Evening News January 2016
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Obituary : David Bowie.
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Only the Mouse doesn t Vote for Barsik!
This young cat is leading the polls for the municipal elections of a Siberian city of 650.000 inhabitants named Barnaoul with 91% of the intentions of vote. 5500 persons participated to the survey. The popularity of this cat is mostly due to the fed up feeling of the inhabitants of this city. This cat legally can’t participate to the elections, but a crowd-funding campaign was launched to allow the cat to have his own elections posters. The people also wish that Barsik, with the help of a translator, will agree and find solutions with Vladimir Poutine on the subject of the local problems of Barnaoul. Hand in hand, they could solve a lot of problem in Russia and in the rest of the world. Is the next step to a cat domination ? by Dorian and Ismael
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When Japan invents a fragrance which smells like cats. Thanks to it, you could vaporize each object you want with the cat odor. Great! Sold 9 Euros with a cute wrapping, the Company invites his clients to vaporize your curtains, teddy bears, clothes, cushions and your entire house if you want. Useful if you are allergic of cats but would like to have one.
Do you like cats? Do you like these cute animals that everyone loves? Do you like their smell ?If you do , here is a product you will enjoy deeply.
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Fragrances which smell like cats exist! Now, you could wear the same perfume as your cat . It was invented in Japan by a group of cat crazy scientists from the firm Felissimo. To realize this fragrance, few months and a lot of visits to cat coffees were necessary to develop this particularly odor. Under the name Moho Mohu Odeko no Kaori Fabric Water, or Fragrance de front poilu in French, this fragrance reminds of the sun and hot bread odors. 3
paws! It might reach Europe some day ! The firm proposes others products for cats lovers like creams which give your hands as sweet as a cat pads. Interesting, we could turn ourselves into cats‌
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Miss Universe
SCANDAL: Steve Harvey made a mistake about winner at the election of Miss Universe! 4
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On the night of December 20th, 2015, the election of Miss Universe took place without any problems until the proclamation of the winner who was first announced as Miss Colombia. This is what we believed (and so did she ) for 5 minutes! The famous actor and the humorist Steve Harvey who had been asked to present the broadcast directly from Los Angeles made the biggest blunder ever in the television history by announcing the wrong winner! It wasn t not Adriana Gutierrez, Miss Colombia but Pia Wurtzbach. So Miss Philippine is the real winner! Miss Colombia still under the shock and stunned by this false hophead to take off her crown, her scarf in front of the entire world. A blunder which is expensive because the election of Miss Universe is one of the most important competitions followed by a great many people all over the world. Although it is only a competition that is meant to elect the most beautiful woman of the universe, it nevertheless remains important for these Barbie dolls. Steve Harvey apologized immediately before announcing the real winner after long minutes of expectation !
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David Bowie: The Man Who Changed the Music World The famous rock musician, David Bowie died a few days ago after turning 69. Bowie died of a cancer on Sunday 10th of January 2016, two days after his last album entitled Blackstar was released. Bowie was born David Jones in January 1947 but lately reinvented himself as David Bowie, in order to avoid confusion with the Monkees’ Davy Jones. At the age of 15, David formed his first band, the Konrads, a rock’n’roll combo that contained a various number of members, including Underwood. He quickly became
disillusioned with his band’s lack of ambition and quit to form a new one, the blues-influenced King Bees. As the years went by, he went on to study Buddhism and mime, and released his first album, The World of David Bowie, in 1967. The latter followed up this initial success with The Man Who Sold the World, a complex album, whose title track has been covered by artists as diverse as Lulu and Nirvana. He defied any label and was particularly known for his originality and outstanding talent; he was also a producer, painter, film actor, art critic
and above all, the progenitor of bisexual chic. The legendary artist will surely be missed by his fans all over the world. Many of his songs such as "Space Oddity," "Changes," "Fame," "Heroes," "Let's Dance" and "Where Are We Now?" will remain the biggest hits ever made. By Thusika , Natacha and Marina
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Debris of Metrojet Flight 7K9268 on the ground in Sinai, Egypt, October 31st, 2015.
