Not a Simple Thing

Parliamentarians appointed Mamnoon Hussain, a close associate of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, as head of state , an honorary position in Pakistan. The case of 73-year-old succeeds man Asif Ali Zardari sworn in on September 9. Businessman Mamnoon Hussain was elected Tuesday by parliament to succeed President Asif Ali Zardari at the head of the Pakistan Muslim giant prey to the rise of the Taliban. The candidate of the Muslim League ( PML-N) easily beat his only rival for the elections without surprise that took place a few hours after a spectacular attack on the Pakistani Taliban TTP against a prison in northern countries freed nearly 250 inmates. In Pakistan, the president is elected by a small committee of members of the national parliament and members of assemblies of four provinces. Each province had the same number of votes in the presidential election, a measure to maintain a minimum balance in a country where more than half of the population lives in the Punjab. The election orig...

The electronic cigarette, which has attracted more than one million people in France, contains carcinogenic compounds in significant quantities, ensures the magazine "60 million consumers", which denounces labeling defects. The electronic cigarette "is far from harmless gadget that we present," worries the magazine "60 million consumers" in its issue of September 2013. Noting improper labeling the content of certain products, the National Consumer Institute (INC) - which publishes the magazine "60 million consumers" - alerted authorities. The magazine claims to have found, after testing a dozen models , disposable or rechargeable, the "carcinogenic molecules in significant amount  in the vapor e-cigarette, which she had never been shown before. "So in three cases out of ten, for products with or without nicotine, formaldehyde content (commonly called formalin ) found flirt with those observed in some conventional cigarettes. " Labe...

Samples collected by UN experts in Syria on suspected sites of chemical attack will be sent on Monday to competent laboratories. The first results could be published in at least two weeks. Various laboratories around the world to analyze the evidence gathered by UN investigators on the use of chemical weapons in Syria during the attack of 21 August, in Ghouta, east of Damascus, will receive samples from Monday. "The samples should be sent to a half-dozen laboratories around the world, in countries that are not politically involved," and told AFP, Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the Organization for prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW), after receiving Saturday levies investigators in The Hague, the Netherlands . According to the OPCW, the analysis should determine if chemical weapons have been used and which are not used , could take three weeks. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon would however asked the chief experts Aake Sellström to accelerate the analysis of samples and infor...

While Congress must decide from September 9 on a limited military action in Syria, Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State John Kerry began a campaign of lobbying elected . A limited U.S. attack against the Syrian regime now depends on the approval of Congress . In anticipation of the discussions that will take place from 9 September, the U.S. president , Barack Obama, has launched an intense lobbying campaign to convince skeptics of the elected Congress to vote in favor of strikes against Syria. Monday and Tuesday, the president, vice president , Joe Biden, and the chief of the White House will multiply phone calls to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate , according to a senior official of the Presidency . " Do nothing encourage Assad and his allies " " In all the calls and briefings, we martèlerons the same basic argument : if we do nothing against [ Syrian President Bashar ] Assad , the deterrent impact of international regulat...

While the U.S. Congress is expected to decide on military action in Syria, Barack Obama is trying to get the support of his former rival in the 2008 presidential elections , the influential Republican Senator John McCain. When U.S. President Barack Obama is engaged in an intense lobbying campaign to convince Congress to support a limited military action against Syria, an elected Republican influence is at the center of attention . This man is none other than Senator John McCain defeated rival Barack Obama in the presidential election of 2008. He will be received at the White House, Monday, September 2 , indicating that it will play a very important role. Especially since Sunday, against all odds, he said he was not sure to vote in favor of the plan of the Obama administration , the unambitious judging . "Cosmetic Strike " "Apparently, the president wants a kind of cosmetic strikes , throw a few missiles and say this is it, we responded ," he told the Republi...