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AFP - Greece posted Thursday a first step towards the possible formation of a coalition government pro-euro, with the endorsement in principle of the Party of Democratic Left , announced the leaders of this training and socialist PASOK. "We have taken a first step," said Greek Socialist leader, Evangelos Vee ; nizélos after meeting Fotis Kouvelis, the leader of the small Democratic Left Party, Dimar. The Dimar, which has 19 parliamentary seats, a majority of possible key ; absolute parliament, said he was in favor of the formation of a "World Government" whose mission is to "keep the country in the euro area," said Mr. Kouvelis. The meeting was held within the framework of the efforts of Mr. Venizelos, whose party was ousted by the laws of Sunday, to find an executive, after successive failures of his conservative rival New De ; Democracy, Antonis Samaras and the head of the radical left of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras. MM. Venizelos and Kouvelis said they agreed on the need to revise the requirements of the memorandum, the roadmap of rigor dictated by the EU countries and the IMF in e ; exchange for their financial support. Mr. Venizelos spoke of "a national unity government" that would provide the "overtaking under three years" the memorandum concluded with the EU and the IMF, "with the Greece (remaining) in the euro ". Mr. Kouvelis has in turn proposed a "World Government formed personalities ", whose mandate would be" until the European elections of 2014 "and would" keep the country in the euro and to immediately begin the gradual withdrawal of the Me randum ". Mr. Kouvelis, whose members could allow the PASOK (41 seats) and New Democracy (108 MPs) to cross the threshold of an absolute majority (151 seats ) in parliament, had previously expressed its preference for a government formed by the radical left party Syriza. For these transactions actually lead to a government, Mr. Venizelos, must still obtain downstream of New Democracy, which he will meet Friday morning the leader Antonis Samaras. He also said to want to talk again with Alexis Tsipras, leader of Syriza, came second in the parliamentary elections, with 16.7% of the votes or 52 deputies. Mr. Venizelos suggested that the formation of a government should anyway until the convening by the head of state leaders of parliamentary parties last step under the constitution. Such a meeting could take place after the expiry of the exploratory mandate entrusted to Mr. Venizelos, who still has two days to complete its mission.

The candidate for the Republican nomination for the November U.S. presidential Ron Paul said Monday his withdrawal from the primary campaign of his party, leaving the sole candidate Mitt Romney's favorite.

"We spend more campaign funds in the primaries in states that have not yet voted," he wrote in a statement. However, he assured that he would continue to "take positions, to win delegates and deliver a strong message to the Republican National Convention that freedom is the way forward for the future ".

While withdrawing the primaries, Mr. Paul still hopes to make its influence felt and his ideas when the Republicans officially nominate their candidate at the national convention in Tampa (Florida) in August 2012.

The candidate acknowledged that his team no longer had the funds to continue the primary battle. "Continue to do this with any hope of success would require many tens of millions of dollars that we simply have not," he said.

The libertarian conservative, staunch supporter of American isolationism, had aroused great enthusiasm among young voters, but which had not resulted in a decisive electoral victory in primaries. The representative of Texas (South) did indeed win a single state.

The inauguration of Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate in the White House was already taken for granted, since the withdrawal on April 10 of his most serious opponent, the ultraconservative Rick Santorum .

AFP - Four foreigners, including a UN worker, were arrested by the Sudanese army in the oil zone Heglig it recent recovery in Southern Sudan after intense fighting.

On the diplomatic front, the authorities in Juba made a conciliatory gesture by saying Saturday ready to withdraw their forces from the Abyei area, another border area that feeds the Inter-Sudanese conflict for which Khartoum rejects any UN intervention.

The four persons captured Saturday at Heglig were conducting "investigations" on the spot, said a spokesman of the Sudanese army, suggesting that it was "foreign experts" ; support from Juba in its "aggression" against its northern neighbor. 

According Sawarmi Khaled Saad, these four people - one British, one Norwegian, one South African and a South Sudanese - had military equipment and were conducted in Khartoum to be respondents.

