The Sareb received 37 billion euros of assets toxiques

MADRID (Reuters) - The Sareb, the "bad bank" created by the Government of Madrid, was given 37 billion euros of toxic assets of four nationalized banks, the first step towards cleaning sector bank espagnol.

These

and doubtful property assets are first transferred to the hive, whose creation is to restore confidence in banks pays.

Most come from Bankia, which benefited in May the largest bailout ever developed for a bank espagnole.

Bankia has transferred 22.32 billion euros in assets, followed by Catalunya Banc (6.71 billion euros), NCG Banco, Banco Gallego (5.71 billion) and Banco de Valencia (1.96 billion) announced the Sareb lundi.

She said she would seek to sell these assets with the idea to make "maximum return for its shareholders" .

In exchange for the assets, the banks gave Sareb bonds guaranteed by the State .

The main Spanish banks, with the exception of BBVA have invested in the structure at the urging of the government, alongside the Frob, the public fund to help banks difficulté.

Sarah Morris, Veronique Tison for service français

Pyrenees: the death of a 17 year old skier stuck under a avalanche

Un young skier of 17 years, hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday, Jan. 2 after being caught in an avalanche while he was off-roading with his father at the station Gourette (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) , died at the hospital in Pau, it was learned from the préfecture.

Le death of the young, a native of Nantes and transported in critical condition after spending several hours in the snow, took place shortly before 19:00, the source said, confirming a report by South West on its website. "Relief alerted by his father to 24:45 located the young man about two hours after the avalanche occurred," had said earlier the prefecture a corresponding AFP .

Enseveli under several meters of neige

"The young man and his father (...) have triggered an avalanche quite large, about 200 meters long, around 12:40 in the valley of Anglas, part of the off-piste Pyrenean resort", has also said an official of the station. "The young man's father was able to extricate himself, but not the son," he ajouté.

Près 50 men, police platoon mountaineering Oloron-Sainte-Marie (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), firefighters, rescue and civil protection helicopters were immediately made on site. The young man had been located by avalanche dog. "The challenge was to dig for relief under 4-5 feet of snow before (it) out," had they shown in préfecture.

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Veolia embarks on dismantling sites nucléaires

PARIS (Reuters) - Veolia Environnement and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) Tuesday announced a strategic agreement in the cleanup and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, a new promising market for the global management and water déchets.

While this activity is in its infancy today for Veolia, with a turnover of 30 to 40 million, CEO Antoine Frérot group said it could represent annual sales of 300 to 400 million 'three to four ans.

"The market will arise very quickly, there is no time to wait," he said during a conference presse.

Veolia, which wants to develop its expertise in the inventories of sites, dismantling, sorting and packaging waste, defined more generally play "the role of integrator and integrator" of filière.< / p>The Company believes

and it will not be in direct competition with EDF and Areva.

"We give a guarantee of independence from the nuclear industry, Veolia is a provider outside this sector," said Antoine Frérot.

Referring to repeated conflicts with the CEO of EDF Proglio, former boss of Veolia, Antoine Frérot also assured that they would not affect relations between the two groups: "There may be a problem between men and no problem between organizations. "

Veolia, facing an erosion of margins in the water in France and a European waste market lowered, starts for the first time in a long business growth prospects clearly prometteuses.

Globally, the company said nearly 300 reactors will be decommissioned over the next twenty to thirty années.

"SELLING ON THE FRENCH MARKET"

The cost of decommissioning may exceed 200 billion over twenty years worldwide, including 32 million in France, where nine reactors are being decommissioned, also said Antoine Frérot.

"As always, we will be strong on the world market if we are strong in the French market," he dit.

According to Antoine Frérot

named CEO of Veolia in November 2009 and CEO in December 2010, the development of the group's activities in the cleanup and decommissioning of nuclear facilities illustrates the strategic shift of the company, led to great fanfare disposals asset .

"Refocusing Veolia aims to focus the company on environmental issues of scale in the world, where there is the volume but also the value, that is to say, the more customers willing to pay the price know-how of our company. "

The agreement between Veolia and the CEA provides a first step in technological collaboration, particularly in the radiological mapping sites, especially through instruments mesure.

