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Hervé Ghesquierè and Stéphane Taponier greeted by president and huge crowd at Paris airbase after 547 days in Afghanstan Two journalists held hostage by the Taliban for 18 months in Afghanistan have arrived home in France to an emotional welcome. Television reporter Hervé Ghesquierè, 47, with tears in his eyes, described being confined indoors “23 and three-quarters hours a day” and repeatedly having his hopes raised of an imminent release – and then dashed. Cameraman Stéphane Taponier, 46, at his side, broke into a grin as he said: “We’re doing really, really, really well.” Both looked quite pale but otherwise healthy, and were visibly moved by the huge crowd of journalists gathered at a military airbase outside Paris for the long-awaited homecoming. Their plight was one of France’s longest-ever hostage ordeals, and had become a national cause. President Nicolas Sarkozy, first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and France’s defence and foreign ministers met the two men as they left the plane from Kabul. The two journalists and three Afghan associates were kidnapped in December 2009 while working for France 3 television on a story about reconstruction on a road east of Kabul. They had been embedded with French troops in Afghanistan, but decided to take off to report on their own but were captured. They were freed on Wednesday along with their Afghan translator, Reza Din. Two others were freed earlier. French officials insist no ransom has been paid, though the circumstances of the release remained unclear. The journalists insisted that they had not been beaten or mistreated by their Taliban captors, just suffered “very very difficult” living conditions. They said they were separated after the first three months and spent the rest of the time isolated and confined. We represented something important for the Taliban, Taponier said, which he said gave him hope they would eventually be freed. In April 2010, after posting a video of the hostages on the web, the Taliban said it had submitted a list of prisoners to French authorities it wanted freed in exchange. Last week, the French defence minister, Gérard Longuet, said that the announcements of staggered French and American troop withdrawals might help the cause of freeing Ghésquierè and Taponier. US President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of 33,000 troops by September 2012, and France followed suit, announcing it will pull out a quarter of its force of 4,000. The Taliban gave each journalist a radio at some point, they said. Taponier was able to listen to Radio France International, which was broadcasting regular messages of support to the two men in the hope they were listening. “That warmed our hearts,” Taponier said. But Ghesquierè was only able to get a BBC signal, and said he was largely unaware of the large support campaign in France. He described battling boredom and discouragement by exercising in the small room where he was isolated for months, and writing. And he exclaimed in dismay in recalling that a year-and-a-half of notes he took were taken away before his liberation, because his captors didn’t want any document released. Ghesquierè specialised in war reporting, covering the Balkans conflict and investigative reports around the globe, from Cambodia to the disputed Western Sahara territory. Taponier had filmed in the past in Afghanistan, notably a 2000 report on the northern commander Massoud, who was later killed. Ghesquierè said he wanted to get back to a “normal life” as soon as possible, and not “play the role of an ex-hostage”. For the past 547 days, banners bearing their photos hung in city halls around France – banners taken down in jubilation after their release. France Europe Taliban Afghanistan guardian.co.uk
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Crews are working to clear a massive mudslide that swept over the Trans-Canada Highway in British Columbia Wednesday morning. (June 29)
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A supercharged Chevrolet Corvette may have been all the hotness back in 1996, but times and tastes change and now people are all about the electric boogaloo . Today we get to witness one modern man’s transition into this brave new world, a Wayne Bickley from California, who has gutted his crow-black ’96 Corvette and replaced the messy internal combustion setup with a set of 18 XS Power XP1000 batteries, a DC electric motor, and his own clutchless six-speed transmission. The end result doesn’t really look much different, but its 20-mile “spirited driving” range and 85mph top speed will surely feel different and it does also sound very much like something from the the future. Check out this modernized Chevy on video after the break. Continue reading 1996 Corvette converted into a 2011 electric odyssey (video) 1996 Corvette converted into a 2011 electric odyssey (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John le Carré bestseller opens in the UK on 16 September. Let us know what you think of this world exclusive teaser trailer