The UN has indicated that one of its employees was among those arrested. "One of them was the UN", simply commented Josephine Guerrero, spokeswoman for the UN mission in southern Sudan.

Khartoum's claims were also denied by the Regional Director of the Norwegian organization Norwegian People's Aid (NAID) who worked with one of four people arrested.

"It is impossible that they were at Heglig," said Jan Ledang, saying that they should be in reality, Pariang in the territory of South Sudan, where they conducted a monitoring mission after a clearance area.

Earlier Saturday, the South Sudanese government announced that it "would" withdraw its police forces from the disputed area of ​​Abyei that Khartoum remains in control, despite the presence of about 4.000 Ethiopian peacekeepers.

The spokesman of the government, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, told AFP that the withdrawal would be "immediate", setting a single condition "that the United Nations and the African Union to ensure the safety ; nationals (South Sudan) in the region. "

Since the outbreak of violence in Abyei, about 110,000 people, according to the UN, have fled to Southern Sudan.  

Disputes between the two Sudans, the Boundary and the sharing of oil revenues in particular, have degenerated since late March in combat on a scale not pre yield since the proclamation of independence of South Sudan in July.

April 20, Khartoum announced it had regained control of Heglig after violent clashes with Juba who had seized that territory ten days ago.  

The international community has repeatedly called for the two countries, already among the poorest in the world, do not tear again as during the Civil War (1983-2005) which resulted in , the partition between the Arab and Muslim North and South, mainly Christian.

Increasing these pressures, the U.S. submitted Thursday to the Security Council of a draft UN resolution that could lead to sanctions against the two Sudans if further escalation.

But Sudan has warned Saturday "that he rejected any effort to impede the role of the African Union and bring the crisis between Sudan and Southern Sudan to the Security Council of the UN" ;, said the Sudanese Foreign Minister, Ali Karti. 

"The UN intervention will result in favor of political considerations at the expense of a just peaceful settlement," he said.

Tuesday night, the African Union, who leads a mediation mission to date unsuccessful, however, had itself called the Security Council to support its efforts as part of its Chapter 7, which allows the use of coercive measures.

If direct combat seem to have paused in recent days, both countries still accuse each other of supporting rebellions in the territory of the other.

Returning from a visit to China, the main buyer of Sudanese oil, the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir said on Saturday that Beijing "would help to resolve differences" between the two countries. 

He also announced that China obtained a loan of $ 8 billion (6 billion euros) over two years to fund road construction, hydroelectric power projects, agriculture and telecommunications, reported the government spokesman.

"The details will be defined by the ministers of both countries and by the Chinese company which will take charge of this work," said Barnaba Marial Benjamin.

The infrastructure is almost non-existent in South Sudan, with only a few tens of kilometers of paved roads, because of decades of underdevelopment and lack of investment in this region, both at the time of British colonization and after independence of Sudan in 1956.

They chose the international day of women to inaugurate: Thursday, March 8, the first Internet cafe for women in Afghanistan opened in Kabul.

A week after its opening, the women dressed in traditional Muslim flock to this new place, according to Afghan Association Young Women for Change (YWC). The room, its walls tagged smilies, is located in a quiet street, between Kabul University and a school for young women. The new converts to the "@" and other "www" has 15 Internet computers, and members of the association they explain, if necessary, how to use it. The hours of navigation costs the equivalent of a dollar, a rate well below those charged in most cafes in the city.

Showcase

Young Women for Change wants the project to become a showcase of his struggle to improve the status of women in Afghanistan. "Until now, access to Internet cafes were de facto banned women who could not get there without being subject to ridicule or harassment," said France24.com to Anita Haidary, co-founder of the association. For many women in Afghanistan, Internet cafes are yet the only way to access the Internet.

To demonstrate that this new cafe is more than just a place where a woman can surf in peace, the association chose the name "Sahar Gul" cafe in reference at 15 years young Afghan who was tortured for several months in 2011 by the man to whom she was betrothed and sold. His ordeal, publicized in December 2011, had strongly moved to Afghanistan. "With this name, we say that we continue to try to live with dignity in spite of every effort that can be made to stop us", asserts Anita Haidary.

