PAKISTAN: Terrorists kill four people in Karachi

Militants attacked Sunday a Pakistani air base in Karachi, killing four people, said a spokesman for Pakistani naval forces.

According to the Express television channel TV, five explosions were heard on the Naval Air Station.

Officials of the intelligence services have said that between 15 and 20 attackers were inside the base of Mehran and had attacked three aircraft hangars.

Witnesses reported gunfire and saw smoke rising from buildings.

"We have four dead and five wounded, but the balance may go up," he told Reuters an official security services, who requested anonymity.

Images on television, we can see flames and smoke rising from the site.

The Pakistani Taliban have vowed to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden, killed May 2 in Pakistan by American special forces.

FLYING RIO PARIS: The black box flight AF 447 are readable

AFP - Investigators of flight AF447 from Rio to Paris announced Monday that it managed to "collect all the data contained" in the two black boxes of the Airbus A330 of Air France crashed in June 2009 and this summer will publish a first report the causes of the disaster.

After 23 months at the bottom of the Atlantic, all the data contained in the recorders could be read over the weekend and collected, said in a statement the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) responsible for the technical investigation into the accident still unexplained.

Analysis of the black boxes would "take several weeks, after which a report will be drafted and made public during the summer," said BEA.

The two recorders, one containing the flight parameters, the other sound recordings in the cockpit, contain crucial data to try to explain the disaster, which had been 228 deaths there nearly two years off Brazil .

So far, investigators have determined that the malfunctioning (icing at high altitude) and speed sensors of the device, said pitot probes, manufacturer Thales, was one of the failures established in the disaster. But they believe that their failure can not alone explain the crash.

Scenes of jubilation in Washington after the announcement of the death of bin Laden

AFP-Thousands of Americans gathered spontaneously outside the White House Sunday night to shout their joy after the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden. "We had waited so long," said one student while the crowd sings "USA, USA".

"I've never felt such emotion," said John Kelley, a 19 year old student from New Jersey, near New York. "It's something we've waited so long. When I heard the news, my legs were shaking."

"As soon as I heard the news, 'says he," I called my best friend who lost her brother in the attacks of Sept. 11.He was overwhelmed with joy. It sounds too good to be true, I can not believe it, "he said.

Behind him, a young man crying in his phone: "we have had!". Students return to the campaign slogan of Barack Obama's to accommodate the news of the day: "Yes we can, yes we did" ("We can, we have done). Others sing the American anthem .

The crowd is very young. Many donned a sweatshirt "USA", some football shirt of the United States.The smile, the shouts, one picture taken in front of the White House to mark this historic day in a carnival atmosphere worthy of a victory in the "Superbowl".

Hoping to be heard by the U.S. president, students yelling "It cancels exams, which begin in a few weeks.

Anna Howell, 27, came with her husband. They look at the crowd, a little away, waving their flags. "It's great, what joy for the families who lost relatives on Sept. 11," she said."It's not every day that America and communion."

She lives in Alexandria, a suburb of Washington, near the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Ministry of Defence targeted for Sept. 11. Would she have preferred that Bin Laden is captured alive? "Dead or alive, I do not care. They have, that's what counts," she replied before thinking: "It would have been nice to bring him to justice."

Nearby, a young man disagrees.It exhibits a cardboard sign on which he wrote in black marker: "We got rid of the junk bin Laden."

In the streets of Washington overlooking the White House, Americans come in clusters. Taxis honk filled as for a wedding. Jon Garcia, a 19 year old student came to the White House to "be part of history."

"I feel a sense of justice. It took so long but we got it. It is only fair for families bereaved by Sept. 11," he said."It gives meaning to our mission in Afghanistan," he adds.

David Abel, an "Obama fan" of forty years, is "shared". "For many people it is a symbolic victory. But it's too selfish. We sing + USA + USA, we only think we are forgetting the rest of the world," he laments before returning to his hotel .

FRANCE - TUNISIA: A humanitarian emergency for Refugees Tunisian outside Paris

Tickets 50 euros raining in the small Parisian park. In less than three minutes, the scene turns into a riot. All around poor flock to be as quickly turned away. "Only for Tunisians!" Shouted angrily a young refugee to a group of Roma, before rushing to the benefactor came distribute its largess in solidarity.

