Agrégateur de flux

  Dans la nuit, les dirigeants européens se sont accordés sur une position commune à soumettre à Ankara. Les États membres sont cependant encore si divisés sur le sujet controversé des échanges de migrants avec la Turquie qu’aucun texte n’a été publié.

Benjamin Philippe, un caporal du 7e bataillon de chasseurs alpins (BCA) de Varces, est mort d'hypothermie après avoir été pris dans un tempête de neige lors d'un stage en Savoie. 

Les six membres d'un stage de chef d'équipe de haute montagne ont été pris, mercredi soir, dans une tempête de neige, alors qu'ils progressaient en ski de randonnée sur les glaciers de la Vanoise, à environ 3 000 mètres d'altitude. Les militaires devaient redescendre vers le refuge Félix Faure pour y passer la nuit.

Mais le jeune caporal, épuisé, n'a pas pu poursuivre son chemin. Ses camarades ont alors donné l'alerte, mercredi, puis creusé un trou dans la neige pour y passer la nuit au col du Pelve (2 992 mètres). Ne pouvant intervenir en hélicoptère au vu des conditions météo, la CRS Alpes a dépêché une caravane terrestre de six secouristes. Mais ces derniers ont d'abord dû venir en aide à d'autres personnes en difficulté dans le même secteur.

C'est finalement en hélicoptère que la victime a été évacuée, jeudi matin à la faveur d'une éclaircie. Le jeune caporal de 24 ans, qui avait passé la nuit dans un duvet, "était en état d'hypothermie sévère", selon le brigadier-major Hervé Pujol, de la CRS Alpes. Evacué vers l'hôpital de Grenoble, il y est mort dans la matinée.

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British MPs and an MEP wrote a letter to US President Barack Obama asking him to stay out of Britain’s referendum on the country’s membership of the European Union (EU).

The letter, was the initiative of Leave.EU and the Grassroots Out Brexit campaigns, and carries the signatures of Peter Bone (Conservative), Kate Hoey (Labor), Kelvin Hopkins (Labor), Tom Pursglove (Conservative), Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party), and UKIP leader and member of the European Parliament, Nigel Farage.

The letter states: “With so much at stake, it is imperative that the question of exiting the European Union is not one answered by foreign politicians or outside interests, but rather by the British people who must ultimately live with change or the status quo.

The British politicians declare: “issues of national sovereignty must be decided exclusively by the people of the United Kingdom”. They state: “even a passive diplomatic recommendation in the matter of our national decision will receive the opposite of the intended effect.”

“The referendum vote is an act of democracy in its most direct form, and the question of whether or not to leave the EU is a rare political topic that is not owned by any one political party. This is a chance for the British people to choose the path of their country. Interfering in our debate over national sovereignty would be an unfortunate milestone at the end of your term as President.”

Kate Hoey MP said of the warning: “We felt it is important the President of the United States is aware that feelings will run high in the UK if he chooses to make an intervention. We have chosen to respectfully request he recognizes matters of sovereignty are best left to the citizens directly affected. We would certainly never think of visiting the United States and telling the US public how to vote in an election or the amendment of their constitution.”

Peter Bone MP added: “Whatever the President perceives the interests of the US to be it would be better for the relationship between our countries and his reputation with the British people if he kept his counsel to himself.”

British daily, The Independent, reported that Obama is expected to travel to the UK in April and use his power to persuade the Britons to remain in the EU. A governmental source told the Independent: “Barack Obama is coming over at around that time. You wouldn’t look stupid saying that [the President is going to tell British voters to stay in the EU]. It would be pretty shocking if he didn’t ask voters to stay in the EU.”

Bob Corker, the chairman of the US Senate foreign relations committee, said in February, that Obama was planning “a big, public reach-out” to convince the British citizens about the positives deriving from the EU Membership.

Tim Farron, leader of the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, told the British daily that the visit of the US President was “welcome”. He added: “This is a reminder that if Britain wants to be a big player on the world stage, then being in the EU is one of the ways we achieve it.

“Sometimes our friends from outside have a clear picture on where we stand. People often refer to the fact that we’re the fifth biggest economy in the world, but they forget we were only the seventh biggest economy when we joined the European Community [in 1973]. Our political relevance is enhanced by the EU,” Farron stressed.

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March 17, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudan people's liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) said they shot down a Sudanese military unmanned plane in a rebel controlled area in South Kordofan on Wednesday.

In this picture released by the SPLM-N on 17 March, rebel fighters hold up drone aircraft they claimed to have shot down in South Kordofan area of Heiban on 15 March 2016

"SPLA/N air defence unit of Heiban sector under command of Brg. Gen. Nimeri Murad, in Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan state on 15/3/016 at 5;00 pm (local time) shot down Unmanned drawn," said a statement released by the official spokesperson Arnu Ngutulu lodi.

