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In the news
A small step closer to assisted reproduction for all. The outcome is approaching: on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the National Assembly adopted for the third time the bioethics bill and its flagship measure of the PMA for couples of women and single women, despite strong opposition from elected from the right. The Senate, hostile to the main measures of the bill, will examine it one last time on June 24, before leaving the last word to the Assembly on June 29. Couples of women will be able to “Register for PMA courses from the start of the school year”, promised the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran. LGBT associations have continued to protest against the delay in the law, probably the only major social reform of the five-year term.
Child labor is increasing for the first time in two decades. Millions of children at risk of being pressured into work due to Covid-19 pandemic, as world saw first increase in child labor in two decades, UN warned Thursday. A joint report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UNICEF, the UN agency in charge of child welfare, estimates that at the start of 2020, 160 million children were forced to work, i.e. 8.4 million more in four years. If current projections of rising global poverty materialize, nine million more children will be forced into work by the end of next year, according to the report.
Dieselgate: Peugeot indicted in France after Renault and Volkswagen. After Volkswagen in May and Renault on Tuesday, Peugeot was indicted Wednesday for “deception leading to a danger to the health of humans or animals” in France in the investigation into the scandal of “dieselgate”, unlocking a file stuck for years which could also lead to the implication of Citroën and Fiat-Chrysler. A report from the DGCCRF (General Directorate for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Control), sent to the courts in February 2017, referred to a “Global strategy to manufacture fraudulent engines, then to market them”. In view of the violations found, the DGCCRF assessed the maximum fine incurred by the company at 5 billion euros.
Slap to Macron: the alleged perpetrator tried Thursday in immediate appearance. The alleged perpetrator of the slap inflicted on the President of the Republic on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron during a trip to Tain l’Hermitage (Drôme) will be tried Thursday in immediate appearance, said the public prosecutor, Alex Perrin in a statement. Damien T., 28, unknown to the police, admitted during his custody having struck a blow to the head of state and having spoken words denouncing the policy. But he claims to have acted “Instinctively”, “without thinking”, “To express his dissatisfaction”, specifies the press release.
In Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi indicted for corruption. Former Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, overthrown by military coup, has been charged with corruption, accused by the junta of having collected more than half a million dollars and eleven kilos of gold from bribes. Arrested on the morning of February 1 and since under house arrest, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate is already facing numerous legal proceedings ranging from illegal possession of walkie-talkies to incitement to public disturbance and violation. of a law on state secrets. “These accusations are absurd”, denounced one of his lawyers, Khin Maung Zaw. The goal is to “Keep her away from the (political) scene of the country and tarnish her image”.
To be continued
The emblematic feminicide of Julie Douib judged in Bastia. Julie Douib’s ex-partner, Bruno Garcia, will be tried from this Thursday in Bastia for the murder of the young woman, in 2019 in L’Île-Rousse. This feminicide had provoked an unprecedented mobilization and led to the organization of a Grenelle on violence against women. Bruno Garcia-Cruciani, 44, will appear before the Bastia Assize Court until June 16. He admitted to coming to the home of his ex-partner, with whom he had two sons aged 8 and 10 and from whom he had been separated since September 2018, and shot him before going to the gendarmes.
Unemployment insurance: reform put to the test of the Council of State. The Council of State examines Thursday the appeals against the reform of unemployment insurance unions, which hope to obtain at least its suspension before its entry into force scheduled for July 1. All the major power stations have lodged appeals against the decree of March 30 reforming the compensation rules for job seekers, with the exception of the CFTC, which, while being opposed to the reform, considered that it did not there was no “Legal basis”. The unions are determined to obtain the cancellation of this reform, which they keep denouncing as “unfair” and “Anachronistic”.
After ten months of waiting, the Fondation de l’islam de France must choose a president. The Fondation de l’islam de France (FIF) should put an end to the suspense that has been going on for 10 months and choose its president this Thursday. Responsible for renewing the intellectual Ghaleb Bencheikh at its head for a four-year term or choosing a successor for him, the institution’s board of directors has been rejected no less than four times since December 2020. Proof of the imbroglio in which is located this prestigious tool, set up in 2016 but which, due to lack of resources, has not yet fully taken off.
The report
In Sartrouville, volunteers take the wheel to replace the night buses. After the fire of five buses in seven months in this district of Sartrouville (Yvelines), the night lines were suspended for a time. The volunteers of a neighborhood association ensured, with their personal cars, the vital connection between frontline workers and the surrounding RER stations.
The report
Undervalued dangerousness, absence of protection of Chahinez: the “chilling” report on the feminicide of Mérignac. The conclusions of the inspection mission on the murder of Chahinez, on May 4 in Gironde, were submitted to the government on Wednesday, along with a series of recommendations to improve the care of victims and the assessment of the dangerousness of the authors.
Analysis
Doctors Without Borders: Is 50 Years Serious, Doctors? Having become the largest medical organization in the world, MSF continues, beyond criticism and questioning, to engage in complete independence in all areas in crisis.
Investigation
Insecurity, an inevitable theme of presidential campaigns. For twenty years, the theme of security has prevailed for the election of the president. It allows candidates to propose simple and concrete solutions to social problems over which they have little control.
The portrait
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, she is held to the impossible. Meeting at Roland-Garros with the new CEO of the French Tennis Federation, a former player with diplomas, while French tennis is in crisis.
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