Violence in Baltimore after the death of a black arrested

Protesters attacked saturday at police cars and shops in central Baltimore (Eastern US) on the margins of the largest gathering organized since the death of a young black wounded during his arrest . More than 1,000 people gathered peacefully for 90 minutes outside the town hall of Baltimore, to claim that justice be done for Freddie Gray, 25, died from a fracture of the cervical vertebrae, a week after being arrested april 12 in a neighborhood of this city of 620,000 inhabitants. 

The atmosphere suddenly deteriorated when several dozens of protesters took the direction of Camden Yards baseball stadium, an hour before the start of a match Baltimore Orioles against Boston Red Sox. Images filmed by television channels from helicopters showed a crowd throwing safety cones, soda bottles and garbage cans at police officers before breaking shop windows and loot. "The protesters are now breaking windows and throwing things" confirmed Baltimore Police twitter. "We ask everyone to keep calm". Protesters were seen looting a supermarket, breaking windows and block intersections. A stone through the window of the car with a driver, reported the WBAL. An AFP photographer saw protesters breaking windows of five police cars before riot police intervened.

Twelve people're arrested, told the police commissioner Anthony Batts to reporters.
Another police spokesman said that the violence was the fact of "isolated pockets" of individuals.

Fredericka Gray, twin sister of Freddie Gray, launched an appeal for calm. "My family wants to tell you : please, please, stop violence Freddie wouldn't want that". At his side, the mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, said she was "profoundly disappointed" by the violence, which she accused "a small group of agitators".

During the gathering, speakers called on President Barack Obama to launch a national survey of police brutality, after a series of deadly clashes between police and white men and young black boys. "It has to stop. We really need it to stop because it could have been any of us", he told to the crowd a relative of the family of Freddie Gray.

Several investigations have been launched to clarify the circumstances of woundes of Freddie Gray, including a federal investigation by the Department of Justice. 

Baltimore Police agreed friday that the young man should have received medical assistance immediately after his arrest. 

At his death, 80% of his spine was severed at the height of the cervical, according to lawyers for the family.

A video of the arrest showed police pinning Freddie Gray to the ground screaming in pain, before boarding in the van.  

The police leaders also recognized that the safety belt of the young man didn't block in the van that left three unexplained stops on the way to the police station.

Funeral should take place on monday.

Six police officers were suspended pending the police furnish may 1st, the results of his investigation to the prosecutor of Maryland, who may decide to prosecute.

This death is the latest in a series of blunders that have revived racial tensions in recent months in the United States and the controversy over police brutality, after the deaths of unarmed black men.

Source : TV5 Monde

Reprieve for Serge Atlaoui

The name of Serge Atlaoui isn't on the list of nine to be executed in the coming days, after being sentenced to death.
A french diplomatic source confirmed to Reuters that he will not be part of people to go through a firing squad in a few days. She didn't say why the french citizen has a reprieve.
"We are extremely careful. Things can change from one day to the other", said Richard Sedillot, the lawyer of Serge Atlaoui.
The french authorities have conducted intense diplomatic pressure to secure his release.
Nine people are in the death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking.
The nine sentenced to death, two australians, a nigerian, an indonesian and citizens of Brazil, Ghana and the Philippines could go before a firing squad in the coming days, according to the indonesian justice. They are accused of drug trafficking.
"My client received a letter notifying him that he will be executed after a 72 hour countdown", said to Reuters agency lawyer Utomo Karim, who defends one of nigerians. "The date of execution is not mentioned in the letter. But the relatives of the defendants have until tuesday to 14 hours later, to visit them at the Nusa Kambangan prison. This means they will probably executed in the evening or after midnight",said Karim.
Indonesia punishes with death on drug trafficking offense. In 2013, she resumed executions of persons accused for the offense after a five year suspension.

Source : BBC

Togo : the end of voting

In Togo, voting places were closed at 16 hours GMT, as required by the electoral law.
Voting started at 7:00 GMT. The agents of the electoral commission began counting the votes, as of the close of offices. The 8994 country's voting stations must transmit their records to the commission.
In total, nearly 3.6 millions voters went to the polls.
Faure Gnassingbe faced four candidates, including Jean-Pierre Fabre, seen by observers as his main challenger.
The electronic method of centralization and transmission of provisional results of the vote proposed by the election commission was the subject of a dispute between the government and the opposition until friday evening.

Thousands of observers were deployed, to the transparency of the election.