Through its dedicated subsidiary

Asteralis, Veolia intends to provide industrial solutions tailored to achieve the state of affairs of nuclear installations throughout their dismantling and once operations réalisées.

A first implementation of the agreement, Veolia CEA will lead to collaboration on two pilot operations on two sites of CEA, Cadarache (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Marcoule (Gard) .

Veolia

Areva has already cooperated with Japan in developing a system for decontaminating waters of Fukushima destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

action Veolia ended Tuesday down 0.92% to 8.545 euros.

Edited by Jean-Michel Bélot

Still no agreement on the wall in the Senate budget américain

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of the U.S. Senate have not yet entered into any agreement that would allow the United States to escape the 'wall Budget' and the success of their discussions is not guaranteed , said Sunday a parliamentary attaché who requested anonymity .

Group President Democrat Harry Reid and Republican Mitch McConnell counterpart intended to be heard before 20:00 GMT in order to present the agreement to elect their camps during closed meeting scheduled before entrevue.

Republicans and Democrats should agree before January 1, what do 600 billion of cuts and tax increases will take effect automatically, which could plunge the United States into the récession.

Thomas Ferraro, Jean-Philippe Lefief for service français

Hugo Chavez knows that his condition is "complicated"

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is aware of the "complexity" of his health, three weeks after surgery for cancer in Cuba said Tuesday the vice-president Nicolas Maduro .

Hugo Chavez suffered Dec. 11 in Havana's fourth operation since announcing his cancer in June 2011, and the government has repeatedly reported that the Venezuelan president, still in Cuba, was the victim of various complications.

"He is fully aware of the complexity of the health post-operative and we specifically asked to keep people informed," said Nicolas Maduro during a television interview in Havana after meeting Hugo Chavez.

The New Year celebrations planned in Caracas, on Bolivar Square, were canceled after the announcement of further complications of a respiratory infection with Venezuelan President was victim after opération.

Deisy Buitrago

, Julien Dury for service français

Messenger on Android and iOS: Facebook adds voice and VoIP

Facebook attacks and Skype Adds Voice to MessengerAprès Poke have launched an application from directly compete Snapchat, Facebook is now interested to voicemail. Indeed, the social network updated its mobile customers to Messenger and allows you to use such a possibility, which is a little office answering machine. Skype offers a feature for some time. The principle is simple: simply select one of your "friends", then click on the "" symbol sity left the main field. In addition to the usual icons, emerged a new "voice record". A very simple operation, but validation may be too rapideIl Just press the red button to start recording. Release the button when you are finished and ... it is published directly without prompting. If by chance, during dictation, you want to remove it, it will simply move your finger to move it to the upper area of ​​the screen and then release the pressure: registration will be canceled automatically. We obviously made some tests. If the sound quality is pretty good and actually quite close to what one can expect from a voice mail, your messages can not exceed 60 per cons seconds, which should be sufficient for most cases. Once published, you can listen to your message and delete if necessary, but we would have preferred to have a validation step before sharing. Anyway, your friend will enjoy it on your mobile or on the web version of Faceook. But, like Trillian, customers alternative does not seem to support voice messages for VoIP moment.La also happens, but iOS and Canada seulementSi this feature is available (...) Read more on PCInpact.comMessenger on Android and iOS: Facebook adds voice and VoIP

Violent skirmish between Cahuzac and Mélenchon on dette

Jérôme Cahuzac and Jean-Luc Mélenchon were strongly clashed Monday, January 7 on France 2 about ways to reduce debt, first accusing his party want the government's failure actuel.

"Paying it (the debt) will not be easy ... Make believe that we will pay 1,800 billion euros easily like that, as if by magic (...) is to fuck the world, "he told the Minister for the Budget co-chairman of the Left Party in the show" Crossword ".

