Disappearance of an airliner over the Sinai with 212 people on board

The Egyptian air traffic controllers lost contact with an airliner bound for Russia shortly after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, has learned Reuters from sources close to civil aviation. Two hundred and twelve people, mostly Russian tourists, on board of the aircraft, the sources said. His disappearance has been confirmed by sources close to the security services in the Sinai Peninsula.

Source : RFI

End of the one-child policy in China

China officially announced Thursday the end of the one-child policy and will allow all Chinese couples to have two children, according to a statement from the Communist Party reported by Xinhua news agency.
This decision, of historic significance, follows a relaxation two years ago - Beijing has allowed the Chineses to have two children if one parent was himself an only child - and is designed to correct the alarming gender imbalance (between male and female) and stop the aging of the population.

Source : BFMTV

New shooting at a US campus: 3 serious injuries

Three people were shot and injured Thursday night on the campus of the University of the State of Tennessee in Nashville, reported the municipal authorities. According to a local newspaper, one of the victims is in critical condition. Several fatal shootings have already been held this month in academic forums. Nine people were killed on October 1 in Oregon and two shootings occurred a few hours apart on October 9 on the campus in Flagstaff Arizona and Houston, Texas, killing one person at each site. The proportion of Americans who demanded a tightening of legislation on firearms sales rose eight points from last year, 55% of people now are calling for a strengthening of regulations on the matter.

Source : Ouest-France

42 people died in a collision between a bus and a truck in Gironde

"Friday at 7:30 am, a collision occurred between a truck and a bus, up to the town of Puisseguin on secondary road 123", Sud Ouest relates. The passengers were trapped: there are at least 42 deads.
According to the prefecture reached by BFMTV, there are only eight survivors, five are injured, three are free. They have managed to get out of the bus smashing bus windows.
The bus passengers were elderly who went on a journey in Bearn. Sixty firemen mobilized. The bus was early left this morning from the town of Petit-Palais, Gironde, and went in the Landes. According to Jean-Michel Desplos, head of news items to Sud Ouest, "road conditions were good". Route 123, on which the collision took place, was narrow but it wasn't particularly wet or slippery. "I don't think the weather can explain this tragedy," said the deputy Florent Boudie on BFMTV, which, however, urges caution.
"The French government is fully mobilized on this terrible tragedy," said Francois Hollande, traveling in Greece. Manuel Valls is expected on site in 11 hours, he will be joined by Bernard Cazeneuve. The prefect, he is already there. Alain Juppe, Mayor of Bordeaux, he also went to the scene. This is the worst accident since 1982. At that time, 53 people including 44 children were killed in a bus accident in Beaune, Cote-d'Or.

Source : BFMTV

Case Benghazi : Clinton impassive face of Republicans' attacks

It was a confrontation between Republicans and Democrats parliamentaries under the public eyes and Hillary Clinton. And overall, nothing new came out of this hearing.

The Conservatives have insisted on the safety measures that Hillary should have taken to protect diplomats in Libya. "Why their many requests, for better security, were they rejected in Washington ?" This question asked  since 2012, was repeated again by Republican Trey Gowdy, and she has not received a new answer. "I had more sleepless you all together, they conceded the former Secretary of State. I haven't stopped thinking about what we could have done more."

Democrats, for their part, came back on the seven previous commissions of inquiry, which concluded that the chief diplomat of the time didn't take the wrong decision, and have repeatedly accused the Republicans of having as one goal of lowering Hillary Clinton in the polls.

The tension between the members of the commission was obvious and the aggressiveness against Hillary Clinton sometimes on the verge of rudeness, but at no time, the positions of each others did seem to evolve.

If the hearing of Hillary Clinton was to be an important moment in the investigation into the attack in Benghazi, it was also a day that was to mark a turning point in the current presidential campaign.

Republican side, it didn't mark the desired points, cause the Conservatives have failed to destabilize the former Secretary of State. Two Republicans and an expert of panel have also said before the hearing that the purpose was "to kill" Hillary Clinton.

