Agrégateur de flux

La France insoumise a décliné, mardi, l'offre d'alliance du Parti communiste pour les législatives de juin. Le mouvement de Jean-Luc Mélenchon refuse "des combinaisons sans principe" et impute l'échec des discussions à son ex-allié.

A kormány a fő fegyverével átértelmezné az uniós jogalkotást, de akad megfontolandó érve és egy titkos fegyvere is.

Le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, António Guterres, et le Conseil de sécurité ont condamné fermement l'attaque perpétrée par des éléments présumés anti-Balaka contre un convoi de la Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en République centrafricaine (MINUSCA) le 8 mai, sur l'axe Rafai-Bangassou, dans le sud-est de la République centrafricaine.

Une équipe d'intervention rapide de l'Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) a été déployée dans l'Etat de Jonglei, au Soudan du Sud, à la fin avril en réponse à une épidémie de choléra affectant plus de 230 personnes dans le comté d'Ayod, a indiqué l'agence onusienne.

United Nations humanitarian workers are responding to a growing cholera outbreak in Ayod, the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan, one of multiple counties throughout the country where the disease has spread since June 2016.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned an attack against a convoy of the UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) that left four dead, one missing and 10 others evacuated.

The Serbian parliament is to finally choose a new chief war crimes prosecutor, after the post was left vacant for a year and a half, which experts say has damaged the fragile institution.

Americas

• Boeing has received a $89.2 million US Navy contract to conduct maintenance on various F/18 series fighter and EA-F18G electronic warfare aircraft. Included in the agreement are a wide variety of inspection and engineering projects, including High Flight Hour programs designed to keep aging airframes flying. Work will be performed in Jacksonville, Florida, and is expected to be completed in December 2017.

• The USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, has commenced sea trials after leaving Command Fleet Activities Yokosaka base over the weekend. The ninth to be built in its class, the massive nuclear-powered ship can maintain and launch more than 85 aircraft, displaces nearly 97,000 tons of water, and is one of the only forward deployed aircraft carriers in the Navy at this time. While at sea, crew will undergo a number of qualification and certification exercises, including engineering and medical drills as well as air, flight deck and hangar bay operations to evaluate the performance of Sailors and their departments.

• Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has revealed that it has successfully completed a number of demonstration flights for an unnamed customer of a new jet-powered, high-subsonic UAV. While the designation of the UAV has yet to be announced, Kratos said the UAV was developed by the company’s “secret, special programs group,” and that the vehicle has had several successful demonstration flights with the government agency, adding that it is the most capable aircraft ever developed by the firm. The UAV’s publicly disclosable altitude performance ranges between 10ft and 45,000ft and possesses a payload capacity of 136kg (300lb), which is lighter than the 226kg carried by the XQ-222 Valkyrie proposed for the US Air Force’s Low-Cost, Attritable Strike Unmanned Air System Demonstration (LCASD).

Middle East & North Africa

• Turkey will use the 13th International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF) to unveil two new indigenously developed missiles designed for its F-16s. The GÖKDOGAN—a short-range infrared-guided dogfight missile— and the BOZDOGAN— a missile that has an active radar seeker for long-range engagement—were developed by the Scientific and Technological Research Council’s (TÜBITAK) Defense Industry Research and Development Institute (SAGE). Making the announcement, Science, Industry and Technology Minister Faruk Özlü added that projects developed by TUBITAK, and later transferred to companies in the manufacturing defense industry, have made important contributions to Turkey’s defense industry’s localization.

• Israel has contract Elbit Systems to provide military land vehicles with its satellite-on-the-move (SOTM) systems. The two-year agreement will see Elbit provide dozens of its ELSAT 2100 SOTM family of systems, which allow high-data rate broadband capabilities on a wide variety of platforms operated by the IDF. Features of the system include advanced tracking capabilities which can allow for communications anywhere and at any time. The value of the contract was not disclosed.

Europe

• USAF F-35As, sent to Europe to participate in a series of training exercises, have completed their deployment. While based at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, UK, eight aircraft from the 34th Fighter Squadron flew 76 sorties and tallied more than 154 flying hours alongside F-15s from the 48th Fighter Wing. The fighters also experienced forward deployment to Estonia and Bulgaria in order to maximize training opportunities, build partnerships with allied air forces and familiarize Airmen with Europe’s broad and diverse operating conditions. It has also been reported that the F-35A will take part in the Paris Air Show after it was earlier said to have not been invited.

• A report by the German Defense Ministry has raised concerns over the military readiness of the A400M due to contractual wrangling with manufacturer Airbus, as well as ongoing technical issues with the aircraft. First ordered in 2003, the A400M aimed to give European nations an independent transport capability but costs have since spiraled and Airbus has warned of “risks ahead” for the continent’s largest defense project. The report warns that Airbus may request delays ranging between 12 and 18 months in order to fix the issues, which could lead to a German capability gap when Berlin retires its fleet of C-160 Transall aircraft in 2021. In response to this gap, Germany and France have decided on a plan to jointly procure and operate a number of C-130J aircraft from Lockheed Martin in order to augment their A400M fleets.

Asia Pacific

• The Royal Malaysian Air Force has refuted earlier reports that it has received an offer by Japan to transfer refurbished second-hand P-3C maritime patrol aircraft to Malaysia. Speaking to media, RMAF chief Gen. Affendi Buang said that the service “have not received any formal offer or decision so far.” It was reported last week that Japan was looking to donate retired P-3Cs to Malaysia, letting that Southeast Asian country keep closer watch over the South China Sea to rein in China’s maritime expansion. However, due to its pacifist constitution, Japan is unable to transfer defense equipment to other nations at no cost.

Today’s Video

• A tour of the USS Ronald Reagan:

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Cualquier reflexión sobre las oportunidades y riesgos que una mayor implicación en América Latina ofrece a la UE debe situarse en su debido contexto histórico y geopolítico, y debe tener en cuenta una serie de ideas fuerza.

Echaudée par la campagne pour le référendum sur le renforcement des pouvoirs du président Erdogan en Turquie, la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel a «catégoriquement» rejeté mardi 9 mai la tenue sur le sol allemand d'une nouvelle campagne pour le rétablissement de la peine de mort en Turquie.

Twenty-one Chibok girls released in October 2016 have not been reunited with their families.

As they prepare to leave school, Tanzanian conjoined twins, Consolata and Maria, share their dreams for the future.

The US Navy's USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier has completed its four-year long refuelling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding facility in Newport News, Virginia.

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has laid keel for the Italian Navy's first multipurpose offshore patrol ship (PPA) at its shipyard in Muggiano, La Spezia, Italy.

UK-based Kongsberg Maritime camera systems group has supplied a new large network Internet Protocol (IP) closed-circuit television (CCTV) system to be deployed aboard the Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) new auxiliary naval replenishment ship.

Pour toute souscription d’un abonnement d’un an ou prolongement d’un abonnement en cours à Mer et Marine (*), nous offrons aujourd’hui et demain une invitation pour deux personnes permettant de visiter le paquebot MSC Meraviglia le samedi 20 ou le dimanche 21 mai (jour et horaire libres) au chantier de Saint-Nazaire.

Premier d’une nouvelle génération de navires réalisés pour la compagnie MSC Croisières, le « E34 », comme on l’appelle sur les bords de Loire, sera livré le 31 mai et partira le lendemain pour rejoindre Le Havre, où il sera officiellement baptisé le 3 juin.

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