son had lost part of a foot, and his mother's body was riddled with shrapnel. Mr Joudi had shrapnel wounds in his left arm, and Mr Shaalan cuts to the face and leg.\nHe was adamant that the ambulances, with their Red Cross insignia on the roof, were clearly visible from the air. \"I don't think there can be a mistake in two bombings of two ambulances,\" he said.\nAlthough the air strike marked the first time ambulances have been hit by Israel in this war, for Mr Shaalan and the other Red Cross volunteers it was only a matter of time. After two weeks of strikes designed to choke off possible supply lines to Hizbullah guerrillas, travel to many villages was just too dangerous. Coastal villages even within a few kilometers of Tyre are cut off. In some, corpses remain trapped in the rubble for days.\nBut nothing is more perilous than travelling by night, and no more so than just before midnight that Sunday when another Red Cross crew set off from Tyre to pick up their injured colleagues.\n\"I was trembling,\" said Ali Deeb, one of the volunteers on the mission. \"It was too dangerous, and helicopters buzzing, and all through this, I am thinking one thing: the ambulance that left half an hour before you has already been injured, and you could be next.\" Later yesterday afternoon, two missiles landed in the building across the road from the Red Cross office.\nThe toll\nLebanese\nYesterday\nCivilian deaths 8\nHizbullah deaths 0\nSince outbreak\nMilitary deaths 66\nCivilian deaths 377\nWounded 1,550+\nIsraeli\nYesterday\nCivilian deaths 0\nMilitary deaths 4\nSince outbreak\nMilitary deaths 24\nCivilian deaths 17\nWounded 360+", "url": "http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1828142,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060813102051/http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1828142,00.html" } ]

[ "Vermischtes", "Brand allg.", "Großbrand" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Nachrichten - Startseite - heute-Nachrichten", "text": "Die Brose Baskets Bamberg stehen in der Basketball-Euroleague nach der dritten Niederlage in Folge vor dem Aus. Die Franken verloren am 9.Spieltag der Top-16-Runde bei Schlusslicht Zalgiris Kaunas nach langem Kampf mit 73:75 (38:41). Für Litauens Meister war es erst der zweite Sieg. In Gruppe F liegt Bamberg mit drei Siegen und sechs Niederlagen weiter auf dem sechsten Platz. Nur die ersten vier Teams erreichen nach insgesamt 14 Spieltagen das Viertelfinale. Für Bamberg geht es in der Euroleague am 10. März mit einem Heimspiel gegen Olympiakos Piräus weiter.", "url": "http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/2/0,3672,7242786,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160304205530/http://www.heute.de/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Großbrand in der Berliner Philharmonie", "text": "Vor dem Feuer wurde am Dach geschweißt / Großer Konzertsaal kaum betroffen\nBerlin - Ein Feuer in der Berliner Philharmonie hat am Dienstag erhebliche Schäden im Dachstuhl des weltberühmten Konzertgebäudes angerichtet. Der offenbar durch Schweißarbeiten ausgelöste Brand entstand gegen 14 Uhr. Menschen kamen nicht zu Schaden. Um 18 Uhr 55 hatte die Feuerwehr den Brand unter Kontrolle. Am Abend sagte Einsatzleiter Harald Herweg, dass seine Leute vermutlich noch bis zum heutigen Mittwochvormittag letzte Glutnester bekämpfen müssen. 1600 Quadratmeter des Blechdaches wurden mit Sägen aufgeschnitten, damit die Flammen gelöscht werden konnten. Der Einsatz sei „schwierig und langwierig“, sagte Berlins Feuerwehrchef Wilfried Gräfling. Der Schaden sei erheblich, die Substanz des Gebäudes sei jedoch nicht beeinträchtigt, versicherte Gräfling. Durch die unter der Dachhaut gelegene Betondecke gelangten die Flammen nicht ins Innere der Philharmonie. Durch „sehr dosierten Löschwassereinsatz“ konnte der Schaden im Innern auf ein Minimum begrenzt werden, sagte Herweg. Innensenator Ehrhart Körting sagte am Brandort, dass „Berlins Wahrzeichen erhalten bleibt. Wir hatten Glück im Unglück.“Im Großen Saal der Philharmonie lief am Abend nur an wenigen Stellen etwas Wasser aus der Decke, der Brandgeruch war erstaunlich gering. Sicherheitshalber wurde die Bestuhlung, die Technik und alle Archivräume von der Feuerwehr mit Plastikfolie abgedeckt. Intendantin Pamela Rosenberg sagte bei einer Besichtigung des Saals am Abend, dass am heutigen Mittwoch entschieden werden solle, wann und wie es weitergeht. Das nächste Konzert steht erst am Donnerstag auf dem Programm, am Wochenende soll dort dreimal Claudio Abbado dirigieren. Diese drei Konzerte müssen möglicherweise verlegt werden, sagte Rosenberg. Die für heute angesetzte Probe findet im Konzerthaus statt. Am Nachmittag war Intendantin Rosenberg angesichts der riesigen Rauchwolke noch von einer mehrwöchigem Sperrung des Saales ausgegangen.170 Feuerwehrleute waren im Einsatz, giftig soll der Qualm nicht gewesen sei. Hunderte Schaulustige versammelten sich rund um die Absperrungen. Feuerwehrchef Gräfling sagte, dass bei Schweiß- oder Dachdeckerarbeiten sehr leicht Funken ein Feuer auslösen können, tückischerweise sind die ersten Flammen teilweise erst nach Stunden zu sehen. „Ein Funke in einer Fuge reicht.“ Die Feuerwehr setzte den Teleskopkran ein, um das Dach in 40 Meter Höhe zu erreichen. Diesen Spezialkran war nach dem Großbrand am Deutschen Dom am Gendarmenmarkt beschafft worden.(Erschienen im gedruckten Tagesspiegel vom 21.05.2008)", "url": "http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/Titelseite;art692,2534591", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090321063643/http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/Titelseite;art692,2534591" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Brand in Berliner Philharmonie", "text": "Ein Feuer in der Berliner Philharmonie hat am Dienstag erhebliche Schäden am Dach des Gebäudes angerichtet. Die Feuerwehr kämpfte mit rund 150 Mann gegen den Schwelbrand. Nachdem das Feuer am Abend unter Kontrolle gebracht worden war, blieb die Sorge vor Schäden durch Löschwasser im Großen Konzertsaal.\nDer erste Anruf kam nicht von einem Musiker und auch nicht von einem Besucher. Bei der Feuerwehr meldete sich gestern um 13.57 Uhr ein Passant mit den Worten: \"Da kommt Rauch aus einem gelben Gebäude in der Potsdamer Straße.\"Erst um 22 Uhr beendete die Feuerwehr die Löscharbeiten an der Philharmonie, über Nacht sollte noch kontrolliert werden, ob einzelne Glutnester übersehen wurden. Der Schaden ist noch nicht absehbar. \"Klar ist aber, dass es viel schlimmer hätte kommen können\", sagte Intendantin Pamela Rosenberg. Nämlich dann, wenn der Brand nur eine Stunde später ausgebrochen wäre. Dann hätten bereits die Orchesterproben mit Chor für die Aufführung von Berlioz' \"Te Deum\" begonnen - mit 720 Mitwirkenden \"und alleine 400 davon sind Kinder. Eine fürchterliche Vorstellung, was da hätte passieren können.\"Zum Zeitpunkt des Brandes waren nur wenige Mitarbeiter im Haus. \"So konnten wir uns voll um die Instrumente kümmern\", sagte Orchestervorstand Peter Riegelbauer. Die Rettungsaktion beschrieb er so: \"Erst das eigene Instrument, dann die der Kollegen\". Etwa 50 wurden in den benachbarten Kammermusiksaal geschafft, der durch eine Brandwand von der Philharmonie getrennt ist. Auch das an die Ben-Gurion-Straße grenzende Musikinstrumentenmuseum war nicht betroffen.Nachdem das Feuer um 18.55 Uhr unter Kontrolle gebracht worden war, blieb die Angst vor Schäden durch Löschwasser im Großen Konzertsaal. Vorsichtshalber wurden Stuhlreihen auf einigen Rängen mit Plastikfolien abgedeckt, falls in der Nacht Löschwasser in den Saal gelangen sollte.Eine weitere gute Nachricht: Auch das Partituren-Archiv, in dem tausende wertvoller Notenblätter aufbewahrt werden, wurde nicht gefährdet.In einer Besprechung am Abend einigten sich die Verantwortlichen darauf, dass die für Freitag, Sonnabend und Sonntag geplanten \"Te Deum\"-Konzerte stattfinden sollen - allerdings laut Peter Riegelbauer \"sehr wahrscheinlich\" an einem Ersatzort. Die Spielstätte soll heute bekannt gegeben werden, es soll sich aber weder um das Tempodrom in Kreuzberg noch um die Tretower Arena handeln, die zunächst im Gespräch waren. Der Schaden bei einem einzigen Konzertausfall wäre nach Philharmoniker-Angaben \"sechsstellig\".Heute Mittag wollen die Intendantin, der Orchestervorstand sowie weitere enge Mitarbeiter mit Vertretern der Feuerwehr in der Philharmonie zusammentreffen, um zu erfahren, wann der große Konzertsaal wieder bespielbar ist. Experten werden Messungen vornehmen, wie viele Giftstoffe sich im Saal abgesetzt haben. Auch die Bauaufsicht wird sich das Gebäude ansehen.Zur Ursache des Brandes macht die Polizei keine Angaben. Klar ist aber, dass seit gestern Vormittag auf dem Dach Ausbesserungsarbeiten vorgenommen wurden, bei denen auch Schweißgeräte zum Einsatz kamen. Mehr Gewissheit hat man darüber, welche Materialien brannten: über der tragenden Betondecke befinden sich Dämmmaterialien sowie eine Holzkonstruktion, auch die darüberliegende Teerpappe brannte. Gelb-bräunlicher Rauch stieg auf. Immer wieder forderte die Polizei über Megafon Passanten dazu auf, den Brandort zu verlassen. Schon kurz nach Ausbruch hatten sich hunderte Schaulustige auf der Potsdamer Straße, der Scharounstraße und auf dem gegenüberliegenden Matthäikirchplatz versammelt. Auch Kulturstaatssekretär André Schmitz kam zur Philharmonie. Er dankte der Feuerwehr für ihren Einsatz und äußerte die Hoffnung, dass der Schaden nicht allzu groß sei, schließlich sei der Scharoun-Bau ein Kulturdenkmal \"wie sonst nur das Brandenburger Tor und die Gedächtniskirche\".Im Kammermusiksaal soll das heute angesetzte Konzert des Breuninger Quartetts wie geplant stattfinden. Das für Donnerstag im Konzertsaal vorgesehene Gastspiel der Münchner Philharmoniker wird verlegt, der Ort soll ebenfalls heute bekannt gegeben werden. Die für Ende nächster Woche geplante Aufführung von Hector Berlioz' \"La Mort de Cléopâtre\" unter der Leitung von Sir Simon Rattle kann möglicherweise bereits wieder im Konzertsaal stattfinden. Der Dirigent erfuhr gestern erst im Laufe des Nachmittags von dem Brand, er hält sich derzeit im französischen Aix-en-Provence auf, probt Wagners Siegfried für die Aufführung beim dortigen Musikfestival.", "url": "http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/Polizei-Justiz-Philharmonie;art126,2534942", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080521212110/http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/Polizei-Justiz-Philharmonie-Brand;art126,2534942" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Nach Brand bald wieder Konzerte in Berliner Philharmonie", "text": "Berlin (Reuters) - Die weltberühmte Berliner Philharmonie kann ihren Konzertbetrieb trotz des Großbrandes rasch wiederaufnehmen. Voraussichtlich ab 2. Juni würden wieder Veranstaltungen möglich sein, kündigte Intendantin Pamela Rosenberg am Mittwoch an. Das Feuer hatte am Dienstag 1600 Quadratmeter oder knapp ein Drittel der geschwungenen Dachfläche zerstört. Dennoch sickerte nach Angaben der Feuerwehr kaum Löschwasser in den großen Konzertsaal. Drei für das Wochenende geplante Konzerte unter der Leitung des weltbekannten Dirigenten Claudio Abbado sollen nun am Samstag in einer Veranstaltung auf der Berliner Waldbühne zusammengefasst werden. 500 Polizisten und Feuerwehrleute, die beim Löschen geholfen hatten, bekommen mit ihren Familien Freikarten.\n\"Wir können praktisch eine große Feier haben an dem Abend, dass das Kulturleben dann doch weitergeht\", sagte Rosenberg. Die Philharmonie wird unterdessen auf ihre Statik untersucht. Es besteht nach Ansicht der Experten jedoch keine Einsturzgefahr. Starker Regen könnte allerdings durch das beschädigte Dach in das Gebäude eindringen. Die Feuerwehr hatte den Brand erst am Mittwochmorgen vollständig gelöscht und auch die Brandwachen abgezogen. Der Schaden lasse sich noch nicht beziffern, sagte ein Sprecher. Er liege aber sicher in Millionenhöhe. Als Brandursache würden weiter Bauarbeiten am Dach vermutet.\nEin Großaufgebot der Feuerwehr hatte am Dienstag das Feuer bekämpft, das auf dem Dach des markanten Baus in der Nähe des Potsdamer Platzes ausgebrochen war. Höhenrettungsexperten der Feuerwehr sägten auf den steilen Dachflächen die Verkleidung aus Zinkblech auf, um an die brennende Dämmschicht darunter zu gelangen. Menschen kamen nicht zu Schaden. Die Musiker konnten auch ihre wertvollen Instrumente rechtzeitig in Sicherheit bringen.\nDie 1963 fertiggestellte Philharmonie des Architekten Hans Scharoun gilt inzwischen als eines der Wahrzeichen Berlins. Anfangs war das markante Gebäude mit seiner gelb-goldfarbenen Außenhaut jedoch heftig umstritten. Der künstlerische Leiter der Philharmonie, Sir Simon Rattle, hielt sich während des Brandes im Ausland auf.", "url": "http://de.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idDENEI15481120080521", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090319025259/http://de.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idDENEI15481120080521" } ]

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[ { "language": "de", "title": "Regierung beschließt neue Volkszählung Deutschland Politik FOCUS Online in Kooperation mit MSN", "text": "| 29.08.06, 13:57 |\nN\nach mehr als 20 Jahren plant die Bundesregierung eine neue Volkszählung. Anders als bei der umstrittenen Zählung von 1987 sollen nach dem Beschluss des Bundeskabinetts vom Dienstag aber nicht mehr alle Bürger befragt werden.\nBundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) begründete die geplante Erhebung in Berlin mit EU-Vorgaben und damit, dass die seit 1987 fortgeschriebenen Daten veraltet seien. Geplant ist der EU-weite Zensus für 2010 und 2011. Der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Peter Schaar signalisierte Zustimmung.\nStaat braucht Zahlen für Zukunftsplanung\nSchäuble nannte die Volkszählung „eine lohnende und gebotene Investition, da ungenaue und unzuverlässige Daten zu kostspieligen Fehlplanungen und Fehlentscheidungen in Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft führen könnten“. Der Staat brauche die Daten für die Zukunftsvorsorge und zur Bewältigung des demographischen Wandels. Es gehe um künftige Rentenlasten, den Bedarf an Kindergärten, Schulen, Kliniken und Altenheimen sowie um eine gerechte Steuer-Verteilung.\nDas Bundeskabinett stellte nach Schäubles Worten die Weichen für eine moderne Erhebung, die eine Milliarde Euro weniger koste als eine traditionelle Volkszählung und zudem die Bürger weniger belaste. Bei dem „registergestützten Zensus“ gehe es um die Auswertung von Daten aus Melderegistern oder dem Register der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Ergänzen wollen die Statistiker ihre Erhebung durch eine Befragung der Immobilienbesitzer per Post und durch Stichproben-Erhebungen.\nDatenschutz gewährleistet\n„Aus Sicht des Datenschutzes ist gegen ein solches Verfahren grundsätzlich nichts einzuwenden“, erklärte Schaar. Er werde darauf achten, dass nur notwendige und gesetzlich erlaubte Daten erhoben und diese nicht an die Verwaltung weitergegeben würden. Nach Angaben des Innenministeriums ist dies garantiert, die Daten blieben anonym.\nNeben den 17,5 Millionen Eigentümern von Wohngebäuden müssen bei dem geplanten Zensus nur etwa zehn Prozent der Bevölkerung befragt werden. Die Kosten schätzen die Statistiker auf 450 Millionen Euro. Eine traditionelle Volkszählung würde 1,4 Milliarden Euro kosten.\nErfasst werden sollen Geburtsort, Geburtsland, Alter, Geschlecht, Staatsangehörigkeit und Familienstand. Dazu kommen Daten zu Haushalt, Erwerbsleben und Bildung. In der Wohnungs- und Gebäudestatistik geht es um Nutzungsart, Wohnsituation oder Ausstattung. Die Daten sollen Grundlage sein für Planungen und Entscheidungen der Verwaltung.\nStatistiker forderten neue Datenbasis\nDie Statistiker fordern schon seit langem eine neue Datenbasis. Nach ihrer Schätzung leben in Deutschland 1,3 Millionen Menschen weniger, als auf Basis der Volkszählung von 1987 fortgeschrieben wurde. Auch die Zahl der Ausländer liege wahrscheinlich zu hoch.\nGegen die Volkszählung 1987 hatte es heftige Proteste gegeben. Gegner warnten vor dem „gläsernen Bürger“ und vor dem Weg in den Überwachungsstaat. Ein Boykottaufruf verlief aber faktisch im Sande.\n(sl/dpa)", "url": "http://focus.msn.de/politik/deutschland/bevoelkerung_nid_34490.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060901021312/http://focus.msn.de/politik/deutschland/Bevoelkerung_nid_34490.html" } ]

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[ { "language": "en", "title": "Three killed protecting property during Birmingham riots", "text": "Three killed protecting property during Birmingham riots\nHaroon Jahan, Shahzad Ali and Abdul Musavir were protecting property, residents say\nThree men have been run over and killed as they protected property in a second night of violence in Birmingham.\nThe men aged 31, 30 and 21 were hit by a car in Winson Green. They were taken to City Hospital where about 200 people from the Asian community gathered.\nWitnesses said the men were in a group protecting their community after riot police were called into the city.\nPolice have arrested a 32-year-old man who is being questioned on suspicion of murder following the deaths.\nHaroon Jahan, 21, Shahzad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, were taken to hospital but died from their injuries.\nWest Midlands Police Chief Constable Chris Sims said the incident happened when a group of males had been gathered close to a petrol station in Dudley Road.\n\"At some point, and in circumstances that as yet I can't fully explain, a vehicle has been driven into that group of males, which tragically has led to three of those men losing their lives,\" he said.\nAll three were from the Asian Muslim community, he said.\n'Covered in blood'\nReferring to the arrest he said: \"He has been arrested for murder because the information that we have at the moment would support the idea the car was deliberately driven.\"\nPlease turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.\nPrime Minister David Cameron called it a \"truly dreadful incident\" and offered his condolences to the men's families.\nTariq Jahan, whose son Haroon Jahan was killed, said he was nearby when it happened.\n\"My instinct was to help the three people, I did not know who they were but they had been injured.\n\"I was helping the first man and someone from behind told me my son was behind me.\n\"So I started CPR on my own son, my face was covered in blood, my hands were covered in blood.\n\"Why, why?\"\nHe said his son, who was a mechanic, had been trying to protect the community as incidents were taking place elsewhere in the area. He said a petrol station along the road had been attacked.\nContinue reading the main story “ Start Quote They were protecting the community as a whole” End Quote Mohammed Shakiel Eyewitness\n\"He was a very good lad, a good man starting at the beginning of his life and had his whole life ahead of him,\" he said.\n\"I've got no words to describe why he was taken and why this has happened and what's happening to the whole of England.\n\"It makes no sense why people are behaving in this way and taking the lives of three innocent people.\"\nWitnesses to the incident said the three victims - two of them brothers - were part of a group protecting shops from looting.\nKabir Khan Isakhel said: \"People came out of prayers [at a local mosque] and they were protecting the area.\n\"They were standing on the side of the road and the car just came and ran them over.\"\nMohammed Shakiel, 34, a carpenter, said the men \"lost their lives for other people\".\n'Car came flying'\n\"They weren't standing outside a mosque, a temple, a synagogue or a church - they were standing outside shops where everybody goes.\n\"They were protecting the community as a whole.\"\nThe road in Winson Green has been closed off to collect evidence\nWest Midlands Police said: \"Three men have died following a road collision in the Winson Green area of Birmingham which detectives are treating as murder.\n\"Three men were taken to hospital where two later died from their injuries. A third man was in a critical condition but confirmed dead at around 6.30am.\n\"West Midlands Police have launched a murder inquiry, arrested one man in connection with the incident and recovered a vehicle nearby which will be examined by forensics experts.\"\nMr Sims said he wanted to ensure the incident did not lead to a wider level of mistrust or violence.\n\"At these difficult times, people across all our communities must trust the police to protect them,\" he said.\nA community meeting has been held in Winson Green with police and Ladywood MP Shabana Mahmood attending.\n'Mix of voices'\nResidents called for police to protect them and Ms Mahmood said it was important people did not take matters into their own hands.\nSpeaking after the meeting, she said the families of the young men were \"absolutely devastated\".\n\"There have been a number of meetings with local community members and there will be more later on,\" she said.\n\"We must not allow anyone to panic - we should give the community some space to grieve.\"\nShe also said the police should be given space to carry out their inquiries and appealed for calm.\nDerrick Campbell, of Race Equality Sandwell, appealed to people not to take the law into their own hands.\n\"The police are here to take charge and are doing their job,\" he said.\n\"I would appeal to all to please remain calm - we must cease the violence and please do not turn this into something that it is not.\nAbout 200 people from Birmingham's Asian community gathered outside City Hospital\n\"This is an accident, by the sounds of it - we certainly haven't got any more information more than that but we must remain calm and wait for the investigation to be concluded.\"\nThe Bishop of Aston, Andrew Watson, said he had attended a meeting with local MP Shabana Mahmood and 40 Muslim men from the community.\n\"There was a mix of voices,\" he said.\n\"Some were saying we mustn't rise up but there was some talk of reprisals. The community is in shock.\n\"The meeting helped, it was good the MP responded so quickly and we could talk to the community.\"\nOfficers have appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.\nThere was looting in Birmingham city centre, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich on Tuesday night.\nPolice said there were 163 arrests on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning up to 03:00 BST. That brings the total number of arrests in the West Midlands to about 300 since the disorder began.\nPolice have been investigating reports that shots had been fired in the Aston area of Birmingham.", "url": "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14471405", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110810170955/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14471405" }, { "language": "en", "title": "West Midlands: Riot police on streets after more unrest", "text": "West Midlands: Riot police on streets after more unrest\nA car was set alight in Moor Street, Birmingham\nContinue reading the main story Related Stories\nSporadic trouble has broken out in Wolverhampton, West Bromwich and Birmingham city centre on a second day of disorder in the West Midlands.\nPolice are investigating reports that shots have been fired in the Aston area of Birmingham.\nRiot police are on the streets and have surrounded The Mailbox shopping complex in the city centre.\nTwenty-three people have been charged in connection with the unrest and a total of 229 arrested.\nDudley Street, in Wolverhampton, and High Street, in West Bromwich, were closed on Tuesday evening as youths gathered.\nSeveral more roads in West Bromwich were also shut and two cars were set on fire.\n'Opportunistic thugs'\nShops, including a branch of Marks & Spencer and a hi-fi store, were targeted in Birmingham.\nDerrick Campbell, from Race Equality Sandwell, was caught up in trouble in Birmingham on Tuesday as youths surrounded his car outside the council house.\nHe said the rioters looked to be 17 or 18 years old and he described them as \"opportunistic young thugs\".\nPlease turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.\nHe said: \"Fifty youths with balaclavas and sticks were running towards me.\n\"About five feet in front of me they started attacking the Sky News van. They started hitting it with sticks.\n\"It was an unreal experience. I didn't feel in control, I knew I was in danger, and I dropped my phone.\n\"I knew I needed to get out of there but my hand was shaking that much I couldn't turn the key. It happened so quickly.\"\nWest Midlands Police said 19 of those charged had been remanded in custody to appear at court on Wednesday morning. A further four have been charged and bailed to appear at court.\nEighty-seven people were arrested on Tuesday.\n'Cat and mouse'\nThe force said there were some pockets of disorder in Wolverhampton, where some stores had been broken into, in West Bromwich and in Birmingham city centre. The group in West Bromwich later dispersed, police said.\nIn Birmingham, some shops were attacked and a car was set alight in Moor Street.\nA van was set on fire in Bordesley Street where looters reportedly targeted a cafe, smashing its windows and helping themselves to food.\nA shop window was broken and youths were reported to be playing \"cat and mouse\" with police.\nThere was also disorder in Kings Heath during Tuesday afternoon where a police vehicle was slightly damaged.\nUp to 400 officers are out on patrol overnight, a police spokesman said.\n'Go home'\n\"We have contingency plans in place tonight which will see 400 dedicated officers working extended shifts across the West Midlands, who will be able to respond to any situation that may develop, in addition to local officers who will continue to serve and protect their communities.\"\nIn Birmingham and Wolverhampton, buses had stopped entering the city centre on Tuesday evening.\nMr Campbell, speaking to the BBC shortly before his car was attacked, said: \"We want to send a message to the community, go home, stay off the streets.\n\"We also want to send a message to the police that they need to take whatever action is required to ensure that people and property are protected.\"\nFive men and two women were arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary and violent disorder on Tuesday after 20 warrants were issued for addresses across the city.\nPolice said they had recovered items of designer clothing and sportswear valued at several thousands of pounds, as well as electrical items.\nShops in Birmingham closed early on Tuesday afternoon and the Harvey Nichols store in The Mailbox was boarded up.\nDeputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg arrived in the city at about 14:30 BST and met police at the West Midlands Police Lloyd House headquarters.\nHe was booed by crowds who shouted \"go home\" during a walkabout.\nMr Clegg said there was \"simply no excuse whatsoever for the violence, looting and destruction\".", "url": "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14465014", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110810052426/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14465014" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Birmingham riots: three men killed 'protecting homes'", "text": "Keen amateur boxer Haroon Jahan, 21, and two brothers were hit by a speeding car in Birmingham in the early hours of this morning,\nOfficers have arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with the deaths and a car has also been recovered.\nTariq Jahan, the father of Haroon, told how he desperately tried to revive his son as he waited for medics to arrive.\n“I didn't see it (the fatal incident) with my own eyes. I was round the corner... I heard the car coming at high speed.\n“Then we heard the bang and I heard the commotion with the people. I ran towards the commotion and the first guy I found was someone I didn't know.\n“I started giving him CPR until somebody pointed out that the guy behind me was my son on the floor.\n“Then I swapped positions and started giving him CPR. All the street were out and basically he was looking out for the whole community.”\nPolice said the incident happened in the Winson Green area of the city at about 1am Wednesday morning.\nAccording to witnesses, the car, containing up to three passengers, hit the three men at around 50mph but did not stop.\nLocals said the victims, who were aged between 20 and 31, were part of a group who had gathered to protect local shops used by all sections of the community.\nResident Mohammed Shakiel, a 34-year-old carpenter, said: “We got a call that there had been a car that had been set alight and a group of youths had moved further up the road.\n“They put the fire out but there were still yobs on the street - they had no agenda other than simple stealing.”\nMr Shakiel said of the victims, “They lost their lives for other people, doing the job of the police.\n“They weren't standing outside a mosque, a temple, a synagogue or a church - they were standing outside shops where everybody goes. They were protecting the community as a whole.”\nAnother friend of the victims, who declined to give his name, said one of the men ran a local car wash, while another worked as a mechanic.\nHundreds of teenage rioters caused widespread disruption in the city last night as police made 109 arrests across Birmingham, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich.\nPolice said 19 people from the force area are due to appear in court today charged with offences including burglary, theft and violent disorder.\nTariq Jahan, who lives about 40 yards from the scene of the incident, described his son to BBC Radio 5 live saying: “He was a good lad. He was very, very intelligent, very smart.\n“You can't explain losing a son. It's going to be hard for me now.”\nThe grieving father also appealed for there to be no revenge for his son's death and for the law to be allowed to take its course.\nHe added: “Tensions are already high in the area. It's already bad enough what we are seeing on the streets now without other people taking the law into their own hands.”\nA spokesman for West Midlands Police said: “Three men have died following a road traffic collision in the Winson Green area of Birmingham which detectives are treating as murder.\n“The incident occurred just after 1am in Dudley Road. Three men were taken to hospital where they subsequently died from their injuries.\n“West Midlands Police have launched a murder inquiry, arrested one man in connection with the incident and recovered a vehicle from near the scene which will be examined by forensics experts.”\nPolice appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service confirmed that the victims had been in collision with a car and that crews of paramedics found around 80 people at the scene of the incident when then arrived.\nA spokesman for the ambulance service added: “The incident took place close to the Jet filling station on Dudley Road in Winson Green at approximately 1.15am.\n“Three ambulances, two rapid response vehicles and an incident support officer was sent to the scene.\n“When crews arrived they found around 80 people at the scene with resuscitation ongoing on three men.\n“Crews used their advanced life support skills while police officers provided support.”", "url": "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8693095/Birmingham-riots-three-men-killed-protecting-homes.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110811030205/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8693095/Birmingham-riots-three-men-killed-protecting-homes.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "‘Birmingham riot victims hail from Punjab’", "text": "GUJAR KHAN: Two of the three young men killed during the violence in Birmingham, Masawar Ali and Shahzad Ali, were brothers and hailed from Guliana, six kilometres from Gujar Khan town. Haroon Jahan, the third victim, belonged to Gujranwala.\nAccording to eyewitnesses, the three men were members of a group protecting their community from looters and arsonists, Police arrested a 32-year-old man after the killings.\nTariq Jahan, the father of Haroon Jahan, said he was nearby when the accident happened.\n“My instinct was to help the three people, I did not know who they were, but they had been injured.\n“I was helping the first man and someone from behind told me my son was behind me.”\nMirza Saboor, a first cousin of Shahzad Ali and Masawar Ali, told Dawn from Guliana (the ancestral town of the two brothers) that their parents had to be hospitalised since they were unable to come to terms with the tragedy.\nTheir elder brother, who too lives in Britain, was unable to speak to media about the incident.\nAccording to family sources, Ghazanfar Ali, the father of Shahzad and Masawar, had migrated to Britain during the early 1970s and all his family was living with him. They ran a business of car washing in Birmingham.\nBaroness Saeeda Warsi, chairperson of the Conservative party of UK, and Sir Anwar Pervez, the owner of Best Way Enterprises, also hail from rural areas of Gujar Khan tehsil.", "url": "http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/11/birmingham-riot-victims-hail-from-punjab.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210318085112/https://www.dawn.com/news/650907/birmingham-riot-victims-hail-from-punjab" } ]

[ "Finland", "Europe", "Economy and business", "Science and technology", "Nokia" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Nokia's iPhone: We Copied Apple Says Company VP", "text": "On the back of launching something rather original, Nokia has shown it also knows how to blatantly copy.\nIn a surprisingly frank interview at the company's 'Go Play' event in London yesterday Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's Executive VP & GM of Multimedia, said \"If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride\" then showed off this...\nThe unnamed device is said to represent 'Nokia's' (note the inverted commas) latest attempts at a touchscreen interface and the device will be a flagship product sometime in Q1 next year.\nLittle was given away about the functionality of the product except that it slides photos like the iPhone, has a motion sensor to switch between landscape and portrait modes like the iPhone and unlike the iPhone (*shock+horror*) has integrated Flickr functionality (clearly no iPhone and YouTube influence there then).\nA brief video of the handset in action can be seen here and when watching it I imagine you'll remember that old saying about seeing and believing...\nIn sum then \"copy with pride\" is a sentiment which has gotten me thinking. On the one hand, if Nokia can come up with a 3G capable iPhone-a-like then few will complain. On the other hand the principle reminds me of university where it would be lovely if we were all able to get ahead by showing ourof other academics' work by copying it word for word. Sadly, I think the professors would have something to say about that...\nAnd in the outside world substitute 'professors' for 'crack team of international lawyers'.\nLink:\nNokia UK", "url": "http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-phones/news/2007/08/30/Nokias-iPhone-We-Copied-Apple-Says-Company-VP/p1", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071016201356/http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-phones/news/2007/08/30/Nokias-iPhone-We-Copied-Apple-Says-Company-VP/p1" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Nokia's iPhone -- no, seriously", "text": "Nokia's iPhone -- no, seriously\nOh come on, what the hell is that? A Nokia branded iPhone? It was presented during Nokia's GoPlay event this morning as a glimpse into the future of Nokia interface design. Oh, and it's due out next year. When pressed during the Q&A about the striking similarity to the little Cupertino device, Anssi Vanjoki -- Nokia's Executive VP & General Manager of Multimedia -- said, \"If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.\" Well, ok then. See what we mean after the break.\n[Thanks,\nOh come on, what the hell is that? A Nokia branded iPhone? It was presented during Nokia's GoPlay event this morning as a glimpse into the future of Nokia interface design. Oh, and it's due out next year. When pressed during the Q&A about the striking similarity to the little Cupertino device, Anssi Vanjoki -- Nokia's Executive VP & General Manager of Multimedia -- said, \"If there is something good in the world then we copy with pride.\" Well, ok then. See what we mean after the break.[Thanks, James B\nRelevant Posts\nPlease keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.\nWhen you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.\nTo create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags.\nPlease note that gratuitous links to your site are viewed as spam and may result in removed comments.", "url": "http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/29/nokias-iphone-no-seriously/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070831061541/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/29/nokias-iphone-no-seriously/" } ]

[ "Monde", "Crise financière", "Crise économique", "Crise des CDS", "Économie", "Finance", "Bourse", "Organisation des Nations unies" ]

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[ "COVID-19", "Saúde", "Pandemias", "Jair Bolsonaro" ]

[ { "language": "pt", "title": "59% dos que receberam o auxílio emergencial rejeitam o governo", "text": "Pesquisa PoderData divulgada nesta 5ª feira (1º.abr.2021) mostra que a desaprovação do governo Bolsonaro entre os que receberam auxílio emergencial chegou a 59%, variando positivamente 4 pontos percentuais dentro da margem de erro da pesquisa, de 2,5 p.p. É o maior nível registrado desde junho de 2020, quando a percepção dos beneficiários começou a ser analisada pela divisão de estudos estatísticos do Poder360.\nO nível dos que aprovam a administração se manteve estável em 33%, também na margem de erro do levantamento. É o menor patamar desde o início do pagamento do benefício. Em 2020, a menor taxa registrada de aprovação do governo entre quem recebeu o benefício foi de 46%. De junho a dezembro, a média foi de 51%.\nReceba a newsletter do Poder360\ntodos os dias no seu e-mail\nA pesquisa foi realizada pelo PoderData, divisão de estudos estatísticos do Poder360. A divulgação do levantamento é feita em parceria editorial com o Grupo Bandeirantes.\nOs dados foram coletados de 15 a 17 de março, por meio de ligações para celulares e telefones fixos. Foram 3.500 entrevistas em 545 municípios, nas 27 unidades da Federação. A margem de erro é de 1,8 ponto percentual. Saiba mais sobre a metodologia lendo este texto.\nPara chegar a 3.500 entrevistas que preencham proporcionalmente (conforme aparecem na sociedade) os grupos por sexo, idade, renda, escolaridade e localização geográfica, o PoderData faz dezenas de milhares de telefonemas. Muitas vezes, mais de 100 mil ligações até que sejam encontrados os entrevistados que representem de forma fiel o conjunto da população.\nO presidente Jair Bolsonaro anunciou na 4ª feira (31.mar) a data de início do pagamento da nova rodada de parcelas do auxílio emergencial, 3ª feira (6.abr.2021). Uma portaria publicada detalha o calendário de pagamentos e saques do benefício. “O auxílio emergencial é um alento. É pouco, inclusive, reconheço”, afirmou Bolsonaro. Serão 4 parcelas mensais de R$ 250, em média, a serem pagas.\nEntre os que afirmaram não ter recebido o benefício, a rejeição se manteve igual aos que tiveram acesso à medida, em 59%.\nBENEFICIÁRIOS & BOLSONARO\nDentro do grupo que recebeu o coronavoucher, 28% avaliam o trabalho do presidente como “ótimo” ou “bom”. Outros 51% consideram como “ruim” ou “péssimo” o trabalho do mandatário.\nPODERDATA\nO conteúdo do PoderData pode ser lido nas redes sociais, onde são compartilhados os infográficos e as notícias. Siga os perfis da divisão de pesquisas do Poder360 no Twitter, no Facebook, no Instagram e no LinkedIn.\nPESQUISAS MAIS FREQUENTES\nO PoderData é a única empresa de pesquisas no Brasil que vai a campo a cada 15 dias desde abril de 2020. Tem coletado um minucioso acervo de dados sobre como o brasileiro está reagindo à pandemia de coronavírus.\nNum ambiente em que a política vive em tempo real por causa da força da internet e das redes sociais, a conjuntura muda com muita velocidade. No passado, na era analógica, já era recomendado fazer pesquisas com frequência para analisar a aprovação ou desaprovação de algum governo. Agora, no século 21, passou a ser vital a repetição regular de estudos de opinião.\nContinuar lendo", "url": "https://www.poder360.com.br/poderdata/59-dos-que-receberam-o-auxilio-emergencial-rejeitam-o-governo/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210402002158/https://www.poder360.com.br/poderdata/59-dos-que-receberam-o-auxilio-emergencial-rejeitam-o-governo/" }, { "language": null, "title": "CNM - Confederação Nacional de Municípios", "text": "Informe do MS orienta sobre vacinação e tempo de eficácia dos imunizantes\nO Ministério da Saúde publicou o 10º Informe Técnico com orientações técnicas relativas à continuidade da Campanha Nacional de Vacinação contra a Covid-19. O Programa Nacional de Imunização (PNI) esclarece a distribuição de doses aos Estados e considera os grupos prioritários previstos no Plano Nacional de Operacionalização da Vacinação contra a Covid-19 e o intervalo das doses 1 e dose 2.\nO documento também destaca que o impacto das ações de vacinação pode ser percebido em aproximadamente 30 dias após a distribuição do imunizante. Dessa forma, o Informe Técnico ressalta que essa medida não apresentaria resposta imediata de contenção da circulação do vírus, sendo ainda necessárias as medidas não farmacológicas de prevenção à transmissão da Covid-19, como o uso de máscara, distanciamento social, etiqueta respiratória, higienização das mãos, dos objetos de uso pessoal e comercializados, dentre outros.\nObservatório CNM Covid-19\nA Confederação Nacional de Municípios (CNM) acompanha as ações do Ministério da Saúde relacionadas à vacinação e à pandemia por meio do Observatório CNM Covid-19. A ferramenta disponibiliza informações aos gestores municipais sobre o andamento da vacinação, distribuição de imunizantes, doses aplicadas, bem como do cronograma de aquisição e distribuição de vacinas do Plano Nacional de Operacionalização da Vacinação contra a Covid-19. https://bit.ly/3uz3YSP\nAlém disso, podem ser consultadas na plataforma a análise dos imunizantes e as regulamentações da Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa). Informações sobre os consórcios municipais e atualizações jurídicas relacionadas à Covid-19 estão entre outras funcionalidades da ferramenta. Dúvidas podem ser esclarecidas pela área técnica de Saúde da CNM pelo e-mail: saúde@cnm.org.br ou pelo telefone (61) 2101-6000.\nFoto: EBC\nDa Agência CNM de Notícias", "url": "https://www.cnm.org.br/comunicacao/noticias/informe-do-ms-orienta-sobre-vacinacao-e-tempo-de-eficacia-dos-imunizantes", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210410130638/https://www.cnm.org.br/comunicacao/noticias/informe-do-ms-orienta-sobre-vacinacao-e-tempo-de-eficacia-dos-imunizantes" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Ministério da Saúde auf Twitter: \"Mesmo com a vacinação contra a Covid-19 avançando cada vez mais, é muito importante continuarmos cuidando uns dos outros. Contra a Covid-19, o cuidado é de cada um. A", "text": "Füge diesen Tweet zu deiner Webseite hinzu, indem du den untenstehenden Code einfügst. Mehr erfahren\nFüge dieses Video zu deiner Webseite hinzu, indem du den untenstehenden Code kopierst. Mehr erfahren\nHmm, es gab ein Problem, den Server zu erreichen. Erneut versuchen? Vorherigen Tweet einfügen Medien beifügen\nIndem du Twitter Inhalte in deine Website oder App einbettest, akzeptierst du die Twitter Entwicklervereinbarung und die Entwicklerrichtlinien.\nVorschau", "url": "https://twitter.com/minsaude/status/1380564039986724864", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210409165149/https://twitter.com/minsaude/status/1380564039986724864" }, { "language": "pt", "title": "Bolsonaro autoriza campanha por distanciamento e uso de máscara", "text": "O presidente Jair Bolsonaro (sem partido) autorizou o governo a fazer uma campanha em favor do distanciamento social e do uso de máscaras de proteção individual, para a contenção da Covid-19.\nA novidade foi divulgada na noite desta sexta-feira (9) nas redes sociais do perfil oficial do Palácio do Planalto, que postou uma mensagem incentivando a evitar aglomerações, uso de máscara, lavar as mãos e manter o distanciamento social.\n\"Mesmo com a vacinação contra a Covid-19 avançando cada vez mais, é muito importante continuarmos cuidando uns dos outros. Por isso, lave sempre as mãos com água e sabão ou utilize álcool em gel, evite aglomerações, mantenha o distanciamento e use máscara\", diz a postagem.\nO presidente Jair Bolsonaro (sem partido) (08.abr.2021) Foto: Reprodução/CNN\n\"Não é a primeira vez que o governo fala disso, mas a repercussão é grande nas redes sociais, já que muitas vezes houve relutância em defender esse tipo de medida contra a pandemia. A falta de um discurso único que fosse repetido pelas autoridades desde o início fez falta e é apontado pelos governadores como um problema\", explica a analista de política da CNN Renata Agostini.", "url": "https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/2021/04/09/bolsonaro-autoriza-campanha-por-distanciamento-e-uso-de-mascara", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210410003147/https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/2021/04/09/bolsonaro-autoriza-campanha-por-distanciamento-e-uso-de-mascara" }, { "language": "pt", "title": "Com aval de Bolsonaro, governo inicia campanha por isolamento e máscara", "text": "O presidente Jair Bolsonaro autorizou a campanha que incentiva o uso de máscaras e prega o isolamento social (foto: Marcos Corrêa/PR)\nDiferentemente da postura adotada no ano passado, o governo federal iniciou, nas redes sociais, uma campanha a favor do distanciamento social e do uso da máscara para conter o avanço da COVID-19. As mensagens foram postadas em perfis do Palácio do Planalto no Twitter e no Facebook.\nLEIA MAIS 19:57 - 09/04/2021 Arthur Lira critica abertura de CPI da Covid: 'não é momento de apontar o dedo'\n17:18 - 09/04/2021 Bolsonaro defendeu que STF determinasse abertura de CPI quando era deputado\n14:51 - 09/04/2021 Queiroga diz que não tem 'vara de condão' para resolver falta de vacinas Ministério da Saúde.\nA campanha teve o aval do presidente Jair Bolsonaro (sem partido), que desde o início da pandemia de COVID-19 foi contrário ao uso de máscara e ao isolamento – inclusive, criticou governadores que determinaram o fechamento do comércio não essencial para diminuir a circulação de pessoas nas ruas. A iniciativa faz parte de um conjunto de ações adotadas desde que o médico cardiologista Marcelo Queiroga assumiu oA campanha teve o aval do presidente Jair Bolsonaro (sem partido), que desde o início da pandemia de COVID-19 foi contrário ao uso de máscara e ao isolamento – inclusive, criticou governadores que determinaram o fechamento do comércio não essencial para diminuir a circulação de pessoas nas ruas.\nBolsonaro vinha resistindo às novas medidas, mas foi convencido por Queiroga, que queria “dar o exemplo”. Ele é o quarto ministro da Saúde na gestão Bolsonaro – Henrique Mandetta, Nelson Teich e Eduardo Pazuello passaram pelo cargo antes.\nAlém das redes sociais, o governo planeja inserções da campanha no rádio e na televisão.\nAlemanha ao Bolsonaro mencionou um suposto estudo feito naao afirmar que as máscaras seriam prejudiciais às crianças , causando irritabilidade, dor de cabeça e dificuldade de concentração. O presidente evitou entrar em detalhes porque, segundo ele, \"tudo deságua em crítica sobre mim”.\nNúmeros piores\nO Ministério da Saúde inicia a campanha no dia em que o Brasil registra o segundo maior número de contágios (93.317) pelo novo coronavírus desde o início da pandemia e se aproximou ainda mais da marca de 350 mil mortes.\nDe acordo com o balanço diário do Ministério da Saúde, a doença provocou a morte de 3.693 brasileiros nas últimas 24 horas. Com isso, 348.718 brasileiros já perderam a vida em razão do vírus.", "url": "https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2021/04/09/interna_politica,1255609/com-aval-de-bolsonaro-governo-inicia-campanha-por-isolamento-e-mascara.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210410001959/https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2021/04/09/interna_politica,1255609/com-aval-de-bolsonaro-governo-inicia-campanha-por-isolamento-e-mascara.shtml" } ]

