UE verifica brindes dados pela Rússia no G20 por suspeita de espionagem

30/10/2013 - 15:30

Bruxelas (AFP)

A Comissão Europeia indicou nesta quarta-feira que estava analisando os brindes, como 'pen drives' e carregadores de celulares, concedidos pela Rússia às delegações na cúpula do G20 de setembro em São Petersburgo para verificar se representam riscos de segurança.
Consultado sobre estas informações, o porta-voz da Comissão Europeia, Frederic Vincent, disse que as autoridades estão investigando o caso.
"A análise segue em andamento e não podemos dizer ainda se (os dispositivos eletrônicos) são inofensivos", declarou Vincent.
"De maneira geral, como regra, os funcionários da UE têm como lema em suas viagens não utilizar material externo", acrescentou.
As delegações dos chefes de Estado e de governo dos países do G20 receberam como presente de cortesia na cúpula de setembro, organizada sob a presidência russa, um pen drive e um carregador de telefone celular.
Ao retornar da Rússia, o presidente do Conselho Europeu (que representa os países membros da UE), Herman Van Rompuy, entregou os dispositivos aos seus serviços de segurança para que verificassem se poderiam servir para coletar ilegalmente informações dos computadores e celulares.
Segundo os jornais italianos Corriere della Sera e Stampa, a análise dos presentes recebidos por Van Rompuy foi confiada aos serviços secretos alemães.
"Não sabemos quais são as fontes destas informações, mas isso é, sem dúvida, uma tentativa de desviar a atenção dos problemas reais que dominam as capitais europeias e Washington para problemas efêmeros, inexistentes", declarou na terça-feira à Ria Novosti Dimitri Peskov, porta-voz do Kremlin.
Uma fonte da Comissão indicou que as tentativas de espionagem utilizando dispositivos informáticos são muito comuns.
A informação sobre estes presentes que supostamente serviriam para recuperar informações ilegalmente ocorre em meio ao escândalo pela espionagem da Agência de Segurança Nacional (NSA) americana, que teria realizado escutas de 35 líderes mundiais, entre eles a chanceler alemã Angela Merkel e a presidente Dilma Rousseff.
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Putin supera Obama como homem mais poderoso do mundo na lista da Forbes

30/10/2013 - 15:12

Nova York (AFP)

O presidente russo, Vladimir Putin, superou o colega americano, Barack Obama, como o homem mais poderoso do mundo no ranking 2013 da revista Forbes, que tem o papa Francisco em quarto lugar.
A Forbes justifica a decisão de situar Putin como o novo homem forte do mundo porque ele "continua solidificando seu controle sobre a Rússia e o cenário internacional".
A lista tem o presidente chinês Xi Jinping em terceiro lugar, seguido pelo papa Francisco e pela chanceler alemã Angela Merkel.
A presidente do Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, aparece na 20ª posição
A revista americana levou em consideração quatro fatores para selecionar 72 pessoas: sobre quantas pessoas exercem poder; os recursos financeiros sob seu controle; se têm influência em mais de uma esfera; e como utilizam de maneira ativa seu poder para mudar o mundo.
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Israel acelera colonização após libertação de prisioneiros palestinos

30/10/2013 - 15:08

Jerusalém (AFP)

A Autoridade Palestina condenou nesta quarta-feira a decisão 'destrutiva' de Israel acelerar a colonização em troca da libertação de um novo contingente de 26 detidos palestinos como parte das negociações de paz em curso sob a égide dos Estados Unidos.
A decisão de Israel de construir 1.500 moradias a mais na colônia de Ramat Shlomo, em Jerusalém Oriental, teve o aval do primeiro-ministro, Benjamin Netanyahu, e do ministro do Interior, Gidéon Saar.
De acordo com a mídia israelense, Netanyahu vinculou a libertação do segundo grupo de presos palestinos à autorização da construção das casas como uma forma de compensar a ala dura de sua maioria.
Além das novas construções, Israel permitirá a expansão das casas já existentes e o desenvolvimento de dois projetos: um centro turístico e arqueológico fora das muralhas da Cidade Velha e um parque nacional, nas encostas do Monte Scopus.
Em um comunicado, o presidente da Autoridade Palestina, Mahmud Abbas, condenou a decisão, considerando que "esta política destrói o processo de paz e é uma mensagem à comunidade internacional de que Israel é um país que não respeita o direito internacional".
O anúncio da decisão do governo israelense, não confirmado oficialmente, foi feito logo após a libertação por parte de Israel de 26 detentos palestinos, no âmbito das negociações de paz mediadas pelos Estados Unidos.
Um grupo de 21 detentos libertados na Cisjordânia deixou a prisão israelense de Ofer, perto de Jerusalém, a bordo de dois micro-ônibus, pouco depois de 1h (21h de terça em Brasília). No mesmo momento, outros cinco detentos foram soltos em Gaza, de acordo com um correspondente da AFP.
A decisão já era esperada. Desde a semana passada, um oficial israelense afirmou à AFP que seu país "continuaria nos próximos meses a anunciar a construção de novas colônias em Jerusalém", assegurando "que os americanos e palestinos já sabiam".
Os dirigentes palestinos negaram com veemência qualquer aval para a construção de novas residências nas colonias judaicas em troca da libertação de presos.
"Relacionar a libertação de um novo grupo de prisioneiros ao anúncio da construção de milhares de unidades habitacionais em assentamentos vai contra todos os compromissos firmados antes das negociações", declarou à AFP o negociador Yasser Abed Rabbo, secretário-geral do Comitê Executivo da Organização para a Libertação da Palestina (OLP).
Os palestinos asseguram que a colonização, condenada pela comunidade internacional e que já causou a interrupção de negociações anteriores, "destrói o processo de paz."
Os prisioneiros palestinos foram recebidos pelo presidente Mahmud Abbas e suas famílias em Mouqata'a, sede da Autoridade Palestina em Ramallah (Cisjordânia).
Abbas assegurou que não haverá acordo de paz enquanto houver palestinos presos em Israel.
À exceção de um detento, todos os presos cumpriam uma condenação de prisão perpétua pelo assassinato de israelenses, segundo a lista publicada pelo Departamento Penitenciário de Israel. Eles foram detidos antes dos acordos de Oslo de 1993.
Dois dias antes da retomada das negociações de paz entre Israel e Palestina, em 30 de julho, Netanyahu aceitou soltar 104 prisioneiros palestinos em várias etapas, dependendo do andamento das negociações. Os primeiros 26 foram libertados em 13 de agosto. Cerca de cinco mil palestinos estão presos em Israel.
"A decisão de libertar os presos é uma das mais difíceis que eu já tomei. Isso é injusto, porque esses terroristas ficarão livres antes de terem cumprido suas penas", disse na segunda-feira Benjamin Netanyahu em uma reunião do seu partido, o Likud (pertencente à direita nacionalista).
Netanyahu explicou ao Likud que precisou levar em conta a realidade, referindo-se à promessa feita a Washington de que libertaria prisioneiros para permitir a retomada do diálogo com os palestinos.
O secretário de Estado americano John Kerry, que impôs um bloqueio à imprensa sobre as negociações de paz, afirmou em 21 de outubro que as discussões avançavam.
Mas o negociador Yasser Abed Rabbo declarou terça-feira que ainda não "há progresso tangível", lamentando que "a atual posição israelense é a pior em mais de 20 anos".
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Lithuanians burn down straw village in autumn rite

