Futur budget européen: von der Leyen fait un geste pour l’agriculture
La présidente de la Commission européenne Ursula von der Leyen a proposé lundi un geste en faveur de l’agriculture dans le futur budget européen, pour tenter de calmer la fronde de la profession et des eurodéputés.Ursula von der Leyen entend “garantir le rôle des régions, renforcer l’identité de la politique agricole commune et améliorer la …
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Face à l’épidémie persistante, le Canada perd son statut de pays ayant éliminé la rougeole
Le Canada a perdu son statut de pays ayant éradiqué la rougeole en raison d’une épidémie persistante qui dure depuis un an et frappe fortement plusieurs régions et les populations non vaccinées.Le pays avait déclaré cette maladie grave éliminée en 1998. Mais il fait face aujourd’hui à sa plus forte recrudescence depuis cette date, notamment …
Inde: au moins huit morts à New Delhi dans l’explosion d’une voiture
L’explosion d’une voiture lundi au cœur de New Delhi a fait au moins huit morts et 19 blessés, ont annoncé les autorités de la capitale indienne sans donner de précisions sur les causes de la déflagration.Si aucune cause officielle n’a été évoquée, la police a indiqué que des agences de lutte contre le terrorisme et …
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Trump menace la BBC d’une plainte en diffamation après un montage trompeur d’un de ses discours
Donald Trump menace la BBC d’une plainte en diffamation assortie d’une demande d’un milliard de dollars de dommages et intérêts, après un montage trompeur d’un de ses discours pour lequel le président du géant audiovisuel britannique s’est excusé lundi, reconnaissant une “erreur de jugement”.Les avocats du président américain – qui a qualifié dimanche les journalistes …
Turquie: des arbitres de foot en prison, le scandale des paris s’élargit
Un tribunal d’Istanbul a ordonné lundi le placement en détention provisoire de six arbitres turcs soupçonnés d’être impliqués dans une vaste affaire de paris, au moment où la Fédération turque de football élargissait ses investigations à plus de 1.000 joueurs.Un juge a également décidé de l’incarcération du président d’Eyüpspor, un club de première division turque, …
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Trump menace la BBC d’une plainte en diffamation après un montage trompeur d’un de ses discours
Donald Trump menace la BBC d’une plainte en diffamation assortie d’une demande d’un milliard de dollars de dommages et intérêts, après un montage trompeur d’un de ses discours pour lequel le président du géant audiovisuel britannique s’est excusé lundi, reconnaissant une “erreur de jugement”.Les avocats du président américain – qui a qualifié dimanche les journalistes …
COP30: le président du Giec déclare désormais “presque inévitable” de dépasser 1,5°C de réchauffement
Le président du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (Giec) a jugé “presque inévitable” de dépasser à court terme le seuil de 1,5°C de réchauffement, un objectif fixé par l’accord de Paris en 2015, tout en estimant qu’il est “peut-être encore possible” de le limiter.”Il est désormais presque inévitable que le réchauffement climatique dépasse …
Top US court hears case of Rastafarian whose hair was cut in prison
The US Supreme Court on Monday heard the case of a devout Rastafarian who is seeking damages after his knee-length dreadlocks were forcibly shorn while he was in prison in Louisiana.Damon Landor is seeking permission to sue individual officials of the Louisiana Department of Corrections for monetary damages for violating his religious rights.”Without damages, officials can literally treat the law like garbage,” Landor’s lawyer Zachary Tripp told the court, where conservatives hold a 6-3 majority.Louisiana has acknowledged that the treatment of Landor by prison guards was “antithetical to religious freedom” and has amended its prison grooming policy.But the southern US state insists that federal law does not permit money damages against a state official sued in his individual capacity — an argument that appeared to gain traction Monday among a majority of the conservative justices.Landor, who had been growing his hair for nearly two decades, was serving the final three weeks of a five-month sentence for drug possession in 2020 when his hair was cut.He presented prison guards with a copy of a 2017 court ruling stating that Rastafarians should be allowed to keep their dreadlocks in line with their religious beliefs.A prison guard threw the document away and Landor was handcuffed to a chair and had his head shaved, according to court records.An appeals court condemned Landor’s “egregious” treatment but ruled that he is not eligible to sue individual prison officials for damages.Rastafarians let their hair grow, typically in dreadlocks, as part of their beliefs in the religion which originated in Jamaica and was popularized by the late reggae singer Bob Marley.The case unusually brought together legal advocates on both the left and the right. The Supreme Court is generally hostile to approving damages actions against individual government officials but at the same time the right-leaning court has tended to side with the plaintiffs in religious liberty cases.
