This is our third Friday Digest! Each 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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The list goes from oldest to newest news.  See you on Sunday, for our weekly Twitter Sunday!

President of Poland Killed in Plane Crash in Russia
A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife and other high-ranking officials crashed in a heavy fog in western Russia on Saturday morning, killing all aboard, Polish officials said. Russian television showed chunks of still-flaming fuselage scattered in a bare forest near Smolensk, where the president was arriving for a ceremony commemorating the murder of more than 20,000 Polish officers by the Red Army…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/world/europe/11poland.html

Yoko QandA day – Fridays on Twitter
Yoko Ono answers your questions… We don’t always understand the meaning of her words but that’s fun. 60 pages to read!
http://imaginepeace.com/archives/7703

Twitter Acquires Tweetie
Twitter has just announced that it acquired Tweetie, the very popular and highly polished Twitter application for the iPhone . The application will now be called “Twitter for iPhone” and will drop from $2.99 to free, with developer Loren Brichter (who makes up the one-man startup Atebits) joining the Twitter mobile team. Twitter also plans to launch Twitter for the iPad, which Brichter will be involved with…
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/twitter-acquires-tweetie/

12-Year-Old Yemani Child Bride Dies from Marital Rape
Elham Madhi, a young Yemani girl whose age is being reported as 12 or 13, bled to death after being raped by a husband nearly twice her age. Before the child died from her injuries, she told her mother that her new husband has tied her down and raped her. He had tried to convince a medical clinic to give Madhi tranquilizers to keep her from fighting her off; when that failed, he bought performance enhancing drugs and raped her with…
http://womensrights.change.org/blog/view/12-year-old_yemani_child_bride_dies_from_marital_rape

Young Superheroes in a Hut
In a village less than a day’s drive from Victoria Falls, I stumbled across a hut that to me captured the country’s heartbreak — and also its resilience and hope. The only people living in the hut are five children, orphans from two families. The kids, ages 8 to 17, moved in together after their four parents died of AIDS and other causes. The head of the household is the oldest boy, Abel, a gangly 10th grader with a perpetual grin…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/opinion/11kristof.html

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi briefly admitted to hospital: official
Yangon, April 11, 2010 (AFP) – Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was admitted to hospital briefly on Sunday over concerns about her heart, a Myanmar official said. “Suu Kyi was taken to Yangon General Hospital to check her heart condition for about 45 minutes,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. He said she returned to her lakeside house, where she is held under house arrest, on Sunday night…
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Myanmar%20briefly%20admitted%20hospital%20official/2789630/story.html

Afghan Women’s Activism Wins More Seats at Peace Conference
UN Dispatch learned last month that just 20 of 1000 reserved seats at Afghanistan’s upcoming national peace conference had been allocated for women. According to a statement by the Afghan Women’s Information Forum, that number has been increased to 30 following pressure from activists. Afghan Women’s Information Forum spokesperson and rights activist Nargis Nehan told UN Dispatch that education minister…
http://www.undispatch.com/afghan-womens-activism-wins-more-seats-peace-conference

Where a Cellphone Is Still Cutting Edge
What if, globally speaking, the iPad is not the next big thing? What if the next big thing is small, cheap and not American? America went into a frenzy last weekend with the iPad’s release. But even as hundreds of thousands here unwrap their iPads, another future entirely may be unfolding overseas on the cellphone. Forgotten in the American tumult is a global flowering of innovation on the simple cellphone…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/weekinreview/11giridharadas.html

Climate change: Just 5 questions: Ice ice, baby
Ice covers more than 10 percent of the Earth’s surface — spanning over 6 million square miles (15.5 million square kilometers) of glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets. Scientists like Dr. Waleed Abdalati are working to improve our understanding of how changes in the planet’s snow and ice (otherwise known as the “cryosphere”) affect our climate. Gretchen Cook-Anderson asked Abdalati a handful of questions about ice…
http://climate.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=299

The gender impact of Europe’s recession
A recent report by Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme looks at the impact of the global economic crisis on Europe’s women. Based on research in ten EU member states, the report finds (among other things): ‘The impact of the recession is significant and damaging for both men and women living in poverty. This report tracks the impact for women as a whole, and particularly for members of vulnerable groups, who face multiple disadvantages…
http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=2276