30/10/2013 - 15:27

Naujamiestis (Lithuania) (AFP)

Winter is around the corner and for one Lithuanian town that means building a village of straw only to burn it down in a ritual that draws thousands to the tiny locality, nostalgic for old traditions.
"It's a form of renewal for us," said Vigita Dumbriene, the main organiser of the event in Naujamiestis, a locality of 800 residents in the northeast of this Baltic state.
"There's immense interest," she said, in an area where both straw and fire hold their place in age-old customs -- and where straw is abundantly available after the autumn harvest.
This year's theme was a farmer's market with 40 huge straw sculptures of chickens, a goose, a carp, a large pig big enough for children to straddle, a baker's oven, even a tavern where visitors could buy food on the opening day.
For 12-year-old Matas, the best of this year's sculptures -- some several metres (feet) high -- was the car, since he could pile in with his cousins.

A village of straw burns in Naujamiestis, Lithuania, on October 27, 2013

The village opened on October 6, drawing several hundred visitors in the month leading up to the grand finale when it went up in flames -- with fireworks and traditional dance -- before a crowd of 2,000.
The now-annual ritual was the brainchild of Dumbriene and her colleagues at the local cultural centre who thought why not have a little fun with the plentiful post-harvest haystacks.
"We thought it would be a nice idea that would draw people," she said.
The first theme, in 2006, was Count Cicinskas, a character from local folklore known for his depravity, while last year the sculptures were all musical instruments.
The cultural centre's employees spent the month of September creating the sculptures, with some eight tonnes of straw and 10 kilometres (six miles) of rope donated by a local farmer.

People visit the straw sculpture park in Naujamiestis, near Panevezys, northern Lithuania, on October 27, 2013

Village residents -- and some from farther afield -- lend a hand or drop off food for those toiling away, recalling the solidarity of the "old days" .
"I really like that people spare some of their free time to make these sculptures," said Erika, a 40-something piano teacher from the nearby city of Panevezys who comes each year.
'Like a mandala'
Straw is an age-old fixture here. Lithuanians use it to weave fruit baskets and other items for the home, while children make straw angels for the Christmas tree.
Fire, too, is a tradition.
Lithuanians organise a large Midsummer's Day bonfire every June to mark the summer solstice, and in winter they burn large witch dolls for Mardi Gras to mark spring's arrival.
Vytautas, a civil servant in his fifties who gave only his first name, likened the annual rite in Naujamiestis to a meditation exercise: the townspeople patiently build up the village then undo it three weeks later.

A village of straw burns in Naujamiestis, Lithuania, on October 27, 2013

"It's like a mandala," he said, referring to the spiritual symbol representing the cosmos and unity.
For the first time this year, the cultural centre was granted nearly 15,000 euros ($21,000) for the project from the European Union's Leader initiative for rural development.
The straw village has even spawned copycats.
"We also wanted to create one, but our sculptures kept falling apart," said Antanas Bajerunas, an employee of a neighbouring community's cultural centre.
"I came here to learn their secret," he said, camera in hand.
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Russia starts 100-day countdown to Sochi Games

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  Russia began the 100 day countdown to the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi on Wednesday, with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach promising an "unforgettable" event despite a growing controversy over gay rights.
  The landmark date was marred for Russia's gay rights groups who said they had requested to discuss recent anti-gay legislation with Bach during his visit to Sochi, but he "refused".
  "LGBT activists in Russia see this decision as yet another indicator that the Olympics are far from being a platform to uphold and promote the Olympic values," said the Russian LGBT Network in a statement.
  The group was one of six organisations that sent a letter to the IOC ahead of the visit seeking to talk with Bach about "ways the IOC can ensure observance of the non-discrimination clause of the Olympic Charter" in Russia, where a new law now forbids disseminating "gay propaganda" to minors.
  

  

  The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay reaches Kalingrad on October 29, 2013

  President Vladimir Putin, who has spearheaded the Olympic project in the southern city, promised during his meeting with Bach Tuesday that Sochi will be "comfortable" for all athletes and guests regardless of their ethnicity or sexual orientation.
  But the activists said they are not convinced and are asking for specific assurances, such as the establishment of a "Pride House" in Sochi, their statement said, adding that Russia's new law already enforces a "discriminatory regime" in the entire country.
  The IOC previously said that Sochi organisers have given sufficient guarantees that the Olympic Charter will be respected during the Games.
  The organisation has offered to set up the meeting between Bach and the activists in Lausanne, Switzerland, and they are now "negotiating the schedules," the groups said.
  Bach has been on a visit to Sochi, where he toured the sports sites and met with Putin. He said that "with only 100 days to go, the Sochi 2014 venues look impressive."
  

