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The enemy is at home. Indeed, the second, was born and raised in England. Michael would Abedolajo one of the two killers who on Wednesday killed a British soldier in the middle of a street in Woolwich, a suburb of London. Both suspects responsible for the brutal murder of a soldier yesterday in London had been the subject of previous investigations of the British security services, for possible links to terrorist interference. He does know a British officer, on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about the investigation.

CAMERON – Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister David Cameron explained that this is "an attack on the UK, but also a betrayal of Islam and the Muslim community that so much damage to this country." He then added: "Who did this to try to divide us, but should know that the result is to make us more united and make us stronger." The holder of Downing Street spoke after a meeting of the crisis committee, Cobra, in which it was made the point on investigations and security measures. In London, the alert is high, with 1. 200 policemen on duty in more to cope with the danger of further attacks. Cameron has promised that all measures will be studied to defend the population but, he added, "the best answer is to go back to normal."

THE KILLER – By now you know that the two killers brought to hospital because wounded by shots fired by the police, would both British with Nigerian origins: this at least is certain to Michael Adebolajo, the twenty-eight showed a video in hand with the ax still bloody , who was born in London to Nigerian parents Christians. A local imam said he had converted to Islam in 2001 after leaving college, and that so far and had always behaved "impeccably". Police raided two houses, one in Greenwich that belong to one of the bombers and the other in Lincolnshire.

CAMERON – Meanwhile, the British Prime Minister David Cameron explained that this is "an attack on the UK, but also a betrayal of Islam and the Muslim community that so much damage to this country." He then added: "Who did this to try to divide us, but should know that the result is to make us more united and make us stronger." The holder of Downing Street spoke after a meeting of the crisis committee, Cobra, in which it was made the point on investigations and security measures. In London, the alert is high, with 1. 200 policemen on duty in more to cope with the danger of further attacks. Cameron has promised that all measures will be studied to defend the population but, he added, "the best answer is to go back to normal."

THE VICTIM – The identity of the victim, by the will of the family, is not yet widespread. It seems that the military was in his twenties and belonged to the regiment of Yorkshire. After the attacks in Britain there have been protests by right-wing groups. Two men are arrested for tati attacks against mosques in Gillingham and Essex.

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May 23rd, 2013 at 1:08 pm

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Syria: concern over Hezbollah support for Assad

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U.S. and British government officials on Wednesday expressed concern over the continued involvement of Hezbollah supported by Iran in the fighting at Quseir, located ten kilometers from the Lebanese border and thirty of the former opposition stronghold of Homs. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said before a meeting of the Contact Group of Friends of Syria in Amman, Iran's support of Hezbollah and the participation of the civil war would have a negative impact on the entire region.

The EU Heads of State and Government discussed in Brussels on Wednesday again about the situation in Syria without an agreement was in sight about whether the European arms embargo should be relaxed in favor of the insurgents. British Prime Minister David Cameron called for a lifting of the embargo again, what is now the new Italian government revealed sympathy. Austria and Sweden continue spoke adamantly opposed. Now it is expected that a decision will be on a meeting of foreign ministers on Monday in Brussels.

The prospect of a new Syria conference in Geneva does not seem to be differences of opinion in the EU disappear. London and Paris, who had brought the debate about the embargo going to argue now that his suspension would be an important signal to Assad and his allies that the regime should not hope for a military victory and in Geneva on the search for a political solution must participate. On the German side holds a cancellation but just because of the recent diplomatic efforts counterproductive. You can encourage particular Russia, as announced to deliver air defense missiles to the regime. The federal government has long described her attitude as skeptical, but would like to bring about a compromise in the EU. It has ruled that Germany would provide even weapons.

Time is pressing, because the existing EU sanctions against Syria only until 1 Apply in June. Until then they are not renewed by unanimous decision by all 27 Member States, then they run out. The EU's External Action Service has an options paper developed which enumerates the various options, ranging from the removal of all sanctions (including political and economic) on the authorization for the supply of any or all weapons to the rebels to an extension of all sanctions (including the military), the latter is also conceivable for a shorter time, say up to the Geneva Conference. The paper contains no recommendations. As a compromise to let expire the military sanctions and to extend all the others, reject the British. In a case where even the Syrian regime from Europe could be re-supplied with weapons. Diplomats it appeared most likely that you will agree on Monday on a short-term extension of the sanctions.

