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Eine Mitteilung des Rats an das EU-Parlament verdeutlicht die Unbeweglichkeit des Ministergremiums bei der Gesetzgebung zur Netzneutralität. EurActiv Brüssel berichtet.

Les députés malgaches ont voté à une très large majorité mardi soir la destitution du président Hery Rajaonarimampianina, accusé de non-respect de la Constitution, et plus généralement d'incompétence.

May 26, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - Several journalists from the Sudanese Journalists Network (SJN) have protested in front of the National Council for Press and Publication (NCPP) premises Tuesday against the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) crackdown on press.

Members of Sudanese Journalists Network (SJN) hold banners outside the National Council for Press and Publication (NCPP) premises in Khartoum in protest against repeated seizure of newspapers, on May 26, 2015 (ST photo)

On Monday, NISS seized copies of 10 newspapers and suspended 4 of them indefinitely without giving reasons.

The pro-government Sudan Journalists Union (SJU) condemned the move, describing it as an unfortunate development that brought back memory of seizing 14 newspapers on 16 February.

The Sudanese Journalists Network (SJN) submitted a memo to the newly appointed chairman of NCPP, Fadl Allah Mohamed, and the secretary-general, Hisham Mohamed Abbas, describing frequent seizure of newspapers without reason as clear violation for the 2005 interim constitution.

The memo said the executive power is imposing absolute control over media and freedoms of press and expression, adding that the Sudanese press is currently witnessing the worst phase in its history due to tightened security grip besides persecution of journalists and deteriorating economic conditions of newspapers.

The letter further pointed to growing incidents of newspapers' confiscation copies and the various types of censorship as well as summoning and interrogation of journalists by the NISS.

The SJN referred to physical violence against journalists, mentioning the incidents against the Chief-Editor of Al-Tayyar newspaper, Osman Mergheni, and chairman of the board of directors of Al-Mustaqilla newspaper, Ali Hamdan.

It accused the regime of seeking to draft a new press law inconsistent with the freedom of expression and the 2005 interim constitution. This bill does not reflect opinions of the majority of journalists, besides applying harsh economic measures through imposing high duties, taxes and customs on printing press materials, the SJN said.

The memo asked the NCPP to offer advice to the various government organs regarding press laws as is the case in any plural society, demanding it to work with all the concerned legislative and executive bodies including the presidency which oversees NISS's activities.

“The presidential palace is not [innocent] of the abuses and violations against the Sudanese press”, the memo says accusing the head of the state of giving the security organs unlimited powers against the law and the constitution.
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The SJN said it looks forward to seeing swift measures by the NCPP with the participation of all concerned bodies to cancel the pre-publication censorship and lift the ban on the suspended newspapers and journalists.

It called for applying economic remedies by exempting the press industry from duties, taxes and customs, saying legal measures must also be taken to oblige the NISS to resort to the press court in dealing with the issues of publishing.

Sudan's constitution guarantees freedom of expression but laws subordinate to the constitution such as the National Security Forces Act of 2010 contains articles that can be potentially used to curtail press freedom and instigate legal proceedings against newspapers and individual journalists.

Journalists say that NISS uses seizures of print copies of newspapers, not only to censor the media but also to weaken them economically.

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Pétrole de schiste en Albanie : un village évacué
Albanie : avec Bankers Petroleum, le pétrole de schiste fait boum !
Albanie : l'État privatise Albpetrol... et les richesses de son sous-sol
Albanie : demain, une grande puissance énergétique ?
Les Albanais rois du pétrole ?
Les ressources hydriques albanaises menacées par la pollution

/ Risques industriels, Albanie, Bilten, Environnement, Economie

Pétrole de schiste en Albanie : un village évacué
Albanie : avec Bankers Petroleum, le pétrole de schiste fait boum !
Albanie : l'État privatise Albpetrol... et les richesses de son sous-sol
Albanie : demain, une grande puissance énergétique ?
Les Albanais rois du pétrole ?
Les ressources hydriques albanaises menacées par la pollution

/ Risques industriels, Albanie, Bilten, Environnement, Economie

Epicentre de la révolte populaire qui a renversé Mouammar Kadhafi en 2011, Benghazi est aujourd'hui une ville meurtrie par des combats incessants où le quotidien de la population consiste à essayer de survivre. Un an après le lancement d'une opération visant à chasser de la deuxième ville de Libye les milices islamistes qui s'y sont installées dans la foulée de la révolution, Benghazi est une zone de guerre où la population est prise au piège.