US mediator Kushner and Netanyahu discuss phase two of Gaza truce
US mediator Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks Monday on the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire, as Washington intensified its efforts to ensure the fragile truce endures.Netanyahu, meanwhile, said Israel would enforce the ceasefire in Gaza as well as one in Lebanon with an “iron fist”.The truce in Gaza, in effect for a month now, has largely halted the war that erupted after Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.During the ongoing first stage, a series of prisoner and hostage exchanges took place over recent weeks.Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump who helped broker the ceasefire, met Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday as part of US efforts to stabilise the truce and lay the groundwork for its next phase.The two discussed some of the most sensitive aspects of phase two, Israeli government spokeswoman Shosh Bedrosian told journalists.”Together the two discussed phase one, which we are currently still in, to bring our remaining hostages, and the future of phase two of this plan, which includes the disarming of Hamas, demilitarising Gaza and ensuring Hamas will have no role in the future of Gaza ever again,” Bedrosian said.”Phase two also includes the establishment of the international stabilisation force and the details of which of course together are being discussed.”Hamas has repeatedly insisted that relinquishing its weapons is a red line.- ‘Iron fist’ -Israel and Hamas continue to accuse each other of violating the ceasefire in Gaza.Gaza’s health ministry said Israeli forces have killed at least 242 Palestinians in the territory since the ceasefire began on October 10.On Monday, the Israeli military said it killed two militants who approached the so-called “Yellow Line,” the boundary beyond which Israeli forces hold their positions in Gaza. Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties in accessing many areas mean AFP is unable to independently verify details provided by the ministry or the Israeli military.”Whoever seeks to harm us, we harm them,” Netanyahu said in parliament on Monday.”We are determined to enforce with an iron fist the ceasefire agreements where they exist against those who seek our destruction, and you can see what happens every day in Lebanon,” he said.Israel has kept up attacks on Lebanon, where it says it is targeting Hezbollah militants. It agreed a ceasefire to halt a war with the group last November, but has frequently bombed Lebanon since then.It said on Monday it had killed 15 Hezbollah members this month.Egypt, Qatar and Turkey are among the potential participants in the proposed international stabilisation force for Gaza, but the United Arab Emirates has indicated it is unlikely to join without a clear operational framework.”Under such circumstances, the UAE will probably not participate in such a force,” Emirati presidential adviser Anwar Gargash told the Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate Forum on Monday.Turkey has been keen to join, but Netanyahu has repeatedly said Israel would not allow it.”The prime minister said… there will be no Turkish boots on the ground,” Bedrosian said.Michael Milshtein, who heads the Palestinian studies program at Tel Aviv University, said the decision regarding the stabilisation force will ultimately rest with Trump.”There is a gap between the Israeli opinion and the American opinion but in the end, the only thing that matters is what Trump wants, not what Netanyahu thinks,” Milshtein told AFP.Turkey has been one of the most outspoken critics of the war in Gaza, and on Friday it issued arrest warrants accusing Netanyahu and several senior Israeli officials of genocide.- ‘We still do not feel safe’ -Since the truce began, Hamas has returned all 20 living hostages and the remains of 24 captives, including 21 Israelis. Four bodies of hostages killed in the October 2023 attack remain in Gaza.In exchange, Israel has freed nearly 2,000 prisoners and returned 315 bodies of Palestinian captives.The latest of those were the remains of 15 Palestinians handed over by Israel on Monday after Hamas a day earlier returned the remains of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, killed in the 2014 Gaza war.Goldin, killed while attempting to destroy Hamas tunnels near Rafah, had been missing for 11 years.”Time has stood still,” his sister Ayelet Goldin said in a statement on Monday.Despite the progress in hostage returns, Gazans remain anxious about their future.”We still do not feel safe. Shooting continues… We try to protect our children from psychological trauma and to help them forget the war,” said Salma Abu Shawish, 40, a resident of Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.”Life in Gaza is hard. We still lack food, and many families remain homeless. We only wish this nightmare would stop and never return.”