Democrat side, they were worried, and they probably expect the new surveys, whether this interminable hearing prejudice the Clinton candidate. Clearly, the presidential party politicians had agreed to come to her rescue, and to be on the offensive, when she seemed in trouble.

In fact, Hillary was extremely well prepared. And if at times the candidate seemed tired or even exceeded, she never raised her voice, and never lost his calm. These are the Democrats panel members, like Elijah Cummings, who said aloud what she thought (probably) a low voice : "This is the time for Republicans to stop this costly investigation that leads nowhere. We must start to make politic in the noble sense".

Source : RFI

Sword attack at a school in Sweden

A masked and armed man with a sword wounded five people, including one adult and four students in a school in Trollhättan, western Sweden, declared Swedish police in a statement.

"I can confirm that a person is dead. I can't say anything about his identity," said the spokesman of Trollhättan Hospital, Lotta Abrahamsson. According BFMTV correspondent in Sweden it's one of the teenagers sent to the hospital.

"The confusion is great in school. Adults and students leave school rush," said the police in this text.

"There are many uncertainties on the identity of the man and his motivations but we know that around 10 o'clock he came armed with a sword in the school yard where teenagers have first thought a joke in this Halloween period," also explains our correspondent. "When we saw it, we thought it was a joke. He was wearing a mask and black clothing and a long sword. Students wanted to have their picture taken with him and touched the sword," he tells.

Police said he shot the assailant without providing details on his condition. Another teacher and two students of 11 and 15 were seriously injured. The assailant was "surgery for bullet wounds," said Trollhättan hospital in a statement.

The police call center was then informed that four students in the school were injured. "We admitted a critically wounded person," said an official of Trollhättan Hospital.

Kronan School has 400 students from kindergarten to college. Trollhättan, the home of Saab automobile manufacturer, is an industrial town of 57,000 citizens.

The attacks in schools in Sweden are extremely rare. Most recently is in 1961 when six youths were wounded and one  was kill by shots  in a professionnal school in Kungälv.

Source : BFMTV 

Bashar al-Assad met with Vladimir Poutine in Moscow

President Assad made a "working visit" yesterday in Moscow during which he met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Poutine, announced by the Kremlin.

"Last night the President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad came on a working visit in Moscow," he said, quoted by Russian news agencies, adding that Bashar al-Assad held talks with Vladimir Poutine but without specifying whether the Syrian president was still in Moscow.

Source : Ouest-France

Two years after the fall of Morsi, Egyptian returning to the polls

Election posters flooded the streets of Giza and all the cities of Egypt.

The country without a parliament since three years, organizes its first legislative elections since the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.

Half of voters called to the polls this Sunday, the other half will be convened on 22 and 23 November.

The opposition, suppressed for two years, is virtually absent from the ballot (the Muslim Brotherhood was banned) and the vast majority of candidates is gained to the cause of president al-Sissi.

Saturday, the former army chief called for "strong participation", while expatriates began to vote.

The new parliament, composed of 596 deputies, should function as a rubber stamp for decisions of President al-Sissi.

According Amnesty International, between 16 000 and 40 000 have been arbitrarily imprisoned in Egypt since taking office.

Source : Euronews

Blackmail on Valbuena, Djibril Cisse in custody

The tiny world of football is in shock. The mainstream media have announced this morning that Mathieu Valbuena, the French international, was blackmailed to sextape. According to information revealed by these media, the sexual antics of football player allegedly filmed. Blackmailers and would do anything to get the player between 50 000 and 100 000 under the threat publish these images.

According to the same information at this stage of the investigation, we still do not know if that video exists. In all cases, the police came to question four people this morning that the French international Djibril Cisse who is suspected of involvement in blackmail.

At Djibril Cisse side, it's said that the player is "in good faith and should be quickly exonerated".