  

  The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay reaches Kalingrad on October 29, 2013

  "I’m confident that the Olympians of 2014 will be able to go home with some unforgettable memories."
  To mark the '100 days' event, Sochi organisers presented a new uniform designed for the event's staff and volunteers, while pictures of cheering crowds surrounding Olympic countdown clocks in Sochi and other cities were aired on television.
  Russia's Central Bank unveiled its "Olympic" banknote of 100 rubles, the country's most popular denomination, which features a snowboarder leaping above the Olympic Park on the Black Sea shore.
  State television showed 100 people standing to form the number 100 in the Olympic Park, jumping up and down and waving to the cameras.
  Sochi, Russia's biggest seaside resort and spa on the Black Sea, which is popular with domestic tourists, was proposed as a Games host by Putin and has seen more than $50 billion (36 billion euros) invested over six years in infrastructure, hotels and sports venues.
  But the project has also suffered its share of criticism from environmentalists and rights organisations, who accused the government of paying no regard to untouched mountain wilderness, rights of unpaid migrant workers, and properties of local residents.
  "With the Sochi Games now 100 days away, time is running out for the IOC and president Bach to urge Russia to clean up its abusive laws and practices," said Jane Buchanan, associate director for Europe and Central Asia at Human Rights Watch.
  "There can be no grand celebration of the upcoming Games when Russia has so blatantly trampled the Olympic principles of human dignity and non-discrimination."
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Qatar removes Zidane's headbutt statue after protests

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Qatar has removed the Zinedine Zidane headbutt statue less than a month after it went on display following an outcry by conservatives, who slammed the art work as anti-Islam idolisation.
The five-metre (16.4-feet) sculpture which immortalises the headbutt delivered by the French football legend to Italian player Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final was put on display on Doha's corniche on October 3.
But the statue that was sculpted by Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed appears to have offended conservatives in the Muslim emirate, who saw it as a flagrant violation of religious tenets.
It was removed on Monday, according to local newspapers.
"Congratulations for having new idols," wrote one tweeter sarcastically, as the Arabic hashtag "Zidane's statue in Qatar" triggered massive reaction from dismayed conservatives.
"It is sad that our youth see in this art and modernity. Our children do not differentiate between the right and the wrong, or the haram (prohibited) and the halal (permissible)," wrote another.
Islamic jurisprudence prohibits statues of human beings and animals to avoid the possibility of idolisation.
Although some Muslim countries display statues in public, conservative Gulf nations mostly do not.
Saudi municipal authorities in June smashed sculptures of horses erected on a roundabout in the southwestern Jazan province after the kingdom's top cleric Abdulaziz al-Shaikh wrote to the local governor demanding their removal for being a "great sin".
The Qatar Museum Authority bought the "Coup de Tete" sculpture after it was put on display earlier outside the Pompidou Centre in Paris. It was also reportedly displayed between July and September in Italy's coastal town of Pietrasanta.
QMA reportedly said at the time that the sculpture was planned to be a permanent fixture on the corniche.
Doha News website said the statue will now join Abdessemed's collection that is on display in the Arab Museum of Modern Art, citing QMA chief marketing officer Kimberly French.
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Police Federation's legitimacy queried in tough post-plebgate review

Police Federation's legitimacy queried in tough post-plebgate review

30 Oct 2013: Staff organisation has lost the confidence of its members and risks becoming an irrelevance, independent report warns

Staff organisation has lost the confidence of its members and risks becoming an irrelevance, independent report warns

• Alan Travis, home affairs editor
• theguardian.com, Wednesday 30 October 2013 14.20 GMT

Police at a meeting in Westminster in 2011 watch a video address by Theresa May Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

The damaging impact of the so-called plebgate affair on the Police Federation and on the wider legitimacy of British policing underlines the urgent need to reform the organisation, an independent review commissioned by its leadership has said.
A hard-hitting progress report by the review team, headed by a former Home Office permanent secretary, says the federation, which represents 127,200 rank-and-file police officers, has "substantially lost the confidence of its members", who are appalled at the damage caused by plebgate. They also warn the staff federation is in danger of losing the confidence of the public and of losing "its legitimacy to represent front-line policing".
Their report says the events surrounding some federation officials' dealings with the former Conservative party chief whip Andrew Mitchell have tested public confidence in the federation as never before, and are damaging the organisation, its members and the wider police service.
"Every time it appears to be taking up political and partisan positions and engaging in campaigns against particular individuals, it risks undermining the impartiality and integrity which the public expect from the police," the independent experts say.
"It not only antagonises the very people it is most seeking to influence; it affects wider public confidence, on which the legitimacy of the British model of policing rests."
The independent review was set up by Steve Williams, the new Police Federation chairman, who has been called a traitor and a dictator, and faced no-confidence motion for trying to drive through a programme of reform of the organisation after he took up the role earlier this year.
The membership of the independent panel, which is chaired by Sir David Normington, includes the former chief inspector of constabulary Sir Denis O'Connor, the former TUC general secretary Sir Brendan Barber and a former chair of the Merseyside police federation, Kathryn Kane.
The review team says that in the course of its inquiry it has met leaders of the organisation at every level who believe it should stand for the highest standards of conduct and behaviour in policing.
But it warns: "We have also encountered some who pursue narrow self-interest, some behaviours that should not be tolerated in any way, and a degree of carelessness with the federation's reputation from a number of elected representatives at local and national level.
"If the federation is to succeed in the future, the membership need to get behind those leaders who want the federation to stand for all that is best in policing."
Their progress report singles out for criticism "some of the behaviours exhibited at past annual conferences" – a reference to the barracking of the home secretary, Theresa May, two years ago - and the plebgate affair.

The autonomous actions of officials of the West Midlands branch of the federation in their treatment of Mitchell has been repeatedly highlighted as having happened against the advice of national officials. The three West Midlands officials last week refused to apologise for the account they gave of a meeting with Mitchell in the aftermath of the Plebgate incident in Downing Street.