Genocide trial of Karadzic resumes at UN war crimes tribunal
The genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžic resumed today at a United Nations war crimes tribunal with the start of the prosecution’s case after judges rejected the defendant’s appeal for another delay to the hearing. Mr. Karadžic, the highest-ranking Bosnian Serb official to be indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), had sought a postponement on the ground that the…
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34345

For Sudanese dissidents, path to peace is social media
The arrest of Taj al-Sair, like most arrests of political dissidents in Sudan, might have gone unnoticed and ignored. But this one was different: It was videotaped by a supporter and quickly posted on YouTube. The video shows the young activist at a bus station in Khartoum, telling a large crowd of curious onlookers to vote against Sudan’s ruling party. In the midst of his speech, he is surrounded by police and hauled away…
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/for-sudanese-dissidents-path-to-peace-is-social-media/article1533580/

Actor Samuel L. Jackson preaches hope in Paris suburbs
US film star Samuel L. Jackson met young people in a poor Paris suburb Tuesday, spotlighting deprived areas that France’s mainstream cinema is accused, like its politicians, of neglecting. Jackson broke off his holidays to visit Bondy, an eastern suburb that was among many largely immigrant districts hit in 2005 by a violent wave of protests sparked by tensions between police and youths. Jackson, 61, a black actor who grew up in the…
http://www.france24.com/en/20100413-actor-samuel-l-jackson-preaches-hope-paris-suburbs

Burmese music: Sound of the underground
First comes the sound of hand drums, followed by a voice that is steady and persistent. As Ngwe Toe leans back and angles his words towards the microphone, his lines are met by a chanting group which takes up his theme and sings back at him, as a call and response. “The religion in our country,” sings Toe, as the group answers for him, “is Theravada Buddhism”. The activist continues: “The colour saffron is growing everywhere.”…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burmese-music-sound-of-the-underground-1944013.html

Sudanese journalist charged with ‘waging war’ against state
The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Sudanese authorities to immediately drop criminal charges against prominent journalist and opposition party member Al-Haj Ali Warrag. The National Press Council’s lead attorney charged Warrag on Sunday under the Sudanese Penal Code with “waging war against the state,” in connection with an article published on April 6 in the independent daily Ajras al-Huriya…
http://cpj.org/2010/04/sudanese-journalist-charged-with-waging-war-agains.php

Support Conflict Minerals Legislation in Congress
If passed into law, the Conflict Minerals Trade Act will give you, as a consumer, the choice to purchase conflict-free electronics products. Introduced by Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA), Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Barney Frank (D-MA), the Conflict Minerals Trade Act of 2009 (HR 4128) would create a system of audits and import declarations that would distinguish those goods imported into the United States that contain conflict minerals…
http://www.raisehopeforcongo.org/cmta

Jazz Journalists Association Announces Nominations
The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) announced the final nominations for its annual awards, presented in a broad range of categories covering the music as well as those who cover and present the music. The awards will be given out at a special gala event held at City Winery in New York City on the afternoon of June 14, 2010. The event will be emceed by Terrance McKnight of WQXR-FM…
http://jazztimes.com/articles/25966-jazz-journalists-association-announces-nominations

Arrest One of Us in Zimbabwe, Arrest us All!
The leaders of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu and seventy other people, including juveniles, were arrested today in Harare following a peaceful march. The peaceful protests were mobilised to put direct pressure on the Zimbabwe electricity authority (ZESA) to provide a more efficient service and fair and affordable billing system. On Monday, one thousand WOZA members marched in…
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/women/arrest-one-of-us-in-zimbabwe-arrest-us-all/

Going to the heart of France’s nuclear power ambitions
As an intrepid producer for CNN, I have been in some strange situations. Possibly the strangest, however, was on a recent trip to France to produce a piece on nuclear energy for the latest episode of Earth’s Frontiers. We were about to be taken on a rare behind-the-scenes tour of Tricastin Nuclear Power Station’s nuclear reactor. The core of a nuclear reactor comprises a central “fuel zone,” where fissile material, normally enriched…
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/nuclear.powerstation/index.html?iref=allsearch