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate, meanwhile, voted by a large majority a bill to which envisages the supply of arms, ammunition and equipment to selected opposition groups in Syria. For the brought together by Democratic Chairman Robert Menendez and Republican Bob Corker voted Draft 15 committee members, three voted against. "It is the time for action," Menendez said. "The United States must play an important role in turning the balance of power in favor of the opposition and promote the development of a free and democratic Syria. "Corker explained the legislative initiative with the argument raging in Syria has" a second war "over who will take power on the day after the fall of the Assad regime. If Washington continues to take nothing, "it is virtually certain that Al Qaeda or extremists will control the country with a similar world view," Corker said.

President Barack Obama rejects weapons to the insurgents in Syria, because, in his view, the weapons could fall into the wrong hands and the war with additional weapons from the United States could spill over into neighboring countries and throughout the region. Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CIA director David Petraeus and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had submitted a plan to arm moderate opposition groups, which was however rejected by Obama, his advisers in the White House and his campaign staff. From the White House put forward as arguments against arms sales scenarios are all occurred without that Washington would have given the moderate rebel weapons.

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May 22nd, 2013 at 5:00 pm

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60,000 more teachers, is it really necessary?

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Their roadmap? Aberrant. Since 1989, the law was added to the traditional role of teachers in new missions help staff student work, assessment, orientation aid, etc.. Without that they be taken into account in their time of service. Worse, they are launched into the business "without a clear answer to this question: what is a good teacher Teachers thus have no reference to what is expected of them, not more than? inspectors to evaluate them. "

Other major malfunction, already denounced in a previous report: Teacher assignments are made according to the needs of students and schools. "In the first stage, the Créteil, the highest concentration of academic difficulties in France, receives a number of positions by less than academies Rouen and Reims student", the Court notes, for example.

As a result, more experienced teachers are heavily affected in the west and the south of France, and beginners in the academies "difficult" in the north and the Paris region … There is also done to make them attractive most exposed positions: PTA premiums are ridiculous. Nor is to reward the investment. Their premiums represent only 11.5% of their salary, against 54% for other executives of the public, with a lower hourly wage of 30% of the European average for school teachers!

Advocated by the Court? Establish a sheet clearer road and taking into account the new missions, leaving principals care to adapt to the needs of students, locally assessed. Annualized working time of teachers – without touching the school holidays – to end this mess: Teachers in technical unemployment, while their students are under consideration, internship or school trip. Manage assignments to the needs of schools. Recruit school teachers rather than on a single discipline but at least two, for academy as in the primary. Reward the investment. Pure common sense.

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May 22nd, 2013 at 9:58 am

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Woman found slaughtered on the stairs of an elegant building in Milan

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MILAN – A woman, whose identity is not yet known at the time, was found dead, allegedly slaughtered, in an apartment building in Milan's Fiera. To call the police were condos, signaling the woman found on the stairs of the building with a deep wound in the throat. It has the apparent et than 30 years, the person found dead around 19 in an apartment building in Via Ruggiero di Lauria's Fiera in Milan. He explained to the police that, at first, was alerted to a dead man on the stairs. The woman, who lived on the fifth floor, was found at the bottom of the stairwell on the ground floor, two condominiums. From the first information would deep cuts in the throat, a forearm and chest. Not yet clear whether it is suicide or murder. This would be a suicide. According to the investigators of the Flying Squad, which took place on the spot, and that is making the first scientific investigations with the police and the coroner. The agents would in fact found in the apartment of the woman who is on the fifth floor, a note generically apologized for the gesture.

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May 21st, 2013 at 7:50 pm

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Elio back to XFactor

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Elio will be there. Will sit at the table of the jury of X Factor 2013 alongside Mika, Simona Ventura and Morgan. The anticipated today SkyTG24 during an interview conducted by Alessio Viola which airs Monday nights at 22 in full. 40 on Sky One HD in the special "Elio Forever." After Simona, Mika and Morgan, Elio closes the circle of a jury original and exclusive, unique in its composition: one woman and three men, and for the first time an international star.

- "I've thought it," said the voice of Elio e le Storie Tese who will sit at the judges table for the fourth consecutive time, 'and I am convinced. In fact, I convinced the contagious conviction of those who asked me. So convinced that I decided I will take the next edition with a new style: without a mustache. " With his usual humor and a taste for paradox, he added: "When you are very tired, it was in the best position to make the most beautiful things, and I'm very tired. I decided that I will be a judge more elegant and sober, but especially without a mustache, which were a sort of screen between me and the audience. "

IRONY – Putting aside for a moment the irony, Elio explained what motivated him to get back again into the arena of the X Factor – the third license plate Sky One and aired from September – after a year of musical triumphs with the group: 'X Factor has – among others – the great merit of having brought the music on TV. Before X Factor music on TV was extinct. Now finally she came back and the public can listen to it, look at it, talk about it. I'm glad to take part in musical and artistic appointment now indispensable. What if there were, it would lack a lot of the television. " (

