São Paulo contrata Diego Forlán, segundo rádio

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Qui, 14 de Abril de 2011 08:07


Reforço bombástico prometido por dirigente seria o uruguaio. Pai do jogador, porém, ainda não confirma

O reforço "bombástico, famoso internacionalmente e que não fala português" citado pelo diretor de futebol João Paulo de Jesus Lopes é o uruguaio Diego Forlán. A informação é da "Rádio Bandeirantes".

Segundo a rádio, o São Paulo acertou a contratação do jogador com o Atlético de Madri, da Espanha. Em troca, o clube do Morumbi vai ceder ao time europeu o jovem e promissor volante Casemiro.

Forlán é filho de Pablo Forlán, lateral direito da seleção uruguaia que brilhou no São Paulo nos anos 70. O Forlán pai jamais escondeu que gostaria de ver o filho no Morumbi e já disse que Diego torce pelo Tricolor paulista por conta da ligação paterna.

À "Rádio Jovem Pan", no entanto, Pablo Forlán ainda não confirma o acerto. "Ainda não há nada, mas pode ocorrer o acordo, sim. O futebol brasileiro hoje está forte, pagando muito bem, mais do que alguns times da Europa. Basta ver que o Luis Fabiano resolveu voltar para o São Paulo", disse.

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Ivory Coast president: strongman will face charges

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The Associated Press

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Ivory Coast's president said Wednesday that the country's arrested strongman will face charges "on a national level and an international level."

Alassane Ouattara said Laurent Gbagbo has been moved out of the Golf Hotel, where he was taken after his capture on Monday. He said Gbagbo will be kept in a villa and that his rights as a former head of state will be respected.

"Gbagbo is in a residence under surveillance somewhere in Ivory Coast," Ouattara told reporters at the Golf Hotel.

He said the justice minister is preparing for possible prosecution of Gbagbo but gave no details.

"There will be charges (against Gbagbo) on a national level and an international level," he said.

Ouattara will settle into the presidential palace in the comings days, he said, adding that a swearing-in ceremony will take place at a later date.

Gbagbo refused to cede power after losing a November election, leading to a four-month standoff that plunged the West African nation into chaos and killed untold numbers of people. More than 1 million civilians fled their homes amid the fighting, which also disrupted the economy of the cocoa-producing powerhouse.

New footage obtained by The Associated Press Wednesday shows pro-Ouattara fighters storming Gbagbo's residence.

The footage, shot by a pro-Ouattara fighter Monday during Gbagbo's arrest, showed forces backing Ouattara walking through the front gate carrying firearms. Many are dressed in camouflage and wearing helmets, and some are crouched in shooting position. After orders from a commander, fighters entered the residence, shot at the lock on an orange door and forced themselves inside.

The footage shows fighters putting a camouflage flak jacket on Gbagbo. He and his wife are then escorted to a car with a tank sitting nearby. Gbagbo was then handed off to U.N. peacekeepers and taken to Ouattara's Abidjan headquarters.

French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet also said Wednesday that France will reduce its military force in the Ivory Coast from 1,700 to 980 troops as soon as possible. Longuet said French forces took a secondary role to Ouattara's forces and the U.N. in capturing Gbagbo.

The French will not make any decision on an eventual pullout until at least June, he said, because the future of the French force will depend on the U.N. decision in June on whether to renew the mandate for its force.

"Patrols of Ivorian and French gendarmes will circulate in Abidjan to show that there is a state of law that is being put in place," Longuet told a parliamentary hearing on Ivory Coast on Wednesday.

He said the head of the Ivorian gendarme service, the director of police, the chief of staff of the armed forces and the chief of staff of the army have all offered their services to Ouattara.

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Associated Press writer Angela Charlton contributed to this report from Paris.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.

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Ivory Coast: 'Gbagbo weapons cache' uncovered

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12 April 2011 Last updated at 21:08 ET

French troops have discovered several large arms caches in Ivory Coast that they said would have been used by former Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo.


