Unlocked HTC One getting OTA tonight, still Android 4.1.2

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wVNp5UwIgpHk1zQH3zQd_w-tJ0G4pyHfQzDhsteyURXVTJ567IrQ6j6Whg5q5-7nQysphcAMYPO1ZMViJsEPKX77ljNTYf7ZznWnjt6bA7NjDQqpwqRPYNAqjs6pfoSAxzSWAAO__o0/s1600/htc-one-ota.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wVNp5UwIgpHk1zQH3zQd_w-tJ0G4pyHfQzDhsteyURXVTJ567IrQ6j6Whg5q5-7nQysphcAMYPO1ZMViJsEPKX77ljNTYf7ZznWnjt6bA7NjDQqpwqRPYNAqjs6pfoSAxzSWAAO__o0/s1600/htc-one-ota.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b> HTC Sense update brings "System Enhancements"</b><br /><br />The unlocked HTC One is in the midst of getting a small (17.55MB) OTA update this evening, bringing the version number to 1.29.xxxx.17. The device has hit our developer edition HTC One, and is tagged only with the obscure but ever-present "System Enhancement" bullet point in the update prompt.<br /><br />HTC hasn't posted any change log at this hour, but we know you Android junkies needed to know about any OTA, no matter the time. If you want to grab this one -- rooted users consider any consequences -- grab it through your system settings.<br /><br />No word on when we'll see anything similar for carrier branded devices, we'll reach out tomorrow when our HTC folks get out of bed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIjw6jZvOOSIZ-A4lgUwrItmgYwTdyId5uPVFS7qpjx1L-SVcW30P60POesr5O_SZsMDxGDC9hoqi_e7Rhchov-h5ljX3YKvHftIJZBiKrVhrl9bwbpbf0CtdGjhtWbhruvwMxMiSu3E/s1600/htc-one_ota.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIjw6jZvOOSIZ-A4lgUwrItmgYwTdyId5uPVFS7qpjx1L-SVcW30P60POesr5O_SZsMDxGDC9hoqi_e7Rhchov-h5ljX3YKvHftIJZBiKrVhrl9bwbpbf0CtdGjhtWbhruvwMxMiSu3E/s1600/htc-one_ota.png" width="358" /></a></div><br />

Unlocked HTC One getting OTA tonight, still Android 4.1.2

 HTC Sense update brings "System Enhancements" The unlocked HTC One is in the midst of getting a small (17.55MB) OTA update this e...

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Planning de la semaine du 20 au 24 juin 2014

<BR><br /><h2><strong><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 113%;color:#005c9b;" >Permanences<br /></span></strong></h2><ul><br /><li>Le <strong>Conseil Général du Loiret</strong> sera présent dans les locaux de la Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans<br />- le lundi 20 juin de 9h à 12h30,<br />- le mardi 21 juin de 9h à 12h30 et de 13h30 à 17h,<br />- le mercredi 22 juin de 13h30 à 17h,<br />- le jeudi 23 juin de 13h30 à 17h,<br />- le vendredi 24 juin de 13h30 à 17h.<br /><br /><li><strong><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2007/11/boutique-de-gestion.html">Boutique de Gestion</a></strong> (sur rendez-vous)<br />- lundi 20 juin de 13h30 à 17h<br />- vendredi 24 juin de 09h à 12h30</ul><br /><h2><strong><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 113%;color:#005c9b;" >Ateliers</span></strong><br /></h2><br /><ul><li><strong>CV</strong> - mardi 21 juin de 9h à 12h30 et mercredi 22 juin de 13h30 à 17h<br /><br /><li><strong>Lettre de Motivation</strong> - mardi 21 juin de 13h30 à 17h<br /><br /><li><strong>Préparation à l'entretien</strong> - jeudi 23 juin de 13h30 à 17h<br /><br /><li><strong>Pôle-emploi.fr</strong> - vendredi 24 juin de 10h à 11h30<br /><br /><li><strong><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2009/07/atelier-situtilises-tu-trouves.html">Sit'Utilises tu trouves</a></strong> - vendredi 24 juin de 14h à 16h</ul><br /><h2><strong><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 113%;color:#005c9b;" >Information collective</span></strong></h2><br /><ul><li><strong><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/06/securisez-votre-parcours-professionnel.html">VAE</a></strong> - mercredi 22 juin à 14h</ul>

Planning de la semaine du 20 au 24 juin 2014

Permanences Le Conseil Général du Loiret sera présent dans les locaux de la Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans - le lundi 20 ju...

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Turkey warns it may use army to end protest unrest

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhynXvwZuxxg0QUDkSvkjj9I8VlLGjSN54Te9TvBL-4kBrslelt8ai6z65RhkWg923MHa-O0ltAnh9Zj2D7NW5WyzVioleID2Ji6cDl29NQ6pWgWpULl9a_MjZKHUeqez0P9eyE7ZFGyCs/s1600/51bfccd19668c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhynXvwZuxxg0QUDkSvkjj9I8VlLGjSN54Te9TvBL-4kBrslelt8ai6z65RhkWg923MHa-O0ltAnh9Zj2D7NW5WyzVioleID2Ji6cDl29NQ6pWgWpULl9a_MjZKHUeqez0P9eyE7ZFGyCs/s1600/51bfccd19668c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>ISTANBUL: Turkey warned on Monday it may bring in the army to help quell nearly three weeks of nationwide anti-government protests as two major union federations went on strike over police violence against demonstrators.</b><br /><br />The government raised the threat of putting soldiers on the streets after a weekend of violent clashes sparked by the eviction of campers occupying Istanbul's Gezi Park, the epicentre of the protest movement.<br /><br />Police “will use all their powers” to end the unrest, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said in a televised interview. “If this is not enough, we can even utilise the Turkish armed forces in cities.”The deployment of the military, the self-described guardian of the secular state, would mark an escalation of a crisis posing the biggest challenge yet to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic-rooted government.<br /><br />But after losing their focal protest site, with Gezi Park and the adjoining Taksim Square still guarded by police on Monday, the demos appeared to lose some of their intensity.<br /><br />Groups of hundreds of striking workers from the KESK and DISK union federations took to the streets in Istanbul, Ankara and the western city of Izmir calling for the police violence against protesters to end immediately and chanting “Erdogan, resign!”.<br /><br />Their progress was at times blocked by officers backed by water cannon trucks but there were no reports of fresh clashes. The unions' turnout was smaller than when they marched in support of the demonstrators on June 5.<br /><br />After the members dispersed in Istanbul in the evening, some 300 youngsters clashed briefly with police who fired tear gas, water and rubber bullets.<br /><br />Turkey's crisis began when a sit-in to save Gezi's 600 trees from being razed in a redevelopment project prompted a brutal police response on May 31, spiralling into countrywide demonstrations against Erdogan, seen as increasingly authoritarian.<br /><br />So far four people have been killed and nearly 7,500 people injured, according to the Turkish Medical Association (TBB).<br /><br />A survey by Metropoll, published in the Zaman daily, found that the AKP would still come first if elections were held now, with 35.3 percent of the vote.<br /><br />That the government has said it may call in the pro-secular army — which has been steadily sidelined during Erdogan's decade-long rule — shows it wants to end the current turmoil “at any cost”, said professor Ilter Turan, a political scientist at Istanbul's Bilgi University.</div>

