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Les résultats sont définitifs, les Irlandais ont voté "oui" à 67,13% lors du référendum sur le traité européen de Lisbonne.

Sur les 43 circonscriptions que compte l'Irlande, seules deux situées dans le nord-ouest ont majoritairement rejeté le traité, et encore de justesse. Parmi les autres, 31 ont basculé du "non" en 2008 au "oui" cette année, parfois dans des proportions importantes. 
Ainsi, dans le sud-ouest de Dublin, banlieue populaire et bastion du "non" où il avait recueilli environ 65% en 2008, 59% des votants ont approuvé le traité.
Le vote le plus massif en faveur du traité a été recueilli dans une circonscription du nord de Dublin, avec 82% de "oui".

Source : http://www.letelegramme.com/ig/generales/france-monde/mon...

A Patagonian woman was sent back to her home country after British immigration officials refused to believe she was travelling to Wales to learn Welsh.

Evelyn Talcadrini, from Puerto Madryn, Argentina, was on her way to Glyndyfrdwy, near Llangollen, to spend six months living with a local family to practise her Welsh.

But she was put on a flight back to South America within hours of landing in the UK.

Now the Government has agreed to launch an investigation into her treatment after Plaid Cymru's Hywel Williams and Elfyn Llwyd raised the case in the House of Commons during Welsh questions.

Mr Williams, Caernarfon MP, said: "She travelled for 35 hours to get to Heathrow, but was summarily ejected and sent back. She is not the only young Welsh Patagonian who has, unfortunately, suffered summary ejection for no good cause that I can see."

The MP said it was a "disgraceful stain on our welcome to Welsh Patagonians."

Some 20,000 Welsh people settled in Patagonia in the mid-19th century because they wanted to keep their language and religion at at time when English was becoming the predominant tongue. The first group sailed aboard the Mimosa from Liverpool in May 1865.

Evelyn had been due to spend her time in Wales with Eos Griffiths and his Patagonian-born wife Carina at their home in Glyndyfrdwy, and showed a letter from them to the immigration officials at Heathrow.

Mr Griffiths said: "I have known her family for more than 30 years and invited her to stay with us. I thought she would be able to improve her Welsh and learn some English and enjoy the Eisteddfod at Bala this summer."

Wales minister Wayne David said the United Kingdom welcomed Patagonians who were keen to explore their Welsh heritage.

"Of course the UK Borders Agency does not have any separate policy in relation to Welsh-speaking people from Patagonia. I give my commitment that the Secretary of State and I will meet the relevant Home Office Minister as soon as possible."

Source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5...

Britons are among thousands of tourists fleeing Guadeloupe after full scale urban warfare erupted on the French Caribbean island.

Trouble broke out on the island earlier last month after protesters began rioting over high prices and low wages.

But the situation escalated this week after protesters began turning on rich white families as they demanded an end to colonial control of the economy.

The troubles come at the height of the holiday season, with thousands of mainly British, French and American tourists on the paradise tropical island.

Guadeloupe descends into full-scale urban warfare after demonstrators riot over low wages and white control of the island's economy

Violence has escalated on the Caribbean island as protesters turn their attention to rich white families who they blame for their poor standard of living

Protesters were now targeting 'all white people', with the media in mainland France describing the situation as virtual civil war'.

Guadeloupe is a French overseas department ruled directly from Paris, and authorities in France have sent 300 extra riot police to the island in a bid to quell the violence.

Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters are roaming the streets of the capital Point-a-Pitre, looting shops and restaurants, burning cars and vandalising public buildings.

Holiday resorts along the coast have hired extra security to protect tourists, while the airport is jammed with visitors now trying to get out of the country.

Union leader Jacques Bino was the first man to die in the violence when he was caught in crossfire on Tuesday while driving a car near a roadblock manned by armed youths who had opened fire at police.

Six members of the security forces were injured during shoot-outs with the armed youths as they tried to help emergency teams who were trying to save Mr Bino's life.

Dozens more police and demonstrators have also been hurt in frequent clashes on the capital's streets - which one newspaper describing it as looking like a battlefield'.

Protesters ransacked shops and torched cars as the island descends into full-scale urban warfare

Most shops, banks, schools and government offices are now shut in Guadeloupe and the neighbouring French tourist island of Martinique - where protests are also mounting.

Guadeloupe's socialist opposition leader Malikh Boutih said: 'It is shocking to watch a police force which is almost 100 per cent white confront a population which is 100 per cent black.