 

Source : BBC

   

Boko Haram change name

Islamist sect Boko Haram published new images in which members now call their organization ''the West African Province of the Organization of the Islamic State''.
In the photos published on their social networks, insurgents celebrate, such martyrs fighters who were killed.
In march, islamist sect pledged allegiance to the organization of the Islamic State.
This change of denomination comes at a time when the nigerian army continues operations to recover the cities under the control of Boko Haram. For some observers, it's the proof that the islamist organization is getting weaker. But support of an international islamist organization, could lead to a change in their tactics and a new way of operating.

Source : BBC

An attack by Boko Haram killed 19 people in Cameroon

Members of the nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram led an attack this week in Cameroon, causing 19 deaths. The majority of the victims were beheaded, reported saturday a security source.

An assault on the night of thursday to friday april 17 by the nigerian islamist group Boko Haram on the village of Bia, in the region of the Far North of Cameroon, killed 19 people including a majority of "victims beheaded" according to a report obtained saturday from safe source. "Many huts were set on fire", the security source said saturday on condition of anonymity. "We noted a late reaction of our forces (defense)", she further acknowledged about the attack on the villages of Bia 1 and Bia 2, which are in an area including several bases and cameroonian military installations. Located in the district of Kolofata, the village of Bia is known local security circles as a place where Boko Haram has enlisted several young.
On the night of thursday to friday, Boko Haram islamists also attacked a position of the Cameroonian army to Amchide, a border town in Nigeria, also located in the district of Kolofata. "They burned houses to Amchide, no casualties on our side. The attack was repulsed, but we haven't yet check the side of the enemy", said the security source.
Scene of many attacks blamed on Boko Haram, the region of the Far North of Cameroon has been a lull in recent weeks because of the actions of the military coalition.
Cameroon, engaged in war against Boko Haram for almost a year, was joined in the campaign since early february by Chad, Niger monitoring.

Source : France 24

François Hollande this sunday on Canal + for his 3 years at the Elysee

François Hollande will be sunday night the guest of a television program combining reports and interviews in which serious topics such as the fight against terrorism will mix with lighter sequences on the style of the president in power for nearly three years. 
After BFM TV and RMC, the second anniversary of its entry in the Elysee Palace, the head of state will be live on the plateau of the"Supplement" Canal + a broadcast to the public fairly young usually making a large place to derision.
Few announcements are expected during these two hours, during which the president will address according to relatives themes such as terrorism, economic and social reforms and climb of populism, nearly a month after the departmental elections marked by a push of the National Front.
"On the fight against terrorism, the tone will be extremely solemn, which doesn't exclude spontaneity and a more direct style", said one adviser. "It's also an opportunity to reconnect with the theme of youth, red wire of Five-Year".
For Jean-Daniel Levy, of the institute of polls Harris Interactive, François Hollande has everything to gain to show sincere, including during humorous sequences. "What we want to policies in France, it's to have a form of consistency, be yourself", said the political scientist. "If he gives the impression of making communication, it will not be good. But if there is a form of sincerity, it can benefit even if one broadcast doesn't change anything". 

Most major reforms are on track, we talk about Elysee source of an "operation results and prospects" of a five-year period from may 2012 marked by the crisis, growing unemployment and record a unpopularity under the Fifth Republic.
According to an Opinion Way's investigation for Le Figaro and LCI diffused friday, a large majority (79%) of french are unhappy with the action of the head of state since his election and only 20% of respondents are satisfied with his balance sheet.
On economic issues, Hollande could provide details of the labor law and social dialogue that the government intends to adopt before the summer, subject of delicate negotiations with the social partners and the left of the PS, at odds with the political choices of the executive.
The interview also will close a high-profile week for the other member of the executive couple, Manuel Valls.
The Prime Minister is the subject of an intimate documentary broadcast on France 3 including giving voice to the mother of tenant Matignon, born in Spain and naturalized at the age of 20 years. He also gave a long television interview to journalist Michel Denisot on Canal +. Omnipresent, Manuel Valls was also in the National Assembly during the current issues and to defend the bill on intelligence. Friday, he was still in the front line to present the plan to fight against racism and anti-semitism response in 40 points to concerns exacerbated by jihadist attacks in january. This dramatic sequence had allowed Francois Hollande repeat part of the delay in the polls, however little influenced by his many media services in recent months on such different media that channel TF1, RTL radio, the dailies like Le Parisien and Le Monde.

