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Colombia drug debate revived as herbicide deemed carcinogen
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L’herbicide utilisé dans le (déjà très contestable) « plan #Colombie » (lutte contre la culture de coca financée par les #Etats-Unis et l’#UE ▻http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombie) est du #glyphosate, maintenant classé carcinogène probable ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/353507

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - The new labeling of the world’s most-popular weed killer as a likely cause of cancer is raising more questions for an aerial spraying program in Colombia that is the cornerstone of the U.S.-backed war on drugs.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a French-based research arm of the World Health Organization, has reclassified the herbicide glyphosate as a result of what it said is convincing evidence the chemical produces cancer in lab animals and more limited findings it causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in humans.

The ruling on Thursday is likely to send shockwaves around the globe, where the glyphosate-containing herbicide Roundup is a mainstay of industrial agriculture.

In Colombia, there is an added political dimension stemming from the fierce debate that has raged over a program that has sprayed more than 4 million acres of land in the past two decades to kill coca plants, whose leaves are used to produce cocaine.

AP News : AP Exclusive : High civilian death toll in Gaza house strikes

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C’est beaucoup moins que les estimations de l’Onu et des autorités palestiniennes. A suivre...

By KARIN LAUB, FARES AKRAM and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH
Published: Today

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In this Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014 photo, Mohammed Al-Bayoumi, 39, and his son Mahmoud stand on the rubble of their family home in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. A July 31 Israeli airstrike killed 13 people from two families, including his son. The number of civilian deaths has been a key issue in the highly charged battle over the dominant narrative of last summer’s 50-day war, the third and most destructive confrontation between Israel and Hamas since 2008. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - The youngest to die was a 4-day-old girl, the oldest a 92-year-old man.

They were among at least 844 Palestinians killed as a result of airstrikes on homes during Israel’s summer war with the Islamic militant group, Hamas.

Under the rules of war, homes are considered protected civilian sites unless used for military purposes. Israel says it attacked only legitimate targets, alleging militants used the houses to hide weapons, fighters and command centers. Palestinians say Israel’s warplanes often struck without regard for civilians.

The Associated Press examined 247 airstrikes that - according to witness accounts and site visits - hit residential compounds, out of the some 5,000 Israeli strikes during the conflict. Its reporters compiled a detailed casualty count, determining 844 dead in those strikes.

#gaza

Troupes russes à la frontière ukrainienne.

Communiqué russe
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14 planes, four trains with personnel and military hardware leave Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions after drills
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Four trains and 15 Ilyushin Il-76 airplanes left Russia’s Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions on May 21, carrying Armed Forces units that had taken part in recent routine military exercises in the regions, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a press release, seen by Interfax.

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Info reprise par AP (après un long article sur les affrontements entre troupes régulières et séparatistes).

AP News : 13 Ukraine troops dead, over 30 wounded in attack
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While fighting raged in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday its forces were leaving the regions near Ukraine as part of a massive military pullout ordered by President Vladimir Putin. It said four trainloads of weapons and 15 Il-76 heavy-lift transport planes had already left the Belgorod, Bryansk and Rostov regions.

NATO had estimated Russia has 40,000 troops along the border with Ukraine.

Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO’s supreme commander in Europe, told reporters in Brussels that some Russian military movements had been detected but it was too early to assess their size or importance. He said a very large and capable Russian force still remained close to Ukraine.

In Kiev, Yatsenyuk described Russia’s announcement of troops pull-out as “bluffing.”

“Even if the troops are withdrawing, Russian authorities are still assisting the armed terrorists who were trained in Russia,” he said.

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Même Rasmussen s’y met.
On notera l’empilement des restrictions… limited activity, suggests , may be , preparing to withdraw (ouf !)…

Rasmussen says Russian troops may be preparing to withdraw from Ukraine’s border
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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that limited activity by Russian troops is observed on the Ukrainian-Russian border, which suggests that these forces may be preparing to withdraw.

New Saudi counterterrorism law alarms activists - AP

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Saudi Arabia put into effect a sweeping new counterterrorism law Sunday that human rights activists say allows the kingdom to prosecute as a terrorist anyone who demands reform, exposes corruption or otherwise engages in dissent.