[ "Palestine", "Asie", "Liban", "Israël", "Gaza", "Politique et conflits", "Guerre", "Guerre de Gaza 2008-2009", "Moyen-Orient", "Frontière" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Proche-Orient: échanges de tirs à la frontière israélo-libanaise", "text": "International Proche-Orient: échanges de tirs à la frontière israélo-libanaise 16:08 TEL-AVIV, 8 janvier - RIA Novosti. Des échanges de tirs ont retenti jeudi matin à la frontière israélo-libanaise, une première après le déclenchement des hostilités entre Israéliens et Palestiniens dans la bande de Gaza, a fait savoir une porte-parole de Tsahal. Trois à cinq roquettes de type Katioucha sont tombées jeudi matin à proximité de la ville israélienne de Nahariya, blessant deux personnes et provoquant l'évacuation de la population locale. L'armée israélienne a aussitôt répliqué par plusieurs salves d'artillerie en direction du Liban. Il s'agit d'un premier tir de roquette effectué depuis le Liban après le début des opérations israéliennes fin décembre dans la bande de Gaza. Aucun mouvement islamiste libanais ne l'a pour l'instant revendiqué. Les autorités israéliennes se sont empressées à dédramatiser l'incident, rejetant la thèse de l'ouverture d'un \"second front\".\nenvoyez par e-mail retour à la page d'accueil", "url": "http://fr.rian.ru/world/20090108/119395846.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090117013442/http://fr.rian.ru/world/20090108/119395846.html" } ]

[ "Łódź", "Polska", "Społeczeństwo" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Konsultacje społeczne", "text": "Cel i przedmiot konsultacji\nRozpoczęły się prace nad przygotowaniem projektu budżetu miasta na 2011 rok. Po raz pierwszy w historii samorządu Prezydent Miasta Łodzi zaprasza mieszkańców miasta do przekazywania ich wniosków, uwagi i opinii, które będą pomocne przy podjęciu wielu decyzji dotyczących przeznaczenia środków publicznych na zadania ważne dla miasta i jego mieszkańców.\nZARZĄDZENIE Nr 4801/V/10 PREZYDENTA MIASTA ŁODZI z dnia 22 września 2010 r. w sprawie przeprowadzenia konsultacji społecznych mających na uwadze zebranie od mieszkańców Łodzi wniosków, uwag i opinii do uwzględnienia przy tworzeniu projektu budżetu miasta Łodzi na rok 2011 >>>\nOGŁOSZENIE - Prezydent Miasta Łodzi ogłasza przeprowadzenie konsultacji społecznych, mających na uwadze zebranie od mieszkańców Łodzi wniosków, uwag i opinii do uwzględnienia przy tworzeniu projektu budżetu miasta Łodzi na rok 2011 >>>\nAnkieta dotycząca zarządzenia Nr 4801/V/10 PREZYDENTA MIASTA ŁODZI z dnia 22 września 2010 r. >>>\nFormularz konsultacji społecznych mających na uwadze zebranie od mieszkańców Łodzi wniosków, uwag i opinii do uwzględnienia przy tworzeniu projektu budżetu miasta Łodzi na rok 2011 >>>\nRelacje z konsultacji w poszczególnych dzielnicach:\nProtokoły z konsultacji w poszczególnych dzielnicach:\nWYNIKI ANKIETY dotyczącej propozycji mieszkańców do budżetu miasta Łodzi na rok 2011 oraz ich opinii na temat najważniejszych problemów miasta >>>", "url": "http://www.uml.lodz.pl/samorzad/konsultacje_spoleczne/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20101019035817/http://www.uml.lodz.pl/samorzad/konsultacje_spoleczne/" }, { "language": "pl", "title": "Konsultacje budżetu Łodzi na 2012 rok", "text": "Rozpoczęły się konsultacje budżetu Łodzi na 2012 rok. Fundacja Fenomen postanowiła przybliżyć mieszkańcom Łodzi podstawowe informacje o tym dokumencie i samych konsultacjach.\nPrzejrzeliśmy dokumenty wyjściowe dotyczące konsultacji społecznych nt budżetu Łodzi na 2012 rok, tj. Wieloletnią Prognozę Finansową oraz budżet Łodzi na 2011 rok. Ponieważ analiza tych wielostronicowych, acz ważnych dla mieszkańców dokumentów może być uciążliwa postanowiliśmy zebrać i udostępnić publicznie kilkanaście propozycji jakie można zgłosić w stosunku do budżetu. Będą to głównie uwagi dotyczące dużych projektów inwestycyjnych oraz pomysły na zadania, których głównym celem jest aktywizacja mieszkańców (konsultacje społeczne, inicjatywa lokalna, fundusze dla Rad Osiedli itp). Oczywiście przedstawione przez nas opinie i uwagi do projektu budżetu Łodzi na 2012 rok nie będą wyczerpywać tematyki, ale będziemy zachęcać do zapoznania się z nimi i przesyłania ich do Urzędu Miasta Łodzi. Przypominamy także, że w ramach trwających do 28 czerwca konsultacji każdy mieszkaniec Łodzi może zgłosić swoje uwagi. Instrukcja, jak to zrobić prawidłowo znajduje się poniżej:\nJak wziąć udział w konsultacjach społecznych budżetu Łodzi? 1. Co to jest budżet? Plan wydatków i dochodów całego miasta na dany rok. 2. Jaka jest procedura uchwalania budżetu? W tym roku mieszkańcy Łodzi mogą zgłaszać swoje propozycje zapisów do projektu budżetu na 2012 rok, bazując na budżecie na 2011 rok i Wieloletniej Prognozie Finansowej (WPF). Po zakończeniu konsultacji uwagi te zostaną przekazane do poszczególnych jednostek / wydziałów Urzędu Miasta Łodzi, które przygotują swoje cząstkowe budżety. Poszczególne elementy zostaną połączone, a całość zostanie przedstawiona Radnym Rady Miejskiej do zaopiniowania i ostatecznego uchwalenia. 3. Dlaczego zgłaszając propozycje na 2012 rok mamy bazować na 2011 roku? Ponieważ w budżecie na 2011 podane są przykładowe zadania jakie miasto może i chce realizować. Przejrzenie budżetu na 2011 pozwala także zorientować się w skali wydatków i dochodów miasta. Ponieważ nie ma projektu budżetu na 2012 rok, do którego można by się odnieść. To na bazie propozycji mieszkańców taki projekt dopiero powstanie.\n4. Dlaczego zgłaszając propozycje na 2012 rok mamy bazować na WPF? (WPF - Wieloletnia Prognoza Finansowa) Ponieważ dokument ten mówi o dużych, wieloletnich wydatkach. Warto w nim sprawdzić jakie inwestycje i projekty planuje miasto za pieniądze podatników (np. są tam zapisane pieniądze na wkład własny miasta do projektów edukacyjnych dla dzieci, współfinansowanych przez Unię Europejską; czy na plany Łódzkiej Kolei Aglomeracyjnej). Tylko na podstawie WPF można odpowiednio wcześniej zgłaszać uwagi i pomysły modyfikacji wydatków miasta. Każda inwestycja czy projekt trwający ponad rok znajduje się w WPF i możemy śledzić ich koszty przez cały okres inwestycji. Można też sprawdzić w nim jak bardzo miasto jest zadłużone i ile w kolejnych latach będziemy musieli spłacać rat od zaciągniętych kredytów. 5. Jak wziąć udział w konsultacjach? ściągając ze strony UMŁ formularz konsultacji, wypełniając i wysyłając elektronicznie do Urzędu Miasta Łodzi na adres: Adres poczty elektronicznej jest chroniony przed robotami spamującymi. W przeglądarce musi być włączona obsługa JavaScript, żeby go zobaczyć. , LUB\nkorzystając z uruchomionego forum samorządowego, LUB\nkorzystając z gotowych, wypełnionych formularzy, które udostępnimy po 16 czerwca 2011 roku. Należy pamiętać, aby każdą z uwag podpisać własnym imieniem i nazwiskiem - także te umieszczane na forum samorządowym. Tylko wtedy zostaną one wzięte pod uwagę. 6. Jak wypełnić formularz konsultacji? W części “A” możemy wpisać konkretne zadania oraz uzasadnienie celowości ich realizacji (np. zbudowanie fontanny w parku Y, postawienie koszy na śmieci na ulicy X, zbudowanie dogi rowerowej z A do B).\nmożemy wpisać konkretne zadania oraz uzasadnienie celowości ich realizacji (np. zbudowanie fontanny w parku Y, postawienie koszy na śmieci na ulicy X, zbudowanie dogi rowerowej z A do B). W części “B” możemy wpisać ogólne opinie (np. w mieście powinno być więcej fontann, w mieście powinno stać więcej koszy na śmieci, w Łodzi powinno być więcej dróg dla rowerów). Nie ma wymogu, aby wypełniać jednocześnie rubrykę A i B; co więcej zalecamy, aby nie łączyć tych dwóch pól na jednym formularzu konsultacji. 7. Dlaczego warto wziąć udział w konsultacjach budżetu? Bo to jedyna okazja, aby powiedzieć włodarzom miasta na co powinni wydawać pieniądze z naszych podatków. Jeśli teraz nie zgłosisz pomysłu np. na oświetlenie parku, wymianę chodnika, częstsze kursowanie komunikacji miejskiej, remont szkoły twojego dziecka, zrobienie kanalizacji, organizację imprez plenerowych w okresie wakacyjnym.... Lub jeśli uważasz, że jakieś wydatki miejskie są niepotrzebne - np. wycięcie fragmentu parku Źródliska pod budowę ulicy Nowotargowej... Masz jedyną szansę aby wyrazić swoją opinię i podpowiedzieć Prezydent Miasta co jest ważne dla mieszkańców. 8. Czy wszystkie uwagi zostaną wzięte pod rozwagę? Prezydent miasta musi odnieść się do wszystkich zgłoszonych uwag, propozycji i opinii. Jednak budżet miasta, podobnie jak budżet domowy, nie jest z gumy i to władze miasta będą ostatecznie decydować na co wydać miejskie pieniądze. Biorąc udział w konsultacjach budżetu możemy pokazać władzom, realizacja (lub dofinansowanie) których zadań jest oczekiwane przez mieszkańców, a także z których jesteśmy w stanie zrezygnować.", "url": "http://www.fundacjafenomen.pl/fundacja/aktualnosci/359-konsultacje-budetu-odzi-na-2012-roku", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110624005125/http://www.fundacjafenomen.pl/fundacja/aktualnosci/359-konsultacje-budetu-odzi-na-2012-roku" }, { "language": "pl", "title": "Co to są konsultacje społeczne?", "text": "Konsultacje społeczne to proces, w którym przedstawiciele władz (każdego szczebla: od lokalnych po centralne) przedstawiają obywatelom swoje plany dotyczące np. aktów prawnych (ich zmiany lub uchwalania nowych), inwestycji lub innych przedsięwzięć, które będą miały wpływ na życie codzienne i pracę obywateli. Konsultacje nie ograniczają się jednak tylko do przedstawienia tych planów, ale także do wysłuchania opinii na ich temat, ich modyfikowania i informowania o ostatecznej decyzji.\nKonsultacje społeczne to sposób uzyskiwania opinii, stanowisk, propozycji itp. od instytucji i osób, których w pewien sposób dotkną, bezpośrednio lub pośrednio, skutki proponowanych przez administrację działań.\nEtapy procesu konsultacji społecznych:\ninformowanie o zamierzenia/planach,\nprezentacja poglądów na sposoby rozwiązania problemu,\nwymiana opinii,\nznajdowanie rozwiązań,\ninformowanie o finalnej decyzji.\nPodstawą do przeprowadzenia konsultacji społecznych w samorządzie są przepisy ustaw o:\nsamorządzie gminnym z 8 marca 1990 roku\nsamorządzie powiatowym z 5 czerwca 1998 roku\nsamorządzie wojewódzkim z 5 czerwca 1998 roku.\nZgodnie z tymi przepisami rząd i samorządy mogą przeprowadzić konsultacje społeczne w wypadkach przewidzianych ustawą (wtedy często są one obowiązkowe) oraz w innych sprawach ważnych dla wspólnot samorządowych.\nZasady i tryb przeprowadzania konsultacji z mieszkańcami określają uchwały rad odpowiednich jednostek samorządu terytorialnego (gmin, miast, powiatów, województw).\nPodstawą do przeprowadzenia konsultacji społecznych w rządzie są przepisy ustaw o:", "url": "http://administracja.ngo.pl/x/340786", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100125171845/http://administracja.ngo.pl/x/340786" }, { "language": "pl", "title": "Budżet Łodzi 2011 konsultowany społecznie", "text": "Z Wikinews, wolnego źródła informacji.\npiątek, 24 grudnia 2010\nŁódź po raz pierwszy zdecydowała skonsultować ze społeczeństwem plany budżetowe na przyszły rok. Niestety, nie obyło się bez nie do końca przemyślanych rozwiązań\nŁódzki samorząd postanowił skonsultować ze społeczeństwem budżet miasta na 2011 rok. Postanowiono skorzystać z takiego rozwiązania, między innymi na skutek wprowadzonego w tym roku nowego \"regulaminu konsultacji społecznych\". Dzięki temu rozwiązaniu, mieszkańcy mogą mieć większy wpływ na to co dzieje się w ich mieście.\nNiestety, wielu urzędników nie zrozumiało idei konsultacji ze społeczeństwem i podeszła do sprawy jak do przykrego obowiązku, który trzeba wykonać. W skutek tego, łódzkie konsultacje trwały tylko jeden tydzień i to jeszcze przedświąteczny: 18-23 grudnia 2010 roku. Wprowadzono co prawda możliwość wysyłania uwag za pomocą poczty elektronicznej lub forum internetowego, ale nie przygotowano już żadnej legendy. Wiele terminów było enigmatycznych, a mechanizmy nie wytłumaczone i mało zrozumiałe dla przeciętnego obywatela.\nKiepski, bo przedświąteczny termin, a zarazem krótki okres na składanie uwag. Bardzo słaba reklama tej formy konsultowania i wpływania na przyszłość miasta sprawiły niską świadomość łodzian, że mogą wziąć udział w tych konsultacjach społecznych. Nieformalna koalicja organizacji pozarządowych w Łodzi i postanowiła coś z tym zrobić.\nKilku przedstawicieli Fundacji Normalne Miasto \"Fenomen\", Ruchu Społecznego \"Szacunek dla Łodzi\", Łódzkiej Inicjatywy na rzecz Przyjaznego Transportu, oraz inicjatywy \"Łodzianie Decydują\", przeanalizowało prawie czterystu-stronicowy dokument i zaproponowało wprowadzenie zmian do budżetu. Żeby zachęcić łodzian do wsparcia zmian do budżetu, została stworzona specjalna strona internetowa \"Budżet dla Łodzi 2011\", na której zamieszczone są wszystkie wypracowane uwagi. Wszystkie w gotowej do podpisania formie pism - wystarczyło ściągnąć dokument na swój komputer, podpisać i wysłać na wskazany przez magistrat adres e-mailowy.\nCzy akcja pozarządówek się powiodła? Nie wiadomo, bo Urząd Miasta Łodzi nie opublikował jeszcze końcowych statystyk nadesłanych mail i uwag. Jedynie około godziny 14:15 23 grudnia, wydał lakoniczny komunikat prasowy, w którym chwali się (a jakże) własnym sukcesem: ”Konsultacje projektu budżetu okazały się sukcesem. Na e-mail skarbnika miasta wpłynęło blisko 600 maili, w których zawarto od kilku do kilkudziesięciu uwag i propozycji zmian budżetowych. Łącznie jest więc tych propozycji kilka tysięcy.”\nTeraz prezentacja projektu budżetu Łodzi na 2011 rok, zostanie zaprezentowana radnym Rady Miejskiej już 29 grudnia. Uchwałą budżetową zajmują się już merytoryczne komisje radnych. Budżet ma być uchwalony na sesji 26 stycznia 2011 roku.\nedytuj] Źródła\nzarządzenie prezydenta Miasta Łodzi – KONSULTACJE SPOŁECZNE – Urząd Miasta Łodzi, 3 grudnia 2010\n– Urząd Miasta Łodzi, 3 grudnia 2010 HB – Budżet 2011 dla Łodzi – Fundacja Fenomen, 22 grudnia 2010\n– Fundacja Fenomen, 22 grudnia 2010 mp. – Nowe radne zastąpią wiceprezydentów – Dziennik Łódzki, 24 grudnia 2010\nMateriał autorski Ten artykuł zawiera informacje zgromadzone przez reporterów Wikinews.", "url": "http://pl.wikinews.org/wiki/Bud%C5%BCet_%C5%81odzi_2011_konsultowany_spo%C5%82ecznie", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20110103011514/http://pl.wikinews.org/wiki/Bud%C5%BCet_%C5%81odzi_2011_konsultowany_spo%C5%82ecznie" } ]

[ "Rosja", "Terroryzm" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Dziennik internetowy PAP", "text": "[2003-03-31 19:09]\nIrak: naloty, walki i przestrogi\nW tym samym czasie siły amerykańskie prowadzą \"agresywne rozpoznanie bojem\" w pobliżu południowych przedmieść Bagdadu, co - wg źródeł w Pentagonie - może być wstępem do bitwy o iracką stolicę.\nPo tygodniu intensywnych ataków z powietrza na pozycje Gwardii Republikańskiej wokół Bagdadu, zdolności bojowe tej elitarnej formacji irackiej zostały zredukowane o ponad połowę; najbardziej ucierpiały dywizje Medyna i Bagdad - twierdzą przedstawiciele Pentagonu.\nPo trzy potężne eksplozje wstrząsnęły w poniedziałek po południu południową i środkową częścią Bagdadu. Świadkowie mówią, że bomby spadły m.in. na pałac syna Saddama Husajna - Kusaja. Bagdad jest bombardowany praktycznie bez przerwy.\nPolski minister obrony Jerzy Szmajdziński uważa, że najbliższy tydzień będzie decydujący dla kampanii irackiej. \"Decydujące będzie najbliższe siedem dni - zajęcie pozycji wokół Bagdadu i doprowadzenie do utraty możliwości kierowania państwem przez Saddama Husajna, tak, aby można było pozostałe miejsca, wokół których są zgromadzone siły, przejmować i udzielać w pierwszej kolejności tym miejscom, tej ludności pomocy humanitarnej\" - powiedział minister Jerzy Szmajdziński w poniedziałek w Warszawie na konferencji dotyczącej udziału polskich żołnierzy w operacji \"Iracka Wolność\".\nPrzyjemnie zaskoczeni byli w poniedziałek żołnierze piechoty morskiej USA, którzy zdobyli miasto Szatra koło Nasiriji. Mieszkańcy wiwatowali na ich cześć i krzyczeli \"Witamy w Iraku!\". Amerykanom nie udało się natomiast pojmać wyższych oficerów, którzy - wg informacji wywiadu - znajdowali się w Szatrze. Iracki generał wymknął się podobno w ostatniej chwili.\nNigdzie nie znaleziono też osławionego \"chemicznego Alego\", którego obecności w Szatrze nie wykluczał wywiad. Ten kuzyn Saddama Husajna odpowiada obecnie za front południowy. Przydomek \"chemiczny Ali\" zdobył, używając gazów trujących przeciwko irackim Kurdom w 1988 roku.\nOddziały amerykańskie prowadziły w poniedziałek rozpoznanie bojem niedaleko południowych przedmieść Bagdadu. Niektóre jednostki przekroczyły podobno osławioną \"czerwoną linię\", to znaczy weszły na obszar, na którym - wg Pentagonu - siły irackie mogą się zdecydować na użycie broni chemicznej, jeśli znajdą się w sytuacji bez wyjścia.\nIracki minister spraw zagranicznych Nadżi Sabri powiedział na konferencji prasowej w Bagdadzie, że siły koalicji amerykańsko-brytyjskiej są \"kolonizatorami\", którzy chcą \"zdemontować\" Irak, a nie zachować Irak zjednoczony. Sabri wezwał koalicję do natychmiastowego wycofania się z Iraku. \"Wycofajcie się raczej dziś niż jutro, poniesiecie mniejsze straty\" - powiedział iracki minister. Twierdził, że do Iraku przybyło już \"ponad 5000 ochotników arabskich\", by \"bronić honoru Arabów i muzułmanów\".\nW minioną sobotę i niedzielę wielu przywódców irackich zapewniało już, że do Iraku napływają tysiące ochotników arabskich, by wziąć udział w walkach z wojskami amerykańskimi i brytyjskimi.\nPrezydent Egiptu Hosni Mubarak ocenił, że wojna w Iraku wykreuje \"stu nowych bin Ladenów\", zwielokrotniając szeregi wrogów Zachodu w świecie muzułmańskim. Egipt, jak większość krajów arabskich, sprzeciwił się wojnie w Iraku, prowadzonej przez USA i ich sojuszników w ramach walki ze światowym terroryzmem, za którego przywódcę uważa się Osamę bin Ladena, oskarżanego m.in. o krwawe zamachy z 11 września 2001 r.\nRzecznik brytyjskiego premiera Tony'ego Blaira przyznał w poniedziałek, że \"nie zostały jeszcze osiągnięte cele\" w Iraku. Podkreślił jednak, że wojna trwa dopiero 12 dni i nie ma mowy o rezygnacji z walki.\nMinister obrony Wielkiej Brytanii Geoff Hoon powiedział, że żaden z irackich polityków czy wojskowych wysokiej rangi nie przeszedł od początku działań w Iraku na stronę koalicji. Dodał jednak, że poddało się wielu Irakijczyków.\n\"Obecnie mamy około 8 tysięcy jeńców wojennych, z których liczni poddali się, a wśród nich wielu uczyniło to z ochotą\" - powiedział minister w brytyjskim parlamencie.\nPrzedstawiciele Czerwonego Krzyża zaczęli w poniedziałek odwiedzać irackich jeńców wojennych schwytanych przez siły amerykańsko-brytyjskie. Ekipa Międzynarodowego Komitetu Czerwonego Krzyża, składająca się z 15 osób, w tym lekarza i sześciu tłumaczy, udała się do obozu na południu Iraku.\nRadio Watykan, papieski głos w eterze, zmobilizowało poważne środki, by głosić sprzeciw Kościoła wobec konfliktu w Iraku i donosić o cierpieniach ludności pod bombami - powiedział AFP odpowiedzialny za programy baskijski jezuita Ignacio Arregui.\n\"W odróżnieniu od innych mediów, nie kładziemy nacisku na liczbę rakiet wystrzelonych na Bagdad, liczbę czołgów, które pokonują pustynię czy pogodę wojenną\" - powiedział jezuita.\n\"Ale dzięki naszym +wysłannikom+ na miejscu, wszystkim ludziom Kościoła, którzy pozostali ze swą trzódką i ludźmi, którzy cierpią, możemy np. bezpośrednio poruszać sprawę skutków zniszczenia sieci komunikacyjnej i wodnej, jednym słowem potworności wojny\" - podkreślił.\nIracki minister informacji Muhammad Said as-Sahaf powiedział, że w ciągu ostatnich 36 godzin siły irackie zabiły 43 żołnierzy amerykańskich i brytyjskich. Dodał, że w tym samym czasie siły irackie zniszczyły \"cztery śmigłowce Apache, dwa bezzałogowe samoloty Predator, 13 czołgów, osiem transporterów i sześć pojazdów opancerzonych\" koalicji.", "url": "http://dziennik.pap.com.pl/index.html?dzial=ZAG", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20030401130458/http://dziennik.pap.com.pl/index.html?dzial=ZAG" } ]

[ "Australia", "Australia i Oceania", "Polonia", "Świat" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Przegląd Australijski", "text": "Rozmowa z Zygmuntem Mosiem Zespół „aPL.AUs” wystąpił ostatnio 15 marca 2009 na imprezie w Domu Kopernika zorganizowanej w celu pomocy pogorzelcom w stanie Victoria. Możesz krótko powiedzieć coś o tej imprezie? – Impreza miała bardzo odpowiednią nazwę „Otwarte serce”. Duszą całego przedsięwzięcia była Wala Grant. To dzięki niej impreza doszła do skutku. Dzięki jej inicjatywie dołożyliśmy – mówię o wszystkich uczestnikach imprezy: gościach i wykonawcach – kolejne fundusze na rzecz pomocy dla poszkodowanych w Victorii. Nie muszę dodawać, że impreza była w swych intencjach bardzo szlachetna. Szkoda tylko, że zgromadziła ona stosunkowo niewielu widzów. Liczyliśmy na znacznie więcej. Ale i tak organizatorzy zebrali bodaj niemal 2 tysiące australijskich dolarów na fundusz pomocy pogorzelcom. Nie znam precyzyjnej cyfry. W tej sprawie najlepiej zwrócić się bezpośrednio do organizatorów. Uczestnicy imprezy „Otwarte serce” Możesz powiedzieć coś na temat wykonawców? – Była bardzo sympatyczna grupa młodych wykonawców z Polskiego Kościoła Chrześcijańskiego. Byli bracia Stirrat, Tolly Lewan, orkiestra Jana Klisia, chór „Polanki”. Młodziutka Nicola Grant podbiła serca publiczności swoim wdziękiem. Zaprezentował się również Polski Teatr Stary. Nie obyło się bez rewelacyjnego śpiewu Wali Grant (z towarzyszeniem pianistki Cecylii Koprowskiej). W sumie więc były recytacje, śpiew, popisy instrumentalne. No i był zespół „aPL.AUs”, którego występ kończył obie części imprezy. Całość prowadziła sprawnie i z wielkim wdziękiem Marysia Hock. Dziękuję bardzo. Jak już rozmawiamy to... znowu zbliża się maj! I to milowymi krokami. Nie powinnam więc powtarzać, że jeśli maj, to i „Majówka” z zespołem „aPL.AUs”. Tradycja bowiem zobowiązuje. Ciekawe, czym „aPL.AUs” tym razem nas zaskoczy... – Najpierw uspokoję wszystkich naszych zwolenników, że nie zamierzamy zrezygnować ze sprawdzonych już elementów naszej zabawy, a więc dobrej muzyki, śpiewu, znanych oraz całkiem nowych przebojów, humoru, świetnej atmosfery, bardzo atrakcyjnej loterii fantowej. To już tradycja, więc nie wypada odwracać się do niej plecami, tym bardziej że sprawdziła się ona już wielokrotnie. A więc nie można się tutaj zawieść. Nasi stali bywalcy wiedzą, na co mogą liczyć, to im odpowiada, i dlatego mamy zawsze wspaniałą frekwencję. Dziękujemy wszystkim naszym stałym zwolennikom za to, że nam corocznie ufają i nie zawodzą nas pod względem frekwencji. A ja uporczywie ponawiam pytanie: czy macie coś w zanadrzu co można by nazwać niespodzianką? Zygmunt Moś – aPl.AUs Mariusz Strzelbicki – aPl.AUs Janusz Strzelbicki – aPl.AUs – Skoro nalegasz, to zdradzę naszą dość szeroko już rozpropagowaną w Adelajdzie tajemnicę. Swoją drogą to bardzo ciekawe, jak szybko rozchodzą się nieoficjalne wiadomości... Mamy nową solistkę... Dlaczego tak często zmieniacie solistki? – Na ogół wynika to po prostu ze względów osobistych. Niełatwo jest bowiem pogodzić wymagania związane ze współpracą z zespołem z jednej strony a codziennym życiem rodzinnym i zawodowym z drugiej. Szczególnie jeśli dochodzą do tego obowiązki rodzicielskie. Wtedy niestety nasze drogi się rozchodzą bo okazuje się, że dalsza współpraca zespołu z daną solistką jest już niemożliwa. Przystępujemy więc wtedy do kolejnej akcji poszukiwania kogoś nowego, mającego zapał, chęć i talent by z nami współpracować. I znowu kogoś znaleźliście? Ktoś nowy? – I tak, i nie. Nie rozumiem... – Tak, bo jest to ktoś, kto zastąpi naszą byłą solistkę Danuśkę Bartak. Nie, bo powinienem wspomnieć, że z tą osobą już kiedyś współpracowaliśmy. Było to bardzo dawno i bardzo krótko, więc sądzę, że niewiele osób kogoś takiego pamięta... Zdradź więc o kogo chodzi. – Mam na myśli dobrze znaną w adelajdzkim świecie muzycznym Basię Poynter. Dla niektórych kojarzy się ona bardziej ze swym panieńskim nazwiskiem – Czerniakiewicz. Pod takim nazwiskiem występowała kiedyś z nami. Teraz jest to już inne nazwisko, więc w tym sensie mamy zupełnie nową solistkę! Możesz powiedzieć coś bliższego o niej tym wszystkim, którym nie jest ona jeszcze znana? – Z przyjemnością. Brała ona udział ostatnio w kilku konkursach, na przykład w „My Mum Rocks” w serii „Australian Idol”, gdzie znalazła się w w pierwszej dziesiątce. W konkursie Triple M Radio Station była w pierwszej trójce na szansę zaśpiewania australijskiego hymnu podczas naszego Tour Down Under. Śpiewała też z powodzeniem w lokalnych pubach z zespołami rockowymi. Wystarczy? Może coś bardziej osobistego? – Jest mamą dwóch wspaniałych chłopaków, z których jest bardzo dumna. Łączy pracę zawodową z obowiązkami małżeńskimi oraz rodzicielskimi, co czasem stanowi dla niej pewien problem. Jednak zdecydowała się na współpracę z nami. Dodam, że bardzo się cieszymy z tej decyzji. Myślę również, że odczucie jest obopólne – u Basi też widzę ogromny zapał i chęć do nowej przygody muzycznej. Na jej nowy debiut z zespołem „aPL.AUs” zapraszam już teraz wszystkich na najbliższą „Majówkę”. Zostanie ona wtedy oficjalnie przedstawiona wszystkim uczestnikom zabawy. Gwarantuję, że nikt – absolutnie nikt! – nie zawiedzie się na Basi. My też przystępujemy z nowym wigorem do kolejnego poszerzania naszego repertuaru. Przyznaję więc, że szykujecie niespodziankę dużego kalibru. Podaj więc jeszcze kilka szczegółów dotyczących tegorocznej „Majówki ”. – „Majówka VI” – tak, to już szósty raz bawimy sie na „Majówce”! – odbędzie się tradycyjnie w pierwszą sobotę maja, co w tym roku wypada 2 maja. Miejsce też tradycyjne: Dom Kopernika. Po resztę szczegółów odsyłam wszystkich chętnych do naszych ulotek, które rozprowadzimy w kwietniu, jak również zapraszam czytelników „Przeglądu Australijskiego” do zajrzenia na stronę www.australink.pl do działu „Polonia”, gdzie jest do obejrzenia plakat. Od kiedy można kupować bilety? – Od zaraz. Bilety są gotowe i jeśli opierać się na doświadczeniach lat ubiegłych to trzeba się będzie pośpieszyć z ich nabyciem. Naprawdę może ich zabraknąć... Już się rozchodzą w szybkim tempie. Dziękuję za rozmowę. Rozmawiała Lidia Mikołajewska Fot. Barbara Moś Fotografia pierwsza: Orkiestra Jana Klisia", "url": "http://przeglad.australink.pl/sztuka/artykuly/mos.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20101204143706/http://przeglad.australink.pl/sztuka/artykuly/mos.php" } ]

[ "Health", "Avian Flu", "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention", "Influenza", "Infectious disease" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "1918 killer flu 'came from birds'", "text": "Flu viruses are constantly evolving\nUS scientists have found the 1918 virus shares genetic mutations with the bird flu virus now circulating in Asia.\nWriting in Nature, they say their work underlines the threat the current strain poses to humans worldwide.\nA second paper in Science reveals another US team has successfully recreated the 1918 virus in mice.\nWe are revealing some of the secrets that will help us predict and prepare for the next pandemic\nJulie Gerberding\nSeventh Indonesian bird flu death\nThe virus is contained at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under stringent safety conditions.\nIt is hoped to carry out experiments to further understand the biological properties that made the virus so virulent.\nThe virus was recreated from data produced by painstaking research by a team from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.\nLung tissue samples\nWorking on virus samples from the remains of victims of the 1918 pandemic, the researchers were able to piece together the entire genetic sequence of the virus.\nThey found the virus contained elements that were new to humans of the time - making it highly virulent.\nAnd analysis of the final three pieces of the virus' genetic code has revealed mutations that have striking similarities to those found in flu viruses found only in birds, such as the H5N1 strain currently found in south east Asia.\nThis strain has so far killed at least 65 people.\nMany experts believe it is only a matter of time before H5N1, or a similar strain, causes many deaths in humans - possibly after combining with a human flu strain.\nCrucially, the mutations identified by the US researchers were found in genes which control the virus' ability to replicate in host cells.\nThe researchers say these mutations may have helped the 1918 virus replicate more efficiently.\nAt this stage, they say the H5N1 strain shares only some, and not all, of these mutations.\nIncreased virulence\nBut these mutations may be enough to increase the virus' virulence - and give it the potential to cause serious human infection without first combining with a known human flu strain.\nThe researchers believe the two other major flu pandemics of the 20th century - in 1957 and 1968 - were caused by human flu viruses which acquired two or three key genes from bird flu virus strains.\nBut they believe the 1918 strain was probably entirely a bird flu virus that adapted to function in humans.\nJulie Gerberding, director of the US Centers for Disease Control, said: \"By unmasking the 1918 virus we are revealing some of the secrets that will help us predict and prepare for the next pandemic.\"\nAnd Dr Jeffery Taubenberger, lead researcher of the Nature study, said: \"Determining whether pandemic influenza virus strains can emerge via different pathways will affect the scope and focus of surveillance and prevention efforts.\"\nWarning\nProfessor John Oxford, an expert in virology at Queen Mary College, London, said the suggestion that the virus had the potential to jump between humans without first combining with a human virus made it even more of a threat.\n\"This study gives us an extra warning that H5N1 needs to be taken even more seriously than it has been up to now,\" he said.\nDr Terrence Tumpey, of the US CDC, defended the decision to recreate the 1918 flu virus.\nHe said: \"We felt we had to recreate the virus and run these experiments to understand the biological properties that made the 1918 virus so exceptionally deadly.\n\"We wanted to identify the specific genes responsible for its virulence, with the hope of designing antivirals or other interventions that would work against virulent pandemic or epidemic influenza viruses.\"", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4308872.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20051024022512/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4308872.stm" } ]

[ "Themenportal Wissenschaft", "Beobachtende Astronomie", "Astronomie allg.", "University of California", "ESO" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Atmosphäre einer Supererde untersucht", "text": "Home : Nachrichten : Teleskope : Artikel Druckansicht ]\nEXTRASOLARE PLANETEN\nAtmosphäre einer Supererde untersucht\nAstronomen haben mit Hilfe des Very Large Telescope der europäischen Südsternware ESO erstmals die Atmosphäre einer Supererde untersucht. Sie besteht danach entweder hauptsächlich aus Wasserdampf oder ist von dicken Wolken oder Dunstschleiern geprägt. Der untersuchte Planet GJ 1214b ist rund 40 Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernt und war vor rund einem Jahr entdeckt worden.\nSo könnte der Planet GJ 1214b in rund 40 Lichtjahren Entfernung aussehen. So könnte der Planet GJ 1214b in rund 40 Lichtjahren Entfernung aussehen.\nDer Planet GJ 1214b wurde im vergangenen Jahr mit Hilfe des 3,6-Meter-Teleskops der ESO in La Silla entdeckt (astronews.com berichtete). Schon damals hatte man die Vermutung, dass der Planet von einer dichten Atmosphäre umgeben ist - einen Verdacht, den man nun mit dem Instrument FORS am Very Large Telescope bestätigt hat. \"Dies ist die erste Supererde, deren Atmosphäre man analysieren konnte\", so Jacob Bean vom Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. \"Es ist ein weiterer Meilenstein bei der Untersuchung dieser Welten.\" Die Astronomen berichten in der morgen erscheinenden Ausgabe der Wissenschaftszeitschrift Nature über ihre Resultate.\nGJ 1214b hat etwa den 2,6-fachen Radius der Erde und etwa ihre 6,5-fache Masse, was den Planeten zu einer sogenannten Supererde macht. Der Zentralstern von GJ 1214b liegt in einer Entfernung von rund 40 Lichtjahren im Sternbild Schlangenträger. Bei GJ 1214b handelt es sich zudem um einen Transitplaneten, der alle 38 Stunden - von der Erde aus gesehen - einmal vor der Scheibe seines Zentralsterns vorüberläuft. Mit einer Entfernung von nur zwei Millionen Kilometern ist GJ 1214b seinem Zentralstern rund 70-mal näher als die Erde der Sonne. Der Stern GJ 1214 ist allerdings auch deutlich leuchtschwächer.\nDie regelmäßigen Transits des Planeten machten nun auch die Untersuchung seiner Atmosphäre möglich: Bei einem solchen Transit fällt nämlich ein wenig Licht des Sterns auch durch die Planetenatmosphäre. Dieses haben die Astronomen mit dem hochauflösenden Spektrometer FORS untersucht. Die Messwerte verglichen die Wissenschaftler dann mit Daten, die für unterschiedliche Atmosphärenmodelle zu erwarten gewesen wären.\nFür die Atmosphäre der Supererde kamen nach Ansicht der Forscher drei mögliche Zusammensetzungen in Frage: Entweder ist der Planet sehr wasserreich und wäre damit, wegen seiner großen Nähe zu seiner Sonne, in Wasserdampf gehüllt. Es könnte sich außerdem auch um einen Gesteinsplaneten handeln, dessen Atmosphäre hauptsächlich aus Wasserstoff besteht, in der es aber hohe Wolken oder Dunstschleier gibt. Eine weitere Alternative wäre, dass GJ 1214b ein Neptun-ähnlicher Planet mit einem nur kleinen Gesteinskern und einer dicken Wasserstoff-reichen Atmosphäre ist.\nBei den neuen Messungen fand man jedoch keine Hinweise auf Wasserstoff, so dass die dritte Option auszuscheiden scheint. Es handelt sich also entweder um eine sehr wasserdampfreiche Atmosphäre oder aber um eine Atmosphäre mit dichten Wolken oder Dunstschleiern, wie bei Venus oder dem Saturnmond Titan, die das Aufspüren von Wasserstoff verhindert.\n\"Wir können zwar noch nicht genau sagen, aus was die Atmosphäre besteht, doch haben wir die Optionen für diese entfernte Welt auf dampfhaltig oder dunstig eingegrenzt\", so Bean. \"Jetzt sind Beobachtungen im Infraroten nötig, um entscheiden zu können welche dieser beiden Atmosphären es auf GJ 1214b tatsächlich gibt.\"\nAtmosphäre einer Supererde untersucht. Diskutieren Sie mit anderen Lesern im astronews.com Forum.", "url": "http://www.astronews.com/news/artikel/2010/12/1012-002.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20101204100028/http://www.astronews.com/news/artikel/2010/12/1012-002.shtml" } ]

