Beijing admits he wants reunification Korea but declined to comment Wikileaks

The Chinese government admitted today that advocates the reunification of the Korean peninsula, as in some of the hundreds of thousands of documents leaked via Wikileaks, but refused to comment on its relations with the United States.

"China always supports the North and South of the peninsula hold dialogues and consultations to improve relations, cooperate and consult to achieve, ultimately, a peaceful reunification," he said at a press conference the spokesman on duty at the Ministry of Chinese Foreign, Hong Lei.

With these words, Hong admitted one of the key points in the revelations of Wikileaks, the China that long-term bet for a unified Korea to publicly defend despite the existence of North Korea, but declined to comment directly on other content.

"We do not want any change in the relations between China and the United States," Wikileaks said on the official spokesman, who declined repeatedly to comment on reports in the past two days.

Another leak of diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks stated that the Chinese government allowed the intrusion into Google's computer systems in the country, causing a serious conflict between the company and Beijing earlier this year.

Also revealed the unsuccessful attempts of Washington for China to stop sending nuclear material to North Korea to Iran, or the growing distrust between the communist regime and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, although it is commonly placed in the same political line.

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Justin Bieber raised great expectations in his first visit to Spain

Singer Justin Bieber first visited Spain to present their third album, "My Worlds - The Collection", a job that collects the best of a brief but intense career that is "just the beginning "what aims" to achieve ", said today at a press conference.

The meeting with the media began with the delivery of the gold disc to the young Canadian singer, who was in the hands of Francisco Fabrice Benoit, president of Universal Music Spain, the recognition of sales in the country of his debut album, My World ".

"What looks like my haircut?" Bieber said one of the journalists convened in the Hotel Urban in Madrid, where many Spanish and international media attended the meeting with the teen idol of half the world.
Bieber was presented with his "look" normal, black jeans, white T-peak, silver shoes and a gray jacket half open. First attended the photographers, who gave a series of indications. "Please do not call me.'ll Turn from left to right," said Bieber, who, after three minutes of sitting, he asked not to do "more flash photos."

"I am very excited to have many followers in this country. I'm glad the idea of conducting a tour in Spain. The more gigs done here better," said the young pop star, 16, to perform at the Palace de los Deportes in Madrid on April 5 and one day later in the Palau San Jordi de Barcelona.
"He always travels with me a personal tutor with whom I have five weekly sessions of three hours each," said Bieber, who, once they finish their secondary studies, has decided, he said, "continue with music."
However, his career "is changed in a future action," he said, while singing at the moment is his "only passion."
Although his life took a radical change since it was erected in online music phenomenon, Justin Bieber admitted today that he always finds time to "do normal things."
Indeed, one of the favorite hobbies of Ontario singer is to interact with their followers, who called it "amazing, genuine, authentic and passionate."

"I never close my Facebook and Twitter accounts, because it is a way to interact with my fans," said Bieber, who acknowledged that he "came out of the internet" and therefore has followers scattered "around the world."

Despite its tremendous success, "this is just the beginning of his career," he said. "It's the beginning of what I hope to be able to reach," said the precocious artist who would like to be taken as a model. "
Bieber acknowledged that "for many songs of love", but noted that "Pray", the previously unreleased track included on his compilation "The Worlds - The Collection" is a song that "goes beyond" because, he said, "your effect is to encourage people to pray. "

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Behind some Iranian weapons systems, a French company?

French company Sofradir, accused of providing China with military technology it would have sold to Iran.


And while some technologies used in weapons systems available to Iran was "Made in France"?
 
The 09STATE96222 memo, dated September 16, 2009, strongly suggested. Written by the staff of U.S. Secretary of State, the text acknowledges the French company Sofradir and its subsidiary Ulis sell highly advanced infrared detectors to a Chinese company. Zhejiang Dali Technology Company Ltd, was then sold to Iran.

The administration emphasizes that such infrared detectors are "components of thermal imaging systems [such as night vision goggles used by the army, ed]" and may, among other things, greatly improve the accuracy of battle tanks.

Technology, in short, that the United States has no desire to see the hands of Iran because it "increases the threat to American and allied forces present in the Gulf," according to diplomatic cable, ranked most important level of confidentiality of documents provided by WikiLeaks.

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This cable is the diplomatic one of the few on France in this first batch of documents issued by Wikileaks and released Sunday evening. The author strongly urges the U.S. ambassador in Paris to ask the French authorities to put pressure on Sofradir and Ulis so that the company stops providing this technology to China.

The document does not say if French companies were aware of the ultimate recipient of the transaction. Trade in the infrared detection technology is expected by the U.S. administration, be subject to control under the Wassenaar Arrangement (1996) which covers the export of conventional weapons and items and dual use technologies such that the detection systems.


Sofradir was founded in 1986 to the initiative of Directorate General of Armaments. The company is now No. 2 global infrared detectors. On its website, identifies equipment manufacturers of defense and security as its main customers.The company also claims that these products are used in equipment including missile detection.
 
The mention of Ulis in the diplomatic cable seems, however, more surprising. This subsidiary of Sofradir, founded in 2003, is not intended to work in the military field. It was specifically created to deal with Sofradir to develop and find commercial applications more "public" as infrared detectors.
This small business, if confirmed, he has continued after the sending of this diplomatic cable that goes back all the same to last year? Contacted by France 24, Sofradir and Ulis said they had no comment on that information.

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Actor Leslie Nielsen is dead

Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen, star of Comedy Naked Gun, died Sunday in a hospital in Florida at the age of 84. Hospitalized for twelve days for lung problems, he saw his condition worsened over the last forty-eight hours, said a family member of a Canadian radio.

Born in 1926 in Saskatchewan, the son of a police officer had made up his military service in the Air Force before studying acting in Toronto and New York.

Leslie Nielsen had become known through his appearances in television series such as American success Peyton Place, Dr. Kildare, The Fugitive. He gained international fame thanks to some cult films like  Airplane! (1980).
A typically serious early role was as the spaceship commander in "Forbidden Planet, " the 1956 science-fiction classic. "It's the reason I was never asked to do 'Star Trek' or 'Twilight Zone' for TV," he told the Toronto Star in 2002. "I carried too much baggage with me from that movie."

Nielsen played Debbie Reynolds' sweetheart in the 1957 film "Tammy and the Bachelor," was the Revolutionary War fighter Francis Marion in the Disney TV adventure series "The Swamp Fox" and had roles in such TV series as "The New Breed" and "Bracken's World."

"I just always worked," he said. "I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts. Perhaps it was my Canadian accent."

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Nuclear further delay for the Finnish EPR

The start of the EPR nuclear reactor built by the consortium Areva-Siemens in Finland has been postponed and will intervene only in 2013, with normal, expected in the second half of 2013, announced Friday the Finnish electricity TVO .

Begun in September 2005, the Olkiluoto site in south-western Finland, was originally scheduled to end in April 2009. But completion has been postponed to at least five successive occasions. The final schedule provided by Areva in its TVO reported previously to start late 2012.

"The consortium Areva-Siemens, which built the reactor, Olkiluoto 3 in a fixed price contract and turnkey for TVO, reported that most of the work would be completed in 2012"says the Finnish group said in a statement. "Supplier indicates that the commissioning will take eight months, meaning that normal operation will begin in the second half of 2013 "says TVO.

The third generation reactor at Olkiluoto is the first reactor of this type starts in the world with that of Flamanville, in the Channel, whose commercial exploitation is also planned in 2013, and both of Taishan, China , planned to begin in 2013 and 2014.

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