The review team argues that without urgent reform the organisation is now in danger of becoming an irrelevance at a time when policing is undergoing major changes, and may face having external reform imposed on it.
The staff federation still has the same structure as when it was set up a century ago in the aftermath of the 1919 police strike, and officers are still banned from taking industrial action.
The review report cites an Ipsos Mori survey it commissioned showing that 91% of 12,500 police officers survey agree on the need for reform but only 29% feel the federation has the capacity to change. A total of 64% say they are dissatisfied with the performance of the federation, but there is consensus on what needs to be done.
The review team is to publish its final recommendations early next year.
The Police Federation said the initial findings were worrying and raised a number of issues for consideration and further debate within the organisation".
"We must not lose sight of the fact that it was the new incoming chair of the Police Federation, Steve Williams, who asked for an independent review to be carried outin January because of the concerns that had been raised concerning the federation and some of its working practices," it said in a statement.
"It was important that we understood how these impacted on the federation and how we could change the organisation to ensure that we were fit for purpose moving forward. As the progress report highlights, the Federation is an organisation that is in need of change." Copy http://www.theguardian.com/uk-new

Spain colluded in NSA spying on its citizens, Spanish newspaper reports

Spain colluded in NSA spying, Spanish newspaper reports

El Mundo says it has obtained document detailing collaboration between US intelligence agency and foreign countries

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  El Mundo says it has obtained document detailing collaboration between US intelligence agency and foreign countries
• Paul Hamilos in Madrid
• theguardian.com, Wednesday 30 October 2013 11.41 GMT

A man protests against NSA spying outside the foreign ministry in Madrid. Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters

The widespread surveillance of Spanish citizens by the US National Security Agency, which caused outrage when it was reported this week, was the product of a collaboration with Spain's intelligence services, according to one Spanish newspaper.
In the latest revelations to emerge from the documents leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, Spanish agents not only knew about the work of the NSA but also facilitated it, El Mundo reports.
An NSA document entitled "Sharing computer network operations cryptologic information with foreign partners" reportedly shows how the US relies on the collaboration of many countries to give it access to intelligence information, including electronic metadata.
According to the document seen by El Mundo, the US classifies cooperation with various countries on four different levels. In the first group - "Comprehensive Cooperation" - are the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The second group – "Focused Cooperation" - of which Spain is a member, includes 19 countries, all of them European, apart from Japan and South Korea. The third group - "Limited cooperation" - consists of countries such as France, Israel, India and Pakistan; while the fourth - "Exceptional Cooperation" - is made up of countries that the US considers to be hostile to its interests.
The reports come a day after the director of the NSA, General Keith B Alexander, testified before the US house intelligence committee that suggestions the agency monitored millions of calls in Spain, France and Italy were "completely false" and that this data had been at least partially collected by the intelligence services of those countries and then passed on to the NSA.
According to El Mundo the NSA documents explain the "specific guidance for evaluating and initiating Computer Network Operations (CNO) cryptologic cooperation with other countries, generally within existing foreign cryptologic relationships". It outlines these telephonic and electronic surveillance operations, indicating that the results would be shared with allied countries. In short, this suggests the Spanish intelligence services were working hand in hand with the NSA, as were other foreign agencies. But if there was any doubt as to who held the upper hand, the NSA documents make clear that any collaboration was always to serve the needs of protecting American interests.
On Monday, El Mundo reported that the NSA had intercepted 60.5m phone calls in Spain over one month alone.
Alexander said foreign intelligence services collected phone records in war zones and other areas outside their borders and passed these on to the NSA. He said this arrangement had been misunderstood by French and Spanish newspapers, which reportedthat the NSA was spying in their countries.
But this explanation has not allayed European or domestic US concerns about the exact nature of NSA surveillance in allied countries.
The suggestion that the Spanish intelligence agency was working with the NSA will confirm the suspicions of many in Spain who believe that the government has not only failed to protect its own citizens' privacy, but was actively supportive of US surveillance inside the country.

Although there are strong anti-privacy laws in Spain, and judicial oversight is required before a phone can be tapped, there are concerns that these laws are applied less than rigorously.

The US has offices for the CIA and the NSA in Madrid.
On Monday, Amnesty International called on the Spanish government to "reflect on its total failure to protect its own citizens' privacy".
The prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, announced on Wednesday that the director of the Spanish national intelligence centre (CNI), Félix Sanz Roldán, would be called to appear before the official secrets committee to explain the activities of the NSA and the CNI. Unlike in the US, however, this meeting will be held behind closed doors.
The latest document, published by El Mundo on Wednesday, shows the NSA to be watchful of any information gathered by countries outside the top tier of allies, which together with the US are known as the "five eyes".
According to the Spanish newspaper's report, the NSA says any co-operation with countries outside this group is to be carefully evaluated, and they should be reliable allies, capable of protecting any classified information from the US itself.
A further document seen by El Mundo reportedly explains how that cooperation between the NSA and foreign intelligence agencies increases the number of foreign-language speakers available to it, so as better to understand any communications they uncovered.
Not every line in the document is hard intelligence work, though. At one point, an NSA agent apparently writes that the Spanish agents were exceptionally helpful when they collaborated, not just at work, but also in their downtime. In Madrid, lunch apparently always took place at 2pm; the US agents were given an apparently enjoyable bus tour of the sights of Madrid; and one dinner was accompanied by opera singers. The only disappointment came during one trip to Spain, when it rained all the time, despite the Spanish agents having promised unlimited sunshine.