Die Zahl der Europäer, die mit Hepatitis B und C leben, steigt – vor allem in Osteuropa. Doch der Zugang zu einer Behandlung ist nicht ausreichend. Patientengruppen führen das auf Finanzierungsprobleme und Unwissenheit zurück. EurActiv Brüssel berichtet.

Ahogy azt már korábban is megírtuk a Martosi Szabadegyetem szervezői elkezdték nyilvánosságra hozni a zenei kínálat mellett a napközbeni témákat is.

A Kárpát-medence minden tájáról érkező rangos művészek programja mindennél szebben mutatja összetartozásunkat, az egyetemes magyar kultúra határok feletti gazdagságát, sokszínűségét, olvasható a budapesti Nemzeti Színház meghívójában.

A 35 ans, c'est la première fois qu'Oscar Ouedraogo est déployé dans le cadre d'une mission de maintien de la paix des Nations Unies. Ce Burkinabé, officier pénitentiaire au sein de la Mission intégrée multidimensionnelle de stabilisation des Nations Unies en République centrafricaine (MINUSCA), est arrivé le 20 septembre 2014 à Bangui, la capitale centrafricaine.

La Représentante spéciale du Secrétaire général chargée de la question des violences sexuelles commises en période de conflit, Zainab Hawa Bangura, a condamné mercredi le groupe terroriste Boko Haram pour les viols répétés dont il s'est rendu coupable à l'encontre de femmes enlevées au Nigéria, souvent reléguées au rang de mères porteuses pour la production d'enfants soldats.

The number of the world&#39s chronically undernourished has dropped below the 800 million mark as an increasing number of countries hit their Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets on hunger, according to a new United Nations report released today by the Organization&#39s three food agencies.

May 26, 2015 (JUBA) - South Sudan president Salva Kiir on Monday issued an order sacking the head of national oil company from his position. According to the order broadcast on the state owned South Sudan Television (SSTV), the president removed Paul Adong, and replaced him with Joseph Cleto Deng Kuol.

South Sudan President an SPLM chairman Salva Kiir speaks during the inauguration of the new SPLM premises in Juba on 15 November 2013 (Photo Moses Lomayat)

Adong was moved to the headquarters of the ministry of petroleum and mining. No explanation was given for the sudden sacking of the long serving top civil servant.

Sources with direct knowledge of the circumstances leading to the presidential action claimed the president was persuaded by the parliamentary debates in which majority of the members directly called for the removal of the head of the central bank, Cornelio Koriom Mayik, head of national oil company, Paul Adong, and the under-secretary of the ministry of trade, Simon Nyang Anei.

Although the president responded to directives by parliament and removed two officials, Adong and Anei, he did not act on their directive to replace the head of Central Bank of South Sudan, Cornelio Koriom Mayik.

The legislators in a heated debate last week criticized the way the officials managed the letter of credit, resulting in the periodic shortage of essential commodities, including fuel and skyrocketing of consumer prices. This is despite government allocating 40 million South Sudanese pounds (SSP) on monthly basis to each institution.

In other appointments, the president named Joseph Lual Acuil, former minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management as head of national communications authority and Biel Jok Thich, as under-secretary in the ministry of trade.

Thich replaced his predecessor, Simon Nyang Anei, who was fired without new assignment.

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Air defense units from Russia’s Central Military District have been re-deployed to the Kapustin Yar and Ashuluk testing ranges, located in the Astrakhan region in the country’s south, as part of a snap combat-readiness check, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service said Wednesday.