Source : Urban Hit

Three simultaneous explosions in the Lake Chad attributed to the Islamic sect Boko Haram

Three simultaneous explosions were held this Saturday, October 10th, around 15:30 (local time) to the market and in a refugee camp in Baga Sola, in the Lake Chad region.

These explosions were attributed to the Islamic State in West Africa (former Boko Haram). 

The results of these attacks is not yet known.

Source : RFI 

At least 30 dead in the double explosion this morning in Ankara

An attack in the heart of the Turkish capital. The explosions occurred near the main train station of Ankara. According to witnesses there, there would have been thirty people dead and hundreds injured. A first unconfirmed report from an official source and likely to rise. The attack came hours before an opposition rally in favor of peace. This was to be mobilized to the location itself where occurred the double explosion. For the Turkish government, this is a terrorist attack. The HDP accuses power. A safety meeting is scheduled in mid-day.

Source : Euronews

Criminal explosion at a meeting of the Democratic Party of Peoples (HDP) in the Turkish capital

Thousands of people had gathered in the center of Ankara when a loud explosion sounded in the middle of the procession being formed for the meeting of HDP pro-Kurdish movement. The results of this explosion is still uncertain.

Source : RFI

Wiz Khalifa, first rapper to reach...

With his single "See You Again", released in March, Wiz Khalifa breaking records. The clip has reached the billion views on YouTube.

Wiz Khalifa and singer Charlie Puth can be proud of them. Their collaboration on the soundtrack of the movie Fast & Furious 7 has entered history. After being ranked number one for twelve consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, the single also holds the record for the most listened song streaming in one day in the United States. This Thursday, October 8, the clip has exceeded one billion views on YouTube in just six months : a first for a rapper !

"See You Again" was composed in tribute to the actor Paul Walker, Fast & Furious heroes of films, died in a tragic car accident in 2013.

Source : Trace TV

The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 awarded to Tunisian National Dialogue

The Nobel committee upset the odds. The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 was awarded on Friday the quartet leading the Tunisian national dialogue.

Although the predictions prove difficult given that 273 candidates were running, several names had hoisted among the favorites in recent days. Most observers felt indeed that the Norwegian Nobel committee would seek to shine light on the efforts for nuclear disarmament, 70 years after Hiroshima, or the migration crisis that has spread in recent months to Europe.

Thus, the names of Angela Merkel, for his handling of the migration crisis, Pope Francis, used prognoses, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, who treats women raped in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Eritrean priest Mussie Zerai, circulated, alongside those of the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Setsuko Thurlow and Sumiteru Taniguchi, or the chief US diplomat John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, for key agreement they were able to conclude on the Iranian nuclear.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Oslo on December 10, anniversary date of the death of its founder, industrialist and philanthropist Alfred Nobel Swedish. It consists of a medal, a diploma and a check for 8 millions Swedish kronor (about € 855,000).

Source : BFMTV 

Spencer Stone, one of the Thalys train heroes was stabbed in California

Spencer Stone, who had intervened to stop the attack of Thalys was stabbed "several times" Wednesday in Sacramento, California, reported on Thursday the US medias. The young man, aged 25, is in a "critical but stable condition," said a spokesman for the US Air Force. "The investigation was entrusted to the local police," he added.

According KCRA, local affiliate of NBC, citing local police, Spencer Stone was stabbed several times in the chest on the night of Wednesday to Thursday after a fight that broke out near a bar in a busy area of ​​Sacramento.

A man and a woman were questioned by police but evidence remained insufficient to detain them, reported the chain Sacramento.

Last August, this soldier of the Air Force was on board the Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris. With two of his American friends, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos, he had mastered Ayoub El-Khazaani, heavily armed, but was wounded in the hand.

Spencer Stone, a simple soldier in the US Air Force promoted to Chief Sergeant after the attack, received the medal of the Aviator and the prestigious Purple Heart, awarded the wounded soldiers.

