Nigeria attacks in Damaturu and Maiduguri

Nigeria knows no respite. Armed men suspected of belonging to the Boko Haram group burned Monday local police in Damaturu, capital of Yobe state, witnesses said. About 150 miles away, in Maiduguri, two bombs exploded in a market already targeted last week, according to witnesses.

On Friday, at least 120 people were killed in double suicide bombing followed by a shooting at the Great Mosque of Kano, the main northern city.

Boko Haram attacks and repression by security forces have claimed more than 13,000 lives since 2009.

In the ruins of Kobané the difficult survival of civilians

A huge field of ruins. That looks like the Syrian city of Kobané, after two months of struggle against the Islamic state group that attempts to capture the city. And in the midst of chaos, civilians. They would be 2000 again.

"A shell fell and hit us while I was wearing two of my daughters, says a woman. They were injured in my arms. That of 7 years was sent to Turkey, where she died. His body was brought back and we buried here Kobané. "

50,000 people lived here before the war, almost all have fled, mostly to Turkey, home to 1.6 million Syrian refugees.

We are a few kilometers from the city. These people here have fled the bombing and sleeping in their cars or tents. They bring them bread, made in bakery Kobané that was back in service 20 years after its closure.

"Turks treat us badly, complains one of them. They are not letting us back and forth between home and here. They do not allow us to receive food. But the Kurdish forces are sending us food and bread from Kobané. "

During the bombing children hide in burrows kinds. The situation is expected to worsen: the World Food Programme UN should suspend aid to Syrian réfugiens for lack of funding.

World Day against AIDS: the struggle continues

A condom to love in any security. In South Africa, as elsewhere its use is a must and it must be remembered in this world day against AIDS. Yet we die and always AIDS.

In the rainbow nation sky fire Nelson Mandela, more than one in 10 is living with the virus, it is the country with the most people in the world.

AIDS continues its relentless struggle and hope has returned ten years after the first free distribution of anti-retrovirals, but remain vigilant, "Now, the problem is the level of prevention, because there are more and more people who do not use condoms. The campaigns focus more on treatment without encouraging people to think about prevention, that's the current problem, "said the representative of AIDS in South Africa.

The World Health Organization is on the same line. If 15 million people could benefit from treatment in the world in 2015, the best treatment is prevention, which remains difficult in some areas such as the sex workers, among homosexuals, drug users and seniors particularly in the West as explained the doctor.

WHO also calls on both demographic giants of the world, India and China to take more action against AIDS. Most experts believe that the number of HIV is largely undervalued it.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in the early 80s, more than 25 million people died. The scientists are continuing research to finally reach a vaccine.

Striking Lufthansa pilots to defend their retirement

Lufthansa pilots are again strike until Tuesday midnight. A movement that is not a surprise since the negotiations with the German airline had again failed Friday night.

This time it will be even canceled flights in 1350, almost a flight on both, and affected 150,000 passengers. Users exceeded by the tenth strike since April.

"The pilots earn enough, if a transient cookie in Munich. They can fly up to 65 years. They do not tell me it's impossible. Nobody believes them when they say they need to retire at 55 years. "

"It's a hard strike, but it becomes too painful, though on the other hand I understand that we want to fight for their rights, adds a man at Frankfurt airport. But it's still on the back of people like us that it falls, as on those who take the train. It's starting to do too much. "

The strikers are fighting to maintain a pre-retirement at age 55 with 60% of their salary until the official retirement age to 65. In late October, Lufthansa amounted to some € 170 million shortfall caused by the strikes.

Piracy: the founder of Megaupload remains on bail

It is on bail the founder of Megaupload.com wait his possible extradition to the United States. The next hearing is scheduled for June 2015. In New Zealand, where he resides, Kim Dotcom has been fighting for nearly three years against this threat. The United States want to judge Kim Dotcom real name Kim Schmitz, for Piracy: the founder of Megaupload fraudulently raised the equivalent of € 140 million by offering pirated copies of motion pictures, television programs and other content, via its Megaupload file-sharing site.

Uruguay: Vazquez returned to the presidency

Winning return for the one who was the first leader of the left from the 2005 to 2010. Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez yesterday easily won the second round of presidential elections.

The oncologist of 74 years received 56.6% of the vote according to final results against his opponent's center-right National Party, Luis Lacalle Pou, 41, son of a former president.

In his speech to euphoric militants, Tabaré Vazquez praised "tolerance and respect for democratic rules." He also called for a new approach to the "new challenges" of the country. Uruguay today is not the 2005 or 2010, "he said.

The head of the elected State also called for a national agreement in safety and education, two key themes of the campaign.

It will also deal with the economic slowdown affecting Latin America and its own vis-à-vis reluctance very progressive laws of outgoing President José Mujica as the legalization of abortion, gay marriage and cannabis.

Tabaré Vazquez will take office on March 1, ensuring a third consecutive term in the left coalition Frente Amplio.

Increased tension in Hong Kong

After more than two months of demonstrations in favor of democracy, the police pushed back by force Monday activists who were trying to encircle the seat of power in the former British colony.

A sudden fever which resulted in clashes, many wounded and a wave of arrests of forty advocates.

Present in number and armed with sticks and pepper gas, the police quickly took the ascendancy.

This protester denounced "the attitude of the police. Us, we do not have a weapon. Them, they hurt so many people, we are non-violent unlike them. "

2017 pro-democracy require the election of the Chief Executive by all Hong Kong people. Beijing approved the principle of "one person, one vote" but reserved a predominantly favorable electoral committee to the Chinese Communist Party with the task of screening.

Chinese territory enjoying considerable autonomy, Hong Kong is experiencing its worst political crisis since its return to Beijing in 1997. The authorities do not intend to abdicate and the police received reinforcements forcing protesters to retreat into a mall where new clashes occurred.