The weapons, stored at villas in the main city of Abidjan, included mortars, cannons and rockets.

Mr Gbagbo is reportedly being held under house arrest in Abidjan.

French forces led an assault against him on Monday to force him from power. He had refused to accept defeat in a November election.

His rival in last year's election, Alassane Ouattara, who was internationally recognised as winning the poll, has now taken power.

During the stand-off between Mr Gbagbo and Mr Ouattara about 1,500 people were killed and a million forced from their homes.

The BBC's Mark Doyle says the French army took journalists to three innocent-looking villas in central Abidjan where they had discovered the weapons.

He says there were enough arms there to launch a new war, more evidence that the dispute over last year's polls were leading the country into chaos.

The French troops documented the arms before handing them over to African UN soldiers for safe disposal.

Earlier, five generals who had remained loyal to Mr Gbagbo pledged allegiance to Mr Ouattara, though there are reports that some soldiers and militiamen have refused to surrender.

Risk of reprisals

US President Barack Obama has called Mr Ouattara to congratulate him and offer support as Ivory Coast tries to recover from the recent conflict.

Mr Ouattara's government said Mr Gbagbo had been placed under house arrest, without saying where, AFP news agency reported.
"Pending the opening of a judicial inquiry, Mr Laurent Gbagbo and some of his companions have been placed under house arrest," said Justice Minister Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio.

There had been confusion about Mr Gbagbo's whereabouts, with the UN retracting an earlier claim that he had been moved out of Abidjan.

Several generals pledged their allegiance to Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday

Immediately after his arrest Mr Gbagbo had been taken with his wife Simone to Mr Ouattara's headquarters at Abidjan's Golf Hotel.

Mr Ouattara has promised that Mr Gbagbo will not be harmed, but rather "treated with dignity".

He has appealed for calm, and announced that a truth and reconciliation commission will be set up to "shed light on all the massacres, crimes, and all cases of human rights violation".

Both sides have been accused of atrocities.

Troops loyal to Mr Ouattara also began patrolling the streets of the southern city on Tuesday in an attempt to restore order. Despite their presence, sporadic gun and mortar fire was heard.

International human rights group Amnesty International warned that those seen as supporters of Mr Gbagbo were at risk of violent reprisals, despite Mr Ouattara appeals.

"Today in Abidjan, armed men, some wearing military uniforms, have been conducting house-to-house searches in neighbourhoods where real or perceived supporters of Laurent Gbagbo are living," the group said.

It quoted one witness saying he had seen a policeman belonging to Mr Gbagbo's ethnic group being dragged from his house and shot at point blank range.

Until a 2002 rebellion split the country in two, Ivory Coast - the world's largest cocoa producer - was the most developed economy in West Africa.

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The U.S. Civil War in Global Context — Not that Big of a Deal?

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April 12, 2011 3:23 pm

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the shelling of Fort Sumter, the island battery in Charleston harbor whose surrender to South Carolinian secessionists signaled the start of the Civil War. And while our attention rightly falls on the war's dramatic — and traumatic — legacy, one which is still being grappled over to this day, it's worth setting it remembering the conflict in a more international light.

Much is often made of the U.S. Civil War being the world's first "modern" conflict — not only was it one of the first to be documented by traveling journalists and photographers, but the action was highly mechanized, conveyed via telegraph lines, rail and ironclad ships, with mines and advanced breech-loading rifles deployed on the battlefield. Trenches were dug and great new weapons of destruction let loose upon armies and cities. All in all, it was a shadow of grimmer wars to come in the early 20th century.

But Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, an assistant professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, challenges the idea often invoked by some overeager American pop historians that the U.S. Civil War was in and of itself the singular most defining conflict of the 19th century. He writes:

A more general understanding of the Civil War as the first "modern" or "total" war raises more questions than answers... At the climactic "Battle of Nations" at Leipzig in 1813, Napoleon commanded 177,000 men, while the Allied forces mustered over 250,000 men in opposition, excluding 140,000 nearby reinforcements. The French suffered 68,000 casualties, while the Allies lost at least 50,000 men. In comparison, the Gettysburg campaign [arguably the most momentous of the war] counted 30,100 Federal and 27,125 Confederate casualties during the entire campaign, out of 112,700 deployed personnel in the Army of the Potomac and about 80,000 men in the Army of Northern Virginia. In other words, the initial Allied forces at Leipzig outnumbered both Union and Confederate armies combined, while French casualties alone exceeded the sum of both American armies' losses.

Not only was it less of an epic clash than other 19th century wars, it also wrought less destruction on the land, according to Hsieh:

Looking at the war as a whole, the Civil War's overall bloodiness, while substantial, was hardly unprecedented. During the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), the Holy Roman Empire saw its population decline by around 4 million persons, out of around 20 million at the start of the war. Or one can point to the Taiping Rebellion (1850-64) in China, which tallied up 20 million or more fatalities. These disconcerting butcher's bills included large numbers of civilian deaths; during the Civil War, the best estimate of non-combatant fatalities counts up roughly 50,000 deaths, most from indirect causes such as disruptions to agriculture and overcrowding.

This is not to say the Civil War was a cakewalk — just a reminder that, as the centennials and centennials-and-a-half tick by, it's always worth keeping in mind the fraught and bitter legacies of other great wars that aren't returning to our frontpages.

Posted by Ishaan Tharoor

Categories: Conflict, Humanitarian aid, Military, U.S.

Tags: civil war, fort sumter, leipzig, taiping rebellion

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Dirigente diz que São Paulo prepara grande contratação internacional: "Uma bomba atômica"

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Ter, 12 de Abril de 2011 08:36

O São Paulo ainda não encerrou a temporada de grandes contratações.

Depois da chegada triunfal do Fabuloso no mês passado, assistida por 45 mil torcedores no Morumbi, o clube trabalha para trazer outro nome de peso. "A gente tem três ou quatro nomes, um deles uma 'bomba atômica'. Nada nos garante que dê resultado. Se der, vai ter mais gente na apresentação do que teve na do Luis Fabiano", disse o diretor de futebol tricolor, João Paulo de Jesus Lopes, nesta segunda-feira, em entrevista ao programa Esporte e Notícia, da Rádio Bandeirantes.

O dirigente não disse nomes, mas adiantou que o reforço não é brasileiro, afastando a possibilidade da contratação de Kaká, hoje no Real Madrid. Mas faz uma ressalva: "Se ele quiser vir, as portas estarão abertas".

João Paulo também não quis dizer qual é a posição do atleta que está na mira do clube, mas garantiu ser "um jogador diferenciado". Caso se confirme, o reforço chegaria após o Paulista.

João Paulo disse que continua tentando a contratação de Guiñazu, mas considera o negócio difícil. "Nossos patrícios não querem liberar", disse o dirigente, citando o Internacional.

Zaga tricolor

Outro nome que vem ganhando força no Morumbi é o do zagueiro Coates, do Nacional-URU. João Paulo confirma o interesse, mas diz que, por enquanto, com o clube uruguaio em plena disputa da Libertadores, as negociações estão paradas. "Coates está bem encaminhado. Seria uma vilania prejudicar o Nacional na Libertadores. Quando acabar (a participação do time na competição) a gente retoma a negociação", disse.

Se o Coates pode chegar, Alex Silva tem chances de deixar o Morumbi no fim do julho, quando se encerra o empréstimo do zagueiro. O jogador, que tem seus direitos econômicos ligados ao Hamburgo-ALE, disse em entrevista a uma rádio portuguesa que está perto do Sporting-POR. Depois, pelo Twitter, negou tudo. Mas, segundo João Paulo, a tendência é que o zagueiro siga no São Paulo.

"Estamos com tratativas bem encaminhadas com o Hamburgo para que ele permaneça. O próprio Alex tem dado declarações de que quer continuar no São Paulo. Conversei com o presidente Juvenal Juvêncio sobre isso e ele também pensa como eu. Ele acha muito difícil eu a gente não consiga", disse João Paulo. "Nossa intenção é que seja em definitivo, mas se a condição for pela prorrogação (do empréstimo), vamos por esse caminho", concluiu.

