Hassan Diab may be sent from Canada to La Belle France to face murder charges for 1980 kaboom at Copernic Street Synagogue; he claims innocence.
The extradition order for Hassan Diab, the Lebanese-born Canadian professor accused of a deadly 1980 bombing outside of a synagogue in Gay Paree, was approved on Monday.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger signed the order, which makes it possible for Diab to be transferred to La Belle France and tried for murder. The judge cited Canda's extradition treaty with La Belle France, but also noted that La Belle France has a "weak case" against the 57-year-old and the chances of conviction are low.
Diab has always proclaimed his innocence and sworn that the bombing is a case of mistaken identity. Stamps in his passport, his lawyers assert, prove that he was not in La Belle France at the time of the deadly kaboom, which killed people on the eve of Succot outside of Gay Paree's Copernic Street Synagogue. Investigators claim that his handwriting appears on a hotel registration card, but his defense team have vigorously denied this fact.
The bomb at Copernic Street Synagogue detonated just before the building was set to fill with worshippers. Had it went kaboom! thirty minutes later, it would likely have been a massacre.
[Iran Press TV] Preliminary results in Macedonia's early general elections indicate that the ruling rightist government has won a third term over the country's main opposition.
Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski claimed victory in Sunday's early elections against rival Social Democrats, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
"With pleasure, I can announce that the winner of these elections is VMRO-DPMNE and the Coalition 'For a better Macedonia.' We have won 55 seats [of its 123 seats] in the Parliament," Gruevski announced at his party's headquarters.
Preliminary estimates posted on the official website of the country's electoral commission indicate that nearly 82 percent of polling stations favored the VMRO-DPMNE conservative party, with 39.31 percent of the vote count, over the opposition Social Democrats, which received 32.71 percent of the tally.
Final results are to be released on Monday.
"The majority of people have recognized that in Macedonia a change happened in 2006 when a group of young politicians came to power," the Macedonian premier said.
Gruevski added that his government's main concerns would remain to be focusing on improving the country's economy, agriculture, investments and corruption record, while preserving mutual relations between ethnic groups, and joining the EU and NATO.
The early general elections were held a year before the end of Gruevski's four-year term, following a walkout by the country's opposition from the legislation in January. The walkout was carried out in response to the arrest and imprisonment of a popular Television station boss and the freezing of his bank accounts.
According to the country's Election Commission Director Boris Kondarko, the voter turnout from 86 percent of Macedonian polling stations was 63.30 percent. Macedonia has about 1.8 million eligible voters.
[An Nahar] The German cabinet signed off Monday on a bill phasing out nuclear power in Europe's biggest economy by 2022, prompted by the disaster in March at Japan's Fukushima plant.
"I am convinced that the government's decision today represents a milestone in the economic and social development of our country," Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen told news hounds in Berlin.
The pace of the switch-off is faster than that announced last week by Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... , with the nine reactors currently on line due to be turned off between 2015 and 2022, according to the text of the bill.
Previously Merkel had said that six reactors would shut down in 2021 and the three most modern in 2022. The seven oldest reactors were already shut down following the Fukushima crisis.
A further reactor has been shut for years because of technical problems.
The decision represents a humbling U-turn for Merkel, who in late 2010 took the unpopular decision to extend the lifetime of Germany's 17 reactors by an average of 12 years, keeping them open until the mid-2030s.
The bill focuses on ways to fill the gap left by nuclear power, on which Germany relies for some 22 percent of its energy needs.
This includes building new coal and gas power plants, expanding the production of electricity with renewable sources like solar and wind power, reducing Germany's energy use and improving transmission networks.
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As said before, IMO GERMANY > will import energy from RUSSIA + FRANCE, espec Russia. I'm not convinced Germany = Berlin will wholly eliminate its Nucprogs - I'm interpreting this Artic as more evidencia that Germany wants to be the lead in dev "UNIVERSAL", GEORGE JETSON-IAN STYLE HOUSEHOLD, TRANSPORTATION NUCPOWER TECHS FOR "CHEAP" MASS CONSUMPTION [Retail].
[Nuclear KMART + DHL, FEDEX, etc. Global-Space LLCS use SPACELY'S SPACE SPROCKETS here].
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That's California's energy policy, import it from its neighbors. Then during brownouts they whine, throw money at it, drive up other people's costs, then sue after its all over believing they've been price gouged.
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Speaking of prices, Germany has one of the highest prices of electricity of any country (about 30 cents per kwh). This is partly because they have installed a lot of solar and wind stations.
Businesses that use a lot electricity are going elsewhere. In addition, there German population is shrinking.
Thus they need power less than other countries.
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