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Sentenced to 30 years in French pedophile who asked to be castrated

Francis Evrard, 63, hasspent half his life in prison for sexually abusing children. In August 2007, just days after his release, kidnapped a child under five years in the city of Roubaix, in northern Iraq, locked him in a garage, was drugged and raped her. On Friday, a French court sentenced him to 30 years, of which 20 are mandatory judicial and medical supervision. The prosecutor sought life imprisonment, including 22 years of compulsory, and monitor an unlimited period. On Monday the trial opened, Evrard admittedly broke the little Enis, shortly after after leaving prison after serving 18 years for similar crimes. Shortly before the jury retired to deliberate, the man, who since 1975 has been convicted three times for statutory rape or indecent assault, went to court. I'm a nice guy, I know that I have done wrong to the small Denis and his father, he said. I want to be judged with humanity and not be treated as a monster, he said. His lawyer attributed some of the responsibility to the judicial and prison system.

Francis Evrard became a time bomb for any errors, mismanagement, limited interest of justice and doctors, said Jerôme Pianezza. Justice, doctors knew that Francis Evrard was particularly dangerous, was abandoned as a great activity on the streets of Roubaix, he said.

Pianezza reported several errors, including the inmate was prescribed with the sexual stimulant Viagra desalting a month before prison, something justified by the doctor because they had access to his criminal file. (more…)

EU leaders agree to demands of the Czech Republic

The treaty would modernize the decision-making and boost the role of the European bloc on the world stage. It would also create the office of a permanent EU president, a position of leadership that the European figures are already trying to get backstage. It's a deal, said Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, referring to the acceptance of the demands of the Czech Republic. Some diplomats said EU leaders present at the negotiations in this city had accepted the demands, which pave the way for Czech President Vaclav Klaus to sign the treaty if the country's constitutional court determines that the covenant does not violate national law. It is expected that the court issues its ruling on Tuesday. Diplomats, who asked not to be identified because the agreement has not been announced publicly, said they hoped to sign the deal before Klaus year-end if the court favors the treaty. Klaus, an ardent skeptic of the viability of the European Union have refused to sign the treaty until its country be offered an option to withdraw from the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the new EU treaty. Czech leader requested the option to fears of property claims of dispossessed Germans their land and expelled from the country after the Second World War. (more…)

Taliban attack UN personnel in Kabul leaves 12 dead

A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the fact, in addition to rocket attacks against the presidential palace and the most luxurious hotel in town. The head of the UN mission in Afghanistan Kai Eide, said the attack did not prevent United Nations continue with all its tasks in the country. One of the six dead were American UN, said the U.S. embassy. The attack two hours at the residence for guests where they were staying about 20 UN election workers caused the disbanding of the terrified residents, some of whom jumped from windows to escape a fire. A U.S. official said the attackers held a Kalashnikov rifle until the others escaped. A rocket hit the outer limit of the presidential palace but caused no casualties, said the Presidential spokesman Humayun Hamidzada. Two other rockets landed in the gardens of the Serena Hotel, a favorite among many foreigners. (more…)

Sweden frees former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic

Plavsic is expected to arrive in Belgrade on Tuesday. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague and sentenced Plavsic in February 2003, agreed last month to release in advance, a decision that was opposed by relatives of Bosnian Muslims who were victims of war, but was held by Bosnian Serbs. Plavsic was moved this morning to ( Airport Stockholm) Arlanda. There he was picked up by a plane, the Swedish Research and Prisons. What happens next depends on it, he said. Plavsic, 79, was one of the three members of the Presidency of the Republic of Serbia, led by Radovan Karadzic, the Monday boycotted the start of his trial in The Hague where he is tried on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide in Srebrenica. (more…)

Afghanistan Opium caters to addicts in Europe, Russia and Iran

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The poppies grown in Afghanistan supplying a market of 65,000 million dollars in heroin and opium, which reaches 15 million addicts and that Europe, Russia and Iran consume half the power supply, showed on Wednesday United Nations report. Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the world's opium, a thick paste of poppy used to make heroin, and the equivalent of about 3,500 tons of opium are trafficked out of country each year, said the report of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC, for its acronym in English). About two thirds of this material becomes heroin before leaving the central Asian country, while the rest is smuggled as opium, emphasized the study. Less than 2 percent of the opium and heroin is captured by the authorities before to leave the country, and 40 per cent of heroin goes through Pakistan, 30 per cent by Iran and nearly 25 percent through Central Asia. The border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan has become the largest free trade area (…) anything illegal drugs of course, but also weapons, bomb-making equipment, chemical precursors, drug money, even people and immigrants said UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa. The Perfect Storm (…) drugs and terrorism may be heading towards Central Asia, said Costa. (more…)

U.S. and GB: Terrorists will not take Pakistan's nuclear arsenal

Clinton, in London during the second leg of a five-day tour through Europe and Russia, joined the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to warn Iran that the U.S. and British governments did not wait long to persuade the Islamic republic to the world its nuclear ambitions are peaceful. Before making stops in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Clinton pledged that the United States will continue to support the peace process in Northern Ireland and said those who continue to exacerbate the tension and violence are out of sync and time. Along with his British counterpart, Clinton said there is no suggestion that nuclear weapons Pakistan could fall into terrorist hands despite bold Taliban attack Saturday at the army headquarters in Rawalpindi, which exposed the weaknesses in security. Clinton said militants are increasingly threatening State authority, but we see no evidence that they will take over the state. We trust the Pakistani government and military control over nuclear weapons. (more…)