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May 20th, 2013 at 12:24 am

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Accident Marine Le Pen, broke the sacrum

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PARIS – Marine Le Pen was the victim of an accident 'rather serious', as she called her father, Jean-Marie, last week when she fell into the empty swimming pool of his home. The National Front leader has fractured the sacrum and could not attend the rally scheduled Saturday, May 18 in Limoges. In its place, the father Jean-Marie Le Pen, who made the announcement to the militants: "Marine could not come because she was the victim of a rather serious accident which prevents it from moving. And 'fall in his empty swimming pool and broke her spine. "

Calming – The Head of Communications Fn, Alain Vizier, he then reduced the severity of the fall, adding that "the party reassures the militants and members on the state of health of the president and is grateful for the many messages of sympathy that are addressed." Vizier has confirmed that Marine Le Pen will have to give up many dates in the coming weeks, in spite of last Wednesday was able to take part in a TV broadcast on the violence that followed in Paris winning the Ligue 1 title by Paris Saint Germain. In the evening, Marine Le Pen has also used twitter to address his supporters: "Do not panic! Fracture of the sacrum last weekend, will be a long and painful thing, but nothing dramatic! MLP. "

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May 19th, 2013 at 3:05 am

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Clermont-Toulon: Dublin is either

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Saturday at 6:00 p.m. (France 2), under the eye of Raminagrobis Toulouse forced, Clermont and Toulon give rest to go to the Aviva Stadium to determine who will raise for the first time in its history the Heineken Cup supreme trophy of European rugby. After 2003, 2005 and 2010, it is the fourth coronation promised a club Hexagon and, in this case, the opportunity to validate the economic and sporting pre-eminence in the Top 14 at the continental level.

"Airlift". We deliberately use the word "battle" in reference to the warrior lexicon usual to discuss troop movements around the two teams. With sixteen planes chartered from Clermont, the term "air bridge" between Auvergne and Dublin. In addition, supporters of Morgan Parra & Co won for quite some time the name "yellow army", a nod to the famous "red army" after the Irish Munster. The metaphor does not, however, goes a step further, once again, the audience of rugby, proverbially meek, put to shame the football, five days after the "jubilation" pathos of Paris-Saint-Germain in the evening , Clermont and Toulon trinqueront arm in arm in Temple Bar. But in the stadium, the first one will likely benefit, as more and supported by local Leinster fans who made their allegiance, the time of the afternoon.

Quite sentences have Fusé from Toulon, where we like to build in adversity, even tu paranoia. "We are preparing to defeat. European vice-champion it will be. It's not bad. We must be realistic. Clermont is a steamroller that will double the "swung president Mourad Boudjellal in Rugbyrama, having questioned the finances of his opponent and arbitration. Not to be outdone, the manager of CTN, Bernard Laporte, was launched in Paris in a curious comparative study – "With Vern Cotter, they took seven years to reach the final. We twenty months "- before its object" test build "to" individual achievements "of the opponent. More dignified, Cotter, the Clermont coach just evokes the "major obstacle" that is a "great team of Toulon."

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May 18th, 2013 at 3:02 pm

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No “government unit” for tax evaders

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There will be no "drunk tank" for tax evaders who wish to regularize their situation. Widely reported in the press, information was denied yesterday by the Ministry of the Budget. "There will be no amnesty and puts nothing back on his feet, assures us in the entourage of Bernard Cazeneuve. Fraudsters can still regularize their situation, but in the existing framework, "that is to say, with penalties and the threat of lawsuits. A framework that will, however, be simplified to encourage interested parties to get out of the woods.

Will recall the "Woerth cell" in place between April and December 2009 – and unofficially extended until November 2010. To encourage fraudsters out of the woods, the agency guaranteed a limited first contact, the lack of prosecution and, where appropriate, some goodwill in the calculation of penalties to settle. About 4600 people have contacted the government unit, allowing the state to collect 1.2 billion euros and 7 billion capital return on the French market.

But common to attractive such a procedure if it is "common law" – that is, if the risk reporting are the same as for the tax evaders have unmasked after an investigation? The Ministry of the Budget, it was noted that even a spontaneous statement does not protect any criminal prosecution in addition to the back taxes and penalties payable – the latter being also likely rebate. No way to practice indulgence after a series of controversies over fraud and tax exile – and especially Cahuzac case.