Turkey warns it may use army to end protest unrest

ISTANBUL: Turkey warned on Monday it may bring in the army to help quell nearly three weeks of nationwide anti-government protests as two ma...

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September 11 plotters back in court

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTN237Eq2kLW5wDfaKVmEj2J-vMZIaHqV9iPcG6FPe0TYzkyC5CWnOAlpDszVJrjI-g_EYt_wIXozS5WBhIqHN4HQ47tw9ZLwZpwtJz8UZlLuCqozCX7sbJBZHfWZpH-Lpscpx4z1rxyk/s1600/51bfd205a97b3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTN237Eq2kLW5wDfaKVmEj2J-vMZIaHqV9iPcG6FPe0TYzkyC5CWnOAlpDszVJrjI-g_EYt_wIXozS5WBhIqHN4HQ47tw9ZLwZpwtJz8UZlLuCqozCX7sbJBZHfWZpH-Lpscpx4z1rxyk/s1600/51bfd205a97b3.jpg" width="640" /></a> <b>FORT MEADE, Maryland: The men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks returned Friday to a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, although their trial may still be more than a year away.</b><br /><br />The preliminary hearing, focused on rules over monitoring interactions between attorneys and their clients, marked the first time the five had been in court since February.<br /><br />The co-defendants sat calmly with none of the outbursts that marked previous sessions.<br /><br />Self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed wore a camouflage jacket and white turban, with his thick beard died a reddish orange.<br /><br />The preliminary hearings, set to last through Friday, come amid a widespread hunger strike that has lasted more than four months by nearly two thirds of the 166 terror suspects still held at Guantanamo.<br /><br />A total of 104 detainees are now refusing food, with 44 of them being force-fed through a nasal tube into the esophagus, according to prison spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House.<br /><br />It is unclear whether the accused plotters are participating in the strike, and they did not appear thinner at the hearing.<br /><br />Defence lawyer Commander Walter Ruiz earlier told AFP his client Mustafa al-Hawsawi had at one point refused food in solidarity with his fellow prisoners.<br /><br />MacDonald, speaking via teleconference from the northwestern US state of Washington, said he had asked to record and tap all telephone conversations between the five men and their lawyers.<br /><br />The defence lawyers also highlighted MacDonald's lack of experience with capital punishment cases, and criticized him for only giving them two months to build their case ahead of the first preliminary hearing in May 2012.<br /><br />MacDonald defended the delay as “sufficient.”The lawyers are demanding that prosecutors abandon the charges due to “unlawful command influence.”The five defendants' trial is not set to begin until late 2014.</div>

September 11 plotters back in court

FORT MEADE, Maryland: The men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks returned Friday to a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cub...

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US must recognise Iran's nuclear rights: Rowhani

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-CVsiaxhAahiQ4u2ZlBOFLTravTXq15RSplzfCa68ooIPF8undUaSndRABCkN1CbPmxarQ2NNT9bugJQtOb1OIv7AxfSPPko09mU6SuFPje5XlOjx0ehRX9VF2i1EVDyIB0kbFfjPres/s1600/51bf217440c4d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-CVsiaxhAahiQ4u2ZlBOFLTravTXq15RSplzfCa68ooIPF8undUaSndRABCkN1CbPmxarQ2NNT9bugJQtOb1OIv7AxfSPPko09mU6SuFPje5XlOjx0ehRX9VF2i1EVDyIB0kbFfjPres/s1600/51bf217440c4d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>TEHRAN: Hassan Rowhani on Monday said the United States must recognise all the rights of the Islamic republic, including its nuclear rights, in his first press conference since being elected Iran's new president.</b><br /><br />“Any dialogue with the United States must be based on equality and mutual respect and on conditions. The US should not interfere in our internal affairs, recognise the rights of Iran including nuclear rights and stop its unilateral policies and pressure,” the cleric said.<br /><br />“The next (Iranian) government will not give up the legitimate rights of the country.”<br /><br />The United States, Israel and the West suspect Iran's nuclear programme is aimed at developing weapons, while Iran insists it is for peaceful purposes such as generating electricity and producing medical isotopes.<br /><br />The White House on Saturday said Washington is prepared to engage Iran directly over its nuclear programme with a view to reach a “diplomatic solution” to the controversy.<br /><br />Diplomatic ties between Iran and the United States have been cut since the 1979 Islamic revolution when Iranian students took over the US embassy.<br /><br />Rowhani was on Saturday declared winner of Iran's presidential election, ending Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's eight-year term during which relations between Washington and Tehran deteriorated further.</div>

US must recognise Iran's nuclear rights: Rowhani

TEHRAN: Hassan Rowhani on Monday said the United States must recognise all the rights of the Islamic republic, including its nuclear rights,...