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Boris Johnson defends Guardian over NSA revelations

Johnson defends Guardian over NSA

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Mayor of London says it is right that 'salient and interesting facts' about espionage are brought into public domain

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Mayor of London says it is right that 'salient and interesting facts' about espionage are brought into public domain

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• theguardian.com, Wednesday 30 October 2013 13.37 GMT

Boris Johnson speaks at the World Islamic Economic Forum in London. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

Boris Johnson has issued a staunch defence of the Guardian's "salient and interesting" revelations about the activities of US and UK intelligence agencies based on secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
The mayor of London told an audience at the World Islamic Economic Forum that it was important that governments and their spies were held to account by a "beady-eyed" media.
"I think the public deserves to know. The world is better for government being kept under the beady-eyed scrutiny of the media and for salient and interesting facts about public espionage being brought into the public domain."
Johnson's intervention puts him at odds with David Cameron, who has said the leaks have made the UK less safe. This week the prime minister issued a veiled threat to take "tougher measures" against the Guardian and other newspapers.
Johnson highlighted news that the German chancellor Angela Merkel's phone had been bugged by the US National Security Agency, a story originally reported in the German news weekly Der Spiegel.
"I personally defend the Guardian's right to publish interesting information such as that Angela Merkel's phone was bugged by Barack Obama. I think that is an interesting fact," he said.
"I don't believe that the fact that Angela Merkel's phone was bugged by the NSA does anything to jeopardise anybody's security, it's merely colossally embarrassing and it should come out."
Asked whether his own phone had ever been bugged, Johnson quipped: "I'm sure my mobile has been bugged by everybody, and good luck to them!"
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Poundland case: government defeated again over employment schemes

Government lose work scheme case

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Iain Duncan Smith's appeal to supreme court fails as justices rule work programmes were legally flawed

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  Iain Duncan Smith's appeal to supreme court fails as justices rule work programmes were legally flawed
• Shiv Malik
• theguardian.com, Wednesday 30 October 2013 13.52 GMT

Cait Reilly outside Poundland. Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

Link to video: Poundland case: back-to-work schemes not slave labour, says minister The government's "back to work" schemes at the centre of the high-profile Poundland case were legally flawed, the UK's highest court has ruled.
Cait Reilly won her long-running case against the Department for Work and Pensions in the supreme court after she first disputed the legality of the government's employment schemes in January 2012.
The work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, failed in his attempt to overturn an earlier court of appeal ruling that regulations from 2011 supposedly giving the schemes their legal footing were invalid. Five supreme court justices upheld the appeal court's decision.
The supreme court stopped short of ruling that the regulations constituted forced or compulsory labour, but decided it was unlawful for the government to fail to supply parliament and hundreds of thousands of jobseekers with proper information about the so-called workfare schemes that claimants were forced to undertake at pain of losing jobseeker's allowance.
The judgment would have resulted in the government having to refund £130m to about 250,000 unemployed people for unlawful sanctioning, had it not been for emergency retroactive legislation introduced by Duncan Smith in the spring.
After the introduction of that emergency law, the solicitors Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), who represent Reilly and her co-claimant, Jamieson Wilson, an unemployed lorry driver, lodged a judicial review accusing Duncan Smith of conspiring to undermine basic human rights by enacting the retroactive legislation. They say they will continue to pursue that judicial review after their success in the supreme court.
In a statement outside the court, the lawyer Tessa Gregory said: "We are delighted that the supreme court has dismissed the government' appeal and confirmed that the regulations under which most of the 'back to work' schemes were initially created were unlawful.
"The court upheld the findings that Iain Duncan Smith acted beyond the powers given to him by parliament by failing to provide any detail about the various schemes in the regulations and that, in any event, the required notice provisions had not been complied with. Iain Duncan Smith has sought to brand our clients as 'job snobs' but in reality all they have been seeking is a system that is fair and transparent."
After the ruling Reilly, 24, who works for the supermarket Morrisons, said she felt very proud, almost two years after she first contacted the Guardian about working unpaid at the discount retailer Poundland for a number of weeks.
"I feel very proud that people seemed to have realised there was an injustice going on, and that we have carried it on and reached the verdict today," she said. "It's quite unbelievable. I'm still getting my head around it. But it is a great result."
Reilly, a geology graduate from Birmingham, said the secretary of state needed to treat unemployed people with respect. "Jobseekers … are just trying to make something of themselves, like anyone else," she said. "We're not job snobs."

She added that for job-seeking to be made harder by poor DWP regulations was a terrible irony. "He [Duncan Smith] needs to realise they need to help us, not punish us," she said.

The DWP said it was disappointed that the supreme court had agreed with the court of appeal. It said it had dealt with the matter after introducing emergency legislation in March. Despite the fact that the legislation was subject to judicial review proceedings, it was "very confident" of its validity and would "defend it robustly", the department said.
Duncan Smith said: "We have always said that it was ridiculous to claim that our schemes amounted to forced labour, and yet again we have won this argument."
PIL said it would seek further legal action, and called on jobseekers to make claims against previous sanctions. "We know that, like Jamie and Cait, hundreds of thousands of other jobseekers have not been, and continue not to be, provided with adequate information about the dizzying array of schemes," the lawyers said. "Following today's judgment, any such jobseekers can object to sanctions that have been imposed and seek the repayment of their benefits.
"It is truly staggering that Duncan Smith has found himself in this position even after fast-tracking emergency retrospective legislation through parliament. We intend to work with advice organisations to ensure that, following this ruling, affected individuals have the right information and assistance."
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Sebelius apologizes for ObamaCare site failures during Hill hearing

