The ambassador of Syria off the list of guests at royal wedding

The British Foreign Minister, William Hague, announced Thursday the withdrawal of the invitation by the Syrian ambassador to the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, said it was "unacceptable" after the repression of demonstrations in the country.

"In light of attacks against civilians this week by Syrian security forces, which we have condemned the Minister of Foreign Affairs has decided that the presence of the Syrian ambassador to the royal wedding would be unacceptable and that it should not take part, "said the Foreign Office in a statement.

Questioned by AFP, the royal service said they "share" this opinion.

The invitation to the Syrian ambassador had generated considerable controversy in the United Kingdom, after the violent suppression of demonstrations in Syria against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Since their beginning March 15, at least 453 people were killed, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.

Buckingham Palace, in charge of invitations with the Foreign Office pointed out that all the representatives of countries with which London has "normal diplomatic relations" were among the 1,900 guests at royal wedding.This explained why Libya was not invited to the UK conducting military operations.

But the presence of Syrian diplomat in royal wedding on Friday became all the more incongruous that he had been summoned Tuesday to the Foreign Ministry to be told that London considered "unacceptable" use of force by the government against the demonstrators.

This meeting was conducted as part of a joint effort by several European countries including France, Italy and Germany.

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.

The EU underlines the role of women in the recent revolutions in Arab

AFP - Women played a "crucial role" in the changes taking place in Tunisia and Egypt, said Tuesday the head of European diplomacy and Ashton's Vice-President of the European Commission, Viviane Reding, on the occasion of International Women's Day.

"Women have played a crucial role in triggering the changes taking place in North Africa. In a climate of violence, they are engaged in the struggle for change," said the two European officials.

"We hope that the crucial role that women have played so far will be taken fully into account the institutional changes that are already discussed in the region.Women must be central to discussions on the new order that will be implemented, "they added.

Women defying stereotypes and taboos, have emerged as essential actors in the various uprisings that have shaken the Arab world's autocratic regimes.Whether in jeans and T-shirt or draped in black, tens of thousands of women have made their voices heard in the streets of Tunis, Cairo, Manama and Sana'a, demanding reforms in these countries.

In Bahrain, where thousands of demonstrators calling for the mainly Shiite dynasty fell of the Sunni Al-Khalifa, women have participated in mass mobilization, their traditional black abayas forming an ocean in events where men and women marched separately.

In conservative countries like Libya or Yemen, women have defied social norms to join the protest, marching through the streets and speaking openly to reporters in front of the camera.

Asma Mahfouz, a young Egyptian whose blog video calling for the mobilization was a huge success, is considered one of the voices that triggered the unprecedented revolt that led to the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak on February 11.

"Only by taking decisive action now we will ensure that women and girls for a future without discrimination or violence in a world with equal opportunities for all and all," felt especially Mrs Ashton Reding.

LIBYA: The international community puts more pressure on Gaddafi

The opposition controlled vast territories Monday in Libya, including major oil fields, the Gaddafi colènel remaining deaf to the growing pressure from the international community considering all options including the military.

The 14th day of unprecedented upheaval, Muammar Qaddafi and his forces no longer control that Tripoli and its region.According to European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger, major Libyan oil fields are now "under the control of tribes and interim forces who returned to power."

The opposition has announced the imminent resumption of oil exports from the east under its control, with the departure of a ship bound for China.

The international community sought ways to end the instability in the country and reflected such a ban airspace.

The U.S. military positions in naval and air forces around Libya, the Pentagon said, adding that its planners were studying various options.

"We're repositioning forces to have the flexibility necessary once the decisions have been taken," said Pentagon spokesman, Dave Laplane.

The chief diplomat Hillary Clinton said that no military action involving U.S. ships were expected in the country.

A spokesman for the White House held that "exile" of the leader was also "a possibility".

President Barack Obama received for his part, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to discuss the situation.

In France, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said that all options were under consideration, including that of the ban on flights over the territory of Libya which would however require the involvement of NATO and UN approval. "I know that evokes military solutions, these solutions are being evaluated by the French government," he said.

Italy has supported a ban on flights over Libya.

After the United Nations and the United States, the European Union on Monday adopted an arms embargo against Libya and a freeze on assets and visa bans against Colonel Qadhafi and 25 of his relatives.

