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La culture et la musique bretonne sont en ligne depuis quelques jours. En prélude au week-end de la Bogue d'or, le site internet dastum.net a été inauguré à la maison de pays jeudi dernier. Ce panorama permettra à toute personne s'intéressant à la culture et à la musique bretonne de trouver des renseignements sur les publications, les veillées, la musique et l'histoire. « Mais tout ne sera pas accessible, indique Charles Quimbert, le président. Pour approfondir les sujets disponibles sur le site, il faudra se déplacer dans un des neuf centres de consultations répartis en Bretagne ». Et le Groupement culturel de Redon en est un.
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Membership of the Scottish National Party (SNP) has reached the 10,000 mark again, the party's Inverness conference has been told.
The Nationalists' newest recruit is Bushra Bashir, a 21-year-old student from Glasgow.
Meanwhile, delegates have backed a call for Scottish history to be taught in all primary and secondary schools.
And returning party leader Alex Salmond kick-started a drive to win seats in the next general election.
Membership had dipped badly before the leadership contest.
SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon told activists on Wednesday that recent months had seen a surge from just over 8,000 at the start of the leadership battle that followed John Swinney's resignation after the party's poor showing in the European elections.
A cantante porriñesa Uxía representou este venres a Galiza no Liet Ynternasjonaal, o festival europeo da canción en linguas minorizadas. O seu tema de nova creación 'Cadeas', quedou finalmente en terceira posición, por detrás do lapón Niko Valkepää e dos occitanos Bombe 2 Bal. O festival, onde se dan cita todos os estilos musicais, foi pois por segunda vez consecutiva para as terras de Laponia, na edición de máis calidade das que se celebraron ata o de agora. Ademais dos xa mencionados, participaban no teatro Die Harmonïe de Ljouwert frisóns, limburgueses, escoceses, galeses, bretóns, sorbios e friulanos.
Six Iparralde ( Northern Basque Country) Conseillers of the Département des Pyrénées Atlantiques are supporting the demand of Batera to have a referendum called on setting up a separate political administration for this part of the Basque Country which lies within the French Republic. Their demand, aimed at the Conseil Général , was accompanied by the deputies' pledge to speak "with one voice" on the theme at this regional parliament. One of the parliamentarians, Jean-Pierre Destrade (Independent Left), stressed the importance of the unity in this matter of the different political opinions of the elected representatives - AB, the Socialist Party (in power in Paris), the conservative opposition, UDF, apart from himself.
Lisa Simpson, the spiky-haired U.S. cartoon character, may just be the spark that revives an ancient language and fuels a tiny political movement at the tip of the southwest English coast.
The sister of bad-boy Bart and daughter of bumbling Homer will appear in a special episode of "The Simpsons" shouting out support for the independence of Cornwall in the nearly dead language of ancient Cornish as an alternative broadcast to the Queen's traditional Christmas address.
Matthew Clarke, Lisa Simpson's translator and a member of the Cornish Language Fellowship, told Reuters that news of the Christmas special has ignited more than the usual mocking interest in a language which some say was the lingua franca of such British legends as King Arthur and Boadicea.
"Before you got a lot of people writing on the Cornish language as a bit of a joke," he said.
Clarke said the way much of the media viewed Cornish changed almost overnight when the press discovered it would feature in a cartoon series that is famed for lampooning American life and gained international currency poking fun at other stereotypes in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, and elsewhere.
Clarke said the number of people using the Web site he runs, www.cornish-language.org, doubled after news got out on The Simpsons' Christmas special.
A majority of Wallonians and Brussels residents feel that they are Belgians first and French speakers second, while Flemish speakers are more likely to identify first with their region, a new survey has found.
The survey, conducted by Dedicated Research for Le Soir and RTBF, found that some 49 percent of Walloons and 41 percent of Brussels think of themselves as Belgians first.
That figure compares to just 38 percent of Flemish speakers who think of themselves first as Belgians and 14 percent as Europeans. By contrast, some 47 percent of Flems think of themselves as Flemish first.
Not surprisingly, one out of two Flemish respondents also said they would like to see more autonomy for their region. This compares to 27 percent of Walloons and 28 percent of
Brussels residents who would like to see their regions autonomous.
So what do Flems and Walloons think of each other?
An extreme Scottish nationalist and convicted terrorist has killed himself in a prison cell, the Scotsman reported Tuesday.
Andrew McIntosh, 49, was found Monday in his cell at Aberdeen's Craiginches Prison, shortly before he was scheduled to appear at the city's sheriff court on firearms charges.
He was one of three men arrested 10 days ago -- the day the Queen opened the Scottish Parliament -- after a massive police operation.
Known as the "Tartan Terrorist," the former Army reservist was convicted 11 years ago of masterminding a Scottish National Liberation Army terror campaign. He was imprisoned for that offense until 1999.
Yesterday's statement from the Basque Government denounced the Spanish Government's mockery of the Basque Autonomy Statute on its 25 anniversary
Une résidence secondaire appartenant à une famille vivant sur le continent a été presque entièrement détruite dans un attentat à l'explosif lundi soir à Coti-Chiavari, en Corse-du-Sud. La charge, de forte puissance, a explosé vers 22H45, au lieu-dit Cala d'Orzu, dans le golfe d'Ajaccio. Cette villa avait déjà été détruite par un attentat en 1994.
L'attentat n'a été ni signé, ni revendiqué.
MOBILE phone giant Orange has launched an investigation after mistakenly believing Cardiff was in England!
Customers logging onto Orange's website were amazed to see the company selling colour pictures of the word Cardiff across a flag of St George.
Orange are now looking at the image to see if it is "appropriate".
The wallpaper downloads are aimed at football fans, but Cardiff City supporters have failed to see the funny side and have complained to Orange about the logos - many claiming it is an example of a major company treating Wales and part of England.
"They just can't be bothered doing any research at all," said Ali Yassine, the PA announcer at Ninian Park.
"Is it too much for them to look into it and see Wales is a nation in its own right? They wouldn't dare do the same thing for Scotland."
