L'ex-premier ministre britannique s'est défendu avec fermeté, lundi 8 février, d'avoir trompé ses concitoyens sur ses raisons d'engager son pays dans la guerre en Irak en 2003.

Le mastodonte des jumbo-jets de Boeing, le 747-8 a effectué son vol inaugural, avec un an de retard, lundi 8 février dans le nord-ouest des Etats-Unis.

In Nineveh Province, a parliamentary election considered crucial to Iraqi unity is highlighting conflicts among ethnic and religious groups.

La politique du gouvernement à l'égard de la fonction publique et des fonctionnaires est jugée mauvaise par 57 % des Français, selon un sondage BVA pour "Les Echos", BFM TV et "La Tribune".

La finale du championnat de football américain a été regardée, dimanche 7 février, par 106,5 millions d'Américains.

Le rapport annuel de la Cour des comptes, qui s'attache à débusquer les nombreuses anomalies dans la gestion publique, est largement marqué cette année du sceau de Philippe Séguin.

Brushing aside international threats of stricter sanctions, Iran reportedly began enriching its uranium on Tuesday.

U.S. missionaries in Haiti who face kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children out of the country made an earlier attempt to take kids, says a Haitian police officer.

Toyota's president apologized Tuesday as he announced the global recall of more than 400,000 of the automaker's 2010 hybrid models, including the Prius.

Russia?s preferred candidate is the apparent winner, but the starkly contested presidential race contrasts sharply with Russia?s recent history.

Michael Jackson's father suspects his son was murdered and that Dr. Conrad Murray is "just a fall guy" in a conspiracy. "I was looking for justice, and justice, to me, would be a murder charge," Joe Jackson said

The worldwide recall will affect about 436,000 units of the 2010 Prius and other hybrid models, according to the company?s filing.

The prime minister moved a contentious debate over ?national identity? to a group of experts, ending the debate in its public form.

An Iraq war veteran has been charged with assault on suspicion of abusing his daughter, whose head he allegedly held in water to get her to recite the ABCs, according to police in Yelm, Washington.

Rep. John Murtha died as a result of recent gallbladder surgery complications that arose from doctors accidentally nicking Murtha's intestines, a source told CNN.

A l?ouest de l?Allemagne, le plus important centre d?enquête sur les crimes nazis poursuit son travail. Son dernier succès : l?arrestation de John Demjanjuk, gardien du camp d?extermination de Sobibor. L?entrée est bien gardée. Grille, caméra, agents de sécurité. Que recèle cette[...]

Dans huit jeux, les visages de soldats de la dernière campagne « Devenez vous-même » font une apparition. en lire plus

Pierre Collenot, blogueur et conseiller municipal d'opposition à Brie-sous-Matha (Charente-Maritime), raconte que le maire, excédé par des années de querelle, a réduit en miettes son baladeur MP3 lors d'un conseil municipal jeudi 4 février. en lire plus

C'est le site Bibliobs (Nouvel Obs) qui a levé le lièvre. Dans un de ses deux derniers livres (il a publié une paire), l'essayiste Bernard-Henri Lévy s'en prend à Kant « ce fou furieux de la pensée, cet enragé du concept ». A la page 122 de « De la guerre en philosophie » (Grasset) BHL cite les recherches sur Kant de Jean-Baptiste Botul. Problème : Botul n'a jamais existé. en lire plus

Deux étudiantes s'enferment dans les Cévennes avec pour seule source d'informations les journaux télévisés. A croire que l'heure est au « loft story » journalistique. Expérimental. en lire plus

Réserver le wagon de tête, dans le réseau Ile-de-France, aux « personnes les plus vulnérables », notamment les femmes seules ? Bruno Beschizza, tête de liste UMP pour les régionales en Seine-Saint-Denis, en a émis l'idée ce lundi sur France Bleu. Interrogé par Rue89, il estime avoir été « mal compris ». en lire plus

France Info est partenaire de XXI: chaque dimanche à 8h54, Célyne Bayt-Darcourt reçoit un des auteurs de la revue. Le 7 février, son invitée était Anne Brunswic, auteur de "Ecrire la petite histoire d'une grande utopie", l'entretien du numéro 9 de XXI. Anne Brunswic a rencontré Svetlana[...]

Photo credit: Jeremy Levine Design Sustainability has never reached the point where it became so imminent as it is nowadays and at the same time so unperfected in the architectural discussion. We are on the eve of an architectural revolution where situational design parameters are no longer used as a design tool to ?catch? the [...]