Installed for several months in a small park of the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris, 200 to 300 illegal Tunisians, some twenty years on average, have fled Tunisia after the fall of former President Ben Ali to join France, via the Italian island of Lampedusa.

"I spend my days here and I can not do anything"

At only 17 years, Atef, a native of southern Tunisia, lives in the park for three months."Sometimes I do not eat for two days. They drink water from the fountain in the park, I sleep in a cardboard box under the ring. I wanted to come to France to send money to my mother because my father died. But, in fact, I spend my days here and I can not do anything, "said the young man in orange engulfing the ticket in his pocket.

Penniless and abandoned by the French state, this group of refugees living at the rate of distributions of meals provided by Tunisians living in Paris and the suburbs.

"They are forgotten by the world," railing against Mouldi Lady, living in France for 25 years.Every day he comes distribute jeans and t-shirts clean, toilet or food, and support young people to the neighborhood public showers.

"Here we do not have a policy, we take care of the emergency. France has two solutions: either to let them enter the territory but the dignified houses, or we make them go home," continues he said.

The stigma of the Revolution

Jamel Tunisian entrepreneur came distribute some tickets to his young fellow exiles, is convinced that they should return home - despite the economic difficulties faced by Tunisia since the Revolution.

"There are ideas to develop the country and restart the economy. It has no incentive to work elsewhere.With some careful thought you can hire everyone. The market wants, "he explains. Moreover, we must share the land with young people. After the Revolution, it is their right, "said James, who leaves in his air-conditioned 4x4 after his empty wallet.

For now, the economic and political challenges of the "new Tunisia" still far from the concerns of hundreds of refugees whose Tunisian only priority is to eat. For them, the humanitarian emergency - it is close to Paris.

Migrants who are victims of Franco-Italian differences

Samia Maktouf, Franco-Tunisian lawyer, committed volunteer in the defense of dozens of refugees in Tunisia.That day, she came up the names, ages and occupations of young men from the camp to try to get them a permit.

"It's allowed to dream in the aftermath of a revolution. They dreamed of a France of the revolution, freedom, equality. Degummed They have a dictatorship with bare hands and peacefully," outraged the lawyer, who believes that the solution must be European.

"This is for Europe to react and stop doing the ping-pong between France and Italy.Paris and Rome have left some relief to these young refugees and to make adjustments on a case by case, "said Samia Maktouf.

The controversial arrival in France, through Italy, thousands of migrants from North Africa will be the focus of a summit Tuesday in the Italian capital between the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

A runoff between the candidates for Martelly and Manigat

AFP - The Haitians had to go to the polls Sunday for the second round of presidential elections that must decide the singer Michel Martelly and intellectual Mirlande Manigat.

More than three months after a first round that was almost canceled due to fraud, the second round could take place in some confusion after the triumphant return Friday in Haiti of former President Jean Aristide, who worries the West.

This introduces an additional unknown back in the already complex equation of Haitian politics, many supporters of Mr.Aristide likely to boycott the polls.

The other unknown factor remains the participation of some 800,000 Haitians still living in makeshift camps after the earthquake that devastated the city and its province January 12, 2010.

Also returned to Haiti in the inter-turn after 25 years of exile in France, the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier had complicated the political game.He is pursued by the Haitian justice for corruption and endorsed by several complaints of crimes against humanity.

According to a poll released last Thursday, Michel Martelly, right-wing populist better known by his stage name "Sweet Micky", would win on Sunday with 53.4% ​​of the vote against 46.6% only to Ms. Manigat.

The former first lady aged 70 years could not pronounce her last Friday night campaign speech because of a blackout during his last campaign rally in Port-au-Prince.

Participation is notoriously weak in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, and makes any predictions very difficult: only 23% of registered voters had moved in the first round, Nov. 28, to decide the initial 18 candidates.

In a country without an army and controlled by UN peacekeepers, the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki-moon expressed hope Saturday that the vote takes place "in a calm and peaceful."

Preliminary results will be announced March 31 and final results on April 16. The roughly 4.7 million voters must also choose their senators and deputies Sunday.