And 1/4 for PSG

PSG, the defending champion, easily won saturday his fifth League Cup, first leg of his great project of national tripled, beating Bastia 4-0 with a new recital Ibrahimovic, who will be greatly missed him.
The League Cup is the first round of the incredible Grand Chelem that's the capital club target. Ligue 1, who he's the leader, and the final of the France Cup on may 30 against Auxerre (L2) are largely in his ropes, for a unique hexagonal tripled.
In the Champions League, it will be more complicated against Barcelona, but we'll know more on wednesday after the quarter-final at Parc des Princes.
As often, the great man of the parisian night was Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who scored two goals and a decisive pass. The swedish is also not out of the light all week, between his threefold wednesday in France Cup against Saint-Etienne and dubbed at Stade de France, through the four-match suspension which have been him inflicted thursday. As he'll be also suspended on wednesday against Barcelona, Zlatan has only one appointment to his agenda of april, the return match against Barcelona at the Camp Nou on 21. But before the holidays, Ibra (author of 10 goals in his last five matches in Paris) takes care of everything and leaves the house in order.

Bastia wasn't bad entered the game with the first quarter of an hour, applied in the game as in the undertaking. But the match toppled from the 20th minute with a penalty obtained by Lavezzi, hooked by Squillaci who was out instantly. 

Ibrahimovic put PSG in front with a strike into the top corner overkill of Areola (21st). First final and first match at the Stade de France with Paris for Ibra : it could only do first goal. Twenty minutes later, he added a second. While he just missed a very dispensable backheel, the ball came back to him and he sent a right kick outside of the area a ball that Areola looked enter in his first post.
With 104 goals, Zlatan comes even closer of Pauleta, best scorer of PSG with 109 goals.

With two goals in advance at the halftime and one more player, Paris was in total control and there was no more doubt nor any suspense.
Pastore at the 46th minute and Lavezzi (47), Verratti (71), Pastore (73) Marquinhos (75), they almost all had their opportunity, but it's finally Cavani who scored with a head 3-0 (80th). Served by Ibra, the uruguayan closed the mark in extra time.

"I leave Apple" : a former employee tells his reasons for his leaving

In his blog, Ben Farrell, now former Apple employee, explains why he decided to leave the american giant. Between bullying and harassment, the australian wants to explain what is really going on at Apple.
Ben Farrell loves Apple. For nearly two years, the australian has provided assistance and technical support to customers on the side of Sidney but also to Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California, before slamming the door there was a few days, disgusted.
His resignation, he owe a man : Steve Jobs. It's indeed a sentence of former big boss of Apple he had made during his famous speech at Stanford in 2005 ("Do not be trapped by dogma which is living in obedience to the thoughts of others") that allowed Ben Farrell to regain his freedom, he claimed to have lost by working at Apple. Victim of harassment on the part of its leadership, based in Singapore, he says he discovered a culture "toxic" and "disgusting" at the american giant. In his post, he describes a passive aggressive climate based on intimidation and manipulation where teamwork is nonexistent. Ben Farrell also explains how Apple deals with "no respect" events such as illness, marriage or a family emergency, based on his history. Indeed, we learn that during his two years at Apple, our former employee missed a business trip to the hospital after his wife was pregnant, because of a fall down the stairs . An absence not really on taste that Apple noted a "performance issue" in the Ben Farrell folder. Shortly before his resignation, he explains that he had a brief hospitalization during which he will be asked to make an emergency statement from his hospital bed. Another example is the morning of his wedding when he says he was harassed by email and phone for another person had lost file. A practice that was nothing to tell because they received aggressive messages every hour and coarse voice messages in case of late for a meeting.  
Ben Farrell also mentioned working conditions with days of sixteen hours when the meetings are linked. Later in the story, he tells meetings at midnight on instant messaging platforms in which he was not authorized to speak but just had to follow a script with predefined answers that were provided. A situation which eventually exasperate this former police developed to alert his superiors. A decision that didn't really help, since a "respected leader" would have replied that he had no complaints and would do better to put "his big boy clothes" under penalty of having a "conversation very different" if he continued to complain.

Ben Farrell's story to elicit many reactions on his blog, it must say that this kind of approach is rare in the middle. If he received many messages of support, others were surprised by the approach of this australian explaining that there was nothing surprising in Apple's attitude that could be described as "normal".
Note that this is not the first time that Apple is the target of this kind of ticket. In 2014, Don Melton (former director of Internet technologies) and Nitin Ganatra (former director of the iOS engineering) had also denounced the working conditions at Apple.