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China Aims to Lift BRICS Profile

Bloomberg News A member of the event staff walks past a BRICS sign ahead of this weekend's summit.

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April 12, 2011
 

China this week will host a summit of leaders from the so-called BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—as it looks to boost the group's profile as a platform for emerging economies.
 
By Owen Fletcher
 

BEIJING—China this week will host a summit of leaders from the so-called BRICS countries as it looks to boost the group's profile as a platform for emerging economies to gain stronger leverage over more advanced countries.

The meeting is the first of its kind to include South Africa as well as Brazil, Russia, India and China, a group that could band together to push for international financial reforms favoring developing countries. The summit, which coincides with meetings of the International Monetary Fund in Washington this week, is set to discuss global financial and economic issues like commodity-price fluctuations—a topic on which China hopes the countries can reach a common position before a Group of 20 summit in Cannes, France, in November. A joint position on such economic issues could boost the BRICS countries' joint heft in G-20 talks as the larger group debates how to address global economic imbalances.

The meeting of the countries' leaders on the island of Hainan on Thursday, preceded by a BRICS trade-minister meeting Wednesday, is likely to produce positive rhetoric about cooperation among the five emerging economies and some type of call for reform in the international financial system, but beneath the surface the group's effectiveness faces a number of obstacles, not least disagreements among its own members.

The term BRIC was coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 to call attention to four rising economies that he thought would play an increasingly large global role. For years it was treated largely as investor shorthand for big emerging markets.

The countries themselves have developed it into an organization designed in part to promote the interests of developing countries much like the G-7 does for developed economies. Adding countries like South Africa to the group serves that goal, widening its focus to include more of the developing world outside fast-growing countries like China and India.

In 2009, the four BRIC countries held their first summit in Russia and discussed reform of the international financial system and the possibility of a new dominant reserve currency to replace the U.S. dollar.

As host this year, China invited South Africa to join, and is now formally calling the group BRICS. Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Hailong said this month that other emerging-market countries have expressed interest in joining the group, and that China is open to the idea. He didn't say which countries. The group doesn't have a clear admission process. In the case of South Africa, Chinese and Brazilian officials in recent months simply said the original BRIC members had agreed to add the new country.

The group's simple moniker glosses over the fact that its members are vastly different. India, Brazil and South Africa are vibrant democracies with cacophonous opposition parties and civil societies that stand in contrast to the more authoritarian systems of Russia and China.

China's economy, the world's second largest, is nearly three times the size of Brazil's, close to four times those of India and Russia, and about 16 times that of South Africa. Russia and Brazil are huge commodity exporters. China, among the world's biggest importers of many commodities, says rising commodity prices have helped fuel the high inflation rate it is working to tamp down.

The countries also differ on exchange-rate policies. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who arrived Monday in Beijing for a state visit ahead of the BRICS summit, has grown increasingly vocal against Beijing's tight control of the yuan's value, which keeps its exports relatively cheap in foreign markets.

Mr. Wu, of China's Foreign Ministry, said the yuan's exchange rate isn't on the agenda for the BRICS meeting.

Analysts say disagreements on such issues could hobble the group's influence, as could its exclusion so far of major developing countries like Indonesia, and its exclusion of most of the world's biggest economic powers if it remains a group for developing countries only.

"I'm a little skeptical that they're going to emerge as a global force in shaping the world economy," said China expert Nick Lardy of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

South Africa has rejoiced at joining a grouping that's seen as independent from Western powers. Over the years, Pretoria has attempted to craft a foreign policy that promotes the interests of African countries and the developing world, although how it will do that through the BRICS formation still isn't clear.