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French govt humiliated in poll for disgraced minister's seat

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkMqEis6fwStFE1nt66hLs7k57bsV-_x4SntKjPdiZBDGgoN__ZQhucp73Kl0PjStWYJvMV8XqFSM_0ajkl9D5JQBao5D3nvP68eg4M4c_dkuzzSCkXW9sHUyV0ixPZbXPPS1CB5V-vU/s1600/51bebac487079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkMqEis6fwStFE1nt66hLs7k57bsV-_x4SntKjPdiZBDGgoN__ZQhucp73Kl0PjStWYJvMV8XqFSM_0ajkl9D5JQBao5D3nvP68eg4M4c_dkuzzSCkXW9sHUyV0ixPZbXPPS1CB5V-vU/s1600/51bebac487079.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>PARIS: France's socialist government suffered the indignity of a first-round exit in a parliamentary by-election to replace a disgraced minister forced out over a tax-dodging scandal.</b><br /><br />Former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who is facing charges of tax fraud, stepped down from his parliamentary seat in April.<br /><br />In Sunday's by-election for his seat in Lot-et-Garonne, southwest France, the socialist candidate was pushed into third place – and thus eliminated.<br /><br />The vote was marked by a turn-out significantly lower than in the 2012 general election: only 46 percent of the 75,000 voters eligible to have their say bothered to do so.<br /><br />President Francois Hollande acknowledged that the result was fall-out from the scandal around Cahuzac, whose ministerial portfolio had included the fight against tax evasion.<br /><br />For UMP president Jean-Francois Cope, the result was another “scathing repudiation of Francois Hollande and his policies”.<br /><br />Socialist party leader Harlem Desir called on voters to ensure the FN candidate did not win the second-round run-off vote.<br /><br />Sunday's result was another slap in the face for the ruling Socialists after defeats last weekend in two other by-elections.<br /><br />The party now has 292 deputies in the National Assembly: just three seats more than the 289 seats that ensure an absolute majority.<br /><br />Through to the second round are the UMP's Jean-Louis Costes, who came first with 28.7 per cent of the vote; and the FN candidate, 23-year-old Etienne Bousquet-Cassagne, who polled 26 per cent.<br /><br />Socialist candidate Bernard Barral came third with 23.7 per cent.</div>

French govt humiliated in poll for disgraced minister's seat

PARIS: France's socialist government suffered the indignity of a first-round exit in a parliamentary by-election to replace a disgraced ...

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Sécurisez votre parcours professionnel : réunion le 22 juin 2014

<BR><br />Vous êtes intéressé(e)s par la validation des acquis de l’expérience (VAE) ?<br /><br />La Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans organise en partenariat avec le <span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/formation_professionnelle_et_technologique/vae/">DAVA</a></span> (Dispositif Académique de la Validation des Acquis) une réunion d'information collective sur la VAE : <span style="font-weight:bold;">comment valider et certifier ses compétences par un diplôme ?</span> (démarches, financement ...)<br /><br />Cette réunion a lieu <ul><li><span style="font-weight:bold;">le mercredi 22 juin 2014 à 14h </span><li>à la <span style="font-weight:bold;">Maison de l'Emploi</span>.<br /></ul><br /><iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.fr/maps?hl=fr&safe=off&ie=UTF8&q=maison+de+l'emploi+orleans&fb=1&gl=fr&hq=maison+de+l'emploi&hnear=Orl%C3%A9ans&cid=0,0,16374211102988293771&iwloc=A&ll=47.836154,1.932756&spn=0.006295,0.006295&output=embed"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.fr/maps?hl=fr&safe=off&ie=UTF8&q=maison+de+l'emploi+orleans&fb=1&gl=fr&hq=maison+de+l'emploi&hnear=Orl%C3%A9ans&cid=0,0,16374211102988293771&iwloc=A&ll=47.836154,1.932756&spn=0.006295,0.006295&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">Agrandir le plan</a></small><br /><br />Pour en savoir plus et pour s'inscrire, prendre contact avec la Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans : 02 38 24 18 03 ou <a href="mailto:accueil@news-these-days.fr">accueil@news-these-days.fr</a><br /><br />Pour télécharger le livret 1 dématérialisé : <a href="http://www.ac-orleans-tours.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/formation_professionnelle/VAE/Nouveau_livret_1.doc">Livret 1</a>.<br /><BR>

Sécurisez votre parcours professionnel : réunion le 22 juin 2014

Vous êtes intéressé(e)s par la validation des acquis de l’expérience (VAE) ? La Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans organise en p...

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Planning de la semaine du 18 au 22 juin 2014

<BR><br /><h2><strong><span style="color: #005c9b; line-height: 113%;">Permanences</span></strong></h2><ul><br /><li>Le <strong>Conseil Général du Loiret</strong> sera présent dans les locaux de la Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans<br />- le lundi 18 juin de 9h à 12h30,<br />- le mardi 19 juin de 9h à 12h30 et de 13h30 à 17h,<br />- le mercredi 20 juin de 13h30 à 17h,<br />- le jeudi 21 juin de 13h30 à 17h,<br />- le vendredi 22 juin de 13h30 à 17h.<br /></li><br /><li><strong><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2007/11/boutique-de-gestion.html">Boutique de Gestion</a></strong> - lundi 18 juin de 13h30 à 17h (sur rendez-vous)</li><br /><li><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.fr/2007/11/solidarits-nouvelles-face-au-chmage.html">Solidarités Nouvelles face au Chômage</a></b> - mercredi 20 juin de 10h à 12h30</li></ul><br /><h2><strong><span style="color: #005c9b; line-height: 113%;">Ateliers</span></strong></h2><br /><ul><li><b>CV</b> - mardi 19 juin de 9h à 12h30</li><br /><li><b>Lettre de Motivation</b> - mardi 19 juin de 13h30</li><br /><li><strong><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.fr/2008/12/atelier-parcours-emploi.html">Parcours Emploi</a></strong> - mardi 19 juin à 09h30</li><br /><li><span style="font-weight:bold;">Préparation à l'entretien</span> - jeudi 21 juin de 13h30 à 17h</li><br /><li><strong>Pôle-emploi.fr</strong> - vendredi 22 juin de 10h à 11h30<br /></li><br /><li><strong><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2009/07/atelier-situtilises-tu-trouves.html">Sit'Utilises tu trouves</a></strong> - vendredi 22 juin de 14h à 16h</li></ul>

Planning de la semaine du 18 au 22 juin 2014

Permanences Le Conseil Général du Loiret sera présent dans les locaux de la Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans - le lundi 18 ju...

