POLITICS: Primary socialist Martine Aubry "take responsibility"

REUTERS - Martine Aubry made Sunday a further step towards a Socialist candidate for the primary pre-presidential election, explaining that she "wanted the Left wins" and "want to be helpful" to his country.
In an interview with France 2, the first secretary of the PS said that his remark was "very advanced" on the subject, speaking of "determination" of "enthusiasm" and "responsibility."

Words chosen carefully to whom some blamed for not having done so far shows his desire to get into the presidential race.
"My desire is that the left wins, and my desire is to be useful to my country," said the mayor of Lille, who is head of the PS for three years.
"Yes," she answered the question of whether it was part of socialist officials may participate in the primary PS in October, which will nominate the candidate of his camp in the race for the Elysee.

Martine Aubry said he started "long ago" a reflection on this subject, "well before" the fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former favorite of the polls today charged with sexual assault in the United States.
"Without haste, I keep thinking that this is already, you can imagine, very advanced, and I keep on track because the French are asking us that."

"Be prepared, I prepared myself," she said. "For me, politics is not a career, it is saying all the time: 'Where do I find most useful?"

"I've always taken my responsibilities, the French know and I will take them. They know they can trust me."

"It takes up"

"I say things when I tell them," summed up the former Minister of Employment and standard-bearer for the week of 35 hours.
According to schedule, the candidates for the Socialist primary will be filed between June 28 and July 13.

The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the last weekend in New York, has upset the Socialists, who relied on the Director General of the International Monetary Fund to beat the incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy, whose candidacy is little doubt.
François Hollande, the primary candidate for PS, is the new favorite of opinion polls, which also places Martine Aubry in a good position when probing the polls in the first round of presidential elections.
Martine Aubry refused to compare the member of Correze, who led the Socialist Party before it for ten years.
"Candidates are not adversaries, they are comrades who are defending what they believe is good for their country and I abide by this rule to the end, I am a candidate or than I am not," she said.
François Hollande will be Sunday evening's guest log 20 hours of TF1.
Other declared candidates for the primary are the member Arnaud Montebourg and Segolene Royal, defeated candidate in the presidential election of 2007.
"An election is never a foregone conclusion but rely on our enthusiasm, on my enthusiasm and my determination to get everything done in 2012 that France finds itself in the background," said Martine Aubry .
The daughter of Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission (1985-1995) who had himself given up to run for the Elysee, acknowledged that the supposed presidential ambitions certain qualities.
"I am a normal woman in that I live like everyone else, but I think when one wants to run for the Presidency of the Republic, it takes a little more," she said.

"He incarnate France, its values ​​must be the same height and time proximity to the French."

NORTH KOREA: A quartet of former political leaders to visit Pyongyang

AFP - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived Tuesday in North Korea for a visit to assess the food situation, pacify inter-Korean tensions and encourage the resumption of negotiations on denuclearization.

Jimmy Carter and three other former heads of state and government hope to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and his son and presumed successor Kim Jong-Un, but nothing is certain yet.The official news agency of North Korea announced their arrival in a statement on a line, with no details.

The group of four "old", which includes the former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and former Irish President Mary Robinson, took off from China on Tuesday and will travel to Seoul on Thursday.

Efforts to resume the dialogue between the Koreas stalled. The South demanded an apology from Pyongyang about two serious indicents occurred in 2010 - the sinking of a corvette in March and the bombing of an island in November - but the North refused.

The six-party talks on denuclearization are also deadlocked since 2008.Pyongyang announced in November a uranium enrichment plant, which represents portentiellement a second way to obtain a nuclear bomb.

The food crisis in North Korea will also be the focus of this visit, had said Monday in Beijing the four "old".

According to the UN, more than six million people, or one quarter of the North Korean people, are in urgent need of food aid.

Jimmy Carter visited Pyongyang for the first time in 1994, to meet the founding president Kim Il-Sung, while North Korea and the United States was on the verge of declaring war because of nuclear program Pyongyang.

Former U.S. President had also visited this country in the summer of 2010, to secure the release of a U.S. citizen, but he had not met with Kim Jong-Il.

The President may also seek the release of a Korean-Americans detained in North Korea since last November because of unspecified crimes against the country. It would be a missionary, according to an anonymous source.

NIGERIA: Nigerians elect their president, Goodluck Jonathan outgoing favorite

Over 73 million Nigerians are electing their president Saturday in an election whose outgoing Goodluck Jonathan is favored, and show whether the giant nation has finally turned the page of the violent and fraudulent elections.

A week after the parliamentary elections that had been postponed twice but finally took place largely in a calm, voters are eligible to vote from 8:00 local time (0700 GMT).

Goodluck Jonathan, 53, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) training that dominates the political scene and has won every presidential election since the return to civilian rule in 1999, with a share ahead of analysts.

Especially since the opposition has failed this week to form an alliance to face him.

But the incumbent could be challenged by Muhammadu Buhari, former military dictator 69 years old who is seeking the highest office for the third time since 1999.

Muslim from the north, it can count on broad support in this region face Jonathan, a Christian of the Niger Delta, the southern oil-producing countries, the largest producer of crude oil from Africa.

Nuhu Ribadu, who led the anti-corruption agency in Nigeria, and Ibrahim Shekarau, outgoing governor of Kano State (North), two other candidates are considered important in this election.

Nigeria is currently engaged in a series of ballots.April 26 will be the elections of governors of the federation of 150 million people as well as regional assembled.