Sebelius apologizes for ObamaCare site failures during Hill hearing

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius personally apologized Wednesday for the failures of the ObamaCare website, saying during a Capitol Hill hearing that the American people "deserve better."
"Access to HealthCare.gov has been a miserably frustrating experience for way too many Americans," Sebelius said, vowing to fix the problems.
To the American people, she said, "You deserve better. I apologize. I'm accountable to you for fixing these problems."
She later said: "Hold me accountable for the debacle. I'm responsible."
The secretary faced of her biggest critics Wednesday as she testified for the first time on the troubled ObamaCare rollout -- amid mounting calls for her resignation.
"The news seems to get worse by the day," Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said at the start of the hearing before his committee.
Not only was the secretary facing questions about the glitch-ridden exchange website, but the administration as a whole is being challenged as consumers on the individual market receive a wave of cancellation notices.
The notices sharply conflict with President Obama's repeated pledges that those who like their plans can keep them.
Though Sebelius and other officials argue that those receiving cancellation notices will be offered better-quality plans, Republicans say it still flies in the face of what the president said over the past several years.
"Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari," Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said. "You're taking away their choice."
Sebelius, though, denied that Obama had broken his promise and claimed that for the most part, people who had coverage as of March 2010 can keep their current plans -- provided their insurance companies haven't changed them significantly. That nuance, however, was rarely explained by Obama before now.
Sebelius' appearance is her first before Congress since the troubled launch of the exchange websites on Oct. 1.
Sebelius testified after the website's data hub experienced another outage on Tuesday. On Sunday, a similar outage at a Verizon Terremark data center brought the website down, even as White House officials claimed the website was up and running.
In written testimony released ahead of Wednesday's hearing, Sebelius vowed to improve the website and said the consumer experience to date is "not acceptable." But she defended the law itself and said extensive work and testing is being done.
"We are working to ensure consumers' interaction with HealthCare.gov is a positive one, and that the Affordable Care Act  fully delivers on its promise," she said in the prepared remarks.
Sebelius blamed the website contractors and the "initial wave of interest" for the glitches, but expressed confidence in the experts and specialists working to solve "complex technical issues."
"By enlisting additional technical help, aggressively monitoring errors, testing to prevent new issues from cropping up, and regularly deploying fixes to the site, we are working to ensure consumers' interaction with HealthCare.gov is a positive one, and that the Affordable Care Act fully delivers on its promise," she said.
But Sebelius was also facing mounting pressure from high-ranking Republicans to resign. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., top Republican on the Senate health panel, was the latest to join the call.
"Mr. President, at some point there has to be accountability. Expecting this secretary to be able to fix what she hasn't been able to fix during the last three-and-a-half years is unrealistic," he said on the Senate floor on Tuesday. "It's throwing good money after bad. It's time for her to resign -- someone else to take charge."
Sebelius is expected to testify again before the Senate Finance Committee on the rollout of ObamaCare, committee chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said in a statement. The hearing is scheduled for Nov. 6.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Sebelius, often praised for bipartisan ways, takes increasing heat for bungled website rollout

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Sebelius testifies on Obamacare

Sebelius acknowledges ‘frustrating’ health rollout

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The health and human services secretary apologizes for the troubled launch of the government Web site, but also attributes the glitches to private contractors.

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WASHINGTON — As the public face of President Barack Obama’s signature health care program, Kathleen Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout. Republicans want her to resign and even some Democrats — while not mentioning Sebelius — say someone should be fired.
The secretary of Health and Human Services has been lampooned on late-night comedy shows, from “The Daily Show” to “Saturday Night Live,” in which a stand-in Sebelius last week offered tips to people having trouble signing into the new health care website: restart your computer, send a postcard to Washington with the word “help” or buy an airline ticket to Canada.

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For months, Sebelius had projected steady confidence that the online health insurance markets would open Oct. 1 as scheduled in all 50 states and that a website that’s the key to public enrollments would be ready. How much she knew about the website’s problems, and when, are key questions she’ll face Wednesday at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
So far she appears to have Obama’s backing. Officials sat Sebelius, one of his longest-serving Cabinet secretaries, in the front row of the audience at a Rose Garden health care event last week — a symbolic signal that she remains a central part of the president’s team. She also is helped by Obama’s general reluctance to fire people quickly, particularly in the face of political pressure. White House officials frequently say the president works on a different timetable than much of Washington and doesn’t see the benefit of symbolic firings.
Firing her could be seen as an admission from the White House that the website woes are an indication of broader flaws in the health care law.
Sebelius has acknowledged that the launch has been “rockier than we would have liked.” Obama agreed, saying last week that the site has been “too slow, people have been getting stuck during the application process. And I think it’s fair to say that nobody is more frustrated by that than I am.”
The program’s website, HealthCare.gov, is still plagued by technical problems that make it difficult — if not near impossible — for people to sign up for health insurance.
Host Jon Stewart put the problems in perspective for many when Sebelius was a guest on his “Daily Show” recently.
Whipping out his laptop, he told her: “I’m gonna try and download every movie ever made and you’re gonna try and sign up for Obamacare and we’ll see which happens first.”
Andy Slavitt, representing contractor Quality Software Services, Inc., told Congress last week that his company relayed concerns to the government prior to the disastrous launch. Exactly what those concerns were, and who heard them, remains unclear. The major website contractors said testing of the entire system didn’t occur until a couple weeks before going live, and they would have preferred to have done it months earlier.
As HHS operations experts and contractors raced to get online enrollment ready, it’s unclear what level of detail Sebelius was privy to. As the deadline neared, her close staff was nervous but also increasingly optimistic that things would go well.
 Many Republicans say this was supposed to be the easy part of the complex new law, a simple website where people could shop for health insurance and sign up for coverage. Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Pat Roberts of Kansas and others have called for Sebelius to resign. Roberts, from her home state, voted for her confirmation in 2009 to lead HHS, but has now changed his assessment.
Facing a GOP primary challenge from a tea party candidate, Roberts this month accused Sebelius of “wasting taxpayer dollars on advertising and promotional tours” while Americans couldn’t sign up for health care plans as promised.

Democrats are complaining, too. New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen called the website rollout “a disaster” and has asked Sebelius to extend the six-month enrollment period beyond the Mar. 31, 2014, deadline.
Sebelius is no stranger to politics; she grew up going door-to-door for her father’s political campaigns. In 2008, as Kansas governor, she delivered the Democratic response to President George W. Bush’s State of the Union. The next day, she endorsed Barack Obama for president. Sebelius was tapped by Obama to lead HHS in 2009 after his first choice, Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, withdrew from consideration.
She has been considered a steady hand and no-nonsense administrator adept at reaching across the aisle to work with Republicans.
As she testifies this week, Sebelius’ challenge will be explaining the huge website mess and restoring confidence amid its continuing problems.
Ron Pollack, a longtime health care advocate, has known Sebelius since the ‘90s when she was the insurance commissioner for Kansas.
“She’s got abundant knowledge about America’s health care system,” says Pollack, head of the liberal advocacy group Families USA.
“Whether you agree or disagree with her on a particular issue, her style is open, friendly and warm,” he said. “It makes it easy for people to have a thoughtful dialogue with her.”
Pollack says he’s not surprised by the Republican ire.
“We have seen unrelenting opposition to anything and everything to do with the Affordable Care Act,” Pollack said. “If the problems get fixed and people get enrolled, this will be forgotten history.”
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White House Correspondent Julie Pace and health care reporter Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar contributed to this report.
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BlackBerry, Facebook 'met over potential bid'

