Former ETA leader France law of 20 years in prison

Paris (Reuters)-a former military leader of the Basque separatist group ETA, known as "Txeroki" or "Cherokee" was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in France, on Wednesday, on charges of kidnapping and bomb-making.

Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, Miguel de was arrested in 2008 in the area of the Pyrenees mountains near the border with Spain and linked to the abduction of Spayol couples and a child in that area in the previous year, Reuters reports.

At the time, he was the most sought-after people in Spain for his role in the 2006 bomb attacks against Madrid airport that killed two people.

The Court declared the defendants guilty of France has about 500 kilograms of explosives as well as kidnapping the couple and their son were Spain, who was four years old.

Nine other defendants in the trial were sentenced to between eight and 20 years in prison.

Last month, the former leader of ETA's military expressed "regret" over the fall victim in the violence of the guerrilla group when they tried to set up an independent State in the territories of France and Spain.

Convey remorse that Txeroki as he appeared with nine other members of ETA suspects in courts of Paris.

A court in Spain 2011 convicting in absentia sentence of 375 years in prison Txeroki as 20 assassination attempt.

ETA, listed as a terrorist organization by the u.s. and the European Union, accused of being responsible for the deaths of more than 800 people over four decades of armed struggle to establish an independent State in the Basque region of Northern Spain and southern France.

On October 20, the armed separatist group, declares "permanent cessation of activity is right" after bomb attacks and shootings for more than 40 years.

The Declaration of the end of the separatist groups it highlights great lengths last in Western Europe who was accused of being responsible for the death of hundreds of people.

Madrid refused to conduct a dialogue with the group, and stressed that they must disperse themselves unilaterally without strings attached.

Spain and France are working closely to quell ETA, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people in their 42 years of guerrilla war to establish an independent State in the Basque areas of Northern Spain and southwestern France.

ETA, which some time ago commemorating half a century of their birth, was formed on July 31, 1959 by a group of left-wing nationalist students opposed to the right-wing dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, which suppressed the Basque language.

Security forces estimate that the separatist group was weakened as a result of the arrest of the leaders of their high and has long been relatively inactive. (M014)

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"Skipper steel" Egypt was sentenced to 37 years in prison

Cairo (Reuters)-A Criminal Court of Egypt dropped 37-year prison sentence to Ahmed Ezz, who is known as "the skipper of steel" in the era of former President Hosni Mubarak and prominent member of the party which was then in power.

Ezz was condemned for corruption charges, benefit themselves and looting of State funds. The investigation revealed the country funds in vain Ezz deal to buy a State-owned steel company, Ad-Dekheila.

Through the deal, private profit as much as Ezz 710 million US dollars from 2001 to 2011 with the help of senior government officials.

Ezz proved to unite State-owned companies, Ad-Dekheila, with his own steel company under a single trademark "Ezz Dekheila Ad-", Xinhua reports.

Ezz, aides close to Mubarak's son--Gamal Mubarak, was arrested at the end of February 2011, once the process of overthrowing the Government of Mubarak.

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Turtles take 45 years to grow up

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8 November 2011 Last updated at 00:58 By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC Nature The new estimate shows how long it will take turtle conservation efforts to yield results Loggerhead turtles take almost half a century to reach maturity, say scientists.

A female turtle, the researchers report in the journal Functional Ecology, will not start to lay eggs until she is 45.

This estimate, based on examination of several decades of data on the turtles' growth, has implications for conservation efforts.

It reveals how long it takes for turtles hatched at a protected nesting site to return to that site to breed.

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Previous estimates of their age at maturity are all over the place - spanning from 10 years to 35 years”

End Quote Prof Graeme Hays Swansea University Prof Graeme Hays from the University of Swansea, one of the authors of the study, explained how reaching maturity so slowly meant that the turtle population was "less resilient" than previously thought.

"The longer an animal takes to reach maturity, the more vulnerable the population is to [man-made] causes of mortality," said Prof Hays.

This, he explained, was because there was a much higher chance of an individual animal being killed - for example, by being deliberately or accidentally caught in a fishing net - before it had been able to "replace itself" by breeding.

It is, however, extremely difficult to follow the life cycle of a sea turtle. These long-lived marine reptiles are impossible track as they drift through thousands of kilometres of ocean, spending the vast majority of their time underwater.