Aware of the risks

The Sarah Gul cyber cafe has been designed as a weapon of emancipation. "Internet should allow Afghan women to embrace the world, learn and then share them in a place where they are free to say what they want," says co-founder of the YWC. Besides, ultimately, this cafe should offer courses as well as an introduction to the Internet in general culture.

A profession of faith that may draw attention to this place while Afghanistan is experiencing a resurgence of Taliban activity. "There will always be threats on initiatives like this, and it would be wrong to say that we are not worried, this is a risk that is worth to be taken," admits ; Alizada Mohammad Jawad, an activist who helped open the Sahar Gul in the Canadian daily Globe and Mail. YWC has also pushed the provocation by opening other cafes Sahar Gul in the country.

The announcement of the dismissal of Harouna Doula by the Nigerian Football Federation (Fenifoot), Tuesday, Feb. 21, did not surprise many people. Indeed, the route of the National Mena during the CAN-2012 does not call for the technician. The teammates of Manceau Moussa Maazou have lost all three matches they had to play during the competition: 2-0 against Gabon, and 2-1 against Tunisia 1-0 to Morocco.

Even Harouna Doula could take the Nigerian team to the CAN, which had never been done before, there he disembarked from his position coach.

A logical decision, as the President of the Fenifoot, Colonel Djibrilla Hamidou Hima (known as "Pele") interviewed by RFI: "We have a duty to take certain steps to prepare qualified the CAN-2013 and the 2014 World Cup. We decided to redevelop the entire coaching staff, not just the coach. "

This position was offered to coach Rolland Courbis, in turn advise the Nigerian team and co-coach alongside Harouna Doula at the CAN. But the French coach has not yet responded.

Currently a consultant for the French radio station RMC and BFM-TV television, the former coach of Olympique Marseille FRANCE 24 has agreed to the proposal to raise the Fenifoot.

FRANCE 24 - What is your position vis-à-vis the selection of Niger? You are told on the bench of National Mena, on February 29, during a friendly match against Egypt, at Doha (Qatar) …

Rolland Courbis - This is totally false! I can assure you that I would not be on the bench in that game in Qatar. However, the Federation has made me a proposal to drive the National Mena and give myself a deadline of three weeks to think about it. At the latest, I will give my answer on March 15.

F24 - This proposal interests you? You're tempted by this challenge?

R. C. - Currently, I work for RMC, BFM-TV, the PMU and it takes me a lot of time. Al-Jazeera also wants to meet me. Therefore I see if in addition to these activities, I do not wanna stop, I can lead the Niger. But to become coach of this team interests me.

F24 - In your mind, your media activities are more important than the coach? It is necessary that the two are compatible for you to accept?

R. C. - I have neither the time nor the age to be 24 hours over 24 in Niger. But it is much easier to combine my business with that of coach, with that of a club coach. Club coach and coach are two completely different professions, it is much more difficult and demanding to be coach of a club. The team calendar of Niger is more compatible with my activities.

The important point is really to discuss with employers of all this. They need to authorize me to release piecemeal. In this case, a person will be there to manage the daily operations of the Nigerian selection.

F24 - Your experience of co-coach of Niger in the CAN, gives you she wanted to continue the adventure as the sole master on board?

R. C. - We did well in the CAN. The problem we had was to have fallen into a very difficult group with Gabon, Morocco and Tunisia. But gradually as the competition, the actual progress. This tells me that the prospects are interesting. More deadlines with Niger are exciting playoff with the CAN-2013 and those for the 2014 World Cup.

The people around this team, those of the Federation, are really nice. At the NPC, it has created very pleasant relations. And you know, if the leaders of the Fenifoot are again appealing to me is that they must be satisfied with my benefits.

AFP - Several thousand people began to show in Athens Thursday on the sidelines of a general strike against the austerity measures affecting the country for two years, the new coalition government was still committed to continue Wednesday.

