France will remain in Mali until his stabilisation

BAMAKO/DUBAI (Reuters) - France completed its military intervention in Mali once stabilized the country and the electoral process implemented Francois Hollande said on Tuesday, opening the prospect of a costly and prolonged against the rebels islamistes.

the fifth day of the French intervention, Paris continued to deploy its forces and continued air strikes on the ground waiting for the deployment of a West African force, which should take a "good week", according to the head of State .

Chiefs of Staff of the countries of the Economic Community of the States of West Africa (ECOWAS) met Tuesday in Bamako to approve the accelerated schedule required by the French intervention. However, they are not able to agree and meeting was adjourned at mercredi.

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West African force, approved by the Security Council of the UN on December 20 under the name Misma - International Mission Support Mali - should not be fully operational until September, but the sudden increase of the rebels to the Malian capital has led the countries of the region to accelerate their préparatifs.

Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria and Guinea have all promised to contribute to the Misma. Colonel Mohammed Yerima, spokesman for the Nigerian Ministry of Defense, said first 190 Nigerian troops would be deployed in Mali 24 heures.

DIABALI CONTROLLED REBELLE

Given the urgency, France since Friday comes the call of the Malian authorities in its former colony to block the progression of Islamists bomb their facilities in northern Mali, which rebels took control in the spring of 2012 advantage of the power vacuum created by a military coup in Bamako.

Stressing that "France is not intended to stay in Mali," Hollande said during a visit to the United Arab Emirates: "We have a goal, however, is to ensure that when we leave, there is security in Mali, legitimate authorities, the electoral process and (there are) more terrorists that threaten the integrity of Mali. "

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François Hollande in Abu Dhabi, the Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, said the offensive against the Islamist rebels could take time and commitment of French forces take several weeks. The elections in Mali, where President Dioncounda Traoré is responsible for the transition under an agreement signed in May, is expected to take several mois.

France has already deployed some 800 soldiers on Malian soil and should raise the number to 2,500, according to the Ministry of Defence. African troops must rise to end 3300 hommes.

The rebels, French officials describe as mobile, heavily armed and determined, have shown their ability to respond Monday dislodging forces Malian Diabali locality, 350 km north of Bamako.

The city was still under the control of the Islamists Tuesday despite several raids, residents said. A witness attached near Segou, further south, told Reuters he saw twenty members of the French special forces en route to Diabali.

In addition, the city Konna, strategic bolt on the road to Mopti whose collapse triggered the French intervention, has not yet been adopted by the Malian army jihadists, Paris told the Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian.

A French armored column left Bamako on Tuesday and took the direction of the north of Mali, it was learned French military source. Admiral Edouard Guillaud, Chief of Staff of the French forces, had said earlier that light armor type Sagaie, routed Ivory Coast and Chad could be involved "if necessary" against jihadists .

In the capital, the population is mostly welcomed the French intervention, after seeing his army through a series of setbacks to face insurgés.

SUPPORT LOGISTIQUE

France, which has officially abandoned its role as a "gendarme of Africa", emphasizes the international support operation "Serval" .

the Emirates, Laurent Fabius said the campaign had the support of the Gulf countries and Belgium announced in Mali sending two aircraft C130 and two medical helicopters at the request of Paris.

The French government has also stated that the United States, Canada, Denmark and Germany had promised to support logistique.

"We support the French in sharing information and we think to requests for logistical support," Jay Carney said Tuesday, a spokesman for House blanche.

In private, U.S. officials fear a coordination between jihadists active in Africa, AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), the Mujao (Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa) and Ansar Dine North -Mali, Boko Haram in Nigeria or in Somalie.

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Shabaab, which have failed over the weekend in an operation of the DGSE to release a French hostage, have appealed to the uprising of Muslims against what they present as attacks "Christian" against Islam .< / p>

Eight French hostages held in the Sahel and 30,000 French expatriates settled in the country voisins.