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  BlackBerry executives met with their counterparts at Facebook last week over a potential bid for the struggling Canadian phone-maker, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
  Although BlackBerry is weighing a sale, it was unclear whether Facebook plans to bid on the company, the Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
  The leading social network has made a priority of following its more than one billion members onto smartphones and tablets, and of finding ways to make money from visits by users on mobile devices.
  Blackberry has $2.6 billion in cash, though that figure is eroding as the smartphone-maker loses traction in the market.
  The company's patents, with an estimated value of between $1 billion and $3 billion, are likely the most attractive BlackBerry asset for Facebook, the Journal speculated.
  

  

  A Blackberry Z10 smartphone in Washington DC on April 16, 2013

  The patents namely cover security-network technology and smartphone component patents, which would be key to a company seeking to get a head start in the competitive smartphone market. BlackBerry also has about 70 million subscribers.
  Last month, the company reached a preliminary deal for a $4.7-billion buyout by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, but also left the door open to other offers.
  The Journal separately reported earlier this month that Chinese computer giant Lenovo Group Ltd. was mulling a possible counterbid to buy Blackberry, and BlackBerry has signed a nondisclosure agreement with distressed asset specialists Cerberus Capital Management LP.
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GM profits fall on equity buybacks, higher taxes

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  US auto giant General Motors reported a 53 percent drop in quarterly earnings Wednesday due to higher taxes and equity buybacks, even as revenues rose nearly four percent.
  Earnings for the quarter ended September 30 came in at $698 million on revenues of $39.0 billion, compared with $1.5 billion in profits on revenues of $37.6 billion a year ago.
  GM said it achieved operating-performance improvements during the quarter, but results were hit by $1.0 billion on preferred stock buybacks and dividends and an $842 million income tax expense, up from $357 million in the 2012 quarter.
  The combination of buybacks and higher taxes trimmed 51 cents per share from earnings.
  

  

  A launch of the Chevrolet Enjoy car in Ahmedabad, India, on May 13, 2013

  Excluding those two items, GM came in at 96 cents per share, above the 93 cents forecast by analysts. Revenues came in slightly below the $39.49 billion forecast.
  Overall car sales rose to 2.4 million, compared with 2.3 million during the same period last year.
  "We made gains in the third quarter as we improved our North American margins and increased our global share on the strength of our Chevrolet brand," said GM chief executive Dan Akerson.
  "Our efforts to build great cars and trucks and deliver solid financial results were recognized this quarter by Moody’s investment grade rating."
  

  

  Models of GM's new Opel Adam car on the production line at the Opel plant in Eisenach, eastern Germany on January 10, 2013

  GM's operating earnings rose a mighty 28 percent in North America to $2.2 billion. Results were also better in South America and Europe, where the operating loss dipped to $214 million from $487 million.
  But GM's international division overall achieved just $299 million in operating earnings, down from $761 million in the year-ago period.
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China prende suspeitos de "ataque terrorista" em Pequim (CCTV)

30/10/2013 - 14:12

Pequim (AFP)

A polícia chinesa prendeu vários suspeitos de um "ataque terrorista", informou nesta quarta-feira o canal estatal CCTV, depois que um carro atropelou uma multidão na segunda-feira na praça Tiananmen (Paz Celestial), em Pequim, ato que matou cinco pessoas e deixou 38 feridos.
"As detenções aconteceram 10 horas depois dos fatos, que de agora em diante podem ser chamados de ataque terrorista", afirmou a CCTV.
De acordo com a emissora estatal, três pessoas da mesma família que estavam no automóvel faleceram e cinco pessoas foram detidas por supostos vínculos com o ataque.
A polícia procurava oito pessoas da região muçulmana de Xinjiang, segundo funcionários de hotéis de Pequim.
Um comunicado enviado a hotéis da capital identificava dois uigures registrados em distritos de Xinjiang e perguntava se os funcionários haviam observado "clientes suspeitos".
Os uigures, muçulmanos de língua turca, compõem a etnia majoritária de Xinjiang.
Esta grande região autônoma, situada no extremo oeste da China, registra com frequência distúrbios relacionados à tensão entre Han (etnia majoritária na China) e uigures. As autoridades acusam com regularidade os militantes uigures de "terrorismo".
Na segunda-feira, segundo a polícia, um jipe atropelou turistas e policiais na Praça Tiananmen (Paz Celestial), diante da entrada da Cidade Proibida, antes de explodir perto do retrato de Mao Tse-tung.
O motorista e os dois passageiros do veículo morreram, assim como uma turista filipina e um turista chinês da província meridional de Guangdong.
O Congresso Mundial Uigur, uma organização no exílio, afirmou que teme o aumento da repressão contra os uigures.
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Quatro ex-reféns franceses do Níger chegam a Paris

30/10/2013 - 13:58

Paris (AFP)

O avião que transportou do Níger os quatro franceses libertados na terça-feira, depois de três anos como reféns da Al-Qaeda no Magreb Islâmico (AQMI), pousou nesta quarta-feira às 11H45 (8H45 de Brasília) no aeroporto militar de Villacoublay (periferia de Paris).
Acompanhados desde Niamey pelos ministros das Relações Exteriores e da Defesa, Laurent Fabius e Jean-Yves Le Drian, respectivamente, os reféns serão recebidos por suas famílias e pelo presidente François Hollande.
Thierry Dol, Daniel Larribe, Pierre Legrand e Marc Féret foram libertados na terça-feira pelos sequestradores da AQMI.
Segundo uma fonte ligada aos negociadores nigerinos, entre 20 e 25 milhões de euros foram pagos para obter sua libertação. As autoridades francesas, no entanto, negaram o pagamento de resgate.
"Pagaram entre 20 e 25 milhões de euros para obter a libertação dos reféns franceses", declarou a fonte.
O valor pagou os sequestradores e os intermediários que desempenharam um papel importante na libertação, segundo a mesma fonte.
A fonte não revelou a procedência do dinheiro e a França negou o pagamento.
O jornal Le Monde, que cita uma fonte francesa a par dos detalhes da operação, afirma que mais de 20 milhões de euros foram pagos pela libertação.
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Serviço secreto alemão nega espionar EUA em território americano