[ "Themenportal Politik", "Themenportal Fidschi", "Laisenia Qarase", "Alexander Downer", "Helen Clark", "Militärputsch", "Militär allg.", "Veröffentlicht" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Fiji army moves to control Suva", "text": "Soldiers have taken up position outside key bases\nTroops disarmed the police and ministerial bodyguards and set up roadblocks around Suva.\nMilitary chief Cmdr Frank Bainimarama refused to say if a coup was under way but said the moves were aimed at preventing any outbreak of violence.\nHe has repeatedly threatened to unseat PM Laisenia Qarase over plans to grant amnesty to those behind a coup in 2000.\nDisarmed\nTruckloads of heavily-armed soldiers were seen leaving the army's barracks in Suva.\nThey were putting up roadblocks around the capital during the night, and had reportedly cut off several roads into the city.\nFIJI TENSIONS TIMELINE 2000 Brief coup put down by army chief Bainimarama 12 July 2005 Cmdr Bainimarama warns he will topple government if it pardons jailed coup plotters 13 July 2005 PM Laisenia Qarase says he will review law pardoning plotters 17 May 2006 Mr Qarase wins re-election 31 Oct Mr Qarase tries - and fails - to replace Cmdr Bainimarama as army chief 4 November Mr Qarase says he will change law offering clemency to coup plotters 7 November Military calls for police chief to quit 30 November Mr Qarase offers \"concessions\" after meeting Cmdr Bainimarama 30 November Cmdr Bainimarama warns of coup if demands not met 1 December Deadline set for possible coup passes without incident\nIn pictures: Coup countdown\nEarlier, troops arrived at the headquarters of the country's only armed police unit, the Tactical Response Unit, outside Suva.\nThey loaded weapons belonging to police on to army trucks and took them away.\nTroops also went to a police armoury in the city to remove more weapons.\nBodyguards for the prime minister and other ministers were also disarmed.\nCmdr Bainimarama told reporters his troops had taken weapons off the police \"to ensure that police weapons are not used against the military\".\nBut he insisted the police still had a role to play. \"The police and the (military) will work together to ensure the security and safety of all the people of Fiji,\" he said in a brief statement.\nThe move was called \"unlawful and unnecessary\" by acting police commissioner Moses Driver.\nCmdr Bainimarama gave no indication whether a coup was under way during his statement to reporters, despite local media reports that he has drawn up a 13-member interim cabinet.\nWhen asked who was running the country, he replied: \"I don't have any comments right now\".\nHe originally gave the government until last Friday to resign or face Fiji's fourth army takeover in two decades.\nIn a TV interview at the weekend, he said he expected the prime minister to \"give in peacefully\" and leave office on Monday.\nPrime Minister Qarase remained defiant on Monday, insisting he was still in charge. He said he had called a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday to consider Cmdr Bainimarama's \"latest and ever-changing demands\".\nOngoing feud\nAustralia and New Zealand have warned of dire economic and social consequences if the military deposes Fiji's elected government.\n\"It is clear Fiji is on the brink of a coup,\" Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told his parliament.\nThe army chief and PM have been at loggerheads for months\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark warned Cmdr Bainimarama that sanctions would follow any coup, including a possible travel ban to New Zealand where he has family.\nThe feud between the prime minister and the army chief goes back several months.\nIt relates to legislation that Mr Qarase is seeking to pass, which offers a pardon to people involved in the 2000 racially-motivated coup and allocates the ownership of coastal land to ethnic Fijians.\nCmdr Bainimarama played a key role in putting down the uprising and was at one point forced to flee for his life.\nHe has made it clear that he does not feel the government has done enough to bring its perpetrators to justice.\nAre you in Fiji? Are you concerned about the current situation? Send us your comments and experiences.\nName\nYour E-mail address\nTown & Country\nPhone number (optional):\nComments\nThe BBC may edit your comments and not all emails will be published. Your comments may be published on any BBC media worldwide.\nTerms & Conditions\nSend pictures and moving footage to yourpics@bbc.co.uk or text them to 07725 100 100.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6205148.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20061205231039/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6205148.stm" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Fidschi-Armeechef plant \"Säuberungen\"", "text": "Fidschi-Armeechef plant «Säuberungen»\n04. Dez 2006 11:37\nFoto: AP Der Militärkommandeur der Fidschi-Inseln hat sein Ultimatum an die Regierung erneuert: Wenn seine Forderungen nicht erfüllt werden, will Bainimarama putschen.\nIn ihrem Machtkampf mit der demokratisch gewählten Regierung droht die Armee der Fidschi-Inseln mit einer «Säuberungsaktion», sollten bis zum heutigen Montag nicht die Forderungen von Militärkommandeur Frank Voreqe Bainimarama erfüllt werden. Die anhaltenden Putschgerüchte in dem Südsee-Staat wurden dadurch weiter angeheizt, dass die Armee am Montag eine Spezialeinheit der Polizei entwaffnete. Soldaten seien in voller Kampfmontur in die Polizeikaserne am Rande der Hauptstadt Suva eingedrungen und hätten die Polizisten ausgesperrt, berichtete die «Fiji Times». Weder Armee noch Polizei wollten sich zunächst zu dem Bericht äußern. Ultimatum am Freitag verstrichen Armeechef Bainimarama hatte seine Forderungen gegenüber der Regierung am Sonntag erneuert, nachdem ein Ultimatum am Freitag ergebnislos verstrichen war. Bainimarama kündigte für Montag den Beginn einer «Säuberungsaktion» an. Dabei werde kein Blut fließen, versicherte er im Fernsehen. Zuvor war bekannt geworden, dass Bainimarama 1000 Reservisten einberufen hatte, um seine Truppe von 3000 Soldaten zu verstärken. Bainimarama verlangt unter anderem die volle Rücknahme von Plänen für eine Amnestie für die Putschführer von 2000. Premierminister Laisenia Qarase hatte die Arbeit an dem entsprechenden Gesetz bereits vorläufig ausgesetzt. Streit um Putsch-Amnestie Das ist Bainimarama nicht genug. Der Armeechef fürchtet nach eigenen Angaben weitere ethnische Spannungen zwischen der Mehrheit der Ureinwohner und den indisch-stämmigen Fidschianern. Der Putsch 2000 hatte den ersten indischstämmigen Premierminister gestürzt. Qarase, der selbst nicht daran beteiligt war, ist Ureinwohner. (nz)", "url": "http://www.netzeitung.de/ausland/466146.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20061205210338/http://www.netzeitung.de/ausland/466146.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Troops ring the capital, as Fiji edges toward military coup", "text": "Troops ring the capital, as Fiji edges toward military coup\nSYDNEY: Troops answering to a military commander threatening a coup d'état spread out across the Pacific island nation of Fiji on Monday, establishing a ring of checkpoints around the capital, Suva and disarming the police.\nBy neutralizing the police - the only other significant armed force in the country - Fiji's military chief, Frank Bainimarama, appears ready to make good on his threat to overthrow the elected government of the prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, which he accuses of corruption.\n\"It is clear Fiji is on the brink of a coup,\" Alexander Downer, the Australian foreign minister, said Monday. \"Commodore Bainimarama is on a path to destroy democracy, flout the law of the country and undermine its Constitution.\"\nDowner said that the absence of a formal coup declaration despite weeks of threats might reflect concerns within the military about an outright seizure of power from an elected civilian government.\n\"My guess is that within the military there is a fair bit of resistance to these tactics and quite a lot of resistance to a coup,\" Downer said on Australian radio. \"There isn't an inclination to mutiny against the commander, so it's a torturously complicated situation.\"\nEarlier Monday, soldiers disarmed the prime minister's bodyguard and prevented Qarase from visiting the office of Vice President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, who has been trying to broker a peaceful end to the standoff.\nBainimarama appointed Qarase as prime minister in July 2000 after a muddled coup attempt left the country in disarray. Qarase has won two elections since, the last one in May.\nIn addition to calling for Qarase's resignation, Bainimarama has demanded that the government fire the chief of police and drop tentative plans for an amnesty for people involved in the 2000 coup and a subsequent mutiny in which Bainimarama was nearly killed.\nThe military commander also wants a sedition investigation against him halted.\nQarase seemed to accede to most of the demands last week, but Bainimarama has continued to demand his resignation despite a call from the country's Great Council of Chiefs, which has an indirect political role, to return to the negotiating table.\nCountries around the region have warned Bainimarama that a coup would damage Fiji's economy and international standing.\nMuch of the country's income comes from tourism.\nUnder the so-called Biketawa Declaration, signed by the Pacific Islands Forum in 2000, member states can intervene in member states if the government requests it, but Bainimarama has warned that any military intervention would be regarded as a hostile act.\nTo underscore the threat, Bainimarama conducted military exercises around the harbor in Suva at the end of last month.\nAustralia has stationed navy ships near Fiji to evacuate Australian nationals if necessary.\nIf the coup goes ahead, it will be Fiji's fourth in less than 20 years.", "url": "http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/04/news/fiji.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20061204222212/http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/04/news/fiji.php" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News", "text": "Knife found at O.J. Simpson's former L.A. home studied by police LOS ANGELES Police said on Friday they were examining a knife purportedly found at the former home of O.J. Simpson, the onetime football star acquitted of stabbing to death his ex-wife and her friend in the \"Trial of the Century\" two decades ago. |\nSupreme Court temporarily blocks Louisiana abortion law WASHINGTON The Supreme Court, two days after hearing a major abortion case from Texas, on Friday temporarily blocked a Louisiana law imposing regulations on doctors who perform abortions in a move that would allow two recently closed clinics to reopen.\nExclusive: U.S. watchdog to probe Fed's lax oversight of Wall Street NEW YORK A U.S. watchdog agency is preparing to investigate whether the Federal Reserve and other regulators are too soft on the banks they are meant to police, after a written request from Democratic lawmakers that marks the latest sign of distrust between Congress and the central bank.\nBrazil's Lula detained in corruption probe; Rousseff objects SAO PAULO/BRASILIA Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was briefly detained for questioning on Friday in a federal investigation of a vast corruption scheme, fanning a political crisis that threatens to topple his successor, President Dilma Rousseff. |", "url": "http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-12-04T093315Z_01_SYD262488_RTRUKOC_0_US-FIJI.xml&WTmodLoc=IntNewsHome_C2_worldNews-8", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010436/http://www.reuters.com/" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Auswärtiges Amt", "text": "Vereinte Nationen, Commonwealth, ADB (Asiatische Entwicklungsbank), AKP (Gruppe der afrikanischen, karibischen und pazifischen Staaten), CCC (Customs Cooperation Council), CP (Colombo-Plan zur wirtschaftlichen Stabilisierung ärmerer Commonwealth-Länder), ESCAP (Wirtschafts- und Sozialkommission für Asien und den Pazifik), FAO (Organisation für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft), G-77, IBRD (Weltbank - Internationale Bank für Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung), ICAO (Internationale Zivilluftfahrt-Organisation), ICC (Internationaler Strafgerichtshof), ICFTU (Internationaler Bund der freien Gewerkschaften), ICSID (Weltbank - Internationales Zentrum für Investitionsstreitbeilegung), IDA (Weltbank - Internationale Entwicklungsorganisation), IFAD (Internationaler Fonds für landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung), IFC (Weltbank - Internationale Finanz-Corporation), IFRCS (Internationale Föderation der Rotkreuz- und Rothalbmondgesellschaften), IHO (Internationale Organisation für Hydrographie), ILO (Internationale Arbeitsorganisation), IMO (Internationale Seeschifffahrts-Organisation), Intelsat (Internationale Telekommunikations-Satelliten-Organisation), Interpol, ITU (Internationale Fernmeldeunion), IWF (Internationaler Währungsfonds), MSG (Melanesian Spearhead Group), MIGA (Weltbank – Multilaterale Investitionsgarantieagentur), OPCW (Organisation für das Verbot chemischer Waffen), PCA (Ständiger Schiedshof in Den Haag für die Beilegung internationaler Konflikte), PIF (Forum Pazifischer Inseln), SPARTECA (Regionales Abkommen für Handels- und Wirtschaftskooperation im Südpazifik), SPC (Sekretariat der Pazifischen Gemeinschaft), UNCTAD ( VN -Handels- und Entwicklungskonferenz), UNESCO ( VN -Organisation für Erziehung, Wissenschaft und Kultur), UNIDO ( VN -Organisation für industrielle Entwicklung), UPU (Weltpostverein), WCO (Weltzollorganisation), WFTU (Weltgewerkschaftsbund), WHO (Weltgesundheitsorganisation), WIPO (Weltorganisation für geistiges Eigentum), WMO (Weltorganisation für Meteorologie), WToO (Welttourismusorganisation), WTO (Welthandelsorganisation)", "url": "http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/de/Laender/Fidschi.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060523183234/http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/de/Laender/Fidschi.html" } ]

[ "Crime and law", "Politics and conflicts", "Poetry", "Poland", "Warsaw" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Oferta sprzedaży domeny nwe.pl", "text": "Kraj:\nAFGANISTAN ALBANIA ALGERIA AMERICAN SAMOA ANDORRA ANGOLA ANGUILLA ANTARCTICA ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ARGENTINA ARMENIA ARUBA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BAHAMAS BAHRAIN BANGLADESH BARBADOS BELARUS BELGIA BELIZE BENIN BERMUDA BHUTAN BOLIVIA BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BOTSWANA BOUVET ISLAND BRAZIL BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY BRUNEI DARUSSALAM BUŁGARIA BURKINA FASO BURUNDI CAMBODIA CAMEROON CANADA CANARY ISLANDS CAPE VERDE CAYMAN ISLANDS CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHAD CHILE CHINA CHRISTMAS ISLAND COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS COLOMBIA COMOROS CONGO CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE COOK ISLANDS COSTA RICA COTE D'IVOIRE CROATIA CUBA CYPR CZECHY DANIA DJIBOUTI DOMINICA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ECUADOR EGYPT EL SALVADOR EQUATORIAL GUINEA ERITREA ESTONIA ETHIOPIA FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS) FAROE ISLANDS FIJI FINLANDIA FRANCJA FRENCH GUIANA FRENCH POLYNESIA FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES GABON GAMBIA GEORGIA NIEMCY GHANA GIBRALTAR GRECJA GREENLAND GRENADA GUADELOUPE GUAM GUATEMALA GUINEA GUINEA-BISSAU GUERNSEY GUYANA HAITI HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS HOLY SEE (VATICAN CITY STATE) HONDURAS HONG KONG WĘGRY ICELAND INDIA INDONESIA IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAQ IRLANDIA ISRAEL WŁOCHY JAMAICA JAPAN JERSEY JORDAN KAZAKHSTAN KENYA KIRIBATI KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, REPUBLIC OF KUWAIT KYRGYZSTAN LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ŁOTWA LEBANON LESOTHO LIBERIA LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA LIECHTENSTEIN LITWA LUXEMBURG MACAO MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MADAGASCAR MALAWI MALAYSIA MALDIVES MALI MALTA MARSHALL ISLANDS MARTINIQUE MAURITANIA MAURITIUS MAYOTTE MEXICO MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF MONACO MONGOLIA MONTENEGRO MONTSERRAT MOROCCO MOZAMBIQUE MYANMAR NAMIBIA NAURU NEPAL HOLANDIA NETHERLANDS ANTILLES NEW CALEDONIA NEW ZEALAND NICARAGUA NIGER NIGERIA NIUE NORFOLK ISLAND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS NORWAY OMAN PAKISTAN PALAU PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED PANAMA PAPUA NEW GUINEA PARAGUAY PERU PHILIPPINES PITCAIRN POLSKA PORTUGALIA PUERTO RICO QATAR REUNION RUMUNIA RUSSIAN FEDERATION RWANDA SAINT HELENA SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS SAINT LUCIA SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES SAMOA SAN MARINO SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SAUDI ARABIA SERBIA SENEGAL SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE SŁOWACJA SŁOWENIA SOLOMON ISLANDS SOMALIA SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS HISZPANIA SRI LANKA SUDAN SURINAME SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN SWAZILAND SZWECJA SZWAJCARIA SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC TAIWAN TAJIKISTAN TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF THAILAND TIMOR-LESTE TOGO TOKELAU TONGA TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TUNISIA TURKEY TURKMENISTAN TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS TUVALU UGANDA UKRAINE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES WIELKA BRYTANIA STANY ZJEDNOCZONE UNITED STATES MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS URUGUAY UZBEKISTAN VANUATU VENEZUELA VIET NAM VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S. WALLIS AND FUTUNA WESTERN SAHARA YEMEN ZAMBIA ZIMBABWE *", "url": "http://nwe.pl/National.php?article_id=489", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200516102426/https://sklep.premium.pl/nwe.pl" }, { "language": "pl", "title": "Skazany po 25 latach za pobicie 19-latka", "text": "Prosimy o listy w tej sprawie - Napisz\nCztery razy uniewinniany\nDyrektywy, jak mataczyć, szły z samej góry\n- Nareszcie - westchnienie ulgi z ław publiczności warszawskiego sądu, gdzie siedzieli przyjaciele ze szkoły i bliscy rodziny Grzegorza.- Nie spodziewałem się - przyznał godzinę później ojciec Leopold Przemyk.Oskarżonego Ireneusza K., byłego zomowca, potem policjanta w Biłgoraju, dziś 45-letniego emeryta, w sądzie nie było. Już tydzień temu, gdy oskarżenie i obrona wygłaszały mowy końcowe, na widok kamer i mikrofonów uciekł.Ireneusz K. to niemal równolatek Grzegorza. W stanie wojennym zapisał się do ZOMO, by odsłużyć wojsko. Nie zaprzeczał, że 12 maja 1983 r. zgarnął rozhulanego 19-latka, syna opozycyjnej poetki Barbary Sadowskiej, z pl. Zamkowego, gdzie Grzegorz z kolegami bawił się w przerwie matur. Nie zaprzeczał, że odstawił go do komisariatu, bo Grzegorz nie miał przy sobie dowodu osobistego. Nie krył, że był przy nim tam, w środku, przy stoliku, gdy milicyjne \"łokcie poszły w ruch\". - Czy bił? - pytali go wielokrotnie sędziowie. Do pobicia Przemyka Ireneusz K. nie przyznał się nigdy. Cztery razy był uniewinniany wobec wątpliwości w tej sprawie. Wczoraj doczekał skazania. Dlaczego?Trzeba cofnąć się o 24 lata. Wtedy, w PRL, Kościuk pierwszy raz usiadł na ławie oskarżonych pod zarzutem pobicia. Obok Arkadiusz Denkiewicz - dyżurny komisariatu - który zachęcał zomowców: \"Bijcie tak, żeby nie było śladów\". Po sterowanym przez SB procesie - skazani mieli zostać i zostali sanitariusze, którzy pobitego Grzegorza zabrali z komisariatu - Denkiewicz i Ireneusz K. wolni wrócili do służby.Że tak miało być, zdecydowały najwyższe władze. Sędzia Monika Niezabitowska przypomniała wczoraj, że nad obroną milicji w tej sprawie czuwał gen. Mirosław Milewski, b. szef MSW, wówczas sekretarz KC PZPR. Dyspozycje szły niżej: do biura śledczego MSW, do biura dochodzeniowo-śledczego KGP, do prokuratury. Wyjaśnieniem matactw, w tym \"bezprawnych działań resortu MSW\", zajmuje się od ośmiu lat (!) IPN. Z mizernym skutkiem. Mówiono o tym wczoraj po wyroku.Leopold Przemyk pytał: - To jest miecz, a ręka gdzie?\nWytarta pamięć funkcjonariuszy\nW sprawie Przemyka od zawsze były zeznania Cezarego F., przyjaciela Grzegorza. Wszedł z nim do milicyjnej suki, był w komisariacie. Widział bicie, ale nie potrafił rozpoznać, kto bił. 1 czerwca 1983 r. spędzono do sportowej hali 60 funkcjonariuszy dobranych tak, żeby byli jak najbardziej do siebie podobni. Cezary F. rozpoznał Denkiewicza, tego, który zagrzewał do bicia. Także Krzysztofa D., ale jako tego, który pisał coś przy stoliku. Ireneusza K. - nie.\nGdy w 1993 r. Ireneusz K. i Denkiewicz znów zostali oskarżeni, zomowca uratował brak pewnego rozpoznania, wątpliwości, które sąd zawsze tłumaczyć musi na korzyść oskarżonego. To samo powtarzało się w następnych procesach. Nie pomagały kolejne przesłuchania funkcjonariuszy, którzy byli wówczas w komisariacie. Nie pamiętali. Nie chcieli pamiętać.\nSędzia: - Jakby ktoś gumką powycierał niepotrzebne treści.\nZdjęcia nie kłamały\nW ostatnim procesie pojawił się nowy dowód - zdjęcia z nieformalnej wizji lokalnej. \"Gazeta\" jedyna zwróciła na nie uwagę, gdy pojawiły się w procesie jesienią 2006 r. Starą kopertę z 12 odbitkami przyniosła sądowi mec. Ewa Milewska-Celińska, pełnomocnik rodziny Grzegorza.\n- Dał mi je jeden z b. milicjantów, którzy w tej wizji uczestniczyli - odsłoniła wczoraj tajemnicę. Komplet 96 zdjęć był w archiwum Komendy Stołecznej, ściągnął je IPN, a potem sąd.\nWidać, jak oskarżony Ireneusz K. pochyla się nad stolikiem, przy którym Grzegorz został pobity. Zainscenizowano szarpaninę, w której Grzegorz (na zdjęciach udający go milicjant) chce Ireneuszowi K. wyrwać pałkę.\n- \"Ten, który bił, nie miał żadnych dystynkcji\", \"bił jeden z tych dwóch, którzy nas doprowadzili\", \"to był ten, którego Grzegorz złapał za pałkę\" - sędzia Niezabitowska cytowała wczoraj słowa Cezarego F., świadka oskarżenia. Wszystkie wskazywały na Ireneusza K.", "url": "http://wyborcza.pl/1,76842,5251556,Skazany_po_25_latach_za_pobicie_19_latka.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080921094810/http://wyborcza.pl/1,76842,5251556,Skazany_po_25_latach_za_pobicie_19_latka.html" } ]

[ "Sports", "Cricket", "2007 Twenty20 World Championship", "South Africa", "New Zealand", "Durban" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "20th Match, Group E: South Africa v New Zealand at Durban, Sep 19, 2007", "text": "Full scorecard - Commentary - Wickets - 3D animation - Partnerships - Wagon wheels - Player v player - Over comparison - Over graphs - Career averages - Match home - Bulletin - Article index (5) - Photo index (20) Twenty20 Int. no. 39\n- 20th Match, Group E\nSouth Africa v New Zealand 2007/08 season Played at , on 19 September 2007 (20-over match) Result South Africa won by 6 wickets (with 5 balls remaining) New Zealand innings (20 overs maximum) R M B 4s 6s SR b van der Wath 32 42 29 4 0 110.34 c Boucher b M Morkel 38 34 26 3 2 146.15 c Boucher b M Morkel 1 3 3 0 0 33.33 c de Villiers b JA Morkel 6 14 9 0 0 66.66 not out 48 47 25 2 4 192.00 b M Morkel 15 17 15 2 0 100.00 run out (van der Wath/ Boucher) 1 2 4 0 0 25.00 c JA Morkel b van der Wath 1 4 3 0 0 33.33 c Boucher b M Morkel 0 2 1 0 0 0.00 not out 3 8 7 0 0 42.85 Extras (lb 1, w 5, nb 2) 8 Total (8 wickets; 20 overs; 90 mins) 153 (7.65 runs per over) Did not bat Fall of wickets Bowling O M R W Econ 4 0 41 0 10.25 (2w) 4 0 23 0 5.75 4 0 17 4 4.25 (1nb) 4 0 31 2 7.75 (3w) 3 0 30 1 10.00 (1nb) 1 0 10 0 10.00 South Africa innings (target: 154 runs from 20 overs) R M B 4s 6s SR c BB McCullum b Bond 2 9 4 0 0 50.00 c sub (JS Patel) b Martin 19 33 19 4 0 100.00 c BB McCullum b Gillespie 1 4 5 0 0 20.00 not out 89 68 56 6 6 158.92 c BB McCullum b Gillespie 23 30 23 2 0 100.00 not out 16 18 11 0 1 145.45 Extras (lb 1, w 4, nb 3) 8 Total (4 wickets; 19.1 overs; 83 mins) 158 (8.24 runs per over) Did not bat , , , , Fall of wickets Bowling O M R W Econ 4 0 31 1 7.75 (4w) 3.1 1 11 2 3.47 (1nb) 4 0 40 1 10.00 (1nb) 4 0 50 0 12.50 (1nb) 4 0 25 0 6.25 Toss South Africa, who chose to field first\nPoints\nTwenty20 Int. debut NL McCullum (New Zealand)\nPlayer of the match JM Kemp (South Africa)\nUmpires (West Indies) and (Australia)\nTV umpire (Australia)\nMatch referee (Sri Lanka)\nReserve umpire\nMatch notes New Zealand innings\nNew Zealand: 50 runs in 5.4 overs (35 balls), Extras 2\n1st Wicket: 50 runs in 35 balls (L Vincent 19, BB McCullum 29, Ex 2)\nRestricted overs (0-6) - New Zealand 50/0 (L Vincent 19*, BB McCullum 29*) New Zealand: 100 runs in 14.3 overs (90 balls), Extras 4\nNew Zealand: 150 runs in 19.3 overs (123 balls), Extras 7 South Africa innings\nRestricted overs (0-6) - South Africa 31/2 (HH Gibbs 19*, JM Kemp 4*)\nSouth Africa: 50 runs in 7.4 overs (51 balls), Extras 5\nJM Kemp: 50 off 42 balls (4 x 4, 2 x 6)\n4th Wicket: 50 runs in 44 balls (JM Kemp 34, MV Boucher 18, Ex 1)\nSouth Africa: 100 runs in 14.4 overs (94 balls), Extras 6\nSouth Africa: 150 runs in 18.5 overs (120 balls), Extras 8\nTwenty20 International Scorer: S Raju Search for an international scorecard from the match/series archive:", "url": "http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/twenty20wc/engine/current/match/287872.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071007160907/http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/twenty20wc/engine/current/match/287872.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "South Africa win ends England bid", "text": "By Paresh Soni\nKemp survived an early scare to take the game away from the Kiwis\nImpressive figures of 4-17 from Morne Morkel helped limit the Kiwis to 153-8 despite Craig McMillan's unbeaten 48.\nBut the Proteas were reeling on 45-3 and Kemp could have been given out lbw for six, but he and Mark Boucher turned the innings around with a stand of 65.\nKemp continued to club away, finishing with six sixes and 89 off 56 balls, as the hosts won with five balls to spare.\nThey can seal their place in the last four with a win over India on Thursday but that scenario seemed unlikely when openers Brendon McCullum (38) and Lou Vincent (32) set about Shaun Pollock and Andre Nel after New Zealand had been put into bat.\nMcCullum twice crashed Pollock over mid-wicket for maximums, while Nel's watch was broken as he tried to stop one of several violent straight drives from Vincent as 50 came up well inside six overs.\nA double change altered the tempo of the game as McCullum and Ross Taylor edged behind trying to carve Morne Morkel away in his second over, while Vincent was bowled backing away against Johan van der Wath.\nWhen Scott Styris mis-timed a heave off Albie Morkel to long-on, the Kiwis were on the back foot but the shrewd McMillan combined with the powerful Jacob Oram to put on 41 in four overs.\nMcMillan twice carted Albie Morkel over long-on for sixes, while Oram cut for four as 21 came in the over.\nBrother Morne was far more effective and bowled Oram with the first ball after being brought back, while debutant Nathan McCullum was well run out for a four-ball duck by a fine throw to the keeper from van der Wath running in from fine-leg.\nKiwi skipper Daniel Vettori pulled Van der Wath to Albie Morkel at mid-wicket and Shane Bond was caught behind first ball off Morne Morkel, who would have had a deserved five-for had he not over-stepped in yorking Mark Gillespie.\nMcMillan collected his fourth six, a top-edge over the keeper, in a final over yielding 11, but the New Zealand total looked short of challenging.\nMorne Morkel produced some fine bowling to rock the Kiwis\nEspecially so when Herschelle Gibbs announced his return from a hamstring injury by flicking Bond through mid-wicket and square-driving him with aplomb.\nBut skipper Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers did not last long, edging behind after chasing wide deliveries from the new-ball pair and Gibbs skied a pull off Chris Martin to substitute Jeetan Patel to provide another twist.\nOram then had a very strong shout for lbw against Kemp but he survived to take the sting out of the situation with Boucher.\nThey kept the scoreboard ticking along without producing a glut of boundaries, which meant the run rate climbed steadily.\nWith wickets in hand, there was no real cause for panic and the return of the expensive Martin provided them with the opportunity for the big over the home side needed.\nKemp got to his fifty off 42 balls by brutally hammering a Martin full-toss down the ground and driving a straight six, while Boucher squirted out a four on the off-side.\nVettori had no option but to turn to the miserly Gillespie, who struck gold immediately by having Boucher caught behind and the equation came down to 41 off 24 balls.\nThat became a more favourable 22 off 18 when Kemp and Pollock - who was inexplicably dropped by Taylor at deep cover - battered Oram for maximums in an over costing 19.\nKemp was now in the zone and a mighty swipe sent Vettori a long way back over the fence at wide long-on.\nHe appeared to edge Bond behind with seven needed but the noise in the ground meant umpire Billy Doctrove did not hear the nick and a thrash over long-on provided the game and England with an appropriate coup de grace.\n\"In Durban it can be easy to go two or three down but Kempy and Mark marshalled the middle and the innings was finished off superbly.\n\"The young guys have stepped up and shown a lot of bottle and have done well for us - hopefully we can carry on now.\"\n\"It's so short straight so if you get hold of a few and are in pretty good nick you can catch up quickly. Playing Vettori well was the key - he's their best bowler.\n\"If we keep on improving there's no reason why we can't go all the way.\"\n\"We were quite sloppy with our extras and when you come up against a team like South Africa and let yourselves down like that it hurts you.\n\"We have to watch a couple of games and we will be supporting South Africa against India and England against India.\"", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/7001119.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080406220819/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7001119.stm" } ]

[ "España", "Selección de fútbol de España", "Selección de fútbol de Rusia" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "España-Rusia, Mundial 2018: los locales dieron el gran golpe y eliminaron a la Roja por penales", "text": "Copa del Mundo Rusia 2018 | Ronda de 16 Finalizado 1 P3 España 1 P4 Rusia Artem Dzyuba 41 '\nMarcelo Gantman SEGUIR Comentar Me gusta Compartir E-mail Twitter Facebook WhatsApp Obtener link Guardar 1 de julio de 2018 • 16:00\nMOSCU, Rusia.-El gran impacto de la historia del fútbol ruso se acaba de producir. En los penales, después de los enloquecedores 120 minutos que tienen los Mundiales desde los octavos de final. Tras un empate 1 a 1 de un partido que no duerme a los espectadores porque ellos tienen otro plan. Son casi 80 mil rusos que rugen sin parar y celebran las atajadas del arquero Igor Akinfeev con la intensidad que se gritan los goles. Ese es el dato principal: cualquier síntoma de resistencia, cualquier pierna que cruce un disparo, todo cuerpo sólido que se interponga con la pelota, es un aporte a una causa superior. Que España no pueda. Porque si España no puede, Rusia puede tener alguna posibilidad. Llegar al tiempo suplementario fue un primer objetivo cumplido. Plantear la \"Defensa del Luzhniki\" con los 120 minutos consumidos, fue la gloria. Ganarlo en los penales, el recuerdo eterno para el fútbol ruso. Y cómo esto es fútbol, todo tiene una explicación.\nEspaña se atragantó con la pelota. Rozó el 80 por ciento de la posesión. Completó 1006 pases exactos incluido el alargue del partido. Es una enormidad. Un exceso de cómo lo que nace como una premisa de imponer condiciones termina siendo un empacho sin cura. Este Mundial será analizado por expertos y especialistas del deporte. Mirado con lupa cuando se haya terminado. Pero hasta acá, con esta salida de España, con el adiós de la Argentina en la misma instancia, lo que se despide también es la idea de posesión como principio supremo del fútbol. Como el lado absoluto del bien.\nResumen del partido España - Rusia en el Mundial de Rusia 2018 1:20\nVideo\nEspaña y Rusia jugaron un partido en 20 metros de la cancha. Todos los futbolistas, excepto David De Gea (dicho sea de paso, un arquero que juega en su club con la defensa casi adentro de su área) estaban involucrados en ese ir y venir de la pelota sin mayor logro que limpiar el pase al principio para luego dejar a Diego Costa en medio de un mar de piernas para no poder rematar. Eso con suerte: España llegaba al área y volvía a empezar. Toda la tarde así. 120 minutos de un \"loop\" casi sin emociones ni disparos al arco.\nLa paciencia atravesó a las dos selecciones. España para apelar a su memoria emotiva e intentar tejer esa trama que hizo escuela en todo el mundo. Rusia para meter 10 hombres cerca de Akinfeev y apostar por una salida rápida de Dzyuba y Zhirkov si lograban pellizcar la pelota y armar un contraataque. Rusia estaba tan concentrada en su tarea defensiva (el fútbol es de los habilidosos, pero también es las tropas leales) que cuando esa posibilidad estaba delante de sus narices no lograban reconocerla.\nLos penales que definieron el partido de Rusia - España - Fuente: Televisión Pública 6:48\nVideo\nEspaña comenzó el Mundial en el fango y ya no pudo salir. El escándalo de su técnico contaminó su juego y fue una expresión futbolística menor. Los vaticinios sobre su poderío terminaron siendo noticias falsas. El equipo perdió su línea de juego y en ese sacrificio hasta Andrés Iniesta se quedó afuera de los once titulares. Su ingreso le dio una pizca de verticalidad a esa posesión, una pequeña brisa de intento de daño. Más de mil pases en 120 minutos para un ahogo futbolístico que pondrá en crisis su célebre sistema. Será cuestión de horas para que quienes le reclaman rebeldía empiecen a hablar de \"furia española\". Eso es lo que España pierde. Es mucho.\nRusia sigue porque planteó este partido en términos de batalla. Futbolistas entregados al sacrificio, una multitud que saturó durante 120 minutos los sistemas de sonido del estadio y un combate que España jamás entendió. El árbitro holandés Bjonr Kuipers lo entendió siempre y dejó que el despliegue físico de los rusos se pasara un poco de la raya. Apenas un exceso de ímpetu de los jugadores para no arruinar el momento más glorioso del fútbol ruso. En su casa y con su estilo.", "url": "https://www.lanacion.com.ar/2149218-espana-rusia-mundial-2018", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180710023948/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/2149218-espana-rusia-mundial-2018" } ]

[ "Football", "Coupe de l'UEFA", "Sport", "Europe" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Fixtures & Results", "text": "Javi Navarro lifts the UEFA Cup (@Getty Images)\nPalop ensures cup joy for Sevilla\nMatch report\nby Andrew Haslamfrom Hampden Park\ne-mail Print\nAndrés Palop saved three shoot-out penalties as Sevilla FC became the second side to retain the UEFA Cup despite twice losing the lead as they finally defeated ten-man RCD Espanyol 3-1 on spot-kicks after a gripping contest in Glasgow.\nTrophy retained\nThe holders, bidding to emulate Real Madrid CF who lifted this trophy in 1985 and 1986, took an 18th-minute lead through Adriano Correia only for Albert Riera to level ten minutes later. Espanyol, who also lost the 1988 final on penalties, were hit by the second-half dismissal of Moisés Hurtado but still managed to take the game into extra time. Frédéric Kanouté – who also scored in last year's final – restored Sevilla's advantage but again Espanyol fought back through Jônatas's deflected drive and it took the drama of a shoot-out, where Palop saved from Luis García, Jônatas and Marc Torrejón to finally end their hopes.\nExperienced side\nSevilla coach Juande Ramos started with nine of the team who were involved in last year's final victory and initially it seemed that experience would prove crucial as the holders began the brighter. Espanyol then found their feet and started to pose problems of their own, as David García discovered space down the left and sent in a low cross that was cleverly dummied by Luis García for captain Raúl Tamudo to prod in a low shot that Palop gathered comfortably.\nAdriano opener\nMoisés was then allowed to advance towards the Sevilla penalty area and hit a low shot that forced the Sevilla goalkeeper to dive to his right and palm the ball behind. Seconds later a goal arrived - but at the other end as Palop caught the resulting corner and swiftly freed Adriano down the left with a searching throw. The Brazilian skipped past the lunge of David García and cut in towards goal before beating Gorka Iraizoz with a calm finish.\nRiera response\nSuddenly Sevilla were on top and another foray down the same flank almost brought further reward as left-back Ivica Dragutinović's low cross flashed across the face of goal with no one from either side there to meet it. Just as it looked as if the holders were taking control, however, they were pegged back. Riera skipped past Daniel Alves on the corner of the penalty area and, with time and space, produced a shot which took a crucial deflection off the Sevilla right-back and looped beyond Palop's dive.\nPalop in action\nThe second period picked up where the first had left off and both goalkeepers were pressed into service in the opening moments although Palop was the more severely tested, first palming over Tamudo's shot after good work from Iván de la Peña and then denying Riera a spectacular second goal, clawing over the midfielder's thunderous angled volley with the help of the crossbar.\nRed card\nEspanyol then lost Moisés to a red card and Sevilla began to press back their opponents as they sought to exploit their numerical advantage but Espanyol survived to take the game into extra time, where that defensive excellence continued until Sevilla’s slick passing finally yielded tangible reward with the final kick of the first extra period as Kanouté flicked in Jesús Navas's right-wing cross from close range. That looked to have finally ended Espanyol's challenge but somehow Ernesto Valverde’s men roused themselves yet again.\nJônatas equaliser\nWith five minutes left, substitute Jônatas advanced to beat Palop with a strike that deflected off Christian Poulsen to take the final to its dramatic conclusion, where Kanouté, Dragutinović and Antonio Puerta all scored in the shoot-out for the winners. Alves blazed Sevilla's third penalty over the bar but it mattered little as Palop saved three times, Walter Pandiani the only Espanyol player to find the net.\n©uefa.com 1998-2007. All rights reserved.", "url": "http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/fixturesresults/round=2370/match=300100/report=rp.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070518024306/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/fixturesresults/round=2370/match=300100/report=rp.html" } ]

[ "Canada", "North America", "Middle East", "Palestine", "Hamas", "Politics and conflicts", "Palestinian National Authority" ]

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[ "Politics and conflicts", "Iran", "France", "Nuclear power", "Nuclear weapons", "Nuclear proliferation" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "France: World should prepare for possible war with Iran", "text": "By Helena Spongenberg\nFrench foreign minister Bernard Kouchner has said the world should prepare for the worst when it comes to the Iranian nuclear programme, including war.\n\"We have to prepare for the worst…and the worst is war,\" he said in an interview broadcast on national television and radio on Sunday (16 September), according to French daily Le Figaro.\nDear EUobserver reader Subscribe now for unrestricted access to EUobserver. Sign up for 30 days' free trial, no obligation. Full subscription only 15 € / month or 150 € / year. Unlimited access on desktop and mobile All premium articles, analysis, commentary and investigations EUobserver archives EUobserver is the only independent news media covering EU affairs in Brussels and all 28 member states. ♡ We value your support. Register If you already have an account click here to login.", "url": "http://euobserver.com/9/24772/?rk=1", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160411012155/https://euobserver.com/foreign/24772" }, { "language": "en", "title": "France warning of war with Iran", "text": "Mr Kouchner has sounded the alarm over Iran's nuclear programme\n\"We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war,\" Mr Kouchner said in an interview on French TV and radio.\nHe was speaking ahead of a visit to Russia on Monday, during which Iran is likely to feature prominently.\nIran's nuclear programme will also be one of the main issues for the UN nuclear watchdog's annual conference, starting in Vienna on Monday.\nIran denies it is trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and says it only wants nuclear power to generate electricity for civilian purposes.\nBut it has repeatedly rejected UN demands to give up the enrichment of uranium, which the US and other Western states fear is being diverted to a nuclear weapons project.\nTougher approach\nMr Kouchner said negotiations with Iran should continue \"right to the end\", but that an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose \"a real danger for the whole world\".\nHe said a number of large French companies had been asked not to tender for business in Iran.\nThe shift in Paris is part of a broader change of diplomatic gear under a young and dynamic president\nJonathan Marcus\nBBC diplomatic correspondent\nNew France gets tough Profile: Bernard Kouchner\n\"We are not banning French companies from submitting. We have advised them not to. These are private companies.\"\n\"But I think that it has been heard and we are not the only ones to have done this.\"\nMr Kouchner will seek agreement with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over tighter UN sanctions to try to force Iran to give up enrichment, the French foreign ministry says.\nRussia has a UN Security Council veto over any new sanctions, and its support is seen as vital for any new approach. It also has perhaps the greatest leverage over Tehran, as the supplier of fuel for its nuclear reactor.\nBut Mr Kouchner said even in the absence of UN action, the European Union should prepare its own sanctions against Iran.\n\"We have decided while negotiations are continuing, to prepare eventual sanctions outside the ambit of UN sanctions. Our good friends, the Germans, suggested that,\" he said.\n'Playing for time'\nIran has warned that any new punishments could push it to stop co-operating with the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\nThe IAEA's members meet this week in Austria, with Iran likely to top the agenda.\nThe director of the organisation, Mohamed ElBaradei, has been criticised in the West over a new deal with Iran to clear up questions about its past nuclear activities.\nIran says its nuclear programme is peaceful\nThe US and its allies believe the deal just gives Iran more time, during which they fear it will advance its nuclear programme.\nSince becoming foreign minister earlier this year, Mr Kouchner has not shied away from controversy.\nLast month he was quoted as saying the Iraqi government was \"not functioning\" and seemed to hint that Prime Minister Nouri Maliki should resign, provoking an angry reaction from Baghdad.\nThe BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus says France has changed its approach to world affairs under its new President Nicolas Sarkozy, adopting a harder line on several issues, and seeking to improve relations with the United States.\nBut it is the tougher rhetoric aimed at Tehran which will please Washington the most, he says.\nUntil now the UN Security Council has imposed economic sanctions on Iran, but did not allow for military action.\nThe United States has not ruled out a military attack against Iran to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6997935.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071010121057/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6997935.stm" } ]

[ "Themenportal Wirtschaft", "Themenportal Norwegen", "Wirtschaft in Norwegen", "Hotellerie und Restauration", "Nichtraucherschutz", "Konkurs" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Aftenposten Norway, Norwegian news in English", "text": "The grim forecasts of widespread bankruptcies in the pub, bar and restaurant sector after Norway's introduction of a total ban on smoking in workplaces proved mistaken, at least so far.\nThe smoking ban was in place for seven months in 2004 and the number of bankruptcies in the risky industry declined.\nIn 2003, 386 businesses in the sector went bust. In 2004 this declined slightly to 372, with 338 restaurants and 34 bars closing their doors.\nThe indoor smoking ban was set to be the toughest in the world, but Dagfinn Høybråten, then Health Minister, decided not to start the measure by sending smokers out into the wintry cold, and delayed the ban until June 1, 2004, allowing Ireland to enforce a similar law two months earlier.\nOslo had fewer restaurants go bankrupt in 2004 while the casualty count for pubs and bars remained the same. Møre og Romsdal, Buskerud and Rogaland counties saw a rise in closures in the sector.", "url": "http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article959680.ece", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050206172321/http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article959680.ece" } ]

[ "Europe", "France", "Languedoc-Roussillon", "Roussillon", "Perpignan", "Crimes et délits", "Trafic de drogue" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "600 kilos de cannabis interceptés par le GIGN dans le go-fast de l’A9 à Perpignan Sud", "text": "L’opération était lourde, mais elle a porté ses fruits : il y avait plus de 600 kg de résine de cannabis dans la puissante Mercedes interceptée lundi vers 20 h 15 par le GIGN sur l’autoroute A9, à la hauteur de Perpignan Sud.\nUn véhicule que l’unité de choc attendait depuis trois semaines à la frontière franco-espagnole, dans le cadre de cette enquête menée depuis un an par les gendarmes d’Amiens, sous la houlette d’un juge de la Jirs de Bordeaux, spécialisé dans la criminalité organisée.\nLeurs cibles : une équipe de malfaiteurs chevronnés d’une cité de banlieue parisienne, menant un trafic de grande ampleur, avec des moyens matériels important. Une autre Mercedes qui ouvrait la voie à celle des passeurs a été bloquée à hauteur de Carcassonne par le GIGN.\n5 suspects en garde à vue\nDepuis, les cinq suspects sont interrogés à Perpignan, pour une garde à vue qui pourrait durer 96 h, avant un éventuel déférement vers le juge d’instruction bordelais.\nEn revanche, les circonstances du déroulement de cette arrestation, qui a provoqué une coupure de l’A9 pendant deux heures restent assez floues. \"Le GIGN préfère interpeller sur l’autoroute plutôt qu’au péage, où il y a plus de véhicules civils\", indique une source bien informée.\nLeur technique ? Provoquer un faux bouchon, en créant parfois une fausse zone de travaux, pour ralentir, isoler et bloquer leur cible, \"pour l’empêcher de faire demi-tour et éviter de faire courir des risques aux usagers\".\nUn automobiliste blessé\nL’interception de la Mercedes, qui ne se serait pas faite sans casse, a visiblement terrorisé lundi soir un automobiliste témoin de la scène, qui a laissé là sa voiture et pris ses jambes à son cou. Il a été blessé dans l’interpellation qui a suivi, les gendarmes ayant cru qu’il était lié aux trafiquants.\nSur les autoroutes de notre région, comme dans les cités sensibles, la lutte contre le trafic de drogue reste une activité à haut risque.", "url": "http://www.midilibre.fr/2012/11/28/600-kilos-de-cannabis-dans-le-go-fast-de-l-a9,602062.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210319184108/https://www.midilibre.fr/2012/11/28/600-kilos-de-cannabis-dans-le-go-fast-de-l-a9,602062.php" } ]

[ "World", "Asia", "China", "United States", "Economy and business", "Energy", "OPEC", "2008 financial crisis" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Opec brings forward crunch meeting", "text": "Opec on Thursday brought forward to next week an emergency meeting to consider a cut in production after oil prices dropped to less than $70 a barrel for the first time in more than a year on worries about a global recession.\nThe move coincided with fresh calls from those countries within the oil producing cartel that are heavily dependent on oil revenues for their budgets – most notably Iran, the organisation’s perennial hawk – to cut output. Ecuador and Qatar also supported slashing production.", "url": "http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9bfdbe08-9b8e-11dd-ae76-000077b07658.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081016234659/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9bfdbe08-9b8e-11dd-ae76-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F9bfdbe08-9b8e-11dd-ae76-000077b07658.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Ffada19fe-9bba-11dd-ae76-000077b07658.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Oil drops 6 percent on demand and rising U.S. inventories", "text": "By Rebekah Kebede\nNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil fell more than 6 percent to below $70 a barrel on Thursday, touching a 15-month low on rising U.S. inventories and concerns a possible recession would slow demand further.\nThe Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 slipped in a choppy session on Thursday as major U.S. banks reported huge losses and other companies painted a grim outlook for the battered U.S. economy.\nU.S. crude settled at $69.85, down $4.69, after sliding to as low as $68.57, the lowest level since June 27, 2007.\nIn London, front month November Brent crude, which expires on Thursday, settled at $66.32, down $4.48.\n\"It's still a demand story, we're moving lower following the report,\" said Amanda Kurzendoerfer, commodities analyst at Summit Energy in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\"We saw some very large builds in gasoline and crude oil for the second week in a row. This confirms the fact that demand is truly weakening in the United States,\" she added.\nCrude oil inventories in the United States rose 5.6 million barrels last week, far exceeding analysts' expectation of a 1.9-million-barrel increase, as demand in the world's top consumer continued to fall, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported.\nGasoline inventories rose 7.0 million barrels, more than double analysts' forecast of a 2.9-million-barrel increase, as overall product demand over the past four weeks dropped 8.9 percent from year ago levels. Continued...", "url": "http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE49B3Y620081016", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081018201935/http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE49B3Y620081016" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Big Asia oil consumers resist fuel price cuts at $80", "text": "SINGAPORE Asia's fastest-growing oil importers are resisting for now the political lure of cutting domestic fuel prices after crude costs nearly halved since July, helping keep a tight lid on consumption already being curbed by an economic slowdown.\nWhile their resolve may erode if prices -- now hovering at near their lowest in 13 months -- fall much much further below $80 a barrel, China, India and Indonesia seem content to stand pat for now, with earlier inflationary pressures having ebbed and state refiners in the black for the first time in years.\nFor analysts looking to China and India to generate four-fifths of the world's demand growth next year, the prospect that fuel prices will remain relatively higher may be one more reason to bet against a renewed surge toward $150.\n\"Right now around $80 we seem to be at a sweet spot that many can live with,\" said Jeff Brown, managing director for consultancy FACTS Global Energy.\n\"China won't necessarily reduce prices outright but they might go back to a market link,\" he added, referring to the country's long-stated desire to once again allow prices to match global rates rather than setting them centrally.\nFor the first time in years, many Chinese drivers are now paying more for their gasoline than those in the United States, where average retail pump rates plunged by a record nearly 10 percent over the last week to $3.15 a gallon.\nWhile the suggestion of a cut has been floated in local media recently, officials have good reason to resist.\nState-owned refiners in China and India are finally turning a profit, or nearly so, after years of living off fickle government hand-outs to offset the cost of selling cheap fuel.\nIn India, with the depreciation of the rupee, the break-even crude oil price for refiners is $61 a barrel based on import costs, about $10 below current costs, and refiners like Indian Oil Corp, hobbled with a debt burden that has doubled to $20 billion since April, would fiercely resist any price curbs.\nIndonesia will not cut prices so long as the average for this year remains above its budgeted $95 a barrel, a mines and energy ministry official said. The rate so far is still $108.\nOnly last week China showed its resolve in trying to curb demand growth in order to ease its growing dependence on imports, when Beijing unexpectedly raised city fuel prices in order to pay for the cost of cleaner, greener grades. That followed a shock 18 percent pre-Olympics rise in June.\nPRESSURE STILL ON\nA few in Asia have already caved.\nMalaysia, a small consumer that produces all of its own fuel, cut prices on Tuesday for the third time since it hiked them dramatically in June; Vietnam, the region's second-biggest importer, has also cut prices and is rumored to do so again.\nAnd to be sure, officials could find reasons to justify a cut, if they were looking.\nChina has cut interest rates for the first time in 6 years, showing that its focus has clearly shifted from fighting inflation to stoking growth, and cheaper fuel could help that.\nIn both India and Indonesia, elections loom next year, and inflation still remains something of a bug-bear.\nAnd while China has been reasonably resolute in raising prices steadily, if slowly, since 2004, when prices were half current levels, it has taken advantage of previous pull-backs.\nBeijing trimmed gasoline prices by nearly 4 percent in January of 2007, after crude collapsed briefly back below $50. That relief proved fleeting, but Beijing didn't raise prices again until November.\n\"They never do anything in a hurry. The degree of volatility makes any kind of planning very difficult, whether you're an economist or a politician,\" said Simon Littlewood, president of consultancy Asia Now in Singapore.\nLESSONS LEARNED\nStill, after years of subsidized price regimes, there are signs that governments have learned their lessons.\nAs economists have long argued, and China and India have experienced in recent years, the distortions caused by subsidies creates long-term problems with investment and increased demand, and does far more to help the wealthy than to aid the poor.\nBacksliding on promises to gradually scale back subsidies could also stymie the shift toward fuel conservation that has picked up in recent months, a trend highlighted by the abrupt contraction in new car sales in both China and India.\nJust as artificially cheap fuel helped turbo-charge demand in expanding China and India, the rise in prices as governments scaled back multibillion-dollar subsidies has helped tame it.\n\"There is a risk that domestic prices have been elevated to a point that consumers are gradually becoming more price sensitive,\" said independent U.S.-based analyst Paul Ting.\nEven if prices were cut, economic history suggest that consumption rates would be slow to pick up speed. While oil demand and income growth are symmetrical -- they typically move in lock-step with each other -- the same is not true of prices.\n\"When prices go up, consumers adjust their habits,\" said Brown. \"When prices come down they don't go out and buy new, less-efficient cars.\"\n(Additional reporting by Muklis Ali in Jakarta, Nidhi Verma in New Delhi and Chua Baizhen in Singapore; Editing by Michael Urquhart)", "url": "http://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE49E3G220081016?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=10174&sp=true", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160322232515/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia-fuel-prices-sb-idUKTRE49E3G220081016?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=10174&sp=true" } ]