'All the same elements of the riots on mainland France in 2005 are present here.

A man holds a photo to pay tribute to Jacques Bino

'We don't have the same concrete buildings, there are palm trees instead, but it's the same dead-end, the same "no future" for young people, with joblessness and a feeling of isolation.'

The first protests began a month ago when the left-wing union coalition, the Collective Against Exploitation, demanded a £180 a month pay increase for low-wage earners.

President Nicolas Sarkozy sent his minster for overseas departments to the island to meet with union leaders on response to the demands.

But the racial tensions which have been simmering for decades exploded into full-scale rioting, with colonial descendants who own 90 per cent of the wealth becoming the focus of the violence.

The unrest was further aggravated last week when wealthy white landowner Alain Huyghues-Despointes publicly criticised mixed-race marriages and said he preferred to 'preserve his race'.

In Paris, the violence has provoked divisions in Mr Sarkozy's cabinet with black minister Rachida Data acknowledging that Guadeloupe suffered from 'a problem with the distribution of wealth'.

Laetitia Delaprade, spokeswoman at Voyages Antillais, a Paris-based travel agency that specialises in French Caribbean, said: 'People are scared. No one wants to go there and those that are there want to get out.'

Tourism Authority chief Madeleine de Grandmaison said: 'Tourism is fragile. People are not only cancelling this week, but also for all the months of February, March and April.

'We have a huge deficit of tourists ahead of us. At least 10,000 tourists have cancelled vacations in Martinique and Guadeloupe.'

Authorities struggle to contain the anarchy which has swept across the island

A youth carries a machete as trouble flares on the island

The Paris-based Association of Tour Operators has now classified Guadeloupe as a 'red zone', meaning it is not endorsing it as a destination.

A spokesman said: 'Most holidaymakers to Guadeloupe are British, American and mainland French.

'None have been hurt yet but there is the threat of violence in the air and staying there no longer feels comfortable.'

Guadeloupe's Tourism Committee said that the main airport had also been temporarily closed yesterday because of a lack of worker, but had now reopened.

A spokesman added: 'It is very busy. Every flight leaving the island is is full.'

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Dans un article publié dans le prochain numéro de l'hebdomadaire allemand Der Spiegel qui sort lundi 9 février, l'évêque intégriste Williamson persiste et signe, après ses propos négationnistes, tenus juste avant que le pape lève son excommunication, le 24 janvier 2009. Ces propos ont déclenché une polémique au sein de l'église catholique.

"Si je trouve des preuves, je rectifierai. Mais cela va prendre du temps" déclare Williamson au Spiegel. Der Spiegel a envoyé ses questions par e-mail, à Williamson, qui vit en Argentine. Puis le texte a été confirmé par téléphone. Le texte de l'article est déjà disponible sur le site du Spiegel. La Une du dernier No de Der Spiegel L'attitude ambigue du pape qui avait tardé à réagir face aux propos de Williamson avait provoqué une polémique en Allemagne, et amené la chancelière Angela Merkel à s'exprimer publiquement, comme @si l'avait signalé.

Barack Obama est-il né au Kenya? Aurait-il la citoyenneté indonésienne? Le 44e président des Etats-Unis fait toujours le bonheur des adeptes de la théorie du complot, qui s’en donnent à cœur joie pour démasquer l’imposture derrière la stature d’Obama, trop parfait (et trop métis?) pour être un vrai américain. Le site World Net Daily relaie notamment une pétition pour que Barack Hussein rende public son certificat de naissance. Elle aurait déjà été signée par 217.487 personnes. Pour les anti-Obama, la stratégie est simple: montrer qu’il n’est pas américain et se baser ensuite sur l’article 2 de la Constitution qui explique l’obligation d'être citoyen né américain pour pouvoir prétendre devenir président des Etats Unis.

"Nul ne pourra être élu Président s'il n'est citoyen de naissance, ou s'il n'est déjà citoyen des Etats-Unis au moment de l'adoption de la présente Constitution, s'il n'a trente-cinq ans révolus et ne réside sur le territoire des Etats-Unis depuis quatorze ans. "

De notre envoyée spéciale à Bruxelles Stéphane Kovacs
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Jeune musulmane arborant un drapeau belge lors d'une manifestation à Bruxelles en 2004. Crédits photo : ASSOCIATED PRESS

Aujourd'hui, un tiers de la population est musulmane et les jeunes générations sont plus pratiquantes.