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Peace talks ‘difficult’ for Abbas amid settlement row

The Palestinian Authority has said indirect talks with Israel will be “very difficult” if more homes are built on occupied land as planned.
Israel announced the plan for 1,600 more homes in occupied East Jerusalem shortly before a peace process visit by US Vice-President Joe Biden.
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat said [...]

March 11, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »

Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, [...]

March 2, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »

No breakthrough in Obama healthcare summit

A day-long televised healthcare summit in Washington hosted by President Barack Obama has ended without a deal to break the deadlock between parties.
Mr Obama outlined his reform plan but Republicans said it was not acceptable and called for a fresh start.
The president and his allies want to expand health coverage to [...]

February 26, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »

World may not be warming, say scientists

The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution.
In its last assessment the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the evidence that the world was warming was “unequivocal”.
It warned that greenhouse [...]

February 17, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »

Fifa President Sepp Blatter blasts South Africa critics

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has hit back at critics of South Africa hosting the World Cup.
Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has said awarding the tournament to South Africa was “the biggest wrong decision” Fifa has made.
But Blatter says these comments mask a disrespectful prejudice.
“It’s an anti-Africa prejudice. There is still in the so-called ‘old world’ [...]

February 11, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »

What Would Make China Budge on Iran

The country is facing increasing international pressure to support sanctions. But China will require something in return.
Has Iran finally gone too far, pushing China into changing its mind about sanctions? Maybe not just yet. Tuesday, after Iran ratcheted up its uranium-enrichment program—elevating the purity of its enriched product to 20 percent—Beijing looked increasingly isolated in [...]

February 9, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »

Ousmane Goudiaby, “Even if one is afraid, one has no choice”

ZIGUINCHOR, 3 February 2010 (IRIN) – Baraf village, in Senegal’s Casamance region, is empty but for a group of armed separatists – and the Goudiaby family.
Ousmane Goudiaby, his wife and five of their children tend to their crops each day, working past the fear that there could belandmines in the ground along with the cashew [...]

February 5, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »

US military ban on openly gay personnel ’should end’

Openly gay people should be allowed to serve in the US military, the country’s top commander has said.
Adm Mike Mullen told a Senate hearing into a ban on openly gay personnel that allowing them to serve was “the right thing to do”.
He said there were practical difficulties in repealing the so-called “don’t ask, don’t tell” [...]

February 2, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »

Hakimullah Mehsud, Taliban Leader, Reported Dead In U.S. Drone Strike, Pakistan Investigating

ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani government was investigating reports Sunday that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike launched in mid-January after he helped orchestrate a deadly bombing against the CIA in Afghanistan.
Mehsud’s predecessor was killed in a missile strike less than six months ago, and inflicting another [...]

February 1, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »

Scientists: Haiti must prepare for more massive quakes

CHICAGO (AFP) – Haiti and its neighbors must prepare themselves for more massive quakes after the devastating tremors this week increased pressure along a lengthy fault line, scientists warned Friday.
Paul Mann, a senior research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, warned that just because the rebuilding process [...]

January 17, 2010 | Poste dans la rubrique ENGLISH | Lire la suite »