[ "Europa" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Norsk Hydro Starts Work on Gas Pipeline", "text": "Associated Press\nNorsk Hydro Starts Work on Gas Pipeline\nConstruction began Friday on what Norsk Hydro ASA said was the world's longest underwater pipeline, being built to bring Norwegian natural gas to Britain.\nThe Oslo-based petroleum and light metals group said the 1,200-kilometer (745-mile) pipeline, built with more than 1 million tons of steel, will supply 20 percent of Britain's gas supply for several decades starting in 2007.\nA company news release said the pipeline will connect a gas processing plant at Nyhamna, on Norway's west coast, via the Sleipner offshore platform in the North Sea to Easington in Great Britain.\nThe pipeline will transport gas from the Ormen Lange field, due for completion in the Norwegian Sea off Norway in 2007, the company said.\nOne of the world's largest pipe-laying barges began work at the Sleipner field, headed toward Britain, on Friday. A second giant barge will start work on linking the platform to the Norwegian mainland in June.\nNorsk Hydro, with about 36,000 employees, is one of Norway's largest companies and has operations in more than 40 countries.\nSubscriptions >", "url": "http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/04/22/ap1968956.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050424021736/http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/04/22/ap1968956.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "AK&M;", "text": "The semi-submersible barge LB200 started the pipelay of the longest subsea pipeline in the world stretching 1,200 kilometres between Nyhamna in Mid-Norway to Easington in Great Britain. From 2007, Ormen Lange can supply up to one fifth of the UK's gas requirements for decades to come.\nMore than a million tonnes of steel will be used, and the production of pipes will lay claim to a third of the world's total production capacity for this type of pipeline.\n100,000 pipes in all will be painted inside and covered with asphalt and concrete before installation in the North Sea. This will require over a million tonnes of concrete and 25,000 tonnes of steel reinforcements.\nTwo of the world's largest pipeline-laying vessels, Stolt Offshore's LB200 and Solitaire from Allseas, will lay the 1,200 kilometre long pipeline, Langeled, between Aukra and Easington, in addition to the pipelines from the field to the onshore processing plant.\nLB200 has started the pipelay from the Sleipner platform in the North Sea and is heading south towards Easington. Solitaire will start laying the first 33 kilometres of Langeled and the production lines from Nyhamna in the beginning of June. The main part of the northern leg of Langeled will be installed next year.\nHydro has designed the Langeled pipeline to carry more than 70 million cubic metres per day - meaning the Easington terminal could be providing more than 20 percent of UK gas needs for decades to come.\nHydro is a leading offshore producer of oil and gas, based on a strong position in the development of the Norwegian petroleum industry during the past 40 years. Company's world-class project execution skills and expertise in deep waters and rough seas help to realize maximum results from the operations in the North Sea and around the world. Hydro is also at the forefront of wind and hydrogen energy production.\nHydro is the third-largest integrated aluminium supplier in the world, with a presence on every continent. Company's commercial instinct drives to ensure value creation through innovative and efficient solutions based on aluminium. Hydro's customers include automotive, packaging and building industries. Company creates products that make cars lighter and safer and buildings more efficient homes and work places.\n\"AK&M;\", 22/04/2005 18:51", "url": "http://www.akm.ru/eng/news/2005/april/22/ns1445784.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050424054519/http://www.akm.ru/eng/news/2005/april/22/ns1445784.htm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Aftenposten Norway, Norwegian news in English", "text": "Norwegian energy and aluminum group Norsk Hydro began on Friday to lay the world's longest - 1,200-kilometer (745 miles) - subsea gas pipeline, from western Norway to Britain.\nThe pipeline, called Langeled, will flow gas across the North Sea from the huge Ormen Lange field off western Norway to Easington on the east coast of England. Hydro said more than a million tons of steel will be used.\n\"From 2007, Ormen Lange can supply up to one fifth of the UK's gas requirements for decades to come,\" Hydro said in a statement. The Langeled pipeline is designed to carry more than 70 million cubic meters per day.\nOrmen Lange and the Langeled pipeline are Norway's biggest current offshore development, with total investments estimated at NOK 66 billion (USD 10.56 billion).\n\"The combination of great sea depths, highly irregular seabed terrain, strong underwater currents, sub-zero temperatures and challenging wind and wave conditions, have imposed considerable challenges on all parties involved in the project,\" Hydro said.\nThe southern leg of the pipeline from Sleipner to Easington is scheduled to be completed by autumn 2006. The northern leg, from Sleipner to Aukra on Norway's west coast and from there to the gas field, is due to be finished by autumn 2007.", "url": "http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article1024211.ece", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050422180633/http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article1024211.ece" } ]

[ "Política", "Sociedad", "Premio Nobel", "Norteamérica", "Estados Unidos", "Premio Nobel", "Barack Obama", "Piedad Córdoba", "Europa", "Noruega", "Oslo" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Recompensa a una nueva visión del mundo", "text": "Pasado un primer momento de sorpresa, la concesión del Premio Nobel de la Paz a Barack Obama tiene mucha lógica. El Instituto Nobel de Noruega premia así una visión del mundo -y del papel de Estados Unidos en el mundo- y no una obra. Obama no lleva ni un año en la Casa Blanca, por lo que aún no cabe juzgarle por sus resultados, pero en ese período ya ha cambiado radicalmente la música y la letra de la política internacional norteamericana. Y en un sentido que no puede ser más grato para los oídos de los escandinavos, los europeos y, en general, la mayoría de los habitantes del planeta.\nObama es todo lo contrario de George W. Bush, el titular de la Casa Blanca más impopular de todos los tiempos fuera de las fronteras de Estados Unidos (y puede que incluso que dentro de ellas). Allí donde Bush soñaba con un siglo XXI dominado unipolarmente por la potencia imperial estadounidense, Obama ve un mundo multipolar en el que Washington ejerce, sin duda, una gran influencia, pero en gran medida a través de su colaboración con otras potencias democráticas y en el seno de Naciones Unidas. Allí donde Bush tenía como instrumento preferente la guerra preventiva, Obama opta por el diálogo y la negociación. Allí donde Bush se reía de la ayuda al desarrollo de los países y continentes más pobres, Obama piensa que el progreso de esas gentes también es clave para garantizar la libertad, la seguridad y la riqueza de los norteamericanos. Allí donde Bush prefería seguir haciendo negocios con el petróleo, Obama asume que la lucha contra el cambio climático y la promoción de las energías renovables es imprescindible para la supervivencia de la especie humana.\nEn tres trimestres Obama ha reconciliado a Estados Unidos con Europa, Rusia y China; ha dirigido un mensaje extraordinario -el de El Cairo- al mundo árabe y musulmán; ha tenido el valor de decirles a los israelíes que sin el nacimiento de un Estado palestino digno de ese nombre difícilmente tendrán garantizada la paz; ha renunciado al provocador escudo antimisiles de su predecesor y ha dado los pasos que podía para desmantelar Guantánamo y retirarse de Irak, y asimismo ha proclamado que su objetivo es liberar al mundo de la ominosa sombra de las armas nucleares.\nEn relación a América Latina, Obama también ha dicho algo absolutamente nuevo: Washington ya no considera esa zona como su bananero patio trasero, desea relaciones fraternales con sus pueblos y, para disgusto de los golpistas de Honduras, no consiente que se deponga por la fuerza a presidentes elegidos democráticamente.\nObama incluso ha tendido su mano a regímenes como Cuba e Irán, dándoles la oportunidad de que evolucionen pacíficamente hacia una situación de normalidad democrática y pertenencia constructiva en la comunidad internacional. El que esos regímenes no hayan acabado de comprender la oportunidad que se les ofrece sólo prueba de que, amén de despóticos, son estúpidos.\nEn cuanto a Afganistán, el planteamiento intelectual de Obama es correcto: Bush cometió un error monumental al relegar ese país a un segundo plano y concentrar las energías de EE UU -y con ellas las de buena parte de la comunidad internacional- en la ilegal, absurda, contraproducente guerra de Irak. En Afganistán es donde estaban -y siguen estando- las fuerzas coaligadas de los talibanes y Al Qaeda que agredieron a Estados Unidos el 11-S (y luego prosiguieron sembrando de sangre el mundo con los atentados de Bali, Casablanca, Madrid, Londres, Egipto, Estambul...). El problema es que los ocho años transcurridos desde la primera intervención militar en Afganistán han permitido a esas fuerzas reorganizarse y reconquistar posiciones. Y puede que el reajuste de Obama llegue tarde porque las opiniones públicas -en EE UU y en Europa, incluida España- ya no quieren soportar más bajas en ese país.\nEn cualquier caso, Bush fue el lado oscuro de Estados Unidos para cientos de millones de habitantes del planeta y Obama representa el lado luminoso. Y eso es lo que ha querido premiar -y muy pronto, a fin de reforzarle- el Instituto Nobel de Noruega.", "url": "http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Recompensa/nueva/vision/mundo/elpepuint/20091009elpepuint_9/Tes", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150531041714/http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2009/10/09/actualidad/1255039209_850215.html" }, { "language": "es", "title": "El Comité reconoció \"los esfuerzos para fortalecer la diplomacia\" al otorgar el premio a Obama", "text": "El Comité reconoció \"los esfuerzos para fortalecer la diplomacia\" al otorgar el premio a Obama\nEl Nobel de la Paz fue para el presidente norteamericano, también destacó su \"visión de un mundo sin armas nucleares\"; brindará una conferencia de prensa\nNoticias de Exterior : anterior | siguiente 06:10 (actualizado hace 3 días) Viernes 9 de octubre de 2009 |\nOSLO.- El presidente estadounidense Barack Obama fue galardonado con el premio Nobel de la Paz \"por sus esfuerzos extraordinarios para fortalecer la diplomacia internacional y la cooperación entre los pueblos\", señaló el Instituto en Oslo, que además reconoció especialmente su visión de un mundo sin armas nucleares.\nA raíz de ello, el mandatario norteamericano anunció que se referirá al premio en un discurso a las 11.30 (hora de la Argentina).\nEl presidente de Estados Unidos ha creado un \"clima nuevo para la política internacional. Gracias a sus esfuerzos, la diplomacia multilateral ha recuperado su posición central y ha devuelto a las Naciones Unidas y otras instituciones internacionales su papel protagonista\", destacaron las autoridades de la elección.\n\"La visión de un mundo sin armas nucleares ha estimulado el desarme y las negociaciones para el control de armamento. Gracias a la iniciativa de Obama, Estados Unidos está desempeñando un papel más constructivo para hacer frente a los retos del cambio climático que afronta el mundo\", agregó el Instituto.\n\"La democracia y los derechos humanos deben ser reforzados. En muy raras ocasiones puede una persona atraer la atención del mundo y dar a su pueblo la esperanza de un futuro mejor al nivel en que lo ha hecho Obama\", sostuvo el responsable del comité Nobel noruego, Thorbjoern Jagland.\n\"Su diplomacia está fundada en la idea de que aquellos que lideran el mundo deben hacerlo sobre la base de valores y actitudes compartidos por la mayoría de la población mundial\", añadió.\n\"Durante 108 años, el Comité Nobel noruego ha intentado estimular precisamente la política internacional y las actitudes de las que ahora Obama es el principal portavoz. El comité apoya el llamado de Obama de que ahora es el momento de que todos asumamos nuestra parte de responsabilidad para dar una respuesta global a los retos globales\", concluyó.\nObama sigue en la lista del Nobel de la Paz al ex presidente finlandés Martti Ahtisaari, galardonado en 2008 por su labor como mediador internacional.\nSe trata de la primera vez que recibe el Nobel de la Paz un presidente de Estados Unidos durante su mandato, después de que en 2002 le fuera otorgado al ya ex presidente Jimmy Carter por su labor mediadora. En 2007, su compatriota, ex candidato a la Casa Blanca y ex vicepresidente Al Gore, asimismo demócrata, lo recibió por su labor en la lucha contra el cambio climático.\nEl Nobel de la Paz de este año alcanzó un récord de 205 candidaturas, de los cuales 33 correspondían a organizaciones.\nEl mandatario se impuso entre una cantidad récord de 205 candidatos, entre los que se destacaban como favoritos la senadora opositora colombiana Piedad Córdoba, el ex presidente norteamericano Bill Clinton y activistas chinos y rusos.\nOtros contendientes por el premio de 1,4 millones de dólares incluían al príncipe jordano Ghazi ben Muhammad, impulsor del diálogo entre religiones en Medio Oriente, y a la ex relatora de la ONU para Sudán y presidenta de la Comisión Independiente de Derechos Humanos de Afganistán (Aihrc), Sima Samar. También figuraban el médico congoleño Denis Mukwege; el activista chino a favor de los derechos humanos Hu Jia; la Coalición contra las Bombas de Racimo y el primer ministro zimbabuense Morgan Tsvangirai.\nLos rostros de los últimos 45 Nobel de la Paz\n1 de 51 - 1964: Martin Luther King - Foto: Archivo\nAgencias EFE, AFP, AP y DPA\nTags: Nobel de la Paz, Barack Obama , presidente , galardón, cooperación, Oslo", "url": "http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1184388&pid=7492736&toi=6258", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20091012075417/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1184388&pid=7492736&toi=6258" } ]

[ "2008 financial crisis", "Economy and business", "Europe", "Iceland", "United Kingdom", "Iain Macdonald (Wikinewsie)", "Reykjavik" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "U.K. Officials Travel to Iceland Over Bank Dispute (Update2)", "text": "U.K. Officials Travel to Iceland Over Bank Dispute (Update2) Share Business Exchange Twitter Facebook | Email | Print | A A A By Kitty Donaldson\nOct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. government is sending a delegation to Reykjavik today in an attempt to end the rift over who will compensate British depositors with money in Iceland's collapsed banks.\nOfficials and lawyers from the Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority will work with the Icelandic government over the weekend ``to find a solution to the current situation,'' a Treasury spokesman said in an e- mailed statement.\nThe pound dropped against the dollar to the lowest level in almost five years on concern the dispute may escalate after Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday threatened to freeze the assets of Icelandic companies in Britain, which employ 100,000 people.\nThe spat over money trapped in accounts of Kaupthing Bank hf and Landsbanki Islands hf has plunged relations between the two countries to the lowest since a 1970s dispute over North Atlantic fishing rights, known as the Cod Wars.\nBrown and his Icelandic counterpart Geir Haarde yesterday traded recriminations, with Brown accusing Iceland of failing to honor its guarantee to compensate savers up to 20,887 euros ($28,400), leaving Britain to pick up the tab.\n`Unacceptable'\nHaarde, after speaking with U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, said Britain triggered the crisis by using anti-terrorism laws to seize the assets of Icelandic banks.\n``The prime minister made clear the behavior of the Icelandic authorities had been unacceptable, and we had found it very difficult to get information from them,'' Brown's spokesman, Michael Ellam, told reporters in London today.\n``They had indicated they would give preferential treatment to domestic creditors over foreign creditors,'' Ellam said. ``We have always made it clear we want to work constructively with the Icelandic authorities.''\nU.K. taxpayers will probably face a bill of at least 2.4 billion pounds to compensate about 300,000 British holders of accounts at Icesave, the online banking unit of Landsbanki, the Financial Times reported yesterday, citing unidentified British officials.\nDarling has guaranteed that individual savers will not lose money, though corporate and government accounts may not be covered. Charities too face the potential loss of tens of millions of pounds.\nLocal Authorities\nThe compensation pledge has not been extended to more than 108 local councils with investments in Icelandic banks of at least 799 million pounds.\nLondon's municipal authorities alone had more than 212 million pounds invested in Iceland. That included 40 million pounds invested by Transport for London, which provides bus and underground services for the U.K. capital, it said. The money was invested in an Icelandic subsidiary of Singer and Friedlander Group Plc, a unit of Kaupthing Bank hf.\nIcelandic banks are unable to finance about $61 billion of debt, 12 times the size of the economy, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The government in Reykjavik is seeking a loan from Russia and may ask for aid from the International Monetary Fund to help guarantee deposits.\nAssets at Iceland's three biggest banks had grown fivefold since 2004 as the companies expanded beyond the island nation of 320,000, half that of the city of Las Vegas. Much of that expansion was debt financed.\nRelations between the U.K. and Iceland were last as bad more than three decades ago when Icelandic coastguards cut the nets of British trawlers fishing in Iceland's self-proclaimed exclusive economic zone.\nAfter an incident in 1976 when a nuclear-armed U.K. ship rammed an Icelandic vessel that had been net-cutting, a compromise was reached that allowed a limited number of British fishing ships into the disputed zone.\nTo contact the reporter on this story: Robert Hutton in London at rhutton1@bloomberg.net", "url": "http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aAmGvUyklnMQ&refer=europe", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100131062536/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aAmGvUyklnMQ&refer=europe" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Cold War With Iceland Sinks British Pound", "text": "Market Scan\nCold War With Iceland Sinks British Pound\nThe mudslinging between Britain and Iceland over the stranded clients of Icesave--the British subsidiary of failed bank Landsbanki--left the British currency crippled Friday afternoon, as worries persisted over Britain's exposure to Iceland's economic turmoil.The pound sterling slid to $1.701 against the dollar, down from $1.710, and also tumbled to 168.435 yen, from 170.335, during afternoon trading on Friday. Although the euro also suffered a sell-off against the dollar and the yen, it did not fall as far.\"It's clear that Iceland poses an idiosyncratic risk to the British economy and banking system,\" said Ned Rumpeltin, a currency strategist at Morgan Stanley. \"That is being meted out on sterling.\"Although the Icelandic government took over Landsbanki earlier this week, it would only take on the domestic liabilities of the bank rather than those abroad as well. This left Icesave, which should have benefited from a 20,000-euro ($27,113.81) guarantee from the Icelandic government, without a safety net. It also resulted in a war of words between Britain and Iceland, with the British government freezing Icelandic assets under legislation initially intended to fight terrorism.To make matters worse, Iceland's financial hurricane seems to also be sucking in 108 of Britain's local administrative councils, which deposited a total of 799.0 million pounds ($1.4 billion) in Icelandic banks. As they are not classified as retail clients, getting their money back will be far more difficult. (See \"Iceland Chill Hits British Councils.\" Although it would be easy to blame Iceland for a lack of confidence in the British pound, after the small island's banks recklessly and relentlessly pursued growth abroad, there are plenty of parallels to be drawn with the British economy.\"Iceland has suffered from excessive leverage, and the U.K. financial sector is suffering from the same thing,\" said Colin Asher, an economist at Nomura International. \"Finance makes up a much larger proportion of GDP in Britain than in many other countries, and it is--like the U.S.--going through a massive wave of de-leveraging.\"Asher told Forbes.com that the U.S. dollar and in particular the Japanese yen were benefiting from the current environment, as risk aversion and repatriation of capital hurt the pound sterling and the euro.", "url": "http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/10/10/iceland-britain-landsbanki-markets-currency-cx_ll_1010markets11.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081013082740/http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/10/10/iceland-britain-landsbanki-markets-currency-cx_ll_1010markets11.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "U.K. Used Anti-Terrorism Law to Seize Icelandic Bank Assets", "text": "Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling used anti-terrorism rules to take control of assets held in Britain by a troubled Icelandic bank.\nDarling stepped in to protect deposits made by U.K. residents in Reykjavik-based Landsbanki Islands hf, which the government of Iceland seized yesterday. About 300,000 U.K. account holders held deposits at Landsbanki's Internet bank, Icesave.\n``To protect U.K. economic interests the government has frozen the funds and financial assets held by Landbanksi,'' Stephen Timms, financial secretary to the Treasury, said in Parliament in London today.\nIcesave yesterday blocked customers from accessing deposits at its online bank. The U.K. Treasury said it will guarantee all customer deposits at Icesave, even those above the Britain's 50,000-pound ($87,800) deposit protection plan.\nThe Treasury released a document to Parliament yesterday showing it used sections of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 to take control of the bank's assets, saying in the statement the bank's collapse may harm the U.K. economy.\n``The reason we took this action which was extraordinary action was in order to protect the interest and to try to ensure there was money there for creditors and depositors in the U.K,'' Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman, Michael Ellam, told reporters in London today. ``In the view of the chancellor there was clearly a potential systemic risk, and that is why the action was taken yesterday in relation to depositors.''\nLawmakers in Parliament's upper House of Lords today debated the new Counter Terrorism Bill. Some lawmakers have said the rules would curb the civil liberties by extending the time police can detain terrorism suspects without charging them for up to 42 days. The Lords vote on the plan on Oct. 13.\nTo contact the reporters on this story: Kitty Donaldson in London at kdonaldson1@bloomberg.netGonzalo Vina in London at gvina@bloomberg.net\nTo contact the editor responsible for this story: James Hertling in Paris at jhertling@bloomberg.net", "url": "http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aXjIA5NzyM5c", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120412031300/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXjIA5NzyM5c" } ]

[ "Europa", "Escocia", "Irlanda del Norte", "Fútbol" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Brendan Rodgers: Celtic manager signs new four-year deal", "text": "Media playback is not supported on this device Brendan Rodgers signs new Celtic contract\nCeltic manager Brendan Rodgers has signed a new four-year deal with the Scottish Premiership champions.\nRodgers, 44, has guided Celtic to the league title and the League Cup in his debut season since succeeding Ronny Deila.\nThe former Liverpool, Swansea City, Reading and Watford boss had signed a 12-month rolling contract last May.\n\"It just felt right,\" said Rodgers. \"I couldn't be happier. I'm in the best place I could possibly be.\"\n'It's the beginning of the journey'\nThe Northern Irishman, whose deal will run until 2021, is chasing a potential domestic treble with Celtic facing Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi-final later this month.\nCeltic's official account tweeted Brendan Rodgers' reaction after signing his new deal\nRodgers thanked the club's board for their commitment since appointing him in the summer.\n\"Professionally and personally I'm in a good place,\" he added. \"A few years ago I might have been in a rush. But I have learnt to cherish what you have.\n\"It's the beginning of the journey, but there's a lot more to achieve.\"\nCeltic chief executive Peter Lawwell described Rodgers as \"one of the best coaches in Europe\".\nBrendan Rodgers: \"There's a lot more to achieve...\"\nLawwell added: \"Brendan has made a huge impact at Celtic already.\n\"He's an outstanding manager and we believe he is one of the best coaches in Europe, if not world football. We're delighted that he has committed his future to Celtic.\"\nCeltic are unbeaten domestically this season, having dropped points in the league against Rangers, Partick Thistle and Inverness CT.\nRodgers left Anfield after more than three years in charge.\nAnalysis from BBC Sport's Chris McLaughlin\nThe appointment of Brendan Rodgers last year was viewed as something of a footballing coup for Celtic. A big name with a big reputation.\nAfter almost 12 months in charge, the title and League Cup have been secured, Celtic remain favourites for the Scottish Cup and with just seven game to go, they could finish the season unbeaten. It's safe to say he has lived up to his billing.\nWith each passing success though, there have been questions about how long he'll hang around in the Scottish game. This contract extension doesn't necessarily mean he will stay in Glasgow until 2021 but it's evidence of real ambition from the club and an indication from the manager that when he said recently he's never been happier, he meant it.", "url": "http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39526811", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170408074134/http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39526811" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Celtic delighted as Brendan Rodgers signs new 4-year contract", "text": "CELTIC Football Club are delighted to announce that manager Brendan Rodgers has signed a new four-year contract with the club which will run until June 2021.\nCeltic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell said: \"Brendan has made a huge impact at Celtic already. He's an outstanding manager and we believe he is one of the best coaches in Europe, if not world football, and we're delighted that he has committed his future to Celtic.\"\nBrendan Rodgers has already led the team to the Premiership title and League Cup success this season, remaining unbeaten after 38 domestic games, with a Scottish Cup semi-final to come later this month, while also guiding the team into the group stages of the UEFA Champions League.\nWatch Brendan Rodgers' press conference from the Number 7 Restaurant at Celtic Park LIVE on Celtic's official Facebook page HERE", "url": "http://www.celticfc.net/news/12368", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170410235303/http://www.celticfc.net/news/12368" } ]

[ "Australia", "Politics and conflicts", "Oceania", "Kevin Rudd", "Peter Garrett", "Penny Wong" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Australia's New PM Signs Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change", "text": "Kevin Rudd has been sworn in as Australia's new Prime Minister with an agenda of action on climate change and the repeal of unpopular industrial laws. The new government has signed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and also plans to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq by the middle of 2008. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.\nKevin Rudd, left, and his deputy Julia Gillard, right, stand with Governor General Michael Jeffery after swearing in ceremony, 03 Dec 2007\nKevin Rudd's hand trembled slightly but his voice was strong as he was sworn in as Australia's 26th Prime Minister after sweeping to power in elections last month.\nHis first act as leader was to sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which had been a key election pledge.\nThe agreement means Australia's greenhouse gas emissions should not be higher than 8 percent above 1990 levels.\nEnvironmental groups believe the Australian economy could easily manage even more ambitious targets.\nJohn Connor, chief executive of the Climate Institute, says Australia could cut its emissions by 20 percent by 2020.\n\"What this concludes is that we can actually have a strong leadership position with barely a ripple on economic growth. We'd still see a tripling of the economy through to 2050 and strong employment and quality of life growth,\" Connor said.\nMr. Rudd's decision to sign the Kyoto climate accord isolates the United States, which will now be the only developed nation not to ratify the agreement.\nAustralia's former conservative government refused to ratify Kyoto, saying it would damage the economy with its heavy reliance on coal exports, while countries like India and China were not bound by emissions targets.\nMr. Rudd's cabinet creates a new portfolio of Minister for Climate Change and Water, held by Penny Wong, an ethnic Chinese immigrant from Malaysia. She is one of seven women in cabinet, including deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard.\nFormer rock singer Peter Garrett was sworn in as Environment Minister. Responsibility for running a strong Australian economy now falls to Treasurer Wayne Swann, one of Prime Minister Rudd's most trusted lieutenants.\nThe recently appointed foreign minister Stephen Smith, a lawyer from Western Australia, is expected to visit the United States early next year to discuss Australia's plans to pull its troops out of Iraq.\nMr. Rudd's decision to sign the Kyoto Protocol clears the way for his government to play a stronger role when he leads a delegation of four Australian ministers to the U.N. climate talks in Bali.\nThey began Monday and will search for a new carbon emissions scheme to be introduced when the Kyoto treaty expires in 2012.", "url": "http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-03-voa10.cfm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071204073136/http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-12-03-voa10.cfm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Rudd's warm Kyoto reception", "text": "KEVIN Rudd has ratified the Kyoto Protocol as the first formal act of his Government, ending Australia's international isolation on climate change.\nWithin hours of being officially sworn in as the nation's 26th prime minister, Mr Rudd held his first executive council meeting with Governor-General Michael Jeffery, who agreed with his request that Australia ratify the decade-old protocol.\nNews of the ratification spread quickly, sparking a sustained burst of applause on the floor at the UN climate change conference in Bali, which Mr Rudd will attend next week on his first overseas trip as Prime Minister.\nMany delegates rose to their feet to applaud the ratification, and senior Australian delegation member Howard Bamsey, from the Department for the Environment and Water Resources, was forced to wait about a minute before completing his statement to the assembly.\nAustralia had already been on target to deliver its obligation under the Kyoto pact, which will require it to limit growth in CO2 emissions to an 8 per cent increase above 1990 levels over the period from 2008-12.\nBut the ratification, which will become formal 90 days after the documents are lodged with the UN, will strengthen Mr Rudd's hand when he joins delegates from 189 nations at the Bali summit, which will hammer out emissions arrangements for the post-Kyoto period.\nMr Rudd will be joined in Bali by his new Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong, and Environment Minister, Peter Garrett.\nUntil yesterday, Australia and the US were the only major economies that had refused to ratify the protocol.\nFormer prime minister John Howard insisted no pact could be meaningful without the involvement of the world's largest emitters, such as the US, China and India.\nBut Mr Rudd campaigned hard on Kyoto ratification in the November 24 election, adamant that Australia needed to demonstrate its will to seriously tackle climate change.\n\"The Kyoto Protocol is considered to be the most far-reaching agreement on environment and sustainable development ever adopted,\" Mr Rudd said late yesterday.\n\"Australia's official declaration today that we will become a member of the Kyoto Protocol is a significant step forward in our country's efforts to fight climate change domestically and with the international community.\"\nMr Rudd said his Government would do everything it could to help Australia meet its Kyoto obligations.\nIts plans included setting a target to reduce emissions by 60per cent on 2000 levels by 2050, establishing a national emissions trading scheme by 2010 and setting a 20 per cent target for renewable energy use by 2020 to drive demand for use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.\nBut Nicholas Stern, whose report for the British Government last year warned urgent action needed to be taken to combat climate change, called on Australia to make deeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions.\nSir Nicholas called on Australia to set a target of cutting emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, instead of the 60 per cent target nominated by the Rudd Government.\nHe called on countries such as Australia and the US to promote new technology, such as the capture and storage of carbon. But he said it was better that countries start with targets of 75 per cent to 80per cent emissions reductions.\n\"If you set out on a 60 per cent reduction, and my guess is that Australians are a creative lot, they would be able to see their way to really cutting back, and then to raise the target to 80 per cent would probably be quite feasible,\" he said.\nEnvironmentalists yesterday welcomed Mr Rudd's move as a vital first step toward dealing with climate change.\n\"By refusing until now to ratify Kyoto, Australia has been a spanner in the works of the international community in avoiding dangerous climate change,\" said Greg Bourne, chief executive of environment group WWF Australia. \"The Rudd Government has pulled out that spanner, propelling Australia from a laggard to a leader.\"\nMr Bourne said Australia's signing would send a strong message to the US.\nBut the Minerals Council of Australia said the ratification, while symbolic for Labor, would not advance the cause of tackling global warming.\n\"For us, not ratifying was never an issue about cost,\" said chief executive Mitch Hooke, labelling the protocol as \"second-rate\".\n\"It was all about whether or not (Kyoto) could actually effect real outcomes.\" Mr Hooke said it was more important to focus on signing up developing nations to the pact, to underpin targets with science, and to use markets and technology to help meet targets.\n\"There's no point in running Australia's economy into the ground for a target that is justfanciful,\" Mr Hooke said.\nA report released by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in the week before the election revealed greenhouse gases from Kyoto's 41 industrialised and transition countries were approaching \"an all-time high\" in 2005, for when the latest figures are available.\nDespite the upturn, however, the UNFCCC said the Kyoto signatories were together projected to meet their target of cutting emissions by 5 per cent from 1990 levels by 2012, although most of these cuts were the result of the economic collapse of Eastern European countries at the end of the Cold War.\nAustralia's greenhouse emissions in 2005 were about 25.6 per cent above 1990 levels but the figure fell to 4.5 per cent when the effect of bans on land-clearing was included. This put Australia on track to meet its target.\nGreenpeace congratulated the new Government on the ratification but urged it to work on ways to begin the \"inevitable\" switch away from coal to other energy sources. \"Kevin Rudd must now get serious about cutting Australia's greenhouse emissions, which means confronting our addiction to coal,\" said Greenpeace head of campaigns Steve Campbell.\nA report released yesterday by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, made up of a coalition of non-government groups, suggests Australia's ratification of the Kyoto pact was made easier because it was one of the few countries allowed to count greenhouse gases from land-clearing towards its 1990 starting level.\n\"Australia has so far taken little serious action to stabilise its greenhouse gas emissions,\" said the report, put together by the Climate Action Network, Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace, Oxfam Australia, World Vision Australia and WWF Australia. Australia now had a \"moral responsibility\" to adopt a steep target for emission cuts because of its high per-capita contribution to climate change.\nAustralia's position at next week's Bali meeting will represent the first major change in itsinternational representations under the Rudd Government. Only a week ago, Australia united with Canada to torpedo a bid to build binding targets for emission cuts into a declaration from the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting in Uganda.\nAdditional reporting: Matthew Warren, Stephen Fitzpatrick", "url": "http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22865700-601,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071204183507/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22865700-601,00.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Rudd signs Kyoto ratification document", "text": "Rudd signs Kyoto ratification document\nPosted\nUpdated\nPrime Minister Kevin Rudd has signed the instrument of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.\nMr Rudd says it is the first official act of the new Government and demonstrates the commitment to tackling climate change.\nThe ratification document will be sent to the United Nations and it comes into effect 90 days after that.\nMr Rudd says Australia will be a full member of the Kyoto Protocol before March next year.\nThe agreement means Australia's greenhouse gas emissions should not be higher than 8 per cent above 1990 levels.\nRatifying the treaty was one of Labor's major campaign promises.\nThe Greens say the move makes today a historic day for Australia, but comes years too late.\nMr Rudd, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, Environment Minister Peter Garrett and Treasurer Wayne Swan are now preparing to go to Bali next week for the United Nations conference on climate change.", "url": "http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/03/2108345.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071208004534/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/03/2108345.htm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Applause for Australia over Kyoto shift", "text": "Spontaneous applause erupted for Australia as hundreds of delegates at the Bali climate change conference lauded Canberra's decision to ratify the Kyoto protocol.\nKey delegates at the 11-day conference, being held under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said Australia would now enjoy full participation in negotiations for a post-Kyoto treaty to fight global warming.\nDelegates from 180 nations and the world's top climate change scientists broke into applause as the conference noted Australia's decision to abandon its long-held opposition to ratifying Kyoto.\nJust hours after being sworn in as Australia's 26th prime minister on Monday, Kevin Rudd ratified the protocol.\nThe ratification will come into force in 90 days.\nThe move leaves the United States out in the cold, as the only major economy to boycott the UN climate pact.\nIndonesia's Environment Minister and the new president of the UNFCCC, Rachmat Witoelar, told the conference he spoke for everyone \"giving a sigh of relief\" on Australia's change of position.\nAfter the initial reaction, Witoelar invited delegates to offer a second round of applause, which they enthusiastically did. Some delegates even rose to their feet.\nUNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer later told reporters: \"I think that it was an emotional and spontaneous reaction to a very significant political decision on the part of the Australian government to ratify the Kyoto protocol\".\n\"The long applause in fact reflects people's appreciation for the courage shown by Australia to take this dramatically different position, to engage even more strongly with the international community on the question of climate change.\"\nWitoelar told reporters Australia would be given a seat at the negotiating table and invited to fully participate in talks for a new global warming treaty from 2012, when the Kyoto pact expires.\nThe head of the European Commission's delegation Artur Runge-Metzger said while he did not believe Australia's shift would lead to the US also ratifying Kyoto, it would pressure Washington to take climate change negotiations more seriously.\n\"I don't think it will put pressure on the Bush administration to ratify Kyoto, but at the same time, I believe it will put pressure on the US to become serious in being part of a post-2012 agreement,\" he said.\nHe said the EC was \"certainly putting out the invitation\" for Australia to play a full role in climate change negotiations, now that it had ratified Kyoto.\n\"The earlier Australia can have its views heard, the better,\" Runge-Metzger said.", "url": "http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Applause-for-Australia-over-Kyoto-shift/2007/12/03/1196530565908.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071204072439/http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Applause-for-Australia-over-Kyoto-shift/2007/12/03/1196530565908.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Rudd ratifies Kyoto", "text": "Kevin Rudd in his first act as prime minister has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, but warned Australia is likely to face harsh penalties for missing its target under the treaty. Mr Rudd signed the instrument of ratification after receiving the required approval from Governor-General Michael Jeffery today, coinciding with the start of post-Kyoto talks in Bali. The news was greeted with applause on the floor of the Bali conference. Australia would become a full Kyoto member before the end of next March, as the ratification becomes effective 90 days after being received by the United Nations, Mr Rudd said. \"Australia's official declaration today that we will become a member of the Kyoto Protocol is a significant step forward in our country's efforts to fight climate change domestically and with the international community,\" he said in a statement. Under the treaty, the nation has a target of restricting greenhouse gas emissions to 108 per cent of 1990 levels during the 2008-12 commitment period. While the former coalition government insisted it was on track to meet that goal, Mr Rudd is less confident. \"We are currently likely to ... overshoot our Kyoto target by one per cent,\" he told ABC Radio. The prime minister said the penalty would be set out under the post-Kyoto deal that kicks in after 2012. It would include a commitment to a further reduction - 60 million tonnes - in carbon emissions plus a 30 per cent penalty added to the subsequent commitment target. The Australian Greens said the ratification was an historic act many years overdue. \"Prime Minister Rudd realises that he has now legally bound Australia to meeting our targets, so real and swift action is now needed to turn around our skyrocketing emissions,\" Greens climate change spokeswoman Christine Milne said. Climate change scientists also welcomed the move. \"Ratifying Kyoto in itself is not a fix for the problem but it is an illustration of the fact that we are now serious about it and we are moving into Kyoto phase II with action rather than delay in mind,\" said Professor Barry Brook of the University of Adelaide. Greenpeace said Mr Rudd's government would need to begin a switch from coal-fired power so emissions can begin to fall during its current term. Indonesian Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar said Australia would be given a seat at the negotiating table in Bali and invited to fully participate in talks for the post-Kyoto treaty. UN Framework for the Convention on Climate Change executive secretary Yvo de Boer said the ovation to the ratification by the Bali delegates was an emotional and spontaneous reaction to a significant political decision. Mr Rudd will travel to Indonesia next week to attend the conference along with Treasurer Wayne Swan, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and Environment Minister Peter Garrett. \"It'll take a lot of time, and a lot of horse trading, a lot of negotiation and it's going to be a tough process,\" Mr Rudd told the Nine Network. Climate Institute chief executive John Connor said the world's eyes would be on the nation in Bali. \"This will be Australia's moment in the sun in global climate politics - we'll be coming in from the cold of Kyoto, all the world will be watching ... it can send an emphatic signal to the rest of the world.\" AAP", "url": "http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/rudd-ratifies-kyoto/2007/12/03/1196530553722.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071208002935/http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/rudd-ratifies-kyoto/2007/12/03/1196530553722.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Howard rejects emissions targets", "text": "The Howard government has not signed the Kyoto protocol\nState leaders have drafted a \"cap and trade\" plan which sets emissions targets for three polluting gases.\nThe plan would introduce fines for companies exceeding targets but allow low polluters to trade emissions credits for money.\nMr Howard said the plan would harm the economy and lead to higher fuel prices.\nAustralia is one of the few industrialised countries that has not signed the Kyoto protocol, which aims to tackle global warming through a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.\nThe Howard government has repeatedly said that signing the deal would harm the economy.\nAt the moment, the majority of Australia's energy comes from coal and Australia is also the world's largest coal exporter.\n'Leadership failure'\nBut state and territory leaders - all members of the opposition Labor party - have come up with their own initiative to tackle climate change.\nSouth Australian Premier Mike Rann told Australian radio that state leaders acted because of a \"failure of national leadership\" on the issue.\nThe plan, released on Wednesday as a discussion paper, sets up a national framework to cut emissions by 60% by the middle of the century through the introduction of reduction targets for carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions.\nBut Mr Howard told parliament the plan would lead to job losses and higher petrol, gas and electricity prices.\n\"What the Labor Party wants is for a resource rich country such as Australia to agree to an arrangement that would result in the export of investment and jobs from this country,\" he said.\nAustralia is looking at developing a nuclear power industry\nThe plan is not binding on state governments.\nMr Howard's government has been looking at new ways of producing energy and in June announced a study into whether the country should develop nuclear power.\nIn January, the meteorology bureau found that 2005 had been Australia's hottest year on record, prompting renewed fears of global warming.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4797339.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060822105223/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4797339.stm" } ]

