China responds to US sanctions
Beijing gets tough on Trump’s protectionist measures, targeting US oil and gas and tech giant Google.
Beijing gets tough on Trump’s protectionist measures, targeting US oil and gas and tech giant Google.
A major tremor shakes the tech world as Chinese start-up DeepSeek unveils a revolutionary AI model developed at low cost, sending shockwaves through the financial markets.
In a speech on the eve of his inauguration, Donald Trump announced a series of measures as soon as he took office, including the deportation of millions of illegal migrants. (Euronews).
An alarming study by the Observatoire de l’immigration et de la démographie (OID) reveals that the French asylum system could theoretically concern almost 7% of the world’s population, according to current criteria.
Former footballer Mikheïl Kavelachvili, now a figure of the Georgian far right, was sworn in on Sunday December 29, while the outgoing president, Salomé Zourabichvili, a French-Georgian, clung to her seat. In Romania, the election was cancelled.
Joe Biden signed his son Hunter’s presidential pardon this 1ᵉʳ December 2024, sparing him a possible prison sentence for convictions related to illegal weapons possession and tax fraud. But the fraudulent activities of his father’s son go far beyond that.
Would the dice be loaded? Would global information now be controlled by a few planetary industrial groups? The question is raised with each election, with each crisis, in the United States, in France, and elsewhere. Social networks and lobbies have taken control of our brains.
Pascal Deshayes, President of the Coordination Rurale de Meurthe-et-Moselle, explains the reasons behind French farmers’ bloodbath: drought, floods, crop failures, epizootic diseases, unfair competition from foreign producers, and insane middlemen’s margins. “60% of farms have no cash flow”, he says. Interview.
The former president has already claimed victory over his rival Kamala Harris. It’s true that he obtained 267 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
An exclusive investigation by the NGO BLOOM reveals a major health scandal: 100% of canned tuna tested in Europe contains mercury, a dangerous neurotoxicant. Even more worrying, the study shows that there has been complicity between the authorities and the tuna industry since the 1970s.
To maintain its monopoly on information, Israel eliminates journalists (130 were killed in Gaza, three in Lebanon, according to Reporters Sans Frontières). The Hebrew state also prevents Lebanese ambulance drivers from helping the wounded, as was the case in Gaza. 160 rescue workers have already been killed.
In an explosive regional context, Israel carried out retaliatory strikes against Iran, while the UN denounced possible crimes against humanity in Gaza.