30/10/2013 - 13:51

Berlim (AFP)

O diretor do serviço de inteligência exterior alemão BND, Gerhard Schindler, negou nesta quarta-feira no semanário Die Zeit as declarações de seu colega americano, que afirmou que a Alemanha espiona os Estados Unidos em território americano.
"Não são realizadas operações de vigilância das telecomunicações a partir da embaixada alemã em Washington", afirmou o diretor do BND na edição on-line do Die Zeit.
O diretor nacional da inteligência americana, James Clapper, e o diretor da Agência de Segurança Nacional americana (NSA), o general Keith Alexander, indicaram na terça-feira no Congresso que países aliados realizam ou realizavam atividades de espionagem contra os Estados Unidos.
Uma delegação da chancelaria e dos serviços secretos alemães se reunirá nesta quarta-feira em Washington com representantes do governo dos Estados Unidos após as revelações de espionagem das comunicações telefônicas da chanceler Angela Merkel, segundo a imprensa alemã.
O governo de Berlim espera concluir no médio prazo um acordo com os Estados Unidos, através do qual os americanos se comprometam a não espionar o governo ou representações diplomáticas alemãs, segundo a mesma fonte.
Os Estados Unidos negaram categoricamente na terça-feira as revelações do jornal francês Le Monde, do jornal El Mundo e do italiano L'Espresso sobre a interceptação das comunicações dos cidadãos europeus pela NSA.
O Le Monde e o El Mundo informaram nos últimos dias, com base em documentos fornecidos pelo ex-consultor da NSA Edward Snowden, que a agência americana havia espionado mais de 70 milhões de chamadas telefônicas na França e 60 milhões na Espanha no período de um mês.
O diretor da NSA também confirmou as revelações do jornal The Wall Street Journal segundo as quais as interceptações telefônicas praticadas nestes países e atribuídas ao organismo que dirige foram realizadas pelos serviços secretos europeus e depois fornecidas à agência americana.
O ex-consultor da NSA, Edward Snowden, já havia afirmado em uma entrevista publicada em julho pelo Der Spiegel que os agentes da NSA "trabalhavam lado a lado com os alemães e com a maioria dos Estados ocidentais".
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Palestinos condenam decisão israelense de construir em Jerusalém Oriental

30/10/2013 - 13:40

Ramallah (Territórios palestinos) (AFP)

A Autoridade Palestina condenou nesta quarta-feira a decisão 'destrututiva' de Israel de construir 1.500 moradias a mais na colônia de Ramat Shlomo, em Jerusalém Oriental.
"Esta política destrói o processo de paz e é uma mensagem à comunidade internacional de que Israel é um país que não respeita o direito internacional", afirmou Nabil Abu Rudeina, porta-voz do presidente da Autoridade Palestina, Mahmud Abbas, em um comunicado.
A rádio militar israelense informou que o Estado hebreu construirá 1.500 casas em Ramat Shlomo.
O anúncio, não confirmado oficialmente, foi feito logo após a libertação por parte de Israel de 26 detentos palestinos, no âmbito das negociações de paz mediadas pelos Estados Unidos.
Segundo a rádio militar, a decisão de construir em Ramat Shlomo foi aprovada pelo primeiro-ministro, Benjamin Netanyahu, e pelo ministro do Interior, Gidéon Saar.
De acordo com a mídia israelense, Netanyahu vinculou a libertação do segundo grupo de presos palestinos à autorização da construção das casas como uma forma de compensar a ala dura de sua maioria.
Os dirigentes palestinos negaram com veemência qualquer aval para a construção de novas residências nas colonias judaicas em troca da libertação de presos.
Os negociadores palestinos afirmam que o prosseguimento da colonização, causa da interrupção das negociações precedentes, em setembro de 2010, "destrói o processo de paz".
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Libertação de reféns franceses teria custado pelo menos 20 milhões de euros

30/10/2013 - 13:32

Bamako (AFP)

A libertação na terça-feira de quatro reféns sequestrados em 2010 no Níger por islamitas custou entre 20 e 25 milhões de euros, afirmou à AFP uma fonte próxima dos negociadores nigerinos.
"Pagaram entre 20 e 25 milhões de euros para obter a libertação dos reféns franceses", declarou a fonte.
O valor pagou os sequestradores e os intermediários que desempenharam um papel importante na libertação, segundo a mesma fonte.
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Presidente do Parlamento israelense boicotará visita do presidente francêserusalém (AFP)

30/10/2013 - 13:16

O presidente do Parlamento de Israel, Yuli Edelstein, boicotará a próxima visita ao país do presidente francês, François Hollande, por sua negativa de pronunciar um discurso ante os deputados israelenses, afirmou nesta quarta-feira o jornal local Yediot Aharonot.
Segundo o jornal, a embaixada da França em Israel informou Edelstein de que o presidente francês não discursará no Parlamento durante sua visita de Estado a Israel e aos Territórios Palestinos, de 17 a 19 de novembro.
Edelstein declarou que se o presidente francês não estava disposto a falar ante os parlamentares israelenses, então não estava interessado em recebê-lo, indicou o jornal.
"Se for mantida a decisão de não pronunciar seu discurso ante os deputados israelenses, sugiro então que o presidente francês não venha ao Knesset (Parlamento)", explicou Edelstein, deputado do partido de direita nacionalista Likud, dirigido pelo primeiro-ministro Benjamin Netanyahu.
Interrogada pela AFP, a embaixada da França em Israel mostrou-se surpresa com "a reação de Edelstein, (já que) o programa da visita do presidente francês ainda não está finalizado".
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