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[ { "language": "de", "title": "\"L.A. Crash\" schlägt \"Brokeback Mountain\" Panorama FOCUS Online in Kooperation mit MSN", "text": "| 06.03.06, 13:27 Uhr |\nD\ner Überraschungssieger der diesjährigen Oscar-Verleihung ist das Rassismus-Drama „L.A. Crash“.\nDas vielschichtige Werk von Regisseur Paul Haggis wurde am Sonntagabend (Ortszeit) in Hollywood mit dem Hauptpreis für den besten Film ausgezeichnet und erhielt außerdem noch zwei weitere Trophäen – für das beste Drehbuch und den besten Schnitt. „L.A. Crash“ stahl damit „Brokeback Mountain“ des Taiwaners Ang Lee die Show. Die Liebesgeschichte um zwei schwule Cowboys war als Favorit in die Endrunde gezogen. Als beste Schauspieler in Hauptrollen bekamen Philipp Seymour Hoffman („Capote“) und Reese Witherspoon („Walk the Line“) die goldene Statuette.\n„L.A. Crash“-Koproduzentin Cathy Schulman dankte bei Empfang der Trophäe der US-Filmakademie dafür, dass sie „unseren Film über Liebe, über Toleranz und über Wahrheit“ derart warm aufgenommen habe. Der Episodenfilm setzt sich in einer Fülle komplex verwobener Handlungsstränge mit dem tagtäglichen Rassismus in der US-Gesellschaft auseinander. Das Werk realisierte der gebürtige Kanadier Haggis unabhängig von den großen Studios für die bescheidene Summe von 6,5 Millionen Dollar. Im Rennen um den Haupt-Oscar schlug „L.A. Crash“ auch das Drama „Capote“ über den US-Autor Truman Capote, Steven Spielbergs „München“ über das Olympia-Attentat von 1972 sowie George Clooneys „Good Night, And Good Luck“ über die Kommunistenhatz in den USA der 50er Jahre aus dem Rennen.\n„Brokeback Mountain“ hatte acht Nominierungen\nFür die Macher von „Brokeback Mountain“ verlief die Gala im Kodak-Theater enttäuschend. Zwar konnte Ang Lee den Regiepreis abräumen, und ferner wurde der Film für das beste Drehbuch nach einer Vorlage und für die Musik geehrt. Da „Brokeback Mountain“ aber mit acht Nominierungen an der Spitze aller Anwärter angetreten war, blieben die am Ende nur drei Preise deutlich hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Auch auf drei Preise – allerdings allesamt in eher nachgeordneten Kategorien – kamen „Die Geisha“ (Kamera, Kostüme, künstlerische Leitung) und „King Kong“ (visuelle Effekte, Tonschnitt, Tonmischung).\nFür die US-Schauspieler Hoffman und Witherspoon waren es die ersten Oscars. Der 38-jährige Hoffman wurde für seine geniale Darstellung des ebenso exzentrischen wie einfühlsamen Capote prämiert. Er schlug unter anderem Heath Ledger („Brokeback Mountain“) und Joaquin Phoenix („Walk the Line“) aus dem Rennen. Witherspoon überzeugte die Akademie mit ihrer Verkörperung von June Carter, der Frau des Countrysängers Johnny Cash. Die 29-Jährige stach unter anderem Keira Knightley („Stolz und Vorurteil“) und Charlize Theron („Kaltes Land“) aus. Die Oscars für die besten Nebendarsteller gingen an George Clooney („Syriana“) und Rachel Weisz („Der ewige Gärtner“).\nDeutsche gingen leer aus\nDie deutschen Oscar-Hoffnungen wurden enttäuscht. Das in der Kategorie „Bester ausländischer Film“ nominierte Drama „Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage“ von Marc Rothemund über die von den Nazis exekutierte Widerstandskämpferin ging leer aus, ebenso wie die mit mehreren deutschen Stars besetzte Produktion „Merry Christmas\", die von Frankreich eingereicht worden war. Stattdessen gewann der südafrikanische Gangsterfilm „Tsotsi“. Die Trophäe für den Dokumentarfilm ging an „Die Reise der Pinguine“ der Franzosen Luc Jacquet und Yves Darondeau. Mit einem Sonderpreis für sein Lebenswerk wurde Altregisseur Robert Altman geehrt.\nPoltische und sozialkritische Filme dominierten\nAuffällig war bei den 78. Academy Awards die Dominanz der politischen und sozialkritischen Filme, die zudem überwiegend mit geringen Budgets finanziert wurden. Clooney hob bei Empfang seines Preises für „Syriana\", in dem es um die Machenschaften eines US-Ölkonzerns im Nahen Osten geht, allerdings hervor, dass Hollywood eine lange politische Tradition habe: „Wir waren diejenigen, die über Aids gesprochen haben, als sonst darüber nur geflüstert wurde, und wir sprachen schon über die Bürgerrechte, als das noch unpopulär war.“", "url": "http://focus.msn.de/panorama/oscar-verleihung_nid_25785.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060616025555/http://focus.msn.de/panorama/oscar-verleihung_nid_25785.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Viele kleine, kein großer Sieger", "text": "EXTRA: Die Oscar-Verleihung 2006\nBeginn des Artikels Oscar-Verleihung\nViele kleine, kein großer Sieger\n© Gary Hershorn/Reuters Topfavorit Phillip Seymour Hoffman bekam wie erwartet den Oscar für die beste männliche Hauptrolle\nDas Drama \"L.A. Crash\" schlägt den Top-Favoriten und achtfach nominierten Schwulenwestern \"Brokeback Mountain\", der aber für die beste Regie ausgezeichnet wurde. Vier Filme holten je drei Oscars. Deutsche Träume zerplatzten.\nEs blieb ein Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen bis zum überraschenden Schluss. Die 78. Oscar-Nacht wurde auf der Ziellinie zu Gunsten des Rassismus-Dramas \"L.A. Crash\" als bester Film des Jahres entschieden. Nach all den Diskussionen über die Liebesgeschichte schwuler Cowboys im Film \"Brokeback Mountain\" musste sich der hoch favorisierte Regisseur Ang Lee mit drei Preisen für Regie, Musik und Drehbuch begnügen. Keinen Jubel gab es bei der großen deutschen Delegation in Hollywood. Sowohl Marc Rothemund mit \"Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage\" als auch Ulrike Grote mit dem Kurzfilm \"Ausreißer\" gingen leer aus. Die Gewinner des Abends Hollywood-Stars feiern auf den Partys Es blieb ein Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen bis zum überraschenden Schluss. Die 78. Oscar-Nacht wurde auf der Ziellinie zu Gunsten des Rassismus-Dramas \"L.A. Crash\" als bester Film des Jahres entschieden. Nach all den Diskussionen über die Liebesgeschichte schwuler Cowboys im Film \"Brokeback Mountain\" musste sich der hoch favorisierte Regisseur Ang Lee mit drei Preisen für Regie, Musik und Drehbuch begnügen. Keinen Jubel gab es bei der großen deutschen Delegation in Hollywood. Sowohl Marc Rothemund mit \"Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage\" als auch Ulrike Grote mit dem Kurzfilm \"Ausreißer\" gingen leer aus.\n\"L.A. Crash\", von der Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences zur besten Produktion des Jahres gewählt, ist ein Ensemble- Film über alltäglichen Rassismus, Intoleranz und Gewalt in Los Angeles. An den Film gingen auch die Preise für das beste Originaldrehbuch und den Schnitt. \"Keiner von uns hat das wirklich erwartet\", sagte Regisseur und Autor Paul Haggis. \"Das war doch eigentlich nur ein kleiner Film. Wir haben alle Regeln gebrochen und Hollywood hat das belohnt.\" Außer an \"L.A. Crash\" und \"Brokeback Mountain\" ging die magische Zahl von drei Oscars auch an \"Die Geisha\" (Kamera, Kostüm und Ausstattung) und \"King Kong\" (Ton, Ton- und Spezial-Effekte).\nStar-Ensemble in \"L.A. Crash\"\nUnter der Regie des Kanadiers Haggis (52) spielt in \"L.A. Crash\" ein Star-Ensemble mit Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser und Don Cheadle. In den deutschen Kinos ist der Überraschungssieger der Oscar-Nacht trotz hervorragender Kritiken mit nur rund 200.000 Besuchern allerdings untergegangen.\nAls beste Hauptdarsteller wurden am Sonntagabend im Kodak Theatre in Hollywood Philip Seymour Hoffmann (38) für \"Capote\" und Reese Witherspoon (29) für \"Walk The Line\" ausgezeichnet. Über den Oscar als beste Nebendarstellerin freute sich die hoch schwangere Rachel Weisz (\"Der ewige Gärtner\"), die die Trophäe all jenen Menschen widmete, \"die bereit sind, ihr Leben zu riskieren, um gegen Ungerechtigkeit zu kämpfen.\"\nClooney nur einmal geehrt\nSuperstar George Clooney, der als Nebendarsteller in \"Syriana\" und als Regisseur und Produzent von \"Good Night, and Good Luck\" gleich drei Mal nominiert war, musste sich mit einer Auszeichnung für seine Leistung vor der Kamera begnügen. \"Damit ist eigentlich klar, dass ich nicht bester Regisseur werde\", meinte er gleich am Anfang der Gala lakonisch - und bedankte sich trotzdem stilvoll bei der Academy: \"Hier in Los Angeles leben ziemlich viele abgehobene Leute\", sagte er. Umso wichtiger sei es, dass über die Oscars Themen wie Aids oder Rassismus mit dieser Welt in Kontakt gebracht würden. Unter der Regie des Kanadiers Haggis (52) spielt in \"L.A. Crash\" ein Star-Ensemble mit Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser und Don Cheadle. In den deutschen Kinos ist der Überraschungssieger der Oscar-Nacht trotz hervorragender Kritiken mit nur rund 200.000 Besuchern allerdings untergegangen.Als beste Hauptdarsteller wurden am Sonntagabend im Kodak Theatre in Hollywood Philip Seymour Hoffmann (38) für \"Capote\" und Reese Witherspoon (29) für \"Walk The Line\" ausgezeichnet. Über den Oscar als beste Nebendarstellerin freute sich die hoch schwangere Rachel Weisz (\"Der ewige Gärtner\"), die die Trophäe all jenen Menschen widmete, \"die bereit sind, ihr Leben zu riskieren, um gegen Ungerechtigkeit zu kämpfen.\"Superstar George Clooney, der als Nebendarsteller in \"Syriana\" und als Regisseur und Produzent von \"Good Night, and Good Luck\" gleich drei Mal nominiert war, musste sich mit einer Auszeichnung für seine Leistung vor der Kamera begnügen. \"Damit ist eigentlich klar, dass ich nicht bester Regisseur werde\", meinte er gleich am Anfang der Gala lakonisch - und bedankte sich trotzdem stilvoll bei der Academy: \"Hier in Los Angeles leben ziemlich viele abgehobene Leute\", sagte er. Umso wichtiger sei es, dass über die Oscars Themen wie Aids oder Rassismus mit dieser Welt in Kontakt gebracht würden.\nMehr zum Thema\nAfrikanischer Film gewinnt\nMit großen Plüschpinguinen im Arm waren die französischen Macher des besten Dokumentarfilms \"Die Reise der Pinguine\" die Sympathieträger auf der Bühne. Hoch emotional bedankte sich Gavin Hood aus Südafrika, Regisseur des besten Auslandsfilms \"Tsotsie\", für die Auszeichnung und rief: \"Viva Afrika!\"\n\"Rückkehr zum Glamour\" war das Motto der Gala - und diese herausragende Qualität des \"alten Hollywood\" stach vor allem optisch hervor. Im eleganten Bühnenbild im Stil der Goldenen 20er Jahre nahmen vor allem die weiblichen \"Presenter\" beim Öffnen der Umschläge das Thema ernst: Nicole Kidman in beinahe überirdischer Perfektion, Charlize Theron in göttlicher schwarzer Seide, Uma Thurman als strahlende Diva, Jennifer Lopez und Salma Hayek in schimmernden Roben - sie verliehen der Show den dringend benötigten Glamour-Faktor.\nModerator Jon Stewart, der zum ersten Mal durch die Oscar-Gala führte und sich glänzend bewährte, setzte als Gegenpol dazu auf bissige Satire. Lily Tomlin und Meryl Streep lieferten einen komödiantischen Höhepunkt mit ihrer absichtlich völlig verrutschten Rede auf den großen Regisseur Robert Altman (81, \"The Player\", \"Nashville\"), der für sein Lebenswerk gewürdigt wurde. \"Einen Film zu drehen ist, wie am Strand eine Sandburg zu bauen\", schilderte Altman in seinem emotionalen Auftritt. \"Man lädt alle ein, die Burg zu bewundern und freut sich an ihrer Pracht. Aber dann kommt die Flut und wäscht alles wieder weg. Doch die Sandburg bleibt immer im Gedächtnis.\" Bei der Pressekonferenz hinter der Bühne verteidigte Clooney die umstrittenen Nominierungen vieler kleiner, unabhängiger Filme dieses Jahrgangs noch deutlicher: \"Es geht nicht immer nur ums Geschäft. Viele der nominierten Filme sind vom Mainstream entfernt, aber der Mainstream verändert sich. Und das ist das Schöne auch heute Abend.\"Mit großen Plüschpinguinen im Arm waren die französischen Macher des besten Dokumentarfilms \"Die Reise der Pinguine\" die Sympathieträger auf der Bühne. Hoch emotional bedankte sich Gavin Hood aus Südafrika, Regisseur des besten Auslandsfilms \"Tsotsie\", für die Auszeichnung und rief: \"Viva Afrika!\"\"Rückkehr zum Glamour\" war das Motto der Gala - und diese herausragende Qualität des \"alten Hollywood\" stach vor allem optisch hervor. Im eleganten Bühnenbild im Stil der Goldenen 20er Jahre nahmen vor allem die weiblichen \"Presenter\" beim Öffnen der Umschläge das Thema ernst: Nicole Kidman in beinahe überirdischer Perfektion, Charlize Theron in göttlicher schwarzer Seide, Uma Thurman als strahlende Diva, Jennifer Lopez und Salma Hayek in schimmernden Roben - sie verliehen der Show den dringend benötigten Glamour-Faktor.Moderator Jon Stewart, der zum ersten Mal durch die Oscar-Gala führte und sich glänzend bewährte, setzte als Gegenpol dazu auf bissige Satire. Lily Tomlin und Meryl Streep lieferten einen komödiantischen Höhepunkt mit ihrer absichtlich völlig verrutschten Rede auf den großen Regisseur Robert Altman (81, \"The Player\", \"Nashville\"), der für sein Lebenswerk gewürdigt wurde. \"Einen Film zu drehen ist, wie am Strand eine Sandburg zu bauen\", schilderte Altman in seinem emotionalen Auftritt. \"Man lädt alle ein, die Burg zu bewundern und freut sich an ihrer Pracht. Aber dann kommt die Flut und wäscht alles wieder weg. Doch die Sandburg bleibt immer im Gedächtnis.\"\nDPA\nArtikel vom 06. März 2006\nArtikel-URL: http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/film/:Oscar-Verleihung-Viele-Sieger/557139.html", "url": "http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/film/:Oscar-Verleihung-Viele-Sieger/557139.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060619111245/http://www.stern.de/unterhaltung/film/:Oscar-Verleihung-Viele-Sieger/557139.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Aktuelle Nachrichten aus Wirtschaft, Politik, Unternehmen und Märkten", "text": "Suchbegriff Nur im Titel suchen Zeitraum: 01.01.1986 bis 28.06.2006, absteigend sortiert nach Datum Erweiterte Suche\nSuchauftrag speichern Datum bis Heute Gestern letzte Woche letzter Monat letztes Jahr letzte zwei Jahre Benutzerdefiniert Einfache Suche\nSuchauftrag speichern Sortierung nach Datum Titel Autor Absteigend Aufsteigend Treffer pro Seite 10 20 50 100", "url": "http://www.handelsblatt.com/pshb/fn/relhbi/sfn/buildhbi/GoPage/205550,205551/BMC/biz_cn_detailsuche/BMC/biz_cn_suchergebnisse/GLOBAL/oscar/vZeit1/0/vZeit2/0/vZeit/all/SORT0/YR/DESC0/YES/PerPage/10/PAGENO/0/simple/1/isNewSearch/1/SH/0/depot/0/index.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060628044316/http://www.handelsblatt.com/pshb/fn/relhbi/sfn/buildhbi/GoPage/205550,205551/BMC/biz_cn_detailsuche/BMC/biz_cn_suchergebnisse/GLOBAL/oscar/vZeit1/0/vZeit2/0/vZeit/all/SORT0/YR/DESC0/YES/PerPage/10/PAGENO/0/simple/1/isNewSearch/1/SH/0/depot/0/index.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Hollywood: „L.A. Crash” bester Film", "text": "06. März 2006\nÜberraschungssieger und zerplatzte deutsche Träume: Bei der 78. Oscar-Verleihung haben sich etliche anspruchsvolle Filme die wichtigsten Preise geteilt, einen überragenden Gewinner gab es nicht.\nDas Episodendrama „L.A. Crash” (siehe auch: Video-Filmkritik: „L.A. Crash”) des kanadischen Regisseurs und Autors Paul Haggis um Rassenprobleme in Los Angeles wurde von den Oscar-Juroren zum besten Film gewählt. „Keiner von uns hat das wirklich erwartet”, sagte Haggis. „Das war doch eigentlich nur ein kleiner Film. Wir haben alle Regeln gebrochen und Hollywood hat das belohnt.” In den deutschen Kinos ist der Überraschungssieger der Oscar-Nacht mit Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser und Don Cheadle trotz hervorragender Kritiken mit nur rund 200.000 Besuchern allerdings untergegangen.\nDen Preis für die beste Regie erhielt Taiwaner Ang Lee mit dem Schwulen-Western „Brokeback Mountain” ab, der in insgesamt acht Kategorien nominiert war. Die deutschen Oscar-Hoffnungen wurden enttäuscht: Das Nazi-Widerstandsdrama „Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage” (siehe auch: Video-Filmkritik: „Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage”) ging ebenso leer aus wie der Kurzfilm „Ausreißer”.\nEnttäuschung für „Brokeback Mountain”\nDer Top-Favorit „Brokeback Mountain” konnte die hoch gesteckten Erwartungen nicht erfüllen. Insgesamt gab es nur drei der acht möglichen Oscars: Neben dem Regiepreis bekam der Western noch Auszeichnungen für das beste Drehbuch nach einer literarischen Vorlage und für die beste Filmmusik. Auch „L.A. Crash” holte drei goldene Statuen: Bester Film, bestes Original-Drehbuch (Paul Haggis und Bobby Moresco) und bester Schnitt.\nDaß „Brokeback Mountain” nicht bester Film wurde, sorgte für Diskussionen unter Kritikern und hörbare Enttäuschung bei Mitwirkenden. „Die Wahrheit ist vielleicht, daß Amerikaner keine schwulen Cowboys wollen”, sagte Larry McMurtry, der dennoch für „Brokeback Mountain” - gemeinsam mit Diana Ossana - einen Oscar für das beste adaptierte Drehbuch erhielt. Trotz der großen medialen Präsenz von Homosexualität sei Hollywood noch nicht reif dafür, dem Thema die Ehrenhaftigkeit des Mainstream zuzugestehen, sagte der Kritiker der Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan. Für Leute, die sich wie gute, produktive Liberale fühlen wollten und denen „Brokeback Mountain” zu heiß war, sei „L.A. Crash” eine perfekte Ausflucht gewesen.\nSanftmütiger reagierte „Brokeback Mountain”-Regisseur Ang Lee auf seine Auszeichnung für die beste Regie. Der gebürtige Taiwaner Lee nahm die Trophäe mit bescheidener Geste entgegen und widmete den Oscar seinem verstorbenen Vater. „Ich habe diesen Film mehr als jeden anderen für ihn gemacht”, sagte Lee.\nMama, ich bin stolz auf dich\nAls beste Schauspieler profilierten sich Philip Seymour Hoffman und Reese Witherspoon mit biografischen Filmen. Der 38jährige Hoffman wurde für seine Darstellung des exzentrischen Schriftstellers Truman Capote ausgezeichnet. Der Film „Capote” (siehe auch: Video-Filmkritik: „The Sentinel” mit Kim Basinger) beschreibt die kurze, aber entscheidende Phase im Leben des Autors, in der sein Roman „Kaltblütig” entstand. Witherspoon erhielt die goldene Statue für ihre Hauptrolle in dem Film „Walk the Line” über das Leben des Musikers Johnny Cash, dessen Ehefrau die 29jährige verkörpert (siehe auch: James Mangolds Film „Walk the Line”). Für beide Oscar-Gewinner war es die erste Nominierung, sie hatten aber bereits bei den Golden Globes triumphiert.\n„Während meiner Kindheit in Tennessee hätte ich nie gedacht, daß ich einmal so weit kommen könnte”, sagte Witherspoon in ihrer Dankesrede. Der Oscar gebe ihr das Gefühl, daß ihre Arbeit etwas bedeute. Hoffman forderte die Zuschauer auf, seiner Mutter zu gratulieren, die vier Kinder allein aufgezogen habe. „Sei stolz, Mama, denn ich bin stolz auf dich.”\nTriumph für „Tsotsi”\nDie deutschen Filmemacher durften sich in der Oscar-Nacht nur über ihre Nominierungen freuen, denn die Oscars räumten andere ab. Regisseur Marc Rothemund mußte sich mit seinem Film über die Widerstandskämpferin Sophie Scholl in der Kategorie bester Auslandsfilm dem südafrikanischen Streifen „Tsotsi” geschlagen geben. Die Hamburger Filmemacherin Ulrike Grote hat mit „Ausreißer” bereits einen Studenten-Oscar gewonnen. Doch bei der Oscar-Gala gewann in der Sparte Kurzfilm der britische Film „Six Shooter” von Martin McDonagh.\nBei den Nebendarstellern triumphierten Schauspieler aus Polit-Thrillern: George Clooney und Rachel Weisz. Der 44jährige Clooney erhielt die goldene Statue für seine Nebenrolle in dem Thriller „Syriana”. Der Film (siehe auch: Stephen Gaghans Film „Syriana”) beschreibt die Verstrickung amerikanischer Konzerne in Kriege, Verschwörungen und Morde. „Damit ist eigentlich klar, daß ich nicht bester Regisseur werde”, meinte Clooney gleich am Anfang der Gala lakonisch - und bedankte sich trotzdem stilvoll bei der Academy: „Hier in Los Angeles leben ziemlich viele abgehobene Leute”, sagte er. Umso wichtiger sei es, daß über die Oscars Themen wie Aids oder Rassismus mit dieser Welt in Kontakt gebracht würden.\nWeisz bekam den Oscar als beste Nebendarstellerin für den Film „Der ewige Gärtner”. An der Seite von Ralph Fiennes spielt die Britin, die am Dienstag ihren 35. Geburtstag feiert, eine Aktivistin, die die Machenschaften eines Pharmakartells in Afrika aufdeckt und dafür umgebracht wird. Sie widmete ihre Trophäe all jenen Menschen, „die bereit sind, ihr Leben zu riskieren, um gegen Ungerechtigkeit zu kämpfen”.\nOscars für Pinguine und Riesenkaninchen\nDen besten Filmsong lieferte der Rapper-Film „Hustle & Flow” mit dem HipHop-Lied „It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp” ab. Je drei Oscars, allerdings nicht in Top-Kategorien, gingen an Peter Jacksons Mega-Produktion „King Kong” (Spezialeffekte, Toneffekte, Ton) und Rob Marshalls „Die Geisha” (Ausstattung, Kostümdesign, Kameraführung). Das beste Make-up war nach Meinung der 5800 Oscar-Juroren in „Die Chroniken von Narnia” zu sehen. Bei der Oscar-Gala in Hollywood wurde zudem die britische Produktion „Wallace & Gromit auf der Jagd nach dem Riesenkaninchen” als bester Animationsfilm ausgezeichnet. „Die Reise der Pinguine” (siehe auch: „Die Reise der Pinguine” im Kino) erhielt einen Oscar in der Sparte Dokumentarfilm.\n„Rückkehr zum Glamour” war das Motto der Gala - und diese herausragende Qualität des „alten Hollywood” stach vor allem optisch hervor. Im eleganten Bühnenbild im Stil der „Goldenen zwanziger Jahre” nahmen vor allem die weiblichen „Presenter” beim Öffnen der Umschläge das Thema ernst: Nicole Kidman in beinahe überirdischer Perfektion, Charlize Theron in göttlicher schwarzer Seide, Uma Thurman als strahlende Diva, Jennifer Lopez und Salma Hayek in schimmernden Roben - sie verliehen der Show den dringend benötigten Schauwert.\nDie Sandburg bleibt im Gedächtnis\nModerator Jon Stewart, der zum ersten Mal durch die Oscar-Gala führte und sich glänzend bewährte, setzte als Gegenpol dazu auf bissige Satire. Lily Tomlin und Meryl Streep lieferten einen komödiantischen Höhepunkt mit ihrer absichtlich völlig verrutschten Rede auf den großen Regisseur Robert Altman (81, „The Player”, „Nashville”), der für sein Lebenswerk gewürdigt wurde. Die rund 3500 Ehrengäste im Kodak Theater spendeten stehend Beifall für den Schöpfer von Filmen wie „M.A.S.H.” und „Short Cuts”.\nAltman war in seiner Karriere fünfmal als Regisseur für einen Oscar nominiert, hat aber nie einen gewonnen. „Einen Film zu drehen ist, wie am Strand eine Sandburg zu bauen”, schilderte Altman in seinem emotionalen Auftritt. „Man lädt alle ein, die Burg zu bewundern und freut sich an ihrer Pracht. Aber dann kommt die Flut und wäscht alles wieder weg. Doch die Sandburg bleibt immer im Gedächtnis.”", "url": "http://www.faz.net/s/Rub501F42F1AA064C4CB17DF1C38AC00196/Doc~EB2C745931B814B9C962A75E76259DE8F~ATpl~Ecommon~Sspezial.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060619132823/http://www.faz.net/s/Rub501F42F1AA064C4CB17DF1C38AC00196/Doc~EB2C745931B814B9C962A75E76259DE8F~ATpl~Ecommon~Sspezial.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Die Oscars 2006", "text": "Der kanadische Regisseur Paul Haggis mit den Oscars für den besten Film und das beste Drehbuch.\nFoto: rtr Bei der 78. Oscar-Verleihung haben sich etliche anspruchsvolle Filme die wichtigsten Preise geteilt, einen überragenden Gewinner gab es nicht.\nDas Episodendrama „L.A. Crash“ des kanadischen Regisseurs Paul Haggis (52) um Rassenprobleme in Los Angeles wurde von den Oscar-Juroren zum besten Film gewählt.\nDie beste Regie lieferte hingegen der Taiwaner Ang Lee mit dem Schwulen- Western „Brokeback Mountain“ ab, der in insgesamt acht Kategorien nominiert war.\nKein Oscar für \"Sophie Scholl\" Die deutschen Oscar-Hoffnungen wurden enttäuscht: Das Nazi-Widerstandsdrama „Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage“ ging ebenso leer aus wie der Kurzfilm „Ausreißer“.\nDer Top-Favorit „Brokeback Mountain“ konnte die hoch gesteckten Erwartungen nicht erfüllen. Insgesamt gab es nur drei der acht möglichen Oscars: Neben dem Regiepreis bekam der Western noch Auszeichnungen für das beste Drehbuch nach einer literarischen Vorlage und für die beste Filmmusik.\nAuch „L.A. Crash“ holte drei goldene Statuen: Bester Film, bestes Original-Drehbuch (Paul Haggis und Bobby Moresco) und bester Schnitt wird demnächst auf den Filmplakaten prangen.\nBeste Schauspieler: Hoffman und Witherspoon Als beste Schauspieler profilierten sich Philip Seymour Hoffman und Reese Witherspoon mit biografischen Filmen.\nDer 38-jährige Hoffman wurde für seine Darstellung des exzentrischen US- Schriftstellers Truman Capote ausgezeichnet. Der Film „Capote“ beschreibt die kurze, aber entscheidende Phase im Leben des Autors, in der sein Roman „Kaltblütig“ entstand.\nWitherspoon erhielt die goldene Statue für ihre Hauptrolle in dem Film „Walk the Line“ über das Leben des Musikers Johnny Cash, dessen Ehefrau die 29-Jährige verkörpert. Für beide Oscar-Gewinner war es die erste Nominierung, sie hatten aber bereits bei den Golden Globes triumphiert.\nDie deutschen Filmemacher durften sich in der Oscar-Nacht nur über ihre Nominierungen freuen, denn die Oscars räumten andere ab. Regisseur Marc Rothemund musste sich mit seinem Film über die Widerstandskämpferin Sophie Scholl in der Kategorie bester Auslandsfilm dem südafrikanischen Streifen „Tsotsi“ geschlagen geben.\nDie Hamburger Filmemacherin Ulrike Grote hat mit „Ausreißer“ bereits einen Studenten-Oscar gewonnen. Doch bei der Oscar-Gala gewann in der Sparte Kurzfilm der britische Film „Six Shooter“ von Martin McDonagh.\nTriumph der Polit-Thriller Bei den Nebendarstellern triumphierten Schauspieler aus Polit- Thrillern: George Clooney und Rachel Weisz.\nDer 44-jährige Clooney erhielt die goldene Statue für seine Nebenrolle in dem Thriller „Syriana“. Der Film beschreibt die Verstrickung amerikanischer Konzerne in Kriege, Verschwörungen und Morde.\nWeisz bekam den Oscar als beste Nebendarstellerin für den Film „Der ewige Gärtner“. An der Seite von Ralph Fiennes spielt die Britin, die am Dienstag ihren 35. Geburtstag feiert, eine Aktivistin, die die Machenschaften eines Pharmakartells in Afrika aufdeckt und dafür umgebracht wird.\nIm Alter von 81 Jahren wurde der US-Regisseur Robert Altman für sein Lebenswerk mit einem Oscar geehrt. Die rund 3500 Ehrengäste im Kodak Theater spendeten stehend Beifall für den Macher von Filmen wie „MASH“ und „Short Cuts“. Altman war in seiner Karriere fünf Mal als Regisseur für einen Oscar nominiert, hat aber nie einen gewonnen.\nBei der Oscar-Gala in Hollywood wurde zudem die britische Produktion „Wallace & Gromit auf der Jagd nach dem Riesenkaninchen“ als bester Animationsfilm ausgezeichnet. „Die Reise der Pinguine“ erhielt einen Oscar in der Sparte Dokumentarfilm. Den besten Filmsong lieferte der Rapper-Film „Hustle & Flow“ mit dem HipHop-Lied „It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp“ ab.\nJe drei Oscars, allerdings nicht in Top-Kategorien, gingen an Peter Jacksons Mega-Produktion „King Kong“ (Spezialeffekte, Toneffekte, Ton) und Rob Marshalls „Die Geisha“ (Ausstattung, Kostümdesign, Kameraführung). Das beste Make-up war nach Meinung der 5800 Oscar-Juroren in „Die Chroniken von Narnia“ zu sehen.\n(dpa)", "url": "http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt2m2/kultur/special/845/70775/index.html/kultur/artikel/389/71318/article.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060621101004/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt2m2/kultur/special/845/70775/index.html/kultur/artikel/389/71318/article.html" } ]

[ "Oklahoma", "United States", "North America", "Culture and entertainment", "Museums", "Paintings" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Western Paintings Exhibited in Oklahoma City", "text": "OKLAHOMA CITY.- The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum hosts its prestigious invitational art exhibit of nearly 300 Western paintings and sculpture by the finest contemporary Western artists in the nation with art seminars, receptions and awards banquet. Reservations required for opening activities. This annual exhibition kicks off June 9 with two days of seminars on art-related topics and art demonstrations. The weekend culminates with a fixed-price sale of all the exhibition pieces. For more information, contact the Museum. The exhibit remains on display through September 10.\nThe exhibiting artists bring a diversity of styles to this prestigious art exhibition. Works range from historical pieces that reflect the early days of the West, to more contemporary and impressionist works of art. Landscapes, wildlife and illustrative scenes are always highlighted in the exhibition.\nAmong the awards presented at each show are:\n• The Prix de West Purchase Award, given to a work of art that is purchased by the Museum to enhance its Prix de West art collection. The 2006 award includes a medal and $5,000 and is sponsored by the late George O. Argall Jr. .\n• The Frederic Remington Painting Award, a cash award of $3,000 for exceptional artistic merit, sponsored by Roberta M.Eldridge Miller.\n• The James Earle Fraser Sculpture Award, a cash award of $3,000 for exceptional artistic merit, sponsored by Rob and Suzy Schaefer.\n• Express Ranches the Great American Cowboy Award, best portrayal of the American Cowboy, chosen by the museum's Prix de West Committee for exceptional artistic merit. The award includes a medal and $3,000. Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Funk and Express Ranches.\n• The Robert Lougheed Memorial Award, a cash award of $3,000 for the best display of three or more works. The award is chosen by the exhibiting artists and is sponsored by the Robert S. And Grayce B. Kerr Foundation, Inc.\n• Major General and Mrs. Don D. Pittman Wildlife Art Award, a cash award of $3,000 for Exceptional Artistic Merit for a Wildlife Painting of Sculpture. Sponsored by Major General and Mrs. Don D. Pittman.\n• The Nona Jean Hulsey Rumsey Buyers' Choice Award, a cash award of $3,000 for the most popular work of art as chosen by the patrons attending the opening night of the Prix de West Invitational. Sponsored by Joe Rumsey.\nAmong sculptors who exhibit in the show are Gerald Balciar, Ken Bunn, George Carlson, Edward J. Fraughton, Richard Greeves, Kent Ulberg, Hollis Williford, Tony Angell, Blair Buswell, Tim Cherry, Glenna Goodacre, Harold T. Holden, Doug Hyde, Oreland C. Joe Sr., Steve Kestrel, Mehl Lawson, Richard Loffler, Walter T. Matia, Ross Matteson, Herb Mignery, Sherry Salari Sander, Sandy Scott, and Shirley Thomson-Smith.\nAmong painters participating are William Acheff, Clyde Aspevig, James Bama, Scott L. Christensen, Martin Grelle, Bob Kuhn, Morris Rippel, Lowell Ellsworth Smith, Tucker Smith, Morgan Weistling, Jim Wilcox, Wayne Wolfe, Cyrus Afsary, Roy Andersen, Bill Anton, Christopher Blossom, Joseph Bohler, Harley Brown, Duane Bryers, Paul Calle, Ken Carlson, Len Chmiel, Tim Cox, Don Crowley, Pino Dangelico, John O. Encinias, Charles Fritz, Daniel F. Gerhartz, Walt Gonske, Thomas William Jones, William J. Kalwick Jr., Ramon Kelley, James Kramer, David Leffel, Sherrie McGraw, David Mann, Jim Morgan, John Moyers, Terri Kelly Moyers, Bill Owen, Thomas Quinn, William Reese, R.S. Riddick, Matt Smith, Don Spaulding, Sonya Terpening, Curt Walters and William Whitaker.", "url": "http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=16077", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130623230727/http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=16077" } ]

[ "Politics and conflicts", "Romania", "Poland", "Europe", "European Union", "United States", "North America", "Human Rights Watch", "Human rights", "Council of Europe", "CIA" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Alleged secret detention centres in Council of Europe member states: roadmap for the PACE inquiry", "text": "Alleged secret detention centres in Council of Europe member states: roadmap for the PACE inquiry Strasbourg, 25.11.2005 – In an information memorandum published today, Dick Marty, the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) who is investigating allegations about secret detention centres in Council of Europe member states, refers to suspicious movements by 31 aircraft allegedly belonging to entities with direct or indirect links to the CIA, and believed to have been used by the CIA to transport prisoners in the “war against terrorism”. According to the rapporteur, it should be possible, with the help of Eurocontrol, to establish a pattern of the movements of the aircraft concerned, which could be compared with information on, for example, the departure from Kabul of aircraft carrying prisoners. In the rapporteur’s view, co-operation from Eurocontrol is vital in order to obtain, if not evidence of the existence of secret detention centres, then at least fairly clear indications that airports located in Council of Europe member states have been used for purposes which require more detailed explanations from the United States. Mr Marty says that, using the precise co-ordinates in his possession, it should be possible to obtain, with the help of bodies such as the European Union’s Satellite Centre, satellite images taken at intervals between early 2002 and the present. “This would show any new work that may have been undertaken (renovation of shacks, installation of barbed-wire fencing, watch towers etc), which could lead one to conclude that prisoners had been held there. Such a series of images could also show any recent attempts to remove traces of earlier development of facilities,” explains Mr Marty. To this end, he emphasises the need for a clear statement from the governments of the member states concerned, confirming that they would have no objection to such technical methods being used in his investigation. Mr Marty also feels that the inquiry should cover all alleged secret detention centres in Council of Europe member states. It should look not just at the issue of alleged secret detention centres of the CIA but also, for example, the situation in the North Caucasus. It should cover other aspects, too, such as the alleged use – or misuse – by the United States of facilities located in Council of Europe member states for the purposes of illegal detention, such as during the transportation of persons who have been unlawfully abducted or of prisoners to countries where they may be subjected to torture or other inhuman treatment. The inquiry, he says, will be conducted in close co-operation with the judicial authorities of the member states in which criminal investigations are under way; with the European Union and more specifically the European Parliament; with members of the US Congress, in particular Senator Kerry, who has initiated an information request by the American Senate to the Government on this issue; and with journalists and NGOs, notably Human Rights Watch. In a declaration adopted today at the PACE Standing Committee meeting in Bucharest, the Parliamentary Assembly stressed that the purpose of the inquiry was to establish the truth, not to \"accuse\" or to \"sanction\" one or more countries. \"A clear and strong message must be sent: even in the name of the 'war on terror', illegal and inhuman practices in relation to the arrest, transportation and detention of persons, even if they are suspected of terrorism, cannot and will not be tolerated in any member or observer country of the Council of Europe”, states bound by the European Convention on Human Rights and international treaties on the prevention of torture. Full text of the information memorandum", "url": "http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/Press/StopPressView.asp?CPID=1705", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060211090922/http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/Press/StopPressView.asp?CPID=1705" } ]

[ "United States", "New Zealand", "Middle East", "Gaza Strip", "Media", "Hamas", "Fox Corporation" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Gunmen kidnap Fox News journalists in Gaza: witness", "text": "GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox News television channel in Gaza on Monday, a witness said.\nThe witness, a Palestinian who worked with the two journalists, said one of them, a producer, was an American, and the other, whose nationality he did not know, was a cameraman.\nIn a news report, Fox confirmed two employees had been abducted. It said it did not know who seized them but that \"negotiations were under way to secure their release\".\nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction.\nThe witness said two vehicles blocked the journalists' transmission truck in the center of Gaza City and a masked man put a gun to a bodyguard's head, forcing him to the ground.\nThe kidnappers then sped away with the two journalists.\nPalestinian police stopped and searched cars. A spokesman for Hamas, the Islamic militant group that leads the Palestinian government, condemned the kidnapping.\nSimilar incidents in the past in Gaza have ended with the release, usually within hours, of kidnapped foreign journalists or aid workers.\nMany of the abductions were carried out by Palestinians pressing a grievance against the Palestinian government or its security forces.\n© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.", "url": "http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-08-14T185702Z_01_L14273140_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-GAZA-KIDNAPPING.xml&src=rss&rpc=22", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060828015930/http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-08-14T185702Z_01_L14273140_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-GAZA-KIDNAPPING.xml&src=rss&rpc=22" }, { "language": "en", "title": "2 Fox News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza", "text": "A Fox employee in Gaza, who declined to give his name because he was not authorized to release information about the incident, said the two kidnapped people were reporter Steve Centanni, a U.S. citizen, and a cameraman from New Zealand.\nThe men, along with a bodyguard, were parked near the headquarters of the Palestinian security services when two trucks filled with gunmen pulled up and boxed them in, according to the employee. The gunmen took the two out of their sports utility vehicle, which was marked \"TV,\" and drove away, he said.\nMajor militant groups in Gaza denied having any connection to the abduction, and there was no immediate word of any demands made.\nSecurity officials put police across Gaza on alert to find the gunmen and free the journalists, said Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal.\n\"This is not acceptable at all,\" he said.\nSeveral foreigners have been kidnapped in Gaza in recent months with their abductors demanding jobs from the Palestinian Authority or the release of people being held in Palestinian jails. All those kidnapped have been released within hours without harm.", "url": "http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/14/D8JGC6V80.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060822004024/http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/14/D8JGC6V80.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Gaza hunt for seized journalists", "text": "Correspondent Steve Centanni was taken at gunpoint\nThe two journalists are correspondent Steve Centanni and freelance cameraman Olaf Wiig.\nThe crew's Palestinian driver told security officials their car was stopped in Gaza City on Monday evening.\nMeanwhile, Israel carried out two air strikes in Gaza overnight, injuring at least eight people.\nThe Israeli military said it was targeting a house in the Jabaliya refugee camp used by militants who had fired two rockets into Israel on Monday.\nIt said a second house, in Beit Hanoun, was being used as a weapons store.\nMasked gunmen\nThe driver for the two journalists said masked gunmen ordered the men into another vehicle and they were driven away.\nFox News said that negotiations were under way to secure the pair's release.\nOver the past two years, a number of foreigners have been kidnapped in Gaza. All have been freed unharmed.\nThe kidnappings come one year after Israel abandoned its settlements on the Gaza Strip and withdrew the soldiers guarding them.\nSome of the settlers had to be forced to leave their homes, which according to international law had been built illegally.\nOne year on, the bungalows and gardens of the former settlements are now heaps of ruins, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Gaza.\nOn agreement with Palestinian leaders, their homes were demolished after they left, but nothing has been built to replace them.\nLand disputes and a lack of government control are partly to blame, says our correspondent, but Israeli artillery fire makes some former settlements too dangerous to go near.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4792635.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060819232519/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4792635.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "HOME : New Zealand's leading news and information website", "text": "T O P S T O R Y\nRELATED LINKS\nNZer kidnapped by Gaza gunmen\n15 August 2006\nUPDATED REPORT 8.10am Fox News has named a New Zealand cameraman kidnapped in Gaza City as freelancer Olaf Wiig.\nWiig and US reporter Steve Centanni were taken at gunpoint yesterday.\nNegotiations for their release are under way, Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti said.\nWiig is a freelance cameraman based in England and understood to be married to BBC World television presenter Anita McNaught, who formerly worked for TV3 and Radio New Zealand.\nHe has been based overseas for the past five years, but previously worked in Auckland as a freelancer, and in Wellington for TV3 and Marmalade Vision.\nThe two men, along with a Palestinian bodyguard, were parked near the headquarters of the Palestinian security services when two trucks filled with gunmen pulled up and boxed them in, according to an unnamed Fox News employee based in Gaza.\nThe gunmen took the two reporters out of their sports utility vehicle, which was marked \"TV,\" and drove away, he said.\nMajor militant groups in Gaza denied having any connection to the incident and there was no immediate word of any demands made.\nSeveral foreigners have been kidnapped in Gaza in recent months with their abductors demanding jobs from the Palestinian Authority or the release of people being held in Palestinian jails.\nAll those kidnapped have been released within hours without harm.\nSecurity officials put police across Gaza on alert to find the gunmen and free the reporters, said Interior Ministry spokesman Khaled Abu Hilal.\n\"This is not acceptable at all,\" he said.\nNew Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokeswoman Helen Tunnah said this morning the ministry had not received any information on the kidnapping.", "url": "http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3765385a10,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060827024637/http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0%2C2106%2C3765385a10%2C00.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "FNCers Kidnapped In Gaza", "text": "Broadcast Dreams: Courses and seminars with TV industry insiders and execs. Fox News employees kidnapped: Around-the-clock updates\nPlease keep Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig in your thoughts and prayers.\nFNCers Kidnapped In Gaza: \"Pray For Their Release. I Will Keep You Posted\" --Moody FNC senior VP John Moody's internal message to Fox News personnel about the kidnapping:\n\"The rumors are true: two of our employees have been abducted in Gaza. We will report this fact via our Israel correspondents. Do NOT do any other segments on it. Do not book guests on this topic. Do not comment officially and of course, not on the air, about it. DO pray for their release. I will keep you posted.\"\nDrudge readers: Click here for TVNewser's extensive coverage of the kidnapping\n\"The rumors are true: two of our employees have been abducted in Gaza. We will report this fact via our Israel correspondents. Do NOT do any other segments on it. Do not book guests on this topic. Do not comment officially and of course, not on the air, about it. DO pray for their release. I will keep you posted.\" Email This Post Fill out the following information and click on the Send button in order to send this post, FNCers Kidnapped In Gaza: \"Pray For Their Release. I Will Keep You Posted\" --Moody, to a friend. Friend's name\nFriend's email address\nYour name\nYour email address\nNote to your friend (optional, max 200 Characters)\nRead more on TVNewser >", "url": "http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/fncers_kidnapped_in_gaza_pray_for_their_release_i_will_keep_you_posted_moody_41981.asp", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070529174725/http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/fncers_kidnapped_in_gaza_pray_for_their_release_i_will_keep_you_posted_moody_41981.asp" } ]