The first round results announced in early December had resulted in violence that left several dead.

LIBYA: The insurgency continues to spread in the East

AFP - The Libyan insurgents, masters of the East, continued to rise Friday and claimed to have taken control of a strategic oil city, while police faced opposition in the streets of Tripoli.

A Libyan government source said that the West was "completely" under the control of the regime, but the east remained "problematic".

The insurgents said on Friday evening had taken control of Ras Lanuf, over 300 km south-west of Benghazi, a stronghold of the insurgency, after violent clashes with forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Ras Lanuf is an oil port, just a hundred miles of Sirte, the hometown and stronghold of Colonel Gaddafi, who has faced for more than two weeks to an unprecedented uprising since coming to power nearly 42 years ago.

In Ras Lanuf, a journalist from AFP saw the rebels positioned outside of the complex operations of oil Harouge, military barracks and police station, but it was not possible to confirm immediately whether the rebels controlled the entire residential areas.

"We took their barracks. The residential area is combed through" to find elements of the pro-Gaddafi, said a rebel fighters, Saleh Sultan.

"They fled like rabbits.When we started to move, they attacked us with Grad missiles and heavy weapons. But we kept going because we know that these are rats, "said another veteran, Abdelsalam.

A doctor reported "many casualties" in Ras Lanuf.

However, Zawiyah, about sixty miles west of Tripoli, could have been taken over by forces loyal to the Libyan regime. Fighting between the army have regular insurgents, making "many" casualties.

But a political activist Zawiyah, Mohammad Qasim, interviewed live on the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera, denied the fall of the city, while acknowledging that she was surrounded.

Sunday, anti-Gaddafi demonstrators took control of Zawiyah where they had demonstrated in their thousands against the regime during a press visit organized by the authorities. Fighting had taken place Feb. 24 in the city, leaving over 35 dead, according to the Libyan League for Human Rights.

Appeals were launched in Tripoli to take advantage of the Friday prayer and be heard in the capital, where the opposition has already tried last week to raise in several neighborhoods.

Near rebel Tajoura in the east of the capital, clashes between the forces of order to a hundred protesters chanting slogans against the regime.The police used tear gas to disperse the protesters, witnesses said.

On the Green Square, in downtown, hundreds of pro-Gaddafi expressed their support for the "Guide of the Revolution," an AFP journalist. Limited clashes took place between small groups of demonstrators pro and anti-Gaddafi nearby, said a witness.

The 18th day of revolt against the Libyan leader, the insurgents advancing along the coast after two days of fierce fighting, including at Brega.

"The plan is to move slowly in their direction to push them back. We do not want to fight, we want to impose psychological pressure (...).But if we must kill to win this battle, we will do, "he told AFP Colonel Bashir Abdelkader.

A little farther east, Captain al-Chouaib Akaki, who joined the opposition camp, worried at the idea of fighting to come, inevitably fratricide.

"We try to limit losses on both sides. In Libya, we are all parents. We are a nation of tribes. We all have family in Sirte," Colonel Gaddafi's stronghold situated between Tripoli and Benghazi, he said .

The opposition was also expressed in Benghazi to demand the departure of Colonel Gaddafi.Some 5,000 Libyans were requested by the court after a sermon in which the imam has promised that "victory is near".

In Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday that the world was "disgusted" by the violence against the Libyans, warning that the United States were examining "all (their) options" in this crisis.

According to the Libyan League for Human Rights, the repression has already 6,000 dead.

G20 SUMMIT: The French presidency is trying to defuse controversy

In Paris, during the G20 summit, he will essentially issue of imbalances in the global economy. But the G20 central bankers will also discuss raw materials and exchange rate policy.

For two days, finance ministers of the club of the 20 richest states accompanied by the presidents of their respective central banks will try to harmonize their violins.But political differences and strong business fueled by the turmoil caused by the economic crisis may clutter the discussion.

The three points of contention that the G20 Finance:

- The global economic imbalances

One of the issues of this summit is to assess the reality of economic disparity between the G20 countries to better redistribute the fruits of global growth. The goal is laudable, but to reach the participants at the G20 in Paris will have to agree on concrete indicators.