The team estimated the loggerheads' growth rate by collating measurements of newly hatched turtles

"You can't follow one individual throughout its life," Prof Hays explained.

"So previous estimates of their age at maturity are all over the place - spanning from 10 years to 35 years. It was impossible to get some sort of consensus."

To overcome this problem, the researcher and his colleagues embarked on a three-part data trawl.

To estimate the growth rate of newly hatched turtles, the team examined measurements of hatchlings at a nesting site in Florida and compared these with the sizes of the same turtles when they had drifted across to the Azores islands in the middle of the North Atlantic.

This journey - drifting several thousand kilometres on the currents - takes approximately 450 days. The scientists were able to see from the data they examined how much the turtles grew during that time.

The team also used many hundreds of measurements made by scientists who had captured, marked and recaptured individual loggerhead turtles. Using these figures, they were able to chart the animals' growth rate.

All of this data enabled the researchers to use the size of mature loggerhead turtle mothers - measured at several well-studied nesting sites - to estimate their ages.

Bryan Wallace, science adviser for Conservation International's Sea Turtle Flagship Program, said that knowing how long it took turtles to grow up gave "a better idea of how long conservation efforts should be maintained on nesting beaches before we can expect to literally see the results".

Dr Wallace told BBC Nature: "These estimates reinforce that animals like sea turtles take a very long time to recover from human-caused population declines.

"So conservation efforts must be appropriately targeted to address the most important threats, and they must be maintained for decades to ensure success."

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15 Years On, the Secret of Fox News's Success

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The media world might have been shocked when a recent Pew Research poll named Fox News Channel the public's top news source: In the July poll, 19 percent of Americans said they turned to Fox as their main source of national and international news, followed by CNN with 15 percent. But Fox exec Brit Hume wasn't surprised by the results. Thinking back 15 years to the Oct. 7, 1996, debut of the cable news channel, he recalls how nobody outside Fox thought it would even survive. "It wasn't that reports of our demise were exaggerated," he says, "nobody even thought we'd get far enough to have a demise." Now, he wonders, why aren't the other news programs following Fox's lead?

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"Our competitive advantage in the cable news field has persisted because of the fact that they didn't change their ways," says Hume, Fox's former managing editor and former host of the evening Special Report, now run by Bret Baier. "So here we are in first place, and polls are showing that more people trust us for news than trust the networks," says Hume. "That's amazing, when you think of where we started."

It all started as an idea hatched by Fox honcho Rupert Murdoch, who hired GOP campaign strategist Roger Ailes to run the new channel. Ailes set out to build from scratch a network that resembled a newspaper: news and opinion. And, says Hume, the formula hasn't changed.

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But it was slow going. Baier says when he arrived in 1998, he'd have to explain to sources that, no, he didn't work for the "Simpsons Fox," a reference to the entertainment channel. He and Hume agree the transformation occurred around the 2000 election, when Fox parked correspondents in Florida to cover the recount while many in the media were suggesting that George W. Bush was stealing the election. "We were not slow to understand that there were two ways to look at that," says Hume.

Though Fox is slapped for being conservative, Hume says its goal is covering a side that's often ignored in the more liberal mainstream media. "I had long believed that, as somebody who worked in the mainstream media [ABC], that there were two sides of the street and the mainstream were basically working one side," he says. "And that there was a journalistically legitimate set of opportunities on the other side of the street that if anybody ever worked would have a distinctive product, and that a lot of people would like it." Baier adds that being the public's top choice hasn't gone to Fox's head. "We still have that early scrappiness Roger wanted at the beginning," he says.

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Ten years later: students with President Bush on 9/11.

By Jonathan Serrie released September 09, 2011| FoxNews.com

Sarasota (Florida) - ten years after 9/11, members of a class of rank second reading to President George w. Bush during his visit to Emma Booker elementary recall clearly how its expression changed when his Chief of staff whispered in his ear.

"I thought something was bothering him and there was a kind of political agenda goes to Washington, D.C., where he was to attend to," said Lazaro Dubrocq, now a high school senior.

"But that we started our reading, it seemed to follow with us." Therefore, I assumed that he abandoned the thought and so have I. »

Former President fired heat from critics to sit with the class until they complete the reading. In an upcoming National Geographic documentary, President Bush said he would not frighten children. And students say that he made the right decision.

"I wonder what good would it if he left immediately, or if he had panicked and what type of printing that have left, not only students, but the nation as a whole,"said Dubrocq. ".