[ "India", "Asia", "Crime and law", "Disasters and accidents", "Transport", "Rail transport", "Manmohan Singh", "Mumbai", "Lashkar-e-Toiba", "Bharatiya Janata Party" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Latest News, e-Bulletins, Stocks, Bollywood, Cricket, Video, Blogs, RSS from India", "text": "Ind brush aside Aus T20 challenge\nIndia beat Australia by 7 wickets in their one-off T-20 encounter in Mumbai. While the Indian bowlers restricted the Aussies to 166 for 5, the batsmen knocked off the runs with ease in 18.1 overs... more", "url": "http://www.ndtv.com/topstories/showtopstory.asp?slug=Series+of+blasts+rock+Mumbai&id=19794&category=National", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071020231115/http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/default.aspx" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Scores dead in Mumbai train bombs", "text": "Rescue efforts have been hampered by heavy rain\nThe first of the near-simultaneous blasts went off at about 1830 local time (1300 GMT), during the rush hour in the suburbs on the Western Railway.\nCorrespondents spoke of scenes of pandemonium, with people jumping from trains and bodies flung onto tracks.\nThere have been a number of bomb attacks in Mumbai in recent years.\nIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm and described the incidents as a \"shocking and cowardly attempt to spread a feeling of hatred\".\nPakistani leaders also condemned the blasts as a \"despicable act of terrorism\".\nPolice said the co-ordinated blasts took place at Matunga, Khar, Mahim, Jogeshwari, Borivali and Bhayandar, with most on moving trains and two at stations.\nLocal reports said the bombs appeared to have targeted first-class compartments, as commuters were returning home from the city's financial district.\nA shopkeeper near one explosion said it was so powerful they thought they had been hit by lightning.\nTelevision images show dazed and bloodied commuters being carried by fellow passengers to waiting ambulances, as rescue workers clambered through wreckage to reach victims.\nThe force of the blasts ripped doors and windows off carriages, and scattered luggage.\nClothes and shoes were strewn along the tracks.\nAn eyewitness at Mahim told the BBC some of those who had jumped from the train were run over by another train coming in the opposite direction.\nHospitals across Mumbai have been swamped with casualties.\nA medical student at a hospital in Parel, which has received many of the wounded, told the BBC News website the \"floors are filled with bloodstains\".\n\"There were so many [injured people], I couldn't really count,\" Sunny Jain said.\nCorrespondents say the confusion in the city has been made worse by the collapse of mobile phone networks, and long queues have formed for the payphones still working.\nRepeated target\nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, which are the worst in the city for more than a decade.\nMUMBAI FACTS Changed named to Mumbai in late 1990s Population: 17 million HQ to many big Indian companies and foreign multinationals Home of the Indian film industry, Bollywood Thousands arrive monthly from rural areas, with many living in slums Property prices are among the most expensive in the world At least 250 people died in serial bomb blasts in the city in 1993\nIndia looks for Mumbai clues Railway lifeline\nHome Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters authorities had \"some\" information an attack was coming, \"but place and time was not known\".\nAnalysts say Mumbai has been a repeated target because it is a financial hub and a centre for the underworld.\nMore than 250 people died in a string of blasts in the city in 1993.\nCorrespondents say Tuesday's bombers could hardly have struck a target with greater impact - both practical and psychological.\nThe city's suburban train system is one of the busiest in the world, carrying more than six million commuters a day.\nThe blasts came hours after suspected Islamic extremists killed seven people in grenade attacks in the summer capital of Kashmir, Srinagar.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5169332.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060713180402/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5169332.stm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "At least 174 killed in Indian train blasts", "text": "At least 174 killed in Indian train blasts\nPrime minister says 'terrorists' behind attacks\nMUMBAI, India (CNN) -- A series of seven explosions killed at least 174 people on crowded commuter trains and stations Tuesday evening in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, police said.\nOfficials said more than 380 people were injured in the blasts in the city's western suburbs as commuters made their way home. All seven blasts came within an 11-minute span, between 6:24 and 6:35 p.m. (12:54 and 1:05 p.m. GMT).\nThere was some confusion about the number of dead and injured as information was compiled from hospitals and explosion sites in Mumbai, the west Indian seaport previously called Bombay.\n\"There still are bodies being recovered,\" said Pooja Saxena, with the International Federation of the Red Cross, speaking early Wednesday.\nCNN-IBN correspondent Jency Jacob was aboard one of the trains during the attacks.\n\"People started running helter-skelter and started jumping from the train,\" Jacob said. (Watch rescuers pull victims from wrecked trains -- 1:59)\n\"When I jumped from the train, I saw that the first-class compartment was totally ripped apart and people were hanging from the train. There are some people who were thrown out from the train and they were lying on the track, bleeding completely.\" (Read a full account of the horror Jacob witnessed)\nOne person was arrested in New Delhi in police raids after the explosions, reported CNN-IBN, CNN's sister network, but there's been no claim of responsibility for the attacks.\nIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged calm and said the attacks were \"shocking and cowardly attempts to spread a feeling of fear and terror.\"\n\"I reiterate our commitment to fighting terror in all its forms,\" he said in a written statement.\nU.S. officials said suspicion fell on two Islamic terrorist groups whose focus has been on the disputed territory of Kashmir -- Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.\nBoth groups have been implicated in attacks that involved coordinated bombings during peak times in India, the officials said.\nIt may be no coincidence that the attacks occurred just ahead of the Group of Eight summit of world leaders that begins Saturday in St. Petersburg, Russia, said Sajjan Gohel, director of international security for the Asia-Pacific Foundation.\nLast year's July 7 terror bombings in London that killed 52 people came as UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was hosting the G8 summit in Scotland and one day after London was awarded the 2012 Olympics, Gohel told CNN International.\nBoth the 2005 London bombings and the 2004 Madrid bombings, that killed 191 people, were directed against rush hour commuters on mass transit systems.\n\"This time again, they're (terrorists) trying to show that they are live, active. They want attention, they want the focus,\" Gohel said. \"It was a coordinated, multiple, simultaneous mass casualty atrocity. This is the hallmark of a powerful transnational group.\"\nGohel noted that at least one of Tuesday's attacks targeted a first-class commuter car, and police were looking at that carriage to see if it might yield clues. The names of those aboard would have been known beforehand -- as opposed to regular computers.\nDana Dillon, a senior policy analyst in the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center, said if Indians believed a Pakistani militant group was behind the bombings, it could disrupt two and a half years of dialogue between the countries that has led to a de-escalation of troops and other positive moves.\n\"If this terrorist attack messes that up, it could be catastrophic to the region,\" Dillon said.\n'Limbs lying everywhere'\nThe blasts hit trains or platforms at the Khar, Mahim, Matunga, Jogeshwari, Borivili and Bhayander stations. The seventh explosion struck a train between the Khar and Santacruz stations, a police official told CNN-IBN.\nPolice also found and defused another bomb at the Borivili station, according to CNN-IBN. (Train map)\nVideo footage from a train station showed people in bloodstained clothes receiving medical treatment, while others were carrying victims and some lying motionless near railroad tracks. Windows of a train appeared to be spattered with blood.\nAt least one train was split in half.\nJacob said after his train was attacked he moved toward the back of the train where he \"could see some explosives, some pipes that were falling down. The police were investigating that. It seems to be that the explosive was packed off in pipes and kept in the first class men's compartment.\"\nA CNN-IBN correspondent who was on one of the trains said it was leaving a station when the blast occurred. People jumped and were killed as the train hit them.\n\"Limbs [are] lying everywhere, bodies [were] cleared from the tracks by local business owners who rushed from their shops,\" the correspondent said.\nAnother CNN-IBN correspondent reported seeing 15 bodies at the Matunga station.\nPeople living almost two miles (three kilometers) away from the Borivili station said they heard the blast.\nThe Western Railway system -- which 4.5 million people use daily -- was shut down and Mumbai's subway system put on high alert after the blasts. Police in the capital of New Delhi also heightened security.\nAirports across India were put on high alert, too.\nBlasts appear to follow terrorist pattern\nU.S. officials said the blasts followed a pattern of initiated by the two main Islamic Kashmiri separatist terrorist groups.\nKashmiri separatists were blamed for twin car-bombings that killed 53 people in Mumbai in August 2003 as well as an attack on the Indian parliament in Delhi in 2001.\nIn March 1993, more than 250 people were killed when at least 13 bombs were detonated around Mumbai. That attack followed a wave of fighting between India's Hindu and Muslim communities.\nPakistani President Pervez Musharraf strongly condemned the attacks, and a statement released by his country's Foreign Ministry called them a \"despicable act of terrorism.\"\n\"Terrorism is the bane of our times and it must be condemned, rejected and countered effectively and comprehensively,\" the statement said.\nEarlier Tuesday, a grenade attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least four people. Authorities suspect militants are responsible for that attack on a minibus in Srinagar. There was no immediate indication of a connection to the Mumbai blasts.\nIndian Home Minister Shivraj Patil said the government had some advance knowledge that such an attack might take place. \"What we didn't have was the place and the time,\" Patil said.", "url": "http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/11/mumbai.blasts/index.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060711235212/http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/11/mumbai.blasts/index.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "News Update News", "text": "Deccan Herald > News update at 11:50 pm\nTERROR STRIKES MUMBAI ON 7/11\n147 killed, 439 injured in Mumbai serial blasts\nAt least 147 persons were killed and 439 injured in seven serial bomb blasts that took place aboard suburban trains on western railway on Tuesday evening, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said in Mumbai tonight.\nIt was an afternoon of mayhem as five people, including four tourists, were killed Tuesday and at least 26 injured when four blasts in quick succession of each other rocked this Jammu and Kashmir capital.\nUS not to back India joining NPT\nThe Bush Administration has made it clear that it would not support India joining NPT as a nuclear weapon state even as it.........\nProceedings in the Karnataka Assembly were stalled for the second day today by the Opposition Congress....\nMindTree Consulting to open development centre in Chennai\nGlobal IT and R and D services company MindTree Consulting's second development centre in Chennai from August.\nSPORTS ROUND-UP\nZ id ane was super arrogant,\nsays\nMaterazzi\nItalian defender Marco Materazzi acknowledged that he \"insulted\" French player Zinedine Zidane because he was super arrogant in the World Cup final... Zidane provoked by \"very serious\" jibe: agent\nZidane's World Cup final assault on Marco Materazzi was provoked by a \"very serious\" comment made by the Italian defender, according to...", "url": "http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jul112006/update.asp", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060717193940/http://deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jul112006/update.asp" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Over 150 killed in Mumbai serial blasts- The Times of India", "text": "Devastating scene at Mahim in Mumbai following the blast on Tuesday\nDevastating scene at Mahim in Mumbai following the blast on Tuesday . (TOI)\nMUMBAI: Terrorists struck big on Tuesday, setting off seven blasts in suburban trains that left at least 151 dead, preceded by five grenade attacks in Srinagar earlier in the day in which eight people were killed.\nOver 300 people were injured in the string of blasts in first-class compartments of suburban trains around 6 pm, during peak-hour traffic.\nAs the blasts ripped apart train compartments, mangled bodies of passengers were hurled out and survivors, many of them bleeding profusely, jostled to come out, leading to chaotic scenes.\nThe blasts occurred between 6.24 pm and 6.35 pm at Mahim, Bandra, Matunga, Borivili, Mira Road, Jogeshwari and Khar when most office-goers were returning home.\nPrime Minister Manmohan Singh late on Tuesday reviewed the security situation in the aftermath of blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar after which he expressed the government's resolve to \"fight and defeat the evil designs of terrorists\".\nHe appealed to the people to maintain calm in the face of terror attacks after an emergency meeting at his residence with home minister Shivraj Patil among those present.", "url": "http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1733321.cms", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060821075241/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1733321.cms" } ]

[ "México", "Norteamérica", "Elecciones en México de 2012", "Democracia y elecciones", "Política" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Definen formato de debates entre candidatos presidenciales", "text": "Tras una reunión de más de cinco horas, el IFE y los representantes acordaron que los debates durarán 120 minutos. Foto: Notimex\nMéxico, DF.- La Comisión de Debates del Instituto Federal Electoral y los representantes de los candidatos presidenciales definieron el formato de los encuentros.\nTras una reunión de más de cinco horas, acordaron que los debates durarán 120 minutos y se realizarán tres rondas de preguntas por candidato en cada uno de los encuentros para que en total aborden seis temas.\nLos tópicos serán economía y empleo; seguridad y justicia; desarrollo sustentable; desarrollo social; política interior y gobierno, además de política exterior. Serán tratados tres en un primer debate y tres en el segundo, aunque aún no se define cómo se repartirán.\nAdemás se definió realizar el segundo debate en la Ciudad de Guadalajara, aunque aún se analiza la fecha.\nJaime Cárdenas, representante del candidato del Movimiento Progresista, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, explicó que aún no se definen las preguntas pero se plantea que sean realizadas por un grupo de expertos.\nSe tomarán en consideración las propuestas que ya fueron planteadas por algunos especialistas.\nEn los debates habrá pregunta- respuesta, réplica y contrarréplica.\nEl moderador será el que lea las preguntas y aunque el IFE aún no acuerda quiénes serán los moderadores, se manejan nombres de comunicadores como Carmen Aristegui o Javier Solórzano; también se propuso que pudiera ser algún académico.\nSi fuiste testigo de un acontecimiento y quieres denunciar algo o compartir tu punto de vista sobre un tema, entonces envía tu aportación a TÚ REPORTERO y lo publicamos.\nSigue a Terra Noticias en tu móvil m.terra.com.mx\nSigue también en tu tablet a Terra Noticias tablet.terra.com.mx", "url": "http://noticias.terra.com.mx/mexico/politica/elecciones/sucesion-presidencial/definen-formato-de-debates-entre-candidatos-presidenciales,97fbeb36b6ea6310VgnVCM5000009ccceb0aRCRD.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120416181541/http://noticias.terra.com.mx/mexico/politica/elecciones/sucesion-presidencial/definen-formato-de-debates-entre-candidatos-presidenciales,97fbeb36b6ea6310VgnVCM5000009ccceb0aRCRD.html" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Delinea IFE formato del primer debate presidencial", "text": "Delinea IFE formato del primer debate presidencial\nW Radio | Abril 13 de 2012\nPor Verónica Méndez\nMéxico.- El primer debate que se realizará el domingo 6 de mayo a las 20:00 horas, entre los cuatro aspirantes a la Presidencia de la Republica, durará 120 minutos, y Josefina Vázquez Mota, Enrique Peña Nieto , Andrés Manuel López Obrador y Gabriel Quadri abordaran temas relacionados a la economía, el empleo, la seguridad y la justica.\nEsta tarde el IFE definió junto con los representantes de cada candidato en la materia, el formato del encuentro entre los cuatro aspirantes a relevar a Felipe Calderón en la primera magistratura en la contienda electoral del próximo 1 de julio.\nDe acuerdo al avance del programa durante las dos horas de debate habrán tres rondas y en cada una se plantearan cuatro preguntas con un espacio para replicas.\nLos representantes de los abanderados presidenciales aun no han elegido al moderador del encuentro, lo que podría definirse el próximo lunes, de la misma forma determinarán quienes realizarán las preguntas para el debate.\nPor lo pronto, ya se ha establecido también que el segundo debate podría realizarse en Guadalajara, Jalisco el próximo 10 de junio.", "url": "http://www.wradio.com.mx/noticias/actualidad/delinea-ife--formato-del-primer-debate-presidencial/20120413/nota/1669782.aspx", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120417022220/http://www.wradio.com.mx/noticias/actualidad/delinea-ife--formato-del-primer-debate-presidencial/20120413/nota/1669782.aspx" } ]

[ "Europe", "European Union", "Switzerland", "United Kingdom", "North America", "Canada", "United States", "Economy and business", "European Central Bank", "Bank of England" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Measures designed to address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets", "text": "Today, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are announcing measures designed to address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets.\nECB Decisions\nThe Governing Council of the ECB has decided to take joint action with the Federal Reserve by offering US dollar funding to Eurosystem counterparties.\nThe Eurosystem shall conduct two US dollar liquidity-providing operations, in connection with the US dollar Term Auction Facility, against ECB-eligible collateral for a maturity of 28 and 35 days. The submission of bids will take place on 17 and 20 December 2007 for settlement on 20 and 27 December 2007, respectively. The operational details can be obtained from the ECB’s website (www.ecb.europa.eu). The US dollars will be provided by the Federal Reserve to the ECB, up to $20 billion, by means of a temporary reciprocal currency arrangement (swap line).\nIt is reminded that the Governing Council previously decided on 8 November 2007 to renew at maturity the two supplementary longer-term refinancing operations (LTROs) that were allotted in August and September 2007. As an additional measure, the Governing Council decided on 13 November to lengthen the maturity of the main refinancing operation settling on 19 December 2007 to two weeks, thereby maturing on 4 January 2008 instead of 28 December 2007.", "url": "http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2007/html/pr071212.en.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071215172420/http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/date/2007/html/pr071212.en.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "FRB: Press Release--Federal Reserve and other central banks announce measures designed to address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets--December 12, 2007", "text": "For immediate release\nToday, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are announcing measures designed to address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets.\nFederal Reserve Actions\nActions taken by the Federal Reserve include the establishment of a temporary Term Auction Facility (approved by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) and the establishment of foreign exchange swap lines with the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank (approved by the Federal Open Market Committee).\nUnder the Term Auction Facility (TAF) program, the Federal Reserve will auction term funds to depository institutions against the wide variety of collateral that can be used to secure loans at the discount window. All depository institutions that are judged to be in generally sound financial condition by their local Reserve Bank and that are eligible to borrow under the primary credit discount window program will be eligible to participate in TAF auctions. All advances must be fully collateralized. By allowing the Federal Reserve to inject term funds through a broader range of counterparties and against a broader range of collateral than open market operations, this facility could help promote the efficient dissemination of liquidity when the unsecured interbank markets are under stress.\nEach TAF auction will be for a fixed amount, with the rate determined by the auction process (subject to a minimum bid rate). The first TAF auction of $20 billion is scheduled for Monday, December 17, with settlement on Thursday, December 20; this auction will provide 28-day term funds, maturing Thursday, January 17, 2008. The second auction of up to $20 billion is scheduled for Thursday, December 20, with settlement on Thursday, December 27; this auction will provide 35-day funds, maturing Thursday, January 31, 2008. The third and fourth auctions will be held on January 14 and 28, with settlement on the following Thursdays. The amounts of those auctions will be determined in January. The Federal Reserve may conduct additional auctions in subsequent months, depending in part on evolving market conditions.\nDepositories will submit bids through their local Reserve Banks. The minimum bid rate for the auctions will be established at the overnight indexed swap (OIS) rate corresponding to the maturity of the credit being auctioned. The OIS rate is a measure of market participants’ expected average federal funds rate over the relevant term. The minimum rate for the December 17 auction along with other auction details will be announced on Friday, December 14. Noncompetitive tenders may be accepted beginning with the third auction. The results of the first auction will be announced at 10 a.m. Eastern Time on December 19. The schedule for releasing the results of later auctions will be determined subsequently. Detailed terms of the auction and summary auction results will be available at http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/taf.htm.\nExperience gained under this temporary program will be helpful in assessing the potential usefulness of augmenting the Federal Reserve’s current monetary policy tools--open market operations and the primary credit facility--with a permanent facility for auctioning term discount window credit. The Board anticipates that it would seek public comment on any proposal for a permanent term auction facility.\nThe Federal Open Market Committee has authorized temporary reciprocal currency arrangements (swap lines) with the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Swiss National Bank (SNB). These arrangements will provide dollars in amounts of up to $20 billion and $4 billion to the ECB and the SNB, respectively, for use in their jurisdictions. The FOMC approved these swap lines for a period of up to six months.\nInformation on Related Actions Being Taken by Other Central Banks\nInformation on the actions that will be taken by other central banks is available at the following websites.\nBank of Canada\nBank of England\nEuropean Central Bank\nSwiss National Bank (61 KB PDF)\nStatements by Other Central Banks\nBank of Japan\nSwedish Riksbank\nFederal Register Notice (33 KB PDF)", "url": "http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20071212a.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071213141225/http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20071212a.htm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Publications and Research", "text": "Bank of Canada Temporarily Expands List of Securities Eligible for Term PRA Transactions\nNOTICE – Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 9:00 (ET)\nToday, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are announcing measures designed to address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets.\nAs part of its continuing provision of liquidity in support of the efficient functioning of financial markets, the Bank of Canada announced today that it will enter into term purchase and resale agreements (term PRA) extending over the calendar year-end as follows:\nAmount Transaction and Settlement Maturity $2 billion 13 December 2007 10 January 2008 Minimum of $1 billion 18 December 2007 4 January 2008\nThe list of eligible securities for these transactions is comprised of the following1:\nSecurities issued by the Government of Canada\nSecurities guaranteed by the Government of Canada (this category includes Canada Mortgage Bonds and NHA mortgage-backed securities with a minimum pool size of $75 million)\nSecurities issued or guaranteed by a provincial government\nBankers' acceptances and bearer deposit notes, having a remaining term to maturity not exceeding one hundred and eighty days\nSecurities used in the term PRA transactions will be subject to the same margin requirements as those applicable in SLF transactions.\nThese transactions will temporarily add assets to the Bank of Canada's balance sheet, offsetting the anticipated seasonal increase in the demand for bank notes.\nThe total amount of assets acquired on any day through term PRA operations will be announced on the Bank's web site by 4:45 p.m. (ET). The assets will also be reported on the Bank of Canada's balance sheet.\nThe case for further operations will be reviewed in light of conditions in the money market.\nInformation on Related Actions Being Taken by Other Central Banks\nInformation on the actions that will be taken by other central banks is available at the following websites.\nFor further information, please contact:Jeremy Harrison(613) 782-8782", "url": "http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/notices_fmd/2007/not121207.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080126124220/http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/notices_fmd/2007/not121207.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Central Bank Measures to Address Elevated Pressures in Short-term Funding Markets", "text": "News Release\nCentral Bank Measures to Address Elevated Pressures in Short-term Funding Markets\n12 December 2007\nToday, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are announcing measures designed to address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets.\nBank of England Actions\nThe Bank of England has already scheduled long-term repo open market operations (OMOs) on 18 December and 15 January. In those operations reserves will, as usual, be offered at 3, 6, 9 and 12-month maturities against the Bank’s published list of eligible collateral. But the total amount of reserves offered at the 3-month maturity will be expanded and the range of collateral accepted for funds advanced at this maturity will be widened.\nThe total size of reserves offered in the operations on 18 December and on 15 January will be raised from £2.85 billion to £11.35 billion, of which £10bn will be offered at the 3-month maturity.\nThe Bank will accept a wider range of high quality securities as collateral against funds advanced at the 3-month maturity. The additional categories of eligible collateral are:\nBonds issued by sovereigns rated Aa3/AA- or above (in addition to those currently eligible), subject to settlement constraints.\nBonds issued by G10 government agencies guaranteed by national governments, rated AAA.\nConventional debt security issues of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, the Federal National Mortgage Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Banking system, rated AAA.\nAAA-rated tranches of UK, US and EEA asset-backed securities (ABS) backed by credit cards; and AAA-rated tranches of UK and EEA prime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).\nCovered bonds rated AAA.\nSecurities must be denominated in sterling, euro, US dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, Swedish krona, Swiss francs, and, in the case of Japanese Government Bonds only, yen; and must be capable of being delivered via a settlement channel specified by the Bank.\nThere will be no further changes to the scheduled operations on 18 December and 15 January. As usual, those eligible to bid in the operations will be the Bank’s OMO counterparties and the operations will be conducted as variable rate tenders with funds offered to successful bidders at the rate(s) that they tender.\nConsistent with the Bank’s objective of keeping overnight market interest rates in line with Bank Rate, the Bank intends to offset the additional reserves taken up in the long-term repo operations in December and January in its other operations.\nThe Bank will review whether to make any changes to operations scheduled after January in the light of market conditions at the time.\nThe Bank will announce further operational details, including details of collateral and settlement arrangements, in a Market Notice on Friday 14 December.\nInformation on related actions being taken by other Central Banks\nInformation on the actions that will be taken by other central banks is available at the following websites.\nStatements by Other Central Banks", "url": "http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/news/2007/158.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071214085547/http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/news/2007/158.htm" }, { "language": "en", "title": "On the Measures Announced by Five Central Banks on December 12, 2007", "text": "On the Measures Announced by Five Central Banks on December 12, 2007\nDecember 12, 2007\nBank of Japan\nToday, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the Swiss National Bank are announcing measures designed to address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets.\nThe Bank of Japan welcomes these measures and hopes that they will contribute to maintaining the functioning of the international financial markets. Meanwhile, Japan's money markets function well and the Bank will continue to conduct money market operations so appropriately as to maintain market stability, including supplying sufficient fund over the year-end.\nInformation on Related Actions Being Taken by Central Banks\nInformation on actions that will be taken by central banks is available at the following websites.\nBank of Canada http://www.bankofcanada.ca\nBank of England http://www.bankofengland.co.uk\nEuropean Central Bank http://www.ecb.int\nFederal Reserve http://www.federalreserve.gov\nSwiss National Bank http://www.snb.ch\nStatement by Other Central Bank\nRiksbank http://www.riksbank.se", "url": "http://www.boj.or.jp/en/type/release/zuiji07/un0712a.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20071214195305/http://www.boj.or.jp/en/type/release/zuiji07/un0712a.htm" } ]

[ "University of Sydney", "Mental health", "Suicide" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Shattered Brogden's suicide bid", "text": "John Brogden being taken from his office last night. Photo: Courtesy Channel Nine\nJohn Brogden was rushed to hospital last night after an apparent suicide attempt, one day after he resigned in disgrace as the NSW Opposition Leader.\nHe was found at his Pittwater electorate office some time before 11pm with self-inflicted stab wounds. He is believed to have been in a drug-and alcohol-induced stupor, and was taken by ambulance to Royal North Shore Hospital.\nNews of Mr Brogden's collapse swept quickly around Macquarie Street, where his colleagues had been involved in a late-night numbers battle to decide who will replace the 36-year-old, who resigned on Monday after admitting to propositioning female journalists and referring to Helena Carr, wife of the former premier, as a mail-order bride.\nMr Brogden's deputy, Barry O'Farrell, immediately put off his push for the leadership in a ballot scheduled for today and rushed to the hospital to support Mr Brogden and his wife, Lucy.\nThe Herald had called Mr O'Farrell about 11pm to ask him about the numbers, but he replied: \"Excuse me if I say I don't care about the leadership at the moment, but I am following an ambulance with John Brogden inside. He has attempted self-harm. It sort of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?\"\nMr Brogden's injuries were described as not life-threatening. They required no surgery last night. He was said to be lucid when taken to hospital.\nThe Herald understands Mr Brogden may have been aware that The Daily Telegraph was to publish allegations today that he was involved in another sexual advance to two female reporters. It led early editions of the paper with the headline: \"Brogden's sordid past\".\nMr Brogden's collapse could mean that this morning's planned leadership ballot will not go ahead.\nMr O'Farrell and his fellow Liberal MPs Peta Seaton and Andrew Tink left the hospital at 12.10am, but did not elaborate on Mr Brogden's condition.\nEarlier yesterday Mr Brogden had returned to work as the member for Pittwater, pledging his commitment to local causes and getting warm support from his party and constituents.\nHe spent the day in the electorate office at Mona Vale, where some locals were disappointed by his behaviour but fully supported his decision to remain their MP.\n\"I would have liked him to stay on as leader of the party, but realistically he probably can't,\" said Lyndee Cook, 50, of Mona Vale. \"He has been the member for here a long time and I'm glad he is staying on. Most people here quite like him.\"\nMr Brogden has been the MP in the blue-ribbon Liberal seat since a 1996 byelection and has improved his winning margin in the past two elections. He has fought hard to try to save Mona Vale Hospital and reserved his only interview after resigning for The Manly Daily, promising to devote his \"complete commitment to serve and fight the issues\".\nBarry O'Farrell and Peta Seaton, and Andrew Tink, left, leaving Royal North Shore Hospital early this morning.\nPhoto: James Brickwood\n\"Now I have got the chance to come back [as an MP] and recommit myself to the role.\"\nThe president of the Pittwater branch, Ross Barlow, said local party members were disappointed by his actions but wanted him to remain their MP.\n\"Local members were disappointed but they are giving their support back to him,\" Mr Barlow said. \"John is a good operator and a good person in Pittwater. He has done a good job here.\"\nErin Ricketts, 20, a student from Scotland Island, was glad Mr Brogden remained in Parliament and hoped he would \"do good things\" for the northern beaches. \"If he pinched some girl's arse and said the wrong thing it shouldn't reflect what he does politically,\" she said.\n\"This whole thing about social righteousness kind of annoys me. I think everybody is human.\"", "url": "http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/disgraced-brogdens-suicide-bid/2005/08/31/1125302574623.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20051021073052/http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/disgraced-brogdens-suicide-bid/2005/08/31/1125302574623.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "The Media Report: 1 September 2005", "text": "Thursdays at 8.30am, repeated at 8.00pm\nwith Richard Aedy\nBrogden and the Media\n1 September 2005\nprint The sad case of John Brogden and the role of the media, particularly the Daily Telegraph, in bringing the story to public attention. Program Transcript\nRichard Aedy: Itís all change at Fairfax on todayís program; weíre looking at a recent departure and an upcoming arrival. But before that, hereís David Penberthy, editor of Sydney tabloid, The Daily Telegraph.\nDavid Penberthy: If we stopped running stories, and if you stopped running stories on the basis of the fact that people may do themselves harm, you wouldnít review poor restaurants, you wouldnít condemn sporting captains for letting their nation down, you wouldnít cover courts and you probably wouldnít cover Question Time. If I knew that it was going to happen, there is absolutely no way it would have gone in the paper. Itís dreadful, it is appalling what has happened, but to say that it is our fault off the basis of one story is I think, just fatuous.\nRichard Aedy: David Penberthy, vigorously defending his paperís coverage of the downfall of former New South Wales Opposition leader, John Brogden.\nBut he would say that, wouldnít he? Heíd be a pretty poor sort of editor if he didnít. Which left me wondering, did the paper go too far? Rod Tiffen of the University of Sydney is one of our leading scholars on Australiaís mass media.\nRod Tiffen: The things that we like about tabloids are that theyíre vigorous and colourful and spirited, and that they concentrate on very specific events rather than more abstract policy notions. But I think in this case The Daily Telegraph has gone too far, especially in its first edition on Wednesday, when it had this thing about ĎBrogdenís sordid pastí, and this story, unlike some of the others, had all anonymous sources, it was after Brogden had stopped down as leader, and it just seemed to me very much several miles too far.\nRichard Aedy: But I mean heís a politician, he must have known that his original remark about Helena Carr would get out, and that other things would get out, too.\nRod Tiffen: I donít think that he did know that his remark about Helena Carr and these other things would get out. In fact they didnít get out in New South Wales, they got out in Canberra. So none of the state parliamentary political reporters, for good or for ill, decided that they were worth reporting. So it wasnít any of the people at the scene that put it into the media, it was people a considerable remove. And thatís not to excuse at all any of his behaviour, and most particularly not to excuse his remark about Helena Carr.\nRichard Aedy: In many ways, this is a very Canberra story, isnít it; itís not a Sydney story at all.\nRod Tiffen: It is, it broke in Canberra, even though it was about events in Sydney. It was broken by Glen Milne in the Canberra press gallery whoís known to be very close to the Prime Minister and Treasurer, who also was very instrumental in publishing stories about Mark Lathamís personal life a few months before the election last year. So the sources of the stories are very much part of this story. In fact The Daily Telegraph, in defending itself, has said the source of the original story came from within the Liberal Party itself, and a new source about the fresh allegations also came from the Liberal Party, including at very high levels of the Liberal Party. So Glen Milneís story didnít identify any sources, but The Daily Telegraph has now identified fairly precisely where these stories came from.\nRichard Aedy: Itís very much an interplay between politics and the media, isnít it?\nRod Tiffen: It is, very much. And I think that in some senses they were partners in this story, because it was juicy journalism, but except for Mr Brogdenís opponents within the Liberal Party, it may never have got out.\nRichard Aedy: All right, so political machinations involved, but were the journalists involved, were they knowingly playing along, or were they being manipulated by the politicians, if you like?\nRod Tiffen: I donít think they were unwitting stooges. I think in many ways they were complicit in the political games being played because they thought it was juicy journalism, and once the story was in the public domain on Sunday, the issue for the journalists became not Will I pursue this story? But Do I dare not pursue this story? And so all the competitive pressures within journalism came to the fore, and so by Monday morning it was a free-for-all, and then of course with Brogdenís resignation, got saturation coverage, as you would expect. And then on the Wednesday morning the Telegraph now feels itís got a hunting licence to pursue Brogden further, and I think this is what I most dislike about tabloid journalism, that they only wait till the manís down before they start kicking. And thatís what I would call hyena journalism, you know, the pack goes after him, now that thereís a carcase to pick at, and that very much seemed to me to epitomise The Daily Telegraphís reporting on Wednesday morning.\nRichard Aedy: Itís a sort of cascade, isnít it? None of the state political reporters (who must have known about some of this stuff, some of them are saying, ĎLook, I was propositionedí) say anything, then it comes out through the federal press gallery, then thereís more, and eventually we are getting highly damaging stories from anonymous sources to yesterday morningís first edition that the Telegraph hastily changed of course, when John Brogden appeared to make an attempt on his own life.\nRod Tiffen: Yes. I think that it was a cascading event. I think, to leave the Helena Carr slur to one side for one moment, the allegations of improper behaviour are very interesting; because they raise issues of where do you draw the line? Many politicians engage in boorish behaviour, behaviour of bad taste and so forth, and so do many senior journalists and editorial executives for that matter, who also wheelpower in society, and perhaps we should be interested in their morality. But there becomes a question of when is behaviour something that I as a person involved would think less of that person, and when is it something of public importance? And itís very hard to draw that line. You know, a lot of things attributed to Brogden, and itís very hard to test some of them Ė\nRichard Aedy: Itís just a no-win for him. Anyone could say anything now, and he will not get the benefit of the doubt.\nRod Tiffen: How can he refute that on an unknown date that he behaved in this way towards some unknown person? Itís very much loaded against him, and now that heís been guilty of some other quite serious breaches, many people will be prepared to believe the worst of him on all occasions.\nRichard Aedy: Itís an issue of proportionality, isnít it, because nobody would defend the remark about Helena Carr, itís indefensible, and nobody would defend ongoing sexual harassment, thatís not defensible either. But proposition somebody in a Ė now itís not moral if youíre a married man, but I mean it happens, politicians philander.\nRod Tiffen: Indeed they do, and politicians gossip, and politicians are often quite manipulative creatures who tend to think the worst of all human beings, and a lot of their gossip is wrong, because they presume the worst about everyone. And I think that it is very tricky therefore to draw this line, this demarcation. I remember when Shane Warne was in the headlines a few months ago; one media commentator compared him to other sporting giants like Gary Ablett, and Mike Tyson. Well Mike Tyson raped a woman; Gary Ablett was involved with a woman...\nRichard Aedy: Who died of a drug overdose, didnít she?\nRod Tiffen: A heroin overdose. And Shane Warne was philandering and being a buffoon in a very distasteful way. It seems to me that people have forgotten how to draw lines. And George Bernard Shaw once said ĎThe problem with the press is that they canít tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilisation.í And it seems to me that perhaps some of Brogdenís behaviour has been escalated out of proportion here.\nRichard Aedy: Rod Tiffenís Associate Professor in Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and the author of Scandals: Media, Politics and Corruption in Contemporary Australia, published by UNSW Press. Guests on this program: Rod Tiffen\nAssociate Professor\nGovernment & International Relations\nUniversity of Sydney\nPublications: Scandals: Media, Politics and Corruption in Contemporary Australia\nAuthor: Rod Tiffen\nPublisher: UNSW Press\nISBN: 0868406015\nPresenter: Richard Aedy\nProducer: Jackie May back to The Media Report homepage", "url": "http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/stories/s1450691.htm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050907080034/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/stories/s1450691.htm" } ]

[ "India", "Asia", "Religion", "Islam", "Education", "Politics and conflicts", "Supreme Court of India", "Constitution of India" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "SC retains AMU's minority status", "text": "CNN-IBN\nNew Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)will remain a minority institution and that its character will not change.\nThe AMU and the Centre have told the Supreme Court that there will be no reservation in AMU pending this case.\nThe next hearing will be on May 10,2006.\nEarlier this month, AMU had moved the Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad High Court's verdict, which had put down the minority status of the institution.\nThe Allahabad High Court on January 5 had struck down the provision of the Aligarh Muslim University Amendment Act, 1981, by which the status of a minority institution was accorded to AMU.\nIt had also quashed the 50 per cent quotas for Muslim students.\nIt had held that according the university the status of a minority institution was ultravires to the Constitution and 50 per cent reservation envisaged for the Muslim students was illegal.\nThe appeal to SC challenged the High Court verdict that AMU was not a minority institution entitled to protection under Article 30 (1) of the Constitution.\nIn 1875 Sir Syed Ahemd Khan,a modern liberal Muslim, established the Anglo Oriental College in Aligarh.\nIn 1920 the college was granted a legal status of a university.\nIn 1968 the Supreme Court in its judgement had quashed the minority status of the university saying AMU has been established by an Act of Parliament.\nThe decision was overruled by the Indira Gandhi government in 1981 by bringing about an amendment in the Act.\nNow again the act has failed to pass legal scrutiny. The government however is keeping its options open of going to the apex court.\n(With inputs from PTI)", "url": "http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sc-retains-amus-minority-status/8658-3.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20060430051711/http://www.ibnlive.com/news/sc-retains-amus-minority-status/8658-3.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "SC restores minority tag for Aligarh University", "text": "NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday granted partial relief to those fighting for the restoration of status-quo in Aligarh Muslim University when it reaccredited it with the ���minority��� tag, but refused to stay, till the pendency of the matter, the Allahabad High Court���s verdict striking down the 50% quota for students belonging to the minority community.\nAdmitting a petition challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict quashing minority status accorded to the AMU and 50% quota for Muslim students, a bench headed by justice KG Balakrishnan directed the university not to implement the decision till the matter was decided.\nThe apex court also directed the university to maintain status-quo on the character of the university as on the date of the filing of the writ petition before the High Court.\nA division bench of the Allahabad High Court had on January 5 this year, struck down the provision of the AMU Amendment Act, 1981 by which the status of the minority institution had been bestowed on the AMU. In doing so, it had upheld its last year���s judgement, terming as ���unconstitutional��� the minority status accorded to the university and the 50% reservation for Muslims.\nThe division bench took refuge behind the SC judgement in the Ajeez Basha case of 1968, which had already taken the view that AMU was not a minority institution and that any enactment of a law by Parliament could not overrule the judgement.\nLast October, justice Arun Tandon had observed that the AMU Amendment Act was unconstitutional and that the AMU was not a minority institution.\nHe observed that the notification issued by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry on February 25, permitting AMU to reserve seats for Muslims in PG medical courses and the 50% quota approved by the institution���s academic council in the PG medical courses was, therefore, ���illegal.���\nThe Supreme Court, in its order on Monday, also issued notices to the students who had moved the writ petition before the High Court, challenging 50% quota for Muslim students.\nThe court referred the matter to the chief justice for allocating it to a larger bench.The Aligarh Muslim University hailed the SC���s interim order on the institution���s minority character as a ���major victory��� and said the issue of granting 50% reservation to Muslims would be held in abeyance till a final verdict.\n���By admitting our writ and referring it to a larger Bench, the Supreme Court has given us a fair opportunity for establishing claims regarding the origins of this historic institution,��� AMU vice-chancellor Naseem Ahmed said.\nHe said today���s interim order ���marks a major victory for us and has vindicated our stand on the need to review the 1968 Supreme Court verdict on the Aziz Basha case���.", "url": "http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1502757.cms", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200517103740/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1502757.cms" } ]

[ "Science and technology", "Internet", "Computing", "Software" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Helping Dolphins Fly", "text": "Wednesday Jan 16, 2008\nHelping Dolphins Fly\nWe announced big news today - our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we're acquiring MySQL AB.\nIf you're interested in the financial details for the quarter, tune in to our conference call (see details on sun.com) today - we'll obviously have more to say as we release our formal results on January 24th.\nBut the biggest news of the day is... we're putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you're an industry insider, you'll know what that means - we're acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL, the world's most popular open source database.\nYou'll recall I wrote about a customer event a few weeks ago, at which some of the world's most important web companies talked to us about their technology challenges. Simultaneously, we gathered together some of the largest IT shops and their CIO's, and spent the same two days (in adjoining rooms) listening to their views and directions.\nBoth sets of customers confirmed what we've known for years - that MySQL is by far the most popular platform on which modern developers are creating network services. From Facebook, Google and Sina.com to banks and telecommunications companies, architects looking for performance, productivity and innovation have turned to MySQL. In high schools and college campuses, at startups, at high performance computing labs and in the Global 2000. The adoption of MySQL across the globe is nothing short of breathtaking. They are the root stock from which an enormous portion of the web economy springs.\nBut as I pointed out, we heard some paradoxical things, too. CTO's at startups and web companies disallow the usage of products that aren't free and open source. They need and want access to source code to enable optimization and rapid problem resolution (although they're happy to pay for support if they see value). Alternatively, more traditional CIO's disallow the usage of products that aren't backed by commercial support relationships - they're more comfortable relying on vendors like Sun to manage global, mission critical infrastructure.\nThis puts products like MySQL in an interesting position. They're a part of every web company's infrastructure, to be sure. And though many of the more traditional companies use MySQL (from auto companies to financial institutions to banks and retailers), many have been waiting for a Fortune 500 vendor willing to step up, to provide mission critical global support.\nSo what are we announcing today? That in addition to acquiring MySQL, Sun will be unveiling new global support offerings into the MySQL marketplace. We'll be investing in both the community, and the marketplace - to accelerate the industry's phase change away from proprietary technology to the new world of open web platforms.\nThe good news is Sun is already committed to the business model at the heart of MySQL's success - first investing to grow communities of users and developers, and only then creating commercial services that attract (rather than lock in) paying customers. Over the past few years, we've distributed hundreds of millions of licenses and invested to build some of the free software world's largest communities. From Java to ZFS, Lustre to Glassfish, NetBeans to OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris, we've been patient investors and contributors, both. Free and open software has become a way of life at Sun. MySQL's has similarly driven extraordinary adoption of their community platform, with more than 100 million downloads over the past 10 years. Their users, as with Sun's, run MySQL across every major operating system - Linux, Windows, Solaris and the Mac; and every major system platform, from IBM, Intel, AMD, Dell, Sun and HP.\nNot coincidentally, those companies are exactly the companies with whom Sun has signed OEM relationships - so the integration of MySQL into Sun's ecosystem and channels will be exceptionally straightforward.\nSo how do we plan to go after this new opportunity? In a few fundamental ways.\nWe've historically worked at arm's length to optimize MySQL on Sun's platforms. Just as we did for Oracle in their early days, our performance engineering teams will sit (virtually) with their counterparts in MySQL and in the community, leveraging technologies such as ZFS and DTrace (which we didn't even have in the Oracle era) to ensure Sakila flies - along with the rest of the LAMP stack (from memcached and php, to the broader ISV community around MySQL). MySQL is already the performance leader on a variety of benchmarks - we'll make performance leadership the default for every application we can find (and on every vendor's hardware platforms, not just Sun's - and on Linux, Solaris, Windows, all). For the technically oriented, Falcon will absolutely sing on Niagara... talk about a match made in heaven.\nSecond, I've asked our team to negotiate an arms' length commercial transaction, prior to closing, that allows us to provide Global Enterprise Support for MySQL - so that traditional enterprises looking for the same mission critical support they've come to expect with proprietary databases can have that peace of mind with MySQL, as well. This gives traditional enterprises a world of new choices and competition. As I said, if there's one item customers have been asking from us for years it's more innovation in the database marketplace - we're now in a position to respond.\nThird, we'll be announcing some exceptionally attractive platform offerings, leveraging the success Lustre and ZFS, along with new systems platforms (like the new 48TB Thumpers and 64 thread Niagara2 machines) to deliver eye popping price performance. Ultimately, that's what customers want - real value, supported globally, with quality and performance. Most importantly, MySQL's partners are going to be the centerpiece of our solutions and offers - just as we've done with Solaris and Java, we're going to work very hard to make our ISV's wildly successful as we broaden the market. It takes decades to build a broad partner portfolio, and they are an enormous part of the value customers see in Sun, and we certainly see in MySQL.\nAnd finally, this acquisition will kickstart a new set of investments Sun will be making into the academic community. Why universities? As we continue to invest in open source software development across the world, it's apparent that nearly all roads lead to academic environments - and it's high time we (as an industry) started watering the trees at their roots. It's one thing to say you're committed to education, it's another to put your money where your mouth is. Within the next 60 days, Greg will be announcing a new set of global research fellowships designed to advance the state of engineering on the internet. (Stay tuned on this blog, and on Greg's, for updates.)\nSo why is this important for the internet? Until now, no platform vendor has assembled all the core elements of a completely open source operating system for the internet. No company has been able to deliver a comprehensive alternative to the leading proprietary OS. With this acquisition, we will have done just that - positioned Sun at the center of the web, as the definitive provider of high performance platforms for the web economy. For startups and web 2.0 companies, to government agencies and traditional enterprises. This creates enormous potential for Sun, for the global free software community, and for our partners and customers across the globe. There's opportunity everywhere.\nTo the folks at MySQL, from employees to customers and partners - welcome, and we're thrilled to join you. This acquisition spells the beginning of a new era on the internet.\nStarting with the letter M.\nPosted on 05:05AM Jan 16, 2008 |\nShare this post | | | | | |", "url": "http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20080117152758/http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/winds_of_change_are_blowing" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Sun to fork out $1 billion for open-source firm MySQL", "text": "Acquisition of one of the most successful open-source software companies is a bold move for Sun, which has embraced open source to try to boost revenue.\nSun Microsystems will plunk down $1 billion to buy MySQL, the maker of a popular open-source database.\nSun said Wednesday that it will pay about $800 million in cash for MySQL's privately held stock and will assume about $200 million worth of options. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos will join Sun's senior executive team after the transaction closes.\nThe acquisition is a bold move for Sun, which has embraced open-source software and development practices in an effort to garner more revenue from its software business. Until now, it has sold support services for a competing open-source database, PostgreSQL.\nCompany executives said they will continue to support PostgreSQL and continue to partner with database giant Oracle.\nMySQL, founded in 1995, is one of the most successful open-source companies. It's part of the popular combination of open-source development products referred to as LAMP, for Linux, Apache Web server, MySQL and the PHP development language, which is broadly used on the Internet and within companies.\nMickos had previously said that the company intended to go public rather than be acquired.\nIts business model is to give away the source code and its database for free and to charge customers an ongoing subscription fee for support and services. Speaking during a conference call, Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi said he estimated MySQL's revenue over the past year was in the $60-$70 million range.\nIn the call, Sun CEO and president Jonathan Schwartz called the deal the most important acquisition in the history of the company.\nSun will gain access to MySQL's large customer base and have the opportunity to sell hardware and addition software, he said. About 75 percent of MySQL installations run on hardware from other vendors than Sun. About 20 percent of them run Sun's Solaris operating system, although the majority of MySQL databases run on Linux, executives said.\n\"This is really about one thing: reaffirming Sun's position at the center of the Web,\" Schwartz said. \"We view ourselves as a platform for the Web economy and we certainly believe and can demonstrate that we have the hottest products and platforms.\"\nIn his blog, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said that Sun will begin offering support services to customers of MySQL before the deal closes later this year.\nHe said that Sun intends to provide the sort of support services that large corporations demand.\nMySQL is a \"part of every Web company's infrastructure, to be sure. And though many of the more traditional companies use MySQL (from auto companies to financial institutions to banks and retailers), many have been waiting for a Fortune 500 vendor willing to step up, to provide mission critical global support,\" Schwartz said.\nSchwartz also outlined a number of areas of technical integration designed to optimize MySQL's flagship database--as well as MySQL's Falcon storage engine--on Sun's Solaris operating systems and servers.\nThe size of the acquisition, at $1 billion, reflects the indelible mark that the open-source business model--in which companies give away source code and charge for services or high-end products--has left on the software business.\n\"I think that open source is becoming the business model that enterprises want to pursue...and there are legions of software engineers graduating from college who won't use anything else,\" said Kevin Harvey, general partner at Benchmark Capital and chairman of MySQL's board. \"Open source and software-as-a-service are the only two viable software business models going forward.\"\nThere are plenty of open-source start-ups, but few that have reached the size and influence of MySQL. Most of the successful open-source companies have been acquired.\nNovell bought SUSE Linux four years ago for about $210 million. JBoss was acquired for more than $400 million by Red Hat in 2006. And last year, Citrix paid $500 million for XenSource , a virtualization software provider, and Yahoo paid $350 million for Zimbra.\n\"This is a great move for Sun, and answers the question of 'SunDB' that Scott McNealy posed several years ago,\" said The 451 Group analyst Raven Zachary.\nHowever, the acquisition also comes with some potential difficulties. \"This raises a whole bunch of issues concerning Sun's close ties to Oracle, as well as their investment in PostgreSQL,\" Zachary said.\nHe believes other potential suitors include Red Hat, Sybase, Hewlett-Packard, and Oracle. Indeed, Mickos confirmed in 2006 that Oracle had attempted to acquire MySQL.\nMySQL, which is based in Cupertino, Calif., and Uppsala, Sweden, has about 400 employees. Investors include Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, IVP, Intel, SAP, Red Hat.\nThe deal is expected to close near the tail of Sun's fiscal third quarter, which ends in late March, or early in its fourth quarter.\nCNET News.com staff writer Stephen Shankland contributed to this report.", "url": "http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9851644-7.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20141113155821/http://www.cnet.com/news/sun-to-fork-out-1-billion-for-open-source-firm-mysql/" } ]