Source : BFMTV 

The cover of the next album of Rihanna finally unveiled

This Wednesday, October 7th, Rihanna unveiled the cover of her long-awaited album in an art gallery in Los Angeles.

The release date of the new album of Rihanna is not yet known, but apparently, it's imminent.

While the singer has multiplied in recent weeks, magazine covers and photo shoots for big brands, we would think that concerns about his album were faded into the background. Apparently he didn't.

The working girl organized an event in an art gallery in Los Angeles, supposed to reveal details about his upcoming album. On the occasion, Rihanna has developed a whole concept around the Braille ; those present were invited to blindfold and let run their fingers over large installations with the famous inscriptions in relief.

During the evening, the album cover, which is also a painting by Israeli artist Roy Nachum inspired by a Rihanna photo, was hidden behind a large sail.

Then, the suspense was lifted : 

The singer was quick to share the front and back of the album cover on his Instagram account and quickly set the record straight: the album is no longer called "R8" but "Anti".

Rihanna explained the choice of this cover : "The idea behind the Braille is that people who get view are sometimes those that are the most blind."

Source : Trace TV

Blatter, Platini and Valcke suspended for 90 days. Chung, he, was sentenced for six years

Met in Zurich since Monday, the trial chamber of the "domestic tribunal" FIFA made his decision without distinction in the scale of penalties and charges against the two leaders. Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were both suspended from any activity in football (global, continental and national) for 90 days. This penalty can even be extended by 45 days.

A penalty which doesn't adversely affect Sepp Blatter, whose image is already tarnished, but may however seriously damage the reputation and the honor of Michel Platini, who still aspires succession of Switzerland to head Fifa and the elections to be held on 26 February. A month and a half after the end of his 90 days suspension.

The current UEFA President and Vice President of FIFA wasn't make a mistake, just before denouncing the verdict a "deliberate leak" with "damage his image." Since the night before, some English and German media did indeed state of such a penalty.

In any case, this "yellow card" for Platini will seriously disturb or even completely derail the coming weeks his election campaign as this will prevent punishment of any activity in football during that period. "This morning, however, insisted the French, I sent letters of support required to be able to submit my candidacy for the presidency of FIFA. As I have always done since 2007, I will take my responsibilities after consulting the 54 National Associations UEFA member which I ask to meet soon in Nyon. At the same time, I will go to meet all the confederations and member National Associations of FIFA, in the spirit of openness that characterized me always".

The French should use all possibles remedies before October 26 (the date of filing of application files) to reduce or cancel the 90 days suspension.

Moreover, the South Korean Chung Mong-joon, former vice-president of FIFA and the French Jerome Valcke, General Secretary, respectively sentenced to six years (+ 100.00 swiss francs) and 90 days suspension.

Source : BFMTV 

Is the survival of Air France threatened?

The French company has had to face aggressive competition on all fronts. On the one hand the companies Gulf and Southeast Asia over the long-haul. Then, on the medium-haul market, with the race for cheap low-cost airlines, which have quickly gained significant market share by practicing unbeatable prices through production costs calculated as accurately.

On the short-haul, the TGV (High Speed Train) has won the bet. This new situation required "to completely rethink the business model of a company. Those that are agile manage to rehabilitate and those lacking agility suffer," said an expert.

Since 2008, the company accumulates losses. She should return to profitability this year after a first restructuring plan "Perfom 2015," which reduced the workforce by approximately 5 500 positions in 3 years. But for direction, further efforts are needed, particularly in terms of productivity for pilots to resume growth.

Source : Ouest-France

The Russian military denied having conducted bombing against IS in Palmyra

It's the Syrian state television, quoted a military source, who announced that Russia had conducted bombing the positions of the Islamic State group in and around Palmyra.

"All informations foreign media suggesting that Russian planes have allegedly launched air raids on the city of Palmyra are completely false," said Tuesday the spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

"Our aviation in Syria doesn't target populated areas, and even more so when it's of architecturals  monuments," he added.