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Gambian authorities have detained incommunicado, depriving them of all contact with the outside world, dozens of friends and relatives of people accused of involvement in a coup attempt since January 2015. Those detained include women, elderly people, and a child, and many are believed to be in ill-health.

(Dakar) – Gambian authorities have detained incommunicado, depriving them of all contact with the outside world, dozens of friends and relatives of people accused of involvement in a coup attempt since January 2015, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. Those detained include women, elderly people, and a child, and many are believed to be in ill-health.

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Tavaly 21 milliárd dináros bevételt könyvelt el az Elektrovojvodina, míg a belgrádi áramszolgáltató, melyhez a Szerbiai Villanygazdaság átszervezéséről szóló köztársasági döntés kapcsán hozzákapcsolják a vajdasági vállalatot, 19 milliárdos bevételt valósított meg. A jelenleg még két különálló részleg éves mérlege azonban igen eltérő: míg az Elektrovojvodina 2,3 milliárd dináros nyereséggel dolgozott 2014-ben, addig a belgrádi szolgáltató 3,4 milliárdos veszteséggel zárta az évet.

Két szerbiai teniszező lépett pályára egyéniben a Roland Garros keddi játéknapján, a világelső Novak Đoković három játszmában legyőzte a finn Jarkko Nieminent, a 25. kiemelt Jelena Janković ellenben a játéknap egyik negatív meglepetését szolgáltatva kikapott a bolgár Szeszil Karatancsevától.

Đoković trónkövetelőként érkezett Párizsba, a vitrinjéből még egyedül hiányzó Grand Slam-serleg megszerzése a célja, ennek megfelelően könnyedén 6:2-re nyerte az első játszmát, majd meglepetésre gyorsan hátrányba került a másodikban. A világranglistán 86. finn, aki Đoković elleni korábbi öt meccséből egyet megnyert, a negyedik játékban elvette ellenfele adogatását, majd 4:1-nél újabb breaklabdája volt, amivel nem tudott élni. Nieminen még megnyerte a saját adogatását, 5:2-re elhúzott, itt azonban Đoković megmutatta, mennyit fejlődött pszichikailag, a következő öt játék az övé lett, 7:5-tel a második szett is. A harmadikban sem állt meg, újabb négy játékot nyert zsinórban, 4:0-s előnynél már nem volt kérdéses a győztes kiléte. Végül 6:2-vel zárta ezt a játszmát. Következő ellenfele a Gilles Müller–Paolo Lorenzi luxemburgi–olasz párharc győztese lesz.

Úgy tűnik, Jelena Jankovićnak nem tetszik Karatancseva játékstílusa, hiszen ahogy korábbi egyetlen meccsükön, 2005-ben Moszkvában, ezúttal is kikapott tőle két sima játszmában, a 6:3, 6:4-es sikerrel a ranglista 106. helyezettje jutott a második fordulóba.

A kilencszeres Roland Garros-győztes spanyol Rafael Nadal címvédőhöz méltón kezdett, kilenc breaklabdájából ötöt kihasználva magabiztosan győzte le a világranglistán 296. francia Quentin Halyst. Következő ellenfele honfitársa, Nicolas Almagro lesz.

Továbbjutott a 7. kiemelt spanyol David Ferrer, aki a szlovák Lukáš Lacko ellen szerezte meg pályafutása 300. salakpályás győzelmét, amivel a 13. olyan teniszező lett, aki elérte ezt a határt ezen a borításon, az aktív játékosok közül csak Nadalnak van több sikere salakon. A 2. fordulóban folytathatja a kiemeltek közül a horvát Marin Čilić, a dél-afrikai Kevin Anderson, a francia Richard Gasquet, az argentin Leonardo Mayer és a lengyel Jerzy Janowicz is, míg nőknél sikerrel vette az első akadályt a cseh Petra Kvitová, a dán Caroline Wozniacki, az orosz Szvetlana Kuznyecova, a svájci Bacsinszky Tímea és a 6. kiemelt kanadai Eugene Bochard-t búcsúztató, francia színekben versenyző Kristina Mladenović is.

