Ireland wants to renegotiate its rescue plan with the EU

The Irish opposition leader Enda Kenny, began Sunday the negotiations for a coalition government after winning legislative elections without an absolute majority, while demanding a renegotiation of the Brussels immediate rescue plan for the island.

Without waiting for the announcement of final results, which should not occur before Sunday night or Monday, Enda Kenny on Saturday evening claimed victory.

According to partial results for mid-morning on Sunday about 80% of seats, Fine Gael's education (center) won over 36% of the votes, humiliating the ruling party, Fianna Fail.

The centrist organization, which dominated Irish politics for 80 years, rolled out: with only 17.4% of the vote, she should see the number of seats divided by three.The vote also marks the end of the political career of outgoing Prime Minister, Brian Cowen, who did not represent.

But the tsunami, tidal Fine Gael has not been sufficient to confer an absolute majority, forcing Enda Kenny to seek an alliance with Labour, a formation which left with the Fine Gael has already ruled several times.

The Labour party has raised nearly 20% of the vote.

"Talks immediate Fine Gael and Labour in a coalition," a title in the Sunday Business Post, saying "inevitable" a coalition rather than a form of ad hoc agreements with independent members.

"I will explore all options," said Enda Kenny on Saturday, stressing however that voters had given him a "massive support" for a "strong and stable government."

"I do not want things hanging. I will decide very quickly," he said.The leading theory has until 9 March, the opening of Parliament and his inauguration as Prime Minister to form his government.

The Labour leader, Eamon Gilmore, confirmed Saturday night that "the most likely outcome" would be a "coalition", without dwelling on the many obstacles to overcome.

Of "intense discussion" on the subject will be necessary, and the Business Post said, to "bridge the chasm" between the Labour and Fine Gael, in particular on the austerity program implemented by the outgoing government.

While Fine Gael broadly supports the budget cuts imposed by the outgoing government, Labour intends to reduce the pushing of two years, to 2016 against 2014, the deadline that had set Brian Cowen to bring the deficit to 3% of Gross domestic product, against 32% in 2010.

The bailout Island International, signed with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, awarded Dublin until 2015 for curbing public deficits.

Enda Kenny recalled on Saturday night that the renegotiation of the plan was a priority. "We will act on it next week.I already had contacts that very day (Saturday), he said, stressing the urgency of the calendar.

March will indeed decisive for the euro area, with marathon negotiations to develop a defense against the debt crises.

During the campaign, the future prime minister has promised to demand a reduction in the rate of interest at which EU ready to Dublin, under the assistance plan, and he deems "punitive." It also intends to ask the bondholders that they bear some of the losses.

Negotiations in Brussels on the plan and in Dublin on a coalition: Enda Kenny will know "no honeymoon," warned the Sunday Business Post.

INTERNET: The Artistic Memory of the Egyptian revolution took refuge on the web

The memory of the revolution in Egypt is being built. And it goes particularly through art and the Internet. Since the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, February 11, several sites have begun a tedious job of archiving photos, videos and other forms of artistic expression related to the "revolution of 25 January." Initiatives that are based mainly on suggestions made by users. And they flock, especially on the beloved children of the revolution: social networks.

One of the projects that seem more serious started last Sunday on Facebook. It's called "I am Tahrir" and intends to create the first virtual exhibition of the artistic heritage of the Egyptian revolution.The administrator of this page of famous social network that currently has about 1000 "fans" says he hopes "not only document the Egyptian revolution, but eventually become a relay for the revolutionary art of all countries".

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Customers have started feeding this new artistic platform online with their own achievements, but also those that seem symbolic of the popular uprising in Egypt. Thirty cartoons, photos or prominent shocks, songs, poems but also videos already adorn the wall of the Facebook page. Much evidence showing the trend of sentiment in the street over the 18 days that ended the regime of Hosni Mubarak.It sees the anger against the former president, hope amount in the last days of demonstration and determination of the Egyptians.

The founders of "I am Tahrir have already providing a number of documents. Once finalized documents to the fishery, all these works will be displayed on another site in the form of virtual art gallery also called "I am Tahrir. The promoters of this project have not said when this first cyber-exhibition will be finalized.

It must be said that the mass of material available on the Web is impressive. Another online project is enough to make dizzy."I am Jan25", a name chosen in reference to the first day of protest against the regime of former Rais, has chosen to display without sorting or formatting, all images and videos relating to the Egyptian revolution unearthed on the Web. The site currently lists over 4000 images and over 3000 videos. It contains all the essential being, it seems, to keep track.

