Month: March 2024

The giant container ship that struck and felled the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in the early hours of March 26 remains stuck beneath the bridge's twisted remains. Authorities outlined plans to recover the victims' bodies, free the ship, dismantle the wreckage and reopen the city's port as quickly as possible. They began clearing debris to clear the channel leading to one of the country's busiest ports and have so far removed a 200-ton piece of bridge, officials said. As part of the operation, the authorities brought in a crane capable of lifting 1,000 tonnes.On another front, federal investigators…

During a job fair in Beijing, February 23, 2024. REUTERS STAFF / REUTERS A March morning, in the north of Beijing, at the Lishuiqiao metro station. There are those who quickly park their bike, go through the gates then jump into a train on line 5 or 13 in order to arrive at work in the city center on time. And there are those who are heading to the job fair organized that morning in the central aisle of a shopping mall. At 9 a.m., the doors open and the young people discover, stand after stand, the offers presented to…

Visual of the album “Cowboy Carter”, by Beyoncé. COLUMBIA RECORDS / SONY MUSIC Mother, wife of rapper Jay-Z, businesswoman, sexy symbol of feminism and minority rights, Beyoncé Carter-Knowles has always had an appetite. A beautiful abdomen which earned her the nickname “Queen Bey”, in reference to the queen bee. Since his first solo album, Dangerously in love (2003), she delved into all the flowers that urban music (r'n'b, pop, hip-hop) would offer her. We didn't expect that at 42 years old, the American singer would leave her comfort zone to drag herself into a world as ruthless as that of…

As a Tunisian human rights activist in the 2000s, Amira Yahyaoui organized protests and wrote a blog about government corruption. In interviews, she described being beaten by police. When she was 18, she saidshe was kidnapped from the street, dropped off at the Algerian border and placed in exile for several years.Ms. Yahyaoui's compelling background helped her stand out among entrepreneurs when she moved in 2018 to San Francisco, where she founded a student aid startup called Mos. The app reached the top of Apple's App Store, and Yahyaoui raised $56 million from high-profile investors including Sequoia Capital, John Doerr…

From left to right, former French ministers of culture, Rima Abdul Malak, Roselyne Bachelot, Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and Jacques Toubon, at the National Assembly, in Paris, Thursday March 28, 2024. STÉPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP Four months of commission of inquiry into the allocation of TNT frequencies, forty-four hearings, ideologically oriented or imprecise questions, controversies... and ten minutes which will remain as the most ironic of the entire sequence. It was approaching 5 p.m., Thursday March 28, when, after two hours of discussions with five former ministers of culture, MP Constance Le Grip (Renaissance, Hauts-de-Seine) wanted to know the…

The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, on the set of 8 p.m. on TF1, March 27, 2024. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP Guest of 8 p.m. on TF1, Wednesday March 27, Gabriel Attal announced that there would be “unemployment insurance reform this year”. The Prime Minister also assured that the objective of falling below 3% deficit by 2027 would be maintained, while it reached 5.5% in 2023. He also announced that the State would bring complaint for slanderous denunciation against the student of the Maurice-Ravel high school, in Paris, who had accused the head of the establishment of having assaulted her after…

For almost three decades, Australia appeared to have a sort of get-out-of-jail-free card that allowed it to weather the dot-com collapse and global financial crisis without a recession, while its citizens mostly benefited high wages and affordable housing. and golden perspectives.When a recession arrived, in 2020, it was because of the Covid-19 pandemic.But four years later, Australia has failed to overcome certain obstacles, notably the high cost of living: the price of bread has fallen. increased by 24 percent since 2021 — a a turbulent job market and growing inequalities. While these and similar issues also concern countries like Britain…

Federal agents on Monday searched homes in Los Angeles and the Miami area that are linked to hip-hop mogul Sean Combs, a person with knowledge of the matter said.Homeland Security Investigations conducted the searches but did not provide details about the case, including whether Mr. Combs was a target or what criminal charges were being investigated. Mr. Combs, also known as Puff Daddy or Diddy, has been accused of sexual assault and sex trafficking in several civil lawsuits in recent months.A spokesman for Mr. Combs did not respond to a request for comment.The criminal investigation was being led by federal…

The French public deficit is slipping, so what? While INSEE revealed, Tuesday March 26, that it had reached 5.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023, significantly above the government's initial forecasts of 4.9%, financial markets seem . react with a simple raise of the shoulders. Since October, the interest rate on ten-year French bonds has even fallen significantly, going from 3.5% to 2.8%. On Tuesday, in the hour following the announcement of the deficit figure, the French rate even fell... very slightly, by 0.02 points. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers The situation of public finances in…

Swiss writer Lukas Barfüss, in Paris, in 2018. CELINE NIESZAWER/LEEXTRA VIA OPALE.PHOTO “My father’s Carton. Reflections on inheritance” (Vaters Kiste), by Lukas Bärfuss, translated from German (Switzerland) by Lionel Felchlin, Zoé, 128 p., €18, digital €11. It is such a familiar object that we neglect its symbolism. And yet. Sealed with adhesive tape during moves or converted into a cabin by children, cardboard evokes change, surprise; it can contain everything, even a life, as recounted in his essay My Father's Cartonthe great Swiss playwright Lukas Bärfuss, who uses it as the basis for a sharp meditation on transmission. He was…