Egypt arrests 11 Islamists for Facebook activity - AP

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Egyptian security forces arrested 11 Muslim Brotherhood members accused of running Facebook pages inciting violence against the police, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, moving the crackdown on the group into social media.

The arrests were in connection to dozens of Facebook pages set up by Brotherhood supporters, urging protests against the military-backed government and denouncing the police, some of them set up the past two weeks.

Social media and Facebook in particular were main platform for organizing the country’s 2011 uprising that led to the ouster of longtime president Hosni Mubarak. Since then, fiercely anti-police pages have arisen during years of turmoil by youth of various stripes, including riotous soccer fans who often clash with police.

Of the Facebook pages investigated, at least one had pictures of an individual military officer whom the page said is “under the microscope.” Another had a posting calling for the burning of police stations.

Dans de rares cas, des Palestiniens récupèrent leurs terres colonisées - AP
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On Thursday, farmers returned to their land for the first time. “I feel as if I was dead and now I am alive again,” said Fathallah Hajjeh, 64. “I never felt such joy. We are rooted to this land.”

About 500 acres of land were reclaimed, said Emad Saif of the Burka local council.

The return of the land shows that “the settlement project is reversible,” said Sfard.

Since capturing the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in 1967, Israel built and expanded dozens of settlements that are now home to more than half a million Israelis.

Sur le sujet, sur Orient XXI
Silence, on négocie - Où en sont les négociations entre Israéliens et Palestiniens ? Alexis Varende
►http://orientxxi.info/magazine/silence-on-negocie,0377

Dossier Oslo, 20 ans après (textes et cartes de @reka) ►http://orientxxi.info/magazine/oslo-20-ans-apres,0345

#Palestine #Israël

Egypte - Ecoles et hôpitaux fermés, commerces et marques boycottés : ce que la campagne contre les Frères musulmans implique sur le terrain, où il sont très actifs, surtout avec les plus démunis.

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In southern Assiut province, security forces raided the six schools of the Dar el-Haraa chain, headed by former Brotherhood lawmaker Wafaa Mashhour, daughter of the group’s former top leader Mustafa Mashhour. The police seized computers and arrested teachers and even cleaning workers.

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At the same time, businesses believed - rightly or wrongly - to be Brotherhood-linked have faced boycotts encouraged by youth movements and anti-Islamist TV stations. That has led a string of businessmen to publicly deny links to the group. Last month, Egypt’s leading dairy company Juhayna ran ads in state papers demanding a stop to boycott campaigns against it.

One of the country’s biggest department stores - Tawheed wa Nour, or “Monotheism and Light” - has been hard hit, because it is owned by an ultraconservative sheik seen as an Islamist supporter, though it is not Brotherhood-linked. The stores are popular among middle-class and poor Egyptians, selling everything from clothes to soccer balls and school supplies for low prices. But many branches are empty of customers, even with school now beginning.

Many staffers have shaved off their conservative beards - which they said they were required to grow for the job - to avoid harassment.

“These people will not see the seat of power once again in Egypt,” said el-Moghazi el-Hadi, who has been selling papers for decades in front of one Tawheed wa Nour branch. “Morsi for Egypt was like a driver who doesn’t know how to drive ... the minute he turns the engine and turns the wheel, he slams his car by the wall.”

#santé #social #commerce

Mais quels efforts pour écrire ces dépêches d’une façon totalement incompréhensible ! AP News : Italian reporter abducted in Syria is freed
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On t’apprend d’abord la libération de deux journalistes enlevés en Syrie :

An Italian war reporter and a Belgian writer who were kidnapped in Syria in April were freed on Sunday, the Italian government said.

Et on glisse en passant qu’il s’agit d’un mystère très mystérieux : on ne saurait pas qui les avait enlevés (ce qui est tout de même totalement invraisemblable, et c’est un coup que le Quai d’Orsay nous a déjà fait) :

Letta’s office said “hope had never faded” for Quirico’s safe return but gave no details on how he became free, nor said who had held him.

Seule indication assez transparente :

“I had tried to tell the story of the Syrian revolution but... the revolution turned into something else,” Quirico said.

