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Beijing wants to be a key player in the settlement of the war in Ukraine while preserving its Russian ally. China therefore presented its vision to Moscow on Wednesday for the “political settlement” of the conflict in Ukraine, at a time when the UN Secretary General denounced the “affront to our collective conscience” caused a year ago by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the opening of the General Assembly.
In Moscow, the head of Chinese diplomacy Wang Yi was received at the Kremlin, after having met with the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov. This after the United States and NATO expressed concern that the Chinese were preparing, which they denied, to supply Russia with weapons to continue its military operations in Ukraine. “China did not consult us”, reacted on the other hand a senior Ukrainian official.
The government intends to recover the record sum of 14.6 billion euros for tax evasion, announced Wednesday the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal in an interview given to the Parisian.
“In 2022, our fight against fraud has produced historic results”, welcomed the Minister. “On tax evasion, we broke a record with 14.6 billion euros in recovery, including almost 9 billion for companies,” he added. This is 1.2 billion euros better than in 2021.
Five years after #MeToo, Harvey Weinstein back in court. Convicted of rape and sexual assault on an Italian actress by a Los Angeles jury in December 2022, the ousted producer should, unless the judge grants him a new trial, be fixed on his sentence this Thursday.
But he will have the possibility of appealing in California no matter what, just like in New York, where a high court accepted his appeal after his sentence to twenty-three years in prison by a Manhattan court in 2020.