The United States has blocked $ 30 billion of assets since the Libyan sanctions announced Friday by the White House, said a senior Treasury official in Washington.

Information obtained from witnesses, air raids on forces loyal to Qadhafi were denied by the Libyan authorities.

These days, flights suspected of being linked to arms trafficking between Belarus and Libya have been identified by the International Institute for Peace Research in Stockholm.

Facing increasing pressure from the international community, Gaddafi, in power for over 40 years, remained adamant.

"My people adore me. They died to protect me," he said in an interview with ABC television.

The West is preparing to help the opposition, which created an "independent National Council" to represent "the liberated cities.

This body will be "the face of Libya during the transition period," said his spokesman Abdelhafez Ghoqa, while the EU has indicated that in the process of "making contacts" with the Libyan authorities in transition.

"We rely on the army to liberate Tripoli," saidGhoqa.

Apart from the East, the opposition claimed control of several towns around the capital and in the west, including Nalout (230 km west of Tripoli) and Zawiyah (60 km west of the capital ).

The strategic cities of Misrata, east, and Gherien the south, also seem under control of the opposition.

In Tripoli, checkpoints were set up in and around the capital by militant pro-Gaddafi and bread and gasoline were rationed, according to one resident.

Beyond sanctions, Hillary Clinton claimed on Monday that are prepared "additional measures for the Qaddafi government accountable, to provide humanitarian assistance and support for the Libyan people in their quest for a transition to democracy."

The United States will send two teams of humanitarian border with Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, "she announced, while the International Red Cross has demanded immediate access to the west of Libya.

France is sending two aircraft to Benghazi to provide humanitarian aid and the World Food Program has announced the shipment of 80 tons of high energy biscuits.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo, is conducting a preliminary investigation into the violence in Libya, prior to any investigation for crimes against humanity.

The UN chief Ban Ki-moon spoke of a balance of a thousand deaths.

Nearly 110.000 people, mostly Egyptian and Tunisian workers have already fled the country, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Oil prices fell Monday in New York, the commitment of Saudi Arabia to ensure the stability of a market worried about oil production in Libya has calmed tensions.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), a barrel of light sweet crude for April delivery finished at 96.97 dollars, down 91 cents from Friday.

LIBYA: The challenge wins Tripoli, ransacked several government buildings in the capital

The seat has a TV and radio public were ransacked by demonstrators Sunday in Tripoli where police stations and local revolutionary committees were set on fire, reported the AFP witnesses reached by telephone.

"A room that housed the television station Al-Jamahiriya Radio 2 and Al-Shababia was ransacked," said a witness told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The diffusion of television was suspended Sunday night, resumed Monday.

Al-Jamahariya 2 second public channel, and radio Al-Shababia had been launched by a son of Libyan leader Muammar, Seif al-Islam in 2008, before being nationalized in the future.

Moreover, according to several testimonies gathered by the AFP, public buildings were burned in the capital Sunday night, including police and local revolutionary committees in several neighborhoods, including near the square in downtown Green where violent confrontations took place at night between pro-and anti-regime.

The "Hall of the People", a building located near downtown and where are often organized events and formal meetings, was also burned, told AFP Tripolitan who lives nearby.

This building is located not far from downtown, at the entrance of the residential district of Hay al-Andalus.

In the night, heavy gunfire were heard in several neighborhoods of Tripoli and clashes between opponents and supporters of the Libyan leader had taken place including the Green Square Tripoli, witnesses said.

Violence during demonstrations against the power of Libya Muammar Gaddafi took at least 233 deaths since February 15, HRW said Monday, following a warning from the leader's son Seif al-Islam against the risks of " civil war "in the country.

Benghazi, the second largest city 1,000 km east of Tripoli, is the center of the revolt for six days and for Sunday alone 60 people were killed, according to Human Rights Watch.

The protests have won the capital Sunday.

"Libya is at a crossroads.Either we are hearing today on reforms, or we do not mourn 84 deaths but thousands and there will be rivers of blood throughout Libya, "said Seif al-Islam during a televised speech on the night Sunday to Monday, saying the country is on the verge of "civil war".

He repeated several times the figure of 84 dead in violence in Libya and said the balance sheets provided by "foreign media" were "greatly exaggerated".

Since the beginning of the protest movement in Libya, his father, Colonel Gaddafi, who has for 42 years without a power-sharing in this oil-rich country, made no public intervention.