In an interesting interview during COP15 Amy Goodman from Democracy Now asks Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, about his view of the climate summit in Copenhagen, climate change, USA, and the huge oil reserves in Venezuela. Watch it: “AMY GOODMAN: What level of emissions are you willing to support reductions of emissions? PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ: [translated] [...]

Geneva, Switzerland - Countries participating in a major endangered species trade conference in March must back better protections for red and pink coral, which are disappearing because of overfishing to make jewelry. Red and pink coral (also known as Corallium) are a type of deep-sea precious coral found in the Mediterranean and Pacific. Between 30 and 50 metric tonnes of these corals are fished annually to meet consumer demand for jewelry and decorative items. The United States alone imported 28 million pieces of red and pink coral between 2001 and 2008. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Secretariat today recommended that countries support increased trade protection for red and pink corals, based on the available population data for these species. Science has shown that trade is having an adverse impact on red and pink corals? ability to maintain healthy populations and to reproduce. Meanwhile, the United States and the European Union are co-sponsoring a proposal to list red and pink coral under Appendix II of the Convention at the 15th Conference of Parties (CoP 15) in Doha, Qatar in March. Such a move would still allow trade, but only in legally and sustainably harvested coral and coral products. SeaWeb and WWF support the Secretariat?s recommendations and are urging CITES member countries to support the EU and US?s proposal. Kristian Teleki, SeaWeb?s vice president for science initiatives said, ?Red and pink coral are among the world?s most valuable wildlife commodities. They are long-living, slow-growing species and have been intensively fished for centuries to meet demand in the jewelry and curio trade. A CITES Appendix II listing is needed to ensure these species aren?t fished to extinction.? ?A CITES Appendix II listing would be in line with protection for other coral species,? said Colman O?Criodain, Wildlife Trade Analyst for the WWF Species Programme. ?An Appendix II listing for red and pink coral would support local management measures and also help combat poaching, which regularly occurs in the Mediterranean.? Red and pink coral were proposed for protection at the last Conference of Parties in 2007. The parties initially voted in favor of the proposal, but the vote was overturned in a secret ballot on the final day of the conference, after intensive lobbying from industry interests. Parties will once again take to the floor during CoP 15, March 13 to 25, to consider the proposal. Alongside red and pink coral, several species of sharks, and Atlantic bluefin tuna will also be considered for trade protection.

Despite a recent visit by the United Nations Environment Programme, preparations for the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia are failing to meet proper environmental standards, according to WWF. On Jan. 28-30, a UNEP mission visited Sochi to assess environmental impact of preparation for the Games. UNEP representative Theodore Oben ?expressed his satisfaction with the steps taken by the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee to fulfill its environmental commitments in venues construction,? according to a statement from the Committee?s Joint Information Center. "I am happy with the visit as it left me with the feeling that the entire team, including those doing the construction, are conscious of the importance of fully integrating environmental considerations in their work,? Oben said in the statement. ?I also note with optimism the expressions of willingness to listen to and engage all stakeholders in efforts to make the Sochi Games green." However, WWF and other NGOs, who have been monitoring the environmental damage in Sochi created by construction in anticipation of the Games, were expecting a different outcome from UNEP?s assessment. ?WWF and other NGOs were looking forward to independent judgment of UNEP's mission to Sochi and a full report on environmental damage done and anticipated,? said Igor Chestin, WWF-Russia CEO. ?Unfortunately, this did not happen and the environmental destruction continues.? Just before the visit, WWF informed UNEP that despite very significant progress made by Sochi-2014 organizers in 2009 to garner public input, decisions taken jointly by organizers and NGOs still are not being implemented. In addition, Sochi-2014 organizers admitted the poor quality of environmental impact assessments for Olympic facilities as early as on 25 Jan. 2009, but still failed to allocate funding to carry out a survey of those impacts, which means that crucial field data is still lacking, according to WWF. This could lead to serious damage to the Caucasus, a region with the highest level of biological diversity in Russia. For example, the environmental impact assessment for the combined railway and highway being built for the Games -- by far the largest project related to the Olympics at an estimated cost USD 8 billion -- is based on 2 weeks of zoological and botanical research done by fewer than 10 people. As a result, projects do not have reasonable mitigation plans, or technological solutions to minimize their environmental impact. During the visit, WWF and other NGOs also called UNEP?s attention to regular breach of laws for the sake of Olympic construction. In December 2009, they registered two such breaches: The Russian registration service ? without any official government decision or a public discussion - changed the borders of the Caucasian biosphere reserve, a World Heritage site, to allow the building of public road to a resort, and Parliament approved an amendment to the Forest Code, allowing for the cutting of endangered species of trees and shrubs for construction of the Olympic facilities. Meanwhile, environmental activists were arrested twice - in August and October 2009 - near Olympic construction sites on the pretext they were violating the border zone regime without a special permit, although tourists and other visitors to the area are never asked for the permit and are not even aware that it is required. ?Summing up, we believe that for the time being preparation for the Olympics is out of control, construction is of poor quality, vast damage to the environment has already been made, and NGOs are deprived of the ability to provide independent advice,? said Igor Chestin, WWF-Russia CEO. UNEP signed on in 2009 to act as an independent observer during the Sochi-2014 preperations to assess organizers? ecological strategy, according to the Committee?s website. WWF is aksing UNEP and other international institutions to publicly withdraw from the process as further involvement would be seen as blessing for the environmentally and socially unacceptable practices.