Lodi further stated that the drone was mapping schools, hospitals and water sources as well as markets before to bomb it by the Antonov planes.

The government forces have resumed summer attacks on the positions of the Sudanese rebels in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan states since the failure of peace talks to reach a cessation of hostilities deal last December.

In a separate statement on Thursday, the rebel spokesperson said they killed five members of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in an ambush on the road of West Kordofan-El-Obeid on 16 Mars.

Lodi said that the attack which took place in Alshareet Alramly area in South Kordofan where they captured eight NISS members and destroyed two vehicles and one truck.

The Sudanese army didn't issue a statement on the attack and its spokesperson was not available for comment.

This is the third time, rebels in South Kordofan claim the shot down of unmanned planes.

On March 14, 2012 they said they shot down a Sudanese drone in the disputed area of Jau, near the border with South Sudan.

Also, the rebel group announced the shot down of an unmanned spy aircraft near Abri, Dalami town in the far east of Dilling district in South Kordofan.

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Syrian Kurds declared a de-facto federal region in Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria, after the end of a two-day conference in the town of Rmeilan in the Syrian province of Hassakeh on Thursday.

Representatives of the Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian communities and other ethnic groups participated in the conference and commonly decided to bring the three Kurdish-led autonomous areas (Jazira, Kobani and Afrin) under the umbrella of one federal region, called Rojava. According to the statement released after the conference, the federal region will be a part of Syria and an autonomous state.

“At least 200 representatives have met in Rmeilan to put forward this decision. We expect to hold several other meetings to discuss how the administration of this region will be organized… a federal and democratic Syria is a guarantee of coexistence and brotherly relations,” the statement reads.

The announcement was not welcomed by the Syrian government, as the Syrian Foreign Ministry said that “any such announcement has no legal value and will not have any legal, political, social or economic impact as long as it does not reflect the will of the entire Syrian people.” One of the main enemies of the Syrian regime, the Syrian National Coalition, also rejected the Syrian Kurds declaration and warned of any attempt to form autonomous regions that “confiscate the will of the Syrian people.”

According to Reuters, Washington, which supports Rojava forces in their battle against the Islamic State, also said that it would not recognize the new federation. “We don’t support self-ruled, semi-autonomous zones inside Syria. We just don’t,” said State Department spokesman John Kirby and added. “What we want to see is a unified, whole Syria that has in place a government that is not led by Bashar al-Assad, that is responsive to the Syrian people. Whole, unified, nonsectarian Syria, that’s the goal.”

On the other hand, according to the Associated Press (AP), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week said that a federal system in Syria, is one possible option if the Syrian people agree to it.

Turkey, which is on war with the Syrian Kurds, also rejected the establishment of the federal region. A Turkish official told Reuters: “Syria must remain as one without being weakened and the Syrian people must decide on its future in agreement and with a constitution. Every unilateral initiative will harm Syria’s unity.”

However, the move most probably angered the Turkish government which fears that the growing Kurdish power in Syria will cause separatism movements in Southern Eastern Turkey, where most of the Turkish Kurds live. The Turkish government has already started military operations against the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Northern Syria and against the outlawed Kurdistan’s Worker’s Party (PKK) in Southern Eastern Turkey.

Syrian peace talks

Meanwhile, the UN envoy for Syria emerged from the fourth day of peace talks in Geneva to tell reporters that significant gaps remain between the two sides.

Staffan de Mistura said he’d host both sides separately on Friday to accelerate the process. He also said there were “no discussions about federalism” — a reference to the Syrian Kurdish declaration. De Mistura has said though that the Syrian Kurds deserve a spot at the negotiating table in Geneva.

Even though the Syrian Kurds are the most effective ground forces in the war against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria the PYD was left out of from the peace talks. The exclusion of the Syria Kurds, was in line with the demand of the Turkish government, which sees the Syrian party as a terrorist group which co-operates with PKK and threats the Turkish interests equally as the IS.

However, the rest of the international community doesn’t see PYD as a terrorist group and Moscow, strongly insisted that the Kurds should have been invited to the upcoming peace talks, suggesting that leaving them out could endanger Syria’s territorial integrity.

Rodi Osman, the head of Syrian Kurdistan’s office in Moscow, told Russian news agency, RIA Novosti, that the exclusion of the Syrian Kurds from the peace talks was a definite factor for the Rojava declaration.

“The second round of inter-Syrian talks is underway in Geneva, but Syrian Kurds were not invited. It means that the future of Syria and its society is decided without Kurds. In fact, we are pushed back into a conservative, old-fashioned system which does not fit well with us,” Osman said and added. “In light of this, we see only one solution which is to declare the creation of [Kurdish] federation. It will serve the interests of the Kurds, but also those of Arabs, Turks, Assyrians, Chechens and Turkomans – all parts of Syria’s multinational society. Given the complicated situation in Syria, we would become an example of a system that may resolve the Syrian crisis.”

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