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The Guardian (UK)
The Guardian’s special report features interviews with inhabitants of Pakistan's restive Swat Valley, who say they are happy about the deal struck between the Taliban and the government in Islamabad.
The deal opened the way to application of sharia law ain the area. In return, the Taliban pledged to put an end to violence.
Supporters of the Taliban say that even if their presence is a source of concern for the international community, it has enabled schools to reopen.
A teacher called Ziauddin Yusufzai says the new regime is an improvement.
“Before we had a doubtful war. Now, we have a doubtful peace”, he says.
Washington Post (US)
Swine flu has killed around sixty people in Mexico, according to the Washington Post.
The article says the flu has sickened hundreds of people, all of whom have trouble breathing.
The newspaper interviewed a mother, Angelica Padilla, who says she is worried about her children.
As a means of prevention, people try to stay at home and avoid public places.
Aujourd’hui en France (France)
The virus is thought to have jumped from pigs to humans, and has already spread to California. The French newspaper Aujourd’hui en France says it could even reach Europe. No cases have been reported in France as yet.
The article seeks to reassure readers, saying that one cannot catch swine flu by eating pork. However, the disease spreads in the air and a person can catch it if he lives close to an infected pig.
Libération (France)
Around four million Spaniards are now unemployed, that’s around 17% of the working population.
The economic crisis is making people so desperate, says French paper Libération, that some are selling their organs on the Internet.
The left-leaning daily reveals some adverts seen on Spanish websites. “I sell my kidneys for 40,000 euros", says a 35-year-old Spaniard.
The article says that up to 10% of organ transplants in the world are illegal.
El Pais (Spain)
Paraguay’s new president hardly features in the papers because of his policies, but rather because his sex life. You can read about Fernando Lugo in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Lugo is a former Roman Catholic Bishop. Yet, so far, three women have claimed that he fathered their children.
Lugo has admitted that a two-year-old boy was his, but denied having fathered two other children. In any case, Paraguay's president says he will not step down.
Libération (France)
“Telectro-choc” reads the title of French paper Libération.
In France, a new game show is about to hit TV screens… and not one in which you'd want to lose. Penalty for defeat: electrocution.
But the game is not real, says the article. It is part of a documentary designed to show how reality TV can bring out the worst in you.
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