This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive.

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Flemish Separatists Win in Belgian Elections
The move to break up Belgium gathered momentum Sunday as separatists won an emphatic election victory in Flanders, the prosperous Dutch-speaking half of the fiercely divided nation.  A stunning electoral success for Bart de Wever’s Flemish nationalist party marks a significant new challenge to the fragile unity of a…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/europe/14belgium.html

Kyrgyzstan erupts into ethnic war
Kyrgyzstan was tonight in the grip of a bloody ethnic war after rioting that erupted four days ago in the southern city of Osh spread rapidly to other areas, with gun battles raging between Kyrgyz and Uzbek youths. The country’s interim government granted its security forces shoot-to-kill powers and promised to send a volunteer…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/13/kyrgyzstan-erupts-into-
ethnic-war

Blair hopes Gaza blockade could be eased within days
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under rising pressure to ease the embargo since a deadly raid on a Turkish-backed aid ship heading to Gaza last month, held talks on the issue with Blair on Friday. Asked when supplies could begin getting through to Gaza, Blair told the BBC: “I think it’s got to be pretty soon.”…
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65C2HL20100613

Amnesty Media Awards 2010 – Photojournalism
Multi-award winner Robin Hammond won his thrid award for his pictures in The Sunday Times exposing the human rights and environmental catastrophe caused by contractors to Gap and Levis jeans in Lesotho. Also shortlisted was Kate Holt for her case studies and stories of Zimbabwe’s improverished elderly on BBC Online.
http://www.protectthehuman.com/videos/amnesty-media-awards-2010-
photojournalism

A Dirt-Poor Nation, With a Health Plan
The maternity ward in the Mayange district health center is nothing fancy. It has no running water, and the delivery room is little more than a pair of padded benches with stirrups. But the blue paint on the walls is fairly fresh, and the labor room beds have mosquito nets. Inside, three generations of the Yankulije family are relaxing on…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/health/policy/15rwanda.html

UN calls for Kyrgyzstan humanitarian corridor
Lynn Pascoe said he also wanted to get help to Uzbekistan to make sure it could deal with the influx of refugees. Tens of thousands of ethnic Uzbeks have fled their homes in Kyrgyzstan and headed for Uzbekistan. The violence began in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad on Thursday and has left at least 138 dead…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10315347.stm

RIM Tests a Tablet and New BlackBerry to Rival iPhone
Research In Motion Ltd. is readying a slate of new devices and software as it looks to keep its BlackBerry smartphone from losing more ground to touch-screen devices like Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad. RIM is testing a touch-screen smartphone with a slide-out keyboard, according to people familiar with the device…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487043243045753
07142201727232.html

Jacques Cousteau remembered, 100 years after his birth
This would have been the 100th birthday of Jacques Cousteau, the 20th century’s iconic explorer and explainer of the sea. The timing is either perfect, or terrible: it falls in the middle of the country’s worst marine disaster in memory. In a telephone interview from Venice, La.–the town closest to the site of the leak on the gulf floor…
http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010
/06/jacques_cousteau_remembered_100_years_after_his_birth.html

Journalist shot dead in southern Philippines
A gunman shot and killed radio journalist as he hosted a singing contest before shocked spectators in the southern Philippines, police said today. Desidario Camangyan of Sunshine FM radio died from a gunshot wound to the head last night inside the gymnasium of Davao Oriental province’s Manay township…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/journalist-shot-dead
-in-southern-philippines-2000812.html

San Francisco Passes Cellphone Radiation Law
Imposing roughly the same cautionary standards for cellphones as for fatty food or sugary soda, this city — never shy about its opinions — voted on Tuesday to require all retailers to display the amount of radiation each phone emits. The law — believed to be the first of its kind in the nation — came despite a lack of conclusive…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/us/16cell.html

Errors Mar Initial Sales of iPhone 4
Apple fans who were already unhappy with AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the United States, got another reason to complain about it on Tuesday when Apple and its partners began taking orders for the new iPhone 4. Numerous people who went to the Web sites of Apple and AT&T to place orders for the phone…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/technology/16apple.html

Suspects in killing of Darfur peacekeepers to appear
before ICC on Thursday
Two rebel leaders accused in the September 2007 attack that resulted in the death of 12 peacekeepers in Darfur arrived voluntarily at the International Criminal Court (ICC) today and will appear before judges on Thursday. Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain (Banda) and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus (Jerbo) are charged with…
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35038&Cr=icc&Cr1=

Al Qaida may have helped Sudanese killers of U.S. official
escape
Four Sudanese sentenced to death for the killing of a U.S. aid official escaped a Khartoum prison on June 10. Interpol has issued a security alert based on the assessment that the killers of the U.S. official might have fled Sudan. The four Sudanese were convicted of killing John Granville, an official for the U.S. Agency…
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/af_
sudan0536_06_17.asp