This is where things could get tougher.Five possible criteria have been identified: current account balance, real exchange rates, foreign exchange reserves, deficit and public debt, and private savings. One particularly problematic: the balance of current accounts in which the trade balance plays an important role. States like China or Germany fear that eventually they blame their strong exports. The French Minister of Economy Christine Lagarde, has already started clearing the ground Thursday at a conference in Paris organized by the Institute of International Finance. "What we do not want is to tell any country: stop being competitive, stop exporting," she said.It evokes rather "guidelines" ... more consensual and more blurred.

- The regulation of commodity markets

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will hold. He wants to make the fight against speculation in commodity markets its workhorse at the head of the G20. "There will be a debate about it," he confirmed the French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.

But the debate is likely to be stormy, for the role of speculation in the surge in commodity prices is not consensus. Early 2011, a study by the European Commission concluded that there was no correlation between the two.Countries like Brazil and Argentina, leading producers of raw materials are, moreover, strongly opposed to regulation of prices and fear that France is trying to impose one. So, Christine Lagarde had again put water into wine Nicolas Sarkozy. "It does not propose a price administration, not at all," she said without specifying what France wanted.

- Policy Exchange

The war being waged for nearly a year the United States and China on the undervaluation of the yuan remains a central concern. In this regard, Christine Lagarde reiterated that China "should let its currency appreciate more freely."But for Beijing not to input summit in the dock, she returned with another idea to which China is more favorable.

So France should advocate a greater role for the Yuan. It should propose that the Chinese currency is part of IMF's currency basket - called Special Drawing Right - which is replacing gold in large international transactions. One way for France to indicate that the Chinese currency should be treated with the same consideration as the dollar.

Wikileaks: The Mubarak of Egypt under scrutiny of U.S. diplomatic cables

Quarantine of diplomatic cables on Egypt made public by the website Wikileaks between late January and early February depicts a power elite profoundly disconnected from the people. The authorities there seem to be paralyzed by power struggles and very timid on the issue of human rights. Review in detail the main themes raised in these confidential diplomatic exchanges.

Hosni Mubarak: Egyptian The Rais is portrayed as an old wolf of the policy that is clinging to power at any cost, in a long cable in May 2009 dedicated to him.According to the American ambassador stationed in Cairo, he is obsessed by the "threat" of the Muslim Brotherhood and considers Iran "as its main adversary" in the region. The great ideals like human rights do "not interested". Another message of January 2010 provides that he will represent in the 2011 presidential election and that "obviously will be reelected" ...

Inheritance: "This is the topic of conversation in the corridors of power," it said repeatedly in these diplomatic cables. Struggles clan seem to dominate the energy of all those close to Hosni Mubarak.The personality of the president's son, Gamal Mubarak, is considered the main fault line. "The army does not support Gamal and never let settle a dynastic succession," says a cable and September 2008. Better: a parliamentary assured a U.S. representative in 2007, that the only way to resolve the problem of succession would probably one day be "a military coup."

Human Rights: The issue of police violence is one of the most often discussed in these diplomatic cables that run from 2005 to February 2010. The representatives of the Egyptian government then respond systematically denial.On January 31, 2010, the director of security services, Hassan Abdel Rahman, said as there had been no "abuse of prisoners in the last ten years." The Embassy of the United States, however, noted that from 2007, the courts more readily grasp of police brutality case. But the only convictions are generally the "underlings". Between 2005 and 2010, the conclusion is often the same: "Torture and police brutality are rampant and widespread"

Army: A diplomatic cable in 2008 described the army as a body of the state's declining influence that attaches primarily to its economic privileges.U.S. Ambassador Margaret Scobey estimated that the population no longer sees the army as the nation's elite. Above all, the diplomat believes that the power of the military is primarily economic - investment real estate, among others - that politics of economic privatization undertaken by the president especially irritates the military institution.

Public opinion: On several occasions, diplomatic cables echo the growing public resentment against Hosni Mubarak. Cable in particular relating to violent protests in the city of Mahalla in 2008, stresses that the term "corruption and disdain are on everyone's lips."Upon arrival of Mohamed el-Baradei in Egypt in February 2010, a diplomatic cable emphasizes that for the population, it represents a "viable alternative to a corrupt system."