France reinforced its Vigipirate at "red", without going to enable the highest level "scarlet" in case of imminent attack. "This is not encouraging terrorism to fight terrorism", but felt Laurent Fabius Abu Dhabi.

A donor conference is scheduled to meet in late January on the sidelines of a summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa to support African efforts against various Islamist rebel groups linked to Al Qaeda, he dit.

According to the UN, some 30,000 Malians fled recent fighting and are joining the ranks of the 200,000 that had already moved their pays.

Serisier Pierre Bertrand Boucey, Jean-Stéphane Brosse, Gerard Bon and Jean-Philippe Lefief for service français

Australian Open: Djokovic, Sharapova and Venus start fort

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Three sets for rapid Novak Djokovic, two-wheeled bicycle for Maria Sharapova, a 6-1 6-0 Venus Williams Monday marked the opening of the Australian Open with one-seeded Juan Monaco (No. 11), is tombée.

even had an injured leg that tilts the Argentine 7-6 6-1 6-1 to Russian Andrey Kuznetsov, 79th player in the world, to the applause of the audience, admiring and grateful for his refusal 'abandonner.

Other seeded on the courts, the Spaniard David Ferrer (No. 4) and Czech Tomas Berdych (No. 5) that did not need three sets to beat Belgian Olivier Rochus 6-3 6 -4 6-2 and American Michael Russell 6-3 7-5 6-3.

Another Spaniard, Nicolas Almagro (No. 10), on the other hand struggled five sets to overcome the American Steve Johnson 7-5 6-7 (4) 6-2 6-7 (6) 6 - 2.

Novak Djokovic began his campaign effectively for a third consecutive title against the French Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-2 6-4 spread 7-5.

As if to save energy, the World No. 1 Serbian has had to raise his level of play for two games when he faced three break points in the second set and when the third set seemed to have to go to tie-break.

Three aces helped him save his service at the first warning shots and two winners gave him the third set and the victory in one hour and 42 minutes.

"I think we played a good game. We have used both and I managed to play well when needed," said Novak Djokovic.

"The tournament lasts two weeks. This is the first day, everyone is excited and I am happy to be here."

The Serb will next opponent American Ryan Harrison, 20 year old ranked 62nd in the ATP .

SHARAPOVA IMPITOYABLE

The expected defeat Paul-Henri Mathieu did not prevent the French tennis live a beautiful day with the qualification of six of its representatives engaged in the tables gentlemen and ladies, with Marion Bartoli spearhead. (See)

The No. 1 French and seeded No. 11 dominated the Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-2 6-4.

The player of the day, however, was Maria Sharapova who inflicted a 6-0 6-0 in 55 minutes to her compatriot Olga Puchkova, it is true 107th player mondiale.

The Russian said she was pleased not to have suffered pain in the neck and collarbone which ruined his program préparation.

"I did not want to be disturbed by the fact that I have not played a lot of matches. I wanted to focus on the future and show me aggressive on the court," she dit.

"It was one of those games where I do not care about the opponent and stay focused on what I have to do."

The former World No. 1 next opponent will be Japan's Misaki Doi, winner of the Croatian Petra Martic 6-3 6-4.

Venus Williams, who is no longer part of the favorites to win the Grand Slam final was almost as expeditiously as the Russian. She left a game in the Kazakh Galina Voskoboeva.

"It's good to spend as little time as possible on the court and not get caught up in long sets. It is obvious," said the American, who ended nearly three years without any title with his victory in Luxembourg octobre.

Classified seeded No. 25 Venus Williams will meet in the next round the French Alize Cornet, who qualified at the price of a terrible battle against the New Zealander Marina Erakovic finally beaten 7-5 6-7 (3) 10-8.

Other contenders for the Polish Agnieszka Radwanska (No. 4) and Australian Samantha Stosur (No. 9) struggled in the first set but found the pace to beat the Australian Bojana Bobusic 7-5 6 - 0 and Taiwan's Chang Kai-Chen 7-6 (3) 6-3.