"That's what my government says (if he came to power): we pay when we can," came to argue Jean-Luc Mélenchon. "And by then, he had pursued, the Central Bank (European) will never pay if interest rates explode ... The debt we pay to the extent we can., And d Until then, those who are (la) must wait. "

"It will not work, what you say," replied the minister. "It is not enough to convince the ECB to print euros as the Federal Reserve prints dollars, as the Bank of England prints sterling (...) Despite your admonitions (...), we don ' not get it because the ECB is independent, "he poursuivi.

"You will Cahuzandreou with Hollandreou"

Jean-Luc Mélenchon also felt that the government can not meet its growth targets of 0.8% in 2013 and to reduce the public deficit to 3% of GDP by the end of the year, which will require the government to adopt, according to him, a "second austerity plan" .

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The rebels of Central Seleka divided on stratégie

DAKAR (Reuters) - The rebels of Central Seleka are divided on the strategy: enter into negotiations with President François Bozizé or continue fighting to overthrow, said Monday a spokesman of one faction insurgées.

The insurgents

Seleka, which means "coalition" in the vernacular Sango are now 75 km from the capital of the Central Bangui.

François Bozizé Sunday said he was ready to form a coalition government with the rebels and accepted the principle of peace talks without preconditions Gabon. (Voir

"Currently, there are divisions within the Seleka on this point," said Nelson Ndjadder, an official based in France CPSK, one of three main movements that constitute the Séléka.

"Some want to continue the fight, but is ready to CPSK lay down their arms and talk," he ajouté.

Another spokesman Seleka, Eric Massi, said the day had rejected the proposal of François Bozizé. But Nelson said Ndjadder, "he (Massi) does not speak on behalf of us all."

The

Seleka includes three former rebel groups: the CPJP UFDR and CPSK, accusing Bozizé to be back on the peace agreements of 2007 which provided for compensation for veterans who decided to lay down their arms .

Richard Valdmanis; Danielle Rouquié for service français

Tour: Jane Birkin found the sourire

Remise health problems that were removed from the scene, the singer went on tour with his tribute show Gainsbourg.

On stage, his obvious pleasure. After eight months of interruption, Jane Birkin, 66, resumed his tour tribute to Serge Gainsbourg with four Japanese musicians. A Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), in his second date, we met in her box. After warm reunion with her audience, she tells us about his health recovered, his daughters and his projects.You seemed in good shape tonight on stage?JANE BIRKIN. Yes, all is well! I did not want to talk about my health problems, but it was very long. Four months of back and forth to the hospital, bronchitis chain, water in the lungs around the heart, there was always something that was not right. I feel like a washing machine that is no longer under warranty (laughs). But thank God, we kept the model and was restarted.You had to cancel full tour ...Yes, and I went through the heart. It was the first time in my life that I canceled a concert. But I really could not sing, I coughed all the time. How frustrating! The stranger gave us all a success and the French had not seen the show ... But now, all ends well, say no more. It's so nice to enjoy the public. And I love doing concerts. Tour, as my mother would say, you know what we do tonight. We are not alone. And I'm happy to pay tribute to Serge. Twenty years after his death, I stepped back and I'm enjoying the most beautiful songs in the world, still modern. I wear them proudly.February 9, Monaco, you sing with Miossec, Abd Al Malik and daughter Charlotte.Yes, this will be a big deal, and filmed everything. This is the second time I sing with Charlotte after Eating the heart long ago. I read in "Le Parisien" (...) Read more about LeParisien.frJane Birkin "okay" after his problems santéEspagne Granada baptized wants a place in honor of the anniversary concert ClashLe singer Johnny Hallyday complete two heuresD8: Lea, Adelaide and Charlotte leave "New Star" Two new partnerships for digitizing collections BNF

European stock markets end in order dispersé

PARIS (Reuters) - European shares ended Wednesday in a dispersed, many investors have however benefited from their decline in the morning and early afternoon to make purchases with it, demonstrates the willingness of fund managers to increase their exposure to actions.

The pan-European index STOXX 50 gained 0.04%, after being down much of the session. In Paris, the CAC 40 is pressed into the green and took 0.30% to 3708.49 points. Same in Frankfurt for the Dax gained 0.20%, while in London, the FTSE has remained in the red and has lost 0.22% .