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S’ouvrir les portes des métiers de le logistique : visite d'entreprise le 25 juin 2014

<BR /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgddeLofZYI1e0rsBe0Lc4SHuLV00XRMs04kxpLaqTqRt_CtWUtWIssXtw-ytb6xO6UayuvKlVew2qxJb2JpIIKd1AhjIhqTpKu0hIZxb8X0CbrysWE545ZshvcAe71b-VZjzDDg7Jp5-ba/s1600/norbert1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgddeLofZYI1e0rsBe0Lc4SHuLV00XRMs04kxpLaqTqRt_CtWUtWIssXtw-ytb6xO6UayuvKlVew2qxJb2JpIIKd1AhjIhqTpKu0hIZxb8X0CbrysWE545ZshvcAe71b-VZjzDDg7Jp5-ba/s320/norbert1.jpg" /></a></div>La Maison de l'Emploi du Bassin d'Orléans organise une visite d'entreprise pour découvrir les métiers de la logistique :<ul><li>le mardi 25 juin 2014<br /><li>dans les locaux de l'entreprise <strong><a href="http://www.norbert-dentressangle.fr/" target="_blank">Norbert Dentressangle</a></strong>.</ul> L’entreprise présentera son activité, ses métiers, son processus de recrutement et pourra avoir un premier contact avec les personnes intéressées. <br /><br />Le transport est pris en charge par la Maison de l'Emploi. <br /><br />Le nombre de places est limité. <br /><br />Pour s'inscrire, contacter la Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans : 02 38 24 18 03 ou <a href="mailto:accueil@news-these-days.fr">accueil@news-these-days.fr</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Départ</strong> : <strong>Maison de l'Emploi du bassin d'Orléans</strong>, 2 avenue Montesquieu 45100 Orléans, à <b>09h</b> (<a href="http://maps.google.fr/maps?hl=fr&q=maison+de+l'emploi+du+bassin+d'orl%C3%A9ans&ie=UTF8&ei=WSwGTOz2HJGW4gbx4YjLDA&ved=0CAoQ_AU&hq=maison+de+l'emploi+du+bassin+d&hnear=Orl%C3%A9ans&ll=47.836148,1.932757&spn=0.010875,0.01929&z=16&iwloc=A target="_blank">Plan</a>)<br /><BR>

S’ouvrir les portes des métiers de le logistique : visite d'entreprise le 25 juin 2014

La Maison de l'Emploi du Bassin d'Orléans organise une visite d'entreprise pour découvrir les métiers de la logistique : le mard...

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Wave of car bombs kills 20 in south Iraq: officials

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmqjJS8TYf-mP14azBFQNeSl-NXxZSkQMmH-mR9pVeWMX7NPPT7klhyphenhyphen8CnKBojPS8ufQ2mrzMlo0TyoRfXKQ-vCTr3tNWYlLx9OHOMhc5iT0WWdoMPyz1xiJ40_L7iw36BEFG5gSwdXs/s1600/51bd6b89ad73d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmqjJS8TYf-mP14azBFQNeSl-NXxZSkQMmH-mR9pVeWMX7NPPT7klhyphenhyphen8CnKBojPS8ufQ2mrzMlo0TyoRfXKQ-vCTr3tNWYlLx9OHOMhc5iT0WWdoMPyz1xiJ40_L7iw36BEFG5gSwdXs/s1600/51bd6b89ad73d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>BAGHDAD: A wave of car bombs in southern Iraq killed 20 people on Sunday as the country grapples with a spike in violence and prolonged political deadlock, sparking fears of all-out sectarian war.</b><br /><br />In all, seven vehicles rigged with explosives went off in five cities south of Baghdad during morning rush hour, leaving 56 people wounded in primarily Shia Muslim areas of Iraq.<br /><br />No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni militant groups linked to Al-Qaeda frequently target Shia, whom they regard as apostates, in coordinated attacks.<br /><br />Car bombs went off in Kut, Aziziyah, Mahmudiyah, Nasiriyah and Basra, officials said.<br /><br />In Kut, provincial capital of Wasit and 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in an industrial area packed with vehicle repair garages, killing seven people and wounding 15.<br /><br />Another car bomb in nearby Aziziyah in the town's main marketplace and near a Shia mosque killed five and wounded 10.<br /><br />Twin blasts in the southern port city of Basra, meanwhile, killed five people, including a bomb disposal expert looking to defuse one of the rigged vehicles.<br /><br />Three others were killed in bombings in Nasiriyah and Mahmudiyah.<br /><br />The violence was the latest in a spike in attacks nationwide, with last month registering the highest death toll since 2008, sparking fears of a return to the all-out sectarian war that blighted Iraq in 2006 and 2007.<br /><br />Analysts say a lack of effort by the Shia-led authorities to address the underlying causes of the demonstrations has given militant groups fuel and room to manoeuvre to carry out their activities.</div>

Wave of car bombs kills 20 in south Iraq: officials

BAGHDAD: A wave of car bombs in southern Iraq killed 20 people on Sunday as the country grapples with a spike in violence and prolonged poli...