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on Saturday morning, October 31st , in the desert of the Sinai, in Egypt. It was a Russian airliner connecting Charm-el-Sheikh to Saint-Petersburg. The authorities deplore the death of the 224 passengers on board. The plane was not flying over a particularly dangerous zone, a zone with turbulence and was far too high to be shot down by surface-to-air missiles or any military equipment. A question remains without answers: how did this plane crash? Was there a failure in the system of command? Is it bound to the pilots and to their psychological profile? French and American investigators were sent in Egypt to bring their helps to their Egyptian counterparts. This disaster also has important consequences on the diplomatic relations between the Russian and Egyptian governments; Russia demands urgent answers as for the exact causes of the accident.
On the Web, ISIS has already claimed the attack and asserts being the cause of the death of these 224 passengers. However, the experts are skeptical. How could they possibly manage to get explosives on board the plane given the drastic compulsory safety measures the passengers have been subjected to since the
attacks of September 11th, 2001 causing the death of more than 3000 people? There are many mysteries concerning this case but some answers should soon be provided, it is only a matter of days by Adem & Qasem,
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worldwide agricultural scandal
answered « I don't care what you have to use, I'm not selling this ». An argument arose, and after heated discussions, the agricultural engineer resolved to beating her up severely with a carrot from the field. The victim is currently in hospital, where she is being treated for the 72 bruises, serious brain injuOn 6 January 2016 in the north of France, an agricultural engineer violently assaulted his 68 year-old ry and trauma this experience has left her with. client whose farm he had come to inspect. Jean Tragic incident ? ...Or mayFrançois De LaPrune, a loyal employee of the be an inadvertent proof of French leading organic company Bonneterre for over 25 years, was on a business trip to Nord-Pas- what the agricultural marde Calais for the biannual evaluation of Mrs Dumor- ket has truly become ? The question has merit. tier Raymonde's crops, an organic farmer since If we do indeed tend nowa1975. After conducting his biological examination, days to buy more organic Mr De LaPrune found that Mrs Dumortier was in food, surveys all agree violation of their standards since she had failed to that people do it with the produce carrots of the aesthetical norms imposed rationale that « being by Bonneterre to agree to sell their crops. The fargreen » is the new famer responded that producing perfect-looking, shion, according to 44 % straight and well-shaped carrots was impossible without the use of pesticides or GMOs, to which he of the sample group, as
The carrot case which revealed the worldwide agricultural scandal
opposed to the desire of eating healthily (25%) or preserving the environment (19%).* Therefore, there is no increased awareness within society, individuals just continue the same way and shop in their usual stores where they simply agree to pay an average of 25 % more for presumably organic products. But the reason they manage to find organic products in any supermarket is simply because most organic trademarks are bought up by huge foodprocessing multinationals. Indeed, in the case of France, if you buy any product from organic trademarks such as Bonneterre, Bjorg, Evernat, Allos or France Alter Eco, you are actually supporting the economic growth of Royal 9
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Wessanen, the Dutch milliondollar food company which controls organic nutrition in Europe and whose yearly revenue is more than 700 million dollars. Royal Wessanen is one of many companies to apply such policies : indeed, Nestlé, Cargill, Coca-Cola all have significant shares in the organic market. Moreover, in the world 95 % of organic vegetables are produced from seeds of the hybrid variety F1, which means that a random customer has a 50 % chance of buying for example an organic melon from Monsanto, Bayer or Syngenta, since these three predominant chemical companies possess half of the 250 varieties of melon listed in the international GNIF catalogue. This means that many small organic market gardeners are accomplices to the rapid destruction of nutritionary biodiversity ! Only a few weeks after the 10 COP21, this comes as a hard-
blow to organic farming and more generally the fight for environmentalism in France. While taking down Bonneterre, it also seriously discredits the whole of the organic movement, and diminishes the importance of immediate action in the minds of the public, when the situation is actually more precarious than ever. Indeed, pesticides are still a lethal threat to our ecosystem : over 65.000 tons of pesticides are used annually in every country, which amounts to 1.9 kilos of pesticides scattered on our food each second. The popular development of organic farms all over the world is not enough to eradicate the damages we are causing our planet: a single gramme of pesticide is enough to
pollute a small river over ten kilometers ! Therefore it is obvious that organic farming is currently more vital than ever. However, some serious changes have to be made to achieve a real system of environmentallyfriendly farming, without the organic market being in the pockets of multimillionaire multinationals who are currently assassinating product-diversity. We need to stop thinking that bright-coloured, straight and perfectly trimmed vegetables are normal and healthy, once and for all. This recent event proves that we still have a long way to go. *Survey conducted by WorldWide Fund (WWF) in 2012.