The news of the spread of the attacks, the parents of the school is concerned.

"A lot of parents are venus and children were leaving early, said former student elementary Booker Mariah Williams, now also a high school senior." "". Their parents thought that the school would be attacked, then, that President Bush was here. »

Professor Kay Daniels recalled the difficult task of explaining what was happening to her classroom in fairly simple terms for 7 years understanding, without causing unnecessary fear.

"It was really difficult," said Daniels. "Because I discovered after what was happened, it took me a moment to absorb and to grieve a little." "And I had to act very quickly because I find children."

Students say that adults did a good job of the events in perspective. Although 9/11 shattered some preconceived notion of security, the class members say that they do not grow in fear.

"The world is not a perfect place and it is not harmonious, said Dubrocq." "". "But I do not think that the effect is minimized by my parents and teachers who wanted if ensure that he did not affect us at a point as we were instilled with the fear of another attack."

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America marks ten years since 9/11.

NEW YORK - Americans gather Sunday to pray at cathedrals in their cities and to wear roses before positions of fire in their smaller cities, remembering the worst terrorist attacks on American soil.

Around the world, many others will do something similar as so changed for them that day, too.

Ten years arrived from 3 000 were killed at the hands of a global terror network terrorists crashed planes diverted in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and a fourth plane crashed in a field in rural Western Pennsylvania.

Sunday, church bells will toll. Americans will see new memorials at the bottom of Manhattan, rural Pennsylvania and elsewhere, symbols of a determination to retain and to rebuild.

But much of the weight of the ceremonies of this year lies in what is largely implied. The role of the anniversary is in prompting Americans to examine how affected attacks them and the rest of the world and the prosecution are trying to include 9/11 place in the history of the nation.

""Many of the passwords in the background,"said Ken Foote, author of" shadowed ground: landscapes of Violence and tragedy, America "examines the role the veneration of the sites of the death and disaster in modern life.".These anniversaries are particularly critical in what story to tell, that this all ways to find. It requires people to understand what happened to us. »

Saturday in the West of rural Pennsylvania, more than 4000 people have begun to tell the story again.

At the inauguration of the National Memorial to Flight 93 near the town of Shanksville, former Presidents George w. Bush and Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden joined the families of the 40 passengers and crewmembers aboard the Jet that counter against the hijackers.

"The time where American democracy was attacked that our citizens challenging their captors by organizing a vote", Bush said. Their choice the cost of their lives.

Passengers and crew gave "across the country countless gift: they saved the Capitol of attack," an amount countless lives and denied al-Qaida the symbolic victory of the "smashing the Centre of the US Government", said Clinton.

They were "ordinary people given no time to decide and they did the right thing", he said.

"And 2 500 years, I hope and pray to God that people will still remember this.".

The Memorial Park in Pennsylvania is age of completion. But the consecration and a service to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks are the essential milestones, said Sally Ware, one of the volunteers "ambassadors" who works as a guide on the site since the disaster.

Ware, whose home was rocked when the aircraft crashed two miles away, recalled how hundreds of people flocked to the site in the days later to leave their own memories and memorials. She started volunteering after finding an along the road - a red rose placed at the top of the uniform of the edge.

"It really annoyed me.". "I thought that someone has to deal with this," said Ware, whose daughter is flight attendant.

Now, a decade later, she said that the Memorial can do little to relieve the pain of the families of those who died in the accident.

But the weekend ceremonies reminds me of a story with a much broader scope. Ceremonies to honor those who "fought the first battle against terrorism, and they have won," Ware said. "It is one thing, I don't want to miss." It became a part of my life. »

Sunday, the focus turns to ceremonies in the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C. and in lower Manhattan for the inauguration of the Memorial on 11 September. President Barack Obama planned to attend events on sites and was to speak to a service on Sunday evening at the Kennedy Center.

The New York ceremony begins at 08: 30, with a moment of silence 16 minutes later - which coincides with the exact time when the first tower of the trade center was hit by a hijacked plane.

And then, one by one, the reading of the names of the 2 977 killed September 11 in New York, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania.

And therefore arrived one Sunday dedicated to remembrance, with hundreds of ceremonies across the country and around the world: for a memorial mass at the Cathedral of St. Patrick in New York in a ceremony featuring nine-stories-tall replica of the twin towers on an esplanade in Paris.

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