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N. Korea proposes high-level talks with US: state media

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaEB572RWcSZcOtirMmh1bZfurJgY0yT5oL27bniJUTxqEGHolKTmDpA8j4n2PdljWJHnkle3Qqu9sD-CqXhLoxa9knOb8cR5i6jnyxFTtlM7txsNhNHjPf_Naq_a5VkZ1zucLyxAwSdM/s1600/51bd311376997.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaEB572RWcSZcOtirMmh1bZfurJgY0yT5oL27bniJUTxqEGHolKTmDpA8j4n2PdljWJHnkle3Qqu9sD-CqXhLoxa9knOb8cR5i6jnyxFTtlM7txsNhNHjPf_Naq_a5VkZ1zucLyxAwSdM/s1600/51bd311376997.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>SEOUL: North Korea has proposed high-level talks with the US aimed at discussing nuclear weapons programmes and easing of tension on the peninsula, state media said Sunday.</b><br /><br />“We propose high-level talks between the North and the US to secure peace and stability in the region and ease tension on the Korean peninsula,” the North's powerful National Defence Commission said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.<br /><br />The North is willing to have “serious discussions on a wide range of issues, including the US goal to achieve the world free of nuclear arsenal”, it said, urging the US to set the time and venue for the talks.<br /><br />“The US should not mention any pre-conditions for the talks if it is genuinely interested in ensuring peace and stability in the region including the US mainland,” it said.<br /><br />The nuclear-armed communist state said it was committed to denuclearisation of the peninsula but defended its atomic arsenal as “self-protective measures”against what it called military and nuclear threats from the US.<br /><br />“Our status as a nuclear power will be maintained... until the nuclear threats from the outside will completely come to an end,” it said, urging the US to stop the perceived threats and scrap all sanctions on the North.<br /><br />“The situation now depends on how responsible the choices are that the US will make,” it said.</div>

N. Korea proposes high-level talks with US: state media

SEOUL: North Korea has proposed high-level talks with the US aimed at discussing nuclear weapons programmes and easing of tension on the pen...

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Bangladesh opposition clean sweeps key city elections

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbD0ep9A2Bu0c-2HcXw9Jc6Kxa5xqoAlOCjwT4myw3lxjNkUIGr-0-CJIpvY8U7_dN8mwwGQnTp_VcnDyxN0kx4gzhNJsA8o0RwDQHZmOPVmd_mlfVuA92Yt-9csTXmODczmpNNmFyujo/s1600/51bd5ce66df52.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbD0ep9A2Bu0c-2HcXw9Jc6Kxa5xqoAlOCjwT4myw3lxjNkUIGr-0-CJIpvY8U7_dN8mwwGQnTp_VcnDyxN0kx4gzhNJsA8o0RwDQHZmOPVmd_mlfVuA92Yt-9csTXmODczmpNNmFyujo/s1600/51bd5ce66df52.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>DHAKA: Bangladesh's Islamist-backed main opposition on Sunday swept mayoral elections in four cities in a major setback for the ruling party ahead of general polls.</b><br /><br />The centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won by big margins in the major cities of Khulna, Sylhet, Rajshahi and Barisal, Election Commission spokesman S.M. Asaduzzaman told AFP.<br /><br />In the third largest city of Khulna, home to about one million people, BNP candidate Moniruzzaman Moni beat the incumbent Abdul Khaleque by a margin of 60,671 votes.<br /><br />“In mayoral elections local issues play important role but the results are a verdict against the government's poor performance,” said Ataur Rahman, a former professor of political science at the National University of Singapore.<br /><br />“Many people believe this government is anti-Islamic and they did not like the way government aggressively cracked down on the Islamists in recent months,” Rahman added.<br /><br />Leading Islamists including the entire leadership of Jamaat-i-Islami have been tried by the country's much criticised war crime court that is probing the atrocities committed during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence.<br /><br />Four Islamist leaders have already been sentenced to death since January by the court but the verdicts triggered protests which killed 150 political activists, mostly Islamists, in some of the worst political violence in the country's history.<br /><br />Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's centre-left Awami League party won the December 2008 polls by a landslide but her tenure has been hit by series of high profile graft scandals.</div>

Bangladesh opposition clean sweeps key city elections

DHAKA: Bangladesh's Islamist-backed main opposition on Sunday swept mayoral elections in four cities in a major setback for the ruling p...

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Four stabbed in British mosque attack: police

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqI-jtVFsY_vXJ3-gEkeXLwyGfOW0V9jLVI27eGLBXSnj7C7ic13lxd1c5UWqknLan_ejvyR7ajZcTP2wOIPfeG_WhaMY1czwxQFOHCa5Gp0bcLueXjBsU51EEqe3xuZJCU9tcsoexfRE/s1600/51bd2cb15e11e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqI-jtVFsY_vXJ3-gEkeXLwyGfOW0V9jLVI27eGLBXSnj7C7ic13lxd1c5UWqknLan_ejvyR7ajZcTP2wOIPfeG_WhaMY1czwxQFOHCa5Gp0bcLueXjBsU51EEqe3xuZJCU9tcsoexfRE/s1600/51bd2cb15e11e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>LONDON: Four men including a police officer were in hospital Sunday after being stabbed during an attack at a mosque in the English city of Birmingham, police said.</b><br /><br />Officers were called out to a mosque in the city's Ward End area late Saturday after reports that three men had been stabbed, said a spokesman for West Midlands Police.<br /><br />While a suspect was being arrested one of the officers was himself stabbed, the spokesman added. All four of the victims were in a stable condition in hospital, he said.<br /><br />Police are holding a 32-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder.</div>

Four stabbed in British mosque attack: police

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Turkish police storm Istanbul protest park after PM's warning

