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12:12 p.m. : It is noon. here are the main news headlines :
The strike continues at TotalEnergies, a few hours after a compromise was found on wages with two majority unions, the CFDT and the CFE-CGC. The CGT is still calling for a general wage increase of 10%.
• Of the medical interns are going to demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Health, as part of a one-day strike organized by their unions. They denounce the lengthening of their one-year studies, “in priority” in medical deserts.
Two Associations filed a complaint in Paris for complicity in war crimes against the French group TotalEnergies. They accuse the group of exploiting a deposit in Russia, with fuel used by Russian military planes.
#UNITED STATES The House Committee, which is investigating Donald Trump’s role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, voted unanimously to summon the former president to appear.
11:46 : Last April, franceinfo in particular disseminated the testimonies of a mother and her daughter who had been repeatedly raped, in the city of Boutcha (Ukraine). Soldiers had practically taken up residence in her home and turned her home into hell.
11:54 : Rapes and sexual assaults attributed to Russian forces in Ukraine clearly constitute “a military strategy” and “a deliberate tactic to dehumanize the victims”says UN Special Representative Pramila Patten.
The UN has verified “more than a hundred cases” of rapes and sexual assaults in Ukraine since the start of the war, despite the difficulty of establishing figures during the war.
11:28 : This hypothesis has no “any sense”replied the Elysée yesterday. “A few months ago, almost 40% of the gas delivered to the European Union came from Russia. Today this share of Russian gas is only 7.5% and it is still likely to decrease.”
11:27 : Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered his government to start working on a “gas hub” in Turkey. This idea was proposed by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, during their meeting in Astana (Kazakhstan). The Kremlin tenant suggested that this would allow Europeans to receive gas at cheaper prices “exorbitant”.
11:18 a.m. : “An anti-terrorist operations regime has been introduced” in Belarus, Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said in an interview published this morning by a Russian newspaper. The Belarusian KGB now denies this information. “No counter-terrorist operation has been or is being carried out on the territory”reports an official quoted by the state agency Belta.
10:37 : Kirill Stremoussov, deputy head of the Kherson occupation administration, call again (in Russian) residents to leave the area. It officially refers to “humanitarian journeys of rest and recuperation” in neighboring Russian regions. A Ukrainian counter-offensive is underway in the region, and Russia announced yesterday that it would lend a hand for these evacuations.
(KIRILL STREMOUSSOV / TELEGRAM)
10:01 a.m. : Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Michoustin has signed a decree ordering the repair of the Crimean Bridge before July 1, 2023. The company Nizhneangarsk Transstroy is in charge of the work.
09:40 : The French agrifood giant Danone plans to disengage (in English) of its “dairy and plant-based products” unit in Russia. The operation will be subject to the approval of the competent authorities, and the group has not announced who could eventually take over its Russian factories and activities. Eventually, it would only keep its infant nutrition branch.
09:25 : Belarus has introduced an anti-terrorist operation regime, Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei announced in an interview to the Russian newspaper Izvestiya (in Russian). The latter asserts that “Andneighboring ats would prepare provocations” to seize Belarusian territories, without mentioning which ones. He did not specify the duration of this special regime.
09:08 : It’s 9 o’clock. here are the main news headlines :
The strikes continue at TotalEnergies, a few hours after a compromise was found on wages with two majority unions, CFDT and CFE-CGC. The CGT is still calling for a general wage increase of 10%.
• Of the unions of interns and doctors have announced a day of protest in front of the Ministry of Health, in Paris. At issue: the government’s desire to add a fourth year of internship for general medicine students.
Two Associations filed a complaint in Paris for complicity in war crimes against the French group TotalEnergies. They accuse the group of exploiting a deposit in Russia, with fuel used by Russian military planes.
#UNITED STATES The House Committee, which is investigating Donald Trump’s role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, voted unanimously to summon the former president to appear.
twenty five past eight : “Russian soldiers, spare your lives, surrender!” The Ukrainian government launched an app on Telegram, mid-September, to encourage defections from the Russian army. In exchange for their surrender, the Ukrainian army promises the soldiers to treat them in accordance with the Geneva Convention on prisoners, to give them three meals a day and medical care.
08:16 : The daily had revealed, at the end of August, that a company jointly owned 49% by TotalEnergies and 51% by the Russian Novatek was manufacturing fuel intended to supply Russian warplanes deployed in Ukraine. The French oil group had denied this information.
08:20 : The Bordeaux NGO Darwin Climax Coalitions announcement on franceinfo having lodged a complaint against TotalEnergies for “complicity in a war crime” with the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office. This complaint is also filed by the Ukrainian NGO Razom We Stand, we learned, confirming information from World.