At midday, the police accounted 17,000 demonstrators in Athens and 6000 in Thessaloniki in the north of the country, marching behind the slogan "No to austerity budget" or "No, not again, it is necessary that the perpetrators of pay tax evasion. "(…) There is a great sadness and anger that will speak soon, I hope it will not be out of control, "said Ilias Iliopoulos, vice-president of the union officials ADEDY on the radio Flash.

Thursday, the strike was observed mainly in the public sector, even if the call concerned also the private to the call of the great trade union confederation GSEE.

The ships remained at anchor in the port of Piraeus near Athens, the trains did not roll and school administrations and remained closed while buses and trolleys stop watching three hours.

AFP - The former chief of Libyan intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was arrested Sunday in southern Libya, Libyan officials said.

"Abdullah al-Senussi was arrested in the region of al-Guira, in the south," he told AFP in Tripoli, a senior official of the National Transitional Council (CNT) on condition of anonymity.

A Benghazi (east), al-Bashir Oueidat, head of the military council of Wadi Shati, including Al-depent Guira, said Mr. Senoussi was arrested Sunday by rebel brigades of veterans south of Libya.

"We had doubts about the presence of Abdullah al-Senussi in the region.

The Arab League adopted Sunday of economic sanctions against Syria to force the regime to stop the repression, said Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani at the end of an extraordinary council of Arab ministers in Cairo.

These sanctions include a freeze on commercial transactions with the Syrian government and bank accounts of government in Arab countries, the suspension of air links between the Arab countries and Syria and a travel ban in the Arab countries for officials to determine according to the resolution passed by the League.

Of the 21 Arab League members - not to mention Syria suspended in mid-November -, 19 voted in favor of sanctions, while Iraq and Lebanon would be "separated," said Sheikh Hamad .

These are the first sanctions of this magnitude on the part of the Arab League against one of its members.

The Syrian economy is already affected by European and American sanctions and similar measures of the Arab League could stifle Syria, half of exports and nearly one quarter of imports is with the Arab countries.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad but ignored his ultimatum Saturday, the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem accused the Arabs to encourage a "foreign intervention" in Syria, after their decision to appeal to the UN for help find a settlement.

AFP - At least seven people, including a policeman, were killed Sunday, the day of Eid el-Adha, in a suicide attack near a mosque in the town of Baghlan, northern Afghanistan, according to the local police and the Afghan Ministry of Interior.

A suicide bomber on foot set off the explosives he was carrying near the faithful out of a mosque after the prayer of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice), the main celebration of Islam said the police chief for Baghlan province, Asadullah Shirzad.

"Seven people were killed and 17 wounded in a suicide bomb (…

Asadullah Shirzad for his part told AFP: "The final balance we have is seven dead, including a policeman, and 18 wounded, including three policemen and two children."

The district chief of the town of Baghlan has in turn identified "eight people - two militia leaders and six civilians - and wounded 18 civilians." Mr.

REUTERS - Laurent Blanc, the coach of the France team, called for the first time the striker Olivier Giroud Montpellier to play friendly matches to be the Blues against the United States and Belgium, 11 and 15 November next to the Stade de France.

Olivier Giroud, 25, arrived last season in the club Hérault, has scored eight goals in 11 Ligue 1 matches during the 2011-2012 fiscal year.He had scored 12 in 37 matches last year.

However, Patrice Evra, the former captain of France during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is not among the 22 players selected by Laurent Blanc.

Wednesday night in the Champions League, the defender was on the bench for Manchester United, winning 2-0 in the Romanian Otelul Galati.

The selection

Goalkeepers: Hugo Lloris (Lyon), Steve Mandanda (Marseille), Cedric Carrasso (Bordeaux).

Defenders: Mathieu Debuchy (Lille), Eric Abidal
(Barcelona), Anthony Reveillere (Lyon), Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal), Adil Rami (Valencia), Mamadou Sakho (PSG), Jeremy Mathieu (Valencia).

Midfielders: Alou Diarra (Marseille), Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle), Yann M'Vila (Rennes), Samir Nasri (Manchester City), Marvin Martin (Sochaux), Florent Malouda (Chelsea).