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRGLOBul9b09CmlZDXf7oBydEVRIITQox4yCANDn60Lqlna5lIA2KjTdn06PfWM9GJ_D04KW9d31azpcyRX6KX6TRqR_nap19fnfQ8yYlWSq3mHDnTNYQLZEstT6WSCOxrATTioKMrIU/s1600/51bcb0be9f80c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRGLOBul9b09CmlZDXf7oBydEVRIITQox4yCANDn60Lqlna5lIA2KjTdn06PfWM9GJ_D04KW9d31azpcyRX6KX6TRqR_nap19fnfQ8yYlWSq3mHDnTNYQLZEstT6WSCOxrATTioKMrIU/s1600/51bcb0be9f80c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>ISTANBUL: Turkish riot police stormed a central Istanbul park on Saturday firing tear gas and water cannon to evict hundreds of anti-government protesters hours after an ultimatum from Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.</b><br /><br />Lines of police backed by armoured vehicles sealed off Taksim Square in the centre of the city as officers stormed the adjoining Gezi Park, where protesters had been camped in a ramshackle settlement of tents for more than two weeks.<br /><br />After using tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in Taksim Square, police entered the adjoining Gezi Park, clearing it within minutes and leaving only protesters' empty tents behind, an AFP reporter at the scene said.<br /><br />Residents in surrounding neighbourhoods took to their balconies or leant out of windows banging pots and pans, while car drivers sounded their horns in support of the protesters.<br /><br />Erdogan had warned hours earlier that security forces would clear the square if the protesters did not withdraw before a ruling party rally in Istanbul on Sunday.<br /><br />“We have our Istanbul rally tomorrow. I say it clearly: Taksim Square must be evacuated, otherwise this country's security forces know how to evacuate it,” he told tens of thousands of flag-waving supporters at a rally in Ankara.<br /><br />A police crackdown on peaceful campaigners in Gezi Park two weeks ago provoked an unprecedented wave of protest against Erdogan, drawing in secularists, nationalists, professionals, trade unionists and students who took to the streets in protest at what they see as his autocratic style.<br /><br />The unrest, in which police fired teargas and water cannon at stone-throwing protesters night after night in cities including Istanbul and Ankara, left four people dead and about 5,000 injured, according to the Turkish Medical Association.<br /><br />The protesters, who oppose government plans to build a replica Ottoman-era barracks on Gezi Park, had defied repeated calls to leave.</div>

Turkish police storm Istanbul protest park after PM's warning

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US ready to engage Iran 'directly' after election

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8JFdhT9dxg11MSaoKuc0SqN3CxS64nu9-L9INX7qzdi2b6CP4VjVWe4LrxXjjgCyk7knFMbfWqP_2GoKK3roDRk2amzFFFcI6x5cFTnMomYcneyUaZX1b1T1hCWC98TDL5f4IOUspW2I/s1600/51bccbbc9a7b0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8JFdhT9dxg11MSaoKuc0SqN3CxS64nu9-L9INX7qzdi2b6CP4VjVWe4LrxXjjgCyk7knFMbfWqP_2GoKK3roDRk2amzFFFcI6x5cFTnMomYcneyUaZX1b1T1hCWC98TDL5f4IOUspW2I/s1600/51bccbbc9a7b0.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>WASHINGTON: The United States said Saturday it is prepared to engage Iran directly over its disputed nuclear program after moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani was declared the country's new president.</b><br /><br />The White House said such engagement would be aimed at reaching a “diplomatic solution that will fully address the international community's concerns about Iran's nuclear program.”<br /><br />The West suspects Iran's nuclear program is aimed at building nuclear weapons, but Iran insists it is for peaceful purposed like generating energy.<br /><br />The White House said in a statement it respected the will of the Iranian people and congratulated for taking part in the election, praising “their courage in making their voices heard.”<br /><br />It said the vote Friday was held amid lack of transparency, censorship of the media, the Internet and text messages, and “an intimidating security environment that limited freedom of expression and assembly.” “However, despite these government obstacles and limitations, the Iranian people were determined to act to shape their future,” it added.<br /><br />“The United States remains ready to engage the Iranian government directly in order to reach a diplomatic solution that will fully address the international community's concerns about Iran's nuclear program,” it added.</div>