Still, concern about China has grown among South African businesses as the Asian country has surpassed Germany in recent years as South Africa's biggest source of imports. At a breakfast discussion about the upcoming summit, some industry leaders expressed concern that China would cajole South Africa into subverting economic interests for political symbolism, leaving local companies and workers vulnerable to a flood of Chinese goods.

China's government has long positioned itself as something of a champion of the developing world, and in turn looks to other relatively poor countries to side with it against developed countries on issues like human rights and climate change.

Emerging economies "need to further reinforce and improve their cooperation, coordinate their stances and actively participate in global rule-making, so that the emerging and developing economies can have more voices and rights of development," scholars at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a state-run think tank, said in a recent paper.

Zhu Feng, deputy director of Peking University's Center for International and Strategic Studies in Beijing, said the BRICS countries are aware of the group's limits as a counterweight to U.S. power. Still, he said it could help China ease some tensions with fellow emerging powers, and that expanding it serves Beijing's longer-term goals. "For China it is an important goal for emerging economies to be able to produce cooperation and unity," he said.

Peter Wonacott contributed to this article.

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Por que a China gosta tanto dos Brics

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17:20, 12/04/2011

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Na quinta-feira, Brasil, Rússia, Índia e China, pela primeira vez ladeados pela África do Sul (South Africa, em inglês), fazem reunião dos Brics em Pequim. O encontro é observado pela comunidade internacional com um misto de desconfiança e expectativa. Expectativa porque são países importantes no cenário internacional, e desconfiança porque são muito heterogêneos.

Reportagem do The Wall Street Journal discute tal questão e diz que a China tem um interesse especial em manter o grupo funcionando e, mais ainda, adicionar outros integrantes, como fez com a África do Sul, porque "há muito tempo se posiciona como um tipo de defensora do mundo em desenvolvimento, e em troca busca países relativamente mais pobres para se aliar contra os desenvolvidos em temas como direitos humanos e mudanças climáticas".

Zhu Feng, vice-diretor do Centro de Estudos Internacionais e Estratégicos da Universidade Peking (de Pequim), diz que os membros dos Brics estão cientes das limitações do grupo como contrapeso ao poder dos Estados Unidos. Ainda assim, ele diz que o grupo pode ajudar a China a aliviar tensões com outras potências emergentes, e que expandir o grupo pode ser benéfico para os objetivos de longo prazo de Pequim. "Para a China, é uma meta importante que os países emergentes consigam produzir cooperação e unidade", disse.

José Antonio Lima


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Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo moved from Abidjan, UN says

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12 April 2011 Last updated at 13:08 ET


The former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, has been moved out of the main city of Abidjan a day after his arrest, a UN spokesman has said.



The spokesman did not say where Mr Gbagbo had gone but said UN troops were with him to guarantee his security.

He was detained after a week-long siege by forces loyal to his rival, the UN-recognised president Alassane Ouattara.

Mr Ouattara has promised that Mr Gbagbo will not be harmed, but Abidjan remains unstable with sporadic gunfire heard.

There are reports that some soldiers and militiamen loyal to Mr Gbagbo have refused to surrender, despite his call for an end to the fighting.

Mr Gbagbo and his wife, Simone, were taken to Mr Ouattara's headquarters at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan immediately after his arrest.

But UN spokesman Farhan Haq told a news conference in New York on Tuesday that UN peacekeepers had since "helped to move him to another place in Ivory Coast where he is secure".

Mr Haq said only that the new location was outside Abidjan. UN troops would remain with Mr Gbagbo "to ensure his safety", he added.

The head of UN peacekeeping operations, Alain Le Roy, said on Monday that Mr Ouattara might move Mr Gbagbo to his stronghold in the north.

On Monday evening, Mr Ouattara said "all measures" would be taken to ensure the "physical integrity" of Mr Gbagbo and his wife.

He said he had asked his justice minister to launch legal proceedings would be started against them and their aides.

"They will be treated with dignity and their rights will be respected."

Mr Ouattara also announced that a truth and reconciliation commission would be set up to "shed light on all the massacres, crimes, and all cases of human rights violation". Both sides have been accused of atrocities.


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