"There is no reason to reconstruct the portfolios now. Markets overflowing with cash, low volatility encourages investment and valuations remain attractive," says Roland Kaloyan (Société Générale CIB) .

The good results

U.S. banks JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Group have enabled European banking sector to reduce its losses, its index will not lose more than 0.37% in closing. This is, however, one of the largest declines sector of the day with the index of natural resources in mind (-1.31%) .

Société Générale, red lantern CAC-40 dropped 2.84%. The bank warned that its fourth quarter results inscribe an impairment of goodwill (goodwill) up to 384 million euros related to the 50% stake it holds in the broker Newedge.< / p>

On the foreign exchange market, the euro / dollar stabilizes after fluctuated with conflicting statements from European leaders. Ewald Nowotny, a member of the Board of Governors of the European Central Bank, had said that the fluctuations of the euro does not constitute a "major concern" .

Past President of the Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker had instead estimated yesterday that the exchange rate of the euro was at a "dangerously high" .

side of the bond market, the stable end Bunds. An auction 4 billion euros of 10-year paper has generated good demand, better than when a similar program in November, thanks to a recent rise in yields allemands.

Spain has awarded its side Paper short (12 and 18 months) and benefited from a sharp decline in financing costs on this occasion. It was the same for Portugal.

On the oil market, Brent and WTI Texas are slightly higher, supported by an unexpected drop in U.S. crude stocks and the closure of an oil platform in the North Sea. Gains were limited, however, OPEC anticipating a further decline in demand this année.

Wilfrid Exbrayat for service français

Farmers angry at the Ministry of Agriculture

Une hundred farmers have spilled straw and pallets and lit a few fires Wednesday, January 16 in the morning near the Ministry of Agriculture in Paris to protest the new constraints to the implementation of European regulation against the nitrates.

Arrivés aboard several trucks to the call of the Regional Federation of Farmers' Unions (FRSEA) Ile-de-France, protesters were blocked by a line of gendarmes at the corner of the street Varenne, the seat ministère.

Selon one of the protesters, trucks manure were trapped on the upstream Champs-Elysées.

Appel the mobilization France

Ils were destined Minister Stéphane Le Foll including the Federation demanding the resignation, the president Damien Greffin judging minister "arrogant" with farmers. National Federation of Farmers' Unions (FNSEA), currently campaigning for the elections to the Chambers of Agriculture scheduled for late January, called its members to mobilize throughout France mercredi.

En region, angry demonstrations began on Tuesday night in Rennes and Le Mans, where tires and manure were dumped in the city center and in front of a supermarket. But prefectures prime targets had been protected and prohibited access .

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Sarkozy threatened by an investigation of the file margin Karachi

PARIS (Reuters) - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is under threat of an indictment in a judicial investigation of the case outside Karachi for "violating the secrecy of the investigation," The Monde.

said Thursday

The newspaper said on its website that three judges of the court of Paris were seized last November of a complaint filed against the former head of state June 18, 2012 by counsel for several families victims of the attack in Karachi (2002), Mr. Olivier Morice, for "violating the secrecy of investigation and instruction," and "breach of confidentiality" .

The complaint also seeks former communication adviser of Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace, Franck Louvrier and former Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux.

It followed a statement issued by the Presidency of the Republic, 22 September 2011, while newspaper articles evoked the possible involvement of Nicolas Sarkozy in the financial aspect of the Karachi affair, says The Monde.< / p>

"With regard to the case known as Karachi, the name of the head of state does not appear in any of the facts of the case. He was quoted by any witness or actor of this file (...) . It appears in the pleadings, "could be read in the communiqué.

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Top 14: Biarritz is good at home against Agen

PARIS (Reuters) - Biarritz had a difficult start to the match but held out Friday in his stage Aguilera to win 16-11 against Agen, which records and its eighth consecutive defeat in the league of France rugby.

