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.

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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. "

Should we conclude that the actress dressed as a dadame, or that his style is timeless? Anyway, his clothes were like a glove to the mother of Ryan Gosling last night. Shiny black dress, coat Stained floral details, Donna chose beautiful pieces in the wardrobe of Eva. It's just if you paid attention to his son, although mat in his brown suit.Find this item on

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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

Les movie stars like Dany Boon, Gerard Depardieu, François-Xavier Demaison are they over-paid? French cinema is in turmoil since the publication of a producer who paints a alarmant.

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>

Dans an open letter published on the site Lemague.net, director Sam Karmann (Truth or almost Radiostars) ose the right answer. Sweep away a backhander arguments of producer, director strives to recall the specifics of a cultural industry fragile, while abundant in its meaning, about the exorbitant salaries of some actor: "You (Vincent Maraval) have the courage to finally throw the pavement exorbitant salaries in the pool of our national cinema. I agree., but you should have gone further. "(...) Read more about CloserMag.frJessica Simpson pregnant : she shows her bogus day TwitterLook: Miranda Kerr trend with its canary yellow blazer Estelle Denis sings Goldman on January 19 TF1

The Galaxy Note will be entitled to the Premium Suite with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)

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Virgin will file for bankruptcy mercredi

PARIS (Reuters) - The management group distribution of cultural products and multimedia Virgin Megastore, a victim of the collapse of the market for CDs and DVDs, has announced it will file Wednesday in the court record of commerce.

A works great, which was opened on Monday, resumed Tuesday in the presence of the Virgin direction, a representative of the largest shareholder Butler Capital Partners, Laurent Parquet, as well as representatives of salariés.

"The company is in a state of insolvency, management has indicated that it can not let this situation continue," said Virgin Stores in a statement issued after the réunion.

The opening of a bankruptcy procedure "allow management of Virgin Stores seek different solutions to society" .

Unions have decided not to comment on the draft declaration of insolvency due to lack of support from the Butler part social.

"Our demand was that big (Butler Capital Partners) financially supports the social potential of all that can happen after the cessation of payments and we encountered an estoppel, Butler does not pay a dime for employees, "said Guy Olharan, secretary of the company and elected CGT.

According to him, the representative of Butler felt that this was not the majority shareholder of "pay social destruction" .

"This is the administrator who hands the fate of Virgin and its employees," he said, accusing the investment funds to favor a sale to découpe.

INÉLUCTABLE

The insolvency is the first step that must perform a company that is no longer able to pay its creditors. It can at best lead to a reorganization or worse on a liquidation, that is to say, the demise of the company .

Asked if the insolvent Virgin was inevitable, Laurent Parquet answered "yes" .

"As you know, Virgin is affected for a long time through a very difficult period," he told reporters at the exit of the réunion.

"We have a lot invested in this company, we tried to straighten the accounts of the company. Nowadays, our concern is to find the best possible solution," he expliqué.

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calls for mobilization on Wednesday before the Virgin Megastore France, including a demonstration in Paris in front of the Champs-Elysées.

"We hope that the government will actively engage with us," said Guy Olharan after a meeting with the Minister of Culture Aurélie Filippetti who has assured its soutien.

"I'm always in favor of the arrival of a buyer, I really hope you will help us find someone who will revive the network, which will take over the stores that will give new energy to these stores by taking DNA Virgin, working on the new store model that has been drafted by the current management and which flatly Butler kicked into touch. "

RECLASSEMENT

The President of Virgin Mondollot Christine, who left the meeting without a word had been received by Aurélie Filippetti Tuesday before the resumption of the works council. The meeting was very positive, indicated the direction.

Unions want employees who may be laid off to guarantees similar to those provided to their colleagues laid off recently in Toulouse and Metz, namely 11 months of outplacement leaves, the doubling of statutory compensation and a large budget for the formation.

Virgin Megastore has 26 stores in France whose turnover amounted to 286 million euros in 2011.

The company, which has already reduced its workforce by 200 employees in two years, losing in four years, according to a spokesman for the group explains this by the high cost of rent payable by the group in France view of the large size of its magasins.