Jean-Paul Couret for service français

Ryan Gosling: A good mom lookée

Eva Mendes was unable to accompany the first Ryan Gosling Gangster Squad last night. But there was a bit of it on the red carpet, as Donna, the mother of the actor went rummaging through her wardrobe.

Last night, Ryan Gosling attended the premiere of his latest film Gangster Squad in Los Angeles. His girlfriend Eva Mendes can not be free to accompany her on the red carpet, actor Drive went with her mother Donna. Interviewed byE! News, he explained that in reality, the beautiful latina was not totally absent: "My mother wears the clothes of my girlfriend," he said. Immediately, we thought it was a collection designed by the young woman, but no. As told herself the mother of Ryan: "I wear Eva Mendes. She let me rummage through her wardrobe. "

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Oscars: "Lincoln" the favorite with 12 nominations

"Lincoln" by Steven Spielberg favorite part in the Oscar race with 12 nominations, ahead of "The odyssey of Pi" by Ang Lee, selected in 11 categories announced Thursday the Academy of Arts Film and Sciences in Beverly Hills (California) .

Parmi other films nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture are "Love" by Michael Haneke, also a candidate for Best Foreign Film (5 nominations) and "Les Miserables" (8) "Happiness Therapy" (8) "Argo" (7) and "Zero Dark Thirty" (5) .

Takieddine soon heard of his accusations against Sarkozy

PARIS (Reuters) - The intermediary Takieddine Ziad, who said he had evidence of funding from Libya campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, will be heard by the police to verify these allegations, it was learned Monday judiciaire.

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The businessman indicted in the investigation of alleged corruption in arms contracts margin and the 1995 presidential campaign, was heard on December 19 by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke, during hearing which he made these statements not sollicitées.

The judge these allegations in Paris prosecutor already a complaint of Nicolas Sarkozy against the fake news site on the Internet Médiapart who made accusations similar to those of Ziad Takieddine.< / p>

The prosecution has decided to take both the Brigade fighting crime people (BRDP) and the National Financial Investigation Division and tax (DNIFF) to verify the evidence would have businessman .< / p>

"Yes, Libya has funded (Nicolas) Sarkozy and (Claude) Gueant", said Ziad Takkiedine in Le Parisien beginning janvier.

He mentions several meetings between Bashir Saleh, secretary of Muammar Gaddafi and Claude Gueant, chief of staff of then Interior Minister, to discuss the terms of such financing would be presumed that a total of more than 50 million .

These allegations are not new, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former Libyan leader, has repeatedly said that his country had supported the 2007 campaign of the former president. Ziad Takieddine but said he saw the evidence, and where they trouvent.

Nicolas Sarkozy has always denied the allegations, claiming that he was the spearhead of the military intervention that would lead to the fall of Muammar Kadhafi.

The former secretary general of the Elysée under Nicolas Sarkozy, Claude Gueant, has categorically denied these accusations.

"This is absolutely fantastic, it's completely untrue," he told Reuters in early January. "I wonder what that can lead to saying things that are completely false" .

Nicolas Bertin, edited by Yves Clarisse

French players paid too much? The answer Sam Karmann

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La forum Vincent Maraval, distributor and producer, founder of the film distribution company Wild Bunch in the World, criticizing the salaries of expensive stars of the big screen has not gone unnoticed in the art. But so far, none of the actors namely pointed in this open letter was addressed: Dany Boon, Vincent Cassel, Jean Reno, Marion Cotillard, Gad Elmaleh, Guillaume Canet, Audrey Tautou, Léa Seydoux ... are all cited in the paper, but no one wanted répondre.

En is taking some of the idols of the silver screen, Vincent Maraval threw a stone into the pond. He dared to take the salary of the most popular actors, and more generally the system of financing of French cinema, very dependent on television that demand headliners to accept co-financing a film. And the producer benefits from the transition to the case dédiaboliser Depardieu, others are less well treated: and Daniel Auteuil, singled out for its 1.5 million affected by film while the last three were failures commerciaux.< / p>

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