Obama apologizes to Senate

Washington - The Obama administration apologized for not having kept informed members of Congress of

the prisoner exchange deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan to recover the U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, reported Tuesday elected.

Responsible for "high level" of the White House has "apologized Monday evening we have not kept abreast" of the agreement, according to Senator Saxby Chambliss, Republican leader of the Committee of Intelligence.
 When asked if the White House was just saying that she had given informed the principal elected this exchange, Mr. Chambliss said: "The White House is wrong on this point." Stating that the executive discussed with Congress soldier Bergdahl last 18 months, he said that "if it means keeping us informed, then this administration is more arrogant than I thought."
 The Democratic chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, also regretted not having been informed upstream of the agreement. Deputy Advisor Obama National Security Tony Blinken called Monday evening Senator to apologize. "He said it was an oversight," reported Ms. Feinstein, according to the National Journal. Republicans fired from this weekend lashing against the Democratic administration guilty in their eyes for not having informed the Congress 30 days before surgery.
 Democratic side, Senator Carl Levin said that the president had warned Congress "at the last moment" in December when he signed a decree giving it constitutional to rapidly expand Guantanamo detainees authority.

Hillary Clinton said that her marriage had $ 12 million in debt when she and her husband Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001

Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that his marriage had $ 12 million of debt leaving the White House, saying that if their lives were very different from that of many Americans, they had also experienced "the same problems that many people."
 "We had about 12 million dollars in debt," said the former head of American diplomacy on ABC, when his new book was on sale in the United States. "We had to work really hard. I was in the Senate, I could not do much, and I am very grateful to my husband, who has always worked hard since he was born poor. "
 The presidential couple had to borrow to finance including attorneys' fees related to the Monica Lewinsky affair, which has poisoned the second term of Bill Clinton (1997-2001).
 In an interview with the same chain released Monday, Hillary Clinton said that her marriage was "not only broke but in debt," leaving the White House in 2001.
 Technically correct, this statement raised taunts because Clinton now have two homes valued at several million dollars, and charge hundreds of thousands of dollars of speech in the country.
 In New York, hundreds of people lined up Tuesday morning at the Barnes & Noble bookstore where Hillary Clinton had to sign his book, Hard Choices, in the morning. Some had spent a good part of the night outside the store.

Poroshenko create humanitarian corridors in eastern

Ukraine's new president on Tuesday ordered the creation of humanitarian corridors claimed by Moscow in areas of separatist fighting in the east, creating, in Germany, a "new atmosphere" giving hope to de-escalate the crisis.
 "I saw that all the parties were prepared to act to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine," said the head of the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, in St. Petersburg. "I'm not saying that we have already found a solution to the crisis, but climbing has given way to a new atmosphere. We see the end of the tunnel, "said he added.
 Discussing since Sunday with Russia under the mediation of the OSCE means to appease the worst conflict since the end of the Cold War, the president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, ordered the creation of humanitarian corridors allowing civilians who want to leave "the area of ​​the anti-terrorist operation in order to avoid further casualties."
 The presidential initiative corresponds to the desire of Russia issued in early June a draft resolution to the UN as NGOs denounce the use of heavy weapons by the Ukrainian army in populated areas. "We welcome this decision. This is a step in the right direction, "reacted immediately the head of Russian diplomacy.
 One of the leaders of the "Republic of Donestk" self-proclaimed Andrii Pourguine, nevertheless skeptical about the initiative of Mr. Poroshenko. "We've heard, but we have doubts about the implementation of this plan," he said quoted by the Russian news agency Interfax.
 Four days after his brief meeting with Vladimir Putin in France who has created a hope of de-escalation, Mr. Poroshenko seems to quickly soothe relations with Moscow and was given a week to get a return to calm in the east. In an interview with Time magazine, Mr. Poroshenko stressed it was impossible to restore security without a "dialogue" with Russia. "Some Ukrainians would like to have as neighbors Sweden and Canada, but we have Russia," he said.
 On the ground, two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded by separatists near Slavjansk stronghold of insurgents firing, announced Tuesday Vladislav Seleznev, the spokesman of the Ukrainian military operation.
 Pro-Russian rebels again attacked with mortar Tuesday Luhansk International Airport in the east, so far controlled by forces loyal to Kiev. Insurgents have concentrated forces around the airport. The forces of the "Republic of Lugansk," which seized last week several border crossings with Russia, now control most of the region, with the Donetsk is one of the lungs of industrial Ukraine.
 "It would be naive to believe that the Donbass will be pacified in a week. A cease-fire is possible if the negotiations with Russia are successful, but that does not mean that the battle stops and peace is, "said AFP Ukrainian political analyst Volodymyr Fessenko.

The Tea Party inflicted a stinging defeat to Republican leader Eric Cantor

Washington - The head of the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Eric Cantor, said Wednesday that he will leave his post this summer, drawing lessons from its spectacular defeat Tuesday against the Tea Party in a primary.
  

"I leave my role as majority leader on July 31," before the summer break, Eric Cantor said at a press conference formalizing his imminent resignation on Capitol Hill in Washington. He will continue to serve as a mere representative until the end of his term in early January 2015.

The majority leader has his hand on the agenda of the House.
 Losing to an unknown affiliated with Tea Party, David Brat Tuesday night at the Virginia primary (east), caused an earthquake in Congress, where leaders were sounded as the elimination of the political game of One of the most important men of the Republican party, called one day succeed the current President of the Chamber.
 "All politics is local," said Eric Cantor to justify his removal, while refusing to engage in a national policy analysis. Representative, 51, has also sought to minimize the ideological differences between the fringe of the Tea Party, right, and the rest elected more moderate Republican Party.
 "What divides Republicans weighs nothing compared to what distinguishes us, the conservatives, the left and the Democratic Party," Has he told reporters. "We all, conservatives and Republicans, adhere" to the ideals of the Tea Party, he has insisted, referring to the priority given to reducing public spending and taxes.
 U.S. politicians Wednesday tried to understand the implications of this result, that no one had predicted.
 "I'm in shock," exclaimed the Republican Steve Stivers, expressing a view shared by many of his colleagues in the corridors of the Capitol sentiment. "This is a huge tsunami," said another House Republican Mario Diaz-Balart.
 The elections will take place on November 4. The entire House and a third of the Senate will be renewed for terms beginning in January 2015.
 Eric Cantor's successor will be elected by the Republican party on June 19 The choice of Parliamentarians for this powerful post will outline the balance of power within the party between the more conservative and supporters of a more conciliatory approach with the Democrats.