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A clinical trial disaster in France A man left brain-dead after an experimental drug trial in Rennes,western France has died and five others were hospitalized.
The 6 patients who have been hospitalized were the first to receive repeat higher doses over the course of several days whereas the others participants have taken lower doses. The other five men are believed to be in a serious condition but at least three of them may suffer irreversible brain damage if they survive, a doctor treating them said. On Friday, the chief neuroscientist at the The last publicly known similar incidents occurred in 2006, after receiving when six men in the United Kingdom suffered severe organ dysfunction small doses of a monoclonal antibody named TGN1412.
The clinical trial for a new painkiller which was developped by Portuguese pharmaceutical company BIAL. Reports that the drug was a cannabis-based painkiller have been denied by the French health ministry. It is described as a fatty-acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) enzyme inhibitor. It all started with 128 healthy volunteers aged 18-55 who were enrolled by a private research company Biotrial. It is a French-based company with an international reputation which has carried out thousands of trials since it was set up in 1989. However only ninety people received different doses of the drug. The main question is why many others who participated in the study since it began apparently have not experienced similarly severe side-effects. Ten of the other 84 have been tested,but did not show any of the 'anamolies' of those. Details about the accident have been slow to emerge. hospital, Gilles Edan, said there was no known antidote to the drug. French prosecutors said they have now expanded their investigation into the clinical trial to include possible manslaughter charges.
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CRASH OF PLANE IN EGYPT
CRASH OF PLANE IN EGYPT An Airbus 321-200 of the Russian airline company crashed in Sinai, Egypt on Saturday, October 31st connecting Charm al Sheikh in Saint-Petersburg the 224 passengers of the charter plane died, France and UNO presented their condolences to the families of the victims. Air France and Lufthansa gave up, by security measure and until further notice, overflying the Sinai. The Egyptian authorities located the fragments of the plane on a zone about 8 km in diameter and maybe more to Al-Hassana, in a mountainous region in about 70 kilometers in the South of the city of El-Arish, in a province of the North-Sinai. Help was immediately sent on the spot by Egypt and Russia. According to the Russian embassy in Egypt. The plane transported seven crew members and 217 Passengers. Among them, 214 were Russian and three Ukrainian, according to the Egyptian government, which evokes 138 women and 17 children. Moscow spoke about 10-month-old passengers to 77 year-old ones. • •
The claim of the Islamic State It is the first time that Daech, who claimed the crash on the very day of the drama, explains how they proceeded, having discovered breath in the security of the airport of the Sharm-el-Sheikh sea resort. The terrorist group publishes a photo presented as were the one of the explosive device, made out of of a can of carbonated drink, a detonator and a switch. But we do not know how the device was placed on board. By Sinan and Souleimane
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Drugs at School
Drugs at School The drug epidemic has pulled cocaine and heroin out of the dark shadows of the cities and into the schools‌
Teens, in a just-released national study, reported that nearly one in five of their classmates drink, use drugs and smoke during the school day, and more than a third said it is fairly easy to do so without getting caught. 60% of high school students and 32%t of middle school students say students keep, use or sell drugs on their school grounds. 36% say it's easy or fairly easy for students to use drugs or smoke without getting caught. Teens estimate that 17 % of classmates use drugs, drink or smoke during school day. More than half of high school students say there's a place on school grounds or near the school where students go to drink, use drugs or smoke during the school day.
