Corentin reports “watch at the 2:00 mark This weekend in Paris, France was the Urban Peace Show. Rapstar Booba got beef with the public. At 2:00 Booba says “Hold on Turn it off..You want a bottle of Jack in your head or what??! .. Son of a b*tch” then throw the bottle! ahah Shit is funny!”
Source: WSH
Bruce Loudon
Nicolas Sarkozy (r) with Manmohan Singh
INDIA signed a historic deal with France last night for the supply of nuclear reactors and fuel, thereby signalling its entry into the global nuclear marketplace for the first time and the end of more than three decades of isolation.
The deal, concluded during talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Nicolas Sarkozy, ties India’s civilian nuclear future firmly to France and its extensive use of nuclear power, though another similar agreement with Russia is on the cards for signature before the end of the year.
A pact is also due to be concluded with the US once the nuclear deal between New Delhi and Washington is finalised, and last night ecstatic government leaders in the Indian capital were hailing the series of commercial agreements as “undoubtedly one of the biggest things to happen in India for many years”.
“Finally and at long last - after 34 years - we are in the marketplace buying nuclear technology that can make such a difference to the lives of millions upon millions of our people as we develop new sources of energy,” one official linked to the negotiations said last night.
By Steve Lieberman and Vincent DiSalvio
Police at the scene of this morning’s fatal motorcycle-car crash in Clarkstown. The motorcyclist’s body lies beneath the yellow tarp on the lawn, at left. (Photos by Vincent DiSalvio/The Journal News)
CLARKSTOWN - A Spring Valley motorcyclist was killed in a fiery crash after hitting a car backing out of a West Clarkstown Road driveway shortly before 7 this morning, Clarkstown police said.
The motorcyclist, Evency St. Preux, 34, hit the driver’s side front end and was thrown about 50 over the top of car, police said.
Both vehicles exploded into flames, with the flames engulfing the mangled motorcycle, Clarkstown Police Sgt. Harry Baumann said.
“The guy was thrown about 50 feet over the left side of the car,” Baumann said. “His head probably hit the ground. The motorcycle was mangled in the crash.”
Baumann said the shield broke off St. Preux’s helmet and his body was lying on the ground on the lawn in front of a home, covered with a yellow tarp. St. Preux was pronounced dead at the scene, Baumann said.
PARIS (AFP) — President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday battled to contain fallout from the global financial crisis, moving ahead with plans for a world summit and calling a meeting of French banking and insurance chiefs.
France will host a meeting of European officials to prepare a summit “in the coming weeks to establish the basis of a new international financial system,” said Sarkozy, whose country holds the presidency of the European Union.
Officials from Britain, France, Germany and Italy — the EU members of the G8 — will meet in Paris in the coming days to lay the groundwork, he said on the sidelines of an EU-India summit in the southern city of Marseille.
On Tuesday, the president is to meet at the Elysee presidential palace with banking and insurance company chiefs to take a close look at the health of French banks and review the credit level of French households and businesses.
PARIS: France said on Wednesday it was banning all food items containing Chinese milk products as a precautionary move following a tainted milk scandal.
The European Union does not import milk or milk products from China. France’s measure targets foodstuffs that contain Chinese dairy products as an ingredient.
“The public authorities have decided … to adopt further precautionary measures for all products incorporating milk derivatives of Chinese origin,” the French agriculture and economy ministries said in a statement.
“These products will have to be withdrawn from the market and will not be able to be put on sale,” they added.
Many countries have restricted Chinese food imports since the emergence of tainted milk in China which has made more than 54,000 children sick.
The French statement was issued a day after Italy announced similar measures and shortly before Europe’s top food safety agency is due to say whether food products such as those targeted by the French are safe.
The U.S Navy Monument is seen during a Dedication ceremony at Utah Beach, western France. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
SAINTE-MARIE-DU-MONT, France (AP) — The U.S. Navy was honored Saturday for its key role in the massive amphibious wartime invasion that helped propel the Allies to victory in World War II.
Hundreds of uniformed American sailors and French well-wishers — as well as a few Navy veterans of the war — joined U.S. and French officials on Utah Beach for the inauguration of Normandy’s first monument honoring the sacrifices of U.S. sailors in the conflict against Nazi Germany.