BAHRAIN: The opposition demanded the resignation of government

A senior Bahraini Shiite opposition, Abdel Jalil Khalil Ibrahim, Saturday demanded the resignation of the government and the withdrawal of forces from the streets of Manama in response to the offer of dialogue made the previous day by the crown prince of Bahrain.

"To consider the dialogue, the government must resign and the army must withdraw from the streets" of the capital, saidIbrahim, leader of the parliamentary bloc of Wefaq, the main Shiite opposition group.

"We are not witnessing a language of dialogue, but that of arms," he added, referring to the army shooting Friday night against the demonstrators, who were 95 injuries, including "three in a state of clinical death, "he said.

These shootings were occurring while the Crown Prince Salman Ben Hamad Al-Khalifa, speaking on state television to promise a dialogue with the opposition once calm was restored.

"I make no distinction between a Bahraini and another and what is happening now is unacceptable," said Prince Salman."Bahrain is currently experiencing a state of division and that's unacceptable," he said.

King Hamad Ben Issa Al-Khalifa immediately instructed his son, Crown Prince, to conduct a "dialogue with stakeholders and communities without exception", ensuring through cooperation "sincere", "Bahrain will come out stronger ".

This offer of dialogue "is not serious," said the elected Wefaq, demanding that the authorities "serious and sincere measures that meet the requirements of the current situation."

"The situation is complicated and I fear it spirals out of control," warned Mr.Ibrahim, whose group has withdrawn from Parliament, where he has 18 of the 40 elected House of Deputies, to protest against the bloody crackdown on Thursday at the dawn of a sit-in anti-regime instead of Pearl in Manama.

Bahrain, a small kingdom populated predominantly Shiite, has ruled since the 18th century by a Sunni dynasty.

The head of Wefaq, Sheikh Ali Salman, told AFP Thursday that the opposition wants a "new government is proposing political reforms, we can revise the Constitution, which enshrines the principle of peaceful transfer of power and establish a constitutional monarchy. "

The Prime Minister, Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the king's uncle, is in the position since Bahrain's independence in 1971, while the sovereignty ministries are held by members of the royal family.

BAHRAIN: The Shiite opposition suspends participation in parliament

AFP - Two protesters were killed Shiites in Bahrain in quelling anti-government protests, which continued Tuesday in this small Gulf kingdom ruled by a Sunni dynasty.

The protests erupted Monday in the Shiite villages on the initiative of surfers who have called on Facebook to protest to demand political and social reforms in the wake of riots in Tunisia and Egypt.

Bahrain, Shiite-majority country, made short shrift next to the other oil monarchies of the region, its oil reserves had virtually dried up.

Customers have called on Facebook to continue the demonstrations on Tuesday, including a high turnout at the funeral of the victims.

The Shiite bloc in parliament, al-Wefaq which has 18 seats elected on 40, said it had suspended its participation in the meeting because of the repression "wild" demonstrators calling including that the government solve the unemployment problem and increases wages.

A young protester, Ali Mcheimeh, succumbed to his injuries on Monday night received during the dispersal of a demonstration in the Shiite village of Diya, east of Manama, said the interior ministry by announcing an inquiry whether the police had "had an unwarranted use of weapons."

The police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in several Shiite villages, which Darraz, west of Manama, Sitra (east), Balad Al-Qadim and Jed Hafs (center), witnesses said.

A second Shiite protester was killed by a "bullet fragmentation" when dispersing a rally Tuesday at a hospital in Manama prior to the funeral of Mcheimeh, according to an Opposition MP Shiite Ibrahim al-Khalil Marzooq, which was also reported injured.

"Fadel Salman Matrouk was killed by bullets in front of the hospital Suleimania fragmentation in Manama where people had gathered for the funeral of the first martyr," he told AFP.

The Interior Ministry said in a statement on the Twitter site a "clash pitted some people attending a funeral at a patrol of security forces", which caused the death of Matrouk. An investigation is underway to determine the circumstances of his death.

Mr.Marzooq further explained that the movement al-Wefaq had suspended its participation in parliament "because of the reaction to the wild events that left two dead."

Besides the House, which has limited powers, Parliament has a consultative council whose 40 members are appointed by the king and can block any initiative from the elected assembly.

Between 1994 and 1999, Bahrain was the scene of violence led by Shiites who had been forty deaths. The Shiites feel discriminated against in employment, social services like housing and public services provided to their villages.

AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents stormed the police headquarters in Kandahar

AFP - Three people were killed Saturday, including two policemen, and 26 others wounded in an attack claimed by the Taliban from the police headquarters in Kandahar, the largest city in southern Afghanistan, said the spokesman provincial governor.

Nine children were among the wounded, "said Zalman Ayubi.