Almost half of high school students know a student who sells drugs at their school. Teens were four times more likely to have used marijuana and three times more likely to have used alcohol after seeing pictures on social network of other teens abusing substances compared to teens who have not seen it. For the first time, the study looked at social media, which found that 75 percent of teens said that seeing pictures on social network site of kids partying encourages other teens to want to party like that." It's coolÂť
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Broadsheets Kids are feeling much more encouraged to use at school, but that left lasting mark on teenagers. Kids have to understood that doing drugs would jeopardize their future . It's not the schools' fault that kids are doing drugs, but that's where is access, This is a cultural problem. They think it's all right. Teenagers are concrete and decriminalizing marijuana makes them think it's legal Research shows that more young people smoke marijuana than cigarettes. When marijuana was decriminalized for medical use, she's had young clients come shocked they'd been arrested. Preventative measures are taken in schools and teenagers are introduced to the danger of drugs, the aim is to make them understand it’s not cool and they shouldn’t see it as a trend. Also, authorities are planning on strengthening drugs controls around schools.
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Friday, January 1, 2016 Edition US and World Middle East
Massive fire breaks out at Dubai Downtown Tower on New Year’s eve A violent fire started last Thursday night in a luxury hotel in Dubai which was entirely evacuated.Sixteen people sustained minor injuries but no other casualties were to be deplored . The firemen fought the blaze for nearly 24 hours and smoke can still be seen billowing from the 1,000-foot structure. “The Address Downtown”,a five star hotel situated in a 63-storey tower located just a hundred meters away from the biggest tower in the World , “The Burj Khalifa” has been ravaged by impressive flames. The fire started on the 20th floor , just hours before the Dubai sky was illuminated by fireworks. "Around 8 P.M, we came down for dinner » , explains Maha Abouelnebin, one of the guests who intended to celebrate the new year at the Address complex . « Shortly after our arrival, we saw small flames which quickly got out of control and the blaze spread throughout the hotel.There was smoke everywhere. » « The reasons for the fire are still unknown, » declared Maj. Gen. Rashed al-Matrushi, general director of the Dubai Civil Defense « but an investigation will start as soon as the hotel is cooled down. Our top priority is to determine what happened on the 20th floor. !
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Accident in Quebec
best score- crushed on the victim” “It seems that a customer punched with all his strength the machine , that another customer would have pushed the machine at the same moment and that the machine toppled on the young man who was next to it.” said the direction of La P’tite Grenouille, in a message published on their Facebook account meant to inform the public . In the same way , the direction assured that they collaborated closely with the po-
Patrick Breton, a young man aged 19 years old found a tragic end last night in the bar’La P’tite Grenouille’ in Charlesbourg ,Quebec after a training boxing Machine crushed down on him . The facts happened around 2AM30, late on Wednesday to Thursday. The Police receive a call regarding a young man harmed inside of the establishment situated at 5350 boulevard Henri-Bourassa. On the scene, the emergency services noticed that the victim presented a huge injury on the top the head and that he was in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest. He was transported to the nearest hospital center
where his death was confirmed. The investigation concluded that a training machine was responsible for the death of Patrick Breton. Melissa Cliche, the spokeswoman of SPVQ: “From the information we got it seems that a training machine , - A boxing device with a punch ball which was suspended, a device where people hit the hardest to make the
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Heading lice to help cast a light on the tragic accident and they offer her deepest condolences to the family of the dead young man. Accidental or Deliberate? On Thursday, several witnesses were interro-
gated to reconstitute the track of events and determine if this tragic event was accidental or deliberate. “The people involved in the event have been identified. No charge have been put down yet and no one
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was arrested. The rest of the investigation will help us understand whether gestures have been made deliberately.” specified Melissa Cliche when she wrote these lines.
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