His late cell having been questioned, the former budget minister Eric Woerth issued a statement taking the defense of "this very effective device" on "clear and transparent way." In contrast, the abandonment of the concept by the government welcomes Florence Toquet, national secretary of the trade union Solidarity Public-Finance: "The border is too blurred between these cells and an amnesty for tax evaders. Nothing prevents a regularized then again, because the circuits are still used. It is these that need to be addressed. "

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May 18th, 2013 at 5:45 am

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Diane 35: Europe is against his suspension

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Additional measures necessary The Committee therefore does not follow the recommendations of the MSNA which for its part had justified this choice by referring to the risk of venous thrombosis, phlebitis and pulmonary embolism in women using Diane 35 as a contraceptive. "It is established that the risk of venous thromboembolism is increased fourfold in women taking Diane 35, compared with women not taking oral contraceptives or Diane or" Dominique Maraninchi had informed the director of the agency in announcing suspension. The MSNA was therefore initiated arbitration proceedings with the European Union, to obtain the withdrawal of all authorizations issued by the Member States market. In addition, the manufacturer, Bayer laboratory, never got permission to put on the market for this purpose. In response, EMA nevertheless concedes that this drug should be used "only for the treatment of moderate to severe acne (…) and excessive unwanted hair." As for thromboembolic risk, "the committee also recognizes that additional measures are needed to minimize" the statement said. Thus, it calls for "new cons-indications and warnings for Patients and health professionals about the risks, signs and symptoms of thrombosis." The patients concerned may well consider treatment and contraception adapted as soon as possible.

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May 18th, 2013 at 3:13 am

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The bureaucrat who earns triple the President Napolitano

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No country in the world where a retired general secretary of the Senate gains with the addition of the prebend of State Councillor nearly triple the head of state. Only in Italy happens. It is the unfortunate effect of the covenant that binds a political class for decades by his own admission increasingly mediocre and a bureaucratic structure made arrogant by their inferiority of the ruling class. But the emergence of emergencies does not appear that the government Letta. C 'is a reform that would not cost anything. Better: it would cost money. The price to pay would be the breaking of that covenant unfortunate that binds a political class for decades by his own admission increasingly mediocre and a bureaucratic structure made louder and louder, until the arrogance, right from the inferiority of the ruling class. Gradually become a slave of senior officials, the only ones capable in this infernal mechanism to write a law, push it into the existing legal tangle and then interpret it.

A servitude, as is known, paid dearly: there is no country in the world where a retired general secretary of the Senate gains with the addition of the prebend of State Councillor nearly triple the President of the Republic. Since we do. It goes without saying that the beneficiaries of this "abnormity" have no interest in changing a system in which an official takes more than a parliamentary deputy. The Max Weber wrote: "Every bureaucracy seeks to increase the superiority of his position keeping secret his information and his intentions." This was repeated by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi, the first thing to do before you even build roads and bridges, which is to change the bureaucracy because "brings benefit to a company save half an hour between Civitavecchia and Grosseto if he has to wait a decade for the resolution of a civil case "or at least" a year to be paid by a public authority "? Add: it is the fault only of Fiom or if labor costs in recent years, foreign investment in Italy fell by half (from 2 to 1, 2% of the world total: data Confindustria), or rather a framework where stifling bureaucracy, complaint confcommercio, "it takes 41 procedures to enforce a contract and 1. 210 days to obtain a ruling that protects the enterprise "?

All'Aquila laws were enacted between specialie directives of the Commissioner, acts of Structures Emergency Management and Civil Protection devices and bla-bla, 1. 109 standards attachments: there are only the money to rebuild, it lacks common sense. To the point that, unless something changes, you can bet that it will end with the usual emergency decree that allows to circumvent the excess of rules. Already seen that bypasses the state because the state is incapable of changing himself. It is therefore a pity to note that, to scroll agencies and archives, the emergence of emergencies does not appear in the government Letta a real emergency. Two references in the speech of investiture, two flashes of ANSA: and centered mostly against the hood of the European bureaucracy.

Choosing the right men for this guerrache should be won at all costs, for that matter, says it all. Nor do we want to debate the quality of the curriculum and the Minister Giampiero D'Alia and his deputy, Gianfranco Micciche and Michaela Bianci hijacked by the Equal Opportunities after the shoot about gays. But we challenge anyone to argue that they have been put there to fight the hardest battle, because there were identified as the best on the streets to clean up, clearing, simplify. The truth is that placed them there, unfortunately, because the sling of the balance between the parties involved to give them a chair or at least a folding seat. It is considered that, unfortunately, a ministry of series B. If not standard C. The revision of the Constitution was entrusted to the great Concetto Marchesi. No offense: you want to put the difference?

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May 18th, 2013 at 2:00 am

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