Bon, ça va, c’est comme la dernière fois :
– on a des dizaines de cas d’enlèvements de journalistes par les rebelles ;
– je ne vois pas pourquoi le régime syrien, s’il enlevait des journalistes européens pendant des mois, prendrait le risque de les libérer ;
– si c’était le régime, tu te doutes bien que les Occidentaux le feraient largement savoir.

Malgré l’évidence, la dépêche se termine en évoquant un autre cas, celui de Paolo Dall’Oglio, et met en avant deux faits qui suggèrent qu’il a été enlevé par le régime (alors que toutes les infos le concernant depuis son enlèvement disent le contraire) :

Dall’Oglio is a critic of the regime of President Bashar Assad, which the rebels are fighting to overthrow. The government a year ago expelled him from Syria, where he had lived for 30 years.

Donc :
– on ne sait qui a fait le coup,
– l’un des détenus est déçu par ce en quoi s’est transformée la révolution syrienne,
– et malgré l’évidence, on rappelle qu’un troisième détenu (dont il circule très largement qu’il a été enlevé par le front Al Nusra) était opposé au régime.

Sérieusement…

In south Egypt, Islamists take over a town

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A town of some 120,000 - including 20,000 Christians - Dalga has been outside government control since hard-line supporters of the Islamist Mohammed Morsi drove out police and occupied their station on July 3, the day Egypt’s military chief removed the president in a popularly supported coup. It was part of a wave of attacks in the southern Minya province that targeted Christians, their homes and businesses.

Since then, the radicals have imposed their grip on Dalga, twice driving off attempts by the army to send in armored personnel carriers by showering them with gunfire.

@groupe_orient
A suivre de près : le procès de l’activiste des « Revolutionnary socialists » Haytan Mohamadein, à qui on reprocherait ses activités. Les charges semblent hallucinantes. Vives réactions dans ma TL, notamment de la part de sa camarade de lutte @Gsquare86.

Lu aujourd’hui : "L’Egypte inclut les activistes dans sa « lutte contre le terrorisme ». Il n’en ont pas fini avec les Frères mais s’attaquent déjà aux autres terroristes". (@JacoStoop
Egypt is including activists in its « war on terror ». They haven’t finished the MB part yet, but already going after the other terrorists.)
Par ailleurs, le journaliste Ahmed Abu Deraa est lui aussi détenu.

Several hundreds protest Haitham Mohamedein’s detention
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“The military are not only targeting the Islamists. They will be after any revolutionary front, that includes the Revolutionary Socialists,” said Shalabi.

#justice #armée #socialisme #activisme #Egypte

Village bloodbath highlights Egypt’s new agony

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For Egyptians, the current violence is reminiscent of the Islamist insurgency that raged in through part of the 1980s and 1990s. Hundreds were slain on both sides. Security forces stormed villages and killed dozens; militants on motorcycles assassinated officers. Foreigners and Egyptian Christians were targets of terrorist attacks.

“These days are back,” said policeman Yasser Abdel-Hamid, speaking at the Police Hospital in Cairo after visiting his injured boss. After five days of deadly street battles with pro-Morsi supporters, “I can’t sleep for the sound of whistling sniper fire,” he said.

#violence

Egypt: Islamists hit Christian churches
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After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like “prisoners of war” before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.

In the four days since security forces cleared two sit-in camps by supporters of Egypt’s ousted president, Islamists have attacked dozens of Coptic churches along with homes and businesses owned by the Christian minority. The campaign of intimidation appears to be a warning to Christians outside Cairo to stand down from political activism.

AP News: Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure
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... interviews with more than a dozen current and former government and technology officials and outside experts show that, while Prism has attracted the recent attention, the program actually is a relatively small part of a much more expansive and intrusive eavesdropping effort.

Americans who disapprove of the government reading their emails have more to worry about from a different and larger NSA effort that snatches data as it passes through the fiber optic cables that make up the Internet’s backbone. That program, which has been known for years, copies Internet traffic as it enters and leaves the United States, then routes it to the NSA for analysis.

#prism

Réforme de Saoud.

AP News: Report: Saudis rethinking method of execution
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - A Saudi newspaper says a ministerial committee is looking into formally dropping public beheadings as a method of execution in the oil-rich kingdom.

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where a death sentence results in beheading in a public square.

The authoritative daily Al-Watan says in its Sunday edition that the ministerial committee is considering fatal shootings as an alternative.