The 2007 general elections were marred by fraud in the view of most observers, and efforts have been made to ensure that things go differently this year, thanks to the work of a new electoral commission headed by a respected teacher .

The local and international observers have praised the good performance of legislative Saturday, raising hopes of a peaceful presidential election.

However, at least 35 people were killed in bombings and other election-related violence since late last week, according to election commission

The borders were closed Thursday night and had to reopen Monday. Restrictions on vehicular traffic have been imposed for Saturday.

NIGERIA: The legislative postponed to Monday for "organizational problems"

AFP - Nigeria has decided to postpone its elections lésiglatives to Monday because of organizational problems that marred the vote scheduled for Saturday, said the head of the electoral commission.

"To preserve the integrity of elections and retain overall control process effective, the commission has taken the difficult but necessary to repel Monday, April 4, 2011 elections to the National Assembly," saidAttahiru Jega the press.

The election of 360 members of the House of Representatives and 109 Senators would be Saturday the first of a planned series in the month, a test for democracy in the country's most populous country.

The most important presidential has been set for Saturday, April 9. It must be followed on 16 regional elections.

TECHNOLOGY: Apple is about to unveil a new iPad

The U.S. manufacturer Apple expected to unveil on Wednesday a new version of its tablet computer iPad, which should be given additional features to better counter the competition from devices left by other manufacturers lately.

On the eve of the conference format in San Francisco (California, western United States) from 1800 GMT, the blogosphere was buzzing with rumors about the new waiting.

Apple, for its part has merely invite journalists by sending them a picture showing the corner of a calendar sheet is covered on an iPad.

A year ago, the Apple boss Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, calling it "revolutionary and magical product really." This year Mr.Jobs, 56, is on sick leave since mid-January, but according to the news site specializing All Things Digital, however it would consider making an appearance to attend the presentation of the iPad 2.

Analysts at Goldman Sachs, "the device should provide a first line of defense against competing tablets expected in the coming months."An enhanced memory, a more powerful microprocessor, cameras front and back, perhaps a thinner design and more angular, could characterize the new device.

"In today's market, we can not wait long to deliver an update," he told AFP by Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, who said that "other tablets have caught at least ( capacity) of the model last year. "

Monday, Motorola's Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha said he was pleased with initial sales of its tablet Xoom, running the Google Android Honeycomb: very noticed the large electronics show in Las Vegas in January, the unit is stores since Thursday and it has "started well", despite its hefty price tag.

Samsung sells for several months his Galaxy Tab, and BlackBerry prepares its playbook for its part, while Hewlett-Packard has announced its TouchPad for next summer.

In February, the consulting firm Deloitte predicts that it would sell a total of fifty million tablets this year. Apple has sold some 15 million iPad 2010.

MEXICO - FRANCE: Case Break: Mexico withdrew from the Year of France in Mexico

REUTERS - The Mexican authorities said Monday they had no intention of transferring Florence Break in France and they announced their withdrawal of the Year held in Mexico in France.

They respond to the request of Nicolas Sarkozy, who has again claimed Monday that the repatriation of French 36 year old sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico for complicity in kidnapping.The French president has proposed serving her sentence in France.

Nicolas Sarkozy also announced that the Year of Mexico would be maintained and would always mention the case of Florence Break.

The Mexican government has decided to withdraw from the event, accusing France of the diversion for political purposes.

"The trial of Cassez demonstrated his guilt," said the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement, referring to victims and witnesses called to testify.

Nicolas Sarkozy received Monday for the tenth time the parents of the young woman, whose last appeal was rejected last week by the Mexican justice system, while it has always protested his innocence.

International Convention

"I am ready to speak with Mexican officials the conditions of this transfer and guarantees they would like to receive in exchange," said the French president.

He recalled that his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon, had proposed in a letter this transfer, under an international convention in Strasbourg, and said he would call on this.

The Mexican government responded that this Convention does not accept a state to any transfer request made by another State.

Nicolas Sarkozy has instead announced the continuation of the Year of France in Mexico, which began Feb. 3.

Family, friends, counsel for Florence Break, Frank Berton, and French leaders demanded the cancellation of some 200 cultural events, historical or economic need to punctuate the year in Paris and the provinces.

The French president said that removing these events constitute an "offense to the Mexican people" and would be contrary to the interests of Florence Break.He said he based his decision in consultation with the young woman with whom he had just spoken on the phone and he said he wanted to dedicate this year in Mexico.

"(...) I ask that every official will have the opportunity to speak during these events begins by talking about Cassez, its location, so we do not forget," he added Head of State, who said he wanted to make his own speech on the occasion of one of them.

Hostages

Arriving in Mexico in August 2003 for a vacation, Cassez had decided to move to Mexico where she became acquainted with Israel Vallarta, presented by the Mexican police as the leader of a gang of kidnappers.She became the girlfriend, but claims to have known nothing of his activities.

The police acknowledged that his arrest had been staged for television and she had no place December 9, 2005, as originally announced, but the day before.

Upon his arrest, three hostages, including a girl, were found on the ranch where she was.

Me Berton, who attended the meeting at the Elysee Palace, confirmed he would report within a fortnight from the public prosecutor of Paris against the Mexican Minister of Public Security, Genaro Garcia Luna .

The lawyer said that this complaint for forgery and forgery of public and fabrication of evidence would also apply Luis Cárdenas Palomino, former right-hand Garcia Luna to the head of the Mexican Federal Investigation Agency.

Genaro Garcia Luna was responsible for the Mexican police during the arrest of Florence Break.