The police headquarters of the provincial capital is under attack since mid-day by insurgents holed up in a large six-storey building, located 50 m across, where they shoot with automatic weapons, rocket launchers and machine guns, said a correspondent for AFP.

Taliban insurgents have claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that six of their militants had taken control of the hotel.

The police, who replies with automatic weapons and rocket launchers, stormed the building early in the afternoon.

The correspondent of AFP, two explosions, one in the lobby, another powerful front of the building were heading directly when police began investing the hotel.

A police chief, who requested anonymity, told AFP that six explosions had been recorded since the fighting started, "five of them around the police headquarters, and about one km zone "near a shopping center, he added.

The AFP correspondent has heard from a seventh blast near police headquarters.

The fighting is still ongoing, have gained in intensity, found the AFP correspondent who saw the police take position on the roof of the hotel.

Of automatic weapons fire echoed also in several districts of Kandahar, deserted by its inhabitants, ordered by police not to leave their homes, according to this correspondent.

The streets are blocked by Afghan police and U.S. soldiers, while U.S. helicopter gunships turn in the sky.

Since they were toppled by an international coalition led by the United States in late 2001, the Taliban waging a deadly insurgency in Afghanistan against the Kabul government and the international force of 140,000 strong men, who supports it.

Violence has intensified in recent months in Kandahar province, recently hit by several deadly suicide bombings claimed by the Taliban, while NATO troops are conducting several months of offensives aimed at driving the rebels from their strongholds.

ITALY: Justice will request the immediate return of Berlusconi in court

AFP - The three judges, investigators of the case Wednesday Rubygate send their request for immediate judgments against the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday the chief prosecutor in Milan.

"This afternoon we will make a final meeting" to determine if the demand for immediate trial will focus on the two charges against Mr. Berlusconi or single, told the press Edmondo Bruti Liberati.

The Milan prosecutor's office has almost completed the investigation in which Mr.Berlusconi is suspected of engaging in prostitution of a minor and abuse of office, paid for the services of a young Moroccan called Ruby, and be acted as Chairman of the Board for her release last May.

According to judicial sources, prosecutors would head to a request for immediate judgments only for the crime of abuse of office.

Once the request is sent, the investigating judge who will have five days to decide whether or not the holding of a trial.

The trial is now an expedited Italian Penal Code which is based on a "clear" evidence and could lead to a trial before the summer cons M.Berlusconi.

The prosecution has claimed to have "evidence" on the organization of unbridled celebrations in the homes of Cavaliere, where young women are prostitutes in exchange for money and free housing.

For the part of the investigation into the prostitution of minors, judges may follow the normal procedure which provides a preliminary hearing and a trial.

On Saturday, tens of thousands of people gathered in Milan, Umberto Eco, whose writers and Roberto Saviano, demanding the resignation of Berlusconi and his protest against "outrages upon personal dignity of women."

MIDDLE EAST: Hillary Clinton suggests a risk of "chaos" and "storm" in the region

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Saturday that the movement towards democracy in the Middle East, she continued, had nevertheless "risks of chaos," holding that the situation there was "perfect" for a hurricane ".

"Without progress towards open and accountable systems, the gap between peoples and their governments will increase instability and worse," she said at the 47th Security Conference in Munich (Southern Germany).

"Throughout the region," Middle East "there must be a clear and substantial progress towards systems transparent, honest and responsible," she pleaded.

"Currently, in some countries the transition is advancing rapidly, in others it will take more time," she said in a clear reference to different contexts of contestation in Tunisia, which ousted President Ben Ali and Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak refused to leave immediately.

"Of course there are risks, risks caused by the transition to democracy," noted the U.S. Secretary of State.

"This may cause chaos and instability in the short term, or worse, and we observed that in the past, the transition can cause a regression to a different regime as authoritarian," as citizens of a country tried to kill, stressed Ms. Clinton.

In the Middle East, the situation is "perfect" for a hurricane, she said, marking the high stakes.

Switzerland freezes assets of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier

AFP - Switzerland on Tuesday blocked the assets of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier follows the entry into force of a new law that would allow them to return to Haiti, announced Foreign Ministry.

"This law was accepted by Parliament at its autumn session 2010, it entered into force on 1 February 2011", says the Department of Foreign Affairs (Department) on its website.

"The funds were then blocked Duvalier on the basis" of this new law, say the Swiss authorities.

The law was nicknamed "Lex Duvalier" in the Confederation, as she was introduced to compensate for a lack appeared in the long legal battle over restitution to the Haitian people by some 6 million Swiss francs (4.6 million) filed by the Duvalier family in Swiss bank accounts.