Bieber and Kendall in couple ?

The two stars should visit the famous Coachella Festival this weekend ! On a photo posted on Instagram, they appear already accomplices. What revive the rumors of romance !

If Justin Bieber seems not yet arrived at the scene of the festival, it has in any case already found her favorite girlfriends for the festivities. After Shots posted on a picture of him with Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin in drive yesterday, today is two super hot pictures he has just published on his Instagram account. On one of the two, we can see him hug Kendall from behind, holding in her arms the little dog superstar, Esther.

If Hailey Baldwin isn't present on the photographs posted by Biebs, she isn't nonetheless far from her two friends, since she also posted a photo from the same series with Kendall this morning. "A nice way to start Coachella", she wrote in legend. 
The three friends are reunited, and ready to do battle with a crazy weekend ! She has also led Justin to do hula hoop later in the day as evidenced by a video posted on the singer's account, apparently without success. No matter : with Kendall and Hailey, Justin Bieber is in any case good company to enjoy Coachella as it should be !

 

Gabon will host the African Cup of Nations 2017

Five years later, the African Cup of Nations will be decided again in Gabon in 2017. After the successful co-organization of 2012 with Equatorial Guinea, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has renewed his confidence at gabonese leaders who welcomed the good news calmly. "I was very confident, said Daniel Cousin, former striker of Le Mans, became general manager of the gabonese selection. We proved that in terms of organization, we knew how. It remains a stage and a half to finish, we will be ready. It has everything to succeed a great African Cup".
Gabon's candidacy took the volume in recent weeks, taking advantage of some disgrace of his algerian rival. Strong of logistical support provided by the authorities (the delivery of twenty buses to transport delegations and teams) at the 2015 tournament in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon has also supported several major assets. Successful CAN in 2012, public support and loans or being renovated stadiums.
An official of the Gabonese Football Federation said the CAN 2017 would dispute in the four largest cities (Libreville, Franceville, Port-Gentil and Oyem in the north).
But by assigning the CAN 2017 in Gabon CAF bets on the peaceful environment that disrupts the country. Many strikes in the public service and teachers paralyze much of the territory. The drop in oil prices will also monitor the country with the very low level of black gold which he exporter.
CAF also focuses on the recovery of the gabonese football landscape. The national championship has indeed taken at the end of march after eight months off. Many non premiums paid to clubs were responsible for the interruption. The gabonese soccer so will resolve the multiple problems that plague before hosting the biggest sporting event in Africa. 

Iran's nuclear : sanctions will be lifted in stages after a final agreement

The United States said thursday that a possible lifting of sanctions against Iran over his controversial nuclear program would only "staged", once a final agreement sealed between Tehran and major powers.
"The sanctions will be suspended gradually and verifiably condition that Iran meet his commitments in accordance with a comprehensive and definitive action plan to be signed by 30 june", said the spokesman state department Jeffrey Rathke.  The american diplomat was asked about statements thursday of Iran's supreme leader, the ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who showered the hopes of reaching a final text in less than three months on the basis of the agreement on april 2 in Lausanne. "We'll not respond to every public statement by an iranian official or negotiate in public", replied Mr. Rathke, the US government has for months been silent on the content of negotiations on the iranian nuclear program.  
Washington, member of the Group 5 + 1 (the United States, China, Russia, France, UK and Germany) negotiating with Iran, however, had issued a four-page document detailing the "parameters" of a future final agreement that would resolve all the "details" technics. The agreement in Lausanne on april 2 has been described as mere "framework agreement" or "interim agreement" and Iran has released his own version of the document.
The two countries have been in recent days some differences on the content of which has been approved in Lausanne. And thursday, the ayatollah Khamenei remained cautious about the chances of a final agreement.
The agreement of Lausanne "guarantees neither the agreement himself, not his content, not even that the negotiations will go to the end", said the iranian leader. "Everything is in the details. It may be that the other party, which is unfair, want to limit our country in the details", he said, reiterating that his country wasn't seeking to build nuclear weapons.
On sanctions, the westerners require a gradual lifting as Iran's commitments will be verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog. But Iran wants them lifted upon the signing of the global agreement. A request reaffirmed thursday by President Hassan Rohani.
"The process of suspension or lifting of sanctions will only start once Iran has completed its key measures on his nuclear program",affirmed the spokesman for american diplomacy. "This corresponds to what we said in the past week and what we agreed in Lausanne", assured Mr. Rathke.