[ "Élection présidentielle malienne de 2013|8-6", "Politique", "Afrique", "Mali" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Présidentielle au Mali : large avance de Keita, le camp Cissé conteste", "text": "Fabius parle d'un «grand succès pour le peuple malien»\nL'ex-Premier ministre Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, donné favori au premier tour de l'élection présidentielle au Mali , «a une large avance», selon les premiers résultats officiels communiqués ce mardi à la presse par le gouvernement à Bamako.Ce mardi après-midi, les autorités étaient «au tiers du dépouillement de l'ensemble» des bulletins du vote de dimanche. Et selon les tendances qui se dégagent, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta «a une large avance sur les autres candidats», a déclaré le colonel Moussa Sinko Coulibaly, ministre de l'Administration territoriale (Intérieur).M. Keïta, ex-Premier ministre, cacique de la vie politique malienne, était l'un des deux grands favoris du scrutin avec M. Cissé, ex- président de la Commission de l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (Uémoa). Soumaïla Cissé, 63 ans, autre favori de l'élection, serait en deuxième position, mais très nettement distancé, devant Dramane Dembélé, 46 ans.«Les écarts sont importants» et «si ces écarts sont confirmés, il n'y aura pas de deuxième tour» fixé au 11 août, a ajouté Moussa Sinko Coulibaly, assurant que «toutes les dispositions étaient prises» pour une bonne organisation du second tour si cela s'imposait. Il a par ailleurs souligné un taux de participation «exceptionnel» pour le scrutin de dimanche. «Au moment où je vous parle, le taux que nous avons est de 53,5%, un taux à l'échelle nationale» tandis que pour Bamako, la capitale, ce chiffre «tourne autour de 60%».Sa déclaration a suscité à Bamako des manifestations spontanées de joie de partisans de M. Keïta, qui sont descendus dans les rues à pied ou à moto en scandant «IBK». Elle a en revanche suscité la colère dans le camp de M. Cissé. «Ce que le ministre a dit n'est pas proche de la vérité. (...) Ce qu'il a dit n'est pas juste», a déclaré Gagnon Coulibaly, coordinateur de la campagne de Soumaïla Cissé, évoquant un taux de dépouillement de seulement «12%» et non du tiers.Adama Koïta, porte-parole d'une coalition de partis alliée à la candidature de M. Cissé, a de son côté réclamé la démission du ministre «dès ce (mardi) soir».«Nous espérons pouvoir terminer le dépouillement aujourd'hui (mardi), au plus tard demain (mercredi)», a conclut le ministre Coulibaly. Près de 6,9 millions d'électeurs étaient appelés à choisir leur président parmi 27 candidats.Le scrutin de dimanche a été salué par plusieurs pays et institutions, notamment la France et l'Union européenne (UE). Le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Laurent Fabius, a, lui, parlé mardi à Paris de «grand succès pour le peuple malien et la communauté internationale qui a appuyé le processus» électoral. Pour lui, «l'élection, probablement, n'a pas été parfaite mais c'est la meilleure qui ait eu lieu depuis l'indépendance», en 1960, de cette ex-colonie française.Le scrutin s'est déroulé «dans le calme, ce qui était difficilement imaginable, il y a six mois. (...) Le Mali a sans doute plus avancé en sept mois qu'en plusieurs années. La sécurité dans l'ensemble a été rétablie», a notamment estimé Laurent Fabius.", "url": "http://www.leparisien.fr/international/presidentielle-au-mali-large-avance-de-l-ex-premier-ministre-ibrahim-boubacar-keita-30-07-2013-3018831.php", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130801110631/http://www.leparisien.fr/international/presidentielle-au-mali-large-avance-de-l-ex-premier-ministre-ibrahim-boubacar-keita-30-07-2013-3018831.php" } ]

[ "Europe", "Spain", "Politics and conflicts", "Crime and law", "ETA" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Car Bomb That Injured 2 Spanish Police Officers Blamed on ETA", "text": "A van loaded with explosives blew up Friday outside a police station in a Basque city, slightly injuring two officers in what appeared to be the first attack by the separatist group ETA since it called off a cease-fire in June, officials said.\nWhoever set off the bomb in Durango, about 25 miles south of Bilbao, fled in a car and then detonated it in a vacant lot in the nearby town of Amorebieta, according to the Spanish Interior Ministry office in the Basque regional capital, Vitoria.\nThe blast caused serious damage to the Civil Guard station and residential barracks in Durango, shattering windows and damaging police cars parked outside, authorities said. Several nearby apartment buildings were also damaged.\nThe attack happened shortly after 3:15 a.m. (0115 GMT). There had been no warning, the Interior Ministry said.\n\"Families and children live in that police station which makes the attack all the more despicable,\" Paulino Luesma, the Interior Ministry's chief delegate in Vitoria, told Cadena SER radio.\nPolice believe some 175 pounds of explosives were used in the bomb at the station, the Spanish national news agency Efe said. It was not immediately known how many people were in the station at the time of the attack.\nThe injured officers were treated for cuts from flying glass, but were released from a hospital in a nearby town several hours later.\nThe second car blast was not considered an attack, but a means to destroy evidence. No one was hurt, and no damage was reported.\nTelevision images showed residents living in the area came out onto the street in rain, several in their bedclothes, to see what had happened.\n\"All indications point to ETA,\" a Vitoria ministry official said on condition of anonymity because of department rules barring publication of her name.\nETA called a cease-fire in March 2006, but grew frustrated with a lack of government concessions in ensuing peace talks, and set off a huge bomb in a parking garage at Madrid's airport on Dec. 30, killing two people. It insisted then that the truce was still in effect, but finally declared it formally over in June, and Spanish security forces have been on alert ever since.\nETA has killed more than 800 people since 1968 in its campaign for an independent Basque state.\nSince ETA announced in June it was reactivating \"on all fronts,\" low-level violence by supporters of the group has increased, and Basque business leaders say ETA resumed sending them extortion letters seeking money to fund its campaign.\nETA detonated two small explosive devices July 25 along the route that the Tour of France used when the race dipped into northern Spain for a few hours. No one was hurt.\nInterior Minister Alfredo Rubalcaba said recently that security forces had thwarted several attempted attacks by ETA in the past few months.", "url": "http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294390,00.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160312130310/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/08/24/car-bomb-that-injured-2-spanish-police-officers-blamed-on-eta.html" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Eta blamed for Spanish car bomb", "text": "No-one has admitted carrying out the attack, but officials have blamed the Basque separatist group Eta which called off a ceasefire in June.\nThe bomb exploded in a car parked outside a police barracks in Durango, about 25km (16 miles) south-east of Bilbao, at 0330 (0130 GMT).\nA second car bomb exploded in nearby Amorebieta about one hour later.\nPolice said the second car was used by the bombers to flee the scene of the first bombing.\nThere were no injuries or damage reported from the second bomb but the Durango explosion caused considerable damage to the police barracks.\nTwo policemen were injured by flying glass.\nEta has waged a violent campaign since the 1960s for an independent state in northern Spain and south-west France.\nSecurity forces in Spain and France have been on high alert since Eta called off its 15-month ceasefire in June.\nSeveral Eta members have been arrested recently and police raids have uncovered caches of explosives.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6961584.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070916010842/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6961584.stm" }, { "language": "fr", "title": "Actualités", "text": "«C’est le premier attentat depuis la rupture de la trêve», estime déjà la première radio privée espagnole Cadena Ser ainsi que le site Internet du quotidien El Pais . Vendredi matin, une voiture piégée a explosé devant un poste de police de Durango au Pays basque espagnol, blessant légèrement deux policiers, atteints par des bris de verre. L'attentat n'a pas été revendiqué pour le moment.Mais un responsable du ministère l'Intérieur de la région basque a aussitôt déclaré que l'explosion portait la marque de l'organisation séparatiste ETA qui a mis en juin un terme au cessez-le-feu unilatéralement décidé en mars 2006. «Tout indique qu'il s'agit d'un acte de l'ETA», a souligné une autre responsable qui a requis l'anonymat. Elle a déclaré ignorer si, selon son habitude, l'ETA a averti par téléphone de l'imminence de l'explosion. Cadena Ser au Pays basque a toutefois souligné que l'organisation n'avait jamais alerté de l'imminence de ses attentats lorsqu'ils étaient dirigés contre les forces de sécurité espagnoles.La ou les personnes qui ont déclenché l'engin explosif à Durango, provoquant d'importants dégâts au poste de police, ont pris la fuite en voiture puis ont déclenché une heure plus tard une autre explosion dans le village voisin d'Amorebieta. D’après la police, cette seconde explosion ne serait toutefois pas un autre attentat mais aurait simplement servi à détruire d'éventuels indices.ETA avait décrété un cessez-le-feu unilatéral en mars 2006 mais depuis cette date l'organisation séparatiste a fait connaître sa frustration devant le manque de concessions du gouvernement central dans les négociations qui ont suivi. Le 30 décembre 2006, ETA faisait exploser une puissante bombe sur le parking de l'aéroport de Madrid, tuant deux personnes.Toutefois, l'organisation clandestine faisait savoir que la trêve était toujours en vigueur avant d'en annoncer la fin en juin dernier, mettant les forces de sécurité espagnoles en état d'alerte permanente.Jeudi, le ministre espagnol de l'Intérieur, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, avait déclaré que le silence observé dernièrement par le bras politique de l'ETA, Batasuna, était «le pire des augures». Batasuna a justement appelé à manifester à un rassemblement pour l’autonomie du Pays basque, vendredi à Ciboure, dans les Pyrénées-Atlantiques, à l’occasion de la visite du président français, Nicolas Sarkozy.", "url": "http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/20070824.WWW000000226_peut_etre_un_attentat_deta_au_pays_basque_espagnol.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20090801124920/http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/20070824.WWW000000226_peut_etre_un_attentat_deta_au_pays_basque_espagnol.html" }, { "language": "es", "title": "ETA reaparece con un coche bomba contra la Guardia Civil en Durango", "text": "Tres meses después de la ruptura oficial del \"alto el fuego permanente\", ETA ha reaparecido esta madrugada colocando un potente coche bomba junto a la Casa Cuartel de la Guardia Civil de Durango (Vizcaya). La explosión ha herido levemente a dos agentes, que ya han sido dados de alta, y ha causado cuantiosos daños materiales en los edificios colindantes y en los coches patrulla. Los terroristas han huido del lugar en otro coche, que han hecho estallar en Amorebieta, a unos 11 kilómetros de Durango, para eliminar huellas. Según fuentes de la investigación, los etarras utilizaron un temporizador que tenía un tiempo máximo de dos minutos.\nSegún el director de la Guardia Civil y la Policía, Joan Mesquida, que se ha desplazado a Durango, la furgoneta, una Citröen C-15 robada dos días antes en Munguía (Vizcaya) y con matrícula de San Sebastián, estaba cargada con entre 80 y 100 kilos de un explosivo \"de tipo medio\" por determinar.\nIgualmente, ha confirmado que el coche en el que los terroristas se han dado a la fuga y han detonado en Amorebieta tenía una matrícula portuguesa, lo que hace pensar a los cuerpos de seguridad que los terroristas tengan algún tipo de \"infraestructura\" en Portugal, así como en Vizcaya. Según fuentes de la investigación, los terroristas alquilaron este segundo vehículo en mayo en la localidad portuguesa de Cuarteiras (Algarve), lo recogieron posteriormente en el aeropuerto Oporto y después no lo devolvieron, por lo que las matrículas no son falsas.\nPero según el jefe de la Policía Judicial (PJ) lusa, Alipio Ribeiro, está descartado que ETA tenga infraestructura permanente en Portugal.\nEliminar huellas\nMesquida ha relatado que el atentado ha sido perpetrado por varios activistas. Uno de ellos, encapuchado, ha aparcado la furgoneta Citröen C-15 -marcha atrás, para que la onda expansiva apuntara al cuartel- en la parte de atrás de la casa-cuartel, fuera de su perímetro de seguridad y ha emprendido la huida en otro coche, un SEAT con matrícula falsa portuguesa, donde le esperaba otra persona. El agente de guardia, que visionaba los monitores de seguridad, ha intentado activar un perturbador de señales al ver al encapuchado, pero no le ha dado tiempo y el coche bomba ha estallado, causando cuantiosos daños materiales en el cuartel y en los edificios colindantes. Como es habitual en atentados de ETA contra cuarteles de la Guardia Civil, no ha habido aviso previo. Toda la acción ha sido grabada por las cámaras de seguridad del complejo.\nComo consecuencia de la explosión, han resultado heridos un agente de 30 años, F..R., con cortes en el muslo, el cuello y en la espalda, y otro de 37 años, C.E.Q., que tiene cortes en la mano derecha y ha sufrido mareos debido a la onda expansiva provocada por la explosión. Aunque han sido atendidos en el hospital de Galdakao, los dos han sido ya dados de alta y han vuelto al cuartel.\nLos dos terroristas han huido en el SEAT por la autovía San Sebastián-Bilbao en dirección a Amorebieta. Allí, en un descampado, unos 50 minutos después del atentado, han hecho estallar el coche con el que habían huído, presumiblemente para eliminar cualquier rastro.\nImportantes daños\nLa explosión ha causado importantes daños en los edificios colindantes, en el propio cuartel de la Guardia Civil y en los vehículos de las inmediaciones. Unos 20 coches han resultado afectados, de ellos 10 de la Guardia Civil -uno al menos ha quedado completamente destrozado- y doce de particulares. Dentro del cuartel, han resultado dañadas unas 8 viviendas, en las que viven 10 familias con cinco niños, y uno de los muros del perímetro del cuartel se ha desplomado. Además, se han roto ventanas y persianas de los edificios de los alrededores. La zona está acordonada mientras agentes de la Ertzaintza continúan las investigaciones en el lugar.\nLo seguirá intentando\nAyer, el ministro del Interior, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, entrevistado en la Cadena SER, declaró que ETA seguiría intentando atentar hasta que lo consiguiera. Para él, prueba de ello era el silencio que desde hace semanas viene manteniendo Batasuna. \"Ese silencio es el peor de los augurios\", dijo. En todo caso, ante la posibilidad de un atentado, Rubalcaba dijo que sería ETA y la propia Batasuna quienes salieran perjudicados.\nEl cuartel de la Guardia Civil de Durango (Vizcaya) fue objeto en los años 80 de dos atentados por parte de ETA. En marzo de 1984, los terroristas lanzaron granadas contra el cuartel, sin causar víctimas. En julio de 1986, ETA colocó un vehículo con dos tubos lanzagranadas con cargas anticarro y antipersona que fue localizado antes de que hiciera explosión. Además, en, al menos dos ocasiones, radicales han lanzado cócteles molotov contra el acuartelamiento.", "url": "http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/ETA/reaparece/ruptura/alto/fuego/coche/bomba/Durango/elpepuesp/20070824elpepunac_1/Tes", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20170601100719/http://elpais.com/elpais/2007/08/24/actualidad/1187943417_850215.html" }, { "language": "es", "title": "ETA reaparece con una furgoneta bomba con 100 kilos de explosivo en Durango", "text": "LOS DOS GUARDIAS CIVILES HERIDOS LEVES, DADOS DE ALTA\nATLAS\nELMUNDO.ES | AGENCIAS\nMADRID.- Una furgoneta Citroën C-15 cargada con entre 80 y 100 kilos de explosivo estalló esta madrugada junto al cuartel de la Guardia Civil de la localidad vizcaína de Durango. Dos guardias civiles resultaron heridos leves y dados de alta a las pocas horas. Ha sido el primer atentado de ETA tras la ruptura del alto el fuego, el pasado 5 de junio. El coche en el que huyeron los terroristas hace pensar a las fuerzas de seguridad que ETA tiene infraestructura en Portugal.\nLa explosión se produjo sin previo aviso minutos antes de las 3.30 de la madrugada junto a la parte trasera de la casa cuartel y fuera de su perímetro de seguridad. Las cámaras de seguridad recogieron los movimientos de los terroristas.\nLas primeras investigaciones apuntan a que se trataba de amonal reforzado con metralla, según fuentes de la lucha antiterrorista. Una vez que los análisis determinen el tipo de explosivo o explosivos empleados, podrá precisarse el peso.\nEl director general de la Policía y la Guardia Civil, Joan Mesquida, ha informado de que la furgoneta C-15 fue robada hace dos días, supuestamente en Vizcaya, y que ETA puede tener infraestructura en esta provincia. Fue aparcada marcha atrás para dirigir la explosión hacia la casa cuartel.\nLos terroristas han buscado la mayor destrucción posible y que \"lo increíble\" -ha dicho- es que no estemos hablando de una desgracia con varios muertos.\nLa furgoneta explosionada junto a la casa cuartel de la Guardia Civil. (Foto: EFE)\nActivada a distancia\nSegún fuentes policiales, un varón encapuchado aparcó el vehículo en la parte trasera del cuartel, pese a la advertencia de un Guardia Civil de que no lo hiciera. Éste, al ver que la persona proseguía con la maniobra, trató de activar un inhibidor, pero no le dio tiempo.\nUn testigo explicó que, al aparcamiento, llegaron dos personas, cada una en un vehículo. Uno de ellos dejó la furgoneta bomba, salió corriendo y a los pocos segundos se produjo la explosión. Se introdujo en el segundo vehículo y huyeron.\nEsta forma de actuar hace pensar a los investigadores que la bomba fue activada a distancia, probablemente a pocos metros de donde fue aparcada la furgoneta. En ese caso, ETA no habría utilizado un temporizador, como en otras ocasiones. Sin embargo, Mesquida ha precisado que se desconoce el dispositivo de activación empleado.\nSegún fuentes de la investigación, el encapuchado, con una especie de radio-mando, intentó activar un anulador de inhibidores de frecuencia antes de salir corriendo hasta el segundo coche.\nPosible infraestructura en Portugal\nEl segundo vehículo tenía matrícula de Portugal y había sido alquilado por algún miembro de ETA el pasado mes de mayo en la turística localidad de Cuarteira, en El Algarve portugués, según ha confirmado la vicepresidenta del Gobierno, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, tras el Consejo de Ministros. Esto, según el director de Policía y Guardia Civil, \"parece confirmar que ETA podría tener algún tipo de infraestructura en Portugal\".\nEste coche huyó con los dos terroristas por la autovía San Sebastián-Bilbao, con dirección a la capital vizcaína, y acabó siendo explosionado en la localidad vizcaína de Amorebieta pasadas las 4.30 de la madrugada.\nLas sospechas, sin confirmar, sobre la actividad de ETA en Portugal habían sido expresadas por los ministros del Interior de ambos gobiernos hace justo un mes. Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba y Rui Pereira se reunieron en Lisboa el pasado 23 de julio después de que la banda terrorista abandonara el 22 de junio en Huelva, a dos kilómetros de la frontera lusa, un coche con explosivos que había sido alquilado en Portugal.\nEl ministro español explicó entonces que en los días posteriores a descubrirse ese coche se había especulado mucho sobre si había o no una infraestructura estable de ETA en Portugal y dijo: \"No tenemos datos de que exista pero tampoco la descartamos\".\nDos heridos y numerosos daños\nEl ministro Rubalcaba, avisaba horas antes del atentado de que \"el silencio de Batasuna\" era \"el peor de los augurios\"\nLos dos guardias civiles heridos eran los que hacían guardia en la garita de entrada. Uno de ellos tiene 30 años y presentaba cortes provocados por cristales y otras lesiones leves ocasionadas por la onda expansiva, según fuentes de la asociación de ayuda en carretera DYA, que lo atendió y lo evacuó al hospital de Galdakano.\nEl segundo afectado, de 37 años, presentaba cortes en la mano derecha y se encontraba mareado. Ambos han sido dados de alta a primera hora de la mañana y han vuelto a la casa cuartel de Durango, aunque presentan un \"shock traumático\", según Joan Mesquida.\nLa explosión ha ocasionado cuantiosos daños materiales en las instalaciones de la casa cuartel, donde 16 viviendas han quedado inhabilitadas. Según los vecinos de la zona, la explosión fue \"muy fuerte\", tanto que algunas fachadas han llegado a agrietarse. Incluso algunos locales situados a 400 metros de la explosión han resultado dañados. También quedaron destrozados una veintena de coches.\nLas fuentes consultadas precisaron que si los destrozos no han sido mayores es porque el perímetro del cuartel es grande y porque los coches blindados de la Guardia Civil también han servido para parar en parte el efecto de la onda expansiva.\nEl coche explosionado después en Amorebieta. (Foto: AP)\nEl alto mando policial, Joan Mesquida, manifestó que el atentado no desmotivará a las Fuerzas de Seguridad, sino que les \"reafirmará en la determinación de luchar con mayor intensidad contra la banda\". \"Si hemos venido trabajando veinticuatro horas al día contra ETA, ahora trabajaremos veinticinco\", proclamó.\nIncidió en que \"el trabajo contra ETA ha sido intenso antes, durante y después de la tregua\" y que la banda terrorista \"sólo tiene un destino final, que son años de cárcel\".\nNinguna sorpresa para el Gobierno\nEl atentado no pilla por sorpresa, ya que el Gobierno y las fuerzas antiterroristas llevaban días advirtiendo de dicha posibilidad. El pasado jueves, el ministro de Interior, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, ya dijo que \"el silencio de Batasuna es el peor de los augurios\", aunque aseguró trabajaban para que éstos no se cumpliesen.\nDeclaraciones que no hacían sino confirmar las palabras del ministro del día anterior, cuando reconoció que ETA ha intentado atentar en varias ocasiones desde la ruptura del alto el fuego, pero que se había logrado impedirlo. Dicha ruptura oficial de la banda terrorista ya se había hecho realidad tiempo antes, cuando atentaron contra la T-4 de Barajas causando dos muertos.\nEsta acción se ha producido 79 días después de que la organización terrorista hiciera público un comunicado en el que aseguraba que \"no se dan las condiciones mínimas\" para un proceso de negociación con el Gobierno español y anunciaba que desde ese momento actuaría \"en todos los frentes en defensa de Euskal Herria\" (País Vasco).\nDesde entonces se han producido diversos actos de violencia callejera y se ha denunciado el envío de nuevas cartas de extorsión a empresarios por parte de ETA. Además, la banda anunció la colocación de dos artefactos explosivos de muy escasa potencia al paso del Tour de Francia por Navarra que causaron mínimos daños materiales.", "url": "http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/08/24/espana/1187922064.html?a=edf48b01be13cae8ae4cd4b1019fc57d&t=1187954072", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210318031624/https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/08/24/espana/1187922064.html?a=edf48b01be13cae8ae4cd4b1019fc57d&t=1187954072" } ]

[ "Culture and entertainment", "Edinburgh", "Music", "Scotland", "United Kingdom", "United Kingdom", "Brian McNeil (Wikinewsie)", "Local only" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Plan to change noise rules to boost live music", "text": "The city wants to copy the success of Austin. Picture: Getty\nA MAJOR shake-up of late-night noise rules is being proposed by culture chiefs to boost Edinburgh’s flagging live music scene.\nThe vow comes as some of the city’s biggest promoters came together to thrash out ideas on how to revitalise the Capital’s gig circuit.\nAn open debate held at the Usher Hall yesterday – dubbed Live Music Matters – saw city officials and around 100 music industry big-hitters meet to address long-held complaints that stringent noise rules and a lack of venues stifled live music potential.\nPromoters and musicians branded current noise rules “draconian�? and claimed they promoted a “zero-tolerance�? approach that led to small venues being shut down after just a few complaints.\nThe council admitted the current situation “can’t continue�? and pledged to set up a working group.\nCulture chiefs also promised to look into options that could see new residential buildings set up near established music venues forced to foot the bill for soundproofing following complaints – a rule already enforced in Australia.\nYesterday’s meeting was held after it emerged the Capital was set to draw up a five-year masterplan to revitalise the city’s gig circuit and emulate live music meccas such as Austin, Texas – where the internationally renowned South by Southwest music festival is held.\nAnd city chiefs said the new working group – formed from licensing experts, politicians and industry insiders – could even involve input and advice from Austin’s rulers.\nCouncillor Norma Austin Hart, vice-convenor for culture, told yesterday’s meeting: “I get the noise thing. It’s not just something that has come up today, it’s something that has come up in the past. This is something that we’re going to have to do something about.\n“I’m going to make a few personal commitments for some actions within the council. I don’t have a magic wand, but I do have suggestions about what we can do.\n“The first thing I’m going to suggest is that we set up an internal working group in the council – specifically on the noise issue. We need to get together people from licensing, the noise team, and some input from the industry itself, so that we can finally move this on. This can’t continue.�?\nShe added: “We have had communication from Austin Council and they have volunteered to work with us.�?\nJack Hunter, a musician and vice chair of Leith Theatre, said: “We must review the licensing policy. This whole issue of inaudibility seems to us draconian and zero-tolerance.�?\nSpeaking after the meeting, Kevin Buckle, owner of Avalanche Records, insisted the conference had been “incredibly successful�?.\nHe said: “I think it was very useful. And I think something concrete will come out of it, it’s just a case of timing. We are pushing at an open door.�?", "url": "http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/plan-to-change-noise-rules-to-boost-live-music-1-3608320", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20141124070932/http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/plan-to-change-noise-rules-to-boost-live-music-1-3608320" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Edinburgh agrees live music matters", "text": "Local music professionals have joined forces with officials from the City of Edinburgh Council to discuss the state of the Capital’s live music scene.\nAt Live Music Matters, an open forum held at the Usher Hall last night (Monday 17 November), a jam-packed audience of musicians, gig promoters, venue managers and academics discussed the current live music offering in Edinburgh and shared ideas on how to enhance the experience of live music for musicians and concertgoers.\nThe debate was organised following a commitment in a report from June by the Council’s Culture and Sport Committee to increase understanding and awareness of the live music scene in Edinburgh, in order to capture the key issues and opportunities facing the music community in the Capital.\nCouncil policy on entertainment noise levels, the licensing and provision of live music venues in Edinburgh, and the support of grassroots talent emerged as hot topics for the local music community.\nCouncillor Norma Austin Hart, Vice Convener for Culture and Sport, said: “It is only right that debate about the city’s music scene is led by the experience and insight of local professionals. The Council-run and operated Usher Hall provides an ideal venue for the Live Music Matters open forum to discuss the current offering that we have in Edinburgh, and ideas for making it even better.\n“What has become clear from the debate is that Edinburgh has a passionate and proud music industry, burgeoning with creative talent, and as a city we need to support this talent.\nImage credit: Alan Rennie Photography\n“Many venue owners and musicians feel that the Council’s current policy on noise levels can be a barrier to the development of Edinburgh’s music scene. To tackle this, we will specifically look at the current rules, and how these rules impact entertainment venues and residents.\n“The meeting has also highlighted the importance many people attach to music venues, which goes far beyond sentiment and is really around cultural enrichment. The music community has told us they want Edinburgh’s music venues to be protected, and so we will aim to identify whether that is an option, perhaps through a register of cultural venues.\n“Looking at ways to maintain and improve the city’s live music offering is a responsibility we need to face head on, and the Live Music Matters debate is only the beginning. We will now be gathering the comments and ideas from today’s discussion to look at ways we might be able to address them. Working in partnership will be crucial and the meeting today has reinforced that message. We will now set up a task force, called Music is Audible, with representatives from the music industry as well as the council.\"\nKarl Chapman, general manager of the Usher Hall, said: \"The Usher Hall is a well placed venue to host this important debate, not just because it's cultural importance in developing the arts and live music in the city, but also because it's owned by the Council.\n\"The debate has been truly fascinating and I was surprised and delighted to see the tickets go so quickly. It's been incredibly inspiring to hear everyone's thoughts from across the industry today. The event has certainly shown there is a demand for a healthy live music scene in the city and the City of Edinburgh Council and the Usher Hall are committed to supporting Live Music Matters by hosting future meetings here in the venue.\"\nJohn Stout, promoter at Regular Music, added: \"It's fantastic to see the Council kick off this much needed conversation, and the open forum at the Usher Hall has covered the whole spectrum of live music in the city.\n\"The contribution that these events make to the local economy and towards making Edinburgh a cosmopolitan city can't be underestimated. It will be interesting to see what the Council's next steps will be.\"\nThe debate will continue on social media and residents can share thoughts on Twitter using #livemusicmatters, and on the Council’s blog. Further updates on the programme will become available later in the year.\nThe Usher Hall is owned and managed by the City of Edinburgh Council, is an international concert which has a maximum capacity of 2900, hosts around 200 concerts and sells around 220,000 tickets annually.", "url": "http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/1705/edinburgh_agrees_live_music_matters", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160427084159/http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/1705/edinburgh_agrees_live_music_matters" } ]

[ "South Korea", "North Korea", "Hillary Clinton", "C628 (Wikinewsie)", "Korean Peninsula", "Politics and conflicts", "United States", "North America", "Barack Obama", "United Nations", "United Nations Security Council" ]

[ { "language": "en", "title": "Clinton Condemns Attack on South Korean Ship", "text": "SHANGHAI — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned North Korea on Friday that it would face “consequences” for sinking a South Korean warship in March, as she set off on an intense round of shuttle diplomacy in Asia to muster an international response.\n“It is important to send a clear message to North Korea that provocative actions have consequences,” Mrs. Clinton said after meeting in Tokyo with the Japanese foreign minister, Katsuya Okada. “We cannot allow this attack on South Korea to go unanswered by the international community.”\nThe comments were the first from Mrs. Clinton on what South Korea has called a deliberate North Korean torpedo attack, which killed 46 sailors. Mrs. Clinton declined to lay out the options for a response, saying that would be “premature.”\nBut other administration officials said they included action by the United Nations Security Council and joint American-South Korean naval exercises that could include antisubmarine warfare patrols. South Korea is also likely to squeeze the North economically by reducing trade ties.\nMrs. Clinton, who flew to Shanghai later on Friday, will consult with Chinese officials in Shanghai and Beijing on the matter. China’s support is considered crucial, both because it holds a veto in the Security Council and because it is North Korea’s neighbor and the principal supporter of the North’s leader, Kim Jong-il.\nSo far, China has been reluctant to condemn North Korea for the torpedo attack on the 1,200-ton corvette, the Cheonan — a reticence that has outraged many in South Korea.\nThe escalating tensions between North and South Korea have scrambled what had been planned as three days of economic and security talks between China and the United States in Beijing next week. Now, those discussions will be partly eclipsed by what a senior American official characterized as the greatest military provocation on the Korean Peninsula in decades.\nAlready, there is evidence that the tensions have influenced security calculations in the region. After declining for months to work out a deal to move a Marine Corps air base on the island of Okinawa, Japan now appears to be working toward a resolution, driven in part by a reaffirmation of the role the United States military plays in Japan’s security, officials said.\nMr. Okada said his government was trying to convince residents of Okinawa that “in the current security environment, the presence of U.S. forces is indispensable for the security of Japan.” He said he hoped a deal would be reached by the end of May, the government’s self-imposed deadline.\nChina is likely to be a tougher sell. President Hu Jintao hosted Mr. Kim during his train trip to China this month, just days after meeting with South Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak. That showed China’s instinct not to take sides in disputes between the North and South.\nStill, Mrs. Clinton began laying out the case for China’s support in Tokyo, noting that the South Korean government’s investigation of the sinking had been a “thorough and comprehensive scientific examination,” echoing the words Chinese leaders had used in calling for a scientific investigation.\nThe evidence collected, including part of a torpedo propeller, was “overwhelming and condemning,” she said.\n“Let me be clear: this will not, and cannot, be business as usual,” Mrs. Clinton said, speaking in a grave tone. “There must be an international, not just a regional, but an international response.”\nWhile Mrs. Clinton tours the American pavilion on the vast fairgrounds of the Shanghai Expo this weekend — the main event during her stop here — her aides will be huddling elsewhere, making the case that China must back punitive measures against the North.\n“We’d like to see them acknowledge the reality of what happened and then join with South Korea, Japan and us in fashioning a response,” said a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.\nThe administration finds itself in a delicate spot: orchestrating international support for South Korea while also deferring to President Lee on the timing and nature of the response. The United States is wary of aggravating an already tense situation; North Korea, which denies the torpedo attack, threatened to respond to military retaliation with “all-out war.”\nMrs. Clinton did not speak to reporters traveling on her plane, breaking a common practice on trips by the secretary of state. An aide said she spoke to President Obama about the crisis while en route.\nDespite the bellicose language from the North, American officials said they did not believe the country was trying to precipitate a military attack.\n“The hope is that this was a one-off action,” one official said. “We have not seen evidence that this is the first step on the road to war.”\nWhen Mrs. Clinton wraps up her meetings in China next week, she will stop in Seoul, South Korea’s capital, to give public backing to President Lee. By then, aides said, there will be clarity on what steps he plans to take.", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/asia/22diplo.html?ref=world", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100524045317/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/asia/22diplo.html?ref=world" }, { "language": "en", "title": "Clinton warns North Korea on sinking of South's ship", "text": "Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.\nUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned North Korea must face international consequences over the sinking of a Southern warship in March.\nShe said on a visit to Tokyo that, despite Pyongyang's denials, evidence the North had torpedoed the ship was \"overwhelming\".\nSouth Korea's president told his security chiefs the response to the sinking must be \"very prudent\".\nHe also firmly blamed North Korea when he addressed his security council.\nIt was a \"surprise military attack from North Korea [that came] while South Korean people were resting late at night\", President Lee Myung-bak said.\nForeign investigators said in a report that a torpedo had hit the ship, killing 46 people.\nExperts from the US, the UK, Australia and Sweden found that parts of the torpedo retrieved from the sea floor had lettering that matched a North Korean design.\n'Scientific' report\nSpeaking after talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, Mrs Clinton called on North Korea to \"stop its provocative behaviour\".\nANALYSIS Continue reading the main story Serious but under control is how the situation can best be described after listening to Hillary Clinton and other senior US officials. The comments were Mrs Clinton's first in public on the investigation into the sinking of the Cheonan. Mrs Clinton said it could not be business as usual with North Korea. But options are limited - action at the UN is most likely if China is on board. A senior US official told me it is clear that South Korea does not wish to go to war and will not take steps that run that risk. He added there is also no evidence that North Korea is preparing to go to war despite all the rhetoric. The hope is that the torpedo attack was a one-off action but it is difficult to say for sure because North Korea's motivations are still unclear.\nWhile she said it would be premature to discuss options before consultations with countries in the region, the evidence of a Northern attack was, in her words, \"overwhelming and condemning\".\n\"The torpedo that sunk the Cheonan... was fired by a North Korean submarine,\" she said.\n\"We cannot allow this attack on South Korea to go unanswered by the international community.\n\"This will not be and cannot be business as usual. There must be an international, not just a regional, but an international response.\"\nMrs Clinton, who is in Asia for a week-long tour, described the report on the sinking as \"scientific\", BBC state department correspondent Kim Ghattas reports from Japan.\nHer choice of words was interesting, our correspondent says. China was sceptical about the investigation and said it had to be scientific. Mrs Clinton is heading to China next.\nEarlier, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said that America, which has some 28,000 troops stationed in the South, was in \"close consultation\" with Seoul.\n'Resolute counter-measures'\nSouth Korea's president is due to outline his plan of action early next week and this is thought likely to include taking the evidence of an attack to the UN Security Council in an attempt to win support for tougher sanctions on North Korea, the BBC's John Sudworth reports from Seoul.\nPresident Lee told his security council the sinking of the Cheonan on 26 March had violated the UN Charter and the 1953 armistice which effectively ended the Korean War.\nOrdering \"systematic and resolute counter-measures against North Korea so that it cannot repeat this reckless provocation\", he stressed the need for caution.\n\"Since this case is very serious and has a grave importance, we cannot afford to have a slightest mistake and will be very prudent in all response measures we take,\" he said.\nSouth Korean Defence Minister Kim Tae-young told reporters at a separate briefing that the North would be \"made to pay\".\nEarlier, a number of explanations had been suggested for the sinking - including an accidental collision with an unexploded sea mine left over from the Korean War.\nThe North accused the South on Friday of creating the conditions for war to break out on the Korean peninsula.\n\"It just produced fragments and pieces of aluminium whose origin remains unknown as 'evidence', becoming the target of derision,\" an official told state media.", "url": "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10121530.stm", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20100523112018/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10121530.stm" } ]

[ "Europa", "Euro", "Unión Europea", "Letonia", "Economía y Negocios" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Letonia adopta el euro en el primer minuto de 2014", "text": "RIGA, Letonia (AP) _ Letonia celebró el nuevo año como el 18vo miembro de la zona del euro, que pese a los arañazos y moretones sigue representando estabilidad y seguridad para los líderes del país báltico. El euro pasó a ser la moneda oficial de Letonia después de la medianoche del martes, mientras los fuegos artificiales cubrían los cielos celebrando la llegada del Año Nuevo sobre la capital, Riga.\nEl primer ministro interino Valdis Dombrovskis extrajo el primer billete de euro de un cajero automático en Riga después de que la televisión mostró grabaciones de saludos de los líderes europeos dando la bienvenida al nuevo miembro a la eurozona.\n“Es una gran oportunidad para el desarrollo económico de Letonia al convertirse en un miembro de la segunda moneda más importante del mundo”, destacó Dombrovskis.\nDespués de ingresar a la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN) en el 2004, el ingreso a la eurozona es un paso natural para el liderazgo político de Letonia, en la profundización de la integración occidental que ha buscado desde que Letonia y sus vecinos del Báltico, Estonia y Lituania, se apartaron de la Unión Soviética a principios de la década de 1990.\n“El ingreso a la zona del euro completa el regreso de Letonia al corazón político y económico de nuestro continente, y eso es algo que todos tenemos que celebrar”, destacó Olli Rehn, comisionado de la UE a cargo de los asuntos económicos y monetarios.\nEstonia ingresó a la eurozona en el 2011 y Lituania tiene previsto ser miembro en el 2015. Con eso se completarían los esfuerzos de los países del Báltico para vincularse económica, política y militarmente con Occidente mientras se alejan de la esfera de influencia de Rusia.\nLos líderes europeos celebraron la entrada de Letonia como un gran impulso al bloque del euro, aunque la nación relativamente pobre de sólo 2 millones de habitantes es una pequeña parte de la economía del euro.\nAlgunos expertos expresaron preocupación sobre la reputación de Letonia de ser un paraíso para el dinero sospechoso del este, sólo nueve meses después de que la zona del euro tuvo que rescatar a Chipre, igualmente un pequeño estado miembro que también se ha especializado en atraer grandes depósitos procedentes de Rusia.- (Por ROMAN KOKSAROV)\n___ El periodista de AP Karl Ritter en Estocolmo contribuyó a este despacho.", "url": "http://yucatan.com.mx/economia/letonia-adopta-el-euro-en-el-primer-minuto-de-2014", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140103052440/http://yucatan.com.mx/economia/letonia-adopta-el-euro-en-el-primer-minuto-de-2014" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Letonia entra en el euro con un brillo empañado", "text": "CRISTINA PÉREZ\nLetonia dice adiós al lats y abraza el euro desde este miércoles. Renuncia así a uno de sus símbolos más queridos de soberanía nacional, a cambio de incorporarse a una moneda única que no vive sus mejores momentos, resquebrajada por las tensiones que dificultan el avance hacia una auténtica unión monetaria.\nEl Gobierno de Letonia pidió oficialmente en marzo a la Comisión Europea (CE) su adhesión al euro este 1 de enero, para convertirse en el decimoctavo país de la zona euro pese a la crisis, que afecta especialmente a los países del sur de Europa.\nLetonia ha conseguido recuperarse de la crisis que vivió en 2008, y que le obligó a pedir asistencia financiera a la UE y al Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), y ahora tiene la mayor tasa de crecimiento de la UE, además cumple todos los criterios de Maastricht, algo de lo que no pueden presumir muchos de los actuales miembros de la eurozona.\nDe 2004 a 2007, la economía letona crecía vertiginosamente como un 'tigre del Báltico'. Este crecimiento, sin pilares sólidos, desembocó en una burbuja financiera e inmobiliaria que al estallar provocó una contracción del 24% del PIB en tres años -de 2007 a 2009-, la mayor caída registrada en el mundo, según el economista Vincenç Navarro.\nDestrucción de empleo e inmigración\nDesde que se inició la crisis financiera, Letonia destruyó un 20% del empleo, pero el porcentaje es aún peor si se mira la destrucción por tipos de puestos de trabajo. A principios de 2012, Letonia había perdido cerca de un 30% de los empleos a tiempo completo.\nLa elevada destrucción de los mejores puestos de trabajo creó un gran problema económico pero no generó descontento social porque los letones ya habían vivido una crisis peor con el desplome de la extinta Unión Soviética.\nA la par que el PIB caía en picado más de un 20%, el paro subió rápidamente, pasando de un 5,3% en 2007 a un 20,5% en 2010. La tasa de desempleo podría haberse disparado aún más si una generación entera no hubiera optado por la inmigración como única salida. Un 10% de la fuerza de trabajo, la mayoría jóvenes, se fueron de Letonia.\nRecortes y subida del IVA\nCon la contracción de la economía y el desplome del empleo, la troika acudió al rescate de Letonia, con una inyección de 7.500 millones de euros para sanear el sector público y el sistema financiero, y a cambio impuso una dura cura de austeridad.\nEl Gobierno letón subió la edad de jubilación a los 62 años, redujo el tamaño del sector público un 30% e introdujo una batería de nuevos impuestos. El IVA subió del 18% al 21%. En los presupuestos de 2010, Letonia bajó el sueldo de los empleados públicos un 20% y las pensiones un 10%.\nEn junio, la agencia de calificación de riesgos Standard & Poor's (S&P) mejoró en un escalón la nota de la deuda de Letonia, que pasó a BBB+ desde BBB, con perspectiva estable, por su incorporación al euro a partir del 1 de enero de 2014. Una calificación mejor que la de Italia o España.\nS&P explicó entonces que la entrada en la eurozona tendrá un impacto positivo en la solvencia del Gobierno letón al mitigar los riesgos relacionados con el tipo de cambio y dotar a la banca letona de acceso al Banco Central Europeo (BCE). Un acceso que le va a salir caro porque en mayo de 2004, el Banco de Letonia como miembro del Sistema de Bancos Centrales Europeos adquirió un 0,297% de las acciones del BCE. Por ahora, ha pagado solo un 7% de un importe de 16,5 millones de euros, pero deberá pagar el total al convertirse en miembro de pleno derecho de la Unión Monetaria.\nCae el apoyo al euro\nFue el pasado 31 de enero cuando el Parlamento de Letonia dio luz verde a la introducción del euro a partir de 2014, con 50 votos a favor, 40 en contra y dos abstenciones. Una división del hemiciclo que refleja la polaridad de la sociedad letona ante la introducción del euro. Las encuestas muestran que a medida que se acerca la fecha del cambio el apoyo a la divisa europea cae progresivamente.\nEl Gobierno letón ha lanzado una amplia campaña informativa y los comercios ya muestran los precios en la moneda local, el lat, y en euros. Sin embargo, en una encuesta realizada en octubre la oposición al euro había subido al 58% de los consultados y el apoyo a la moneda única había caído al 20%, otro 22% no sabe o no contesta.\nLetonia ha hecho los deberes en las cifras macroeconómicas y cumple con Maastrich, pero un 30,9% de sus ciudadanos viven por debajo del umbral de la pobreza -datos de 2011 recogidos por Eurostat- y el desempleo supera el 17% si se incluye a los trabajadores que han perdido la esperanza de encontrar un empleo. Una situación que no ayuda a apreciar las ventajas de la divisa europea en los intercambios comerciales con la zona euro.\nPese a todo, Letonia calcula que en 2013 tendrá un crecimiento del 4,2% que, además, será sostenible, según su ministro de Economía - las previsiones de la Comisión Europea son ligeramente menos optimistas y se quedan en un 4%-. En 2011 y 2012, Letonia superó el umbral del 5% con un avance del PIB del 5,3% y del 5,2%, respectivamente.\nLetonia ha reducido sus gastos fiscales en cerca de un 50%, lo que significa que el potencial de ahorro aún no se ha agotado. El país báltico ha aprobado recientemente un controvertido paquete de leyes, que rebajan drásticamente el impuesto al capital. Estos incentivos fiscales pueden atraer inversiones extranjeras, en especial, a las grandes fortunas de la ex Unión Soviética y terminar creando otra una burbuja financiera en el sector bancario letón.", "url": "http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20131231/letonia-entra-euro/810922.shtml", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20140101040733/http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20131231/letonia-entra-euro/810922.shtml" } ]