“What can decent people do to save the Planet from the Australian, EU and US climate criminals?” The bottom line in the Copenhagen Climate Summit should be (a) equal per capita greenhouse gas emissions for everyone and (b) an additional but equitable penalty for First World countries for their disproportionately huge historical contribution to atmospheric carbon [...]

France?s call for an international trade ban on endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna is a strong political commitment, but it falls well short of giving this endangered species the immediate protection it needs from overfishing. French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo made official today that France supports the listing of Atlantic bluefin tuna on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which will effectively ban all international commercial trade. However, France is asking for an 18-month delayed implementation of the ban pending new scientific analysis of tuna stocks. ?WWF is pleased that the French leadership among Mediterranean states is calling for the international trade ban for Atlantic bluefin tuna and we urge the French government to drop the call for an 18-month delay in implementing the ban,? said Dr Sergi Tudela, WWF?s tuna expert. ?This decision was made despite a comprehensive report made last year on the historical depletion of tuna stocks, which revealed that current stock levels are under 15 percent of what they once were. The mechanism suggested by France for triggering the ban is not allowed under the text of the CITES convention, besides being neither scientifically nor economically justifiable.? ?Atlantic bluefin tuna is in a state of severe collapse after decades of overfishing and reproducing stocks are dwindling to an all-time low ? and the driver of this situation is clearly international trade,? Tudela said. ?To give the species a break, an immediate ban of international commercial trade at CITES ? without condition or delay ? is the only logical step for the global community to take. Anything less is woefully insufficient.? WWF urges France to up its pressure on other countries to join it in supporting the trade ban. The support for a CITES Appendix I listing of Atlantic bluefin tuna by a major European fishing country may free up the deadlock across EU member states and the European Commission, whose fisheries and environment commissioners have been at loggerheads for weeks in a failure to agree on the formal EC position. Italy already voiced its support for the Appendix I listing last week, along with suggesting a three-year suspension of industrial fishing. ?It now falls to EU Presidency holder Spain, other EU countries, the European Commission and all governments that are members of CITES to follow France?s lead and throw their support behind an Appendix I listing for Atlantic bluefin,? Tudela said. ?The trade ban must however take immediate effect and be implemented without condition if it is to be of conservation and economic value.? The proposed listing on CITES Appendix I was originally tabled by the Principality of Monaco. Fisheries experts at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the scientific committee of the management commission for this fishery (ICCAT) have both confirmed that Atlantic bluefin tuna meets the criteria for listing on CITES Appendix I. Any future modification of a CITES Appendix I listing can only be carried out by formal proposal and discussion at subsequent Conference of the Parties (CoP) meetings. Indeed, Monaco?s proposal is accompanied by a resolution facilitating a review of the listing at the next CoP, if scientifically justified. A listing on CITES Appendix I will benefit traditional fisheries such as the tuna traps that have lined the Mediterranean Sea since Phoenician times. These fishers will continue catching and selling tuna in domestic markets, while the bloated international purse seine fleets ? the majority of whose catch goes to Japan ? will be paralyzed. Under a CITES Appendix I listing, fishermen can only catch tuna within national waters and sell to domestic markets. But France is also pushing for the establishment of an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) around its Mediterranean coastline. This would allow traditional sustainable tuna fisheries to continue their activity and sell their bluefin tuna across the European market. ?WWF supports the establishment of exclusive economic zones across the Mediterranean Sea to encourage sustainable artisanal fishing in the longer term. The monster industrial boats ? pumped with public subsidies ? have dominated catches in the last two decades, putting artisanal fleets in jeopardy and destroying tuna stocks. It is time to reverse this perverse and discriminatory situation, and a CITES Appendix I listing will do just that,? added Tudela. The 175 member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) next meet on 13-25 March in Doha, Qatar, where Atlantic bluefin tuna will be the headline marine species.

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