US ready to engage Iran 'directly' after election

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In the wake of PRISM, should we give up on online privacy?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ1VjN7iBq3TAXRHwxw6oJZnHKMaTMwGREfz387XefQJHIaHuY17QZFVHfqlhxlTtlSTEFAwWid2ZNYIiae5IpvMim7IoBqCUpNK1-hDm7Nl913zev1ATDh-Em8zIq3JE-Bbtu5Aokl9E/s1600/2014-05-01-image-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ1VjN7iBq3TAXRHwxw6oJZnHKMaTMwGREfz387XefQJHIaHuY17QZFVHfqlhxlTtlSTEFAwWid2ZNYIiae5IpvMim7IoBqCUpNK1-hDm7Nl913zev1ATDh-Em8zIq3JE-Bbtu5Aokl9E/s1600/2014-05-01-image-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /> Depending who you ask, the scandal over PRISM, the NSA's secret data mining program, is either mere confirmation of what we already knew, or a shocking revelation that should drive people onto the streets in protest. It's certainly true that many people suspected internet services, such as Google and Facebook, were open houses to government agents, but there's a difference between suspicions and hard evidence.<br /><br />Now we know the US government doesn't need to enact legislation such as CISPA in order to ride roughshod over civil liberties, it really does beg the question: Is online privacy a lost cause and is online anonymity impossible to achieve? Well, if you ask me, there's good reason to be cynical over the concept of online privacy.<br /><br /><b>Email and social</b><br />If you want to take privacy seriously then you'll have to make sacrifices -there's no way around it. This means many of the most convenient online services, such as web-based email and social networks, need to be purged from your online life. While this distrust of major providers such as Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft could extend to all email providers, you could argue that smaller companies, which are not behemoths heavily reliant on government lobbying and co-operation, could offer better privacy protection.<br /><br /> You could also ditch Google and Bing, and start using a more privacy-oriented search engine like DuckDuckGo. But as long as your IP is obscured (which we'll get onto later), you can still use Google privately if you employ a cookie blocker like Ghostery and don't log into your account.<br /><br />When it comes to social networks it's interesting that Twitter was not on the PRISM's list of compromised companies – especially since Twitter has a track record of defending users.<br /><br /><b> VPNs and TOR</b><br />If you want to browse the web anonymously then the most common, secure, and easy-to-use tools, are The Onion Router (TOR) and commercial VPN services (I2P is also worth looking into for peer-to-peer sharing). But VPN services and TOR both bring different problems to the table.<br /><br />TOR is generally a very effective tool to keep your IP address private and hidden from surveillance. It's also free and used successfully by journalists, dissidents and privacy-conscious citizens. But it does have vulnerabilities. The most obvious being the ability to passively monitor the connection of both a sender and receiver of data over the TOR network and therefore correlate traffic. This is doable because anyone can run a TOR exit node.<br /><br /> Commercial VPN services don't suffer from these vulnerabilities, but they do suffer from potentially much worse flaws. The problem with VPN services – providing they use a secure standard like OpenVPN – is that you have to trust the company providing your service. A cursory look at many VPN privacy policies will reveal that such trust is easily misplaced - policies often either explicitly state they log data in the same way as an ISP, or they’re so vague that you don't know either way.<br /><br />There are some good resources to get around this problem such as TorrentFreak's round-up of VPNs that don't log data and my own company's ongoing guide on understanding VPN privacy policies. Of course, a good way of mitigating the vulnerabilities of TOR and VPN services is to combine both services to achieve security in depth.<br /><br /><b> The biggest barrier</b><br />So to summarise; yes, you can achieve a high degree of anonymity online without any specialist knowledge, but regaining your online privacy is not a simple task. It requires some work and a few sacrifices.<br /><br />Perhaps herein lies the biggest problem. While many of us were up in arms over the PRISM revelations, how many have since changed their online behaviour in the last few days? How much of that outrage translated into closed Gmail accounts and TOR installations? Maybe it’s still too early to assess the fallout, but my suspicion is the main barriers to online privacy – other than the illegitimate behaviour of law enforcement - is our own apathy.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

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Secret court makes refusing government data requests tricky for companies

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGW60VigoeoWWgqA2z0rqgtZfi0UGN4SBWhspqHGAXvugxgSYjjQkjKP_pt60UJhyphenhyphentP-6pvKqSesmsSyBq6vnyGiD70AACJeSsDrIhV1kOc4eR2MBC_eXb-zcUe2a3PYx2f0O0uMJ7js/s1600/nsa+security.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGW60VigoeoWWgqA2z0rqgtZfi0UGN4SBWhspqHGAXvugxgSYjjQkjKP_pt60UJhyphenhyphentP-6pvKqSesmsSyBq6vnyGiD70AACJeSsDrIhV1kOc4eR2MBC_eXb-zcUe2a3PYx2f0O0uMJ7js/s1600/nsa+security.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />Sources in touch with the New York Times purport that Yahoo was one of the companies with enough brass to try to resist national security data requests before its indoctrination into PRISM. In a secretive court though, the company was given the choice to either cooperate with federal agencies or submit to breaking the law. Yahoo, along with several other companies, chose the former.<br /><br />If you've managed to somehow miss it, PRISM is an NSA-led effort to indiscriminately vacuum up all electronic communications into a central, searchable database. From there, authorized agents are able to sift through enormous sets of data, using methods like software-based heuristics to gather information which the agency argues is vital to foiling future terrorist plots. Details of PRISM's existence were exposed by Edward Snowden, an ex-government contractor who is now on the run for publishing classified documents.<br /><br />"The petitioner suggests that, by placing discretion entirely in the hands of the Executive Branch without prior judicial involvement, the procedures cede to that Branch overly broad power that invites abuse." the court continued. "But this is little more than a lament about the risk that government officials will not operate in good faith. That sort of risk exists even when a warrant is required."<br /><br />FISC, the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Court is the product of FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The bill, amongst other things, grants feds the freedom to spy on foreigners and "their agents" without the need for a traditional warrant. Instead, the FISA court has its own process by which it issues warrants -- a process which is reportedly entirely non-transparent and less rigorous. Worst yet, the FISC has been accused of being a "rubber stamp" for federal authorities.</div>

Security Secret court makes refusing government data requests tricky for companies

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Hezbollah will stay involved in Syria war: Nasrallah

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJmIF2jzWP_5fgL2ApI4iCFM_O41Jt1I7l1Ph4mJEkdHDU2pFruI7glAT8gIuUK63dKtQoas_rUC2T5Y05DrtvNiMgmFsdCD0Jewy7BgoSYhVI9DJRoIpYH8RVlFa4CF6jS_zc_0Ctjs/s1600/51bb5365ad074.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJmIF2jzWP_5fgL2ApI4iCFM_O41Jt1I7l1Ph4mJEkdHDU2pFruI7glAT8gIuUK63dKtQoas_rUC2T5Y05DrtvNiMgmFsdCD0Jewy7BgoSYhVI9DJRoIpYH8RVlFa4CF6jS_zc_0Ctjs/s1600/51bb5365ad074.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>BEIRUT: Lebanon's Shia movement Hezbollah will stay involved in the Syrian conflict, after having helped government forces recapture the key town of Qusayr from rebels, its leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday.</b><br /><br />“Before Qusayr is the same as after Qusayr. Nothing has changed,” he said in a televised speech.<br /><br />“Isn't the conspiracy the same?... Have the facts changed? On the contrary, the other side is stirring up this conflict even more,” said the leader of the powerful Iranian-backed group.<br /><br />“Where we need to be, we will be. Where we began to assume our responsibilities, we will continue to assume our responsibilities,” he added.<br /><br />“To defeat this very, very dangerous conspiracy (against Syria) we will bear any sacrifices and all the consequences.”<br /><br />Hezbollah, a staunch ally of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has become increasingly embroiled in the conflict in neighbouring Syria, which is now in its third year.<br /><br />“The details will depend on the requirements on the ground,” Nasrallah said in the address, which came on the Day of the Wounded, honouring Hezbollah casualties from different conflicts.<br /><br />Lebanon has been drawn into the Syrian conflict, despite an officially neutral stance on the fighting, by Hezbollah's involvement as well as the flow of rebel fighters and weapons across its borders.<br /><br />The involvement has raised tensions in the country, where many Shias back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the Alawite offshoot of Shia Islam, and Sunnis are more likely to support the mostly Sunni opposition.<br /><br />Nasrallah insisted Hezbollah was against increased sectarian tension in Lebanon, and urged his supporters and others to keep the calm in the country.<br /><br />Hezbollah and its supporters have regularly made reference to the takfiri or extremist Islamist elements among the opposition to justify their involvement on the side of the Syrian regime.<br /><br />But Hezbollah's intervention has been condemned internationally, and regionally by the Arab League and the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which announced sanctions against the group in response.</div>