[ "Chile", "Bicentennial of Chile", "South America", "Transport", "Disasters and accidents", "Culture and entertainment", "Diego Grez (Wikinewsie)", "Santiago, Chile" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "A 30 aumentaron fallecidos en accidentes de tránsito en Fiestas Patrias", "text": "Carabineros aumentó a 30 las víctimas fatales en todo el país, producto de accidentes de tránsito durante este fin de semana largo de Fiestas Patrias, superando la cantidad de fallecidos a la misma fecha del año 2009.\nEste nuevo balance fue presentado por Carabineros a las afueras del Parque O'Higgins, donde se detalló que nueve de estos casos son personas muertas en accidentes ocurridos en carreteras y el resto en sectores rurales.\nEl coronel de la Prefectura de Carreteras, Radiopatrullas y Tránsito, Ricardo Cartagena, explicó que \"de los 30 casos fallecidos, nueve son peatones. Siempre el factor común, la imprudencia del peatón que cruza en ruta no habilitadas para el efecto, o lo hace en forma temeraria, exponiéndose innecesariamente a un riesgo\".\n\"Después tenemos cuatro casos con perdida de control del móvil, por no estar atentos, el celular, cambiar la música, desviar su atención. Y tenemos tres casos por conducción en estado de ebriedad\", agregó.\nSegún Carabineros ya van más de 19.000 controles de tránsito en todo el país, en donde se han registraron 238 infracciones por conducir bajo la influencia del alcohol.\nAdemás, se han emitido 255 por conducir en estado de ebriedad y 1.555 infracciones por exceso de velocidad.\nDurante el año 2009, hubo 29 víctimas fatales en la misma fecha.\nLlamado a la seguridad\nDe cara al operativo de retorno a Santiago, el coronel Cartagena realizó un llamado \"a planificar bien el viaje. A descansar, a no conducir más de dos horas. Si lo hace debe necesariamente reposar por 15 minutos. No almorzar en forma pesada, cosa que después tenga fatiga, sueño. Y tratar de tener un regreso lo más tranquilo posible\".\nAdemás, Carabineros insistió que los retornos a la capital se realicen temprano, ya que las horas de menor flujo serían entre las 08:00 horas y las 13:00 horas, y la mayor congestión en las carreteras se prevé para las 18:00 horas en adelante.", "url": "http://www.cooperativa.cl/a-30-aumentaron-fallecidos-en-accidentes-de-transito-en-fiestas-patrias/prontus_nots/2010-09-19/133808.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200516150029/https://www.cooperativa.cl/a-30-aumentaron-fallecidos-en-accidentes-de-transito-en-fiestas-patrias/prontus_nots/2010-09-19/133808.html" } ]

[ "Democracia y elecciones", "Política", "Nicaragua", "Centroamérica" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Los sandinistas logran la mayoría de las alcaldías en las elecciones locales de Nicaragua", "text": "El partido del presidente nicaragüense Daniel Ortega, el Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), se ha alzado como ganador de las elecciones municipales celebradas este domingo al conseguir 91 de 146 alcaldías. La jornada electoral ha estado marcada por varios episodios de violencia que provocaron dos muertos y seis heridos por el enfrentamiento entre sandinistas y opositores del partido Liberal Constitucionalista (PLC).\nSegún datos preliminares del Consejo Supremo Electoral (CSE), el sandinismo ha salido victorioso con prácticamente la totalidad de los votos escrutados, aunque la oposición ha denunciado fraude electoral. Estas denuncias han tenido eco en el organismo nicaragüense de observación electoral Ética y Transparencia que ha pedido hoy al Gobierno y a las autoridades electorales de Nicaragua que presenten \"los verdaderos resultados\" de los comicios municipales del pasado domingo. Según este organismo, estos comicios municipales han sido \"los menos transparentes y con mayor intimidación en los últimos años, desde 1996\".\nEl organismo de observación, integrado por empresarios y grupos de la sociedad civil, afirma que movilizó a unos de 30.000 voluntarios en las 11.808 juntas receptoras de votos, pese a que no fue acreditado por el tribunal electoral.\nRetorno de la calma\nLa calma ha vuelto poco a poco al país, después de los hechos de violencia que crisparon el ambiente. La Policía Nacional mantiene desplegada sus fuerzas en la sede del Consejo Supremo Electoral (CSE), en los principales partidos políticos que participaron en la contienda del domingo y otros puntos del centro urbano. Un informe policial señaló que los enfrentamientos entre el Partido Liberal Constitucionalista (PLC), que desconoció los resultados, y los sandinistas causaron al menos cuatro personas heridas de bala, decenas de lesionados, cuantiosos daños materiales, pero ningún muerto. Fuentes de la oposición han identificado a dos fallecidos, uno perteneciente a sus filas y una menor de edad.\nEl opositor PLC se ha tenido que conformar con 40 ayuntamientos, mientras que el derechista Alianza Liberal (AL) ha alcanzado al menos tres.\nEn Managua aún faltan por contabilizarse algunos escrutinios, pero la ventaja la lleva el ex boxeador Alexis Argüello, del FSLN, que supera con el 51,3% de los votos a Eduardo Montealegre, del PLC, que obtenía un 46,45%. Ambos se han proclamado ganadores de la contienda y Montealegre, que ha disputado -y perdido- la presidencia a Ortega ha pedido al Consejo Supremo Electoral (CSE) que diga \"la verdad al pueblo\".\nLos enfrentamientos entre partidarios del Gobierno y de la oposición tuvieron lugar después de que Montealegre llamase a sus partidarios a salir a las calles tras denunciar un intento de fraude por parte del Ejecutivo. El líder opositor pidió a sus simpatizantes \"defender el voto\", y respondieron incluso apedreando viviendas que exhibían la bandera del sandinismo.\n\"El pueblo está molesto porque no nos vamos a dejar robar esta elección\", ha dicho Montealegre, tras señalar que se reuniría con el presidente del CSE, Roberto Rivas, para \"analizar una por una las actas\", en las que dijo tener ventaja.\nEstados Unidos se ha involucrado en la polémica para defender la visión de la oposición y en boca del portavoz del Departamento de Estado, Robert Wood, criticó que \"las condiciones políticas que existieron durante la campaña no fueron conducentes hacia unas elecciones libres y justas\". En cambio, varios observadores descartaron la existencia, al menos evidente, de anomalías.", "url": "http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/sandinistas/logran/mayoria/alcaldias/elecciones/locales/Nicaragua/elpepuint/20081111elpepuint_14/Tes", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111111102742/http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/sandinistas/logran/mayoria/alcaldias/elecciones/locales/Nicaragua/elpepuint/20081111elpepuint_14/Tes" } ]

[ "Themenportal Sport", "Themenportal Deutschland", "Fußball allg.", "Fußballländerspiel", "Robert Enke", "Simon Rolfes", "Roberto Hilbert", "Hans-Dieter Flick", "Deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft", "Dänische Fußballnationalmannschaft", "Wikinews:Kurzartikel", "Veröffentlicht" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Nachrichten aus Hamburg und der Welt", "text": "Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser,\nleider können wir aus technischen Gründen dieses PDF-Archiv seit dem 01.08.2019 nicht mehr befüllen.\nMöchten Sie sich Ihr eigenes Archiv zusammenstellen?\nSie können sich hier die Ihnen wichtigen Ausgaben herunterladen. Weiterhin sind alle aktuellen Ausgaben in unserem LesePortal (WebReader) vorhanden und Sie können diese dort herunterladen und auf Ihrem PC/Laptop speichern.\nWir wünschen Ihnen weiter viel Lesespaß.\nIhr Hamburger Abendblatt", "url": "http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/03/28/714516.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210314194001/https://www.abendblatt.de/archiv/nachrichten-vom-28-3-2007.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V.", "text": "Hitzlsperger (l.) im Zweikampf mit Poulsen\nDie deutsche Nationalmannschaft hat das Testspiel in Duisburg gegen Dänemark 0:1 (0:0) verloren. Den Siegtreffer für die Skandinavier erzielte Niklas Bendtner in der 81. Minute. Bundestrainer Joachim Löw ließ dabei in Hannovers Torhüter Robert Enke, Roberto Hilbert (VfB Stuttgart) und Simon Rolfes (Bayer Leverkusen) drei Debütanten von Beginn an spielen. Als Kapitän für Michael Ballack, der wie weitere sieben WM-Teilnehmer eine Pause erhielt, bestimmte der Bundestrainer Stürmer Kevin Kuranyi, der in dem Kader die meisten Länderspiele aufwies.\nVor 31.500 Zuschauern gingen die Gäste sofort zur Sache. Nach nur 75 Sekunden hatte die junge deutsche Anfangs-Elf, die einen Altersschnitt von 24,4 Jahren aufwies, die erste heikle Situation zu überstehen. Doch Keeper Enke lenkte einen Freistoß von Liverpools Abwehrspieler Daniel Agger bravourös um den langen Pfosten. Im Anschluss an die nachfolgende Ecke schlug HSV-Mittelfeldspieler Piotr Trochowski eine Direktabnahme von Nicklas Bendtner von der Linie.\nDie Gäste kontrollierten in der Folge weitestgehend das Geschehen, konnten sich aber keine großen Möglichkeiten erarbeiten. Die DFB-Elf indes legte die anfängliche Nervosität ab und kam zu einigen guten Aktionen. So prüfte Trochowski mit einem Schuss aus 20 Metern nach 19 Minuten erstmals Dänemark Torwart Thomas Sörensen. Nachdem Kuranyi einen abgefälschten Schuss von Thomas Hitzelsperger, einer von vier WM-Teilnehmern im Kader, nur knapp verpasst hatte, scheiterte Aachens Jan Schlaudraff nach einer schönen Einzelaktion mit einem Schuss aus kurzer Distanz an Sörensen.\nTestspiel Deutschland - Dänemark, Duisburg, 28. März 2007\nDoch auch die Dänen blieben gefährlich. Kurz vor der Pause traf Bendtner nach einem Konter nur das Außennetz. In der deutschen Offensive setzten neben Schlaudraff auch Rolfes mit einigen Aktionen über die linke Seite gute Akzente. In der Nachspielzeit des ersten Durchgangs tauchte auf rechts der Däne Thomas Kahlenberg frei vor Enke auf, der allerdings geschickt den Winkel verkürzte, so dass der Däne mit dem Ball ins Toraus lief.\nNach der Pause brachte Löw in Stefan Kießling von Bayer 04 Leverkusen für den Schalker Kevin Kuranyi den nächsten Neuling aufs Spielfeld. Die erste Chance nach dem Seitenwechsel konnten sich aber erneut die Dänen erarbeiten. Nur wenige Sekunden nach Wiederanpfiff (46.) scheiterte Jesper Grönkjaer in aussichtsreicher Position.\nDa auch die Dänen in der Pause auf vier Positionen umgestellt hatten ging der Spielfluss im weiteren Verlauf deutlich verloren. Erst in der 64. Minute sorgte Simon Rolfes mit einem Fernschuss aus 35 Metern erstmals wieder vor Belebung vor dem dänischen Tor. Nur sieben Minuten später feiert Gonzalo Castro als fünfter Neuling sein Länderspiel-Debüt in der Nationalmannschaft. Der Leverkusener ersetzte im Mittelfeld seinen Vereinskollegen Simon Rolfes.\nFritz (l.) im Zweikampf mit Bendtner\nAls sechster und gleichzeitig Neuling kam in der 77. Minute Patrick Helmes vom Zweitligisten 1. FC Köln zum Einsatz. Nur wenige Sekunden zuvor hatte Jan Schlaudraff die große Chance zur Führung, der Aachener scheiterte jedoch mit einem Drehschuss am dänischen Keeper Jesper Christiansen. Neuling Helmes führte sich nur wenig später ebenfalls bestens ein und scheiterte nur 70 Sekunden nach seiner Einwechslung mit einem Schuss aus vollem Lauf.\nDie Entscheidung zu Gunsten der Gäste file dann in der 81. Minute als Bendtner eine Vorlage von Grönkjaer unhaltbar in die Maschen des DFB-Gehäuses lenkte. Die größte Möglichkeit zum Ausgleich verpasste erneut Helmes, als er in der 83. Minute aus kurzer Distanz erneut am glänzend parierenden Christiansen scheiterte. In der 87. Minute köpfte der Kölner Angreifer den Ball nur auf die Latte des dänischen Gehäuses.", "url": "http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500014&tx_dfbnews_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=10687", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20070509180949/http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500014&tx_dfbnews_pi1[showUid]=10687" } ]

[ "Sudamérica", "Colombia", "Risaralda", "Desastres y accidentes", "Sociedad", "Petróleo", "Judicial", "Ecología", "Juan Manuel Santos" ]

[ { "language": "es", "title": "Tragedia en Dosquebradas, Risaralda, por explosión de poliducto", "text": "Tragedia en Dosquebradas, Risaralda, por explosión de poliducto\nPUBLICIDAD\nAl menos once personas murieron y más de 70 resultaron heridas por la explosión de un poliducto en el barrio Villa Carola, de la comuna 10 de Dosquebradas, Risaralda. El estallido ocurrió sobre las 4:45 de la mañana y provocó un incendio en la zona que afectó decenas de viviendas.\nHacia las 12:10 del mediodía el presidente Juan Manuel Santos llegó a la zona de la tragedia acompañado del ministro de Defensa, Juan Carlos Pinzón, el ministro de Minas y Energía, Mauricio Cárdenas, y la ministra de Vivienda, Beatriz Uribe.\n\"Tomaremos las medidas humanitarias correspondientes. Nadie aquí va a sufrir por hambre o por techo. Luego podremos recuperar las viviendas que han sido afectadas. No se sabe todavía la causa de esta tragedia. Posiblemente este día se establezcan las causas reales. No quiero especular si fue producto de delincuentes que estaban robándose la gasolina (...) Quiero agradecer el trabajo incansable de las autoridades y los organismos de socorro. Lamentamos mucho esta tragedia. No debería haber sucedido y vamos a investigar bien\", dijo el mandatario.\nLa alcaldesa de Dosquebradas, Luz Ensueño Betancur, señaló que más de 400 personas resultaron damnificadas por esta tragedia.\nVarios heridos presentan quemaduras de segundo y tercer grado y están siendo atendidos en centros asistenciales del municipio y de Pereira. Según la Alcaldía de Dosquebradas, los heridos son atendidos en los hospitales Santa Mónica, San Jorge, Los Rosales, la Clínica Comfamiliar y otros centros médicos.\nLa mandataria agregó que al menos 17 de las personas heridas están en un estado delicado y se encuentran en cuidados intensivos, entre ellas varios niños.\nEl presidente Santos también anunció que el Gobierno nacional, a través de la Unidad de Gestión del Riesgo, entregará subsidios a los afectados para reubicar las familias en otro lugar.\nPor su parte, el ministro de Minas y Energía, Mauricio Cárdenas, señaló que todos los costos de la atención médica corren por cuenta de Ecopetrol, al igual que las cirugías reconstructivas que requieran las víctimas de la tragedia.\nEcopetrol lamentó el hecho e informó que una comisión de expertos ya se trasladó a la zona para establecer las causas de los hechos, pero indicó que la hipótesis que manejan es que podría haberse tratado de personas que estarían hurtando gasolina.\nLa posterior fuga de combustible contaminó las aguas de la quebrada Agua Azul, por lo que las autoridades pidieron a todos los habitantes del municipio no consumir el líquido.\nEl Comité Local de Emergencias aseguró que la fuga se encuentra totalmente controlada, y que la zona fue completamente evacuada. Según datos preliminares, cerca de 100 viviendas resultaron con daños por la explosión y el posterior incendio.\nLas familias de las víctimas reciben atención sicológica y ayuda humanitaria para cubrir sus necesidades básicas.\nDe igual forma, se evalúa qué tipo de albergues y de subsidios de arrendamiento se entregará a los afectados.\nLa Alcaldía informó que algunas \"estructuras de este sector se encuentran colapsadas, razón por la que actualmente dos grupos de rescate se encargan de la búsqueda de víctimas o sobrevivientes bajo los escombros\".\nEsta es la segunda emergencia que se produce en este sector, ya que hace ocho años ocurrió una situación similar sin consecuencias graves.\nEste sábado se realizará un sepelio colectivo en la Plazoleta del Centro Administrativo Municipal, CAM a las 4 de la tarde.\nAbastecimiento de agua\nLa Alcaldía informó que como albergue temporal fue acondicionado el colegio Bosques de la Acuarela, \"donde les está siendo garantizada a las víctimas su alimentación y posada\".\nLa administración aseguró que ya se logró conectar el servicio de agua para unas 24 mil personas en el barrio Bosques de la Acuarela, a través de la empresa Serviciudad, con el fin de abastecer a los usuarios de Acuaseo, entidad que debió suspender operaciones por los daños en su planta de tratamiento.\nEn el acueducto que surte al barrio La Romelia se realizará la restitución de la tubería afectada y se garantizará el suministro del agua potable, la cual no fue contaminada y tampoco generará problemas de intoxicación en la comunidad.\nMientras tanto, para los barrios Las Acacias y La Divisa, carrotanques de Dosquebradas y de otros municipios del país se encargarán del suministro a sus habitantes, quienes se surten de los acueductos comunitarios que suspendieron su servicio.", "url": "http://www.semana.com/nacion/tragedia-dosquebradas-risaralda-explosion-poliducto/169565-3.aspx", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20111224010303/http://www.semana.com/nacion/tragedia-dosquebradas-risaralda-explosion-poliducto/169565-3.aspx" }, { "language": "es", "title": "Explosión en poliducto de Dosquebradas deja 14 muertos", "text": "Una explosión en el poliducto de Dosquebradas, Risaralda, dejó como resultado 14 personas muertas y por lo menos 70 más gravemente heridas.\nEn diálogo con Caracol Radio, el gobernador del departamento, Víctor Tamayo, explicó que los hechos ocurrieron sobre las 4:30 a.m. cuando varios individuos intentaron robar combustible a través de uno de los túneles del poliducto y mientras los perforaron ocurrió la explosión.\nNo obstante a dichas declaraciones, las autoridades investigan si la tragedia se pudo ocasionar por fatiga de materiales.\nDebido a que el hospital del municipio está colapsado por la cantidad de heridos, las personas alcanzadas por la explosión fueron enviadas a la población de Santa Rosa de Cabal.\nEntre los lesionados se encuentran 23 niños, de los cuales 17 están es cuidados intensivos.\nLa magnitud de los daños fue tal que por la orilla de la quebrada Azul, por donde se regaron las llamas, quedaron calcinados varios animales y el agua baja humeante a las veredas cercanas.\nA pesar de que el incendio ya fue controlado, el comandante de Policía de Pereira, coronel Gonzalo Londoño, confirmó que tras el siniestro hay por lo menos un centenar de viviendas afectadas.\nAsimismo fue confirmado que unas 400 personas quedaron en condición de damnificadas, sin embargo el director de la Unidad para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres (Ungrd), Carlos Iván Márquez, anunció un subsidio de hasta 250.000 pesos durante tres meses para todas las familias que resultaron afectadas.\nSigue a Terra Noticias en tu móvil en m.terra.com.co\nSigue también en tu tablet a Terra Noticias por tablet.terra.com.co", "url": "http://noticias.terra.com.co/nacional/explosion-en-poliducto-de-dosquebradas-deja-14-muertos,1ad54b2468a64310VgnVCM4000009bf154d0RCRD.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120306023326/http://noticias.terra.com.co/nacional/explosion-en-poliducto-de-dosquebradas-deja-14-muertos,1ad54b2468a64310VgnVCM4000009bf154d0RCRD.html" } ]

[ "Polska", "łódzkie", "Łódź", "Społeczeństwo" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Kolorowa Tolerancja 2012", "text": "Centrum Dialogu im. Marka Edelmana, Instytut Tolerancji oraz Muzeum Kinematografii zapraszają na kolejną KOLOROWĄ TOLERANCJĘ.\nW tym roku odbędzie się po raz dwunasty, chcemy przybliżyć młodzieży temat praw człowieka oraz Łódź Wielokulturową.\nZapraszamy szkoły podstawowe i ponadpodstawowe do wzięcia udziału w konkursie plastycznym „MOJE PRAWA PRAWAMI CZŁOWIEKA”\n21 marca 2012\n10.00 rozstrzygnięcie konkursu dla szkół podstawowych i ponadpodstawowych MOJE PRAWA PRAWAMI CZŁOWIEKA\n11.00 zamalowywanie obraźliwych napisów na Księżym Młynie (Beczki Grohmanna)\n11. 30 Projekcja filmów w Muzeum Kinematografii (plac Zwycięstwa 1)\n\"Ziemia pomazana\" reż. Kordian Piwowarski, 2002, 21`\nRzecz o łódzkim antysemityzmie. Taksówkarz żydowskiego pochodzenia\nopowiada o swojej nieustannej walce z obraźliwymi napisami, które\npojawiają się na miejskich murach niemal natychmiast po zamalowaniu.\n\"Stalking czyli uporczywe nękanie\" reż. F.Szebesta, 2010, 15`\nNajczęstszym objawem tego zjawiska jest stałe i ciagłe nękanie \"na\nodległość\" za pomocą telefonów, sms-ów i poczty elektronicznej. Bohaterki\nopowiadaja jak to jest być ofiarą stalkingu. Zjawisko to jest szczególnie\nniebezpeczne, zwłaszcza gdy przybiera formę przemocy psychicznej i\nfizycznej zagrażającej życiu ofiary.\n\"Henio, idziemy na Widzew\" rez. Michał Jóżwiak, 2009, 27`\nNiewidomy Marcin pracuje jako masażysta w klubie piłkarskim. Jednak\nzamiast chodzić na mecze razem z drużyną, woli ryzykować i regularnie\nwybiera się tam wraz z kibicami. Mimo iż sam jest niewidomy, zaczyna\nzabierać ze sobą swojego niedowidzącego syna Henia. W 2008 r. Jury V\nEuropejskiego Festiwalu Filmowego \"Integracja Ja i Ty\" postanowiło\nuhonorować nagrodą specjalną Marcina Kaczorowskiego, bohatera filmu.\nWprowadzenie: Adam Sitarek, Instytut Tolerancji, MIEJSCE: Muzeum Kinematografii, Plac Zwycięstwa 1\n12.30 Topienie Marzanny (teren Łódzkiej Specjalnej Strefy Ekonomicznej)\nZapraszamy do odwiedzenia świątyń:\n10.00 – 14.00 Synagoga, ul. Rewolucji 1905 r. nr 28\n10.00 – 13.00 Cerkiew katedralna św. Aleksandra Newskiego w Łodzi, ul. Kilińskiego 54\n10.00 – 14.30 Kościół Ewangelicko – Augsburski ul. Piotrkowska 283\n10.00 – 15.00 Zbór Kościoła Zielonoświątkowego ul. Jaracza 95/97\n10.00 – 15.00 Kościół Chrześcijan Baptystów ul. Nawrot 27\n10.00 – 17.00 Kościół Polsko – Katolicki Parafia pw. Świętej Rodziny ul. Limanowskiego 60\n10.00 – 17.00 Kościół Starokatolicki Mariawitów p.w. św. Franciszka z Asyżu, ul. Franciszkańska 27\n10.00 - 17.00 Kościół Adwentystów Dnia Siódmego, ul. Kopcińskiego 67\n17.00 - wykład \"Narody świata w proroctwach Biblii\". Będzie to prelekcja nt proroctw biblijnych i historii różnych narodów świata. Spotkanie ma zachęcić ludzi do lektury tej niezwykłej, starożytnej księgi, która zawiera wiele życiowych i historycznych mądrości - Kościół Adwentystów Dnia Siódmego, ul. Kopcińskiego 67\nWIĘCEJ WKRÓTCE\nZapraszamy także szkoły do wzięcia udziału w imprezie orgazniowanej przez Łódzki Oddział PTTK im. Jana Czeraszkiewicza zaprasza na wspólną wędrówkę po Łodzi w ramach akcji \"Każdemu jego Łódź\" organizowanej w dniu 21 marca 2012 r (środa) we współpracy\nz Urzędem Miasta Łodzi i Stowarzyszeniem Przyjaciół Starego Miasta w Łodzi.\nProgram imprezy:\n10.00 zbiórka wszystkich grup na Rynku Starego Miasta w Łodzi (bardzo prosimy o punktualność!)\n10.00 - 10.30 rozdanie flag, powitanie uczestników, prezentacja Urzędu Miasta Łodzi dotycząca nowego logo Łodzi\n10.30 – wspólne zdjęcie zebranych pod falującymi flagami\n10.40 – wymarsz na trasy wycieczek\nCelem rezerwacji przewodnika dla szkoły, oraz ustalenia szczegółów wycieczki prosimy o kontakt z biurem Łódzkiego Oddziału PTTK:\nosobiście: Łódź, ul Wigury 12a w godz 10.00-17.00\ne-mail: Adres poczty elektronicznej jest chroniony przed robotami spamującymi. W przeglądarce musi być włączona obsługa JavaScript, żeby go zobaczyć.\ntel/fax: (42) 636-15-09", "url": "http://www.centrumdialogu.com/pl/wydarzenia/866-kolorowa-tolerancja-2012", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20120621061242/http://www.centrumdialogu.com/pl/wydarzenia/866-kolorowa-tolerancja-2012" } ]

[ "Amérique", "Amérique du Sud", "Chili", "Politique", "Gouvernement" ]

[ { "language": "fr", "title": "Chili: le gouvernement accepte de changer de Constitution", "text": "Le gouvernement chilien a accédé à l’une des principales revendications qui secouent le pays depuis trois semaines en se disant d’accord dimanche pour «ouvrir la voie à une nouvelle Constitution» via une assemblée constituante.\n«Nous nous sommes mis d’accord pour ouvrir la voie à une nouvelle Constitution. Nous estimons que c’est un travail que nous devons faire en pensant au pays», a déclaré le ministre de l’Intérieur, Gonzalo Blumel.\nIl a fait cette annonce à la suite d’une réunion avec le président Sebastian Pinera et des responsables de partis de droite et de centre-droit auparavant réticents à un changement profond de la Constitution héritée de la dictature Pinochet (1973-1990).\nLa meilleure formule pour ce changement est la convocation d’une assemblée constituante qui reposerait sur «une large participation de la population, puis il y aurait en second lieu un référendum de ratification», a ajouté M. Blumel à Santiago.\nAu bout de 24 jours de manifestations massives et pacifiques, souvent achevées dans la violence, le mouvement populaire est soutenu par 75% des Chiliens, selon la plupart des enquêtes d’opinion, et une proportion similaire réclame une nouvelle Constitution.\nL’actuelle Constitution, en vigueur depuis 1980, a subi plus de 200 modifications sur plus de 40 articles, avait souligné M. Pinera dans un entretien publié samedi par le quotidien El Mercurio. Il indiquait dans la foulée préparer «un projet de modification de la Constitution».\nParmi les modifications envisagées figurent «une meilleure définition des droits de la personne et les modalités pour faire respecter» ces droits. Les amendements prévus précisent également «les obligations de l’Etat» et établissent «de meilleurs mécanismes de participation» citoyenne, a ajouté le président.\nQuelques jours après l’accession en mars 2018 de M. Pinera à la présidence, son gouvernement avait annoncé qu’il ne permettrait pas l’examen d’un projet de loi que la présidente précédente, la socialiste Michelle Bachelet (2014-2018), avait soumis au Congrès pour modifier la Constitution. Le projet y ancrait l’inviolabilité des droits de l’homme, le droit à la santé et à l’éducation, et l’égalité salariale entre hommes et femmes.\nDepuis le début du mouvement de colère sociale déclenché le 18 octobre par l’augmentation du prix du ticket de métro, qui a fait 20 morts et un millier de blessés, les protestataires ont dénoncé les inégalités sociales dans les domaines de l’éducation, de la santé et des retraites. Mais des voix ont réclamé aussi une assemblée constituante pour changer la Constitution.", "url": "https://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2019/11/11/chili-le-gouvernement-accepte-de-changer-de-constitution_1762706", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20191111094542/https://www.liberation.fr/depeches/2019/11/11/chili-le-gouvernement-accepte-de-changer-de-constitution_1762706" } ]

[ "02.04.2005", "Papst Johannes Paul II.", "Vatikanstadt", "Koma" ]

[ { "language": "de", "title": "Bangen und Beten für den Papst", "text": "Bangen und Beten für den Papst\nMit wachsender Sorge hat sich die Welt auf den Abschied von Johannes Paul II. vorbereitet. Millionen Katholiken strömten in die Kirchen\nBerlin - Verzweifelte Gebete für den todkranken Papst haben katholische Kirchen in aller Welt erfüllt. Auf dem Petersplatz in Rom versammelten sich bereits in der Nacht Hunderte Gläubige. Mehrere Gruppen und Familien beteten still für den 84jährigen. Der Zugang zum Petersdom war von der Polizei abgesperrt. Vor dem Platz brachten sich zahlreiche Kamerateams in Stellung.\nIn Polen, dem Heimatland des Papstes, strömten die Menschen schon vom frühen Morgen an in die Kirchen. Viele hatten Tränen in den Augen, wirkten verstört und besorgt. „Ich kann nur darauf hoffen, daß das Gebet etwas ausrichtet“, meinte eine Warschauer Studentin. „Der Heilige Vater ist in Gottes Hand“, betonte eine Kirchgängerin in Krakau.\nIn Wadowice, dem südpolnischen Geburtsort von Johannes Paul II., kamen Schüler und Lehrer in der Marienbasilika zusammen, in der Wojtyla getauft wurde. Viele Menschen gingen nicht zur Arbeit, sondern beteten oder verfolgten zu Hause die Nachrichten.\nMit Fürbitten und Gebeten standen auch deutsche Katholiken dem Papst bei. Der Kölner Erzbischof Joachim Meisner rief alle Gläubigen auf, Johannes Paul II. in ihre Gebete einzuschließen. Im Kölner Dom galt das täglich stattfindende Mittagsgebet in besonderem Maße dem Heiligen Vater.\nDie Erzbischöfe von Paris und Westminster, André Vingt-Trois und Cormac Murphy O'Connor, riefen alle Gläubigen ihrer Diözesen zum Gebet auf. Viele Menschen strömten in die Kirchen. Auch im Wiener Stephansdom versammelten sich mehr Betende als sonst. Die spanische Regierung bekundete ihre Solidarität mit der Katholischen Kirche.\n„Wir beten, daß er sein Leiden erträgt, so wie Christus sein Leiden am Kreuz ausgehalten hat“, sagte Erzbischof Raphael Ndingi in Kenias Hauptstadt Nairobi. „Johannes Paul II. hat eine enge Verbindung zu Afrika. Er hat viele Länder auf dem Kontinent besucht, und war immer offen für unsere Probleme“, sagte Ndingi. „Er konnte sehr gut zuhören.“\nMit besonderen Gebeten gedachte auch der Orden Mutter Teresas im indischen Kalkutta des Papstes. In einer der schnellsten Seligsprechungen der Kirchengeschichte hatte der Papst Mutter Teresa 2003 - sechs Jahre nach ihrem Tod - selig gesprochen. Auf den Philippinen strömten tausende Katholiken in die Messen für den Papst. Die Philippinen sind das einzige Land in Asien mit überwiegend katholischer Bevölkerung.\nNach Einschätzung von Neuseelands oberstem Bischof Denis Browne hoffen viele Katholiken, daß sie den Papst nicht mehr länger leiden sehen müssen. „Viele Menschen denken, vielleicht ist es an der Zeit, daß Gott ihn heim ruft und bitten Gott, daß er nicht mehr so viel leiden muß“, sagte Browne.\nIn der irakischen Hauptstadt Bagdad erinnerten unterdessen die Priester von zwei katholischen Gemeinden an den Einsatz des Papstes in den 90er Jahren, als er einen Kardinal zur Vermittlung zwischen dem Irak und Israel schickte. In Jerusalem gedachten katholische Pilger in der Grabeskirche des im Sterben liegenden Papstes.\nAuch Nicht-Katholiken sorgten sich um den Papst. So teilte das Büro des russisch-orthodoxen Patriarchen Alexi II. teilte mit: „In diesen schwierigen Tagen für die römisch-katholische Kirche fühlen viele Menschen in Rußland und in der russisch-orthodoxen Kirche das Leid von Johannes Paul II. und wünschen ihm gute Besserung.“", "url": "http://www.welt.de/data/2005/04/01/620838.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050404044926/http://www.welt.de/data/2005/04/01/620838.html" }, { "language": "de", "title": "n-tv.de", "text": "Johannes Paul II. starb am Samstagabend um 21.37 Uhr\nZehntausende trauern auf dem Petersplatz\nKerzen für den Papst\nSonntag, 3. April 2005 \"Weinen um einen Vater\"\nTrauermesse für Papst\nNach dem Tod von Papst Johannes Paul II. gedenken Millionen Christen rund um den Erdball in Messen und spontanen Zusammenkünften des Kirchenführers. Rund um den Vatikan begannen die Trauerfeierlichkeiten. Der Kurienkardinal Angelo Sodano hielt vor zehntausenden Gläubigen auf dem Petersplatz eine erste große Gedenkmesse.\n\"Wir vertrauen Jesus Christus unseren geliebten Papst Johannes Paul II. an, der die Kirche fast 27 Jahre geführt hat\", sagte Sodano. Auf dem Platz erschallte langer Applaus. Insgesamt werden zu den Trauerfeierlichkeiten in Rom in den nächsten Tagen zwei Millionen Besucher erwartet.\nDer Leichnam des Papstes wurde indes in den Räumen des Vatikans aufgebahrt. Kardinäle und hohe Kirchenführer erwiesen dem Toten in der Sala Clementina die letzte Ehre. Auch der italienische Staatspräsident Carlo Azeglio Ciampi und Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi waren anwesend.\nLeichnam wird aufgebahrt gestorben.\nNach den Regeln der Kirche wird der Leichnam in den nächsten Tagen im Petersdom aufgebahrt, wo er vermutlich auch seine letzte Ruhestätte findet. Die Beisetzung erfolgt vier bis sechs Tage nach dem Tod, die Trauerfeiern dauern neun Tage. Jetzt laufen auch die Vorbereitungen für die Wahl eines Nachfolgers an. Die über 110 Kardinäle aus aller Welt kommen nach Rom, um in streng geheimer Wahl einen Papst-Nachfolger aus ihrer Mitte wählen.\nTrauer nach Todesnachricht\nEtwa hunderttausend Menschen hatten sich noch in der Nacht zum Sonntag auf dem Petersplatz in Rom versammelt. Unmittelbar nach der Todesnachricht spendeten die Menschen aus Anerkennung für den Toten langen Beifall, anschließend herrschte Schweigen - nur das Läuten der Totenglocke des Vatikans war zu hören.\nÜber Lautsprecher forderten Prälaten die Menschen zu andächtiger Stille auf, \"um dem Papst bei seinen ersten Schritten in den Himmel zu begleiten\". Das italienische Fernsehen spielte Trauermusik, die Flaggen im ganzen Land wurden auf Halbmast gesetzt. Die römischen Zeitungen verteilten Sonderausgaben. \"Du hast uns verlassen, Heiliger Vater\", schrieb die Vatikanzeitung \"L'Osservatore Romano\".\nDie italienische Regierung verordnete drei Tage Staatstrauer. Staatspräsident Carlo Azeglio Ciampi sagte in einer Botschaft: \"Italien und Rom weinen um einen Vater.\" Auch in Polen und im kommunistischen Kuba wurde Staatstrauer angeordnet. In Polen, dem Geburtsland des Papstes, hielten Tausende in den Kirchen Nachtwache. Auch die Münchner Frauenkirche und der Kölner Dom waren für Gebete geöffnet. Weltweit wird heute in Messen des verstorbenen Kirchenoberhauptes gedacht.\nSeit Jahren krank\nJohannes Paul II, der 264. Papst der Kirchengeschichte, war seit vielen Jahren schwer krank. Er litt an den der Parkinson-Krankheit und an den Folgen des Attentats im Jahr 1981. Er konnte nicht mehr gehen und saß zuletzt im Rollstuhl. Seine Aussprache wurde immer unklarer, häufig konnten die Gläubigen ihn kaum noch verstehen. Der Führer von weltweit einer Milliarde Katholiken konnte selbst kurze Predigten nicht mehr selbst halten. Nach einem Luftröhrenschnitt Ende Februar verschlechterte sich sein Zustand weiter. Zwei Mal innerhalb innerhalb weniger Wochen musste er in die römische Gemelli-Klinik gebracht werden. Ostern konnte er den Segen Urbi et Orbi mit der Hand nur noch andeuten, aber nicht mehr selbst sprechen.\nJohannes Paul prägte die Kirche wie kaum ein anderer Papst der Neuzeit. Neben seinen 104 Auslandsreisen machte er etwa mit seinem Widerstand gegen den Irakkrieg 2003 gegen den Irakkrieg weltweit Schlagzeilen. Er schickte Kardinäle nach Bagdad und Washington und versuchte, noch in letzter Minute einen Waffengang zu verhindern - allerdings vergeblich.\nHistoriker sind sich einig, dass Johannes Paul in den 80er Jahren zum Fall des Kommunismus beitrug. Der ehemalige Kardinal aus Krakau hielt seine Hand schützend über die demokratische Bewegung in seiner Heimat. Damit hinderte er Warschau an einer Niederschlagung der Bewegung.\nZentrale Anliegen als Papst waren daher das Eintreten für Frieden und Menschenrechte sowie die Versöhnung mit den Juden. Einer der großen Höhepunkte des Pontifikats war im Jahr 2000 seine Reise ins Heilige Land. In einer historischen Geste betete Johannes Paul an der Klagemauer in Jerusalem und bat um Vergebung für die Judenverfolgung. Karol Wojtyla war auch der erste Papst, der eine Synagoge sowie eine Moschee betrat. Eine andere triumphale Reise unternahm er 1998 ins sozialistische Kuba, wo er die Freilassung politischer Gefangener erreichte.\nAllerdings stieß der Papst wegen seiner Ablehnung künstlicher Geburtenkontrolle und seines Neins zur Aufhebung des Zölibats und zu Frauenpriestern auf heftige Kritik vor allem in europäischen Kirchen. Mit den deutschen Bischöfen kam es Ende der 1990er Jahre wegen der Schwangeren-Konfliktberatung zur Zerreißprobe. Nach einem päpstlichen Machtwort mussten sie aus dem staatlichen Beratungssystem aussteigen, weil das Ausstellen von Beratungsscheinen straffreie Abtreibungen ermöglicht.\nBilderserie Karol Jozef Wojtyla, der 264. Papst\nArtikel versenden Druckversion", "url": "http://www.n-tv.de/354292.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050403152802/http://www.n-tv.de/354292.html" } ]

[ "Polska", "Sopot", "Trójmiasto" ]

[ { "language": "pl", "title": "Odkryto nieznane wiersze Tetmajera", "text": "08:23, 29.12.2008 /Polska\nCENNE ZNALEZISKO NA SOPOCKIM STRYCHU\nTo prawdziwa sensacja - na strychu jednej z sopockich willi znaleziono niepublikowane wcześniej wiersze Kazimierza Przerwy-Tetmajera. Oprócz poezji odkryto również fotografie i listy miłosne, które młodopolski poeta pisał do aktorki z arystokratycznej rodziny - donosi \"Polska\".\nGorycze lat młodzieńczych to są gorzkie kwiaty\nsami ich nieraz w naszej poszukujem czarze\ntrucizny szczere istne poznajemy z laty\na niemoc, beznadziejność - to są dwaj lekarze.\nZakopane, 29 października 1906 r. Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer Gorycze lat młodzieńczych to są gorzkie kwiatysami ich nieraz w naszej poszukujem czarzetrucizny szczere istne poznajemy z latya niemoc, beznadziejność - to są dwaj lekarze.\nPonad sto lat minęło od czasu, gdy wybitny poeta napisał znalezione obecnie wiersze. Rękopisy z Zakopanego powędrowały nad morze do Sopotu - prawdopodobnie wraz z adresatką listów - aktorką, w której zakochany był Przerwa-Tetmajer. Teraz znaleziono je na strychu willi należącej do potomków wybranki serca poety.Oprócz dokumentów Przerwy-Tetmajera znaleziono również fotografie i listy innych członków młodopolskiej bohemy oraz rękopis wiersza Władysława Tatarkiewicza, filozofa i znanego historyka filozofii.Odkryte dokumenty to niekwestionowane autentyki - oceniają specjaliści. - Wyjątkowo ciekawe, niepowtarzalne znalezisko - mówi w rozmowie z \"Polską\" znawca literatury Młodej Polski, prof. Tadeusz Linkner. Badacz oczekuje, że dzięki temu odkryciu uda się być może uzupełnić zagadkowe luki w biografii poety.Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer słynął z licznych i burzliwych romansów. Wiadomo, że miał syna z nieznaną z nazwiska aktorką - Kazimierza Stanisława, który w młodym wieku popełnił samobójstwo. Teraz wśród dokumentów znaleziono też rysunek kilkuletniego chłopca. Czy to syn aktorki i poety? Między innymi te przypuszczenia zbadają naukowcy. Przed nimi - w ocenie prof. Linknera - przynajmniej rok trudnej pracy.Rodzina aktorki, do której adresowane były listy poety, nie pozwoliła na ujawnienie jej nazwiska.Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer jest autorem ośmiu serii poezji. Zasłynął jako piewca kobiecego ciała i autor zmysłowych opisów miłości. Część jego twórczości poświęcona jest Tatrom, gdzie spędził część swego życia. Był jednym z kandydatów do literackiej Nagrody Nobla.mon//kwj", "url": "http://www.tvn24.pl/-1,1579226,0,1,odkryto-nieznane-wiersze-tetmajera,wiadomosc.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20081229181612/http://www.tvn24.pl/-1,1579226,0,1,odkryto-nieznane-wiersze-tetmajera,wiadomosc.html" } ]

[ "Desastres e acidentes", "Enchentes", "Saúde", "Sociedade", "Ásia", "Filipinas" ]

[ { "language": "pt", "title": "Enchentes nas Filipinas matam mais de 180 pessoas", "text": "Da BBC Brasil\nBrasília - Enchentes provocadas por uma tempestade tropical nas Filipinas mataram mais de 180 pessoas. A tempestadade atingiu a Ilha de Mindanao, na Região Sul do país, nessa sexta-feira (16) à noite, com chuvas torrenciais e ventos com velocidade de 90 quilômetros por hora.\nA maior parte dos mortos é das cidades de Cagayan de Oro e Iligan. Muitos dos que morreram estavam dentro de suas casas quando elas foram inundadas ou soterradas por deslizamentos.\nOs corpos de 100 pessoas – em sua maioria crianças – foram encontrados em Cagayan de Oro. Um deslizamento na região leste de Mindanao matou mais cinco pessoas.\nO chefe da Agência Nacional Filipina de Emergência contra Desastres Naturais, Benito Ramos, disse que relatos sobre a tragédia continuam sendo atualizados e que há expectativa de aumento no número de mortos.\nHá também centenas de pessoas desaparecidas e milhares que procuraram abrigo em regiões mais altas.\nAs Filipinas são atingidas, em média, por 20 tempestades tropicais anualmente. Em setembro, o país foi abalado pelos tufões Nesat e Nalgae, com uma pequena diferença de dias entre eles. Os tufões deixaram mais de 100 mortos.", "url": "http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/noticia/2011-12-17/enchentes-nas-filipinas-matam-mais-de-180-pessoas", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210422230710/https://memoria.ebc.com.br/agenciabrasil/noticia/2011-12-17/enchentes-nas-filipinas-matam-mais-de-180-pessoas" }, { "language": "pt", "title": "Sobe número de mortos nas enchentes das Filipinas", "text": "17/12/2011 - 15h07\nDa BBC Brasil\nBrasília - Passa de 430 o número de mortos nas enchentes provocadas por uma tempestade tropical nas Filipinas. Nas primeiras informações divulgadas hoje (17) cedo, o número de vítimas, informado pela Cruz Vermelha local, era 180.\nA tempestadade atingiu a Ilha de Mindanao, na Região Sul do país, nessa sexta-feira (16) à noite, com chuvas torrenciais e ventos com velocidade de 90 quilômetros por hora.\nAs Filipinas são atingidas, em média, por 20 tempestades tropicais anualmente. Em setembro, o país foi abalado pelos tufões Nesat e Nalgae, com uma pequena diferença de dias entre eles. Os tufões deixaram mais de 100 mortos.", "url": "http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/noticia/2011-12-17/sobe-numero-de-mortos-nas-enchentes-das-filipinas", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130825001555/http://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/noticia/2011-12-17/sobe-numero-de-mortos-nas-enchentes-das-filipinas" } ]