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The standoff will still be intense this week on the pension reform. The project indeed arrives this Monday in the hemicycle of the National Assembly, for two weeks at high risk. The pressure continues to mount for the government on this highly contested text, while opponents organize two new days of mobilization, Tuesday and Saturday. The kick-off of the debates will be given at 4 p.m., in a Palais-Bourbon which promises to be packed, for this battle around the postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years. The LFI deputies will immediately defend a request to reject the entire reform. Then the RN group, also against the 64-year-olds, will bring its request for a referendum on the reform. The Assembly will then tackle the some 20,000 amendments tabled to the bill, including 13,000 by LFI.
Syria and Turkey were tragically hit on Monday by a violent earthquake. At least 237 people have been killed in Syria and at least 53 in its neighbor where the epicenter is located. The earthquake caused the collapse of many houses. According to the American seismological institute USGS, of magnitude 7.8, it took place at 04:17. “All our teams are on alert,” said Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, adding that “it’s a call, including for international help.” On the ground, Turkish rescuers and civil defense as well as Syrian firefighters are still at work this Monday morning to try to extract possible victims from the rubble.
Beyoncé rules the music world more than ever. The artist became the most crowned artist of all time at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. The only downside for the “queen”: the supreme prize for best album still eluded her, in favor of British popstar Harry Styles. With four new gramophones, including the best R&B song (Cuff-it) or Best Dance/Electronic Album (Renaissance) “Queen B” still leaves with arms full. She will therefore have to make room on her shelf to have the 32 awards of her entire career, an absolute record, one more than the conductor Georg Solti in the 1990s.