Source : RFI

The Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Japanese Takaaki Kahita and Canadian Arthur McDonald for their work on neutrinos

Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald in a few hours will receive their Nobel Prize for their work on neutrinos, elementary particles. The Swedish jury said the discovery of the neutrino mass has allowed us to understand the inner workings of matter, and thus better understand the universe.

Source : RFI

A preliminary list of 59 players for the FIFA Ballon d'Or

La Gazzetta dello Sport announced Friday a pre-list of 59 players in the running for the Ballon d'Or 2015. This list confidential and each continent is represented, was established by the FIFA Football Committee in agreement with the chief editor of France Football.

The official list of 23 players selected for the gain this trophy will be announced Tuesday, October 27, and three nominees will be announced Monday, November 30th.

The pre-list of 59 unveiled by the Gazzetta

Agüero

Alaba

Alexis Sanchez

Atsu

André Ayew

Bacca

Bale

Benzema

Bony

Bravo

Carlos Sanchez

Cavani

Chiellini

Courtly

Coutinho

Cristiano Ronaldo

De Bruyne

De Gea

Depay

Diego Costa

Dos Santos

Griezmann

Guardado

Hazard

His HM

Ibrahimovic

Iniesta

Jackson Martinez

James Rodriguez

Kane

Kroos

Lacazette

Lewandowski

Luongo

Mascherano

Medel

Messi

Modric

Morata

Müller

Neuer

Neymar

Okazaki

Ospina

Otamendi

Paolo Guerrero

Pastore

Pirlo

Pogba

Robben

Rakitic

Ramos

Rooney

Suarez

Tévez

Vargas

Vidal

Willian

Yaya Toure

Source : L'ÉQUIPE 

World War III may have started today

History will remember (perhaps), God forbid, that the third world war began Wednesday, September 30, 2015.

In 1914, it started a June 28 by the assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke of Austria. At the time, of course, no one had imagined that the attack, perpetrated far from the capitals, would lead to the slaughter of the Great War. This is the game of alliances and irresponsibility "sleepwalkers" which then governed the great powers that have led the world into the abyss.

Why a comparison with today ? It was learned, that on September 30, two new apparently less serious but which, combined, could be the double spark an explosion that many fear for some time. What is it about ?

First, Saudi Arabia would now boarded two ships flying the flag of his intimate enemy, Iran. The boats were, apparently, full of arms to the rebels outhistes Yemen that Riyadh fight militarily. This arrest is clearly a hostile act, if not war.

It occurs in a particularly tense atmosphere between the two poles of Islam. Tehran has fiercely criticized Saud, self-appointed guardians of the holy places, not ensure the basic safety of pilgrims to Mecca. An extremely serious accusation in these times of clashes between Shiite and Sunni.

That's not all. This Wednesday, September 30, Vladimir Putin made his puppet parliament vote by a law authorizing it to conduct a military operation in Syria. His aviation has already started shelling in Homs. It's known that on the field, the Russians will be allies Bashar regime and especially the Iranians. While opposite, West and Gulf Sunni countries conduct their own operations.

The two coalitions, which have, on several points, completely opposite objectives, risk finding themselves face to face. It seems, however, that Russian bombings that day had already struck a rebel position supported by the US - information that is not yet confirmed.

Anyway, so the fear is that the Kremlin, while at its outer statement to distract domestic economic rout, and Tehran, taken by the hubris (excessiveness) that followed the nuclear agreement of July to test the Maximum willingness of the other side. And see the Saudis, frightened by the rise of Shiite mortal enemy, cause its allies, including France, in an endless tussle, which could seriously degenerate.

Obviously, this nightmare scenario is not safe. It's not written that the present rulers are the "sleepwalking", they will not prevent military conflict from spreading beyond Syria and Iraq. But some actors of this part are so on edge that can not be excluded altogether.

By Vincent Jauvert for The OBS