The Lot-et-Garonne have yet glimpsed hope to end the series since Black led 8-0 after 18 minutes of play after a test of their third line Tongan Opeti Fonua and a penalty from David English Seymour.

But

Biarrots quickly regained couleurs.

Flyhalf Julien Peyrelongue scored the first penalty in the 22nd minute, before hooker Arnaud Heguy test scores a half-hour, transformed by Peyrelongue.

Just before the break, a new penalty opener BO allowed the Basques to regain the locker room with the score advantageous 13-8.

The second period has not changed much in the case .

Peyrelongue are yet of his boot to register a third penalty in the 64th minute and his South African counterpart could only reduce the gap by scoring a penalty turn for Agen to 76e.

Biarritz and remains in seventh place in the Top 14 but no longer, with 36 points, two points behind Grenoble receiving Castres, ranked fourth, samedi.

Toulon, championship leader, host Racing Metro on Sunday, ninth, while Clermont, his heir, will host the eve Montpellier.

Toulouse, ranking third, moves Saturday Mont-de-Marsan.

Chrystel Boulet-Euchin, edited by Helen Duvigneau

ALGERIA. One French and five Japanese abducted in southern pays

Un French and five Japanese abducted by Islamist rebels in southern Algeria, according to diplomatic sources and local. Information that has not yet confirmed the Algerian authorities.

L'Algérie shares a border with Mali, which occurs at the moment the French army.

(With Reuters)

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The Malian army sends reinforcements in Mopti, wait a attaque

BAMAKO (Reuters) - The Malian army has sent reinforcements in the Mopti region where it is expected to attack Islamist rebels who control since April last two thirds of Mali, it was learned Wednesday source close to the Ministry of Défense.

The

government forces and Islamist insurgents clashed in the region on Monday, after eight months of status quo.

"We have deployed technical resources and reinforcements on the front," said a military official in Bamako. He did not elaborate on these renforts.

"We believe that the Islamists want Sévaré attack," he added, referring to a town located less than 10 km from Mopti, where government forces are stationed and where the main airport région.

Malian authorities believe the Islamist coalition, which includes Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Ansar Dine and Mujao (Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa), brought their fighters bastions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu to launch an assault against Mopti.

It is unclear whether the insurgents really want to move to the south where it is a show of force before the planned peace talks in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso voisin.

CITY STRATÉGIQUE

These

Talks between the Malian government and rebel groups were open Thursday, but authorities announced Wednesday that they were repoussés.

Bamako, thousands of students marched through the streets to demand a solution to the political crisis that has persisted since the coup last March. They blocked the two main bridges over the river Niger.

Tuesday evening, the Malian army announced that it had postponed the day Islamist attack in the region Mopti.

Mopti, 450 km northeast of the capital, occupies a strategic position. The city, one of the most northern forces still controlled by regular houses, besides the airport, an important military base malienne.

group Ansar Dine announced last week it had ended a cease-fire because the project of the international community to deploy a West African desert in the north to hunt rebelles.

Tuareg rebels backed by radical Islamists sometimes allied to AQIM, seized in April 2012 from the north by taking advantage of the disorganization of the army and the political vacuum created by the military coup in Bamako.< / p>

In December, the Security Council of the UN has approved plans to deploy a contingent of West African troops in the north to hunt jihadist groups. The operation should not be launched by septembre.

Guy Kerivel for the French service, edited by Gilles Trequesser

A young man shot dead in Clichy-sous-Bois

PARIS (Reuters) - A young man was gunned down Sunday afternoon in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, we learned source policière.

The

or authors were fleeing gunfire early soirée.

A person who heard gunshots called the police who arrived on the spot while the relatives of the young man had been taken to hospital, where he décédé.

At the scene, police arrested two members of the family of the young man holding a gun but not the authors of the fatal shootings, it was précisé.

The family belongs to the community of people and travel is sédentarisée.

Asked BFM-TV, a union official Unsa Police, Christophe Crepin, said the young man was 19 years old and had received a discharge of rifle thorax.

Jean-Baptiste Vey, edited by Jean-Philippe Lefief