Utah was one of five landing beaches code-named for the invasion.
The U.S. Navy Monument at Normandy features a 12-foot bronze statue of a Navy captain and two sailors overlooking the beach — where a 5,000-vessel armada landed on June 6, 1944, and unleashed some 156,000 soldiers, mostly Americans, British and Canadians, in a massive assault known as D-Day.
The statue, with the figures crouching or standing around one another, is meant to portray three phases of the landings: the planning, the launch and the follow-up. One figure holds a mortar shell like those fired during the invasion.
Lance Armstrong, right, announced at Wednesday's Clinton Global Initiative that his foundation would committ $8 million to a global awareness campaign for cancer.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Clinton’s annual summit of world leaders and celebrities opened Wednesday with the former president sharing the stage with rock star Bono and dignitaries including his former vice president, who warned that humanity is struggling in the fight against climate change.
Al Gore pointed to a number of natural disasters as evidence, including storms in Haiti, hurricanes on the Gulf Coast and fires in California.
“Since we met here last year, the world has lost ground to the climate crisis,” Gore said at the opening session of the Clinton Global Initiative. “This is a rout. We are losing badly.”
The initiative, now in its fourth year, draws world leaders, celebrities, activists and scholars for three days of discussions about pressing global issues including climate change and poverty. It coincides with the General Assembly meeting taking place on the other side of town at the United Nations.
Gore was joined at the opening plenary session by Clinton, Queen Rania of Jordan, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Bono and E. Neville Isdell, chairman of the board of directors for Coca-Cola.
By RACHEL COHEN
NEW YORK (AP) — Lance Armstrong is chasing an eighth Tour de France title and an elusive feat: persuading everyone he’s clean.
As Armstrong reunites with his close friend and Astana team director Johan Bruyneel, the man behind his yellow jerseys, he’s also adding a new member to his support group. Anti-doping expert Don Catlin has been hired to test Armstrong anytime, anywhere — and to post the results online for the world to see.
“I think it’s the first time an athlete can actually be totally validated on the chance he’s successful,” Armstrong said Wednesday. “In my opinion, Don Catlin is beyond reproach.”
Armstrong revealed details of his comeback two weeks after saying he would end a three-year retirement. He’ll ride for Astana and will compete in the Tour Down Under in Adelaide, Australia, in January.
The setting was the Clinton Global Initiative, the annual meeting of former President Bill Clinton’s foundation. Armstrong held a news conference to talk cycling after announcing a new worldwide campaign to fight cancer before an audience of political and corporate leaders.
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GM.N: Quote) is looking to sell a plant Strasbourg, France, and will begin seeking buyers next month when it also kicks off the sale for its Hummer SUV brand, the automaker said on Wednesday.
GM Treasurer Walter Borst detailed the plans in materials prepared for a presentation at a banking conference sponsored by Deutsche Bank AG that were posted on the automaker’s website.
GM had already detailed plans for the sale of Hummer, but the presentation marked the first time it identified the Strasbourg plant as one of the other assets it wants to sell as part of a plan to raise up to $4 billion by next year.
“Assets under review are significantly in excess of these amounts,” Borst said. “GM believes it can monetize these assets without impacting the strategic direction of the company.”
Borst said GM expected to make further announcements about its asset sales program in the fourth quarter.
Nations can no longer protect their interests, or advance the wellbeing of their people, without coming together in partnership.
Ban Ki-Moon is secretary general of the United Nations
We all recognise today’s perils. A global financial crisis. A global energy crisis. A global food crisis. Trade talks have collapsed, yet again.
There are new outbreaks of war and violence. Climate change ever more clearly threatens our planet. We say that global problems demand global solutions.
And yet, do we act? In truth, today, we also face a crisis of a different sort – the challenge of global leadership. New centres of power and leadership are emerging – in Asia, Latin America and across the newly developed world.
In this new world, the challenges are increasingly those of collaboration, not confrontation. Nations can no longer protect their interests, or advance the wellbeing of their people, without the partnership of the rest.
Yet I see a danger of nations looking inward rather than toward a shared future. I see a danger of retreating from the progress we have made, particularly in the realm of economic development and fairness in sharing the fruits of global growth.
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