Bahrain on after the arrest of opposition leader

Tension mounts in Bahrain. More and more voices are raised to denounce the Sunday arrest of the leader of the Shiite opposition, Sheikh Ali Salman. Around Manama, the capital, demonstrations were marred by clashes on Monday with security forces in villages Shiite majority.

In a joint text, several opposition parties believe that the leader's arrest is an "escalation" that threaten "social stability" and "civil peace."

The Sunni Al-Khalifa dynasty is at the head of the Gulf kingdom, a close ally of the United States. For four years, a protest movement is led by the Shiite majority.

Reappointed as head of the main opposition party, Al Wefaq, the Sheikh Salman was charged with "inciting regime change by force." Last Friday, a protest of several thousand people demanded the ouster of the government and termed illegitimate Parliament.

AirAsia: the missing aircraft is probably "in the seabed"

The airline AirAsia is probably the "bottom of the sea." This was accepted by the Indonesian authorities after the disappearance of the Airbus Malaysian low-cost carrier. Dozens of aircraft and ships continue the search to locate the device. 162 people were on board, most of Indonesian nationality. The co-pilot, Rémi Plesel Emmanuel, was French.

The plane left Surabaya in East Java, had to join Singapore. He disappeared Sunday morning after the pilot requested permission to deviate from the flight plan due to bad weather.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, expressed support to the families of the missing. "I was very shocked and I could feel the concern, frustration and sadness passenger families, and I believe that of all Indonesians. I asked the Ministry of Transport immediately to review all procedures in civil aviation, including the application of the highest standards of maintenance of aircraft, "he said.

Australia, Malaysia and Singapore will contribute research operations. Equipment to detect waves from the flight recorders will be used in particular.

West Bank: A Palestinian teenager shot dead by the Israeli army

In the West Bank, a Palestinian aged 17 died under the bullets of the Israeli army. He was part of a group who threw stones at cars on a road alongside Palestinian villages and Jewish settlements. Another teenager was injured. The military say they have made warning shots before opening fire directly. An investigation was opened.

A cry Taiwan Ho, the TV show hippo

It was called A Ho and was the heyday of private ranch which he belonged. It was he that the Taiwanese were photographed since his appearance in a very popular series on television a few years ago.

But on Monday, A Ho took his last breath. The whole country had moved his fate Friday when the animal had suffered two successive accidents. Panicked, he first jumped from a moving truck, breaking the left rear leg and teeth. He had been lying on its side for hours in the street, tongue hanging and a white fluid leaking from her eyes. All television broadcast of the island had the poignant images of A Ho, hippopotamus wept.

But the ordeal of A Ho did not stop there. The container that brought him to the ranch for treatment had overturned, falling two meters high and crashed on the road. Explanation: cable breakage of a winch.

On the death of A Ho on Monday, the Minister of Agriculture, Chen Bao-ji, criticized the owner of the ranch to his negligence. The prosecution also plans to launch proceedings against him. According to the preliminary results of the autopsy performed at the Taipei Zoo, In Ho would, however, died of his first fall.

Lithuania: the euro will replace the litas to 1 January

Lithuania is preparing to say goodbye to its national currency, the litas. The country will become the 19th member of the euro area on January first. A majority of Lithuanians support this major step in the rapprochement with Western Europe. But many are also concerned about a possible rise in prices. An increase that will remain very limited promises the government. It is true that the Lithuanian currency is welded for 12 years already the euro.

For Visvaldas Matijosaitis, an entrepreneur, the arrival of the euro will not change much. "Already the litas, the national currency is firmly linked to the euro," he says, "for business nothing will change. It's just good to have new tickets in hand, and the figures will be lower for transactions. "

After a painful austerity cure, Lithuania has returned in recent years with the growth, and the government hopes the euro, more cheaper investments and credits.

Algirdas Butkevicius, Lithuanian Prime Minister believes that "the spirit of entrepreneurs changes. They understand that we should be better employed on less risky markets. Use a stable currency like the euro may reduce profits but provide stability for the long term business. "

Lithuania was the last of the three Baltic states to join the euro. It borders the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. The Ukrainian crisis and fear of Russian expansionism has strengthened the country's desire to anchor its rapprochement with the West.

Greece: suspended international aid to the result of legislative

Cassandra of Greek politics had predicted: the only presidential candidate Stavros Dimas received only 168 votes in the third and final round of voting in the presidential election, which was held on Monday in the Vouli, the Greek Parliament. He would have needed 180 to be elected.

Consequence: the room will be dissolved. The outgoing Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced early parliamentary for January 25. A scenario that opens the door to come to power Syriza radical left opposition.

This has stalled the Athens Stock Exchange by more than 11%. The benchmark of no more than 3.9% abandoned at closing. Markets fear that Greece overcome the Troika, as we explained to our correspondent, Giannisis Stamatis: "For many analysts, this legislation will have a referendum-like where voters will decide whether the country should continue reforms Economic agreed with the troika - the European Union, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund - or should go to the collision with its international creditors. "

Moreover, the IMF decided to suspend payment of the next tranche of aid to Greece until the formation of a new government. According to him, the postponement does not jeopardize the financial viability of the country that has returned to growth after six years of recession. Since 2010, the troika has released no less than EUR 240 billion to avoid bankruptcy for Greece. It now requires new salary cuts and new tax increases to pay an additional € 7.2 billion.

If elected, the leader of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, notably promised the end of austerity and the cancellation of nearly two-thirds of the Greek debt, currently estimated at 175% of GDP. He also spoke of increasing the minimum wage and state spending and re-nationalize recently privatized property.

2014, a black year for commercial aviation

2014 will remain a black year for the airline industry. The series began on March 8 with the disappearance of MH370 flight Malaysia Airlines. Party of Kuala Lumpur, Beijing leadership, with 239 people on board the aircraft had issued its last signal above the Indian Ocean, seven hours after takeoff. Despite colossal research, the most important and most expensive in history, the aircraft remains found at this day.

Extremely rare, Malaysia Airlines will be mourning a second time on July 17, when another of its Boeing is shot down by a missile over Eastern Ukraine. 298 people, the majority of Dutch people, perished in the crash. The next day, the European authorities forbid overflights of the region.

A few days later, on 23 July, it is a ATR -72 TranAsia Airways which crashed during a second landing attempt on an island of Taiwan. The flight was delayed because of a typhoon. The propeller plane crashed in a residential area near the airport. Of the 58 passengers, ten survived the accident.

The next day, in Mali that crashed for reasons still unknown, the 5017 flight of Air Algeria. The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, operated by Swiftair company, fell half an hour after takeoff from Ouagadougou. Bad weather conditions are advanced to explain this crash that made no survivor.

In 2014, aircraft accidents have killed more people than the annual average of the past five years. However, security continues to grow: the tests before the entry into service of new aircraft are very demanding and automatic navigation systems are becoming more sophisticated. Each accident is used to improve aviation safety. The tragedy of the Rio-Paris in 2009 has led Air France to extend from 30 to 90 days the transmission time tags black boxes. Moreover, its aircraft transmit their positions every ten minutes,

or even every minute, in the case of path deviation. Measures that are not yet mandatory.