Ma kezdetét veszi az egyéni második fordulója. A 7. kiemelt Ana Ivanović a világranglistán 103. japán Miszaki Dojjal mérkőzik meg, akivel most találkozik először. Bojana Jovanovski a nála több mint 100 hellyel hátrébb rangsorolt horvát Donna Vekićtyel méri össze erejét, aki ellen korábbi egyetlen meccsükön, 2012-ben Taskentben 4:6, 4:6 arányban alulmaradt. A legnehezebbnek mindenképpen Dušan Lajović dolga ígérkezik, hiszen a 8. kiemelt svájci Stan Wawrinka lesz az ellenfele, akivel eddig egyetlenegyszer, a Davis-kupában 2014-ben meccselt, akkor az egyszeres Grand Slam-győztes 6:4, 4:6, 6:1, 7:6-os győzelmet aratott.

A new helicopter-borne surveillance system has been chosen to protect the Royal Navy’s future Queen Elizabeth Class carriers. The MOD and Lockheed Martin UK, as the prime contractor for Crowsnest, have selected Thales as the chosen bidder to provide the radar

The rise in global demand for offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) can be partly attributed to increased maritime activity, such as illegal offshore fishing and asset protection, while the market has also being bolstered by recent events, including the disappearance of flight MH370 and the M

May 26, 2015 (PORT SUDAN) – A food shipment from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) arrived in Port Sudan on Tuesday for distribution among the needy population in various parts of the country.

US charge d'affaires in Sudan Jerry Lanier (L) shaking hands with World Food Programme (WFP) official Margot VanderVelden in Port Sudan May 26, 2015 (ST)

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received the US contribution of 47,500 tons of sorghum that will be delivered to people mainly in Darfur and eastern Sudan.

The US charge d'affaires in Sudan Jerry Lanier, accompanied by officials from the embassy and WFP, witnessed the unloading of the cargo after conveying his thanks to the governor of Red Sea state Mohammed Tahir Aila for facilitating the reception and distribution of this shipment to fight hunger.

"The shipment amounting to 47,500 tons of sorghum is sent by the American people to the Sudanese people,” Lanier said of the cargo valued at $53 million that represents the first batch of USAID pledge to WFP 2015 operations in Sudan.

The US diplomat underscored that his country is committed to helping those in need in Sudan as it always has since the 60's, adding that the shipment will help WFP provide food for about 1.8 million displaced people in Darfur for 3 months and will also help 500,000 Darfuri students for 6 months along with 226,000 children in central and eastern Sudan.

"I am happy that in this day we received ship Liberty Grace which is based in New York but the shipment came from Galveston, Texas" he said.

Today's contribution from USAID follows another one in 2014 comprised of 68,440 tons of sorghum, 8,730 tons of lentils and 1,320 tons of vegetable oil.

"American people are committed to fighting hunger and malnutrition and will continue to be the biggest supporters of the Sudanese people," the US diplomat said.

"We hope that the fighting stops soon so there is no need for food aid in Sudan," he added.

The United States has contributed more than $195 million in 2014 to WFP.

For her part, the deputy WFP country Director in Sudan Margot VanderVelden noted that the US provided approximately $626 million to Sudan since the secession of the south in 2011.

She said that the aid shipment will be distributed to those affected by the conflict in Darfur and South Sudan.

VanderVelden stressed that if it wasn't for USAID generous assistance, they would not have been able to help thousands of needy people.

In another context, VanderVelden denied in a statement to Sudan Tribune that they have reduced food rations for IDP's in South Darfur state but pointed out that their assessment during the last ten years attempts to identify the most deserving as opposed to other less needy groups.

She pointed out that the process of evaluating those in need is a long process conducted through meetings with mayors and camp chieftains and going to IDP homes as well.

The WFP official said that they are able to access all areas in Darfur with the exception of Jebel Marra.

(ST)