Virgin Megastore suffers further loss of 70% of the CDs recorded over 10 years, while in four years DVD sales fell 15% and that for the first time in 2012, these books have were negative (-3%) .

debt of the company, including Fnac is the great competitor, is estimated at 22 million .

unions denounce their carelessness side management, including a statement that the company no longer pays its donors for several mois.

"I've never seen a company that could be managed and how the courts can not sanction that," said Sylvain Alias, Steward SUD.

Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson was sold in 2001 stores in the chain of media group Lagardère, who still owns nearly 20% .

Marine Pennetier

Signs of improvement in the labor market américain

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The private sector in the U.S. in December created a number of jobs well above expectations, indicating a relative rebound of the U.S. economy at the end of the year 2012 in spite of the large uncertainties raised by the "wall budget" ("fiscal cliff") .

The U.S. private sector has created 215,000 jobs in December, against 133,000 expected by economists polled by Reuters shows Thursday the monthly survey from the consulting firm ADP.

"The real economy rebounds, and employment figures confirm. Markets now expect that politicians will not spoil it," said John Brady, RJ O'Brien

Marine Le Pen judge the French intervention in Mali légitime

PARIS (Reuters) - The president of the National Front, Marine Le Pen, said Monday that the French intervention in Mali was "legitimate" even if she felt that Paris had its share of responsibility in the events occurring in this pays.

"I believe legitimate," she said on RTL. "But I think that the development of Islamists in northern Mali is a direct consequence of the action choices, obvious errors, strategic, that have been made particularly in Libya and Syria" .

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Marine Le Pen, the French intervention is not interference but responds to "a request for a moderate government with which we have a defense cooperation and is struggling with advanced Islamic fundamentalists." < / p>

"But again, do not clear customs nor the government, nor its predecessor, the responsibility for this situation. Because we are left with a paradox where extremely cruel arms against which we fight TODAY ' Today may be ours, since they are the ones we parachuted including Libya, to support Islamists were introduced and took the rebellion here and in Syria, "she still déclaré.

Yann Le Guernigou, edited by Tangi Salaün

Football: Arsenal and Swansea will replay their 32nd FA Cup

LONDRES (Reuters) - Swansea and Arsenal will replay their 32nd round of the FA Cup, which ended Sunday in a 2-2 draw after a lightning strike Michu and a salvo of three goals in the last ten minutes.

The Spanish striker Swansea was the happiness of the Welsh public began to sing "it marks when he wants" when he scored 73 seconds after leaving the bench remplaçants.

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trophy since 2005, and determined to not miss a competition that is his last chance of the season, Arsenal equalized in the 81st minute by Lukas Podolski. Two minutes later, Kieran Gibbs gave him the advantage of shooting volée.

Danny Graham has once again reversed the fate of the match in Swansea equalizer three minutes from the end of time réglementaire.

The last two occasions were in favor of the Gunners. Theo Walcott had a goal disallowed for offside and Laurent Koscielny has sent over the crossbar resumption of his parade Michel Vorm.

The match will be played on the ground of Arsenal. The winner will opponent for the 16th Brighton, second division club which eliminated Newcastle, Premier League team, samedi.

Other Premier League club to play Sunday, Liverpool was qualified 2-1 at Mansfield Town, a team from the fifth level national.

Daniel Sturridge, transferred this week from Chelsea, opened the scoring after seven minutes. Luis Suarez doubled the mark in the second period, but his goal was apparently tainted it a fault main.

In the next round, the Reds will visit a third division club, Oldham.

Arsenal

addition, there will be numerous elite clubs to have conceded a draw and will replay: Manchester United against West Ham (2-2) as Sunderland against Bolton (2-2), Stoke City against Crystal Palace (0 -0), Fulham against Blackpool (1-1), West Bromwich Albion against Queens Park Rangers (1-1), Wigan against Bournemouth (1-1) .

Aston Villa, Reading, Manchester City, Norwich, Chelsea and Tottenham are qualifiés.

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