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As voters go the polls, officials and senior figures in the SNP and Labour believe the gap between the parties is very small Alex Salmond is close to landing another wounding blow on the Labour party as voters head to the polling stations in the Inverclyde byelection. Officials and senior figures in both the Scottish National party and Labour believe that the battle to win Inverclyde , a once rock-solid Labour constituency west of Glasgow, has gone to the wire with the SNP on the brink of snatching the seat. The byelection was called after the sudden death of its popular Labour MP and former minister David Cairns, 44, shortly after the SNP’s landslide victory in May’s Scottish parliament elections . Despite holding the Westminster seat and its near equivalents for some 80 years, Labour has been struggling to defend its 14,416 vote majority against the SNP, which came within 500 votes of winning the equivalent Holyrood seat in May. Labour admits the result could come down to a few hundred votes, with many predicting a low turnout: the party has pressed its activists into another, late surge of campaigning and drafted in Lord Prescott on the day before polling. Salmond has visited the seat five times during the short campaign. “I think this is earthquake proportions if we win this seat,” he told BBC Scotland on Wednesday. “I think that the political impact of a victory for the SNP in Inverclyde would be absolutely huge.” SNP officials said on Thursday the difference between the two parties was “very tight”. One said: “We’ve closed the gap an awful long way, down to a thousand or a couple of hundred, but it has been very hard to tell over the last couple of days, incredibly difficult.” Anne McLaughlin, the SNP candidate hoping to become the party’s seventh MP at Westminster, accompanied her mother, Betty, to a polling station at a local sailing club on Thursday morning. Raised in the area, McLaughlin no longer lives in the constituency. In her election day address to voters, McLaughlin took inspiration from Winnie Ewing’s famous byelection victory for the SNP in Hamilton in 1967, claiming that and other byelection upsets shocked the UK government into making concessions to Scotland. She said: “I promise you that if elected to serve as MP, I will defend Inverclyde’s interests and promote our future with every bone in my body. “Labour can’t and won’t fight back and take on the Tories and their cuts at Westminster. They stopped listening a long time ago.” Labour’s candidate, Iain McKenzie, the local council leader, cast his vote at a scout hall in Greenock. Stopping far short of predicting a victory, he said: “This is a beautiful sunny day in Inverclyde and there’s a great feeling in the air.” He added: “I am proud to be the Labour candidate and I am proud to be the local candidate and I will be working every minute of today until polls close to earn the trust of my friends and neighbours in Inverclyde.” Sophie Bridger, for the Liberal Democrats, was out in the constituency urging party supporters to vote. The Scottish Lib Dem leader, Willie Rennie, who won a shock byelection victory in Dunfermline and West Fife byelection in 2006, a Westminster seat in Gordon Brown’s backyard, said turnout on Thursday would be crucial. “When I won Dunfermline and West Fife, I didn’t know I would, so I think a lot of these things are very fluid, especially with low turnouts – which I suspect, so soon after the Holyrood election, this will be. It’s quite difficult to tell,” he said. General election 2010 result: Inverclyde David Cairns (Labour) 20,933 votes (56.0%) Innes Nelson (SNP) 6,577 votes (17.5%) Simon Hutton (Liberal Democrat) 5,007 votes (13.3%) David Wilson (Conservative) 4,502 votes (12%) Peter Campbell (Ukip) 433 votes (1.2%) Majority: 14,416 (38.4%) Turnout: 37,512 (63.4%) Inverclyde byelection candidates: Labour: Iain McKenzie SNP: Anne McLaughlin Conservative: David Wilson Liberal Democrats: Sophie Bridger Ukip: Mitch Sorbie Scottish politics Scotland Labour Scottish National Party (SNP) Alex Salmond Byelections Severin Carrell guardian.co.uk
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La Toya Jackson reveals why she thinks her brother Michael’s death was pre-meditated and Dr. Conrad Murray is ‘simply the fall guy.’ She also says she believes the pop icon’s will is fake. (June 30)
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The government sent a plane equipped with radiation monitors over the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory Wednesday as a wildfire burned at its doorstep. (June 30)
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When Mark Halperin asked if the seven-second delay was working prior to offering his observation on President Obama's performance at his press conference of yesterday, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski seemed to assume he was joking, and invited the normally mild-mannered pundit to proceed.
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