Iran criticizes Ban Ki-moon of the UN nuclear comments

During a Friday meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ban expressed grave concern about the uranium enrichment plant being built south of the Iranian capital, according to the press office of the secretary. Your opinion agreed with the U.S. President, Barack Obama, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In a statement released to the press on Tuesday, the Iranian mission to the UN said Ahmadinejad responded in similar language, saying that Ban was then advanced to the opinion of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, for its acronym in English), nuclear watchdog UN. According to the statement, Ahmadinejad said that it is of grave concern that the UN secretary general, rather than wait for the IAEA, as the competent body to reflect (…) on the subject chose to repeat the same allegations that (some) little Western powers are doing. The West accuses Tehran of hiding nuclear plant until he was Shortly after being discovered, and repeated their concern that the enriched uranium is used to manufacture atomic weapons. Iran says its only aim is to produce electricity. Ahmadinejad also rejected unsubstantiated allegations of concealment, and said Iran informed the IAEA of the plant a year earlier than required to the Nonproliferation Treaty, the statement said. (more…)

Poles and Czechs worried about suspension of missile shield

Treason! U.S. and Russia sold us on the back stabbed us, wrote the Polish daily Fakt's front page. President Lech Kaczynski said he worries that the new Obama's strategy to leave Poland in a dangerous gray area between Western Europe and the former Soviet sphere of influence. Recent events have rattled in Central and Eastern Europe, a region controlled by Moscow during the Cold War, including last year's war between Russia and Georgia and current Russian efforts to regain influence in Ukraine. Russia suspended gas supplies to Ukraine last winter left many Europeans without heating. missile defense plan prepared by the government of former U.S. President George W. Bush would have been an important step in the prevention of several disturbing trends in our region, Kaczynski gave Fakt in an editorial that was also released on his presidential website on the internet. The neighboring Lithuania, a small Baltic country that seceded from the Soviet Union in 1991 and is now a NATO member also criticized Obama's decision. Defense Minister of Iraq, Rasa Jukneviciene, said the shield would have increased the security of Lithuania, adding that he hoped that missile defense is not excluded from future talks on security of the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty. (more…)

Guatemala and Mexico agreed to strengthen efforts to combat drug trafficking

Drug trafficking, organized crime, trafficking and traficode persons, money laundering and arms trafficking are not only impact fenomenosque security but bienestarde development and states and their peoples, the leaders said in a joint unadeclaracion signed the end of a meeting. The declaration was signed in the framework of the fingers-day official visit Tuesday in Guatemala Calderon initiated with the objective to follow the guidelines agreed to elfortalecimiento of the bilateral relationship, according to Presidenciamexicana. Now more than ever, Guatemalans and Mexicans should trabajarjuntos to strengthen our democracy and achieve, through deella, sustainable human development, which expand freedoms andthe capabilities without compromising the heritage of future lasgeneraciones Calderon said during the official ceremony debienvenida. Meanwhile, Colom said that in so far as yMexico Guatemala have an integral relationship will make its fronteracomun, in a medium-term future, is an example of development. In the commercial field, the leaders agreed to step in lacompetitividad countries of Central America and Mexico, through the negotiation process to reach Convergence of the Free Trade Agreements have been signed porseparado, and integrating them into one. As indicated in the statement, the goal is eseesfuerzo culminate in 2010, so that the new instrument comercioregional becomes effective from 2012. The leaders also pledged to strengthen respect to deformation mechanisms involved in human rights of immigrants, mostly Guatemalans who are employed in productive activities endiversas Mexico. The mobility benefits both to the place that receives losinmigrantes as the communities that receive income from them. Yen Mexico greatly value the contribution that thousands of Guatemalans ymiles economic development of our country, said the Mexican president. (more…)

He died in Madrid's former chief of the SpanishRoyal House

The Earl of Latores, title with Grandee of Spain to otorgoel monarch in April 1992, entered the King's House 31 end October 1977 and served as general secretary estaresponsabilidad until 22 January 1990, when he was House nombradojefe Her Majesty, replacing Cotoner Nicholas, Marquis de Mondejar. On January 8, 1993 ended as head of the King's house, since it was replaced by the diplomat, Jose Fernando Almansa, yDon Juan Carlos was named at that time privadovitalicio adviser while he was awarded the Grand Cross of Carlos III, shortly before being named an honorary lieutenant general. His intense and long history in the King's House during queparticipo in education of the Prince of Asturias, is an impeccable caracterizopor discretion, by its silence and prudence in matters todoslos the Royal Family.

But above all, remember your role with the King on 23 defebrero 1981, when he collaborated with Juan Carlos elfracaso towards the coup, and in this context, speaking Brazil as Coordinator between the monarch and the Congress of Deputies.

A Fernandez Campo he had the satisfaction that fracasodel 23-F had strengthened the monarchy to defend the King lademocracia who starred that night, although that pocolamentaba ago, its 91 years, not going to take time to learn all about the coup attempt LaVERDAD. His work in state service de1975 had begun in December when he was appointed undersecretary of the presidency delGobierno, and in July 1976 was appointed deputy secretary delMinisterio of Information and Tourism, a position from which he resigned appetition own the following year, in compliance with regulated normativaque incompatibilities in July 1977. (more…)