Hezbollah will stay involved in Syria war: Nasrallah

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US accuses Syrian govt of using chemicals, decides to arm rebels

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnh5Ttaal6rOJqjOFkgv0F-VTtaSkva9m5i2Mag9j-JqLo2AoPEWgOz4kfsDGICCxCVR9F6TfGTSCKFh4IGWorUeeTnZd0Csqn80Nf2uUYPOPKbpd1q7_yz6TRHk_GQ9oU-9qtcjTYeUo/s1600/51bbe73d5c640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnh5Ttaal6rOJqjOFkgv0F-VTtaSkva9m5i2Mag9j-JqLo2AoPEWgOz4kfsDGICCxCVR9F6TfGTSCKFh4IGWorUeeTnZd0Csqn80Nf2uUYPOPKbpd1q7_yz6TRHk_GQ9oU-9qtcjTYeUo/s1600/51bbe73d5c640.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>DAMASCUS, June 14: The United States on Friday sharply toughened its line on Syria, promising rebels weapons for the first time, after saying it had evidence the regime had used chemical weapons, a charge Damascus dismissed on Friday as “lies.”</b><br /><br />However, US officials ruled out imposing a no-fly zone, an idea they said earlier was under consideration.<br /><br />The harder US line dismayed Moscow, which had been working with Washington to organise a peace conference to try to end the 27-month conflict, and which described as “unconvincing” the intelligence on alleged use of the nerve agent sarin.<br /><br />It also prompted expressions of concern from neutral countries such as Sweden, which warned of the risks of an arms race between the rival foreign supporters of the regime and the rebels.<br /><br />President Barack Obama’s administration announced late on Thursday that it had reviewed intelligence reports and concluded that Syrian regime forces had used banned weapons, including sarin, in attacks that killed up to 150 people.<br /><br />But Damascus dismissed Washington’s accusation as “a statement full of lies” and asked how it could continue to be regarded as an honest broker in UN-backed preparations for the proposed peace conference.<br /><br />“The American decision to arm armed terrorist groups demonstrates... the direct involvement of the United States in the Syrian bloodbath,” state news agency SANA quoted a foreign ministry official as saying. It “raises serious questions about their good faith when it comes to finding a political solution in Syria”, the official added.<br /><br />The New York Times cited US officials it did not identify as saying that shipments to the rebels would include small arms and ammunition, and anti-tank but not anti-aircraft weapons.</div>

US accuses Syrian govt of using chemicals, decides to arm rebels

DAMASCUS, June 14: The United States on Friday sharply toughened its line on Syria, promising rebels weapons for the first time, after sayin...

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Three Libyan soldiers killed in Benghazi clashes: army

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitBXJ9wgR_GQ2f4GQUIT-QOGSvo1koBxZUF_MwSEFV12lslcelXUQNeqi_8Xj5DQUxd9y9nfP7h4I7yJkBoYkasNyLuzWR2THpxdYhpdahgsfbPDc7fXc3GH8-pJGUCGxpNEs9foSlius/s1600/51bbfa7b342e5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitBXJ9wgR_GQ2f4GQUIT-QOGSvo1koBxZUF_MwSEFV12lslcelXUQNeqi_8Xj5DQUxd9y9nfP7h4I7yJkBoYkasNyLuzWR2THpxdYhpdahgsfbPDc7fXc3GH8-pJGUCGxpNEs9foSlius/s1600/51bbfa7b342e5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>BENGHAZI: At least three soldiers were killed as special forces clashed with armed activists in the eastern port city of Benghazi early Saturday, the army reported.</b><br /><br />The interim leader of Libya's army warned of the danger of a “bloodbath” as the unrest in the city flared up again a week after clashes there killed more than 30 people.<br /><br />At around 4:00 am heavy gunfire and explosions could be heard near the headquarters of the special forces, not far from the city centre, an AFP journalist and witnesses reported.<br /><br />The clashes came just hours after dozens of protesters forced a brigade of former rebel fighters from their base in Benghazi on Friday evening.<br /><br />The protesters had burned two vehicles belonging to the First Infantry Brigade, before moving on the barracks, said a Libyan army officer.<br /><br />The brigade was set up by former rebel fighters who helped overthrow the regime of Muammar Qadhafi in 2011. It says it takes its orders from the defence ministry.<br /><br />Following that first attack, Salem al-Konidi, the interim head of the army said on the Al-Aseema television channel late Friday: “If the special forces are attacked, there will be a bloodbath...<br /><br />“There could be a catastrophe in Benghazi.”<br /><br />He said he did not know who had launched the attack or what their motive was, but appealed to the city's elders and dignitaries to act to try to head off the unrest.<br /><br />Konidi is the interim replacement for General Yusef al-Mangoush, who resigned last Sunday, a day after fighting in Bengazhi killed 31 people and left dozens more wounded.</div>

Three Libyan soldiers killed in Benghazi clashes: army

BENGHAZI: At least three soldiers were killed as special forces clashed with armed activists in the eastern port city of Benghazi early Satu...

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